Douluo Continent: The Martial Soul is Black Kite, the Herrscher of Knowledge

From Mingdu to Donghai City, it almost crosses the entire Douluo Continent, and it would take a full three days to travel by Soul Guidance Train.

Seeing that there was still plenty of time, Fu Li decided to start cultivating on the train.

Fortunately, although he ran away from home, he was quite wealthy and bought the best tickets, owning a small, soundproof room.

Fu Li is now practicing the same technique that Aji taught him.

According to Ah Ji, this technique is called "Tai Xu Sword Qi," and it is the ultimate skill of the Black Kite Immortal of Tai Xu Mountain. It is divided into five elements: heart, form, intention, soul, and spirit. Among them, heart and intention are internal energy, while form and soul are sword moves.

He hasn't delved into much more content yet, since he's only cultivated his inner strength to the point of enlightenment and is also practicing some sword techniques.

Fu Li recalled Ah Ji's teachings. That day, Ah Ji tried its best to maintain a grandmaster's demeanor, speaking in an old-fashioned tone: "If we compare soul power to water, ordinary internal cultivation is like cultivating a vessel to hold water, constantly increasing its capacity. Not only does it require repeated and arduous training, but progress is also extremely slow, and there is even a risk of exceeding the body's capacity. However, the Tai Xu Sword Qi is fundamentally different from other cultivation methods. It draws energy from all things in heaven and earth, transforms it into what it needs, and allows it to flow freely and smoothly within the body, like living water in a stream."

Simply put, it means not pursuing a large capacity of soul power, but rather, while maintaining the basic needs, merging the consumption of one's own soul power from one's own microcosmic orbit into the macrocosmic orbit of the surrounding environment.

Although Fu Li didn't quite understand the underlying principles, he knew how powerful the effect was.

It should be noted that even a Title Douluo with dual soul cores can only rapidly convert the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Ultimately, it is still limited by one's own martial spirit and the strength of one's meridians.

He, on the other hand, is not subject to these restrictions. He can directly draw upon the surrounding天地元气 (heaven and earth energy) to release his soul skills without any conversion. Not only is he faster and more powerful, but more importantly, it is practically free.

Calming himself, Fu Li sat cross-legged on the small bed, facing the sky with his palms facing upwards, and silently recited a mantra.

This is a cultivation technique for inner strength, called the Sword Heart Technique.

Mindfulness is the first stage of understanding, and according to Ah-Chi, it is also the most difficult stage besides Spirituality.

The essence of cultivation is the sword heart, but it is not the state of mind of the sword wielder; rather, it is this sword heart manual.

This mnemonic has a total of 462 sounds. There is no written record of it. It was all recited by Aji. Fu Li has an amazing memory and memorized it after only reading it once.

The wonder of the Sword Heart Technique lies in the fact that it is merely a strange and bizarre incantation that neither teaches the circulation of qi nor guides physical training, and even Ah Ji himself does not know what it means.

However, as long as you silently recite it in your heart, even if you don't understand its meaning at all, the Sword Heart Technique has already taken effect.

It tempers the cultivator's body, refines the cultivator's will, and subtly transforms and reshapes the cultivator.

Finally, the cultivator's physical body will become the "Dao" of true energy, and consciousness will become the "lake" of thought.

There are four realms of sword heart: still water, dustless, clear mirror, and great void.

Fu Li silently recited the Sword Heart Mantra in his heart, feeling his body becoming lighter and lighter, his mind no longer turbulent, and all five senses converging in one place, as if he had forgotten all the previous troubles. Finally, everything was poured into a still lake of his heart.

This is the first realm—still water.

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The train continued its journey, yet the room was eerily quiet, save for the soft sound of breathing, which was barely perceptible amidst the clanging of the tracks and wheels.

Before anyone knew it, Ah Ji quietly opened her eyes, her red pupils darting around as she silently observed Fu Li, who was cultivating in meditation.

"Sigh, I don't know if teaching him the Taixu Sword Qi was the right thing to do or the wrong thing."

Actually, there was something it had never told Fu Li, and that was the drawback of the Taixu Sword Qi.

Although the Taixu Sword Qi is powerful, it places extremely high demands on one's sword heart.

"Emotion" is the enemy of the heart. If one allows emotions to run rampant in the heart, then the sword heart will be in danger of being damaged.

According to its observation, Fu Li doesn't seem to be the kind of person who can remain calm and composed, otherwise she wouldn't have been so easily led astray.

However, although it was agile and lawless, it occupied the other's position without doing anything, which made the servants at home often gossip about Fu Li in secret, and it also made it feel uncomfortable.

Ah Ji, feeling sorry for Fu Li, taught him the Tai Xu Sword Qi.

"Ahhh, what do I do, what do I do..."

Ah Ji scratched at the tuft of hair on his head in distress, pacing back and forth on the table.

Only when all the hair on his head had been pulled off did Ah Ji resignedly slump onto the table.

Well, since it's already done, there's no choice but to continue down the wrong path.

Ah Ji tossed his sunglasses aside, his small eyes fixed on Fu Li: "I hope my ability will be useful..."

"Huh? Ah Ji, why are you staring at me?"

Fu Li slowly opened her eyes and immediately saw Ah Ji staring at her.

"Hmph... You'll be in luck from now on, kid. With my help, you'll become the number one person in the world sooner or later!" Ah Ji chuckled.

Seeing Ah Ji's arrogant attitude, Fu Li didn't care. Instead, she took out a spiritual herb from her storage bracelet and said, "Then I'll have to cling to the immortal's leg. Here, this is my offering."

"Hmph, you're smart to be sensible, kid."

Ah Ji swallowed the spiritual herb offered by Fu Li in one gulp and patted his belly contentedly.

Fu Li glanced at her storage bracelet, which only contained about twenty hundred-year-old spiritual herbs. What was she going to do with them?

I'm afraid I won't be able to afford to raise Ah Ji anymore.

Speaking of which, Ah Ji has eaten so many of my rare and precious herbs. If we ever run out of food, stewing him should be very nourishing, right?

Ah Ji shivered twice for no apparent reason: "Hmm? Why am I a little cold?"

Fu Li touched the two black hairs on Aji's head.

Wait a minute, chickens even eat rare metals, so if we stew them and eat the meat, we might get metal poisoning, right?

"Fu Li, are you thinking about something bad?" Ah Ji flapped its wings twice and swatted away Fu Li's mischievous hand.

"How could that be?" Fu Li's expression was serious. "Ah Ji, you know me. If I'm thinking something that's bad for you, may lightning strike me dead."

Hearing the other party make such a solemn oath, Aji immediately squeezed out a few tears: "Waaah, waaah, Fu Li, I knew you wouldn't hurt me. It seems I've been thinking too badly of you all along..."

"jump--"

Before Ah Ji could finish speaking, a huge explosion came from behind.

"Huh?" Fu Li was stunned for a moment.

Huh? Could it be that God has truly intervened?

Ah Ji was also stunned. After a while, it suddenly pounced on Fu Li's face: "Oh, so you really are thinking of something bad to me! How awful! I was so touched, give me back my tears!"