On the continent of Yixing, the powers are numerous and complex. Since The Clark Family has only ever produced one Cultivator at the Foundation Building stage in its history, The Clark Family does not have a deep understanding of the entire Yixing continent. From this thin booklet, Henry Clark can only learn that the main powers of the lower regions of Yixing continent are the True Kingdom, the feudal states, academies, clans, and some sects of the lower regions.

The academies and the True Kingdom are the strongest forces known to The Clark Family. Each True Kingdom has many feudal states under it. The feudal states also vary in strength and are divided into three stars, with three stars being the highest. A one-star feudal state is basically a mortal nation, at most with some ordinary martial cultivators.

Cangqin Kingdom is only a one-star feudal state. If not for the fact that Cangqin Kingdom has a two-star academy, it would be no different from a mortal nation.

Academies are different. In the lower regions, the highest level of academy is only a five-star academy. In the lower regions, a three-star academy is equivalent to a three-star feudal state. If a True Kingdom has a five-star academy, then that academy already stands above the True Kingdom.

At the end of this thin booklet from The Clark Family, there is a note: it is said that there exists a nine-star academy on Yixing continent, but since The Clark Family has never produced any true experts, they cannot know if this is true.

Closing this booklet, Henry Clark let out a slow breath. He still did not know how vast Yixing continent truly was, but from this booklet, he could already guess that it was unimaginably huge. Even Cangqin Kingdom was probably just a speck of dust on the Yixing continent.

The Clark Family once produced a Foundation Building cultivator, yet The Clark Family still could not leave the lower regions of Yixing continent. This showed just how naive his previous thought was—that reaching the Foundation Building stage would allow him to return to Earth.

The reason The Clark Family could establish itself in Cangqin Kingdom was because generations of The Clark Family had served the king of Cangqin Kingdom loyally. Even so, when The Clark Family was finally wiped out in the capital, the king of Cangqin Kingdom did not say a single word.

Even though Henry Clark came from Earth, he still felt extremely displeased. The king of Cangqin Kingdom was cold and indifferent by nature, truly not worth serving.

The second thin booklet was just as Henry Clark expected—it was the cultivation method of The Clark Family. The very first sentence stated that this was a top-tier mortal-level cultivation method. Seeing this, Henry Clark felt a bit disappointed; no matter how top-tier, it was still only a mortal-level method. The nine layers of Qi Gathering were described in great detail in the booklet, with some annotations as well.

Henry Clark looked at the beginning, and it was roughly the same as the first layer of the method he recalled. He tried following the method of circulating qi described later, and suddenly, a stream of energy as warm as lukewarm water rose abruptly from his dantian. Henry Clark was startled and wanted to stop cultivating, but suddenly a new meridian qi circulation route appeared in his mind.

This new qi circulation route was clearly different from what was described in the The Clark Family cultivation method, and Henry Clark felt that if he followed the method that suddenly appeared in his mind to guide his qi, the effect would be even better.

Chapter 0006: Concealing True Technique

Henry Clark was shocked by his own thoughts and forcibly stopped cultivating. He was only a first-layer Qi Gathering cultivator, and his understanding of cultivation was at the most primitive level. For someone like him, who barely understood even the first layer of Qi Gathering, to find a better cultivation method than the one passed down by The Clark Family—even he himself could hardly believe it.

Even if The Clark Family's cultivation method was only mortal-level, it was the result of countless years and countless people modifying it based on experience. What right did he have to find its flaws and even correct them?

Although he really wanted to try again, Henry Clark resisted the urge. He knew that once he started cultivating, it would be endless. Even if he didn't modify the method, he might be able to reach the second layer of Qi Gathering in one go. He could barely explain being at the first layer, so if he advanced to the second layer now, he would have no idea how to explain it. He urgently needed to improve his cultivation, but before that, he had to find a suitable reason or method.

Moreover, the fact that he could independently find a more suitable qi meridian route was itself a bizarre thing. If he didn't figure this out, he really didn't dare to proceed.

However, Henry Clark was becoming more and more excited. Even if he didn't modify the method, he no longer had to worry about poor aptitude hindering his cultivation. It seemed that there was an incredibly powerful source of cultivation within his body. If this continued, to what level would he eventually cultivate? The True Condensation stage, or even the Foundation Building stage?

Without continuing to cultivate, Henry Clark began to study the cultivation method booklet in his hand. This was a mortal-level cultivation method, with detailed introductions from the first to the ninth layer of Qi Gathering, as well as some annotations from The Clark Family ancestors on the method. To Henry Clark's surprise, there were also some simple spells at the end of the method.

Besides Fireball and Wind Blade, there was also a Wind Riding technique. Normally, Henry Clark would be most interested in the Wind Riding technique, which was described as allowing one to move several or even a dozen zhang through the air after reaching the third layer of Qi Gathering. If not for seeing the Concealing True Technique, Henry Clark would definitely have tried cultivating the Wind Riding technique first.