“Truly no need!”
“Must!”
The old beggar blew out his beard and glared. “The methods of the Baiyun Observatory and the Jinhua Sect are of course formidable, but cultivating some techniques allows for analogous insights, and they can save effort in various situations.”
Pausing for a moment, the old beggar said, “A few years ago there was a flood, and you went out with the Liu family girl. You must have encountered quite a few water demons. Relying solely on true qi to forcefully repel the water is inevitably not elegant. This old man shall pass you a Water Avoidance Formula.”
Lu Zheng, “…”
“The Water Avoidance Formula, this junior already knows it.” Lu Zheng could only say.
“You know it?” The old beggar was taken aback, then nodded. “That is so. The Water Avoidance Formula is not too difficult a technique. It is not strange to know it.
In that case, this old man shall pass you a Puppet Technique. You cultivate the Jinhua Sect’s method, which is precisely suitable for you to employ.”
“Last time I went to the Baiyun Observatory, the seniors there already passed me an Spirit Attachment Curse and Puppet Technique, as well as an Invisibility Technique and Dream Entering Technique.” Lu Zheng also mentioned the other two techniques along with them.
The old beggar, “…”
Having mentioned two techniques in a row, only for Lu Zheng to know them all, this left the old beggar somewhat embarrassed.
Ordinary techniques could not be brought out. He needed to produce something of value, otherwise he could not hold the scene!
“The Baiyun Observatory specialises in cultivating qi, yet it also has a White Cloud Sword Technique, sharp for merit and conquest, but ultimately it cannot compare to specialised sword cultivators.”
The old beggar said, “My Tian Dun Sect’s flying sword technique is no less than that of the various sword cultivating sects. How about this old man passes you a sword formula?”
Lu Zheng blinked. “This junior was fortunate to obtain a ‘Flying Feather Riding霞 Sword Controlling Scripture’, which is precisely the technique for controlling flying swords.”
The old beggar: ?_??
“You also concurrently cultivate a Sword Controlling Formula?”
Lu Zheng patted his gourd, and a red jade sword flew out from the gourd, circling the front hall once before returning.
The ‘Flying Feather Riding霞 Sword Controlling Scripture’ was ultimately inferior in realm to the Baiyun Observatory and Jinhua Sect, so Lu Zheng merely concurrently cultivated it. The old beggar had not noticed it for a moment.
Having mentioned three things in a row, all of which Lu Zheng knew, the old beggar could not help but feel he had lost face. “Since you know cloud methods and flying swords, then this old man shall pass you a Heavenly Gang Wind Curse. It can both enhance the power of techniques and increase travel speed.”
Lu Zheng licked his lips. “That, Brother Hu from Dingfeng Mountain previously passed this junior a ‘Western Extreme Summoning Wind Curse’. Cultivated to a high level, it can summon the geng metal divine wind.”
The old beggar could not help but draw in a breath.
So when Lu Zheng said he did not need techniques, he truly did not need techniques!
No, since he had opened his mouth, if he could not give it away, where would he, who had lived for hundreds of years, put his face?
If his old friends, especially those from the Baiyun Observatory, found out, would they not mock him for decades?
Thus, the old beggar decided to throw out a bomb.
“In the world, for subduing evil and exterminating demons, slaying and battling, nothing surpasses thunder techniques. This old man shall pass you a ‘Lesser Yang Divine Thunder Method’. In future, if you encounter demons, ghosts, or monsters, just one bolt of thunder down, and the opponent will be reduced to ashes. Would that not be good?”
Lu Zheng, “…”
“What is it?”
Seeing Lu Zheng’s stunned appearance, the old beggar could not help but feel a jolt in his heart.
This did not look like joy to the point of a blank expression. Rather, it seemed more like…
“Senior, forgive me. This junior only a few days ago obtained a ‘Clear Subtle Jade Vault Thunder Method’ from True Person Shouyi of the Qingwei Palace.” Lu Zheng cupped his hands and said.
The old beggar: ?_?
The ‘Lesser Yang Divine Thunder Method’ was already a secret thunder technique of the Chunyang Palace, and there were not many thunder techniques in the world.
He had intended to throw out a bomb, yet the other party could actually catch it?
