Someone Always Wants To Corrupt My Disciple

Xu Qingfeng wasted no time spreading the news that Daoist Yun Jiao had agreed to accept disciples from various sects to study the long-lost formation techniques.

The announcement caused an immediate uproar.

At first, most sect masters reacted the same way Xu Qingfeng had—skeptical. After all, the true core techniques of cultivation—aside from the most common and basic spells—were jealously guarded secrets. They were never shared outside one’s own sect and were taught only to the most gifted inner disciples. Outsiders could dream on.

There were two reasons for that.

First, Daoist arts were vast and profound; most sects specialized in only one branch of cultivation because even mastering a single discipline required immense focus and effort. Few had the time or capacity to learn more.

Second, the elite disciples chosen to inherit these arts were already highly talented and quick to comprehend the teachings, so the tradition naturally stayed within each sect.

This system had worked fine—until five hundred years ago, when the Misty Mirage Demon War broke out. That battle nearly wiped out half of the cultivator world’s elites, causing countless ancient techniques and entire lineages to vanish overnight.

In recent centuries, natural disasters and demonic chaos had only worsened, and even cultivators found themselves struggling to survive, let alone the common folk. Some sects had begun to realize that remaining closed off only hastened their decline. A few were even tentatively opening their doors to outsiders.

But to publicly share a sect’s core formation arts with the world? That was unthinkable.