Martial Arts World Assassin

Chapter 319: The Method of Shattering the Sky
Huang Sixi did not refuse the kindness of the girl in hemp clothes and accepted her bamboo flute and secret book.

She also took the clothes given by Huang Sixi and went to the woods to change.

Huang Sixi saw many abandoned war horses nearby, so he led one over and gave it to the girl in hemp clothes to use on the journey.

Two more relics were found from the bodies of Fu Gongju and Li Zitong.

Fu Gongju practiced the mysterious magic skill "Heavenly Heart Lotus Ring", and was highly valued by Huang Sixi. However, Fu Gongju's aptitude was limited, and he did not cultivate "Heavenly Heart Lotus Ring" to perfection.

Fortunately, the complete secret method was included in Fu Gongju's relics, so Huang Sixi could comprehend it on his own.

As for Li Zitong's unique internal skill "Nine-Section Swing", it was far from the "Three-Part Return to Origin Qi" practiced by Huang Sixi. Huang Sixi read the remaining internal skills on the relic and then forgot about it.

After inheriting the two martial arts, the girl in hemp clothes had changed into new clothes and came back to meet Huang Sixi.

She knew that she would be separated from Huang Sixi soon, so she restored her original appearance so that Huang Sixi would recognize her when they met again in the future.

Huang Sixi's eyes lit up as he looked at her coming towards him.

The beauty is stunning at first sight. The girl looks to be in her twenties, with skin as white as cream and a radiant glow. Her temperament is so noble and elegant that one cannot look at her directly.

Except for a slightly tired and weathered look on her face, she was almost flawless.

She noticed Huang Sixi's gaze and smiled: "Sister-in-law's clothes fit me very well, but they are too exquisite and luxurious. I am a little uncomfortable with them. They are definitely not as good-looking as Sister-in-law's."

She likes to dress simply and elegantly, which is consistent with her quiet temperament.

Huang Sixi did not comment on the difference between her and Yin Ruiji, but pointed at her waist-length hair and said, "Your hair is too shiny and too eye-catching. You'd better put it up."

Among the clothes Huang Sixi sent her was a warm cloak with a hood sewn on it. As long as she wrapped the cloak tightly, it could completely cover her face.

She wore a jade hairpin, and she skillfully tied her hair up, then put on a hat. Just as she was about to ask Huang Sixi if she was dressed appropriately, Huang Sixi had already turned and walked away.

She was known as a talented woman in the martial arts world, with unparalleled flute skills and beauty. In the past, any man who saw her true face would be completely fascinated and lose his mind. Huang Sixi did not seem to find her special, which made her think that Mrs. Huang Sixi should be a more outstanding woman than her.

Seeing Huang Sixi leading her horse, she followed him and could not help asking, "The clothes you gave me look like those of a royal family. Is my sister-in-law a daughter of a noble family?"

She had previously always called Huang Sixi "Lang Jun", but now that she knew that Huang Sixi was a married man, she began to call him "Xian Xiong".

It is common for people from all walks of life to become sworn brothers and sisters when they go out to make a living.

Huang Sixi asked curiously, "Have you ever seen the attire of the royal family?"

Her beautiful eyes flashed with reminiscence: "I haven't seen many. I was invited to play music before and met several ladies from aristocratic families."

Huang Sixi confessed: "You guessed wrong. My wife is not from a wealthy family, but a courtesan of an imperial court."

"Official prostitute?"

She was stunned for a moment. Mrs. Huang Sixi's identity was far from what she had imagined, but she didn't think there was anything wrong with being an official prostitute. Instead, she thought that Huang Sixi was indifferent.

She commented on her own: "Brother Xian must like his sister-in-law to the extreme."

Huang Sixi handed her the reins and replied with a smile: "If you don't like me, there's no way we can get married."

She pursed her lips and praised softly, "It is said that parents decide on marriages, matchmakers decide on marriages, and you should make your own decisions on marriage. It is also precious that you are determined to do it for your beloved."

Huang Sixi looked at her and said, "I am an orphan, so I don't need to ask my parents for their opinions. Besides, I am a child of the underworld, so I don't have to follow traditions. When I got married, it was actually a naked marriage. My wife married me without hesitation."

