CHAPTER 253: CHAPTER 204: YIJINJING + PURPLE MIST TECHNIQUE = INVINCIBLE UNDER THE HEAVENS!

"Whoo!"

Yan Chuan slowly finishes his practice, not feeling much, only sensing his body’s smooth flow, with a hint of ease. He carefully observes, but still doesn’t notice significant changes: "It’s just one round of practice, how can it be immediately effective."

He is not in a hurry to achieve success, glancing at the sky—

The time of Mao is over.

The time of Chen has arrived.

At this moment, it’s the perfect time to practice the "Purple Mist Divine Skill," so Yan Chuan immediately transitions to practice it.

The "Purple Mist Divine Skill" is divided into two parts—

The first part of the skill is ’Pile Skill’!

The second part of the skill is ’Dantian Skill’!

Even though Yan Chuan comprehends the "Purple Mist Divine Skill" thoroughly, already refined, the power is still present and must progress step by step. When practicing, one must transition from the first part ’Pile Skill’ to the second part ’Dantian Skill’, meaning warming up with ’Pile Skill’, then it’s suitable to practice ’Dantian Skill’.

Bang bang bang!

On the top floor of the Collection Room, Yan Chuan guides the rise of the eastern sun, stands in the ’Limitless Stance’, sequentially practicing the ’Pai Da Skill’, ’Dragon Whirl Technique’, ’Dragon Disturbance’, ’Pushing Mountain Skill’, ’Cloud Rubbing Hand’, which compose the ’Five Stance Skills’.

After this, the warm-up ends, and it’s time for the ’Dantian Skill’.

"Contained within the Mysterious Sword God, Qiankun borrows the path for a reason. The Spiritual Mechanism intersects, Kun is born with Northern Sea feelings. Heaven and Earth strike open the mists, Sun and Moon interchange mechanisms. Life is transformed through transformation, named Purple Mist Essence."

As the sun rises in the east, purple mist comes from the east. Yan Chuan sits cross-legged, practicing at that moment, his face gradually takes on a purple hue, corresponding with the purple mist from the east, showing some celestial aura.

The second part of the "Purple Mist Divine Skill", ’Dantian Skill’, is divided into four layers, the first is ’Nasal Dan Tian’, the second is ’Vibrate Dantian’, the third is ’Ha Dantian’, the fourth is ’Divine Light Circulation’.

Among these—

The second layer, ’Vibrate Dantian’, actually trains ’Protective Gang Qi’, ’Anti-impact and Rebound’.

The third layer, ’Ha Dantian’, trains the skill of ’Inner Qi External Release’, ’Close Acupoint and Move Acupoint’.

With these two layers of skills practiced, ’Purple Mist Inner Power’ flows through the body, passes through acupoints, circulating around the body, can close, move acupoints. The whole body is not afraid of blows from knives and guns, or sharp objects, feeling like they are hitting decayed cotton; can transfer power through objects, knock down oxen over mountains, rebound can throw the enemy several feet, shatter their viscera, and can smash stones, disperse the capability of taking breath.

Truly mystical!

Deservedly Huashan’s number one divine skill!

However, when Yan Chuan is practicing at this moment, he focuses mainly on the first layer ’Nasal Dan Tian’ and the fourth layer ’Divine Light Circulation’, concentrating on accumulating internal strength.

On the top floor of the Collection Room, Yan Chuan aligns his five hearts towards the sky, silently operates his mental method, breathing, and exhaling!

Calming the mind, clearing thoughts.

Until reaching a state of forgetting oneself, mind collecting the energy of heaven and earth.

Until the practice deepens, the purple qi on Yan Chuan’s face becomes more and more intense, suddenly, a flash of radiance, as if from the distant eastern sky, a streak of purple mist comes, Yan Chuan opens his mouth and inhales—

Hualala!

A mouthful of purple mist swallowed into his abdomen, internal strength suddenly surges!

A surge of internal force starts from ’Da Dun’, passes through ’Hangjian’, ’Taichong’, ’Zhongfeng’, ’Li Gou’, ’Zhongdu’, ’Xiguan’, ’Ququan’, travels through ’Yinbao’, ’Zu Wu Li’, ’Yin Lian’, ’Ji Mai’, ’Zhangmen’, finally reaches ’Qimen’, thus running through the entire ’Foot Jueyin Liver Meridian’!

Unprecedented smoothness—

Among the ’Twelve Main Meridians’, the first one is fully integrated.

Rumble rumble rumble!

The body roared, cleansing and elevating!

Internal strength postnatal first level, achieved in an instant.

Yijinjing!

Only practiced once, could it really be immediately effective?!

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Early morning of the first day.

The second round of the ’Jian Province Competition’ begins, Yan Chuan, refreshed and energetic, heads straight to the martial arena.

