Yuan Bao Town was just a small town, but it was very prosperous. This was because the small roads around it could quickly lead to a few prefectures in the north of Wei County, so a large number of merchants came and went.
After the carriage arrived at Yuan Bao Town, Chu Xiu arranged an inn and took Yue 'er and a dozen servants of the Chu Family to stroll around Yuan Bao Town.
Chu Xiu looked around. Yue 'er was a little bored. The Tongzhou Prefecture was a large city in Wei County, and it was much more prosperous than this small town. What was there to see here?
At this moment, Chu Xiu suddenly discovered something and walked straight to a shop that sold secret boxes.
This so-called secret box was also a major feature of the Great Pugilistic World.
In the Great Pugilistic World, martial arts flourished. However, ten thousand years ago, it experienced a great calamity, causing a natural disaster to descend. Countless martial arts sects were destroyed in this apocalyptic world.
Before the calamity began, a formation grandmaster had researched something called a secret box. It was used to store the sect's treasures, ancient books, and other things to prevent them from being damaged during the calamity.
The core of the secret box was its formation. It could be used to strengthen and seal the secret box, increasing its effectiveness. Unfortunately, it had been lost.
The material of the secret box could be anything. Gold, iron, stone, or even wood could be used. In any case, the stronger the material of the secret box, the more power the formation could unleash.
The size and shape of the secret box were also random. In any case, the formation was the same. The size and shape of the secret box depended on what the sect that made it wanted to store in it.
Therefore, after the Great Ancient Calamity, the survivors excavated the ruins of countless sects and found a large number of such secret boxes.
Some people opened the secret box and found peerless techniques, while others found rare treasures.
Of course, not all the secret boxes contained treasures. Most of the secret boxes were empty or contained some useless things.
The empty secret boxes were prepared by the sects in advance. The formation was also engraved so that they could be used at any time. They looked no different from the secret boxes that contained things.
There were also some secret boxes that contained items that were of greater significance to martial artists, but in reality, they were not of much value. For example, a sword used by an expert when he was young, a handkerchief given by a lover, and so on.
Because of that, there were good and bad items in the secret boxes. Furthermore, due to the uniqueness of the formation, no one in the Jianghu could see what was going on inside from the outside. Hence, buying a secret box depended entirely on one's own experience and luck.
Experienced people could analyze the material, shape, and even the decorative patterns on the box to determine the origin of the box and what was inside. Of course, most people relied on luck.
The shop that sold the secret boxes in the town was very small. There were only a dozen or so secret boxes placed on the table. They were of different shapes and materials, but the only thing they had in common was that they were all very cheap. The materials used were ordinary metals and stones, which was why they were sold in a small town like Ingot Town.
Chu Xiu asked the shopkeeper, "Is this the only shop in Ingot Town that sells secret boxes?"
The shopkeeper didn't even raise his head. He just nodded lazily and said, "Of course it's just me. No matter how trashy a secret box is, it costs at least ten taels of silver to buy one. 99% of the people in the Jianghu that come to Ingot Town are escorts, a bunch of poor people! They can't even earn 10 silver from a single escort, how could they be willing to take out 10 silver to gamble their luck? "
At this moment, the shopkeeper raised his head and saw that Chu Xiu was wearing brocade clothes and had a servant girl by his side. His fat face couldn't help but reveal a trace of a flattering smile as he said, "That bunch of poor people can't afford to buy a secret box, but Young Master can definitely. These secret boxes were found in the ruins of the southern barbaric mountains a year ago. The price is absolutely reasonable."
Hearing the shopkeeper say this, Chu Xiu's eyes couldn't help but reveal a trace of a bright light.
If he didn't remember wrongly, around this period of time, there was a fellow who was originally a servant who bought an ordinary secret box in Ingot Town. He didn't expect that there would be a supreme cultivation method within it.
It was by relying on this cultivation method that that person moved unhindered in the Jianghu and made a great name for himself. He even established a not small sect and became the founder of a sect.
Chu Xiu had just arrived in this world. What he urgently needed now was a sufficiently powerful cultivation method.
As a large family in the Tong Prefecture, their Chu family naturally had a cultivation method passed down. It was called the Vast Sea Mantra. After mastering it, one's foundation would be solid and their inner strength would be as powerful as the vast sea.
But as a bastard son, Chu Xiu wasn't valued since he was young. He didn't have medicinal pills or other resources, and he didn't have the guidance of the elders in the family. So after cultivating for many years, he was barely able to cross the threshold of this cultivation method. His own cultivation on the Martial Dao was pitifully low, and he hadn't even stepped into the Blood Condensation Realm.
If you wanted to cross the threshold of the Martial Dao, you first had to go through the three Body Refinement Realms.
The first step of the three Body Refinement Realms was to temper the muscles and bones. This realm was called the Body Refinement Realm. It tempered the body, strengthening the muscles and bones, and allowing one's strength to surpass others.
Almost ninety-nine percent of the martial artists in the Jianghu were at the Body Refinement Realm because this realm was the easiest. Some people didn't even know any inner strength, and only cultivated some superficial external skills to reach the Body Refinement Realm.
