A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Chapter 482 Reflection and Entity

It was already night when Duan Rong returned to Yunfu Peak.

Deep in the foggy mountains, there is still the faint sound of insects chirping in the night.

Duan Rong returned to his room in the pavilion, brushed off the dust on his body with a towel, washed his face, ordered some food, and sat down in front of the table to eat and drink.

After running all the way, he was already starving, and he ate like a whirlwind.

Duan Rong was eating happily when he suddenly caught a glimpse of two figures at the door and walked in. With his mouth full of food, he turned around and saw that it was Wu Shidao and Wang Yue who came in.

Duan Rong was about to stand up, but Wang Yue came in and pushed him down on his seat.

Wang Yue said with a smile: "Little Junior Brother, please sit down! You are a great hero this time!"

Duan Rong was held there by Wang Yue. He chewed and swallowed the food in his mouth, then smiled and said, "Senior Brother Wu, Senior Brother Wang, you two are really well-informed. You guys came just after I arrived."

Wang Yue said, "Nonsense! Junior Brother, we knew you were coming back, and we specially planned a date to wait for you!"

"Really?" Duan Rong said, "Thank you for your concern, Senior Brother!"

Wu Shidao said with a smile: "Little Senior Brother, Master has praised you a lot these days!?"

“Yes!” Wang Yue responded, “Junior brother, how come you are so amazing! You took down Taihe Tower without making any noise!”

Duan Rong said, "No, you two brothers, don't flatter me! In fact, it was the master who made all the plans, and I just ran errands."

Wang Yue's eyes turned, and he said, "Junior brother, let me make a deal with you. Next time you go on a mission, tell Master to let me go with you and help you."

As Wang Yue spoke, he began to massage Duan Rong's shoulders. "Junior brother, even if I beg you to do so!"

He was in a bad situation on Yunfu Peak, and he knew it very well. He wanted to take advantage of Duan Rong.

When the news of Li Shensi's mysterious death reached Yunfu Peak, Wang Yue was quite impressed by Duan Rong's ingenious strategy and imagination. After the incident of Taihe Tower and the overthrow of Ge Rushong were revealed, Wang Yue was even more impressed.

Duan Rong shrugged his shoulders, slipped out of Wang Yue's hand, and said with a smile: "Senior Brother, you're pinching me and making me feel itchy."

Wang Yue said: "Little Junior Brother, remember what I said!"

"Well..." Duan Rong changed the subject and said, "Hey! Why didn't I see Senior Sister Fan?"

Wu Shidao said, "Senior Sister Fan is not on the peak these days."

"Oh, really?" Duan Rong's eyes moved.

Wu Shidao said, "Oh, right. Junior brother, Master is still waiting for you in the room. He probably has something to tell you."

"Oh. Then I'll go pay my respects to Master first. I'll talk to my two brothers later." Duan Rong said as he stood up, bowed to Wu Shidao and Wang Yuelue, and left the room.

Wang Yue looked at Duan Rong hesitantly as he left the room, and finally did not continue the previous topic.

After Duan Rong left, Wu Shidao glanced at Wang Yue and said, "Junior Brother Wang, you really hugged me just in time!?"

Wang Yue sighed and said, "Brother, please don't make fun of me. I am also trying to survive."

Wu Shidao's eyes dimmed, and he said, "Everyone has his own way of survival. I dare not make random sarcasms. But Junior Brother's position on Yunfu Peak is far higher than Senior Sister Fan and me. If you want to stand by his side, you must first weigh your own weight. Even if he is willing to take you, do you think Master will agree?"

Wang Yue's heart suddenly brightened. Although Wu Shidao's words were cruel, they were the truth.

If Zhu He had already decided in his heart that he was a discarded pawn, if Duan Rong took him with him, Zhu He would probably think that Duan Rong could not see the situation clearly.

