For the two months and more since the new year began, Ding Songyan and Zheng Zhuxi had stayed tucked away at the Mountain Gate, venturing no farther than Flat Lake Town. They devoted themselves single-mindedly to martial training and had yet to visit the Prefecture City.
Partly, they wanted to keep hiding from the "Devil Lord" a little longer. Partly, Ji Hanyi's pressure had made not only Ding Songyan work harder, but even Zheng Zhuxi feel a greater sense of urgency. She could not understand why "Severing Worldly Ties" should include her, his senior sister. A master at least counted as half a parent, but a senior sister had nothing to do with an actual sister. Even so, she consciously spent more time at the Martial Training Ground and more time with her junior brother.
She was not particularly afraid of this matter. After all, "Severing Worldly Ties" required Junior Brother Ding to have read the Heavenly Heart Wisdom Scripture or practiced the Heaven-Shifting Earth-Changing Divine Skill first. Yet, for some reason, she felt a strange sense of impending danger.
While chatting with his senior sister, Ding Songyan gathered up the other papers on his desk. These were the Opening Orifices and Organ Dressing sections of the Hundun Scripture, now fully written out. They contained not only methods for measuring the precise locations of various unusual apertures through the circulation of true qi, but also the selection of resources required for different unusual apertures and inhuman organs, along with techniques for forging and implanting them.
There were a full two or three hundred pages, containing both text and illustrations, built up through constant additions over more than half a year and revised many times along the way. All that remained were the experiences and adjustments following the implantation of the