The Great Martial Arts World: Hot Topics and Great Heroes

Chapter 130 Speculation on the Essence of Fusion

"I'm so sorry, the 'Innate Skill' was originally written by Patriarch Chongyang. I'm just returning it to its rightful owner... Why should I trouble the Quanzhen Sect to teach me the 'Quanzhen Heart Method' and the 'Quanzhen Sword Method'?" Chu Luren accepted the manual from Ma Yu with great embarrassment.

Ma Yu gave an awkward smile—the past few days, Chu Luren had been muttering things like, "Although the Quanzhen Martial Arts is basic, it's the most suitable for building a foundation," "The Quanzhen Sect's foundation-building martial arts are the best in the world," and "My foundation is just too weak"...

It's quite difficult to pretend you didn't hear it!

And... when did I give you the Quanzhen Swordplay?

"Qinglie, go and fetch a copy of the Quanzhen Swordplay as well," Ma Yu instructed his third-generation disciple calmly.

Anyway, they were just basic martial arts. In the original work, when Zhao Zhijing made things difficult for Yang Guo, he also taught him the sword techniques and incantations, but he didn't teach him how to practice the techniques or even how to identify acupoints.

Zhang Wuji was able to practice the Nine Yang Divine Skill by looking at the manual, because he had a deep family background in martial arts and understood the basics. Yang Guo, on the other hand, only studied the classics and history on Peach Blossom Island and knew nothing about martial arts. No matter how high his comprehension was, how could he possibly master the skills by just reciting the manual?

Zhao Zhijing was willing to give the sword manual to Yang Guo purely to prank him.

There's also the case of Ma Yu passing on the Quanzhen Martial Arts to Guo Jing, where there was no formal master-disciple relationship, yet he still taught it to others...

Chu Luren has been working hard these past few days, and he's been giving fervent hints, so Ma Yu hasn't been stingy with the two basic courses for the Quanzhen School.

After obtaining the mental cultivation method and sword technique, Chu Luren originally intended to linger for a few more days and see how things went on Zhongnan Mountain. He then combined the "Quanzhen Sword Technique + Jade Maiden Heart Sutra Sword Technique" and the "Quanzhen Mental Cultivation Method + Jade Maiden Heart Sutra" into one.

The first two, given Chu Luren's skill level, already showed signs of coordination and a hint of a combined attack technique.

However... Chu Luren had mastered drawing squares with his left hand and circles with his right hand. With his current control, he could draw a dragon with his left hand and a rainbow with his right hand without any problem, but he still couldn't use different sword techniques for each!

After all, the way they exert force and the circulation of internal energy in the meridians are completely different and even conflicting. You can't use different martial arts by splitting your mind into two.

If Zhou Botong could really do it, it would mean that the "Ambidextrous Fighting Technique" in this vast martial arts world must have some other secrets.

Chu Luren didn't want to think about combining the two swords for the time being, but rather wanted to fuse them together, hoping to create some "miracles," since the "compatibility" between the two sword techniques was exceptionally high.

As for internal energy cultivation methods, Chu Luren also hesitated—the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra was Lin Chaoying's masterpiece, while the Complete True Heart Method was just a basic cultivation method carefully compiled by Wang Chongyang after he mastered martial arts, in order to pass it on to his disciples.

In terms of sheer profundity, the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra far surpasses the Complete True Heart Sutra, but considering the special relationship between Wang Chongyang and Lin Chaoying, Chu Luren still decided to give it a try.

Firstly, one emphasizes "yin advancing and yang retreating," while the other emphasizes "preserving vital energy," which do complement each other. Secondly, the Chu Lu people wanted to conduct an experiment on the essence of "fusion"...

However, before Chu Luren had fully adjusted his state and mastered the two mental cultivation techniques and two sword techniques, he heard the news that Yue Buqun and his wife had come down the mountain at the invitation of their fellow martial artists, determined to hunt down Tian Boguang and rid the martial arts world of this scourge!

