20 The Approach (1/2)
”Whoooo...”
Fang Yuan practised his breathing, while the sun rose.
”With the help of the Vermillion Jade Rice, my improvements are tremendous!”
Lately, he had become addicted to practising his martial arts. After all, the feeling of gaining experience and becoming stronger was an addictive one.
”Maybe…...It would be much easier to master the Eagle Claw Technique and Rough Breathing Technique now!”
He used to be afraid of not being able to handle many skills at once, but now, he had no more considerations.
When one was at the highest level of a certain martial art, he would experience very fast improvements if he chose to practise other martial arts, like the speed of a rocket.
”Maybe I should wait till I have broken the 5th Golden Gate before attempting it…”
Fang Yuan took a look at his stats:
”Name: Fang Yuan
Essence: 1.8
Spirit: 1.6
Magic: 1.5
Age: 18
Cultivation: [Martial Artist (3rd Gate)]
Techniques, [Black Sand Palm (Grade 3)]
Skills, [Medicine (Level 1)], [Botany (Level 3)]”
”The increment to my Essence and Spirit is 0.3 after breaking the 3rd Gate, the rest must be the credit of the Vermillion Jade Rice...”
”But my Magic has not increased since consuming the Questioning Heart Tea, and still remained stagnant after breaking three through 3 gates...”
Fang Yuan placed more importance on Magic as it was the hardest to increase.
After all, having more Magic than the average person already made Fang Yuan feel different.
If he could increase his Magic even further, what would the unimaginable effects be?
Fang Yuan was excited to know.
”The Questioning Heart Tea is about to germinate soon... and the Vermillion Jade Rice too, I have assigned a larger plot of land to sow the rice... The only thing lacking is the spiritual fertilizer!”
The droplet-like fertilizer that the Flower Fox Ferret brought had extraordinary capabilities to boost the growth of spiritual plants.
And now that Fang Yuan was undergoing martial arts training, he would require large amounts of Vermillion Jade Rice, which increased his dependence on the spiritual fertilizer.
”I need the spiritual fertilizer! And lots of it! Otherwise, the Vermillion Jade Rice and the Questioning Heart Tea would be useless...”
The Flower Fox Ferret had already described to Fang Yuan how dangerous it would be to obtain the fertilizer, and it was best not to attempt to obtain it based on his current skills.
”I am already a martial artist who broke through 3 gates and can even know the whereabouts of the Flower Fox Ferret if I focus... It seems that the level of danger is equivalent to in between the 2nd and 3rd Gate!”
No martial artist could escape the 12 Golden Gates.
Fang Yuan had already broken through the 3 Prosperous Gates. If he could break through the Restriction Gate, he would enter a new realm.
Based on the Rough Breathing Technique, if the martial artists within the first 3 gates were considered beginners, then those who managed to break through the Restriction Gate and View Gate would have just realised their potential.
As for those who managed to break through Pain Gate, Shock Gate and Death Gate, the 3 Perilous Gates, they could lift their heads up high and would be the ones worthy to be elders in the Spirit Returning Sect.
Song Zhigao's backer, Song Zhong, was an example of a successful martial artist who cleared the 3 Perilous Gates.
Furthermore, at his age, it seemed impossible to cross the 3 Perilous Gates and enter the 4 Heavenly Realms.
”Keke!”
”Keke!”
The Flower Fox Ferret appeared, nibbled at Fang Yuan's robe, and ran out of the valley.
”Hmm? There's someone!?”
Fang Yuan started to feel annoyed but had no choice but to take a look.
In front of him was a large group of people. Minister Lin stood in front of everybody, and even the Zhou Siblings were there.
There were another 4 strong bodyguards behind, carrying a carriage, with what seemed to be a silhouette within the carriage.
”Virtuous young man!”
Minister Lin stood at the entrance and waved, ”Do you really have the confidence?”
”Confidence for?”
Fang Yuan was confused.
”Of course, about saving a life! The Zhou Family took a gamble and brought Old Zhou here!”
Lin Benchu seemed serious, ”Days ago you sent Old Tian to pass me a letter, saying that you had a plan to save his life, on the condition that he was brought to the secluded valley… Ahh, you must have forgotten!”
”Letter?”
Fang Yuan's heart sank and was left speechless. He took the letter and read it. The letter was exactly what Minister Lin described, and the main idea was that he had a plan to save Old Zhou's life, but would need him to be physically here.
The funny thing was that the handwriting on the letter was exactly the same as his own.
”Old Tian...”
Fang Yuan knew exactly where the problem was.
As the only person who traded with Fang Yuan, he would have many of Fang Yuan's letters for him to copy.