Chapter 204 – Returning to the Mountain to become a disciple
(Mustang: Hi Guys, I know it’s been a while; apologizes for that, I got caught up in something big from out of nowhere.)
Bi Fan spent these three days roaming around the Jiu Yu City with his friends, and encountered several disciples from the other sects during his tours of the city.
Even though some of these disciples were hostile, but their actions were limited to glares since no one would dare to start a fight in the Jiu Yu City owing to the City’s strict rules and regulations.
Even though no one would get physical, but verbal conflicts were unavoidable.
Coming from a humble background, Bi Fan had gotten accustomed to verbal abuse, however his retaliation was often enough to offend his aggressors, and Bi Fan made sure that he used this fact to his advantage.
Bi Fan was in the limelight inside the City since everyone knew him; winning the title of the Jiu Yu Hidden Dragon List’s champion was enough to make almost any one envious of his fame.
Ji Ying Lan, Mo Nan, Blue Dragon, Jing Feng, Wang Zhong, and Bi Fan would inevitably tour the city together; in fact, most people in the city were able to recognize them owing to their respective performances in the competition earlier. In fact, someone even nicknamed them ‘the six brothers’, since they were acting like they were sworn to an oath of brotherhood.
Wang Zhong was the only ‘relatively’ unknown figure in the group; however, no one would dare to underestimate him since Mo Nan would always refer to him as ‘elder brother’.
Lou Xiao Tian and Ling Xin Ya led the Quinyang Sect delegation back to the Quinyang Moutains after their three days’ rest-time came to an end.
Blue Dragon had already decided against following the Eastern Aristocracy back to their center of operations, and hence followed after the Quinyang Sect delegation instead.
Blue Dragon had already arranged to meet up with Bi Fan and the rest of their group in the Quinyang Town, post which they all intended on venturing into the Tong Cheng region together.
Since Lou Xiao Tian and Ling Xin Ya were leading the Quinyang Sect delegation on the way back from the Jiu Yu City, no one dared to provoke them and they all had a very pleasant journey back to the mountains.
However, since Luo Xiao Tian was in-charge of the group, Blue Dragon kept a safe distance from their delegation on the way back.
Wang Zhong was temporarily asked to stay with Ling Xin Ya at the Yang Shan peak after returning to the mountains.
“Wang Zhong, you will stay here at the Yang Shan peak for the time being while I’ll go and consult with the master of the Sect. I’d like to enroll you here at the Yang Shan peak, same as Bi Fan if that’s alright with you.” Ling Xin Ya smiled as he stated.
“An opportunity to become a disciple to such a learned master is more than this humble boy could ever have wished for.”
Wang Zhong looked at Bi Fan happily; he was obviously quite overjoyed since this would mean that he would get ample time to practice with Bi Fan.
Wang Zhong really admired Bi Fan, and felt that if he was able to receive the same training and environment as Bi Fan, then this alliance would bear endless benefits for him.
“Bi Fan, you will help Wang Zhong in settling down; I’ll immediately go and consult with the master of the Sect.”
Ling Xin Ya instantly drifted away like the wind; Bi Fan and Wang Zhong weren’t even able see the stealth with which he left the peak.
“I really can’t even guess master’s realm…. I don’t know if we’ll ever be able to catch up to our master!” Bi Fan marveled.
“Brother Bi Fan, given your talent, you’ll be able to catch up to him in time to come.” Wang Zhong smiled.
Bi Fan shook his head, and said: “My talents aren’t that great. I can tell that I’m very far behind, especially now that I’ve seen Miss Yan Yu Si and Xuan Yuan Po Jun in action.”
It wasn’t that Bi Fan was low on self-confidence, he was simply well aware that his late start had left him lagging behind by a big margin.
However, Bi Fan firmly believed that he had now procured all the basic necessities which could assist him in becoming a genuinely strong martial artist someday.
Bi Fan led Wang Zhong to his residence, and helped him in settling down within his own practice area since it would allow them to learn from each other easily.
Once he was done assisting Wang Zhong in making the basic arrangements, he started practicing the ‘Soul Illusion Injection’ law.
