“Both of you, stay in this room for a while. I’ll check on Qinglan Weiwei’s state.” Saying this, Heifeng Jiansui left the two girls along in a side-bedroom.

While the two girls were extraordinarily polite around their master, in his absence the atmosphere grew lighter. Xuehu Ying morosely asked, “The young master doesn’t seem to like me.”

“You are the youngest after all. Even if you stripped, your body isn’t worth seeing.” Saying this, Gui Tian’er puffed up her chest with pride.

“The young master is only two years old! He isn’t interested in women yet…” As Xuehu Ying said this, her eyes were glued on the other’s girl’s chest. While it was incomparable to Qinglan Weiwei’s, comparing her chest to it was like a stone facing a mountain!

“Well, the only other reason is talent. With Qinglan Weiwei’s Perfect Azure Dragon bloodline, peerless root bone and her body that has undergone rebirth, among us at the same cultivation stage, she is the most talented and the strongest. I have cultivated for three years, and even though my accumulation has been dispersed into my body, it is still a tempering! As for you…” At this point, Gui Tian’er stopped speaking.

“Heh, don’t fool me! Your ‘advantage’ of your gathered qi dispersing into your body is simply concealing the loss of three years of work! And Qinglan Weiwei has passed through her best time for cultivation! I am certainly the most talented in this batch!” To this, Gui Tian’er had no reply.

“Even though Qinglan Weiwei was talented and trained in a top-grade martial art, she only came close to mastery in 21 years! As a servant of the Royal Family, knowing the benefits of training in a martial art and actually training it are two different things! You can only obtain resources for cultivation, and even foundation building martial arts require time and resources! Before turning 13, even if I slogged day and night, gaining enough merit to exchange for physique ointments was a far dream. Spending a hour or two training in that trash Black Tiger Fangs fisticuffs was the best I could do.”

“But now, I have the Crown Prince’s backing. I can simply request for a top-grade martial art suitable for the Turtlesnake bloodlines to train in and improve my physique! Getting physique ointments and pastes will be easier as well. What Qinglan Weiwei took two decades to achieve can be accomplished by me in two years!” Saying this, she had confidence in her face.

“You are pretty ambitious, I like it. I will get you a martial art manual suitable for you in a few hours. Tian’er, how about you? Do you wish to train martial arts to boost your foundation or do you wish to cultivate in your prime age?” Heifeng Jiansui’s sudden arrival shocked the two girls. Xuehu Ying couldn’t help but blush thinking that her ambitions were bared before him while Gui Tian’er fell into thought.

“Young master, the first layer on the path of cultivation is Physique, so most cultivation techniques would emphasize on martial arts as well… A technique that minors in physical training while majoring in tempering the body by True Qi would be ideal for me.” Saying this, Gui Tian’er hopefully looked at Heifeng Jiansui.

“Not a bad choice! Since you know about such basics, let me ask you: What are the layers of cultivation that fall under the Body Transformation boundary?”

“The Body Transformation Boundary is divided into 9 layers.

The first three layers are called Body-Mind Transformations: Physique, Dantian, Battle Spirit.

The next three layers are the Three-Sea Transformations: Sea of Consciousness, Sea of Blood, Sea of Energy.

The final three layers are Law-Heart Transformations: Law Intent, Bone Inscription and Daoheart.” As she recited textbook basics of cultivation, Heifeng Jiansui nodded.

“As a mortal, it is possible to strengthen the Body-Mind Transformations by simply training in martial arts. The Three-Sea Transformations can be trained with special cultivation techniques designed for mortals. While it is impossible to train the Law-Heart Transformations with techniques, some fortuitous events can grant these transformations as well.

These layers can only be trained to a certain limit and even a mortal who has strengthened all layers will fall to a cultivator who has completed the first layer. This is common knowledge, but do you know the true benefits of training these layers as a mortal?” Heifeng Jiansui asked this to the two maids.

“It increases cultivation speed and comprehension speed of the layers. I have read that a person who mastered a martial art as a mortal can breakthrough the Physique layer in a year, while a person who has never made contact with martial arts will take three years!” I nod at Gui Tian’er’s words.

