Chapter 11: The Nine Swords of the Storm (text)
Wu Yan returned to the Valley of Thousand Grass sullenly. He was feeling very depressed right now. Especially when leaving, Lu Chunyang and Hua Chunsheng did not shy away from his conversation at all, which made him very irritable.
"Hehe, I thought that this kid followed Elder Feng every day and had already developed his internal strength. Elder Feng has invested so much money in this kid, but he has cultivated a waste, it is really not worth it, and I don't know what his old man thinks. ”
"Yes, it's been a year, and that kid pretends to meditate and practice qi every day, and eats Feng Lao's elixir as jelly beans every day. Although he didn't eat the Qi Gathering Pill, he also wasted so many Essence Condensation Pills in vain. I heard that this Condensing Essence Pill has the effect of avoiding going mad when we qigong masters are cultivating. If Feng Lao divides more of our brothers, this alliance may be able to have a few more first-class masters. ”
"Forget it, our brothers can't see through the matter of Feng Lao. Don't guess, turn around and this kid is talking nonsense in Feng Lao, and he will not make Feng Lao unhappy again. ”
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Wu Yan walked back to his stone house. This stone house was built for him by Feng Lao specially asked people to use particularly large granite. The walls were over two feet thick, and the roofs were all granite. Although the thickness of the stone gate is not as perverted as two feet, it is not much different. This made Wu Yan really a little depressed, because every time he opened the door, he needed to use all his strength to open it.
In order to be afraid that he would be disturbed by the outside world while he was cultivating, Elder Feng could be said to have taken great pains. Wu Yan felt a little sorry for Feng Lao when he thought about it.
His cultivation speed was so slow, and he had taken so many pills, and the nameless mantra was still stuck at the first level and could not be broken through. This qiē made him feel a deep sense of guilt.
Now, in order to allow him to cultivate with peace of mind, Elder Feng even went down the mountain to help him find his family. If people knew that Elder Feng was so good to him, maybe people would say that he was a relative of Elder Feng.
Even he almost thought that he was not a relative of Elder Feng. Why would Elder Feng be so kind to himself? Wu Yan was a little puzzled.
In frustration, Wu Yan took out the key left to him by Elder Feng. He took the key and went to Elder Feng's study. In the past year, Elder Feng has also taught him to read and hyphenation, although he can't say that he is coarse and literate, but he can also do basic reading.
He began to rummage through the row of bookshelves. He hoped to find some books on martial arts in it. Not to mention, after looking for more than an hour, he really found a few books of interest.
He took the books back to his practice room and placed them on the stone bed where he usually practiced and meditated. After thinking about it, he frowned again and returned to Elder Feng's study again, taking pen and ink and some blank paper.
He thought these books were quite interesting, but after all, this was Feng Lao's collection, and maybe Feng Lao would read them when he would, so he planned to copy them down. It should be for your own convenience and to practice writing.
In the days that followed, Wu Yan began a boring cultivation life behind closed doors again.
In the morning and evening, he had to take a pill of condensing essence to meditate and practice the nameless mantra. The rest of the time, he copied the books and tried to read them.
Fortunately, many of these books are illustrated, which are clear and memorable. If you think about it, you can understand it, but it's very convenient.
After about two months, he finally finished copying the books and put the original books back in. Looking at the crooked book he copied, Wu Yan blushed a little.
He hid these copied things in the gap between the stone bed and the wall, for fear that when Feng Lao came back and saw it, he would laugh at him.
On this day, when he took the last pill of the Condensing Essence Pill and practiced it for ten days, he was pleased to find that the nameless mantra that had not been broken through had magically crossed the barrier of the first layer and entered the second layer.
Feng Lao once told him that there are thirteen layers of nameless formulas. The first twelve layers are to open up the twelve meridians in the body. Every time he opens up one more meridian, it means that he has broken through the original realm and entered the next realm.
This breakthrough made Wu Yan, who had always been a little depressed, completely happy.
However, Feng Lao is not in the valley now, and no one will share the happiness brought by this good news for the time being.
