Chapter 297 Harvest and Preparation
Chapter 297 Harvest and Preparation
The banquet was very harmonious.
The host, Nie Xianshan, entertained them with a smile, and the four great craftsmen were also quite humble and gentle.
At the banquet, the four great craftsmen exchanged their experiences in forging weapons. Nie Xianshan sometimes smiled, sometimes asked questions, and when someone asked about his experience in cultivation, he would also talk a little.
Li Yuan and Qiao Tianhe did not participate. They talked in low voices and ate their meals.
For Li Yuan, being able to participate in weapon forging was enough. The forging of a magic weapon would take at least one or two years, so he had plenty of time to learn from others... ahem, communicate.
"Come, Brother Nie, drink this cup to the full."
Although Jiang Xie was a woman, she was extremely generous. The wine jar as big as a human head looked like a teacup in her hand. She drank half the jar in one gulp, which made Nie Xianshan a little tipsy.
The other great craftsmen almost died halfway through.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Master Li Dao decisively said goodbye, but he was also dragged and forced to drink a jar of wine. Qiao Tianhe was even worse off, he collapsed under the table and was carried to his residence.
……
"call!"
When walking out of Jingtao Hall, the moonlight was bright. Nie Ying held a whisk in his hand, and the night wind blew his Taoist robe, which made him look quite cool and free.
"Sister."
Li Yuan burped and bowed in greeting.
This senior sister of Humen is second only to Long Xinglie on the Tiger List. She is one of the few people closest to the Grandmaster in Longhu Temple. It is said that she has been preparing for a breakthrough as early as five years ago.
"My father is deeply obsessed with divine weapons."
Nie Ying sighed softly. She also couldn't understand why her father's martial arts talent was not recognized by the divine weapon.
"Master uncle also looks down on ordinary divine weapons."
Li Yuan let out a long sigh, and the drunkenness had mostly dissipated.
"You should call me uncle."
Nie Ying corrected.
Li Yuan smiled bitterly and said nothing.
"Oh, is this what Uncle Long meant?"
Nie Ying didn't care too much about it, and she had no interest in the disputes among her elders.
After chatting for a few sentences, she asked about the 'Jingtao Palm Technique Body Diagram'.
"Sister, I have some understanding, but I still need to comprehend it for a while."
Li Yuan left room for maneuver when speaking.
Although he had never mastered the physical form of the Jingtao Palm Technique, with his current talent, he had a lot of understanding of it. But vaguely, he felt that the Chunyang Finger Technique seemed to contain something else.
Nie Ying hesitated for a moment and then said, "How about you make a copy?"
"Forget it."
Li Yuan was not tempted at all. The copied fundamental map was not worth controlling. It would be better for him to go back and forth here to observe it up close.
"Well, there's no rush."
Nie Ying didn't say much.
Li Yuan bowed and said goodbye.
Not long after he left, the banquet was over. The four great craftsmen carried three away, and Wan Chuan was upset to be drunk by Jiang Xie. However, the latter left and returned to his residence as if nothing had happened.
"Is there any result?"
Nie Xianshan appeared silently in front of the waterfall. Nie Ying bowed and replied:
"I have met all the new disciples who joined the sect in the past three years, as well as the inner and outer disciples who have been to Huizhou, except for those who are not in the sect..."
Nie Ying restrained his voice and transmitted:
"There are quite a few disciples with good talents among them, but Li Yuanba should not be among them. It is possible that he has some hidden skills."
Nie Xianshan stroked his long beard and asked, "Where is Li Yuan?"
"Junior Brother Li? He is extremely talented, and should be no less talented than Junior Brother Long. It is not impossible..."
Nie Ying shook his head.
The Tianyun Xuanbing is not an ordinary weapon. It can be of any size and can change from real to fake. If it really recognizes its master and hides itself deliberately, even the immortals on earth would find it difficult to find it, let alone her?
She could only deduce it based on his physique. After all, the threshold for the Heavenly Luck Mystic Soldiers to recognize their master was very high, and required extremely good physique.
"He certainly might."
Nie Xianshan yawned and turned back to the house.
He had vaguely sensed something was wrong more than a month ago, and the more he thought about it now, the more he felt that he might have been tricked by those two old guys.
There was no other reason, it was just that the talent of that kid Li was far beyond his previous expectations.
He is extremely talented, has just started learning, is an expert at hammering, comes from Huizhou, and is a true disciple of Shenbing Valley...
……
"The path of a genius is much easier than that of an ordinary person."
Running fast in the night wind, Li Yuan's long sleeves fluttering, looking back at Jingtao Hall, he had a clear mind.
He knew very well that there were many people inside and outside the sect who suspected that he was 'Li Yuanba'. If he had not shown his talent and was not valued by the sect's top leaders, he would probably be in a different situation now.
"Well, it's fine."
Li Yuan flicked his sleeves and took a step forward.
