Chapter 55: Transforming into a Butterfly

In half a night, the Sea Transformation Sutra, in Xu Qing's cultivation, broke through all the way to the fourth layer.

This speed was extremely exaggerated, which also made the Seventh Peak disciples outside feel their hearts tremble. It was just that most people in the Seventh Peak liked to hide their waves.

So they noticed that Xu Qing's boat was a new boat and understood that he was a newly promoted disciple, so most returned to their own boats. On the surface, they no longer paid attention, and everything was as usual, but in reality, they had already begun to inquire in secret.

Until the early sun slowly raised its head in the sky in the distance, and the sunlight fell on the sea surface to form dazzling light, spreading in all directions, Xu Qing inside the black-awning boat opened his eyes from his cross-legged position.

The purple light in his eyes lasted for a full dozen breaths this time before slowly dissipating, revealing the surprise inside.

Although the cultivation speed in the second half of the night was significantly slower, it only broke through the Sea Transformation Sutra from the fourth layer to the fifth layer.

But reaching such a degree overnight was also beyond Xu Qing's expectations.

"Haishan Secret Technique and Sea Transformation Sutra can complement each other..." Xu Qing felt incredible.

Sitting there at this moment, he looked different from yesterday. The sharp edges that were originally sharp now became softer.

Even faintly, there was a kind of ethereal temperament slowly budding.

This was the aura brought by the Sea Transformation Sutra.

Feeling the fifty-plus zhang spirit sea in his body at this moment, Xu Qing took a deep breath and remembered a sentence said by the Haishan Secret Technique.

The Xiao can move mountains, the Kui can move the sea.

But he carefully analyzed and judged in his heart, and in the end, he felt that the reason for this was that the Haishan Secret Technique's role was one aspect, and more of the reason should be caused by the transparent meridians in his body and the absence of any foreign substances.

It was like a container that had already been built incomparably sturdy, not comparable to the body of someone who had just come into contact with cultivation.

So in the initial stage, it could accommodate a large influx of spiritual energy. This also explained why the cultivation speed decreased in the second half of the night.

The capacity of the container is not infinite.

"But from the fact that it still broke through a layer in the second half of the night, although the cultivation speed decreased, it can still support me to continue to improve rapidly."

Xu Qing thought about it, a sharp light flashed in his eyes. This night, not only the Sea Transformation Sutra improved, but his Haishan Secret Technique also improved a lot.

At this moment, it was not far from the eighth layer.

Most importantly, every layer of the Sea Transformation Sutra had recorded Dharma spells. Thus, he lowered his head to look at his right hand.

With a move of his mind, a drop of seawater suddenly formed in his palm, and in an instant, it turned into a water ball the size of a human head, constantly changing, sometimes forming a flying knife, sometimes turning into a small shield, sometimes becoming a flying bird.

In his hand, this water ball constantly changed. According to the different distribution of seawater, the focus of each thing it turned into was also different, and the power naturally had differences.

And in the Sea Transformation Sutra jade slip, like such changes, from the first layer to the tenth layer, there were no less than a hundred types recorded.

While emitting ice cold, there was even more of a forbidden sea aura belonging to the forbidden sea, which could form a deterrent to the opponent's mind. At the same time, in terms of power... Xu Qing felt it slightly.

The explosive power inside this water ball was enough to deter all Qi Condensation Layer Five in the scavenger camp he had seen.

Xu Qing measured himself before coming to the Seven Blood Eyes. After analysis, he concluded that he could quickly kill about forty such water balls.

But feeling the fifty-plus zhang spirit sea in his body, he analyzed that he could emit about fifty water balls. With such a quantity, if he was good at changing, then he would have to be extremely vigilant. Although he could also kill, the time would be longer.

This was already very exaggerated. Xu Qing's Haishan Secret Technique seemed to be seven layers, but compared to others who cultivated the Haishan Secret Technique, in terms of combat power, it was equivalent to ten layers. After all, the Ghost Shadow was completed.