And above the Body Refinement Realm was the Blood Condensation Realm. This realm was from the outside to the inside. After tempering the muscles and bones, one could then condense the body's blood and Qi, causing the thin blood and Qi to thicken until it was like lead mercury. Only then could one be considered to have reached the Blood Condensation Realm.
This realm was comparatively more difficult. Without an inner strength cultivation method, martial artists who couldn't cultivate inner strength had almost no chance of reaching the Blood Condensation Realm.
Just as Chu Xiu was thinking about these things, a mediocre looking young man walked in and said, "Shopkeeper, give me two secret boxes."
If an ordinary person came to buy a secret box, the shopkeeper would definitely be happy. But when he saw this young man, he shook his head and said, "Li Jing, you worked so hard as a servant for the Tong Zhou prefecture's Li family, but all the money you earned has been thrown into these secret boxes. Listen to me, this thing is not something you can play with. You're a smart kid. You've only been in the Li family for a few years, but you've already been recognized by the third young master of the Li family and given the surname Li. You've even been transferred from the kitchen to the caravan. Take this money and make friends with some of the stewards of the Li family. Maybe in the future you'll also become a steward. "
Li Jing laughed and said, "Even if I become a steward, I'll only be a servant of the Li family. Who knows, I might really be able to open some peerless divine technique from these secret boxes and soar to the top."
The shopkeeper shook his head. Opening a peerless divine technique? How could it be so easy?
There were indeed many legends in the pugilistic world about people opening treasures from seemingly unremarkable secret boxes. However, that was still a minority. Most of the time, it was a waste of money, and the chances were pitifully low.
However, the shopkeeper himself was selling secret boxes. He saw that Li Jing was a pitiful person, so he gave him a few words of advice. But since Li Jing insisted on buying, how could he not sell?
Just as he was about to take the secret boxes, Chu Xiu suddenly said, "Wait, shopkeeper, I want all of these secret boxes."
When the shopkeeper called out Li Jing's name and identity, Chu Xiu thought of his identity.
He was the martial artist who had once obtained a great opportunity in Yuan Bao Town. He was originally a servant, but in the end, he relied on the divine technique opened in the secret boxes to dominate the pugilistic world and become an overlord.
Moreover, from Li Jing's words, he was indeed the kind of person who was unwilling to be ordinary. Otherwise, an unambitious trash would not be able to reach that step even if he opened a divine technique. In the end, it was very likely that he would be killed and his divine technique stolen.
Thinking of this, Chu Xiu secretly felt lucky. He had really come in time. He only knew that there was such a thing, but he did not know the exact time. If he had come a step later, the opportunity would have been gone.
Li Jing frowned and said, "Young Master, I said that I wanted to buy them first."
Chu Xiu glanced at him and said, "Now I say that I want all of them. Do you have any objections?"
Li Jing's face showed a trace of anger. He coldly snorted and said, "Young Master, do you think that I, Li Jing, am just a servant and that I can be bullied? I am from the Tong Zhou Prefecture's Li Family! "
The Tong Zhou Prefecture was a big city in Wei County, and the Li Family was one of the three big families in the Tong Zhou Prefecture.
Although he was only a servant of the Li family, some of the smaller and run-down clans couldn't compare to him. Even some of the smaller clans had to bow and scrape in front of the steward of the Li family.
Chu Xiu looked at him and sneered, "Previously, you said that you did not want to be a servant for the rest of your life. Now that things have come to this, you still want to use the Li Family to intimidate me. You are a servant, and you want to use the Li Family to suppress me? You don't know what you are talking about! "
As soon as Chu Xiu's voice fell, a few servants behind him immediately surrounded him and looked at Li Jing fiercely.
He had learned martial arts because he was appreciated by the Li Family's Third Young Master. However, he was a servant after all. What he learned was only some superficial martial arts. His strength was only at the Body Tempering Realm. Naturally, he could not defeat so many people.
Therefore, he could only watch helplessly as Chu Xiu took away the dozen or so secret boxes in the shop. For some reason, apart from feeling humiliated, he felt even more heartache, as if something important had been taken away from him.
After Chu Xiu left, Li Jing gritted his teeth. This matter was definitely not over!
He had been in the Li Family for so many years. Although he was only a servant, he was the Li Family's Third Young Master. He had made friends with many big shots!
At this time, after Chu Xiu got the secret box, he returned to the inn and drove everyone out to check the secret boxes one by one.
Because the secret box was used to store things, the way to open it was very simple. Drop a drop of blood on the secret box, and the formation would naturally be unlocked.
Of course, once the secret box was opened, because the sealing formation had been lost, the secret box would be completely scrapped and could no longer be used. This also put an end to the idea of fishing in troubled waters with an empty secret box.
There were a total of seventeen boxes. Chu Xiu opened eight of them in succession, but seven of them were empty. One of them had a booklet inside, but it had long since decayed. Furthermore, it was not a cultivation technique, but a booklet that recorded the details of a sect's assets. It was useless.
Until Chu Xiu opened the ninth secret box. The secret box was only made of brown stone. It was only the size of a palm. There were no patterns or decorations on it, and it looked very casual.
