The Legend of Swing Sword and Execution of Demons

Chapter 754: Meritorious Fish Pot

There is a large tiankeng in the far north of Wala, or it can be said to be a large basin.

The basin is so large that it can accommodate three Youjing cities.

Twenty years ago, the former Holy Khan of the Oirat, Arut, hid in this desolate and cold place for three years in order to avoid being captured and killed by Xiao Yutong and Yan Qing, two giants of the Central Plains martial arts world.

In this basin, not only is there little wind and snow, but it may not rain for ten days in a year.

Although it cannot be compared with an oasis in the desert, it is the most suitable place for survival within a thousand miles, except that it is slightly dry.

Even so, after confirming that the crisis was over and the risk no longer existed, Arut died suddenly on his way back to the royal tent due to illness caused by depression and the bitter cold.

Since then, the Oirat people have traveled to this far northern land much more frequently.

It is true that they came here to commemorate the holy Khan who preserved the fire of the Oirat, but the most important reason was to build a tower and a city here.

The name of the city is Batulu City, which should be translated into Zhongzhou dialect as the City of Warriors.

The name of the tower is Tower of Babel, and it is a genuine Zhongzhou-style tower!

The day Leng Mei and Jiang Yichen arrived at the Tower of Babel, two and a half months had passed since they hid in Niu Mountain.

The two spent Zhongzhou's New Year's Eve, Spring Festival and Lantern Festival in the mountains and lakes of a foreign country.

In a blink of an eye, I had lived in Wala for more than three months.

The two of them had a strong ability to adapt, and they became like the cattle and sheep on the land of Wala and the eagles and birds in the sky. They were not noticeable at all, and they had a smooth road wherever they went.

Of course, the perfect integration of the two was also related to the high-handedness of the Wala side.

There is a saying in Zhongzhou: Wherever you go, you will leave traces.

The Oirat people might have heard of it, but they didn't seem to be determined enough to find the two Zhongzhou bandits.

As long as the two thousand people searching Niu Mountain can be patient and maintain their intensity, the traces and clues that cannot be found in ten days will have a chance to surface in twenty or thirty days, and then they can continue to squeeze and narrow the scope and follow the clues. Even if Leng Mei and Jiang Yichen have three heads and six arms and can fight their way out, they will inevitably pay a heavier price, and this price will most likely mean death.

However, the Oirat people did not stop their conquest because of these two people.

They followed Xiao Yincai's orders, made great efforts at both ends of the east and west, and received good news one after another.

No matter how depressing the haze on the dome is, it cannot stop the Wala people from drinking happily for the smooth progress of their southern expedition!

As for whether the two Zhongzhou bandits who made the entire Wala lose face two and a half months ago are now dead or alive, where they are hiding, and whether they will have the next move, I am afraid they have forgotten everything.

This is probably the thought of most of the people in Wala and Zhongzhou who have not yet forgotten the turmoil caused by Leng and Jiang in Wala.

A duck knows first when the river water warms in spring. If Leng and Jiang had not been there, they might not have thought that the Wala officials were plotting against them.

It all started with a pot of fish soup.

Grilled fish is delicious, but you’ll get tired of eating it every day.

In order to improve the food, Leng and Jiang found their way to the Wala barracks a hundred miles away.

Borrowed a pot that was abandoned in a corner of the camp.

Unexpectedly, just one day after drinking fish soup, the Wala army became aware that the theft in the camp was closely related to the two of them.

The Wala army openly gathered thousands of men in the two temporary camps, and every one to three days they organized large-scale looting in Niushan and Yezihu. Even the few birds and beasts in the mountains and lakes were disturbed.

Leng and Jiang saw through the Wala army's intention of loosening up their defenses in secret and keeping them in a state of fear.

This was an open conspiracy of the Oirat people, and the two could only endure it. Although they no longer had to live in fear every day, it was difficult for them to hide safely.

They had no doubt that if they stayed there for another three to five months, they would sooner or later fall into the encirclement of the Oirat people.

As a result, the two of them did not stay in Niu Mountain for a full month and a half. After Jiang Yichen's "Zixia Divine Art" was initially completed and his dantian condition was initially stabilized, they slipped away.

Being able to come to this so-called Warrior City also means that Jiang Yichen’s internal strength problem has been solved.

It sounds like it will take very short time, but the fusion of two conflicting skills is never something that can be accomplished overnight.

Otherwise, there wouldn’t be so few people who have cultivated the four internal skills in today’s martial arts world.

However, Jiang Yichen is no longer a rookie entering the world of martial arts.

He has his own unique understanding and comprehension of martial arts and internal strength.

If not for this, even with the help of external objects and intervention of external forces, it would be impossible for him to grow into a young talent that no one dared to underestimate in the Zhongzhou world in just four or five years.

His talent in martial arts is not top-notch in the martial arts world, let alone brilliant, but just above average.

But those who taught him or led him forward, starting from the retired predecessors such as Huo Yinniang and Xue Qing from Xishan Island, to Han Wu Yue and Li Jiechen from Ju Garden, Xuan Xiao from the Wudang Secret Cave, Feng outside Jinzhou City, Ye Shang from the Grip of the Underworld, Leng Mei from Yin Yang Valley, Long Duoduo from Ban Valley, Luo Piaoling from Daoxiang Village and Huo Nan on the bed and in the wheelchair in Jinzhou City, etc., all of them are extraordinary people who have left a strong mark on the world.

His vision and foundation have already risen under the grace of so many teachers. In a month, he has mastered the superior internal skills of "Purple Cloud Divine Art". Looking at the current Zhongzhou martial arts world where all flowers are withered, there may not be 30 people who can be picked, but Jiang Yichen must be one of them.

