Chapter 704 – Reflection
Translated by: Berrrybunz
Edited by: TN and DeAndreR
{DeAndreR: These chapters haven’t been edited. Please bear with it for a few hours}
Whoosh.
Han Bing Ning only felt an indescribable undulation binding her as they disappeared, she felt extremely relaxed andthe scene before her dimmed. But with Han Bing Ning’s eyes, darkness did not affect her as she looked aroundcautiously.
~Warehouse?~
There were many goods placed all around, but there were no one else. Han Bing Ning relaxed, as it meant that it wassafe.
Faint voices came out from outside.
“Ming Zhu Jie is so pissed by the guy with last name Tang, I don’t even know what old granny is thinking, spending200 thousand to buy that trash.”
“That’s right! That guy is too lazy, too fall asleep like a pig while guarding the warehouse. When Young Master Qinwas here, he still snored out loud! You should had seen how bad Ming Zhu Jie’s face was!”
“Our Xue Family is still a family with face, to keep such a disdainful person, it truly provokes ridicule onto us.”
“Eh, don’t talk so loudly, Ming Zhu Jie and Young Master Qin went to watch some interesting things outside, theyshould be back soon.”
“It was such a huge commotion, god, will the entire city collapse? It scared me just now!”
“That’s right, it was like thunder….”
The footsteps went further away.
Han Bing Ning turned and looked at Tang Tian, Tang Tian’s expression was awkward, luckily he still had his mask onand she could not tell. He had actually scolded the two ladies in his heart, ~to actually talk behind the back of thegodlike young lad, you two assholes!~
But it was not the right time for them to talk, he whispered: “Hide here first, I will be back tonight.”
“Alright.” Han Bing Ning did not hesitate, the warehouse was extremely big, with so many stacks of goodseverywhere, it was like a maze, and it was extremely easy to hide a person inside.
Tang TIan gave the mask and flag to Han Bing Ning: “Find a place to hide these.”
The two objects were the most offensively conspicuous items, if anyone else saw it, they would be in deep trouble.~What can I say, that stupid flag that I waved all over the city is too ugly, sigh, too embarrassing, tooembarrassing….~
Tang TIan nodded at Han Bing Ning, and quietly opened the warehouse door and left.
Seeing that familiar face, Han Bing Ning calmed down, the few days of panic, worry and fear, and vanished without atrace. Thinking about the battle just now, even for an ice queen like her could not refrain from feeling emotional.
She controlled her state of mind and became calm again.
She knew that the battle was but just the prologue. When Tang Tian took action, he would never stop. Her ice pupilsflashed with a look of determination, ~Isn’t this what you always wanted, the opportunity to fight by his side?~
~I have finally chased up to you.~ Her state of mind was extraordinary calm.
She sat down cross legged and started to recuperate her strength.
She was naturally quiet, although her strength had been shackled for a few days, but she never gave up being hardworking. She trained in the zero energy body, and with her sharp mind, she sensed the uniqueness of Sin Domain.She quietly observed and felt the laws that were everywhere.
She had recovered her freedom, a big battle was about to begin, she threw out all the thoughts and focused ontraining.
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Tang Tian carefully dodged passersby and finally returned back to his residence without alarming anybody. Helooked down at his own clothes, the wind blades from Ben Sen had caused his clothes to be tattered and torn.
He felt lucky, the Xue Family was rather generous with clothes, and prepared many sets for him, although they weresimple cloth, but Tang TIan felt pleased.
After changing, Tang Tian realised that the wounds on his body had already started to form scabs.
Tang Tian knew that his zero energy body had improved yet again, after removing all energy, purely by relying on hisphysique, it had caused all the muscles and bones in his body to become vigorous and vibrant. In the future, as longas Tang TIan’s vital parts were not injured, his wounds would heal naturally.
Tang TIan shook lightly, causing all the scabs to flake off, revealing clean and uncut skin as before.
Feeling extremely pleased, Tang Tian started to reflect on the battle. It was his first time crossing paths with a strong martial artist of Sin Domain, and he had reaped a lot of rewards. He had to admit that the Sin Domain martial techniques had truly walked on a new dao path, one that led straight to laws and the body.
Thinking about it, Tang Tian had already witnessed three completely different types of martial techniques systems.Heaven’s Road, Sacred Saint Galaxy and Sin Domain were all different. Sacred Saint Galaxy had dense energy andformed natural saints with the ability to utilise energy at an inconceivable level. Sin Domain was the completeopposite, they did not have any energy, and laws were everywhere and clearly visible. Heaven’s Road was the mix ofthe two, with suitable energy concentration and able to produce the miraculous spirits.
