Chapter 212: Three Month Closed-Door Training for Cultivating the Divine Sense; the Living Buddha Got Through the Snowfield Alone (1/2)
Chapter 212: Three Month Closed-Door Training for Cultivating the Divine Sense; the Living Buddha Got Through the Snowfield Alone
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Yunzhou, Misty Mountain, the West Mountain Pass—
Standing on the highest rock at the West Mountain Pass, he could clearly see the small village that he was born in. Compared to the time when he was just born, great changes had taken place in the small village.
An extremely luxurious house was built up with the water in the front and a hill behind. The house covered an area of several fields, stretching from the east side of the village to the west side. That was the Zhou's house.
In this small village, ”the Zhou's” was already a word that created envy in the villagers. Looking at the house, the villagers now and then showed their jealous eyes and pointed their fingers at it.
”Old Zhou was so lucky that he gave birth to such a good son!”
”So? Old Xing, are you green-eyed? If you are jealous, you can also give birth to a second baby. I worry that you are less lucky than Old Zhou!”
”Even if you let me give birth to a second one now, it's impossible for me!”
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The villagers made jokes about each other. Those simple and kind mountain people did not have so many tricks as the people outside the mountain had. For the Zhou's sudden boom, the villagers were a little bit envious in their hearts. However, most of their feeling was just common envy. After all, not only did the Zhou's develop, but also the whole village benefited from it. Old Zhou was born and raised here. He was just an ordinary hunter and farmer before. Even if he had great affection for this village, he had no way to change it. Since he himself was still in poverty, how could he help the others get rid of poverty?
Now things were different. He gave birth to a good son, and the son now was an officer in another place. Meanwhile, the son became an Elder of the Wu Family!
The Elders of the Wu Family!
It was a role that even the Supervisor of the ironware shop of the Wu Family in Qingyang Market would worship on his bent knees. Those guys who had been like gods to him before in his heart were now very anxious to kneel down to lick his soles when seeing him, which just gave him the illusion that he was in a dream. He could not get accustomed to it for a while. Nevertheless, it did not prevent him from doing good things. With his help, the originally well-developed village had turned into the most prosperous village beside Misty Mountain.
Even similar to Qingyang Market, small markets also sprang up here. On every 1st and 15th day of the Chinese lunar month, villagers on the mountain came here for trade. Gradually it became the central village in a radius of a hundred miles.
For such changes, Old Zhou and the other villagers certainly smiled from ear to ear. After all, didn't everyone yearn for a good life?
However, Junior Leopard, the initiator of the whole thing, was indifferent.
It did not matter to him, of course. He still had the memory of his previous life, so he had an innate estrangement to the kinsfolk of this life, let alone the small village and the villagers who were neither kith nor kin to him.
Standing on the rock at the West Mountain Pass and watching the small indistinct village 10 miles away, Junior Leopard sighed slightly. Since his birth over 10 years ago until now, the whole thing had been like a dream.
If people watched him carefully, they would see that Junior Leopard seemed to stand on the rock tip. Actually, his feet did not step on the rock. Instead, he was suspended in midair. Wisps of gentle wind were around him, brushing slightly against his sleeves and making him look like an immortal.
Two strips of light red Sword Qi that looked like a genius snake were twinning around the index fingertip of his right hand. That was the Sword Qi of the Extreme Yang Through Sky Sword. After cultivation for a period, he had integrated the Yin and Yang Heavenly Sword and the Dragon Flying Technique perfectly. The horrible Sword Qi did not need to be released out anymore as a laser by the External Elixir between his eyebrows.
However, he regretfully failed to achieve the Yin and Yang Heavenly Sword till now.
Although the Earth Vein Evil Qi here had the property of extreme cold, it did not integrate with his Extreme Yang Through Sky Sword.
The way of Yin and Yang Heavenly Sword was mysterious. Junior Leopard seemed to understand it before, but actually, he understood nothing. Rashly, he used the Qi of the Blood Essence Evil Yuan to practice the Extreme Yang Through Sky Sword. However, he forgot that the practice of Yin and Yang Heavenly Sword required three steps. The first two steps were the practice of Extreme Yang Through Sky Sword and Extreme Yin Heavenly Sword respectively. After the successful practice of those two Sword Qi, they should be integrated into a whole via an exclusive recipe. Finally, a new and much more powerful Sword Qi could form—the Heavenly Sky Sword Qi!
Precisely because the Extreme Yang Through Sky Sword and the Extreme Yin Heavenly Sword would integrate with each other, there should not be a big gap between them in terms of power.
