Choosing and Practicing Techniques

The Scripture Pavilion was a grand hall, thirty meters long and twenty meters wide. Inside, there weren't many books, they were placed very spaciously, numbering around a thousand.

These thousand books were all cultivation techniques for the Innate Stage, capable of cultivating up to the Golden Core Stage. In the outside world, they were top-tier martial arts secret manuals that people would fight tooth and nail for, but here, there were a thousand of them.

The fifty-five people had already found the secret manuals they wanted and were constantly memorizing them.

Zhong Shan, however, started from the beginning, flipping through them one by one.

Including those in others' hands, there were a total of sixteen books with white finger marks on the back, the best secret manuals.

Zhong Shan spent half a day continuously sifting through them and finally selected two cultivation technique secret manuals.

Great Yang Divine Skill and Supreme Yin True Scripture.

One was extremely rigid, the other extremely soft. Each had ten levels. True essence was formed at the sixth level, and after the tenth level, breaking through meant reaching the Golden Core Stage.

The Great Yang Divine Skill was naturally for the Main Body to practice, while the Supreme Yin True Scripture was for the Hidden Body practicing in the distant Zhong Manor.

The content of the two books was clearly not as extensive as the Red Phoenix Heavenly Scripture and the Heavenly Devil Body Tempering Great Technique.

When hungry, he would go back to eat something, and when full, he would return to memorize the books. During this time, Zhong Shan's Hidden Body did not copy these cultivation techniques. Instead, he just memorized them. It wasn't that Zhong Shan hadn't thought of it, but rather that Zhong Shan knew the importance of reading and memorizing the first time. Often, the first time yielded the most insights.

Eight days, after eight days, Zhong Shan had completely memorized the contents of the two secret manuals.

Zhong Shan's residence was in a mountain valley, with a very good environment. There was a waterfall, below which was a deep pool, and next to it was a small courtyard. Beside the courtyard, there was a plot of land. The Kaiyang Sect provided a large number of seeds.

Looking at the seeds in the house, Zhong Shan felt a strange sensation.

Self-sufficiency? The Kaiyang Sect had no servants, everything depended on oneself. If one found it troublesome, they could hunt some animals in the mountains and cook them themselves, or find some spiritual fruits to eat. After all, this place was an entire mountain range, with abundant resources. However, there were fierce beasts in the mountains, so one needed to be careful. If they died, no one would care.

However, the residences of the disciples were absolutely safe because there were formation arrays protecting them, preventing poisonous insects and fierce beasts from approaching.

Of course, only those in the Innate Stage still needed to eat. Upon reaching the Golden Core Stage, they could replace grains with the energy of heaven and earth.

Looking at these seeds, Zhong Shan felt a strange sensation, but in the end, he still sorted them out, some vegetable seeds and some rice seeds.

It took a few days for Zhong Shan to divide the plot of land next to the house. Some were for planting vegetables, and some were for planting rice. After all, he was in the Innate Stage, and everything was completely done after a few days.

There were various tools in the house, which were obviously used by previous occupants.

The Supreme Yin True Scripture was an extremely Yin cultivation technique, paired with a set of sword techniques, temporarily cultivated by the Hidden Body. After all, just a few days ago, the Hidden Body had also reached the Innate Realm, and could just cultivate it.

The Great Yang Divine Skill was an extremely rigid cultivation technique, paired with saber techniques, and cultivating around fire had better results.

Fire? Where did the fire come from? Go up the mountain and chop firewood. Zhong Shan looked strangely at the flat and bare surroundings, feeling extremely peculiar in his heart. If he were in the Great Kun Kingdom, wouldn't he have whatever he wanted? Here, why did it feel even harder than a poor farmer?

However, for the great cause of cultivating immortality, Zhong Shan endured it.

Closing his eyes, he began the first level of the Great Yang Divine Skill. The Great Yang Divine Skill used true qi to refine flesh, skin, tendons, and bones. Zhong Shan quickly began practicing. He sat like this for half a day, barely reaching the introductory level by evening.

His dry rations were all eaten. He caught some fresh fish from the nearby pool and cooked them himself.

He spent the night in meditation. Zhong Shan did not slack off in the slightest. The next day, as soon as it was light, he picked up a large saber that was already in the house, took some rope, and went to chop firewood.

Once outside the valley's great formation, it was no longer safe. Looking carefully at the surrounding forest, Zhong Shan did not go too deep. He only cut down two large trees on the periphery and dragged them back with a rope.

Outside the courtyard, he chopped the trees into many sections and put them into the woodshed.

Next, Zhong Shan practiced saber techniques.

Within the Great Yang Divine Skill, there are only two saber techniques: one is 'Heaven Splitting Strike', and the other is 'Exterminate'. However, for saber techniques, one must pay attention to the patterns of splitting and slashing. Everything has a weakness. To split or slash something is not by brute force, but by finding its weakness. Just like the grain of wood, as long as you split along the grain, the power will be doubled, and the effect will be vast.