Yue Buqun needed publicity anyway, so the news wasn't kept secret, and Chang'an was ultimately closer to the Quanzhen Sect...

Although everyone knows that the Quanzhen Sect doesn't dare to make any big moves, Yue Buqun still has to greet Chongyang Palace before he comes here to do his chivalrous deeds.

Therefore, Chu Luren knew the news quite early. When a disciple from Mount Hua came to Chongyang Palace to report this matter, Chu Luren heard about it along with him.

Ma Yu naturally had no objections; on the contrary, she was very grateful to Master Yue for his help.

Upon learning this news, Chu Luren also bid farewell to Ma Yu. In any case, he had already passed on the complete "Innate Skill" to Yin Zhiping in the past few days, which could be considered as fulfilling the entrustment made by Master Yideng when he passed on the skill.

After leaving Zhongnan Mountain, Chu Luren first stopped in Chang'an. After resting for a night, he ignored the news that Tian Boguang had fled to eastern Shaanxi and headed directly along the Wei River towards Huazhou...

There was no rush on the road. A carriage was specially hired so that they could study the two mental cultivation techniques and the two sword techniques as they traveled.

Tian Boguang would definitely lure Yue Buqun away before daring to go to Mount Hua to look for him!

Six days later, Chu Lu finally arrived in Huazhou after a long and bumpy journey. He stayed overnight in Huayin City, and while the city was peaceful, he used the inn to fuse the two mental cultivation techniques and the two sword techniques together...

result……

A double bumper harvest!

Both fusions were very successful, especially the fusion of the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra and the Complete True Heart Method, which gave the Chu Lu people great confidence.

"Just as I thought! Fusion... to a certain extent, is actually a brainstorming session, and the 'badge' is actually the embodiment of the purest martial will in martial arts!" Chu Luren was already seventy percent certain.

Previously in the Langhuan Jade Cave, a large number of pirated manuals were unusable—even though some of them could be mastered.

Later, when Chu Luren obtained the "Shaolin Nine Yang Skill", he actually followed Xie Yanke's misleading cultivation method in the original work, but he did not comprehend any "Flaming Skill".

At that time, the Chu Lu people already had some guesses about the principles of "fusion" and "badges"...

The experience of repeated fusions made Chu Luren's guesses more and more specific, until this semi-experimental fusion took place!

According to Chu Luren's observation, the "badge" formed in his consciousness after he learned a new martial art each time was likely the pure will shown by the creator when he created the martial art.

And integration...

It's like having these wills communicate and brainstorm new martial arts techniques.

Of course, this was the purest exchange of martial arts will, not the actual souls of Wang Chongyang and Lin Chaoying; otherwise, there probably wouldn't have been time to discuss martial arts.

As for the result of this "fusion," it will be a new martial arts will...

Therefore, no matter how profound Chu Luren's understanding of a martial art is, he cannot recreate the used badge. Furthermore, simple modifications or mere imitations made by others that do not contain martial arts will cannot create badges.

The results of the successive generations of the Xiaoyao Sect's founders' "deciphering" were no good, nor were Xie Yanke's nonsensical methods of practice...

It's not simply about the outcome, but about the will of the creator of the technique when they created it!

However, techniques like the Nine Yin Manual and the Nine Yang Divine Skill, although derived from the inner cultivation methods of the first volume of the Nine Yin Manual, already contain new intentions, so they are all acceptable.

The successful fusion of the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra and the Complete True Heart Sutra made Chu Luren even more convinced of his guess.

Chapter 131 A Sword for a Man's Love

Chu Luren had thought long and hard and felt that the essence of "integration" was nothing more than two possibilities.

One is a powerful will, perhaps a latent part of oneself... This "will" can quickly comprehend martial arts and perform integrated deductions;

Secondly, one can collect the will of the founder of martial arts through practicing martial arts, and the process of integration is the exchange of these wills.

