The Legend of the Condor Heroes: From Being Expelled from Peach Blossom Island

Chapter 524 Innate Qiankun Technique

As the seasons changed, Wu Chengyu caused a great disturbance at Bright Peak and completely destroyed the Ming Cult. He then stayed at Bright Peak for a whole year. During that year, he basically ignored all the miscellaneous affairs at Bright Peak and left them all to Hong Niangzi.

Wu Chengyu himself carried a gourd of cold jade, about half a person's height, on his back every day. The gourd was made of stone, and even if it was hollowed out, it would still weigh over a hundred pounds. If it was filled with strong liquor, it would weigh at least two hundred pounds.

This gourd is icy cold, and no one except Wu Chengyu can get close to it. If you put it in any room, the room will immediately become an ice cellar.

The coldness of the Ice Silkworm is truly terrifying. Even the Frost Jade Gourd can only hold a maximum of two Ice Silkworms at a time, otherwise the Frost Jade Gourd will immediately shatter under the extreme cold.

According to Wu Chengyu's continuous attempts and analysis, the coldness of the Ice Silkworm seems to be a level higher than that of the Cold Jade, which is somewhat like the difference between the internal force of the acquired realm and the true qi of the innate realm.

Ordinary cold air dissipates with changes in the outside temperature, but the cold air of the ice silkworm will automatically condense. If it is in a small space, it can even freeze into ice and remain frozen for a long time. This kind of cold air is fundamentally different from the cold air produced by nature.

If cold air enters the body, one needs at least a divine skill of the level of the Divine Foot Scripture to resist it; otherwise, all the meridians and internal organs will be frozen stiff immediately, and the person who has entered the body with cold air will die within a short time, with no chance of recovery.

It is evident that although You Tanzhi was a good-for-nothing back then, his luck was astonishing. He had the Ice Silkworm and happened to obtain the Divine Foot Scripture, so he was able to fight Qiao Feng for several rounds without much effort.

If this good-for-nothing hadn't been so love-struck, and hadn't met that scheming, manipulative Ah Zi, You Tanzhi might have actually achieved something great.

During this year, Wu Chengyu was constantly absorbing the cold energy of the Ice Silkworm to practice his skills. On the one hand, he used the Gang Shou technique to absorb the cold energy into his body and temper his hands and arms. His arms gradually became as white as jade, and when he made a move, they were automatically wrapped with a tough Gang Qi.

However, absorbing too much cold air will not only cause cold toxins to enter the body, but will also taint one's internal energy with cold attributes, gradually changing the nature of one's internal energy.

That's the case with You Tanzhi. The Divine Foot Scripture is definitely not of the ice and cold attribute, but after he mastered it, his internal energy was inherently cold and poisonous, which had deviated from the scope of the Divine Foot Scripture.

Wu Chengyu's internal energy comes from the Quanxing Innate Skill, which is originally of the chaotic attribute, containing the five elements and cleverly dividing yin and yang. If it becomes a single cold attribute, it will be inferior.

Therefore, while using the cold energy to cultivate the Gang Shou technique, if you want to quickly accumulate internal energy and prevent the cold energy from changing you, you need to convert the cold energy into internal energy while expelling the cold poison from your body.

Fortunately, he found the method of practicing the Supreme Pure Yang Skill from Princess Yuzhu in Western Xia, and used the intense Yang internal energy of the Supreme Pure Yang Skill to enhance the Yang attribute in his body to resist the cold poison.

Under the mutual tempering of hot and cold, the blazing sun in the Supreme Pure Yang Skill actually slowly acquired the characteristics of pure yang. After the cold poison was eliminated, the essence in the cold air could strengthen its own yin attribute and gradually transition to Xuan Yin.

Under Wu Chengyu's Yin-Yang transformation, pure Yang and mysterious Yin alternated, expelling impurities and gradually growing stronger.

The Yin-Yang transformation that occurs after the Five Elements of the Innate Skill are perfected is the gradual mastery and utilization of the Yin-Yang attributes that are inherent in the human body.

However, this Yin-Yang attribute is the acquired Yin-Yang of the human body itself. After being contaminated by worldly energy and impurities from ingested food, it no longer possesses the characteristics of pure Yang and mysterious Yin.

To transform one's Yin-Yang attributes into pure Yang and profound Yin is an incredibly difficult task, beyond the realm of martial arts and somewhat resembling the path of immortal cultivation.

