After Yun Hanshuang and Yun Hu emerged from the treasure vault, they went to the highest floor of the family's Scripture Pavilion.

"These cultivation methods and secret manuals are all the family's treasured collections. Whatever method you want, go pick it yourself."

"Grandfather, I want a movement-type cultivation method."

Hearing Yun Hanshuang's request, Yun Hu brought him to a row of bookshelves and pointed to one of the rows.

"This whole row is movement and speed-type methods. Choose for yourself."

Yun Hanshuang took down the catalog book from the shelf and began carefully searching. Soaring Cloud Nine Steps, Startling Phoenix Wind Dance, Heaven Earth Three Step Tread... After quickly browsing through the names of the methods in the catalog, Yun Hanshuang closed the catalog and turned to look at Yun Hu.

"Grandfather, are there any others?"

"Truly not a single suitable one?" Yun Hanshuang shook his head, indicating there really weren't any.

In truth, Yun Hanshuang knew very well that while the methods Yun Hu had brought him to see were precious, they were not the Yun family's most precious. So Yun Hanshuang merely skimmed through the catalog before expressing that none satisfied him, so that Yun Hu would take him to select even more precious methods.

"Follow me."

Yun Hu said nothing further. He led Yun Hanshuang to a five-tiered bookshelf and pulled out a thin beast-skin book.

"This is a fourth-tier method, Traceless on Snow. It is a method extremely suited for close combat. However, because it can grant the cultivator a phasing effect, it requires even more spiritual power than ordinary methods when being executed."

"Grandfather, I'll take this one."

After hearing Yun Hu's introduction of Traceless on Snow, Yun Hanshuang decided to choose this method.

Yun Hu sighed, inwardly not understanding why his grandson insisted on choosing things that required spiritual power to use. Though he didn't understand, Yun Hu still took out a sheet of beast-skin paper and duplicated the contents of the beast-skin book.

"Let's go!"

After handing the beast-skin paper now inscribed with Traceless on Snow to Yun Hanshuang, Yun Hu turned and walked out.

In Yun Hanshuang's courtyard, after seeing Yun Hu off, he turned around and saw the ten chests arranged in the courtyard, an excited expression appearing on his face. These ten chests contained a full one million Low-Grade spirit stones! Although Yun Hanshuang had seen spirit stones in the Yun family, because of his inability to cultivate, he had never possessed any spirit stones in sixteen years. This time, he directly possessed one million, so the upward curve of Yun Hanshuang's lips simply could not be suppressed.

This one million spirit stones was the compensation the family gave him for giving up one treasure. Yun Hanshuang understood that he had taken a huge loss; if he had taken the Myriad Soil Spirit-Gathering Pot to auction, what he would have obtained would have been millions upon millions of times more than what the family gave him. But Yun Hanshuang fully understood the family's perspective, because in the family's eyes he was a mortal, and no matter how many treasures they gave him, he couldn't use them. Although it was very disadvantageous, Yun Hanshuang still did not intend to expose the fact that he could cultivate.

After moving all the chests to the basement, Yun Hanshuang took out the spatial ring, then immediately dripped blood on it to refine it. After storing all the spirit stones into the spatial ring, Yun Hanshuang looked at the two maps, one large and one small, in his hand. The larger one was the map of the Heavenly Abyss Continent, and the smaller one was of Marsh Island. Yun Hanshuang put away the small one, then spread the large one on the ground.

‘This is just a map of one region?’

With just a glance, Yun Hanshuang realized this map was incomplete. Sure enough, in the upper right corner of the map, he saw a line of very tiny characters.

‘Full Map of Cloud Transforming Province.’

Yun Hanshuang did not see any markers on the map for the Azure Cloud Immortal Sect or the Moon Worship Sect of Evernight Island; presumably, these two powers were not in this region. He put away the large map and took out the small one. This small map was something his grandfather had conveniently duplicated for him. Yun Hanshuang used a pen to draw several circles on it. Those places were all the most yin-cold areas of Marsh Island, information Yun Hanshuang had gleaned from Yun Hu through veiled inquiries.

After memorizing the contents of the map, Yun Hanshuang brought the saber from his back before him, then dripped blood on it to refine it. After three hours of refinement, when Yun Hanshuang once again grasped the long saber, he felt as though a blood-linked connection had formed between him and the blade.

He tried swinging it a few times. Yun Hanshuang felt the long saber in his hand was like an extension of his own hand, perfectly responsive and easy to use. He gently stroked the long saber with satisfaction and said, "Your body is entirely snow-white, and your blade can release cold qi. From now on, I shall call you White Frost."

Bzzz~

As soon as Yun Hanshuang's words fell, White Frost emitted a humming vibration, as if expressing its fondness for the name. After storing White Frost into the ring, Yun Hanshuang picked up the beast-skin paper recording Traceless on Snow and began reading it carefully.

As a fourth-tier cultivation method, Traceless on Snow was extremely difficult to cultivate. After all, it was a method that could be cultivated all the way to the Nascent Soul stage. However, to make it easier for later generations to cultivate, the Yun family had divided Traceless on Snow into four parts, corresponding to the four cultivation realms. After reading through the entire content of Traceless on Snow, Yun Hanshuang shifted his gaze to the chapter for the Qi Refining stage.

The Qi Refining chapter of Traceless on Snow was named "Butterfly Shadow Layers" by the Yun family. Once cultivated to mastery, one could conjure over a hundred afterimages to confuse enemies. After memorizing the meridian circulation incantation for Butterfly Shadow Layers, Yun Hanshuang put away the beast-skin paper, stood up, and walked out of the basement.

Exiting the basement, Yun Hanshuang realized that night had already fallen. He looked at the moon, already very round.

‘Tomorrow night will be the full-moon night. I'll leave tomorrow.’

* * *

The next day, after bidding farewell to Yun Hu and his wife, Yun Hanshuang shouldered his bundle and walked out of Moonview City. Just as Yun Hanshuang was about to leave the Yun family compound, he sensed several streams of divine sense sweep over him. Yun Hanshuang pretended to know nothing and continued walking outward.

"He's carrying nothing. Everything must still be in his courtyard."

On the top floor of the Yun family's Scripture Pavilion, a group of old men were currently gathered around a large table. The one speaking was an old man with a white beard dressed in a blue mage robe.

"I don't understand why he chose this reward. Wouldn't it have been better to have the family do three things for him?"

An old man in a red martial robe slowly spoke.

"He probably hasn't given up yet, right?"

"I feel the same way."

"Ah! Fate is cruel."

... Those Yun family ancestors were all speculating why Yun Hanshuang had chosen to pick treasures as his reward, and finally all felt regret on his behalf.

"Enough. Now that we know he didn't take any treasures with him, there's no need to send anyone to protect him. Disperse!"

The one among the group of old men who looked the oldest stood up and walked toward the staircase. The rest of the old men also left one after another.

Yun Hanshuang knew he had been probed by the family, but he wasn't worried in the slightest, because once he had returned to his male body, there wasn't a trace of spiritual power fluctuation from him; he was just like a mortal. As for them searching his courtyard, Yun Hanshuang was even less worried, because the treasures he had chosen meant nothing to the Yun family, and the higher-ups of the Yun family could never stoop to such a low act. Moreover, Yun Hanshuang's grandparents would never allow the Yun family higher-ups to do such a thing.