Rapid Progress (Continued)
In stark contrast to the fierce and powerful spear techniques she displayed earlier, her Swordsmanship was gentle and graceful, her footwork agile and swift. The sword light, following her movements, bloomed like a halo on the snow-white ice plain, dancing gracefully with the swirling snowflakes. It was as beautiful as a painting, a sight to behold.
Cambrian Spear Art, Vast Cold Immortal Sword Art.
These are two sets of martial arts that Ling Huanxi taught to Murong Qing. The former is naturally the martial art she is best at, while the latter is the signature technique of her sect, the Jade Toad Heavenly Sect. In a sense, the Vast Cold Immortal Sword Art is the Jade Toad Heavenly Sect's trademark. However, everyone has their own talent, Ling Huanxi is more proficient in the Cambrian Spear Art.
Murong Qing's talent in spearmanship was outstanding, but it still couldn't match her talent in Swordsmanship. Therefore, Ling Huanxi taught her this Swordsmanship.
The Vast Cold Immortal Sword Art is a sword dance that combines killing techniques with dance techniques. It hides danger within its breathtaking beauty, so that people can be taken away without warning, and even in the moment of death, they are still captivated by the exquisite dance and cannot extricate themselves.
The ice sword reflected a cold light. The girl, who had taken off her down coat and was only wearing a rainbow dress, was like a jade tree and a flower. Her sword flashed and her shadow was Jinghong. Every move she made was like a painting. The sword light was around her and reflected the surrounding snow light. It was as if there was a moon in the sky and a moon on the ground, and she was Chang'e in the moon.
After finishing her dance, Murong Qing paused her swordplay. Her pores opened wide, releasing heat while drawing in the surrounding cold air. She showed no discomfort; instead, she quickly replenished her depleted Primal Qi, and the True Qi in her meridians circulated rapidly, instantly strengthening her Internal Cultivation once again.
"The Glacier Divine Art" is the direct lineage internal Internal Cultivation method of the Jade Toad Heavenly Sect. It uses the major ice ages in geological history as its subject of contemplation, also known as the Ice Age or Hyoga Period. Its hallmark is a significant cooling of global temperatures and the thickening and expansion of polar ice caps, covering all continents and oceans.
Murong Qing originally cultivated cold-attribute Internal Cultivation, so switching to the "Glacier Divine Art" wasn't too difficult. The only obstacle was that the "Glacier Divine Art" was Higher Vehicle internal Internal Cultivation, requiring practitioners to reach at least Internal Energy Level Seven, while Murong Qing only Internal Cultivation Level Five, so it shouldn't have been possible for her to master it.
Fortunately, the low temperatures here helped her. The temperature on the snow-capped peaks remains between minus thirty and minus sixty degrees Celsius year-round, making it a dream training ground for martial artists with cold-attribute Cultivation Body. With the help of Ling Huanxi, a Nascent Spirit Transformation expert, she was able to achieve her goal ahead of schedule.
Murong Qing his sword, calmed himself, and approached Ling Huanxi respectfully, asking, "Master, how is my training going?"
"That's all I can teach you. From now on, you have to walk the rest of the road yourself."
Ling Huanxi's language remained as concise as ever, as if she felt tired of saying even one more word.
But after nearly two months of contact, Murong Qing realized that the person in front of her, who seemed unapproachable and had a distant attitude, was actually warm-hearted and cared for her, a newly initiated disciple. However, he was not good at expressing himself in words. Every time she practiced the "Glacier Divine Art", he would spare no effort to use his Martial Dao Will to help her visualize the world's ice age. Otherwise, she would not have been able to succeed in her cultivation so quickly.
Some aspects of the Cultivation Method are difficult to describe clearly using language alone. Often, it's not that the authors didn't want to use plain, straightforward language to explain, but rather that plain language lacks imagery and cannot lead people into the state of "enlightenment." Complex descriptions lack room for imagination, and explaining things too clearly can create intellectual barriers. They simply had no choice but to use "mysterious and profound" descriptions instead.
Therefore, beginner-level Cultivation Method are often concise and very practical, with texts that read like explanatory texts, telling you what postures to adopt, from which part of your body to begin channeling energy, or from which meridians to channel True Qi.
However, the more Higher Vehicle the Cultivation Method, the more mysterious and esoteric words it will contain that cannot be understood from their literal meaning. This will greatly test a person's literary skills.
Of course, there are also some people who are not very good at literature, but have an exceptionally high level of comprehension. They can see the meaning behind the words and understand the author's intention. Such people even understand more deeply and thoroughly than literary masters because they do not have fixed thinking patterns and their imagination is boundless and will not fall into clichés.
It's fortunate that Chinese is a logographic language, which has the effect of expressing ideas and images, allowing people to understand the meaning from the text. If it were a language like English, even the most intelligent person would be confused.
However, people with high comprehension are ultimately a minority in the world. In order to help some disciples who are not very comprehension but are very good in other aspects to Higher Vehicle superior Cultivation Method, the senior masters came up with a method of using Martial Dao Will will to assist visualization.
