Martial Arts World Assassin

Chapter 274 Taixuan Dharma
Changchun Valley.

It was already a month after the Battle of Chenqiaoyi.

That day, after Huang Sixi assisted Tong Lao in killing Li Qiu Shui, all his enemies were beheaded. He then entrusted Tong Lao to stay in Chenqiaoyi to deal with the royal families of several countries, and then parted ways with Tong Lao.

He left the Central Plains alone, rushed to Shanju County in Dali, and then returned to the Eternal Spring Valley to explore the supreme martial arts.

At this moment, he was standing in the cave that sealed off the Changchun Spring, holding half of a snow-white vine root in his hand, looking up at the waterfall in the cave, listening to the sound of the rushing waterfall, and was lost in thought.

When he and Tong Lao first visited the cave a few months ago, he heard Wang Yuyan talk about a strange kind of vine hanging over the waterfall. The vine leaves extended along the cave wall into the pool and produced aquatic flowers and fruits.

Because Wang Yuyan's life was stolen by Murong Bo, she was very weak and unable to go out to find food. So she used local materials and ate vines, flowers and fruits.

It just so happens that the pool under the waterfall is the birthplace of Manggu Zhuha. The wood vine flowers and fruits that Wang Yuyan eats can remove all poisons, causing her physique to mutate and giving her the supernatural power of being immune to all poisons.

Huang Sixi has long known that there is always something that can cure something else in the world. Wherever poisonous beasts originate, there will often grow magical herbs and medicines that can neutralize the poison.

He had insisted on exploring the Eternal Spring Valley in the first place. Looking for Wang Yuyan and Murong Bo was only one reason, but the main purpose was to collect herbs that could restrain the King of All Poisons.

Through Wang Yuyan's introduction, he learned that the herb was the fruit of the wood vine, but it had already been swallowed by Wang Yuyan.

He did not give up, so he climbed up to the crack at the top of the waterfall and searched inch by inch, and finally found a piece of snow-white vine root.

This vine root looked like a piece of tree root, but its quality was like jade and ice, and it was similar to the corpse of his Red-eyed Ice Toad, both of them exuded coldness, and when the two objects suddenly touched, they froze together.

He simply used the "Black Iron Hundred Refining Technique" to slowly polish the two objects until they were cast into a snow bead that was immune to all poisons.

As long as he holds the snow bead in his hand, any poison can be neutralized immediately.

Originally, he was delighted to have obtained such a treasure for detoxification, and he felt that the exploration of Changchun Spring was worthwhile.

But he didn't know that the snow-white vine root he found was actually a miraculous medicine from heaven and earth, and its function was far more than just detoxification. He polished the vine root into snow beads, which was a waste of resources and could not bring out the full effect of this miraculous medicine.

It was not until Huang Sixi killed Murong Bo with a palm outside Chenqiao Posthouse and searched Murong Bo's body that he found another piece of snow-white vine root from his body. Only then did Huang Sixi finally understand the true function of the vine root.

The fact that Murong Bo was able to transform from acquired to innate was actually closely related to this vine root.

However, Murong Bo carried a piece of vine root with him only as a hiding souvenir.

Huang Sixi must find more vine roots and swallow them before he can cultivate innate true qi like Murong Bo.

It was for this reason that Huang Sixi was unwilling to stay in Chenqiao Station for too long a month ago. After assisting Tong Lao in killing Li Qiu Shui, he immediately returned to the Eternal Spring Valley without stopping.

After reaching the valley, he headed straight for the cave.

The waterfall in the cave is still rushing.

Unfortunately, Huang Sixi climbed to the top of the waterfall and searched repeatedly along the crevice, but could not find any trace of the vine roots.

The entire waterfall is more than ten feet high, and the water source cannot appear for no reason.

Huang Sixi was convinced that there was an undercurrent at the top of the waterfall.

However, the gap at the top was too narrow. Even if Huang Sixi used the "tendon contraction and bone shrinking method" in the "Nine Yin Scriptures", he could not crawl into the gap.

In desperation, Huang Sixi released Manggu Zhuha.

This toad is not even the size of a palm, so it is easy to explore the mouth of the waterfall.