In the world, there was a variety of Evil Qi with different power. The two kinds of Evil Qi that the Yin and Yang Heavenly Sword required needed to possess the properties of Yin and Yang. There was no more requirement about nature. Only if people found a place with both Evil Qi, they could practice those two Heavenly Swords. However, if people wanted to integrate them into a whole, the power of their Sword Qi was required to be equal. Reaching such a slight balance could lead to a possibility of smelting. Junior Leopard's Extreme Yang Through Sky Sword was smelted by the exceedingly strong Blood Essence Evil Yuan which topped among the Evil Qi with Yang property under heaven. When Junior Leopard smelted, he uprooted its Evil Qi. Thus, even if the power of the Extreme Yang Through Sky Sword that he practiced was surprising, there was a high requirement to the practice of the Extreme Yin Through Sky Sword in order to smelt the real Heavenly Sword Qi. The Yin Evil Qi at the West Mountain Pass was of good quality and could be barely used, but the amount was far too insufficient.
Compared with the Blood Essence Evil Yuan which had been uprooted by Junior Leopard, they were not at the same level. If he managed to succeed in smelting the Extreme Yin Heavenly Sword, then there was no more possibility for the progress of his Yin and Yang Heavenly Sword.
Therefore, Junior Leopard had to give up.
Nevertheless, even if the Evil Qi could not be used for practicing the Extreme Yin Heavenly Sword, it should not be wasted.
The Evil Qi here was insufficient in the aspect of the quantity but was of good quality. Therefore, it was exactly the best thing for practicing the Poison Cold Shield.
His Poison-absorbing Green Bead absorbed a countless amount of poison from the Invisible Bug poison and also from the Seven Heart Golden Scorpion in Maojiang Prefecture. The strong poison was beyond people's imagination. Now, after being refined by the Evil Qi here for three months, a complete success could be achieved because he could have it at his disposal for attack and defense.
Three Months!
He had already practiced for three whole months in the West Mountain Pass.
Three months ago, after he had encountered that weird person, he went back to Maojiang. Together with Lu Laihong and several other guys, during the last several days, they caught up with the food carriage and arrived at Danyang County, successfully finishing the delivery without getting into any trouble.
In fact, with his current fierce fame, nobody dared to cause him trouble.
After the delivery, he wrote a letter and asked Lu Laihong to go back to Qing Province and to give it to Li Yuan. In the letter, he mentioned that he had got a little bit of inspiration from his fight with Buyan Gerel. He needed to enter into a closed-door training for a period so he could comprehend calmly. He also said that after the closed-door training, he would directly go to Northern Yuan to hone his cultivation in fighting. He would not go back to serve Li Yuan before he made an achievement.
All those were just polite platitudes.
Both Li Yuan and he knew that he would not likely serve Li Yuan as a personal guard since Buyan Gerel had been killed by Zhou Bao.
The reason was very simple. Li Yuan's small pond was too small to harbor Junior Leopard, such a big dragon!
The reason was attributed neither to the pond nor to Junior Leopard. That was caused by the entire way of the world.
Junior Leopard did not mind going back to Li Yuan because he could get payment without doing so many things as a Vice Camp Supervisor. However, Li Yuan would not dare to accept him!
For an unspectacular General in Qing Province, if he employed a powerful person who could kill a Level Eight expert, it would be a burden to people.
Hence, Junior Leopard, with this excuse, did not follow Lu Laihong to return to Qing Province once again.
Lu Laihong did not understand why Junior Leopard made such a decision. However, since that Junior Leopard was not willing to go back with him, he could not do anything with him. Could he bring Junior Leopard back by binding his hands and feet with an accusation of breaching the military order? Even if he had the guts, he did not have the ability!
Thus, he just deferred to Junior Leopard. Luckily, Junior Leopard let him pass on a letter. After he was back, he could explain to Li Yuan.
Junior Leopard, of course, did not lie. Indeed, he needed a closed-door training to digest what the weird person had left in his mind.
Although it was just for a short moment, lots of information, for example, the crucial points of the Yin and Yang Heavenly Sword, came into his mind. Without the information from that man, he would not have known that this cultivation method was so fastidious.
He did not think about scores of punching skills for strengthening the body anymore. Regarding how to proceed after his cultivation to the Mysterious Realm, it was not clearly mentioned in the information. The information just said he could reach the small three realms after his cultivation broke through Level Nine, and then to the big three realms. As for what phase he would meet after he jumped out of the three realms, the information did not say a word.
However, there was a cultivation method which made him walk in the air—the Nine Changes of Heavenly Birds. It was a peerless martial art, evolving based on nine kinds of birds in the antiquity times, namely: phoenix, roc, peafowl, three-feet crow, immortal crane, eagle, green bird with poisonous feathers, blue bird, and partridge. It had invincible power with the supplement of the Dragon Flying Technique.