Free Web NovelChapter 456: Chapter 277: Perfection in One Day, Yama’s Indestructible Golden Body, Dragon Slaying Nineteen Forms
To Lu Mingyuan, however, this drawback meant nothing at all.
"It’s fine. Master, please teach me."
Regardless, this was a Cultivation Technique filled to the brim with Slaughter Power.
As long as one kept fighting, one’s strength would continue to soar.
"Alright."
Seeing that Lu Mingyuan still wanted to learn, Zhao Xuanwu didn’t try to stop him. He took a white Jade Slip from his sleeve and handed it to Lu Mingyuan.
"I found this Cultivation Technique in my youth, amidst the ruins of the Dragon-Slaying Blessed Land. You could call it a stroke of Opportunity."
Zhao Xuanwu began to explain the origin of the Cultivation Technique.
"Five hundred years ago, the Dragon-Slaying Blessed Land was also a Great Cave Heaven. Unfortunately, there were too many Cultivators fighting over Opportunities inside. A rumor, in particular, eventually turned the place into a wasteland. A hundred years have passed, and while it has recovered somewhat, it’s not what it once was. Still, it’s a Blessed Land. Upper Three Grade Cultivators look down on it, but Middle Fifth Grade Cultivators can still find plenty of benefits if they go."
The news sounded rather familiar to Lu Mingyuan. "A rumor? Did someone spread news of an Ascension Platform inside?"
Surprise showed in Zhao Xuanwu’s eyes. "Indeed. Someone spread the news that an Ascension Platform had appeared in the Dragon-Slaying Land, attracting experts from the Three Religions to fight over it. That’s what destroyed the Grotto Heaven."
"The Ascension Platform... Chen Ke told me about this as well."
Lu Mingyuan heard that name again.
The Ascension Platform was also something he was looking for.
One, the Ascension Platform. Two, plundering the Destiny of the Six Kingdoms. These were the two conditions necessary to resurrect Qi Xingyan.
"Thank you for the Cultivation Technique, Master. Your disciple will now enter seclusion for a day, so I must take my leave," Lu Mingyuan said.
"One day? What can you possibly cultivate in a single day?" Zhao Xuanwu was baffled.
The expedition was about to begin.
And at a time like this, Lu Mingyuan actually wanted to go into seclusion?
’Is he for real?’
"One day is enough."
Lu Mingyuan gave a faint smile.
Without further explanation, he took the Cultivation Technique’s Jade Slip and went to Qianyuan Hall alone to enter seclusion.
Lu Mingyuan sat cross-legged on a stone plinth.
He gripped the Jade Slip for the "Dragon Slaying Nineteen Forms" as the names of two other Cultivation Techniques surfaced in his mind.
Celestial Witch Godslaying Palm.
Yama’s Indestructible Golden Body.
These two Cultivation Techniques came from his second life. He had learned them when he was a Young Master. Both were Secret Techniques of the Witch Race, and they were top-tier Secret Techniques for honing the Flesh Body.
Only the most outstanding members of the Witch Race could learn them, and they didn’t require practicing the Divine Prayer Skill, as they were both Body Refining Cultivation Techniques.
The reason he had chosen to enter seclusion before the expedition was precisely that the more trump cards he had, the more guarantees he would have when facing enemies.
The stronger he was, the more stable his hand would be when he struck.
Lu Mingyuan quickly turned to the first page of the Celestial Witch Godslaying Palm.
He discovered that although the Witch Race’s Cultivation Techniques differed from those of the Central Plains, the Body Refining Methods ultimately shared a similar essence.
The Celestial Witch Godslaying Palm was created by an Ancestral Witch Level Great Power. At the Perfection Realm, it could move mountains, fill seas, and pluck stars from the sky with a single hand. In the Holy Netherworld, an Ancestral Witch’s status was likely comparable to that of the Ancestral Master of the Three Pristine Ones.
As a flood of memories poured into Lu Mingyuan’s mind, his initial unfamiliarity rapidly gave way to proficiency.
Celestial Witch Godslaying Palm, Beginner!
Celestial Witch Godslaying Palm, Mastery!
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A small spiritual figure in Lu Mingyuan’s mind brandished the Palm Technique, its progress constantly increasing by absorbing Destiny.
[Emperor Orange Fate Grid - Martial Saint, Refinement Level increased to 30%]
[Unlocked Life Chart Trait - Holy Will (Basic Level)]
[Holy Will (Basic Level): Cultivation speed for Cultivation Techniques increased by 100 times. The power of any Martial Arts is multiplied by 100.]
In an instant, a golden Dragon Shadow stirred again on Lu Mingyuan’s chest.
The progress bar before his eyes shot forward.
Celestial Witch Godslaying Palm, Great Success!
Celestial Witch Godslaying Palm, Perfection!
In just a single Hour, Lu Mingyuan had cultivated the Celestial Witch Godslaying Palm to the Perfection Realm.
He checked the progress of his "Martial Saint" Fate Grid.
It had increased by exactly 10%.
"Thankfully, with the Martial Saint Fate Grid, cultivating any Cultivation Technique yields twice the result with half the effort."
Lu Mingyuan exhaled a breath of turbid air and continued to the second Cultivation Technique.
Yama’s Indestructible Golden Body.
