Dragon-Slaying Thrust, Overturning Rivers and Seas

After a tiring afternoon, Luo Zhou finally returned home.

Not wanting to bother with cooking, he ordered a meal from a roadside restaurant.

Soon, the waiter delivered the food: Twice-cooked Pork, Three Delicacies from the Earth, and Hot and Sour Soup. Luo Zhou ate heartily.

After finishing his meal and resting for a bit, he brewed a pot of green tea and began to cultivate.

Cultivators in Green Ridge City, even those like Gu Shanhe, all practiced the Heaven and Earth Dao Sect's three basic body refining techniques: Baiyang Body Refining Technique, Green Profound Body Refining Technique, and Purple Heavens Body Refining Technique.

After forging the body and advancing to Qi Refining, they would switch to the White Yang Qi Refining Art, Green Profound Qi Refining Art, or Purple Heavens Qi Refining Art.

But Luo Zhou was different. In the body forging stage, besides the three basic body refining techniques, he also practiced the Black Nether Body Refining Technique and Brown Scale Body Refining Technique, taught by academies in neighboring counties.

Each of the five body refining techniques had seventy-two forms. Anyone who mastered forty-nine forms of any single technique would have successfully cultivated it and potentially awakened their Spirituality!

Luo Zhou began cultivating at the age of seven. After eight years of arduous practice, he had mastered all five body refining techniques, all three hundred and sixty forms, one by one.

Actually, the Luo Family wasn't native to this area. The family had some background, having once produced a Golden Core ancestor and being one of the cultivation families of the Heaven and Earth Dao Sect.

However, they later declined. The ancestor perished, and over several hundred years, the family fragmented. His parents ended up here.

Despite their decline, they still had a foundation. The family possessed secret manuals for the five body refining techniques and Qi Refining Arts, as well as secret transmissions.

The secret transmission stated that mastering all three hundred and sixty forms of the five body refining techniques would inevitably lead to the birth of acquired Spirituality!

This wasn't a great secret; everyone within the Heaven and Earth Dao Sect knew about it.

It was just that practicing the five body refining techniques was as difficult as ascending to heaven, with countless obstacles.

The academies stipulated that mastering forty-nine forms of one technique was considered great success. To master all five techniques was practically impossible.

Luo Zhou also discovered during his cultivation that reaching forty-nine forms for each body refining technique was incredibly difficult.

He spent six years without completing forty-nine forms of any single technique. However, during his cultivation, Luo Zhou gradually discovered the profound mysteries of the five body refining techniques.

These five body refining techniques secretly contained the principles of the Five Elements.

White Yang represented Metal, Green Profound represented Wood, Black Nether represented Water, Purple Heavens represented Fire, and Brown Scale represented Earth.

The mutual generation and restraint of the Five Elements were common knowledge in his previous life.

Following the rules of mutual generation, Luo Zhou first practiced Green Profound, then Purple Heavens, then Brown Scale, then White Yang, then Black Nether, and then re-practiced Green Profound...

Wood, the beginning of the Five Elements; Water, the end of the Five Elements; Earth, the center of the Five Elements.

Wood generates Fire, Fire generates Earth, Earth generates Metal, Metal generates Water, Water generates Wood...

One form followed another, never rushing, the Five Elements working in harmony, generating and restraining each other.

This continued for two years, resulting in rapid progress and no further obstacles.

The numerous bottlenecks and hurdles from before seemed to have vanished, all easily overcome.

Thus, sixty-eight days ago, all five techniques and three hundred and sixty forms were completely mastered.

In truth, upon completing forty-nine forms of any of the five techniques, acquired Spirituality would be on the verge of emerging, but Luo Zhou forcefully suppressed it, preventing awakening.

He waited until all three hundred and sixty forms were gathered before awakening!

This was how he gained the ability to reward good and punish evil!

After completing a grand cycle of cultivating the five techniques and three hundred and sixty forms, Luo Zhou let out a long breath and wiped the sweat from his body.

He drank down the cooled green tea in large gulps!

After resting for a while, Luo Zhou took out Spirit Wood from the cabinet.

Spirit Birch Wood, a specialty from Great Xuan Mountain, contained faint spiritual energy and could be made into various staffs and clubs. Each piece cost about fifty Copper Coins.

It was found everywhere on the mountain, sold throughout Green Ridge City, and even used as firewood by some wealthy families.

He took out a piece of Spirit Birch Wood, about four feet long and three inches thick.

Luo Zhou examined it carefully, then took out his Wood Carving Knife and slowly worked on it, gradually shaping the Spirit Birch Wood into a straight Short Spear, three feet long and one inch thick.

Various runes were meticulously carved onto the Short Spear, not a single one out of place.

He had to prepare the Dragon-Slaying Thrust for hunting dragons tomorrow!

Luo Zhou silently circulated his Spiritual Power and the Dragon-Slaying Thrust technique...

"Heavy Radiance Jade Morning, Profound Scenery Bright, Distant True Path, Shining Seven Treasures Essence, One Thought Crosses Tribulation, Long With Supreme, Rotating Offering Yellow Scenery, Sun's Radiance Void Born, Great Cave True Precepts, Profound Sensing Devil King..."

Muttering the incantation, a strand of Geomagnetic Qi, previously stored from Gu Shanhe, slowly circulated out from his dantian.

This spiritual energy gathered onto the Short Spear, and the two merged silently. The Short Spear gradually became crystal clear.

A year's worth of True Essence cultivation was infused into the Short Spear. The Short Spear quietly shortened, becoming two feet and one inch long.

