Chapter 451 - 246: Inheritance 2
Chapter 451: Chapter 246: Inheritance 2
This time, they fought in Tianfeng Valley. Li Chuyang was put in confinement for another six months."
Tao Hujin frowned. "Isn’t he usually so careful? How did he dare provoke Li Chuyang? He’s not someone you can afford to cross."
Zhou Yong frowned as well and corrected him, "He didn’t provoke Li Chuyang. Li Chuyang attacked him first. Are you saying he should’ve just stood there and taken the beating?"
"It makes no difference!"
Tao Hujin said pensively, "No wonder his Dragon Ascension Resources never arrived. It turns out he’d already clashed with Li Chuyang."
"What do you mean? Are you giving up on recruiting him?" Zhou Yong asked, raising an eyebrow.
Tao Hujin remained silent.
...
Li Fire Peak.
After eating, Xu Yang returned to his courtyard. He was just about to take out the Li Fire Technique to study it when someone knocked on the gate.
He opened it to find his fellow disciple, Senior Brother Zhu Yuan, along with several other disciples of Elder Huoyun.
"Junior Brother Xu, congratulations on achieving Marrow Cleansing Great Success."
All of them were carrying congratulatory gifts, and they squeezed inside with smiles on their faces.
"You’re all too kind, Senior Brothers!"
Xu Yang said with a smile as he hurried to brew some tea. After a few pleasantries, the group quickly took their leave.
Zhu Yuan and the others had just left, but before Xu Yang could even sit down, someone else arrived to offer congratulations.
In the days following his return from Tianfeng Valley, Xu Yang was flooded with visitors. Any disciple on Li Fire Peak with whom he’d exchanged even a few words came to his door to offer congratulations.
Many who hadn’t come when he reached Marrow Cleansing Minor Achievement showed up this time.
Jiang Fan, Jiang Yan, Lu Ren, and Xiong Kun all sent gifts as well.
People from other peaks sent gifts too, not just those from Li Fire Peak.
Cui Ming, a disciple of Lu Tianchen, the Peak Master of Beast King Peak; Du Chuan; Xie Zhan; Han Feng; the Ding Family; the Yuan Family... Xu Yang didn’t care who they were. If they brought a gift, he accepted it.
It was worth noting that while so many people he barely knew had sent gifts, the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion—which was supposed to be recruiting him—acted as if they knew nothing about it, offering no gesture whatsoever.
Xu Yang’s eyes narrowed. ’I refuse to believe that an organization with the reach of the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion wouldn’t know I’ve achieved Marrow Cleansing Great Success.’
’Are they backing out? Or do the people from the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion headquarters look down on me?’
Their complete lack of response was rather puzzling.
After three or four straight days, Xu Yang finally finished dealing with everyone. Having collected a pile of gifts, he began to make time to study the Li Fire Technique.
[Li Fire Technique · Uninitiated (0/1000)]
As the true legacy of Li Fire Peak, the Li Fire Technique was not so easy to comprehend. After studying it for an hour, he set it aside and began cultivating the Blood Prison Heart Blade Scripture instead.
「The next day.」
[Acquired Li Fire Technique, Points +100]
[Martial Arts Longevity Points: 941]
Xu Yang smiled in satisfaction, then closed the panel. After washing up and eating in the dining hall, he hurried back to Tianfeng Valley.
For the next while, he split his time between studying the Li Fire Technique and cultivating in Tianfeng Valley.
Days and nights passed. Everyone in Tianfeng Valley was completely immersed in their cultivation, especially those aiming for a Secondary Dragon Ascension, who poured all their resources into their training. Before they knew it, a month had passed since the valley opened, and the Sect announced that it would be closing once again.
Though no one felt they had had enough, they all had to leave Tianfeng Valley.
[Fuyue Bear Scripture·Great Success (8237/12000)]
’At this rate, I’ll reach the Perfection level of the Bone Marrow Cleansing Realm in three months at most.’
Satisfied, Xu Yang rose and strode out of Tianfeng Valley with Jiang Fan and the others.
After a month of arduous cultivation, the Spirituality about him had grown even richer. Under Introspection, he could see his muscles and bones shimmering with a faint light.
He hadn’t seen Xu Qing in a month. When he went down from Li Fire Peak, he learned that registration for the Outer Disciple competition had already started. However, Xu Qing hadn’t signed up; it wasn’t a good time to reveal her level of cultivation.
"I successfully refined a Qi Gathering Pill!" Xu Qing announced excitedly.
’She finally succeeded?’
Xu Yang was pleased to hear it. Ever since Xu Qing had started learning Alchemy, he had invested no less than ten thousand taels of silver. At last, she had successfully refined an elixir.
