Chapter 38 Opening the heavenly arteries (Part 1)
Long Yu left the place with tremendous speed with the top-grade ancient ginseng to avoid fighting, and at that time, Ling Han jumped from the tree right in front of Feng Yao and directly blocked her path.
“Ling Han? You get out of the way.”
Feng Yao’s complexion slightly changed. She knew Ling Han’s strength, and among the 16 disciples of Zhentian Sect, he was only second to Tan Jian!
If Ling Han was bent upon stopping her then she certainly wouldn’t be able to chase Long Yu.
As a result, the top-grade ancient ginseng might slip away from her hand!
“Ha ha, making me get out of your way would be impossible.”
Ling Han laughed: “You will have to step from my body if you want to go!”
“You are acting recklessly!”
Feng Yao’s complexion sank. And suddenly she waved her copper sword and a layer of Sword qi condensed on it and she immediately swept away that ice moon Sword qi, which rushed towards Ling Han at a tremendous speed.
Ling Han was already prepared to react, then he looked towards his right leg and the underfoot soil began to float off which immediately took a shape of a bulk that fused with Xuan qi and formed a rock shield wall in from of him.
“Imperial Rock!”
Ling Han shouted loudly, and the rock shield wall was hit by Feng Yao’s Sword qi with a bang, but it was absolutely still!
Imperial rock was a popular defense type martial skill of Zhentian Sect. This martial skill actually belonged to the top grade, and it was very difficult to practice, but once it was practiced to the Da Cheng level then its practitioner could be able to form a rock shield wall, which was a strong defense capability!
Ling Han obviously had practiced the imperial rock martial skill to its Da Cheng level.
“Ice moon nimble and resourceful!”
But, Feng Yao didn’t care about Ling Han’s rock shield wall, her stature flashed and she resorted to ‘Ice moon nimble and resourceful’ martial skill that she had practiced to the peak level providing tremendous acceleration to her agility!
Any martial skill, if practiced to the peak level, would have a qualitative change, Ice moon nimble and resourceful was also the same.
If practiced to the Da Cheng, one could be able to display ice moon Sword qi, and if practiced to the peak level, then one could be able to condense ice moon Sword qi, increasing the speed of its practitioner tremendously.
Feng Yao, immediately stepped her foot on the sludge of icy wind and instantly bypassed the rock shield wall and gave a fast chase to Long Yu.
“Your opponent is me!”
Ling Han laughed, and he waved his hand and, that rock shield wall actually transformed into a shield wall soil fist that rushed towards Feng Yao at breakneck speed to catch her up.
Actually, he had practiced to the peak level of the Imperial rock!
Faced with these soil fists, Feng Yao simply found it impossible to go forward, she knitted her black eyebrows and hastily turned around to cope with them.
While they fought fiercely, to the side of the same place, some of the disciples of Qiansi Sect were hiding behind the old tree, also wanted to seize the opportunity to overtake Long Yu, but unexpectedly the soil fists of Ling Han rumbled towards the old tree and smashed them completely, thus bringing an end to their evil design of chasing after Long Yu.
Depending on his wonderful strength, Ling Han, unexpectedly and single-handedly not only stopped Feng Yao, but also checked the disciples of Qiansi Sect from chasing Long Yu.
……
Long Yu displayed the flickering wind step and simultaneously stimulated the blizzard boots, and in a time of sipping one cup of tea, he crossed a distance of 10 miles, and brought the rich Lingqi exuding top-grade ancient ginseng far away from the area where Ling Han and others were fighting.
Long Yu naturally moved towards a remote place and constantly changed his routes all along the way leaving no clue for tracking
If anyone tried to search him along the direction of his running, they would absolutely not be able to find him.
“I should immediately consume the top-grade ancient ginseng!”
Although, Long Yu was temporarily safe and he chose an enough high tree of 20 to 30 feet high and crawled up to its top.
In this way, even if someone would be close then he could first detect them.
The top-grade ancient ginseng was exuding a rich intoxicating aura, if the Lingqi contained in it was completely absorbed by Long Yu, then it would greatly enhance his power.
“Nine hidden Dragon Mark activate.”
Long Yu immediately activated ‘Nine hidden Dragon Mark’ to guide him in fast absorption of the Lingqi of the top-grade ancient ginseng!
