Chapter 41 – After three months (part nine)
As Yan Feixia left, the whole Yandu City was calm and serene once again.
Three months quickly passed by.
The atmosphere changed from summer into fall.
Autumn breeze was bleak, while the trees started withering. Fallen leaves fluttered all over the sky as birds migrated southward. There were a few civilians harvesting their homegrown medicinal herbs to sell to wealthy large families.
In this rich land, what ordinary civilians grew wasn’t paddy field, but the medicinal herbs to refine Qi Gathering pills. Each batch of herbs harvested for every season was sold in exchange for Qi Gathering pills. As they couldn’t refine this kind of pill themselves, the only thing they could do was to provide the materials needed.
A few of those wealthy large families also did not know about the refinery.
There was just a small number of clans, academies and divine ancestors of the imperial court that were able to carry it out.
This also didn’t prevent much of the wealthy and large families from purchasing them. Through the buying and selling across many levels in the Chamber of Commerce resale, they could gain from the differences in price.
Yang Qi stayed and practice inside his home for the whole three months.
In this time, he had achieved complete understanding while cultivating on the “Power of the Divine Elephant that Suppresses Hell”. Meanwhile, he improved his body for another time.
Currently, his body was even more strengthened as compared to Qi Zong. Under his skin, there was a thick layer of keratin membrane which could prevent weapons from penetrating; even when being struck by Qigong from above, this membrane layer could absorb the force.
All the abilities of the current Power of the Divine Elephant that Suppresses Hell were three states “Spear of the Dark God”, “Devil’s Wings” and “Hell God’s Gauntlet”. He was very adept with all of them.
Among these three abilities, Spear of the Dark God had the strongest offense, while Devil’s Wings had the best speed and the Hell God’s Gauntlet excelled in defense.
As all three combined, they would form the best fighting ability that was so unparalleled.
Next, Yang Qi wanted to cultivate successfully its next ability “Hell Furnace”.
“Hell Furnace” was the strongest cultivation level. As the refinery furnace just formed, it would refine everything, devour everything and stole a huge amount of vital force and spirit of the world, even the essence of sun and moon, the stars… all could be melted into our original self..
If only he could use the qi of “Power of the Divine Elephant that Suppresses Hell” in his body to cultivate this furnace. So even without the vital essence from “Lightning Mammoth” later on, Yang Qi wasn’t out of the way to deal with.
Phew…
Crossing his legs, he sat neatly in midair inside the secret room.
Just like that, Yang Qi sat floating with his legs crossed as there was no support from all directions. He was completely relying on qi to float and he stayed like that for more than an hour without heavy breathing. His face didn’t turn red. The power of Qigong was simply unbelievable.
Currently, even a master at 9th tier of Qi Zong would be scared to death seeing this scene.
At the same time, his qi idly exuded and slowly penetrated deeper into the earth. In a blink, everything from within the muddy slits underneath became clearer in sight.
Within the mud, there were snake ants hibernating and a few tiny insects were active underground. All together they created a whole sophisticated underground world.
Yang Qi could even see underneath this Yandu City with all the complicated drainages and even hidden passages and secret organs.
His qi immersed deep underground and spread outward. This way of using his mind to observe was no different from seeing directly with his physical eyes.
It could be said that even for Yang Zhan, he could only use qi to penetrate underground to observe at most 10-feet deep. More than that, it was impossible as his qi could not maintain such strong force to do so.
However, Yang Qi was different. The qi in his whole body was so powerful and it had surprisingly wrapped around the whole Yang mansion, and even the area about three to five streets outside. In a way, Yang Qi would immediately be alerted to carry out an attack instantly if any master approached Yang mansion, be it from above the sky or underneath the ground.
His qi was spreading out so vastly in the air, each ray was like his eye and ear.
This level was indeed the “Inspecting Heaven, Hearing Earth” as rumored.
In fact, most masters of qigong had this ability yet it was far from reaching the abnormal level of Yang Qi.
“Go!”
As Yang Qi flickered his finger, a thread of silk-like qi bursted out quickly from the tip of his finger. It went through a long corridor before entering the pond; afterward, this qi string caught up a fish that was more then ten kilograms.
The large fish was blue and had so much strength. It thrashed and splashed the water incessantly the moment it was pulled out from the surface. However, it could not escape the shackle of this qi thread.
