The Legend of the Four Stones
"To exchange ideas with fellow practitioners and to witness new and wondrous methods is one of the greatest joys of my life."
Yue Gude was a straightforward man, and he agreed on the spot. He gestured and said, "This cave is not spacious enough, let's find another place."
Yue Chunfeng took out an invisibility handkerchief and threw it on the ground.
A cloud of mist rose up, supporting all four of them, and carried them out of the cave.
After leaving the main peak of the Heavenly Wolf Sect and ascending into the sky, flying at a steady speed through the clouds for dozens of miles, Yue Chunfeng slowed down and pointed towards the ground.
"Brother, Fellow Daoist Chu, what do you think of this place?"
Looking down from such a high place, the mountains on the ground seem to be only the size of a fist, some green, some yellow, some sharp, some blunt.
Some mountains are lush and green at the foot and covered with snow at the top, while others are rugged with strange rocks and sparse weeds.
The place Yue Chunfeng was pointing to was a valley.
The soil in the valley was probably poor, with loose stones everywhere and hardly any vegetation.
There is a great river that flows through the valley. Many rocks of all sizes in the riverbed have long been smoothed by the erosion, and the water is clear and sparkling.
Yue Gude nodded, picked up his wooden staff, and leaped down.
This great river is so long and wide that it doesn't seem so when viewed from above.
As you approach the ground, it feels like a vast expanse of water; a grown person approaching it feels like an ant.
In particular, Yue Gude landed at the widest part of the river, standing on a rock the size of a millstone in the middle of the river, which was above the water, and looked back.
Chu Tianshu also floated down, landing lightly on the riverbank.
Hold head high!!
The moment his shoe sole touched the gravelly riverbed, the pressure shifted from light to heavy, leaving a footprint several inches deep, as if a force, like an underwater Submerged Current, was transmitted forward.
A white wave erupted on the river, surging from the riverbank towards the center of the river at an extremely fast speed.
The waves were ferocious, vaguely transforming into the shape of a dragon over ten feet thick and several tens of feet long.
"What a fierce white dragon."
Yue Gude was overjoyed at the sight of the hunt. He stuck his wooden staff into the ground beside his feet, and the boulder beneath his feet trembled.
More than a dozen cracks spread out from where the wooden staff was inserted, and purple energy flowed out from each crack.
The surrounding river water was instantly dyed a pale purple color.
Hundreds of strange wolves emerged from the purple water. They were entirely purple and not particularly large, but they had membranous wings on their backs.
The moment each monstrous wolf emerged from the water, it spread its wings, shaking the air.
These hundreds of strange wolves took flight one after another, creating an inexhaustible and majestic aura that blotted out the sky.
The white dragon roared and crashed into the wolf pack.
In a single exchange, more than a dozen strange wolves were smashed to pieces, exploding into tiny droplets that splashed in all directions.
But the white dragon's speed also slowed down.
The strange wolves around it circled and pounced, attacking from different directions and crashing into the long dragon's body.
These wolves are agile and change direction very quickly. Every time they spread their wings and sweep across, it's like a purple blade slicing fiercely into the dragon's body.
The white dragon roared and thrashed about, its head and tail ramming wildly, smashing a large number of strange wolves, yet its body was still covered with many crisscrossing purple wounds.
Once the wounds accumulate to a certain extent, the dragon form can no longer be maintained.
The white dragon seemed to freeze in mid-air for a moment, then exploded with a roar in a winding, coiling posture.
Hundreds of gleaming Sword Qi, like a torrential rain, shot out from the white waves.
The remaining wolf pack was wiped out on the spot.
There was also Sword Qi, aimed directly at Yue Gude's face.
Yue Gude's eyes narrowed, and more than a dozen bladed but hiltless Sword Qi were forced to hover in front of him, turning purple inch by inch from the tips of the swords.
The Sword Qi, moving at such high speed, was immediately captured by his aura once it got close to him, and was tinged with the colors of the Heavenly Wolf Sect's techniques.
"Fellow Daoist Chu's cultivation is profound, exceeding my expectations. Therefore, I no longer need to be timid and hold back."
Yue Gude's aura surged rapidly, and the Sword Qi in front of him shattered instantly under the pressure of his outward-radiating power.
Chu Tianshu sensed that the other party's internal energy cultivation was both profound and abundant, yet also refined, and couldn't help but smile.
