Harvest

[Sealing complete]

During the technique transfer just now, Ning Yue's head had felt as though a great club were stirring it from within. His consciousness had gradually blurred amid explosive, agonizing pain.

When the sealing was complete, sweat poured down his body, and he collapsed to the ground.

He looked as though he had been manhandled by ninety-nine burly men.

After resting for a while, he felt his energy and spirit return, so he took out the manual for the first level of the Ninefold Thunder Saber and leafed through it.

On the first reading, he felt nothing.

On the second, the Ninefold Thunder Saber continually came together and broke apart.

On the third, his understanding of the Ninefold Thunder Saber steadily deepened.

He read it ten times in succession, until every detail of the Ninefold Thunder Saber was imprinted in his mind. At the same time, Ning Yue had a feeling that he had already mastered it.

Even so, he did not go out just yet.

This simulation had brought him an enormous harvest. The highest realm known to the public was only the Martial Dao Ninth-Grade Supreme Realm, and the corresponding techniques were supreme-level techniques.

But this time, he had obtained a god-level technique. If he kept cultivating it, he would surely become a god in the future, a god of martial dao and a guardian god of the human world.

He opened his personal panel.

Character: Ning Yue

Physique: Iron Yang Physique

Realm: None, qi and blood value (58 points)

Techniques: Basic Body Tempering Art (great accomplishment), Ninefold Thunder Saber (first level), Bitter Bamboo Scripture (first three levels, status: sealed)

Special: Bitter Bamboo Scripture Cultivation Experience Crystal (First-Rank Realm-god-level)

Inventory: Jade Blood Saber, Sunflower Manual

Simulations remaining: 0

Sure enough, he had mastered the Ninefold Thunder Saber. It had no stages such as entry-level. As far as this martial technique was concerned, either you knew it or you didn't.

Having mastered the first level, Ning Yue could now unleash up to nine times his combat power.

Rather than a martial technique, it was more of a method for exerting force. If he used a saber technique, his combat power could reach up to nine times its usual level. He could also use it with other weapons, but they could not reach nine times his combat power.

After two days of group cultivation, Ning Yue had gained 5 points of qi and blood. The expense had been considerable. With no more True Qi Pills, he could only cultivate using Qi and Blood Pills, spending forty thousand.

The first three levels of the Bitter Bamboo Scripture had appeared on the panel, along with a special field: Bitter Bamboo Scripture Cultivation Experience Crystal.

A new memory had appeared in his mind: the contents of the first three levels of the Bitter Bamboo Scripture, as well as the correct way to cultivate them.

"Bitter Bamboo Scripture": Beneath the blue-green heavens it held its own; though weak and supple, it lent strong support. Its bitter taste kept summer insects away; its low thicket made spring birds hesitate. The grand halls and courtyards had never prized it; it had no wish to protest the cutting blade. Luckily, it stood near a recluse's house, its frost-bound roots entwined here.

What was a scripture?

It contained methods of cultivation and combat. Its cultivation methods included all three kinds: internal cultivation, external cultivation, and spirit refinement.

Its combat methods included everything from offense and defense to footwork.

Any manual worthy of being called a "scripture" was no ordinary work. It was a classic manual far beyond mundane techniques, one that could be passed down through a bloodline.

External cultivation: Sinews and bones connect to heaven and earth; Mount Tai becomes the left arm.

Internal cultivation: Circulate qi and blood, strengthen qi and blood, and shatter barrier after barrier.

Spirit cultivation: Roam heaven and earth in spirit, and take heaven and earth into oneself.

In short, it cultivated a person until they no longer resembled a human, from the outside in, and from within to the spirit. No longer human!

Thinking it over carefully, Ning Yue concluded that this was probably the product of the Primordial World's cultivation methods merging with those of Blue Star, a cultivation system more comprehensive than Blue Star's.

His father, Ning Baichuan, had already reached the Fifth-Grade Realm as a martial artist. Even so, when cultivating, he still focused on qi and blood, using a method that went from the outside in.

He used qi and blood to break through barrier after barrier, giving rise to incredible divine abilities.

The Bitter Bamboo Scripture, on the other hand, allowed one to cultivate the external body, the internal body, and the spirit together from the body-tempering stage. How could that not be fast?

Ning Yue sat cross-legged and practiced the Bitter Bamboo Scripture's internal cultivation method.

He circulated his qi and blood with all his strength, slowly moving it through his meridians. He could feel it absorbing mysterious energy from the outside world with every bit of distance it traveled, and his qi and blood value kept rising.

As for the locations of the meridians, he had learned them from the cultivation experience. After circulating his qi and blood through one full cycle, he grasped the essence, as though he had cultivated for many years.

When he grew somewhat tired from cultivating, his mental control over the circulation of his qi and blood began to falter.

A little cart was pulling a great millstone, and it could turn no longer.

Opening his panel, he found that his qi and blood had risen by three points, reaching 61.

He checked the time. It was nearly noon.

After tidying up, Ning Yue prepared to go home.

Coming to Thunder Martial Arts Hall had indeed been the right choice. Not only had he obtained the Ninefold Thunder Saber, a combat technique that amplified his power, but the Myriad Heavens Simulator had also gotten off to a lucky start, giving him a god-level manual.

Sure enough, even if the simulator didn't require it, he still needed to change to a new location for simulations.

Who didn't want a change of scenery? Even the Myriad Heavens Simulator was no exception.

"Little brother, did you succeed in your cultivation?"

Seeing Ning Yue come out, Zhang Chun, who worked part-time at the front desk, asked curiously.

"No."

Ning Yue answered offhandedly and hurried away.

He was very tired now and only wanted to go home and rest. He didn't want to pay attention to anything else, not even a beauty.

Tomorrow was the school-wide martial dao mock exam.

He had made up his mind: he would amaze everyone with a single feat.