The Great Martial Arts World: Hot Topics and Great Heroes

"Yes, yes, Chaoying, you're the best." Wang Chongyang said with a hint of doting affection.

Chu Luren and Li Mochou both felt unwell...

Indeed, as a mature and shrewd person in the martial arts world, Chu Luren deliberately spoke at length with the coffin open so that those below could hear him.

Otherwise, what if they are cultivating?

After finding the two lovebirds, Chu Luren originally wanted to go find Xiaolongnu again and ask Cheng Lingsu, who had gone to gather herbs, when she would be back. But just then, he heard Jin Dan chirp in surprise!

The cry was urgent, indicating that something was amiss. Chu Luren quickly used his lightness skill to rush towards the stone chamber of the cold jade bed.

As soon as they got close, Chu Luren sensed something was wrong—the temperature had dropped too much!

When I rushed to the door, it was probably already minus thirty or forty degrees Celsius. The indoor temperature was so low that an ordinary person's nose would freeze off in a few breaths.

At the same time, Xiaolongnu also fell to the ground. Jin Dan had swelled up to a height only slightly less than that of an ordinary person, and was quite strong. He was holding Xiao Hong in one hand and pulling Xiaolongnu's hair with the other, dragging her out—Yunluo would be very familiar with this position...

Chu Luren also lent a hand, putting his arm around his sect leader. He felt that her whole body was ice cold, obviously due to the cold entering her body, so he quickly walked outside. Chu Luren was not afraid of the low temperature, but Xiaolongnu's condition was not right!

We need to get to a safe place soon so I can start healing myself...

Chapter 873 Cold Dragon

In a stone chamber of an ancient tomb, as Chu Luren finished his practice, the golden light emanating from Chu Luren and the little dragon girl in front of him faded—oh, and there was also Xiao Hong beside him.

"How is it?" Li Mochou asked hurriedly.

"The frostbite on my body and meridians has subsided, but... for some reason, my true energy is still stagnant." Chu Luren frowned.

At this point, Xiaolongnu's body was fine, but her true energy was stagnant like ice, blocked in her meridians. For the time being, it did not endanger her life, but if it continued, she would not only lose all her martial arts skills, but she would also not live long!

Lin Chaoying also rushed forward to take Xiaolongnu's pulse. In terms of healing through internal energy cultivation, the two of them combined were no match for Chu Luren's single finger. However, they were knowledgeable and skilled in medicine.

However, Lin Chaoying's expression also turned serious, and she did not speak, clearly indicating that the situation was not good.

Little Red then flapped its wings and stood up—its true energy had also been stagnant, but it gradually dissolved on its own, clearly showing that humans and birds are different!

"What exactly happened?" Chu Luren asked, picking up Xiao Hong.

"Coo coo coo..." Little Red tried its best to perform, but it was clear that it was just acting out its own ice-pecking act. Then, Little Dragon Girl happened to walk in.

“It should be this.” Wang Chongyang then threw something the size of a piglet on the ground.

Chu Luren was stunned when he saw it—it was the corpse of some kind of creature, with the head of a snake that looked somewhat horny and angular, a small section of body covered with fish scales, and a fish tail, but no fins or limbs!

The body had already been disemboweled, and judging from the wounds, it was probably inflicted by Xiao Hong. Moreover, the body was frozen solid...

"What is this?" Chu Luren looked at Wang Chongyang in confusion.

“I found it in the ice chamber, inside the broken ice,” Wang Chongyang explained, then paused and added, “I don’t know what it is, it looks somewhat like… a Chi dragon?”

Chilong is a legendary dragon with a dragon's head and a fish's body, without claws or horns.

More elaborate buildings feature dragon-shaped decorations that curve upwards on the roof, which are called Chilong.

Upon hearing this, Chu Luren looked at it more carefully. If the "dragon head" looked like this, it was indeed a bit far-fetched. However... considering that it did indeed have a snake's head and a fish's body, it was not unreasonable to say that this was the Chilong that the ancients had seen.

This thing should have been in the Cold Jade Bed before... or rather, in the Thousand-Year-Old Mystic Ice. Moreover, this thing seems to have a close relationship with "snakes." It was pecked out by Little Red and swallowed its gall bladder!

It was probably at that moment that Xiaolongnu went to check on her, only to be injured by the escaping cold poison...

In contrast, Little Red clearly had a racial advantage over it, and Chu Luren suspected that even without absorbing his divine light energy, Little Red could naturally digest this thing.

Even the Golden Gallbladder resisted the overflowing cold poison, which made Chu Luren somewhat suspicious that it was because Xiaolongnu usually cultivated on the Cold Jade Bed that the reaction was so severe.

whimpering...

With a soft cry, Little Dragon Girl woke up.

