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 cold is pressing.
Ah sneeze!
There were bursts of echoes, frightening the bats flying from the top 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, and the Star Chasing Step and Woodcutter Techniques have begun to take 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 (Level 1: 3/100)
【Martial Arts】
Star Chasing Steps (Entry: 15/100)
Woodcutter method (entry: 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 I just learned it today. Only three times out of ten have I successfully activated the tiny Gengjin sharpness in my hair. Each spell takes about five breaths, and 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 raft and continued: "We will start the actual battle tonight."
"Actual combat?" Jiang Yuebai's eyes widened with anxiety.
She thought that after she learned the Sharpness Technique, she could go to the fields to help with the 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 corner 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. Move 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 when he saw the water flowing, he suddenly remembered, "You said before that your fingers always feel sluggish when you use the Sharp Edge Technique. You can practice by sinking your hands into the water in the future."
Jiang Yuebai tilted his head, his eyes full of curiosity.
"The Sharpness Technique is the most important technique among the five spiritual cultivator techniques, 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, divide the spiritual energy, and then condense and strengthen it. The spiritual energy is ethereal. It is difficult for you to find the feeling of stirring, and you cannot grasp the rhythm and rhythm. The water flow can replace the spiritual energy. 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 stagnation 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 knack, 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 finishing it. Her ten little fingers were red from the cold. She hurriedly rubbed her hands in exhalation.
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 grass and dead trees. The crows on the trees were 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. Her mother used to scare her into obedience when she was a child, 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 magic 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 Art to make a powerful slash."
"Thirty-three sharp skills can be used to defeat the early stage of Qi training, sixty-six can be used to defeat the middle stage of Qi training, and the ninety-nine can be used to injure even 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 marks, with rune grooves visible, waiting for her to be infused with Gengjin 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 by a giant blade, leaving a long and narrow mountain stream.
The sinister wind howled in it, like a hundred ghosts crying and howling incessantly.
Jiang Yuebai held the hatchet tightly and walked two steps quickly, following closely behind Tao Fengnian.
Not long after, Tao Fengnian paused and said, "The 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.
"Yinfengjian was once a battlefield between Cang and Yun, with nearly a million bones buried. 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 trace of Yinfeng. The stream is reserved for spiritual practice.”
"Ghost lanterns are weak ghosts born from the phosphorus fire of corpses and yin energy. They have little intelligence and like to bump into living people. If they are bumped into, at most they will be riddled with yin energy and become 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, a vast green ocean.
"There are so many ghost lights, 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 insignificant, 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, his hands moved quickly, and he activated the Edge Art 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 with a star-chasing step, and then slashed with his knife.
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 succeeded in killing him by accident, and the wood-chopping knife method proficiency +1]
The ghost lantern was extinguished, and before Jiang Yuebai had time to check the panel prompts, she saw green lanterns floating 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 and stood there, not daring to move. She looked stiffly at Tao Fengnian in the distance. Seeing his eyes lowered, he slowly took out the cigarette rod and lit it, then started smoking.
Dozens of ghost lanterns were attracted by the living aura on her body, and they rioted in an instant, flashing and charging 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 phosphorescence exploded, and the cold and biting air rushed into the body. Jiang Yuebai shuddered, 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 fierce. The more dangerous her mortal experience made her, the calmer she became.
Seeing a group of ghost lanterns coming towards her, she dodged behind the dead tree, circled around, and attacked from the side.
The hatchet swept across, phosphorescence filled the sky, and the ghost lanterns turned around. She followed the stars, circled the tree again, and attacked from behind.
Leaning against a dead tree, Jiang Yuebai was not in a panic, but she was calm and collected. Her star-chasing steps and wood-chopping skills complemented each other, and she advanced and retreated in an orderly manner. Dozens of ghost lanterns were gradually killed by her.
Tao Fengnian nodded slowly and looked at Jiang Yuebai with brighter eyes.
After the last ghost lantern was extinguished, Jiang Yuebai relaxed all over, fearing an attack.
She leaned against the tree, feeling cold and panting. Just when she stood up straight and wanted to speak, she saw more ghost lanterns emerging from the ground.
It was clear that he would take advantage of her illness and kill her!
Jiang Yuebai's little face immediately fell down, her mouth was flat and she was about to cry.
"grandfather……"
"Ha ha."
Tao Fengnian laughed loudly, took a puff from the cigarette rod, and exhaled white smoke.
The white smoke drifted away, frightened the ghost lamp, and disappeared like lightning. Only then did Jiang Yuebai slide and sit against the dead tree on the ground.
"The lantern monster bullies the weak and fears the strong! Come again if you have the ability!"
Tao Fengnian came over and knelt down, placing his palms on Jiang Yuebai's shoulders, injecting warm fire energy into her body to dispel the coldness of the ghost lantern.
"Grandpa, am I useless?"
"Don't underestimate yourself, you are already very powerful. I will accompany you today. From now on, you will come here by yourself every few days. In addition to footwork and martial arts, you will also try to use sharp skills to deal with ghost lanterns."
"Remember, I'm afraid it's because you lack strength and think the ghost lanterns are invincible. Once you defeat them, you will find that these ghost lanterns are nothing to fear."
Jiang Yuebai nodded dullly. She didn't feel that it was too scary. She just couldn't defeat him and ran away. She just didn't want to disappoint her grandfather.
Tao Fengnian pulled Jiang Yuebai up from the ground, "Let's go deeper."
Jiang Yuebai followed Tao Fengnian. She had not paid attention when she was fighting just now. Many prompts for increasing proficiency flashed across the Immortal Cultivation Panel. Looking at them now, Jiang Yuebai was full of surprises.
【Martial Arts】
Star Chasing Steps (Entry: 26/100)
Chopping knife method (entry: 32/100)
Before, her proficiency level was only 15. She usually had to complete a complete set to gain 1 proficiency point, which was time-consuming and labor-intensive.
Now it's just one battle and it's grown so much!
She was right when she thought about it carefully. She only had fixed moves and routines when practicing, and she couldn't follow the rules.
In battle, only under crisis pressure can fixed moves be turned into effective attacks and used flexibly.
Even if you don't increase your proficiency by 1 point by killing a ghost lantern, with constant use and actual combat, your proficiency will definitely increase faster than practicing hard by yourself.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yuebai's palms gradually became warm.
Looking at the ghost lanterns all over the mountains and plains now, there are no bullying lantern monsters anywhere. These are all cute little things that help her improve her magic and martial arts skills!
