Chapter 2362: Ancient secrets, Xiang Yu returns to his heart
Chapter 2362: Ancient secret, Xiang Yu returns home
Since Xiang Yu broke through to Grandmaster, although his basic martial arts has not changed over the years, his skills have continued to accumulate, and his strength has maintained a steady upward trend, but the improvement has been relatively small.
Xiang Yu actually knows that he is not the strongest under normal circumstances, and those senior masters with hundreds of years of skill are stronger than him, but if he burns up his inner strength, he will be unmatched in the world.
Even the Taoist Sanqing Taoist and the Yin-Yang Sect's Donghuang Taiyi, these seniors who have already reached the pinnacle of great masters, are equally unlikely to be Xiang Yu's opponents.
Unknowingly, Xiang Yu's goal has changed from being number one among his peers to even surpassing the older generation.
Xiang Yu had always thought so before, until he witnessed Taiyi destroying Shintoism alone and killing two great masters who had burned their inner strength, which made him feel that he still underestimated those seniors.
Yes, Xiang Yu can indeed reach the limit of mortals after burning his internal energy. The combat power he bursts out after burning his internal energy may not be weaker than Taiyi Sanqing, but the premise is that he can burn smoothly and burn to the peak to fight.
Just use all your strength.
If not, Xiang Yu would be like Izanagi and his wife, who would have his Gang Qi armor broken before reaching his peak combat power and die tragically.
Xiang Yu watched the whole battle between Taiyi and the four great masters of Shintoism. He was originally going to help, but he didn't expect that the more he watched, the more frightened he became. Taiyi taught him a good lesson.
Taiyi's Great Five Elements Yin-Yang Sword Finger is so abnormal, as if it was specially created to break the Grand Master's Gang Qi Armor.
That kind of penetrating and destructive power concentrated on one point, even if Xiang Yu burns his inner strength, he is not sure he can prevent it.
Unless Xiang Yuci is at the peak of his combat power, he is pretty sure that he can defend against it, but if he is in a life-and-death fight, Taiyi will definitely not wait for him to reach his peak.
Taiyi is certainly not the only one to be able to use these special skills to restrain the great master's burning internal energy, such as the Great Five Elements Yin-Yang Sword Finger and the Yin-Yang Heaven-Destroying Sword.
Xiang Yu can guess it with his toes, and he is not inferior to Tai Yi. Even the stronger Sanqing Taoist will definitely use similar methods.
At this thought, Xiang Yu only felt that the water in Baijia was so deep. No wonder Guiguzi specifically told him not to provoke Taoists when he left Guigu. It turned out that he was afraid that he would die or not come back.
"Senior Taiyi, have you broken through the Great Master and entered a new realm?" Xiang Yu asked seriously.
As we all know, Grand Master is the last realm of martial arts. Although Xiang Yu also feels that Taiyi is still at the peak of Grand Master, the gap between other Grand Masters and him is too big, and they are not in the same realm at all.
Taiyi's combat power is more like that of an immortal, while other great masters, even Xiang Yu, are still at the level of mortals.
Taiyi seemed to have guessed that Xiang Yu would ask this question. The reason why he let Xiang Yu watch the whole process was actually because he wanted to beat Xiang Yu and let him know that the sky is high and the earth is high.
"Grandmaster is the longest realm in martial arts. Even though I have practiced for nearly a hundred years and reached the peak of Grandmaster thirty years ago, I am still at the Grandmaster realm and have not broken through to a new level."
"What? Senior, you were already the pinnacle grandmaster forty years ago?"
Xiang Yu was shocked when he heard this, and at the same time he felt a little disappointed.
Taiyi was the pinnacle grandmaster forty years ago, but he is still the pinnacle grandmaster now. Does it mean that the end of martial arts is the pinnacle grandmaster?
Xiang Yu hopes that there will be a new realm after the Grand Master, so that his pursuit of martial arts will continue forever.
However, even Taiyi, who was gifted by Heaven, spent forty years unable to break through to a new level. This fully demonstrated that martial arts has reached its end when it reaches the peak of being a great master. How could Xiang Yu not be disappointed?
"I have been practicing hard for forty years in order to break through the Grand Master. Although I still haven't succeeded in breaking through, I have also touched the realm after the Grand Master.
I named this brand new realm the Xuan Realm, and the realms below the Xuan Realm are all human realms.
Now, although I have not been able to break through the Grand Master, I am already very close to the Mysterious Realm, and I am between the Xuan Realm and the peak Grand Master. This should be called the Half-Step Xuan Realm."