Spitting out the half-eaten chicken meat from his mouth in one go, the old beggar was directly broken through his defences. “What exactly do you not know?”
“Senior, calm your anger, simmer down.” Lu Zheng hurriedly picked up the wine pot and filled it for the old beggar, accompanying with a smiling face. “I was just saying it as it is. Actually, those techniques of Senior’s sound particularly formidable just from hearing them. How about casually teaching me one?”
“No!”
The old beggar slapped the table. “I must teach you one that you do not know!”
“Yes, yes, yes!”
“You say, what else do you know? Do not play riddles with this old man!”
The old beggar was also helpless. Lu Zheng was young, and it was fine that his sect’s inherited techniques and cultivation were high. How could he know so many miscellaneous arts?
Should young people not specialise in one or two things, enough is enough, focus on the main cultivation technique, enhance the dao realm, and then when old, with slow progress, go to conquer other techniques, gaining analogous insights?
The Water Avoidance Formula and Puppet Technique were just that, minor techniques to increase combat power. But what was it with also knowing sword formulas and thunder methods?
“Actually, I do not know that many.” Lu Zheng smiled bitterly. “I also just know illusion techniques, Earth Walking Technique, Fire Avoidance Formula, a bit of pill refining methods, a ghost controlling technique, and a few martial dao techniques.”
Eh? Thinking about it this way, it seemed he had not wasted these few years, and knew quite a few things?
“You also know pill refining techniques?” The old beggar was greatly astonished.
“A little, a little.”
“The Baiyun Observatory also has pill refining technique inheritance. Did they teach it to you?”
Lu Zheng shook his head. “No, it is a pill refining technique this junior obtained outside.”
“Oh? What pills can you refine? Take one out for this old man to see.” The old beggar was not polite. “If the level is not high, this old man shall pass you a few pill refining mudra.”
It must be said that among the Tian Dun Sect’s inheritances, pill refining was also a speciality. This was one of the reasons the old beggar had various esoteric techniques at hand.
Lu Zheng patted his gourd and took out a porcelain bottle from it, pouring out a Three Participants Jade芝 pill into his hand.
“Eh?”
The old beggar’s eyes brightened. After taking the pill in hand and sensing it for a moment, he could not help but say, “It seems to be a Supreme Purity lineage method as well?”
Smacking his lips, he returned the pill to the porcelain bottle. The old beggar could not help but sigh. “Very well, you little fellow have deep fortune. This pill refining technique is not ordinary, sufficient for your use. Once you learn the Baiyun Observatory’s pill refining methods later, who knows, the Baiyun Observatory might even produce a pill refining grandmaster.”
Lu Zheng chuckled hey hey, saying nothing.
This was the first technique from the dream inheritance of Red Pinezi. How could it not be formidable?
The old beggar could not help but pick up another chicken leg and send it into his mouth. While eating, he pondered what technique to give Lu Zheng as a meeting gift.
“Eh? Wait, you also know the Earth Walking Technique?”
“Precisely.” Lu Zheng nodded.
The old beggar chuckled hey hey. “That is a fine escape technique.”
“Yes.” Lu Zheng nodded, not knowing what the old beggar meant.
“But do you know, in the world there is a technique that specially counters the Earth Walking Technique?”
Lu Zheng’s eyes flashed. “Could it be…”
The old beggar chuckled hey hey. “This technique is not widely transmitted, but this old man happens to know it.
And once you learn this technique, you can naturally dispel it. As long as the opponent’s cultivation is not much higher than yours, your Earth Walking Technique can be considered to have one less nemesis. How about it? Learn or not?”
Lu Zheng nodded vigorously. “Learn!”
Learning this technique was not just about removing one nemesis. The key was that it could also counter others who knew the Earth Walking Technique.
Unless it was a big shot like Song Kaichuan whose cultivation was far higher than his own and could forcefully break the technique, generally even heterodox individuals twice as strong might be trapped by him.
The old beggar also chuckled hey hey, quite smug. He took another bite of roast chicken, then pointed a finger at Lu Zheng.
In the next moment, a stream of several thousand words of technique flowed through Lu Zheng’s mind.
‘Pointing the Ground to Steel’!
