Poor Taoist Qiu Chuji

Chapter 348 Goodbye 'Guo Yang'

Inside the main hall, everyone stared intently at the carvings on the pillars. The scene of Qiu Chuji dancing with his sword earlier, connected with these carvings, inspired many people. By moving away from words and conveying the spirit of the subject through simple images, it was actually easier to express the intended charm.

Some disciples couldn't even wait to go out to the square to practice; they drew their swords right inside the hall and began to wield them according to their own understanding, move by move.

At first, they kept a distance from each other and there was no interference. But someone would suddenly have an epiphany and become carried away, causing them to collide. And because of their different understandings of martial arts, some disputes arose.

At this time, the wooden pillars inside the hall would emit a hazy white light, dispelling the restlessness in people's hearts and suppressing their inexplicable anger.

The disciples who had previously argued with each other quickly came to their senses, apologized to one another, and then became engrossed in dissecting and comprehending the sword techniques.

Wang Zhiyu pinched his sword finger and suddenly thrust it forward. A whooshing sound filled the air as the slightly sharp sword energy struck a cylinder, but it did not damage the ordinary nanmu wood cylinder in the slightest. "The front is empty, the back is solid. Use the empty to attack the solid. This must be the principle!"

However, another senior disciple shook his head and said, "No! No! Junior brother's sword strike is incorrect!"

After saying this, he brandished his sword and struck three times in succession, incorporating the "One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones" technique into the strike: "The appearance is illusory, but the real technique is a fast sword. This sword technique cannot be viewed in isolation. Instead, it must be understood in conjunction with the sword techniques of our Quanzhen Sect. With the 'One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones,' one can understand the Dao giving birth to one, one giving birth to two, two giving birth to three, and three giving birth to all things, without end."

As he spoke, the sword in the senior brother's hand suddenly conjured more than a dozen afterimages. These afterimages fell and unleashed more than a dozen equally real sword energies, which struck the pillar in the same way. The pillar absorbed and dissolved all of these sword energies.

It is evident that these cylinders, which embodied Qiu Chuji's swordsmanship, had actually transformed into some kind of 'magic weapon'.

Perhaps, after a long period of inheritance in this Chongyang Palace, having witnessed countless geniuses practicing swordsmanship and learning sword techniques, these pillars will one day transform into truly powerful and formidable high-level magical artifacts.

Just like the Dinghai Divine Iron used by Yu the Great to measure the rivers and seas, it may have originally been just a tool for measuring water levels, but it made a difference by stabilizing the sea. Over the millennia, it accumulated countless merits and witnessed the endless ebb and flow of the tides. It withstood the roar and pressure of the sea and transformed into the Ruyi Jingu Bang, which can shatter everything.

Some magical artifacts are forged in a furnace, their power stemming from the materials they are forged from. But for other magical artifacts, time and experience are their furnaces, and even if the materials are ordinary, they will one day shine brightly throughout the world.

“Senior Brother Zhiming! Your direction is correct, but the sword technique you are using is wrong. I think that you should use the essence of the ‘Stabilizing Yang Needle’ to break this sword technique…”

Discussions continued in front of the various pillars, yet no one noticed that Qiu Chuji, the creator of everything, had quietly left alone.

This was certainly due to some tactics employed by Qiu Chuji.

Otherwise, no matter how attractive these sword techniques are, it's impossible for no one to notice his whereabouts.

Chongyang Palace has made the necessary arrangements.

With the protection of the innate grand formation, even if the world undergoes a great change, no mountain spirits or ferocious beasts will suddenly burst into the Taoist temple and cause damage.

Once these disciples have all achieved some success in their cultivation and caught up with the pace of this wave of heaven and earth's ascension, when they emerge again, each of them will be worthy of being called a legendary 'sword immortal,' and able to uphold the reputation of the Quanzhen Sect.

Qiu Chuji seized the time and made another trip to Yanjing, where he found Wang Chongyang and Lin Chaoying in the palace. He gave them a complete set of cultivation inheritance and three ordinary immortal pills each before taking his leave.

Three elixir pills are equivalent to three years of cultivation for an ordinary immortal. They are nothing to Qiu Chuji, but they are not easy for Wang Chongyang and Lin Chaoying to digest.

Having truly refined three immortal pills, they could all condense martial arts golden cores, and even their golden cores would be of extremely high quality, in no way inferior to the golden core condensed by Qiu Chuji after slaying the dragon and obtaining primordial energy. Under the Great Roc Divine Speed ​​Technique, the world beneath Qiu Chuji's feet seemed to have no concept of 'distance'.

Qiu Chuji also imparted his teachings and gave pills to his several junior brothers who were scattered throughout the martial world, helping them improve their cultivation and maintain their initial advantage.

This can be considered Qiu Chuji's last direct "mentorship".

As he progressed through the cultivation path, the higher he climbed, the less room Qiu Chuji could intervene.

If they truly excel in all aspects, Qiu Chuji will naturally open up a small world for them and send them to travel to various heavens.

If it's just ordinary, then wait until all the clones in each world have grown to their limits before holding a 'summit meeting' to activate a qualitative change with a moment of quantitative change.

Aside from his fellow disciples, master, and mistress, Dugu Qiubai and Lao Huang were also included, as Qiu Chuji highly valued their talents.

During this transmission of skills and the distribution of elixirs, Qiu Chuji also proposed to recruit them into the Quanzhen School and make them protectors of the outer sect.

Neither of them declined, and they readily agreed.

It wasn't that the two were mercenary and accepted the identity because they had received benefits from Qiu Chuji; rather, they had no reason to refuse.

The Quanzhen School is a righteous sect that practices upright deeds and is the state religion of the new dynasty. It has the merit of educating and protecting the people, which makes it very acceptable from a moral point of view.

Dugu Qiubai and Huang Yaoshi, one revered as the Sword Demon and the other as the Eastern Heretic, are not actually villains. They are just ruthless in their actions, but they have never violated the code of chivalry.

Qiu Chuji wasn't asking them to fully enter the sect and become Taoist priests, so what's wrong with that?

After making his way around, Qiu Chuji returned to the center of the Condor Heroes universe, Niujia Village!
Without the disturbance of Qiu Chuji and Wanyan Honglie, this small village located on the outskirts of Lin'an remained quiet and peaceful.

The sons of the Guo and Yang families, namely Guo Jing and Yang Kang, have been born safely and are now three years old. They are playing together at the village entrance, just like ordinary children.

The absence of Qiu Chuji and Wanyan Honglie did not lead to the emergence of 'replacements' in this world, pushing these two youngsters toward their original destinies.

This made Qiu Chuji think deeply.

Nezha, along with the Green Snake and the White Snake, are all renowned protagonists in stories set throughout the heavens. They share largely similar experiences in different worlds and are destined for almost the same fate. Even if someone interferes during this process, their main trajectory will not change or fluctuate significantly.

Guo Jing, Yang Kang... they were also protagonists of the story, but Qiu Chuji did nothing extra to them. He simply changed the world, which affected their original destinies, causing their entire life trajectory to disappear.

What do they have in common?
What are the differences?
Are there differences in the strength and abilities of the characters in the story?
Or is it for some deeper reason?

(End of this chapter)