Something Is Off About This Blacksmith
Chapter 399

Arhat Dharma Aspect

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Qin Tiexin's face remained motionless. He controlled his expression and looked at the third Jade Slip over and over several times, as if he was hesitating whether to accept this "additional gift".

"Illustrated Catalog of Ten Thousand Artifacts" will not react to ordinary martial arts. From the time I got this catalog until now, it has only actively turned pages for two Cultivation Method - "Cauldron Eating Art" and "True Fire Furnace Scripture".

One is his Body Refining assistant Cultivation Method that he has been using, and the other is his Body Refining major Cultivation Method, although I don't know the specific brand. No matter the level, Qin Tiexin, who has been practicing for a long time, knows that these two Cultivation Methods are definitely not mortal objects. Most of his current power comes from these two Cultivation Methods.

The Sanskrit garbled characters in this Jade Slip can trigger the automatic translation of "Illustrated Catalog of Ten Thousand Artifacts", which shows that the grade of this "Arhat Dharma Aspect Body" is definitely not low.

Even if the first two martial arts are of little use to you, you must win the last one.

This thought was swirling in his mind, but he just nodded lightly.

"That's good. I want to buy these three doors. I wonder how much the master wants to buy them?"

The old monk's gaze paused on his face for a moment, and a flash of strange color seemed to flash through his turbid old eyes. "Just give it to the donor. It is a meritorious deed that you can help the old monk repair the temple."

Qin Tiexin counted one hundred pieces of Lower-Grade Spirit Stone from his waist Storage Bag, numbered them neatly, and placed them on the gray cloth.

He read the introductions to the first two martial arts, and they were indeed not of high value. However, these three martial arts skills did not conflict with Arhat Fist, Prajna Palm, and Lion's Roar. They were equivalent to an extra level of distance. Cheng means, a defensive method, and a very high-level Buddhist martial arts. Although "Arhat Dharma Aspect Body" has not yet been translated, as long as "Illustrated Catalog of Ten Thousand Artifacts" can be translated, it means that it is definitely not an ordinary one.

One hundred Spirit Stone is a huge mistake.

The old monk clasped his hands together and bowed deeply to Qin Tiexin. "Thank you so much, the donor. Amitabha Buddha, Buddha wishes the donor everything goes well."

Qin Tiexin put three Jade Slip into his arms, raised his hand with one hand in return, turned around and walked out of the alley with Ming'an in his arms. Ming'an lay on his shoulder, waved to the old monk, still holding the half-eaten candied haws in his hand.

The old monk smiled and watched the two people disappear.

Until even the footsteps could no longer be heard.

He stood up slowly and put the gray cloth on the ground together with the Spirit Stone into a worn-out Storage Bag around his waist. Then he turned and walked into the depths of the alley, turned two corners, and entered an old house that had long been abandoned.

The old monk stood in the center of the room, the wrinkles on his face unfurling layer by layer, his saggy eyelids tightened, his skin was like that of a baby, and his cloudy eyes became clear again. His figure rose half an inch amidst the indiscernible sound of bone friction, his dry arms regained their plumpness, and the breath under his robe suddenly rose from withered to the Golden Core Realm.

It is Benhong.

Benhong stood there and pinched Dust Removal Instruction to clean away the dust on his body and the smell in the corner. After doing all this, he breathed a sigh of relief.

These days, he has been staying at Purple Jade Ward, staring at each door of Lin Residence from a distance.

After being thrown away from the tracking last time, he learned his lesson and stopped getting too close. He had obtained information on everyone who came in and out of Lin Residence through Xiao Household's relationship. The only variable was the one-armed monk. But today, the ones who walked out of the side door of Lin Residence were a tall and lanky Rogue Cultivator and a farm boy.

Benhong recognized these two people at a glance.

He fell far behind, not daring to follow too closely. When he arrived at the door of Water Cloud Tea Room, he did not follow him, but went around to the end of the alley to ambush in advance. When Qin Tiexin came out of the teahouse, he quickened his pace, and before the two people entered the market, he disguised himself as a poor old monk at the end of the alley.

Those three Jade Slip were carefully selected by him based on the advice of his junior brother Guzhen.

The real name of the first "Vajra Flame" is "Karma-Burning Wisdom King Flame", Golden Core Realm Buddhist martial arts.

The true face of the second "Golden Light Incantation" is "Dragon Elephant Golden Body Instruction", which is also the Buddhist martial arts of the Golden Core Realm.

These two martial arts have extremely high requirements on Buddha nature and understanding. In Brahma Sound Valley and Foundation Establishment Late Stage, it was difficult for Buddhist practitioners to even get started. Even Buddha Maiden Xiao Wan voluntarily gave up, saying that he was not suitable for practicing these two martial arts. Only Brahma Sound Valley, a Buddhist disciple, mastered one of them in the Foundation Establishment Realm.

He deleted the previous introduction of the two Golden Core martial arts and disguised them as the most basic entry-level skills, just to make Qin Tiexin relax his vigilance and buy them back to practice. If Qin Tiexin can master any of "Karma-Burning Wisdom King Flame" or "Dragon Elephant Golden Body Instruction", Benhong is 60% sure that this person is Innate Buddha Heart.

As for the third Jade Slip, he got it accidentally when he was renovating a small temple for decades. He could only recognize a little bit of the Sanskrit in Jade Slip after reading countless books, and realized that this Cultivation Method was extremely profound and of extremely high grade.

It took him hundreds of years, and with Golden Core Late Stage's cultivation and profound understanding of Sanskrit Buddhist scriptures, he could barely understand a very small part of it. He only knew that this was a martial art similar to external magic, and he could not even touch the threshold of entry.

