Eternal Life Starts as a Hunter-Chapter 151 - 98: At the Door of the Life Atlas, Dreams, the Girl, and the Wu Ya
"From now on, Tie Sha won’t be able to work for you anymore..."
Li Yuan glanced at Yu Chaoyin, stood up, and helped him up, saying, "Sect Leader Yu, there’s no need for such courtesy, those unaware are not to blame."
Yu Chaoyin bowed again, then respectfully sat down to the side.
Only then did Li Yuan look at Tie Sha and ask, "Sect Leader Tie, why do you want to leave?"
Tie Sha said, "To be honest, Ancestor, our Blood Saber Sect originally belonged to the Holy Fire Palace. If all went well, every two years, or even every year, I’d be summoned into the palace to glimpse our sect’s Life Atlas for contemplation.
But now... it’s been over four years.
He sighed deeply, "Our Blood Saber Sect has lost contact with the Holy Fire Palace. Perhaps... we’ve been abandoned, forgotten, or maybe the Holy Fire Palace has undergone a great upheaval.
However, I’ve been stuck at Seventh Grade Perfection for a long time, and seeing my vitality fading, I wish to journey to the Central Plains in hopes of that one chance to break through."
Li Yuan said, "The Central Plains are dangerous, is there no other hope?"
Tie Sha gently shook his head, laughed self-deprecatingly, "The Life Atlas requires both form and spirit to be effective, and many legacies are unique.
How could such a legacy possibly end up around our Shanbao County?
Even if it were here, my Shadow Bone is already set, how could it be changed?"
Li Yuan was silent for a moment, then said, "I understand, when you decide on a time to leave, let me know in advance so I can have Hengwu Restaurant prepare fine wine."
"Alright!" Tie Sha displayed some heroic spirit, smiled, and said, "With the Ancestor seeing me off, it is enough, regardless of whether or not I can return."
Li Yuan said, "Sect Leader Tie, there’s one more thing I’d like to ask you to help with."
Tie Sha said, "Please feel free to instruct me."
Li Yuan thought for a moment and said, "I would like to borrow the Blood Saber Sect’s cultivation skill to take a look."
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Several days later, Li Yuan held the Blood Saber Sect’s cultivation skill.
This was a complete cultivation skill, whereas when normal disciples practice, they either rely on mantras and master’s teachings or can only see parts of copies. Such a complete version is the most precious thing in the Blood Saber Sect.
But since Li Yuan asked, Tie Sha gave it to him.
The reason Li Yuan wanted it was that he was using other cultivation skills to carve out the path for his own cultivation skill’s future.
That Nameless Skill is now at Ninth Grade Perfection, but to enter Eighth Grade, he still needs to feel his way across...
This ’way’ refers to other cultivation skills.
At this moment, he carefully compared it with the Soul-Throwing Technique.
The cultivation mantra of the Soul-Throwing Technique is:
"A toad climbs to the heavenly gate, Gathering Qi like a mountain." 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞
"The great river flows through the wilderness, Throwing souls like the moon forms a bow."
But the Blood Saber Sect’s Earth Fire Travel Technique, its mantra is completely different.
Li Yuan read it softly.
"An angry surge propels the blood, The mind hides a red snake wandering freely.
The heart nurtures the fury of a mountain explosion, Earth fire refines the body, traveling completely."
He read the explanations and diagrams carefully, then closed his eyes to internalize and reflect.
After a long time, he slowly said, "A toad climbs to the heavenly gate, Gathering Qi like a mountain,
Presses the space within the abdomen with a peculiar squatting posture, using Qi to push and compress the blood.
An angry surge propels the blood, The mind hides a red snake wandering freely,
It uses emotions of anger and killing to stimulate fervor.
Simply put, when a person gets emotional, the heart rate increases, and so does the blood volume, thus..."
Li Yuan suddenly found it amusing.
"This Earth Fire Travel Technique of the Blood Saber Sect, could it be a cultivation skill for high blood pressure?"
"Isn’t this just high blood pressure?"
"Forget it, different world, on Blue Star this is high blood pressure, but here it’s a cultivation method..."
Li Yuan reconsidered and realized it wasn’t entirely so.
Before reaching Entry Grade, all those unranked cultivation skills he desperately practiced, didn’t they serve to make his body more sturdy?
"So, a strong body can accommodate high blood pressure?
On Blue Star, is it that people’s bodies are too weak to handle it?"
Li Yuan suddenly remembered a sentence from the diary of a master he read before.
"The secret lies in compressing blood, forging blood, with cultivation as the lead, assisted by external stimuli, to bring about a qualitative change...
So, one of the essences of cultivation skills is to increase blood pressure while letting the body withstand this pressure?"
Li Yuan continued to ponder.
"The great river flows through the wilderness, Throwing souls like the moon forms a bow.
This is with the Breathing Skill to further compress the blood.
In order to throw souls, one must first accumulate Qi, inhaling a large amount of air with the Breathing Skill to compress the blood, thus the face turns red."
"The heart nurtures the fury of a mountain explosion, Earth fire refines the body, traveling completely.
This involves accumulating anger, repeatedly suppressing it, then instantly detonating it, using High Grade demon beast meat and cultivation skill to streamline blood flow, thus allowing Shadow Blood to compress and reach every corner of the body."
"It’s all the same...
The aim is to compress the blood."
"Then let’s give it a try..."
Li Yuan had Aunt Wang cook a pot of Eighth Grade Demon Beast Meat, during which he donned the weighted armor he had prepared in advance, put on the weighted leg bindings, then began running wildly in the spacious private martial arts practice yard, activating his Shadow Blood.
After running for a while, he wasn’t satisfied, so he turned and put on a hundred-pound iron backpack and continued running.
He ran extremely fast, with each step taken with maximum force.
His figure swept through the practice yard like a whirlwind, with a "whooshing" sound.
An hour later, he felt fatigued, so he quickly stopped, rested briefly, and began eating.
He ate heartily, the broth splashing everywhere, and soon finished the pot.
After eating, he quickly closed his eyes and began accumulating anger using the anger-inducing method from the Earth Fire Travel Technique...
Accruing anger wasn’t actually difficult; it mostly involved imagining that the people closest to him were killed, thus easily forming it.
After a stick of incense later, Li Yuan quickly got up, controlled the rapid flow of Shadow Blood, and then curled his body in a posture similar to the squat stance of the Soul-Throwing Technique to compress his breathing space, then began inhaling using the Breathing Skill of the Soul-Throwing Technique...
