Chapter 55: Half a Year of Hard Training, Snow Falls and Clouds Fall

Chapter 55: Half a Year of Hard Training, Snow Falls and Clouds Fall

Chapter 55: Half a Year of Hard Training, Snow Falls and Clouds Fall (Seeking Follow-up Reading)
After Lu Chengfeng went into seclusion, he only asked Luo Suyi to deliver three meals a day. He refused to see any outside guests and did not return to his bedroom at night.

During the day, he swallowed the Five Qis Chao Yuan Pill that Luo Yong exchanged for his merits. This pill was made from a natural treasure that harmonized many of the five elements. It was extremely precious, and swallowing one pill was equivalent to a month of hard training.

Lu Chengfeng gained a lot of merits in the beast tide, and exchanged them for a total of eighteen Five Qi Chao Yuan Pills, which could save him more than a year of hard training. Combined with the gift of inner peak elders in internal strength attainments, his gains were far greater than those of others.

Ever since he refined the gift from the inner peak elder Li Guan, Lu Chengfeng's swordsmanship and body movement have improved by leaps and bounds, but the progress of his inner strength has not been satisfactory.

It took more than half a month just to transform the Bi Bo internal force into the Xuan He Heart Method, and there was too much loss during the process, so the Xuan He Heart Method was only cultivated to the tenth level.

"Xuanhe Qianying Tongyou Sword Art" is composed of Tongyou Sword Art, Qianying Body Skills and Xuanhe Heart Skills. The swordsmanship, body skills and internal strength cooperate with each other, and it is a first-class unique skill that cultivates both inside and outside.

Li Guan, the elder of Xuanhe Peak, has practiced this method to the twenty-fourth level. He has comprehended the power of the Tongyou sword, and his essence, energy and spirit have become one, transforming into true energy, which can kill people invisibly with a single thought.

With his gift, Lu Chengfeng should have been able to refine his sword intent smoothly without any bottlenecks.

However, in order to cultivate the sword intent, the spirit, energy and vitality must be refined to be perfect and flawless, and the external skills must reach the peak. Only in this way can the inside and the outside be combined, so that the spirit, energy and vitality can be blended and sublimated, transformed into internal true energy, and then the pure sword intent can be nurtured.

Lu Chengfeng's Tongyou Sword Art and Qianying Body Skills had both reached the eighteenth level, but his Xuanhe Mental Skill slowed down his progress, which was why he was unable to achieve success in one go and master the Tongyou Sword Skill.

"The essence of internal strength is to use visualization to harmonize the body's essence, energy and spirit, supplemented by various treasures that are beneficial to the human body, so that the body's essence, energy and spirit can be round and flawless, full and overflowing, and then the internal strength can be nurtured."

"This is a difficult task, and it concerns one's life. Even if one has received a gift, has a bird's-eye view, and is extremely proficient in visualization and circulation of internal energy, one still has to practice step by step in the end."

"Only when you cultivate your inner strength to the eighteenth level, and your spirit is perfect and flawless, can you naturally cultivate the sword spirit."

Lu Chengfeng was not impatient. At his age, his current martial arts attainments were already monstrous, but the cultivation of internal strength could not be rushed. The more impatient he was, the more likely he would go astray.

He swallowed a Five Qis to Yuan Pill every three days. This pill melted in his mouth, nourishing the five internal organs and warming the spirit like nectar, causing his essence to overflow and his internal strength to increase.

At this time, Lu Chengfeng visualized a black crane. The crane was eight feet tall, and its wings were two feet long when spread. Its entire body was covered with black feathers, as if cast in copper or iron, with a flowing luster. Its pair of iron claws shone with a cold light that could tear apart gold and iron.

Only the feathers on top of its head are white, emitting a halo that covers its body, making it look like a fairy bird in mythology or legend.

However, the black crane in this visualization does not have eyes.

The skill of this finishing touch is the practice of inner strength.

Use your own essence, energy and spirit as ink and pour it into the picture to add the eyes to the black crane. One day, the black crane opens its eyes, and your own essence, energy and spirit merge into one with it. The black crane enters your body, and your body and the crane become one. This is the eighteenth level of perfection, reaching the pinnacle of the mortal world.

If a warrior can cultivate his internal skills to this level, he will be free from illness and disaster and live a long and healthy life. The longest-lived ones can live to be twenty years old before dying of old age.

