"Five Tigers Breaking Door Saber! White Tiger Leaping Over the Stream!"
"Five Tigers Breaking Door Saber! White Tiger Leaping Over the Stream!"
"Five Tigers Breaking Door Saber! White Tiger Leaping Over the Stream!"
"Five Tigers Break..."
"Senior Brother, why do you only use one move..."
Although Yue Peng was used to it and Tie Dan could keep silent all the way, Xiao Liu, who was relatively speaking normal, couldn't help but ask,
"Can't you use a different move? I don't mean anything else, just curious, want to see what the next move is."
Zhou Feng tossed the bear gallbladder he extracted to him,
"There isn't any, I've only practiced this one move from the saber technique."
Xiao Liu was speechless, "Why!"
Seeing Tie Dan and Yue Peng also looking at him curiously, Zhou Feng explained,
"This Five Tigers Breaking Door Saber manual was originally created by a Martial Cultivator in Jianghu and widely spread across the Twelve Countries, a very famous saber technique. Although it doesn't have any secrets of Inner Power Qi, cannot refine Sword Qi, but with sixty-four saber techniques perfectly complete with raising, chopping, smearing, stomping, splitting, collapsing, hooking, and hanging methods, along with stabbing, cutting, twisting, and jabbing techniques, combined with wrist flower, back flower, head-wrapping, and head-closing styles, paired with Gang Fist Domineering Body Technique, once practiced to mastery, one could step onto the path of saber technique."
Xiao Liu, "Then why..."
"I don't use a saber, learning this one move is enough."
Zhou Feng wiped the blood off his saber,
"That year, I had just been taken under the tutelage of my master, only serving sword at Nine Yin Mountain, when I had the fortune to see the Sword Transmission Disciple of our sect dueling on the Cloud Platform against Immortal Emei. That Emei only used this move 'White Tiger Leaping Over the Stream' and continuously cleaved down three Direct Disciples of the Sword Master, shocking the Ninth Peak."
Feeling inadequate in natural talent and pondering about it, until now I still couldn't decipher this move, so I simply sought the Emei disciple, purchased the true transmission of this move, and practiced it myself for insight."
Yue Peng uttered an "Oh" and also recalled,
"It's that Qin Baichuan, right? Huh, even before he joined Emei, he was already the best in the world, why are you even competing with him?"
Xiao Liu nosily asked,
"Emei is so powerful, one chops three? Isn't our Sword Sect claimed to be invincible!"
Zhou Feng wrinkled his face,
"Of course, it's our Sword Sect that's invincible! It's just that us disciples aren't competitive enough! Hmph!"
Yue Peng rebutted,
"It wasn't one that chopped three, in that big competition, he was using Sword, Saber, and Palm. He significantly defeated Ninth Peak and seized the title of Cloud Platform Master."
Xiao Liu was shocked, "Hiss... Qin, Baichuan!"
Yue Peng smiled wryly,
"That Qin Baichuan entered the path through martial arts, reputedly a martial fanatic. He was a Martial God in service to the Six Gates, refining Gang Fist to the peak, dominating both the underworld and secular world, everyone in Jianghu respects him as the Martial Arts Alliance Hierarch. All of the Three Constellations want him as a Divine General of the Combat Department, even the Grand Instructor of the Imperial Guard."
It's said that he later resigned and reclusive to pursue the ultimate peak of Martial Arts by joining Emei. Bearing no rumors of someone winning against such a martial fanatic in solo dueling or sword fights.
What's more, our Sword Sect, originally not good at head-on combat, flying swords aren't used that way…"
Zhou Feng shook his head,
"I know, it's just that I'm unwilling, just leap across with a saber, what's so special? And yet our Sword Sect cannot defeat it?"
Tie Dan,
"Not necessarily, just draw the sword faster than him."
Xiao Liu sighed and shook his head,
"It's not that simple, who can be faster than a Martial God."
Tie Dan didn't argue with him, it's not about having fast hands leading to a fast sword, his previous opponents weren't any slower or weaker than him, but brutal dueling and sword fights aren't races, the key is whether you can find the most appropriate opportunity in the shortest timeframe, to deliver the deadliest strike.
As for that Qin Baichuan, never having met, Tie Dan naturally didn't know if there would be a chance to deliver the strike against the 'White Tiger Leaping Over the Stream' when truly facing it.
But if it's Senior Brother Zhou's 'White Tiger Leaping Over the Stream'… having seen it so many times, should be able to break it, right…
As Tie Dan was pondering, a bear emerged, and he modeled it, drawing the sword in a leaping chop, pouring in sword energy, splitting it in half at the head.
This unexpected leap and split shocked his senior brothers!
Xiao Liu, "You learned it by just watching once!?"
Tie Dan tossed the extracted bear gallbladder to him,
"More than once…"
Anyway, the group continued bantering while advancing, Zhou Feng and Tie Dan taking turns with the "White Tiger Leaping Over the Stream!" leaving the extracted bear gallbladders for Xiao Liu to carry.
At this time, they had already exited the cavern, delving into the Spirit Communication Secret Realm. The surroundings appeared to be just an ordinary forest, but this forest seemed to be a bear's nest, bears were everywhere, roaring and charging out after every few steps.
Tie Dan suddenly thought of something, walked beside one of the slain bear corpses, flipped out the intestines, and fumbled around, hands bathed in thick blood.
