A few days passed.
Mu Yan had arrived at the Royal Inheritance Library, already seated at a small table with Yuanyun and Yuanhan. This time they were brought here by the maid and guard alone, as Lady Lingyi had to arrange the meeting just a mere week away.
Looking at the two, Mu Yan smiled. They had recovered their strength and looked better. Even better, their complexion had started changing and spiritual power began flowing around them naturally.
"Let me first tell you the reason I chose your awakening method.
Among the many Martial Arts and Literary Arts, some have reached high levels, others are unique, some are rare, and there are many that can be described beautifully. But when only counting those where several practitioners have reached the immortal world, there are around three or four methods.
In the Martial Arts, the Bloodline Awakening method is to inject a bloodline, awaken a specific bloodline and then boost the talent. This is the exact path I chose for you, Yuanhan.
This path has various benefits, the main ones being a clear lineage from low to high, and extreme power. The disadvantage is inflexibility of paths and advancement in later stages.
With the injection of all talent, you have gained a Third-Stage Ice Phoenix bloodline. This is a pure bloodline that can be enhanced repeatedly by consuming various Ice-Type spiritual materials.
Whatever art you practice, as long as you spend some time, you will advance to the third stage. Further stages will require special techniques, but don’t worry, the Royal Inheritance Library has enough for you to use.
As for you, Yuanyun. Among all Literary Awakening methods, the Spirit Awakening method is among the best. You can awaken a specific spirit that gives form to your literary abilities, making manifestation easier. Unfortunately, just like the Bloodline Awakening method, the Spirit Awakening method has the flaw that awakening using it will restrict your path flexibility.
In addition, while endowing your spells with a unique spirituality, any spell or literary ability not conforming with the spirit won’t be usable.
With a dragon spirit, you can’t practice any sneak attack methods. Your spells and techniques will automatically become majestic and upright. That is not to say you can’t change this, but any change is a permanent addition to the still somewhat open rules.
Although this spirit isn’t bloodline limited, it requires a certain literary foundation to advance. Currently it, too, has the literary foundation to reach the third stage."
"F- father," Yuanyun started, still somewhat new to this address, "thank you for choosing for us such well-suited paths! We will make sure to comply with your ideas!"
"Yes father, thank you for your endowment and this awakening!" Yuanhan was more direct and happier, though her speech seemed somewhat cold.
"As long as you like it, I am happy." Mu Yan smiled when he saw them accept it. Naturally he knew that doing such a thing without talking beforehand was a bit against the norms, but he didn’t wish to discuss too deeply about all the paths.
In reality, this awakening method was the most suitable for him.
Since he would take care of them and connect their spirits to his, naturally, he wanted to have the highest compatibility and the highest synergy.
While it seemed like these two would be the people up front and he was in the back, in reality, they were more like a trio with Mu Yan at the head.
"Then let’s move over to choosing the arts.
I want to ask, Yuanhan, have you ever trained in a weapon? Anything you like?"
"Mother had allowed me to practice various weapons," she replied, "among which my favourite weapon was... the halberd."
"A halberd?" Mu Yan was a bit surprised. Did girls really like to play with halberds? He didn’t think boys liked it either, but then again... every cultivator was unique on their own.
"Very well. A halberd is a weapon of strength and precision, a good combination, suited to the heavy and cold ice.
I have already chosen three Ice-Type Martial Arts from the library, two of which are still suitable.
These two are the Permafrost Ice Blizzard Art and the Ice Phoenix Divine Art."
Mu Yan presented these two to Yuanhan, giving her time to browse them.
The Permafrost martial art was about gathering strength and refining the body with ice-elemental materials. With the passage of time and the use of many items, one could create an extremely strong Permafrost Body.
This body had the innate cold and piercing strength of Ice. In the art were various fighting methods focused on attacking like an ice boulder, striking like an iceberg...
On the other hand, the Ice Phoenix Divine Art had a different focus. The requirement was to have an Ice Phoenix Bloodline. This art would then change one’s constitution to become more like an ice phoenix and continuously awaken the various innate abilities of the Ice Phoenix, becoming more magical and spell oriented rather than fighting.
"If you choose the former, you can still learn ice-related spells. You can even awaken innate abilities with enough investment. The same applies to the latter, you can still choose to learn fighting techniques to enhance your fighting skills with the halberd."
Yuanhan looked through them and asked her question, "Father, this doesn’t seem to be right. The Ice Phoenix Art seems better in every way. Even if I wish to cultivate the halberd, won’t I still have the chance of adding a Creation Art in the Spiritual Core stage? By then, it would be a perfect fusion, instead of this way of trying to do everything at once if I were to choose the Permafrost Art."
"Haha, it seems you have seen the truth. Indeed, in your case, this art is a lot better. After all, I have chosen the Ice Phoenix Art for you based on your awakening method, while the Permafrost Art is a general art for anyone who has Ice talent.
In that case, let’s simply choose this for you!"
He gave the Ice Phoenix Divine Art to Yuanhan while putting the other away.
Turning to Yuanyun, he smiled and said, "The Literary Arts are a bit different. Rather than choosing arts, you choose an inheritance path and create your own methods in this path while referencing others.
Among the three most prominent literary arts, Poetry, Philosophy and Governance, which one do you wish to choose?"
These three paths were based on the structure of Individual – Society – Government. Any Literary practitioner had some inheritance of at least one of them, as these three were quite deep inheritances that opened many methods.
"Father, is it possible for me to take two at the same time?"
"Of course it is. Most Literary Masters have one of these three based on their paths, but they still have two, three, four or even more secondary paths. If you wish to take two primary paths, you might have to restrict the secondary paths. But besides this, there is no other restriction."
"Then I wish to take Poetry and Governance."
"Haha, you still have your sister in mind. Very well, take these two."