Yamafu Military Affairs

Chapter 584 Doing Scholarship

Looking at the rows of rosewood bookshelves, and the strange and wonderful thread-bound books, animal skins, stone carvings, and bamboo slips on them...
Taotie wasn't in a hurry. With a glimpse of its vision, countless images appeared.

"The Scheming Mind," "The Wind's Steps," "The Divine Martial Canon," "The Limitless Path of Heaven and Earth," "The Emperor's Sword Technique," "The True Sect's Six Divine Techniques," and "The Tathagata's Palm."

The Yi Jin Jing, Jin Zhong Zhao, Jiu Xiao Zhen Jing, Ri Yue Shen Jian, Tong Zi Gong, Xi Sui Jing, and Jiu Yang Shen Gong.

"Heavenly Crystal Sword Technique", "Dark Void Divine Technique", "Heart Sword Divine Technique", "Three Blades, Three Swords, Three Divine Skills", "Seven Limits to Devour Heaven and Earth", "Supreme Skill of Ascending Heaven and Destroying Earth".
"Goodness, this is going to be interesting."

After pondering for a while, Taotie first went to the place where Shaolin Buddhist martial arts were displayed and roughly flipped through "Boy's Skill" and "Marrow Cleansing Classic". He then completely completed the special Jambudvipa event that had been triggered before [the Sanskrit version of the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra by Subhakarasimha].

"My Lord, you have collected the four legendary Shaolin skills. The reward is the 'Thus Have I Heard' of the peerless master [Bodhidharma] (Six Divisions). You can consume it to experience the complete martial arts life of [Bodhidharma] and contemplate and comprehend it."

Taotie nodded, not in a hurry to use the "Thus I Hear" document. Instead, based on the hint from "A Glimpse of Beauty", it found the secret manuals and classics in the True Martial Arts Fruit that recorded the training methods, fighting techniques, fist and foot techniques, weapons, and combat skills of various boxing styles, and began to read them with great interest.

Although Qin Huai himself practiced martial arts and the collection in the Sutra Pavilion mainly consisted of martial arts-related items, the two are not entirely the same in essence and can be considered as two different systems.

Many martial artists who possess the True Martial Arts Fruit, once they enter the realm, will acquire the special energy of "internal energy." Their subsequent techniques mostly utilize this internal energy in conjunction with their fists, feet, and weapons, making combat skills relatively less important. Even the Demon Destroyer who previously forced Qin Huai into a corner was, technically speaking, not much more skilled than Qin Huai.

However, the Human Immortal Martial Arts, which forms the foundation of the Qinhuai Martial Arts system, is different. Until the Grandmaster (Bajiquan), the Human Immortal Martial Arts had no extraordinary energy to utilize, and its destructive power relied almost entirely on exquisite techniques and a powerful physique (weapons).

Since he intends to absorb the essence of martial arts from the True Martial Arts Fruit, Qin Huai naturally needs to start from the characteristics and essence of the Human Immortal Martial Arts, gradually exploring and discovering a unique martial art that suits his current situation.

After spending over an hour reading through all the techniques for generating power in the True Martial Arts Fruit, and confirming that they were largely consistent with his understanding of ancient martial arts specializations, Taotie finally began to study those increasingly profound and mysterious divine and demonic martial arts manuals.

His first choice was neither the Dark Void Divine Technique cultivated by the Demon Slayers nor the Nine Yang Divine Skill of the White Lotus Sect, but Ji Fa's family martial art, the seventh unique skill that could unleash the power of six divisions, the Innate Qiankun Skill.

Although he didn't know whether the [Innate Qiankun Technique] could still mobilize the power of heaven and earth from other fruits to fight enemies after the True Martial of Scales was released, Qin Huai felt that even if it couldn't, summarizing some tips to improve energy efficiency would be of great benefit to him in using the inherited power in the future.

Then there's the [Dark Void Divine Technique], which destroys gods and demons. It involves the simplest way of strengthening muscles and bones, practicing boxing and learning martial arts. After achieving some physical fitness, one can then learn to circulate internal energy. Diligent practice day and night is very suitable for Qin Huai, who already has a solid foundation.

