Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
During these three days, Mu Yanxi experienced a whole slew of courses: Daoism class, meditation class, beginner artifact refining class, beginner talisman drawing class, physique class, etiquette class, and so on.
Not only did she have to learn various miscellaneous subjects, but some courses were already completely unrelated to immortality cultivation.
Since advancing to the eighteenth layer of the Qi Refining stage in the hot spring, Mu Yanxi hadn’t broken through again in these few days.
She only gradually consolidated the eighteenth layer to near perfection. In fact, this cultivation speed was already quite fast; breaking through once a day before that was an abnormal speed.
That vial of injection was still in Mu Yanxi’s Terminal Ring. She hadn’t followed Shangguan Yun’s advice to destroy it; instead, she hid it inside a piece of discarded marionette wreckage among her pile of junk. Mu Yanxi thought that maybe one day it might be useful.
Additionally, over these three nights, after communicating with Bai Ying, she borrowed her tool artifacts and, based on the data her immortal brain automatically searched on the Dao web, repaired another marionette.
The main body was a greedy wolf series puppet, but because the damage was severe, she used many parts disassembled from other marionettes as replacements. Therefore, it could no longer be considered a greedy wolf type puppet.
Regarding the marionette Mu Yanxi had repaired, Bai Ying was astonished after seeing it and told her that model kits actually worked on a similar principle, except that model kits all used matching new parts.
Trying to repair mismatched old parts and modify them to fit was itself an extremely difficult task, because each marionette company had different standards, and even different models from the same company had very complex parts that were not fully compatible.
Otherwise, not so many people would discard their broken marionettes, and model kits wouldn’t be so expensive—one could just go scavenge and recover enough parts.
Seeing that Mu Yanxi could actually piece together marionettes of different models and standards, Bai Ying exclaimed that she was an expert, and invited her to go together next time to the junkyard outside Yun City to scavenge parts, helping her modify her first mecha-type marionette.
Mu Yanxi didn’t think it was particularly difficult. First, she had various blueprints and modification techniques collected by her immortal brain.
These were not recorded in the Heavenly Tome Library, but were comments from various great gods collected from small forums.
Second, after learning to ignite her heart fire earlier, Mu Yanxi tried it out and found she could use some fire spells she knew in her past life. Then, after attending the basic artifact refining class, she obtained the basic knowledge of artifact refining in this world from her immortal brain.
Therefore, Mu Yanxi could use heart fire for some forging and artifact refining. Although she couldn’t yet melt overly advanced materials, it was sufficient for ordinary marionettes.
This way, she could complete tasks like welding, reshaping, and modifying connector shapes.
Mu Yanxi agreed to Bai Ying’s invitation. She actually thought assembling marionettes was quite fun.
If she could repair another one or two abandoned marionettes, she could bring them home next time to help her parents with household chores.
But that wasn’t today. Now, Mu Yanxi was waiting in a side hall of Yuehua Hall for Shangguan Yunhe, Yu Qiuyu, and Ruo Xuan to arrive.
Shangguan Yunhe and Yu Qiuyu had already joined the wind instrument department. Today, Shangguan Yunhe would take them to meet the fifth member of the band and officially form the band.
Unexpectedly, Yu Qiuyu was the first to arrive. In the past few days, Mu Yanxi often saw her practicing sword in the morning. After obtaining the White Edge Sword, Mu Yanxi also occasionally sparred with her, so the two had become somewhat acquainted.
Yu Qiuyu landed her flying sword and greeted Mu Yanxi with a smile. “You came so early. I thought you’d meditate for a while before coming.”
“To prevent unexpected situations from making me late, I usually set off a bit earlier. Besides, I can meditate and cultivate anywhere, actually,” Mu Yanxi said, sitting cross-legged on the ground.
“Where did you learn that meditation technique? I’m not like you, able to immediately enter concentration and meditate anywhere.”
“I’m used to practicing sword in a fixed spot. And recently, I feel my Lingyue Sword Art is about to break through, so I practiced harder for a while,” Yu Qiuyu said.
“Um, are you really planning to become a Sword Cultivator?” Mu Yanxi tentatively asked. Once she completely took the Lingyue Sword Art as her main cultivation method, she would step onto the path of Sword Cultivation, and it would be difficult to change paths afterward.
“Mm, I find the Lingyue Sword Art very interesting. I’ll probably become a Sword Cultivator.” Yu Qiuyu pulled out the black sword from her back and twirled it in a sequence, moonlight rippling on the blade—a sign that the Lingyue Sword Art had already reached a proficient level.
“I shouldn’t meddle in your cultivation direction, but could you reconsider? Maybe focusing on another sword sutra would be good too?” Mu Yanxi tried to sound her out. The confidentiality of the Lingyue Sword Art’s final chapter made her uneasy.
“Come on, where can a common disciple like me get another sword sutra? The Lingyue Sword Art is already one of the best cultivation methods I can learn.”
“Besides, the Lingyue Sword Art is interlinked and complementary with the other cultivation methods of the Spiritual Moon Palace. Even if I switched to another sword sutra, it would be very difficult to cultivate on its own,” Yu Qiuyu shook her head helplessly.
“That’s true.” Mu Yanxi then realized that not everyone was like her, able to search various cultivation methods and insights from the Heavenly Tome Library and even personally experience their mysteries.
Moreover, as a former Nascent Soul Cultivator, Mu Yanxi naturally had stronger knowledge reserves and comprehension than Qi Refining Cultivators.
For ordinary people, even finding some uncopyrighted cultivation methods from various websites, it would be extremely difficult to understand and successfully cultivate them without a teacher’s guidance.
“Still, I think you should think more about your future path. After all, it’s a lifelong matter. It’s best not to rashly decide to walk the path of Sword Cultivation,” Mu Yanxi vaguely advised at the end.
“Hmm?” A sharp glint flashed in Yu Qiuyu’s eyes. She leaned close to Mu Yanxi, looking into her eyes, and asked, “Mu Yanxi, do you know something?”
“Ah? No, nothing. I just heard a comment from senior sisters that the Lingyue Sword Art has many secrets,” Mu Yanxi quickly lied to dodge the question.
“Hmph? Then do you know what the secret of the Lingyue Sword Art is specifically?” Yu Qiuyu asked with a smile, but her gaze was fixed on Mu Yanxi.
“I really don’t know. I just heard it from hearsay. Maybe it’s not accurate,” Mu Yanxi shook her head repeatedly. She had been too talkative just now. One extra sentence had aroused the other’s suspicion.
Seeing that Mu Yanxi didn’t seem to be lying, and that she truly didn’t know what the secret was, Yu Qiuyu stepped back two paces and revealed a smile. “So you don’t know. That secret does exist. As I said before, the Lingyue Sword Art is very fun.”
Mu Yanxi groaned inwardly. Yu Qiuyu seemed to know the secret of the Lingyue Sword Art as well, even more detailed than Mu Yanxi herself. She actually wanted to discuss this secret with Mu Yanxi.
But this was absolutely dangerous. The reason secrets are secrets is naturally because the Spiritual Moon Palace doesn’t want them to be casually known.
Not only would it be dangerous for Mu Yanxi herself to know, but Yu Qiuyu might also indirectly discover that she had access to the Heavenly Tome Library.