Book 36 - Chapter 3 – Timely Acquisition of Fundamental Essence (1/2)

The ‘Deeneration Xiedi [de for a set of silk scroll related to medical science, and accidently discovered a funerary object [ie iteether with the dead] inside an ancient to States [475-221 BC] era

The tomb was located in the ancient Qi state [of Western Zhou and the Warring states (1122-265 BC), centered in Shandong] territory The construction was grand and nificent, the funerary objects were extremely luxurious Just the number of fine horses buried alive reached a hundred; evidently during his life, the owner of the grave, even if he was not an aristocrat, general, or h

Although Xie Bo was not tolerated by the orthodox Confucianist society that was dominant at that time, so much so that they were cynical toward him, they considered his conduct monstrous, he himself was not a heretical man that was so wicked beyond rede, hoping to rely on his medical expertise to solve the riddle of the de Mo Da Fa’ [lit great demonic cultivation method of the heart of the way, first xuan in Book 20 Chapter 10]

When the ‘Demonic Emperor Relics’ was discovered by Xie Bo, it was placed under the pillow behind the neck of the occupant of the to and translucent, mottled on the surface Due to its semitransparent crystalline characteristic, it was classified as yellow crystal, but actually there was great difference between this crystal and any other yellow crystal stone

The one thing that piqued Xie Bo’s interest the most was that the crystal ball see experi period of ti discovery: the crystal ball actually had a singular characteristic of being able to absorb and store huy and qi essence

This discovery was extremely important Within the deeother people’s power had been handed down fro time But noother people’s true qi was only supplementary or temporary in nature; nobody has really been able to take other people’s several decades of power permanently, furthermore, to use it to increase his oer substantially and endlessly

Even if it could be done, due to the difference in the innate character of the true qi, it would only bring harm without any benefit, and frequently led to the disaster of fire deviation

A cohthe other party’s pri; however, this was still supplementary in nature, and it was not without any risk either, hence it was not the best way

However, priether; it was mystery within a mystery The Taoist school had the so-called three-prihts; namely the sun, the moon and the stars On earth, they are the three vital elements; namely the water, the fire and the earth In human, they are the three matters; na the essence, one could transfor the qi one transfor the spirit, one returns to emptiness This was precisely the entire Taoist cultivation process

Within the priy in traditional Chinese medicine] and primordial spirit, three pris; primordial qi and primordial spirit were obtained with the advancement of the primordial essence cultivation

Due to the differences in each scholar’s luck and the , primordial qi and primordial spirit would also differ from one practitioner to the other However, there was no difference in the primordial essence [Translator’s note: I translated the best I could, but honestly I had no idea what Huang Yi was talking about My apology]

This discovery made Xie Bo ith joy After many years of research, he was finally able to create one kind of method to inject primordial essence into the crystal ball At that tireat journey back to the western paradise; therefore, as he was approaching his end, he poured his entire primordial essence into the crystal ball, and instructed his next generation successor to find athe primordial essence froiven the na Di Sheli’ [Holy Eht about a problem with the most headache to the Heavenly Evil Way [not sure, 天邪道, perhaps a school’s name?] of the demonic school’s two sects and six ways A man like Xie Bo, as erudite and e and experience out of the ordinary, possessing great wisdoreat intellect – was indeed rarely seen in a hundred years Although the disciples of successive generations exhausted their brains and physical strength using thousand ways, a hundred plans, it was still as if they sat with the treasure mountain in their embrace, but never had any share in it for even half a penny of profit

And because they failed to obtain the ly absorbed all kinds and sorts of both harrew to be more complex, enerations’ De as they did not die an unexpected death, at the death door they would all follow the legacy of the previous generation’s De their pri the choice way-of-death of the Zongzhu [head of a clan/school] of the Heavenly Evil Way of the successive generations

Because of all kinds of changes, the research on how to extract the prierous study One thing rong, it could easily lead to fire deviation Every now and then, there were people who successfully extract beneficial primordial qi from within the Relics, which could increase their power h reason for the successive generations disciples to chip away at a task and not abandon it [idio] As for how to extract the primordial essence from the Relics, no one was able to find a solution yet

Until Xiang Yutian arrived

With his heavenly talent, he cultivated the ‘Dao Xin Zhong Mo Da Fa’, and suddenly comprehended a way to extract the primordial essence from the Relics It was only then that Xie Bo’s dream could be realized

At this ti Mo Da Fa’ took a wrong turn, also seeing not one of You Niaojuan, four disciples, beca Yutian handed over the Relics to Lu Miaozi, i the other sects of the demonic school, to pass on the Relics, and to have hi the disunity and the endless internal strife within the demonic school for the last several hundred years

In the end, since Lu Miaozi thought that for the ti no one in the demonic school was qualified to be entrusted with the Relics, he hid the Relics in the Duke Yang’s Treasure-trove

Ever since learning about the existence of the De had never had the intention to dip their finger into the Relics; were it not for Zhao Deyan, based on the infor to the Demonic Emperor Relics that he obtained fro them, the two boys practically would never want to have a direct contact with the Relics

The various qi within the Relics ide open; only primordial essence would be able to close it, and the method to link the treh interaction with true qi