Then, let's chop wood. Zhong Shan quickly discovered that wood has the most grain and is the easiest to practice on.

With the logs chopped in the morning, Zhong Shan began his wood-chopping career.

Following the movement technique of the Great Yang Divine Skill, he chopped and slashed with each stroke. The former generation's wealthy man was actually doing such hard labor.

At first, either the movement technique was right but the saber technique was wrong, or the saber technique was right but he couldn't accurately hit the grain. After hitting the grain, the wood grain would suddenly change midway, so he couldn't chop it completely from beginning to end.

However, Zhong Shan persisted.

Two days later, both the movement technique and saber technique were already proficient, but he still couldn't split along a single grain to the end. Therefore, Zhong Shan was not very satisfied with himself. When he went to get more wood, he found that all the wood had been chopped into small pieces.

There was no more wood.

Looking at the chopped wood, Zhong Shan kept some for cooking and took the rest outside the courtyard. Outside, according to his requirements, he dug a large pit and made the soil into blocks, placing them aside.

The area around the large pit was filled with wood.

Zhong Shan stripped off his clothes and jumped into the center where there was no wood. He lit a fire and sat cross-legged. Flames rose all around. In the center of the flames, Zhong Shan began to continuously circulate the Great Yang Divine Skill.

The Great Yang Divine Skill, under a large fire, could stimulate cultivation. It was indeed so. As Zhong Shan cultivated, he felt that the surrounding flames seemed to be constantly tempering his body, and his true qi also absorbed some of the heat from the fire, continuously nourishing his body.

His whole body was already red from the smoke and fire, but Zhong Shan felt that cultivating this way, the speed of cultivation was more than twice as fast as before.

Having tasted the benefits, Zhong Shan cultivated even harder until all the wood on the periphery turned into dry ash and the flames extinguished. Only then did he adjust his breathing and finish his cultivation.

Looking at the pit of ashes, Zhong Shan quickly dug them out and sent them to the nearby field as fertilizer, making use of waste.

Chopping wood to practice saber techniques, burning wood to refine divine skills. Even during rest, Zhong Shan made an effort to keep himself in a state of true qi circulation and breathing adjustment. Without stopping for a moment, Zhong Shan practiced the Great Yang Divine Skill very, very diligently.

Finally, after a month, he reached the first level of the Great Yang Divine Skill. The first level, finally the first level. After a month, Zhong Shan's face showed extreme excitement.

At this moment, not far from Zhong Shan's courtyard, near the vegetable patch, there was a large house. Next to it was a large shed, and inside the shed, there was a pile of chopped wood. This large house, however, was something Zhong Shan built himself during this time: a kiln, a large kiln.

When practicing, flames rose inside, and Zhong Shan sat in the center, resisting the heat, tempering his body, and practicing the Great Yang Divine Skill. At the same time, he also made bricks and stones, baking them out for Zhong Shan to use in building houses.

Zhong Shan reached the first level of the Innate Realm in this kiln.

Stripping off his clothes, he pushed open the stone door and walked out of the fire kiln. All the hair on his body was burned off, but his skin was not blackened by the smoke and fire; it was just a little red.

He went to the edge of the deep pool and plunged into the pool, carefully washing his body. After washing, his whole body felt much more comfortable. He made some food and then continued to practice. In addition to the Great Yang Divine Skill, Zhong Shan also practiced the Red Phoenix Heavenly Scripture and the Heavenly Devil Body Tempering Great Technique. Although these two cultivation methods were auxiliary, they still had their miraculous aspects.

Since his practice was quite hard on his clothes, Zhong Shan usually practiced with his upper body bare.

The next day, Zhong Shan left the valley, took his saber, and went to chop wood.

Meanwhile, inside the Kaiyang Hall. Tian Xingzi, Gu Shuangzi, and Xuan Xinzi had already returned. They seemed to have just discussed something, and all three were frowning and silent.

Just then, Tian Ling'er, who had received the news, suddenly ran to the main hall.

"Dad, did you get the Somersault Cloud?" Tian Ling'er asked as soon as she entered the hall.

"Somersault Cloud?" Tian Xingzi paused noticeably. Gu Shuangzi and Xuan Xinzi looked at Tian Ling'er strangely at this moment.

Somersault Cloud? What Somersault Cloud?

"That person named Zhong Shan told me everything, so don't lie to me," Tian Ling'er said coquettishly.

"Told you what?" Tian Xingzi frowned and looked at Tian Ling'er strangely.

"It's the Somersault Cloud, one somersault, one hundred and eight thousand li," Tian Ling'er said with eyes full of excitement.

The three of them exchanged glances. Then they all looked at Tian Ling'er with their mouths open.

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