Martial Arts and Immortality, a Fateful Bond

Although the world is vast, the news of the Tianyin Temple being wiped out spread incredibly fast.

The ferocity of the Demonic Sect was chilling, but the fact that the Master of the Hall of Longevity was forced to retreat was even more astonishing.

Subsequently, this news led to the battlefield in the Heavenly Lake Mountains, where the Hall Master of Spirit Mountain Hall and the Master of Heavenly Lantern Pavilion were beheaded, and the Poison God was captured alive.

Following a series of sensational events, the Heavenly Wolf Sect has recently become even more lively.

It wasn't just Rogue Cultivator; many small and medium-sized sects sent people to visit, and some even considered moving to the vicinity of the Heavenly Wolf Sect.

Back when Qilin True Person was alive, the Heavenly Wolf Sect already enjoyed extremely high prestige.

They are known as the Heavenly Sound in the South and the Heavenly Wolf in the North, the Great Compassionate Buddhist Sect and the Great Benevolent Daoist Sect.

However, after Qilin True Person left, only the three Yue brothers remained, and their prestige was inferior to that of the four great monks of Tianyin Temple.

Now, amidst the upheavals between good and evil, the Heavenly Wolf Sect stands even Pillar in Midstream as a pillar of strength.

However, the Heavenly Wolf Sect did not take credit for themselves.

In particular, Yue Chunfeng still remembered that when Chu Tianshu had a secret conversation in the cave, he mentioned that he wanted to soar to the sky and become famous far and wide.

Therefore, almost everyone in the martial arts world knows that this incident was spearheaded by a senior named Chu Tianshu. Upon learning of the unexpected news, he was the first to rush to the rescue and confront the Master of the Hall of Longevity.

Unfortunately, Chu Tianshu has been staying at home lately.

Those who came to visit him from outside the area almost never managed to meet him or find out where he lived.

Chu Tianshu is currently sitting inside a bamboo house.

Outside, the weather was fine and sunny, sunlight streamed through the window, birds chirped, and butterflies occasionally fluttered past the window.

The interior was unusually simple.

A futon, an incense burner, a porcelain jar for calligraphy and paintings, and a low table for writing brushes and ink.

This is where Qilin True Person once lived, and it is also the true location where the secret medical classics of the Heavenly Wolf Sect are stored.

Chu Tianshu sat cross-legged on a futon about ten feet away from the desk, with only a small incense burner in front of him, pressing a bean the size of a thumb into the incense ash.

In the bamboo tube beside him was a potion that Yue Gude had personally prepared for him, which Chu Tianshu slowly poured onto his skin.

Pop!!

A soft sound seemed to come from the incense ash, and the beans sprouted quickly, growing a large number of roots, and then growing upwards.

What grew was not a vine, but a small tree about the thickness of a little finger, growing straight.

When it grows to half a foot tall, a leaf sprouts from the side of the sapling.

Such a slender tree, yet its leaves grow larger and larger, even wider than a palm.

The veins and patterns on the leaves are intricate and extremely detailed.

Chu Tianshu put down the medicine and first examined the leaves closely.

The fine veins on the leaves form numerous small characters, composing sentences and phrases in a smooth and beautiful manner, and are even accompanied by many illustrations.

Indeed, this is how the Heavenly Wolf Sect preserves its most advanced medical secrets.

It was neither paper nor jade slips, but a peculiar type of bean.

These beans are very hard and require a special mixture of incense ash and medicinal broth to germinate and sprout.

When not in use, water it with another medicinal soup, and the branches and leaves wither, fall to ash, and turn back into the shape of beans.

Next time I look, the veins of the newly grown leaves will be exactly the same as last time, naturally forming the lettering and graphic shapes.

If Yue Gude hadn't personally revealed it, even if an outsider obtained this bean and carefully sensed it, they wouldn't be able to discern any traces of secret texts inside.

"It must sprout and grow before it can be seen."

Chu Tianshu was quite impressed and browsed through it carefully.

