Sword Roaring in the Sky

Chapter 362 The Secret of Azure (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

Zhang Yuanqiao said, "Uncle-Master, I must stay in Luojing and Zan cannot go to Ningbi Cliff."

"As for Yan Wan, let him decide for himself!"

Sun Yanwan hurriedly said, "I don't want to go to Ningbi Cliff either. My martial arts are not high enough yet, and I don't have any children. In a few years, when I have no way to advance and I have seven or eight children, it won't be too late to go to Ningbi Cliff."

“Grandmaster Uncle, I advise you to postpone it for a few years and take good care of your health. Perhaps in these few years, you will suddenly break through to the peak, and then it will not be too late for us to go to Ningbi Cliff.”

Zhou Shuyou found it unbelievable and asked, "Don't you want to forge the Mysterious Embryo Dao Seed?"

Sun Yanwan laughed and said, "We haven't even reached the pinnacle yet, so how can we talk about forging the Mysterious Embryo Dao Seed?"

Uncle Zhou said, "Everyone says that cultivation is very fast in the Spirit Realm. Don't you want your skills to improve by leaps and bounds?"

Apart from Zhang Yuanqiao, the other four looked at each other in bewilderment. It was Zhang Qingxi who answered, "I am already the least promising, but to become a grandmaster at the age of twenty is not slow at all."

"There's no need to go any faster; I'm already quite satisfied with this progress in my cultivation."

"My second junior brother and his two junior brothers and sisters have made faster progress in martial arts than I have, so it seems they don't need to enter the Spirit Realm to cultivate."

Zhou Shuyou touched his chin, only to realize that it was now completely bald and there was no hair left to stroke. It was only then that he realized what kind of demons were sitting here.
Even his senior brother, Ancestor Feng, wasn't this monstrous in his youth, yet there are four like him here...

Yes, five. Zhang Yuanqiao is quite the old monster.

The youngest Grandmaster in the world is Monk Kongchan, but the second youngest is Zhang Yuanqiao. Moreover, Zhang Yuanqiao achieved the title of Grandmaster at a younger age than even Ancestor Feng, let alone someone as old as Zhou Shuyou.

Zhou Shuyou suddenly couldn't understand why the Songyang Sect had suddenly become like this.

If the Songyang Sect had this level of skill, how could the Zhang family, the emperor's family, have dared to imprison him for fifty years?

Zhou Shuyou immediately realized that it was indeed the Songyang Sect that had wiped out the Zhang family of the Emperor. He even took another look at Zhang Qingxi and thought to himself, "This grand-nephew doesn't look much like Zhang Yuanqiao. He probably looks more like his mother."

Zhou Shuyou said sullenly, "Let's wait a few more years."

Zhang Qingxi's heart stirred slightly, and he thought to himself, "The world of Da Lang is now in chaos. The escape of the prisoners from Tianwu Prison has also exposed the fact that the Zhang family has imprisoned martial arts practitioners from all over the world, which has angered countless people."

"The biggest trouble right now is the Tianshan Sect's open rebellion, attacking cities and seizing territories, and the Thirty-Six Friends' rampage across the world, killing officials and causing all sorts of minor disturbances. If we could have a grandmaster like our grandmaster uncle to help us, it would be much more convenient."

At that moment, Zhang Qingxi said, "Grandmaster Zhou, you don't have a residence in Luojing, which is very inconvenient. I live near Fanlou. How about I offer you a quiet house for temporary lodging?" Zhou Shuyou was immediately relieved. Both Sun Yanwan and Zhang Qingxi respected him greatly, which made this old man, who had been imprisoned for fifty years, feel quite close to them. He said, "That would be fine."

Zhang Qingxi actually wanted to go to Ningbi Cliff. He wasn't exactly happy being the emperor of Dalang, but he couldn't refuse.

After the family banquet, Zhang Qingxi naturally returned to the palace. Zhang Yuanqiao and Zhou Shuyou stayed at the Sun residence that night and talked all night, which brought them closer together.