"How many pills did you make?" Xu Yang asked.
Xu Qing’s excited expression faltered. "One," she mumbled.
Just one pill. That success rate was absurdly low. With a Low-Level Elixir like the Qi Gathering Pill, you needed to produce at least four pills per batch just to break even, and five to turn a profit.
"That’s still very good," Xu Yang comforted her. "I don’t even know how to refine Qi Gathering Pills."
He only knew how to refine Gathering Essence Pills and Dragon Tiger Great Golden Pills; he genuinely didn’t know how to make Qi Gathering Pills.
Xu Qing’s expression brightened a little at that.
He had a meal with Xu Qing, gave her a Dragon Tiger Great Golden Pill, and then returned to Li Fire Peak to continue his difficult training.
One day, Xu Yang finally heard from Gao Lin that Lu Tianchen had returned to the Purple Sun Sect. Gao Lin had no information about what Lu Tianchen had been doing for the past few months, or whether he had found the Blood Lotus Sect’s stronghold. The only thing he knew for certain was that Lu Tianchen was back.
’It seems he didn’t find the Blood Lotus Sect’s stronghold,’ Xu Yang mused.
If he had, the Purple Sun Sect would already be dispatching people to wipe out the stronghold in retaliation.
After dinner in the dining hall, he returned to his courtyard and went straight into his meditation chamber, eagerly sitting down.
[Bright King Unmoving Body·Minor Achievement (7990/8000)]
After a long period of hard cultivation, his Bright King Unmoving Body was finally on the verge of a breakthrough. He’d recently felt that the Body Refining Technique had reached a plateau; no matter how he trained, it no longer tempered his Physique or increased his strength.
The technique’s progress on his panel had also stagnated. He knew he had hit a bottleneck. Only by comprehending the "Ming King" Image could he continue to advance in the Bright King Unmoving Body.
With his Perfection Level Comprehension, grasping a Martial Dao Imagery wasn’t an issue, but it was impossible to do so in a short amount of time.
Elder Huoyun’s advice not to waste his energy on comprehending a Martial Dao Imagery was not without merit. Even with Perfection-level talent, it would take several months at a minimum to grasp the "Ming King" Image. For a genius aiming for a Secondary Dragon Ascension, spending several months on this was not a worthy trade-off.
This is because once one’s cultivation breaks through to the Celestial Essence Realm, comprehending a Martial Dao Imagery becomes much simpler.
In his eyes, Xu Yang’s time should be spent raising his cultivation, not trying to grasp a Martial Dao Imagery that was, for all intents and purposes, beyond his reach for now.
’But I have my panel. I don’t need to waste time grinding out the last few steps.’
A smile touched Xu Yang’s lips as he looked at his panel.
[Martial Arts Longevity Points: 1052]
After months of accumulation, his points had broken a thousand once more.
’Upgrade Bright King Unmoving Body to Great Success!’
With a thought from Xu Yang, his mind seemed to tremble as countless new insights regarding the Bright King Unmoving Body flooded his consciousness.
At the same time, a phantom of the Ming King appeared over his body, emitting a blinding light.
In that instant, a majestic and unshakeable aura erupted. The seated Xu Yang seemed to have transformed into an immovable Divine Mountain.
Then, the Ming King phantom contracted, sinking into his body.
RUMBLE...
In a flash, Xu Yang felt a cataclysmic upheaval within him. His vital energy and Gang Qi transformed into mystical hammers, rapidly forging his body, tempering his bones, and nourishing his flesh.
His physical body, which hadn’t grown stronger in days, was now rapidly reinforcing itself. Its power and durability surged. His flesh greedily absorbed the Golden Gang Qi, rapidly digesting the remnants of the Dragon Tiger Great Golden Pill in his stomach.
Xu Yang could feel a thrumming vibration throughout his entire being, as if he were resonating with some unknown existence, or as if his Heart Spirit was merging more intimately with his physical form.
He knew this was it: Great Success of the Bright King’s Unmoving Body. The process of Imagery Body Refining, using the Bright King Image, had begun!
The Bright King Image formed from his Heart Spirit was now, under the guidance of the technique, tempering and purifying his body. His entire being began to glow, and an immense sense of power welled up within him.
He felt that his body was now terrifyingly strong; shattering a Half-Spirit Weapon with his bare hands no longer seemed like an impossible feat.
In a short span of time, he had undergone a world-turning transformation, like rotten wood being reforged into tempered steel.
Of course, he knew this was just an illusion born from the sudden, massive increase in power, one that made him feel invincible.