No wonder Junior Brother wanted to change the subject just now. Since Master is unwilling to waste resources on me, how could Junior Brother go against Master's orders?
After all, he was just thinking too much!
Wang Yue's eyes were filled with sorrow, and he said, "Brother, you are right."

In a remote room in the Yunfu Peak Pavilion.

The room was very simple, just like a hunter's room in the mountains. There was only a wooden bed, and nothing else on the bed except a bamboo pillow.

The tables, chairs and desks in the room were all simple and rustic, without any frills.

Here Zhu He was sitting in front of a square wooden table, looking at Duan Rong in front of him.

After Duan Rong paid homage to Zhu He, he stood up and took a quick look. He was quite surprised at Zhu He's simple life, which seemed like an ascetic monk.

There was no decoration in the room except for a piece of writing and painting hanging by the window.

Duan Rong, who had become quite skilled in calligraphy and painting through devouring the spirit of the weapon, could not tell what it was at first, so he took a few more glances at it.

After looking at it for a while, he finally figured out what it was.

It was a word! It was a seal-style word for knife! But it was twisted and curved, like some ancient symbol.

The twisted and curved character "刀" seemed to fill the entire article, as if it was filling the space between heaven and earth...

Instantly, Duan Rong seemed to be attracted by the twisted strokes and couldn't help but look into them. He seemed to be shrouded by the word. In Duan Rong's eyes, the twisted strokes seemed to be twisting. Soon, they turned into knife shadows and knife lights all over the sky...

Duan Rong felt cold all over, and broke out in a cold sweat. The next moment, the knife shadow and knife light suddenly disappeared without a trace...

At this moment, a strange light flashed in Zhu He's eyes!
Duan Rong suddenly felt that the sword shadows and sword lights in the sky no longer existed, and he seemed to see mountains, rivers, and stars. He was not looking normally, but looking down with some kind of starry eye...

He could see the hidden knife characters one after another in the shapes of mountains, rivers, and stars...

The flowing rivers, the moving stars, the towering mountains, all seem to be wielding swords...

Trapped in this feeling, Duan Rong could not even feel his own existence, as if he had turned into nothingness.

At this moment, the vital energy in his dantian began to circulate uncontrollably.

Just then, Duan Rong heard a light "cough".

The voice brought him back to reality. He suddenly felt his body and his breathing. At that moment, it was as if he had appeared out of nothingness.

Duan Rong stood there in astonishment, unable to recover for a long time.

Zhu He said: "This is a piece of calligraphy that your uncle Gu Daoling gave to me several years ago."

Duan Rong glanced at Zhu He, then couldn't help but glance at the calligraphy, muttering, "It's Uncle Gu's calligraphy..."

Zhu He said, "When he gave me this calligraphy, he told me to study it more, maybe it would help me in my cultivation. I didn't pay much attention to it at that time. I took it back, glanced at it for a few times, and then put it in the box. This time, when I set up a trap to kill Ge Rushong in the suburbs of Shenyun Mansion, I learned that my junior brother had actually advanced to the late stage of Dongming Realm. So when I came back, I found this calligraphy again and hung it here."

Gu Daoling was already a great cultivator in the late Dongming realm. The calligraphy he obtained was naturally extraordinary. When Duan Rong took a look at it just now, he felt as if he had lost himself.

Zhu He looked at Duan Rong and said, "I have been observing these days, but I don't feel much. But you seem to have gained something from your observation just now!"

Duan Rong said with an embarrassed look: "It seems that my disciple has not gained anything either, but I am a little frightened."

"Shocked?!" Zhu He's eyes flashed with doubt, and he asked, "Why are you shocked?"

Duan Rong said, "Disciple, I don't know." In fact, this word by Gu Daoling already contains the celestial Dao that he had comprehended. He gave this word to Zhu He to inspire his practice.

However, the principles that Zhu He comprehended were completely different from those of Gu Daoling and had no intersection at all, so he felt nothing after observing them for a long time.

