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

Chapter 489 Nine Yang Mysterious Sword
Duan Rong and Ximen Kankan went out for some fun in the mountains. It was already night when they came back. They were both very tired, so they went back to their room and fell into a deep sleep.

Ximen Kankan had eaten too much and farted loudly all night. Duan Rong wanted to kick him off the bed several times, but thinking that he had just left Tallinn, he finally held back.

Early the next morning, after washing up, they sat at the table and ate breakfast.

The breakfast was wontons and pancakes, which made Ximen Kankan's eyes widen. He asked, "Is this cook from Xiangu County?"

Duan Rong smiled and said, "The Internal History Department is responsible for the procurement of supplies for the entire sect. On Yunfu Peak, we can find whatever we want to eat!"

Ximen Kankan slurped a mouthful of wonton and praised, "Luxury, so damn luxurious!"

Duan Rong bit into the fragrant pancake and suddenly glanced at Ximen Kankan. He asked, "By the way, Kankan! Have you chosen your technique?"

Ximen Kankan said, "I have chosen it! I have come to see you two or three times. The first time I came to see you, you were not there, so I chose the technique."

After Ximen Kankan left Tallin, he became a formal inner disciple. As long as he completed the formalities at the Internal History Department, he could go to the Sutra Repository to receive a set of Qi Realm exercises.

Duan Rong looked sideways and asked, "What technique did you choose?"

Ximen Kankan chuckled and said, "I spent two days choosing. I picked a set of sword techniques called Shenmen Rouyun Dao. I think this sword technique is pretty good, with a mix of real and fake, and a lot of Yin energy."

"Shenmen Rouyun Blade?" Duan Rong heard this and mobilized the memories in his consciousness. He had also absorbed this sword technique.

Soon, Duan Rong's eyes flashed, and he had already understood the Shenmen Rouyun Sword technique very thoroughly, as if he had practiced it for more than ten years.

Duan Rong looked at Ximen Kankan with a strange look and said, "This sword technique is not suitable for you. I will take you to change it later."

Ximen Kankan almost choked on the wontons he was slurping. He said unconvincedly, "Why change? I spent two days choosing this technique." "Besides, how do you know that this sword technique is not suitable for me?"

Duan Rong ate wontons leisurely while saying calmly: "Have you forgotten that I am a well-known martial artist in the world!"

Ximen Kankan's heart moved, and he remembered their advancement to the outer disciple examination. At that time, Duan Rong did show his evil ability to master many kinds of martial arts. Otherwise, Shen Mizhi and he would not have been able to pass the outer disciple examination smoothly.

However, that was a technique for the True Qi Realm after all, while this is a technique for the Original Qi Realm.

Duan Rong saw Ximen Kankan looked hesitant, so he continued, "Remember the Pikong Dao technique I picked for you? Did it feel easy to practice? A suitable technique can achieve twice the result with half the effort. Otherwise, you're just making things difficult for yourself."

Ximen Kankan blinked. Duan Rong had indeed chosen his Qi Realm martial arts technique, Pikongdao, and after practicing it, it really suited his temperament. He looked at Duan Rong and asked in a somewhat weak tone, "Is the Shenmen Rouyundao martial arts technique really not suitable for me?"

Duan Rong said: "It's empty and flashy stuff. This kind of skills can only barely make up for the Inner Breath Realm and True Qi Realm. It's just low-grade stuff at the Yuan Qi Realm. If you don't follow the right path, all your efforts will go to waste!"

Ximen Kankan felt embarrassed when he saw that the martial arts he had taken so much effort to carefully select was criticized by Duan Rong as worthless.

But Duan Rong's opinion still had some authority in his heart, and he couldn't help but murmur in his heart, "Is that technique really that bad?"

Ximen Kankan looked at Duan Rong and said, "After I chose this Shenmen Rouyun Knife, I have already registered it with the Internal History Department. Can I change to another one?"

Duan Rong smiled and said, "The Internal History Department is managed by Yunfu Peak. It may be troublesome for others to change, but I want to change a technique for you, how can it be easy?"

