Trinity Traitor: From One Person to the Other

Chapter 956 The Method for Zhang Lingyu to Cultivate Yang Thunder

Zhang Lingyu believed that his master could not be like him, and the reason he wavered was because his cultivation was not up to par.

The person Zhang Lingyu admired, respected, and obeyed most in his life was his master, Zhang Zhiwei. In Zhang Lingyu's mind, Zhang Zhiwei was a flawless person, the perfect person in his heart.

Despite Zhang Zhiwei's daily antics and antics, which were only slightly worse than Zhang Chulan's, Zhang Lingyu chose to ignore them.

So He Songling read his mind and made a bet with Zhang Lingyu in his head.

It seemed to happen very slowly, but in reality it happened very quickly. Even the old master himself hadn't had time to amuse himself. Almost as soon as Zhang Lingyu agreed to the bet, he had already lost.

The wager was that he had to learn exactly how He Songling taught him, without any objection or disagreement.

“Then, is that alright? What if you make me betray my master and ancestors…” Zhang Lingyu stubbornly tried to deny it, but He Songling interrupted him directly: “What master and ancestors do you have? Let me remind you, Longhu Mountain no longer wants you. If you are willing, you can kowtow and become my master, and then you can betray your master and ancestors.”

"Then, then I, then no..." Zhang Lingyu was torn between two conflicting thoughts. To be honest, he really wanted to beat He Songling up, but he couldn't bring himself to repay kindness with enmity when the other man had truly taught him real skills.

"Bore!"

It had to be Xia He again. She kicked Zhang Lingyu so hard that he fell to his knees. Then, she gathered her Qi in her hands and pressed Zhang Lingyu's head down to the ground.

"My revered teacher, your disciple Zhang Lingyu kowtows to you! Bang bang bang bang bang bang."

The final series of kowtows wasn't the kind of vocal technique He Songling usually used; it even shattered the cement pavement.

Xia He has really gone to great lengths for her man, which shows that a successful man needs a sensible woman in his life.

"Forget it, I'm not like that old geezer Zhang Zhiwei, who's a hundred years old and takes in a baby." He Songling thought for a moment and still refused Zhang Lingyu's offer to become his disciple.

The main problem is that Zhang Lingyu's talent isn't up to par either; he's not even at Li Muxuan's level. Li Muxuan was much stronger at his age. Even in terms of psychological flaws, Zhang Lingyu is more problematic than Li Muxuan.

Thinking back to before his transmigration, some netizens said that Li Muxuan should worship Zhang Zhiwei instead of Zuo Ruotong, and that a couple of slaps would solve the problem. Actually, it wasn't that simple. That old man Zhang Zhiwei was practically clueless except for cultivation, and he wasn't much better at teaching disciples.

With strength and age far surpassing those of Zuo Ruotong and Wang Yaozu back then, it's truly a dark history that he managed to train such a weak, fragile, and conflicted disciple as Zhang Lingyu.

Even if He Songling insisted on taking a young man in his twenties as his apprentice, he would have taken Wang Ye or Tao Tao from the Tang Clan.

"Even if you're like this, you should still call me brother. I'll teach you the Five Thunder Orthodox Technique first."

It's a good thing that Zhang Lingyu is ambitious, but He Songling hasn't forgotten that among the last few unfinished tasks in his stay in this world, one of them was to release Zhang Zhiwei from the Heavenly Master's Ordination and help him become an immortal.

There's not much to say about the Five Thunder Orthodox Method; it's essentially a process of regulating the "Heavenly Court." The first step, of course, is to master the Internal Organ Thunder Method. The first step for Zhang Lingyu to cultivate the Palm Thunder is, of course, to remove the restriction on Yang Thunder for him. "The idea that one cannot cultivate Yang Thunder once their Yuan Yang has been depleted is utter nonsense."

As we all know, humans are divided into Yin and Yang and the Five Elements. Heaven is a great heaven, and humans are a small heaven. Whatever is in the heaven is also in the human body. Therefore, circulating Qi and practicing Qigong is called "circulating Qi throughout the heavens".

Does this mean that after people have sex, their yin and yang are separated, and they can no longer live? Does it mean that men become women and women become men, or that both men and women become eunuchs?
It must be some kind of insect or aquatic creature that can switch between male and female and undergo metamorphosis.

He Songling had already been deducing the Five Thunder Technique. He had previously met Zhang Zhiwei, who had inherited the Heavenly Master's Degree, and explored it further. Now, by further exploring Zhang Lingyu's fully opened meridians and Qi pathways, and combining this with the restrictions that Zhang Sanfeng placed on Wudang Tai Chi, He Songling had reached a preliminary conclusion.

He Songling's research revealed that the principle behind this was that a restriction was set up from the very beginning of the Five Thunder Orthodox Method. To explain it simply using imagery, this restriction is like a hook that catches the unrevealed "primordial yang" within a young man's body, ensuring that the thunderous techniques do not fail when circulating qi.

Then, by using the point hooked by this hook, a complete cycle is formed, and the Qi is circulated to generate thunder. Metal generates white, which transforms into Crimson Palace Thunder and Yang Thunder, which emanate from the palm.

Without this "hook" point, the thunder magic will slip, and the path of Yang thunder's energy circulation cannot be constructed. It can only resort to the second best, relying on the sticky environment within the water-related organs to prevent the thunder energy from slipping during circulation. The thunder ultimately generated is water-related thunder, Yin thunder, which originates from the kidneys and is sticky and corrosive.

Ultimately, this is a problem with the method of practice, not with the person.

If He Songling were to be reborn as Zhang Lingyu, he would be cursing every day, saying that Zhang Daoling had misled him.

I used to really think it was my problem.

However, given Zhang Lingyu's personality, even if he knew the truth, he would still believe it was his own fault.

In his mind, the thunder magic passed down by Zhang Daoling, the patriarch of the Celestial Master's Mansion, was supreme and sacred. If he could not infinitely approach this technique and this sacredness, then he was wrong and there was something wrong with him.

Neither He Songling nor Xia He intended to indulge his bad habit.

"To put it simply, just find another place to hook the 'hook,' or straighten the 'hook' to make the originally winding route become a smooth and flat path, allowing it to flow smoothly along the meridians. This is also the primary form of the true Five Thunder Orthodox Method."

Although He Songling had not yet seen the complete original version of Zhang Daoling's Five Thunder Orthodox Method, he was also a deity, and a deity of a higher level than the Celestial Master, and he had studied immortal techniques.

Presumably, Zhang Daoling, having attained immortality, wouldn't have specifically bent a hook to hang on his body when circulating his Qi. Even those unfamiliar with immortal techniques would understand—once Yang Thunder is mastered, it can still be used even after sexual intercourse. Otherwise, there's no need to mention Zhang Daoling having descendants; Zhang Huaiyi could still use Yang Thunder, couldn't he?
"In other words, if you simply want to cultivate Yang Thunder, you only need to find an anchor point. Once Yang Thunder runs successfully the first time, it can run stably thereafter."

Xia He nodded: "Theoretically, that's true, but we're all mortals, unlike you, the old immortal, whose immortal body can withstand so much torment. You described it as a hook; on a mortal, if it fails to hook, it could be a penetrating injury that permanently destroys a person's meridians."

"That's easy." He Songling looked at Xia He with a wicked smile: "Just have him hang on you, right?"

(End of this chapter)