Ji Wuchang sneered inwardly and nodded calmly!
In his previous life, he had loved An Kexin's cool, aloof demeanor. It matched his image of an immortal maiden.
Even when An Kexin later ordered him around like a dog, he had found it incredibly sweet, believing his eldest senior sister cared about him.
Only when he saw her lying in Xiao Fan's arms, her smile blooming like a flower, did Ji Wuchang finally understand.
Beyond secretly hating them, he could do nothing, for his cultivation was far lower than either of theirs!
In this life, he would be no one's simp. He would only be himself!
"Senior brother, senior sister, I've been traveling for over twenty days, so I'll head back first!"
Ji Wuchang calmly cupped his fists, then turned and left without waiting for them to speak!
An Kexin and Tai Yujie frowned slightly but said nothing.
Soon, Ji Wuchang arrived at a house on the northern side of Little Bamboo Peak. This was his residence, in a relatively secluded location.
Little Bamboo Peak could be counted among the peaks with the fewest people in the Longevity Sect. Its peak master was naturally Meng Caihong!
Next came her four principal disciples!
Beyond them, there were a dozen or so people who guarded the medicinal fields.
Although these people lived within the inner sect, their status was that of outer sect disciples.
If they performed well, they might very well join Little Bamboo Peak and become attendants to Ji Wuchang and his three senior brothers and sisters!
The best outcome would be to become Meng Caihong's nominal disciple! But the chances of that were vanishingly small!
Ji Wuchang pushed open the door, which had remained shut for nearly two months. A thick layer of dust had already accumulated on the floor.
With a wave of Ji Wuchang's hand, a dust-cleansing talisman flew out, and the dust throughout the room swiftly vanished.
Ji Wuchang's room was very plain: a bed, a table, a chair, and a meditation cushion!
Ji Wuchang went over to the meditation cushion and sat cross-legged, then took out the pair of gauntlets he had obtained from the Bai Family. It was time to uncover the secret within them!
In fact, Ji Wuchang had taken them out to study during his twenty-odd days of travel, and he had already discovered some clues!
Looking at the gauntlets before him, Ji Wuchang did not hesitate in the slightest. He clenched his right hand and smashed a punch down onto them!
The power of the Qi Refining Seventh Layer erupted, striking the gauntlets. Wisps of lightning power instantly surged over the fist, forming a thin barrier of light!
With a bang, the barrier shattered. Lightning leaped onto Ji Wuchang's hand, scorching the surface of his fist black.
Ji Wuchang's expression remained unchanged, as though he were not the one feeling the pain.
As the spiritual power within his body surged, the blackened surface of his fist gradually faded. A moment later, it returned to normal!
Ji Wuchang looked at the fist. Without that layer of light, the fist had become ordinary.
A wisp of azure Sword Qi danced on Ji Wuchang's left fingertip. With a gentle slash, the gauntlet split open, revealing a tiny piece of silk inside.
Ji Wuchang picked up the silk. Lightning surged over it, with lightning runes leaping across its surface!
At that moment, Ji Wuchang understood. All the lightning power on the gauntlets came from this piece of silk, which was only two fingers thick!
Ji Wuchang's soul power surged out from between his brows and enveloped the silk.
The instant Ji Wuchang's soul power touched the silk, it turned into a streak of light and vanished between his brows!
When the silk appeared again, it was already within Ji Wuchang's soul sea of consciousness.
"Wind and Thunder Fist, fierce and domineering, swift as the wind! The vitality of the Nine Provinces depends on wind and thunder; once wind and thunder emerge, ten thousand fists lament!"
Characters leaped from the silk one after another, appearing in Ji Wuchang's mind!
Ji Wuchang's body shook violently, and wild joy shone in his eyes.
Ji Wuchang still remembered how, after joining the Longevity Sect back then, Xiao Fan had participated in the sect tournament a few months later.
His cultivation had been at the Qi Refining Ninth Layer, yet with an incomparably fierce fist technique, he had defeated a Longevity Sect disciple at the Foundation Establishment Second Layer.
That battle had firmly brought Xiao Fan to the attention of the Longevity Sect's higher-ups, and the Fifth Elder had truly begun sparing no effort in nurturing him.
Ji Wuchang could now be certain that it had been this very Wind and Thunder Fist.
Compared to the Wind and Thunder Fist, the Thunder Explosion Fist was simply trash, not even worthy of carrying its shoes.
Ji Wuchang hurriedly calmed himself and absorbed the contents of the silk.
A moment later, the silk dissipated. This was the first half of the Wind and Thunder Fist.
Ji Wuchang looked at the other gauntlet with burning eyes. Repeating the process, he soon obtained another piece of silk from inside it.
This contained the second half of the Wind and Thunder Fist.
The Wind and Thunder Fist consisted of ten punches in total, but cultivating it was no easy task. One first had to open up a separate, special space within the body, then condense the power of wind and thunder.
However, this posed no difficulty for Ji Wuchang, because the Longevity Sect had a place where the power of wind and thunder existed year-round.
That place was the Longevity Sect's Wind Thunder Valley, where many of its disciples tempered their bodies.
The power of wind and thunder within Wind Thunder Valley was extremely dense. Even those in the Soul Splitting Realm did not dare venture too deep, or they risked perishing.
Ji Wuchang had often visited Wind Thunder Valley in his previous life as well, but he had only used the power of wind and thunder there to temper his body. He had never considered condensing it!
Ji Wuchang carefully read through the Wind and Thunder Fist, then could not help inwardly clicking his tongue.
The nine punches of the Wind and Thunder Fist actually all had cultivation realm requirements. With his current Qi Refining Realm cultivation, he could only practice the first punch after condensing the power of wind and thunder.
To cultivate each subsequent punch, he would have to advance by one major realm!
The reason was that the power of wind and thunder required for each punch multiplied on the basis of the preceding one.
Thus, only by increasing his cultivation could he withstand that terrifying power!
Rather than alarmed, Ji Wuchang was delighted. This kind of truly pinnacle combat technique was exactly what he needed.
On the Heavenly Chen Continent, combat techniques, cultivation methods, and innate aptitude were all divided into four tiers: heaven, earth, profound, and yellow. Each tier was further divided into four grades: low, middle, high, and supreme!
Although the silk had not stated the Wind and Thunder Fist's tier, Ji Wuchang estimated that it should be a heaven-tier combat technique.
A heaven-tier combat technique! This was a domain Ji Wuchang had been unable to touch in his previous life.
In his previous life, even after exhausting every means, Ji Wuchang had possessed only one supreme-grade earth-tier combat technique, which he had treasured like a precious jewel.
Ji Wuchang looked at the now-ruined gauntlets before him without feeling the slightest regret.
Then, with a wave of his hand, a fireball appeared and engulfed the gauntlets. In mere moments, they turned to ashes!
As the saying went, disaster leaned upon fortune, and fortune lay hidden within disaster!
Though the trip to Muye City had held dangers, it had brought even more blessings.
It was just that Ji Wuchang had been too confident in his previous life-or rather, too arrogant. He had not taken his opponent seriously at all, or he would not have suffered such a miserable defeat!
In this life, he had used his advantages to their fullest, and only then had he obtained such abundant rewards!
Ji Wuchang knew very well that the Longevity Sect was his true blessed land.
If he wanted to compete with those true heaven's chosen in the future, he had to build the firmest possible foundation in the Longevity Sect.