Chapter 257 Tongmai

Chapter 257 Tongmai

Chapter 257 Tongmai
It is not reliable to exchange old iron for new one. The copper incense burner has been in the temple and it is unlikely to be damaged even after hundreds of years. Oxidation does not happen that quickly.

Li Yuan gave up the idea with great difficulty and turned to look to both sides.

There are three golden lights in the small temple. In addition to this sixth-level incense burner, there is one in each of the small houses on the left and right sides. There is also golden light flashing, and it is more pure and dazzling.

【Blue Dragon Robe (Level 7)】

[…Made of poisonous golden silk, mixed with hundreds of spiritual silks, and complete spiritual dragon skin. It contains dragon soul and is spiritually violent.]

[Control conditions: 13 forms of spiritual dragon, body of a flood dragon, mastery of Dragon Zen Diamond Sutra]

[Control effect: Level 7 (light gold): Dragon Zen Diamond Sutra Seventh Level Perfection, Invulnerability to All Poisons, Spiritual Dragon Form

Level 6 (Yellow): Horizontal Training Talent, Unmoved by the Eight Winds]

Divine cassock.

Li Yuan rubbed his eyes. This cassock was much better than Long Xinglie's black jade Qilin armor.

However, compared to the demon-subduing pestle on the other side, it seems a little dull.

[Ancient Elephant Spirit Dragon Pestle (Level 8)]

[… Made mainly of complete spirit dragon bones and ancient spirit ivory, mixed with refined gold from all over the world, tempered by wind, thunder, ice and fire, and nurtured in the dragon and tiger health furnace for a hundred years, it is already spiritual enough…]

[Control conditions: Perfection of Dragon Zen Diamond Sutra, Great Perfection of Dragon Tiger Hun Tian Hammer, Great Mighty Heavenly Dragon Form, Great Perfection of Ancient Spirit Elephant Nine-Shape Hammer]

[Control Effect: Level 8 (Gold): Talent Hammer Spirit, Dragon Elephant Merge

Level 7 (Pale Gold): Dragon-Elephant Form, Dragon-Elephant Strength, Hundred Hammers Mastery]

An eighth-level, top-grade divine hammer!
Li Yuan rubbed his eyes again. The golden light was too bright and he felt a little sore in his eyes.

"An eighth-level heavy hammer."

Li Yuan muttered to himself, he felt that his mind was much more stable. If it had happened a few years ago, he would have definitely lost his composure on the spot.

Apart from the Sea-Splitting Black Whale Hammer, this was the highest-level divine weapon he had ever seen up close, and it was also the heavy hammer that he needed the most.

"One talent of the eighth-level hammer technique is equivalent to three talents of the seventh-level and nine talents of the sixth-level... The talent blessed by this hammer, in the health furnace, is probably enough to be called 'unparalleled talent', right?"

Li Yuan was somewhat dazed.

Inside the small temple, Long Xixiang paced back and forth, introducing the ancestors of all generations and the rules that needed to be observed in the Great Dragon Gate.

After a while, he frowned slightly, waved his hand, and sent Li Yuan, who was obviously distracted but reluctant to leave, out the door.

"This kid is a pretty good person."

In the yard, Long Xixiang lay back on the recliner.

Monk Dou Yue glanced at Li Yuan, who kept looking back:
"The Grand Master taught him the Dragon Zen Diamond Sutra, and you taught him the Dragon-Tiger Heaven Hammer. Do you want this kid to follow the path of 'Dragon-Elephant Merger'?"

Monk Dou Yue's eyes flickered.

The Nine Dragon and Tiger Halls inherited the nine unique skills of the Dragon and Tiger Temple. The Dragon and Elephant Merge did not belong to any of them. It was just a lethal and semi-unique skill created by Long Xixiang.

But in the eyes of many disciples of Dalongmen, it is more important than any other unique skills.

Because this is related to the Dalongmen's peerless magic skill 'Dragon Elephant Vajra Sky'.

