A Legendary Lineage

The news that Senior Brother Xinghe was going to instruct everyone on cultivation techniques spread like wildfire.

Although the Thunderclap Art is considered an introductory cultivation method, there are quite a few disciples in the Thunder Palace who practice it.

When they heard that Senior Brother Xinghe was going to explain the Thunderclap Art to everyone, everyone rushed over at once.

So much so that Chu Xinghe couldn't give a lecture inside the Technique Repository Tower because there were too many people, so he found a place outside the Technique Repository Tower to practice.

The entire temple was packed to capacity in a short period of time.

"I had only heard that Senior Brother Xinghe was kind and righteous before, but I didn't know he was so willing to help others."

"Yes... Our Thunder Palace elders are very busy. Normally, let alone seeking guidance from the elders, even asking our senior sisters and brothers is met with many excuses."

"That's right... it has to be Senior Brother Xinghe! He actually managed to find time to guide us despite his busy schedule."

"Um... does anyone know when Senior Brother Xinghe started practicing the Thunderclap Art?"

"What do you care about that... Senior Brother Xinghe cultivates the Haotian Battle Intent. As the saying goes, if you understand one method, you understand all methods. Senior Brother Xinghe has already reached a level that is beyond the comprehension of both of us."

Chu Xinghe heard the surrounding whispers, but he wasn't embarrassed at all.

Thunderclap Art? I don't know a damn thing about the Thunderclap Art.

If it weren't for the disciples of the Thunder Palace saying they possessed this technique, I would have sworn to know it was from that place.

My understanding of grenades is limited to the basics of throwing grenades and playing the "monkey-like" game.

But looking at the Thunderclap Art lying beside him, Chu Xinghe remained completely calm.

Who says you need to understand the technique itself to instruct others?

That's meant to guide people in a positive direction, but I don't need it at all.

Soon, everyone at the dojo arrived, and the lecture on the Thunderclap Art began.

"Senior Brother Xinghe, I've been practicing the Thunderclap Art for over three months, but I keep encountering problems with blocked Spiritual Qi flow. Could you please tell me what the reason is?"

"Senior Brother Xinghe, we also have a problem with blockages, but apart from that, I always feel a sluggishness when absorbing Spiritual Qi during my Thunderclap Art cultivation. I wonder why?"

At this moment, none of the Thunder Palace disciples were polite to Chu Xinghe, and their questions came at him like machine gun fire.

But Chu Xinghe remained completely calm and composed.

As each disciple of the Thunder Palace finished asking their questions, everyone turned their attention to Senior Brother Xinghe, waiting for him to answer their questions.

Chu Xinghe smiled slightly...

Hehe... You've finished asking your questions, right?

No problems, right? It's my turn, right?

"Actually, the problems you've mentioned have occurred among all the disciples of the Thunder Palace throughout history."

Chu Xinghe, without blushing or panting, began to make up nonsense.

"And I've encountered all the same problems you've raised recently while researching the Thunderclap Art, so after careful consideration, I think... the problem doesn't lie with you."

"It lies in the technique itself!"

"Because the Thunderclap Art Technique... everyone has been practicing it backwards. The technique has somehow gone wrong, so it needs to be practiced in reverse. Once it's practiced in reverse, all these problems will be solved."

Chu Xinghe is known for his outrageous statements.

When the word "reverse cultivation" was heard, the entire temple fell silent.

Reverse cultivation?

It's important to understand that a martial arts technique, from its initial formation to its later stages of cultivation, is the culmination of the efforts of thousands of generations.

It has been proven by countless predecessors through countless failures.

And reverse cultivation?

Is this for real?

It's important to understand that reverse cultivation means that all the ways in which Spiritual Qi circulates must be reversed, which conflicts with one's own Spiritual Qi circulation.

This is a major taboo in cultivation.

Many people were stunned when they heard Chu Xinghe's words.

"Reverse... reverse cultivation? Senior Brother Xinghe means the Thunderclap Art is wrong? It has to be cultivated in reverse?"