Based on the characteristics such as "the possibility of failure in fusion", "the badge will inevitably disappear after fusion", and "the imitation of martial arts cannot be read", Chu Luren gradually leaned towards the second guess.

If it is truly "some powerful will" deducing martial arts, the worst outcome should not be a significant regression. On the contrary, if the martial arts will within martial arts is communicating on its own, in addition to mutually promoting each other, it may also produce mutually misleading results!

The disappearance of the emblem used as material after the fusion also suggests that the essence of the fusion must be related to martial arts itself...

The successful fusion of the "Quanzhenxin Method" and the "Jade Maiden Scripture" undoubtedly confirmed Chu Luren's suspicions.

As for the fusion fragments, they are likely the embodiment of the various inspirations generated during brainstorming. Chu Luren can also use these flashes of inspiration to stimulate his own inspiration, that is, to enter a state of "enlightenment"!

A better understanding of one's own "cheat code" will naturally allow for more targeted integration and even optimization of the "cheat code" itself in the future...

Therefore, it is not surprising that the fusion of the seemingly two different mental cultivation methods, "Quanzhenxin Fa" and "Yu Nu Zhen Jing," would be a great success.

Firstly, although the Quanzhen Martial Arts is basic, it is still... just as no one can say that the chief editor or editor-in-chief of an elementary school textbook is only at the level of an elementary school student with a perfect score in academic subjects. Even if the martial arts will contained in it is only what Wang Chongyang showed when he wrote the Quanzhen Martial Arts and does not include anything else, its level must still be top-notch.

Secondly, there's the inherent compatibility between Lin Chaoying and Wang Chongyang...

Thinking back to his initial success at the beginning of his transmigration, and the subsequent major failure, Chu Luren guessed that the initial reason was that there were also cases of "experts working poorly" in his fusion materials. After all, everyone has to teach apprentices, so during the "brainstorming" process, these exchanges of wills produced results with a very high upper limit!

But what happens next...

Because the Chu Lu people incorporated too many "dull martial arts," even the best martial artists were dragged down and misled by a bunch of mediocre people, leading to a major defeat.

Whether there is randomness involved, the relationship between personal proficiency and fusion results, and how subjective factors influence fusion... all remain to be confirmed in the future.

“The cultivation of the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra requires too high a state of mind; neither stability nor agitation is acceptable, making it unsuitable for building a foundation. Switching to other cultivation methods would be quite difficult… The Complete True Heart Method, on the other hand, perfectly fills the gaps in the foundation. We can consider having the Dream God switch to this Exquisite Heart Sutra,” Chu Luren secretly assessed.

The Linglong Heart Sutra, which is the result of the fusion of the two mental cultivation methods, takes its name from the phrase "jade hidden in stone is exquisite". It not only retains the power of the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra in its later stages, but also lays a more solid foundation!

Furthermore, it introduces the change of "Yang advancing and Yin retreating," which corresponds to the previous "Yin advancing and Yang retreating."

If Chu Luren's guess is correct, this can be considered a martial art jointly created by Lin Chaoying and Wang Chongyang after a highly efficient exchange of their wills—although they are not truly two complete individuals, but rather the wills of each other when creating their respective martial arts.

In terms of quality, it is comparable to the "Northern Darkness Divine Art" and the "Lesser Formless Art". Among the internal skills mastered by Chu Luren, it is second only to the "Lesser Chaos Art"!

The Northern Darkness Divine Art is stronger in its cultivation speed, the Lesser Formless Art is stronger in its imitation ability, and in comparison, the Exquisite Heart Sutra is stronger in the quality of the internal energy it cultivates!

When advancing with Yin and retreating with Yang, one can unleash extremely high speed, becoming much faster in both movement and attack. When advancing with Yang and retreating with Yin, one becomes even more majestic and powerful, with significantly stronger moves and protective inner energy...

Most importantly, it doesn't require two people to practice like the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra!

This was very important to Chu Luren, since they would be training together, and they would often have to take off their clothes and strike some embarrassing poses. Chu Luren was a shy person and felt embarrassed about it.