This was called the “Silky Spring Rain” qi sword, from the “Four-Season Sword Arts”.
With Yang Qi’s cultivation, even sharp and powerful weapons could not cut it down, so how could this blue fish do anything? It was just that he wanted to play with the big fish for a while, then Yang Qi once again dropped it into the pond.
The big fish struggled for a while before spreading its tail to swim deeper inside the pond, and did not appear again.
Yang Qi raised his hand again. The qi thread was thrown very high into the sky, seemingly pierced through the clouds. As it saw lines of geese flying in the sky, it caught one down.
As it was caught by the qi thread in the leg, the wild goose tried to fly up in vain. But it couldn’t escape.
The goose fell down from above him and into his hand. Yang Qi could feel its breath as it hid its head into its wings in terror.
“Alright, go chase after your folks, I won’t hurt you.” Yang Qi smiled and sent a bit of qi inside this goose’s body. The qi helped it liberated the veins before condensed into a small qi seed. The goose at once got into high spirits and raised its head to sing in appreciation for Yang Qi.
As Yang Qi’s hand shook, the bird flapped its wings to fly away like a shooting arrow into the clouds.
The goose had gotten such huge fortunate encounter, and later on, it could even enter the path of religious practice.
Letting this goose go left inside Yang Qi a sense of “Mercy”.
Yes, it was “Mercy”.
As “Power of the Divine Elephant that Suppresses Hell” was being cultivated, it became extremely brutal and contained within the devilish aura from Hell Devil innately. The person who cultivated it needed to have a very kind heart to control. Yang Qi quietly researched in these days as he slowly realized many mysteries. Apart from cultivating his mind, he had practiced a sense of mercy towards everything between heaven and earth, all living things, that he couldn’t bear to step on even the ants on the ground.
However, if there were vicious enemies that caused him harm. He would also transform into elephant god, into the Dark god to strangle the wicked and to punish the evil, which was meant to promote the good. That was to say:
People were just like fruits, wicked people would be dealt with by wicked people,
By killing thousands of evils, even the world’s most evil would become the compassionate Buddha.
Taking back a slow breath, he landed from the air and moved the joints and knuckles on his body. Immediately from within his bones and joints, there was the sound similar to rumbling thunder. Currently as his qi was so powerful, even his breath could blow away a strong warrior of 8th tier of QiGong.
Yet to promote up to the 9th tier of Qi Zong realm, there was still lacking of some heat.
After all, even to the talented genius’ who obtained a fortune encounter and with a famous teacher appointed, promotion to Qi Zong would require forty to fifty years of cultivation.
Yang Zhan had been promoted up to the 9th level of Qi Zong, which took him more than 40 years of hardship. Moreover, since he was young he had taken the rare grass “Photo-less Grass” and also obtained the Nine-Turn Golden pill brought by Yang Qi.
For Yan Gufeng in promotion, she took Hidden Dragon pill.
“Yet, it wouldn’t be so far until I could reach Qi Zong.” Focused cultivation within these months, though he could not awake the power of ancient mammoths from within his body, and his Four-Season Sword Arts needed a bit more refinement, he wondered how have the training of his father and both brothers been going on?” Yang Qi currently still had the power of about ten ancient mammoths, yet his recognition of “Qi” as compared to three months ago had increased greatly in an eye-opening manner.
“Young master, young father and two brothers are waiting for you at the main hall. They say they have important things to discuss.” Suddenly a servant girl came announcing.
“Important?” Yang Qi was shaken lightly.”What could possibly be this important thing to discuss? Surely, while he didn’t pay attention, it had turned into fall and the fall hunt of Yang family was about to begin. My match with Yang Hongjie was going to start soon, just that this kid was going against me so one breath could blow him dead. Three months ago, his QiGong level was 7th tier, and currently even with the fateful encounter obtained, or whatever pill he took, he would just be at 8th tier.”
He strode into the main hall.
Indeed, his father Yang Zhan and both brothers were there.
The eldest brother had been successfully reaching the 7th tier while the next brother reached 6th. This time, he had taken so many qi-useful pills from the group of elders inside Chen family. There were even some that could directly raise the power up to ten or twenty years of cultivation.
