Chapter 204 Fire Dragon Temple
Chapter 204 Fire Dragon Temple
"Liu Qingtian, the master of marrow refining, climbed a thousand feet high mountain."
There were five stone tablets standing on the last three hundred steps. Li Yuan walked towards the person closest to him with a hammer in his hand.
The azure blue Qi outlined and intertwined, revealing that he was an elegant old man with a long sword hanging from his waist and a three-foot long beard.
The founder of Yunshu Tower was a prominent figure more than a thousand years ago. When he entered the mountains, he had already reached the stage of marrow refining.
“Change your form, open your meridians, refine your organs, refine your marrow… If I weren’t in this Mystic Weapon Secret Realm, I wouldn’t even be able to stand in front of such a top master.”
Looking at the elegant old man, Li Yuan muttered to himself.
From Qi and blood to changing form, Lao Han generally divides it into three stages of breaking limits. The changing form stage determines the limit of the physique.
The Form-Changing State is known as the first step to becoming a martial artist, the beginning of being a non-human, and through opening the meridians, refining the internal organs, and reaching the state of refining the marrow, a martial artist can truly become a non-human.
"The Qi penetrates the bone marrow, the blood is like mercury, and the person can destroy the army. There are not many masters of this level in Huizhou nowadays, right?"
Li Yuan changed his mind, took a step forward, and swung his long hammer through the wind, making a sound of metal clashing.
The benefits of the second adventure into the mountains were no less than the first. He fought hundreds of battles along the way. Not to mention the incomplete martial arts skills he acquired, Li Yuan had undergone a transformation in terms of fighting alone.
At this moment, he moved his feet and stretched his arms, and all his movements became one. The long hammer vibrated, and it looked like a weapon attack with the fighting and killing hammer, but in fact it contained the essence of many kinds of martial arts.
Li Yuan suddenly raised his hammer, with extremely ingenious changes, combining speed and power. Compared with more than ten days ago, there was visible improvement.
However, the elegant old man behind the stone tablet just watched quietly until the wind wave blew, then he raised his arm.
Zheng~
There was no sophisticated move. Li Yuan only felt the man's arm tremble, and the iron sword stabbed his face.
Fast, fierce and decisive!
"It's this move again!"
Li Yuan's eyelids were twitching wildly. He had been killed instantly by this sword at least twenty times.
But now it’s different. After transforming his strength into energy, he will at least not be blocked ten meters away and passively take a beating.
boom!
Li Yuan exerted force with his feet, and his already extremely fast speed increased by three times. He only slightly deviated his neck and swept his heavy hammer across, showing a style of fighting that could inflict injury on one's opponent.
If he were outside the Xuanbing Secret Realm, he would never use such a life-threatening fighting style, but there were naturally no taboos in breaking through the level.
laugh!
Faced with this life-and-death fighting style, the elegant old man swung the sword in his hand lightly, neither fast nor slow, and raised it back at just the right moment to block Li Yuan's heavy hammer.
Just like the dozens of battles before, each of his strikes was flawless, fully demonstrating his style as a master swordsman.
"Go away!"
At the moment the sword and hammer collided, Li Yuan's eyes focused and he instantly activated the blessing of the Weaponry Sutra.
As heavy as a thousand pounds and as powerful as a mountain.
The sudden surge of force instantly penetrated the dense and impenetrable sword circle, and in the next moment, it had passed through the body!
Bang!
The elegant old man's body trembled, and turned into a large amount of true energy that dispersed, and under Li Yuan's gaze, it took shape again behind the ten steps.
"Gan..."
Li Yuan staggered, and before he could feel the remaining sword moves emerging in his mind, his body exploded.
But at the last moment, he was also hit by a sword, and the sword light pierced through his chest...
"call!"
In the room, Li Yuan turned over and sat up, with cold sweat oozing from his forehead.
Although his death in the Xuanbing Secret Realm had no effect on him, the sword that seemed to pierce through his chest still left him with lingering fears.
It also reminded him once again that he should never use such a life-threatening method of fighting in reality.
"This Liu Qingtian has at least thirty-six forms of transformation, and he has perfected the supreme swordsmanship, and maybe more than one..."
Li Yuan sat cross-legged and reviewed the battle.
A marrow refining master is enough to run rampant in the state. Even if such a great master only uses the power of shape-changing, he is much more difficult to deal with than the two outer sect elders of Qianjun Cave.
Before his internal energy turned into qi, he didn't even have a chance to fight for his life, and his neck was often cut off by a sword from ten meters away.
It is different now. With the internal energy turning into qi and the blessing of the weapon-holding talisman, he is confident of defeating Liu Qingtian without even waiting for the internal energy in his body to turn into a powerful internal qi.
After that, the others were also unable to stop him, except for the ghost-faced man who was guarding the end...
"Even if it was really Old Han, he shouldn't have been as good as Yi Baixing at that time, so he wouldn't have had a chance!"
Li Yuan was excited. He raised his head and swallowed a few pills, continuing to transform his strength into energy.
……
For the next few days, Li Yuan stayed at home. Apart from practicing martial arts, taking medicinal baths, and improving his bones, he continued to transform his strength into energy, trying to reach the last two hundred steps.
