Deep inside the Iron Fist Gate, in the lobby of a secret house, there was a thin, ugly old man sitting on the main seat. The old man's hair was half white and wrinkles appeared on his face.
Below the old man is a middle-aged man with a dignified appearance and bronze skin. The man is saluting the old man respectfully.
"Seeing the Supreme Elder, I wonder what the Supreme Elder ordered when summoned."
It turns out that this old man is the Supreme Elder of the Iron Fist Sect, and this middle-aged man is Zhao Yuanji, the current head of the Iron Fist Sect.
The old man pressed his temple with one hand and said a little tiredly: "No need to be polite. In recent years, I have been studying the hidden dangers of the Diamond Art. Fortunately, the emperor has paid off. Yesterday, I finally completed it.
"Please inform me that from now on, the fourth and fifth levels of Diamond Art must be guided by me personally. You must not practice alone."
Head Zhao was very excited when he heard this and said in surprise: "Supreme Elder, is this true?"
This Vajra Technique was not originally from the Iron Fist Sect, but was a martial art from the Zhenjing sect called the Vajra Sect.
This sect is the largest force in Lingyue City in the north. The warriors in it all practice foreign martial arts, especially the Diamond Art, which is pure physical training and is extremely fierce.
Forty years ago, the Vajra Sect invaded Huayuan City. Its five masters had unparalleled strength and unbreakable defense, completely suppressing the Iron Fist Sect.
In the end, the Taishang Elder, who was practicing in seclusion, was alarmed. He used heaven-reaching means to destroy the five masters. Otherwise, it would be the Vajra Sect that now dominates Huayuan City.
After that, the Supreme Elder personally went to Lingyue City, destroyed the Vajra Sect, obtained the Vajra Technique, and gave it to the disciples of the Iron Fist Sect to practice. In the first twenty years, the disciples in the sect were extremely excited and began to practice this technique.
However, this technique, which purely polishes the physical body, is very difficult to practice. Except for a few talented disciples, few people can enter the second level.
But when these talented disciples sprinted to the fifth floor, they disappeared without a trace in the training room, leaving only some scattered clothes and a little bit of flesh and blood.
This situation occurs repeatedly without exception. According to the Supreme Elder, it may be that the Vajra Sect modified the formula for the fourth level when the sect was destroyed, causing the bodies of these people to self-destruct.
The Supreme Elder is constantly studying the Vajra Technique, trying to solve hidden dangers. In recent years, only Zhang Yiyang has practiced to the third level or above, and the others only dare to practice to the second level at most.
"If I had researched it a month earlier, I might have been able to save Zhang Yiyang's life. Hey, fate has its way with people!"
As the old man spoke, his expression showed a hint of remorse, as if he was hating himself for not solving this hidden danger earlier.
Head Zhao sighed and felt very sorry, but he still said to the old man: "Supreme Elder, Zhang Yiyang relies on his talent and insists on continuing to practice the Diamond Art. I can't blame you."
The skinny old man was in a daze for a while, as if he was thinking of something, and continued: "There is no need to talk about the past. Now you should immediately select talented disciples to practice the Diamond Art."
"The disciples who have reached the third level within five years will be handed over to me for personal training. I will guide them in their cultivation and strive to let a few more people break through to the fifth level. With these disciples in charge in the future, the people behind the Iron Fist Sect will be able to sit back and relax for decades. After all, I don’t have much time.”
The middle-aged man was horrified when he heard this. He knew that all the methods used by the Supreme Elder were immortal, and he exclaimed: "Ah, Supreme Elder, you are already a god, how could this happen!"
The skinny old man had a strange look on his face, and said with emotion: "I am already over ninety years old, and I have lived to be a hundred years old. It's a pity that I am not a real god, so I don't have much time left, so there is nothing strange about it."
"Okay, follow my instructions. I will be in retreat recently. Unless there are disciples who have reached the third level, please don't disturb me. Just step back."
Not long after the middle-aged man left, the old man walked into a bedroom and pressed a mechanism beside the bed, causing the wall behind the bed to open.
Behind are the steps going down. The dark steps lead to nowhere. The old man walked along the steps. As the oil lamp was lit, it turned out to be an underground secret room.
In this secret room, which is about four feet square, there is an unusually eye-catching circular blood pool. Various strange symbols are engraved around the blood pool, and five crystal-like stones of different colors are evenly placed among the symbols.
The halo of these stones flows, and there is a faint halo converging through the symbols towards the blood pool in the middle. The blood in the blood pool is still rolling.
In the corner of the secret room, there is a strong, giant man lying on the ground. His face is pale, but you can vaguely see that he is a handsome man. There is a red mole on the left side of his pale face. His slightly heaving chest indicates that this man is not dead yet. .
The old man looked at the man and muttered to himself: "I didn't expect that this Yi Yang is also a genius among mortals. He not only mastered all the fifth levels of the Diamond Art, but also discovered the tricks I did on him."
"If he had mastered all seven levels of skills, I would be in a bit of trouble. Facing a simple defensive shield, his cultivation would be absolutely impossible to break."
After the old man finished saying this, he showed a look of reminiscence and murmured:
"Back then, in anger, I tortured these Vajra Sect masters in every possible way and then sacrificed them to death. By chance, I discovered that the essence and blood extracted by mortal cultivators after the fifth level of Vajra Art were even more powerful than those of ordinary Qi-refining cultivators. .”
"In this way, as long as you accumulate enough blood essence, you can perform the blood sacrifice foundation building technique. Otherwise, with my qualifications, even if I have the foundation building pill, the foundation building will be slim."
It turned out that in that battle forty years ago, the old man's defensive spells were actually broken by several masters from the Diamond Sect using unique techniques, and he almost died. As an immortal cultivator, this was a great shame.
In anger, the old man tortured their souls, and finally used the method of blood sacrifice to refine their bodies into blood essence.
Although this spell of refining blood essence requires the magic power of a monk in the foundation-building stage to cast it, the old man is extremely talented. After his improvements, as long as the soul of the blood sacrificer is not strong enough, he can refine the blood essence.
The old man was in a daze for a while, then he stood up and walked to the corner, muttering something. The skinny old man's body seemed to be fuller, his strength greatly increased, he easily lifted the giant man, threw him into the blood pool, and then Sitting cross-legged on the symbol in front of the blood pool.
An earthy yellow light flashed from the old man's body, slowly injecting into the strange symbols around the blood pool. After most of a day, the corpses in the blood pool disappeared, and the blood became a little richer.
The old man who finished casting the spell looked pale, as if he had aged a few years.
He immediately took out a stone with an earthy yellow light and sat cross-legged. After a few hours, his complexion improved a lot.
The old man slowly opened his eyes and murmured: "The blood essence in the blood sacrifice foundation-building technique must be from a monk in the foundation-building stage. In this way, through the powerful energy in the blood essence, the recipient can successfully build the foundation."
"After I improved this spell, the target became a large amount of physical essence and blood in the Qi refining period. The chance of foundation building has become much lower, but I speculate that at least half of them are likely to successfully build the foundation."
"I don't have much life left. These years of extravagant practice have brought me to the peak of my Qi refining period, and the blood pool is only short of the blood essence of a fourth-level perfect cultivator."
"Hehe, now all the disciples who have reached the third level are practicing under my eyes. Everything is not yet under my control." As he muttered to himself, the old man had a ferocious look on his face.
