Ch 36: You’re Hopeless!
“What exactly happened?”
Seeing the Yan Family people come out, many Jianghu people who wanted to watch the excitement but couldn’t get in came up to ask.
Faced with these curious Jianghu people, Yan Shengtian also hesitated, and finally could only give a wry smile, waved his hand, and said four words: “There are always people better than you.”
After saying that, he left with the Yan Family disciples.
“It seems the Yan Family disciples lost.”
“The Yan Family excels in External Skills. Unexpectedly, even with four disciples attacking together, they couldn’t defeat Liu Dongyue? Those four disciples’ strength is all Ninth Rank, right? Joining hands, they would even give a Transcendent Realm cultivator a headache.”
An old man said somewhat incredulously.
“I’m so curious! I really want to see that match just now, but this Longevity Temple doesn’t even allow entry.” Other Jianghu people were complaining.
“That Liu Dongyue, who is known as the Number One Under the Transcendent Realm, unexpectedly really has the ability.” Others also marveled.
“But this Longevity Temple is a Daoist Sect. The Daoist Sect has been in decline for hundreds of years. Could it be that in this generation, the Daoist Sect will rise again?” Someone speculated.
At this moment, inside the Longevity Temple, Liu Dongyue was looking at Li Hanzhou with some nervousness.
Following the previous routine, after Liu Dongyue ate the Divine Strength Pill refined by Li Hanzhou, he fought one against four. Although the opponents were four Ninth Rank cultivators, Liu Dongyue was still fearless and easily won the victory.
Li Hanzhou also won the Nine Apertures Golden Body.
But standing in front of Li Hanzhou now, Liu Dongyue found that Li Hanzhou’s expression didn’t seem very happy.
“Martial Uncle, what’s wrong with you?” Liu Dongyue asked anxiously.
“How’s the cultivation of the Grand Profound Heart Sutra going?” Li Hanzhou asked.
“Um, I’ve tried cultivating it. This Grand Profound Heart Sutra is indeed the top Heart Method of the Grand Profound Sacred Land, it’s incredibly powerful. I’ve already reached the first level, and my cultivation level will soon break through to Sixth Rank.” Liu Dongyue was also somewhat excited.
“Oh?”
Li Hanzhou blinked, then asked: “True Qi also has different qualities. The Grand Profound Qi cultivated from the Grand Profound Heart Sutra is considered top-tier among True Qi. You can try using the Grand Profound Qi to activate our Longevity Temple’s Martial Arts and see if it works.”
“Use Grand Profound Qi to display the Martial Arts of our Longevity Temple?” Hearing Li Hanzhou’s words, Liu Dongyue was stunned at first, then his eyes lit up. He hadn’t thought of this.
The Martial Arts of the Longevity Temple are all Daoist Secret Techniques, originally only being able to exert their maximum effect when activated by Spiritual Power. But since the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Power was sealed, the Daoist Sect could only switch from cultivating Spiritual Power to cultivating True Qi. However, Heart Methods like the Northern Emperor Art are only suitable for cultivating Spiritual Power. After converting to cultivating True Qi, such profound Heart Methods have become third-rate Cultivation Methods.
Passed down from generation to generation in the Daoist Sect, the Daoist Secret Techniques have almost all been lost. No one knows how to use them.
The Daoist Sect’s ancestors had also considered seeking profound inner Martial Arts Heart Methods to replace Spiritual Power Heart Methods like the Northern Emperor Art, but the Daoist Sect was in decline, they had no money and no strength; where could they find powerful Heart Methods?
At that time, only one or two experts remained in the Daoist Sect, relying on their own meager remaining Spiritual Power, and they wouldn’t easily make a move.
Moreover, when they heard that they were going to replace the Daoist Sect’s Inheritance with ordinary True Qi methods, they were already furious, and how could they possibly go and get other Sects’ Cultivation Methods?
Wasn’t that betraying one’s master and ancestors?