The ‘Soul Illusion Injection’ law wasn’t just a concealed weaponry law, but also comprised of several illusion laws. This blend of concealed weaponry and illusion methods was nothing short of genius, if implemented in the right manner.
Since most people considered concealed weapon martial arts to be beneath themselves, not many people were aware of this secretive and marvelous martial law.
If it weren’t for ‘The Immortal Finger’ law’s ability to fuse with concealed weapon martial arts, Bi Fan would have never bought the book.
Bi Fan’s discovery of this law was nothing more than a mere coincidence, and now his heart was already set of exploring the secrets of this martial arts style.
The ‘Soul Illusion Injection’ didn’t pay much attention to conceal weaponry like most martial laws in its domain, but instead focused on Illusions.
Not many people practiced illusion techniques in this vast world. However, there was a rumor about a Sect which specialized in concealed weaponry in the ancient times, The Soul Illusion Sect. However, this Sect faded away over time and its secrets were lost.
In the present age, the practice of illusion laws was very rare.
Bi Fan had already started contemplating the idea of fusing the ‘Soul Illusion Injection’ with ‘The Immortal Finger’. The ‘Soul Illusion Injection’ would delude the enemy, while ‘The Immortal Finger’ could then be used to kill off the enemy. He felt that these two laws would bring out the best in each other.
Once he was done practicing the ‘Soul Illusion Injection’, he started practicing the ‘Blood Devil’ law and the ‘Fire and Ice’ burst laws to provide energy to the Yin Yang Lotus.
Another two seeds of the Yin Yang Lotus were reaching close to their stage of maturity after all this time he had been feeding them.
Once he was done, he started practicing the ‘Against the Devil’ body burst law.
He unequivocally understood that a stronger physical base would prove out to be very useful later on in life.
Later, he started memorizing the martial arts that he had seen over the course of the tournament, and started contemplating ways to integrate them into ‘The Immortal Finger’.
‘The Immortal Finger’ was a very straight forward strike, but its power and effect could be increased significantly upon being fused with some of the more complicated laws.
Even though Bi Fan’s idea was quite good, he had no idea as to how long it could take to succeed in this experiment.
However, Bi Fan wasn’t anxious, and firmly believed that as long as he was able to devote time to this experiment every day, he’d eventually be able to succeed.
In order to succeed as soon as possible, Bi Fan started with integrating ‘The Immortal Finger’ with the ‘Fufeng Double Edged Sword’ first.
This law was his most well-researched law, and would prove out to be the easiest to work with, and could possibly make it easier to integrate the other laws into ‘The Immortal Finger’ in the future.
Wang Zhong was working even harder than Bi Fan, and was solely focusing on tempering his physical strength. However, since the law he was practicing wasn’t very advanced in it’s make, his progress pace was obviously slower.
Wang Zhong was anxious to take his physical strength to the ‘transformation’ layer, and was decided on using the Ogre flower petal to break into the ‘emerging from the womb’ layer only afterwards since the breakthrough would amplify his strength, and would make him far more powerful than his peers in one single swoop.
Wang Zhong was very tempted to make this breakthrough early after witnessing the strength of some of the ‘emerging from the womb’ layer martial artists over the course of the tournament, but he was willing to endure this anxiety in favor of achieving even greater success.
Lin Xin Ya returned the following day.
“Wang Zhong, the master of the Sect has allowed you to join the Quinyang Sect. You will follow me to pay respects to our ancestors later, and I’ll officially indict you into the Sect thereafter.” Ling Xin Ya seemed very happy since it meant that he would add another top talent to the Yang Shan Peak’s line.
“Congratulations Brother Wang Zhong!” Bi Fan smiled.
Wang Zhong promptly knelt down, and knocked his head on the ground thrice in salute: “Disciple Wang Zhong is grateful to the master.”
“Well! Good!” Ling Xin Ya’s hearty laugh was enough to express his happiness.
Wang Zhong smiled: “Brother Bi Fan, does this mean that I should now be referring to you as ‘elder brother’?”
“You can still call me ‘Brother’, and I’ll still call you ‘Brother’; it sounds more familiar.” Bi Fan said. But then he looked up at Ling Xin Ya, fearing that Ling Xin Ya may object, but Ling Xin Ya was too busy feeling pleased with his fortune.
