Shushan: Extinction

Chapter 35: A congenital master acquired through krypton gold!
A night of silence,
Gong Tianwu got up early and opened the Purple Qi Cave Secret to read it. He saw the following words written on the title page:

Coming and going are the same, the true nature is clear,
The wind stops and the clouds disperse, and the sun is in the sky.

These four sentences and sixteen words are the general outline of the Purple Qi Cave Secret.

What follows is a densely packed text introducing cultivation. The most important thing is to collect a wisp of the purple air between heaven and earth within ten breaths of the red sun rising above the horizon, and then practice to strengthen yourself.

However, after getting started, you can practice at any time, but the efficiency is definitely highest when there is misty purple air, followed by when there is sunlight, and the least efficient is to practice in the dark.

Di Song knocked on the door outside at this time, and whispered after entering:

"Master, I did some research later and found out that we were being used as a pawn. But this morning, a woman came to visit us and left a hundred silver coins to apologize to you."

When Gong Tianwu heard what he said, Shi Zhuo's appearance suddenly appeared in front of him, and he said lightly:

"In that case, let's just forgive her this time and go!"

***
After arriving at the dock, looking at the dark clouds in the sky, Gong Tianwu sighed with regret, and boarded the ship with Di Song and started heading towards the capital of Nanyi Kingdom - Yidu.

In order to facilitate his cultivation this time, Gong Tianwu asked Di Song to book the top cabin of a building ship. The bottom cabin of this kind of large ship is used to carry cargo, while the second and third floors are used to carry passengers. It is spacious and comfortable, breathable and bright, and provides a great living experience. Of course, the price is also quite expensive.

It was actually bad weather. The ship sailed for three days and it was either raining or cloudy without a single ray of sunshine, which made Gong Tianwu feel helpless.

At this time, Di Song was afraid that he would be too bored in the cabin, so he took the initiative to invite Gong Tianwu to go out and enjoy the scenery.

It turns out that this place is called Jiaojiapu, with nearly a thousand acres of lotus ponds. The lotus flowers are in full bloom, and the red and white lotus flowers are dotted among the tall green leaves. The scenery is extremely beautiful, and there are nearly twenty miles of water pavilions interspersed among them.

It is said that there was an immortal in Wutai Sect who liked this scenery very much, so he sent five strong men to build a hundred-mile waterside pavilion in one day and one night. He also wrote a letter and ordered the lotus god to come here to bloom in the cold winter, so this place is also called Wutai Waterside Pavilion.

Between the water pavilions, there are boat girls driving their small boats, nimbly shuttling between them. The lotus pods and water chestnuts they sell are very sweet and delicious. Most of these boat girls are young girls with graceful and fit figures, and an exuding youthful aura.

Some boat girls' eyes lit up when they saw a weak and fair-skinned scholar like Gong Tianwu. They chuckled and came over to throw him a red lotus.

The meaning of this is similar to the teachers in KTV putting their hands in front of them when queuing up to perform.

Soon, Gong Tianwu held six lotus flowers in his hands. Di Song laughed when he saw them:

"They say Wu women are passionate, but today I really opened my eyes."

Then he whispered to Gong Tianwu:

"Young Master is already eighteen years old. You have been studying so hard these days. It doesn't matter if you relax a little."

Gong Tianwu smiled slightly. He felt that what Di Song said made a lot of sense, so he waved to a boat girl in the distance.

The boat girl was tall, with a slim waist and plump buttocks, which were very round. Her oval face and peach blossom eyes made her quite charming, but she was estimated to be only eighteen or nineteen years old, so she still had a unique sense of purity.

Although she didn't throw a lotus to him, she had been wandering around here for more than ten minutes, and kept glancing at him with a look that contained a hint of expectation but also a hint of shyness.

Seeing Gong Tianwu waving at her at this moment, she bit her lip and revealed an irrepressible smile, then rowed the boat over, reached out and pulled Gong Tianwu, then slid with him towards the vast lotus pond.

***
About two hours later, Gong Tianwu reunited with Di Song.

Di Song saw the boat girl biting her lips, her face still red, her eyes watery, and a few red spots on her neck, extending to the deep grooves below her collar. He immediately understood and smiled:
"Young Master has good tactics."

Then he threw a silver treasure to the boat girl.

As a result, the woman hurriedly waved her hands shyly and said:

"That's enough, you have already given me a lot."