The reason why the Free and Unfettered Sect is said to be a cultivation of immortality is that the Supreme Pure Yang Skill and the Limitless Profound Yin Skill are mutually tempered, removing acquired impurities and allowing Yin and Yang to transform.

The old monster from Xixia also wanted to take this path, but she didn't have the real Wuji Xuanyin Gong. She could only create a pseudo Wuji Xuanyin Gong based on the Supreme Pure Yang Gong. The Yin and Yang were not balanced, and she went down the path of intense Yang and extreme Yin, never to return.

So she devised a different approach, having women practice the Supreme Pure Yang Skill and men practice the Pseudo-Limitless Profound Yin Skill, using the opposite attributes of men and women to temper the intense Yang and extreme Yin, and finally absorbing the internal energy of the two into their bodies, attempting to transform it into pure Yang and profound Yin.

This idea was quite bold, somewhat similar to the heretical practice of sexual cultivation, and it did have the potential to succeed. Unfortunately, Wu Chengyu saw through its secrets and thwarted it first.

What Wu Chengyu is doing now is using external force, the innate cold energy from outside, to first hone pure yang, then use pure yang to expel the cold poison, and purify the remaining yin attribute of himself, gradually transforming it into profound yin.

This process is extremely slow and requires extreme caution; a slight misstep could lead to demonic possession. Fortunately, the Ice Silkworm's cold attribute can suppress the tendency to go astray, much like the function of the Jade Bed in the Tomb of the Living Dead.

So, Wu Chengyu spent a whole year transforming all of his Yin and Yang attributes into Xuan Yin and Chun Yang. At this point, his body would be considered an innate Dao body in the world of cultivation.

If the old monster knew about Wu Chengyu's current great fortune, he might be so angry that he would crawl out from underground and fight Wu Chengyu again.

After achieving the Pure Yang and Profound Yin attributes, viewing the Ming Cult's Great Shift of Heaven and Earth becomes like revisiting high school geometry and algebra after learning advanced mathematics. The purpose of the Great Shift of Heaven and Earth is also to enhance one's own Yin and Yang attributes. Its essence is to use the conflict between Yin and Yang to hone and improve the quality of one's own Yin and Yang attributes, ultimately achieving Pure Yang and Profound Yin.

However, this method of focusing on the conflict between Yin and Yang is too intense. The damage caused by the clash between Yin and Yang is unbearable for the body, which is why it places extremely high demands on internal strength.

However, if one first completes the transformation of one's own pure Yang and profound Yin attributes, and then goes back to use the Qiankun Great Shift technique, it becomes completely unrestricted and without any flaws.

The Great Shift of Heaven and Earth has become a user manual for the pure Yang and profound Yin attributes. By following its cultivation path, one can greatly unleash the power of the Yin-Yang clash.

Having integrated the Great Shift of Heaven and Earth, Wu Chengyu, having obtained the Innate Skill from the Nameless Divine Art of Quanxing, finally deduced the subsequent Yin-Yang Mutual Generation and Conflict Technique after the Five Elements were perfected. It can be considered a true Innate Skill, at least in the low-level martial arts world, there is no room for further advancement.

The current Innate Skill is on the same level as the Free and Unfettered Sect's highest divine skill, Free and Unfettered Wind, which is the result of the fusion of the Northern Darkness Divine Skill, the Lesser Formless Skill, the Supreme Pure Yang Skill, and the Limitless Profound Yin Skill. It stands at the top of the divine skills in the world of Jin-style martial arts. Apart from Free and Unfettered Wind, no other martial art can compare with it.

In other words, Wu Chengyu transmigrated to the world of The Legend of the Condor Heroes for many years, made all sorts of plans, found various divine skills, studied and practiced diligently, and used bamboo slips to continuously analyze and integrate them, until he finally succeeded. The current Innate Skill was named Innate Qiankun Skill by Wu Chengyu, and it is unknown whether this constitutes infringement.

Besides the transformation of Yin and Yang attributes, the mastery of the Innate Qiankun Skill, and the great advancement of internal strength, Wu Chengyu's gains went far beyond that.

First is the Gang Shou (罡手). Originally, the Gang Shou's Qi, which was cultivated using the cold energy of the Ice Silkworm, was also of the cold attribute. However, as Wu Chengyu achieved mastery of Yin and Yang, the Gang Shou's Qi attribute changed to the chaotic attribute, allowing it to change between Yin and Yang at any time.