At this moment, Long Yu could not help but thought, if he could have a way to cover up the top-grade ancient ginseng then he could have absorbed its Lingqi with more peace of mind.
Just as he thought, a burst of black light flashed from the ‘Nine hidden Dragon Mark’.
Then, he saw that upper surface of the top-grade ancient ginseng was covered with the black traces of lines, which were same as the ‘Nine hidden Dragon Mark’. The exudation of the rich Lingqi of the top-grade ancient ginseng which was spreading beyond many miles suddenly vanished without any trace.
At this time, Long Yu gawked and was pleasantly surprised!
“Nine hidden Dragon Mark can actually shield the exudation of Lingqi, this ability simply goes against the heaven’s will, how did I not know about it earlier.”
Now, Long Yu was completely safe, even if someone would come near the tree, they wouldn’t be able to guess that someone was hiding at the top of the tree and absorbing a top-grade ancient ginseng!
A top-grade ancient ginseng was extremely rare and it would appear once in every two or three years in the Royal Ancient Ginseng Forest. only after two or three years.
And now, it was in Long Yu’s hand.
“Ling Han, now I owe you a big one.”
Long Yu thought in his mind, then didn’t hesitate anymore and immediately swallowed the top-grade ancient ginseng in one gulp and quickly began to absorb the Lingqi from it!
Its rich Lingqi began to melt in his stomach, and Long Yu immediately felt that Xuan qi was surging up in his whole body at a greater extent than the time he was absorbing the low-grade ancient ginseng.
“Wudao seventh layer, it seems I will achieve it with no problem, just don’t know whether I can meet the bottleneck.”
Long Yu thought in his mind and started absorbing the rich Lingqi of the top-grade ancient ginseng to break through to the Wudao seventh layer.
Chapter 38 Opening up the heavenly arteries (Part 2)
After reaching the Wudao seventh layer, the masters could assign away the Xuan qi, but the key was that they must make a connection with the most essential passages of the whole body through which vital energy circulated – Heavenly arteries.
By opening the Heavenly arteries, one could control the whole body passages through which vital energy circulated, they would open and close freely, hence the control of Xuan qi would be ten times more flexible than before.
Moreover, Heavenly arteries would have many more vital functions in the future martial arts realm, in fact it could be said that for martial cultivators, the importance of Heavenly arteries was not inferior to the Dantian!
“Heavenly arteries, open up!”
As Long Yu shouted severely, the Xuan qi began to surge in his whole body and started rushing towards the source of Heavenly arteries, and attacked them again and again, the motive was to make a connection and directly stride into the Wudao seventh layer.
The 30% Lingqi of the top-grade ancient ginseng was completely absorbed by him, making him feel that Wudao seventh layer was at hand.
However, within his entire body, the Heavenly arteries actually didn’t break through, creating a major barrier between him and the Wudao seventh layer.
“Nine hidden Dragon Mark, activate!”
At that time, ‘Nine hidden Dragon Mark’ had stored up 70% Lingqi of the top-grade ancient ginseng, and when Long Yu began its absorption, it formed turbulent tides one after another continuously and went on attacking the Heavenly arteries.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
Long Yu’s heart beats began to maintain the rhythm along with the Xuan qi which went on violently attacking the Heavenly arteries again and again.
Finally, when only 30% Lingqi of the top-grade ancient ginseng still remained to be absorbed, he noticed that the blockage in the Heavenly arteries finally opened up and these arteries were completely linked up under the successive impacts of Xuan qi.
Buzz!
Long Yu felt as if a miraculous glow had broken through his head, making him establish some kind of vague link with the entire world. Heavenly arteries were the essential passages among the meridians through which the energy circulated, and only by relying on these Heavenly arteries, one would be able to feel the presence of the world laws and principles.
And Long Yu had already walked at this step.
“Zhentian mysterious mood, it seems as if there is a trend that leads to this breakthrough. Could it be that it’s because of the Heavenly arteries that strengthens the induction ability of world laws and principles?”
Long Yu thought, no wonder the core disciples were able to comprehend the mysterious mood of core law, because as the Wudao layer of the martial artists enhanced, the Heavenly arteries throughout the body opened up and were linked together, hence their sensibility of the world laws and principles would increase to another level.
