Misguided practice of sinister cultivation techniques: Slander! The problem lies with you all, not me!-Chapter 409 - 259: Top Ten Martial Skills, Extraordinary Wisdom, I Command You to See Through Everything! (Please Subscribe)
Chapter 409: Chapter 259: Top Ten Martial Skills, Extraordinary Wisdom, I Command You to See Through Everything! (Please Subscribe)
Mingyu Palace, Yangli Island, surrounded by a vast field of sweet potatoes, sat a uniquely shaped palace.
When night fell, the palace was lit from within.
Elder Yang Li of Mingyu Palace had not yet slept; she was still concerned about Cultivation Techniques.
"Has there been any new progress with that Cultivation Technique?" As Elder Yang Li sipped the blood-like grape wine from a Night Light Cup and ate roasted sweet potatoes, she inquired.
A female disciple respectfully bowed and responded, "Elder, there’s still only Zhao Yin and a few others who have grasped a leg technique, Chen Ying seems to have understood a breathing method, and the Fist Technique of the deceased Fang Yu has been verified as her own fabrication."
Yang Li put down her sweet potato, picked up a pipe next to her, and exhaled clouds of smoke: "Useless lot! Tell Mrs. Fu to double the portion of blessings and increase the humiliation; they still have potential to be tapped."
The female disciple said, "Mrs. Fu reported today that those test persons now only sleep for two hours a day."
"Two hours? That long? A bunch of test persons aren’t working hard enough; do they have less stamina than this sweet potato skin?" Elder Yang Li challenged.
The disciple lowered her head, "Half a month ago, four test persons died from exhaustion."
"What do you mean died from exhaustion? That’s laziness. If they could comprehend the Divine Skill, would they die from exhaustion? Besides, having the opportunity to attempt such a Divine Skill is already their good fortune; they’re dying as appropriate. Alright, you may leave and get back to work."
After the female disciple left, Elder Yang Li stood up and went to her sleeping quarters to rest.
Her mood was far from pleasant, for up to now, all the Cultivation Techniques derived from that broken stele seemed utterly ordinary.
It was no ordinary broken stele.
Three hundred years ago, a samurai ghost from Fusang arrived, claiming to seek enlightenment in Shen Zhou. Having traversed three states, he went on a rampage, brutally killing a hundred renowned experts and committing atrocities of rape and murder throughout the territories.
Some victims even became his followers after the ordeal.
This warrior from Japan was said to wield his blade with exceptional speed, slicing a snowflake into sixteen equal parts. Moreover, it was rumored that he was possessed by a vengeful spirit, whose howling attack induced paralyzing fear in adversaries.
That was why many an expert did not perish by his hand but died of sheer fright.
When the other experts of Jiu Zhou heard the news, had they not worried about bringing disaster upon themselves, they would have avoided the situation entirely; others, seeing that he was still far from their territories and doubting their own ability, chose to stay out of it and watch from a distance.
Some, with impulsive temperaments, confronted him and were swiftly dispatched without making much difference.
For a time, Jiu Zhou, a place famed for its multitude of experts, could find no one willing to challenge the edge of this Japanese warrior.
At this juncture, an unknown Martial Artist emerged from the great mountains, self-titled "The Tenfold Exterminator."
The Tenfold Exterminator looked unremarkable, akin to a woodcutter, yet he managed to defeat the fearsome samurai ghost, leaving him wailing miserably.
It was said that the warrior from Japan was ultimately torn into ten pieces and perished, never again to see the cherry blossoms of his homeland.
Following this battle, The Tenfold Exterminator’s fame spread far and wide, and many from the Martial World even nominated him as the Martial Arts Alliance Hierarch.
But then, just like that, he vanished into thin air, treating fame and distinction as mere dust.
Later, Jianghu people would catch occasional glimpses of him, as elusive as a dragon spotted only in glimpses.
And this broken Stele, it was Elder Yang Li of Mingyu Palace who accidentally discovered it in a desolate tomb, specially commissioning a thorough investigation, only to realize it was left by The Tenfold Exterminator, inscribed with his Martial Arts.
However, the Martial Arts of The Tenfold Exterminator were no ordinary skills, and being inscribed on a broken stele, one would risk possession by demons when attempting to practice them.
Later, disciples of Mingyu Palace were made to try, but confined by their own existing Martial Arts or inherent caution, they barely grasped anything.
According to the unwritten rules of Jianghu, Elder Yang Li steadily sought out promising test persons.
These test persons were blank slates, who, under her "Destroying Body and Mind Skills," strived unusually hard, in hopes of carving out a path for her success.
In reality, the Mingyu Skills of Mingyu Palace were already exceedingly rare and exceptional, yet they demand too much from a person’s nature and talent.
Yang Li believed that even with double the effort in two lifetimes, she couldn’t achieve the heights of the past Palace Masters, hence she sought an alternative approach in this regard.
In fact, Mingyu Palace was not as stagnantly self-contained as the outside world imagined, as many of its Martial Arts were extrapolated from other methods.
One of the great utilities of "Mingyu Skills" was to assimilate others’ techniques and innovate anew.
For instance, the Broken Branch Hand of Mingyu Palace evolved from the Big Eagle Yin Hand of the Inner Palace, and after being reinterpreted by a former Palace Master of the Jade Palace, it became not only more graceful and elegant but also more insidious and deceptive than the Big Eagle Yin Hand.
Yang Li was well aware that within the Mingyu Palace’s own Martial Arts, she could no longer improve, yet The Tenfold Exterminator’s broken stele offered new possibilities.
What frustrated her most was that, since acquiring the stele, no less than a hundred test persons had died without notable progress.
What a bunch of useless waste!
Such a drain on the corn and sweet potatoes of Mingyu Palace!
Speaking of sweet potatoes, the disciple of Mingyu Palace who had just left Yang Li did not return to her dwelling but went to the fields to plant sweet potatoes instead.
The people of Jianghu only knew the women of Mingyu Palace to be terrifying, that even a lowly servant within could kill without batting an eye, unaware that these coldly fearsome fairies, in the eyes of demons, had to till the fields within Mingyu Palace.
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Especially the faction under Elder Yang Li’s jurisdiction paid particular attention to this task.
According to Yang Li, only when both body and mind are on the path, one can achieve true success.
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