“Close, but not quite. In truth, reaching the pinnacle of a layer as a mortal lowers the bottlenecks faced while breaking through the layer in cultivation. There are of course differences based on the level and difficulty of the martial art practiced. For example, an ordinary martial art trained to mastery allows for breaking through the Physique layer in a year while a top-grade art will only require three months or so. Now, guess how many layers our Weiwei has strengthened, my dear Ying?”

“Young master… her Physique and Dantian should have reached a certain level of tempering due to her transformation. Her Sea of Blood is the source of her bloodline, so it might have strengthened as well.” Saying this, Xuehu Ying couldn’t help but blush when her young master called her by mane.

“Not only her Physique and Dantian, even her Battle Spirit and Three Seas have undergone transformation due to her bloodline’s perfection! If she is fortunate, she might gain some insight into Law Intent from her bloodline memories! If I grant her the appropriate resources, she will certainly breakthrough the first six layers of Body Transformation in a decade!” I said this with pride in my voice. Since I was planning to begin cultivation at the age of 13, nurturing powerful subordinates was a focus.

Hearing the prince’s words, the two girls were struck speechless. Even breaking through to the third layer in a decade was difficult to imagine, and Qinglan Weiwei would break through 6 layers in that time! It was simply unimaginable!

“If you don’t put in effort, you’ll be left behind, so you have to keep up. I would like that all your strengths would be at a similar level. You can return now, I’ll call you girls when Weiwei awakens. Also, since we will be moving to my dominion, prepare to bid goodbye to your close friends and relatives.” Saying this, Heifeng Jiansui sent off the two girls.

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That evening, a flying sword bearing a spatial ring with jade slips and manuals arrived. He sent a letter to Elder Shenhai that he needed Five Beast Divine Sect’s disseminable foundation cultivation arts and the man had sent it to him within hours! After sending a letter of thanks, he began sorting through the manuals searching for appropriate ones for his maids.

After finding appropriate techniques, he sent them via flying sword to his maids. Controlling delivery flying swords was something easy to accomplish even in his previous life! In fact, his first contact with cultivation had him controlling delivery flying swords to send resources to faraway disciples!

After that, he looked through the Phoenix lineage techniques and gained insight into them. Heifeng Jiansui enjoyed learning techniques the essence of martial arts passed down from forefathers to the next generation the most. He had even memorized the entirety of the 2nd floor and the 3rd floor Auxiliary techniques of the Ten Thousand Sword Sect’s Scripture Pavilion.

Since the S-Rank and A-Rank missions were recently completed by him, there was no need to forge anything. Heifeng Jiansui had to complete 1000 S Rank missions for True Disciple status, but he had completed only 20 in a month. Like this, it would take a little less than 4 years to rank up!

Complaining about such things in his mind, Heifeng Jiansui casually read through manuals as he awaited Qinglan Weiwei’s awakening.

However, that was something that only occurred that evening.

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When Qinglan Weiwei’s awakened, Heifeng Jiansui was immediately informed by formations. Seeing her jadelike nude figure slowly shake off the bedsheet covering her was a sight restricted to only him.

Seeing Heifeng Jiansui watching her, Qinglan Weiwei blushed but did not wrap the bedsheet around her body, allowing him see her nakedness. “So, did you make any gains from your ancestral memories?”

“I gained a body tempering art >, a core cultivation art >, a movement art > and a spear art > as well. They are all complete. Some fragmented techniques are present as well. Unfortunately, I am barred from passing them down…”

“That’s only expected. Here, these are some foundation Dragon cultivation arts. Even though your techniques are a complete legacy, something here might catch your interest…” Saying this, Heifeng Jiansui passed down all the disseminable techniques of the Five Sacred Beast Sect, the draconic techniques from his family library and the few arts he could scrounge from the Ten Thousand Sword Sect’s library. He did tell her not to train in the final arts and only use them as reference, though.

After Qinglan Weiwei put on some clothes, the other two maids were called in as well. After they greeted her, Heifeng Jiansui called her to put out her hand again. He was going to see her accomplishments!

“As expected, Physique, Dantian, Battle Spirit have reached their limits. The Sea of Consciousness, Sea of Blood, Sea of Energy have been trained to perfection as well. Good job, I can sense Law Intent emitting from your… bones… Your have even experienced Bone Inscription! That Azure Dragon Ancestor was too good to you!” Except for her Daoheart, all other layers had been strengthened to perfection.

The current Qinglan Weiwei’s potential was comparable to Heifeng Jiansui himself!