Destiny is ashes

Chapter 347 Fire in the Eyes (13)

The night in Broken Blade Mountain was very quiet, with no sound from insects or birds. The cold wind blew away the clouds and mist, and the moonlight reflected on the snow, casting a chilling light over the thousands of miles of mountains that lay like swords.

Legend has it that this place was a battlefield for ancient cultivators, and that the long years had worn away the fierce evil spirits of the Five Arms, allowing thousands of lives to reappear. But even so, the wind blowing from Broken Blade Mountain still carried a chill that made people subconsciously hold their breath.

After the frost disaster, the chill turned into cold air, and the white frost covering the mountain ridges was like the edge of a sword that had been wiped clean. Just one look at it would make people subconsciously turn their heads.

A huge river in the past, now a glacier on land flows out from the mountains. On both sides of the river, icy trees stand. The bone-chilling cold wind blows through the branches like white smoke, making a wheezing sound like breathing.

Amid the cold ice and snow, a bonfire was burning quietly, occasionally crackling and sending up sparks.

Around a campfire, in a simple camp, lies the corpse of a giant bear. The blood and stench are frozen by ice and snow. The severe cold of the frost disaster has become a natural ice storage, providing the best preservation.

In the tree hole, a black-haired boy was meditating with his eyes closed. His long hair was messy and tied up roughly, draped behind him, but his skin was like white jade, showing a white color different from the surrounding frost and snow, full of vitality.

But no one would think that he was some weak young master from a wealthy family, because if you look closely, you can see that he has strong muscles and bones, and the blood and flesh are flowing under his skin, forcing out rolling heat waves, making the entire tree hole inside and outside warm like spring, melting the ice and snow, and even some new buds appearing on the branches.

At this moment, An Jing has reached a critical stage in his practice of Shaoyang Sword Technique.

There are tens of thousands, even countless, methods of cultivation in the Huaixu world. Excluding those crude methods that are not in the mainstream and will eventually be submerged in the tide of history, every method that has not been covered in dust and has been passed down for a long time can be practiced to the end and become a variety of magical skills.

Shaoyang Sword Technique is such a secret book that has been passed down for a long time.

But just as when fishing, some people come back with a full bucket every day while others come back empty-handed every day, the effectiveness of the same secret book can vary greatly depending on the different annotations and explanations.

The Shaoyang sword technique popular among the people can stimulate the Shaoyang Qi by dancing the sword, adjusting breathing, and circulating blood, flesh, and internal organs, and combining it with diet. It can maintain health and keep you young. Years of practice can prevent all diseases and prolong your life. It is a real and effective method of practice, and it is quite precious.

However, the Shaoyang sword technique passed down by the Mingjing Sect is completely different from the one circulated among the people. Although there are methods to nourish the body and regulate qi and breathing, the core lies in the twelve-word secret phrase 'fix your thoughts like the moon, fix your qi like the sun, and fix your spirit like a sword'!
The idea of ​​"focusing on the moon" is to borrow the idea that there are countless stars in the vast night sky, but only the moon is alone. When people are in the world, their thoughts are complicated and noisy, just like the stars in the night sky, sometimes disappearing and sometimes appearing. The birth and death of these distracting thoughts will greatly drain people's energy. Even if they think they are focused and serious, they can never realize their full potential.

By using complex sword moves and breathing methods, he could eliminate distracting thoughts and enter into stillness through movement, just like the moon passing across the night sky, burying the stars wherever it passed.

Only in this way can you calm your energy like the sun, manipulate all the energy in your body with one thought, smooth it out and release it, just as if there is a sun in your body, emitting all the essence and energy to every corner of the body. The sun will patrol the sky, illuminating all the haze, burning all the waste gas and residue, and keeping the meridians in the body clear and smooth.

The spirit is like Yin, the body is like Yang, and the Yang within Yin is Shaoyang.

And finally, condense all the energy and spirit into one, regard the heaven and earth as the great yin, and yourself as the true yang, concentrate the mind into a sword, break out of the body, then you can control the essence outside the body and even the primordial energy of heaven and earth.

This is the true meaning of "Shaoyang Sword Technique", and when this secret technique of concentrating the mind and breaking the body into a sword is cultivated to the extreme, it becomes the magical "Fire in the Pupil".

Eyes are the gate of life, where the essence of the five internal organs gather. Fire in the pupil is just a name, and its true meaning is "the essence of the five internal organs is surging and vigorous, the whole person is full of energy and spirit, and can even be condensed into a fire-like divine light in the pupils."

Only in this way can the essence break out of the body and turn into a rare long-range attack method for strong warriors.

