Chapter 5, Hong Tong's Dried Corpse

The maids who left the Hou's mansion came back one after another. Sikong Wu did not want to delay them. He happened to use the excuse of refining Qingpeng's blood to make them choose to leave or stay in the mansion. Those who leave can get one thousand taels of silver.

Most maids chose to leave the Marquis Mansion of Wuwei. After all, one thousand taels of silver is a huge fortune. Even if they leave the Marquis Mansion, they would be gossiped about, and they could take their family out of Qintian City and find another place to settle down.

Even Luping, who Sikong Wu recently favored, chose to leave, and only Luzhu stayed.

Although Sikong Wu's personality has changed a lot now, unlike Sikong Wu's moody past, the bad impressions accumulated over the years are difficult to change, and maybe the reason for this will arise.

Sikong Wu kept smiling bitterly in his heart. It seemed that his character still needs improvement. Lu Zhu left some comfort to him. He secretly decided that no matter what happened in the future, he could not let this little girl down.

He mentioned to Lu Zhu that he would let Lu Zhu get rid of his maid's identity. I don't know why Lu Zhu didn't agree. Anyway, Sikong Wu did not treat her as a servant, so it would be fine.

Time is spent day by day in the hard practice and beautiful hot spring bath.

The spiritual turtle breathing exercise that Sikong Wu practiced before could not cultivate the internal energy of the lower dantian. Now it has absorbed the qi and blood and demonic power of the three-eyed Qingpeng demon, and it has become a blood mist in the dantian, which is similar to the qi ball in the acupoints between the eyebrows. As the spiritual turtle breathing exercise begins, Sikong Wu found that the blood and qi are the same as the internal energy, and can move with the mind and impact the acupoints.

The cultivation techniques in this world are divided into seven levels, namely the Immortal Saint Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang and the Unlevel Ordinary Practice. Each level is divided into three levels: upper, middle and lower.

Most soul beast warriors practice ordinary skills. Only those inherited by large families and major forces have more advanced mental skills. The Sikong family has been passed down for thousands of years. The family-born cloud rifting technique and the cloud rifting spear are both heaven-level skills, which are extremely powerful. However, most of the heaven-level skills are stopped at the realm of the ninth-grade martial emperor. Sikong Ba has practiced for more than a hundred years and cannot enter the realm of the fourth-level martial saint. It is not because of the limitations of the level of the cultivation technique.

After Sikong Wu had just absorbed the blood of the three-eyed Qingpeng demon, Sikong Wu took Sikong Wu to the secret room and formally taught the Cloud Split Art.

The Lieyun Jue is the foundation of the Sikong family's inheritance. The cultivation method is extremely clever. It can open up thirty-six soul acupoints in the body to store soul power. When all the soul acupoints are full and complete, the Lieyun Jue can be cultivated to the realm of great success.

Sikong Ba said to Sikong Wu seriously: "The Heaven-level martial arts is the biggest secret of our Sikong family. The ancestors passed on to men but not women, and the inner and outer martial arts are passed on to them. Wu'er must remember! Although there is also the Immortal Saint Heart Method above the Heaven-level Heart Method. It is said that the Immortal-level Heart Method can break the void and become an immortal, but no one can do this at all. Therefore, only the Saint-level Heart Method is better than the Heaven-level Heart Method!"

"Although the Rising Cloud Art is a low-level skill in the Heavenly-level Heart Method, it is successful in continuous and long, and its power is not much worse than the Heavenly-level mid-level skill. It can open up to thirty-six soul acupoints. Even the father has only opened up thirty-three. Wu'er absorbs 80% of the Qingpeng qi and blood. Once the Rising Cloud Art is perfect, he can definitely break through the third-level Martial Emperor realm and achieve the true martial body, or even the eleventh-grade Golden Body Martial Saint. He must practice diligently and not slacken! "

Sikong Wu was confused. Judging from what Lieyun Jue said above, it was similar to his spiritual turtle breathing skills. He used his soul power and internal strength to break the closed acupoints. Among them, the locations of the soul acupoints on the Lieyun Jue were clearly the Danzhong acupoint, Ren and Du meridians, etc.

