Mortal: I possess a copy of the Jade Manual of the Sea of ​​Consciousness!

After leaving the Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts, they returned to their cave under the respectful gaze of the guarding disciples.

"Respectfully bidding farewell to my martial uncle!"

Back inside the cave.

Wang Xuan's head was still a little dizzy.

Clearly, he hasn't recovered from what happened today—the Core Formation stage, the Nascent Soul stage…

Shaking his head to clear his mind of distractions, Wang Xuan sat cross-legged on the futon, his consciousness connecting with the spirit beast pearl.

The interior of the Spirit Beast Pearl is a lake, and a giant crocodile, three zhang in size, lies unconscious on the shore.

Wang Xuan felt a little resentful; Elder Han really didn't know her own strength when she attacked.

Lower-level monsters are inherently less intelligent; what if you accidentally knock them senseless?

But that's fine, it saves me the trouble of using other methods to subdue him.

Wang Xuan released the unconscious Golden Water Crocodile and held the Beast Taming Bell in his hand.

After infusing spiritual energy, a mark was placed on the forehead of the Golden Water Crocodile.

Wang Xuan immediately felt that the spiritual power in his dantian had decreased by a full 30%, no more and no less!

After putting the Beast Taming Bell back into his storage bag, Wang Xuan clearly sensed a connection between himself and the Golden Water Crocodile.

After a while, the connection became even stronger.

By adding the Golden Water Crocodile to the Spirit Beast Pearl, Wang Xuan has temporarily made up for his shortcomings.

Now, all he needs to do is improve his cultivation level.

It has been about a month since he broke through to the early stage of Foundation Establishment.

However, his spiritual power did not increase much, and he was still a long way from reaching the middle stage.

After taking the medicine and pills, Wang Xuan began his seclusion while simultaneously accelerating the ripening of the spiritual herbs.

……

Two years have passed in the blink of an eye.

The capital of the Yue Kingdom.

Wang Xuan changed back into simple clothes and wandered the streets and alleys like an ordinary person.

"Selling general merchandise! Come take a look if you're interested!"

"Candied hawthorn berries, sweet, crispy, and delicious candied hawthorn berries!"

"My lord, would you like to come in and have some fun? Hahahaha!"

Listening to the hawkers' cries all around, Wang Xuan felt as if he had returned to his days in Tainan Valley.

With a slight smile, Wang Xuan pushed the Heavenly Eye Technique to its limit.

There seem to be quite a few independent cultivators in the capital of Yue Kingdom; you can almost run into one every few steps.

With Wang Xuan's Foundation Establishment stage cultivation, if he were to deliberately conceal himself, these rogue cultivators would not be able to detect anything unusual.

They simply regarded Wang Xuan as an ordinary person who liked to look around.

Wang Xuan searched for some more time, but still couldn't find any trace of Xiao Cuier and her grandson.

Just as he was about to end his search for the day, an old man and a child came into his sight.

The younger one is a pretty little girl who seems very lively.

The older one was a hunched-over old man who walked slowly and smiled kindly.

Wang Xuan scanned them with his divine sense, and Xiao Cuier and her grandson immediately became agitated, looking around warily as if facing a formidable enemy.

Xiao Zhen's expression was extremely solemn. The divine sense he had just encountered was of considerable strength; it was being watched by a Foundation Establishment cultivator!

Xiao Cuier hid behind her grandfather in fear, a scene that attracted the attention of passersby.

What's wrong with these two? They're acting like they're facing a major disaster.

Some rogue cultivators curiously used their Heavenly Eye Technique to observe, but their expressions changed drastically, and they fled in panic.

"Go forward a hundred meters and turn left, there's a restaurant. I'm waiting for you in a private room by the window on the second floor."

Wang Xuan transmitted a message, then his body flashed and disappeared from the spot.

This action went unnoticed by anyone, not even the rogue cultivators realized that someone had been standing there just now!

Xiao Zhen frowned, his expression shifting, before finally letting out a helpless sigh.

"Well, what's meant to be will be. Let's go see what this Foundation Establishment senior is planning."

Xiao Zhen had also come this far step by step, and now his face was completely calm.

Leading Xiao Cuier back into the crowd, they headed towards the restaurant Wang Xuan had mentioned.

Wang Xuan's divine sense enveloped Xiao Zhen, but he couldn't see through whether the other party possessed spiritual power!

If this grandfather-granddaughter pairing weren't so uncommon, Wang Xuan wouldn't have spoken up so directly.

