Chapter 71: Compilation of Exercises
Gu Hongyu had no descendants. Jiang Bai kept vigil for him for seven days and then buried him in Beishan Cemetery.
"Back then, I advised the young master to work harder even for the sake of longevity. Now that I think about it, it's really true... hehe."
Lu Liang stood in front of Gu Hongyu's tomb without much sadness on his face. They were all followers of Jiang Mingde and had traveled around the world hand in hand. When they were in the mountains, they took turns guarding the Jiang family treasure house.
As a warrior, there is nothing to be sad about if you die in battle.
What really made him sigh was that the young master, who he thought had always been "not doing his job properly", had surpassed him in less than ten years.
“Uncle Lu, don’t guard the warehouse anymore. I’ll find you another place later.” Jiang Yi knew very well that the so-called guarding of the treasury was semi-seclusion. Both Gu and Lu were in the third stage of the Soul Melting Realm, and had not been able to break through to the War Spirit for many years.
Obviously, this approach doesn't work very well.
The most critical bottlenecks for warriors are condensing martial intent from the second level to the first level, melting the will to materialize the fighting spirit, and melting the spirit to immortality. Breaking through each of these three bottlenecks will result in a qualitative change.
"Haha, okay, then I'll wait for the young master's news." Lu Liang laughed carefreely. He was just sighing. With his willpower, he wouldn't be hit so hard that he would doubt himself.
"Don't worry, it must be a good place!"
The funeral was over and everyone left one after another. When Su Lingyun left, she looked at her little son who was standing in front of the grave with a worried look, but Jiang Yi gave her a reassuring look.
There was a dead silence in the cemetery. After a long time, Jiang Bai whispered softly: "Brother, is there no hope for my martial arts path?"
He originally thought that as long as he returned to Shuangta Mountain, he would be able to recover, but his experiences in the past few days shattered his hopes time and time again, forcing him to face reality.
In fact, his elder brother had already told him vaguely on the returning flying boat, but he just didn't want to believe it.
"If there is no hope, just try another way. It's not a big deal." Jiang Yi said in a nonchalant tone.
Hearing his elder brother's tone, the scenes of being cheated in the past seemed to reappear in front of Jiang Bai's eyes, but he was in no mood to reminisce about those childish games.
"But I can't cultivate your God-given inheritance."
"That was in the past, but it's not necessarily the case now."
Jiang Yi had been thinking about this problem since he was in Tianduan Canyon. He really couldn't reproduce the mysterious scriptures in his mind. To put it nicely, his state was practicing Taoism, but to put it bluntly, he was contaminated by the aura of Taoism.
Just like the mountains, rocks, and plants in the ancient times that gained enlightenment by listening to the saints’ teachings for a long time, can they understand what the saints are talking about?
I don’t understand! But they have got the Tao.
Can they repeat what the saints said?
No! But they can summarize some simple cultivation methods based on their own understanding.
The same is true for Jiang Yi now!
At first he just listened to the sutras and practiced. His mind was in a completely chaotic state. He didn't understand anything and forgot everything he heard.
However, after successively acquiring miscellaneous knowledge inheritance from the copycat versions of Lingbao, and especially after studying various Taoist techniques, he finally gradually gained a certain understanding.
After all, Taoism is, to some extent, an interpretation of the "law" and a display of the "Tao" in the exercises.
As his understanding of the laws deepened, he was able to analyze them from a high-level perspective, which made him qualified to compile the cultivation methods. Of course, the methods he compiled were definitely far inferior to those classics, and it was difficult to perfect them, so it was inevitable that his cultivation progress would be slow.
"Really?" A look of surprise suddenly appeared on Jiang Bai's face.
"But let me make it clear in advance, my inheritance is very time-consuming and progresses slowly, so you must be mentally prepared."
"You are not slow at all! Warriors of your age who can reach the first rank are already super geniuses famous in the area." Having been cheated so many times, Jiang Bai habitually looked at his elder brother with suspicion.
But then he scratched his head embarrassedly. What a damn habit! No matter how deceitful his brother was, he could not fool him about such a serious matter.
Jiang Yi was so embarrassed. Fast? According to the standards of the prehistoric world, becoming an immortal is considered as entering the door. Now he doesn't even know how long it will take to enter the door.
He looks very strong now, but that is entirely due to the power of the spiritual treasures. Without these spiritual treasures, he can at best fight with a warrior in the early stage of the God Melting Stage, and there will be no result even if the fight lasts for a long time.
Hmm, it seems quite fast when calculated this way. But his speed does not mean that all practitioners are fast. His speed only means that the mysterious scripture is powerful. Others who practice the skills he compiled should be thankful that he lives long enough.
"I can't reproduce the complete inheritance in a short period of time. I can only sort out some superficial methods of cultivation. So don't be anxious. Cultivating Taoism is different from being a warrior. Once the state of mind is wrong, it will be very dangerous."
He never has to worry about this problem as he is protected by the mysterious scriptures, but others must take it seriously. This is definitely not a joke.
Moreover, he was not sure whether there were any traps like extraterritorial demons in this world, so it would not be wrong to be cautious.
"There's no rush for this. You should adjust your mind during this period. I will explain it to you later. You need to learn a lot of knowledge. This path is more difficult than the path of a warrior."
How to compile the exercises still needs to be sorted out carefully. He plans to sort out the two stages of Qi Refining and Foundation Building first. As for whether to continue using Golden Elixir and Nascent Soul, he will talk about it later.
Forming the golden elixir and transforming the golden elixir into an infant are not necessary processes for cultivation. As long as one can become an immortal, anything is fine. In fact, the golden elixir and the infant are also a shortcut. After all, these routines were created after the Conferred God, when the spiritual energy of heaven and earth dropped greatly and it was difficult to ascend to immortality.
Obviously, he who is listening to the sutra does not need this shortcut because he has a faster shortcut!
If he wanted to compile the corresponding exercises, he would need to try it himself first, form the golden elixir, and then transform the golden elixir into an infant.
The concentration of spiritual energy in Chongming Realm is not high, unless the sect can open the North Tower, but this is obviously impossible, so it would be best if this shortcut could be replicated.
"My sister..." Jiang Bai thought of his sister who had cried for him almost every day in the past few days.
Originally, he didn't want to let his sister know about his affairs, but Gu Hongyu was going to be buried and Jiang Miaomiao was in Beishan, so it was impossible not to inform her.
"She is not suitable to be a warrior. She should practice Taoism in the future." Jiang Yi shook his head. What a poor kid, a pure unlucky one.
A simple description of Jiang Miaomiao's experience is that she was a cute newbie who had just left the Novice Village at level 10, and fell directly into a level 100 nightmare copy. She luckily managed to save her life but was scared back to the Novice Village, and was sent back half-dead along with her second brother. All that was left in her mind was that the world below the mountain was too dangerous.
For a warrior who values willpower, with such a mindset, how can he concentrate his martial spirit?
Therefore, it is better to decisively give up and switch to other cultivation. Fortunately, the Taoist system requires learning a lot of knowledge and slowly adjusting one's state of mind. There is still hope in the future. At least it is much more promising than being stuck at the second level and being a mediocre warrior for the rest of one's life.
There's another one at eleven o'clock.
(End of this chapter)