810 Attachmen (1/2)
Gu Shenwei politely refused the invitation to participate in the Sun Shooting Contest and stole a moment of leisure from his busy life. As he sat upright in the chair, his mind ran wild through the recent events until it finally rested on the general principles of the Daoless Scroll. Although he did not have to rely on his kung fu to defeat Golden Roc Castle, he still felt bitter that the Unique King had defeated him in person.
The Daoless Scroll and the Death Sutra were related in one continuous line. Many contents and general principles of the former were just as effective for the latter. Gu Shenwei vaguely felt that he had found a new path, but it was as if he became confused every time he tried to step foot on it.
The cheers outside the tent rose and fell in waves throughout the event. Gu Shenwei gradually blocked it all out, and in an artificial silence, he heard a spasmodic rustle.
Gu Shenwei had two bodyguards attending to him, and Tie Linglong was on guard duty during the daytime. But neither of his guards could completely hide themselves like Lotus could, especially Tie Linglong. Her temper was not suitable for quietly hiding in a place for a long time.
From Gu Shenwei's point of view, she was still that little green-eyed girl begging for protection. ”How's your practice of the Balanced Power going?” he asked.
After a while, Tie Linglong came out of the dark corner behind the Dragon King. She hadn't realized that the sound she had made had disturbed the Dragon King, and thought that the Dragon King was bringing up the question of his own accord. ”Hmm, there hasn't been any progress so far. Do I have to disperse all my internal energy later?”
”Yes.”
Tie Linglong also practiced the Daoless Divine Power, a powerful kung fu that wouldn't allow the practitioner to cultivate any other kind of internal energy. Although Gu Shenwei had created the Three-in-One Power, it was still at an immature stage and he didn't want to teach it to anyone else after seeing the results from testing it on Shangguan Fei.
”Does that mean that I will lose my power for a while?”
”Yes.”
Tie Linglong sighed and sat on the soft couch nearby. She had followed the Dragon King from one place to another ever since she was little and sometimes even had to sleep in the same bed as him. She always felt at ease in front of him.
”In the future, I won't be able to catch up to him in terms of kung fu, and probably not even to Nie Zeng.” She had not forgiven Chu Nanping yet, and still refused to mention his name.
”You are still young. There's plenty of time. You'll catch up with them sooner or later.”
”I don't want to have to undergo closed-door-cultivation for more than a decade like Dog Butcher. I'd only find that my enemy has become weaker and that the hard training I went through was just a waste of time.”
”You are very smart, so you don't need a decade. And I don't think that Dog Butcher wasted his time either.”
Tie Linglong smiled. ”It turns out that even the Dragon King has to talk insincerely to comfort a little girl. Since I'm so smart, then why isn't my kung fu as good as… Forget about him. Why my kung fu is only a little better than Nie Zeng's? You know, he started practicing martial arts later than I did.”
”Smart people always have many things in mind. You are not as focused as Nie Zeng.”
”Humph, I thought it was a good thing to be smart. It turns out that the Dragon King was just despising me in a roundabout way.”
”You have a choice. TheBalanced Power, or the Daoless Divine Power?”
Tie Linglong stood up and paced back and forth behind the Dragon King for a long while before finally saying, ”The Balanced Power. I'll choose it because the Dragon King says that it's good. I can accept it even if I lose all of my powers.”
When she finished talking, she walked in front of the Dragon King and held out her arm to him.
As yin originates from yang, and yang originates from yin, the yin and yang energy must be improved in alternating steps when practicing the Balanced Power. And one must have an expert to guide and protect oneself when practicing the first level of yang energy. Although Gu Shenwei had dispersed all of his original balanced power, he still had both the Daoless Divine Power, the Sumeru Mustard Divine Power, and the internal energy manual of the Balanced Power, which was more than enough to protect Tie Linglong.
The palm of the Dragon King was as cold as ever. Tie Linglong couldn't help but recoil with a shudder, not understanding how it could be this cold. After all, the Dragon King was a human, and she hadn't felt this chilliness emanate from his hand before.
Some cooler internal Qi flowed into her Dantian slowly through her meridians. Tie Linglong was already familiar with the process and knew that she should not resist it. So she relaxed her body, directed all her internal Qi into her Dantian, and left it to the Dragon King.
Then, Tie Linglong followed the method of the first level of the Balanced Power and performed a series of movements that were synchronized with her breath, gradually immersing herself in the feeling. Bedies the cool internal Qi flowing into her from her palm, she could feel almost nothing else.
Gu Shenwei also stood up and followed her moves to make sure that their palms were connected.
This was the most important stage of the practice of the Balanced Power. Although it was quite boring and tedious, it was laying the foundation for one's future practice.
Gu Shenwei suddenly withdrew his palm and asked somewhat discontentedly, ”What's going on?”
Tie Linglong had completely immersed herself in the practice, but somehow, her internal energy had surged and started resisting the internal energy of the Dragon King's internal energy.
Her face turned red. ”I'm sorry, I…”
”As I said, you have too much on your mind. You have to bear more hardships if you want to surpass Little Chu and Nie Zeng.”
”I can bear hardships,” Tie Linglong refuted defiantly. When the Dragon King was being hunted and was on the run, she had been his only follower and had suffered a lot. Even Little Chu had joined later than her.
”Then concentrate on practicing and stop thinking about the two of them.” For Gu Shenwei, this was an easy task because he had long learned how to seal his feelings. Although he could not fully sever his feelings, they were not able to affect his practice and judgment.
Tie Linglong wasn't able to do that yet. She felt wronged because the Dragon King's guess was wrong. ”I wasn't thinking about them, I…”
She couldn't finish her words.
”It doesn't matter who you're thinking about. The question is whether you can…”