Sword Roaring in the Sky

Chapter 366 Somersault Cloud (Fourth update, requesting monthly votes)

On the way, when no one was around, Zhou Shuyou asked Sun Yanwan, "I've been imprisoned for fifty years and I'm not very familiar with the martial arts of our Songyang Sect. Could you recite the Xuanhuang Scripture for me?"

Sun Yanwan had a guess that the martial arts learned by this Uncle Zhou might be different from her own. After all, he had been imprisoned for fifty years. Back then, Zhang Yuanqiao had said that the Xuanhuang Ten Transformations were created by Master Feng by taking away the ten powers of Tathagata, so the timeline didn't match up at all.

But these are elders of our sect, so it is only natural that they want to know about our sect's martial arts.

Sun Yanwan recited the Xuanhuang Scripture once. Zhou Shuyou pondered for a long time and said, "So that's how it is. Senior Brother Feng made many changes later. According to this version, it is much easier to cultivate the true Xuanhuang True Qi than forcibly cultivating it like this. The power is also much greater."

"However, of these ten transformations of Xuanhuang, two are actually superfluous."

“Back then, my senior brother wanted to create a unique skill that allowed one to control true qi even after it left the body. He found that only Taiyi Qingling true qi could easily do it. But while I was imprisoned in Tianwu Prison, I accidentally comprehended a method that could be done regardless of the attribute of the true qi.”

"If you integrate this method into the transformation of the Mountain Shifting Pearl, you won't need the transformation of the Taiyi Azure Spirit Pearl. Its power is too weak. It's better to use Earth Element True Qi to activate it."

Zhou Shuyou then told Sun Yanwan about the method he had comprehended. After trying it, Sun Yanwan found that his grandmaster was right. Curious, he asked, "What is the other superfluous change?"

Uncle Zhou laughed and said, "So what if it's the Demon-Summoning Banner? Haven't you realized that you don't actually need it to cultivate the Xuanhuang Pagoda's transformations?"

Sun Yanwan pondered for a long time and realized that Zhou Shuyou was right. The changes of the Demon-Summoning Banner really did not help in cultivating the tenth transformation. He thought for a moment and said, "That seems to make sense."

"But Grandmaster Uncle, wouldn't that leave only the Nine Transformations of Xuanhuang?"

Zhou Shuyou laughed and said, "During my fifty years of imprisonment, I studied the Wind Riding Technique of our Songyang Sect and created another lightness skill called Somersault Cloud!"

"When I fought Zhang Longdi, I had a chance to escape, but the Wind Riding Technique I had learned was no match for his Dragon Stepping Technique, which led to my capture. After much painful reflection, I created this variation, which can be integrated into the Xuanhuang Scripture and added as a new variation."

Zhou Shuyou explained the variations of his self-created somersault cloud technique to Sun Yanwan. Sun Yanwan was greatly astonished after hearing half of it and began to admire his grandmaster. In fact, he had already seen the concept of this lightness skill twice.

One is the Heavenly Demon Shadowless, which can convert between Heavenly Demon True Qi and Shadowless True Qi, thus greatly increasing speed.

One is the Heavenly Martial Spear Technique, which he has now changed to the Divine Power Spear Technique. It also involves several mental techniques, but one of them is specifically for replenishing Qi. Outsiders cannot see it, so it is as if he never needs to replenish Qi. The spear technique is as fast as thunder and lightning, incredibly fast.

Zhou Shuyou's Somersault Cloud technique utilizes the Mysterious Ice Treasure Mirror and the Crimson Essence Fire Banner. The collision of two streams of true energy, one icy and one fiery, creates a burst of true energy within a short time. In terms of burst speed alone, it is unparalleled in the world, even surpassing the Heavenly Phantom Shadowless Technique and the Divine Spear Technique. However, with such an intense burst, there is naturally no time to recover one's energy. After one move, the second move cannot be followed.

