"Maybe we should become sworn brothers..." Though Yan Yuchu was appointed as a City Lord, at the end of the day, he was just a sixteen-year-old boy, overwhelmed with emotion, he contemplated forming a sworn brotherhood with Mu Hanyan.
"Right, let me take a look at your cultivation technique, the one called the Heavenly Star Gathering." Yan Yuchu hadn’t finished speaking when he heard Mu Hanyan speak at the same time.
"What?" Yan Yuchu was startled, and the rest of his words failed to come out.
"The Heavenly Star Gathering, eh? Didn’t you say that both Mu and Yan families share the same master and lineage, and that their techniques are likely to complement each other? Let me have a look," said Mu Hanyan.
"But, this Heavenly Star Gathering technique is a closely guarded secret of the Yan Family, not even many direct lineage disciples are qualified to learn it," Yan Yuchu hesitated somewhat.
Mu Hanyan got a bit angry. When you were learning the Mu Family’s techniques, why didn’t you think that they were also the Mu Family’s closely guarded secrets? However, she wasn’t truly angry, after all, their positions were different at that time, and it wasn’t right to blame others.
These matters needed to be approached with reason and persuaded with emotion.
"Have you forgotten our earlier conversation? Now that the enemy is hidden and we are exposed, we can only survive this crisis by working together and supporting each other. As the saying goes, those who aim to achieve great things should not get bogged down by trifles. How can a mere technique make you hesitate?" Mu Hanyan spoke with righteous indignation.
"Well..." Yan Yuchu hesitated.
"To think I regarded you as a friend, and yet you turn out to be so petty. If it weren’t for the need to face a formidable enemy together, do you think I would covet the Yan Family’s cultivation technique?" Mu Hanyan’s righteous anger filled her words.
"Alright, then you can look at it, just make sure it doesn’t get out to others." Seeing Mu Hanyan’s righteous and imposing demeanor, Yan Yuchu felt a sense of shame and handed over the technique to her.
Mu Hanyan flipped through the cultivation technique, and her heart was immediately struck.
On the first page of the technique, there wasn’t a single word, only a Star Map was depicted. This Star Map was clearly incomplete, and its missing parts corresponded exactly with the Star Chart in Qu Shanling’s Star Illusion Thousand Mechanism Technique. ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ꜰʀᴏᴍ NovelHub(.)net
Mu Hanyan suppressed the excitement in her heart and continued to flip through, page by page. After each Star Map, there was a corresponding cultivation method, but she didn’t look at them closely, instead focusing on the Star Maps.
Every Star Map was similarly incomplete, and what they lacked matched precisely with the Star Charts in Qu Shanling’s Star Illusion Thousand Machine Technique, meaning that only by combining the Heavenly Star Gathering’s technique with Qu Shanling’s Star Illusion Thousand Machine Technique could the Star Maps be completed.
Of course, Mu Hanyan no longer needed to go through such trouble, having already completed the Star Chart.
After quickly going through the Star Maps, Mu Hanyan then began to look at the cultivation techniques.
"Stars suspended in the Nine Heavens, ethereal as dust, no distinction between heaven and earth, encompassing its own universe, gathering the power of stars, accepting rivers from all directions..." Mu Hanyan read each line, her face betraying uncontrollable ecstasy.
Jiang Yuzhe wasn’t wrong; this Sky Star Technique could indeed harness the power of the Nine Heavenly Stars for one’s own use, its profundity and mystique were in no way inferior to the Mu Family’s Heavenly Heart Technique.
However, although the two techniques differed by merely a word, the process of cultivating them was as different as heaven and earth. To be more precise, the Sky Star Technique seemed more like an advanced cultivation method of the Heavenly Heart Technique.
It was also for this reason that the Sky Star Technique couldn’t be cultivated by just anyone.
Although Mu Hanyan’s own strength was only at the Ninth Rank Swordsman level, her vision and experience were at the level of a Sword Saint, and after some contemplation, she realized that cultivating the Sky Star Technique was as difficult as reaching the heavens. Not only must one possess sufficient strength, but one must also have absorbed the power of heaven and earth using the Heavenly Heart Technique or a similar technique at the Swordsman realm to lay a solid foundation. Only then might it be possible to withstand the majestic and vast power of the Nine Heavenly Stars.