Now, Long Yu’s Heavenly arteries finally opened up and it seemed like his comprehension of the Zhentian mysterious mood was about to break through to the Zhentian charm.
“Almost, I am only missing an opportunity then I can comprehend Zhentian charm that will strengthen the suppression world law!”
Long Yu’s eyes flashed with anticipation then he jumped down from that old tree’s top of and landed heavily on the ground.
After the breakthrough to the Wudao seventh layer, the most direct change was the enhancement of the strength in his body. His basic strength of 32,000 Jin from Wudao sixth layer increased to the current strength of 64,000 Jin.
In addition to that, he had Demon tyrant form and ‘Nine hidden dragon mark’, granting him the fist strength of ** ten thousand Jin!
Of course, even after reaching Wudao seventh layer, Long Yu was still not very powerful. Since the last awakening of memories of the ‘Nine hidden dragon mark’, Long Yu knew that the true and major transformation in the martial strength occurred while stepping into the Wudao eighth layer.
“Warriors of Wudao eighth layer possess the strength of 120,000 Jin, although if I use the wandering soul glove, there will be enhancement in my strength, but the masters of Wudao eighth layer certainly possess a special strength, it will not be so easy to defeat them …… ”
Long Yu thought to himself, at his current strength, he should be able to give strong competition to the master of Wudao eighth layer, but when actual battle experience was taken into consideration then they wouldn’t necessarily be his rivals.
However, if he could get deeper insight into the charm of Zhentian mysterious mood, then it would mean bigger assurance for Long Yu during his fight with a master of Wudao eighth layer.
“I first need to look for Ling Han, after that I will focus on comprehending the implication of ‘suppression world law’ in the mysterious mood.”
Long Yu calculated the time and discovered that almost 2 hours had passed since the time Ling Han jumped down from the tree to stop his pursuers. Such a long time had already passed, he did not know about the current situation of Ling Han.
He displayed the peak level flickering wind step and returned along the same route.
Soon, he returned to that pool where top-grade ancient ginseng had grown. Long Yu had run through the jungle, but did not hear any sounds of fighting.
Long Yu carefully searched and found three corpses hidden in the woods and belonged to the disciples of Qiansi sect.
“It seems like Brother Ling Han should be all right, but nothing seems to have happened to that Feng Yao as well……”
Long Yu thought in mind, even though he could not find them, he was not puzzled from this, because he knew that depending on Feng Yao’s strength, it would not be easy for her to kill Ling Han.
Just when Long Yu was about to set out to find them, suddenly, he heard the sound of fighting from the pool’s direction.
“Fight?”
Long Yu complexion slightly changed, he immediately used a twinkling step and hid among the dark trees then looked in the direction of the pool.
He saw that it was not Feng Yao, Ling Han and other pursuers, but were actually the strongest disciple of Wudao eighth layer from Zhentian sect, Tan Jian, as well as other two Wudao eighth layer martial artists.
“Tan Jian and two other masters of Wudao eighth layer from Hanbing sect!”
Long Yu’s eyes shone brightly, he actually never expected to see this trio right on!
Among them was a pair of a man and a woman, both had thin statures and were at Wudao eight layer, but waving among blooming over ten kilograms of force, compelling Tan Jian to draw back step by step!
And Tan Jian seemed to have many scruples and was retreating step by step with a fierce look on his face.
“Top-grade ancient ginseng, so they are fighting for a top-grade ancient ginseng!”
Long Yu sensed a unique breath exuding from Tan Jian, and he was able to tell the difference, it was obvious that the fragrance of a top-grade ancient ginseng was mixed in the aura of Tan Jian.
“No wonder that these two have surrounded Tan Jian, this guy has actually consumed a top-grade ancient ginseng ……”
A cold look flashed in Long Yu’s eyes.
Since the day he entered the Zhentian sect, this Tan Jian had been causing trouble for him, but he was strong enough to survive all this time, otherwise he would probably have already been crippled, or even killed!
Now that he had a chance to benefit from another’s strife, he must ambush Tan Jian. Long Yu would certainly not miss this opportunity.
The best case scenario should be to catch Tan Jian and the Hanbing sect’s pair and eliminate all of them in one fell swoop!