At this time, Huang Sixi was standing in front of the waterfall in a daze, waiting for Manggu Zhuha to return.

Unexpectedly, he waited and waited, but never saw Manggu Zhuha emerge from the waterfall.

After a long while, the lightning marten lying on his shoulder suddenly neighed, jumped to the ground, and rushed out of the cave.

Huang Sixi followed immediately.

When he arrived near the cave entrance, he could faintly hear Manggu Zhuha's cry of "Jiang Ang! Jiang Ang".

He was very puzzled: "I asked this toad to explore the waterfall, but how did it get outside? Could it be that the waterfall mouth is connected to the external water flow?"

He walked forward, picked up the electric marten, and followed the sound of Manggu Zhuha's cry.

After running for several miles in one breath, he finally stopped at the foot of a straight cliff.

He looked up and could only see a cliff more than ten feet high, and above that it was all white clouds and thick fog.

In fact, the entire Eternal Spring Valley is surrounded by cliffs, with cliffs hundreds of feet high and as sharp as knives on all sides, and the sky above the valley is shrouded in clouds and fog.

Manggu Zhuha's roar came from the clouds and mist, and mixed in with the roar was the roar of a waterfall.

Huang Sixi roughly estimated the distance. Manggu Zhuha should be climbing a rock wall two or three hundred feet high. Its vision was blocked by the clouds and fog, so it could not see Huang Sixi at all and could not find a way down the cliff. So it made a sound to guide Huang Sixi to find it.

Because the cliff was too steep, if Huang Sixi used a sharp tool to insert into the rock and climb up, it would take a very long time.

He returned to the rope that was dropped when he landed in Changchun Valley, climbed up to the top of the cliff along the rope, and then searched along the top of the cliff for the cry of Manggu Zhuha.

Soon he found a stream at the top of the cliff.

This stream flows from a higher mountain peak, passes by the edge of the cliff, and then rushes down, splashing down along the cliff wall, forming a waterfall several feet wide.

Manggu Zhuha's cry came from the bottom of the waterfall.

It was also because of Manggu Zhuha's loud roar, like a bull, resounding like a bell throughout the Changchun Valley, that it was able to penetrate the roar of the waterfall and reach Huang Sixi's ears.

After Huang Sixi confirmed the source of the sound of Manggu Zhuha, he lowered a rope next to the waterfall and climbed down towards the source of the sound.

With the help of the rope and his lightness skills, Huang Sixi had descended more than a hundred feet in a short moment. Manggu Zhuha's voice was already within reach.

At this moment, Huang Sixi looked down and found that all the water of the waterfall fell into a protruding stone platform. The stone platform was more than ten feet wide and long, and it looked like the entrance of a cave, sucking the waterfall in.

Manggu Zhuha's cry was just at the edge of the cave entrance.

Huang Sixi continued to fall and reached the edge of the waterfall. He saw that the current waterfall flow was like a water gate, blocking the environment inside the cave.

He wondered out of curiosity: "Could this be a water curtain cave?"

His guess was absolutely correct. When he crossed the waterfall with the help of a rope and flew into the cave, the environment suddenly became clear, and a water curtain cave hidden between the cliffs appeared before him.

The entire cave space is like an inverted giant bowl. The waterfall water flows in from the cave entrance, forming a stream on the ground and pouring into the cracks deep in the cave.

These gaps are naturally formed inside the cliff. The stream water flows downward along the cracks in the rocks until it flows into the cave at the bottom of the cliff, then flows out and becomes a new waterfall in the cave.

Previously, Manggu Zhuha was instructed by Huang Sixi to explore upwards along the new waterfall in the cave. It climbed upwards through cracks in the rocks and finally found the cave between the cliffs.

After Huang Sixi entered the cave, he just took a quick glance at the cave environment and couldn't help but show joy on his face.

I saw the ground inside the cave was covered with snow-white vine roots.

The wood vine flowers and fruits that Wang Yuyan ate originally came from this cave.

Since the entire cave is hidden between cliffs and has not been visited by humans for decades or even hundreds of years, there used to be vines growing on the rock walls around the cave.

