Radiant Sun True Qi
"I've pawned them all!"
The Four Little Tyrants of the Capital slammed all their belongings onto the table and said heartily.
"Brothers, give it your all! Our target won't just be Yi Yun; Yi Yun's just an appetizer. We need to climb higher in the rookie rankings and let everyone know how powerful we, the Four Little Tyrants of the Capital, are!"
The fat guy in the group of four gave a concluding speech; he was the leader of the group.
Just then, out of the corner of his eye, he noticed a Linen-clothed Youth staring at them from the doorway, his gaze... quite strange.
The fat man was somewhat displeased. "What are you looking at, kid? Haven't you ever seen such a dashing and imposing group before?"
Who are you?
The fat man glared at Yi Yun.
"Me? Uh..." Yi Yun stroked his chin, his strange expression deepening. "My name is Yi Yun, nice to meet you..."
"..."
The Four Little Tyrants stared wide-eyed at Yi Yun, their mouths slightly agape. They were just talking about Yi Yun, and now he was standing right in front of them?
"You're Yi Yun!?"
"So it's you, brat, who 'Hong Dao Society?"
The tallest of the Four Little Tyrants casually pulled out a dagger and fiddled with it in his hand.
He tossed the dagger into the air again and again; the gleaming blade shimmered with a faint, cold light. This dagger was clearly no ordinary weapon.
"Hey kid, what are you doing here? Pawning things?"
The four men sized Yi Yun up and down, each with a playful expression. They all assumed that Yi Yun had come to pawn something to prepare for the betting in the rookie ranking competition.
Yi Yun shrugged and said, "A loan."
As they spoke, Yi Yun handed the already written IOU to the shopkeeper.
The martial artist had excellent eyesight; with just a casual glance and the reflection of sunlight, they saw the exact number of Dragon Scale Rune Yi Yun wanted to borrow: three thousand!
For a moment, the Four Little Tyrants were stunned. It wasn't pawning, it was borrowing money?
"Haha, I remember now, this kid is a country bumpkin from Yunhuang. He's dirt poor, how could he possibly have anything to pawn?"
"Borrowing money is great! Using high-interest loans as a gamble has potential!"
The Four Little Tyrants all thought that Yi Yun had come to borrow the stakes for a bet.
Borrowing money to gamble, especially at exorbitant interest rates, is a grave taboo; it can lead to utter ruin, leaving you with nothing.
The fat guy in the Little Tyrant quartet excitedly stroked his chin.
In Tai'a Divine City, if you can't repay your loan, you'll have to sleep on the streets. Moreover, you can't leave Tai'a Divine City and have to sleep on the streets for several years in a row. That must be quite interesting.
Yi Yun didn't bother to explain. He completed the loan procedures and, carrying three thousand Dragon Scale Rune, headed back to the Desolate God Hall.
Cultivation is an incredibly tedious process; one must be able to endure loneliness and solitude.
For martial arts masters, it is perfectly normal to go into seclusion for twenty or thirty years, or even four or five hundred years, without eating or drinking, relying solely on absorbing the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi and devouring Savage Bone Relic to sustain life.
To control one's destiny and avoid returning to dust after a hundred years, one must endure this monotony and loneliness.
He cultivated, absorbed Pure Yang Power, and drew the Sun Diagram.
Yi Yun was completely absorbed in his own world, completely mesmerized. Later, he locked himself in his room for three consecutive days, without sleeping or resting, until his mind became somewhat numb.
Before Yi Yun lay a jumble of jade slips, blank ones that Yi Yun had bought from the Myriad Treasures Pagoda. He used his vital energy to copy the Sun Diagram within these slips.
Now, as soon as Yi Yun closes his eyes, the Sun Diagram appears before him, and he can remember every single detail of its texture.
He not only drew this diagram repeatedly in his soul sea, but also on the jade slip hundreds of times.
However, the Sun Diagram in his soul sea is now 99% complete, just a little bit short of perfection.
Yi Yun knew that this final one percent was missing a trace of its Mysterious Charm!
This subtle Mysterious Charm is the soul of the entire Sun Diagram, like a dragon that's missing its eyes.
However, the Mysterious Charm cannot be imitated. Even though Yi Yun had reached the pinnacle of energy control and had tried for three days straight, he still came up empty-handed.
Early in the morning, Yi Yun, with bloodshot eyes, pushed open the door and walked out onto the street.
The sun rose from the east, like a hazy purple flame burning. Yi Yun squinted, looking at the rising sun that the earth had given birth to.
"The sun rises over Tang Valley, traversing the eight directions, illuminating heaven and earth, resplendent and majestic. Of the ten suns of Fusang, who holds the pure Yang...?"
Yi Yun silently recited the general principles of the Tai'a Sacred Law. The sun rose and set day after day, seemingly never to fall from the sky, forever shining upon this desolate divine land.