Di Song didn't say much. He took Gong Tianwu to the restaurant next door to eat. Di Song was knowledgeable and knew that Gong Tianwu must need to eat something and drink some steaming hot soup at this time. Of course, it would be best if he could sprinkle some wolfberries on it.

The sign of this restaurant is very impressive, calling it "The Fourth Freshest Food in the World", but it has gained such a great reputation by relying on a mixed fish soup. It is said that one bowl of soup is boiled with 33 kinds of mixed fish for three hours, and is also seasoned with a secret recipe. It has many diners.

Gong Tianwu drank three bowls in a row and praised it highly. He felt that the soup was worthy of the words "colorful, fragrant and delicious".

But Di Song, the old man, whispered:
"The key to the delicious mixed fish soup here has nothing to do with fish, but lies in the two things added when cooking the soup: river clam meat and pine sticks. Of course, I just heard others say this, and I don't know if it is true or not."

At this time, Di Song saw that Gong Tianwu seemed to be distracted, so he said sympathetically:
"If you like the boat girl, you can redeem her as a maid or concubine. The master took a lot of money when he went out."

Gong Tianwu laughed in silence and said:

"No, no, that's not what I meant. I just think that Miss Wu looks amorous, but in fact, she is just average."

After hearing this, Di Song was a little puzzled. After all, the appearance of the boat girl just now was really first-class. The kind of charming and pure temperament of a girl was very rare. Even the top girl in Jingdong County might not be able to compare with her.

If it weren't for the fact that the boat girl treated the guests differently and didn't accept every customer, Di Song might have to come back and clean up the young master's pot later.

Di Song didn't know that Gong Tianwu was thinking about Zhou Zhizhong's wife, Hu Erjie.

Although the boat girl was beautiful, she kept her eyes closed from beginning to end. She lay in the awning of the boat like a dead fish, allowing others to do whatever they wanted to her. It was very boring.

And she tried more than once to add some flavor to Gong Tianwu's mouth, which made Gong Tianwu very annoyed. (Applause for understanding)

Although the young lady Hu Erjie was much inferior in appearance and looked reluctant, but in fact, the experience she gave Gong Tianwu was completely different. There is a saying that goes "a chess player meets a worthy opponent, a general meets a talented person" which can well describe this situation. Ahem, this is Gong Tianwu bragging.

After returning to the boat, Gong Tianwu began to read the Purple Qi Cave Secret Art again. At this point he had not yet mastered the technique, so his goal was to memorize it, and he had to remember it word for word, and even recite it backwards.

As a result, in the evening, Gong Tianwu suddenly saw fiery clouds in the distant sky and was overjoyed.

After all, there is a saying: Don't go out when there is morning glow, but you can travel thousands of miles when there is evening glow. It is likely to be sunny tomorrow morning, so go to bed early at night.

Early the next morning, the eastern sky was indeed covered with dark clouds. Gong Tianwu immediately came to a remote hill nearby, closed his eyes and waited silently.

Finally, a red sun climbed out of the horizon. Gong Tianwu held a dragon sleeping stone in his left hand and stared at the red sun. He only had ten breaths of time, otherwise he would have to wait until the next clear day.

After taking a deep breath, Gong Tianwu began to silently recite the Purple Qi Cave Secret Technique:
"The mountains do not yield to dust, the rivers do not refuse to be full, the energy of the first day, summon it quickly. The gate of heaven opens the golden key as promised, the cloud road is vast and hung with jade rainbows, hurry up as the law commands!!"

At the same time, Gong Tianwu stared at the red sun, and in his mind he constantly visualized himself turning into a vortex, constantly absorbing strands of sunlight, and quickly entered a state of complete selflessness.

After just a few seconds, he suddenly felt a stream of air injected into his eyes! And the air was strong.

Gong Tianwu was overjoyed. It was obvious that this airflow was the purple air mentioned in the technique.
At this time, Gong Tianwu felt very strange. Although the wisp of purple air absorbed into his eyes was the most yang energy in the world, and even known as the beginning of yang, it gave people a very cool and comfortable feeling.

One could feel that this wisp of purple air began to swirl around in Gong Tianwu's Niwan Palace, warming the area.

At first, Gong Tianwu didn’t know the exact location of the Niwan Palace. Later, after asking, he found out that it was located in the center between the eyebrows, which is the pineal gland in anatomical terms.