"That can't be... Thunderclap Art is one of the three basic cultivation techniques of the Thunder Palace."

"I've heard that practicing against the natural order can lead to qi deviation. Senior Brother Xinghe, you must be joking."

"Stop joking... When has Senior Brother Xinghe ever joked with anyone? I actually think what Senior Brother Xinghe said makes sense."

If anyone else were to say that the Thunderclap Art should be practiced in reverse right now, they would probably be torn to Chenghai by now.

But these words came from Senior Brother Xinghe. No matter how outrageous they were, considering Senior Brother Xinghe's character in the Vast Heaven Sect, everyone couldn't help but nod in agreement.

"At the beginning of reverse cultivation, you will definitely encounter various obstacles, but don't panic. As long as you face the difficulties head-on, you will find that the Thunderclap Art truly opens up a new world after reverse cultivation."

Chu Xinghe looked very serious.

Are you pointing people down the wrong path?

For someone completely unfamiliar with the Thunderclap Art, even making it up wouldn't work.

After much deliberation, Chu Xinghe found the safest method that was applicable to everyone.

That's reverse cultivation... Tell me, what cultivation method wouldn't lead to certain death if practiced in reverse?

Fellow junior brothers and sisters, you can practice with peace of mind. If you don't suffer a qi deviation while practicing the reverse technique, you've missed a great opportunity. When anyone suffers a qi deviation, I'll arrange pills for them. Just take them. If you don't improve your cultivation, I'll admit defeat.

With the pills from the Spirit Crane Palace, let alone danger, you wouldn't be able to avoid breaking through!

You guys take care of the consumption, Senior Brother Xinghe takes care of the punishment. Perfect!

Even if there's no danger, if the elders of the Thunder Palace find out that I gave them random advice... will they let it go? They'll probably cause a huge uproar.

This is in the bag!

Chu Xinghe then explained in detail the various reactions that might occur during reverse cultivation. He said that it was normal to feel uncomfortable at first, as long as you persisted in reverse cultivation, you would soon be able to achieve... cough cough... success!

Chu Xinghe, who had just come out of the dojo, almost couldn't help but sing "Good Days".

Although it was clear that many Thunder Palace disciples still had great doubts about the reverse cultivation of the Thunderclap Art, just as many others truly believed what they were told.

He also stated that he would begin his reverse cultivation upon returning home today.

Look... what a wonderful child...

Even if not all of his fellow disciples would suffer from qi deviation, he would be content as long as a group of them did.

Do not refrain from doing evil because it is insignificant, and do not do good because it is insignificant!

The path to destroying a sect is long and arduous; I must search high and low for the truth.

After concluding his treacherous journey through the training grounds, Chu Xinghe returned to the Technique Repository Tower.

Sitting on the ninth floor of the Technique Repository Tower, Chu Xinghe looked up and down the entire wooden structure of the Technique Repository Tower for a long time.

If a fire breaks out... then tell me... who can protect themselves?

After much thought, this method Taixing... The Technique Repository Tower can be considered the foundation of the Vast Heaven Sect.

If this were to start a fire, indeed no one could protect themselves. Let alone the Grand Elder, even the Sect Master probably couldn't save them.

He'd probably have torn himself apart on the spot.

Forget it... I'll just play it safe and develop cautiously; I can't be too reckless.

The Technique Repository Tower contained countless cultivation techniques. Chu Xinghe spent a whole day looking at various techniques, and how did he feel? It was like if you poked a hole in your head, what would come out would definitely be rice porridge.

With his mind completely muddled, Chu Xinghe returned to his residence at the Spirit Crane Palace, where his Senior Brother Feng Fei was sitting at his desk looking worried.

"Junior Brother Xinghe is back."

Seeing Chu Xinghe return, Feng Fei forced a smile.

"What are you busy with, Senior Brother Feng? Shopping? Do you need my help?" Chu Xinghe asked excitedly.

