Chapter 36

"What, there's a ghost lying on my back?"

Guan Zhong, with a dull expression and a face full of fatigue, jumped up from the ground like a startled frog, turning his head repeatedly to look and pat his back.

He was still shouting, "I've already burned so many ingots for you, why don't you go pick up the money, what are you looking for me for?"

His foolish appearance of spinning in place amused Xiao Yu, and she laughed: "The ghost knows you are the golden mountain and silver mountain that can't be eaten up after seeing you burning ingots; a smart ghost naturally wants to hug your thigh."

"Miss Yu, stop joking... if there's really a ghost behind this old slave, could it be that it's teasing this old slave?"

Guan Zhong said with a mournful face, with expectation in his eyes, expecting Xiao Yu to be joking.

"There really is a ghost on your back, I can't see clearly, I can only see a dark, blurry shadow."

Xiao Yu herself was a bit strange; seeing ghost shadows everywhere, she wasn't afraid at all.

Could it be that after seeing the old ghost, she had no feeling for minor ghosts?

Zhang Huasheng Zhang is an old ghost, but he looks more amiable than a living person.

"Yu'er, you shouldn't have been able to see those ghost shadows before, right?" Huchen walked out and said.

"Before, I only felt gusts of yin wind in the courtyard." Xiao Yu said.

Huchen looked at Guan Zhong, activating his Immortal Pupil, and the three-zhang golden light lit up like a 1000-watt incandescent lamp in the courtyard.

"Buzz buzz buzz~~~" The golden light swept everywhere, and the ghost shadows fled in panic wherever it passed.

"Alright, don't talk about those lonely ghosts and wild spirits attracted by the night sacrifice; now there isn't a single gloomy ghost object in the entire Hengsha Pass."

Guan Zhong let out a long breath, his whole body relaxed, "The master's miraculous power is world-topping; this old slave indeed feels much lighter, and my mind is clear. It seems I was indeed targeted by an evil object just now."

Huchen turned to Xiao Yu again, pondering: "The Immortal-Inviting True Transmission slightly hurt your soul; a weak spirit leads to evil invasion, so you can vaguely sense evil objects.

You don't need to be afraid, they can't hurt you.

Well, the less you fear them, the less they can do to you."

Then he said to Guan Zhong: "Starting tomorrow, prepare an extra bowl of Warm Spirit Soup for the young lady twice a day, morning and evening."

Xiao Yu truly felt the harm of an incomplete soul.

Besides mental weakness and easily seeing unclean things, it also became very difficult for her to rest.

Lying on the bed, clearly very tired, she just couldn't fall asleep.

Unable to fall asleep, she became even more tired, her heart fire was dry and hot, she felt even more uncomfortable, and couldn't sleep even more.

She almost couldn't help but run to the East Garden to ask Huchen for the Shadow Spirit Portrait.

Zhang Huasheng Zhang is not a true immortal, but he has the "Painting Immortal means" to imbue the characters in the painting with souls.

He is equivalent to adding an extra soul for Xiao Yu, rather than extracting spirit from her soul to integrate into the person in the painting.

Extracting spirit from the soul to integrate into the person in the painting is dividing 100 parts of the soul into 99 parts and 1 part, 99 parts belong to the person, 1 part belongs to the person in the painting; enlightening an immortal spirit is increasing the total number of souls to 101 parts, 100 parts remain unchanged, and the extra 1 part is in the person in the painting.

Both methods make the soul incomplete.

If you want to return to normal, you need a long period of recuperation and adjustment.

If you carry the Shadow Spirit Portrait with you, the symptoms of mental weakness can be greatly alleviated.

Because Zhang Huasheng Zhang enlightened a "Painting Spirit," Xiao Yu can also absorb spirit from the Shadow Spirit Portrait to strengthen her soul.

This is part of the benefits of the genuine Immortal-Inviting True Transmission.

The true Immortal-Inviting True Transmission, the side effects can be ignored, and it can also calm the spirit and solidify the soul.

"Enlightening an immortal spirit, and the fierce tiger divine intent of the 'Tiger Soul Seven Kills' seem to have a little similarity!"

Xiao Yu couldn't fall asleep, so she sank her consciousness into the Purple Mansion, continuing to study the "Tiger Soul Seven Kills" heart technique.

"Enlightening an immortal spirit is imbuing a dead object with spirituality out of thin air. The fierce tiger divine intent is also imitating a fierce tiger, creating a fierce tiger divine soul.

