Monk and Scholar

"That person is the Blessing Monk from Golden Buddha Temple!"

"It's said he has already passed the Seeing Truth Barrier and become a master of inner force and true qi! I can't believe he also came to Three Talents Manor!"

"Sigh~ He must be here to broaden his horizons, or perhaps establish a branch temple! As for martial arts, their Golden Buddha Temple has its own inheritance!"

"Ah~ I really want to join Golden Buddha Temple and get a legacy!"

"What's your worth? How can you join Golden Buddha Temple without a hundred taels of gold? It's said that in Golden Buddha Temple, learning every martial art requires gold!"

"Shh... Be careful what you say. The Blessing Monk is looking over!"

As the smoking monk walked past, Shi Feizhe heard the whispers of others around him. Only then did he realize that this monk was quite famous and was a monk from Golden Buddha Temple.

The Blessing Monk only briefly browsed the secret manuals below the Seeing Truth Barrier, but he would stop and carefully examine the secret manuals above the Escaping Mundane Realm.

Shi Feizhe glanced at them twice, then got busy with his own affairs.

He discovered a martial arts secret manual called the Nether Springs Divine Shadow Record. It was a secret manual that allowed one to cultivate blood qi while visualizing netherworld deities, ultimately achieving perfection in both, cultivating inner force and true qi, and directly reaching the Escaping Mundane Realm!

On the stone tablet, there were not only the cultivation methods for the Blood Qi Barrier but also a set of protective palm techniques called "Senluo Palm". The deities required for visualization in the Spirit Barrier were also carved on the stone tablet, a total of ten, which were precisely the Ten Kings of Hell.

The only pity was that Shi Feizhe could only understand three or four tenths of this secret manual, and that was with a lot of guessing. The methods for cultivating blood qi in the secret manual also required many precious medicinal herbs and a large amount of food ingredients, which also gave Shi Feizhe a headache!

But no matter what, this set of martial arts secret manuals was exactly what Shi Feizhe needed. Compared to other secret manuals, this one was already very good in terms of concept, completeness, and difficulty of entry.

He would first write down what he didn't understand and go back to study it slowly or come here often to communicate with others. He would also think of ways to get the precious medicinal herbs and large amount of food ingredients!

It was still the same principle, a living person couldn't possibly be suffocated by urine!

So, Shi Feizhe took a charcoal pencil and squatted here, slowly copying. Although he wasn't used to using a charcoal pencil, it was still better than a brush. His handwriting was ugly, but as long as he could understand it himself, that was fine.

He copied from morning until afternoon, and the text was almost finished. However, the portraits of the visualized deities were drawn much slower and were also quite ugly.

There was nothing he could do, he really hadn't learned how to draw. And Three Talents Manor didn't allow rubbings!

For example, "King Qinguang" was in charge of life and death in the human world and the fortunes and misfortunes of the netherworld. His original appearance was very majestic, but under Shi Feizhe's pen, his nose and eyes were crooked, as if he was looking at people askance.

"Uh... Should drawing it like this be okay?" Shi Feizhe looked at his drawing, scratched his face, and ended up scratching his face black.

"According to the visualization method, one visualizes the appearance of the deity in their mind, assuming they are this deity. It's a method of cultivating the real by borrowing the false. I'm just simply recording the appearance of the deity to prevent forgetting. When visualizing, I'll use the memory from the visualization. It should be fine!"

Shi Feizhe pondered for a moment and felt that the problem wasn't big. Anyway, he might have to draw it several more times to deepen the impression.

The first drawing of the deity's portrait would just be a draft.

When the sun was about to set, Shi Feizhe had almost finished drawing (it was really almost finished), when he heard a voice full of vigor.

"That bald donkey from Golden Buddha Temple is smoking here again, completely disregarding the feelings of others!"

People came and went in the stone tablet forest, all kinds of people were there, but they were all whispering, not daring to speak loudly. This was the first time Shi Feizhe had seen someone speak so loudly today.

The speaker was a burly man wearing a light blue scholar's robe, a scholar's turban on his head, nearly two meters tall, with bulging muscles all over his body that stretched the scholar's robe.

