Stealthily cultivating in the chaotic world of demons and martial artists-Chapter 54 - 53 Yuanhe Mountain (Congratulations to the
Chapter 54 -53 Yuanhe Mountain (Congratulations to the Night Lord for pulling muscles!)_1
Chapter 54 -53 Yuanhe Mountain (Congratulations to the Night Lord for pulling muscles!)_1
Half a month later.
Fang Xi sat cross-legged, his eyes lifeless, clutching a jade slip in his hand.
In front of him, he had simply arranged the Three Talents Array with stones.
Three stones stacked up, and vaguely, it seemed there were countless combinations within them.
Nearby, there was a pile of calculating chips, as well as equations of his own making, along with various key points, notes…
“I’ve got it!”
Suddenly, a gleam of light flashed in Fang Xi’s eyes, and he began to solve the problem.
A moment later, he slumped back down, “No… all wrong…”
Ever since he acquired the array path inheritance, he had started to read and study it fanatically, forsaking sleep and forgetting to eat.
When thirsty, he drank mountain spring water; when hungry, he nibbled on an Avoiding Grain Pill, crazily tackling the initial part of the array path’s first section.
This part of the content featured only the most fundamental ‘Three Talents Array Pattern’, which required the reader to solve and use it to form a small Prohibition, akin to a small problem.
At the same time, it was also a way to test a Cultivator’s aptitude and understanding in the array path.
It was mentioned later that a real genius in arrays could solve it upon first glance.
To solve it within a day also meant good aptitude in the array path.
Within three days was considered average.
Within seven days, although a bit slower, one could barely be considered a beginner.
And now… Fang Xi had been contemplating it for the fifteenth day.
He looked haggard, like a weary old scholar who had exhausted his years, his eyes starting to show blood vessels:
“How to solve the array? No stroke seems right…”
“Damn… damn it!”
Thud!
He suddenly got up and kicked the Three Talents broken stones apart: “I must be crazy… someone who could be stumped by a calculus problem is trying to decipher arrays from another world… I’m so foolish, truly!”
“What a crappy array? I’m not learning it anymore, time for martial arts!”
The seemingly simple Three Talents Array Pattern actually required solving problems from multiple dimensions, far beyond Fang Xi’s current level of mathematics.
His time spent studying had finally made him realize one thing, he was absolutely not a prodigy in the array path!
Therefore, Fang Xi lay back, choosing to be an idle fish!
Oh, wait, that’s not right, he began martial arts training!
He opened a small jade bottle, pouring out a ‘Jade Bone Pill’ from inside.
The pill was entirely white, with a hint of milky fragrance. When eaten, it had a bitter taste.
Most importantly, after the medicinal power was refined, Fang Xi felt his entire skeleton turn numb and tingly.
It was as if countless ants were climbing and gnawing on his bones…
Not long after, this sensation turned into intense heat…
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After alternating between the two for nine continuous cycles, everything gradually came to a stop.
At that point, some pale yellow dirt seeped out of his pores.
“Bone refining?”
Fang Xi pondered.
To advance from a Second-step Martial Teacher to a Third-step, one needed to forge steel-like bones. This was a painstaking task that required daily stimulation of one’s bone marrow with True Strength. Even a slight mistake could cause disability and paralysis, so one could not rush it!
But with the support of the Cultivation Realm’s Spiritual Pills, his bone refining process was incredibly rapid!
Once he had completely refined the medicinal power of the Jade Bone Pill, Fang Xi took out the ‘Tiger Leopard Easy Muscle Balm’, applying it to the major muscle areas of his thighs and arms.
This balm, when applied, spread a cool feeling throughout his body.
Seizing the moment, Fang Xi stood up and performed a set of boxing techniques.
Bang bang!
Each of his punches seemed casual, yet the air exploded with fearsome tearing sounds.
Even with each punch, Fang Xi could feel his muscles and bones as if being torn apart and then rapidly regenerating, becoming tougher and more resilient…
Half an hour later.