"Ordinary warriors regard it as a method of sneak attack and conspiracy, which is completely different from the original intention of the pupil fire. Even if there are true disciples, there are still many people who really regard swordsmanship as the main body and practice swordsmanship wholeheartedly. Although they can cultivate internal energy and strengthen physical fitness, they are ultimately abandoning the main purpose and falling behind."

An Jing slowly opened his eyes. His eyes were extremely mysterious. They were golden and red, deep and profound, like a bottomless abyss of fire. In the depths of his eyes, a divine light as bright as a star was flashing frequently. He stood up, his muscles and bones vibrated, and large puffs of white smoke rose from his hair and skin. The heat waves rolled and swept to the bonfire not far away. Suddenly, flames rose out of thin air. Under the urging of the invisible essence, they merged with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and turned into a blazing and dazzling golden flame, illuminating the night, melting the ice and snow, and extinguishing the fire.

The ordinary fire had been extinguished, but the flame of spiritual energy was still burning. An Jing's eyes moved, and the invisible and intangible sword of spiritual energy swept across the surrounding frozen forests. The ice and snow melted instantly, and with the sound of dripping rain, the biting cold air mixed with the melted snow water washed over the earth, making the surrounding land muddy, but the water vapor soon evaporated and condensed under his gaze.

Mysterious [Fire in the Pupils].

This is the "Shaoyang Sword Technique", the secret skill of Mingjing Sect. It is not a sword of mortal body, but a sword of mind and essence.

When one achieves this magical power, one's eyes can turn into swords. If one's fate is icy, it will be the frost of the moon; if one's fate is blazing, it will be the sunlight.

But this is only the most basic level of mastery. If one truly fully comprehends the true meaning of Shaoyang Sword Technique, and uses pure energy and spirit as the sword, then when an ordinary warrior is hit by this 'Fire in the Pupils', the energy in his body will burn uncontrollably like a raging fire, burning himself to ashes, as if the entire person was ignited by the flames in the eyes of the practitioner, which is also the source of the name 'Fire in the Pupils'.

An Jing rushed out from the depths of the uninhabited snowfield in the northern border. He practiced diligently every day and completely cultivated his second magical power.

At this moment, the strange vision in his eyes faded away, and An Jing, whose eyes had returned to black, leaned over, picked up the wood, pinched it with two fingers, and lit the bonfire again.

His eyes reflected the flames, and he was thoughtful: "No wonder even the Emperor Blood Court practiced this divine power. Fire in the pupils, the mind is a sword, the mind is like fire... This divine power can condense the soul and refine the essence. According to the order, it should be the fourth divine power to condense."

"But I am gifted. I first cultivated the 'Pure and Quiet Sword Contemplation', and then my soul condensed the 'Heavenly Time', so the second one condensed the pupil fire."

After receiving the generous teachings from Ming Guangchen and Jin Yanhua, An Jing was no longer a country boy with only a superficial knowledge of Huaixu martial arts. In terms of theoretical knowledge, he could at least be considered a martial artist from a second-tier city.

When ordinary warriors gather supernatural powers, the order they should follow is from flesh, blood, tendons and bones, to internal organs and essence, and finally to the soul.

This is the most classic magical combination that covers the whole body.

First, exercise the flesh and blood to provide more sufficient essence, such as "golden muscles" and "Qiuluo tendons".

Then it goes deep into the bone marrow to fundamentally improve the physical constitution, which is the 'chalcedony bone'.

Next is the 'Dantian Sea' or 'Zangfu Zhou' related to the internal organs, and the 'Fire in the Pupil' related to the condensation of essence and energy.

Finally, among all the secret teachings, there are the precious divine souls and supernatural powers.

This is the body training route that is more inclined towards traditional warriors. Because if a warrior, like Ming Guangchen, focuses on the inner energy, then the magic of flesh, blood and bone marrow will be replaced by the magic of blood, internal organs and essence.

An Jing also planned to follow Ming Guangchen's path, but because of Tianzi Fa and Zhitianshi, he was the first to condense his soul and supernatural powers, so his practice logic was the opposite of that of others.

He relies on his powerful spirit and soul to first condense the essence in his body into [Fire in the Pupils], and then the essence should be fed back to the internal organs into [Bright Mirror Heart] or [Circulation of Internal Organs]. The order of the two is arbitrary. Finally, he will use the abundant essence and spirit to flow through his entire body and achieve a magical effect that can connect the whole body.

This is completely opposite to the order of practice of ordinary practitioners. In a sense... it's also quite weird.

(End of this chapter)