When Xiao Zhen went up to the second floor of the restaurant, he arrived at Wang Xuan's private room.

Clang!

The wooden door to the private room opened by itself, and Wang Xuan smiled and waved to the grandfather and granddaughter.

Xiao Zhen hesitated for a moment, then went into the private room and closed the door, approaching Wang Xuan cautiously with a heavy heart.

Wang Xuan pointed to the seat opposite him and said with a smile, "There's no need to be so apprehensive. With my strength, I wouldn't stoop so low as to forcibly take something from a mere Qi Refining junior like you."

"I noticed something special about you just now, so I tested you a little."

I didn't expect you to actually have some skills, my junior apprentice.

"You've managed to completely conceal your cultivation aura. If my divine sense weren't stronger, I truly wouldn't have been able to tell you were a cultivator."

Upon hearing Wang Xuan's telepathic message, Xiao Zhen smiled obsequiously from the side, not daring to speak casually.

Wang Xuan frowned and said, "Why aren't you sitting? Do you have some kind of problem with me?"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Zhen dared not be disrespectful any longer and quickly complied with Wang Xuan's request to sit down.

Xiao Cuier quickly scurried to stand behind Xiao Zhen, looking at Wang Xuan with a mixture of fear and curiosity.

This older brother doesn't look very old. Why is my grandfather so afraid of this older brother?

Wang Xuan looked at Xiao Cuier with a smile and praised, "This little girl is quite the beauty in the making. She'll definitely be loved by countless people in the future."

Xiao Zhen smiled awkwardly and tried to smooth things over: "Senior is too kind. I don't know if I have offended you in any way. Please enlighten me."

"I, an old man, will do my utmost to help you, please don't harm Cui'er!"

"Grandpa!" Xiao Cuier called out, looking at Xiao Zhen with concern.

Wang Xuan remained calm upon seeing this and said indifferently, "When did I ever say that you had offended me?"

"It's best not to show off such low-class tricks in front of me."

Otherwise, they'll make the fake seem real!

After a few words, Wang Xuan lost patience and got straight to the point.

He has been looking for this grandfather and granddaughter for almost a month.

For more than a year after he went into seclusion, he devoted himself to rigorous meditation to improve his cultivation.

However, the effect is not very obvious, and there is still about half a journey to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.

That's why he came to Yue Kingdom to get his hands on the Nine Transformations of Gale and prepare for the Blood Forbidden Trial a year later.

"Actually, there is no other reason why I called you here."

I'm just curious what methods you two used to evade my divine sense detection!

"If you tell me honestly, I will not only release you, but also give you a reward."

After saying this, as if to show his sincerity, Wang Xuan took out the top-tier magic weapon, a sword, which he had obtained from Elder Qi.

Xiao Zhen couldn't take his eyes off the sharp sword.

He currently only has the tenth level of Qi Refining cultivation, and he doesn't even have many high-level magic weapons, let alone top-level magic weapons!

Xiao Zhen observed Wang Xuan's expression, but given Wang Xuan's shrewdness, how could he easily let him see through his thoughts?

Xiao Zhen silently took out a yellowed animal skin book from his storage bag.

The paper was covered with a dense array of strange and unusual characters, which Wang Xuan could not understand.

After flipping through a few pages, Wang Xuan found familiar text; it contained a mantra for concealing one's inner energy.

Wang Xuan watched with great interest, automatically ignoring Xiao Zhen and Xiao Cuier.

After carefully reading it once, Wang Xuan nodded with great satisfaction.

"Not bad, not bad, it is indeed a profound technique for concealing one's inner energy."

It seems that giving you this top-tier magic weapon wasn't a loss for me.

However, I had never seen most of the text in this book before.

Could it be the Mulan script, or even the legendary script of the demon race?

Wang Xuan feigned ignorance, handed the precious sword to Xiao Zhen, and then asked curiously.

After obtaining the top-tier treasured sword, Xiao Zhen immediately put it into his storage bag, as if afraid that Wang Xuan would change his mind.

Upon hearing Wang Xuan's puzzled words, Xiao Zhen's face lit up with a sense of superiority.

"In response to your question, senior, these characters are indeed the demon script you mentioned!"

When I was young, I traveled with my master to various places and saw many different classical books.

I first encountered this demonic script in a classical text.

I learned a thing or two back then, but I didn't master them and couldn't recognize them completely.

Otherwise, I wouldn't have only cultivated this Qi-concealing technique.