He couldn't help but be shocked. From this point of view, these skills for cultivating soul power are clearly the internal skills and mental methods mentioned by the Earth. The Split Cloud Art opened up thirty-six soul acupoints and was already a low-level heaven-level martial art. The spiritual turtle breathing technique he practiced had to break through the fifty-three closed acupoints. Isn't it more advanced and mysterious than the Split Cloud Art?

A sentence suddenly appeared in his mind: "I see that the guy is born with a skeleton, he is a martial arts genius. I have a martial arts secret book here..."

"It's not that coincidental. You can find such a powerful internal skills on the Internet?" Sikong Wu was really a little unbelievable.

Seeing Sikong Wu stunned, Sikong Ba couldn't help but look down and said in a deep voice: "What's wrong with you!"

Sikong Wu's body trembled and came back to his senses. He suddenly thought that he had devoured Qingpeng's soul and obtained a technique. He asked: "Dad, the last time the child devoured Qingpeng's soul, in addition to some Qingpeng's fighting skills, there is also a great Peng transformation technique. I wonder where Qingpeng got it. It was Qingpeng's own way of practicing demon power. I wonder if the child could practice this technique?"

Sikong Ba looked overjoyed and clapped, "I didn't expect that your child would have a great chance! Ordinary monsters can only practice by instinct. Only a few powerful demons can understand the method of cultivation, and even fewer people can get by the human race. This Great Peng Transformation Method is the cultivation method of the tenth-grade three-eyed Qingpeng Demon. The preciousness is definitely not below the Lieyun Skill. No wonder Qingpeng is still young, and his demonic power is amazing."

He then said, "It's just that the monsters are different from our human race. This Great Pear Transformation Skill is estimated to be only the monsters of the Pengniao clan can practice it. You should practice the Cloud Split Technique first. After absorbing the Qingpeng qi and blood and nurturing the Qingpeng soul beast, you can let the Qingpeng soul beast practice the Great Pear Transformation Skill, which is equivalent to practicing with the soul beast at the same time. The entry level can be more than twice as fast as an ordinary soul beast warrior!"

Sikong Wu also had some understanding of soul beasts. He always felt that the qi transformed from the jade pendant on his eyebrows was like the demonic power of Qingpeng's blood. Especially now that he had absorbed most of the qi and blood of Qingpeng, it showed a faint red color, which was more similar to the blood mist transformed from Qingpeng's blood. He couldn't help but ask: "Dad, can a warrior fuse a variety of soul beasts?"

Sikong Ba nodded and said, "Yes, but it may not necessarily have an advantage in fusion of multiple soul beasts. Not every soul beast knows the method of cultivation like Qingpeng. It requires the warrior to absorb spiritual energy and provide it with. The more soul beasts there are in the body, the heavier the burden on the warriors, and the progress of martial arts will naturally be slower, but the combat skills are much more than those of single soul beast warriors."

"Your three-eyed Qingpeng soul beast can be automatically cultivated without you having to spend any effort to raise it. If your martial arts cultivation reaches a certain level, you can plant another soul beast and become a two-soul warrior."

Sikong Ba thought that Sikong Wu wanted to run before he learned to walk, but Qing Peng wanted to plant a soul beast before he had even refined his qi and blood.

Sikong Wu did not dare to come out of the strange air mass between his eyebrows and acupoints with Sikong Ba, so he felt at ease to practice the Cloud Split Art with Sikong Ba in the secret room.

The Split Cloud Art is a secret of the Sikong family. Sikong Ba was afraid that Sikong Wu’s cultivation level would not be sufficient and could not protect the Split Cloud Art secret. He did not take the Sikong martial arts general Rio Yun Art out of the secret room, and could only watch the practice of the Split Cloud Art in the secret room. Even the food was brought by Sikong Ba himself.

Under Sikong Ba's guidance, and having experience in practicing the spiritual turtle breathing technique, Sikong Wu's rapid speed of practicing the Cloud Split Technique surprised Sikong Ba very much. In just half a month, Sikong Wu was able to successfully use the Cloud Split Technique to move a small circle and wander around in dozens of acupoints.