Duan Rong, on the other hand, absorbed a lot of artistic conceptions. When he looked at Gu Daoling's knife character that contained the laws of celestial phenomena, all the artistic conceptions related to the stars and the Milky Way in the depths of his soul were suddenly mobilized.

At that time, the mountains, rivers, and galaxies he saw all echoed the celestial laws contained in the ancient Daoling characters.

At that moment, Duan Rong was actually integrating artistic conception in a way that he himself could not understand.

At this moment, the fusion was interrupted by Zhu He's light cough and ultimately failed to be completed.

At this time, Duan Rong was still in a daze and had no idea what was going on.

Zhu He looked at Duan Rong's bewildered expression, sighed, and said, "Forget it, forget about it."

As Zhu He spoke, he flicked his sleeves, and two porcelain bottles appeared on the square wooden table in front of him.

Duan Rong's eyes suddenly lit up.

This porcelain bottle must be for him. Zhu He must have given him good things. And judging from the appearance of the porcelain bottle, it doesn't seem to be bone marrow ash.

Duan Rong was looking at the two porcelain bottles on the wooden table with curiosity and anticipation.

Zhu He did not directly introduce the two porcelain bottles, but took out a stack of yellow wax animal skins from his clothes. Zhu He spread out the stack of animal skins on the wooden table, a total of three pieces. He looked at Duan Rong and said, "These are three unique skills of the cyclone realm. I have selected them specially for you. You can observe them carefully and choose one to practice."

Duan Rong's eyes flickered. "The ultimate skill of the cyclone realm?!"

Zhu He said: "This time when you return to the mountains, you must hurry up and practice. It's time to prepare for the advancement to the Cyclone Realm."

As Zhu He spoke, he handed three pieces of waxy yellow animal skin to Duan Rong.

Duan Rong took it, turned on the light, and looked curiously at the animal skin in his hand, only to see densely packed words and pictures on it.

Zhu He pointed at the two porcelain bottles and said, "This bottle contains the bile of the middle-level Yuan Beast Fire Scale Python. When you advanced to the Cyclone Realm, the spiritual pressure of the cyclone formed was too great for your Dantian to bear for a while, and it was inevitable that your Dantian would be torn apart, so you need medicine to repair your Dantian. The bile of the Fire Scale Python is considered to be the best medicine. Generally, medicines that repair the Dantian will leave hidden injuries, and it often takes many years of nourishment to gradually recover. However, the bile of the Fire Scale Python can deeply repair the Dantian when used, and it will hardly leave any hidden injuries."

After Zhu He finished speaking, he pointed to another porcelain bottle and said, "This bottle contains a drop of blood from a high-level Yuan Beast."

Duan Rong was shocked and said: "High-level Yuan Beast!?"

High-level Yuan Beasts have already mastered the power of laws, and are almost equivalent to cultivators in the Cave and Netherworld Realm.

Zhu He said: "That's right! The pure energy contained in this drop of blood is much better than the flesh and blood of the Yuan beasts in the dark forest. It will be of great benefit to the stabilization of your realm after you advance to the Cyclone Realm!"

After Zhu He finished speaking, he pushed the two porcelain bottles in front of Duan Rong, and Duan Rong put the two porcelain bottles away.

Zhu He looked at Duan Rong and said, "Master has said that I will not let you work in vain. I will definitely support you with all my strength in your cultivation. How about three unique skills and two bottles of spiritual medicine?"

Duan Rong looked at the animal skin and porcelain bottle in his hand, smiled slightly, and said, "That's about right!"

Zhu He almost vomited blood after hearing this. He glanced at Duan Rong and thought to himself: I have already lost a lot of money, but you just said "that's enough" in return! ?

However, he did not want to argue with Duan Rong over these trivial matters, so he said, "You still have to go to the Elders' Council to present the case tomorrow, so go back and rest early."

Duan Rong's eyes moved, and he asked, "I will discuss the case tomorrow. Does Master have anything to tell me?"