However, Gong Tianwu knew very well that this was just the beginning, because according to the annotations of the Purple Qi Cave True Art, more than 90% of people could absorb the misty purple qi at the first time, but the final outcome would most likely be that this wisp of purple qi would dissipate in the Niwan Palace in half an hour.

Even for a guy with extraordinary talent, it would take at least nine times of gathering qi before he could achieve the first step of "drawing qi into the body", allowing a wisp of purple qi to take root in the body, circulate continuously, and nourish the body.

But this is in theory! In theory! Gong Tianwu knew that he was not a martial arts genius, but an ordinary person with only seven points of aptitude. The Yunyun Ziqi Jue also clearly stated that the average time for ordinary people to get started is seventy-seventy-forty-nine months, which is four years.

How could Gong Tianwu, whose soul age is only about ten years old, have four years to slowly get started?

So, he took out a dragon sleeping stone with his left hand and held it tightly in the palm of his hand.

Sure enough, the purple mist in his Niwan Palace quickly sensed the existence of the Dragon Sleeping Stone and began to spin excitedly.

A hot current also appeared in the Dragon Sleeping Stone, and began to move upward along the Hand Shaoyang Triple Burner Meridian, trying to reach the Niwan Palace between the eyes and merge with the misty purple energy.

This heat flow was obviously much more domineering and fierce. Wherever it passed, it caused a burning pain and a burning sensation.

But now Gong Tianwu is just an ordinary person, and his meridians are blocked. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for the two to meet.

But at this time, Gong Tianwu swallowed the meridian-opening pill, and the powerful medicinal power exploded in an instant and began to attack the eight extraordinary meridians in Gong Tianwu's body!
The power emitted by the Dragon Sleeping Stone is also a mixture of medicinal power, and it quickly rushes upward along the Shaoyang Sanjiao Meridian of the Hand.

After this set of attacks, Gong Tianwu originally thought that he was going to suffer a great punishment, but in the end, although he could feel pain all over his body, it was not too intense. Only the meridians where the power of the Dragon Sleeping Stone passed through felt a burning pain.

Soon, the power of the Dragon Sleeping Stone met the purple energy in the Niwan Palace, and the two quickly mixed together! The purple energy that Gong Tianwu had just inhaled into his body instantly grew stronger.

Gong Tianwu was sitting cross-legged at this time, and he closed his eyes and visualized according to the secret technique recorded in the Purple Qi Cave Secret Art. He visualized the expanded purple energy into a majestic and ferocious flaming horse, and with the help of the medicinal power of the Meridian-Opening Pill, it quickly attacked the blocked meridians throughout his body.

It is worth mentioning that the Purple Qi Cave Secret Art specifically states that visualizing the misty purple qi as a flaming horse is a very difficult threshold. Practitioners must clear their distracting thoughts and make their minds pure in order to achieve this step of visualization smoothly.

Even more than 60% of people must first practice another Taoist method: the Heart Filtering Technique, before they can overcome this hurdle.

But with the help of Kang, Gong Tianwu can directly enter his own sea of ​​consciousness and cut off all distracting thoughts, making it easy to get started.

Precisely because he went so smoothly in the visualization stage, and with the continuous infusion of the power of the Dragon Sleeping Stone, Gong Tianwu actually succeeded in opening up the eight extraordinary meridians in his body before the effect of the Meridian Opening Pill wore off!
Under normal circumstances, to achieve such a level of cultivation, with Gong Tianwu's mediocre martial arts talent, even if he started practicing hard since his mother's womb, it would take at least thirty to fifty years of hard work.

If measured by his previous martial arts level, Gong Tianwu at this time has skipped the stages of "body building" and "dark power" and directly entered the category of bright power master.

Even because all the extraordinary meridians in his body have been opened, he is considered to be quite powerful among the Ming Jin masters.

Restraining the discomfort in his body, Gong Tianwu slowly stood up. The sunlight bathed his body, and he even felt it was unreal.

It only took less than two hours, and he seemed to be reborn, from a scholar into a master!

This is the power of krypton gold!!
The combination of Purple Qi Cave Secret + Dragon Sleeping Stone + Meridian Opening Pill that Gong Tianwu obtained was certainly not something he came up with himself, but was the result of careful research by those senior masters and even great cultivators.