Last time, purchasing three million Shen Spirit Herbs resulted in the creation of a Spirit Grotto. If given the chance again, Chu Xinghe declared he would definitely rise to the challenge. He refused to believe he could create another Spirit Grotto that way.

"Junior Brother Xinghe, it's not about procurement, it's about spirit weapons. You've been studying in the Technique Repository Tower these past few days, so you might not know much about this."

Several families that have been cooperating with the sect in crafting and imbuing spiritual weapons have demanded that the sect raise the prices for crafting and imbuing spiritual weapons, citing soaring raw material costs.

"The sect leader is furious about this and handed it over to the Grand Elder, which is why it ended up falling on my shoulders... Sigh... If this isn't handled properly, the sect might be in trouble."

Feng Fei's eyes dimmed after he finished speaking.

Chu Xinghe's eyes lit up after hearing this.

"Is the sect in trouble? Senior Brother Feng, please elaborate."

Is there anything better in this world than trouble for one's sect?

Chu Xinghe immediately brought over a small stool and sat down opposite Feng Fei with a serious expression, listening attentively to the lecture.

Soon, Chu Xinghe understood what had happened.

The Vast Heaven Sect is a large and powerful family, and its Spirit Pool is said to contain a million spirit soldiers, but this has not stopped the Vast Heaven Sect from developing.

On the contrary, every year the disciples and elders of the Vast Heaven Sect would go out to various blessed lands and grotto-heavens to search for various precious materials. After these materials were brought back, they would be entrusted to some families that specialized in forging spiritual weapons to forge them.

Therefore, over the years, the number of spiritual weapons in the Spirit Pool of the Vast Heaven Sect has been continuously increasing.

Besides crafting spirit weapons, imbuing them with spirits is also very important.

Not every disciple can obtain such a heaven-defying item as the Haotian Sword Casket.

Most disciples received only the most basic spiritual weapons, which generally had their own flaws.

Enchanting not only enhances the strength of spirit weapons, but also compensates for their inherent weaknesses in various ways.

However, spirit possession also requires various materials.

However, the various powerful families that previously cooperated with the Vast Heaven Sect have recently demanded that the Vast Heaven Sect raise the prices they pay, citing soaring material costs.

This enraged Gu Mingchao. The Vast Heaven Sect had definitely offered the highest price, and these guys were still not satisfied?

Therefore, in a fit of anger, the Vast Heaven Sect directly canceled its cooperation with the major clans.

But the sect still needs to forge spiritual weapons and imbue them with spirits...

So now the task has fallen to the First Elder, and the Sect Master has ordered the First Elder to handle this matter in the shortest possible time.

The Grand Elder, together with many other elders of the sect, thought long and hard and finally came up with two solutions.

The first option is to find other families specializing in spirit weapons to cooperate with.

However, this approach doesn't sound very reliable. After all, the companies that cooperated with the Vast Heaven Sect before were the largest. If we choose others instead of the largest and strongest ones, we might as well raise the price.

As for the second path, the Grand Elder wanted to learn from what Chu Xinghe had done in Spirit City.

The Shi Clan previously refused to cooperate, so Chu Xinghe trained the Stone Masters himself. Although Wang Tieniu and his team cannot yet achieve the same output as when they cooperated with the Shi Clan, at the current pace, they will definitely surpass the Wang Tieniu Shi Clan in two or three years.

This can be considered a one-time solution.

Therefore, the Grand Elder plans to train his own personnel to forge spirit weapons and imbue them with spirits.

However, spirit weapons are different from magic stones.

The creation and imbuing of spirit weapons are far more complex, and it's simply unrealistic to expect to start from scratch like someone like Wang Tieniu.

Therefore, even if one were to take this path, the only option would be to find some families specializing in spirit weapons and recruit them for one's own use.

This was exactly what troubled Senior Brother Feng, since cultivating a family of spirit weapon masters was an unimaginable expense.

Moreover, this choice must be prudent; otherwise, if this aristocratic family fails to achieve anything in the end, the enormous investment made by the sect will ultimately be in vain.

