Transcending Heavens: Starting with the Ancient Tomb Sect

Two months later.

On the cold jade bed.

Yue Que sat upright on it, meditating with his palms facing upwards.

Surrounded by a chilling aura, the internal energy within his body was circulating according to the predetermined route of the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra. With the help of the Jade Cold Bed, the progress of the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra was constantly advancing beyond Yue Que's expectations.

After circulating his internal energy three times, Yue Que stopped and finished his practice, getting up from the cold jade bed and getting off.

"ha!"

After exhaling a breath of visible white steam, Yue Que activated his Quanzhen internal energy once more, dispelling the slight heat emanating from his body.

Her face was flushed, as if she had just stepped out of a hot spring.

The reason for this is that the heat generated by Yue Que during his cultivation of the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra was countered by the extreme cold energy on the Cold Jade Bed, resulting in this peculiar situation.

"The speed at which this martial art has progressed seems a bit too fast."

Upon closer examination, Yue Que discovered that its amplification effect on the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra was greater than that on the Quanzhen Internal Energy.

Based on what Xiaolongnu said, one year of cultivation is equivalent to ten years of practice, no wonder her strength is so much greater than ours. I wonder how long she has been cultivating in this way.

That's cheating!

Even Hao Datong, one of the Seven Masters of Quanzhen, was no match for her and had no chance to fight back.

While his exquisite moves countered the Quanzhen Swordplay, they were accompanied by powerful flying bricks. His sword was broken, and the beating caused Hao Datong, who was in his fifties, to have a mental breakdown, so ashamed that he almost committed suicide.

Among the Seven Masters of Quanzhen, perhaps only the sect leader Ma Yu and Qiu Chuji could suppress Xiaolongnu.

After considering his own martial arts skills and figuring out how many moves he could probably withstand, Yue Que temporarily put aside that thought and focused his attention on the cold jade bed.

Since learning the complete Jade Maiden Heart Sutra in the stone chamber that day, Little Dragon Girl generously lent me the Jade Bed, which greatly increased the amount of time I could use it.

It should be noted that in the previous six months, Yue Que and his junior brother Yang Guo had only used the Cold Jade Bed to cultivate their internal energy a total of three times.

Come to think of it, this Jade Bed is, in a sense, actually Little Dragon Girl's bed, and it would be a bit crowded for three people to sit on it.

Yue Que had always known that the Cold Jade Bed was a treasure of the Ancient Tomb Sect, a treasure that could be used to assist in cultivating internal strength.

You should know that treasures with this ability are often precious elixirs in other sects, requiring a lot of resources and talented people with sufficient alchemy skills. Under such circumstances, how many people can afford to eat them?

For example, the Great Elixir of Shaolin Temple.

Such treasures are rarely seen by outsiders. They are usually only brought out when someone owes a great favor, and even more so by those within the sect who have performed great deeds to be qualified to receive them.

The Quanzhen Sect naturally had such things, but Yue Que had never seen them with his own eyes. He had only glimpsed a few fragments from the sect's scriptures over the course of twelve years.

He suspected that the Quanzhen Sect, after losing its founder Wang Chongyang and with the Old Urchin trapped on Peach Blossom Island, would no longer be able to refine that kind of elixir.

It wasn't that Yue Que didn't believe it, but rather that the Seven Masters of Quanzhen had reached this level.

The fact that the Quanzhen Sect can still claim to be the number one sect in the world can only be attributed to the influence of its founder, Wang Chongyang, and its relationship with the great hero Guo Jing.

The disciples under his tutelage were rendered utterly incompetent.

During his twelve years of service in the Quanzhen Sect, Yue Que had already vaguely sensed this. The Quanzhen Sect was experiencing a common problem found only in large corporations, and signs of internal strife had already begun to emerge.

It should be said that this started with the generation of Guo Jing and Yang Kang, and the current internal strife within the sect can be considered a continuation of that.

