Chapter 10 Shilipo

Author: Qingji Sanren

Chapter 10 Shilipo

The cave is deep and the stream is gurgling.

Tao Fengnian paddled a bamboo raft upstream, while Jiang Yuebai held up a lantern to illuminate the way forward.

The wind is biting and the chill is overwhelming.

Ah sneeze!

There were bursts of echoes, frightening the bats flying from the ceiling of the cave.

Jiang Yuebai avoided the rushing bats, rubbed his nose and asked, "Grandpa, where are we going at this late hour?"

Tao Fengnian looked at the bright light in front of the cave and said slowly, "I accidentally discovered this waterway in the back mountain of Huaxi Valley. Going through it is the ten-mile south slope of Yinfeng Stream where the sect punishes erring disciples."

"In just half a month, you have mastered the Geng Jin Kung Fu, learned the Sharp Edge Technique, the Star Chasing Step, and the Woodcutter Technique, which have all taken shape. Grandpa is surprised and pleasantly surprised."

Jiang Yuebai squinted his eyes and smiled stupidly, then secretly glanced at his cultivation panel.

【Name】Jiang Yuebai

【Spiritual Roots】Five Elements Spiritual Roots (Gold 9, Wood 9, Water 9, Fire 9, Earth 9)

【Realm】First level of Qi training

【Gong method】

Geng Jin Gong (Level 1: 9/100)

【Spell】

Edge Art (1st level: 3/100)

【Martial Arts】

Star Chasing Steps (Entry: 15/100)

Woodcutter method (Introductory: 15/100)

The technique was successfully introduced three days ago and reached the first level, but it was slower than expected because her qi movement was still raw and she needed to practice more frequently.

I have practiced the Sharpness Technique for three days and just learned it today. Only three times out of ten have I successfully activated the tiny Gengjin sharpness in my hair. Each time I perform the technique, it takes about five breaths. I need to continue to increase the power and speed.

The footwork and martial arts progress smoothly, and over time, you can go from beginner to minor, and then to master.

Tao Fengnian supported the bamboo pole to speed up the bamboo raft and continued: "We will start the actual battle tonight."

"Actual combat?" Jiang Yuebai opened his eyes with anxiety.

She thought that after she learned the Sharpness Technique, she would be able to go to the fields to help with work, and wasn't the Sharpness Technique a method used to get rid of insects?

Tao Fengnian glanced at her and asked with a smile, "Are you scared?"

Jiang Yuebai pinched the corners of his clothes nervously and trembled. He must be afraid. The windy stream ten miles uphill sounded like a haunted mass grave.

But besides being afraid, she was also shaking because of excitement.

"I told you that if you want to fight, you have to save your life first, so I first taught you the powerful Jin Xing Kung Fu and the Edge Technique, as well as footwork and martial arts. When the one month deadline is up, you will have to go to various places in the sect.

Walk around, go to lecture halls and listen to lectures, and interact with people.”

Jiang Yuebai nodded. She had been worried about this before, but she didn't expect that her grandfather had already made plans for her.

"Grandpa, you are so kind, as good as my parents."

Tao Fengnian was thinking in his mind, and suddenly remembered when he saw the water flowing, "You said before that when you use the Sharp Edge Technique, your fingers always feel sluggish when you move them. In the future, you can sink your hands into the water to practice."

Jiang Yuebai tilted his head, his eyes full of curiosity.

"The Sharpness Technique is the most important technique among the five techniques of a spiritual cultivator, and it is also the most difficult. If you learn the Sharpness Technique well, it will be much easier to learn other techniques."

"The trick of the Sharpness Technique is to stir the spiritual energy with your fingers, separate it, and then condense and strengthen it. The spiritual energy is so ethereal that it is difficult for you to find the feeling of stirring and to grasp the rhythm and rhythm. Water flow can replace the spiritual energy, so give it a try."

Hearing this, Jiang Yuebai quickly put down the lantern and knelt down on the bamboo raft, sinking his hands into the water and stirring it.

The cold and biting stream water made Jiang Yuebai shiver. She slowly stirred her fingers, and the water flowed through her fingers, making her movements slower, but it eliminated the previous sluggish feeling and became slippery and smooth.

The water flow prevented the movements of the fingers, and the fingers resisted the resistance of the water flow. Under such interaction, Jiang Yuebai slowly began to understand what Tao Fengnian said about rhythm and rhythm.

[You get guidance from others, discover the fingering tips, a burst of inspiration, and your proficiency in the Sharpness Technique +1]

Unknowingly, Jiang Yuebai was addicted to it, his hands kept soaking in the water, and golden light shot out from his fingertips.

"Okay, the cold water in the stream is not good for your health. When you go back, practice in the water tank. Still water is better than running water. We are here."

Jiang Yuebai took out her hand without saying anything, her ten little fingers were red from the cold, she hurriedly exhaled and rubbed her hands.

The bamboo raft drove out of the cave and stopped at the shore.

The moonlight was hazy, and the hillsides ten miles away were covered with weeds and dead trees. The old crows were crows on the trees, which was eerie.

Several mice flew past, their bones exposed, and there was a light like a will-o'-the-wisp floating in the distance, looming.