The Qingpeng Qi and blood and demonic power in his body were slowly absorbed into his body by Sikong Wu. Sikong Wu found that his body became much stronger, his muscles and muscles were elastic, as tough as rhinoceros skin. If he had such strong muscles on earth, the man who jumped might not be able to hurt him with a dagger.

What surprised Sikong Wu was that the small Zhoutian circuit formed by the spiritual turtle breathing technique in the acupoints between his eyebrows of the Dantian was irrelevant to the circuit in the Dantian under the Dantian. Sikong Wu tried to practice the spiritual turtle breathing technique and the Yunjian Art at the same time, and found that the energy consumption speed increased several times. After one Zhoutian, he was so tired that he sweated all over and had a headache. However, the effect was more than twice as much as practicing a certain technique alone, and the speed of absorbing Qingpeng's qi and blood was much faster.

The qi masses in the eyebrows constantly nourish Sikong Wu's soul. Often, after a week, Sikong Wu can continue to practice after resting for one or two incense. He simply tried to operate the two mental methods. In just three months, most of the blood mist in the dantian was absorbed by Sikong Wu. The rapid progress made Sikong Ba surprised. He kept looking for nourishing elixirs, centuries-old ginseng, hundreds of years of Ganoderma lucidum, etc. to nourish Sikong Wu's body.

While absorbing the blood and demon power of Qingpeng, Sikong Wu released the soul power he had refined, and condensed a faint figure of Qingpeng in the Dantian Qi Sea. Before he knew it, he reached the first-level and second-level soul-focusing realm!

This three-eyed Qingpeng phantom, transformed by Qingpeng's essence and blood, is Sikong Wu's soul beast. After it is condensed, it is in the soul-fostering realm, which needs to be continuously nourished and strengthened. The body can change some of the Qingpeng's characteristics. When the Qingpeng phantom becomes real and leaves the body, it is the third-level Martial Emperor's soul-leaving realm!

During these three months, most of Sikong Wu was taken to practice in the secret room. Although the phantom of the soul beast had already appeared, the dark red color of the qi between the eyebrows had not yet been transformed. It seemed that there was still a lot of Qingpeng's essence and blood contained in it.

What surprised Sikong Wu was that a monster phantom also appeared in the qi masses between his eyebrows. However, the monster phantom was really strange. It changed into the form of Qingpeng at the moment, but it was a strange turtle and tortoise that could change between the two forms.

The qi mass absorbed the qi and blood of the three-eyed Qingpeng demon, and the figure of Qingpeng was born like Sikong Wu's lower dantian. Sikong Wu could understand, but what was the strange turtle? It looked a little different from the turtle on the earth. It turned out to be a dragon-headed turtle body. Could it be because of practicing the spiritual turtle breathing skills?

However, Sikong Wu quickly denied this idea. The technique could not change the essence of the monster's essence and blood. The only possibility is that the jade pendant he had carried before was like the soul sealing stone in this world, sealing the soul of the soul beast. This would explain the reason for the formation of the qi ball. Perhaps the dragon-headed turtle was the original appearance of the spirit sealed by the jade pendant.

Even though Sikong Wu had many doubts in his heart, he did not dare to speak out with Sikong Bada. Anyway, it seems that it does not harm him now, but can improve his martial arts cultivation very quickly. In more than three months, he went from the initial state of merging to the second-level soul-raising realm, which shows the role of this qi ball.

Just as Sikong Wu wanted to tell Sikong Ba that he had entered the second-grade martial arts realm and asked Sikong Ba to teach him the second level of the Cloud Split Art, he saw Sikong Ba walking into the secret room with a gloomy face.

Sikong Ba put down the meat and precious tonics in his hand and said in a deep voice: "Wu'er, you can drink this bowl of ginseng, poria, tiger bone soup while it's hot. If you have something to do for your father, you need to leave the Hou Mansion for a few days. You have to take care of yourself and go out to eat. No one knows this secret room except you and Father."

Sikong Wu drank the bitter ginseng and poria tiger bone soup in one mouthful. Seeing that Sikong Ba looked bad, he couldn't help asking: "Dad, what happened?"

