Chapter 417: Chapter 417

"There's no more, unless you can get this material yourself," Xiaoyao replied casually, his hands still busy flipping through books, making it hard to tell whether he was flipping through or actually reading them.

Almost everyone would believe this was flipping through books, not reading—the speed was simply too fast. Even reading ten lines at a glance would require more time!

"What material? Tell me and I'll definitely get it," Wang Yanyu patted her chest confidently, perhaps thinking that if Xiaoyao could get it, she definitely could too.

"Monster Salamander, and it has to be Saint Level or above," Xiaoyao replied, still continuing to read his book.

"Monster Salamander? And Saint Level or above? That's something rarely encountered even in a hundred years. Are you joking? What I just ate was that kind of Monster Salamander meat?" Wang Yanyu stared wide-eyed, very surprised. Being well-read, she knew what a Monster Salamander was, understood its preciousness, and even more so understood how difficult Saint Level or above Monster Salamanders were to find.

Rarely encountered in a hundred years—this wasn't an exaggeration!

"Mm, this is what I encountered this afternoon. Someone came to hunt the Monster Salamander, I accidentally became bait and helped her kill it, then I got a share of the meat," Xiaoyao said.

"Listening Rain Lake? Monster Salamander? So what they were talking about was you. You're really not bad—you even remembered to let me taste it! I'm in a good mood today, so I'll tell you about a good cultivation method. Practicing this will keep you eternally young..." Wang Yanyu didn't say much more about the Monster Salamander—she wasn't very interested.

Eternally young? Could it be like Her Imperial Aunt's? Hearing this term, Xiaoyao thought of the Eldest Princess and her cultivation method.

"This cultivation method is called the Clear Jade Formula!"

"What?!" Xiaoyao exclaimed in surprise. He never expected this cultivation method would be the Clear Jade Formula. This technique differed from the Clear Jade Technique by only one character—perhaps it was the original version of the Clear Jade Technique. But Xiaoyao had no way to access the Clear Jade Formula because it belonged to Sun Moon Island, a very mysterious sect. Google seaʀᴄh novel⚑fire.net

People from Sun Moon Island rarely traveled in this world, and they seldom participated in martial arts competitions between sects. It was an extremely low-key sect force.

However, Sun Moon Island was very famous—in this circle, almost everyone knew of it. Why such a contradictory phenomenon existed was actually quite simple!!

Although Sun Moon Island rarely moved about outside, everyone who came out from there was undoubtedly a supreme figure. Perhaps because so few people came out of Sun Moon Island, some thought that the reason Sun Moon Island could produce only supreme figures was because they only had these few people over all these years.

So some people didn't value Sun Moon Island highly, and some even pursued and killed Sun Moon Island people due to conflicts. Although Sun Moon Island people were already supreme figures, there were still quite a few people in this world with similar or even higher strength.

That pursuit of Sun Moon Island people was by a fairly large sect that could even rank among the top ten sects. Because of this, killing one or two supreme masters was relatively easy for them to accomplish.

After paying some price, they killed the Sun Moon Island people. They didn't hide this matter—first, there was no need to, and second, it couldn't be hidden.

This incident initially caused some sensation. After all, supreme masters had been killed, which also made people understand that sect's strength—they were indeed a strong candidate for entering the top ten sects.

Later, this matter was gradually forgotten, until a year later when it was brought up again and caused a strong storm. But this wasn't because of that sect—it was because of Sun Moon Island.

When everyone thought Sun Moon Island was nothing special, Sun Moon Island people appeared. This time it wasn't one or two people, but a group—a group that could make the entire world change color. In just one day, they completely annihilated that sect that could enter the top ten, along with anyone and anywhere related to them.

At the same time, they announced to the world that whoever dared harm Sun Moon Island people again would follow that sect's example—no exceptions!

Almost overnight, they destroyed that entire sect. The strength possessed by Sun Moon Island was deeply imprinted in everyone's hearts at this moment. They believed no one would ever do anything to Sun Moon Island people again, because they couldn't withstand such retaliation.

In fact, Sun Moon Island people had never done any great evil while traveling in the martial world—on the contrary, they would uphold justice. This itself was respectable, and because of this, no one felt Sun Moon Island was threatening them. They were just ensuring their disciples' safety, not covering up their disciples' evil deeds.

After this, Sun Moon Island people remained as rare as before, appearing once or twice every few decades or even centuries. Because of this, everyone still didn't know where Sun Moon Island was located, how many people were in the sect, or what kind of existence it was.

