Chapter 195: Cultivation Method

But Qian Shiqi could not completely obey her; after Jiang Yu's first shout went unanswered, he leapt into the air and flew away.

"Did I see it wrong?" Jiang Tu doubted himself, since Jiang Yu hadn't seen it, it was hard to judge.

She turned her head, saw the floor tiles beneath the great cauldron ahead suddenly sink, and the Thunder Bamboo Fan whirred and shot out.

"I am Jiang Yu." Jiang Bai quickly spoke, then leapt up from the ground.

He added, "Just now I saw a nine‑stage Azure‑scaled Snake King."

"Nine stages? The one we know is said to be seven‑stage, but on the second layer its cultivation is only fifth‑stage."

"What's below?" Jiang Yu found that as her spiritual sense approached the opening, it was instantly cut off by a layer of seal.

And the sunken tile restored to its original state as soon as Jiang Bai left; she slipped through to inspect up close, but saw no trace of any formation or mechanism.

Jiang Bai slipped back in, pressing one hand on the tile that had just moved, and the other hand against a pattern somewhere on the cauldron's base.

When he fell earlier, he had pressed both spots simultaneously, "The great array monitoring several hundred li around has already attracted many people this way."

"And there is also a senior cultivator in the late Nascent Soul stage."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Tu rose into the air; his spiritual sense swept the whole mountain at speed, and just as when he was fifth‑stage, his sense was constantly interfered with, with many courtyards outside blocked by formation seals.

Below the mountain, indeed someone was breaking through the mountain‑protecting great array; Zhai Die had seen, and wasn't it Thus: Xuantang Xingjun?

The latter sensed being observed, looked up in all directions, but saw no one spying.

It descended and saw Jiang Bai standing by the opened white tile, "It's that Xuantang elder and the two sons Xing and Min."

"Thus: Xuantang Xingjun of the Cloud‑Mist Immortal Sect?" Jiang Bai raised an eyebrow.

Jiang Yu nodded, "Yes, his mortal body has been hidden in the Great Luo Celestial Realm, his soul attached to a spirit sword that I have held for years."

"You only saw a late Nascent Soul?"

"One Nascent Soul is already terrifying; they can flick a finger and annihilate several Core Formation cultivators."

"I just hope he isn't here to snatch the Tai Ji Fish Token." Jiang Bai, seeing she had no intention of going down, turned and entered the main hall to fetch the jade token.

He added, "There's no treasure below, and no exit can be found; just now, for some reason, the stone door inside suddenly opened, allowing me to come up."

Jiang Yu also stepped back quickly; she was now somewhat disappointed with this so‑called Great Luo Celestial Realm.

No matter how many treasures, they can't stop a raid every three hundred years; fortunately she gathered some spirit herbs and obtained a thunder‑type bamboo fan.

At this moment Jiang Bai also grabbed a fish token that was flung away, but unlike Jiang Yu, it didn't leave the main hall.

He was unwilling to give up, tried to retrieve a second one from the Qiankun Box, and was again blasted away.

On the third attempt, he changed his target, aiming for the special fish token that had brought him in; unexpectedly, after successfully taking it, the Tai Ji Fish Token split apart on its own.

He thought for a moment, tossed one half to Jiang Yu, then reached again for the one in the Qiankun Box, only to be blasted away again.

The two Jiangs, after watching his repeated struggles several times, finally spoke of the origin of the Great Luo Celestial Realm and that it would depart this world this time.

"Is the newly acquired jade token now useless?" Jiang Bai asked, looking at the two pieces in his hand, one new and one old.

Jiang Yu could not answer; she was only half‑understood, "I think rather than sparring with the jade token, we should look for what other treasures remain here."

"They're all empty rooms, but not far behind this hall there's a spirit pool where Core Formation cultivators can cleanse marrow and tendons; Jiang Bai has bathed there before."

"And you probably can't enjoy it, Jiang Bai; where were the Thunder Pool and the Purple‑Gold Thunder Bamboo you saw that time? It's noisy for Jiang Yu to go temper her body." Jiang Tu had been here for many years, but due to formation restrictions could only move within a few hundred zhang around the Tai Ji Hall.