Without this concern, and given that the "Dream God's" cultivation speed was already fast enough, and that he lacked innate energy and could not fully utilize the wonders of the "Minor Chaos Technique," Chu Luren felt that switching to the "Exquisite Heart Sutra" was a good idea.

As for the two sword techniques, they were combined to form the "Sword of Love and Affection"...

In comparison, Chu Luren was more confident about the great success of the sword technique. However, the name and style left Chu Luren speechless. "Two founders, is this the result of your brainstorming?"

The sword technique is indeed of a very high grade, comparable to the "Tianshan Six Yang Palms" which has not yet been fully integrated into the art.

There are seven styles in total, corresponding to seven different sword energies, and there are also seven sword techniques, each corresponding to one of them.

For example, the first move, the sword energy generated by the technique is called "love at first sight", and the matching sword move is "lust at first sight". The second move is "exchanging glances", which matches "exchanging glances"... all the way to the seventh move "deep affection" and "fiery passion"!

The relationship between them is like that between Tian Boguang's "Wild Wind Blade Qi" and "Thirteen Styles of Flying Sand and Stones".

Chu Luren estimated that, in addition to the "technique," one should also be able to comprehend the "momentum" within these seven sword moves, at which point their power would reach an even higher level.

Unfortunately, the "Dream God" cannot comprehend "momentum," and Chu Luren himself needs a lot of time for enlightenment to comprehend "momentum," so he has no plans to practice swordsmanship for the time being.

After Chu Luren mastered the "Dream God" technique, he had been cultivating for over a month. With the efficiency of a martial arts prodigy, it was equivalent to an ordinary person cultivating the "Minor Chaos Technique" for more than ten years.

At this moment, the "Dream God's" internal strength had caught up with Chu Luren's own foundation, and even... surpassed it.

After that, Chu Luren spent another night transforming the Dream God's "Minor Chaotic True Qi" into "Exquisite True Qi"!

Firstly, the Little Chaos True Qi is highly malleable, and secondly, it is the Dream God's martial arts prodigy physique, which is inherently "resistant to damage".

Even without the blessing of sudden enlightenment, the repairs were completed in one night with a loss of less than 20%.

The Dream God's "Exquisite True Qi" and his original body's "Minor Chaotic True Qi" are now roughly equal in depth...

This is also the ideal state for the "Dream God". When Chu Luren manifests the body of the Dream God, although he constantly consumes "Minor Chaos True Qi", "Exquisite True Qi" can be used infinitely. At the same time, because his meridians are hidden inward, he can continuously circulate and recover during the battle.

When the two are of similar depth, the consumption and recovery are equal. That is to say, Chu Luren's internal energy, even if he only has a dozen years of experience, has the effect of "infinite blue" when he is in the Dream God state!

Of course, the depth of one's inner strength also affects one's power. Chu Luren was also somewhat conflicted at this moment. Should he stop cultivating the "Dream God" to maintain "Infinite Blue," or should he continue cultivating the Dream God? In that case, the depth of the Dream God's inner strength would surpass that of the original body, gradually shortening the duration of its maintenance, but significantly increasing his power.

However, Chu Luren wasn't in a hurry to make a plan in a day or two. The most urgent task was to guard the main road leading up Huashan Sect and wait for Tian Boguang to walk into the trap...

Chapter 132 Waiting for a Rabbit to Fall into a Trap

Tian Boguang has been in a bad mood lately. It seems his bad luck started ever since he met the nun...

A while ago, I encountered my biggest enemy – Monk Bujie!

His martial arts skills far surpassed those of Tian Boguang, and Tian Boguang even felt that he was stronger than Yue Buqun, and he didn't even have a chance to run away.

Moreover... Monk Bujie is actually Yilin's father. If Linghu Chong hadn't risked his life to save her, Yilin would have been taken by him and ended up in Monk Bujie's hands. What good would that have been?