Li Mochou and Lin Chaoying were both taken aback – given the nature of the original "Jade Maiden Heart Sutra," Xiaolongnu's sleeping posture was extremely stable, so how could she make such a sound when she woke up?

Sure enough, after Xiaolongnu woke up, she still had a slight frown on her brow, which was definitely not an expression Xiaolongnu usually had.

“Long’er…” “Junior Sister, how are you feeling?” Lin Chaoying and Li Mochou both asked.

"What's wrong with me? I can't gather my inner energy." Little Dragon Girl was also puzzled, then added, "The place where my true energy is gathered is a little... painful."

The fact that Xiaolongnu maintained that expression and even spoke about it suggests that it wasn't just a matter of "some" pain!

Chu Luren's heart tightened—he had never seen or encountered such a situation before, but after noticing it, he had a guess in his heart, and sure enough, he couldn't be completely unaware!

If we were to use a metaphor, the current Little Dragon Girl would be like someone whose meridians and acupoints are being pierced by Dongfang Bubai's needle energy, and who is constantly being jolted...

Grandma Sun was wiping away tears with heartache, trying her best not to let Xiaolongnu see. She had watched Xiaolongnu grow up. Just then, the door-opening mechanism outside was triggered.

Upon hearing this, Granny Sun hurriedly went outside—firstly, because she didn't want Little Dragon Girl to worry even more if she saw her crying, and secondly, because it should be the Cheng family's daughter returning now, and that girl has excellent medical skills, so perhaps she can find a solution!

Soon, two hurried footsteps sounded, and Granny Sun and Cheng Lingsu, carrying a medicine box, rushed over.

"What's wrong with Sister Long? Huh? A Han Chi? This... should be a cub, right?" Cheng Lingsu recognized the strange creature's corpse at a glance and seemed to know something about it.

Upon seeing this, Chu Luren quickly explained what had just happened to her.

Cheng Lingsu's expression turned serious. She first took Long Jie's pulse, and then wiped Long Jie's sweat with a pained look on her face. Clearly, she knew how uncomfortable the seemingly unaffected Xiaolongnu was!

Seeing this, Lin Chaoying quickly said, "You all go outside and talk. I'll teach Long'er a new set of the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra first. Maybe it can help him dissolve his true energy!"

The Jade Maiden Heart Sutra is inherently very drying, so if it can dispel this cold poison, it would be a great thing.

Moreover, Lin Chaoying also took the opportunity to send the others away, in case Miss Cheng had no good news. Xiaolongnu's mind became even more troubled after hearing this.

Cheng Lingsu also came out with Chu Luren and the others. Chu Luren did not forget to pick up the corpse of the so-called Han Chi.

"What's going on with this thing? So Junior Sister was really harmed by this? Is there any hope... What should we do?" After Li Mochou left, she hurriedly asked Cheng Lingsu.

"Actually, I don't know much about it either, and I've never seen it. It's only mentioned in the 'Medicine King's Divine Manual.' The Cold Dragon is a kind of spirit beast that only becomes active after the Heavenly Gate opens. The Cold Dragon's gall can be used as medicine, but it's extremely poisonous..."

The skills described in "The Divine Scripture of the Medicine King" may not be particularly advanced, but its records of these rare treasures are comprehensive and invaluable!

After death, cold jade, also known as millennium-old ice, began to form around the corpse, which is indeed a characteristic of the Cold Dragon.

As for Xiaolongnu's current symptoms, Cheng Lingsu felt that it was somewhat like using "Cold Dragon Gallbladder" as medicine without harmonizing its cold poison, causing the Cold Dragon poison to seep into the meridians and causing the true qi to "freeze"!

This is a common negative use case when using the cold-blooded dragon in medicine...

Of course, this is just a record. In reality, it hasn't been many years since the first Heavenly Gate opened, and this is the first time Cheng Lingsu has seen the Cold Dragon.

"Does the 'Medicine King's Divine Manual' describe how to solve this problem?" Chu Luren was pleasantly surprised upon hearing this—since it records such an example of error, there should be a way to remedy it, right?

“Well, if these two are really the same, or the causes are similar, according to the records of the Medicine King’s Divine Chapter, there is a prescription that uses the blood of the Cold Dragon as an ingredient, which can relieve this symptom. However… the Cold Dragon has been dead for a long time, so it needs to be warm blood.” Cheng Lingsu looked helplessly at the corpse of the Cold Dragon.

It seems that it wasn't this cold when Han Chi was alive!

"Is there any source for the Cold Dragon in the 'Medicine King's Divine Manual'?" Chu Luren asked without hesitation.

"This... Six hundred years ago, the Frost Dragon appeared in the Great Snow Mountain of the Western Regions, but it was ferocious and difficult for ordinary experts to subdue..."

Chu Luren interrupted directly, asking, "How should we preserve this so-called 'passion'?"

