Lu Yang spent several months on the first floor of the Scripture Pavilion in order to devise his own method of cultivation, casting aside the "Encyclopedia of Crosstalk" he found an array of impressive cultivation methods and magic skills that widened his horizons.
For instance, a skill that once mastered, would allow one to track the location of another. It was developed by a couple who were both cultivators, intended for monitoring each other's whereabouts.
Then, the husband discovered that his wife frequently visited the brothel, and the wife found out that her husband often did the same.
Aside from this method, Lu Yang also saw a method for sleeping with open eyes, very useful during lectures.
There was a method that could make oneself extremely ugly, Lu Yang couldn't figure out the usefulness of this one.
A method for hibernation that emulates animals. Eat once, sleep for a quarter. Lu Yang also couldn't figure out the purpose of this one.
Later, Lu Yang understood. These were methods develoed by his Senior Brothers and Sisters for racking up contribution points.
Handing over a method with no duplicates to the Task Hall would earn you contribution points. Eldest Senior Sister once did this task on her own, forcing the Task Hall to create a dedicated column for her. There was no need to repeatedly hand in methods, just write it out and place it in the Scripture Pavilion. She could use contribution points freely.
The other Senior Brothers and Sisters didn't have Eldest Senior Sister's talent, but they wanted contribution points, resulting in many seemingly impressive but essentially useless methods in the Scripture Pavilion.
Lu Yang wondered whether he would be hung up and beaten by Eldest Senior Sister if he also wrote such methods.
Oh, probably Eldest Senior Sister wouldn't need to lift a finger, the puppet could do it for her.
"The Immortal Skill of Six Unions and Eight Wastes?" Fairy Eternity recalled something when she heard the name Lu Yang made up.
"The name seems similar to Immortal Jiuchong's method!"
"Immortal Jiuchong?" Lu Yang repeated. Fairy Eternity seldom mentioned about Immortal Jiuchong.
From Fairy Eternity, he knew that Immortal Jiuchong was an Immortal body, and also the first among the Five Immortals of the Ancients to become an Immortal.
"What's the name of his method?" Lu Yang wondered.
Eldest Senior Sister also showed a rare interest, put down her book, and listened to Fairy Eternity's answer.
"Immortal Jiuchong wrote the method himself, he named it 'The Immortal Skill of Chaotic One Energy, Two Instruments, Four Images, Six Unions, Eight Desolations, Nine Lands, Ten Heavens, and Only I am Supreme'."
"I usually refer to his method as 'Digital Immortal Skill', sometimes people also call it 'Four Six Immortal Skill', 'Eighty Immortal Skill' or anything they find convenient. Anyway, even Jiuchong can't remember the full name of his own method."
Lu Yang: "..."
Does Immortal Jiuchong have some sort of obsession with numbers?
Eldest Senior Sister also seemed at a loss. Originally, she had hoped to infer the opponent's strengths and weaknesses from the naming of the method.
Now it seems she had been overly optimistic.
While listening to ancient oddities in the Spiritual Space, Lu Yang roamed about killing people with Meng Jingzhou and Man Gu.
Just then, they heard Yan Fei's shout.
"Lu Yang, Meng Jingzhou, and Man Gu are together!"
Yan Fei did it deliberately. The pressure from the trio was too great. Even though he was strong, he couldn't beat these three strong and cunning bastards.
He must gather everyone's strength to take down these three.
Only then would he have a chance to win!
"Exposed so soon?" Meng Jingzhou thought the exposure would be later. He hadn't had enough fun yet.
The three of them opened their palms to check the numbers on their imprints. The one with the least, Man Gu, had 350. Needless to mention Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou, they were simply matchless demons, killing like mowing grass.
"What should we do, fight or run?" Man Gu asked.
"Run, of course. With our score, the top three spots must be ours. We just wait for it to end." Meng Jingzhou said, without the slightest sense of honor as a direct descendant of the Meng family. He felt no guilt for suggesting to "run away".
This had all been the result of being chased like ducks by their father for being naughty when they were young.
"They are here!" Someone stepped out of their abode and saw the three of them together.
These three are indeed together!
They even managed to keep up their act from the start of the competition. If it weren't for Yan Fei's suspicion, no one would have found out.
It's an utter disgrace. As cultivators on the Demon Path, they were always the ones deceiving others. When did it become others' turn to deceive them?
And they were deceived round and round!
If they didn't kill these three to vent their anger, their future cultivation would be impeded!
"Run~" Meng Jingzhou shouted joyously, spearheading the escape, with Lu Yang and Man Gu following suit.
"Catch them up!"
"They are here!"
"Kill them!"
Demon cultivators rarely work together, let alone mobilize large-scale Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators, this is unprecedented.
They were united, determined to capture these three!
The high-ranking members of the Eternity Sect watched this scene, amazed, for even they did not have such a compelling appeal.
The Master privately agreed, these three were tailor-made to infiltrate the Seek Dao Sect undercover. He felt it a pity that his two deputies, Liu Gao, were incompetent, letting such important chess pieces leave the Seek Dao Sect.
"If we're really chased down, you'll act as bait," Lu Yang said to Meng Jingzhou.
"Why should I? This whole scheme was your idea, you do it!"