Therefore, success this time is a high probability event, and failure would be strange.

Of course, everything has its pros and cons. Now Gong Tianwu feels a burning pain in his meridians. This is because the power in the Dragon Sleeping Stone ultimately comes from the power of the monster "Flame Lizard Dragon", so it has many consequences.

There are also those who can directly open up the eight extraordinary meridians within two hours, but there are also considerable hidden dangers.

Of course, there are solutions to this series of problems, and there are several solutions based on your spending power.

For example, the cheapest option is to just eliminate the problem.

The medium price means that while eliminating future troubles, it can also eliminate previous hidden dangers and hidden injuries.

The most expensive option is to eliminate future troubles while allowing your strength to continue to soar to a higher level.

Of course, for Gong Tianwu now, even the cheapest price to eliminate future troubles is a astronomical price for him, so there is no need to consider these at all.

Next, Gong Tianwu recuperated on the boat for four or five days. He drank the Chinese medicine that had been prepared long ago, which was boiled and brought to him by Di Song every day. At the same time, he kept coughing, and what he coughed up was bloody phlegm.

Fortunately, the next three days were sunny, and Gong Tianwu was able to take in a wisp of the misty purple air to nourish his body in the morning. In this way, the recovery speed was much faster than expected. After all, the true secret of the Purple Air Cave is a Taoist secret that has the effect of nourishing the mind and body, and prolonging life.

But even so, Gong Tianwu got off the boat early on the way and stayed in Runzhou for about a month. The reason was that the climate here was dry and sunny, somewhat similar to Kunming on Earth.

During this month, Gong Tianwu was able to absorb the purple energy for 25 days, which basically restored his health. However, the hidden dangers in his body were only suppressed instead of being expelled.

Despite this, Gong Tianwu's gains were enormous. The most direct manifestation was that he could now play the two songs "Wind in the Pines" and "Orchid Dance" smoothly, and this was while using the True Feather Heart Technique.

As for Gong Tianwu, although his combat effectiveness has been significantly improved, how should we put it? He is like Zhang Wuji who has just learned the Nine Yang Divine Art. He cannot just kill everyone like that. He must learn the Great Shift of the Universe and Tai Chi.

This is a typical lack of experience and skills, and more importantly, there is no supporting moves.

But for the plan that Gong Tianwu intends to implement next, the current state is sufficient, or even more than enough.

***
Eight days later,

Gong Tianwu's True Feather Heart Technique also achieved a breakthrough through hard study and practice.

From a glimpse to a basic understanding (11/2000)

After reaching a higher realm, Gong Tianwu's consumption of energy when playing was significantly reduced, saving at least one third.

This made him practice even harder.

Of course, the price of hard work was that the bottle of Huangya Dan he carried with him was also used up, and this thing was in short supply and there was no way to replenish it.

After becoming a Ming Jin master and successfully improving his True Feather Heart Technique, Gong Tianwu checked his attributes. After a careful review, he breathed a sigh of relief:

Name: Gong Tianwu
Introduction: Although you wasted too many reincarnations in the early stage, you have now revealed some bright spots, and you are worthy of a small investment. I hope you can hold on a little longer when the disaster comes, so that my investment in you will not be lost.

(Instructions for no change are omitted)
Basic attributes: Evaluation will be given with reference to masters of the same level.

Strength: 3 points → 14 points (normal)
Agility: 5→17 points (normal)
Root bone: 7 points, (low)

Comprehension: 8→9 points, (relatively low) (Word of Speech +1 permanent increase)

Fortune: 7 points, normal

Energy: 100 points → 185 points (normal, with additional permanent bonus from the Purple Qi Cave Secret)

Qi and health: 105 points → 146 points (very low) (there are multiple hidden dangers in the body) (obtain additional permanent bonus from the Purple Qi Cave Secret)

Spiritual Awareness: 26 points → 32 points (Special bonus from Purple Qi Cave Secret Technique)

Combat data: This data is the value that directly affects the combat.

Attack power: 0→56 points (without weapon)
Defense: 0→21 points (without armor)
Causal Points: 1 point/23
Zhenlong: 4 points

Specialties: None
Specialties: None
Martial Arts: Purple Qi Cave Secret
True Feather Heart Technique: A Little Knowledge (11/2000)

(End of this chapter)