Chapter 22: Black Water Dark Snake Method!

After Ning Chuan wrote that line, a hint of expectation rose in his heart as he looked at Huang Rong.

His goal was to forge a path of demon cultivation unlike any before.

And the Internal Energy Cultivation Methods of human Wu Xuemi were undoubtedly an important reference for him to take that first step.

He needed to borrow the human Method of strength for cultivating Internal Energy, combine it with the characteristics of his own snake body, and first make this massive body of his capable of generating that miraculous Internal Energy.

Once he possessed Internal Energy, his strength would surely undergo a qualitative leap.

Seeing the characters on the stone slab, Huang Rong's expression turned to surprise once again.

The big black snake... no, what should it be called now?

It actually wanted to see Wu Xuemi?

Is this snake trying to defy heaven?

However, recalling the various supernatural feats Ning Chuan had displayed before, and his terrifying speed in learning characters, Huang Rong felt that perhaps, for it, understanding Wu Xuemi was not impossible.

She tilted her small head, thought for a moment, then nodded and said, "Looking at Wu Xuemi isn't entirely out of the question..."

She paused, then continued with some difficulty, "But Father has rules. The Wu Gong of our Taohuadao sect, such as the Falling Blossom Divine Palm, the Jade Flute Sword Technique, and the Finger Snap Divine Art, are all secret transmissions from master to disciple; without becoming a disciple, they absolutely cannot be passed on externally."

"So, I'm afraid I cannot show you Father's top-tier Cheng Martial Arts."

She stole a glance at Ning Chuan, and seeing that he did not seem displeased by this, she breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "However, Father and several senior brothers have also collected many other Wu Xuemi from the Jianghu. Some were gifts from friends, and some were... well, seized from defeated enemies. Although these Wu Gong are not as good as our Taohuadao's supreme arts, they are diverse and varied; there are quite a few second and third-rate Cultivation Methods you might look at."

Hearing this, Ning Chuan did not mind in his heart.

The Wu Gong of Taohuadao were indeed exquisite, but with his terrifying, heaven-defying comprehension, as long as he was given a foundation, he was confident he could quickly apply knowledge from one field to another, draw inferences, and even create Cultivation Methods more powerful and better suited to himself than the so-called Taohuadao Wu Gong.

What he needed most right now was a lead, a stepping stone to understand the principles of Internal Energy cultivation.

Those second and third-rate Wu Gong, though perhaps not profound enough, contained the basic principles within them, which were sufficient for him.

He nodded at Huang Rong, indicating that he did not care about the rank of the Wu Gong.

Seeing this, Huang Rong finally felt relieved, smiled sweetly, and said, "Very well! I will take you to our Taohuadao's 'Wu Lou' to have a look!"

The so-called 'Wu Lou' was actually a small building on Taohuadao specifically used to store those foreign Wu Xuemi.

Huang Rong led Ning Chuan, familiar with the way, to the front of the Wu Lou.

Just as she was about to push the door open, Huang Rong suddenly stopped, turned her head, looked at Ning Chuan cunningly, and asked with a grin:

"By the way, big black snake, last time I called you 'Little Black', you seemed rather unhappy. We can't keep calling you 'big black snake' forever, can we? Now that you can write characters, can you tell me, what is your real name?"

Her pair of lively, sparkling eyes blinked, full of curiosity.

Hearing this, Ning Chuan pondered for a moment.

The name 'Ning Chuan' was the name of his past life, and also his only identity mark now.

With his snake tail, he wrote the two characters 'Ning Chuan' on the ground, stroke by stroke, clearly.

Huang Rong looked at the characters on the ground and read them out, character by character: "Ning... Chuan... Ning as in tranquility, Chuan as in mountains and rivers?"

She raised her head, looked at Ning Chuan, and a flash of joy passed through her eyes: "Ning Chuan, what a lovely name! Much better than big black snake!"

She thought for a moment, then affectionately patted Ning Chuan's snake head with her hand and said, "Then from now on, shall I call you... Brother Ning Chuan?"

In her view, although Ning Chuan was huge in size, his spiritual intelligence had only recently awakened, making him like an innocent child.

Hearing this, Ning Chuan tapped the ground lightly with his snake tail, then wrote: "I am older than you; I have already lived for twenty years."

Of course, this was a lie to Huang Rong; he had only just transmigrated not long ago.

Huang Rong looked at the characters on the ground, covered her small mouth in surprise, then nodded as if suddenly understanding: "Oh... so you are already that old! Alright, alright, then from now on I will call you... Brother Chuan!"

She said it smoothly and naturally, with a sweet smile on her face.

Ning Chuan made no comment on this, which amounted to tacitly accepting the title.

Pushing open the wooden door of the Wu Lou, a faint scent of ink and the smell of old paper rushed to meet them.

Inside the building, the light was somewhat dim; rows of bookshelves were neatly arranged, filled with all kinds of thread-bound books.

These were the Jianghu Wu Gong collected by Taohuadao.

Huang Rong, familiar with the layout, led Ning Chuan to the area for Internal Energy Cultivation Methods.

"Brother Chuan, look, these are all Internal Energy Wu Xuemi," Huang Rong said, pointing to the books on the shelves.

Ning Chuan's gaze swept over them; he saw the shelves held external Fist and Kick Techniques such as the Black Tiger Fist and Eagle Claw Gong, as well as Internal Energy Cultivation Methods like the Changchun Heart Method, the Pure Yuan Method, and a Fragment of the Mingxin Gong.

Although most of these Cultivation Methods looked rather shallow, and some were merely Fragments, they involved various basic principles of Internal Energy cultivation, such as how to sense the Qi, how to circulate the Great Zhou Tian, and how to open the meridians, and so on.

This was enough!

A indescribable joy surged in Ning Chuan's heart.

"Rong'er, please, help me open these Internal Energy Cultivation Methods to look," Ning Chuan wrote on the ground with his snake tail.