Tathagata's Palm, Nine Heavens True Scripture, Sun and Moon Divine Mirror, Bright Divine Martial Canon.
Qin Huai circled the bookshelf for a while, then went up to the other shelves to look around. As he was browsing, he suddenly noticed a problem.

The Human Immortal Martial Arts is a personal growth ability with a maximum limit of six levels. Although it lacks ranged combat methods, it is only one [Human Immortal Dao Bone] away from overcoming the barrier and becoming a Human Immortal in Martial Arts.

However, in the Scripture Pavilion where he is now, the highest level is the True Martial Arts of the Six Departments. How could he possibly integrate these martial arts, take their essence and discard their dross, and create a divine skill to unify the two major systems of Human Immortal Martial Arts and Yama's inheritance?
"No, I'm getting stuck on this." Taotie, who was carrying a large pile of books, suddenly woke up and slapped his forehead: "Why worry about the upper limit? I'm only a seventh-level cultivator at most right now. Let's focus on what we can use for now. As our strength increases, we can find better ones to integrate into later."

In an instant, he broke through the illusion and his mind became clear. Taotie no longer bothered to choose other martial arts. He found a futon and sat down, adjusting his limbs and body to the most suitable posture for circulating his energy. His shoulders were as sharp as carved stone, his breath as strong as a pine tree, and his mind was completely absorbed and unmoved.

After an unknown amount of time, until the martial arts manuals around him piled up into a small mountain, a strange fluctuation finally spread out.

"Tianwu is like clouds and rain, Kaiming is like gold and jade, Taotie is like stubborn iron, and Mafu is like sand and gravel. The Human Immortal Martial Path and the Ether Dragon Body are the containers that contain them. The four inherited powers are inherently different in strength. Without the unification of the Return to Truth Path, if one wanted to use multiple levels of abilities simultaneously, the fluency would never be as smooth and effortless as it is now. However, if one enters the Return to Truth state, the four inherited powers solidify and fuse together, possessing a toughness that dry sand cannot match and a softness that gold and iron cannot match. Their power is incomparable."

Recalling how he had forcibly activated the Return to Truth state by completely integrating the four great inheritances into his true form, Taotie seemed to have entered an indescribable, mystical realm.

The textual explanations of hundreds and thousands of True Martial Arts Manuals flowed like a trickle, accompanying Qin Huai's self-deconstruction, through his cerebral cortex and were deeply imprinted in his memory.

With a profound foundation and advanced physical skills, coupled with a fist intent that has already surpassed 100, there is almost nothing disharmonious about it. It is like a majestic palace on the top of Kunlun Mountain, where everything is so natural.

But that's not enough. To go even higher, you have to climb the ladder to heaven and ascend the road to the sky.

No?

Then let's create one!

Taotie closed his eyes and concentrated, letting everything he saw flow through his mind repeatedly, gradually extracting some precious fragments.

"For me now, it is more important to be strong myself. The Human Immortal Martial Path requires me to nourish my soul with my bones and blood, and to nourish my body with my mind and spirit, so as to enter the state of oneness with heaven and man. By borrowing the mysteries of heaven and earth, I can decipher the great secrets of the human body. This is in line with the Taoist Xuanzong's immortal techniques of refining essence into qi, refining qi into spirit, refining spirit into emptiness, and refining emptiness into the Tao."

"Perhaps, I can use the Nine Heavens True Scripture as a framework, integrate the four great Shaolin skills, create a new cultivation method using the energy flow of the Sun and Moon Divine Mirror, and draw on the use of the natural energy of heaven and earth in the Innate Universe Skill and the Hun Tian Treasure Mirror to create a martial art that is compatible with the Thousand Transformations!"

Among the martial arts classics collected by Zhuo Jiu, the master of the scales, there are over 107,000 kinds, including fist, palm, finger and leg techniques, sword, spear, halberd, lightness skill, internal energy, sound wave training, and all eighteen kinds of weapons.

However, with the assistance of Ace Ninja Zero, Taotie, who possesses the [True Martial Primordial], spent more than sixty days and nights to finally use the [Kunlun] armor and the ultra-futuristic portable host [Bai Ze] to refine these martial arts techniques, simplify them, and summarize them into his own unique fundamental martial arts based on his own situation!

(End of this chapter)