Fang Xi stopped moving and breathed out a long breath.
This breath, like an arrow, shot a good distance into the open before slowly dissipating.
“Before I finish consuming all the pills, I will definitely breakthrough to a Third-step Martial Teacher!”
“Then, will it be the ‘God and Strength Fusion’ of the Fourth-step in martial arts?”
“Right! That’s the proper progression! Fist to flesh, flying with swords, pursuing immortality—that’s the true romance for men like us… Array Masters can go to hell!”
Regarding his talent in martial arts (and financial resources), Fang Xi was quite satisfied.
He closed his eyes and checked his body internally.
After swallowing the pills, one needs time to adjust and to expel the toxins.
Therefore, he didn’t want to keep consuming Jade Bone Pills continuously.
Even so, Fang Xi was confident of achieving steel-like bones and becoming a Third-step Martial Teacher within a month!
But the final step of ‘God and Strength Fusion’ was about enlightenment, a spiritual state.
The current Fang Xi was still quite confused.
Even the ‘Heavenly Wind Secret Volume’ described it in a very mysterious way, only mentioning that some Martial Teachers, through constant life and death battles, would come to understand it at the brink of life and death, while others, upon watching flowers bloom and wither, would naturally attain it.
More often, Third-step Martial Teachers would die without ever grasping the ‘God and Strength Fusion’!
“The Huang Family Secret Book is a bit too crude…”
Fang Xi looked in the direction of Yuanhe Mountain, falling into deep thought: “Should I… borrow another secret book to take a look? Just right, I have many perplexities about the Grandmaster’s ‘Unity of Heaven and Man’ as well…”
…
Yuanhe Mountain.
This mountain is located north of Tri-element City, merely dozens of miles away.
Tri-element City is situated at the confluence of a large river, with perilous mountains and rivers to its north.
Upon entering the mountain range, one could see five peaks stretching towards the sky like the fingers of a hand.
The only path up the mountain was a narrow sliver of sky.
This was Yuanhe Mountain’s mountain gate—the Blood Sect!
To enter Yuanhe Mountain, one must pass through the Blood Sect!
The gate took advantage of the terrain for defense, where a single man could hold off thousands, protecting Yuanhe Mountain from countless formidable enemies in the past.
Even the nearby rocks had turned blood-red, purportedly stained by the blood of foes.
Even though Yuanhe Mountain now swept across Ding State unchallenged, the caution and prudence of the past were still maintained. A large number of Yuanhe Mountain disciples guarded the Blood Sect’s sliver of sky, with numerous checkpoints and hidden sentinels.
Even inside some special mechanisms and holes, crossbows were installed!
With such defenses, even if the Great Liang court sent tens of thousands of troops, they could hold out for a long time, truly impregnable!
The dead of night!
The chilling wind was bitter, but the disciples guarding the Blood Sect remained alert and energetic, moving and resting with discipline and order.
But none of this was Fang Xi’s concern…
A dark cloud slowly drifted across the sky.
“Feeling stupid now? I can fly!”
Fang Xi, riding on his refined flying magical tool—the Black Cloud Cap, bypassed the Blood Sect’s perilous pass, entering the heart of Yuanhe Mountain.
“With my current strength, those one-step and two-step Martial Artists are just courting death coming at me!”
“Only the steel-boned Martial Artists who have reached the three-step, whose bones have been strengthened, are somewhat difficult to kill…but they’re as fragile as paper in front of my Gold Dragon Sword…”
After all, they’re not body cultivators from the Southern Wilderness Cultivation Realm, who had learned their lesson and always equipped themselves in full magical artifact-grade armor before going into battle, true humanoid beasts!
Immortal Cultivators are a group very adept at leveraging external forces.
Luckily, these Martial Artists didn’t have magical artifact armor to wear.
“Besides, there is the legendary Grandmaster of the sect.”
Fang Xi’s eyes were deep.
“But no matter…I can fly! Even If I can’t defeat him…with a superior magical artifact in hand, I can kite him to death!”
