Chapter 77

Li Miao looked Yun Zelin up and down, didn't rush to act, walked to the side and sat down, leaning on the armrest, looking at Yun Zelin.

He really wanted to hear what Yun Zelin wanted to say.

Although Yun Zelin looked like he was on the verge of death, as if a kick would make him fall apart, Li Miao could feel the incomparably thick true Qi surging in his body.

Stronger than Lan Lechuan.

It could be said that the current Yun Zelin was the strongest person Li Miao had heard of or seen since coming to the Great Shuo.

Yun Zelin sat down, covered his mouth and coughed a few times, and looked at Li Miao.

"Lord Li, let's start with you."

"If I am not mistaken, your current situation is very similar to mine."

"Oh?" Li Miao replied noncommittally.

Yun Zelin continued: "I took a shortcut by relying on the results of Cult Leader Ji."

"I was born with superior comprehension, and achieving 'Kshana' was a matter of course."

"But 'Vajra' and 'Sumeru' both require aptitude. I was born incomplete; others have the eight extraordinary meridians plus the twelve regular meridians. I only have three regular meridians that are open."

"If we really want to talk about it, even a human stick would be more suitable for practicing Wu Gong than me."

Yun Zelin laughed at himself.

"Although the Ming Cult made up for my aptitude, I could never reach the level of Left Envoy Lan. So, I could only try the evil path."

Yun Zelin raised his hand to touch his chest and said slowly.

"Cult Leader Ji was a man of heaven-sent talent, who found another way, combined with Miao territory insect arts, and found this path that no one had ever walked before."

"The five internal organs are where the spirit, blood, Qi, and soul are hidden."

"The heart is the foundation of life; the insect larvae cultivated with the essence and blood of Sect Leader Zuo gave me 'Vajra'."

"The kidneys govern the absorption of Qi; the insect larvae cultivated with the essence and blood of Left Envoy Lan gave me 'Sumeru'."

"At this moment, I already possess three paths above the master level."

Li Miao smiled: "And then you turned yourself into this half-dead state."

Yun Zelin was not annoyed, but nodded in agreement.

"Yes, naturally I cannot be compared with you."

"With my shallow knowledge, the people in this world who think they are heaven-sent geniuses are as numerous as the hairs on an ox. But they are all mediocre people sitting in a well and peeking at the sun through a window."

"Including Cult Leader Ji, including me, we are all mediocre people who took shortcuts."

"The only one truly walking on the right path is you, Lord Li."

"I can only barely see clearly now, Lord Li, you have also achieved 'Vajra', 'Sumeru', and 'Kshana' at the same time, right?"

"It's just that unlike mediocre people like me who are eager for success, you stopped yourself when you reached the end and were only one step away."

"You deliberately didn't cultivate your three paths to perfection."

Li Miao sneered: "Nonsense, if I cultivated them to perfection, I would turn into your ghostly state."

The person who could see Li Miao's Wu Gong realm had finally appeared.

That's right, the reason Li Miao called himself "half a Jianghu myth" was because he had already gathered "Vajra," "Sumeru," and "Kshana" in one body, and was only one step away from the realm of Master Zhang Sanfeng.

Moreover, it wasn't that he couldn't take that step.

If he wanted to, he could perfect all three at the same time right now.

He was the one who actively stopped himself.

Because he faintly felt that he was still missing something that he hadn't found.

Rashly taking this step would lead to the same end as the geniuses who tried to cross the natural chasm before—the Five Decays of Heaven and Man.

Because of this, none of his three paths were cultivated to perfection. He deliberately left one step and didn't take it.

That was why Lan Lechuan's palm could leave a trace on him.

"Don't talk about me, let's talk about you."

"I'm quite curious to hear, you made such a big scene, crippled the Ming Cult, and turned yourself half-dead, what exactly are you aiming for?"

Li Miao said.

Yun Zelin smiled and didn't speak for a moment.

He raised his withered, stick-like hand and tapped his chest a few times.

In an instant, a rich, fishy stench emanated from his body, accompanied by wisps of white smoke rising from his seven orifices, enveloping his whole person.

Whoosh—

Li Miao raised his hand and slapped it over.

True Qi was unleashed, dispersing the white smoke.

Looking at Yun Zelin again, Li Miao snorted in surprise.

"Interesting."

The current Yun Zelin was no longer as old as before, and the wrinkles on his face had dissipated a lot. His skin was not as loose as before either.

Even the wound on his forehead that Li Miao had hit, which had originally revealed the white skull, was now bright red, just without skin, and a thin layer of flesh had already grown out.

"I did all this just to catch up with you."

Yun Zelin had no intention of explaining the strange state of his body and continued the topic just now as if nothing had happened.

"I still need some time, would Lord Li be willing to listen to me say a few more words?"

Li Miao was noncommittal, so Yun Zelin spoke on his own.

"My father was a direct disciple of a major sect."

"I was born with superior comprehension. When I was four years old, I just watched him dance a few moves in the courtyard, and I supplemented this set of sword techniques myself, only slightly worse than the one passed down by the sect."

"That day, I held a branch and showed my father this set of sword techniques I had comprehended. At that time, his expression of shock and ecstasy is still fresh in my memory."

"From that day on, all the elders in the sect appeared in front of me frequently. The sect leader celebrated my birthday, and the elders congratulated me. My father's status also rose accordingly, and everyone thought he was the father of the next sect leader."

"But, when I reached the age of ten, the sect finally began to prepare to lay a foundation for me. They discovered my bone structure was born incomplete."

Li Miao sneered disdainfully: "What a tacky routine, didn't the sect leader's daughter come to break off the engagement?"

Yun Zelin naturally didn't understand what he meant by this.

Li Miao twisted his fingers and said to Yun Zelin indifferently: "I'm not interested in your childhood trauma."

"In this world, unlucky people and stories are everywhere; I'm tired of hearing them. Speak faster."

Yun Zelin laughed: "Good, good."

"In short, some things happened in the middle. So when I was eighteen, I poisoned my father to death and secretly betrayed the sect."

"At first, I wasn't convinced."

"There are plenty of Wu Gong in this world, and outside the Great Shuo territory, there are paths completely different from the Central Plains Jianghu."

"So I started traveling everywhere, stealing and learning the Wu Gong of various families while trying to create a technique that I could practice with my bone structure."

"I achieved some results, and when I was twenty-eight, I finally reached the second-rate level in the Jianghu."

"It was also this year that I joined the Ming Cult and saw you in Shuntian Prefecture."

As he spoke, Yun Zelin raised his hand and tapped his chest a few more times.

In an instant, his face seemed to have become a few years younger, looking like a middle-aged, effeminate man.

A look of near-piety appeared on his face.

"So-called comprehension is actually, to put it bluntly, vision and heart."

"Others can't see through it and only think your bone structure is strange and good. Only I, who have studied for more than a dozen years on how to improve bone structure, can see clearly that your bone structure is unprecedented."

"That sword of yours woke me up from this boring world full of mediocre people."