The area belonging to the Lingxiao lineage has eight bookshelves, piled high with jade slips, roughly categorized by the five elements of spiritual roots and different spiritual roots, providing disciples with a good selection.

Lin Xiuyuan first went to the bookshelf that mainly contained water-attribute cultivation techniques and slowly began to select them.

Although he possesses all five elemental roots, they vary in strength. His water and fire roots are relatively powerful. While fire-attribute cultivation techniques produce more destructive power and significantly enhance a cultivator's combat strength, he still possesses a different level of strength.

However, he was a talisman master, and water elemental energy possessed the characteristics of flexibility and versatility, making it very suitable for talisman masters. Moreover, it was relatively profound and surging, second only to earth-attribute techniques and comparable to wood-attribute techniques. Therefore, he chose to cultivate the Water Circulation Technique precisely because of this.

Since the spiritual profession one cultivates is that of a talisman master, it is natural to prioritize water-attribute techniques.

Lin Xiuyuan's foundation is not good. After all, he was born as a rogue cultivator and did not receive a good cultivation environment. His meridians and main channels are relatively ordinary, and his spiritual roots are poor. Therefore, he cannot choose cultivation methods that are too mysterious or too complicated.

Otherwise, when activating spells and conducting daily cultivation, which requires circulating magical power through multiple meridians, it would undoubtedly consume more of his mental energy, slowing down his cultivation speed and spellcasting process.

The only thing we can do is to gradually improve this weak foundation in the days to come.

After considering various factors, the range of choices was continuously narrowed.

Lin Xiuyuan picked up the jade slips one by one and put them down, examining them continuously.

Heavenly Heart Technique, Water Wave Technique, Mysterious Primordial Technique...

Among them are techniques with high potential, and those that stop at the Golden Core stage. The former are more balanced, maintaining a combat strength that barely reaches the top tier at each realm. The latter are more powerful, but limited to the Golden Core stage. The Daoist techniques and secret arts recorded on them are extremely powerful. According to the description, they can be used to fight beyond one's level, even at the Foundation Establishment stage or the Golden Core stage, making them extremely formidable.

After all, once you reach the Golden Core stage, it is extremely difficult to fight against opponents of a higher level, which shows how powerful this extreme technique is.

However, this is the limit of such cultivation techniques; one needs to switch to another technique to break through to the Nascent Soul stage.

This greatly appealed to Lin Xiuyuan. After all, with his mixed spiritual root, his hope and chance of breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage were very low. Cultivating this kind of technique would give him a greater chance of competing for spiritual items that would help him break through to the Nascent Soul stage.

But from another perspective, he has the wonder of the Purple Talisman, so he has no shortage of resources and his progress is comparable to that of geniuses. There is no need to further increase the difficulty. If he fails to switch cultivation methods before his time limit, even if he seizes a lot of opportunities, he will have nowhere to use them.

In the end, after much deliberation, Lin Xiuyuan chose a conventional second-class cultivation method, the Talisman Mystic Treasure Technique, which was evolved from the Lingxiao True Scripture.

The technique that allows one to cultivate to the second major level of perfection is a cultivation method for the Nascent Soul stage. However, the final level of the technique requires returning to the Lingxiao True Scripture. Since it is of the same lineage and origin and evolved from the True Scripture, it omits a large number of conversion processes, making it less laborious and time-consuming.

While it may not possess the power of those extreme cultivation techniques at present, it is still only at the Nascent Soul stage. Later, upon entering the Lingxiao lineage and cultivating wondrous techniques and secret arts, its power will be only slightly inferior, but its upper limit is much higher, allowing it to cultivate all the way to the Spirit Realm and reach the Star River Domain!

This book, the Mysterious Treasure Manual of Talismans, is unremarkable in terms of power among the second-class cultivation methods, and therefore lacks many mysteries. However, it is more suitable for cultivation with a foundation like Lin Xiuyuan's.

After all, both are superior cultivation techniques, and the magical power cultivated is profound and surging. It also brings out the ever-changing and flexible characteristics of water-attribute spiritual energy, giving it a great advantage in making talismans and controlling the activation of talismans.

Although the contest is based on magical power, the strength of this technique lies mainly in the fact that it can produce magical treasures at the Golden Core stage. These treasures are extremely profound and are all top-grade magical treasures, indirectly comparable to those extreme techniques.

It records the methods for crafting three types of magical treasures: sword-shaped treasures, cauldron-shaped treasures, and token-shaped treasures, each with its own unique uses and formidable power.

For cultivators at the Golden Core stage and above, magic weapons are the most important component of their combat power. Moreover, once they reach the Nascent Soul stage and cultivate the Lingxiao True Scripture, they can make up for the ordinary deficiencies in their magic power and make their magic power reach a top-level level of strength.

Although he is currently only slightly stronger than low- to mid-level cultivators, and rather mediocre compared to high-level cultivators, he is a typical example of being neither the best nor the worst, but with greater potential in the future.

After careful consideration, this talismanic secret technique is undoubtedly the most suitable for him.

Once Lin Xiuyuan made up his mind, he didn't hesitate and immediately picked up the jade slip to make a copy.

Not long after, Lin Xiuyuan walked out of the Scripture Pavilion and flew away from Zhongxiao Mountain on his sword, heading deep into the Yunxiao Sect. He arrived at a small mountain range, which, although small, was only equivalent to the entire Yunmeng Mountain Range.

This small mountain range stretches for hundreds of miles and has nine towering peaks, hence its name, Jiuxiao Mountain!

There are probably nearly ten thousand disciples cultivating here. Apart from a large number of inner disciples, there are more than a thousand Foundation Establishment cultivators, who have not yet entered the four meridians.

Including the elite Foundation Establishment disciples on the Four Spiritual Mountains, the entire sect has approximately two thousand Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Although the Nine Heavens Sect is no longer as prosperous and glorious as before, it is still a powerful force that has occupied the Yunmeng Mountains for many years and has even taken over the Yunmeng Great Swamp. It has a strong foundation.

The sect has nearly 50,000 to 60,000 disciples in the Qi Refining stage, less than 2,000 in the Foundation Establishment stage, and nearly 200 to 300 cultivators in the Purple Mansion stage.

As for the Golden Core Ancestor, it wasn't mentioned on the jade slip. After all, such a person was already a top-tier combatant and the pillar of each sect, so naturally, such specific information wouldn't be revealed.

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