He knew that this was not a problem of cultivation, but that his Innate Buddha Heart was not enough.

If "Mingjue" can master the first two skills, then he is 60% sure that he is Innate Buddha Heart. If he can even master this Jade Slip that no one can recognize, then he is 100% sure that no matter what means he uses or how much he pays, he will bring him back to Brahma Sound Valley.

But there is another possibility.

If "Mingjue" cannot be practiced at all, it means that the effect achieved by Arhat Fist before was purely due to the physical talent and has nothing to do with the Buddha's mind.

Benhong's fingers twirling the beads stopped.

If that were the case, things would be simple. Kill someone and get Jade Slip back, and no traces will be left.

"Amitabha Buddha."

Benhong recited a Buddhist chant in a low voice and suppressed his surging emotions. He arranged his monk's robes, pushed open the back door of the old house, and walked in the direction of Xiao Residence.

Returning to Lin Residence's small courtyard, Qin Tiexin put Ming'an down from his arms. Ming'an held the sandalwood tablet and the scrap, ran to the stone bench and sat down, and began to study how to carve names. Qin Tiexin stood in the center of the patio, took out three Jade Slip from his arms, and lined them up on the stone table.

"Vajra Flame", "Golden Light Incantation", and the garbled Jade Slip that was translated into "Arhat Dharma Aspect Body" by "Illustrated Catalog of Ten Thousand Artifacts".

He did not rush to practice, but first sat on the stone bench and went through the Divine Sense method of True Person Zhou Heng in his mind again.

There are still fifteen days left before the written test. There is not much time, so I have to make the most of every moment.

From that day on, Qin Tiexin entered a state of cultivation that was almost masochistic.

Chou Shi Qi Refining, Mao Shi Body Refining, Sishi began to practice various martial arts. In addition to these unshakable schedules, he spent all his time from noon to Xu Shi on Divine Sense training and question bank memorization.

True Person Zhou Heng's method becomes more and more difficult the further you go. Divine Sense splits into two, three, and five strands. Each additional strand doubles the mental consumption. Qin Tiexin practices from five strands It took a full six days to get to Bagu. By the tenth day, he was able to read ten lines of characters at the same time and understand and remember them independently. If he continued to add more, his temples felt as if they were stabbed with red-hot iron sticks. His eyesight turned black, and the sea of consciousness trembled.

Reading ten lines at the same time is his limit and the most efficient balance point.

At this rate, he estimated that he could read the three thousand questions in the one hour limit for the written test. But reading it is one thing, and how many correct answers are another matter. Heavenly South Domain Local customs, knowledge of alchemy and talisman making, and the geography of the junction of the three dynasties Spirit Vein In the direction of, the accuracy rate for these sections that rely purely on rote memorization is about 70%. In addition, I am confident about the basics of laws, tactics, spiritual material identification and formations, especially the basic questions related to weapon refining. It is almost free of points. The total score should not be a problem if it exceeds the five-point line.

But what Qin Tiexin wants is not to cross the line.

What he wants is ranking. The higher the ranking, the greater the room for error in the following levels. Besides, he wants to be in the top ten. If the written test is too poor, it will be too passive to just rely on the later combat levels to gain points.

He sifted through the question bank given by Chen Xi from beginning to end, picked out the must-test hard facts such as the reign titles of the emperors of the three great dynasties of the Tiannan Region, the spiritual vein distribution map of each state, and the list of alchemists above the Golden Elixir stage, and memorized them repeatedly using Zhenren Zhou Hang's method of splitting consciousness.

I read ten lines at the same time and memorized ten lines at the same time. It was like a tornado wrapped around three thousand questions that kept spinning in my mind. From the initial chaos, it gradually began to have a context.

While memorizing the question bank, he began to practice the three newly acquired martial arts skills.

The first door is "Vajra Flame".

Qin Tiexin sat cross-legged on the futon, Divine Sense probed into Jade Slip, and according to the spiritual power route recorded in Jade Slip, Spiritual Qi is derived from Dantian, goes up along the meridians, and condenses at the Laogong point in the palm. According to Jade Slip, the last step is to ignite it with the original spiritual power of Buddhism and condense it into a flame seed in the palm of the hand.

But what he practiced was "Primordial Unity Instruction", not Buddhist Cultivation Method, and there was no Buddhist attribute in his spiritual power. Spiritual Qi was turned around in the palm of his hand several times, but it could not be ignited. He tried seven or eight times, but his palm did not move at all, not even a spark.

He had planned to give up. This kind of martial arts with prerequisite Cultivation Method requirements would not yield results even if practiced hard. It would be better to wait for "Illustrated Catalog of Ten Thousand Artifacts" to translate all of "Arhat Dharma Aspect Body" and specialize in that one.

Before finishing the exercise, he suddenly remembered a description about Fire of Life in "True Fire Furnace Scripture": Fire of Life is the foundation of physical cultivation, it can melt all things, melt all fires, and lead to all flames.

He hesitated for a moment, then changed the Spiritual Qi route from the Laogong point on the palm of his hand, made a big bend, and poured it back from the arm meridians back to the heart. Spiritual Qi made a circle outside the heart, and then cautiously touched the crimson Fire of Life that was beating continuously in the ventricle.

Fire of Life touched the wisp of Spiritual Qi.

It was like sparks splashing into the oil.

A stream of Flame of Scorching Heat suddenly separated from Fire of Life and rushed back to the palm along the route of Spiritual Qi. The left palm of Qin Tiexin A ball of red-gold Flame ignited out of thin air in my heart. Flame beat twice and automatically gathered into the shape of a lotus. The lotus was entirely red gold, with very faint dark golden lines on the edges of the petals, full of the atmosphere of Buddhism.

It's done.

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