"If this kid can master this Dragon Zen Sutra and half of the Hun Tian Hammer within fifteen years, then he will be qualified to compete for the title of 'Dragon Elephant Vajra Heaven'."

Long Xixiang glanced at him and said:
"Are you worried?"

"Disciple has no fear."

Monk Dou Yue clasped his hands together with a calm expression.

"That's good."

Long Xixiang yawned, hinting at something:
"The Dragon-Elephant Merge, all of you brothers can learn it. I don't think I am biased. Who can learn to become the Dragon-Elephant Vajra Heaven still depends on your own luck."

As he spoke, he paused slightly and thought of the Red Flame Dharma King. His uncle who had betrayed the sect left the Evil God Cult because he did not learn this magical skill.

"The disciple understands."

Monk Dou Yue bowed.

"Alright, let's go and prepare. Three years is a long time, but it's also a short time. The venues for the martial arts performances also need to be prepared in advance..."

Long Xixiang waved his hand.

"Yes."

Monk Dou Yue bowed slightly and retreated.

The two of them left one after another, and the yard suddenly became quiet. Long Xixiang yawned a few times and almost fell asleep:
"If you don't come out, I'm going to fall asleep."

His voice was neither high nor low, but the sound waves spread out like a substance, with visible ripples spreading and crushing the smoke and clouds lingering in the temple.

A nun in a Taoist robe and holding a whisk walked in from the door and bowed slightly:
"Nie Ying greets Uncle Master."

"Nie Ying... um, Old Nie's youngest daughter. I heard that you are now the deputy head of Jingtao Hall?"

Long Xixiang took a look at the nun and remembered who she was. He couldn't help but feel a little emotional:

"It's only been a short time, and you've already succeeded in the blood transfusion. Old Nie's methods of training his disciples are not bad."

How long has it been?

It’s been almost fifty years...

Nie Ying complained in her heart, but she was very respectful: "I didn't expect that my uncle still remembered my niece."

"What do you want to see me for?"

Long Xixiang sat up.

"I just returned to the sect and heard that my uncle had come out of retreat, so I came to pay my respects to him."

"Just say what you want to say, don't beat around the bush."

Long Xixiang interrupted her politeness. He was really a little tired.

"This... I am here on my father's orders. I have an unreasonable request. I hope that Uncle Master..."

"Since you know it's an unreasonable request, then don't say it."

Long Xixiang interrupted her again.

"...Then, I will take my leave."

Nie Ying gave a bitter smile and bowed to take his leave.

"Wait, tell me." Long Xixiang called her again. He had some friendship with Nie Xianshan.

"Master, my father wants to ask for a dragon-tiger-sized coin..."

"It's really an unreasonable request."

As soon as Long Xixiang raised his hand, Nie Ying felt a huge force coming and he involuntarily retreated from the small temple.

"Dragon-Tiger Pill, is this old fellow Nie Xianshan crazy? It took me fifteen years to get one pill, how shameless is he to dare to ask for it?"

In the courtyard, Long Xixiang was quite angry.

The Longhu Temple is rich in elixirs, such as the Dahuan Pill, Dragon Pill, Tiger Pill, and Huajiao Pill, and there are at least one or two furnaces produced every year.

But the Dragon-Tiger Pill is far more precious than the Great Rejuvenation Pill. It is good enough to open one furnace every ten years. The main ingredient of this pill is the essence and blood of the two "beast ancestors" in the mountains.

After getting angry, he immediately got up, went into the house to get paper and pen, and wrote down the important things.

Mainly the Dragon and Tiger Pill.

"Nie Xianshan is shameless. I will never lend out the Dragon Tiger Pill! Well, Li... Li Yuan has a good talent. He can be taught by me personally."

…………

"Seventh-level incense."

In the cold wind, Li Yuan washed himself with cold water, feeling restless.

