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Lin Xuan continued to look around, and his eyes suddenly stopped on a black book. The title was written in small writing, Records of Cultivation. Briefly flipping through it, he quickly found that this was not a spellbook, but rather a travel journal of many different people, who wrote down their experiences during their travels.

Seeing a few other similar books, Lin Xuan figured he might get some clues out of them and picked out two more titled Wonders of the Nine States and Divine Ghost Kaidan.1[1] Kaidan (Chinese: 怪谈）means ghost story or horror story

Three books, being the maximum that low-level disciples could borrow, Lin Xuan went through the procedures and quickly headed home with the books. He sat in his chair and began studying.

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The sun floated across the sky, dyeing everything in gold. Finally, Lin Xuan repositioned to relieve his sore neck. He rubbed his dry eyes as finally finished reading all three books.

The journals described many different places and treasures, however, not a single one mentioned the blue lights.

The three books also spoke of a lot of different stories, telling of powerful figures from the past, as well as the stories behind various treasures. For example, one story spoke of a type of strange fruit. When one ate it, it would help immensely in controlling the five elements. 

There was another story of someone who was poisoned by a snake, but rather than dying like all the others before him, he ended up gaining benefits from it. 

The books spoke of many different treasures, and told of the advantages and disadvantages of them, and went into great detail in that, but they also stated that in the end, the majority of the people who experienced these odd events all died.

Lin Xuan however was not worried, because he remembered how Zhou Yan behaved, so he was sure it was a beneficial treasure. His real worry was that he would be unable to figure out how to use those blue lights, and unfortunately, they were not mentioned in the three books.

It seemed that he will have to rely on his own efforts…

Lin Xuan once again sat down cross-legged and began trying various methods, attempting to see if there are any changes. After half an hour, Lin Xuan finally decided to take a chance and began to gather his spiritual power directly onto the blue lights, to begin circulating the lights just like normal spiritual energy.

This process had its own risks. Since the blue lights were still a mystery, while being attached to his body, they may potentially cause great harm to him.

But how can one find cubs without entering the tiger’s cave? if one wanted benefits, one must take risks. So after closely observing the blue lights throughout his attempts so far, Lin Xuan has decided that this may be his only chance.

After a while, beads of sweat start emerging on his forehead, compared to circulating his spiritual power, circulating the blue lights was much more difficult. But Lin Xuan was no stranger to difficulties, and after a while, the blue lights finally gathered together and begin to circulate.

White gas started to emerge from Lin Xuan’s head, it seemed that trying to move the lights like spiritual power was very difficult and so the movements of the lights were very jerky, But other than that, there weren’t many problems.

Still, he continued…..

Time passed slowly.

“What’s this?” Lin Xuan raised an eyebrow, and his calm face finally slipped into a surprised expression. When the points of the light flew through the meridians in his hands, they flew out through the palm of his hands, It seemed that they didn’t behave like spiritual power, rather than circling back into the Dantian, the lights escaped from the body.

Although it was unexpected, Lin Xuan did not panic and stopped working. He slowly opened his eyes, he saw the lights floating in front of his chest, looking the same as they did inside his Dantian.

Lin Xuan touched the lights with his hand, but other than feeling a slight warmth, nothing happened. He was also unable to re-absorb them back into his body, and after a little while, the lights begin to dim and eventually fade away entirely.

Sitting back down, Lin Xuan looks into his Dantian. He found out that the points of light in his Dantian were still there, but they were now slightly smaller than they originally were.

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Lying in bed, Lin Xuan began to think that maybe he didn’t do anything wrong and that these lights were supposed to be cycled through his meridians just the same as spiritual power. But he was still unable to figure out why they were pushed out of his palms. It seems that he would need to investigate further.

After carefully going over the day’s results, Lin Xuan grew sleepy. Compared to his nine weeks training in the inner area, circulating the blue lights was much more exhausting, and at this rate, Lin Xuan felt that he would be unable to keep up.

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With the sun coming up and the rooster’s crows fading away, Lin Xuan woke up feeling refreshed. Rather than going to the pavilion as usual to cultivate, Lin Xuan sat cross-legged on his bed. Feeling encouraged by the progress he made the previous night, he was prepared to continue experimenting.

Once again, looking into his Dantian, Lin Xuan revealed a subtle smile on his lips. It was exactly as he suspected: the night before when he saw the lights shrink, Lin Xuan had guessed that since the lights had integrated into his body, there should be a method to restore them, otherwise it wouldn’t be qualified to be called a treasure by Zhou Yan. Although it was a great risk to take after only a guess, this morning’s discovery had proven him correct.

Even better than he expected, there were no specific conditions to restore the lights, they were truly a part of his body. And like all other parts of the body, they recovered after a good rest. Now he wouldn’t need to worry about using up the lights, and could fully focus on figuring out their use.

Translated by: James1kd2

Edited by: UnderTheMoon

1[1] Kaidan (Chinese: 怪谈）means ghost story or horror story