Chapter 63: The Great Road Leads to Heaven

The Quansheng Wuming Xinfa is divided into the method of cultivating the body to enhance aptitude and accumulate inner force, the method of protecting the Dao with an intangible Qi field, and the method of cultivating the five senses to further cultivate the spirit; as an internal energy art, it is absolutely of Divine Skill grade, but unfortunately it turns out to be unsuited to the constitution of people of this era.

Wu Chengyu was first disappointed to the extreme; he still trusted the Bamboo Slips quite a bit, and since the Bamboo Slips said it was almost impossible to cultivate successfully, he reckoned that even if one barely entered the door, reaching Great Accomplishment would be extremely difficult.

Even if the Bamboo Slips' guidance function has the possibility of breaking through restrictions, since it involves internal energy, without sufficient martial arts cultivation it is basically a mirage; at the very least, Wu Chengyu's current knowledge accumulation is absolutely insufficient.

However, after calming down, Wu Chengyu still held hope: this divine skill cannot be cultivated, but it can serve as resources to enhance his existing techniques — isn't the current Bilang Heart Technique derived from the Bibo Heart Technique under the Bamboo Slips' guidance?

Moreover, the meridian diagram contains a full fifteen hidden meridians; this point alone is an immense treasure, a true never-transmitted secret; researching the uses of these hidden meridians is enough to cause a qualitative transformation in the Bilang Heart Technique.

As long as there are the Bamboo Slips, there is still hope; heaven leaves no road without an exit.

He used his consciousness to communicate with the Bamboo Slips: "Even if this divine skill cannot be cultivated in its entirety, can it help my current heart technique?"

New handwriting appeared on the Bamboo Slips: "The Quansheng Xinfa gathers the great achievement of Taoist heart techniques, takes the Twelve Regular Meridians as the main trunk of cultivation, connects the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, mobilizes the potential of every part of the body, cycles repeatedly, increases cultivation speed, and when the Twelve Regular Meridians reach Great Accomplishment, the Ren and Du meridians can be opened.

The inner force cultivation path partially overlaps with the Bilang Heart Technique; the remaining parts have a fifty percent chance of fusion; especially the Hand Jueyin Pericardium Meridian and Foot Jueyin Liver Meridian cultivation paths in the Bilang Heart Technique originally had defects, which can be completed according to the Quansheng Xinfa.

After fusion, the Bilang Heart Technique will transform into a true Taoist technique, able to both solidify the cultivation foundation and condense inner force, enhancing the offensive attribute of inner force.

The body cultivation method has five hidden meridians, respectively connecting the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys, using the Five Elements method of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth to enhance the functions of the five viscera; inner force circulating out through these five hidden meridians can gradually widen the meridians and nourish the root and bones.

But these five hidden meridians concern the most important internal organs of the human body; when constructing the Qi circulation path one must be cautious again and again, for the slightest carelessness endangers life.

The protection method is a unique inner force circulation method, using the five hidden meridians as the main Qi circulation routes; the five hidden meridians are respectively in the bilateral Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian, Hand Shaoyin Heart Meridian, bilateral Foot Taiyang Bladder Meridian, Foot Shaoyang Gallbladder Meridian, and the last hidden meridian is at the Shanzhong point on the front chest.

The five hidden meridians form a system of their own and also connect to the dantian; when encountering external force, one can absorb it using the Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian and Hand Shaoyin Heart Meridian, transform it via the Shanzhong hidden meridian, and thus return the force exactly as received; if the opponent's skill is stronger than one's own, one can connect to the dantian to jointly transform the force and expel it out of the body through the soles of the feet via the Foot Taiyang Bladder Meridian and Foot Shaoyang Gallbladder Meridian.

The five hidden meridians of the protection method connect with the five hidden meridians of the body cultivation method; cultivating to Great Accomplishment allows opening a Middle Dantian at the Shanzhong point, forming a protective Qi field.

The Host's current technique is completely different from the protection method; data is insufficient; temporarily unable to cultivate.

The method of cultivating the senses means enhancing the cultivator's vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch; the hidden meridians are all in the head, unique to the Quanxing Lineage; in today's martial world there is no longer any method for cultivating the five senses' hidden meridians; when the five senses reach Great Accomplishment, the Xuanqianyiqiao opens, transforming into the method of cultivating the spirit, enhancing intuition.

This method is fraught with danger; cultivators may fail to enter the door, and once an entrant makes a mistake they become blind or deaf, losing their senses; even in antiquity, among the Quanxing people only the founder Yang Zhuzi cultivated to Great Accomplishment.

The Host's five senses are supernatural; there may be a certain probability of reaching Yang Zhuzi's realm of that year; it is recommended not to cultivate for the time being at this stage, and to attempt only after the body cultivation method achieves minor success."

Seeing the Bamboo Slips' explanation, Wu Chengyu's suspended heart finally settled; this heart technique is useful to him, and of great use.

The Bilang Heart Technique was completely perfected under the Bamboo Slips' guidance; compared to the Bibo Heart Technique it can only be said to be more complete, but there was no qualitative improvement, cultivation speed is not fast, inner force quality is not strong, and there are still obvious defects.