Chu Xinghe's eyes turned red when he heard this.

Holy crap!

Thanks to those friends from the Spirit Weapon Family who raised their prices to help me out!

Thank you for creating such a great situation for me.

"Junior Brother Xinghe, look, this is a list and introduction of some aristocratic families that we, the Vast Heaven Sect, can recruit."

Feng Fei didn't hide anything from Chu Xinghe, but directly presented the list he had compiled to Chu Xinghe.

Picking up the list, Chu Xinghe was greatly disappointed upon seeing it.

The Liu Lineage, ranked first, is a long-established family specializing in spiritual weapons, possessing extraordinary strength. Although they have declined in recent years due to various events, their foundation remains. If they receive support from a sect, wouldn't they take off?

This won't do...

And then there's the Wang Lineage... ugh... no need to read further. The head of the family is called Wang Tieshan, which sounds like Wang Tieniu —that name alone sounds unreliable!

If another Wang Tieniu were to be created, wouldn't I die on the spot?

As Chu Xinghe reviewed the list of Lineage, he was extremely disappointed with the list prepared by Senior Brother Feng.

Senior Brother Feng, aren't you being a bit too cautious?

Just when Chu Xinghe was feeling extremely disappointed, he saw the last Lineage in the list.

Ouyang Lineage?

Seeing Ouyang Lineage Chu Xinghe gave me a feeling of instant excitement.

This Lineage is extraordinary; it's a lineage that has been passed down for thousands of years.

A few years ago, the head of the family Ouyang Qing, accidentally overdosed on a powerful tonic at a brothel and died on the spot in front of a woman.

Upon hearing of the patriarch's death, the Lineage elders were devastated and immediately scattered, carrying their belongings.

Subsequently, Ouyang Ming, the remaining legitimate son of the Ouyang Lineage, along with his sister Ouyang Ling and some disciples whom the Lineage had blinded themselves to choose to stay, joined a medium-sized sect called the White Crane Sect.

In just two years, the Ouyang Lineage made great strides in the White Crane Sect. Although they consumed a lot of resources, they eventually brought the White Crane Sect to its knees, and the White Crane Sect was divided up in just two years.

Afterwards, the Ouyang Lineage switched allegiance to the Azure Heaven Cult, Azure Heaven Cult held Ouyang Ming in extremely high regard.

Ouyang Ming did not disappoint the Azure Heaven Cult. In just a year and a half, the Ouyang Lineage successfully destroyed the Azure Heaven Cult.

After that, Ouyang Ming led the Ouyang Lineage to submit to the Qian Yuan Sect, but the Qian Yuan Sect was an unscrupulous person.

They were extremely wary of the Ouyang Lineage, and were very stingy with the resources they provided. Now, the sect's resources have been preserved, but Ouyang Ming has to find other things to do for research because of insufficient resources.

As a result, this substitution went wrong; the forging room exploded. The Qian Yuan Sect came to the rescue, and through his efforts, the Ouyang Lineage members were successfully rescued. However, he himself was caught in the subsequent series of massive explosions.

After the explosion, the only thing the Qian Yuan Sect found at the scene was the sect leader's remaining toe, which was either a thumb or a big toe. It could be considered that they left the sect leader with a complete body.

Then Qian Yuan Sect acted unfairly, kicking the entire Ouyang Lineage out over such a trivial matter.

Now, under the leadership of the new patriarch Ouyang Ming, the Ouyang Lineage is about to be served their meal.

Looking at such a legendary Lineage, Chu Xinghe's eyes welled up with tears.

Isn't this the lucky star I've been dreaming of?

He racked his brains to bring down the Vast Heaven Sect, but look at the Ouyang Lineage!

In just a few years, they've already brought down several sects!

Let's not even talk about how the Ouyang Lineage has been passed down for thousands of years. Just when it comes to destroying other sects, no one can surpass them!

Chu Xinghe's eyes shone brightly. Such an exceptional Lineage, my Vast Heaven Sect is determined to have it!