Three different types of martial technique systems, they each had their own unique points and were difficult todifferentiate their merits and drawbacks.
The path of Sin Domain was the most suitable for Tang Tian.
Ben Sen’s enlightenment on his laws was much more powerful and profound as compared to Ping Xiao SHan. TangTian could use spacial laws to handle the fiery red spear, but against Ben Sen’s wind blade, it was useless.
The combat between laws were completely different from the combat between energy.
The standoff between energy rested more or less on the contest of quantity. The more abundance and dense theenergy were usually the crux of victory. The standoff between laws, were in fact competing in terms of quality, themore profound, deeper and comprehension of the laws, the more power it would give.
Tang Tian was slowly experiencing and learning, his situation was different from the rest. His zero energy body hadthe capacity to improve in Sin Domain, which was by strengthening through laws. This point was not easy regardlessof whether it was Sacred Saint Galaxy or Heaven’s Road, as the two had energy. But in Sin Domain, it was not aproblem, Laws scattered around the riverbed that had no water, naked and bare, one could pick one up by bendinghis head.
Now the problem was, the large riverbed that was scattered with countless of these laws, which law to pick. Thatwas the biggest question.
Give an example with spacial laws, the Ping Family stealth technique’s spacial laws had countless of variations, inwhich Tang Tian had thought of a few methods that produced good results. But Tang TIan also knew, he could easilyuse all these laws was because he was taking advantage of the zero energy body. But his enlightenment on each lawwere extremely shallow, and with such a mix, he could only use them to cheat others, Ben Sen’s wind blade could notbe considered as any minor law, but he could easily dispel all of his attacks.
Tang Tian had his finger on his lips while he pondered, although the null flames is powerful, but its might have beengreatly reduced in Sin Domain. Since there was no energy in Sin Domain, the energy destructive capability was ofnot much use. But instead, the zero energy body could be improved, meaning that the power of his physique couldbe greatly strengthened.
The power of physique, was the true foundation of Sin Domain.
Laws were rules of Heaven and Earth, rules itself have no power, and were just a know–how, by grasping on thisknow–how, it would allow a person to save effort, but if one did not even have the initial strength, no matter howprofound and deep a person had been enlightened with laws, he would not be able to move a pebble.
In Sacred Saint Galaxy and Heaven’s Road, Laws were frequently used to manoeuvre energy, causing the usage of energy to be more efficient and become stronger.
But in Sin Domain, there was no energy. To pry open laws, Sin Domain citizens could only think of another way touse them, and that was through the power of their physiques.
For example, Ben Sen’s control over the wind blade was by using his body. He had tempered his body to become incomparably strong.
That was also why when Old Granny Xue saw Tang Tian’s strong body, she decided to buy him.
Tang Tian’s physique was extremely strong, zero energy bodies were much more powerful as compared to Sin Domain people, because it was through the tempering of bodies. But Tang Tian was still not Ben Sen’s opponent, because the disparity between their comprehension of laws were too great.
Tang Tian naturally was not discouraged, the boundaries of high and low were never the only factor to decide thevictor and loser, if not he would not had rushed into the Mu’er Family to seize Han Bing Ning.
From his fundamental martial techniques, he was enlightened to his own dao path. This could not be termed as alaw, but to be exact, a thought process, or a thought path, a thought path towards laws. But to Tang TIan, it was themost appropriate dao path for him.
Not all laws were pure, some branches out that diverged out into other laws, while some laws were formed by mixing a few laws. Like Spacial, Time, Life and Death Laws, they were the main trunk of the world tree, with millions of branches that spanned out, which were all other laws.
Tang TIan’s mind suddenly stirred.
~Aren’t Laws just like a martial technique system? The gigantic martial technique system is just like the main trunkof a tree. But, all martial techniques, when traced back to its origins and disassembled, would still fall back tofundamental martial techniques.
~Fundamental martial techniques is the starting point of martial techniques, and the so called origin of all martialtechniques.~
~So wouldn’t laws have fundamental laws like fundamental martial techniques?~
When this thought surfaced, Tang Tian became extremely excited, ~If I can achieve this idea, it will be verypowerful!~ But he quickly calmed down, although the idea was good, but to him, it was unrealistic, to changesomething complicated to being simple, he needed to first understand what was complicated.