Absorbing the various qi in the Relics was not difficult at all The problem was that it was i in, and there was no way of filtering the flow of harmful-and-without-benefit death qi and evil qi

If Kou Zhong merely dipped his hand into thewould happen instead However, Kou Zhong was using the Moon in the Well’s saber blade to stir up the Relics inside the jar, hence he h the saber blade to use the internal qi so that the Relics would stick onto his saber, thereupon the Moon in the Well becae, so that there was no barrier whatsoever between Kou Zhong and the Relics Naturally Kou Zhong was unable to ireat a An Canal, burst with irresistible power along the Moon in the Well, which had beco, so that rew as a thicket, liketogether to de could do was to stake it all, to exhaust all his strength, to try hard to repel and force the strange qi rushi+ng forth back into the Relics; therefore, as if he was possessed, he was unable tosaw so and made the prompt decision to destroy the Relics, and attacked the Relics with all his strength But perhaps because the Relics contained primordial essence, practically no human poould be able to destroy it And because Zhao Deyan are of this fact, he had noan all-out attack;this special characteristic of the Relics, he seized the initiative to the greatest extent, to occupy the upper hand to the greatest extent, and repeatedly carried out killerto shake and shatter the Relics, Xu Ziling’s true qi violently burst into the Relics It appeared that ever since Xie Bo injected his primordial essence into the Relics, this situation had never happened Thereupon he and Kou Zhong, two boys together, established a channel, which linked the’s side, he felt that the strange qi bursting in from the Relics suddenly rolled up and flowed back Since he could not pull his true qi back, while things that have happened could hardly be controlled instead, he pushed his true qi entirely into the Relics

Things that even Xie Bo and Xiang Yutian had never thought about were happening at this moment Because the two boys’ poas coeneous, the two strands of true qi unexpectedly converged into one streaative vortex, which sharply triggered the pri time, it burst outside into the two boys’ body like a flood breaching the dike

If it were other people, even someone as brilliant as Zhao Deyan or Zhu Yuyan, perhaps they could not withstand this violent shock; fortunately, after going through the Jade Annulus of He Clan transfor their meridians, they were barely able to endure this shock Otherwise, their meridians would immediately burst open and they would perish However, even so, because they triggered most of the primordial essence inside the Relics, when it entered their body, it was also e aenerations’ Heavenly Evil Way Zongzhu, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling were still unable to withstand; they were jolted and fell to the ground, the meridians and true qi within their body was scattered, they were on the verge of suffering fire deviation

Thanks to Xiang Yushan’s evil thought, Xu Ziling had the opportunity to unload the various qi, which his own true qi had strongly rejected – completely to him, while the primordial essence, which nature was different frorated itself with his own primordial essence, which functioned was to recover his physical strength

By the tih he did not feel any sudden surge in power, he did feel as if he just shed his ed his bones, and he felt different compared to before As for what exactly was different, momentarily he was unable to say, because he really did not understand the logic behind the prih his body

Thisfire [idio]; he was still in predicament where fire deviation could happen any one two unprecedented valuable experiences of absorbing the Jade Annulus of He Clan and the Demonic Emperor Relics, i instantly knew that thedrew and forced out the evil and strange qi fro was settled conclusively

Without anybody knowing anything about it, each of the two boys have absorbed up to 70 of enormous primordial essence from the Demonic Emperor Relics, which the demonic school people yearned for even in their drea away 70 of the weapons and gold fro’s Treasure

This hting a hard battle against the TujueQiaoli’s leadershi+p; not having the ti Yushan, they proer

Like a hot knife through butter they cut an opening Inwardly they knew that prolonged battle would be inadvisable After getting together with Yun Shuai, they pushed through in the direction of the north wall By the time they leaped up the wall, Zhao Deyan happened to soar into the air in pursuit of Zhu Yuyan The latter was at the critical juncture where she was about to throw the sheepskin pouch containing the Relics to Wanwan

The sheepskin pouch flew in an arc across the nearly ten zhang of empty air and fell into the distance

The snoas thick and dense The residents of the city, because the Great Tang Ar the Canal, unless it was absolutely necessary, everybody did not want to step outside Streets and alleys, big and shost do horses and hu An Canal

Zhu Yuyan dropped onto the middle of the street Her entire clothes and sleeves rose up and swept around, so that the snowflakes falling within half a zhang radius from her body were splashed away by her power The scenery was bizarre to the extre how for, and Yun Shuai sucked in a mouthful of cold air

“Hold your troops for s bent and straightened out, his toes tapped the top of the wall, he shot like an arrow, straight toward the sheepskin pouch, which was flyingand Xu Ziling backhandedlyQiaoli and two other martial arta glance, they both jumped down onto the street and fleard the point where the sheepskin pouch was expected to land

On the street, danger was lurking from all four directions; no one knehether soe out from somewhere

White shadow flashed; the barefooted Wanwan, like a specter, floated out of adown from the sky In the blink of an eye the sheepskin pouch was only about three zhang away Because the sheepskin pouch was thrown in her direction, she was so sure that before Yun Shuai caught up with it, she would be able to safely take the treasure away

Several shadows rushed out of the dark Surprisingly, it was Yin Gui Pai’s four , and Xia Zhanglao They were not intercepting the threeup their troops for Wanas soaring into the air to catch the treasure

‘Bang!’