However, a mortal's life is far too short compared to this.
Even if one holds a high position of power, enjoys wealth and luxury, and has many wives and concubines, it is difficult for them to turn to dust after only a few decades. It is very difficult for them to be recorded in history and remembered by future generations.
Even the most powerful National Scholar and barons, only live for a few hundred years at most. This is insignificant, not to mention in the entire Great Wilderness, even within the Tai'a Divine Kingdom.
Even the ephemeral mushroom knows not the cycle of day and night, and the mole cricket knows not the seasons. Faced with this vast world that stretches endlessly horizontally and the endless expanse of time vertically, fragile lives always feel a sense of insignificance.
However, there are always some people who are unwilling to accept such insignificance.
They would want to explore--
What will the future be like 10,000 years from now? 100,000 years from now? 100 million years from now? Will this world ever end?
What lies at the end of the continent? Is there another continent beyond the sea? Are there heavens beyond heavens?
These people want to gradually take control of their own destiny, conquer the laws of heaven, pursue equality with the heavens, and coexist with the great world!
Yi Yun is also this type of person.
Previously, such a possibility was simply impossible, but now that Heaven has given him this opportunity, he wants to dedicate everything to pursuing and exploring it, to see what the ultimate martial arts are like.
Pursue...
Ultimate...
Eternal...
In mythology, there is the story of Kuafu chasing the sun.
Kuafu did this not for wealth and glory, nor for power or beauty; he simply wanted to see what the place where the sun sets looked like, and what lay beyond the ends of the earth.
According to legend, Kuafu never caught up with the sun because it was too hot and he was too tired. He was so thirsty that he drank the water from two rivers and eventually died of thirst on the way.
It might sound like Kuafu died a foolish death, but it was his pursuit; he wanted to understand the world and conquer it.
At that moment, Yi Yun suddenly seemed to realize something...
He gazed intently at the rising sun in the east, watching the purple qi ascend.
Ignoring his exhaustion, he once again immersed his mental energy in the Purple Crystal...
This time, he was no longer drawing the Sun Diagram based on the jade slip of the Tai'a Sacred Law, but rather based on the actual rising sun!
Pure Yang Energy began to circulate within Yi Yun's body, with energy streams intertwining and crisscrossing, as Yi Yun began to create his own unique Mysterious Charm.
The pursuit of humanity.
The ultimate martial art.
The Eternity of the Way of Heaven...
In life, everyone should have their own pursuits and dreams; what if they come true?
Yi Yun silently recited the phrase he often heard in his past life. He closed his eyes, controlled the Pure Yang Energy within his body, and guided by his senses, he made the final stroke. He felt that this stroke seemed to condense an inexplicable power, deeply imprinting the eternal Mysterious Charm of the sun into the Sun Diagram.
In an instant, the Sun Diagram in Yi Yun's sea of consciousness seemed to come alive.
"Boom!"
A ball of Pure Yang Fire erupted in Yi Yun's dantian, burning fiercely and flowing through his limbs and bones!
Yi Yun's entire being seemed to be bathed in flames, like a Seven-colored Blood Feather reborn from the ashes.
Suddenly, Yi Yun seemed to hear a sound like an eggshell breaking inside his body.
Then, energy surged up! More and more of it emerged, transforming into streams of purple qi that rolled and surged wildly, intertwining with the Pure Yang Energy of the East!
This energy merged uniquely with Yi Yun. At that moment, Yi Yun felt that every cell in his body came alive, absorbing and exhaling the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi!
Yi Yun's entire body shone with golden light, as if there was an iron cage inside him, imprisoning an Ancient Remnant Species. Now, the iron cage was opened, and the Ancient Remnant Species had awakened!
A brand new, inexplicable power filled Yi Yun's entire body!
The purple qi grew increasingly dense, gradually transforming into a long canyon in the sky.
The canyon was shrouded in mist, with trees and rivers, yet these trees and rivers were all enveloped in the blazing Pure Yang Energy, like flames burning.
"Radiant Sun True Qi! This is Radiant Sun True Qi!"
Yi Yun suddenly opened his eyes, and at that moment, his eyes were like a pair of burning suns!
The Radiant Sun True Qi... The moment the Sun Diagram was completed, he possessed the Radiant Sun True Qi!
The cloaked man once said that out of five people cultivating the <Tai'a Sacred Law>, only one could condense the Radiant Sun True Qi. And now, Yi Yun has truly possessed the Radiant Sun True Qi!
Moreover, he had only been practicing the Tai'a Sacred Law for half a month!
The illusory image that evolved from the Radiant Sun True Qi is the Valley of the Rising Sun.
This means that Yi Yun's Radiant Sun True Qi had a grade as soon as it appeared! This was the most basic, Tang Valley-level Radiant Sun True Qi!
...(To be continued~^~)