Wu Yue stepped away and let Lin Tian cultivate inside the sect’s main hall building. The man was still confused. He didn’t know how to respond to Wu Yue’s wish and her second conquest mission.

In the end, Lin Tian had no choice but to follow what was written in the mission.

I’ll give her a choice after I explain what the Lingxian Sect’s Secret Technique is.

The decision will be entirely in her hands.

Lin Tian let out a soft sigh and chose to let everything happen as it should.

Both of his hands formed technique seals, and he began cultivating to recover his condition after the battle earlier. The flow of spiritual qi poured into the sect’s main building, slowly supplying a certain amount of qi to Lin Tian.

After about five hours of focused cultivation, both of his hands came together and stretched to the right and left. A spiritual qi boom spread in every direction, shaking the trees and leaves.

Lin Tian’s eyes opened and released bright white light. The wounds on his body had healed, and the strength that had been drained began to recover like before.

His condition was the same as when Lin Tian stepped out of the sect’s main building after his closed cultivation.

My condition has fully recovered. I should start studying the two earth-grade techniques and the earth-grade array scroll.

He tapped his bag of holding and brought out three scrolls in front of his face. His hand rose and released qi light, then spread open the three scrolls.

The first technique scroll was the 12 Heaven-Guarding Swords Technique, the second technique scroll was the Mountain-Destroying Wind Palm Technique, and the array scroll in front of him was the Four Earth Winds Formation.

The three techniques were valuable earth-grade techniques, with power equal to a Nascent Soul cultivator. Especially with Lin Tian’s cultivation base, the power of those techniques could increase several times over.

His attention fixed on the 12 Heaven-Guarding Swords Technique, a technique that brought out twelve swords circling Lin Tian’s body, with power capable of collapsing hills and piercing mountains.

There wasn’t much explanation or criteria needed. Lin Tian only needed to understand it and try it properly.

Both of his hands immediately formed technique seals and directed a white qi orb forward, shooting it into the technique scroll.

Slowly, streams of ancient characters appeared on the technique scroll and were fully absorbed into Lin Tian’s forehead.

From the subconscious realm of his dantian, he began feeling the essence of that technique’s understanding being absorbed into his Nascent Soul.

Through that comprehension technique, he began to understand the essence of the 12 Heaven-Guarding Swords Technique.

A spiritual qi boom erupted powerfully, shaking the air around Lin Tian as the man opened both of his eyes.

His hand rose and brought out spiritual qi light. He had successfully activated the 12 Heaven-Guarding Swords Technique. A total of 12 swords spun around Lin Tian.

Because he was curious about the power of that technique, he stood up and directed the attack upward.

The 12 swords shot through the roof of the sect’s main building, flying into the sky and forming a formation with blue array runes appearing around them.

All the disciples in the front courtyard saw what happened. They stopped cultivating and looked up, focusing on the rumbling clouds appearing in the sky.

Lin Tian moved quickly in a flash of white light until he arrived outside the sect’s main building. His attention shifted to the sky, and he saw the 12 swords forming a formation.

"Master Lin?" Yun Yun asked from the sect’s front courtyard.

The man continued drawing out the power of the swords. His hands were placed in front of his chest, and white qi light shone brightly.

He and all the sect disciples saw the projection of a massive heavenly warrior appear from inside the blue rune, only half of its body visible and directed toward the Lingxian Sect.

Its body was blue, a manifestation of qi. It wore ancient armor and a helmet, with a sword gripped in its right hand.

The projection of the heavenly warrior moved as if swinging its sword downward. Right after it was swung, a blue sword slash shot down powerfully, accompanied by cultivation pressure that directly struck the disciples’ bodies.

Lin Tian saw the power of that technique clearly and realized its effect could affect people around the target.

He raised his hand and stopped the technique. Before it reached the sect, the sword slash disappeared in an instant, turning into flying magic particles.

The technique’s pressure stopped, and all the disciples were freed. Lin Tian raised his hand and made a gesture as if pulling a thread.

The 12 swords stopped bringing out blue runes and floated close to Lin Tian.

"What was that, Master Lin?" Yun Yun asked.

The 12 swords disappeared after the technique was fully deactivated. The man turned to the side and smiled, his hand gently stroking Yun Yun’s hair.

"That was only one of the techniques I’m currently studying."

"Really? That technique was amazing!" Yun Yun praised.

"You’re right," Lin Tian replied.

