Chapter 224: Making Trouble

On the other side, Yùmiàn Wúcháng, having left the black market, arrived at a small courtyard within Huang Du.

"Husband, you're back?" A woman walked out, greeting him with a smiling face.

"Mm, Huār, how's things at home? No one came looking for trouble, right?" Yùmiàn Wúcháng said with a smile.

"With you around, who would come looking for trouble.... cough cough cough...." The woman smiled, her face instantly turned pale, and she coughed violently a few times.

Yùmiàn Wúcháng's expression changed, and he hurriedly supported the woman: "Huār, your body...."

"It's all right, husband.... Huār is fine, just a bit tired." The woman's forehead beaded with sweat, but even if her body felt worse, being able to lie in the arms of her beloved is the greatest happiness.

Yùmiàn Wúcháng gritted his teeth and nodded: "Huār, rest assured, I will definitely cure you."

"Mm, husband."

Xú Fūzi, you old bastard, you've ruined my big plans!

Yùmiàn Wúcháng wore a grim expression, full of pity as he helped the woman back inside.

After returning to his residence, Yan Buji began studying the accumulation device components he had obtained.

This component, infused with netherworld qi, having undergone the process of being refined into an accumulation device, makes its original material indistinguishable. The skull-like appearance is also that of the accumulation device, not its original form.

"But upon closer inspection, this should be some kind of.... metal-stone material." Yan Buji wasn't sure what this thing was, but since it was produced in the Youming Jie, it surely contained uses unknown to him.

It is said to have the ability to affect ghostly beings, but Yan Buji's studies are neither demonic nor heretical, and he does not understand this.

Moreover, on the surface the Nan Ting Mountain Region heavily suppresses demonic heterodoxy, and with the great flourishing of the human way, there is no room for these demonic cultivators to commit evil.

As for re-refining this component, Yan Buji couldn't find a suitable refinement method; after all, netherworld qi is incompatible with his own studies, and rashly refining it into an accumulation device would likely affect him as well.

"It would be best to find a place with a fire vein and use earth fire to forge it."

During his time at the Pure Wind Temple, Yan Buji also crammed some basic knowledge of refining into accumulation devices.

For example, a cultivator need not rely solely on his own magical power to refine into an accumulation device; he can also use heavenly thunder and earthly fire, and various marvelous workings of heaven and earth can serve as the crucible for refining into an accumulation device, as the saying goes: "Heaven and earth are the furnace, creation the work; yin and yang the charcoal, all things the copper"—that is the principle.

However, the principles are all straightforward, but how to apply them depends on one's level and ability.

The direct manifestation lies in the fact that although the sages have spoken many great principles, how many people can ultimately cultivate to the sage's realm?

This has nothing to do with the principles themselves, but with personal cultivation.

Yan Buji's understanding of cultivation is: learn from others' things, take the good and also learn the bad.

Learning the good enhances oneself; learning the bad sounds a lasting alarm.

But cultivation itself is not simply good or bad; personal affinity and fate cannot fully explain its subtleties. Assuming the yin-yang cycle, it is the principle of "you in me, me in you".

There are too many ways to refine into an accumulation device; as for how to handle this component, Yan Buji plans to fully clarify its utility before designing a complete accumulation device.

The accumulation devices he currently possesses do not obviously boost combat power; he greatly needs one that can significantly enhance combat power in direct battle, but that remains the problem.

The more he learns, the more he has to consider.

It's not that Yan Buji is indecisive; he simply doesn't have any decisive moves to show.

Setting aside martial dao, in magical cultivation the primary emphasis is on techniques, secondary on spells. Yan Buji, having acquired eight different-natured techniques and having harmonized them with the principle of the Three Powers, still has few means directly applicable to combat.....

"In that case, it's still best to focus on cultivating the Golden Wheel Technique and the Shaking Dragon Classic."

Although the golden wheel of magical power condensed from the Golden Wheel Technique is just that in terms of technique level, the golden wheel of magical power can nonetheless be strengthened in destructive power and toughness through continual practice; its manifestation lies in the fact that even though Yan Buji's Golden Wheel Technique advances in level as his realm rises, the golden wheel of magical power mainly depends on the degree of condensation.

Yan Buji had been busy with other matters before, so he hadn't practiced much. Now, picking it up again is like sharpening a spear before battle; any improvement counts.

With the Five Elements cycling, Yan Buji pours all his magical power into the golden wheel; the remaining magical power is continually ground into metal-attribute magical power, becoming nourishment for the golden wheel of magical power. In this cycle, one heavenly circuit exhausts Yan Buji's magical power.

After a while of seated breathing adjustment, Yan Buji summoned the golden wheel above his palm; the rotating golden wheel now also has twelve extremely sharp blades on its edge, possessing strong cutting ability, and its armor-piercing effect is quite evident.

Yan Buji pondered for a moment, shook his head, and said: "We must ensure maximal armor-piercing capability; otherwise we cannot break the tough bodies of the monster race, and the other spells would be useless."

Immediately afterward, Yan Buji began another round of cultivation.

A few days passed.

Yan Buji was cultivating in his room when he suddenly heard footsteps approaching.

"Senior Brother, Senior Brother Yuèjìn!"

"What's the matter?"

"It's bad, Yuètōng and them have gotten into a fight with someone!"

Yan Buji rolled his eyes, straightened up, got up and opened the door: "Talk while walking."

Since he counts as a representative disciple of the Pure Wind Temple, he also shouldn't ignore these miscellaneous affairs.

Moreover, his master and uncles are not around, so someone must handle these matters; on the surface Yan Buji is the strongest, and being valued by two elders, this responsibility naturally falls on him.

Soon, following the disciple's guidance, Yan Buji arrived near the Hundred Weapons Pavilion.

A group of cultivators gathered to watch; Yan Buji approached, looking at the Pure Wind Temple disciple with a slap mark on his face, and then glanced at the three young men ahead.

Yan Buji slightly bowed and said: "I am Yuèjìn of the Pure Wind Temple; may I ask what the dispute is, gentlemen?"

"So you want to know, you Daoist priest? Is this how your Pure Wind Temple trains disciples—grabbing my junior sister's butt as soon as you approach?" The young man glared at Yan Buji, displeased.

"I didn't; just now the crowd was packed, who would touch her?!"

"Nonsense; how could I, a young woman, ruin my own reputation? It's clear you looked at my flower-like beauty and grew lustful!" The girl, also fiery, pointed at the disciple and cursed.

The disciple, unable to bear it, covered his face and walked over to Yan Buji, looking at himself pitifully.

Yan Buji sighed: "Yuètōng, I ask you, is it really that you deliberately harassed this female cultivator due to lust?"

"I really don't, Senior Brother; you know me—I like men."

The surrounding cultivators' expressions changed as they looked at Yan Buji and Yuètōng, their eyes strange.

Yan Buji coughed, stepped a few steps to the side, and said: "If that's the case, then please, fellow cultivators, apologize to my junior disciple; you also heard—he's a grown man who wouldn't voluntarily reveal his preferences; you forced him to!"

"You! You guys!" The three young men were stunned.

"Eh, that's not right—clearly we're in the right, so why does this old bastard opening his mouth make it seem like they're the victims?"