Therefore, with Zhongzhou facing wars from all sides, suffering new and minor injuries and relapses of old illnesses, and being in a foreign land, Jiang Yichen, who constantly put pressure on himself, managed to break through the shackles on the 25th day and cultivated the "Purple Cloud Divine Art" to the initial intermediate level!

The Yuntian Temple's Du'e Dan played a vital role in this.

But the compatibility and balance of water and fire techniques that follow are the concentrated reflection of one's attainments in practicing the techniques.

The difficulties and hardships in the process are not worth mentioning.

  It is only said that the fish pot that Leng Mei never missed every day played a great role in helping Jiang Yichen to suddenly realize his mistakes, draw inferences from one instance, and understand everything!

The sweet and delicious fish pot needs to be cooked, and the elixir needs to be refined.

The practice of martial artists' skills is similar to the practice of making medicine and elixirs.

Dantian can be compared to a medicine furnace, and the exercises can be compared to medicinal herbs.

Practitioners have different physical constitutions and experiences, and their Dantian are not the same, which means that the quality of their medicine furnaces is different.

There are all kinds of strange and bizarre skills corresponding to various kinds of medicinal herbs.

Assume that each herb can be brewed continuously for a long time.

At first it is qi, then it turns into liquid, and when the skill is perfected it can eventually become elixir.

After refining the herbs, the elixir, elixir liquid and elixir gas still exist at the same time and are stored in the medicine furnace.

  When facing an enemy, you should first use the Dan Qi; when fighting vigorously, burn the Dan liquid; when fighting desperately, the Dan will explode!

Also, because the medicinal herbs in the world are fixed into seven attributes of yin and yang and the five elements, there are conflicts between yin and yang and between the five elements.

However, most medicine furnaces can only accommodate the smelting of three kinds of herbs unless they can solve the problem of conflicting properties.

Relying on the Du'e Pill, Jiang Yichen opened another small medicine furnace besides the original medicine furnace and completed the initial refining of the herb called "Zixia Divine Art".

But the small medicine furnace is a temporary container, and eventually the products refined in the small medicine furnace must be put back into the original medicine furnace for reconciliation without exploding the furnace.

For many martial artists, this is a big problem and it is magnified to the greatest extent for Jiang Yichen.

It’s because Jiang Yichen’s Dantian itself is the problematic “medicine furnace”.

Xuan Xiao, whose martial arts were forcibly abolished back then, can be regarded as the entire medicine furnace being smashed.

But the fragments of the damaged medicine furnace are still there. The Wudang secret cave has not seen the light of day for more than ten years. Xuan Xiao managed to piece the fragments of the medicine furnace back together, sealed it with clay, and it can still be used to boil herbs.

Luo Piaoling, whose cultivation was also destroyed, had his medicine furnace blown to pieces by a ghost, making it impossible for it to be reassembled, thus cutting off the possibility of him practicing martial arts again.

Compared with the two once intact medicine furnaces, Jiang Yichen's medicine furnace had a crack due to tuberculosis in his childhood. He had been unable to refine herbs since he was a child, or in other words, he could not keep the elixir liquid after refining the herbs in the medicine furnace for a long time, let alone make elixirs.

The existence of this special "herb" "Frost and Snow Qi" fills the gap in the medicine furnace.

However, the medicinal herb product and the medicine furnace are not essentially the same thing. The gap still exists, and it is the weakest point that is most likely to cause the furnace to explode.

Thinking carefully about the past, Jiang Yichen's medicine furnace had problems before. When he was in high spirits at the Sword Dance Platform of the Hundred Flowers Conference and his Yin Feng Gong suddenly broke through, his pseudo-Dantian exploded.

Fortunately, the "Yin Feng Gong" and "Frost and Snow Qi" complement each other. The pseudo Dantian formed by the Frost and Snow Qi exploded, and the Yin Feng evil spirit that filled around the body and even overflowed stabilized the environment inside Jiang Yichen's body, so no accident happened.

We cannot expect lucky things to last forever.

Whether it is a weakness or a shortcoming, whether it is innate or acquired, it is not easy, or even impossible, to completely eliminate it, just like a person who is missing an arm or a leg cannot grow his limbs back.

Weaknesses can be compensated for and shortcomings can be filled, but we cannot focus on that one point and need to consider the overall situation.

Just like simply fitting prosthetic limbs to people who are missing arms and legs can help temporarily, but it is difficult to support them for the rest of their lives.

Prosthetic limbs are acceptable, but if the other intact parts of a person who has lost arms or legs can be strengthened as a whole to be sufficient to cope with various situations, the weaknesses of limb loss can naturally be compensated and covered.

The solution to Jiang Yichen’s fake Dantian defect also needs to start from the overall perspective.

What Huo Nan said, "melt ice into free-flowing water, and transform the fixed form of the pseudo-Dantian into a flowing state" is a specific way to make big changes.

Since there is a gap in the medicine furnace, a smaller floating clay medicine furnace can be made inside the furnace.

As long as the integrity and stability of this mobile clay furnace can be maintained, it will be the greatest guarantee, and whether the external furnace is damaged or not is not critical.

Huo Nan believed that the Zixia Magic Art could solve the hidden danger of Jiang Yichen's false Dantian because the fire contained in the Zixia Magic Art was not hot and violent, just like warm water could gently melt the frost and snow.

Ice and fire are incompatible, so let the ice melt into water so that it can be more harmonious with the fire.

At this time, the frost and snow true energy is no longer in its original state. It can be boiling water or warm ice.

Following Huo Nan's guidance before his death, Jiang Yichen pushed the "Frost and Snow Qi" to a new level, comparable to the best martial arts. In addition, with the initial success of the "Purple Cloud Divine Art", his cultivation level has reached two levels.

And this new martial art was named "Warm Ice Art" by Leng Mei.