"Alright, I excel in close combat. Sect Leader Yue, you be careful too."
As soon as he finished speaking, Chu Tianshu's figure buzzed and he appeared in front of Yue Gude.
His powerful body was oscillating at an extremely small amplitude and an extremely high frequency.
At this speed, the air resistance is so great that what should have been a small mountain, as solid as cast iron, is now blocking our way.
However, the moment he moved, all air resistance was cleaved apart by the high-frequency vibrations, and when his right sword finger extended out, it even produced a layer of meteor-like red light, so dazzling that it was impossible to look directly at it.
Yue Gude's pupils twitched, his eyes flashing purple light, and his entire body turned purple, protected by purple qi as soft as clouds.
The meteor-like sword finger struck the layer of purple qi, its speed suddenly decreasing.
However, upon impact, this layer of purple qi rapidly heated up, emitting bright purple patches of light that sent chills down one's spine.
Kinetic energy can be converted into heat energy. If you hit iron with a hammer several times, you'll feel the hammerhead getting hot to the touch.
However, for ordinary substances, this transformation process is actually quite slow and sluggish.
Therefore, when a knife cleaves a sheet of iron, the kinetic energy has not yet been converted into heat energy before the iron is split open.
The purple qi cultivated through the "Heavenly Wolf Great Art" is extremely sensitive and exceptionally rapid in converting external kinetic energy into thermal energy.
Chu Tianshu's sword finger, so fast and so sharp, was actually blocked directly by the purple qi.
As the purple qi intensified, Yue Gude launched a counterattack with his palm.
A broad, even somewhat chubby, hand suddenly flashed out, its bright purple heat concentrated in the palm, striking Chu Tianshu's forearm.
Chu Tianshu transformed his sword into a palm and pressed it firmly onto the opponent's palm.
The essence of the Dragon-Subduing Divine Palms lies in its unpredictable and ever-changing palm force, seemingly swallowing and spitting, sometimes cold and sometimes hot. It immediately suppressed the bright purple light between the two men's palms, making it as hard as a block of purple jade, preventing it from heating up again.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
In a flash, Chu Tianshu struck three more times with a series of quick movements.
The first palm strike is delivered with Leakless Strength, combined with the Three Po Dantians.
The second palm strike opened four of the souls, and the third palm strike opened five.
Yue Gude also used both hands in quick succession, managing to withstand them all.
However, after receiving the third blow, the wooden staff stuck beside him emitted a purple-gold light at its tip.
It was as if a tiny purple-gold star was hidden inside the head of the staff.
"Drink!!"
Purple light emanated from all seven orifices of Yue Gude. He swept his right arm around the staff and moved it, his right hand gripping the waist of the staff and his left hand pushing against the top of the staff.
Chu Tianshu faced Yue Gude sideways, made a hand seal with his left hand, and then struck out with his right hand again.
The lines on his right palm had changed, suddenly resembling a large jade mountain, covered with cracks.
With all six souls activated, the Mountain Collapse Divine Palm!
The palm strike landed squarely on the head of the cane.
The purple-gold light on the top of the staff trembled violently.
Yue Chunfeng, high in the sky, suddenly changed his expression and flew down, placing both palms on his elder brother's back.
"The Stone-Transforming Great Art!"
The "Heavenly Wolf Great Art" consists of three chapters: purple qi, Fossils, and Flying Moon.
The purple qi is thick and long, yet it embodies the essence of masculine strength, like an iron mountain hidden within a sea of clouds, combining defense with offense.
The fossil chapter, however, is purely a defensive and counter-attack method, turning gas into stone.
The river behind Yue Chunfeng surged and swelled, then solidified.
Like a large number of jade crystals, bound together by a small amount of purple crystals, eventually forming a small mountain more than ten feet high.
Those jade crystals all came from Chu Tianshu's palm strike.
Upon seeing the crystal mountain grow ever taller, Chu Tianshu abruptly withdrew his palm and took a half-step back.
He said he would stop immediately, but Yue Gude's body swayed forward involuntarily. He braced himself with the end of his staff to regain his balance and exhaled deeply.
"Call!!!"
In the blink of an eye, Yue Gude's complexion returned to normal, and the purple light in his seven orifices subsided.
"Fellow Daoist Chu possesses profound skill. If I hadn't relied on the treasure of my sect, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to withstand this palm strike."
"Sect Leader, you are too modest."