All people could know was information from those Sun Moon Island disciples who appeared, and the Clear Jade Formula was one such piece of information.

"What? Are you very surprised? The Clear Jade Formula isn't something easily obtained. You should kneel and thank me," Wang Yanyu said with a smile. At this moment, she didn't know the reason for Xiaoyao's surprise and thought he was shocked because he knew the Clear Jade Formula's origins.

"Thank you, Your Majesty the Queen!" Xiaoyao immediately said. At this moment, he needed to satisfy the other party even more, or how could he hear the Clear Jade Formula he very much wanted to know?

"That's more like it. Listen carefully—the Clear Jade Formula..." Wang Yanyu began reciting the Clear Jade Formula, and Xiaoyao also stopped reading, fully absorbing the Clear Jade Formula and comparing it with the Clear Jade Technique.

Xiaoyao read so many books originally to find some useful to himself, and the Clear Jade Formula was exactly such a book—naturally he had to value it!

Comparing the Clear Jade Formula with the Clear Jade Technique, he discovered the Clear Jade Formula might be the Clear Jade Technique. The meridians and circulation routes for cultivation were very similar, but the Clear Jade Formula seemed more sophisticated—though this was only compared to the original Clear Jade Technique.

Xiaoyao had already modified the Clear Jade Technique for Guxing. Guxing's current Clear Jade Technique wasn't inferior to this Clear Jade Formula. However, the Clear Jade Technique had several fewer levels than the Clear Jade Formula—levels Xiaoyao hadn't calculated.

The reason Xiaoyao hadn't calculated them was that Guxing didn't need them yet. The later techniques were for after reaching Saint Level Peak, and Guxing was currently only at early Saint Level—still very early!

Now with this Clear Jade Formula, Xiaoyao no longer needed to worry about Guxing's later cultivation methods. In a couple days, he would pass this technique to Guxing.

Why in a couple days?

Simple—Xiaoyao's messenger eagle had already delivered Monster Salamander meat to Guxing and now had to wait for the eagle's return before sending anything again.

The appearance of the Clear Jade Formula also gave Xiaoyao some inspiration for his Divine Farmer's Art, because so far, he hadn't encountered cultivation methods beyond Saint Level Peak—this was the first time!

With this, he could deduce some subsequent techniques for the Divine Farmer's Art. This was currently quite important, as the Divine Farmer's Art seemed different from other cultivation methods. For techniques of similar level, others could cultivate to Saint Level and beyond, but the Divine Farmer's Art seemed only able to reach Emperor Level.

Being able to reach Emperor Level was due to internal power accumulation, not breakthroughs from meridian cultivation. Normal breakthroughs involved opening new meridians—new meridians could make internal power advance rapidly while causing qualitative changes that improved internal power's might.

This was why different strength levels had such vast power differences.

If relying solely on internal power accumulation without opening new meridians, the speed would become very slow, and the difficulty would increase because internal power in the meridians was becoming saturated.

Generally, encountering this situation required attacking new meridians!

Actually, all cultivation methods were similar—starting with cultivating some simple, easy-to-train meridians, differing only in which meridians were chosen and the circulation routes!

Then similarly, gradually increasing the cultivated meridians until reaching the whole body's meridians. Basically, opening eighty percent of the body's meridians already meant God Level. Opening one hundred percent was almost impossible.

This was also a law of the world—there could never be one hundred percent pure things!

In simpler terms—no one is perfect!

Why cultivation difficulty increased in later stages was because later meridians became increasingly difficult to cultivate. But in the later stages, opening one additional meridian made a huge power difference.

The relationship between internal power strength and meridian quantity couldn't be calculated through simple addition or subtraction—it was a very complex formula. Adding one meridian didn't increase strength by a fraction, but by more than double.

Xiaoyao's current situation was that if his Divine Farmer's Art reached Emperor Level, the number of meridians he cultivated would already be similar to others' Saint Level. If this Divine Farmer's Art wasn't completely without destructive power, current Xiaoyao would already have late King Level martial power, because his cultivated meridians had nearly reached late King Level extent.

Initially, Xiaoyao felt his cultivation progress was slow, partly because of this aspect—he had more meridians to cultivate, making internal power seem perpetually insufficient.

However, currently somewhat strange was that his cultivation speed was actually accelerating. Even with the Divine Farmer's Art factor still present, it still couldn't stop the acceleration.

This puzzled him greatly, but he couldn't figure out the reason. He still felt the most likely possibility was adapting to this place's heaven and earth elemental energy. Anyway, this was a good thing—he wouldn't think about it too much.