She looked confused: "What is naked marriage?"

Huang Sixi told her: "I have no family background, no official status, no house or land, which makes me the same as a refugee."

Her expression hesitated for a moment, and she wondered if her brother's family had encountered some disaster, which led to the decline of the family?

She was worried that if she continued the conversation, she would bring up a topic that would make Huang Sixi sad, so she ended with an exclamation: "Brother Xian, you really live a free and easy life."

She took the reins and jumped onto the horse's back.

By leaving, she can completely get away from the deaths of Li Zitong and Fu Gongju, and will not be troubled by any trouble in the future, but Huang Sixi is different.

Finally, she warned Huang Sixi: "Brother, you are alone and weak, so it's best not to stay in the territory of the Jianghuai Army and the East China Sea Army for too long!"

She paused for a moment, then reluctantly said, "I have been through thick and thin with you, and we should have stood together through thick and thin. However, I am afraid of dragging you down, so I have no choice but to leave. Please don't blame me for my disloyal behavior! I will leave now, and take care, brother!"

She bowed gracefully.

Huang Sixi also clenched his fists: "Take care on your journey too!"

She galloped on her horse, and after going more than ten feet, she suddenly pulled the reins tight and turned around: "Little sister Shi Qingxuan, did you forget to ask for your brother's name?"

Huang Sixi said: "My name is Huang Sixi."

She smiled sweetly: "Brother Xian is really the fourth one! I'll take my leave now!"

She bowed slightly to Huang Sixi, turned her horse forward, and walked away gradually.

It was not until her figure disappeared among the distant mountains and forests that Huang Sixi held up the bamboo flute and secret book she had given him to examine them.

The sound skills contained in the secret book are unique and can restrain the attacks of spiritual secret techniques, but they must be used in conjunction with the bamboo flute.

However, in actual combat, Huang Sixi's holding of the flute is far less convenient and effective than holding the Dragon Subduing Sword.

Therefore, the bamboo flute is useless to him in combat, but the secret book of sound skills involves the method of refining the mind, and Huang Sixi will study it when he has time in the future.

His top priority now is to find the "Secret of Immortality".

After putting away the bamboo flute and the secret book, he picked up the Feng Shui compass and began to sense abnormal weather.

The fire in the valley that had caught fire earlier has slowly died down as the nearby trees and weeds have been burned out.

By the time the heat completely dissipated, Huang Sixi had already gone more than ten miles away from the valley. He saw the needle of the Feng Shui compass suddenly shake, pointing from "fire" to "gold".

Huang Sixi was very happy to see this, as it was a good omen.

If the compass points to gold, it means that there is a strange aura of rare metal in the surrounding area.

Huang Sixi immediately began to rotate the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches on the compass according to the Qimen Dunjia technique taught by the Clay Buddha to calculate the source of the strange energy.

He worked for a while and finally finished the calculation. Suddenly he looked up and stared at the southwest direction, then used his lightness skills to search for it.

He was looking forward to it, thinking to himself: "If the compass of the clay Buddha can really find the "Eternal Life Secret", it will definitely help me in my treasure hunt. Maybe I can use the compass to find the whereabouts of the "God of War Atlas"!"

Although "War God Atlas" is the most mysterious of the four great books and has never appeared in the Tang Dynasty, Huang Sixi knows that "War God Atlas" is hidden in a place called the War God Temple in Jingyan Palace.

The Temple of the God of War is a world of its own, not only preserving the "Atlas of the God of War" secrets, but also burying the Vajra corpse left behind by Guangchengzi, the ancient Yellow Emperor's teacher after he lost his way.

In other words, the Temple of War God was opened up as early as the ancient times, and it was sealed in the deep mountains and dangerous peaks, and no one has ever been able to get a glimpse of its secrets.

It was not until the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty that local people discovered an ancient secret palace on Jingyan Peak, which alarmed the then royal Zhao family. They ordered people to dig and reveal a mysterious palace complex, and named it Jingyan Palace after the mountain. The Temple of the God of War is hidden under Jingyan Palace.

As for the specific locations of Jingyan Palace and the Temple of the God of War, Huang Sixi only knew that they were located in the Qianligang Mountains in western Zhejiang, but he needed to use a Feng Shui compass to calculate which barren mountain they were hidden in.