After breaking through the realm, Wu Yan was dumbfounded again. When Feng Lao left, he didn't pass on the second layer of mantras to him. Without a mantra, he couldn't continue practicing.
With nothing to do, Wu Yan took out the books he copied some time ago and studied them.
On the stone bed, there are four books with crooked words. "Fengyun Sword Spectrum", "The Art of Hidden Killing", "The Book of Medicine", "Puppet Fragments".
In fact, since he suffered that humiliation on the Iron Sword Platform more than two months ago, he has developed a great interest and desire for martial arts. After the nameless mantra is practiced, he can only live longer than others, but he cannot defeat the enemy. This somewhat made Wu Yan, who wanted to get ahead and become a master of the rivers and lakes, feel a little depressed.
From the sporadic conversations of those disciples, he noticed that the most powerful martial arts of the Iron Sword Alliance was the Fengyun Sword Technique. What made him happy was that the swordsmanship recorded in this "Fengyun Sword Book" was the authentic Fengyun Sword Technique.
As for the "Hidden Killing Technique", when he opened it, he found that the records in this book were some powerful hidden assassination techniques that could be performed without internal strength, which was very interesting, so he also copied it.
He didn't know if his cultivation was considered the true qi of the inner family. After all, Feng Lao didn't tell him, and the conversation between Lu Chunyang and Hua Chunsheng made him feel that what he had cultivated didn't seem to be the true qi of the inner family. He really didn't know what kind of anger it was.
He copied the "Book of Medicine" and "Puppet Fragments" purely out of curiosity and fun. In his opinion, if he studied the "Book of Medicine" by himself, maybe he could learn to prepare the Ning Jing Pill, and in that case, he could also reduce the burden of some of the elders. And in the "Puppet Fragments", it is written how to make a kind of spiritual wood puppet. This reminded him of the puppets placed against the wall in Feng Lao's study.
If those puppets could really move and run, as the book says, it would be fun.
Wu Yan sat on the stone bed, with the light on, holding the "Fengyun Sword Spectrum" with relish, not knowing how fast time passed in the world outside his body.
I don't know how long it took, Wu Yan suddenly closed the book, put it beside him, closed his eyes, and rubbed his hand vigorously on his face. Then he slowly rubbed his sour eyes.
I lay on the bed and closed my eyes for a while.
When he opened his eyes again, his spirit regained his spirit. But instead of getting up, he began to think about the contents of the sword book.
At the back of this sword book, some things about Feng Jiuxiao, the patriarch of the Iron Sword Alliance, were recorded. After reading this, Wu Yan felt like he couldn't cry or laugh.
It is said in the sword spectrum that only in two cases can the full power of the "Fengyun Nine Swords" recorded in the sword spectrum be brought into play. The first must be the internal force of qigong to reach the transformation realm, so that the sword can be stimulated and the "Nine Swords of Wind and Cloud" can be used. The second type does not need to cultivate the internal strength of qigong, but it must be cultivated a strange Fengyun footwork, with this set of footwork, the "Fengyun Nine Swords" has become a strange and weird assassination secret technique, even greater than the killing effect of stimulating the sword.
These two situations are also the biggest reason why the Iron Sword Alliance later had the distinction between the Sword Sect and the Qi Sect. But for some reason, that strange set of Fengyun footwork completely cut off the inheritance after Feng Jiuxiao's death.
Feng Jiuxiao relied on the achievements of the internal strength transformation realm, and used this set of infinitely powerful "Fengyun Nine Swords" swordsmanship to defeat the other two major sects in Yunzhou City, the Blood Rain Gate and the Dragon and Tiger Gang, and became the overlord of Yunzhou City, leading the Iron Sword Alliance to dominate Yunzhou for decades. It's a beautiful sight.
But it's a pity that since him, no disciple of the Iron Sword Alliance has been able to cultivate qigong to the transformation realm. As soon as Feng Jiuxiao died, the Iron Sword Alliance was attacked by the Blood Rain Gate and the Dragon and Tiger Gang, and was forced to retreat to Xiaogu Mountain, the most remote isolated county in Yunzhou City, the Heavenly Wolf Country, and survived to this day.