"Oh, if you want to go to other halls below, I don't object." It was also quite curious about what those courtyards contained.

"Formations are hard to break; I'll send Jiang Yu to the Thunder Pool.

Take advantage of the fact that no one can fully temper their bodies now." Jiang Bai, being a sword cultivator, also wished to strengthen his physique.

Jiang Yu gave him a deep look; it was true that this person also wanted to chop a few bamboo stalks.

Indeed, it was exactly so.

Jiang Bai, riding his sword, led the group to the other side of the mountain, near a cliff where only a few Purple‑Gold Thunder Bamboos grew.

They seemed to have sprouted according to the formation, encircling a slightly charred, coconut‑shaped Thunder Pool woven with countless arcs of electricity, swaying in the wind.

Each swaying bamboo leaf glittered with tiny arcs, and the tall bamboo trunks bore strings upon strings of Purple‑Gold lightning, reflecting each other.

But anyone who tried to approach was instantly struck by lightning; even Jiang Bai, a Core Formation cultivator, thrust his sword forward hard, yet was knocked down by a thick‑armed bolt of purple lightning.

Only Jiang Yu, shielding herself with the Thunder Bamboo Fan and being mistaken for kin, could inch toward the bamboos.

Jiang Bai sighed, "It seems only those who practice thunder‑type techniques can enter."

Before his words finished, as Jiang Yu swiftly performed the Earth‑Splitting Technique to dig the bamboo, her whole body was struck by several bolts of lightning.

Moreover, the lightning slammed her straight into the Thunder Pool; "Ah—" she cried out miserably, startling Jiang Tu, who tilted his head to see her plight.

Seeing Jiang Yu's hair instantly turning to ash, he shouted, "Can't you hold out? Jump out!"

"Sss, can't get out." Jiang Yu clung tightly to the Thunder Bamboo Fan to shield her body, but the fan was now so busy absorbing lightning that it had largely forgotten its owner.

"Jiang Yu, don't force the spirit‑energy shield; activate the Thunder‑Fire Technique." Jiang Bai watched for a while, noticing the Thunder Pool's lightning intensity was automatically waning, as if tailored for Jiang Yu.

Without his prompting, Jiang Yu had already been practicing as in her daily cultivation, but the raging lightning entering her body was far harder to refine than the Thunder Mother Stone.

Thinking of the Thunder Mother Stone, she immediately tossed the spent, non‑thunder Mother Stone from her storage tool around her to relieve pressure.

At the instant she felt the lightning weaken, she threw the remaining pieces to her side and grasped Superior Spirit Stones with both hands to absorb.

In that short time, her body surface was already injured; even accelerating the technique couldn't tame the lightning that had been forced into her.

Jiang Yu had just smoothed the meridians where the lightning had burst open, only for another wave to surge in and damage her body.

Repeatedly like this, she was already skin‑splitting, with a charred smell on the little blood‑stained figure.

The pain overwhelming, Jiang Yu recalled the method she got in the thatched hut, so she tossed her storage ring to Jiang Tu.

She halted her movement, switched to using several defensive implements again, to be able to take some pills for healing, "Brother Jiang, there's a scroll of the Thunder‑Fire Technique inside; I don't quite understand it."

"Right, right, you teach her." Jiang Tu hurriedly fetched that bamboo scroll.

Jiang Bai quickly skimmed the Foundation Establishment techniques, clarified Jiang Yu's confusion, and after careful calculation said, "It was my mistake; the Thunder Pool should be used for body‑tempering techniques."

The Thunder‑Fire Technique refines not only lightning and thunder spirit energy.

You should first employ the final body‑tempering passage above; listen now.

When Jiang Yu finally understood, the few magical artifacts she was protecting on her body were nearly all broken; she let out a deep sigh, followed Jiang Bai's prescribed practice line, and began to refine the lightning within her body.

Whether it was the technique's compatibility with the Thunder Pool or Jiang Yu's adaptation to lightning, after half an hour all the lightning power in her body had completely turned into true essence and flowed into her dantian.

Her body's meridians also widened and became more resilient, and the Bamboo Slip Technique she had not grasped before suddenly clicked in her mind.