I Have Countless Past-life Identities-Chapter 40 - 38: Attaining Innate at Zither Sword Pavilion, the Great Jiao Overturns Seas and Rivers!
[Zither Sword Pavilion, located south of Wutong Prefecture, is also one of the ’prestigious’ sects within Wutong Prefecture, situated outside ’Cyan Mountain City’ under Wutong’s jurisdiction.]
[Unlike Yunluan Mountain, Wutong Prefecture.]
[Xie Wei joined the Zither Sword Pavilion from a young age, spending twenty years there. He stands among the true disciples, just a step away from achieving the Great Innate stage. Like Tantai Yao, he is addressed as ’Honorary Elder’ and is well-regarded.]
[Therefore, as the son of Xie Wei, even if born as a Half-Demon and subject to much criticism, not many in the Zither Sword Pavilion would look down on you.]
[On one hand, it is because the authority of Tantai Yao and the Old Pavilion Master still exists. The former is Xie Wei’s senior brother, and the latter is Xie Wei’s teacher, controlling the entire sect, making others dare not to speak ill.]
[On the other hand, it is due to the personal connections Xie Wei himself accumulated.]
Zither Sword Pavilion, inside the Ancestral Hall.
Lighting three sticks of incense, Pavilion Master Shangguan Cheng looked at the tablet of his direct disciple ’Xie Wei’ and sighed.
Turning around, he saw Tantai Yao entering the hall with Song Chai Xin.
"Wutong Leader, Song Chai Xin..."
This Pavilion Master, dressed in a black and white outer garment and appearing twenty years older than Tantai Yao, with graying hair and beard, scrutinized the young man closely:
"Your temperament isn’t much like your mother’s when she was young."
"She was brought to the Zither Sword Pavilion by Xie Qiaoxuan at the age of eight, spirited and sociable, having close relationships with over a hundred disciples in the pavilion, all familiar with Xie Wei."
As people age, they like to reminisce about things they can’t see. At his age, Shangguan Cheng hadn’t ventured into the third step, and this might just be the end for him in this life.
Seeing this, Tantai Yao reminded: "Pavilion Master, Young Master Song was brought here by the promise from Elder Xie to assist in the comprehension of the ’Green Blood and Red Heart’ Pool."
The implication being that it wasn’t necessary to mention these things in front of him.
"Heh, indeed, business should take priority. Having reached this level at such a young age, his future prospects are sure to be limitless."
"Let Xu Nian take him to the ’Green Blood and Red Heart’ Pool. Isn’t your disciple, Tantai Ye, also at the threshold?"
"Let the two of them go together and comprehend the ’Green Blood and Red Ink’ Qi."
Seeing no excess expression on Song Chai Xin’s face, Shangguan Cheng also realized that he wouldn’t empathize with his ramblings.
It wasn’t until he mentioned the Qi collection matter that the boy’s eyes brightened slightly, showing a hint of respect, and he expressed his gratitude after entering the hall and bowing.
Truly someone who wouldn’t loose the hawk without sight of the hare.
Thinking of his background, Shangguan Cheng couldn’t help but sigh with some regret.
In this Northwest Land, the chaos across the world had just settled, and Baoping State happened to border the Demon-Suppressing Great Wall. Within its borders, demonic creatures causing chaos was a common occurrence aside from the prefectures and cities.
Sometimes, destiny is something inevitable, and there’s nothing to be done!
...
Walking across the covered bridge in the Zither Sword Pavilion, following the yellow-clothed woman Xu Nian, Song Chai Xin walked step by step with Tantai Ye.
Under the envious gazes of the disciples they occasionally passed by, the three made their way to this prestigious sect’s most crucial ’treasure land’, the Green Blood and Red Heart Pool.
"Hey, did you really achieve this level of boxing skills in less than a year?" Tantai Ye, observing the striding and silent Song Chai Xin, was quite curious.
Xu Nian, walking ahead, didn’t turn back, but her left ear twitched, clearly paying attention to the movements behind.
But Song Chai Xin did not respond.
His gaze lingered on the mountain, the water, the wind, and the moon, seemingly wanting to capture a glimpse of that silhouette flowing within his bloodline.
He ignored Tantai Ye’s words and actions entirely.
As it is said, trouble comes from the mouth.
Having won the top place in the Wutong Prefecture Examination, Song Chai Xin had firmly established himself in the Xie Mansion. Countless individuals wished to curry favor with him, the Xie Mansion’s ’future heir’.
How could unrestrained words at the mansion’s entrance not reach his ears?
If not for Tantai Yao’s face.
Given Song Chai Xin’s temperament of holding grudges this past year.
He would have already punched Tantai Ye until he was black and blue, rather than allowing him to mutter here.
"Ugh, why won’t you pay any attention to people?"
Feeling rather indignant, Tantai Ye thought Song Chai Xin was overly arrogant and tried to block in front of him to say a few more words.
But Xu Nian, ahead, had already stopped and said: "We’ve arrived."
At the same time, she raised her sword scabbard, arching her eyebrows, and turned back sharply, giving Tantai Ye a hard hit on the forehead, causing him to immediately clasp his head in pain:
"I told you outside not to speak ill of others."
"Could it be possible that Young Master Song doesn’t want to bother with you because you offended him first?"