Subsequently, Ling Xin Ya led Wang Zhong to pay respects to the ancestors, making it rather obvious than he deeply respected his master.
Thereafter, Ling Xin Ya handed over scrolls containing the secrets to the ‘Fufeng Double edged sword’, ‘Floating Sword’, and the ‘Quinyang Weather’ burst laws, along with a high-end double edged sword and defense equipment.
The ‘Quinyang Weather’ burst was the Sect’s primary internal energy practice method, which Bi Fan had also learnt in the past. However, since this method didn’t work well with the ‘Free burst’, the ‘Blood Devil’ and the ‘Fire and Ice’ burst, Bi Fan didn’t practice it much.
Instead, Bi Fan used the ‘Longevity Burst’ to achieve the same result. Even though the ‘Longevity Burst’ was much slower, but something is always better than nothing.
Wang Zhong immediately started realizing the benefits of joining a martial Sect; earlier, he would have to spend a lot of time and energy in learning new laws, or procuring new equipment, but now all this had just been handed over to him by his Sect without a second thought.
“Thank you master!” Wang Zhong seemed very grateful.
“There’s no need to thank me; you just focus on practicing hard.”
“Master, please feel assured; I will spare no effort.” Wang Zhong solemnly vowed.
Bi Fan and Wang Zhong stayed another three days at the Yang Shan peak, which was enough for Wang Zhong to memorize the basics of the ‘Fufeng Double edged’ and the ‘Floating Sword’ laws.
“Master, we intend on going down the mountains to gain some experience; please grant us permission.” Bi Fan asked.
The date they had set with Blue Dragon was upon them, and therefore they needed to ascend down the mountains to reunite with him.
“You may go; but be more careful this time!” Ling Xin Ya saw no reason to stop them.
He was aware that good talents can only be nurtured to greatness with practice and experience, and hence saw no reason to stop them from gaining some.
Wang Zhong and Bi Fan hurried down the Yang Shan Peak and met with Jing Feng, Mo Nan and Ji Ying Lan. Then, the five of them rushed towards the Quinyang Town to meet up with Blue Dragon.
Chapter 204 – Returning to the Mountain to become a disciple
(Mustang: Hi Guys, I know it’s been a while; apologizes for that, I got caught up in something big from out of nowhere.)
Bi Fan spent these three days roaming around the Jiu Yu City with his friends, and encountered several disciples from the other sects during his tours of the city.
Even though some of these disciples were hostile, but their actions were limited to glares since no one would dare to start a fight in the Jiu Yu City owing to the City’s strict rules and regulations.
Even though no one would get physical, but verbal conflicts were unavoidable.
Coming from a humble background, Bi Fan had gotten accustomed to verbal abuse, however his retaliation was often enough to offend his aggressors, and Bi Fan made sure that he used this fact to his advantage.
Bi Fan was in the limelight inside the City since everyone knew him; winning the title of the Jiu Yu Hidden Dragon List’s champion was enough to make almost any one envious of his fame.
Ji Ying Lan, Mo Nan, Blue Dragon, Jing Feng, Wang Zhong, and Bi Fan would inevitably tour the city together; in fact, most people in the city were able to recognize them owing to their respective performances in the competition earlier. In fact, someone even nicknamed them ‘the six brothers’, since they were acting like they were sworn to an oath of brotherhood.
Wang Zhong was the only ‘relatively’ unknown figure in the group; however, no one would dare to underestimate him since Mo Nan would always refer to him as ‘elder brother’.
Lou Xiao Tian and Ling Xin Ya led the Quinyang Sect delegation back to the Quinyang Moutains after their three days’ rest-time came to an end.
Blue Dragon had already decided against following the Eastern Aristocracy back to their center of operations, and hence followed after the Quinyang Sect delegation instead.
Blue Dragon had already arranged to meet up with Bi Fan and the rest of their group in the Quinyang Town, post which they all intended on venturing into the Tong Cheng region together.
Since Lou Xiao Tian and Ling Xin Ya were leading the Quinyang Sect delegation on the way back from the Jiu Yu City, no one dared to provoke them and they all had a very pleasant journey back to the mountains.
