Chapter Twenty-Four: Warriors and Ghosts
Zheng family, listen to the rain pavilion.
The cool breeze is blowing, the green willows on the lake are hanging low, and the blue waves are rippling as far as the eye can see.
On the stone table in the pavilion, there are all kinds of pastries and fruits, and two figures are sitting at the table.
"The news of the black market has come, and the market will reopen in five days, and it is said that because of the postponement, the black market has accumulated a lot of good things this time, and you must be able to find what you want."
On the stone table is a rectangular invitation, all black, with a blood-dripping mandala flower painted at the bottom of the invitation.
Ye Cheng pinched the invitation card curiously, and it was cold in his hand
"This thing is worth a hundred taels of silver?"
Zheng Yu shook his chubby fingers
"It's not one hundred taels, it's five hundred taels, this is an anonymous invitation on the black market, more precious than ordinary invitations, if it weren't for my Zheng family's perennial supply to the black market, it would be difficult to get hold of this thing"
Ye Cheng couldn't help but smash his mouth, he dared to make five hundred taels of silver with an invitation, and if he was in his previous life, it would be 500,000, and this was just an invitation, he really had some expectations for this black market
Suddenly, Zheng Yu's eyes lit up, and his fat hand patted Ye Cheng on the shoulder
"I heard that a few days ago, you blocked the city gate and did a big thing."
Ye Cheng slaughtered hundreds of cavalry of the City Lord's Mansion, and the news naturally couldn't be hidden from the high-level in the city, but because of the impact on the reputation of the City Lord's Mansion, the news was only circulated within a very small range, and even a few people in power in the Ye family knew the news.
Zheng Yu, as the heir of the Zheng family, and Ye Cheng are small, so the high-level officials of the Zheng family naturally reported it to him.
"If I hadn't drunk with you not long ago, I would have thought you were possessed by some demons and monsters, my good boy, hundreds of cavalrymen, just stretched out their necks for me to cut, and I didn't have that strength."
"It's just ordinary people, not so mysterious"
Ye Cheng waved his hand and broke through to the condensation realm, Ye Cheng not only made great progress in internal strength, but also tempered his physical body once, and now he is not afraid to fall into the encirclement of cavalry.
"When you were obsessed with those things, I advised you to give up and inherit the family business honestly, who would have thought that in just a few years, you would reach this level"
"You say, is it too late for me to practice martial arts now?"
Zheng Yu's eyes flashed with expectation, and he asked Ye Cheng, the night he received the news, he went out of the city overnight to see the battlefield.
He was stunned by the hundreds of corpses lying on their stomachs, stumps and rivers of blood.
He really couldn't believe that the hellish scene in front of him was made by his playmate who had grown up since he was a child.
Ye Cheng didn't know how to answer.
"Practicing martial arts requires qualifications, even if you put down your industry now and concentrate on practicing martial arts, it will take at least five or even ten years to see results, are you really willing to give up the Zheng family's huge family business?"
Zheng Yu said a little unwillingly
"Then you ......"
Ye Cheng interrupted him, "I just happen to belong to that group of people with good qualifications, so ......"
Zheng Yu is completely speechless now, he has naturally seen this thing of internal strength, and some elders in the clan also have people who practice martial arts, but suddenly they saw that their friends had such strength, so they were unwilling.
Seeing the dull atmosphere, Ye Cheng couldn't help but divert the topic
"By the way, how about the things I asked you to collect?"
"I've collected some things, but I don't know if they're the ones you want."
Zheng Yu also quickly adjusted, clapped his hands, and after a while, the little guy waiting outside the pavilion carried a wooden box over.
More than a dozen antiquities were placed on the table, a small sword broken in half, an incense burner full of patina hung on three legs and two ears, and dark green jade beads......
"These are all things collected according to your request, most of them are from ancient tombs, and I have collected them all."
"There is also this jade medal, it is the same kind of jade as that Mo Longpei, you see if it is useful, this thing is the most expensive" Zheng Yu pointed to a square seal
Ye Cheng took the seal, and his hand was warm for a while, the jade medal was crystal clear under the sun, and the dark green lines were hidden under the jade, which was very strange.
Just played with it for a while, and Ye Chengcheng put it down with some regret
"No, that's not what I'm looking for."
Jade is naturally excellent, but unfortunately there is no source point.
Ye Cheng leaned over and began to check the objects on the table,
First of all, the broken sword, although it has been cut in two, the blade of the sword is still cold, it is really hard to imagine that this is something dug out of the ancient tomb.
"The first thing has a source point"
Ye Cheng was overjoyed in his heart, as soon as the broken sword was in his hands, the number of source points on the Beiling small frame changed for a while, and the numbers jumped slowly.
Ye Cheng licked his lips and began to carefully probe other objects.