Chu Tianshu grasped his right wrist with his left hand and moved it around a bit.
"Is the Shitou inside this wooden staff the treasured Purple-Gold Medicinal Stone of the Heavenly Wolf Sect?"
Yue Gude nodded with a complicated expression.
Every major sect of immortals and major sect of the Demonic Sect, in addition to having a leader with high cultivation, must also have a treasure to protect the sect.
Having treasures but no one to rely on makes it difficult to maintain the dignity of a top-tier sect; having people but no treasures, however, leaves one with a lack of confidence.
"I have refined the Purple-Gold Stone for many years. When threatened, the stone will activate its power on its own, as if I were to swallow a potent tonic. Moreover, there are no aftereffects after the effects wear off."
Yue Gude looked back at the emerald hill and was filled with emotion.
"I didn't expect that even so, my cultivation level would still be inferior to yours, fellow Daoist."
"What's most remarkable is that even with such palm strikes, you still managed to leave some aftertaste, preventing the attack from spiraling out of control. The ancients spoke of 'mastery at the highest level,' and today I have truly witnessed it."
The Supreme Void True Fire was indeed greenish-blue.
Yue Chunfeng said, "Our righteous sect has gained a great master like Fellow Daoist Chu. It is truly a blessing from heaven! Hahahaha!"
He spoke from the heart, and only after he finished speaking did he realize that he had also uttered the word "green".
The three looked at each other, knowing it was just a silly little coincidence, but couldn't help laughing.
However, after Chu Tianshu laughed, he pondered carefully in his heart.
These three top masters of the Heavenly Wolf Sect are not only brothers, but also share the same martial arts techniques.
If the three brothers were to join forces against me, I would probably have no choice but to flee, with little chance of victory.
However, despite its formidable strength, the Heavenly Wolf Sect was actually at a slight disadvantage compared to the Demonic Sect.
Only by working together with Tianyin Temple, Incense Valley, and others can they stand against the Demonic Sect.
"Since Fellow Daoist Chu possesses such cultivation, I have a plan in mind."
Yue Chunfeng pondered for a moment and said, "Among all the rare and exotic beasts in the world, the Four Mythical Beasts are the foremost."
"Among ancient treasures and magical artifacts, the four most revered are the Zhu Xian Sword, the Dragon-Subduing Cauldron, the Mysterious Fire Mirror, and the Samsara Disc, all possessing profound origins."
"Since we have four beasts and four treasures, why not add four more unusual stones?"
"The Purple-Gold Medicinal Stone of my Heavenly Wolf Sect has a mysterious origin. Through the nurturing and refinement of successive sect leaders, its profound uses are inexhaustible."
"The Demonic Sect possesses a Blood-Devouring Primordial Stone, which is said to have fallen from the sky in ancient times and was revered as a rare treasure."
"On the shore of the East Sea, at East He Mountain and Wind and Moon Cave, there is a Mountain and River Dharma Stone. In the past, the Master of Wind and Moon Cave and the previous leader of my Heavenly Wolf Sect made a bet on wine. He lost the Shitou to my sect. Before leaving, he was unwilling to accept defeat and said that in the future, a successor of Fengyue would come to our door, win the bet, and take away this treasure."
"But the Master of Wind and Moon Cave was picky and did not find a suitable successor during his lifetime. It is unknown when anyone might find the hidden legacy he left behind."
Yue Chunfeng's eyes gleamed as he stroked his beard.
"These three extraordinary stones, each with a great reputation, now align with the righteous path, and their legends can be brought together."
"Let's add one more thing—what's the name of Fellow Daoist Chu's cultivation technique?"
Chu Tianshu thought for a moment and smiled, "It doesn't need to be named after my cultivation technique, let's just call it Heavenly Fire Divine Stone."
Yue Chunfeng nodded.
"Divine fire reigns in the heavens, blood dries on the earth, medicine and stones transform people, and mountains and rivers are governed by laws."
"Spread the word: when Heaven, Earth, Man, and Law are gathered together, and a stone is refined into an elixir, one can transform into a flying immortal, roaming freely with an unlimited future!"
Upon hearing this, Yue Gude looked up at the main peak of Heavenly Wolf Mountain and added, "This rumor cannot have spread without reason. Our Heavenly Wolf Sect must pay a price, and there must be some oversight, before it can be spread in a logical and reasonable manner."