Silent Tranquility Art

On the Martial Arena.

Everyone's gaze was drawn to the battle between the two of them.

At the Inner Yuan Realm Ninth Layer, Inner Strength was extremely condensed. It could attach to the body or to weapons, and those especially formidable could even extend it ten feet outward, though the moment it left the body, it would immediately disperse.

One of them cultivated Shaking Heaven Strength, while the other cultivated Overturning Sea Strength. Between every lift of the hand and step of the foot, their destructive power was astonishing.

Ning Qi watched seriously.

Yet his heart gradually grew strange.

"Eldest Senior Brother and Fifth Senior Brother are very strong, their Inner Strength nearly ten feet long, but why do I feel like I have the strength to fight them?"

He had a bit of an urge to fight the two of them and verify just how strong he was now, but in the end, he still suppressed the thought.

Very soon.

Jiang Baishan won by a slight advantage.

The crowd watched until their blood boiled with excitement.

Luo Wentian's face was full of gratification. "Fifth Junior Brother, from this day on, you are the second strongest expert of the True Martial Sect!"

Jiang Baishan waved his hands again and again. "If Eldest Senior Brother had not been distracted by the sect's miscellaneous affairs, I fear you would have broken through to the Gang Yuan Realm long ago. This Junior Brother is ashamed."

Luo Wentian laughed loudly. "Between Fellow Disciples like you and me, why be so distant? If you are strong, then I, your Senior Brother, am strong!"

Everyone was moved.

Seeing his disciples so harmonious, Dragon Mountain Daoist also smiled in relief.

Next.

The True Disciples sparred with one another, while the other disciples watched with their hearts racing and their spirits soaring, even more motivated than before.

They had witnessed the power of superior Layered Strength Art. In the True Martial Sect, as long as you made contributions, you would have the chance to exchange for superior Layered Strength Art.

Ning Qi looked at Luo Wentian and sighed inwardly. The True Martial Sect was one family. Since that was the case, what did it matter who was stronger or weaker? Whether he was currently stronger or weaker than Eldest Senior Brother and Fifth Senior Brother was not important at all. The trace of competitiveness he had originally possessed instantly dispersed.

He suddenly felt that he had still been somewhat childish before. Back when the Divine Sword Sect had come up the mountain, even if Chubby Kid had beaten everyone in the True Martial Sect and stood unmatched, so what?

Quietly, he felt that his state of mind had broadened a great deal more.

This was something he had learned from Eldest Senior Brother.

The Year-End Grand Competition ended smoothly, and the cohesion of the True Martial Sect from top to bottom was even greater than in the past. The disciples' enthusiasm for martial training rose even higher than before.

Winter Ends Spring Comes.

Outside the Seeking Dao Institute.

There were now a few more peach blossom trees.

Ning Qi had moved them over from True Martial Mountain. He had always felt that the courtyard was sometimes a little too monotonous. Now it looked much better. With peach blossoms in full bloom, there was naturally a certain mood to it, and it could more or less make him feel a bit more comfortable.

Ning Qi was creating a technique.

After bringing over a few secret manuals, White Ape went off to play.

Now, Ning Qi rarely went to the Scripture Pavilion. Ever since the last Year-End Grand Competition, the disciples' enthusiasm for martial training had surged, and they would go to the Scripture Pavilion to borrow books from time to time. After enough back and forth, it naturally was not so quiet and leisurely anymore.

So Ning Qi simply had White Ape go to the Scripture Pavilion and bring out the books he wanted to read.

As for the Seeking Dao Institute, ordinary disciples were explicitly forbidden from approaching.

Ning Qi looked at the several martial arts in his hands.

"Black Turtle Breathing Technique."

"Withered Wood Breathing Method."

"Breath Holding Art."

"..."

"These few martial arts are all superior martial arts for concealing one's aura. If cultivated to a profound realm, they are enough to leave ordinary people unable to grasp the truth of your depths. They can be called essentials for roaming the Jianghu."

Thoughts turned in Ning Qi's mind.

The aura on his body had already begun to change.

At times, his breathing was long, low, and slow, faint to the point of being nearly inaudible. At times, it declined like withered wood, like a lifeless, secluded pool. At times, his aura vanished completely, making people feel that their eyes saw nothing there at all...

Clearly, he had already cultivated these few martial arts to an extremely formidable realm.