~And, why am I clinging to these laws around me? Laws exist in me too, Every punch i release has some sort of lawembedded in it.~
Tang Tian had a thought, and suddenly began to practise fundamental martial techniques.
His fundamental martial techniques, were through hard work and numerous revisions to finally reach where he was,and was refined through countless of battles.
He suddenly thought of a question that he had previously overlooked, ~if fundamental martial techniques are theorigins of all martial techniques, then why will there be higher ranking martial techniques? If the origin is even morepowerful, then wouldn’t training in the origins be enough?~
~Why will there be higher rank martial techniques? A High rank martial technique have even more variations in itcompared to a fundamental martial technique, so it can utilise even more energy, thus the might produced will bemore powerful…..~
The martial techniques that Tang Tian was practising started to change, all of if which he had mastered throughrough practise, were put to use continuously, analyzing the transformations between them. He had trained in manymartial techniques, and by practising them, he started to have some understanding.
~That’s right, fundamental martial techniques is the starting point for all martial techniques, but, the reason for theadditional higher ranking martial techniques, is because we need variations. All these variations are derived fromthe fundamentals, and if they are not derived, no one will know of such variations.~
~But if they already know of these variations, is it possible for these variations to be integrated into fundamentalmartial techniques?~
Tang Tian suddenly started to train backwards, he started from the high rank martial techniques and dropped rank.
An indescribable feeling was birthed in his mind.
~All these variations do exist in fundamental martial techniques, but it’s just invisible. Only by training through thehigh rank martial techniques can one grasp it, the possibility of variations do exist in fundamental martial techniquesthemselves.~
Tang Tian’s fundamental martial techniques started to rarely break out with variations.
Because he suddenly realised, by inferring from top down, his fundamental martial techniques had some fine slipups and mistakes.
He became immersed in training his fundamental martial techniques, not giving a care about his physical strength, which had no brilliance at all. If any strong martial artist saw him, they would be overwhelmed with shock, Tang TIan’s fundamental martial techniques had suddenly become unfathomable and unpredictable.
~The apex……~
~What can be considered the apex?~
Tang TIan who had completely become unaware of everything around him, started to grow.
(TN: This so called variations, i suppose, would be how one can give a kick. A kick can be produced by many styles,but what determines a real kick, a muay thai kick and a karate kick? All the fine movements are the variations, andhigh rank martial techniques would be like flying kick, through refining the differences in high ranking martialtechniques, one can break down and find out what is the best way to do the flying kick, which can then be inferreddown to doing a simple kick.)
Chapter 705 – Law Tempered Body
Translated by: Berrrybunz
Edited by: TN and DeAndreR
{DeAndreR: These chapters haven’t been edited, so please bear with it a few hours}
Tang TIan felt that his fist had become as heavy as a mountain, he clenched his teeth, every single muscle, bone andtendon were trembling at a surprising frequency, the surging physical strength emerging in various parts of hisbody.
Countless of variations surfaced in Tang Tian’s mind, all of them developed from his fundamental fist techniques,every variation that appeared would cause the strength in his body to become restless, as though it was conformingto it.
Tang Tian was extremely happy, and forcibly restricted the flow of power in his body. Even if all kinds of variationsappeared in his mind, the flow of power would be stopped, and constantly change.
Power surged throughout his entire body and gathered at his fist!
Like thousands of creeks leading back to the ocean, countless of minute power flowed on and continued toconverge, continued to grow larger, becoming a powerful current.
The vigor in his fist continued to surge slowly but surely, countless of faintly discernible variations, like brancheschopped off from the tree, the only difference was, on them, there were densely packed imprints of various sizes,each imprint distinguishing each of the branches.
The power formed from his flesh body flowed all around at a rapid speed, countless of different variation imprintscontinued to stir restlessly.
The seemingly slow punch was unrestrained, like the starry sky shining brightly in the vast sky. The air in the roomseemed to be attracted to the fist, becoming extremely viscous and gluey, causing Tang Tian’s punch to becomeeven slower.
Zzzii.
A light sound came out, and the dark room was immediately filled with light. A bright and irregular red light beamappeared inside Tang Tian’s fist.
Tang Tian’s fist continued to move forward slowly, zzzi zzzzi zzzzi, many flickering and differing chaotic light beamslit up, as though a rainbow colored lightning was gathering on Tang Tian’s ifst. This was the appearance of Laws,Tang Tian’s fist seemed to contain a mysterious attractive force, attracting the laws to become bright.