The ’Purple Mist Divine Skill’ was originally upright and peaceful, its strength lies in its infinite potential, twenty years of practice, it is deemed first-rate of the current era. Like Yue Buqun in ’Swordsmen’, he practiced Purple Mist Divine Skill for nearly half a century, at nearly sixty years old, his appearance looked like someone in their early forties, and his power was recognized among the top ten masters of the time, demonstrating the infinite potential of the ’Purple Mist Divine Skill’.

But Yue Buqun’s practice of the ’Purple Mist Divine Skill’ also took years, reaching significant achievements only at forty or fifty years old. This is Huashan Sect’s first internal power, progressing step by step, extremely difficult to achieve quickly.

Yan Chuan’s practice—

On one hand, is based on ’Mixed Element Skill’ as a foundation with many boxing strategies as nourishment.

On the other hand, Yan Chuan’s deep understanding of the ’Purple Mist Divine Skill’ allowed him to achieve small success early on, now further integrated, with higher attainment and deeper comprehension, thus naturally accelerating his cultivation speed.

With these two factors, Yan Chuan’s speed in cultivating the ’Purple Mist Divine Skill’ is already extremely fast.

Yet, with one night of primary achievement in ’Yijinjing’, Yan Chuan truly understands what it means to be ’fast’!

"Yijinjing!"

"I have only just practiced it once, and it already boosts the ’Purple Mist Divine Skill’ easily over a threshold, achieving the postnatal first level."

"If all ’Inner Strength and Divine Courage’, ’Outer Strength Divine Power’, ’Essence Gathering Method’ are practiced to full, the rooting and bone is changed, on this basis, if I then practice ’Purple Mist Divine Skill’, how fast would the progress be?"

As with the ’Purple Mist Divine Skill’.

Also like the ’True Heart Skill’.

Including other superior internal skills from various sects, the great majority emphasize ’upright and peaceful’, ’solid and steady’, not showing strength in ten or twenty years, but if cultivated diligently for thirty or forty years, most can achieve success, becoming an elder in their region.

This is also the key factor in why prominent sects can pass down for a century or even longer—

A prodigious talent rarely appears, hard to solicit.

But ordinary people of good aptitude are easy to find, ten or a hundred persistently practicing superior internal skills, after thirty or fifty years, they become famous masters and elders, maybe hard to become the top of Jianghu, but their strength belongs among masters, plus with the advantage of numbers, the advantage of a major sect is naturally stable.

To major sects!

To righteous sects!

This type of solid and steady, step-by-step skill like ’Purple Mist Divine Skill’ is the right path.

But for Yan Chuan, it inevitably feels a bit too slow.

Even with the foundation from ’Mixed Element Skill’.

Even with the boost from ’Dragon Tiger Great Pill’, ’Heavenly King Pill’, ’Essence Stone’ and other resources.

Even with the assistance of ’Star Stone’s ’Gravity Domain’.

Purple Mist Divine Skill!

Still feels too slow!

And now—

"With ’Yijinjing’ in hand, shedding the mortal body, even with ’Purple Mist Divine Skill’, I can achieve it swiftly!"

The Purple Mist Divine Skill, above all, values foundation.

If the ’Purple Mist Divine Skill’ can be achieved swiftly, by that time, the foundation solid, internal force deep, and still being so young—

Tsk tsk!

That scene!

So marvelous!

...

Yan Chuan, smiling, heads straight to the martial arena.

On the way, he glances at the four tasks on ’Derivation Skill’—

[Task Two: Wave Riding Micro Steps]

[Inspiration: 10]

...

[Task Four: Dugu Nine Swords]

[Inspiration: 27]

...

These two divine skills are steadily advancing.

...

[Task Three]

[Research Project Name: Lady Swordsmanship (Difficulty: Xin★★★)]

[Inspiration: 99]

[Completing the task will earn ’Experience +15000’, ’Spiritual +15000’.]

...

Yan Chuan develops various swordsmanship methods to build the foundation of swordsmanship, thus better derivating ’Dugu Nine Swords’, starting from ’Huashan Foundation Sword’, from Huashan Sword Sect’s ’Gale Swift Sword’, ’Life-taking Linked Three Immortal Swords’, and then to Huashan Qi Sect’s ’Yangwu Swordsmanship’, ’Jade Maiden Sword Nineteen Forms’.

Based on the ’Huashan Foundation Sword’, these sword techniques almost cover the extreme oddity and change of Huashan Swordsmanship.

Once ’Lady Swordsmanship’ is achieved, Huashan Swordsmanship comes to an end!

Yan Chuan can then switch to studying swordsmanship from other sects, other routes: "Task Three, at present, is to specialize in swordsmanship, one is to build my foundation of sword techniques, two is to derive ’Dugu Nine Swords’ faster, and third, this is also laying the groundwork for me to develop more powerful swordsmanship in the future."