But with the Quansheng Xinfa's bonus, the Bilang Heart Technique can be directly elevated by more than one level.

Especially after repairing the original defects, plus the hidden meridian empowerment, in terms of enhancing one's own potential and aptitude it can be said to be uniquely advantaged; if the two can fuse successfully, it will absolutely not be inferior to divine skills of the Nine Yin and Innate Skill grade, and may even surpass them.

As for the Bamboo Slips' warning that cultivating the five viscera hidden meridians requires extreme caution, with Wu Chengyu's previous experience he can use his Supernatural Five Senses to internally observe and experiment bit by bit, plus the Bamboo Slips' manual function; as long as he is careful and patient, fusion will certainly succeed.

This single item alone solves Wu Chengyu's difficulty of lacking a good internal energy heart technique; from now on the road of martial arts is wide open to heaven, with no further obstacles.

And the explanation of the protection method also set Wu Chengyu's imagination soaring; leaving aside opening the Middle Dantian, in the Jin Daxia Wuxia World there seems to be no mention of a Middle Dantian at all — it appears to have been lost since antiquity.

The key is the function of this protection method, which faintly reminded Wu Chengyu of other similar martial arts: Dou Zhuan Xing Yi, Yi Hua Jie Yu, and Qian Kun Da Nuo Yi.

Yi Hua Jie Yu belongs to the Gu Long system martial world so we'll set it aside; Qian Kun Da Nuo Yi has a flavor of all divine powers being fully sufficient within oneself, its main function not lying in transferring the opponent's force; the one truly closest to this protection method is Dou Zhuan Xing Yi.

Using the opponent's way to return it to the opponent's body; according to the Bamboo Slips' description, this protection art is even above Dou Zhuan Xing Yi.

Dou Zhuan Xing Yi would not dare to draw the opponent's force into the body to dissolve it; upon encountering inner force higher than one's own, one can no longer transfer it, and must be thoroughly familiar with the martial arts of every sect before being able to transfer the opponent's moves.

The Quanxing method can use hidden meridians and the dantian; if force cannot be dissolved, it is directly drawn into the earth, placing one on undefeatable ground; this also has a bit of the characteristic of Xiang Wentian's small technique of absorbing force into the earth.

And the protective force field after mastery — within three chi, I am invincible — this completely exceeds the limits of the Jin Daxia martial arts system.

As long as this protection method is mastered, in the future when encountering Huang Yaoshi, even if he uses Peach Blossom Island's strongest move, the Qimen Five Turns, he will not be able to move Wu Chengyu a single bit.

The Bamboo Slips' statement of insufficient data can be completely realized through Dou Zhuan Xing Yi; Wu Chengyu's desire to find the Murong Family's martial arts inheritance is now even more fervent, allowing no mistake.

As for the final method of cultivating the senses, Wu Chengyu can be said to be uniquely advantaged; however, according to the Bamboo Slips' explanation, now is not yet the time to cultivate.

At this point Wu Chengyu can be said to be fully satisfied; the greatest difficulty on the martial arts path is solved; the only regret is that the Quan Zhen Daoist Canon contains only this one heart technique — the rest of the martial arts moves, palm techniques, weapons, lightness skills, etc., not a single one exists, so he still has to rely on himself.

He looked at the wooden box holding the Quan Zhen Daoist Canon; besides the ancient Bamboo Slips and four volumes of Pishu, there was one final object.

An ancient bronze mirror; it is called a bronze mirror, yet it is neither gold nor jade, incomparably sturdy, roughly the size of a human face, the mirror surface incomparably smooth, and the back of the mirror bears a Gossip pattern.

Wu Chengyu turned it over and over but could not make out any mystery; the center of the mirror's back has a knob that can rotate, but after rotating there is no change whatsoever.

This bronze mirror has certainly passed a thousand years, without a trace of rust, treasured by the Quanxing people until today; it is surely no ordinary object, but its profundity is truly unknown.

Let me tell you something interesting: everyone search on Baidu for the age difference between Guo Jing and Huang Rong; someone analyzed based on the years in Jin Yong's novels and came to two conclusions: one is that Huang Rong is 21 years older than Guo Jing, the other is that she is 32 years older than Guo Jing.

Not hiding it from you all: before I didn't feel much, but after writing this book, I started from Feng Heng's dystocia and Peach Blossom Island Disciple's broken leg and expulsion from the sect, and now entering the second volume, writing along I felt something was off; for example, the original work says Qu Lingfeng lived in Niu Family Village with the Guo and Yang families for many years, running a tavern as a cripple, then the Guo and Yang families met with disaster, and only then were Li Ping and Bao Xiruo captured while pregnant — Guo Jing and Yang Kang weren't born yet — but Qu Lingfeng also only broke his leg after Huang Rong was born and Feng Heng died; from this it can be seen Huang Rong is indeed older than Guo Jing, and by quite a lot.

Anyway, this section of the timeline I must blur now, otherwise it won't make sense; if everyone finds any BUGs in my writing, spray lightly.

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