"There are only three things that have potential"
Ye Cheng put down a pair of emerald green earrings in his hand, this is the last thing, but unfortunately, there is no potential point in it.
Ye Cheng picked out three items from the table, namely a broken sword, a dark green bead, and a fan pendant carved from sandalwood
The broken sword provided him with 3 source points, the sandalwood fan pendant with 2 points, and the most was the dark green bead, which provided 6 points.
All of a sudden, it was 11 o'clock in the account, and Ye Cheng was also quite happy in his heart
"Only these three things worked for me"
Zheng Yu fiddled with three things, but in the end he couldn't find anything the same, so he had to give up
"How much money did you spend collecting these things?"
Ye Cheng asked, it was not easy for Zheng Yu to help him collect things through his own channels, and Ye Cheng was embarrassed to let him pay for it again
"About three thousand taels."
"Okay, counting the invitation, a total of six thousand taels, I'll have someone send it to your house when I go back"
"This silver is not needed, the main reason is that the price of the jade medal is relatively high, since you can't use it, you can't lose a lot of silver if you sell it."
Seeing Ye Cheng frowning, Zheng Yu added
"Don't get me wrong, the invitation is my father's meaning, it was given to you by the clan, I just changed my hand, as for my share, with such a big master as you, I have to win it over in advance, when the time comes, there will be something to eat, and you are embarrassed not to make a move?"
Zheng Yu lay on the chair and said jokingly
Ye Cheng was relieved in his heart, is the Zheng family kind to him, it seems that the status of the master of the inner family is higher than he imagined.
............
After getting the invitation and collecting the source point, Ye Cheng was happy and went back to Songheju directly.
Ye Cheng opened the Beiling small frame and glanced at the attributes on it.
After advancing the Xuanyang Gong to the fourth layer, there were only 20 points left in the source point, 5 points were absorbed on the family jade sword, and today the three items absorbed another 11 points, and Ye Cheng's source points reached a new high again, a full 36 points.
"I still can't improve Xuanyang Gong"
Ye Cheng looked at the gray plus sign behind Xuanyang Gong, and was a little depressed, when he reached the condensation level, the requirements for the source point simply rose in a straight line, according to Ye Cheng's estimate, with his current level, at least 50 points or more, in order to push Xuanyang Gong to the fifth layer.
"If only I could get the jade sword in the clan......"
Ye Cheng was a little itchy, there were obviously a large number of source points in the jade sword, but he couldn't see it and couldn't touch it, it was tormenting.
The ancestral hall is an important place in the clan, and the elder of the family who cultivates is guarding the side, even he can't quietly get the jade sword in his hands.
"There is still half a month before the black market, and there is no way to improve Xuanyang Gong in a short period of time, so win by quantity, learn a few more martial arts, anyway, there is a small frame to build a foundation"
made a decision, Ye Cheng went straight to the Ye Mansion martial arts training ground, but he remembered that the old man Ye Lian said that if he practiced the Wind Chasing Sword to Dacheng within half a year, he still had something to hand over to himself.
The Ye family, the martial arts training ground
At this time, it was already early afternoon, and it had just rained lightly, and the bluestone pavement was wet.
As soon as he entered the courtyard gate, Ye Chengcheng felt a wave of heat rushing towards his face, and hundreds of people in the field were either holding stone locks, or carrying wooden knives and swords to catch and fight.
Ye Cheng went straight to the high platform of the martial arts training ground and found Ye Lian, who was sitting in the shade of the tree.
Ye Lian was still the same, his gray hair was meticulously combed, his body was straight, and a pair of eyes scanned the people who were training below.
"Uncle Lian, I have learned all the mathematics of the Wind Chasing Knife, and I came today to ask you to teach you another martial arts."
Ye Lian's eyes were a little complicated, and the young man in front of him looked respectful, but he was also a master of the inner family, so he could naturally sense Ye Cheng's terror.
Under his perception, Ye was like a huge fireball, constantly emitting terrifying heat to the surroundings.
"Well, then you can give me a rehearsal of the Wind Chaser."
Ye Lian naturally knew that Ye Cheng had mastered the Wind Chasing Knife, and that night of the Blood Yang Incident, there were only three people in the entire Ye family who could wake up, and Ye Chengcheng was one of them.
"How can there be such a terrifying talent for martial arts?"
Thinking that he had been practicing martial arts for half his life, he was easily caught up by a teenager, Ye Lian couldn't help but sigh
Ye Cheng didn't care so much, picked up a long knife next to him, and walked to the humanoid target, which also attracted the attention of everyone on the field.
After all, the scene where Ye Chen demonstrated the Wind Chasing Knife last time made everyone feel extremely impressive
The long knife was placed horizontally, and Ye Cheng cut it out directly, a mediocre knife, but the onlookers were cold.