Cheng Lingsu shook her head: "It can't be preserved. If you insist on going to find it, then I'll go with you and use what we have on hand."

Chu Luren himself wasn't too bothered; no matter how fierce the Cold Dragon was, it wasn't necessarily more ferocious than Yaoyue, and he could always escape. However, upon hearing that Cheng Lingsu was going, he hesitated for a moment and didn't speak immediately. Instead, he waited for his sister-in-law to say something, hoping for good news...

Chapter 874 It should be you who is not good enough

Things did not go as expected. Lin Chaoying's "Enhanced Jade Maiden Heart Sutra" was obviously not very effective. Lin Chaoying first mysteriously called Wang Chongyang out and said something. Then Wang Chongyang called Chu Luren out alone, as if he wanted to have a heart-to-heart talk.

"Chao Ying's 'Jade Maiden Heart Sutra' can only alleviate the symptoms of this cold dragon's true energy, but cannot cure it... It can only temporarily dissolve the true energy so that Long'er will not suffer for the time being." Wang Chongyang said the most important thing first.

Upon hearing this, Chu Luren breathed a sigh of relief, at least it wasn't completely ineffective.

"Then I'll trouble you, Sister-in-law, I'll go to the Great Snow Mountain in the Western Regions!" Chu Luren made up his mind to ask Cheng Lingsu to come with him, but he would ask her to wait for him in the small town at the foot of the mountain. After obtaining the blood of the Cold Dragon, he would return as soon as possible.

“No, this is not a matter of troubling your sister-in-law… It is easy for people of the same sex to go astray when practicing the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra, as you know. In fact, it would be best to use the Innate Skill that I taught you to harmonize with her Yin and Yang! If you cannot be completely sincere, at least you should first promote her practice of the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra.” Wang Chongyang said seriously to Chu Luren.

"Huh?" Chu Luren was taken aback upon hearing this, and somewhat understood what Wang Chongyang was trying to say.

In other words, even if the requirements for dual cultivation cannot be met, at least a few days should be given before Xiaolongnu is allowed to practice the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra once.

And the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra...

That's incredibly hot!

The original is incredibly exciting!

It requires not only a certain mindset, but also complete openness and honesty.

"Well... then I'd like to trouble you, senior brother, to send me the new 'Jade Maiden Heart Sutra' first, so I can try it out." Chu Luren felt he could give it a shot and see if he could modify it into a single-player version.

Otherwise, setting aside the issue of his own shyness, it would be very inappropriate for him to bring Xiaolongnu, who had temporarily lost all her martial arts skills, along when he was going to the Great Snow Mountain.

Wang Chongyang also held nothing back, which is why Lin Chaoying sought him out first—otherwise, it would have been somewhat awkward if his sister-in-law had taught Chu Luren the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra.

Chu Luren practiced for a while, and since he had the original version of the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra as a foundation, he quickly became proficient.

Then, naturally, it was integrated into the "Dao Embryo Crossing Calamity Scripture"—the original "Jade Maiden Heart Sutra," which is within the martial arts of the "Dao Embryo" lineage.

In this way, although Chu Luren could not change the fact that the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra required auxiliary cultivation in the short term, at least if he cooperated with the "Dao Embryo," he would not have a surface consciousness, and Little Dragon Girl could treat him as a cultivation tool...

Firstly, to avoid making the girl shy, and secondly, to prevent being too agitated and losing control, thus going astray!

After all, even if the second version of the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra is not used for dual cultivation, one still cannot wear clothes when cultivating to the later stages, and even... the positions are more difficult!

Chu Luren can use his powers freely, but Xiaolongnu cannot.

"How is it?" Wang Chongyang asked when he saw Chu Luren open his eyes.

“Dual cultivation with Sect Leader Long is definitely not feasible, but coordinated cultivation is more than enough… Alas, it’s a pity I can’t find a way to help others cultivate alone for the time being,” Chu Luren said regretfully.

Chu Luren himself was fine; becoming a small part of the "Dao Embryo Crossing Tribulation Scripture" did not affect his own cultivation.

Wang Chongyang: ? ? ?

Why did your first reaction upon receiving the dual cultivation technique was to change it to your own practice? What kind of behavior is that?

“If it’s not working, it should be you who’s not working,” Wang Chongyang said, looking at Chu Luren.

Chu Luren immediately retorted, "What do you mean I can't? I've never even heard of the 'Indestructible Vajra Divine Skill'! I..."

"Does the Vajra Indestructible Divine Skill affect one's state of mind? I mean, it's not possible to cultivate with others, and the reason is mostly because of you... what do you think?" Wang Chongyang looked at Chu Luren strangely.

"State of mind? Utmost sincerity and integrity? I certainly can't do that, but..."

Chu Luren admitted this, after all, if that were enough to be truly sincere and genuine, wouldn't that make him too much of a romantic saint?