Over the years, he has been collecting weapons, but the higher-level weapons are, the harder they are to find. Gradually, his focus has shifted to searching for low-level weapons and incense.

However, weapons of the highest quality or higher are extremely rare, and incense of the sixth rank or higher is not easy to come by either.

"The incense burner in Longhu Temple has not been replaced for hundreds of years. It is obvious that they don't know or don't care about the incense in the incense burner. The symbolic meaning of this incense burner is far greater than its practical significance."

Li Yuan pondered.

During the past six months, he had acquired many weapons with martial arts powers by means of exchanging old for new, but incense burners were different. There was no new or old distinction between these things, and no disciple would exchange them for one.

"You still have to take the initiative... Well, it's not hard to hit a few incense burners left and right, and try again? Well, just say that he asked me to change it. This old man has such a bad memory..."

Money can tempt people, and Master Li Dao's mind wanders, and he can't help but think of cheating the old man.

"No wonder someone in the temple dares to covet the Grandmaster's inheritance. The forgetful old man is too easy to bully. He can't remember his grudges."

Li Yuan murmured in his heart:

"Isn't it bad to bully an old man?"

Letting out a long sigh, Li Yuan looked towards the corner where there were a few small incense burners. He had thought about replacing the incense burners before, but had not taken any action yet.

"Is it okay to give it a try? If you don't want to change it, just consider it as a little filial piety from your disciple, well, filial piety."

Li Yuan felt a little relieved.

He spent money like water in the past few months. Except for the gold notes used to buy the blood of the spirit beast king, all his money was spent on the weapon forging shop.

The effect was very good. Under Liu Zheng's supervision, the losses of the weapon forging shop became bigger and bigger. Thousands of hammers of various grades and types were forged. Together with those he had searched for before, it was enough to combine a seventh-grade divine hammer.

All that's missing is incense...

"call!"

Shaking off the frost on his body, Li Yuan returned to the house, lit a stick of concentration incense as usual, swallowed a few pills, sat cross-legged in meditation, and opened the Dragon-Tiger Hun Tian Hammer.

Although Li Yuan had just acquired this unique hammer technique, he was actually already very familiar with it.

Over the past half year, he has searched for nearly ten heavy hammers that are used to master this unique hammer technique. Although the highest level of hammer control he can achieve is only great success, it is enough for him to get started quickly.

"The dragon and the tiger are in the sky, extremely strong and masculine, with momentum more important than moves. It emphasizes using momentum to overwhelm others and using force to defeat tricks... It suits me very well."

Li Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly. There was only an oil lamp in the room, but he could see everything very clearly. At the same time, in the spiritual place, visualizing the spirit, I have begun to try standing still and practicing hammering.

"Well, install the hammer first."

Li Yuan's mind moved, and he changed the control of the seven heavy hammers one by one, including the [Six-sided Dragon Hammer (fifth level)] and the [Six-sided Mixed Steel Hammer (fourth level)].

hum~
Close your eyes and feel the changes in yourself.

With the blessing of multiple talents in hammer techniques and the scenes of others practicing hammer techniques constantly appearing in his mind, Li Yuan was able to master this unique hammer technique at an extremely fast speed.

"You can get started with this hammer technique in three days at most!"

After a long time, Li Yuan opened his eyes in a good mood. Compared with the difficulty of the Ten Thousand Blades Spirit Dragon Body and the Dragon Zen Diamond Sutra, the progress of this hammer technique was surprisingly fast.

This was certainly because he had prepared in advance, but also because he himself had a high talent for hammering.

"It should take at most half a year to complete. This speed is faster than the Bingdao Fighting Hammer!"

Li Yuan was very satisfied. He opened the secret book again and quickly mastered the stance training and breathing methods. The visualization method was a little difficult, but with the foundation of the Bingdao Fighting Hammer, he quickly mastered it.

The most difficult part is about opening up the meridians.