"That's fine!" Ximen Kankan finished the wonton soup at the bottom of the bowl and said, "Listen to the advice and eat your fill!"

Duan Rong couldn't help but smile when he heard that. This was the best thing about Ximen Kankan: he never acted stubbornly.

After the two of them finished their meal, Duan Rong went to the Internal History Department to find the servants and asked for another approval slip. Half a year ago, Lu Geng had to help him do it, but now he was already familiar with the process. The servants were also very smart. They knew who was who on Yunfu Peak and what was their status. Now they were more fawning on Duan Rong than Lu Geng.

Duan Rong took the note and brought Ximen Kankan to the Sutra Repository.

Ximen Kankan looked at Duan Rong and asked, "The Divine Sect Soft Cloud Blade won't work. Then what technique should I choose?"

Duan Rong opened his mouth and said: "Nine Yang Mysterious Blade!"

Ximen Kankan's eyelids twitched, and he looked at Duan Rong questioningly, saying, "You just said that? Nine Yang Mysterious Blade? Why do I feel like you just made up this name?"

"I said I know all the martial arts in the world. What are you still talking about?" Duan Rong said as he walked to the sword techniques, muttering as he walked: "I remember it seems to be around here!?"

Duan Rong searched for a while but couldn't find it. He slapped his forehead and said to himself, "I haven't been here for more than half a year. Maybe someone has taken it somewhere else!"

He turned his head to look at Ximen Kankan who was wandering around aimlessly and said, "Is he picking a technique for you? Or is he picking a technique for me? Why are you acting like nothing happened? Look for yourself, it's nearby. The Nine Yang Mysterious Blade!"

Ximen Kankan responded casually, and then started to rummage around. "Nine Yang Mysterious Blade? Why doesn't the name sound like a serious martial art..."

Ximen searched for a long time but didn't see the Nine Yang Mysterious Sword. He glanced over and saw Duan Rong also searching up and down in the area in front of him. He couldn't help but wonder if this sword technique really existed.

He looked at Duan Rong and asked, "Hey, I say, maybe you remembered it wrongly? For example, it's not called the Nine Yang Mysterious Blade! Or the Nine Yin Void Blade?"

"Get lost! Even if your father remembered it wrong, then..." Duan Rong suddenly stopped talking at this point. He almost wanted to say that it was impossible for the Devouring Spirit to remember it wrong. "You won't understand even if I tell you. Hurry up and find it!"

Seeing that Duan Rong was very sure, Ximen Kankan continued to look. Sure enough, he flipped all the way down from the top to the bottom of the shelf, and in the corner at the bottom, he really found a sword manual called Nine Yang Xuanxu Sword.

Ximen Kankan looked at the old, yellowed, dusty sword manual in his hand, and was stunned. He said, "Is there really such a technique?"

On the cover, the words "Nine Yang Mysterious Sword" were covered in dust but were still clearly recognizable.

Duan Rong saw Ximen Kankan staring blankly at a yellowed booklet, so he leaned over to take a look and said with a smile, "I didn't lie to you. Let's go when we find it."

"Wait!" Ximen Kankan suddenly shouted as if he had just woken up from a dream.

Duan Rong turned his head and asked, "What?"

"I want to take a look at this technique first!"

As Ximen Kankan spoke, he dusted off the booklet in his hand and squatted there to start flipping through it.

After all, this was the technique he wanted to practice, and it was no joke. Although Duan Rong was very sure about it, he still had to take a general look at it before he could feel at ease.

Duan Rong also knew what Ximen Kankan was thinking, so he waited there leisurely. Since he had nothing to do, he simply walked to the other side, found a book on the sect's ancestors from the shelf, and began to read it with great interest.

Duan Rong quickly entered a state similar to flow. He saw the various miracles that happened when Lan Ruoshui, the founder of Taiyi Sect, founded Taiyi Sect ten thousand years ago, and the life and extraordinary events of the current sect patriarch Lu Yinlin.

