Chapter 278: Tigers and Dragons

Chapter 278: Tigers and Dragons

Chapter 278: Tigers and Dragons
Hate the sky without a ring?

The thought flashed through his mind and was immediately dispelled, but Li Yuan suddenly clenched the five fingers he had extended.

With this clenching, a strong wind suddenly blew up in the room, as if all the air flow in the room was grasped in his palm, and a sound like muffled thunder was heard.

The whole courtyard began to buzz.

"I have to repair the house for Senior Sister Fang tomorrow..."

The strong wind blew away the furnishings in the house. Li Yuan lay on the ground, unable to suppress the smile on his face:
"Okay, okay, it's worth my effort!"

He just felt as if there was a volcano in his body that had been accumulating energy for tens of millions of years and was about to erupt.

That is the Sea-Splitting Black Whale Hammer.

Since obtaining the Weapon Control Scroll, Li Yuan has wielded countless weapons, but he has never felt the blessing of the weapon so clearly.

Even though he did not actively stimulate it, unprecedented drastic changes had already occurred in his body.

His perception and mental strength seemed to have skyrocketed, and he could perceive his own changes very clearly.

Beneath his skin, there seemed to be countless small snakes wriggling, entangled, and fighting each other. The sound of friction between tendons and bones became more and more intense, and later, it even sounded like the collision of metal.

The membrane, tendons, bones, even blood vessels and muscle fibers are all shaking and trembling constantly, like a piece of pig iron being forged into steel.

“Talent!”

Li Yuan murmured in his heart.

The four effects of the first level of Sea-Splitting Black Whale Hammer, including the power to move stars, are all talents in a sense!

At this time, he still couldn't understand what the eleventh-level talent was, but he felt that this was at least the highest level of aptitude assessment in the health furnace, 'unparalleled in the ages'.

Each one of them is unique throughout the ages!

Kakakka~
Li Yuan's whole body was tense. It was his tendons stretching as he transformed into the talent bestowed by the Black Whale Hammer.

Li Yuan has mastered all 51 forms and practiced various horizontal exercises. His tendons are extremely tough, and even the bowstring of a 100-stone strong bow may not be able to compare with them.

But at this moment, the tendons were transforming like a small snake transforming into a dragon. With a slight stretch, Li Yuan felt as if the skin all over his body was about to be torn apart.

The same changes also occurred in his bones. He seemed to be able to hear the sound of metal clashing. His bones were growing, and numbness and pain surged all over his body like a tide.

"It hurts. It really hurts."

Li Yuan gritted his teeth, and after a few "crackling" sounds, another tooth fell out. Even the skin on his face and body was falling off, looking very scary.

Zheng~
The tendons tremble like bows and the bones rub like fencing.

Li Yuan turned over and sat up, opening his mouth to spit out broken teeth, only to feel his skin membrane becoming tighter and tighter, like he was wearing iron armor. This was the Iron Shirt that had reached perfection!
At the same time, he lightly placed his fists on his chest, making a deep bell sound, and the Golden Bell Cover had reached perfection!

These two doors of horizontal training, one takes the shape of a tiger, the other the shape of a golden bell. After reaching perfection, the roots and bones are changed at the same time, crossing the threshold of fifty-two and reaching fifty-three.

However, this transformation, which was very drastic in the past, was not very obvious at this moment, and was completely covered by the transformation of talent blessed by the Black Whale Hammer.

"This feeling, this feeling..."

The transformation of the bones and tendons was very dramatic, but Li Yuan felt that the pain was nothing. In his eyes, the world seemed to have changed.

In the night, the house with closed doors and windows and no oil lamp seemed as bright as day to him. Wherever his eyes passed, he could clearly see the hairs on the insect corpses that had been dead for who knows how long in the gaps between the wall tiles.

"There are 23 dead insects in the house, with a total of 672 hairs..."

Li Yuan muttered to himself.

He felt that his mind was much more active than before. He could not only read the hairs of the insect corpses in the house, but could even deduce their struggles before death from the slightest traces!
“Is this the second-level talent that has never been seen before in the history?”

Li Yuan slowly stood up, shook off the dead skin all over his body, took out a handful of pills and swallowed them, including a golden body pill and a jade body pill.