After all, Jingyan Peak is a name given to the mountain by the common people hundreds of years later. It has not yet been called Jingyan. The palaces are all sealed inside the rocks, and it requires a Feng Shui compass to sense them.

After a while, Huang Sixi arrived at the entrance of a valley according to the guidance of the Feng Shui compass, and he also collected his thoughts from the "Atlas of the God of War".

If the Feng Shui compass was not wrong, the source of the strange metallic energy was in the valley right in front of Huang Sixi.

He put away the compass for the moment and stepped into the valley.

With a casual glance, he found an inconspicuous low stone tomb covered by weeds in a poplar forest on the left side of the valley.

He thought that if the person buried in the tomb was the Goryeo swordsman Fu Jun'er, then the "Secret of Immortality" should also be buried with him in the tomb.

When he walked to the stone tomb, he saw that the soil next to the tomb showed signs of loosening.

Although the soil layer had almost returned to its original shape after several months, Huang Sixi still noticed something unusual.

Huang Sixi used the Jingji Knife to turn over the soil and dug out a small box made of wooden boards several feet below.

After he opened the wooden box, he couldn't help but smile.

Inside the box was a thin book, the pages of which were woven with hair-thin gold threads, and the cover was inscribed with three oddly shaped oracle-bone characters.

This is exactly the ancient treasure book "The Secret of Immortality" that was made using black gold thread by Shi Long, Tian Wen, Kou Zhong, Xu Ziling, and Fu Jun'er in recent months.

According to oral legends, "The Secret of Immortality" originated from Guangchengzi, the ancient teacher of Emperor Huangdi. The entire text was written in oracle bone script and is profound and difficult to understand.

Although there are many talented people who have handled "The Secret of Immortality" throughout the ages, there has never been a wise man who can integrate all the oracle bone inscriptions and decipher the mysteries in the book.

The book contains a total of 7,400 types of glyphs, and so far only more than 3,000 glyphs have been deciphered, which is less than half.

All the deciphered contents were recorded beside the oracle bone script of "The Secret of Eternal Life", forming complicated and confusing annotations. Many of the texts came from generations of holders, who left their deciphering experience after reading "The Secret of Eternal Life".

In addition to the oracle bone inscriptions and deciphered annotations, "The Secret of Immortality" also contains seven human-shaped diagrams with completely different postures. Various symbols are marked on the meridians of the diagrams, some of which are red and black dots, and some are arrows and lines.

It is obvious that this is a guide to a certain method of cultivation, but if one does not understand the true meaning of the oracle bone inscriptions, and directly stimulates the true Qi according to the meridian lines of the human-shaped diagram, it will instantly cause the Qi and blood to churn. If one continues to practice regardless of the danger, the worst case scenario is that one will go crazy and suffer severe damage to the internal organs, or die instantly on the spot.

Huang Sixi possesses the talent for body infusion. He thought that after finding the "Secret of Immortality", he could trigger the secret of famed relics recorded in the treasure book. Then he would be able to directly infuse his body with the Qi of Immortality without having to practice.

Who would have known that the cover of "The Secret of Immortality" did reveal the inscriptions of the famous master's relics, but they could not be infused into the body at all.

"The relics of the famous masters: Contains the 'Breaking the Void' method, combined with the four great books 'War God Atlas', 'Devil's Strategy', 'Eternal Life Secret', and 'Cihang Sword Classic', you can read and inherit it!"

After reading the text, Huang Sixi felt dazed.

When he was in the turbulent world of Jianghu, he combined the nine magical weapons and thus achieved the state of "Sword Heart Enlightenment".

Now in The Twin Dragons of the Tang Dynasty, the relics of famous figures are going to be combined again to form the four great books.

But the four great books are not magical weapons, so how can they be combined?
Huang Sixi really didn't understand. Did the famous man's relics ask him to find the original volumes of the four great books and combine them together, or to practice the martial arts of the four great books in depth and just combine the four methods into one to consider the combination a success?

Now the original volume of "The Secret of Immortality" has fallen into Huang Sixi's hands.