Yet father Yang Zhan’s spirit had become much higher. His eyes appeared like amber, which consisted the essence of four seasons. Yang Qi knew right away that his father relied on this “Giant Thousand Mirrors” weapon to successfully cultivate the Imperial QiGong level “Four-Season Sword Arts”.
Previously the well-known secret “Unbeatable Imperial Fist” was just standard Imperial and could not compare to Four-Season Sword Arts.
“Congratulations to you father, your strength has once again reached another deeper level. Are we discussing for the hunt this fall.” Yang Qi just approached with joy in his face.
“Yang Qi boy, your power has promoted so strongly that I could definitely not your opponent. The hunt this fall, our main line of Yang family could completely be proud as we were completely outnumbering and unite all the branches. Listening to the commander we could plan to take over Yandu City.” Yang Zhan was very ambitious.
“Father, I just hope Yan family do not send assassins to kill our Yang family, then we could continue on peacefully. Huge power for Yandu City is nothing.” Yang Qi pondered.
“This is natural. Just that I’ve investigated, Yan Gufeng had started to invite warriors and strong masters. I believe that not much later on, they could take it on our Yang family.” Yang Zhan shook: “On this rich land, there were so many mansion owners that start to form their own nation. With the princes rose, chaos was near. Yan Gufeng didn’t do it. The whole wall surrounding had been fixed with transportation, and would attack Yandu City. Let’s wait until then there would definitely have strong force then entering the Yandu City.
Yang Qi contemplated. He knew that around Yandu City there were many powerful sources like Yunhai City, which had become Yunhai country and started to take over some smaller forces in order to expand slowly and then attack.
“Alright, I’ve just received news from the elders’ group. They’re gathering right in front of the Black Body mountain, so the four of us now have to rush to the hunt in fall.” Yang Zhan waved his hand.
“Father, the head of Yan family could attack Yang family at anytime. What happens if Yan attacked stealthily?” Yang Qi licked his lips.
“No, they won’t. As all of us are gone, even if Yan family wanted to sneak an attack there would be in vain.” Yang Zhan shook his head. “Yan Gufeng wouldn’t also do such stupid thing like this. If he wanted to fight, he’d definitely wait to capture us all in one batch.”
Chapter 41 – After three months (part nine)
As Yan Feixia left, the whole Yandu City was calm and serene once again.
Three months quickly passed by.
The atmosphere changed from summer into fall.
Autumn breeze was bleak, while the trees started withering. Fallen leaves fluttered all over the sky as birds migrated southward. There were a few civilians harvesting their homegrown medicinal herbs to sell to wealthy large families.
In this rich land, what ordinary civilians grew wasn’t paddy field, but the medicinal herbs to refine Qi Gathering pills. Each batch of herbs harvested for every season was sold in exchange for Qi Gathering pills. As they couldn’t refine this kind of pill themselves, the only thing they could do was to provide the materials needed.
A few of those wealthy large families also did not know about the refinery.
There was just a small number of clans, academies and divine ancestors of the imperial court that were able to carry it out.
This also didn’t prevent much of the wealthy and large families from purchasing them. Through the buying and selling across many levels in the Chamber of Commerce resale, they could gain from the differences in price.
Yang Qi stayed and practice inside his home for the whole three months.
In this time, he had achieved complete understanding while cultivating on the “Power of the Divine Elephant that Suppresses Hell”. Meanwhile, he improved his body for another time.
Currently, his body was even more strengthened as compared to Qi Zong. Under his skin, there was a thick layer of keratin membrane which could prevent weapons from penetrating; even when being struck by Qigong from above, this membrane layer could absorb the force.
All the abilities of the current Power of the Divine Elephant that Suppresses Hell were three states “Spear of the Dark God”, “Devil’s Wings” and “Hell God’s Gauntlet”. He was very adept with all of them.
Among these three abilities, Spear of the Dark God had the strongest offense, while Devil’s Wings had the best speed and the Hell God’s Gauntlet excelled in defense.
As all three combined, they would form the best fighting ability that was so unparalleled.
Next, Yang Qi wanted to cultivate successfully its next ability “Hell Furnace”.
“Hell Furnace” was the strongest cultivation level. As the refinery furnace just formed, it would refine everything, devour everything and stole a huge amount of vital force and spirit of the world, even the essence of sun and moon, the stars… all could be melted into our original self..