The transformation he underwent at this moment was due to the fact that the blessing of the Black Whale Hammer was too strong, causing changes in his tendons and bones. However, this change also needed the support of elixirs, and it could not be created out of nothing.

call!
The power of the medicine surged, and he relaxed his muscles and bones. He practiced various stances fluently, from the White Ape Stance to the Dragon Zen Stance and the Hun Tian Stance.

He had practiced these stances countless times and had developed them into muscle memory. But at this moment, he could clearly sense the incoordination in all the stances and all the moves, including the Long Chan stance and the Hun Tian stance!

It’s not that there’s anything wrong with these martial arts stances, but rather a subtle inconsistency with their own nature.

He had been able to feel this discrepancy more or less before, but it had long since become muscle memory, and it was difficult for him to correct it, and he didn't know how to correct it.

He had some basic knowledge in martial arts, but it was impossible for him to perfect dozens of martial arts, or even cover the top secrets and unique skills.

But now, after only practicing it less than twice, he has reversed all his habits and harmonized all the standing exercises to the point where they are most suitable for him.

Call ~
In the small room, Li Yuan slowly practiced his postures, from standing meditation to fists and palms, from footwork and light skills to sword and hammer techniques, displaying all the martial arts he had learned.

He was immersed in the blessing of the Sea-Splitting Black Whale Hammer and forgot the intense pain in his body.

Taking pills and practicing martial arts, over and over again.

When the transformation slowed down, Li Yuan opened his eyes and exhaled a breath of foul air that blew open the wooden door like a strong wind, but he heard a very loud dragon roar in his ears.

The dragon's roar came from the mountain gate.

Li Yuan walked out slowly, and saw smoke gathering under the night sky. Clouds were surging at the stone plaque of the ancestor, and a dark dragon that seemed to be there and not there slowly emerged and let out a long roar.

Then, there was a violent and loud tiger roar!

"I forgot about this..."

Li Yuan was slightly surprised. He didn't expect that the plaque could still sense him even though they were several miles apart.

But this doesn't seem to be a bad thing. For him, the more unique skills the better, especially since the Master Chunyang is a genuine Taoist priest.

……

……

Before nightfall, Longyin Peak.

The wind and snow were strong. Wang Xuanying walked quickly on the mountain path. When he passed the dragon stele, he glanced at it and then quickened his pace to leave.

Chu Xuankong's yard was quite lively. Many disciples of Longyin Hall were busy, either sweeping snow or lighting lanterns.

Gao Wanyong supervised the workers with his hands behind his back, scolding them from time to time. Seeing Wang Xuanying coming hurriedly, he sneered:
"Did he agree?"

"Replying to Senior Brother Gao, I agree."

Wang Xuanying lowered his head with a blank expression.

"Ah."

Gao Wanyong was not surprised. He just glanced at him with a hint of mockery and waved his hand to let him go.

There were many useful people in the Chu residence, but he had to give in to them, making him feel uncomfortable on both sides. "Junior brother, I'll leave."

Wang Xuanying felt bitter.

The Grandmaster level is as difficult as ascending to heaven. If one fails to break through, he will either die or be injured. He really didn't expect that Chu Xuankong would recover from his injuries so quickly.

Just as he had casually accepted a mission to suppress new disciples, he unexpectedly ran into Li Yuan, who was the fifth most talented person in the past two hundred years of Longhu Temple.

Outside the courtyard gate, Wang Xuanying was silent. According to the records in the library, anyone who could survive a failed breakthrough would almost certainly become a master.

After weighing the two options, he could only choose this side...

"This time, it should be correct, right?"

"A dog-like thing!"

In the courtyard, Gao Wanyong felt more and more contemptuous, but he no longer paid attention to Wang Xuanying and walked quickly towards the backyard.

The Chu residence covers a large area and there is a geothermal hot spring in the backyard. Although it is windy and snowy, it is like spring here, and there are even flowers and plants.

When Gao Wanyong came quickly, Chu Xuankong, who was wearing a dark-colored gown, was sitting quietly among the grass and drinking tea, with several maids serving him.

"Master, the boy agreed."

Gao Wanyong bowed to report, and glanced at him with a sense of awe in his heart.

At this moment, Chu Xuankong's hair and beard were gray, his face was full of wrinkles, and he looked like he was about to die, but his complexion was ruddy, his breath was calm, and his spirit was much better than the day before.

"That boy is a smooth talker. Even if he has resentment towards me, he won't show it."

