Chapter 27 (2/2)

Today Tang Xiu was heading to Walled Hill Village specifically to investigate it, and to find out whether Walled Hill Village was really a suitable place for cultivation. If Walled Hill Village was really described just like in the book, Tang Xiu intended to get a piece of land in Walled Hill Village and construct his Immortal Cave for cultivation in that place.

Half a day later, Tang Xiu’s figure appeared on top of Walled Hill Village’s summit. At this time, Tang Xiu had already explored this place completely.

Looking at the vast sky full of stars above his head, which as if it could be picked with his hand and bathing the main city that simply had no Heaven and Earth spiritual energy, an excited expression was seen on Tang Xiu’s face.

“Spiritual Vein, this Walled Hill Village actually has a Spiritual Vein hidden underground. Since this place has a Spiritual Vein, then it should have precious heavenly materials. I no longer have to worry about concocting Body Refining Liquid.” Standing on top of the mountain boulder, Tang Xiu turned around, highly spirited, and couldn’t help but look up to the sky while his mouth let out a long whistle.

Since his rebirth, Tang Xiu had always been in fear and trepidation as if his hands and feet were tied.

On one hand, it was because the earth’s spiritual energy was very thin that it was even almost extinct, causing all cultivation techniques and secret martial skills to completely become useless ornaments; this made Tang Xiu helpless.

On the other hand, he had accidentally fitted himself for cultivating the Heavenly Art of Cosmic Genesis. Which made his body start to passively cultivate this Heavenly Art of Cosmic Genesis, and he was unable to control it.

If he could practice this Heavenly Art in the Immortal World, Tang Xiu would be absolutely ecstatic. However, since Earth’s spiritual energy had almost vanished, cultivating this Heavenly Art only made Tang Xiu want to cry and feel helpless.

Although cultivating the Heavenly Art of Cosmic Genesis didn’t need any Heaven and Earth spiritual energy. However, the key point in this Heavenly Art of Cosmic Genesis was that it had a harsh and excessive need of precious heavenly materials to concoct Body Refining Liquid. While these precious heavenly ingredients also could only be found and in a place rich with spiritual energy.

However, there was no spiritual energy on Earth, which meant that there were no precious heavenly materials to concoct Boy Refining Liquid. Thus, when Tang Xiu accidentally began to cultivate the Heavenly Arts of Cosmic Genesis, the only path waiting for him was a dead end.

Tang Xiu was naturally very happy, since today he had found such spiritual vein in the Shuangqing Province, which was in this Walled Hill Village. This implied that he could also find other places on Earth that had Heaven and Earth spiritual energy.

“The spiritual vein seems to be under this boulder, but I don’t know whether this Walled Hill Village belongs to somebody or not, else it will be a little troublesome.” Having circled around the vicinity of the Walled Hill Village’s summit, Tang Xiu then focused his attention toward the spiritual vein in this place, while his face exposed a pondering expression.

To Tang Xiu’s knowledge, Walled Hill Village was regarded as a strangely named place by most inhabitants in the Shuangqing province. Had Tang Xiu not flipped through a large number of books in the province’s library, he would have never found out that such a hidden fairyland existed in the Shuangqing Province.

The Walled Hill Village _(Zhai Shan Ping)_ formerly known as the Imperial City on the Lesser Cold Mountain _(Xiao Liangshan)_ , and was an ancient village. According to historical records, in the late Ming Dynasty era, when the peasant uprising army’s leader——entered Sichuan, he attacked this place and occupied this mountain, and acted as king. After which, he proclaimed himself as the emperor. He set this place as his Imperial City and collected all weaponries as well as treasures from all regions, and then buried them underground, which then would be called as the Iron Built Tomb. The walled village built the South Star Gate _(Nanxing Men)_ , Peaceful Gate _(Ping ’An Men)_ , Great Plain Gate _(Taiping Men)_ , Heavenly Treasure Gate _(Tianbao Gate)_ , Immortal Gate _(Changsheng Men)_ , and 18 others city gates and roads. While a few kilometers of wall had also been built to surround the city. In addition, there was also the mysterious Li Family ancestral hall, splitting sword stone, government official residences, fort, and ruins of Goddess of Mercy Temple _(Guanyin Temple)_. [1]

After having realized that dawn had come, Tang Xiu restrained his urge to begin searching for precious heavenly materials needed to cultivate the first stage of the Heavenly Arts of Cosmic Genesis—the Stars Tyrannical Body.

The Heavenly Arts of Cosmic Genesis was divided into four stages—Stars Tyrannical Body, Stars Heavenly Essence, Stars Essence Integration, and Stars Cluster Transformation.

The Stars Tyrannical Body stage itself consisted of Breathing Practice, Skin Strengthening, Flesh Strengthening, Bone Transformation, Meridians Transformation, Marrow Transformation, Viscera Transformation, Qi and Blood Circulation, and Nine Cores Phase Forming.

The Heavenly Art of Cosmic Genesis was created by a God Race’s genius based on the God Race’s body to strengthen their extremely weak physical aptitude. Of which, in theory, was to emulate the Demon Race’s body; thus, becoming the reason for the creation of this cultivation technique. For each sub-stage of tempering and strengthening, it would need countless of rare and precious materials, while each and every one of them had nothing in common.

Cultivating the Heavenly Art of Cosmic Genesis required the practitioner’s strength to be extremely high. If the strength was not up to the required degree, even if the Heavenly Art of Cosmic Genesis cultivation speed was faster, one could only end up absorbing too much star energy, finally causing his body to explode and die.

The creator of this Heavenly Art of Cosmic Genesis had repeatedly emphasized that, if ones were to cultivate the first stage of this Heavenly Art, the Stars Tyrannical Body, they must prepare sufficient rare and precious medicinal herbs and minerals. As well as a fierce beast’s internal organs, blood’s essence, tendons, and many others. Only then could they advance in tempering and strengthening their body.

Notes:

[1] What a time consuming chapter to translate… not because it was difficult, but the historical record made me research it for almost 6 hours… not to mention that this chapter makes me baffled since I don’t know whether the Shuangqing Province wrote by the author was intentional or not, because the place described in this novel should be located in. And _Zhaishan Ping_ (Walled Hill Village) itself is an actual place. Zhang Xianzhong was a rebel leader in the late Ming Dynasty and about his treasure—of which also described in this chapter, some of them were illegally trafficked,. That’s why I’m still including the original names for the gates and also the place’s original name in this chapter.

*[advantage]: by having their erection in contact with her

*[ cent bills]: China has cents in bills called jiao

*[Guoshu]: Guo here means country and shu means technique

*[ 190 centimeters]: Over 6ft tall

*[Lake Cui]: Cui Hu, also means Green Lake

*[hundred dyuan bills]: 100yuan is their biggest bill

*[Daoist Fierce Tiger]: The author of this novel

*[Noodles]: made of wheat

*[Rice Noodles]: made of rice

*[Zhang Tian Tian]: Tian means sweet

*[Bajiquan]: Also known as Eight Extremities Fist, but Bajiquan sounds nicer to me

*[Long Taos]: side characters in Chinese operas who perform acrobatics and fight scenes

*[12.47 to 13.07]: don’t ask me about the tree sap