"Comprehending the ’Green Blood and Red Ink’ Qi is a rare opportunity for any disciple in the Zither Sword Pavilion. If not for having a good clan uncle feeling pity for you, Tantai Ye, do you think you could comprehend alongside Young Master Song?"
"Don’t waste the elders’ painstaking efforts."
Xu Nian earnestly admonished, simultaneously apologizing to Song Chai Xin:
"I hope I haven’t made you laugh. I’m apologizing on behalf of my teacher."
With that, they stepped aside, revealing the path to the Green Blood Red Heart Pool.
Looking at the yellow-clad woman before him, with her bright eyes and gentle demeanor, Song Chai Xin’s eyes held a peculiar light:
"Elder Tantai having a first disciple like Miss Xu saves a lot of trouble indeed."
Upon hearing this, Tantai Ye fumed:
"You’re just like my master!"
"He sometimes says this, but Xu Nian every day either punishes me or watches over my master..."
Hearing Tantai Ye speak so openly.
The yellow-clad woman’s expression changed.
Then, in an instant, she grabbed the boisterous young man before her, and without hesitation, opened her Great Innate pressure and tossed him straight into the pool ahead.
Splash!
Plop!
"Silence in the sect’s sacred ground!"
"Tantai Ye, if you act out again, I’m also a Zither Sword Pavilion Elder, do you think I won’t revoke your meditation rights?"
Xu Nian, with gritted teeth, threatened as she looked at the now silent young man bubbling in the water, finally regaining her composure and smoothing her hair:
"Sorry, Young Master Song, that was unbecoming of me."
"Please, go ahead."
Having said that, she pretended nothing happened under Song Chai Xin’s increasingly peculiar gaze.
Revealing the drifting mist ahead, ensconced in green light,
beneath which was a treasure map offering Zhu red blood stains, spilling into the pool below, like ink spreading through water – the ’Green Blood Red Heart Pool’.
"In the outside world, ordinary ’qi gathering’ takes three to five years just to open the Inner Scene of the Elixir Field, let alone to fiercely forge the Impermeable Vajra Body."
"But if you meditate on the ’Green Blood Red Heart Pool’ for three months in the Zither Sword Pavilion, this probability increases to fifty percent."
"Though you are recorded as a Martial Arts Leader by the Government Office, Young Master Song should cherish this opportunity."
"It’s said this ’Green Blood Red Heart’ map is related to an ’orthodox’ legacy opportunity, but in so many years, no one in the Zither Sword Pavilion has comprehended it."
"However, with your extraordinary aptitude, Young Master Song, perhaps you are the destined one, who knows."
Xu Nian smiled slightly.
[You have stepped into an ’orthodox’-grade treasure land, the Green Blood Red Heart Pool!]
[The Green Blood Red Heart Pool gathers ’Green Blood and Red Ink’ Qi.]
[The original essence of this place comes from a Great Sage of supreme cultivation, who, with a stroke of Zhu red on ink paper, bestowed their own artistic conception to sketch this treasure map.]
[It was then venerated for decades by the Zither Sword Pavilion, before being placed in this spiritually enriched clear pool, where it finally took shape.]
[For the next three months,] 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎
[Every day in the Zither Sword Pavilion, you gather ’Green Blood and Red Ink’ Qi.]
[Circulation Qi Collection embodies the meaning of ’embracing myriad rivers into one’, needing only to gather ten strands of ’vital energy’ in the Dantian to begin opening the Inner Realm.]
[Breaking through this barrier signifies the completion of ’Martial Gate Foundation Establishment’, after which the qi flows through the body, forging the Impermeable Vajra, making every part of your acupoints feel saturated with ’vital energy’, thus stepping into ’Great Innate’!]
[Within a week of entering the Green Blood Red Heart Pool, you conduct a circulation of qi, forming the first strand of ’Green Blood and Red Ink’ Qi, which can be imbued into your punches.]
[Qi gathering becomes increasingly difficult, but in a month, you manage to gather four strands—nearly half!]
[In the third month, when the ’ten strands’ of Danqing Qi in your Dantian swirl close to merging as one...]
[Your fellow meditator Tantai Ye is only halfway through his progress.]
[In his unconvinced yet resigned gaze, you look thoughtfully at the hovering ’Green Blood Red Heart’ map.]
[In your mind, the ’Fenghuo Langyan’ fist species, gleaned from a half piece fragment, gives you an intuition that...]
[The reason you are able to ’gather qi’ so swiftly, as if eating and drinking, isn’t because your talent far surpasses Tantai Ye, but because...]
[Of the fist species.]
[You begin leveraging the Divine Soul fist species to comprehend the ’Green Blood Red Heart’ map, falling into a profound and mysterious artistic conception.]
[At this moment,]
[Above Zither Sword Pavilion, standing beside the mountain outside Cyan Mountain City, storm clouds suddenly gather, bringing a torrential downpour – a harbinger of ’the house filled with the approach of a mountain storm’.]
[In the periphery... the manifestation of a Flood Dragon, coiled within the thunderstorm, its roar trembling, stirs something within you, and you have a sudden insight!]
[Looking into the sky, you then see...]
[A figure deeply etched into your marrow, familiar to the utmost degree!]
[Jiao Long Lord of Xuanqing Lake, Gua Hua!]