It was only in Li Hanzhou’s generation that after pondering over this for days, Li Hanzhou wanted to try it.
Anyway, now the Daoist Sect has already fallen to this state. Li Hanzhou didn’t have so many scruples. Since the Old Daoist Priest gave him this mess, he could do whatever he wanted with it.
Currently, the Death Burial Feng Shui Formation hasn’t been resolved so quickly. If we want the disciples’ strength to become powerful, we can only cultivate the Heart Methods of other Sects.
There’s nothing shameful about that.
“Then Martial Uncle, I’ll try.” Liu Dongyue stepped back, then took a deep breath.
The True Qi in his body began to circulate.
As Liu Dongyue’s True Qi circulated, a golden light suddenly appeared on Liu Dongyue’s body!
On that golden light, dense Daoist secret scriptures directly enveloped Liu Dongyue, the golden light was dazzling, as if indestructible.
“The Daoist Golden Light Spell?”
Li Hanzhou raised an eyebrow. This is a defensive Cultivation Method in the Daoist Sect. The Golden Light Spell protects the body, making it impervious to blades and fire. Cultivated to a high level, it can even repel and kill enemies and condense Sword Intent.
“I’ll try.”
Li Hanzhou moved his palm, and a pebble on the ground flew directly into Li Hanzhou’s hand.
Bang!
With a flick of his finger, the pebble instantly shot out, directly hitting Liu Dongyue’s Golden Light Spell.
With a muffled sound, Liu Dongyue’s Golden Light Spell instantly shattered, and Liu Dongyue took several steps backward, almost spitting out a mouthful of blood.
Just the aftershock alone nearly injured his internal organs.
Liu Dongyue looked at Li Hanzhou in surprise, his heart filled with overwhelming waves.
How is this possible?
When did Martial Uncle become so strong?
“Your Golden Light Spell isn’t very good either; I casually threw a pebble and broke it,” Li Hanzhou said disappointedly.
“Martial Uncle, maybe it’s because you’re too strong,” Liu Dongyue was about to cry. “I feel that the Golden Light Spell I just used was already very strong, several times stronger than the Golden Light Spell I used before! It seems that the Grand Profound Heart Sutra is really very useful.”
“Oh? Is that so?” Li Hanzhou said awkwardly, “Then use another move and let me see.”
“I can’t.”
Liu Dongyue said truthfully.
“What do you mean you can’t?” Li Hanzhou was startled. “You can’t use any other Longevity Temple Martial Arts?”
“Ah, no.” Liu Dongyue scratched his head.
“What about the Grand Unity Divine Elephant Art?”
“I can’t.”
“What about the Great Dragon Soul Hand?”
“I can’t.”
“You should be able to draw a talisman, right?”
“I can’t.”
“All these years, you’ve only been eating at the Longevity Temple?” Li Hanzhou was a little angry.
“Martial Uncle, learning those things is useless; I can’t use them, so it’s a waste of time to learn them,” Liu Dongyue said with a wry smile.
“Ah, forget it,” Li Hanzhou could only say, “We’ll learn it slowly later. I have something important to tell you. Your performance on the arena today was a little off.”
“Off?”
Liu Dongyue said in surprise, “Martial Uncle, where did I do badly? I easily defeated those four Yan Family disciples.”
“Didn’t you already get the Yan Family’s Nine Apertures Golden Body?” Liu Dongyue looked puzzled.
“It’s precisely because you defeated them too easily that it’s wrong,” Li Hanzhou frowned and said, “Every time you easily defeat your opponent, who will come to our Longevity Temple to challenge in the future? You need to give them hope that they can win against you, so they will come to our Longevity Temple to experience it incessantly! And I’ve already arranged for Yun Qianzhu and Shi Ming to go down the mountain to White Cloud City to do publicity. In the future, many martial arts people will come to watch your Martial Arts Competitions, so you need to take this seriously.”
“More people will come to watch?” Liu Dongyue was dumbfounded. How did it feel like he’d become a performing monkey?
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