"Okay, I'm leaving."
u Tiandu smiled as he looked at the two people who were reluctant to leave. In a blink of an eye, he had been here for half a month. "I will come to see you when I have time. You two are not good enough in cultivation now. If there is nothing necessary, practice well at home and don't go out..."
After a few more instructions, Lu Tiandu flew away from the nameless hill as the two saw him off.
Looking at Lu Tiandu going away, Xin Ruyin still stood there in a daze.
Thinking of everything that happened in the past half month, she felt a little more tender in her heart and looked forward to Brother Lu's next visit.
If she hadn't met this kind-hearted Brother Lu during this period, she would not know how to face her mother's departure and revenge, not to mention his enlightenment and care for her during this period.
Moreover, in order to prevent the two from going out for trivial matters, Brother Lu also left them a lot of cultivation resources. With the help of her mother's legacy, she and Xiaomei would not have to rush around for these things in the short term.
"Miss, I must practice diligently. I will protect you!"
Xiaomei tugged at Xin Ruyin's sleeve. Remembering Brother Lu's instructions, she suddenly felt eager to practice, and sighed again.
"I wonder when Brother Lu will come visit us next..."
A hint of worry crossed her delicate face, a look that made Xin Ruyin smile. She reached out her delicate, jade-like finger and tapped the little girl's forehead. "You missed your Brother Lu right after you left?" "
Hehe..." Xiaomei blushed for once, and said shyly, "Miss, if you miss Brother Lu, I miss Brother Lu too..."
Lu Tiandu, standing on his flying sword, was also thinking of Xin Ruyin and Xiaomei.
Xin Ruyin, the gifted formation master, though still young, had already demonstrated a remarkable talent in the art of formations.
As they chatted, Lu Tiandu was astonished by the bright eyes of Xin Ruyin as she explained the principles of various formations. It was true that there was a difference in understanding between people, sometimes as great as the difference between heaven and earth.
Lu Tian had been repeatedly struck hard by his understanding of formations.
After all, he'd thought his natural talent in magic and talismans might suggest a glimmer of aptitude for formations. But…
genius truly makes ordinary people despair!
The scarcity of formation masters in the Tiannan cultivation world goes without saying, as evidenced by the events of the Falling Demon Valley and the sealing of demonic energy on Seven Spirit Island in the original plot.
If Xin Ruyin were to reveal her talent, even with the limitation of her Dragon Roar Body, her natural talent for formations would likely tempt even a Nascent Soul cultivator to take her into their sect for training. After all, such talent is truly rare.
Xin Ruyin had already made significant progress in researching formations like the Sky Wind Fierce Formation, the Illusionary Sky Net Formation, and the Green Water Blue Armor Formation. According to her, with the cooperation of a qualified refiner, they could create the corresponding flags and plates, and their power could be around 50% to 60% of the full version.
She had even mastered one-tenth of the Reversed Five Elements Formation, known as the "Minor Forbidden Formation."
The only shortfalls were qualified refiners and a sufficient supply of materials for the formation flags and plates.
So, before parting, Lu Tiandu handed over a jade slip containing the names of the materials needed to construct these formations.
He planned to begin collecting these materials through the Jinyu Pavilion upon his return.
Before parting, he also left a considerable amount of gifts for the two of them.
Three bottles each of Yellow Dragon Pills and Golden Marrow Pills, a large supply of Fasting Pills, dozens of mid- to high-level talismans, a high-level wood-attributed technique obtained from the Lu family's Sutra Library, some refining and formation materials, a shield and a flying sword—both high-level magical instruments, legitimately obtained—and a hundred low-level spirit stones.
The cultivation techniques and elixirs were primarily for Xiaomei. With these, Xiaomei, who possessed dual spiritual roots, would rapidly advance in her cultivation. While protecting Xin Ruyin, Lu Tiandu had other concerns for her.
He hoped to train Xiaomei to become a weapon refiner after she reached foundation building. With the innate true fire of a foundation-building cultivator, he would no longer have to worry about renting the terrestrial fire used by other sects or families for refining weapons or elixirs.
Xin Ruyin and Xiaomei, combined with the materials provided by Lu Tiandu, would be able to continuously create a variety of well-researched formations.
Earning spirit stones and building connections would then be much easier.
At Lu Tiandu's urging, Xin Ruyin agreed to reduce her training time. With the help of the pills she had prepared, she should be able to maintain her current state for two to three years.
If there was no solution after that, he would have to find a thousand-year-old spiritual herb as a guide and then create this elixir to slow the deterioration of her meridians.
Lu Tiandu fiddled with his gauze cloak, thinking back to the six stray Qi family members he had dispatched in the formation.
After the Qi family leader's death, Lu Tiandu, while collecting his storage bag, discovered a hide bag in the man's arms. Inside was a Level 1, intermediate-level spirit-sniffing beast.
Only then did they understand why the four-hundred-year-old spiritual herb in Xin's mother's storage bag had caused such trouble.
After all, as a casual cultivator, Xin's mother's storage bag wasn't high-end, and she frequently opened it to purchase various supplementary spiritual materials. It was understandable that the spirit-sniffing beast would discover the aged spiritual herb.
The enraged Xin Ruyin then hacked the beast into seven or eight pieces before it finally stopped...
While the six independent cultivators of the Qi family may have come from a small family of cultivators, their family's decline was practically on par with independent cultivators.
The highest cultivation level among the six was only the eldest and third brother, at the eleventh level. The others were at the ninth or tenth level. While insignificant to Lu Tiandu, they were still well-known among independent cultivators.
Lu Tiandu had also examined the six's storage bags during this time. The only thing that caught his eye was the third brother Qi's gauze cloak.
The rest contained a dozen or so mid-to-high-level magical instruments, some refining materials and spiritual herbs, a few mid-level talismans, and over three hundred spirit stones. Not a single top-level magical instrument.
Lu Tiandu had previously left the two women with materials he had collected, along with a significant portion from the nine individuals he had recently killed.
As for the spirit stones, Lu Tiandu had originally intended to leave them with the over 300. He assumed that Xin's mother, having been preparing the pills for Xin Ruyin, wouldn't have had many, otherwise she wouldn't have offered a set of precious formation instruments in exchange for the elixir.
After much deliberation, the two women finally accepted only 100. These stones would be enough to sustain their cultivation for two or three years.
Lu Tiandu ultimately gave in. After all, he would visit the women again in six months. If they needed anything, he could take them to the Tianxing Sect market.
Lu Tiandu reached out and several yellow formation flags and a yellow formation disk appeared in his hand. This was the Heavenly Wind Fierce Formation that had trapped the six wanderers of the Qi family.
It was a parting gift from Xin Ruyin.
At this moment, the most precious thing in Xin Ruyin's hands, apart from the ancient formation inheritance left by the unknown formation master and the formation arranged at the door of her own home, was this set of formation tools that came with the inheritance.
According to the jade slip, if this formation was presided over by a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment stage, even cultivators in the late Foundation Establishment stage could be trapped. It was considered a rare formation.
If Xin's mother had not had the misfortune of encountering Qi Lao San, who had a magical instrument that could conceal his body, it would be hard to predict who would live and who would die in the end.
Lu Tiandu also gladly accepted it. At this moment, he really needed this kind of thing to increase his foundation.
According to his thinking, when he had perfected his Qi training, with this set of formations, he would probably be able to fight against cultivators in the Foundation Establishment stage.
A few days later, Lu Tiandu lowered his flying sword and stepped into the Jinyu Pavilion in the Huangfeng Valley market.
(End of this chapter)