"Half-step profound realm?"
Xiang Yu couldn't help but feel a little enlightened, finally understanding why the gap between the other great masters and Taiyi was so big.
Although Taiyi has not reached the profound realm, the half-step profound realm is also a new realm, and it is definitely not comparable to the realm of a great master.
As Taiyi who is in the half-step profound realm, how can it not be easy for someone who is in the realm of a great master?
"Even Senior Taiyi, you can't break through the Grandmaster. So, the Grandmaster, no, the half-step profound realm, is the end of martial arts?" Xiang Yu asked.
"Boy, let alone the half-step profound realm, even if it is the profound realm, it is still not the end of martial arts.
Whether I am from the Yin Yang family or from other hundreds of families, there are records in the ancient books in my collection.
Qi refining was popular during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and many Qi refiners at that time had transcended the Mysterious Realm, and many of them even lived for hundreds of years, like immortals who lived as long as heaven."
Hearing this, Xiang Yu suddenly became excited and asked quickly: "Then why are there no Qi practitioners now?"
"The ancient books only say that after a great war that affected the whole world, not only did most of the Qigong practitioners in the world die, but even the whole world was damaged. No one knows what the specific situation is."
"hiss……"
Xiang Yu took a breath of cold air, what kind of person is he and what kind of war is he waging to cause damage to both heaven and earth?
I'm afraid the ones fighting are not immortals.
"Since then, this world is no longer suitable for refining Qi, and martial arts has become popular because of this. However, because of the lack of heaven and earth, no one can break through the Grand Master. The limit is the half-step profound realm." Taiyi sighed softly.
road.
He never thought that he was inferior to the sages, but the ancients were able to break through the great masters, and it took him forty years to break through. This was not because he was not qualified and talented enough, but because the world restricted his growth.
Xiang Yu suddenly smiled bitterly when he heard this. If possible, he would rather not know the news, because after knowing it, he would be even more desperate.
Heaven and earth allow mortals to break through the Grand Master. For warriors, is there anything more desperate than this?
etc……
A flash of light flashed in Xiang Yu's eyes. Even if the war last week affected everyone in the world, it is impossible for everyone to perish. Some people must have survived. So where did these people go after that?
Xiang Yu hurriedly asked Taiyi, and Taiyi replied: "I am also very surprised about this. It is impossible for all those Qi practitioners to die, and their lifespans are long, and they may even live until the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
However, after searching through the classics of various schools of thought, there are few records about them. Only in the Taoist classics, there are a few words mentioned, saying that they have all left this world."
Xiang Yu was startled: "Left this world? What does this mean? Did he fall? Or?"
"I don't know. Even if it's literal, there's no explanation as to where they went and how they left.
Hundreds of scholars have been investigating for hundreds of years, trying to crack this secret, but they have made no progress.
Until forty years ago, when that old ghost Wang Xu had not been deposed, his ability to calculate astrology was even better than me.
The old man and the old ghost Wang Xu worked together to make a divination, and the divination showed that the appearance of a person twenty years from now will bring about great changes in the world that have never been seen in ancient and modern times.
The mystery of the disappearance of the ancient Qi alchemists, how to leave this world, and many other mysteries will all be revealed one by one by this person, and perhaps he will be able to break through to the mysterious realm."
Hearing Taiyi's words, Xiang Yu was shocked and asked in a hesitant voice: "Who is this person?"
"It's naturally impossible to figure out who it is with this kind of secret."
Taiyi shook his head: "That old ghost Wang Xu thought it was his apprentice Ying Hao, while Taiqing thought it was his grandson Li Shimin, and Mo Runong and others thought it was Liu Xiu and Liu Ji.
But Liu Ji was a little disappointed, and he was actually killed by Liu Yu, which is really surprising."
At this moment, Xiang Yu's heart felt like an ocean was turning upside down.
Hundreds of schools of thought had been hiding for hundreds of years, but they suddenly appeared during the Yellow Turban Rebellion and selected spokespersons among the princes. It turned out that they were just waiting for one person.
"Senior, the one chosen by your Yin Yang family won't be Zhang Jiao, right?" Xiang Yu asked again.
"That's right, I chose it myself, but that guy Zhang Jiao didn't live up to his expectations. Even though he occupied most of the Central Plains, he still couldn't push him into the Han Dynasty. So you, Zhu Yuanzhang, and Ren Hongchang came into the sight of the Yin Yang family again.
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"At that time, the Yin Yang family was planning to make a choice between the three of you."