The original volume of "Atlas of the God of War" is hidden in the Temple of the God of War in Jingyan Palace. If Huang Sixi uses the Feng Shui compass to go to the Qianligang Mountains and conduct a carpet search, he should be able to find "Atlas of the God of War".

The original volume of "Cihang Sword Canon" has been kept in the main hall of Cihang Jingzhai, and Huang Sixi also has a way to find it.

But what puzzled Huang Sixi was that the original volume of "The Devil's Strategy" seemed to have disappeared.

Of course, the rumor that there is no original volume is just a rumor. It is also possible that there is another original volume of "The Heavenly Demon Strategy" collected in a headquarters of one of the six sects of the two sects of the Demon Sect.

Huang Sixi thought: "I can make two preparations. On the one hand, I can look for the original volumes of the remaining three great books, and on the other hand, I can slowly study the Secret of Immortality while on the road."

He did not intend to live in seclusion in the valley to practice the "Eternal Life Secret" because the relics of the famous master did not specify whether he should combine the original scrolls or blend the original methods.

If it was the original combined volume, then he would have spent several years practicing "The Secret of Immortality" alone, which would delay the search for the original volume.

Since he had just killed the rebel leaders Li Zitong and Fu Gongju, it was bound to cause an uproar in the Donghai and Jianghuai rebel armies.

He didn't want to get involved in any more trouble, so he stayed in the valley for a month, waiting for the storm to pass.

During this period, he deciphered all of the more than 7,000 oracle bone inscriptions recorded in "The Secret of Immortality".

The 'art of Qimen Dunjia' that he inherited in Fengyun Jianghu is all-encompassing, including the identification of ancient exotic texts, various bronze inscriptions, and oracle bone inscriptions, all of which can be easily solved in his hands.

In fact, even if you haven't deciphered the text of "The Secret of Immortality", you can still practice it successfully with just the seven human-shaped diagrams.

Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling practiced the human-shaped diagram alone, one person practicing one, and they got started smoothly.

Kou Zhong practiced the Yin diagram, and after mastering it, extremely Yin true Qi surged in his body. Xu Ziling practiced the Yang diagram, and after mastering it, extremely Yang true Qi surged in his body.

Once two people are injured in battle, they will transfer their true energy to each other, so that the yin and yang can be balanced, and no matter how serious the injury is, it will heal in an instant.

Even if their internal energy is excessively depleted, once their yin and yang qi are exchanged and complemented, they can gather energy again endlessly.

Whenever two people fight side by side, the Yin and Yang Qi is almost inexhaustible.

Therefore, the Yin-Yang Qi of "The Secret of Immortality" can not only heal injuries, but also quickly restore true strength, which is just like the "Three-Point Return to Origin Qi" of a higher level.

However, Huang Sixi has been practicing "Three-Point Return to Origin Qi" for several years, and his Return to Origin Qi is unparalleled. He also has the matching martial arts "Sky Frost Fist", "Paiyun Palm", "Wind God Leg" and "Three-Point Divine Finger" to use.

He has always had dual internal strength in his body.

At present, the Guiyuan Internal Force he cultivated on his own is weaker than the Guan Nei Internal Force, but as long as he persists in practicing the "Three-Part Guiyuan Qi", it is only a matter of time before he surpasses the Guan Nei Internal Force.

His internal strength was inherited from the Sword Saint. During his bloodbath in the Japanese martial arts world, he obtained hundreds of relics of famous masters. No one's internal strength surpassed that of the Sword Saint.

If the internal strength is not profound enough, it is impossible to create the invincible sword move of "The Twenty-Three Swords of Destroying Heaven and Earth".

With the extraordinary skills of the Sword Saint, if we compare only the internal strength, we should not find anyone who can match him even if we search all over the world of The Twin Dragons of the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, it would be very difficult for Huang Sixi to infuse his body with higher internal strength in The Twin Dragons of the Tang Dynasty.

He planned to use the Yin and Yang Qi gathered after practicing the "Eternal Life Secret" to slowly cover his internal strength.

In this way, he can practice the "Eternal Life Secret" without giving up the "Three-Part Return to Origin Qi".

After he made up his mind, he began to practice dual internal skills at the same time.

More than a month passed in a flash.

He left the valley and embarked on a journey to search for the three great books.

(End of this chapter)