Chapter 109 - 【Sun Moon Prodigious Emanation Art】 (1/2)

"Master Long is back!"

Chun, Xia, Qiu and Dong, the four young ladies were surprised and overjoyed at the same time, they quickly stepped forward and welcomed him, cheering for his return, Qiu'er blinked her eyes and asked probingly, "Master, what you are going to eat…."

"Don't worry, master is not going to eat you all."

Zhong Yue was already in his dragon-headed human form appearing as the figure of 'Long Yue'. He waved his hand in the air and said, "Master is still a vegan, and my way of cultivation won't allow me to have relations with women. Oh right, where is Elder Qiu?"

The four young beauties heaved a breath of relief, and Chun'er replied with a heavy heart, "Elder Qiu was eaten away by a madam that passed by…."

"Elder Qiu has been eaten?"

A surge of fury surged in his chest and Zhong Yue's face darkened as he asked, "Who did it?"

Dong'er whispered lowly, "She is a madam from the Singing Goose Mountain, she said that when Master Sun was here, he would treat all the passer-by Qi Practitioners with delicacies, and yet why is it that now Master Long is unwilling to treat them with any food? She insisted on eating someone, and Elder Qiu sent us to request for Master Hu and Master Bai's help. But he himself was eaten away by that madam. And along with her followers, they've wholly devoured every living human in one of the villages located at the foot of the mountain…."

Zhong Yue took in a deep breath of air, solemnly he asked, "This Qi Practitioner from the Singing Goose Mountain, what's her name?"

Xia'er instantly blurted out, "From what I've heard from Master Hu and Master Bu, they call the master that passed by as 'Mistress Ru', even the two masters showed great respect towards her as they sent her off; the two masters told us that the Singing Goose Mountain is a mountain beside the Gu Xia City, the Qi Practitioners that reside there are all renowned figures, we shouldn't provoke them easily…."

"Mistress Ru?"

Zhong Yue kept the name in his mind, he recollected his thoughts and said, "I'll not be in Falcon Ridge most of the time, and the passer-by Qi Practitioners are countless, there will be some existence that will bully you all and insist on eating you with their higher status. Today, your master is back and I intend to change this status quo. I will leave my totem god pillars down for all the human tribes in my territory. Worship them and I would be able to sense all of you. Although the godly pillars aren't too strong, as long as the supplication continues, their powers can be increased, and it will be sufficient to keep the safety of a territory."

The four young ladies were filled with surprise and happiness, how could the totem god pillars possibly be something the human tribes could possess? Only those of the monster tribes were fit enough to own the totem god pillars, and they would also have to be large monster tribes.

"And the four of you."

Zhong Yue gazed at the young ladies, the four of them were raised with medicinal pellets, their foundations were well built and their talents were strong. Their skin was like white carrots, and a sudden thought flashed across his mind, "I'll teach the four of you some cultivation techniques, cultivate on your own and if you are talented enough to become Qi Practitioners, I will personally bring you all out to manifest a high-grade spirit, and let you become the Qi Practitioners!"

The four young ladies were shocked and overjoyed, the humans of the East Barren were merely nothing but livestock. How could they possibly be given the chance to cultivate?

And here they were, their Master Long intending to teach them the ways of cultivation, and they might even become Qi Practitioners!

The four of them quickly expressed their gratitude, but as Zhong Yue raised his hand up, the four of them were stopped midway in their act of kneeling. After all, these maidens were only a few years younger than him, and they were of the same ancestry, so how could he accept their genuflections so easily?

My prowess is not very strong yet, I can't afford to expose myself yet, so I can't pass down any techniques of the Swords Gate to them, while the techniques I've learned so far are very limited in number….

Zhong Yue pondered deeply, suddenly, an idea crossed his mind, Well then, I'll teach them the moon totem patterns, and let them visualize the Bright Moon Star Toad!

It was no longer possible to sense the moon spirits from the moon. Anyone that reached out to the moon would only end up sensing the spirit of that Xiao Mang Celestial God, inadvertently nourishing the god's spirit further.

While Zhong Yue's moon spirit was the true moon spirit, he would most probably be the only one other than the Xiao Mang celestial. The moon spirit also had three forms, the first form was the Bright Moon, with a total of thirty-two totem permutations.

The second form was the Star Moon Jade Toad, fifty-six totem permutations and lastly, the third form of the Moon God, one which would require the state of Spirit Body as One to cultivate.

Along the way here, Zhong Yue had already fully mastered all thirty-two totem permutations of the moon spirit's first form, but teaching it to the four young ladies who hadn't the slightest inkling about cultivation was way harder than gaining insights on the moon spirit. More than half a month's time elapsed before Zhong Yue was able to successfully make the young ladies remember the thirty-two totem permutations and form into the shape of the moon.

As for the abstrusity and profundity hidden in the totem patterns, it was simply something beyond what their brains – that were still ignorant of all matters pertaining to cultivation – could comprehend. Only when their cultivation base had increased would they have a chance to understand the profundity hidden in the totem patterns. Now, all they needed to do was to keep on visualizing the bright moon and strengthen their psyche.

These young ladies, their starting points are way above mine….

Zhong Yue could not help but heave a breath in deep emotion. His eyes were filled with envy as he cast his gaze over to the young ladies who were striving in their cultivation. Only a few years before, he was only starting off with the Swords Gate Visualization Art, visualizing the Sword Gate, one of the most mediocre techniques of all. He wasn't privileged with such things as medicinal pellets or spiritual herbs to strengthen his physique; a few moments of cultivation would exhaust his psyche and cause him to fall into a slumber, or otherwise, it would inflict a heavy toll on his body.

Hence, the poorer the children were, the slower their cultivation speed. With limited food to be consumed for energy and being subject to wearing ragged clothes that could never retain the warmth ... how could the peasant children have enough strength to even fathom cultivation? Zhong Yue himself hailed from the smallest and poorest tribe among the three thousand inhabiting the Great Wilderness, the other outer hall disciples would at least have resources and pills provided by their tribal people to supplement their cultivation whereas Zhong Yue ... he was alone and entitled to nothing. Surely, his cultivation speed would invariably be slower than the others.

However, these four young ladies started off with the [Bright Moon Prodigious Emanation Art] as their first step of cultivation. Visualizing the bright moon and refining their psyches, not only that, but the [Bright Moon Prodigious Emanation Art] itself was also a physique refining art. It could allow their physiques, psyches, and souls to advanced in tandem with one another, strengthening them all at the same time!