Chapter 2028: The Head-Shaking Cultivation Method

After careful recollection, during the battle, the other party seemingly... hadn't actually cared who they were!

If they had known in advance, they would certainly have been somewhat wary, and wouldn't have been so utterly disrespectful.

It wasn't intentional contact, meaning... the conspiracy theory didn't hold.

"It's also possible that his method of disguise was too advanced, even I could be fooled..." The Kuixiao Sect Leader shook his head, frowning. "That's why I bestowed upon him the Obstacle-Breaking Pill and promised to help him break through to Immortal Lord, hoping to gauge his reaction. But... he didn't make any further demands; instead, he wanted to... read books!"

The Grand Elder and the others fell into contemplation.

So the Sect Leader had already had a plan.

Directly bestowing such a precious item as the Obstacle-Breaking Pill and promising to help break through to Immortal Lord showed great importance. At that moment, even if he made some excessive demands, they should have been granted!

But the other party acted as if unaware and asked to read books...

Books are precious, but they require gradual accumulation over time, and certainly not something that can yield insights or comprehension in a single day.

So... what the other party proposed was nothing at all!

"How is it now?"

After a sigh, the Kuixiao Sect Leader asked.

"Still reading books. He hasn't come out of the library since entering."

The Grand Elder cupped his hands.

"In that case, find a way to investigate what books he's reading and report back..." The Kuixiao Sect Leader paused, then said.

"Yes!" The Grand Elder turned and left. After a while, he returned with a conflicted expression.

"How is it?"

"This is... a recording from the library. The Sect Leader can see for yourself..." The Grand Elder's face flushed red.

Puzzled, the Kuixiao Sect Leader took the jade talisman, tapped it lightly, and the contents immediately appeared.

It showed the man named Liu Yang standing in the library, shaking his head incessantly.

The recording lasted over ten minutes, and he shook his head for the entire duration. For each row of books on a shelf, he shook his head several times, then moved to the next row and continued shaking...

"Is this... epilepsy?"

Exchanging glances, the Kuixiao Sect Leader and Elder Hongwu were baffled.

Hadn't he insisted on reading books?

Why did he come here and start shaking his head?

So earnestly, so soulfully.

"Keep investigating..." After studying it for a long time without understanding what the head-shaking meant, the Kuixiao Sect Leader had to continue giving orders.

They continued to investigate, and in the recording, Zhang Xuan continued shaking his head.

"It doesn't seem like he's stealing the secrets of the Seven Star Tower's techniques either..." After who knows how long, the Grand Elder's face flushed red as he spoke.

If he were stealing technique secrets, he would surely take out books, study them carefully, and secretly copy them. But this fellow, as soon as he entered the library, started shaking his head. He'd been doing it for over two hours and hadn't read a single book...

If stealing secrets could be done just by shaking one's head, then no sect would have any secrets left.

"Persisting like this for two hours must have a purpose... Let me try!"

Elder Hongwu could no longer restrain himself. With a flick of his wrist, a pile of books appeared on the ground nearby. Taking a deep breath, he began shaking his head just like Zhang Xuan in the recording.

The Kuixiao Sect Leader and the Grand Elder quickly watched him. After he shook his head several times, they couldn't help asking, "How is it? Did you discover anything?"

"Dizzy... and nauseous." Elder Hongwu replied.

"..." The Kuixiao Sect Leader and the Grand Elder.

By the third hour of observation, Liu Yang, who had been shaking his head continuously, finally stopped. He sat cross-legged on the spot, motionless, as if resting.

"Finally stopped..."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. To be honest, even if he wasn't dizzy, watching him made them dizzy. They didn't know how he managed to endure it.

"He's cultivating!"

As soon as Liu Yang sat down, everyone quickly understood.

It seemed the fellow was tired from shaking and planned to recover.

"Is he taking... top-grade Immortal Yuan Pills?"

In the recording, shortly after sitting down, Liu Yang began swallowing pills—one, two, three, four, five—then suddenly stood up.

"This medicinal power... He's only a True Immortal; can he digest it?"

The Grand Elder's face paled.

Top-grade Immortal Yuan Pills are effective even for Immortal Lord experts. Even he would need over ten days to fully digest one pill... The other party was only at the True Immortal realm and had swallowed five at once...

Wasn't he afraid of being overwhelmed?

"Could he be about to break through to Immortal Lord?"

Frowning, the Kuixiao Sect Leader was just feeling puzzled when he saw Liu Yang, who had been sitting, suddenly stand up.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

His fists and palms moved, generating gusts of wind.

"Isn't this... my Dragon Transformation Palm?" The Grand Elder was stunned.

The other party was executing his most proficient Dragon Transformation Palm, and it seemed even more exquisite and faster.

He had cultivated this technique for who knows how many years to master it, yet the other party executed it better than him on the first try...

He suddenly felt like he had been screwed over.

"No... that move is wrong. Hmm? But it feels... more reasonable and more powerful?"

After watching for a while, he frowned.

The other party's execution was clearly different from his and from the manual, but for some reason, it gave a sense of fluidity, as if he had been doing it wrong, and the other party's version was correct.

"Let me try..."

