Chapter 30: Switching to the Eight-Nine, A Thousand Transformations

"Haha... Hahahaha!"

In the hotel at the foot of Tai Shan, even though Zhang Xuan tried his best to suppress his laughter, the sound still carried outside.

This transaction could be called a triple win: Dugu Baitian won once, Taishang Laojun won once, and Zhang Xuan won once as well.

Zhang Xuan, who had originally lacked top-tier methods, had obtained multiple top-tier methods all at once.

In terms of cultivation, at least for the present, and even for a very long time in the future, he would not lack cultivation methods.

Dugu Baitian had something to look forward to in his future life, and with Laojun brought along, he had more and better ideas for future operations; no matter how you looked at it, it was a triple win.

"Look, although I swindle and deceive (crossed out)—no, as the Chat Group Owner, I am truly helpful. Reasonably optimizing methods from different worlds, adjusting resources between various worlds, and optimizing allocation—I am simply too qualified."

Zhang Xuan could not help but praise himself.

Among the Group Files of the Chat Group, the few top-tier divine arts that only he could see gave him a considerable sense of security.

Record of Taishang Forgetting Emotions, Demon-Summoning Scripture, Eight-Nine Mysterious Technique, Eight Styles of Reversal...

In this round, Zhang Xuan had basically only paid with his eloquence; he had paid nothing else, yet the harvest was massive.

"Sure enough, there is no future in fooling group members. Judging by the current level of the group members, if they want to truly grow up and be worth fooling, it will take at least several hundred or a thousand years. I still need to further excavate the potential of the worlds behind the group members..."

The corners of Zhang Xuan's mouth could not help but curl up slightly.

But recalling how Taishang Laojun could refine a star system with a light touch, and recalling Dugu Baitian piercing the firmament with a single punch, Zhang Xuan's originally drifting heart calmed down again.

"Guard against arrogance and impetuosity, guard against arrogance and impetuosity. I still have a huge gap with those top-tier big shots, and I have a long way to go. Cultivating such a method to the peak is merely catching up to their current starting point; I cannot get too carried away..."

Although he said this, Zhang Xuan was still somewhat joyful.

Taking advantage of this happy mood, Zhang Xuan went to the parking lot at the foot of Tai Shan again. After circling the parking lot a few times, he indeed found a Mercedes-Benz parked on the ground, already covered in quite a bit of dust.

After a brief identification, Zhang Xuan confirmed that this was the car Ye Tiandi had driven to Tai Shan that day.

He immediately made the decision to rent that car and several nearby parking spaces, signing a twenty-year contract.

The parking lot staff looked at Zhang Xuan with a very strange gaze, as if looking at a fool.

Zhang Xuan, however, did not mind. Collecting parking fees directly from the Heavenly Emperor in the future—this was called having vision; what would a common parking lot attendant know?

After finishing all this, he looked up at the ancient mountain peak. Zhang Xuan felt he had no more lingering attachments, turned around, booked a ticket, and prepared to go home to settle down.

He had originally needed to go to Ye Fan's home to manage things, but Zhang Xuan felt his current strength was too humble; if he were detected by certain cultivators, it would be another big problem.

He prepared to wait until he had further mastered the Eight-Nine Mysterious Technique and possessed the ability of a thousand transformations before going to Ye Fan's home for a visit.

"By then, teaching Ye Fan's parents to practice Internal Energy to prolong their lives should not be a big problem."

Zhang Xuan had a simple plan in his heart.

He could teach Ye Fan's parents Internal Energy cultivation; whether it was Wudang martial arts or Shaolin martial arts, both were quite good.

These Mysterious Gate techniques were all upright and peaceful, making it difficult to suffer from Qi deviation.

Even though Earth had fallen into the End of Dharma Era, compared to the true End of Dharma Era, the concentration of Heaven and Earth Essence on Earth during the Yitian period was still terrifyingly high; at the very least, Zhang Sanfeng envied it to death.

It would not be difficult to let Ye Fan's parents enter the path of Internal Energy, and Zhang Xuan also had the Dragon Inner Core in his hands.

If it really didn't work, he could spend a bit of the Internal Energy within the Dragon Inner Core to perform an infusion for Ye Fan's parents, helping them cross the introductory stage.

Helping them open the Bridge of Heaven and Earth and letting them cultivate a certain Internal Energy technique to Great Completion would not be too much of a problem either; in any case, it wouldn't cost much Essence.

"Hmm, if it really doesn't work, I can also teach them the Nine Yang Divine Art that I phased out. After all, it was a supreme divine art I spent quite a bit of time and energy to swindle; it would be a pity if it were wasted like this with no one to practice it."

Zhang Xuan silently calculated and felt it should be quite good.

Compared to the nervousness when he came, the journey home was much faster.

Zhang Xuan felt that not long after, he had arrived at his doorstep. Unfortunately, not many people were there to welcome him; he opened the door and entered the room in a plain and simple manner.

He had only been away for a few days, and there were not many changes in the house.

The only difference was that Pan Tao Seed he had buried in the soil; a tiny green sprout had actually emerged above the soil.

Zhang Xuan was amazed; not only that, he also felt that little green sprout had bits of Heaven and Earth Essence gathering above it.

"This can actually be grown?"

With a hint of pleasant surprise, he watered the green sprout, and Zhang Xuan even extracted a tiny bit of Essence from the Dragon Pearl to feed it.

The green sprout moved. Whether it was Zhang Xuan's illusion or not, he felt the tender sprout was even greener and more succulent than before.

After being slightly amazed, Zhang Xuan was quite looking forward to eating Pan Tao at home in the future.