During these few days, Fang Baoluo was not idle. He went out several times to contact other fellow disciples. Six days later, Liang Ashui, exhausted, arrived in Heishui County.
"In the sect, there should be 432 inner and outer disciples from Yunjing County. Now, there are only about 40 left, and the others cannot be contacted..."
Inside the restaurant’s private room, all the Divine Weapon Valley disciples looked somewhat dejected.
"The tunnels in the Shenbing Mountains are interconnected, and the other brothers may not take the route to Heishui County."
Fang Baoluo glanced at everyone, his face as gloomy as water:
"I have left a mark. If the other brothers come to Heishui County, they will know where we are going..."
He glanced at Li Yuan and was slightly surprised. After not seeing him for a few days, his junior brother's aura had changed significantly.
How long has it been, and yet the strength has to be transformed into energy?
Fang Baoluo was a little frightened.
The hard work of transforming internal energy into Qi may take three to five years without sufficient support from medicinal pills.
Is his family so wealthy?
"Master, is there any letter?"
Li Yuan asked.
"The carrier pigeons and eagles I brought with me when I came down the mountain have all been used up. I can't contact Master for the time being, so I can only go to Dechang Prefecture first."
Fang Baoluo shook his head.
There were many rare birds used for communication, such as carrier pigeons and hawks, kept in the Divine Weapon Valley, but he was in a hurry to go down the mountain and did not bring many with him.
Moreover, releasing carrier pigeons or hawks without permission might reveal the whereabouts of other disciples, so he was very careful.
"Then let's go to Dechang Prefecture."
Li Yuan glanced at everyone. Liang A Shui looked rather haggard, and it was obvious that he had suffered a lot along the way.
"okay."
Li Yuan and the other person had made the decision, so naturally the others had no objections.
On that day, several people dispersed and bought some medicinal herbs, pills, dry food and the like in batches, and then gathered at the dock.
"The Linping Fleet is one of the largest fleets in Dechang Prefecture, with hundreds of ships. It is the business of the Fire Dragon Temple..."
Fang Baoluo was so generous that he chartered an entire boat. Inside the cabin, he was talking with Li Yuan.
Dechang Prefecture has many mountains and lakes, and there are hundreds of sects of all sizes in the territory. Among the most powerful sects under Qianjun Cave, there is the Fire Dragon Temple.
Li Yuan did not have a deep impression of this sect. He only knew that they had accepted a talented disciple with dragon-shaped bones a few years ago, which caused a sensation.
"Qianjun Cave is behaving violently. Among the many sects within its territory, only the Fire Dragon Temple is not affected."
Luo Renshu, who came from the Supervisory Hall, knew the Fire Dragon Temple in detail and talked about the origin of the Fire Dragon Temple:
"The founder of Fire Dragon Temple was born in Dragon and Tiger Temple."
"Well, what Junior Brother Luo said is not wrong."
Fang Baoluo nodded: "If it weren't for this relationship, Qianjun Cave would not tolerate the existence of a sect that could threaten them..."
If this relationship didn't exist, Gong Yangyu would probably have easily destroyed the Fire Dragon Temple, right?
Forces that have been passed down for hundreds or thousands of years often have intricate connections, such as Qianjun Cave and Huailong Palace, and Huolong Temple and Longhu Temple.
I guess Shenbing Valley will be no exception.
Thinking about Master Wanchuan and his disciples, and then thinking about Wang Wenyuan, Li Yuan felt a little clear in his mind.
There are intermarriages between aristocratic families and between sects. Not only intermarriages, but even exchanges of disciples.
"Because of this relationship, the Fire Dragon Temple's fleet is safer than those others, and ordinary people dare not provoke them." Fang Baoluo glanced at Li Yuan, thinking that he already knew it.
"Where's Senior Brother?"
Li Yuan thought of Ba Wanli. Compared with Lao Han, his size was too conspicuous and he was more likely to be chased and ambushed.
"do not know."
Fang Baoluo sighed.
"Communication is not easy."
Li Yuan also sighed.
Apart from carrier pigeons and hawks, communication these days basically relies on shouting, and hawks and pigeons fly in pairs, which has great limitations.
As a result, most of the thousands of disciples in the Divine Weapon Valley are now out of contact.
Inside the room, several people talked for a long time before returning to their rooms.
"call!"
Li Yuan washed his face, calmed his mind, practiced a few sets of military postures, and then began to transform his strength into qi again.
Taking pills and medicines can speed up this process, but it cannot be achieved overnight. It takes time and effort to grind it down and blend it bit by bit.
In the next few days, Li Yuan still stayed at home. Inspired by him, Fang Baoluo, Luo Renshu and others all became busy, some practicing martial arts and some meditating.
……
"call!"
"Suck!"
Inside the cabin, Li Yuan sat cross-legged, doing two things at once: while pushing his internal energy to transform it into Qi, he was also practicing the method of visualization.
In the darkness that only he could perceive, the "stick man" visualized with himself as the core was raising his fists and swinging his legs.