If only he could use the qi of “Power of the Divine Elephant that Suppresses Hell” in his body to cultivate this furnace. So even without the vital essence from “Lightning Mammoth” later on, Yang Qi wasn’t out of the way to deal with.
Phew…
Crossing his legs, he sat neatly in midair inside the secret room.
Just like that, Yang Qi sat floating with his legs crossed as there was no support from all directions. He was completely relying on qi to float and he stayed like that for more than an hour without heavy breathing. His face didn’t turn red. The power of Qigong was simply unbelievable.
Currently, even a master at 9th tier of Qi Zong would be scared to death seeing this scene.
At the same time, his qi idly exuded and slowly penetrated deeper into the earth. In a blink, everything from within the muddy slits underneath became clearer in sight.
Within the mud, there were snake ants hibernating and a few tiny insects were active underground. All together they created a whole sophisticated underground world.
Yang Qi could even see underneath this Yandu City with all the complicated drainages and even hidden passages and secret organs.
His qi immersed deep underground and spread outward. This way of using his mind to observe was no different from seeing directly with his physical eyes.
It could be said that even for Yang Zhan, he could only use qi to penetrate underground to observe at most 10-feet deep. More than that, it was impossible as his qi could not maintain such strong force to do so.
However, Yang Qi was different. The qi in his whole body was so powerful and it had surprisingly wrapped around the whole Yang mansion, and even the area about three to five streets outside. In a way, Yang Qi would immediately be alerted to carry out an attack instantly if any master approached Yang mansion, be it from above the sky or underneath the ground.
His qi was spreading out so vastly in the air, each ray was like his eye and ear.
This level was indeed the “Inspecting Heaven, Hearing Earth” as rumored.
In fact, most masters of qigong had this ability yet it was far from reaching the abnormal level of Yang Qi.
“Go!”
As Yang Qi flickered his finger, a thread of silk-like qi bursted out quickly from the tip of his finger. It went through a long corridor before entering the pond; afterward, this qi string caught up a fish that was more then ten kilograms.
The large fish was blue and had so much strength. It thrashed and splashed the water incessantly the moment it was pulled out from the surface. However, it could not escape the shackle of this qi thread.
This was called the “Silky Spring Rain” qi sword, from the “Four-Season Sword Arts”.
With Yang Qi’s cultivation, even sharp and powerful weapons could not cut it down, so how could this blue fish do anything? It was just that he wanted to play with the big fish for a while, then Yang Qi once again dropped it into the pond.
The big fish struggled for a while before spreading its tail to swim deeper inside the pond, and did not appear again.
Yang Qi raised his hand again. The qi thread was thrown very high into the sky, seemingly pierced through the clouds. As it saw lines of geese flying in the sky, it caught one down.
As it was caught by the qi thread in the leg, the wild goose tried to fly up in vain. But it couldn’t escape.
The goose fell down from above him and into his hand. Yang Qi could feel its breath as it hid its head into its wings in terror.
“Alright, go chase after your folks, I won’t hurt you.” Yang Qi smiled and sent a bit of qi inside this goose’s body. The qi helped it liberated the veins before condensed into a small qi seed. The goose at once got into high spirits and raised its head to sing in appreciation for Yang Qi.
As Yang Qi’s hand shook, the bird flapped its wings to fly away like a shooting arrow into the clouds.
The goose had gotten such huge fortunate encounter, and later on, it could even enter the path of religious practice.
Letting this goose go left inside Yang Qi a sense of “Mercy”.
Yes, it was “Mercy”.
As “Power of the Divine Elephant that Suppresses Hell” was being cultivated, it became extremely brutal and contained within the devilish aura from Hell Devil innately. The person who cultivated it needed to have a very kind heart to control. Yang Qi quietly researched in these days as he slowly realized many mysteries. Apart from cultivating his mind, he had practiced a sense of mercy towards everything between heaven and earth, all living things, that he couldn’t bear to step on even the ants on the ground.
However, if there were vicious enemies that caused him harm. He would also transform into elephant god, into the Dark god to strangle the wicked and to punish the evil, which was meant to promote the good. That was to say:
People were just like fruits, wicked people would be dealt with by wicked people,
By killing thousands of evils, even the world’s most evil would become the compassionate Buddha.
