Chapter 263

External martial arts happen to be suitable for these two slightly older youths to train, because their bones and meridians have basically set, training won't distort their muscles and bones. From getting the secret manual to now, only about ten days, they've trained to the level Bai Lang sees: "These two brats really have amazing talent; no wonder they're the Child of the World."

Soon they boarded the ship; Bai Lang could only sneer and follow them from afar on land. Of course he also saw the so-called Song clan's Song Zhi and Song Shidao. For a master like the Heavenly Blade, Bai Lang had no intention of contending for supremacy—this guy hides in Lingnan and doesn't lift a finger, clearly he's just trash. Bai Lang thought so, of course without any basis.

When this Goguryeo woman met Yuwen Huaji again, Bai Lang was less than a hundred zhang away, leaning against a tree trunk watching all this. "Truly remarkable skill, this human icebox really isn't bad." Bai Lang recalled the opponents he had faced; he really had never encountered an enemy of ice and fire dual heavens.

Whether it's enemies of the cold-ice lineage or the blazing-flame lineage, he hasn't encountered any. What he's heard is plenty: "A strike unleashes blazing force in all directions; I've heard that among the 108 stars, those at the position of the Heavenly Gang star have such experts. And experts of freezing force that solidifies all things also exist, likewise one must seek them within the Heavenly Gang star." Bai Lang naturally knows that unless one is an Innate Expert, unleashing ice and fire force is hardly different from a joke.

But this Yuwen Huaji before him is of course completely different from the Innate Experts in his world; yet his ice force isn't lacking—his strength may be far weaker, but his freezing ability seems not bad. Although Bai Lang has never seen ice and fire experts unleash their power, by putting himself in their place he also feels that such experts' strikes would surely be flames and ice extending a hundred zhang—otherwise they'd utterly lose the dignity of an Innate Expert.

The ice force of this Yuwen Huaji before him merely fills a space of several chi around; to be effective it must rely on contact. Bai Lang estimates how long it would take him in the past to kill this guy: "No more than three moves." Even though this world imposes major restrictions on Bai Lang, he feels that this Yuwen Huaji probably couldn't stop him.

As expected, the Rakshasa woman suffered heavy blows again but still managed to repel Yuwen Huaji; the Twin Dragons played their part—these two brats' different combat styles have already shown: one prefers the sword, the other fists and feet. "It seems the fist and foot techniques in the fist manual, together with the weapon routines appended later, they've learned quite well." Bai Lang muttered, "Could these two brats also have activated a war god cheat? My fist manual doesn't have such variations; are they constantly innovating in battle on their own?"

Such talent is rare; Bai Lang feels it's not inferior to his own. After Yuwen Huaji left, the three of them rushed into an unnamed deep valley. The Rakshasa woman's wounds were fatal—by this point, even if Bai Lang changed his mind, he couldn't save her. Bai Lang's martial arts kill with ruthless efficiency, but saving people? Forget it; the medicines on him probably can't do it either, unless he exchanged a Lesser Return Pill or Greater Return Pill in the Adventure Hall. But... on what grounds? Just because she's a beauty?

Bai Lang just stood on the mountaintop watching the Rakshasa woman below breathe her last, while those two useless brats cried bitterly, finally dug a grave and buried her. The Rakshasa woman likely revealed the secret of the Yang Palace Treasury before dying, and also passed on the profound mysteries of the Yi Sword Heart Method to these two brats; now they must painstakingly train martial arts to take revenge—wasn't that exactly how they first entered this world's jianghu?

Bai Lang has no interest in their Yi Sword Heart Method—he's seen similar martial arts that are far more awesome; that sword-wielder's calculating martial art, though it can't be fully exerted, is absolutely far stronger than any Yi Sword Heart Method. "But it's hard to say; maybe it's just limited by this world's restrictions? No one stipulates that such a world cannot produce martial arts that surpass limits or, upon reaching a new world, display entirely different power." Should he extort a confession? Bai Lang thinks it's unnecessary; he came here to retrieve the Longevity Manual that these two brats buried.

Maybe the original version could let the test subject Wei Zhenzhen cultivate some ability? Or I could go find a few more test subjects to practice... I recall there's also Su Su, right?" Bai Lang revealed a smug smile, his heroic bearing reminiscent of Lei the Great Official. He also felt that continuing to study might yield some surprises.

And the two biggest, most successful test subjects aren't they right down below? —the only known individuals who have cultivated two patterns in the Longevity Manual, perhaps they won't appear again for a long time. Bai Lang is very interested in how they cultivated it, so he wants to get a closer look, using his own spiritual sense.

These two brats took out the stolen Longevity Manual and began cultivating its martial arts. Bai Lang approached to a distance of over twenty zhang and watched them intently. "My son? They draw qi into their bodies this easily?" Bai Lang was truly surprised, because he could feel that after the two brats assumed their poses, they quickly began absorbing vital energy from different acupoints on their bodies.

With each inhale and exhale, as the breath cycles, the world's vital energy also streams in from various acupoints and the nose and mouth, then circulates the heavenly circuit and flows out again. "Flowing out without dissipating, instead it drives similar vital energy to re-enter... isn't this innate true qi? It turns out these two brats still retain a mouthful of innate vital energy? Being virgins up to now is fine, but retaining innate vital energy at this age is rare... Wait, does this count as developmental delay, not even having drawn a map? I get it now... turns out this martial art is opposed to masturbating."

Bai Lang figured he understood, and then he saw the two brats one yin, one yang. "Solitary yang, lone yin—practicing this will indeed bring extremely swift martial arts achievement and tremendous power, but it's fundamentally the practice of a short-lived ghost. I recall they later encountered an opportunity where their internal force merged and yin-yang were harmonized... actually these two are dao companions, right?" Bai Lang's own cultivation is of the yang‑rigid school of internal force, with no yin‑yang distinction, so it doesn't lead to early death—anyway, in mindset they're simply different.

These two brats were like fledglings, earnestly learning 'soaring.' Bai Lang likewise saw them take out the fist manual he'd written for them and practice it. "Useless, the Longevity Manual's internal force is already formed; the internal force that this fist manual could cultivate from outside to inside can no longer be cultivated." Bai Lang also didn't expect the Longevity Manual's internal force to be so domineering; his fist manual, which ought to be a complete set of martial arts, can now only be used to drill punches, kicks, swords, and spears for combat.

That being the case, it's actually not suitable—since Bai Lang's are all matching sets, now we can only rely on these two brats' own talent.