However, after listening to Zhou Shuyou's explanation of the Somersault Cloud technique, Sun Yanwan suddenly thought of the Divine Staff Technique. A flash of inspiration struck her, and she secretly pondered, "Each strike of the Divine Staff Technique can borrow a portion of force. If this borrowed force is used to balance the Somersault Cloud, wouldn't that be another approach?" After a moment of deduction, Sun Yanwan felt that if the Somersault Cloud technique was used to activate the Divine Staff Technique, each strike of the Divine Staff Technique could borrow some force, and the advantage of the increasingly heavy staff technique might be lost. However, with the aid of the Somersault Cloud, this staff technique would probably be as fast as lightning, even surpassing the Heavenly Shadowless Demon and the Heavenly Martial Spear Technique, which would be a completely different approach.

In fact... it's practically two different martial arts.

Although the moves are the same, the true martial arts essence of wielding the staff is completely different.

Sun Yanwan didn't know which supernatural staff technique was more powerful, but he estimated that using different staff techniques against different enemies would be more effective.

Along the way, Sun Yanwan and Zhou Shuyou constantly discussed martial arts, revising the Xuanhuang Scripture. Sun Yanwan even used the techniques of Ice Silkworm Transformation and Ice Soul Divine Skill to remodel the Xuanbing Treasure Mirror, pushing this icy palm technique to a whole new level. Zhou Shuyou was also greatly shocked to learn that Sun Yanwan also knew about Ice Silkworm Transformation and Ice Soul Divine Skill.

Actually, he had never heard of the Ice Silkworm Transformation. After all, when he was imprisoned, the master of the Great Snow Mountain had not yet created this divine skill. However, he had heard of the Ice Soul Divine Skill. This martial art had been lost for countless years, but it was unanimously recognized by the martial arts world as the number one cold-type divine skill.

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However, the Ice Soul Divine Art is completely different from the Xuanhuang Scripture, and it is impossible to integrate it into the Xuanhuang Scripture. It can only be used with the Ice Soul Divine Art and the Ice Silkworm Transformation to push the Xuanbing Treasure Mirror to a higher level.

The original Xuanbing Treasure Mirror only had twelve levels, and could be cultivated up to the Grandmaster level at most. However, the revised Xuanbing Treasure Mirror can now be cultivated up to thirteen levels, reaching the pinnacle and never losing to any cold-type cultivation technique in the world again.

When the convoy was about to reach Jinan Road, the newly revised Xuanhuang Scripture was nearing completion. Sun Yanwan made several copies, intending to send one to her master Zhang Yuanqiao and her senior uncle from Songyang Mountain.

Upon arriving at Jinan Road, Gu Shenggong had already sent someone to deliver a message, and the two leaders of the Thirty-Six Friends came out to greet them from afar.

There was no other way; Sun Yanwan had actually managed to free someone from their confinement, which was a great favor to the Thirty-Six Friends. In addition, he had killed Zhang Xianwei before. Although the emperor was not actually killed by Sun Yanwan, and nominally died at the hands of Alanto, he actually died at the hands of Yang Wuji, the Thirty-Six Friends still acknowledged this favor.

Otherwise, how could these old monsters, who have been imprisoned for decades, possibly take a junior seriously?
Even Zhou Shuyou was nothing special in the eyes of these old monsters.

When Zhou Shuyou saw the two big-headed dragons, he was horrified and whispered to Sun Yanwan, "There are five Grandmaster-level old monsters in the Tianwu Prison. I am one of them. The two big-headed dragons of the Thirty-Six Friends are also at this level. In fact, before I mastered the Xuanhuang Pagoda Transformation, the martial arts of these two old monsters were even above mine."

Sun Yanwan was taken aback. Zhou Shuyou's martial arts were already extremely high. After all, he was the junior brother of Feng Laozu. Even if he had not mastered the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda, he was still a grandmaster and would not lose to anyone of the same level in the world. Even if he encountered his master Zhang Yuanqiao, the monk Kongchan from Shaochan Temple, Alan Tuo from Longzang Temple, or even Xuanming Laozu, he would not lose.

He immediately became somewhat curious about the two leaders of the Thirty-Six Friends.

(End of this chapter)