Chapter 5087 — Even More Exquisite
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These were the basic cultivation verses Meng Jueming had taught them when they first entered the Welcoming Pavilion. Every disciple of the Azure Cloud Pavilion had a copy, though most merely glanced at them and few ever bothered to cultivate them seriously—after all, they were hardly a profound or refined cultivation method.
Wei Zhao, naturally, had better things to do than cultivate them out of sheer idleness. He had, however, studied and referenced them briefly, and possessing a photographic memory, he had committed them to heart without effort.
Xin Yi'an's face had still worn a look of disdain, but the moment he heard the original Azure Cloud Pacified Heart Formula, his expression shifted at once—though he still did not rashly believe it.
Outsiders generally knew only the name of the Azure Cloud Pacified Heart Formula, and very few knew its actual verses. Yet there were always exceptions; with so many disciples in the Cangwu Sect of North Island, it would hardly be strange if someone had carelessly leaked the formula. If anyone could impersonate an elder of the sect simply by reciting a few lines, then Xin Yi'an would truly be a fool.
"There is no need for you to keep deceiving yourself, sir..." Xin Yi'an was about to cut Wei Zhao off, but in the next instant his expression froze in shock. The Azure Cloud Pacified Heart Formula Wei Zhao was reciting seemed to differ slightly from the one he knew—ninety-nine percent of it was identical, but there were several exceedingly small yet absolutely crucial alterations!
It was by means of the Azure Cloud Pacified Heart Formula that Xin Yi'an had cultivated all the way to his present strength; he knew every detail of it inside out. Anyone else might have laughed at Wei Zhao as an unprofessional fraud who could not even recite the verses correctly, but the moment he heard it, he knew that Wei Zhao's version was likely the true Azure Cloud Pacified Heart Formula!
"No wonder I always felt something was off in this place when I cultivated—so the verses were wrong. With these changes, it clearly flows much more smoothly..." Xin Yi'an could not help muttering under his breath. By then Wei Zhao was still reciting onward, and as Xin Yi'an listened, a look of horror returned to his face. "What? There's more? There are even verses for the Golden Core stage?!"
The Azure Cloud Pacified Heart Formula consisted of only three hundred and fifty-three characters, and in theory extended at most to the great perfection of Foundation Establishment. That was to say, a disciple like him, who had cultivated to the early Golden Core stage, would have had to switch to a higher-level method. Yet by now the passage Wei Zhao was reciting had long exceeded five hundred characters—these latter portions were entirely cultivation verses for the Golden Core stage!
Had he merely recited the Azure Cloud Pacified Heart Formula flawlessly, that would have proven nothing at all. But now Wei Zhao had not only recited the more exquisite original version, but even the Golden Core verses—something no outsider could possibly have done.
There was only one explanation: the man before him was indeed an elder of the Cangwu Sect of North Island, and moreover from an era far earlier than Xin Yi'an's own. Only thus could he know the original Azure Cloud Pacified Heart Formula—while the version currently held by the Cangwu Sect of North Island was merely an incomplete remnant left behind after the sect's turmoil.
By the time Wei Zhao finished reciting the entire Azure Cloud Pacified Heart Formula, fully eight hundred characters and more, Xin Yi'an had not a shred of doubt left. With a thud, he dropped to his knees on the spot and paid his respects with trembling reverence. "So you truly are an ancestral elder of my Cangwu Sect of North Island! This disciple was blind and has given great offense—please punish me, Martial Granduncle!"