To open the meridians is the process of outlining the channels on the basis of the circulation of Qi, blood and internal Qi. If there is a slight mistake, at best the internal Qi will impact the internal organs, at worst it will lead to insanity and damage the foundation.

Li Yuan was very careful.

"Well, the focus of the Dragon-Tiger Heaven Hammer is the waist, abdomen and torso. Well, it overlaps with the Fighting Hammer and the Hundred Beasts Thunder Dragon..."

Li Yuan looked through it several times, and after making sure he had memorized it, he swallowed a few pills, replaced the hammer soldier, and took control of the items that enhanced his spirit and perception one by one.

Only then did I start trying to open up the meridians.

A few months ago, Li Yuan's internal energy was already high enough to try to construct the meridians, but to be on the safe side, he still prepared for a few months. In addition to reading books, he also prepared elixirs.

hum!
Li Yuan closed his eyes. With the help of the Fire Dragon Sword, he could clearly sense what was happening inside his body.

He moved the internal energy until his body became warm, then he carefully guided a strand of the internal energy to spread deeper into the body.

"The more perfect the Qi channels are constructed, the more unique skills can be cultivated... Normally speaking, building one meridian is a great achievement in opening the meridians, and thirteen meridians is also a great achievement in opening the meridians."

Li Yuan closed his eyes. He could clearly feel the movement of his internal organs, the flow of blood, and the densely packed blood vessels throughout his body.

Compared with these countless blood vessels, the circulation of qi and blood, and the circulation of internal qi seem rough and simple, whether it is the large circulation or the small circulation.

"It is recorded in the library that a thousand years ago, there was a master in Longhu Temple who felt his own blood vessels when he was opening his meridians. He decided to imitate the blood vessels in the human body and construct the most complete meridian map..."

Li Yuan's mental strength was very strong. While carefully constructing his Qi channels, he was also recalling the experiences and speculations of the predecessors in the library about opening up the Qi channels.

"It is said that there are tens of billions of blood vessels in the human body... That ancestor must have suffered from lack of education."

Li Yuan has a plan for building his own qi channels.

Comprehensive, but not complex.

As long as it can cover the martial arts that you are currently learning and leave room for the martial arts to be learned in the future, that is enough. If you really want to pursue complexity, there is no upper limit.

……

The construction of Qi channels requires strong mental strength and deep internal energy. Li Yuan fully possesses these two qualities, so it is natural that he can build them quickly.

"Shh!"

When the day just dawned, Li Yuan opened his eyes.

"Is this the right time?"

Li Yuan was slightly startled. He easily crossed the threshold of opening his meridians, but his body did not change.

"Just like what Lao Han said, the only thing that can raise the human body's limits and transform the body is shapeshifting..."

Tongmai Chucheng glanced at the cats and mice in the house, and he slowly stretched out his arm.

To the naked eye, there was no change in his arm. Only he himself could feel that there was an extra meridian in his arm that contained internal energy.

In just one night, he had outlined a meridian in his body. The speed was astonishing, but it was also a natural result. After all, he had been preparing for it for several months.

"The internal energy leaves the body."

Li Yuan raised his arm slightly, under his gaze.

Widths of yellow light poured out from the body, and the invisible internal energy showed signs of transforming into something tangible after the qi channels were formed.

In the blink of an eye, his entire arm was covered in a faint yellow light. The feeling was wonderful, like being wrapped in a layer of warm water.

hum!
Li Yuan's mind was turning, and the thin layer of yellow light on his arm seemed to have life and kept flowing, sometimes long, sometimes square, changing according to his heart.

Swish!
Li Yuan flicked his left finger and a flying knife stabbed towards his right hand.

There was a "clang" sound, and the flying knife flew backwards. He grabbed it casually, and there were a few "cracks", and the fine iron flying knife was crushed into mud.

"good."

Li Yuan's eyes lit up slightly. During the whole process, he did not use any strength. He just moved his mind and his internal energy naturally resisted the attack.

"One step further, the true qi will take shape!"

(End of this chapter)