That is to say, people who normally cultivated the Haishan Secret Technique to ten layers, when facing Seventh Peak Sea Transformation Sutra fifth-layer cultivation disciples, could not achieve instant killing.

All of this made Xu Qing's understanding of the Seven Blood Eyes improve again, and he had a deeper judgment on the long-lasting and fierce nature of the Seventh Peak disciples.

"The gap between loose cultivators and sect disciples is too big."

"The current me, in coordination with Body Tempering, has the confidence to kill the past me within one pillar of incense." Xu Qing whispered, and his expression slowly revealed a sharp light.

Although the cultivation base did not have too obvious improvement, the improvement of combat power made him feel that he was walking on a correct path.

At this moment, it was early morning, the sunlight fell, and the shadow of Xu Qing formed on the deck as it poured into the cabin. He lowered his head to look at the shadow.

A night of cultivation, all foreign substances were absorbed by the shadow, which made his shadow look darker than before at this moment. If one looked closely, the place it covered seemed to contain an abyss.

At this moment, under Xu Qing's gaze, this shadow suddenly moved, swaying left and right, stretching out its hands, clenching its fists and then spreading its five fingers, repeating over and over, the speed getting faster and faster.

It even stretched and shrank rapidly, looking extremely strange.

Until after a long while, as a trace of fatigue appeared on Xu Qing's expression, the shadow instantly returned to its original state, not moving at all.

"Experiencing the second assessment and the breakthrough of the Sea Transformation Sutra, my control over the shadow has also advanced by leaps and bounds." Xu Qing raised his head and looked at the sun outside.

After a long while, he slowly stood up, tidied up his items, took out the gray Dao robe, and touched it lightly on the table.

Then with a wave of his right hand, water droplets appeared again, expanding into a water ball and then flattening, eventually turning into a water mirror, reflecting Xu Qing's figure.

The face in the water mirror carried a trace of immaturity, incomparably beautiful, containing unique charm. Although it was dirty, the spirit in his eyes was like stars, very dazzling.

Looking at himself in the water mirror, Xu Qing was silent for a moment, his face revealing decisiveness. He took off the scavenger clothes on his body, revealing the refined and perfectly proportioned body after cultivating the Haishan Secret Technique.

His left hand raised and grabbed toward the water mirror. Immediately, the water mirror turned into a large amount of water vapor, directly covering his whole body, constantly washing, and black sewage flowed down his slender body, spreading under his feet.

Xu Qing stood there calmly. This was the first time in seven years that he had washed his body so thoroughly.

Because he knew that the environment had changed now. In the slums and the scavenger camp, he was the same as everyone else when he was full of filth, so he was not conspicuous.

But here, if he was still the same as before, it would attract too many unnecessary gazes. Although scavenger attire would give people a sense of poverty, the fact that he had a Dharma Boat was not a secret, and those with intentions would know at a glance. So if he still pretended to cover up, it didn't make much sense.

So, there was no ripple on his face, letting the water vapor wash, and gradually the fair skin of his whole body was exposed in a large area, and his face and hair were the same.

Until a moment later, when the last trace of filth on his whole body dissipated, Xu Qing opened his eyes.

The sunlight poured into the black awning, falling on his black hair, falling on his face, as if reluctant to leave, wanting to gently flow over his whole body. Xu Qing was a bit uncomfortable and took a few steps back to make his body fall into the darkness.

The figure in the darkness had a head of black, bright, and vertical hair.

Looking to be sixteen or seventeen years old, with slanted, heroic sword eyebrows, long and narrow black eyes containing sharpness, thin and tightly pursed lips, clear-cut contours, and a slender figure, like a fledgling eagle wanting to spread its wings in the dark night.

Cold, arrogant, lonely, yet aggressive, standing alone, merging with the immaturity remaining on the boy's face, making him exude amazing charm all over his body.

Xu Qing lowered his head to look at his hands, took out the inner lining of the gray Dao robe, and put them on one by one.