Lu Chengfeng was neither hurried nor slow, visualizing Xuanhe and refining the elixir. Time passed by unnoticed. With the gift from the elders of the inner peak, he had already mastered Xuanhe's mental method to perfection. One point of medicinal power could produce three points of effect, and his progress in cultivation was rapid.

In addition to practicing internal skills, he put aside all his sword skills and body movements during this period of time, and only spent day and night trying to figure out the sword intent of the gift. He only felt a little bit of it, and gained a lot every time.

When he ran out of energy, he would look through the memory fragments of the three people to find useful memories. Time passed slowly, and half a year had passed without him noticing.

During this period, Luo Suyi came to tell him that Madam Qiutong had settled down in Bixiao Peak with her maid Die'er. Although the maid Die'er privately complained about Lu Chengfeng's delay in showing up, Madam Qiutong never went out of the house. She just planted flowers and made tea in the yard, looking contented.

Lu Chengfeng didn't care much about it. The woman was just borrowing his identity to seek shelter and stability, and he was just seeking gifts. The two had never met from beginning to end, and they had no feelings for each other. It would be best if they could live in peace.

However, Li Mo came back after several months down the mountain and brought back news that Su Wanqing's situation in the Su family was not very good. Her mother was originally a maid, and her husband ignored this concubine's daughter. At present, the clan has decided to marry her to the elder of the wealthy Li family in Zhongdu as a concubine.

The world is not unified nowadays. The five states of You, Yan, Yun, Liang and Qing in the north are occupied by the sects and families, each dominating one side.

In the south, there are seven states, namely Xiang, Chu, Wu, Yue, Han, Yang and Man. Except for the Nanman state which is covered with dense jungles and full of miasma, it is the place where the three kings of Chu, Han and Wu compete for supremacy.

Only the Zhongzhou area is vast, rich in resources, and has a large population. Many famous sects have gathered here and formed an alliance, which makes thieves and small-time people dare not invade. Therefore, it has become more and more prosperous over the years.

Among the thirteen provinces in the world today, Zhongzhou is the most precious, and the capital of Zhongzhou is even known as the Divine Capital. The people of the Divine Capital are all proud of their origin from the Divine Capital.

The Li family is a wealthy family in Shendu. In order to befriend the Li family, the Su family married their concubine's daughter to the elder of the Li family as a concubine. This is perfectly normal. This kind of thing is not uncommon among aristocratic families.

When Li Mo came back, he brought a token of love, which was a jade hairpin of Su Wanqing, but it had been broken into two pieces. When Lu Chengfeng saw it, he could not help but remain silent.

"Second sister gave this to you to show that she would rather die in glory than live in dishonor." Li Mo just said this and then left. After all, she was a fellow sister, so how could he bear to see her being forced to die, so he spoke out to remind her.

Lu Chengfeng was also speechless and could only put away the broken jade hairpin. After thinking for a long time, he arranged for Li Mo to go down the mountain again.

Apart from these two things, Lu Chengfeng ignored all other trivial matters and just practiced hard in the mountains. When heavy snow fell and the cold winter came, he finally succeeded in his practice and broke through.

After half a year of practice, his internal strength broke through the fifth level, which was equivalent to seven or eight years of hard work for others. The harvest was indeed huge.

However, he had swallowed all the Five Qis to Yuan Pills, and the two cold-scaled fire-tailed fish had also gone into his stomach. He had also digested all the memories of Zhao Changzhen, Xiao Qi and Li Guan, and absorbed all that he had gained in the past. There was no benefit in continuing his seclusion, so he stepped out of the place where he had stayed for half a year.

When Lu Chengfeng came out of seclusion, it was snowing hard and the north wind was howling. Especially in the mountains, the cold wind was as sharp as a knife, and it hurt when it blew on people's faces.

He was wearing a thin white robe, his long hair was casually loose, and he had a light stubble on his chin, which made him look more steady.

At this time, he did not use his internal energy to protect his body, nor did he perform any light skills. He let the snowflakes fall on his body and forehead, and his boots stepped into the snow, making a crunching sound.

"The sky and earth are white, but they can't cover up the filth of the world!"

Lu Chengfeng stretched out his palm, and cold snowflakes melted in it, feeling cool, just like the chill he felt in his heart when he looked at the vast Yuncang Mountains.

During the half year he was in seclusion, there was a lot of turmoil in the sect, and there was even shocking news that caused a sensation among the inner and outer peaks, attracting countless disciples to leave the sect. I wonder how many people are left in the sect now? !
(End of this chapter)