After saying that, Taiyi glared at Xiang Yu and snorted: "But you were arrogant at the time and had a hostile attitude towards the Yin Yang family, so you were kicked out directly."
Xiang Yu suddenly laughed bitterly. At that time, he was indeed very disgusted with the Yin and Yang family. He felt that the Yin and Yang family were a group of magicians. Now it seems that he is still blind.
"After your kid is kicked out, the only people the Yin Yang family can choose are Zhu Yuanzhang and Ren Hongchang.
But what is surprising is that the boy Zhu Yuanzhang clearly has a heroic destiny and the aura of an emperor, but because of the love between his children, he is willing to succumb to the girl Ren Hongchang.
At that time, everyone in the Yin and Yang family, including me, thought that Ren Hongchang would marry Zhu Yuanzhang, but they did not expect that she would choose Ying Hao and kill Zhu Yuanzhang who was deeply in love with her. Now the Yin and Yang family could only
Support Ying Hao."
At this point, Taiyi sighed and laughed at himself: "I'm really not as discerning as that old ghost Wang Xu. After going round and round, I finally got on that old ghost's pirate ship."
Xiang Yu suppressed the shock in his heart and said: "Now the power of the Central Plains is in Qin. If you put it this way, Ying Hao is the person mentioned in the hexagrams of the predecessors, the person who brought unprecedented changes to the world in ancient and modern times?"
Taiyi: "They should be inseparable, and according to my observation, Ying Hao's actions are the only one that matches the hexagram."
"No wonder Senior Guiguzi and Senior Taiyi spared no effort to help Ying Hao. It's really not unfair at all for me to lose to him."
At this point, Xiang Yu frowned again and asked: "But senior, Ying Hao may really be able to bring great changes to the world, but since he became emperor, a lot of government affairs need to be dealt with, and he has to practice martial arts.
I’m already slacking off, I don’t even know how long it will take to break through to the Grand Master, so how can I solve the mystery of breaking through to the profound realm?”
Taiyi rolled his eyes at Xiang Yu: "How does this old man know? That boy Xiang, I want to get rid of you for something."
"Senior has told this junior so many secrets. As long as this junior can do it, he will definitely go through fire and water." Xiang Yu said decisively.
"Don't worry, you don't need to go through fire and water. Just wait until you return to the Central Plains to encourage Ying Hao to practice."
"..."
Xiang Yu's face froze, and he said reluctantly: "Why is this?"
He often exchanges letters with Ying Hao, but when they meet, he always feels awkward. He can't explain the specific reason, so he is not very willing to meet Ying Hao.
"Ying Hao is probably a hexagram person, but if you want him to unlock those secrets, you won't be able to do it without improving your own cultivation level. You must at least have a cultivation level at the level of a grand master."
"What the junior means is why should the junior urge Ying Hao?"
"I am afraid that you, Xiang Yu, are the only person who can make Ying Hao muster up his energy and work hard to practice now."
Xiang Yu opened his mouth and wanted to refute, but he had to admit that not being able to defeat him personally was probably one of Ying Hao's few regrets.
Seeing that Xiang Yu didn't agree immediately, Taiyi was a little dissatisfied and said: "This is related to the secret of Xuanjing. It will be useful for your future breakthrough."
"That's...okay."
Xiang Yu gritted his teeth and said, although he was still a little reluctant on the surface, he had another idea in his heart.
Ying Hao, if you are really the one who will bring about great changes in the world, then why don't I, Xiang Yu, do my best to help you unify the world?
No, it must be you. Except for you who defeated me, no one else is qualified to bring changes to the world.
At this moment, the grudge in Xiang Yu's heart was gone. Although he had helped Ying Hao before, he had only done it casually, but now Ying Hao has become the only person he wants to be loyal to, no, to help.
Xiang Yu and Tai Yi were exchanging secrets, while Dugu Qiubai and other three great masters, as well as other masters, were cleaning the battlefield in the Shinto Palace.
With Taiyi personally taking action, they could only take action.
In the Shinto Palace, there are not only Onmyoji and Shinto believers, but also tens of thousands of servants who specialize in serving the priests.
But now, most of these slaves are buried under the ruins, and they are obviously too dead to die.
After conducting a search, Dugu Qiubai's men found six living masters in the ruins, as well as forty-six top-notch masters, including generals, ninjas, and onmyojis.
After treating these people to ensure that they would not die, Dugu Qiubai directly sealed everyone's internal energy and imprisoned them, planning to take them back and try to recruit them.
If all these people can be conquered, it will be a big help to Da Qin.