It's just that the fierce tiger divine intent is one's own, needing to divide a part from one's own soul to imitate the true god of the fierce tiger.

But in essence, both are creating another spirit.

Is it really that there are three thousand Great Daos, all leading to the same destination?"

Without knowing it, Xiao Yu had completely immersed herself in the study of the fierce tiger divine intent, and then fell asleep in a daze.

The next morning.

"Xia Zhi, tell the kitchen, one bowl of Warm Spirit Soup is not enough, at least two vats."

Waking up in the morning, Xiao Yu's spirit was not as good as before, but it was still okay.

But when she started eating breakfast, when she drank the amber-colored paste—Warm Spirit Soup, her eyes lit up, and her heart thumped wildly.

Just after drinking the Warm Spirit Soup, she wasn't sure about its therapeutic effect on her incomplete soul, but she immediately discovered that her Purple Mansion, which had been running at high intensity last night and was slightly fatigued at this moment, was like a long drought meeting sweet rain, like an electric car plugged into a charging pile.

What does this mean?

The Purple Mansion is like a human computer that deduces Dao methods, consuming her brainpower and physical strength; physical strength is easy to recover, drinking a bowl of Bone-Strengthening Soup has an immediate effect, but spirit and soul can only rely on quiet recuperation.

Now it's good, Bone-Strengthening Soup replenishes essence, Warm Spirit Soup replenishes spirit, and the Purple Mansion can continue to run persistently.

"Miss, two vats of Warm Spirit Soup, can you really drink it? You still have two vats of Bone-Strengthening Soup!" The maid Xia Zhi looked at her as if looking at a pig demon.

Her young lady is not a "medicine person" who treats medicine as food.

The young lady drinks a lot of medicine, but it doesn't delay her eating at all, and she is very particular about eating, with a combination of meat and vegetables, thin and thick, and there are fruits and desserts after meals.

She even demands variety for fruits, wishing to gather seven colors: red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple.

Even the master doesn't have as many tricks as her.

"Xia Zhi, give you a suggestion, before I drink a nosebleed, don't worry about whether I can drink it." Xiao Yu picked up the bowl and drank the Warm Spirit Soup in one breath.

"Zhang Lai had a nosebleed." Yong Xue said.

"Zhang Lai? What happened to him?"

Yong Xue looked at her with strange eyes and said: "Miss said that practicing martial arts requires courage and progress, so you drink two vats of Bone-Strengthening Soup a day.

After he heard about this, he gritted his teeth and shouted 'I, Zhang Lai, am not weaker than others,' then picked up the Bone-Strengthening Soup and drank two large bowls, his face red like a cooked shrimp, nosebleed flowing profusely, he was confused, and hasn't recovered yet."

"Miss is truly amazing." Finally, she added a compliment.

"Miss is indeed amazing." Xia Zhi nodded, looking in agreement.

They were not praising the young lady's martial arts.

She does practice martial arts, they have all seen her somersaults, tiger jumps, and stretching exercises.

Honestly... worthy of being a barbarian.

But they really admire the young lady's ability to eat.

"Hehe, this young lady has even more amazing things."

Xiao Yu put down the bowl and chopsticks, rinsed her mouth first, and then strode out of the courtyard.

When she found Huchen, Huchen was practicing martial arts.

"Yu'er, I will now demonstrate the saber technique of the 'Tiger Soul Seven Kills' for you."

Seeing Xiao Yu come over, Huchen didn't talk nonsense, and immediately fulfilled his promise from last night, demonstrating the forty-nine Tiger Soul saber techniques in order.

At first, Xiao Yu could still see Huchen's movements clearly; every move and every style was extremely fierce, like a fierce tiger descending the mountain to hunt prey.

Huchen's movements became faster and faster; between the rabbit rising and the falcon falling, gradually she could only see the shadow of a person.

Gradually, Huchen was wrapped into a ball by the saber light like snow, Xiao Yu could no longer see him, and on the ground, there was only a ball of snow, rolling back and forth in the courtyard, floating up and falling down, turning and leaping...

Xiao Yu's lips turned pale, her eyes widened, desperately trying to record Huchen's movements, but she was powerless.

—It's just moves, it's the simplest element among Heart, Spirit, Intent, Qi, and Body, how could it be harder than the heart technique?

Heart technique...

Xiao Yu had a flash of inspiration, closed her eyes, and entered the state of fierce tiger divine intent.

"Roar, roar, roar~~~"

The saber whistling that surrounded Huchen and tore through the air turned into roars of a fierce tiger.