Compared to the Wudang Sect, which would also belong to the Taoist school in the future, the Quanzhen Sect's internal governance was far inferior.

This is the difference between the Seven Masters of Quanzhen and the Seven Heroes of Wudang.

Yue Que felt that the most likely reason for this situation was that his ancestor, Wang Chongyang, died too young.

In summary, outsiders are unaware that the Quanzhen Sect is currently only maintaining a superficial level of glory.

If the Quanzhen Sect is touched by a powerful outsider or rebels from within, its outward glory will crumble.

"..."

Looking back at the Jade Bed that belonged to Xiaolongnu, Yue Que suddenly had a thought: he wanted to take the Jade Bed with him when he obtained the Nine Yin Manual.

After all, the Northern Darkness Divine Art, which can absorb people's internal energy, cannot be found in this world... This Jade Bed, which can help cultivate internal energy, is a supreme treasure.

Yue Que had considered creating similar martial arts techniques using his perspective as a transmigrator, and he had even put the idea into practice. External martial arts were one thing, but internal martial arts were another. If one wasn't careful, one's internal energy could go astray, leading to qi deviation at best, and death at worst.

Besides, there weren't many people in the Quanzhen Sect for Yue Que to test his skills on.

After looking at it for a while, Yue Que subconsciously bent down and lifted the cold jade bed, feeling that the weight of the cold jade bed was probably more than a ton.

Carrying this cold jade bed around was indeed very difficult.

The ancestral master, Lin Chaoying, was truly remarkable.

"Senior brother, what's wrong with you...?"

As Yang Guo walked in carrying the prepared dinner, he was astonished to see his senior brother bending down, rolling up his sleeves, and beginning to lift the cold jade bed.

Senior brother is doing something that's hard to understand again.

For a moment, Yang Guo was completely bewildered.

Even though he had spent a long time stealing chickens and dogs, Yang Guo never imagined that his senior brother would have designs on that cold jade bed.

"Ah~"

Yue Que turned around and gave an awkward but polite smile. He stepped forward and took the dinner from Yang Guo's hand. He slowly changed the subject and said, "Junior Brother, you've come so early today. I suppose Aunt has made some arrangements."

Since Yue Que began cultivating the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra, he noticed that Yang Guo's martial arts cultivation progress seemed to have slowed down considerably during his free time.

What made Yue Que even more speechless was that Yang Guo had even taken over Yue Que's previous job.

In other words, Yang Guo is now serving both his senior brother and aunt in the ancient tomb, and his respect for his senior brother and his filial piety towards his master are almost overflowing.

But in Yue Que's eyes, all he saw was that filial piety had been distorted.

In order to buy time, Yang Guo truly endured hardship and bided his time.

Based on his understanding of his junior brother, Yue Que felt that Yang Guo might have started practicing Toad Stance again.

The two brothers understood each other perfectly. Yang Guo smiled and said, "When I came here just now, my aunt asked me to come find my senior brother, saying that the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra can proceed to the next step."

"My aunt said she has found a suitable place and asked my senior brother to go and find her."

After Xiaolongnu taught the two the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra, and Senior Brother became the first choice after twelve years of Quanzhen internal energy cultivation, Yang Guo witnessed the change in the relationship between the two in the past two months.

For example, Yang Guo occasionally witnessed his aunt touching his senior brother, which seemed to have a very intimate feel to it.

Moreover, he would ask some inexplicable questions from time to time, and even Yang Guo had to answer them.

If Yang Guo's fear during the six months before he began practicing the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra stemmed from Xiaolongnu's indifference towards all life, then during these two months, as Xiaolongnu began to become more and more human, Yang Guo became increasingly afraid.

"..."

Upon hearing this, Yue Que fell silent, a bitter taste tinging with the sweetness in his mouth.

half an hour.

Yue Que waved his hand without saying anything, and simply carried the lunch prepared by his junior brother out of the stone chamber.

The moment he stepped out of the room, he heard Yang Guo's soft, worried voice enter his ears—

"Senior brother, take care!"