Since Pan Tao with extreme spirituality could grow in the Yitian World, he imagined that the Pan Tao cultivated in an environment like Covering the Sky would be even more spiritual.

After a brief reverie, Zhang Xuan sat cross-legged on the ground solemnly and took out the Eight-Nine Mysterious Technique to study it.

He was going to switch his cultivation to the Eight-Nine Mysterious Technique.

The Eight-Nine Mysterious Technique, as the number one technique for protecting the Mysterious Gate, was known as the number one in physical body, number one in combat, and capable of a thousand transformations...

There were countless rumors about this method. Zhang Xuan had wanted to switch his cultivation the moment he obtained it, but he had been delayed by various matters along the way.

Now that he had returned home, he finally had the time to study this top-tier method in detail.

The Eight-Nine Mysterious Technique had countless mysteries. Of course, what accompanied its rumors was how difficult it was to cultivate. After all, in the entire Mysterious Gate, only Sun Wukong and Yang Jian had truly cultivated this technique to a profound realm.

Zhang Xuan took the technique to contemplate it, but he did not feel it was too difficult. Perhaps it was because this method came from the hands of Taishang Laojun, and Taishang Laojun was most skilled at edification.

At the same time, it might be because of the exchange between different worlds; Taishang Laojun had explained this method in great detail, making the profound simple, as if afraid others would go astray.

It was not too difficult for Zhang Xuan to understand. Of course, it was also possible that Zhang Xuan's own talent was quite good.

At the very least, Zhang Xuan had read the Opening Apertures chapter of the Eight-Nine Mysterious Technique carefully and found no major problems.

The Opening Apertures chapter was basically about accumulating Internal Energy and opening the Nine Apertures. The theory of relevant Internal Energy acupoints was not essentially different from the meridians and acupoints in The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber; they were basically the same.

Zhang Xuan himself had already achieved Great Completion in the Nine Yang Divine Art, so he was not as unfamiliar with meridians and acupoints as he was at the beginning; one could even say he had a deep memory of them.

However, Zhang Xuan still did not rashly switch his cultivation. After studying it carefully several times and confirming there were no obstacles or problems along the way, he began to practice slowly.

The gentle Internal Energy circulated in his body and was then converted bit by bit by Zhang Xuan into the Internal Energy unique to the Eight-Nine Mysterious Technique.

Although it was slightly strange that the Eight-Nine Mysterious Technique cultivated Internal Energy, once accepted, this setting was very easy to accept.

Moreover, the Eight-Nine Mysterious Technique would transform in the later stages; by then, what would be used would be Dharma Power, not the Internal Energy common among martial artists.

The transformation took a day and a night, and the True Qi within his body circulated naturally throughout his physique.

Each of the three hundred and sixty-five apertures contained corresponding True Qi; this is the unique cultivation method of The One Supreme, containing nine mouthfuls of True Qi within the apertures.

Completing this step counts as finishing the Hundred Days Foundation Establishment, Qi Nourishing Holy Embryo.

Furthermore, the Qi vessels have been nourished to great completion, reaching the point where one can open the apertures.

Zhang Xuan's Nine Yang Divine Art is at great completion, making it very easy for him to skip this step, yet he still proceeds unhurriedly, crossing this stage bit by bit.

Cultivation allows for no falsity; even though his cultivation resources are far more abundant than those of the little monk Meng Qi, he must still proceed bit by bit, for after all, only cultivation will not deceive one.

Only after the True Qi circulated through his body and smoothed over his entire frame, leaving no more worries about it being uncontrolled, did Zhang Xuan begin the next step.

The long-accumulated True Qi flowed toward the Eye Aperture, and then, under Zhang Xuan's control, it slowly and firmly broke through the obstruction of the Eye Aperture.

Slowly polishing it, it took about a quarter of an hour, and Zhang Xuan seemed to hear a clear sound of some membrane rupturing within his body.

In that instant, Zhang Xuan knew that his Eye Aperture had been opened.

Having cultivated for a long time, the sky had already turned dark, but when Zhang Xuan opened his eyes, even without turning on a light and while in the middle of the night, he could clearly see the fine patterns on the door several meters away, and could even see the stained and slightly rusted marks at the bottom of the door...

His entire person seemed to have been restored from nearsightedness to normal, and a certain barrier that had always existed between heaven and earth seemed to have been removed.

Using the naked eye to look at heaven and earth became clearer and more distinct, with every detail emerging.

"Eye Aperture!"

Zhang Xuan exhaled a breath gently, and a look of joy could not help but appear on his face.

The Eight-Nine Profound Art Aperture Opening Chapter, after more than a day and a night of his cultivation, was finally finished being converted, and he had completed the first stage, the Eye Aperture.

There was still a large portion of True Qi left in his body, far from being exhausted; by Zhang Xuan's estimation, if opening the subsequent apertures went as smoothly as the Eye Aperture, he should be able to easily open up to seven or even eight apertures.

"Moreover, the original effects of the Nine Yang Divine Art have not disappeared."

As Zhang Xuan's thoughts stirred, the Internal Energy that had been circulating according to the corresponding movement trajectory of the Eight-Nine Profound Art suddenly shifted, turning instead to circulate according to the pathways of the Nine Yang Divine Art; the Internal Energy was endless, automatically protecting his body, and also possessed the ability to be immune to all poisons.

The Eight-Nine Profound Art is touted as having a thousand transformations, so it can naturally imitate all the methods one has seen, and can imitate them to be nearly identical.

If one has practiced them oneself, then it is even easier, and one can even imitate them perfectly, without a single flaw visible.

"Truly mysterious and unfathomable; cultivation is indeed a pleasant thing."

Zhang Xuan's face was full of joy, and he was having a great time playing with it.

(End of this chapter)