Longevity Begins with the Seven Injuries Fist-Chapter 297 - 184: Twelve Dragon-slaying Shuttles! Gathering Yuan Needle Technique!
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Under Su Que’s probing, the knowledge he acquired grew steadily.
He thought to himself, those soldiers sent to gather information were truly the elite spies of the Heaven-Breaking Army.
During the time spent in the Central Plains, they gathered plenty of intelligence for him.
These spies first expended some effort and employed certain techniques to uncover a force detrimental to the Wu Family, the Hunting Dragon Alliance.
Although this force broadly recruits martial artists, it is not a careless recruitment; otherwise, information would leak, and the Wu Family would be on guard.
The spy who obtained the token for Su Que fabricated his background and experiences and smoothly responded to the questions from the Hunting Dragon Alliance’s martial artists, allowing him to become a member and acquire the token.
The Hunting Dragon Alliance has quite a number of martial artists, with a wide range of strength among them.
Martial artists with low cultivation levels deal with members of the Wu Family with similarly low martial arts cultivation.
High-level martial artists then restrain figures like the Patriarch and others above the Gang Condensing Realm.
Reports from the spies indicate that this temporary alliance has a powerful alliance leader whose identity remains mysterious.
This leader plans to release the Wu Family’s Qilin, only to capture it again.
Once the Qilin is recaptured, the leader aims to raise it and divide a portion of the Qilin flesh and blood among others, according to their martial arts cultivation.
Su Que did not know the character of this leader and whether he would keep his word.
However, this was unrelated to him.
Because he planned to join the chaos and try his luck.
He wondered if he could seize the opportunity to acquire the Qilin Essence.
Yet, how exactly to extract the Qilin Essence, he still did not know.
Thus, he headed towards Purple Sun Temple to seek Elder Qingxuan’s advice.
Upon reaching Purple Sun Temple, and meeting Elder Qingxuan, Su Que immediately asked his questions.
Elder Qingxuan listened and stroked the beard on his chin: "If the exotic beast is dead, simply use True Qi to force its flesh and blood to expel all its essence."
"If the exotic beast is not dead, a specific method must be used."
"I was quite fortunate, as in my youth, I learned from the Grand Tutor and successfully used his taught methods to extract the essence from a crocodile with exotic beast bloodline."
’Grand Tutor?’ Su Que thought for a moment, realizing that the Grand Tutor should be Li Xuanji’s mentor.
’I didn’t expect Elder Qingxuan was taught by Li Xuanji’s mentor,’ Su Que thought.
’Perhaps because Li Xuanji’s mentor consumed Black Tortoise flesh and blood, he probably lived for quite some time and knows many things.’
’Had I known earlier, I would have spared his life, imprisoned him, and surely learned much from him.’
While Su Que was thinking, Elder Qingxuan continued:
"The Dharma Gate the Grand Tutor taught me to extract exotic beast essence is a needle technique known as ’Gathering Yuan Needle Technique,’ which is quite hard to master."
"It requires employing twelve needles at once."
"Because the crocodile I needed to extract essence from had a weak exotic beast bloodline."
"Therefore, merely using twelve golden needles could expel its essence."
"But if one intends to extract the essence of the Wu Family’s Qilin, even if that Qilin is not a pureblood, it would likely require needles infused with precious metals, along with the ’Gathering Yuan Needle Technique,’ to extract the essence."
On hearing this, Su Que pondered.
Learning the "needle technique" posed no difficulty for him; he considered where he might find needles infused with precious metals.
He was about to ask Elder Qingxuan when Elder Qingxuan seemed to anticipate his query and said:
"Sir, you likely know our master is a descendant of a great clan, having left behind many formidable treasures."
"Perhaps you can inquire if the master possesses needles or shuttles as exotic soldiers, ideally, inside not too many nor too few, precisely a set of twelve."
’Exotic soldiers?’ Upon hearing this, Su Que’s eyes beneath his mask revealed a hint of surprise.
He hadn’t expected Li Xuanji to have exotic soldiers.
However, he didn’t understand why he had never seen Li Xuanji use them before.
The exotic soldiers he had encountered were Li Tunshan’s Golden Thunder Ring and the Night Rain Listening Sword of the Lin Family’s young members.
These exotic soldiers often bore a certain aura.
He had seen Li Xuanji use two sabers, and although they appeared as treasure sabers, they were certainly not exotic soldiers.
While contemplating, Su Que bid Elder Qingxuan farewell and proceeded to the Heaven-Breaking Army Mansion.
Upon arriving at Heaven-Breaking Army Mansion, Li Xuanji had not yet departed.
Su Que immediately met with Li Xuanji and explained his intention to extract Qilin Essence, hoping to borrow the exotic soldiers.
After hearing this, Li Xuanji pondered then replied, "I indeed possess a type of shuttle as exotic soldiers named ’Twelve Dragon-slaying Shuttles.’ If you wish to borrow them, I can send someone to fetch them."
As Elder Qingxuan mentioned, the Li Family left Li Xuanji quite a few exotic soldiers.
Even though many were scattered during the Li Family’s flight, the remaining inventory, while not as vast as the Nine Great Noble Families or Major Sects of the Central Plains, outstrips many ordinary forces.
Previously, Li Xuanji did not use exotic soldiers because channeling True Qi into them generated a burst of power.
At that time, Li Xuanji deemed his martial arts cultivation insufficient to suppress the strength of the exotic soldiers.
Now having practiced the "Rakshasa Kui Divine Skill," his martial arts cultivation has significantly increased, allowing him to wield exotic soldiers in combat.
Su Que inquired about the general appearance of the "Twelve Dragon-slaying Shuttles," learning that they were about the size of ordinary shuttles.
Embedding the shuttles into the enormous Qilin like needles, perfectly suited for the application of "Gathering Yuan Needle Technique."