Luo Zhou exhaled. It hadn't shattered. It was a success!

He took out another piece of Spirit Birch Wood, crafted another Short Spear, and once again infused it with Geomagnetic Qi.

After a long while, it was successful again!

Luo Zhou smiled and attempted to merge the two Short Spears. Under the operation of his Spiritual Power and the Dragon-Slaying Thrust technique, the two spears combined.

They only became shorter, now only two feet long!

Luo Zhou refined the third Short Spear, then fused it in, making it one chi and nine cun shorter.

He tried to refine the fifth one, but this time it shattered with a crack.

A surge of spiritual energy dissipated, and Luo Zhou felt a pang of heartache.

This kind of refining should, by rights, only be possible at the Qi Refining stage.

However, Luo Zhou, through his 'Reward Good, Punish Evil' system, had obtained the true qi of Qi Refining cultivators, allowing him to refine the Dragon-Slaying Thrust beyond his current level.

In the past, before killing any corrupt cultivators and obtaining their true qi, he had used shattered spiritual energy to refine, which was even more painful.

He continued to condense. This time, the condensation was successful and was integrated into the Short Spear, making it one chi and eight cun...

After failing once more, Luo Zhou successfully condensed nine Short Spears, all fused into one, becoming a single, crystal-clear Short Spear, a Javelin, one chi and three cun long!

The Short Spear that killed Gu Shanhe was like this!

However, of Gu Shanhe's forty-seven strands of spiritual energy, only thirty-six remained.

But in his dantian, there were still fifteen strands of other true qi.

Including the Geomagnetic Qi, there were four types of spiritual energy with different properties in his dantian.

Geomagnetic, Heavy Dust, Three Eyes, and Water Surge!

Heavy Dust originated from the Yellow Earth Devil, Three Eyes from the Eye-Eating Devil, and Water Surge from the Crocodile Dragon.

Looking at the one-chi-three-cun, crystal-clear Short Spear, Luo Zhou was overjoyed.

This was his trump card, his sure-kill, his Dragon-Slaying Thrust!

With this Dragon-Slaying Thrust, Luo Zhou could forge his body, kill Qi Refining cultivators, and defeat five Devils.

In fact, the explanation for why the Spiritual Power Dragon-Slaying Thrust could kill across levels was very simple.

The refined Dragon-Slaying Thrust was like a firearm from his previous life.

In his previous life, with a gun, even a child or an old man could easily kill a strong man.

With a firearm, aiming was also necessary. Luo Zhou's aim was his sharp and profound Dharma Eye.

Then, add a trait like pulling the trigger: the strength of four oxen.

During combat, within ten feet, he would activate the Spiritual Power Dragon-Slaying Thrust, lock onto the opponent's left and right eyes with his sharp Dharma Eye, and throw it with the strength of four oxen, activating the refined Dragon-Slaying Thrust.

The Dragon-Slaying Thrust would activate, instantly turning into light and vapor, launching, piercing, and becoming unstoppable and unavoidable.

The spiritual energy from nine years would erupt in a flash of light, transforming into the most terrifying damage. The Qi Shield of a Qi Refining cultivator couldn't block it, hence the piercing eye, the headshot!

Just like firing a gun in his previous life, a single blow to kill!

Looking at the profound and mystical Spiritual Power, after understanding it, it was simple and unadorned...

The Spiritual Power Dragon-Slaying Thrust was obtained from Wang Heyu.

However, Wang Heyu's spirituality was a full-power burst of his innate ability. Luo Zhou, after obtaining it, actually evolved it into the Spiritual Power Dragon-Slaying Thrust.

Perhaps this was the Spiritual Power deep within Wang Heyu's bloodline. His current strength was insufficient, and its external manifestation was a full-power burst of his innate ability.

What Luo Zhou obtained was the Spiritual Power Dragon-Slaying Thrust from deep within his bloodline.

He let out a breath and refined the second Dragon-Slaying Thrust once more.

This time, it was as if he had divine assistance; he didn't fail even once.

The second Dragon-Slaying Thrust was completed. Gu Shanhe's Geomagnetic Qi still had twenty-seven strands left.

Luo Zhou took two intact Spirit Birch Woods and made them into an Eyebrow-Level Staff, then hid the refined Dragon-Slaying Thrust within it.

Leaving no trace!

Everything was done, he just had to wait for tomorrow to go out and hunt dragons!

Also, there was one more thing waiting: the reward for punishing evil at midnight.

He waited silently, tossing and turning for most of the night. Soon, midnight arrived.

"Luo Zhou, sensing a spirit committing evil, punish it!"

"Saving a child, punishing an evil father, punishing evil, this is good!"

"Reward Good, Punish Evil completed, reward!"

In a daze, Luo Zhou felt a force descend from the heavens and pour into his body.

Could it be Old Baldy Wang's haircutting ability?

His whole body trembled. In his daze, he felt countless ocean tides, immense waves surging, destroying everything in their path!

"Water..."

"Wave, swirl, vortex, surge, billow, float, flow, surge, tide..."

"Overturning Rivers and Seas, immense waves surging!"

"Reward Good!"

"Reward innate ability Vortex Guard, one of the nine innate abilities of Spiritual Power Overturning Rivers and Seas!"

Luo Zhou was stunned. He hadn't expected to obtain Spiritual Power a second time, outside of the Dragon-Slaying Thrust.

No, it couldn't be considered Spiritual Power yet, only one-ninth of the Spiritual Power.

This Old Baldy Wang was just like Wang Heyu; he had secrets hidden deep within his body!