But after opening it, there was an ancient jade inside, emitting a faint warm light.
In ancient times, in order to better preserve the cultivation method, some experts would not write the cultivation method on paper. Instead, they would engrave the cultivation method in the best jade with their spirit mark. As long as there was no accident, it would not be damaged for thousands of years.
"This is it!"
Chu Xiu held the jade slip with excitement. Suddenly, a large number of words poured into Chu Xiu's mind.
"Taoism secret book, Xiantian Skill!"
The Xiantian Skill that Chu Xiu had obtained was a branch of Taoism in ancient times. It was the inherited skill of Quanzhen Sect. It cultivated the Xiantian True Qi, which could resist all kinds of diseases, balance the real and the virtual, nourish the foundation, and make the True Qi endless.
Taoism cultivation method paid the most attention to the foundation, and it was also the most moderate. Although this Xiantian Skill did not seem special at first glance, it was rated as a fourth grade cultivation method in the original plot.
There were strong and weak people, and so did the strength of cultivation method. Although the strength of cultivation method was related to the person who practiced it, and some talented people could even dominate the Jianghu with low-level cultivation method, they were only a minority. Therefore, the cultivation method in the Jianghu was roughly divided into several grades.
Normal cultivation method had a total of nine grades. The first grade was the lowest, and the ninth grade was the highest.
Among them, the first three grades of cultivation method could basically be the inherited cultivation method of a small sect. Ordinary people in the Jianghu could only be regarded as punches and kicks. They were not even qualified for the first grade cultivation method.
The middle three grades of cultivation method were regarded as treasures in the whole Jianghu, and could be used to establish a sect.
As for the last three grades of cultivation method, they were basically in the hands of some big sects in the Jianghu, and very few were in the hands of individuals.
There were still two grades above the nine grades. One of them was the supreme cultivation method, which could be used to dominate the Jianghu and become the supreme master of the martial arts world.
The other was the peerless cultivation method, which, just like its name, was the best in the world at that time. It was a legendary existence.
In addition to these grades, there were some strange cultivation methods in the Jianghu, which could not be measured by grades. Some people were weak when they practiced it, but some people were very strong when they practiced it. Some strange cultivation methods had some strange effects, which could not be measured by power alone.
This innate function was evaluated as the fourth grade by later generations, and it was naturally reasonable that it could be used as a cultivation method to establish a sect.
The characteristic of the cultivation method of Taoism to nourish the foundation was exerted to the extreme by the Xiantian Cultivation Method. Ordinary martial artists needed to lay a good foundation since they were young. The older they were, the slower their progress would be. However, the Xiantian Cultivation Method was different. It could quickly wash and refine the martial artists' body. No matter how old they were, they could reshape their foundation.
In the original plot, Li Jing got the Xiantian Cultivation Method, but he was not young anymore. He had passed the best stage of practicing martial arts. It was because of the Xiantian Cultivation Method that he could reshape his foundation and make rapid progress in his realm. His foundation was even stronger than those disciples of aristocratic families who practiced martial arts since childhood.
At present, Chu Xiu's situation was similar to that of Li Jing. Although he was born in the Chu family, in fact, there was no special person to teach him when he was young. There was basically no elixir for him to build the foundation, so his foundation was extremely poor.
But now, with the Xiantian Cultivation Method, Chu Xiu could make up for this, and even make his starting point in the martial arts road higher than the martial artists of the same realm.
Looking at the remaining secret box in front of him, Chu Xiu also opened it together. He did not expect to find another cultivation method, but this cultivation method did not appear in the original plot. Of course, it was possible that it had appeared, but Chu Xiu did not know.
This cultivation method was not an internal force, but a strange bladesmanship called "Azure Dragon in the Sleeve".
Chu Xiu's martial arts was just at the beginning. Except for those famous cultivation methods in the original plot, even if other cultivation methods were placed in front of him, he could not tell whether they were good or bad. But in his eyes now, this Azure Dragon in the Sleeve was much better than the ordinary martial arts skills of the first grade passed down in the Chu family. The weakest should be the second grade.
The bladesmanship of the Azure Dragon in the Sleeve paid particular attention to the technique of hiding the blade. The shape of the blade was hidden in the sleeve, and the blade intent was hidden in the body. When the blade was slashed out, it was like an azure dragon coming out of the sea, with infinite power.
The blade was the azure dragon, and the sleeve was the sea with the azure dragon hidden. The whole bladesmanship was very simple, and its charm was only the moment when the azure dragon came out of the sea.
The internal force that the Chu family mainly practiced was the Vast Sea Mental Strength. As for the other martial arts movements, they were not too strong. They were all ordinary martial arts, such as fist, foot, palm, saber, spear, stick, and so on. The choice of which depended on one's preference.
Although Chu Xiu could not see the depth of the Azure Dragon in the Sleeve, he was sure that it was much better than the simple bladesmanship of the Chu family.
And just as Chu Xiu opened the secret box, Li Jing, who was unwilling to be robbed by Chu Xiu, also went to another inn in Yuan Bao Town to find a backer.
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