Gradually, the roars of the fierce tiger also became very regular and rhythmic.

She could easily distinguish and follow the rhythm, and even appeared to have plenty of room to spare.

So Xiao Yu opened her eyes again; she still couldn't see Huchen's every move clearly, but a look of sudden realization and relaxation appeared on her face.

Why must she see every move of his clearly?

What's the difference between seeing and not seeing those feints that don't slash at her vital points?

She couldn't see every saber move of his clearly, but she saw his saber momentum with incomparable clarity!

In her eyes, Huchen's image changed again.

From a snowball composed of saber light, it turned into a fierce tiger leaping back and forth.

No matter how the fierce tiger moved, its core moves were always at three points: tail, mouth, and claws.

Huchen's countless saber moves were just a combination of seven killing methods performed by the fierce tiger with its tail, sharp teeth, and sharp claws.

The Seven Kills mystery is the soul of the seven killing methods.

Xiao Yu had already mastered the soul of the moves, so when she watched Huchen demonstrate the saber technique again, she didn't need to see the moves at all.

He used countless move combinations to form a momentum: either the fierce tiger biting, or the fierce tiger waving its claws, or the fierce tiger flicking its tail...

Just like an ordinary person can't see the operation of countless mechanical components and electronic components inside a "Gundam robot," but can clearly understand the movements of the Gundam robot itself.

Huchen's move combinations are the mechanical movements of countless parts inside the "Fierce Tiger Gundam"; the "saber momentum" that Huchen's moves truly act on the enemy is the action of the "Fierce Tiger Gundam" punching and kicking.

Ordinary people are just one of countless parts inside the "Fierce Tiger Gundam," only able to see the operation of the parts in front of them.

Xiao Yu had already detached from the "physical body" (moves) level, her soul sublimated to a higher perspective, directly ignoring the appearance and seeing the essence.

"Yu'er, how does it feel? What insights do you have, what did you see?"

About a stick of incense later, Huchen withdrew his saber, stopping from extreme speed to an instant standstill, except for a few drops of sweat on his forehead, he wasn't even panting.

Xiao Yu admired his physical fitness very much...

Perhaps it was the effect of the breathing method?

Seeing his chest rising and falling rhythmically, she was lost in thought.

"Godfather's saber technique is brilliant, my heart can see it, but my eyes and hands are ten thousand miles behind."

"Heart can see it, but eyes and hands are ten thousand miles behind..."

Huchen lowered his head and chewed on it, a flash of light passing through his heart: She could see through his saber momentum and saber intent completely.

Her realm was even higher than he thought!

"Good 'heart can see it'! Yu'er, you are truly a martial arts genius who is not of this world." Huchen's expression was very complicated, "Although you haven't learned the practice method and breathing method, you have already mastered the essence of the 'Tiger Soul Seven Kills.'

The hardest hurdle in practicing the 'Tiger Soul Seven Kills' has already been broken by you.

Just from the aspects of 'Spirit' and 'Intent,' you can already be a master... but you only just came into contact with the 'Tiger Soul Seven Kills' yesterday.

Sigh, this is really..."

—It's truly a talent that makes others despair!

Huchen had the urge to throw the precious saber in his hand into the latrine, never practice the saber again, or even close his eyes when seeing a saber.

"Godfather, you praise me too much, Yu'er doesn't even know the practice method and breathing method, how can I be a master? I haven't even entered the door yet, I need to continue learning from you." Xiao Yu said seriously.

Huchen sighed: "I have practiced the 'Tiger Soul Seven Kills' for forty years; before the age of thirty, I could only see the move combinations, and only pursued the sharpness of the moves and the speed of the movements.

At the age of thirty-one, after taking a Bodhi seed, I entered a state of sudden enlightenment and finally saw the scene you saw today for the first time—countless move combinations forgotten as soon as seen, only seeing a fierce tiger roaring at the sky.

This is the first mystery of the Seven Kills, the Tiger Roar Saber.

Now I am forty-three, and during this period, I have taken countless heavenly treasures, finally raising the realm of the 'Tiger Soul Seven Kills' to the fifth level, which is understanding five mysteries.

Tiger Roar Saber, Sky-Tearing Saber, Tiger-Biting Saber, Tiger-Tail Saber, Ghost-Slashing Saber.

The sixth level's Spirit-Splitting Saber and the seventh level's Immortal-Proud Saber haven't even been touched.

And you..."

He stared at her, "Could it be that you have mastered all seven mysteries and have already reached Great Completion in divine intent?"