After his last conversation with Dragon Mountain Daoist, Ning Qi had been thinking that he should pay more attention in the future to concealing his own aura. This time, after his Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters had faintly perceived a few traces of strangeness about him, his thought became even firmer: he had to create a formidable Concealing Breath Martial Art.

"These breathing methods are all decent, but they all have flaws. After circulating them, others indeed cannot see your depths, but with one look, they would also know you are not simple."

For example, the Black Turtle Breathing Technique. After circulating it, one's aura became long, low, and slow. As long as you did not circulate your art and did not take the initiative to reveal your strength, ordinary people indeed could not see your strength. But the signs of concealing your aura were likewise extremely obvious, so others would naturally know you were deliberately hiding yourself.

The other few Concealing Breath Martial Arts were much the same, a large cart following a small cart.

This did not match Ning Qi's expectations.

He needed something that would make others completely unable to see his Vitality Intensity, even reaching the point where he could disguise his realm so perfectly the false passed for the real.

"Perhaps... I can borrow from the Suspended Animation State of the Great Dream Nine Deaths Art."

Spiritual Light flashed through Ning Qi's mind.

The essences of several Concealing Breath Martial Arts flowed past one by one.

Very quickly.

A martial art had already taken shape. To Ning Qi, creating this kind of technique-leaning martial art was far easier than creating a Cultivation Technique.

Silent Tranquility Art.

That was, the Physical Body falling silent, vitality becoming calm.

Ning Qi circulated the newly created Cultivation Technique, and the vitality within his body immediately lowered. Very soon, it reached a Vitality Intensity roughly equivalent to that of an ordinary Tendon Refinement Realm cultivator.

A faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Then he circulated the technique in reverse, and his Vitality Intensity surged at a speed visible to the naked eye. In the blink of an eye, it had already reached a level surpassing Luo Wentian and Jiang Baishan!

"The Silent Tranquility Art I created can not only restrain Vitality Intensity, but can also imitate a higher realm. However, among Gang Yuan Realm experts, I've only seen Master and Divine Sword Elder, so the imitation may not be that good. But even so, fooling ordinary people should be no problem."

Ning Qi was in a good mood.

He was confident that if he circulated Silent Tranquility Art, even Dragon Mountain Daoist would not be able to see through his true state.

Even during battle, as long as he did not go all out, he would not expose his true realm.

However, he had yet to see the Heaven-Human Realm.

He did not know what the so-called resonance between Heaven and Human in that realm was all about. Perhaps Silent Tranquility Art could not deceive a Heaven-Human, but in the future, after he came into contact with such experts, he could slowly perfect it.

As for now, it was enough for the time being.

"Besides a Concealing Breath Martial Art, I also need a martial art that can transform my body."

Ning Qi thought. His current body was too young and had obvious features. If one day he truly needed to make a move, it would be best not to expose his identity.

He had taken Dragon Mountain Daoist's warning that day to heart.

Two days later.

Ning Qi looked at the pile of External Hardening Martial Arts and the Bone Shrinking Art in his hands, and his wish had been fulfilled.

Shape Shifting and Bone Changing Art.

It could change the face, and it could change the form.

The Medical Arts Ning Qi excelled at had played a great role in it. As his martial path reached the Inner Yuan Realm and gave birth to Inner Strength, his Medical Arts grew even more formidable, and his control over acupuncture techniques became even more ingenious. The Shape Shifting and Bone Changing Art was merely one manifestation of that.

Ning Qi circulated the Shape Shifting and Bone Changing Art.

The face that had originally been like jade became unfamiliar at a speed visible to the naked eye, his features turning utterly ordinary. Then the cracking of bones rang out continuously, and his body began to grow taller. In the blink of an eye, he had become about the same as a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old youth.

The little Daoist boy who had once gathered the spiritual grace of bell and jade instantly became a perfectly ordinary, unremarkable youth.

Ning Qi nodded in satisfaction.

"Not bad, all things considered, but this still isn't the limit of Shape Shifting and Bone Changing Art."

"For this kind of Cultivation Technique, in the end, one still needs the aid of some medicines to cultivate it to the perfect realm. At that time, whether it's Disguise or changing form, the effects will be even better."

This was different from all the various Cultivation Techniques he had created before. For example, with Iron Shirt, even if Ning Qi could instantly comprehend its subtleties, he still had to practice it step by step, because this kind of Cultivation Technique was, in essence, tempering the Physical Body, not something that relied on Comprehension alone.

However.

Ning Qi's Physical Body was very strong, so practicing it would also take him less time than ordinary people.