Chu Xuankong held the teacup, mist floating in front of his eyes:
"What about the rest?"

"All the disciples who have entered the sect in the past two years who are in the sect or in the city have agreed to come, but there are still many who are not in Hengshan City, so there is no way to invite them."

Gao Wanyong answered respectfully and handed over the list of personnel:

"Including Li Yuan, there are sixty-three inner disciples, and more than three hundred outer disciples and menial disciples..."

“Less than half?”

Chu Xuankong frowned slightly, his eyes cold.

Gao Wanyong felt a chill in his heart. He always felt that his master was moody after failing to break through. Sometimes it even frightened him:

"When they return, I will invite them as soon as possible."

"Well... step back."

After taking a deep look at Gao Wanyong, Chu Xuankong picked up the teacup, and after the latter left, he sent the maids away as well.

"Mysterious weapons have spirits and choose their masters. Those who are not destined to be with them will not be able to see them even if they are great masters... What is fate? Root bones, talent, or luck?"

Chu Xuankong talked to himself in his heart, and then slowly closed his eyes. There seemed to be blood flowing in his eyes, and the Thousand-Eyed Bodhisattva seemed to be sitting cross-legged in his heart.

"I……"

Chu Xuankong was about to communicate when he was suddenly shocked.

He suddenly raised his head and looked around, and saw clouds gathering at the mountain gate, with a white tiger sitting on top of the clouds and a blue dragon circling in the clouds.

"hold head high!"

"Roar!"

The roars of tigers and dragons rang out, tearing through the night and echoing inside and outside the Longhu Temple.

"Crouching tiger and coiling dragon?!"

Chu Xuankong's pupils shrank and his face changed suddenly.

The stone plaque of the founder has been placed outside the mountain gate for more than two thousand years. Longhu Temple has prospered for hundreds of generations. How many disciples have passed by the stone plaque?
However, there are not many people who can see the shadow of the Azure Dragon. As far as he knows, there have been only two people who have seen the tiger crouching and the dragon coiled together in the past two thousand years.

And those two are the leaders of the revival of the country whose martial arts are comparable to those of Long Yin and Chun Yang Patriarch.

"Who is this?!"

Chu Xuankong stood up suddenly, but suddenly stopped. He put his hand on his chest and closed his eyes slightly. The god sitting cross-legged in his heart suddenly opened his blood-red eyes.

"hold head high!"

As the roars of tigers and dragons rang out, the disciples patrolling the outer sect had already rushed to the mountain gate, and countless people were alarmed.

In Hengshan City, the outer gate and inner gate of Longhu Temple, not only in Longyin Hall, Huntian Hall, and Baishouweishen Hall, many people walked out of the houses.

Everyone's face changed when they saw the clear shadows of the blue dragon and white tiger in the night.

"Dragons and tigers crouching?!"

Somewhere in Hengshan City, Fang Chaotong raised his brows. With an idea in mind, he appeared inconspicuously in the tallest restaurant in the city.

He naturally knew what this scene meant.

"The tiger is crouching and the dragon is coiling. This means that the remaining wills of the two immortals in the stone plaque believe that this person has the foundation of a land immortal!"

Fang Chaotong's eyes were slightly cold. He had locked onto the gate of Longhu Temple across most of the city, and was scanning the disciples coming and going from a distance.

"It's late at night, there can't be a new disciple joining the sect, right?"

He felt a little cold in his heart, suspecting that this person was most likely the Black Whale Hammer Master 'Li Yuanba' who was in the Dragon and Tiger Temple as predicted by the leader.

"With such a big commotion, it's a good thing I'm not in the inner sect controlling the Sea-Splitting Mysterious Whale Hammer..."

Seeing the figures coming quickly, Li Yuan suddenly became alert, restrained his breath, and floated back to the mountain.

Master Li Dao doesn't want to be in the spotlight.

Who knows if the great master of the Evil God Cult hiding in the city is also watching in secret?

"call!"

The roars of dragons and tigers echoed.

Li Yuan looked back and found a white light falling towards the mountain gate like a meteor. No matter how he looked at it, this light seemed to be that of his cheap master.

"Good fellow, even the old dragon head was alarmed?"

Li Yuan was a little surprised. He felt that the appearance of the dragon and the tiger seemed to be more important than he expected?

"It can't be a magical skill, right?"

(End of this chapter)