54 The Secret of the Sacred Flame Insignia (1/2)

Mo Wen started to shout happily at his fate. Qin Xiaoyou was simply his lucky star to have chanced upon a treasure trove by taking a random fall. This journey of the cave abode was a big chance for him that would definitely affect his life.

Just based on the three segments of the martial arts teachings, it helped him link up all that he had learnt and achieve a thorough understanding of each of them. It was simply perfect as they complemented one another.

The difficulty of training the Nine Yang Scripture and Nine Yin Scripture lay in the fact that they were pursuing the ultimate mastery of both the Yin and Yang.

Training the Nine Yang Scripture required one to endure the complete immersion into the Yang-Qi. Every training required the endurance of the burning pain that the Yang-Qi sets the body on. The test of the trainee's determinedness was very strict.

It also had very high demands of the trainee's physical abilities. Normally, it required a pure Yang body filled with vigor. If not, with insufficient vigor, the foundations would not be strong and it would be easy to die prematurely.

The training of the Nine Yin Scripture was the same. It required one to endure the complete immersion into the Yin Qi. Every training required the endurance of the biting cold that the Yin Qi sets the body on and often caused the body to become as cold as ice. The cold would penetrate into the bones and was a strict test of the trainee's persistence.

Hence, the Nine Yang Scripture and Nine Yin Scripture had very high expectations of the trainee's perseverance and body constitution.

Training the two at once was only achievable by a talent with a natural gift like a demon.

However, Mo Wen was not worried because he had the Dragon Tiger Fist.

The ingenuity of the Dragon Tiger Fist lay in the fact that it consolidated the body and strengthened the vigor. Long term training of the Dragon Tiger Fist would cause one's vigor to never be prostrated.

One could say that if paired with the Dragon Tiger Fist to train the Nine Yang Scripture and Nine Yin Scripture, the restrictions on the body constitution could be ignored. As long as the perseverance was sufficient, it would allow the continued training of it and even result in a big success.

The Dragon Tiger Fist would target the internal body while the Nine Yang Scripture and Nine Yin Scripture would target the external body. This would make one undefeatable from all fronts.

The Heaven and Earth Great Shift was a divine technique of defense. Mo Wen's Overlord Fist was a mighty attack fighting technique that went unparalleled in strength. When the two were combined, the attack and defense were both settled. When meeting with an enemy, this would allow easy advancement and retreating.

Hence, Mo Wen said that the consolidation of the three classics would result in a huge beneficial cycle.

Placing down the three classical martial arts teachings in his hands, Mo Wen locked his gaze onto another Indian Sandalwood box.

There were seven pieces of oddly-shaped decree plaques. They were of different shapes and sizes, with the smallest one being the size of an infant's palm and the largest one being at least a foot long.

The material of the decree plaques was odd. They were transparent like amber and there was seemingly a flame burning fiercely within it. It was even possible to make out some faint odd shapes of words pulsating.

It was the Sacred Flame Insignia, a sacred item of the Ming Clan!

These seven pieces of the Sacred Flame Insignias were the tokens that the historical leaders of the Ming Clan brought around everywhere. Seeing them was akin to seeing the leader.

At the same time, they were the strongest divine weapons of the Ming Clan. It was said that they were casted using white gold, black iron, gold steel, and magical sand as the main materials. No other divine weapons in the world could cause any damage to it. The Ming Clan often used these materials to craft divine weapons, never before seen in the world.

However, it was only after the Leader of the 37th generation of the Ming Clan, that the true secret of the Sacred Flame Insignia was slowly unraveled.

Before the Ming dynasty, the general public of the Ming Clan all thought that there were only six pieces of the Sacred Flame Insignia, and therefore named it the Six Sacred Insignias. However, they did not know that the full set of the Sacred Flame Insignia truly consisted of seven pieces. It was just that the Ming Clan had only gotten ahold of six of the pieces.