Starting My Cultivation With Time Management

Approximately six hours had passed, and Wei Dongliu had already collected one hundred twenty-six kinds of Daoist magic, more than thirty Qi Refining Techniques, as well as over two hundred Sword Control Techniques.

Jiang Liyan had been observing him from behind the entire time, her heart filled with astonishment and uncertainty, her face in a stunned daze.

There were two things about him that amazed her:

One was Wei Dongliu’s True Yuan capacity, which was staggeringly impressive. @@novelbin@@

She had been preoccupied with defense and evasion from behind, and after a few hours, her True Yuan had been almost completely depleted.

However, Demon Lord Wei was fending off various attacks from the front, not only with ease and surplus but also without any sign of a True Yuan deficiency... Jiang Liyan could confirm that he definitely had not consumed any elixirs.

So the question arose, "Is such a terrifying True Yuan capacity normal for a Golden Core True Person?"

After all, Jiang the Witch had never seen any Golden Core Realm sister in the Heavenly Demon Path with such exaggerated endurance in combat—her master, the Colorful Moth Fairy, could do it, but she was, after all, in the Nascent Soul Realm.

Thinking this way, another question mark had to be put on the real Cultivation Realm of Demon Lord Wei.

The other strange point was his seemingly unfathomable memory.

Initially, Jiang the Witch had been assisting in the battle while secretly recording those mental methods and incantations.

But as the number of spells grew, Jiang the Witch became dizzy and overwhelmed, soon unable to keep track.

Wei Dongliu, however, remained expressionless throughout, and she hadn’t seen him making any effort to memorize, nor did he need to rest; after one spell, he would immediately go on to the next...

In the end, Jiang the Witch had completely given up. No matter what impressive mental methods and incantations you explained, I just let it in one ear and out the other, not listening at all.

On Wei Dongliu’s end, he had just memorized another Daoist magic, then he asked the stone statue again:

"Do you have any more...never mind, just give me a Daoist magic I haven’t recorded yet."

The stone statue was silent for a moment, then suddenly said:

"No more."

"Really, no more?" Wei Dongliu asked skeptically.

"Really, no more," the stone statue replied. "What’s the use of having so many Daoist Magics? With your strength, only a few particularly powerful Daoist Magics would be of value to you." Your next chapter awaits on NovelBin.Côm

"I am the Sect Leader of the Myriad Laws Mystic Profound Sect." Seeing that the stone statue was even asking questions, Wei Dongliu suspected that it must be something like an Artifact Spirit, so he patiently explained, "As the Sect Leader, isn’t it normal to inventory and organize the Daoist magic stored by our own sect?"

"It’s actually the Sect Leader." Whether it was his own misperception or not, the statue’s tone seemed to become more flattering. "Sect Leader, there are some things... I don’t know if I should speak of them."

"Speak," Wei Dongliu said indifferently.

"Your disciples have not come to learn Daoist magic for a very long time," lamented the stone statue. "Not only that, but the True Person elders have also not added new Daoist magic for a long time, I thought I had been forgotten by the sect."

Wei Dongliu fell silent for a moment, then said:

"Tong Xuan Gate faced a serious extinction of its Daoist lineage four thousand years ago."

"What, our sect is gone?" The stone statue was momentarily stunned, then quickly said, "Sect Leader must be joking with me. The Tong Xuan Gate has been prosperous for eternity; how could it possibly be destroyed?"

"I have no need to lie," Wei Dongliu said indifferently. "You better confirm one last time whether there are any Daoist secret methods left unprovided to me. If not, I will take my leave."

"Sect Leader, please wait a moment!" the stone statue immediately cried out. "If possible, could you take me away from here?"

"You wish to come with me?" Wei Dongliu slightly furrowed his brows.

"So that Sect Leader knows, I am a magical treasure personally crafted by an elder of the Intercepting Cult’s Myriad Laws Mystic Profound Sect known as the ’Myriad Laws True Spirit Divine Statue,’" the stone statue stated rapidly. "I can help Sect Leader store various cultivation technique manuals and also take over the elders’ duty of imparting teachings to the sect. I can even eliminate those disciples with insufficient qualifications ahead of time, saving the sect’s resources…"

"Enough," Wei Dongliu cut off its endless chatter. "We don’t need to eliminate any disciples; there are not many to begin with. But I ask you, how can you instruct the disciples? Can you solely engage in reading scriptures, giving lectures, and resolving doubts without any fighting or killing?"