However, since Luo Xiao Tian was in-charge of the group, Blue Dragon kept a safe distance from their delegation on the way back.
Wang Zhong was temporarily asked to stay with Ling Xin Ya at the Yang Shan peak after returning to the mountains.
“Wang Zhong, you will stay here at the Yang Shan peak for the time being while I’ll go and consult with the master of the Sect. I’d like to enroll you here at the Yang Shan peak, same as Bi Fan if that’s alright with you.” Ling Xin Ya smiled as he stated.
“An opportunity to become a disciple to such a learned master is more than this humble boy could ever have wished for.”
Wang Zhong looked at Bi Fan happily; he was obviously quite overjoyed since this would mean that he would get ample time to practice with Bi Fan.
Wang Zhong really admired Bi Fan, and felt that if he was able to receive the same training and environment as Bi Fan, then this alliance would bear endless benefits for him.
“Bi Fan, you will help Wang Zhong in settling down; I’ll immediately go and consult with the master of the Sect.”
Ling Xin Ya instantly drifted away like the wind; Bi Fan and Wang Zhong weren’t even able see the stealth with which he left the peak.
“I really can’t even guess master’s realm…. I don’t know if we’ll ever be able to catch up to our master!” Bi Fan marveled.
“Brother Bi Fan, given your talent, you’ll be able to catch up to him in time to come.” Wang Zhong smiled.
Bi Fan shook his head, and said: “My talents aren’t that great. I can tell that I’m very far behind, especially now that I’ve seen Miss Yan Yu Si and Xuan Yuan Po Jun in action.”
It wasn’t that Bi Fan was low on self-confidence, he was simply well aware that his late start had left him lagging behind by a big margin.
However, Bi Fan firmly believed that he had now procured all the basic necessities which could assist him in becoming a genuinely strong martial artist someday.
Bi Fan led Wang Zhong to his residence, and helped him in settling down within his own practice area since it would allow them to learn from each other easily.
Once he was done assisting Wang Zhong in making the basic arrangements, he started practicing the ‘Soul Illusion Injection’ law.
The ‘Soul Illusion Injection’ law wasn’t just a concealed weaponry law, but also comprised of several illusion laws. This blend of concealed weaponry and illusion methods was nothing short of genius, if implemented in the right manner.
Since most people considered concealed weapon martial arts to be beneath themselves, not many people were aware of this secretive and marvelous martial law.
If it weren’t for ‘The Immortal Finger’ law’s ability to fuse with concealed weapon martial arts, Bi Fan would have never bought the book.
Bi Fan’s discovery of this law was nothing more than a mere coincidence, and now his heart was already set of exploring the secrets of this martial arts style.
The ‘Soul Illusion Injection’ didn’t pay much attention to conceal weaponry like most martial laws in its domain, but instead focused on Illusions.
Not many people practiced illusion techniques in this vast world. However, there was a rumor about a Sect which specialized in concealed weaponry in the ancient times, The Soul Illusion Sect. However, this Sect faded away over time and its secrets were lost.
In the present age, the practice of illusion laws was very rare.
Bi Fan had already started contemplating the idea of fusing the ‘Soul Illusion Injection’ with ‘The Immortal Finger’. The ‘Soul Illusion Injection’ would delude the enemy, while ‘The Immortal Finger’ could then be used to kill off the enemy. He felt that these two laws would bring out the best in each other.
Once he was done practicing the ‘Soul Illusion Injection’, he started practicing the ‘Blood Devil’ law and the ‘Fire and Ice’ burst laws to provide energy to the Yin Yang Lotus.
Another two seeds of the Yin Yang Lotus were reaching close to their stage of maturity after all this time he had been feeding them.
Once he was done, he started practicing the ‘Against the Devil’ body burst law.
He unequivocally understood that a stronger physical base would prove out to be very useful later on in life.
Later, he started memorizing the martial arts that he had seen over the course of the tournament, and started contemplating ways to integrate them into ‘The Immortal Finger’.
‘The Immortal Finger’ was a very straight forward strike, but its power and effect could be increased significantly upon being fused with some of the more complicated laws.
Even though Bi Fan’s idea was quite good, he had no idea as to how long it could take to succeed in this experiment.
