Next.

Li Yun remained in Martial Arts Hall.

As the Deputy Hall Master of the Martial Arts Hall, he didn't have to spend his days studying various martial arts and contemplating improvements like others.

Chen Bairong and Chen Jiuxu had no specific strict requirements for him.

He still functioned as an Outer Sect Disciple, primarily focused on improving his own strength.

Martial Arts Hall could be said to be the institution with the most martial arts in Heavenly Martial Sect, second only to the Martial Repository.

It accumulated too many martial arts of different levels that Heavenly Martial Sect had acquired through various channels, as well as martial arts that had been improved and perfected by Martial Arts Hall but had not yet been verified.

It could almost be called a great treasure trove that any Martial Artist would dream of.

As the Deputy Hall Master of Martial Arts Hall, Li Yun could freely obtain any martial art.

Any martial art here was undefended to him.

Since that was the case.

Li Yun naturally wouldn't let go of such an opportunity.

Taking advantage of having a lot of Cognition Points, he frantically selected various True Qi Realm martial arts, regardless of whether they were incomplete or unverified... he didn't care at all.

He would just take them and directly improve them.

He would improve them to the point where they could no longer be improved, and then integrate them into the Primordial Unity Skill.

In just about half a month.

He had successively integrated 167 related martial arts for condensing True Qi, averaging 11 per day, a level of frenzy that could be called the highest since his entry.

Such a selection of martial arts naturally shocked Chen Bairong as well.

At this moment.

He already knew the purpose of Gu Xiaoxian bringing Li Yun to Martial Arts Hall.

It was precisely because of this that he felt worried.

Since ancient times, First Grade True Qi was the peak.

Super First Grade True Qi, in the eyes of many, was a baseless concept, existing only in conjecture.

Countless people had gone one after another, but none had succeeded. Li Yun, relying on some martial arts for condensing True Qi, many of which were just incomplete or unverified in origin and effect... wanted to create Super First Grade True Qi. This was probably wishful thinking.

With a slight misstep.

If he didn't create Super First Grade True Qi but instead went mad or suffered Qi deviation, wouldn't that be terrible?

If that happened, wouldn't he, by bringing Li Yun to Martial Arts Hall, become a sinner who destroyed an unprecedented Genius?

Chen Bairong would never allow such a situation to occur.

Finally, after half a month, he couldn't help but knock on Li Yun's door.

After entering, he was stunned.

He found Li Yun sitting alone in the room, pouring tea for himself, the aroma filling the entire quiet room. He was leisurely and completely lacked the fatigue or madness he had imagined.

“Could it be that this kid Li Yun has already realized that trying to create Super First Grade True Qi this way is ineffective, and he has voluntarily given up?”

Chen Bairong's heart stirred secretly.

He then walked over with a smile, sat down next to Li Yun, and asked with a kind expression of concern.

“How is it?”

“You've been in Martial Arts Hall for half a month. Is there anything you're not used to?”

Li Yun smiled, a very happy smile.

“No, I think it's great…”

“Living here, with dedicated people taking care of daily life, all sorts of delicious food and drinks provided, and endless martial arts to consult, it's simply a Holy Land that Martial Artists dream of…”

“If I were to say I wasn't used to a place like this, I'd surely be struck by lightning!”

Chen Bairong: “…”

Good heavens, how am I supposed to respond to that?

Chen Bairong decided to get straight to the point.

“It's good that you're used to it... it's good. I was worried you'd feel too lonely and not get used to it…”

“How could that be?”

“A Martial Artist must be able to endure loneliness. If one doesn't even have that will, how can one practice martial arts? Besides, returning to my Nameless Abode is just as lonely. Loneliness there isn't loneliness, there's no difference.”

“Hehe… hehe…”

Chen Bairong couldn't help but laugh as well, though his smile was a bit stiff, and he secretly cursed in his heart; this kid's words didn't sound like a sixteen-year-old at all.

“That's true, but I heard you've been desperately studying those True Qi cultivation techniques recently, and many of them are incomplete. I specifically came today to take a look…”

“Oh, you mean those… I was just about to look for you, and here you are… I'm saved a trip. Please sit, I'll go get something.”

Li Yun stood up with a whoosh, as if his backside was on fire.

He turned around and took down a large wooden box from a shelf behind him.

Inside the wooden box, in addition to various True Qi martial arts Li Yun had borrowed from Martial Arts Hall, there were also many green-glowing stones, numbering well over a hundred at first glance.

Chen Bairong recognized these stones.

They were a type of strange stone called a Sound-Recording Stone, originally transparent. As long as a Martial Artist injected True Qi into them, they could clearly record the Martial Artist's voice, turning green after recording a lot. Martial Arts Hall had many of these, to facilitate people in Martial Arts Hall who suddenly had a flash of inspiration and wanted to record some martial arts mysteries, preventing them from being unable to recall them later due to not recording in time, thus missing a perfect opportunity for a flash of inspiration.

This entire box of over a hundred Sound-Recording Stones had all turned green.

Didn't this mean that they all had things recorded inside?

Thinking of this.

Chen Bairong's heart couldn't help but twitch.

Sound-Recording Stones were very expensive; one started at ten thousand taels of silver. The entire Martial Arts Hall usually kept about a thousand, with an average annual consumption of about three hundred.

Unless it was truly necessary to use a Sound-Recording Stone for preservation, few people would use them normally.

This guy, Li Yun, used over a hundred in just half a month?

That was over a million taels of silver!

That value was almost comparable to a top-grade Profound Grade heavenly and earthly treasures.

This was too much of a rip-off…

But he was the one who kept him, and the Sect Master also agreed. He couldn't just turn hostile because Li Yun used some Sound-Recording Stones, could he?

Wouldn't that make him a laughingstock?

Chen Bairong pretended not to care and asked with a puzzled expression, “Li Yun, what's… what's going on with this?”

Li Yun chuckled: “It seems you don't blame me for misusing the Sound-Recording Stones… then I'll be direct. Didn't I take some True Qi Realm martial arts to study in the past half month?”

“I've pretty much thoroughly researched them.”

“I originally wanted to put those martial arts back, but thinking that they were quite interesting, it would be a shame to just put them back, so I took some Sound-Recording Stones and recorded them all.”

“Since you're here, please take them back and look. Maybe Martial Arts Hall will still find some use for them.”

When Chen Bairong heard this, his heart instantly felt a chill.

It's over!

These hundred-plus Sound-Recording Stones, worth over a million taels of silver, were probably going to be wasted.

Why record anything else but True Qi Realm martial arts? What use could that be?

He made up his mind that after returning, he must instruct the person in charge of resources that from now on, strategic resources like Sound-Recording Stones should be given to Li Yun as little as possible.

This kid didn't know the cost of living because he wasn't in charge.

He was just wasting things!

Alas!