This Technique was left behind by a peerless expert of the Witch Race known as Emperor Yama. It could withstand being boiled by the great sun, prevent any poison miasma from entering the body, and allow one to move as normal even in water at a thousand degrees below zero.
To put it bluntly, it granted immunity to all sorts of negative status effects. One would fear neither the True Flame of the Taoist Sect, nor the weakening fetters of Confucian True Words, nor the salvation methods of the Buddhist Family.
Lu Mingyuan followed the same procedure and began cultivating the Indestructible Golden Body.
Yama’s Indestructible Golden Body, First Layer: Zen Meditation.
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Yama’s Indestructible Golden Body, Tenth Layer: Yama Visualization.
As wisps of golden light flowed across Lu Mingyuan’s face, he spent several Hours and brought Yama’s Indestructible Golden Body to Perfection at the tenth layer.
The Primordial Qi stored in his twenty-six thousand Acupoints was almost completely depleted.
The Indestructible Golden Body required a large amount of external materials for Refinement. He had chosen to use his Primordial Qi to grind through the layers, so naturally, it was all used up in an instant.
Only then did Lu Mingyuan finally have a chance to examine the Dragon Slaying Nineteen Forms.
The moment he began to peruse the Dragon Slaying Nineteen Forms...
A flood of unfamiliar memories surged into Lu Mingyuan’s mind.
He closed his eyes and saw a tall, upright man in a wide-sleeved robe and a bamboo hat, holding a long saber. He stood on a battlefield strewn with corpses, with a continuous range of a hundred thousand mountains at his back and an army of the Demon Race as vast as layered storm clouds.
The sky was dark, filled with demonic clouds.
This then-unknown Swordsman of his generation stood with his gray and white sleeves fluttering, his expression calm and composed as he wiped his razor-sharp blade.
He held the saber parallel to his body.
In that instant, a flash of saber light appeared.
He unleashed a single strike toward the thrones that filled the sky.
With his current strength, Lu Mingyuan could clearly see that this single strike produced nineteen overlapping afterimages.
It looked like one strike, but it was actually nineteen.
Each of the nineteen afterimages held a different stance, and each contained its own Dao of the saber.
But even if he could see it, so what?
Lu Mingyuan admitted to himself that he could not execute such an exquisite Saber Technique.
BOOM—
Above the demonic clouds, an enormous, crimson Dragon Eye appeared. It belonged to a Black Dragon that spanned the heavens and the earth.
The Black Dragon soared, wind and clouds in its wake.
In the space of a single breath, it reached the Tongtian mountain peak where the Swordsman stood and thrust out a Dragon Palm!
The Dragon Palm descended from the clouds, shattering a thousand-meter-tall mountain with one blow, yet it could not overcome the Sword Intent radiating from the Swordsman.
The man in the wide-sleeved robe and bamboo hat stood as firm and unmoving as an ancient, hardy pine.
Saber Qi, bitingly cold, radiated from his entire body. It traveled along his blade and seeped into the Black Dragon’s scaly demonic form. The seemingly indestructible Dragon Scales were pierced as if they were made of paper, and golden dragon blood trickled out.
"ROAR!!"
The sound was like thunder, rolling across the land.
Flames flickered in the Black Dragon’s eyes, filled with unwillingness.
But in the end, it was still cleaved in two by that world-shaking Saber Qi!
With a single strike, the clouds were split apart, and clarity returned to the world.
After witnessing the vision of the Dragon Slaying Nineteen Forms, Lu Mingyuan was deeply shaken.
’If I could be like that Swordsman,’ he thought, ’why would I worry about the Six Kingdoms? I alone could pacify an entire nation.’
But talk was cheap; he still had to train properly.
Lu Mingyuan calmed his mind.
The spiritual figure in his mind rapidly executed the Saber Technique. Recalling the posture of the Dragon Slayer Swordsman, his progress skyrocketed.
Dragon Slaying Nineteen Forms, First Form.
Dragon Slaying Nineteen Forms, Second Form.
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Dragon Slaying Nineteen Forms, Fifteenth Form.
Lu Mingyuan continued his deduction up to the sixteenth form before he stopped.
He discovered that the further he went, the greater the mental drain. By the time he reached the tenth form, his head had begun to ache.
It had nothing to do with his cultivation speed; rather, his current Realm was insufficient to withstand the intensity of the later forms.
Even so, the sixteenth form was still much stronger than the current Zhao Xuanwu.
’Could it be that I already have the strength to fight an Upper Three Grades Great Power?’ Lu Mingyuan wondered.
Just then, the sky began to brighten.
The faint light of dawn began to spread.
It was time for the expedition.
Lu Mingyuan took a deep breath, stood up, pushed open the door, and left the Deep Palace.
He arrived at the Dragon Wall Plaza in front of the Holy Bright Palace.
There, he found that the Champion Marquis, Marquis Wuan, the experts of the Three Academies, Sui Yuqing, and others were already assembled and ready to depart.
Even Luo Qiufu, the Eldest Princess of the Golden Crow Country, had been brought along.
As the best justification for Great Yan’s expedition, her presence was mandatory.
Lu Mingyuan swept his gaze across the crowd, donned the Emperor’s Armor held by a nearby soldier, and said flatly:
"March with me."
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