He had read this book of anecdotes when he was a registered disciple, but reading it again now, his understanding of many details was completely different. Duan Rong could not help but close the book and ponder. Although these things were half true and half false, the fact that Taiyi Sect was able to become one of the Eight Sects in Kyushu must be due to its foundation.

The eight sects were all eliminated by the great waves, and each of the remaining strong men was extraordinary. Although he had become a direct disciple of the sect elder, he still had not been exposed to the true secrets of the sect.

For example, outside the Shenyun Mansion, when Ge Rushong and the others were fighting, they used a treasure called the Mani Pearl. That unprepossessing thing could actually emit golden light, trapping Chu Qiushan and Zhu He inside for quite some time!

At that time, Duan Rong heard Ge Rushong say that the Mani Pearl belonged to that Elder Chu, and was obtained from the ruins of an ancient battlefield of gods and demons.

The remains of the ancient battlefield of gods and demons! ?
This was the first time Duan Rong had heard of this word, and there was no mention of this word in the materials of the sect's Sutra Repository.

But Duan Rong knew that this word was obviously very important.

If the Mani Pearl came from this place, then can we speculate that other treasures similar to the Mani Pearl also came from there? Then, where is the ancient battlefield ruins of gods and demons?

Duan Rong was deep in thought, his eyes flashing with a deep gaze, and he was obviously lost in deep thought. At this moment, Ximen Kankan suddenly called out from behind him: "Let's go!"

Duan Rong's thoughts were interrupted. He turned his head to look at Ximen Kankan, only to see Ximen Kankan standing behind him holding the yellowed sword manual.

Duan Rong put the book of the sect's ancestors' stories back to its original place and said with a smile, "How is it? I think this technique is suitable for you, right?"

Ximen Kankan stood there in silence.

Silence is the default.

After flipping through it, he had to admit that although the name of this Nine Yang Xuan Xu Sword technique was strange, it was indeed a very powerful sword technique.

Not only is the sword technique strange and very much to his liking, but it also has nine levels of strength that can be stacked on top of each other. In martial arts, it is called the Nine Yang Strength.

From this point of view, its name, Nine Yang Mysterious Sword, is very appropriate and is definitely not randomly chosen.

This sword technique is complex and powerful! Although it is difficult to practice, it is extremely powerful once you have mastered it.

The moment Ximen Kankan roughly understood this sword technique, he was very impressed with Duan Rong.

The two of them left the Sutra Repository and returned to the pavilion on Yunfu Peak. Ximen Kankan wanted to go to the stairs, but Duan Rong grabbed her by the collar and said, "Don't go back to the room! Let's go practice!"

"Practice?"

"Yes!" Duan Rong said, "We played for quite a long time yesterday. We can't waste such good time."

Ximen Kankan was already very familiar with Duan Rong's style of cultivation. He did not find Duan Rong's words strange at all, so he asked, "Where are you going to practice?"

"Secret room for training!" Duan Rong said with a smile.

Then, Duan Rong took Ximen Kankan to the back of the hall on the first floor of the pavilion. When the carved lattice wooden wall suddenly opened, a dark hole was revealed behind it. Ximen Kankan showed a very surprised expression.

Duan Rong led Ximen Kankan into the cave. After walking through a short dark tunnel, they came to a space.

In the center of the space, there stood a two-person-tall statue of Acala. The dim light shone on Acala's face, making it look gloomy and even more hideous.

There were several stone doors around the space. Duan Rong walked straight to a stone door and opened it with the key.

Ximen Kankan was still there, staring at the statue of Acala in a daze. Duan Rong waved his hand and shouted, "Kankan, come here!"

Ximen Kankan then ran into the stone gate. Duan Rong twisted the mechanism and closed the stone gate. Then he took Ximen Kankan to visit the secret room for training.

This is quite spacious, divided into several areas, and there are all kinds of training rooms, which makes Ximen Kankan envious. "Wow... It's great! I have my own training room..."

