Chapter 492 - 201: Technique Creation! Transaction
Chapter 492: Chapter 201: Technique Creation! Transaction
He almost believed Su Bai was a Great Power from some Major Sect or Holy Land.
Who could believe that a man who looked gravely injured and seemed to have no cultivation whatsoever could create an incredibly ferocious, first-class Fist Technique in just ten minutes?
"Then... what should I do?"
Snapping back to his senses, Ye Yangfeng asked subconsciously. He was utterly convinced.
This senior before him, even if he wasn’t a Martial Arts Great Power, was comparable to the likes of Chiyun Immortal and Lin Longxiang.
He might even be a greater Martial Dao genius than the two of them!
"Being crippled is actually a good thing for you. It’s the perfect time to practice fist techniques with me."
Su Bai glanced at Ye Yangfeng and waved his hand dismissively.
Ye Yangfeng had never had a proper lineage to begin with, and the things he’d learned were a bit of a mess.
Having his cultivation crippled wasn’t much of a pity; he just needed to start over.
Ye Yangfeng was left speechless by Su Bai’s remark.
’So it’s a *good* thing I was crippled?’
"Learn what? The Snake Fist that you created, Senior?"
Ye Yangfeng said, though he still felt a bit resistant on the inside.
’No matter how pathetic a Dragon is...’
’...it’s still better than a snake, right?’
"Go start a fire."
Su Bai didn’t answer him, simply giving an order.
Seeing Su Bai hadn’t answered, Ye Yangfeng was already used to it.
Hearing this, he sighed helplessly, then fetched a flint and steel to light a bonfire in the courtyard.
"Feel the flames."
Su Bai pointed at the bonfire on the ground.
"This..."
Ye Yangfeng looked at the flickering bonfire, gritted his teeth, and sat down cross-legged.
"Cultivation must be taken one step at a time, that’s true, but you must be walking on the correct path."
"Tangible things are easier to understand. Ethereal, illusory Cultivation Techniques are much harder to begin."
"Your Dragon Fist isn’t necessarily stronger than this bonfire."
Seeing that Ye Yangfeng was still reluctant, Su Bai pointed upward. "Something you see every day—isn’t that much better than your Dragon Fist?"
"The... The Great Sun?"
"Refining Form requires a profound understanding of both the phenomenon and its physical form. If you can’t master the Dragon form, there’s still the Flood Dragon to learn from."
Ye Yangfeng was stunned for a moment, then shook his head.
"But the Great Sun Refining Form Map is the legacy Cultivation Technique of the Great Sun Celestial Palace. Without that technique, how could I possibly master it?"
’Does Senior even know what the Great Sun is?’
Since ancient times, every phenomenon in the world has had its own Dao.
Countless Great Divine Power Users had created one myth after another, and the Great Sun, hanging high in the sky, was no exception.
For ages, countless people had set their sights on the Great Sun.
Unfortunately, the Great Sun was dazzlingly brilliant, its golden light too resplendent to be touched.
Apart from the Great Sun Celestial Palace, which possessed the legacy of the Great Sun Refining Form Map, there seemed to be no other method in the world to inherit the power of the Great Sun.
And the Great Sun Celestial Palace itself had long since vanished into the river of history.
Naturally, the Great Sun Refining Form Map was lost as well.
No one knew where the Great Sun Refining Form Map could be found, and so no one could condense the so-called Great Sun Spirit.
But to Ye Yangfeng’s surprise, Su Bai simply nodded.
"I know."
With that, Ye Yangfeng was out of arguments.
Whether he believed it or not, he had no choice but to begin his cultivation under Su Bai’s guidance.
He focused on feeling the bonfire.
Ye Yangfeng sat there from morning until the full moon hung high in the sky.
When Ye Yangfeng slowly opened his eyes, he saw Su Bai lounging lazily in the rocking chair, seemingly gazing up at the starry sky.
He looked up as well.
The full moon hung high in the hazy night, and the light from the stars was faint and indistinct.
And he certainly couldn’t see the Great Sun.
He grew curious and asked:
"Senior, what are you looking at?"
Su Bai lay quietly in his rocking chair, gazing past the hazy night to the brilliant starry sky beyond. "Looking at a river," he said casually, "and also a sea."
’A river in the sky?’
’And a sea?’
Puzzled, Ye Yangfeng couldn’t help but shake his head.
Then, he closed his eyes again, focusing on the firelight before him, which had now grown very faint.
What he needed to feel wasn’t the flame’s composition, nor its shape.
It was the light and heat spreading outward as the flame burned.
If the burning of the flame was the Divine Intent, then the light and heat it emitted were the physical form.
Still, he felt a bit confused and bewildered.
’By putting all this together, can I really refine the Great Sun True Form Map?’
...
For the next half a month, the two of them basically remained indoors, except when Ye Yangfeng went out to buy necessary food and medicinal herbs.
During this half-month, Su Bai didn’t teach Ye Yangfeng any Fist Techniques or Divine Techniques.
He merely shared his own understanding of the Martial Dao and the cultivation of Fist Techniques.
At first, Ye Yangfeng didn’t notice anything, but gradually, he began to feel a change.
The first change was that he truly began to see the shortcomings of the Twelve Dragon Fist.
The second was that he had grasped a sliver of the true mystery of Fist Techniques.
The Fist Technique was no longer just a Dharma Gate for comprehending a True Form; it had become something independent.
He could feel the profound mystery of the Fist Technique.
But he had made no progress at all with the Great Sun True Form Map.
The light and heat of the flame were omnipresent, but to him, they felt more like something illusory and intangible.
Su Bai didn’t say anything more, simply letting him continue to feel and allowing things to take their natural course.
He was being a bit of a hands-off Shopkeeper.
Cultivation, in the end, was a personal journey.
As the old saying goes, a master can lead you to the door, but you have to walk the path yourself. Having been a teacher for many years, he naturally understood this principle.
But compared to Ye Yangfeng, Su Bai’s progress was much, much greater.