The defensive power of the Qi is even more astonishing. Wu Chengyu's Black and White Impermanence can definitely be considered divine weapons. Even in the high-tech era of later times, their sharpness is still top-notch. However, if you pick up the Black and White Impermanence and slash them fiercely at Wu Chengyu's hands.

Before the blades of the Black and White Impermanence could even get close to the skin, still an inch away, they were blocked by unseen qi. No matter how hard they rubbed against the skin, sparks flew everywhere, but they could never get close to the skin, let alone hurt it.

Most importantly, this is a passive skill. Whenever encountering a threatening weapon, this protective aura will naturally form to protect the body, so Wu Chengyu doesn't need to be distracted at all.

Secondly, the Great Shift of the Universe is supposed to have seven levels, but in reality, there are only six. The founder of the Great Shift of the Universe only completed six levels. The seventh level was just his vision, and it was full of errors and omissions, making it impossible to master. Even Zhang Wuji in later generations could only sigh in despair.

However, Wu Chengyu combined the Dou Zhuan Xing Yi technique, which incorporated the Quanxing Protector's method, with the Qiankun Da Nuo Yi technique, completely completing the seventh level and mastering it.

Wu Chengyu still named this set of techniques "Dou Zhuan Xing Yi" (Shifting Stars and Shifting Strokes), after all, his body still had half of the Murong family's blood flowing through it, but the current "Dou Zhuan Xing Yi" was no longer the same as before.

The invisible force field that was originally only three feet in front of him directly expanded to three zhang in front of him, and his control greatly increased. His strength was condensed to the extreme and he could do whatever he wanted. Wu Chengyu also referenced the move "Heavenly Garment with Seams" from Da Jiutian, which he admired the most.

This palm technique is like Han Diao Temple's Three Thousand Red Silk, or the silk threads that have eaten the Thread Fruit. It condenses the force into threads, which are formless and shapeless, yet incredibly powerful. They can cut, entangle, and even pierce through anything, like Dongfang Bubai's silver needles.

Combining this method with the new "Shifting Stars" technique created the fourth move, "Freehand," which represents Wu Chengyu's martial arts level.

(The impartial groin kick is mostly used to disgust people and to prank the future Master Guo. It doesn't have much technical content and can't be considered Wu Chengyu's true martial arts secret.)
This move is called the Soul-Guiding Silk of Unwavering Departure. Using the technique of seamless celestial garments, it emits thousands of invisible and formless silk threads. Between these threads lies an invisible force field that shifts and changes with the stars. Within a range of three zhang, it can be woven into a net for defense and entanglement, or it can cut and penetrate. It is both a control technique and can instantly disintegrate a person.

With the blessing of the Innate Qiankun Skill and the Pure Yang and Profound Yin attributes, Wu Chengyu's four freehand techniques—the Unblockable Heaven-Turning Seal, the Neither Yin nor Yang Cloud-Moving Hand, the Unreserved Dragon-Capturing Claw, and the Inseparable Soul-Guiding Silk—have all officially become innate martial arts techniques.

However, what truly troubled Wu Chengyu was that his accumulated skill was now no weaker than that of the Five Masters who had practiced for decades, and he might even surpass them soon. His skills and techniques had also reached the Innate Realm.

After his body underwent a complete transformation, he was considered extraordinary. With the five elements in perfect harmony and pure yang and profound yin in perfect balance, Wu Chengyu had reached the pinnacle of a top master. He no longer had any weaknesses and had truly touched the threshold of the innate realm, but he still could not find the way in.

Back then, the old Taoist priest Zhenxiang in Zhongnan Mountain explained to him that the threshold of innate ability does not lie in the level of skill, but in enlightenment. Everyone has a different way of breaking through innate ability, but all of these depend on opportunity. If the opportunity is not there, no matter how talented you are or how much skill you have, it will be in vain.

Just as the dividing line between top masters and supreme masters is the realm of subtlety, Qiu Qianren's time spent practicing martial arts, the hard work he put in, and even the depth of his skill were no less than those of the Five Greats, yet he could not comprehend the realm of subtlety, and was thus overshadowed by the Five Greats for his entire life.

As for what one realizes after breaking through to the innate level, Zhenxiang said that everyone's experience is different and cannot be compared.

In short, Wu Chengyu has now reached a point where he can make no further progress, and it would be futile for him to continue practicing his skills on Bright Peak.

(End of this chapter)