Taking back a slow breath, he landed from the air and moved the joints and knuckles on his body. Immediately from within his bones and joints, there was the sound similar to rumbling thunder. Currently as his qi was so powerful, even his breath could blow away a strong warrior of 8th tier of QiGong.
Yet to promote up to the 9th tier of Qi Zong realm, there was still lacking of some heat.
After all, even to the talented genius’ who obtained a fortune encounter and with a famous teacher appointed, promotion to Qi Zong would require forty to fifty years of cultivation.
Yang Zhan had been promoted up to the 9th level of Qi Zong, which took him more than 40 years of hardship. Moreover, since he was young he had taken the rare grass “Photo-less Grass” and also obtained the Nine-Turn Golden pill brought by Yang Qi.
For Yan Gufeng in promotion, she took Hidden Dragon pill.
“Yet, it wouldn’t be so far until I could reach Qi Zong.” Focused cultivation within these months, though he could not awake the power of ancient mammoths from within his body, and his Four-Season Sword Arts needed a bit more refinement, he wondered how have the training of his father and both brothers been going on?” Yang Qi currently still had the power of about ten ancient mammoths, yet his recognition of “Qi” as compared to three months ago had increased greatly in an eye-opening manner.
“Young master, young father and two brothers are waiting for you at the main hall. They say they have important things to discuss.” Suddenly a servant girl came announcing.
“Important?” Yang Qi was shaken lightly.”What could possibly be this important thing to discuss? Surely, while he didn’t pay attention, it had turned into fall and the fall hunt of Yang family was about to begin. My match with Yang Hongjie was going to start soon, just that this kid was going against me so one breath could blow him dead. Three months ago, his QiGong level was 7th tier, and currently even with the fateful encounter obtained, or whatever pill he took, he would just be at 8th tier.”
He strode into the main hall.
Indeed, his father Yang Zhan and both brothers were there.
The eldest brother had been successfully reaching the 7th tier while the next brother reached 6th. This time, he had taken so many qi-useful pills from the group of elders inside Chen family. There were even some that could directly raise the power up to ten or twenty years of cultivation.
Yet father Yang Zhan’s spirit had become much higher. His eyes appeared like amber, which consisted the essence of four seasons. Yang Qi knew right away that his father relied on this “Giant Thousand Mirrors” weapon to successfully cultivate the Imperial QiGong level “Four-Season Sword Arts”.
Previously the well-known secret “Unbeatable Imperial Fist” was just standard Imperial and could not compare to Four-Season Sword Arts.
“Congratulations to you father, your strength has once again reached another deeper level. Are we discussing for the hunt this fall.” Yang Qi just approached with joy in his face.
“Yang Qi boy, your power has promoted so strongly that I could definitely not your opponent. The hunt this fall, our main line of Yang family could completely be proud as we were completely outnumbering and unite all the branches. Listening to the commander we could plan to take over Yandu City.” Yang Zhan was very ambitious.
“Father, I just hope Yan family do not send assassins to kill our Yang family, then we could continue on peacefully. Huge power for Yandu City is nothing.” Yang Qi pondered.
“This is natural. Just that I’ve investigated, Yan Gufeng had started to invite warriors and strong masters. I believe that not much later on, they could take it on our Yang family.” Yang Zhan shook: “On this rich land, there were so many mansion owners that start to form their own nation. With the princes rose, chaos was near. Yan Gufeng didn’t do it. The whole wall surrounding had been fixed with transportation, and would attack Yandu City. Let’s wait until then there would definitely have strong force then entering the Yandu City.
Yang Qi contemplated. He knew that around Yandu City there were many powerful sources like Yunhai City, which had become Yunhai country and started to take over some smaller forces in order to expand slowly and then attack.
“Alright, I’ve just received news from the elders’ group. They’re gathering right in front of the Black Body mountain, so the four of us now have to rush to the hunt in fall.” Yang Zhan waved his hand.
“Father, the head of Yan family could attack Yang family at anytime. What happens if Yan attacked stealthily?” Yang Qi licked his lips.
“No, they won’t. As all of us are gone, even if Yan family wanted to sneak an attack there would be in vain.” Yang Zhan shook his head. “Yan Gufeng wouldn’t also do such stupid thing like this. If he wanted to fight, he’d definitely wait to capture us all in one batch.”