Yuanhe Mountain had five peaks, each with its own distinct scenery and very different statuses within the Sect.
The one that resembled a thumb was ‘Snow Soul Peak’, where the Sect Master and the Great Hall for deliberations were located.
The index finger was ‘Ten Thousand Bone Peak’, where Martial Artists and Martial Teacher Elders gathered.
As for the ring finger and pinky, those two peaks were the places where the disciples and menials resided.
Finally, there was the middle finger’s ‘Thunder Extreme Peak’!
This peak was the tallest and also a forbidden area of Yuanhe Mountain where past Sect Masters and Elders were buried.
However, there were also rumors that the only Grandmaster and Martial Saint of Yuanhe Mountain, lived in seclusion on Thunder Extreme Peak!
Fang Xi took advantage of the night to brazenly land on the summit of Thunder Extreme Peak.
Because this place was a forbidden area, usually no disciple patrolled here.
Perhaps no one in Yuanhe Mountain would have imagined that an enemy could invade from the skies!
“What a view!”
With hands clasped behind his back, Fang Xi strode forward, strolling freely within the forbidden area of Yuanhe Mountain.
At the summit of Thunder Extreme Peak, there was a small lake.
Along the edge of the lake stood a field of pristine white graves, grave markers, and mounds of earth—all white—which looked quite peculiar.
“I wonder if the owners of these tombs were buried with any martial arts secret manuals, their favorite gold and silver treasures, or rare antiques they cherished in life…”
Fang Xi mused to himself, suddenly harboring the thought of becoming a grave robber.
“Heh heh…most of the ancestors of my sect were poor, without much in the way of burial items.”
Suddenly, a voice came from the darkness.
Fang Xi’s expression remained unchanged, his hand covertly holding a ‘Golden Bell Jar Talisman’ while the Black Iron Shield was ready to fly out of his Storage Bag at any moment.
The ‘Golden Bell Jar Talisman’ was a defensive talisman he had found among the spoils of war, of a lower first-grade quality with a rather good defense.
It was more than enough to withstand a strike from a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator.
With these two trump cards at hand, he was quite unrestrained and leisurely: “Grandmaster of Yuanhe Mountain? May I know your name?”
“Haha, I dare not claim to teach…I am ‘Linghu Shan’!”
An elderly man in a green robe appeared leisurely in the moonlight, his hands clasped behind his back.
He had a large head and very pale skin, with long white hair falling on either side, looking quite aged.
But Fang Xi could sense the extremely condensed Blood Qi!
It was as if what he faced was not a mortal, but a fierce beast hiding under human skin!
At that moment, Linghu Shan had arrived in front of Fang Xi, his muddy eyes glancing over him before shaking his head: “My Sect’s disciples are unworthy, the good stuff of the ancestors has long been looted by previous generations of Sect Masters…even I didn’t obtain much, such a pity…”
Fang Xi was somewhat startled; the people of Great Liang usually held their ancestral masters in high regard.
But the person in front of him dared to dig up his own ancestral graves!
Linghu Shan suddenly looked at Fang Xi: “You must be…the ‘Sorrowful To A Ghost’ who made a scene in Tri-element City? Are you eyeing the Grandmaster’s cultivation techniques of our Sect this time?”
Fang Xi’s expression was unperturbed: “What makes you think so?”
“Heh heh…Although everyone says ‘Sorrowful To A Ghost’ is fickle, after careful scrutiny of the reports…I found that you were actually after the Huang Family Secret Book, and the old Huang Family patriarch was merely a Fourth-Step Martial Teacher…”
Linghu Shan picked his ear: “Thus, I guessed you would certainly make a trip to Yuanhe Mountain. If you want the cultivation techniques of a Martial Teacher, you would certainly not miss the Grandmaster’s.”
“Indeed so,” Fang Xi laughed heartily: “So will you give them to me?”
“I will!” Linghu Shan answered seriously.
“If you don’t, I’ll…huh?” This unexpected response left Fang Xi somewhat astonished.
