Chapter 465: Immobilization Technique

The sunshine is bright, the sky a vast azure.

Heng Xian brought Dog Egg, flying through the air, heading straight toward the Northwest's 'Nine Palaces Mountain City'.

This place is already over 1,500 li from the Great Zhou Imperial Capital; to the west of Qi Capital lies the Docile State, famed for its mountain flowers and cherry trees, with scenery along the way extremely beautiful.

However, Heng Xian had no heart to appreciate it.

At this moment, he frowned and questioned the Heavenly Hexagram.

"Who exactly is the old lady in the phoenix's illusory image? And what about that girl?"

The hexagram shows: 【After divination, the old lady and the girl come from a mysterious place!】

"How mysterious is it?"

The hexagram shows: 【It is neither in the host's cognition nor in this world; it is advised that the host need not consider it, as it has no effect on the host's cultivation!】

"Alright! But……can I and Ji Yaoyue not perform the marital rites?"

The hexagram shows: 【Do as you please! Who can do anything to you? Master of the Heavenly Hexagram, Sun Breaks Heaven!】

"?????"

Heng Xian almost fell from the cloud.

"The Profound Yellow Heavenly Hexagram actually has such a side? Too much!"

This Heavenly Hexagram is rather improper!

After a while, he gathered his mind and looked toward the northwest.

The vague address given by the Daoist nun who took Ji Yaoyue is Nine Palaces Mountain City, saying that disciples of various sects are being slaughtered there.

Actually, he should rather go to the Da Luo Holy Sect to look after Ji Yaoyue, and by the way see his own mother whom he has never met!

However, the Daoist nun's tone admits no refusal, and judging by the conduct of the Twelve Sects, eliminating demons and upholding the Dao outweighs romantic love.

Moreover, he is first in the Earth Ranking of the Tianyuan Sect!

He used the Heavenly Hexagram to calculate the approximate direction of the 'Nine Palaces Mountain City'——

A place 1,900 li northwest of the Great Zhou Imperial Capital.

As for what exactly happened there, it remains unknown.

Using the Heavenly Hexagram to calculate many direct matters is straightforward, but asking about vague things like what specifically happened is actually troublesome, because the Heavenly Hexagram only gives the most concise, direct, and reasonable solution, without lengthy discussion; as for concrete details, one must still figure them out oneself.

Just then, a sudden itch arose in his palm; he raised his hand to look, and saw the 'seek' character left by the old lady slowly disperse, turning into line after line of small characters.

He stared at those small characters in astonishment, and suddenly discovered that it was a technique's mind method!

The old lady had said she would later give him a method; could this be efficacious?

He pondered the mind method and discovered it was a Daoist technique called the 'Profound Spirit Immobilization Technique', meaning it can temporarily immobilize an enemy!

This is pretty awesome!

He couldn't help but feel his blood surge; he immediately opened the 'Profound Yellow Heavenly Hexagram' and asked: 'What technique is this? What grade?'

The hexagram shows: 【Low-grade Spirit Tier Technique, using the practitioner's mana as the binding force, combined with hand seals, shouted commands, and spiritual sense, can cause the enemy to briefly fall into an immobilized state; the lower the difference in cultivation between the practitioner and the opponent, the better the effect, and vice versa!】

The host is a Primeval Sword Saint True Body, his sword technique pure and rare in the world; using sword cultivator power to bind the opponent yields excellent results!】

Profound, Yellow, Earth, Heaven, Spirit……

Spirit Tier's Immobilization Technique?

Holy shit!

Heng Xian couldn't help but sit cross-legged in midair, immediately forming hand seals with both hands, integrating the mind method, then following the Heavenly Hexagram's guidance, opening his meridians to cultivate.

A minor heterodox technique, yet with the Heavenly Hexagram as this heaven-defying 'teacher' guiding him, in just an hour he had already achieved mastery.

He opened his eyes and looked at the 'Dog Egg' beside him, which was resting with eyes closed.

'Dog Egg' seemed to sense something, slowly retreating backward.

Heng Xian pointed a finger and said: 'Freeze!'

'Dog Egg's body stiffened, not a thread moving, not even its eyes able to move.

One breath, two breaths, three breaths!

At the third breath, 'Dog Egg' reacted, its body twitching once, letting out a 'cough cough' cry, a look of grievance on its face.

Heng Xian laughed heartily, patted its head, and was in high spirits.

This technique is simply heaven-defying!