Just as novels cannot match comics in terms of expressiveness, comics cannot match animation, and animation cannot match the virtual space of fantasy, this cultivation method uses Martial Dao Will will to create a virtual world, and then pulls the disciple's consciousness into the virtual world to convey the True Intention in an immersive way.
Not perceptive enough? Then strengthen your expressive abilities until even those with low comprehension can understand your meaning.
Therefore, Higher Vehicle Cultivation Method often emphasize authentic and original texts, because they retain the author's Martial Dao Will, making it easier for practitioners to understand and reducing the chance of making mistakes. Simple textual rubbings are of little value.
This is why, even after the martial arts revolution, the Su State still only publicly reveals Qi Refining Realm. Higher Vehicle superior martial Cultivation Method is useless; on the contrary, it can easily lead people astray.
Admittedly, this method is of little use to Si Ming. He can learn a scripture with Martial Dao Will attached after reading it once, and he can also learn a scripture without Martial Dao Will attached to it will help.
After completing her martial arts training, Murong Qing went to the closed entrance to the mountain cave, found a clean spot, sat cross-legged, and began to meditate and cultivate the "Glacier Divine Art."
She chose this location to utilize the leaked radiation energy to accelerate her cultivation. Although she didn't know how to absorb radiation, radiation itself had the effect of stimulating cell activity. The so-called mutation was actually a kind of cell evolution, but this kind of evolution might not be suitable for the development of the human body.
In contrast, Internal Cultivation is a kind of energy that optimizes life, allowing life to transform in the most suitable direction.
When the two combine, radiation stimulates the activity of cell evolution, Internal Cultivation adjusts the direction of cell evolution, thus producing incredible effects.
Ling Huanxi broke through to the Spirit Transformation Realm because of this. It should be noted that among the four sworn brothers, she had the worst aptitude and was predicted to have no hope of reaching the Nascent Spirit Transformation without any extraordinary encounter. However, she steadily entered the Spirit Transformation Realm without any extraordinary encounter, relying on the stimulation of the icy and snowy environment and radiation energy.
Based on her own experience, even with Internal Cultivation to regulate it, long-term exposure to nuclear radiation will still leave hidden dangers. However, the incubation period can last for decades. As long as one advances to the Nascent Spirit Transformation Realm before the mutation erupts, the hidden dangers can be eliminated. It should be noted that the Spirit Transformation Realm expert's control over the physical body is far superior to that of the Qi Refining Realm.
After accepting the suggestion, Murong Qing seized every minute to cultivate, since she wouldn't be staying here for a long time like Ling Huanxi; she only had one summer vacation left.
When she wakes up, she either practices Swordsmanship and spear techniques or cultivates Internal Cultivation. The former consumes her Primal Qi, while the latter replenishes Primal Qi, forming a cycle that suppresses her sleep time to a pitiful three hours.
Fortunately, she has always been a hard-working person since childhood and has long developed a habit of diligence and hard work. If it were a young person who only works sporadically, they would have given up long ago.
On the other hand, since entering the mountain, Si Ming would come out to rest every three days, and each rest would not exceed six hours. His attitude towards training also stimulated Murong Qing's competitive spirit. Not wanting to fall behind, he desperately squeezed out his potential.
In return, Murong Qing not only learned the Cambrian Spear Art, the Vast Cold Immortal Sword Art, and the Glacier Divine Art during this period, but also broke through to level six in Internal Cultivation half a month ago.
What bothered her a little was that her breasts seemed to have grown a bit more.
From a biological instinct perspective, full breasts are probably a correct evolutionary direction for mammals.
In ancient societies, women with small breasts were considered a species to be eliminated, as it meant their offspring would not receive sufficient nutrition. It was only with the advent of industrial society, the development of productivity, and the abundance of resources that milk powder as a substitute was created, making small breasts a widely accepted attribute.
As the sun was about to set, Murong Qing opened her eyes, regulated her breathing, and said to Ling Huanxi beside her, "The temperature seems to have risen quite a bit today, especially the temperature on the mountain; it's almost minus ten degrees Celsius."
"Your classmate, this is the crucial moment; success or failure hinges on tonight."
Ling Huanxi offered an explanation, then suddenly looked up into the distance.
Although her face remained expressionless, Murong Qing, having spent the past few days with her, had begun to understand her somewhat, and asked, "What happened?"
She also gazed into the distance, but all she could see was a vast expanse of white, with nothing else in sight.
"The demonic tide is coming. Tonight is a night of slaughter."
Ling Huanxi turned around and said in a slightly heavy tone, "I... can't protect you."
Murong Qing glanced at her feet. Si Ming's breakthrough also happened tonight. Was this a coincidence? Or a conspiracy?
She recalled that night when she and Si Ming hid in a cave to avoid the onslaught of the demon tide, and clenched her fist, saying, "I can protect myself."
Ling Huanxi shook her head slightly. "Tonight is different from the past. I can sense that a powerful enemy will appear this time, and I myself will be in danger."
Murong Qing could not hide her shock. She still remembered that morning when she woke up and saw the corpses of Demon Beast all over the mountains, but her master was not stained with blood. Although she did not show her emotions at the time, this scene really gave her a strong mental shock.