However, several months ago, after Murong Bo stole Wang Yuyan's life, he was worried that Wang Yuyan would come after him, so he hurriedly fled from Changchun Valley.

Unexpectedly, Changchun Valley was surrounded by cliffs on all sides, and Murong Bo could not find a way out. So he used the dagger and iron tools he carried with him to dig stone caves on the cliffs that could be used for rock climbing.

In this way, Murong Bo climbed up the cliff step by step. When he climbed to a height of two or three hundred feet, his physical strength began to fail.

It happened that the waterfall was not far from him. He saw that the waterfall did not flow to the bottom of the cliff, but instead flowed into the inside of the cliff. He guessed that there was a cave in the cliff that could be used for the waterfall to discharge.

So he plucked up his courage and explored the inside of the waterfall.

This exploration not only saved his life, but also transformed him and enabled him to develop innate true energy.

After he entered the cave, he looked around the environment inside the cave. It was all lush green water vines. Climbing the cliff was already extremely strenuous, so his stomach was empty. Without saying a word, he pulled down vine roots and leaves from the stone wall of the cave and started to fill his stomach.

After he finished eating the roots and leaves of the vine, his body was depilated and his marrow was cleansed. His meridians became unblocked without any stagnation.

At that time, he himself did not understand that under the transformation of the Lingqi vine leaves, he had returned from acquired to innate.

In the secular world, among ten thousand people who practice martial arts, only one can barely gain a glimpse of the innate way. These outstanding people are, without exception, all grandmasters who dominate the world for a time.

However, if one wants to go from acquired to innate, the process of cultivation is arduous and difficult, and it is unlikely to happen.

There are many paths and methods to follow in cultivating acquired true Qi. Any secular internal skill, as long as you develop internal strength, will become acquired true Qi. As you grow older, the acquired true Qi will accumulate thicker and thicker until it reaches its peak.

Xiaoyaozi of the Xiaoyao Sect and the Sweeping Monk of the Shaolin Temple are both representatives who have practiced acquired qi to the pinnacle, but it is extremely difficult for them to break through the shackles and advance from acquired to innate.

There are only two possible paths in this process. One is to be extremely gifted and rely on one's own qualifications to force a breakthrough to the innate level. The other is to find an opportunity and rely on the spiritual objects of heaven and earth to achieve innateness on the spot.

Unfortunately, no matter whether it was Xiaoyaozi or the Sweeping Monk, they lacked sufficient qualifications and opportunities, and eventually stagnate at the peak of the acquired realm, unable to make any further progress.

Originally, Murong Bo did not have the innate talent and opportunity to achieve success.

But after Huang Sixi came to Tianlongjianghu, he changed Murong Bo's fate.

After Murong Bo stole Wang Yuyan's life that day, he climbed the cliff and tried to escape from Changchun Valley. After mistakenly entering a cave between the cliffs, he swallowed the magical water vine, and his body was transformed. His hair was removed and his marrow was cleansed, and his senses were enhanced many times. He now had the conditions to practice innate true qi.

As long as he masters a set of innate true qi exercises, he will be able to cultivate innate true qi immediately after practicing it.

As luck would have it, on the rock wall of the cave he had sneaked into, there was a basic method of circulating the innate true energy left.

He practiced according to the method, and his Qi was innate.

He used his innate true energy to mobilize the Murong family's unique skills, and the power was incomparable. This is why he could easily defeat Tong Lao and the Sweeping Monk.

However, from the time he stole Wang Yuyan's life to the time he participated in the Battle of Chenqiaoyi, only half a year had passed. He had only been practicing innate true qi for a short time, and his martial arts could not crush Huang Sixi, which gave Huang Sixi the opportunity to defeat the strong with the weak.

If Murong Bo patiently lies dormant for a few years, and waits until his innate true qi reaches a certain level, and then fights Huang Sixi in a decisive battle, then he can use the "Fighting Stars Shift" with all his strength, and it is possible that he can return all the "Six Dragons Revolving" to Huang Sixi.

But he had worked hard all his life for the revival of Dayan, and it was difficult for him to suppress the desire in his heart. When he learned that Li Qiushui had unified all the kingdoms, he could not help but return to the world in an attempt to seize the imperial power.