As the saying goes: A clever woman cannot cook without rice!

If Yan Chuan wants to develop swordsmanship in the future, the foundation in swordsmanship is indispensable.

While contemplating.

While pondering.

Suddenly.

[Task Three: Lady Swordsmanship]

[Inspiration: 100]

...

Yan Chuan practices swordsmanship, explaining on and off the stage, nightly reading and studying hundreds of schools of sword techniques, now, all he thinks about is swords, inspiration bursts forth at any moment in walking, sitting, and lying down.

Lady Swordsmanship!

Has already been achieved!

"Next up—"

[Task Three]

[Research Project Name: Song Mountain Base Sword (Difficulty: Xin★)]

[Inspiration: 0]

[Completing the task will earn ’Experience +5000’, ’Spiritual +5000’.]

...

After Huashan.

Next, the fight at Song Mountain.

After the Five Mountains, it is Quanzhen.

Quanzhen Ancient Tomb complements each other inside and out.

Once these seven sects’ sword techniques are all developed, ’Dugu Nine Swords’ may already be formed!

This is Task Three.

Afterwards.

"Task One—"

...

"Yijinjing is completed, thus leaving Task One open, next up—"

What martial arts to develop next?

What direction to go?

Internal strength?

Qinggong?

Fist and feet?

Weapons?

Or hidden weapons, Qimen?

None of those!

Without long-term plans, immediate concerns arise.

Yan Chuan thinks about that ’cheat’ treasure in Wang Zhengyi’s hand, dense fog so thick you can’t see your fingers, thus, he already has a plan for the next skill—

...

The ’Jian Province Competition’ continues.

In the second round of the competition, originally ninety teams, after the first round, theoretically—

Half of the main match advances, there should be 45 teams.

Plus a quarter of the resurrection match, there should be 12 teams.

That is, a total of 57 teams should have entered the second round of the main match.

But among them, there’s also the factor of ’ties’—

In the first round of the main match, accumulating 38 matches of wins and losses, 7 matches of draws, 38 teams advance to the winners’ group, advancing to the second round.

The remaining 52 teams undergo two rounds of resurrection matches, the all-win teams advance, the losers or draw teams are out.

In the end, only 10 teams successfully broke through from the 52 teams in the ’resurrection match’.

That means!

"Second round of the main match, a total of 48 teams!"

Draw a lottery to divide into 24 pairs!

Yan Chuan drew 12, right in the middle, this time, not sure if it’s good or bad, his opponent is exactly the team that defeated Guangling Academy Meng Nan Team in the first round of the main match—

Yingze Academy, Team Ten!

The leader—

Limit-breaking, Wang Ge!

...

The main match proceeds to the second round, sifting out the strong from the weak, most of the 48 teams are no pushovers.

Among them, there are as many as 15 all-member limit-breaking teams, universally recognized as the strongest.

There’s also Taikang Academy Yan Chuan Team, with just Yan Chuan alone, is extremely strong, also recognized.

Excluding these sixteen teams, the rest either have no limit-breaking members, or only one or two.

Among the three limit-breaking teams from Taikang Academy excluding Yan Chuan, the other seven, unsurprisingly, have been completely eliminated, the least number to advance among the nine major academies.

But it doesn’t matter.

Just one Yan Chuan has already saved countless mortals.

"Really unlucky!"

"How did we end up facing Yan Chuan?!"

"I say, we might as well concede!"

"We indeed can’t beat him!"

"Even if we can’t win, don’t concede! Learn from those shameless ones from Guangling Academy, just shamelessly stick to the stage, Yan Chuan ’enjoys teaching’, each match never ends in less than four hours. If he likes ’pointing and nudging’, let’s cater to his interests, who knows, in the end, he might slip up and be defeated by us. Even if we can’t win, if at the end we can drag him into the loser’s group with us, it would also be a glory. Taking a thousand-step retreat, even in the worst-case scenario, we could still receive advice from Yan Chuan on stage, that would surely help us progress."

...

After drawing lots, the Yingze Academy Team Ten collectively lose confidence.

Yan Chuan?

King Yan!

This person is already recognized across the nine major academies as a strong contender, even viewed as the strongest!

Facing such a figure, not to mention their team only has Wang Ge as a limit-breaker, even a team as strong as Guangling Academy Wang Zhengyi Team, whose entire team broke the limit, almost got defeated by Yan Chuan alone, didn’t they?

Can’t beat him!

Really can’t beat him!

This is the thought of the other team members.

As for Wang Ge—

"Whether we can beat him or not!"

"Only by fighting will we know!"

Wang Ge in the previous first round of the main match, kept a low profile, but only he knows, even he himself doesn’t know: "Just how strong am I!"

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