Under the clear moonlight, Wang Yan sat cross-legged on a desolate mound. It was quiet all around him. Occasionally, a cool breeze blew past, stirring the hair in front of his forehead. A faint red glow could be seen flowing back and forth on his forehead. After an unknown period of time, the red glow gradually faded. Wang Yan slowly opened his eyes, and a satisfied expression appeared on his face. He loved to surf the Internet.
"According to the method in the True Record of the South of the Crane, I can indeed practice the Sword Origin Heart Sutra and the Vitality Condensation Sword Killing Skill together before forming the embryo. In this way, I can cultivate the Evil Heart Technique in advance and cultivate the Evil Blood Qi. When the time comes, I only need to integrate the Evil Blood Qi into the embryo. Even if I don't form the Evil Blood Sword embryo, I can still plant a trace of Evil Sword Qi in the embryo. With this as the foundation, I can speed up the polishing of the sword embryo. Perhaps, I can save two to three years of painstaking work."
During the half a month of traveling with Duan Henan, Wang Yan not only received guidance from Duan Henan in terms of martial arts, but he also spent some time studying the True Record of the South of the Crane and the Vitality Inducing Heart Sutra of Yunma School in order to prepare for forming the embryo. The secret techniques of Yunma School were not too mysterious, but there were a few basic parts that could be used as reference. What really benefited Wang Yan was the True Record of the South of the Crane. This book recorded Duan Henan's lifelong cultivation experience and self-created secret techniques and sword techniques. Just the Duan Henan's experience on forming the embryo was already very beneficial to Wang Yan.
In his early years, Duan Henan had also grown up bit by bit from an ordinary disciple. Therefore, he had also begun to cultivate the Origin Sword Heart Sutra. It was precisely because of this that Duan Henan's insights on forming a fetus was of great use to Wang Yan. For example, taking a different route before forming a fetus, cultivating the Origin Sword Heart Sutra and the Essence Condensing Sword Killing Skill together in advance to cultivate the Art of Killing Heart was just one of the small tricks in Duan Henan's insights on forming a fetus.
To put it bluntly, the so-called Evil Heart Skill was a way to comprehend and condense murderous aura. Cultivating the Evil Blood Qi was to fuse the murderous aura with one's own Blood Qi. This was a spiritual cultivation method similar to the Heaven-man Connection. However, in the process of cultivating the Evil Blood Qi, one needed to connect one's own Internal Qi. Therefore, this should be considered a secret skill that cultivated both the spirit and Qi together.
It was also precisely because the Art of Killing Heart was based on one's spirit. Therefore, after cultivating this secret skill, it had the effect of resisting Saber Intent, Sword Intent, and even Sound Killing Secret Skill to confuse and kill. If one had already comprehended Sword Intent, one could combine this secret skill to increase the effect of one's Sword Intent. This was also considered one of the few great powers of the Evil Blood Sword Embryo.
The cultivation method of the Evil Blood Qi was not the only one. For example, Chen Wenyuan had clearly cultivated a similar method. This was why he could break the illusion that Wang Yan had activated with Sword Intent. However, the Aojian Villa's Art of Killing Heart was obviously a superior method to cultivate the Evil Blood Qi. It was complete with the visualization method, self-observation technique, guiding technique, and so on. In addition, with the verification of his experiences in Duan Henan, it was a piece of cake for Wang Yan to cultivate it.
However, according to the techniques in Duan Henan, to cultivate the Art of Killing Heart before forming the embryo, one's own willpower must be strong enough. If one could comprehend Sword Intent and guard one's bier tightly, it would be safe. Otherwise, once the Evil Blood Qi backfired in the process of cultivating the Art of Killing Heart, one's willpower would not be strong enough. It could cause one's bier to be clouded, and one would be unable to extricate oneself from killing, thus walking down the wrong path.
Wang Yan naturally had no worries in this aspect. His willpower was strong enough, and it had been a long time since he had comprehended Sword Intent. In addition, there were the factors of sacrificing to the sword and creating the Formless Non-Self Sword. His Sword Intent was getting more and more complete. Once he encountered a suitable opportunity, his Sword Intent might even advance further.
It was precisely because of this that Wang Yan began to try cultivating the Art of Killing Heart on the way to the tower. Now that he had officially entered the rudiments, this could be considered as perfecting a segment of his self-created Nurturing Embryo Technique.
Other than the various small cultivation techniques mentioned in the experience, the various comprehensions in the experience were also very useful to Wang Yan. He combined it with the Sword Intent Art of Concentrating Vitality, the Art of Integrating Vitality into Heart, and the other nurturing embryo techniques that he had read before. He had already almost perfected the method of forming the embryo of his self-created Qing Xu Sword Embryo. Even if he were to start forming the embryo now, he felt that there was a high chance of success.
In other words, the last obstacle for Wang Yan to form the embryo now was the method of absorbing the innate Qi. In this aspect, the True Record of Southern Crane gave him an unexpected surprise.
The entire 'True Record of Henan' was divided into two parts. The first part contained Duan Henan's cultivation experience, and the second part recorded a sword art and two secret techniques that Duan Henan had created. Duan Henan had mentioned the 'Three Development Sword Art', but he didn't mention it for the time being. As for the two secret techniques, one was called 'Original Sword Aura Transformation', which was a secret technique for changing and using Aura Qi. It was useless to Wang Yan for the time being.