He quickly stood up and performed the Dragon Transformation Palm again, following the other party's movements.

Boom!

With a roar, immortal power surged through his body, and an invincible aura burst forth from within.

"This... has reached great completion?"

The Grand Elder was about to go crazy.

He had immersed himself in the Dragon Transformation Palm for decades, yet he was still far from great completion... He had thought it was hopeless for life, but never in his dreams did he expect that by merely imitating the other party's movements once, he would immediately break through...

Too fast!

He quickly looked up and saw that the figure in the recording had moved on from the Dragon Transformation Palm and was now executing the Flowerless Palm.

Elder Hongwu, standing nearby, was also stunned and began to imitate.

Boom!

Similarly, after a short while, his power surged, as if he too had broken some shackle.

Then, Liu Yang in the recording executed the Thunderclap Grasping Cloud, the Sect Leader's signature technique, and... the Kuixiao Sect Leader imitated it, and soon broke through as well.

"By shaking his head here for three hours, he not only learned the sect's most profound martial techniques... but also revised them to be more mysterious and powerful..."

After who knows how long, the Kuixiao Sect Leader recovered from his shock and murmured, "Could shaking one's head clear the mind and speed up learning martial techniques?"

He had secretly tried shaking his head earlier, but it only made him dizzy and blurred his vision... How did the other party manage it?

"It must be some secret method for rapid learning."

The Grand Elder pondered for a moment and said, "By shaking the head, one activates the mind and comprehends martial techniques faster..."

"But he didn't read any books. How did he learn these techniques?"

Elder Hongwu found it strange.

The other party had shaken his head for three hours without even flipping through a book. When did he learn them? And how could he reach great completion in the blink of an eye, surpassing those who had immersed themselves for decades?

"Perhaps... he learned them while fighting us. Some highly talented individuals have a photographic memory and can learn many techniques just by glancing at them. It's said that the former Hall Master Kong had this ability..."

The Kuixiao Sect Leader paused and said.

Now, this was the only explanation.

Otherwise, they truly couldn't understand how the other party could learn martial techniques just by shaking his head and become so formidable.

Just as they were marveling, the Grand Elder's tense voice rang out again.

"Sect Leader... look!"

The Kuixiao Sect Leader looked up and saw Zhang Xuan in the recording, after executing Thunderclap Grasping Cloud, clench his fist and begin another set of techniques.

"Red Dust Ten Thousand Miles?"

"Purple Sun Suspended River?"

"Hundred Birds Facing the Sun?"

"Ten Thousand Traces Annihilated..."

...

The names of various top-tier techniques of the Seven Star Tower were uttered one after another by the three. The young man in the recording seemed to have transformed into the founding patriarch of the Seven Star Tower in the blink of an eye, effortlessly wielding countless techniques and skills, each move reaching the great completion realm!

Dead silence.

After an unknown time, the Kuixiao Sect Leader's voice turned hoarse.

"The Seven Star Tower has a total of twenty-three top-tier martial techniques. Successive sect leaders and elders who could master just one would be enough to make a name for themselves and have few rivals in the world... He has mastered them all?"

The Seven Star Tower had many techniques of the same level as Thunderclap Grasping Cloud, but all were extremely difficult to cultivate, each requiring immense effort and dedication.

For instance, to cultivate Thunderclap Grasping Cloud, he had specifically gone to the Southern Frontier to observe thunder and storms, traveled to the Western Regions to pursue the formation and fall of clouds, and even visited the Fallen Sky City seeking answers, nearly perishing.

The other party... had only shaken his head in the library for three hours and learned them all...

Moreover, each technique was even more formidable than his own, which he had cultivated for a hundred years, as if the flaws in the moves had been identified and corrected...

Could there really be such a genius in the world?

"If he becomes our sect leader, the Seven Star Tower becoming the Seven Star Divine Tower is just around the corner..."

Elder Hongwu's mouth was also unable to close.

"Become sect leader?" The Kuixiao Sect Leader looked at him. "Don't you want to teach him a lesson?"

Earlier, this fellow had said he wanted to teach the other party a good lesson.

"This..." Elder Hongwu's face reddened. "Even though I am a major level higher than him, I am certainly no match..."

With the other party mastering so many techniques, plus his understanding of combat...

He realized that even with a higher cultivation level, he would still lose badly in a fight.

There was simply no comparison.

Thus, the so-called lesson became a joke.

"If you, a level higher, are no match, then if he breaks through and reaches the peak of Immortal Lord... in the joint competition of the six major sects, could he achieve first place?"

The Grand Elder's eyes lit up.

"This..."

The Kuixiao Sect Leader pondered. "Zhang Xuan of the Lingyun Sword Pavilion, who comprehended the divine sword intent, can also slay Immortal Lords at the True Immortal realm. Zheng Yang, the new sect leader of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, though at the peak of Immortal Lord, can tame countless immortal beasts for his use, and his combat power is also extraordinary... If this Liu Yang is not one of those two in disguise, he could match them evenly, a rival worthy of each other."

"Whether he is or not is actually simple... The Sect Leader only needs to enter the Divine Communication Hall and ask Han Jianqiu and Qin Yuan, and it will be clear."

The Grand Elder said.