Jiang the Witch, who had been listening in the back, was stunned by the conversation. Suddenly snapping to her senses, she immediately fanned the flames and said:

"Wei Daoist friend, you must not trust this artifact spirit! Who knows its true identity? Perhaps it’s actually a soul that has lost its fleshly body, ready to murder and take possession at any moment!"

How dare you attempt to take my job!

"Bullshit!" the stone statue immediately cursed back. "A soul that has lost its fleshly body, surviving within a stone statue for over ten thousand years? Go die right now and see how long your soul can hang around in this world!"

"I haven’t formed my Nascent Infant; how would I know?" Jiang the Witch retorted, then turned and continued to sow discord with Wei Dongliu, "Daoist friend Wei, such independently thinking entities are extremely dangerous. Who knows if it actually is an artifact spirit? Even if it’s not some old creature plotting to take over a body, if it happens to be a Heavenly Demon that’s been sealed away, that would also be an extremely troublesome and dangerous thing…"

"Sect Leader, I can teach anything," the stone statue said disdainfully, not bothering to argue any further but rather respectfully answering. "Whether it’s Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, or Nascent Soul; whether it’s Qi Refining Techniques, Daoist Magic, or any other esoteric art to the side of righteousness, I can handle it all with no problem whatsoever."

"All you or the other elders need to do is to infuse the knowledge to be passed on to the disciples with your Divine Sense into my body, just like inscribing a Jade Slip. Subsequently, I can then pass it on to other disciples."

"Jade Slips can only record text, images, and sounds, but as an extraordinary magical treasure, I can also construct extremely realistic Illusion Domains to cultivate the younger disciples in actual combat training, something ordinary Jade Slip scriptures cannot achieve."

"Moreover, there’s a risk of disciples stealing away or losing Jade Slip scriptures, but if stored within my body, you would not have to worry about such security issues. Take for instance, if enemies from a hostile sect sneaked in aiming to steal Daoist manuals, I would definitely not let them succeed."

"In over five thousand years of service at the Tong Xuan Gate, there has never been a single incident of Daoist methods going missing. Even your visit this time was only permitted after I heard you speak the secret passphrase of the Sect Leader and confirmed your identity. Think of me as an absolutely loyal Guardian of the Scriptural Repository…"

The stone statue began to boast about its advantages – how it contributes deeply to education, acts for the sake of children, and its eternal loyalty and so on. Jiang the Witch, on the other hand, was constantly speaking ill of it, questioning the authenticity of its artifact spirit status, and pointing out that storing all manuals in one place was insecure, because if it were to be breached, everything would be gone in one fell swoop.

After pondering for a moment, Wei Dongliu decided to take the stone statue with him anyway.

As for the concerns Jiang Liyan had raised, they were, in fact, of no consequence to him.

Firstly, artifact spirits with independent thoughts were nothing new to him; he even had a mirror and a sword residing in his own mind, so there was no need to worry too much about a stone statue.

Secondly, having Jiang the Witch always teaching the two disciples could potentially impact the disciples’ loyalty and such concerns, but if the stone statue artifact spirit were to do the teaching, such risks naturally wouldn’t exist... After all, the artifact spirit wasn’t a person; how could a disciple possibly be lured away by it?

After confirming with the Kunlun Mirror that the stone statue’s true form was indeed a magical treasure and not some old monster’s soul waiting to possess a new body, Wei Dongliu made his decision on the spot:

Move it out!

Thus Jiang the Witch too obediently shut her mouth, though she felt secretly aggrieved.

At first, she could provide information to Wei Dongliu, but now that he had become the leader of a sect, he hardly lacked any intelligence.

Latterly, she could help discipline Wei Dongliu’s disciples, but then this absurd stone statue magical treasure arrived and even took that job from her.

Could it be that my only role is to serve as a concubine?

It wasn’t that she found that unacceptable; apparently, she needed to change her strategic goals…