Xiao Liu frowned, "Tie Dan, what are you looking for?"
Tie Dan, "Dung."
Xiao Liu, "…What?"
Tie Dan wasn't joking, earnestly repeating,
"Looking for dung."
Zhou Feng was the first to react,
"Right, with so many bears, what do they eat to grow so big? Haven't seen anything else along the way?"
Yue Peng also jumped up a tree, looked around, shook his head,
"No birds. Only bears."
Tie Dan dissected the bear innards thoroughly, cut open the stomach, discovering it wasn't filled with bones and flesh of creatures but some sort of green broth.
Xiao Liu, upon smelling it, almost vomited, "Ugh!"
Zhou Feng sniffed it, "The cave also had this smell, is it some herbal medicine?"
Tie Dan thought it over, smearing the dense broth over his clothes.
"Since bears are blind and don't eat each other, let's put it on ourselves too."
Xiao Liu objected but in vain, also got slathered over him. Surprisingly, this trick worked quite well—four of them continued delving into the woods, with some giant bears even passing nearby without attacking.
"These bear creatures also don't refine Qi, seem not to have received demon clan inheritance, merely mutated beasts, not demons born with Spiritual Wisdom."
Though Tie Dan was more meticulous and sharp, Yue Peng and Zhou Feng were also routinely patrolling mountains, and chatted along the way.
After all, compared to those yellow rats of Guangxia Mountain, it seen obvious that these bears were so dumb, they didn't even know to dodge when a saber slashed at them. Though they looked large and fierce, they were actually big targets easily chopped.
"Maybe still influenced by the Demon Suppression Platform, sealed in their Spiritual Wisdom."
"Indeed, the sealing technique of Demon Palace's Demon Suppression is formidable. But why not just kill them, why the need to seal them?"
"Oh, can't you see, isn't it obvious? See that Young Master's with a Qilin, these Ancient Strange Species are hunted immensely, many extinct outside, thus keeping them in Spirit Communication Secret Realm for special grazing. Otherwise, in the future even bear gallbladders for medicinal use may run out."
"So that's it, then it's likely that the Ancient Fierce Beast suppressed within this secret realm is a bear?"
"Most probably, look at it, doesn't have a Demon Core yet got that size, born a mutant beast, if let grow to the Divinity Transformation Realm, it'd be horrifying..."
"Senior Brother, Tie Dan is gnawing on bark."
Without bears attacking, Xiao Liu also had free time, just stared at Tie Dan, reporting whenever he did anything strange.
"Let him gnaw, I brought medicine, won't kill him."
This guy was as silent as a ghost but also as shrewd as one, Yue Peng didn't bother managing him anymore.
Tie Dan, indifferent to others' discussions, gnawed for a while before coming back to report.
"The broth in bear stomachs isn't from the surrounding flora, wrong taste."
Xiao Liu's face turned green,
"No, you tasted that stuff with your mouth?"
Tie Dan nodded,
"Tastes like broth, and rich with Returning Dust Tao Breath, can replenish Qi and blood."
"What? Returning Dust Tao Breath?" "Replenish Qi and blood?" "Broth..."
The senior brothers again in shock!
So they hurriedly killed a bear passing by, cut open its belly, scooped out the green broth.
But directly extracted from the bear's stomach, the taste was rather too strong, everyone besides Tie Dan, even Tie Dan had to wait till the overwhelming scent fades a bit, then tasted a tiny bit tentatively.
Thus the four paused for now, Yue Peng used a small Pill Furnace for boiling medicine, placed an Elixir Pill submerged in green broth, simmered it with Dao Fire.
While initially the taste was terribly nasty, akin to cooking feces, once boiled dry, thoroughly refined, eventually a layer of emerald-green crystallization formed at the bottom of the pot.
"The purity of this Returning Dust True Qi is high..."
After Zhou Feng kicked him, Yue Peng then reacted, explaining to the junior brothers,
"This Qi Condensing Spirit Gathering Pill is relatively common Qi Refilling Elixir, the Dan Pills have a special structure able to absorb Heaven and Earth Spirit Qi. Normally stored in Cave Heaven Spirit Cave for nourishment, when consumed held in the mouth, moistened by saliva, can spread out a mouthful of Spirit Qi hence refining breath for Qi Replenishment.
Now these are the residues of the pill, see this quality, the concentration is impressively high, seems like Returning Dust Spirit Vein here isn't bad at all. Unfortunately, none among us practice refining Returning Dust Sword Qi..."
Tie Dan pulled out a bunch of talisman paper, "Can paint talismans."
Yue Peng felt those talisman papers, unexpectedly they felt like silk fabric, quite top-notch, he was dumbfounded,
"Where did you get so many talismans from? Aren't these mixed with Spirit Silk? Pretty expensive!"
Acquired it by filching, belonged to that Mixed Cultivator Huang Yun, hadn't been used yet, seemed a waste to burn them.
And since the Shi family had cost him a string of coins, wasn't taking some talisman paper not too much?
However, Tie Dan recalled carefully now, maybe it was because he took these talisman papers so excessively that he got tangled with some karma, leading to being schemed by the people of Dongzhen Palace.
Alright, since they're so clingy, he might as well return all these talismans to them thoroughly.