Eventually, he put on the shoes issued by the sect, and after putting the Dao robe on his body, he waved his hand, and water droplets appeared again, washing away the blood stains in the cabin from last night. Until it was completely clean, Xu Qing walked out of the boat, and under the sunlight, his whole person radiated an indescribable spirit.

Like a dust-covered gem, the dust was wiped away, showing dazzling light.

Making the guards patrolling on the shore look over one after another.

Xu Qing stood on the boat, narrowing his eyes, as if to isolate the gazes from the outside world. The direct falling of sunlight on his skin also made him a bit uncomfortable, but he understood that this was an experience he must have, so Xu Qing slowly opened his eyes and forced himself to adapt.

After a long while, he took a deep breath, turned around, and walked off the boat.

With a wave of his hand, he put the black-awning boat into the bottle, and under the gaze of the patrolling guards in the distance, he slowly walked away.

Today is the day he goes to the Arrest Murderers Division to report.

At the same time, he also planned to go to the pharmacy at the port to buy some medicinal herbs for refining White Pills and poison powder. The pills on his body were now empty.

The port in the early morning was very lively.

The outside merchant ships coming in and out of more than a hundred bays and the Seventh Peak disciples made the port bustling, and there were many people coming and going. Most of the shops opened at this moment, and the pedestrians on the street also began a day of busyness.

Xu Qing's arrival attracted some gazes because of his appearance, but for cultivators, appearance was just skin. So most looked at it and withdrew their gazes.

Xu Qing slowly adapted, but walking on the street, he was still used to moving forward in the shadows. At the same time, on this road to the Arrest Murderers Division, Xu Qing also noticed that besides pharmacies, there were some weapon refining workshops and array-carving small shops opened in the port.

Through the boat's jade slip, Xu Qing knew that not every disciple could refine boats on their own. For the vast majority of disciples, they often sent materials and Dharma Boats to shops opened by Sixth Peak disciples, or array-carving shops opened by Fifth Peak disciples, to entrust refining.

After paying attention to these shops, Xu Qing inquired and learned the location of the Seventh Peak Arrest Murderers Division, and walked quickly.

Not long after, a magnificent building appeared in front of Xu Qing.

The gate of this building was very similar to the City Lord's Mansion he had seen, but the range inside was larger. Amidst dozens of small buildings standing, bursts of pressure also expanded from inside, suppressing all directions.

Especially the overall color was pitch black, and the two stone statues in front of the gate were ferocious in appearance, as if a fusion of human and beast, like a Rakshasa, shocking to the eye.

The gate was deserted, and pedestrians often bypassed it from far away, not daring to get close.

At this moment, at the gate, there were two young cultivators wearing gray Dao robes, a man and a woman, both around twenty years old, with ordinary appearances, leaning lazily on the gate pillars, yawning, as if they hadn't woken up. But the moment Xu Qing walked over, the two immediately looked up, their eyes like electricity, landing on Xu Qing.

Xu Qing's expression was calm. He walked over under the gazes of the two, did not get too close, stopped at the gate, and cupped his fists and bowed.

"Seventh Peak disciple Xu Qing, ordered to take office, came here to report."

"Newcomer?" A faint light appeared in the young man's eyes. He scanned Xu Qing up and down, but soon his eyes narrowed slightly, as if he felt the extraordinary fluctuations on Xu Qing's body. He was just about to speak, but was pushed away by his female companion beside him, who rushed to Xu Qing first, looked at Xu Qing's face, and revealed a soft smile.

"This little junior brother, I don't know what you are here for?"

"People already said they came here to report, and you still ask what for?" The young man smiled but not smiled.

The female cultivator seemed not to have heard this sentence and continued to look at Xu Qing.

Xu Qing instinctively took a few steps back. He did not like to get too close to people. At this moment, he habitually observed the two, especially looking at the necks of these two male and female cultivators a few times instinctively.

I guess many young boys and girls will sigh that Xu Qing finally took a bath... ===== CHAPTER 56 =====