Thanks to the Spirit Snake Belt and the Spirit Ox Bone Ring, his progress in visualization was not slow.
Woohoo~
Under Li Yuan's high concentration and drive, the plump matchstick man punched with each move.
This is the white ape moving the stake.
With Li Yuan's current martial arts attainments, he has already mastered the martial arts of this school, but when fighting with stick figures, it is still a little awkward.
"If I want to speed up the process of visualization, I need to find some items like the Five-Step Spiritual Snake Belt that can bless the spirit..."
Li Yuan muttered to himself, he attached great importance to the visualization method, not only because of the God Worship Method, but also because of the Sea-Splitting Black Whale Hammer.
The hammer's attainment in 'transforming true qi into shape' has reached an incredible level.
It can transform into plants, mountains, rivers, and the earth, and it can also transform into all the people who climb the mountains.
This made him very shocked and yearning.
The visualization method has a deep relationship with the transformation of true Qi into form.
"There is also the method of worshipping gods..."
Li Yuan's mind was distracted, but he quickly suppressed it, dividing his attention and practicing in silence.
……
……
Huhu~
The fleet set off and sailed downstream.
"Heishui County is about 20 days' journey from the prefectural capital. If you are in a hurry, you can arrive in about half a month without stopping on the way."
On a large five-tooth warship, the leaders of the Linping fleet gathered around a young man, bowing and smiling apologetically.
"Half a month? That's a bit long..."
Amidst the crowd, a young man in black tights stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the rolling river and the mountains on both sides.
His name is Yue Chongtian. He was born with the body of a red dragon and is the most authentic disciple of the Fire Dragon Temple in the contemporary era.
"If the boat travels fast, maybe it can go two days faster?"
Several managers had sweat on their foreheads.
"Okay, you go down."
At this time, an old man with gray hair and beard walked out of the cabin. He was tall and carried a long dark blue stick on his back.
"Elder Yun."
Seeing the old man, several managers bowed respectfully and left.
"Old Yun."
Yue Chongtian bowed slightly with a respectful attitude. This old man was an elder of the inner sect and was half his master.
"Chongtian, you are a little confused."
Yun An glanced at him.
"That's what Elder Yun said."
Yue Chongtian did not refute.
"After all, this is about Dao Zong, so it's understandable that you're a little anxious."
Yun An's tone slowed down:
"However, with your talent for understanding, you will definitely be able to open up your meridians before the age of thirty. Even without the connection with the sect, it will be no problem for you to join the inner sect of the Dragon and Tiger Temple. Why worry?"
"Just the inner gate?"
Yue Chongtian frowned slightly. He had heard similar words many times, but he always felt a little dissatisfied.
He was born with all nine forms. He practiced martial arts for fourteen years and changed his bones several times. When he was only twenty years old, he had already gathered the bones to form a great dragon and succeeded in changing his bones.
His talent and comprehension are indeed not inferior to the top disciples of the four major sects in Huizhou.
Inner sect, even if it was the inner sect of Dragon Tiger Temple, he still looked down on it...
"Is the inner sect not enough? You underestimate the inner sect of Dao Sect."
After taking a deep look at him, Yun An knew what he was thinking:
"Dechang Prefecture has nearly 10 million households and tens of millions of people. Huizhou has eight prefectures, and there are four prefectures in Hengshan Dao, of which Huizhou is only one.
Dragon-shaped bones are rare, but they are not uncommon in Hengshan Dao over the past few decades."
After a slight pause, he said, "Longhu Temple has a generation of 60 years, and there are only six true disciples in a generation. Although you have great talent, you should not aim too high."
"Disciples are taught."
Yue Chongtian lowered his head, but his expression did not change.
"Before Dayun was founded, there were many countries in most of the years. The true teachings of Longhu Temple were more valuable than those of the princes of the dynasties. They were below a few people and above tens of millions. It was not just talent that was needed..."
Yun Anxin shook his head.
He has the six true teachings of the Dragon and the Tiger, and his talents, constitution, and comprehension are all among the best in the world. He has countless people supporting him, and his background is extremely strong.
In the past, the founder of the Fire Dragon Temple was so talented and brilliant, but wasn’t he just an inner disciple?
"Master Yun, I heard that all the masters of the Divine Weapon Valley were hunted down by the Evil God Cult and trapped in the Zhelong Mansion?"
Yue Chongtian changed the subject. He didn't like being lectured.
"Well, although Huangfu Kun is not as good as Baili Jingchuan, if he personally leads the seven helmsmen to attack, even if Han Chuijun is wearing a divine armor, he will definitely not be his opponent."
Yun An's eyes flickered: "It's a pity that Baili Jingchuan died inexplicably, otherwise the Divine Weapon Valley might have followed the same fate as Qianjun Cave."
"This matter is for us..."
Yue Chongtian looked towards the distant mountains.
"We are too close to the Dragon and Tiger Temple. Once we occupy the prefecture, the consequences will be too great."
Yun An held onto the railing and looked towards the Zhelong Mansion with a subtle look:
"I heard that Miss Yu is coming to Dechang, you must entertain her well..."
(End of this chapter)