Sikong Ba saw Sikong Wu’s face worried, Zhan Yan smiled and said, “Wu'er doesn’t need to worry, but something happened in Hongtong County below. For my father, I need to go and see it myself.”

Sikong Wu knew that things were definitely not as simple as Sikong Ba said, so he couldn't help but worry. He was the father of his body, and Sikong Wu can practice peacefully in the secret room now, and he has medicine soup worth more than gold every day, all depends on this Marquis of Wuwei. If something happened to him, Sikong Wu wouldn't be able to get there.

"Dad, what is the matter? Wu'er is growing up now and is much more sensible than before. I hope she can share her worries for her father."

Sikong Ba nodded: "Actually nothing, it's just that the people from the county government below found many mummies in Hongtong County, and their qi and blood were absorbed. It was probably the cause of the fox demon."

He paused a little and continued: "The alien species of fox demon is much easier to transform than other monsters. He especially likes to transform into beautiful women, lure young people and devour their yang energy. It is difficult to judge its Taoist practice. However, the two second-level sixth-grade captains in Hongtong County were killed by the fox demon. Maybe this monster is the Taoist practice of the third-level demon emperor, so for his father, he was preparing to take a trip and capture this monster."

Qintian City has a strong and strong ground. In addition to Qintian City, there are seven counties and towns below that are the territory of Wuwei Hou. If a murder occurs, the county and town cannot handle it themselves, so they naturally have to report to Qintian City.

Sikong Wu thought for a while and asked, "Dad knows it is a human warrior or a fox demon?"

"It is the best fox demon. The fox demon that can transform into shape is likely to have the bloodline of soul beasts and is of high quality. Capture it and train it. In the future, Wu'er will take charge of the Marquis' Mansion, which will help you."

A cold light flashed in his eyes: "If a human warrior dares to come to my Qintian City to make trouble, my father will definitely want her to know how the three words "Wuwei Hou" were obtained!"

This territory of Qintian City is a hundred miles apart and a title of Marquis of Wuwei. However, Sikong Ba made countless contributions for the empire. As the saying goes, a general succeeded in thousands of bones. These contributions were piled up with white bones. Marquis of Wuwei was definitely not a good man and a trustworthy woman.

Although Sikong Wu is addicted to martial arts, he is not a person who can endure loneliness, especially when he comes here in the rich world of Earth. Although he has practiced for four or five hours every day, the longest practice has not lasted for more than three days. After practicing in the secret room for so long, he finally reached the second level and thought about going out for a walk.

After all, the master told him that real martial arts cannot be practiced through hard work. Only by going out to increase your experience and competing with other martial artists to learn from the strengths of hundreds of schools can you truly achieve great martial arts.

"Dad, I want to go to Hongdong County with you."

Sikong Ba shook his head and said flatly: "No! What you need to deal with in Hongdong County this time may be the demon emperor at the seventh level or the strong man with the cultivation level of the Martial Emperor. You have just succeeded in planting souls. How can you deal with the lowest first-grade warrior!"

Sikong Wu looked at Sikong Ba and explained, "Dad! The flowers in the room cannot withstand the wind and rain. If the child is afraid of danger and stays in the Marquis' Mansion without experiencing hardships, how can he achieve the martial arts saint and practice the true martial arts body? Besides, the child has entered the second level of realm and condensed the shadow of Qingpeng. The martial arts realm is improved too quickly, lacks mental experience, and has unstable foundations, which will be bad for the future martial arts realm."

Sikong Ba's face seemed a little loose, and he naturally understood this truth. It was just that Sikong Wu was his only son, which was easy to say, but it was difficult to actually let Sikong Wu go out for training. In the past, Sikong Wu was wandering in Qintian City, and he was surrounded by guards with great martial arts cultivation.

Sikong Wu took the opportunity to continue, "Dad's martial arts cultivation is amazing. Even in the Qingtian Empire, there are not many people who can compare with their fathers. How can there be danger when your child is by your side?"

Sikong Ba pondered for a moment before saying, "You have really condensed the shadow of Qingpeng? Have you reached the second-grade martial arts realm?"