Obviously, Duan Henan had also cultivated the Essence Orifice Technique. That was why he was able to understand the crux of the Essence Orifice Technique in one sentence when he was in Yunma School. However, Duan Henan's application of the Five-Yin Interweaving Origin Technique was different from Wang Yan's idea. Perhaps due to the limitation of his own comprehension, Duan Henan did not integrate the Five-Yin Interweaving Origin Technique into other sword techniques. Instead, he took a different approach and created the Essence Binding Technique, a secret technique that specifically dealt with the use of small meridians.
Simply speaking, Duan Henan regarded the Five-Yin Interweaving Origin Technique as an auxiliary meridian in addition to the Twelve Principal Meridians and the Eight Extraordinary Meridians. He regarded the five aperture points of the Five-Yin Interweaving Origin Technique as a small circulation outside of his own body. Then, he used a special method to link up these five aperture points with his own Real Qi, and then sealed the Real Qi into the aperture points. When needed, he would activate the Real Qi in the aperture points. Under the circulation of the five aperture points, the five streams of Real Qi would finally converge and be stimulated from the 'Yin Meridian' above the palm. Finally, it would be used to increase the power of the sword technique.
The Essence Binding Technique was a secret technique that Duan Henan had specially created for the use of small meridians. This secret technique was different from Wang Yan's idea of the use of small meridians. Therefore, it did not have much effect on Wang Yan. However, the key point was that during the process of creating the Essence Binding Technique, in order to seal the Real Qi into the aperture points of the small meridians for a long time to form a circulation, Duan Henan had borrowed the innate Qi and used the method of absorbing the innate Qi in the reverse direction. Therefore, this secret technique had records of both positive and negative uses of the method of absorbing the innate Qi.
This was really a case of wearing out iron shoes in fruitless search, only to find it by chance without any effort. In this way, he did not need to rely on Gu Xiaoyue anymore. However, he would not cancel the deal with Gu Xiaoyue. On one hand, it was because the secret technique that he had learned would not be of much use to him. On the other hand, it was because Duan Henan had highly praised the "Godless Technique" in the True Records of the South of the Crane. He even felt that this secret technique should be the number one secret technique in Aojian Villa. Moreover, this secret technique had been mentioned by Gu Xiaoyue in the beginning. It also recorded the method of absorbing the innate Qi. Therefore, Wang Yan was prepared to ask Gu Xiaoyue to help him exchange for this secret technique.
Although the Spirit Binding Technique itself was not of much use to Wang Yan, other than the method of absorbing the innate Qi, it also recorded a small meridian from the calf to the sole of the foot. According to Wang Yan's idea of how to use the small meridian, once this small meridian was opened up and integrated into his Lightness Skill, his movements would be more agile and his Flying Crossing Technique would be faster. This was an unexpected surprise.
After a few twists and turns, Wang Yan could be said to have gathered all the conditions to form the Clear Illusory Sword Embryo. He could even start forming the embryo now. However, Wang Yan did not plan to do so. First, after forming the embryo, he needed to spend a considerable amount of time stabilizing it. Even if he had the ten-thousand-year stalactite milk that Han Yurou had given him, which could greatly reduce the time needed to stabilize the embryo, it was still a little risky for him in his current situation. Secondly, the method of forming the Clear Illusory Sword Embryo could still be perfected. Moreover, he had only just started practicing the Demon Heart Technique and could not plant the Demon Sword Qi when forming the embryo. If he skipped this step, there was not much meaning in practicing the Demon Heart Technique in advance, and the time needed to polish the sword embryo in the future would be even longer.
Apart from the above two points, the most important thing for Wang Yan was his current situation. This time, he was going to the Nirvana Temple alone, and the journey would be full of dangers. However, if he maintained his Meridian Opening Stage cultivation, at least the enemies he would face at the beginning would not be too strong. After all, the two states were thousands of miles apart, and the news was not smooth. Currently, the Jianghu people in the Northern Victorious State did not know much about him, and there were even fewer people who knew his true strength. Otherwise, those bodyguards in the teahouse who had not even reached the peak of the Meridian Opening Stage would not dare to attack him.
In other words, maintaining his current cultivation level was undoubtedly a layer of camouflage and protection for Wang Yan. It would allow him to deal with the situation more easily at the beginning. However, as he moved forward, his strength would be revealed bit by bit. In the end, there would definitely be Nurturing Embryo Stage martial artists, or even Title level martial artists, or even some Clasping Yuan Stage martial artists. At that time, he would have to find an opportunity to nurture the embryo and increase his own strength. That would be the best plan.
Thinking to this, Wang Yan could not help but stand up and look toward the east. He saw a faint flickering of lights in the distance. Wang Yan knew that place was called Camel Xu Fort, which was similar to a town. However, there was a fort on the south side of the town, where a small sect called 'Camel Xu' was based.
This Camel Xu Fort was marked on the map that Wang Yan got from the bodyguard man. It was the closest densely populated place to the Thirty Miles Desolate. After leaving the tea house in the evening, Wang Yan followed the map and soon arrived at this mound. However, he did not continue to move forward. He knew that since the bodyguard man wanted to kill him for the reward, if he rashly entered this kind of town, he would certainly be attacked by a group of people. Therefore, his previous idea of going to Golden City and other big cities to find the way to the Nirvana Temple was simply not feasible. Perhaps, for a long time in the future, he could only use the sky as his blanket and the earth as his bed to sleep in the wilderness.
However, for Wang Yan, simply and passively waiting for people to kill him was not his style. Since he had tasted the bloody taste of experience in the tea house, he naturally wanted to make a fuss about it. Especially now that he had just entered the Northern Victory Region, his real strength was not widely known. In this way, if he could attract a large number of players to look for him, wouldn't it be a great opportunity to harvest experience?
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