Zhu He looked at Duan Rong and said, "Yang Sixuan and Master Chu witnessed everything about this case. It's an ironclad case. You just need to tell the truth. Don't worry too much!"

Duan Rong felt relieved after hearing this and said, "Then Master, I will take my leave now!"

"Ok!"

Duan Rong walked out of the room holding the porcelain bottle and animal skin. Before leaving, he couldn't help but glance at the strange knife-carved characters hanging by the window.

He was almost certain that the strange handwriting of Gu Daoling must contain some obscure mystery, but even Zhu He could not figure it out for the time being.

In fact, he really wanted to see what level of spirit the words were if he could read the spirit of the weapon.

However, Zhu He was sitting there at the moment, and it would be too strange if he rashly walked over and put his hand on it to feel around.

More importantly, Duan Rong determined that he would not be able to devour the spirit of the calligraphy.

After seeing it for the first time, he almost lost himself. How could he devour and digest such a spirit?

Since you know you can't swallow it, why bother?

Curiosity kills the cat. Doing strange things just to satisfy curiosity, and doing it in front of Master, is extremely unwise!
Duan Rong suppressed his curiosity, returned to his room, lay on the bed, and looked at the animal skin in his hand under the orange light.

He had devoured the spirits of the weapons and acquired the complete set of skills for the three unique skills that Zhu He had chosen for him.

Duan Rong lay there, turning over three stacked animal skins, looking at them back and forth.

He knew that he had to choose a unique skill as his main practice in the Qixi realm. But which one should he choose?

While Duan Rong was fiddling with the beast skin skills in his hand, he was also mobilizing the memories of the three skills in his consciousness.

After a while, Duan Rong suddenly stopped his gaze on a piece of yellowish animal skin in his hand. On the top of the animal skin was written: Mountain River Moon Shadow Knife.

The name of this unique skill sounded really ordinary, and Duan Rong didn't pay much attention to it at first.

However, after mobilizing the memory details of this technique in his consciousness, he gradually focused his attention on this technique.

This Mountain, River and Moon Shadow Sword technique is derived from the reflections of mountains, stars and the moon in the river.

As the saying goes, there are thousands of rivers and thousands of moons in them.

There is only one moon, but its shadows are countless and ever-changing!

What's more, this technique contains not only the shadows of stars and moons, but also the shadows of mountains and rivers.

The reason why Duan Rong stayed on this unique skill was actually related to the strange experience he had when he observed the strange knife characters of Gu Daoling in Zhu He's room not long ago.

At that moment, the sword lights and shadows in the sky suddenly disappeared, and he clearly saw the mountains, rivers and stars performing the sword techniques.

It is different from the Mountains, Rivers and Moon Shadow Sword. Although that moment lasted only a split second, Duan Rong was sure that what he felt at that moment was the entity of mountains, rivers and stars, which were performing the sword technique. However, this Mountains, Rivers and Moon Shadow Sword used the reflections of mountains, rivers, stars and moon to perform the sword technique.

"Reflection and entity! One is virtual and the other is real!"

Duan Rong always felt that there might be some kind of connection between the virtual and the real. Even the reason why he could feel and comprehend the real entity at that moment might be related to the fact that he had swallowed this sword technique that was interpreted by reflection. It was the connection between the virtual and the real that made him fall into a certain experience when observing the strange sword calligraphy of Gu Daoling. It seemed to be a kind of imprint of artistic conception and artistic conception!
"So, a reflection is nothing more than the phantom of a real entity in the water waves. Although it is not a real entity, from a certain angle, it is also a part of the real entity."

"If there is no moon in the sky, how can there be a moon in the water?"

Duan Rong has already decided that his main martial art will be the Mountain and River Moon Shadow Sword.

Once he made his choice, the sleepiness that was suppressed by his attention came over him. Duan Rong pressed the yellowish animal skin under his pillow and fell asleep as soon as he turned over. He still had to go to the Elders' Council to explain the case tomorrow!
(End of this chapter)