Even if it is an ordinary swing of the knife, it will bring the sound of the wind, but this knife has no sound, this is the most terrifying place after the completion of the wind chasing knife, all the strength is extremely convergent, and then suddenly explodes.
Suddenly, Ye Cheng's heart moved, and the long knife suddenly accelerated in mid-air, and a faint layer of red light quickly covered the blade, and the long knife also suddenly accelerated and directly slashed at the humanoid stake.
boom
A thunderous sound exploded, and a scorching air flow swept out, and the onlookers couldn't resist it, and they took a few steps backwards to stabilize their bodies
"This ......"
Everyone in the field has lost their voices, the original humanoid wooden frame has disappeared, and only a pile of burning wood chips is left in the field, scattering red fire.
"Internal Qi...... It's the internal qi, the young master is actually the master of the inner family," a burst of exclamations sounded
Ye Lian's face was solemn, and his internal qi was released, which was a level that even he couldn't do, but Ye Cheng did it easily.
"You come with me"
Ye Cheng dropped the long knife and followed Ye Lian into the indoor martial arts training ground, the two sat opposite each other on the futon, and Ye Lian spoke slowly
"Has your internal force reached the threshold of condensation?"
Ye Cheng's face remained unchanged, his heart moved, and he said slowly,
"I don't know what level I am now, but if I urge it with all my might, I can condense the flame in a short period of time" Ye Cheng paused, "It's a real flame"
Ye Cheng said that naturally when he fought with Luo Han before, he was in a state of urging Xuanyang Gong with all his might, and the battle that day was obvious to all, even if he wanted to, he couldn't hide it.
"That's right, Condensation, I may not be able to achieve it in my life" Ye Lian sighed, for a martial artist who has practiced martial arts all his life, this is undoubtedly extremely cruel.
"There are two passes in the inner family, the first is the condensation, only if the condensation is successful, the original form that can give rise to the internal force can be regarded as entering the house, and this level can barely fight with some strange things."
Ye Lian glanced at Ye Cheng and continued, "After entering the condensation realm, the internal qi in the body will gradually liquefy, and when the internal qi is all transformed into liquid, it will be the second pass of the martial artist, the transformation realm!"
"There is only one master in the inner family who can reach the realm of transformation, and the master of this realm is already standing at the pinnacle of the world, even in this world. ”
Ye Cheng caught Ye Lian's words, and asked with a move in his heart
"Transfiguration is the pinnacle of the world, that ...... What about those demons and the like?"
Ye Lian glanced at Ye Cheng, and saw that his eyes were bright, and he looked eager to try, and couldn't help but sigh lightly, when he cultivated his internal qi, how could it not be like this
"Ordinary people are ordinary people, even if they are masters of the transformation realm, they have no power to fight back in front of ghosts, although theoretically, as long as the internal force is deep enough, they can injure those ghosts, but this is simply impossible, ordinary life expectancy is not more than 100, even if you want to reach the transformation realm, it will take decades of water grinding work, and it is impossible to accumulate such a huge amount of internal qi. ”
Ye Cheng's heart was heavy, ordinary people, even if they were masters of the inner family, couldn't deal with ghosts
"Those ghosts aren't that powerful, I've fought with ghosts before."
Ye Lian chuckled
"You mean that madman, that kind of thing isn't even a geist, at most it's a lonely ghost, with some grudges left, and it's just attached to that madman."
Speaking of this, Ye Lian's tone became serious
"Remember, swords are useless against real ghosts, the only thing that can cause damage to ghosts is internal qi, and if you encounter them, the only way is to escape"
"Since internal qi can cause damage to ghost things, then why can't you kill those ghost things" Ye Cheng frowned
"If you want to kill ghosts, you must wear out the power of the yin soul on their bodies, the real ghost thing, the whole body is completely composed of the power of the yin soul, and how much internal qi can be consumed by the master of the inner family with the ghost thing"
Ye Cheng was silent, ordinary masters of the inner family, no matter how strong their internal strength is, it is impossible to fight against ghosts, as long as those ghosts still have a trace of Yin Soul power left, they are simply immortal.
If you put it another way, ghosts are like the whole body is composed of internal qi, and ordinary masters of the inner family, even if they are masters of the transformation realm, can't consume those ghosts at all
Seeing that Ye Chengwu was stunned, Ye Lian didn't speak, left a booklet on the futon, and left the room.
A genius young martial artist, when the spring breeze is proud, but he finds that even if he practices to the extreme, he is still extremely weak, and this kind of blow requires Ye Cheng to slowly adapt to it.
This is the stage that every martial artist must go through, even if he is a strong man who slaughters a hundred people, he is still weak in front of ghosts.
This mysterious and strange world slowly revealed a small corner to Ye Cheng.