He asked Yun Yun to return to cultivating, and the woman nodded in agreement. Not only Yun Yun, but the other disciples also returned to cultivating and training.

Unlike them, Lin Tian flew quickly away from the sect to arrive at one of the rocky hills near the Lingxian Sect, not the place where Cao Ying cultivated.

The 12 Heaven-Guarding Swords Technique is very good. It’ll be useful for attacking sects.

I should study the other technique, the Mountain-Destroying Wind Palm Technique.

Lin Tian sat cross-legged and brought out the earth-grade technique scroll. It didn’t take long before Lin Tian directly absorbed the essence of the technique’s understanding into his Nascent Soul.

With that kind of comprehension technique, he could study a technique or array quickly.

He was lucky because his Absolute Dao Emperor Comprehension allowed him to learn a technique in a short time.

Both of his eyes opened, accompanied by a powerful spiritual qi boom that knocked rocks down from the hilltop, shook tree branches, and startled a flock of birds from their nests.

His attention focused on his palm. White qi light wrapped around his right palm. From the understanding Lin Tian obtained, there were three levels to the Mountain-Destroying Wind Palm Technique.

The first level was Cloud, the second level was Earth, and the third level was Heaven. Thanks to his comprehension, he could understand all three levels.

However, with the strength of his current cultivation base, Lin Tian could only use the first level, the Cloud level.

He stood firmly, one of his hands forming a technique seal and activating the Mountain-Destroying Wind Palm Technique.

Lin Tian directed the attack of his right palm forward, targeting the small hill in front of him. A white rune appeared in front of Lin Tian, accompanied by ancient characters and the image of a palm.

When Lin Tian’s palm touched the rune, a white palm shot forward with extremely powerful qi momentum, even distracting Cao Ying and several people in the sect’s backyard.

BLAST!

An explosion erupted, destroying the small rocky hill. The hill clearly couldn’t withstand the power of Lin Tian’s white palm.

Cao Ying thought an enemy attack had happened. She hurriedly came out of her rocky hill cave and saw a cloud of dust smoke appearing behind the sect.

When she was about to investigate further, she was surprised to see Lin Tian on another hill.

"Lin Tian?" Cao Ying asked.

The woman looked at Lin Tian. She saw the trace of spiritual qi light on Lin Tian’s palm, and the direction of his body was also aimed at the rocky hill that had just been destroyed.

"Were you the one who just destroyed that hill?" Cao Ying asked.

"Yes. I’m studying a new technique," Lin Tian replied. "It seems this is better than I expected."

Cao Ying let out a soft sigh and nodded. Her worry eased after she knew Lin Tian was the one who had activated the technique earlier.

"It seems you’re trying to prepare everything, Lin Tian."

"Yes. I don’t want what happened to the Lingxian Sect to happen again," Lin Tian replied.

He tapped his bag of holding and brought out the earth-grade array scroll, the Four Earth Winds Formation. As the name suggested, that formation was closely related to the wind element.

If Lin Tian could study it and combine it with the sect’s White Dragon Formation, then its power would increase and its attack pattern would become unreadable.

The man sat back down on the rocky ground, both hands forming technique seals as he began understanding the essence of that formation.

Both of his eyes closed as streams of ancient characters flowed into Lin Tian’s forehead, absorbed into his dantian and understood by his soul.

Cao Ying saw that. She was sure Lin Tian would need several days to study that formation. Studying formations was far more difficult than learning techniques, even if both had the same grade.

A qi explosion erupted, and Lin Tian’s eyes opened. Seeing that instantly shocked Cao Ying greatly.

She hadn’t expected Lin Tian to learn that formation in less than one hour.

"Wait!"

"How can you learn an earth-grade formation in less than one hour?"

"That’s impossible," Cao Ying said.

Lin Tian stood up again, stepped to the edge of the rocky cliff, and saw that the night was getting deeper. The disciples had also begun resting after training and cultivating.

"There are many mysterious things that happen in the cultivation world. Even if I explained it, you wouldn’t understand," Lin Tian said.

"What’s certain is that with the Four Earth Winds Formation combined with the Lingxian Sect’s White Dragon Formation, it’ll be difficult for other cultivators to destroy it!" Lin Tian said firmly.

Cao Ying nodded. One earth-grade formation alone was already troublesome, let alone two. However, she felt confused about Lin Tian’s plan to merge the two earth-grade formations.

There was indeed such an ability, but the risk was great. It could injure the cultivator.

Can Lin Tian do it?