He suddenly thought of the scene in Journey to the West where Sun Wukong immobilized the seven fairy maidens.

Immobilizing seven fairy maidens, he only thought of stealing peaches—monkeys will be monkeys!

If he himself were immobilized……

Just as he was wandering in thought, 'Dog Egg' suddenly tugged at his trouser leg and gave two 'jī jī' calls.

Heng Xian looked at it in surprise, and saw 'Dog Egg' pointing toward a patch of forest below.

In the woods, a young man was tightly wrapped by a thick-as-a-water-bucket python, his face already bruised, likely to die before long.

Heng Xian thought it over, patted 'Dog Egg's head, and said: 'Leave it to you!'

"Jī jī……"

'Dog Egg' seemed to have been waiting for his command, then produced its mulberry wood staff, leapt off the cloud, landed on a big tree, released its momentum, then swung down to the python's seventh inch, let out a strange cry, and jabbed with the staff.

"Pfft——"

Right on the snake's seventh inch!

Pure, brutal violence.

The python's body tensed, its triangular head sprang up, looking at 'Dog Egg', apparently not expecting to be attacked; it released the young man, let out an angry hiss, and wanted to devour 'Dog Egg',

However, just as it was about to move, Heng Xian pointed a finger and said: 'Freeze!'

The python's body stiffened.

"Gou Dan" picked up the stick again and stabbed, this time thoroughly chilling to the core, piercing the snake's heart.

The python fell to the ground, flopped belly-up in misery, and died!

"Gou Dan" kept on, stabbing with the stick "puff puff" nonstop, the scene was quite bloody……

Heng Xian up in the sky looked dazed.

"Gou Dan" this bastard's stick isn't for hitting people, it's actually for stabbing??

Damn! Not what I taught, the style is all wrong!

"Cough cough……"

At that moment the youth caught his breath, climbed up from the ground, brushed off the slime on his body, and bowed to "Gou Dan": "Many thanks, Senior Divine Monkey, for your rescue; I will never forget this kindness!"

"Gou Dan" suddenly threw away the stick, stood upright, clasped his hands behind his back, looking like an old, frail dragon, and even stretched out his right paw, pinching his whiskers, not knowing whom he learned it from.

Heng Xian sized up the python's corpse and the youth, then came to stand beside "Gou Dan", asking lightly: "Who are you? Why were you entangled by this python?"

"Gou Dan" immediately revealed his true form, honestly squatting at his leg.

The youth was startled, looked at Heng Xian, and said: "So the Divine Monkey has a master; you reside on this mountain, you must be an immortal, right?"

Heng Xian shook his head: "Immortal? No!"

This youth, with a cultivation of six or seven layers of Qi, sized up Heng Xian from head to toe, really could not see Heng Xian's realm, feeling him like an ordinary person, and thus let out a sigh of relief, saying: "Thanks to you, this monkey, I am from Wuqiu Town, 160 li northwest; our place is not peaceful, occupied by an evil cultivator; I was ordered by the clan head to go 170 li northwest to seek help from the eldest daughter's family, but the eldest daughter has been dead for years, and her son-in-law's family refuses to help! I rushed back, was sleeping here, and didn't expect to be entangled by this spiritually aware python, alas!"

He let out a heavy sigh.

Heng Xian was not interested in his ordeal, but northwest over a hundred li already approaches the Nine Palaces Mountain City, so he casually asked: "Do you know Nine Palaces Mountain City?"

The youth blinked: "Of course! It's the biggest city within a few hundred li around us, a holy land for cultivators nearby! You…… why are you asking this?"

Heng Xian said: "I want to go take a look!"

The youth chuckled: "What are you going to do there with your cultivation? Ordinary people can't get by there!"

"Ordinary person?" Heng Xian sized himself up.

The youth said: "Looking at your age, around twenty, with mediocre talent at twenty, what could you achieve? You're probably just post-natal; with such talent and cultivation, you'll basically amount to nothing in this lifetime, but this monkey of yours is not bad—wanna sell it?"

Heng Xian glanced at "Gou Dan", gave a light cough: "The monkey is not for sale!"

The youth slapped his forehead: "Look at me! Brothers, you saved my life, I have nothing to repay you with; how about coming to my town as guests? I'll surely entertain you with fine wine and food!"

Heng Xian readily agreed: "Okay!"

I've been really busy lately, got promoted to district manager, tons of trivial matters, will try to update tomorrow as much as possible, bow!

(End of chapter)