At this moment, he did not use the blessing of the Weaponry Talisman, but his body was like an eagle, swaying with the wind. In one move, he moved a hundred meters away and landed silently.
Since he started learning martial arts, he has learned at least twenty different types of light-footed skills, and in this month, he has pushed most of them to perfection.
Including those hammer techniques, the number of forms he changed at this moment has piled up to as many as eighty-four!
"The three advanced stances of Tiger Form Communication with the Gods, Yuan Python Devouring Stars, and Snake Form Eight Transformations are almost complete. They will be fully accomplished in a month at most!"
The night wind blew away the alcohol, and Li Yuan's eyes were bright:
"The Great Perfection of the Dragon-Tiger Heaven Hammer is also within this time!"
With the blessing of eternal talent, Li Yuan's progress was so amazing that even he himself felt astonished. Even without the help of elixirs, his progress was several times faster than before.
In addition to his own profound attainments in martial arts and the control effect of the corresponding skills, he could cultivate an intermediate level of hammer technique to perfection in seven days at most.
And this was even when he was practicing multiple martial arts at the same time.
The light Kung Fu steps without the corresponding skills to control are a little slower. In more than a month, only five of them have been pushed to perfection, and the others still lack a lot of skills.
"You can put aside these hammer techniques and light footwork for now. First, push the Dragon-Tiger Heaven Hammer and these three stance techniques to perfection..."
"Gather all the 100 forms!"
As the night wind blew gently, Li Yuan returned to the yard like a ghost. After a moment's slowness, he picked up the hammer and began to stand in the stance.
Do two things at the same time and practice visualization.
Having lived two lives, Master Li Dao knows too well how great the opportunity is to make progress through hard work. Therefore, even though he himself is not a very hardworking person,
During these years of learning martial arts, I can be described as diligent and hardworking.
……
One stop means one night.
Li Yuan washed up in the early morning, went back to the room and took a nap, waking up on time at dawn.
"Not coming again?" Li Yuan felt a little disappointed. In more than a month, the two masters of the divine realm had not shown up.
"You gave me some time to digest it. How thoughtful..."
Li Yuan complained in his heart, but instead of getting up, he lay down again, closed his eyes slightly, and entered the military control space.
In the star map transformed by the Weapon-control Talisman, seven big stars are shining brightly. The brightest one is naturally the Sea-Splitting Black Whale Hammer which is interwoven with black light.
"The temper of the hammer spirit still needs to be tempered. There is no rush to communicate with him for the time being."
After mastering the Black Whale Hammer, Li Yuan rarely communicated with the hammer spirit. The main reason was that hammers with incomplete intelligence were usually very stubborn and it would be too painful to communicate with them if they were not properly trained in one go.
He wants to be a military leader, not a military slave.
"It should be about the same in a few months?"
Li Yuan turned his thoughts and looked towards the Thousand Spirits Saving People Monument. He was looking forward to the two masters of the divine realm, and naturally wanted to use them to kill the "god" among them.
As early as two months ago, he was very eager, especially after the Taoist master returned to the mountain. He was once ready to abandon the eighth-level incense in the stele and expose Chu Xuankong's collusion with the Evil God Cult.
But gradually, he discovered that the sect no longer pursued the matter of Chu Xuankong's murder, so he temporarily felt relieved.
He guessed that it was very likely that the people who were arrested had confessed something.
"call!"
In a blink of an eye, Li Yuan had entered the Mysterious Whale Realm.
Hanging upside down on the mountain top, with a gentle breeze, Li Yuan pressed his hand on the stone tablet. A picture of a sea-splitting black whale was several times larger than before and had a more complicated feel.
As he watched, it slowly opened.
The sky, the sea of clouds, the earth, the upside-down mountain, the black whale...
In the extremely complex painting, all the scenes are vivid and lifelike, completely transformed by true energy. It was sketched by Li Yuan based on the scene he saw in a quick glance when he was controlling the Black Whale Hammer.
It is much richer than the original picture on the stone tablet.
"Besides, I have already made great progress in mastering the Qi-transforming technique. At least Old Han was not as good as me back then."
Looking at the painting he had drawn, Li Yuan was very satisfied. He felt as if he had splashed ink on the painting himself and had sorted out a mess into a masterpiece.
Not to mention, this painting itself represents the growth of his mental strength and his mastery of the transformation of true Qi into form.
"I have made sufficient preparations. Once Shen Wuming's elixir arrives, I will start trying to change the Thunder Dragon into a Black Whale!"
Li Yuan murmured in his heart, with some anticipation:
"Using the Thunder Dragon as the spine and the beasts as the flesh, blood, tendons and bones, while outlining the Black Whale, we must also retain the essence of the Thunder Dragon... It's always right to hide a little."
Letting go of the stone tablet and letting the Black Whale Diagram dissipate, Li Yuan sat down cross-legged, sorting out his deductions over and over again, pondering over the possible problems that might be encountered.