Sikong Wu nodded and said, "The child dares not deceive his father."

Sikong Ba reached out and a golden light flashed. A short steel gun in the corner of the three feet outside the wall was actually caught by him in the air.

He handed the short gun to Sikong Wu: "You can stab the black iron statue with a shot to see for your father."

Xuansoft iron is a relatively precious metal with amazing toughness and resilience. It is usually mixed with other metals to forge soft armor. Soft swords require a certain degree of flexibility. There is a portrait of pure Xuansoft iron with an amazing thickness in the secret room, which was used by Sikong Ba to practice the Cloud Split Gun in the past.

The portrait forged by the black soft iron alone is worth more than ten thousand taels of gold, which shows how rich Wuwei Hou’s family is!

Sikong Wu had secretly used this Xuansoft Iron Image to try the power of his Xingyi Dragon Fist. He easily left a palm print on Du Haifeng's fine steel armor. After planting the soul beast, the power was increased several times. He could not leave any traces on the Xuansoft Iron Image. Knowing the tenacity of this Xuansoft Iron, he didn't dare to be careless at the moment. When the energy in the dantian was raised, a light green green phantom appeared faintly on the eyebrows. This was the manifestation of the use of soul power by low-level warriors!

Entering the realm of the seventh-grade Martial Emperor, you can use your soul power as you wish and hide the soul beast marks between your eyebrows. Once a warrior and martial artist with low cultivation level develops soul power, they will arouse the soul beast qi and blood in their bodies, and condense the soul beast marks between their eyebrows. Experienced warriors can roughly judge the opponent's martial arts cultivation from the brightness of the soul beast marks.

However, the fusion of soul beasts is different, the amount of qi and blood of the soul beasts absorbed, the cultivation techniques are surprising, etc. Even warriors of the same level will have a huge difference in strength. Like Sikong Wu, he absorbed the three-eyed Qingpeng qi and blood demon power of the tenth-grade soul beast, and practiced the Heavenly-level Heart Method Cloud Slitting Technique and the more mysterious spiritual turtle breathing technique. After years of nourishing spiritual medicine, his body can be completely compared with the second-level fourth-level martial artists!

Therefore, Sikong Ba would not let Sikong Wu show only soul power. Xuanruan Iron is the best target to measure Sikong Wu's true strength. Even Sikong Ba's strength is as powerful as Sikong Ba, unable to penetrate this life-sized Xuanruan Iron statue with one shot!

The light green green soul power was shrouded in the steel short spear. Sikong Wu shouted loudly, his wrist was thrust, and the short spear stabbed out like lightning, and a puffed sound fell on the place where the Xuanruo Iron looked like a confidant!

A shocking shock was transmitted from the short spear to Sikong Wu's tiger's mouth, which made Sikong Wu's entire arm numb. He quickly circulated his soul power and flowed his arm to feel a little better. He took back the short spear and found that the black soft iron left half an inch deep thorn marks like the chest and abdomen.

What surprised Sikong Wu was that the thorn mark was healing slowly, like a piece of plasticine, with great elasticity.

Sikong Ba saw the thorn marks of the Xuanruan Iron Image, and a hint of surprise appeared on his face. He smiled and nodded and said, "The more the shape of the Xuanruan Iron changes, the more external force required increases exponentially. Even I am not sure that one shot pierces the Xuanruan Iron Image. It is already good that you can leave half an inch of the thorn marks on it."

"Since that's the case, I'll let you go to Hongdong County with You and I'll also let you see how the martial arts powerhouses fight with the upper-level monsters."

Usually, monsters of the first to third grade, monster aliens are regarded as lower-level monsters, grades of fourth to sixth grade are middle-level, grades of seven to nineth grade are upper-level demons, and monsters above tenth grade are already rare heavenly demons and demon saints. If the three-mestone Qingpeng grows up, the level strength will definitely be above Sikong Ba who has the ninth grade martial arts cultivation!

Sikong Wu's cultivation is progressing so rapidly, the qi and blood of the tenth-grade soul beast is an extremely important reason!
Chapter completed!