The next day, Zhang Qingxi sent people to tidy up the house for Zhou Shuyou and delivered the land deed. All sorts of maids and servants were assigned from the palace, and even a hundred or so eunuchs were sent. There were many elderly people in the palace who had served his father, but Zhang Qingxi neither wanted to use them nor wanted to mistreat them, so he simply gave them to this grand-uncle.

The treatment Zhang Qingxi gave Zhou Shuyou was comparable to that of a king or nobleman, extremely grand. If it weren't for Zhou Shuyou's awkward status, after all, he would have even wanted to bestow a title upon him after he was released from Tianwu Prison.

A few days later, Wenxi sent a batch of letters to Sun Yanwan's residence. The eleven disabled old prisoners had witnessed their fellow prisoners leave one by one because they obeyed, and some even received good arrangements. However, they themselves might continue to squat in the dark and hopeless Tianwu Prison. Moreover, Wenxi did not cut off the news, and they gradually learned that Dalang had indeed changed. They could no longer hold back and bowed their heads.

Sun Yanwan glanced at the letters that had been delivered, and after reading only a few, she was slightly taken aback.

The contents of these letters are largely the same, all concerning methods to enter Ningbi Cliff. Some of them are from people of Ningbi Cliff, discussing how they use the people in Tianwu Prison to practice their skills. The martial arts practiced by the people of Ningbi Cliff can extract the internal energy of martial artists. Normally, when their internal energy is depleted, it only takes one or two days to recover. However, those whose internal energy has been extracted often need several months to recover, and their skill level will always be slightly lower, requiring them to practice diligently to improve again.

This is why, although the martial arts practitioners in Tianwu Prison are imprisoned, very few have had their martial arts skills crippled. Most of them can even continue to cultivate, but their power is restricted and they cannot use it.

These people described in great detail how people from Ningbi Cliff extracted internal energy. Some even witnessed an ordinary seven or eight-year-old child mastering the eight extraordinary meridians and twelve regular meridians in just a few months using this extraordinary skill.

However, this extraordinary skill seems to be very effective in accumulating internal energy, but it doesn't help in breaking through barriers. People from Ningbi Cliff cannot quickly break through to the Innate Realm and still need to study and practice diligently. Once they reach the Innate Realm or above, they can use this method to open up the hidden meridians. Many people from Ningbi Cliff, although only at the Innate Realm, have already opened up all thirty-six hidden meridians, and their martial arts are no less than those of ordinary grandmasters.

Well, once they reach the Grandmaster realm, these people from Ningbi Cliff will be stuck again. It seems that it is even more difficult for them to break through to the Grandmaster realm than for ordinary martial artists.

Sun Yanwan was secretly alarmed, thinking, "So the people of Ningbi Cliff are proficient in the Northern Darkness or other evil arts like Star Absorbing. However, the martial arts in this world are different from those of the metal element. The Innate Realm, Grandmaster Realm, Great Grandmaster Realm, and even the Supreme Realm all require the true meaning of martial arts. Without the true meaning of martial arts, no matter how high one's internal strength is, one cannot break through."

"If that weren't the case, wouldn't Ningbi Cliff be teeming with experts?"

He combined the intelligence provided by Zhou Shuyou and these old prisoners and was shocked to discover that there were actually quite a few people from Ningbi Cliff. At least several hundred people frequented Tianwu Prison. They were not a mysterious small organization of just a few people.

These people weren't particularly respectful to the Zhang family of Tianwu, but they weren't bossing them around either; they seemed to have some intention of forming an alliance.

After Sun Yanwan understood some things, her fascination with Ningbi Cliff lessened considerably. She thought to herself, "If even ordinary people can enter Ningbi Cliff, doesn't that mean this spiritual realm isn't so dangerous?"

“There are many ordinary people on Ningbi Cliff. They should be a large family. With the support of the Spirit Realm, they should be living a life like hermits. However, they only want to be lazy and don’t want to practice martial arts. That’s why they came up with the idea of ​​having the Zhang family build the Tianwu Prison to arrest martial artists from all over the world.”

(End of this chapter)