He divided the comprehension of the Mysterious Whale Diagram into several steps, the most critical of which was visualization, followed by qi and meridians, or in other words, both were equally important.
Any unique skill or technique requires the unity of essence, energy and spirit. Qi and meridians are the key to connecting the body and spirit. If something goes wrong in this step, you may leave yourself with an irreparable "fatal flaw".
Li Yuan had read countless similar records in the library, and naturally took them as a warning.
"The picture of the black whale is roughly clear. As for the cracked sea, it is related to the shape of the heaven and earth. I can only put it aside for the time being..."
After a long time, Li Yuan slowly opened his eyes:
“It’s not easy to achieve success.”
He was very cautious about achieving success and prepared for a long time.
"Sea-Splitting Black Whale."
Li Yuan stood up and gently stroked the stone tablet on the top of the mountain. After being controlled by him, the Black Whale Hammer Spirit naturally could not communicate with him.
On the top of the mountain, Li Yuan paced and looked around at the mysterious land of Black Whale.
"The Black Whale Secret Realm is only about half the size of the Health Preservation Secret Realm. This is probably because no one is supporting it. As long as we know how to support this secret realm, it may be able to recover soon."
Li Yuan has some ideas and expectations about the Black Whale Secret Realm.
In his previous life, he ran a small supermarket at home and always grew something in the backyard, even if it was just a handful of garlic sprouts or a handful of onions. This secret realm is so big that he felt uncomfortable not being able to farm.
However, information about incense is also top secret in Longhu Temple, at least not accessible to inner disciples.
"Inner sect, true teachings... maybe I can go and explore the Dragon and Tiger Tower."
With this thought in mind, Li Yuan came to the back of the Upside-Down Mountain, in front of the magnificent and desolate palace complex. He had been here quite often in the past few days, writing down all the writings he could see and copying them out.
However, he could not find any similar writing in the library, as if the writing came from another planet.
"Split Sea Star Core...Split Sea Star..."
Li Yuan had been daydreaming for a long time. This was his way of relaxing. Before leaving the Black Whale Secret Realm, he summoned the Ghost-Faced Man.
Although they both have Tongmai, he couldn't withstand a single move from the Ghost-faced Man back then. But now, without the support of the Weapon-control Scroll, he can fight for a hundred moves and win.
"Old Han can't beat me anymore."
A breeze blew on the top of the mountain. Looking at the disappearing ghost-faced man, Li Yuan bowed and then left the Xuanbing Secret Realm.
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Huhu~
In the Mountain of Beasts, the wind was strong and fierce, and sometimes it would bring with it a miasma.
Li Yuan said something to Zhang Ada, then took on an errand and entered the Mountain of Beasts.
"In the North Forest, there is a pregnant leopard that needs to be fed... Well, is this my first mission after joining the sect?"
Li Yuan's movements were light and casual as he shuttled through the mountains and forests. With his current level of lightness skills, he could move freely and avoid all branches even with his eyes closed.
Here, he really can keep his feet on the ground.
Soon, Li Yuan arrived at the mountain wall that the bronze tower owner mentioned, and entered the vine-covered cave, where he actually found an abandoned alchemy furnace.
No one knows who opened this cave. It is full of dust and most of it has collapsed.
"Raging Pill."
Li Yuan overturned the alchemy furnace, took out the gray pill from it, and frowned:
"Is this thing edible?"
After blowing again and again, Li Yuan couldn't smell any medicinal fragrance. Although he had never heard of the best time to take the elixir, looking at the pile of dust on the ground,
He still couldn't help wondering if this elixir had expired.
"The Violent Qi Pill is a top-grade elixir. Taking one pill can increase your Qi by five years. It also has the effects of purifying Qi and blood, stimulating the bone marrow, and accelerating blood transfusion..."
This elixir is very valuable, and it would be a waste for an expert in organ refining to take it. After thinking about it, Li Yuan decided to keep it.
Whether you can eat it or not, try the medicine first.
Li Yuan walked around the cave and found some medicinal gourds, but the smell inside was pungent and they were definitely not edible.
"It's just one, it's really rigorous."
Li Yuan was secretly complaining, but he was not disappointed. He took out the "Listening Book" from his arms and looked through the information marked in red.
By the way, he was also counting his belongings.
With 300,000 taels of gold and his current status, he had no shortage of ordinary elixirs and could even take the Shen Xuan Xiao Huan Dan every day.
But among the elixirs, apart from the Violent Pill that he had just obtained, there was only one Dragon Transformation Pill left.
Li Yuan flipped through the listening book.
It records what he has gained from "listening" during this period, most of which are related to the magical herbs in the Mountain of Beasts, and a few are related to magical beasts.
"After accumulating for so long, I should be able to refine a few elixirs, right?"
(End of this chapter)