However, Bi Fan wasn’t anxious, and firmly believed that as long as he was able to devote time to this experiment every day, he’d eventually be able to succeed.
In order to succeed as soon as possible, Bi Fan started with integrating ‘The Immortal Finger’ with the ‘Fufeng Double Edged Sword’ first.
This law was his most well-researched law, and would prove out to be the easiest to work with, and could possibly make it easier to integrate the other laws into ‘The Immortal Finger’ in the future.
Wang Zhong was working even harder than Bi Fan, and was solely focusing on tempering his physical strength. However, since the law he was practicing wasn’t very advanced in it’s make, his progress pace was obviously slower.
Wang Zhong was anxious to take his physical strength to the ‘transformation’ layer, and was decided on using the Ogre flower petal to break into the ‘emerging from the womb’ layer only afterwards since the breakthrough would amplify his strength, and would make him far more powerful than his peers in one single swoop.
Wang Zhong was very tempted to make this breakthrough early after witnessing the strength of some of the ‘emerging from the womb’ layer martial artists over the course of the tournament, but he was willing to endure this anxiety in favor of achieving even greater success.
Lin Xin Ya returned the following day.
“Wang Zhong, the master of the Sect has allowed you to join the Quinyang Sect. You will follow me to pay respects to our ancestors later, and I’ll officially indict you into the Sect thereafter.” Ling Xin Ya seemed very happy since it meant that he would add another top talent to the Yang Shan Peak’s line.
“Congratulations Brother Wang Zhong!” Bi Fan smiled.
Wang Zhong promptly knelt down, and knocked his head on the ground thrice in salute: “Disciple Wang Zhong is grateful to the master.”
“Well! Good!” Ling Xin Ya’s hearty laugh was enough to express his happiness.
Wang Zhong smiled: “Brother Bi Fan, does this mean that I should now be referring to you as ‘elder brother’?”
“You can still call me ‘Brother’, and I’ll still call you ‘Brother’; it sounds more familiar.” Bi Fan said. But then he looked up at Ling Xin Ya, fearing that Ling Xin Ya may object, but Ling Xin Ya was too busy feeling pleased with his fortune.
Subsequently, Ling Xin Ya led Wang Zhong to pay respects to the ancestors, making it rather obvious than he deeply respected his master.
Thereafter, Ling Xin Ya handed over scrolls containing the secrets to the ‘Fufeng Double edged sword’, ‘Floating Sword’, and the ‘Quinyang Weather’ burst laws, along with a high-end double edged sword and defense equipment.
The ‘Quinyang Weather’ burst was the Sect’s primary internal energy practice method, which Bi Fan had also learnt in the past. However, since this method didn’t work well with the ‘Free burst’, the ‘Blood Devil’ and the ‘Fire and Ice’ burst, Bi Fan didn’t practice it much.
Instead, Bi Fan used the ‘Longevity Burst’ to achieve the same result. Even though the ‘Longevity Burst’ was much slower, but something is always better than nothing.
Wang Zhong immediately started realizing the benefits of joining a martial Sect; earlier, he would have to spend a lot of time and energy in learning new laws, or procuring new equipment, but now all this had just been handed over to him by his Sect without a second thought.
“Thank you master!” Wang Zhong seemed very grateful.
“There’s no need to thank me; you just focus on practicing hard.”
“Master, please feel assured; I will spare no effort.” Wang Zhong solemnly vowed.
Bi Fan and Wang Zhong stayed another three days at the Yang Shan peak, which was enough for Wang Zhong to memorize the basics of the ‘Fufeng Double edged’ and the ‘Floating Sword’ laws.
“Master, we intend on going down the mountains to gain some experience; please grant us permission.” Bi Fan asked.
The date they had set with Blue Dragon was upon them, and therefore they needed to ascend down the mountains to reunite with him.
“You may go; but be more careful this time!” Ling Xin Ya saw no reason to stop them.
He was aware that good talents can only be nurtured to greatness with practice and experience, and hence saw no reason to stop them from gaining some.
Wang Zhong and Bi Fan hurried down the Yang Shan Peak and met with Jing Feng, Mo Nan and Ji Ying Lan. Then, the five of them rushed towards the Quinyang Town to meet up with Blue Dragon.