"Bu Cunren! This is Wisdom Grass! It can refresh the mind and develop wisdom. It can even allow us to enter the Alaya Consciousness, walk in the Buddha Kingdom, achieve perfect purity, and comprehend the Dharma! How can a muscular Confucian barbarian like you understand?" The Blessing Monk said in a gentle voice.

Huh? Smoking could have this effect?

What about entering the Alaya Consciousness, walking in the Buddha Kingdom, achieving perfect purity, and comprehending the Dharma?

Shi Feizhe was stunned when he heard this. Could it be that the tobacco in this world was different from his previous life?

"Heh~ Who doesn't know that your Buddhist sect is full of smokers, one by one their teeth are yellow from smoking, and they still say they are golden teeth!" Bu Cunren couldn't help but mock when he saw the Blessing Monk's reply.

Their Heaven's Mandate Academy wanted to open a branch in Qiu Yang City, and they had almost finished negotiating, but then the monks from Golden Buddha Temple suddenly interfered. City Lord Lan of Qiu Yang City suddenly raised the price and became indecisive, which really made them uncomfortable.

Today, they came to Three Talents Manor as guests and actually encountered the bald donkey from Golden Buddha Temple. How could he not make a few sarcastic remarks?

"Amitabha! Monks do not lie, and they must also cultivate their speech! Bu Cunren, if you are looking for trouble, this poor monk will offer you some punches and kicks!" The Blessing Monk glanced at Bu Cunren and said with a cold smile.

"Heh... Bald donkey, are you afraid I won't succeed?" A ball of five-colored light emerged from Bu Cunren's body, and he said, "Today I am a guest at Three Talents Manor, and it is quite impolite to fight here! Come! I will wait for you on the lake!"

Saying that, he leaped lightly, flying towards the lake next to Three Talents Manor like a large bird.

"Heh... Five Virtues of Heaven and Man? This poor monk will also accompany you!" A faint golden light emanated from the Blessing Monk's body, making him appear unlike a mortal, and he also flew towards the lake.

Two masters who had cultivated true qi were about to fight on the spot! This instantly ignited the Jianghu people studying martial arts secret manuals in Three Talents Manor!

Between choosing to read secret manuals and watching people fight, the choice was naturally to watch people fight! Especially two true qi masters!

The secret manuals were on the stone tablets and wouldn't run away, but true qi masters fighting wasn't something you saw every day!

A crowd of people rushed towards the lakeside, and Shi Feizhe, with his thin arms and legs, couldn't outrun this group of people, so he could only follow far behind them. Then he saw a five-colored true qi turn into a giant sword on the lake not far away, slashing at a golden object!

Looking at the amount of true qi these people had, and then looking at the few wisps of true qi in his own Dantian. Shi Feizhe felt the gap between humans and dogs!

How could he know that both of them were masters of the Qi Sea Barrier in the Escaping Mundane Realm, with surging true qi filling their Eight Extraordinary Meridians, like a vast ocean. The next step was to refine the three hundred and sixty acupoints all over their bodies, allowing the true essence to circulate in the meridians and acupoints to form a Great Circulatory Heaven!

This was another level of the Escaping Mundane Realm, Circulatory Heaven!

Seeing the five-colored giant sword slash down, the golden light on the Blessing Monk's body greatly intensified, forming a Buddha's dharma image, which was Amitabha, also known as Amitabha!

The Blessing Monk raised his right hand, forming a hand seal like a pair of scissors, blocking Bu Cunren's sword.

"You bald donkeys are just like turtles!" Bu Cunren was not surprised that this sword did not have any effect.

Their Heaven's Mandate Academy believed that everyone who came to the human world was arranged by heaven and had their own destiny! The scholars of their Heaven's Mandate Academy naturally had to educate all beings and fulfill their destiny!

In this chaotic world, it was time to set things right, find a wise ruler, inherit the mandate of heaven, and re-establish a dynasty!

Therefore, this palm of his was the "Five Virtues Reincarnation!"

Monk: Wisdom Grass is good, staying up all night chanting scriptures, boundless magical power!