The light aura continued to brighten, and the number of light beams converging on Tang Tian’s fists grew more andmore. The excited rainbow colored lights were like rainbow snakes swimming around, transforming into a conicalshaped light barrier, the messy light beam branches were like a messy large net, emerging in front of Tang Tian.
Countless of variations flashed past Tang Tian’s mind, countless of laws flashing past Tang TIan’s eyes.
Suddenly, Tang Tian’s body froze, the power from his physique in his body had disappeared without a trace.
~Shit!~
Tang Tian was not in time to even exclaim out loud, pa, the Fist barrier of laws in front of him instantly shattered.The condensed and gluey air returned back to normal. He then remembered that he had consumed a lot of hisphysical strength earlier, and had not recovered his strength, thus the power from his physique was not enough tosustain the technique.
~Damn it…..~
Tang TIan’s eyes rolled back, he instantly fell to the ground fainted. A few seconds later, thunderous snores could beheard. Saving Han Bing Ning made him extremely fatigued. The power of the physique in his body had beenconsumed, and thus the fist could not be completed.
(TN: I named it power of the physique, but I think it is just raw strength, or physical strength, but these sound lame.Anyone has any ideas, do share!)
But, he had just overused his body, and did not sustain any injury, the zero energy body could recover extremelyquickly, naturally causing Tang Tian to enter a state of sleep to ensure that the body recovers faster.
In the air, Young master Qin and Ming Zhu who had just observed the battle had pale faces, and remained silent fora long time.
Seeing that Ming ZHu’s face was pale white, Young Master Qin thought that she was overwhelmed by shock fromthe battle, and advised her to return to rest.
In truth, he was equally shook. The battle had impacted him greatly, only from that did he know what were thebearing of true powerful martial artists! Ben Sen who ruthless and unfathomable, along with the reckless ghost facemask, the two of them displayed bizarre variations of attacks, their might were able to destroy the land aroundthem. They had opened his eyes wide, and thus he was deeply affected.
Compared to the others of the senior generation, who all had thoughts placed on matters like children, he feltashamed. Unknowingly, although he treated Ming Zhu politely, but it was less passionate as usual.
Ming Zhu nodded her head, then turned and left. She maintained a strong front, but her heart had long been in turmoil. Because she had realised that the ghost face mask’s figure resembled the male servant Tang Tian, and they bore remarkable resemblance.
She wanted to return to the residence to see if Tang Tian was around, but she resisted.
Seeing how the ghost face mask had successfully seized the lady from Ben Sen, Ming Zhu knew that the matterwould be blown up into large proportions. No one would care much with regards to the man’s background, but afterthe matter, all the various families would be actively seeking for this mysterious guest.
For him to be able to take away his companion from the Mu’er family, it most probably meant that he would look forthe other families to take back his companions. How would the various families handle that? Ben Sen had proven hisown strength, but yet was at a disadvantage, which was a matter that could not be disregarded.
She did not know how the matter would turn out, but she knew that Purple Cuckoo City would become a mess.
But what she was more worried about was, whether Ghost face mask was Tang Tian?
If it was, then it would definitely not be a good matter for the Xue Family. She was sure that the various families inPurple Cuckoo City would be looking for Ghost Face Mask. When the Xue Family gets implicated, at that time…..
Ming Zhu shuddered, she did not dare think of the consequence.
She flew quickly and returned to Xue Residence, seeing the bodyguard at the entrance, she asked: “Where’s TangTian?”
“Tang TIan?” The bodyguard was confused: “I didn’t see him.”
Ming Zhu’s heart trembled, she bit her lips and quickly ran over to Tang Tian’s residence. The servants whom shepassed by had never seen the young miss look so dishevelled, they did not dare raise their heads and remainedsilent.
Like a gust of wind, Ming Zhu rushed to Tang Tian’s residence.
At the entrance, hearing the thunderous snores, she calmed down.
~It’s not him.~
She carefully pushed open the door and saw Tang Tian sleeping on the ground soundly. His body was completelyunharmed, clearing all suspicions.
Tang Tian who was sleeping soundly, mumbled to himself and turned his body, facing upwards towards the sky, heextended himself out flat like a pancake. Seeing that Tang Tian was sleeping so soundly, the rage that she had keptimmediately sprung back up.
