Mysterious Charm

Damn it, are they messing with me?

Zhao Tiezhu was losing it. What kind of "Elephant Swallowing Art" was this? They couldn't just play people like this!

Many members of the Warrior Reserve Camp, abandoning all pretense of dignity, started sticking their fingers down their throats, trying to puke out the Guanyin Soil and wood they'd just eaten.

However, it was useless. The Guanyin Soil was incredibly sticky. Once it hit their stomachs, it sank and clumped together, forming a solid mass. It was incredibly difficult to vomit.

The men of the Warrior Reserve Camp even threw up bile, but only managed to cough up a few wood chips. The Guanyin Soil remained stuck in their stomachs.

For a moment, every single man was stunned.

"Lord Zhang, please don't joke with us. We didn't understand those moves at all!" Many of the men were close to tears.

"How could anyone possibly learn moves like that!"

Facing the complaints from the Warrior Reserve Camp members, Zhang Yuxian's expression was cold. He simply performed the twelve movements of the Elephant Swallowing Art again. This time, he deliberately slowed down, allowing the Warrior Reserve Camp members to see more clearly.

However, Yi Yun noticed that when Zhang Yuxian slowed down, the movements lost an intangible mysterious charm!

And it was precisely this mysterious charm that seemed to be the essence of this set of movements!

"I'll try!"

Just then, Lian Chengyu stepped forward.

Lian Chengyu had also eaten quite a bit of Guanyin Soil and wood earlier.

Lian Chengyu did possess some level of comprehension. He managed to demonstrate Zhang Yuxian's movements, but in reality, the movements were severely distorted.

Of course, only Yi Yun could see this. Zhao Tiezhu and the others were already completely awestruck.

"Young Master Lian is truly a divine being!"

"Amazing, to be able to perform moves like these!"

Zhao Tiezhu and the others started showering him with praise. They were genuinely impressed by Lian Chengyu, feeling that he was incredibly skilled.

Yet, Zhang Yuxian studied Lian Chengyu for a while and simply said indifferently, "Barely passable."

This evaluation left Lian Chengyu feeling a sense of frustration. The movements were indeed too difficult. For him to have performed them to this extent should have been considered very good.

Zhang Yuxian, however, only called it "barely passable." Was his standard too high?

Lian Chengyu had always been confident in his own talent. He felt that it wasn't that he hadn't performed well, but rather that Zhang Yuxian was too strict and unwilling to praise him.

At this moment, Lian Chengyu noticed that Zhang Yuxian's gaze was fixed on a certain spot. Following his gaze, Lian Chengyu saw Yi Yun.

Yi Yun had his eyes closed, seemingly lost in thought.

Lian Chengyu sneered inwardly. This kid, after eating so much wood and Guanyin Soil earlier, his stomach must be hurting terribly right now.

The Elephant Swallowing Art was so difficult, its movements endlessly profound. How could a twelve-year-old child possibly learn it? He hoped his stomach would burst today and he'd die from the pain!

Because Zhang Yuxian had praised Yi Yun, Lian Chengyu had always harbored great animosity towards him.

Meanwhile, Yi Yun was completely immersed in his own world.

Yi Yun had only watched half of Lian Chengyu's movements before stopping. This was because only a few of Lian Chengyu's movements were even remotely accurate, and even in those few, Yi Yun found that they all lacked the mysterious charm!

From this point, Yi Yun suddenly had an epiphany. He closed his eyes and began to recall and ponder.

In Yi Yun's mind, Zhang Yuxian's movements played back like a movie, over and over again.

After Yi Yun broke through to the Meridian Realm, his five senses were extremely acute. Although Zhang Yuxian's movements were fast, Yi Yun still gained a unique understanding.

Coupled with his two lifetimes of experience, his high comprehension, and his sea of consciousness being nourished by both the Purple Crystal's energy and the meridian energy, Zhang Yuxian's movements in Yi Yun's mind became increasingly clear. First, the external form solidified, and then, slowly, each movement gained its mysterious charm.

Yi Yun realized that the Elephant Swallowing Art was extremely profound.

First, the stomach ingested the most difficult-to-digest and hard-to-expel substances, and then this set of profound movements was used to train the digestive system.

If one focused on the external form of these movements, then the mysterious charm of the movements would be lost.

And if one wanted to embody the mysterious charm, the external form would be absent.

This was a magical secret technique!

Yi Yun had this thought, feeling that the profundity of the Elephant Swallowing Art surpassed even the "Dragon Marrow Tiger Bones Fist." But why did it become the Brocade Dragon Guard's foundational technique and spread widely among the lower ranks?

Now was not the time to ponder such things. Yi Yun followed the feeling in his mind and slowly extended his hands.

Suddenly, Yi Yun moved. His eyes were slightly closed, not discerning direction, relying solely on a profound and mysterious feeling in his mind, he began to perform Zhang Yuxian's movements.

One after another, Yi Yun's thoughts became clearer, and his speed increased.

To others, Yi Yun's figure even seemed to blur!

Zhang Yuxian's eyes suddenly lit up.

Yi Yun, practicing the Elephant Swallowing Art for the first time, had actually simulated a trace of its mysterious charm! This had nothing to do with cultivation or innate talent, but rather with comprehension.

The difficulty of the Elephant Swallowing Art lay in comprehension—understanding the mysterious charm within its movements. Zhang Yuxian himself had spent a long time to master the Elephant Swallowing Art, enduring great suffering from eating Guanyin Soil during the process.

This kid Yi Yun had such high comprehension!

And the Zhao Tiezhu and the others from the Warrior Reserve Camp were also stunned when they saw Yi Yun's movements. They didn't understand the profoundness of the Elephant Swallowing Art, but even if they were foolish, they could tell that Yi Yun's movements were definitely not just for show. Because Yi Yun's movements also created a sense of incomprehensible illusion!

"This... this kid..."

The group of men were stunned. They didn't need to judge whether Yi Yun's movements were standard or not, because just by looking at Zhang Yuxian's increasingly bright eyes, they arrived at a fact that made them incredibly dejected: Yi Yun had truly mastered the Elephant Swallowing Art!

"How is this possible? This lowly born little slave learned Master Zhang's movements after only watching twice?"

Zhao Tiezhu and the others had no idea how many times Zhang Yuxian had demonstrated the movements. They only saw Zhang Yuxian's movements blur twice and assumed he had demonstrated them twice.

"He actually learned such difficult movements?"

The members of the Warrior Reserve Camp found it unacceptable. They had always considered themselves superior, and in their hearts, they felt they were part of the ruling class of the Lian Clan.

But today, they were being completely suppressed by a lower-class commoner.

The stone roller they prided themselves on was worthless in Zhang Yuxian's eyes, and the things Zhang Yuxian taught them, they couldn't learn at all.

Even Lian Chengyu, the most dazzling rising star in the tribe, seemed to have been overshadowed by Yi Yun!

Lian Chengyu clenched his fists, his eyes filled with deep anger and frustration. This hint of frustration slowly evolved into icy killing intent! (By the way, Zhenwu was blocked from the Sanjiang section the day before yesterday. Thanks to editors Z and Shui Mo for their care. If you have Sanjiang votes, feel free to cast them. If you're reading on your phone and it's troublesome, then never mind.)