5 Winged Dragon.

"In addition to these treatment methods, you must also make sure not to train your soul force at night in the future, at least up to Bronze level." Nie Li said as he looked at Xiao Ning'er. After a bit of pause, he asked, "Can I see your cultivation technique? I think it may be the cause of your current condition."

Xiao Ning'er looked up at Nie Li. After a bit of hesitation, she decided to trust Nie Li. He had told her so much already, so he could be right about this too. She retrieved her cultivation technique from her interspatial ring and handed it to him.

Nie Li received the parchment and started reading. The more he read the more, the more serious his face became. Novel Nie Li stated it was a poor technique, but looking at it he could say that was a great understatement. It was not just poor, it was downright dangerous. Is this the kind of techniques bigshot families of the Glory City had access to? It feels like someone had tried to translate it from another language and done a very poor job of it. That actually may be the case, considering that barely anyone knows ancient languages.

Nie Li sighed. Then he took his bag and opened it. From inside, he took the new soul crystal he bought today. He was going to give her a new technique anyway, why not do it today?

"It's not a suitable technique for you" Nie Li stated a bit carefully after returning Xiao Ning'er's technique, "I will give you a better technique"

"A new cultivation technique?" asked surprised Xiao Ning'er. 'How could Nie Li, a member of a small aristocratic family has a better technique than our Winged Dragon family' she thought.

"Yes, insert your soul force into this soul crystal and show me," said Nie Li, holding the crystal out to her.

"Wait, is that soul crystal? I have my own here" said Xiao Ning'er and took out three soul crystals from her ring.

"Oh that's convenient," said Nie Li putting the crystal back into his bag, "Just insert your soul force into one of those"

"Okay," Xiao Ninger nodded her head and injected her soul force into the crystal, the crystal released a dazzling light. Inside the light, slowly formed into a flying winged dragon shape.

Nie Li looked at the crystal "Soul force of 79, Wind Lightning attribute, Winged Dragon soul form."

Well, it was impressive. Especially compared to his formless and attributeless soul realm. Yeah, he had checked that. Robert's memories weren't wrong. Unfortunately, he didn't remember others' results or he could have saved some money on soul crystals. Well, you can't have everything. He was already the biggest cheater out there.

"Wind Lightning attribute, Winged Dragon soul form, what are they?" Xiao Ning'er's voice brought him out of his thoughts.

"It means that you are suitable for Wind Lightning Attribute's cultivation techniques and that your cultivation speed would be very fast," Nie Li thought for a while and said, "I have a cultivation technique here with me, I'll give it to you."

Nie Li took out a parchment and started writing the chants of the Lightning Dragon cultivation technique. It was one of his best techniques and most suitable for people with Winged Dragon soul form. He finished and gave it to somewhat skeptical-looking Xiao Ning'er.

He could understand her. Not every day someone comes to you and says 'My friend, your cultivation technique is atrocious, let me give you a new one' and writes one on the spot. Well, he actually may have overdone it a bit. He didn't plan to give her a new technique today. Heal her, build some trust, then give out a technique. That was the plan.

But not everything goes according to plan. And she will not sell him out anyway. He knows her from two lives: his first life and his novel life. But he must be careful in the future.

Xiao Ning'er's eyes turned from skeptical into astonished the more she read the chants. She could feel the difference between her old technique and this one. Her old one was simply incomparable. It was trash. She wanted to ask Nie Li where did he get this technique from, but stopped. Everyone has the right to their secrets.

And there was also a matter of her treatment.

"What are thinking about?" Nie Li asked, looking towards Xiao Ning'er. She looked a bit puzzled.

"Why are you helping me?" she asked, "We haven't even talked to each other before today"

He didn't know how to answer this question. He didn't want to alienate her so he had to be careful. He decided to answer with some half-truths.

"At first, I was just curious about why were you training so hard. Then after learning about your situation I was deeply impressed. Despite the problems you faced you pressed on. Never gave up. I doubt I would have been as firm in my resolve as you in your situation," He said earnestly causing her to blush, "On the other hand, it was not much effort on my part. That technique was just laying around since I found it because it's not suitable for me. And that technique isn't the only one I have. I was planning to gift couple more techniques to my other friends as well."

He had to open up a bit, otherwise, it will look too suspicious. That's what happens when you don't follow the plan, Nie Li cursed his impulsiveness. Fortunately, Xiao Ning'er was the most trustworthy person to keep his secrets. Maybe even better than Du Ze. In the novel, she goes even against her family to protect Nie Li's secrets.

"Thank you. If you need anything just ask, I'll do it if it's in my power" she said seriously.

"Okay, I will" answered Nie Li.

"Umm Nie Li," Xiao Ning'er said after some time looking bashful "Do you know the Daoyin technique?"

"Yes I do" replied Nie Li, already knowing where it was going. He decided to stop it here. He already felt like he was taking advantage of her. "I'll write it down and bring it to you tomorrow. It's an easy technique to learn. Anyone on Bronze rank or even a bit lower can use it. You can use it on yourself as well". He didn't tell her that he had modified it.

She looked like she wanted to say something then stopped and said "Thank you"

"No problem" he answered relieved. He didn't want to feel like an old pedophile, "See you tomorrow".

He turned to leave and stopped "And Xiao Ning'er. Please keep the fact of our meeting confidential. I don't want to draw attention right now."

"I understand" answered Xiao Ning'er. She really understood. Shen Fei for example will stop at nothing if he hears that someone talked to his fiancée. With the Sacred family's attitude, she won't be surprised if they tried to kill Nie Li for that.

Her mood ruined she decided to return home as well.

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The next morning Nie Li sat near his window thought about his first week since he got his memories from the future. Globally changes aren't noticeable yet from his first life. But individually serious changes already happened.

So far events are going almost according to novel events except for a few changes. But there will be more changes in the future that will make the novel's "canon" obsolete. So he had to be more careful and not rely on meta-knowledge too much. And plan everything.

He checked his soul force after returning from a meeting with Xiao Ning'er. And results were not surprising. He had a red soul realm, with no form and attribute. His former self was very unlucky. He couldn't imagine what would he have done without his cheats. Actually, he could. He would have repeated his former self's life.

He had begun cultivating the Heavenly God technique. It served his counterpart well in the novel, so he will continue with it. Its many pros outweigh its only con, the difficulty of cultivation.

He had to find different ways to make money in addition to alchemy. Because he can't rely on it too much. Because the appearance of too many new elixir recipes may again cause the Dark Guild to accelerate its plans. So the waves he makes must be smaller.