"That's enough! Stop sighing!" Duan Rong looked at Ximen Kankan and said, "You have also been practicing here these few days and have broken through the Yuan Qi realm. Come here first, and I will explain to you some of the key points to pay attention to when breaking through the Yuan Qi realm."

The two of them sat down on the cushions, and Duan Rong carefully explained to Ximen Kankan some details of breaking through the Yuanqi realm based on the sword manual that Ximen Kankan had just brought back from the Sutra Repository.

Although Ximen Kankan's style of doing things is a bit unreliable, he is extremely smart and he can roughly understand everything that Duan Rong mentioned.

Duan Rong talked about those checkpoints, all of which were passed in one go, and he had basically memorized all of them.

After Duan Rong finished speaking, he looked at Ximen Kankan and asked, "Do you understand?"

"That's about the same." Ximen Kankan smiled and said.

After Ximen Kankan lost weight, sometimes he looked even more cunning when he smiled than when he was chubby.

Duan Rong said: "Then go and explore on your own. If you encounter any problems, solve them on your own."

Ximen Kankan said "oh" and picked up the cushion under his butt and the sword manual on the table, then sat down on the other side of the secret room and began to study how to break through the Yuanqi realm.

Duan Rong believed that since he had explained it in such detail, Ximen Kankan should be able to make a breakthrough successfully in the next two days.

When he saw Ximen Kankan walking away, he sat cross-legged, focused his mind inward, and probed his spiritual consciousness into his dantian.

Zhu He said that he had a hidden injury in his Dantian, and his cyclone realm also needed to be consolidated.

Duan Rong used his spiritual sense to carefully explore his Dantian, but still did not find any hidden injury in his Dantian.

He withdrew his consciousness, opened his eyes, and a look of deep contemplation appeared in his eyes.

He had no doubt about Zhu He's words. There must be a hidden injury in his dantian.

Duan Rong's eyes flickered, and suddenly he flipped his hand and held a porcelain bottle in his hand.

He opened the stopper, and with a movement of his spiritual sense, he saw an extremely tiny drop of rich blood essence flying out of the porcelain bottle and floating in front of Duan Rong's eyes.

This is one twentieth of a drop of the essence of a high-level Yuan beast. Duan Rong swallowed three drops of it in the Elders' Hall yesterday, and now there are seventeen drops left in the porcelain bottle.

Duan Rong did not swallow this 1/20 drop of the high-level Yuan Beast's blood into his mouth, but he moved his spiritual sense again and pulled out a strand of blood from the extremely tiny drop of blood.

The blood thread was as thin as a hair.

The blood thread, like a mycelium earthworm, drilled into Duan Rong's mouth.

This strand of blood, which was separated from the essence and blood of a high-level Yuan Beast, sank into Duan Rong's Dantian. Under the activation of his skills, rich Yuan Qi instantly surged out.

At that moment, Duan Rong, who was sitting cross-legged with his mind focused inward and probing with his spiritual sense, clearly saw a few barely detectable cracks in his own Dantian.

However, as soon as the crack appeared, it disappeared immediately, because the extremely thin blood thread like mycelium had been consumed, providing only a moment of surging vitality.

At that moment, Duan Rong used his spiritual sense to suppress the cyclone, allowing the wall of Dantian to bear the impact of the surging vital energy alone, and he indeed discovered something unusual.

But at this time, after the surging vital energy subsided, Duan Rong used his spiritual sense to scan the wall of his dantian, but still could not find anything abnormal.

"It is indeed a hidden injury, but there is still some bile from the Fire Scale Python on the wall of his Dantian, which can repair the cracks. But this is only a surface repair."

"That hidden injury actually always exists."

No wonder Zhu He asked him to consolidate his realm. In his current situation, it is indeed not advisable for him to make further progress.

The essence and blood of that high-level Yuan Beast must not be used again until the hidden injuries on the Dantian wall are completely healed.

It seems that I can only use the blood and flesh of the Yuan beasts in the Black Jade Pool to slowly consolidate my realm...

(End of this chapter)