~You slept while on duty at the warehouse, and even caused me to lose face in front of Qin Zi Shan, you are trulyincorrigible!~
Ming Zhu screamed: “Tang Tian! You better stand up now! You sleep at night, sleep in the day, how lazy can you be,this is ridiculous…..”
Tang TIan was completely unmoved, his snoring continued like thunder.
Ming Zhu was so angry to the point of trembling, but as a person with good education, it made her unable to speakcrude words. She had wanted to say that he would be chased out of the Xue Residence, but thinking about how theold lady had spent 200 thousand dollars on him, if she were to chase him out, wouldn’t it be to his favor?
Ming Zhu became even more sullen.
She had seen many troublemakers before, but she had never seen a person like Tang Tian that would leave herhelpless.
She heard movements behind her, but it was her subordinates that had ran over after hearing the commotion. Withthem watching, Ming Zhu resisted the urge to kick Tang Tian. She snorted and left.
Seeing that, everyone immediately scattered. ~When Ming Zhu was unhappy, it would be unlucky for us to findtrouble.~ But their eyes towards Tang Tian were filled with curiosity, for even Ming Zhu was unable to do anythingto him.
Very quickly, everyone left, and Tang Tian was alone in his room.
Of course, Tang Tian did not know of everything that happened, he slept extremely soundly.
No one had noticed the bizarre state of Tang Tian’s body. His body was trembling faintly, every inch of muscleseemed to be opening and closing, as though they were breathing. With the extremely rapid rate of trembling, hisbody was emitting a light, these faintly discernible light auras permeating into his flesh.
Gradually, the light aura grew dimmer and dimmer and finally disappeared.
When Tang Tian woke up, he felt an indescribable free feeling in his entire body. When he took note, he heard aseries of pea sized sonic boom sounds. He was startled, this situation had happened before, right after he obtainedthe zero energy body. But after that, no matter how much he tempered himself, it never happened again.
~Why is it happening again?~
He immediately inspected his body.
He was instantly stunned.
All the bones, muscles and tendons in his body had reached an unprecedented level of power, every inch of hismuscles were as durable as Black Gold Threads, his bones were even more peculiar, when he inspected his bonesinwardly, there were actually faint jade colored gloss on them. His bright red blood revealed a faint gold color, hislife essence seemed to have strengthened by multiple folds.
He suddenly noticed the remaining essence in his body.
~These are….laws!~
~A Law Tempered Body!~
Tang Tian suddenly reacted, he finally understood what had happened. A Zero energy body was naturallycompatible with Laws, and with his complete exhaustion of the power of his physique, his flesh had become a spongethat absorbed all the surrounding laws. The Laws that were extremely compatible with his muscles were absorbedin, and started to temper with his body.
There were many benefits to the Zero Energy Body, but there was always a question that poked at Tang Tian,how to improve it, until now, Tang Tian had come to a realization. ~That’s right, Using laws to temper the body! Laws are rules of the world, by using them to temper the body, how strong would the body become?~
Tang Tian opened his mouth and laughed out loud.
He stood up and started to test it out. Compared to before, his body that had been tempered by laws was many times stronger. His strength had increased by three folds. Furthermore, the state of his body had obvious strengthening.
Most importantly, the power of the physique, surged much more than previously. Tang Tian moved about, and wasable to clearly feel the astonishing strength accumulated in his body.
Suddenly, Tang Tian thought about the punch that was interrupted before he fainted, he became extremely eager,~If I were to use all my strength to do it now, what would the effect be?~
But after looking around, he had to suppress this thought, if he were to punch, the house would definitely bedemolished.
~I just saved Han Bing Ning, I have to be low key.~
Thinking about Han Bing Ning, and seeing that the sky was getting dark, he immediately rushed out straight for thewarehouse.
The servants that Tang Tian passed by all gave him looks of disdain.
XIao Yao coincidentally passed by, seeing Tang Tian, she called out to him and reminded him out of kindness: “TangTian, you better not sleep tonight, you’re always slacking off, Ming Zhu Jie will definitely punish you.”
Tang Tian was confused, he did not recognize Xiao Yao, but he still thanked her.
Seeing that Tang Tian did not seem to care, Xiao Yao could not do anything.
Tang Tian arrived at the warehouse. He pushed open the big door and after entering, he closed it shut.
Hearing Tang Tian’s arrival, Han Bing Ning quietly appeared, but what surprised Tang Tian was beside her, wasanother person.