In the end, he failed and was killed by Huang Sixi. After Huang Sixi killed Murong Bo, he searched a piece of vine root from Murong Bo's body and found Murong Bo's mental method of cultivating innate true qi.

These mental skills are actually carved on the rock wall of the cave where Huang Sixi is.

At this moment, Huang Sixi stood in the cave, looking around at the writings on the cave wall, thinking: "Murong Bo's path to becoming an innate being should be quite similar to Yan Fei's martial arts path in the Jianghu of "Legends of Borderland". Yan Fei swallowed the spiritual object "Dan Jie" and transformed into an innate body on the spot!
In fact, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling in the "Twin Heroes of the Tang Dynasty" started by practicing the ancient miracle "The Secret of Immortality". Their Qi was also innate, and their physical qualities were reversed in a short period of time. Although it is one in a million to cultivate innate Qi, as long as the opportunity is enough, it is not difficult to advance to the innate realm!"

Murong Bo's ability to cultivate his innate abilities was not based on his personal qualifications, but entirely on chance. However, his chance, in the final analysis, was nothing more than a stepping stone for Huang Sixi.

If he had not discovered the waterfall cave first, Huang Sixi would definitely not have been able to find it by himself, let alone figure out the true medicinal effects of the wood vine, and naturally would not have been able to cultivate the innate method.

Having said that, Wang Yuyan also swallowed a lot of wooden vines. Now she has a congenital body. Can she cultivate congenital true qi?
After Huang Sixi followed Murong Bo's old path, swallowed the wooden vines and transformed his body.

He suddenly discovered that although he had transformed into a congenital body, the internal skills he practiced were all acquired techniques. Due to the different levels, the acquired techniques could only cultivate acquired true qi.

Even if he has a congenital body, he cannot cultivate congenital qi without the corresponding skills.

Wang Yuyan's body is full of acquired Beiming true qi, so naturally she cannot comprehend the innate mysteries.

Afterwards, Huang Sixi began to study the innate method engraved on the rock wall of the cave, and discovered that this was a mysterious skill specifically for practicing internal breathing, allowing the true energy to flow along the meridians and circulate through the acupuncture points throughout the body until all the hundreds of acupuncture points in the body were connected in series without any stagnation. This was considered a big circulation.

When you breathe inward, your true Qi will be generated naturally. Even if your mouth and nose are completely closed and you are not breathing in or out, your body can still breathe freely and be full of energy.

This is the sign of developing innate true qi.

After Huang Sixi finished practicing it, he couldn't help but think of the legendary Island of Heroes. The "Tai Xuan Jing" on that island was also a method of cultivating internal breath for all the acupuncture points in the body. The two skills seemed to be similar.

However, the Taixuan Sutra was carved on the stone wall in tadpole script. There was nothing special about the script in the innate true qi method practiced by Huang Sixi.

He thought again, this method is hidden between the cliffs and is rarely seen in the world. Who is the original creator? Could it be the hermit who wrote "The Eternal Youth Kung Fu"?
As the cave had a long history and its origin could no longer be traced, Huang Sixi quickly put aside his distracting thoughts and focused on practicing his profound skills.

When the innate true qi circulated in his body and came into contact with the acquired true qi accumulated in his meridians and dantian, an incredible scene occurred.

Whether it was his infused internal force or his self-cultivated internal force, they were all transformed into innate true qi imperceptibly. However, the innate true qi transformed from his double internal force combined was pitifully small, and the purity of the two kinds of true qi was obviously worlds apart.

Moreover, he discovered that the internal skills he had practiced in the past, "Nine Yang Divine Art", "Nine Yin Scriptures" and "Northern Sea Divine Art" were all acquired skills. He used his innate body to practice the three internal skills, but he could not develop any innate true qi at all. These internal skills are now completely useless.

Fortunately, his external skills, "Eighteen Palms of the Dragon Subduing" and "Nine Swords of Dugu", can still be performed using the innate true qi, and their power is obviously increased compared to when they were used later with the innate true qi.

(End of this chapter)