Jiang Yuebai grabbed Tao Fengnian's sleeve. When she was a child, her mother used ghost stories to scare her into obedience, so she was more afraid of ghosts than the jackals, tigers and leopards on Jiuchong Mountain.

Tao Fengnian took his sleeve away from Jiang Yuebai's hand and handed her a hatchet.

"This hatchet is a low-grade magical weapon that I refined myself in the early years. In addition to being sharper to restrain Yin evil, it can also store the Geng-gold edge in the Sharpness Technique to make a powerful slash."

"Thirty-three sharp skills can be used to defeat someone in the early stage of Qi training, sixty-six can be used to defeat someone in the middle stage of Qi training, and ninety-nine can be used to injure someone even in the late stage of Qi training."

"However, the Geng-Gold Edge stored in it can only be used for one sword. When not in use, the Geng-Gold Edge will continue to dissipate over time, up to seven days. From now on, you can practice the Sharpness Technique on this sword, make the best use of it, and keep it for self-defense.

"

Jiang Yuebai took the hatchet, holding it lightly and sharply.

The blade is completely black and covered with old traces, with rune grooves visible, waiting for her to be infused with the Geng Gold edge.

Tao Fengnian led her to separate the withered grass and walk up the hillside. In the distance, there were dangerously isolated peaks and jagged rocks. The middle seemed to have been split open by a giant blade, leaving a long and narrow mountain stream.

The gloomy wind howled in it, like a hundred ghosts crying and howling incessantly.

Jiang Yuebai clenched the hatchet and walked two steps quickly, following closely behind Tao Fengnian.

Not long after, Tao Fengnian paused and said, "That one in front is the ghost lantern."

Jiang Yuebai tilted her body and poked half of her head out from behind Tao Fengnian, and saw a lantern-shaped green phosphorus fire floating under the dead tree in front of her, flickering like breathing.

"The Yinfeng Stream was once the battlefield between Cang and Yun, with nearly a million bones buried there. Later, the Tianyan Sect expanded. In order to prevent the evil ghosts of blood corpses from appearing here, they used the method of moving mountains to suppress the two lonely peaks, leaving only a line of Yinfeng.

The stream is reserved for spiritual practice."

"Ghost lanterns are weak ghosts born from the Yin energy and the phosphorous fire of corpses. They have little intelligence and like to bump into living people. If they are bumped into, the most they will be is riddled with Yin energy and will be weak for a few days."

Hearing this, Jiang Yuebai walked out from behind Tao Fengnian and looked curiously at the will-o'-the-wisp lantern under the tree.

Her eyes gradually drifted away, and she discovered that there were more ghost lights deep in the hillside, layer upon layer, and a vast green ocean.

"There are so many ghost lanterns, why is no one taking care of them?"

Isn’t it a joke that ghosts are rampant in the fairyland?

"The ghost lantern is weak and useless, but it is sensitive and difficult to catch. Especially when it senses the monks with high cultivation level, they will run away faster and faster, and after killing them, they will appear again within a few days, so the sect waits for three to five years before

Clean it thoroughly."

After saying this, Tao Fengnian quietly approached and moved his hands quickly, activating the Sharpness Technique in just one breath.

A short golden light shot out, and the ghost lamp dissipated.

At this moment, another ghost lantern rushed out from the grass beside the two of them, approaching Jiang Yuebai.

Tao Fengnian saw this but did not take action. Jiang Yuebai's eyes widened and he stepped back step by step. The green light illuminated his face before he remembered to step aside and then slashed with his sword.

The hatchet breaks the ghost lamp, and the phosphorescence scatters like the wind.

[You used the Star Chaser Step to avoid the ghost lantern. You were embarrassed and almost fell down, but you succeeded in avoiding it. Your Star Chaser Step proficiency +1]

[You used the wood-chopping knife method to deal with the ghost lamp, but the knife skills were terrible. You accidentally hit and killed him successfully, and the wood-chopping knife method proficiency +1]

The ghost lantern was extinguished, and before Jiang Yuebai had time to check the panel prompts, another green lantern emerged from the ground, surrounding her in an instant.

The phosphorescence undulates and the green waves ripple.

Beauty is beauty, danger is danger!

Jiang Yuebai swallowed his saliva and stood there, not daring to move. He looked stiffly at Tao Fengnian in the distance, and saw that his eyes were lowered. He slowly took out the cigarette rod and lit it, and started smoking.

Dozens of ghost lanterns were attracted by the living aura on her body, and they rioted in an instant, flashing and colliding wildly.

Jiang Yue rolled her eyes, turned around and waved the woodcutter.

His footwork was awkward and his sword skills were clumsy. He had just killed one ghost lantern in front of him and was hit in the back by three ghost lanterns.

The phosphorescent light exploded, and the cold and biting air rushed into the body. Jiang Yuebai shivered, the hatchet missed, and the ghost lantern hit his right arm again.

A feeling of freezing blood came over him, and his right arm became stiff and difficult to move. Jiang Yuebai dodged left and right and was trapped in a tight siege. The ghost lantern pressed forward step by step, becoming more and more rampant.

Tao Fengnian still had no intention of taking action. Jiang Yuebai's eyes were hard. The more dangerous her experience in the world made her, the calmer she became.
To be continued...