He had already seen this first leaf before, and now, as he looked at it, he pondered, hoping to spark some inspiration.

A moment later, he continued watering, and the second, the third—more and more leaves sprouted, like an umbrella.

Chu Tianshu turned the incense burner, gazing at the newly sprouted leaves with a thoughtful expression.

Suddenly, he felt a slight pulsation coming from the palm print behind him, which made him frown.

Even after being sealed with the Six Souls and silver needles, the Asura Blood Sha mixed with the Shanjun's Palm Poison could still absorb vital energy bit by bit, emitting a restless aura that interfered with Chu Tianshu.

It gave him a feeling that the Blood Sha in the distant cauldron was still watching him closely, tempting him.

"Hmph, trying to tempt me from this distance."

Chu Tianshu sneered and took out his magic weapon against temptation from his pocket.

It was a large oil paper package containing dried slices of braised meat.

He pinched out a large piece and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing and chewing, his mouth filled with the aroma of meat. His eyes then focused again as he read the medical text.

This is the "Cave-Ramming Ox," one of the most bloodthirsty and savage beasts of the north, which loves to destroy the nests of other creatures.

This poses an even greater threat to the houses built by humans.

However, if this Cave-Ramming Ox, after being hunted and killed, is cooked, it can provide an extremely rich flavor and a strong sense of satisfaction.

The meat in Chu Tianshu's bag was cooked by Yue Tianchi, using many good medicines that strengthen qi and blood, and tonify the body and dispel evil.

Humans take Food Is Heaven as their most important necessity. By constantly eating and using the Mountain Collapse Combat Calculation" to operate within themselves, they amplify this sense of satisfaction to the extreme, using it to help themselves resist temptations.

Chu Tianshu was able to immerse himself in the medical classics.

He could unconsciously chew each large piece of meat for a long time.

But it was just a single oil paper package, and before he knew it, half a day had passed, and he had finished it all.

A moment later, footsteps approached and stopped about a hundred feet from the door.

Over the past few days, Yue Tianchi and the others have been able to calculate exactly how long each pack of braised beef Chu Tianshu can eat.

They would prepare it fresh every day and deliver it a hundred feet outside the door while the medicine was at its most potent.

If Chu Tianshu wanted to take it, he could simply open the door in his mind, grab it from mid-air, and retrieve it.

But today, he sensed that the footsteps were different.

Despair!!

With the bamboo door wide open, Chu Tianshu had an unobstructed view as he looked out.

This place is also a valley, and besides bamboo forests, there are some small ponds in the valley.

A large group of monks were silently bowing to the bamboo house between the pond and the bamboo grove.

Yue Tianchi stood to the side watching, and when he saw Chu Tianshu open the door, he spoke to him.

"They insisted on coming to express their gratitude, and seeing how persistent they were, I brought them along. They just bowed once and left."

The monks had already stood up, and almost all of them were disabled; some had lost hands, some had lost legs, and some had lost their eyes. They were supporting each other.

Strangely, some people had their noses cut off, with only a white cloth pasted on the center of their faces, yet a nose still grew on their foreheads.

There are also people who have no ears on their heads; their ears grow on the backs of their hands.

There was a young novice monk whose left arm had been severed, but he managed to reattach the severed arm to his stomach.

Although it looks strange, it is a very legitimate medical procedure.

The survivors of Tianyin Temple barely escaped with their lives, but most of them had been tortured by the Demonic Sect sect's disciples and Shangdu disabilities.

Some of them are able to recover their severed limbs, making treatment easier.

For example, that young novice monk, although his severed limb was decayed, his abdomen was relatively full of vital energy. So, the severed limb was first attached to his belly, and after a period of time, it could be reattached to the severed area.

All four limbs are intact, all congenital and original, and will not affect future cultivation.

The nose moves to the forehead, the ear moves to the back of the hand, and so on. These are basically all examples of this.

As for those whose eyes were gouged out, whose flesh and blood were eaten by the Demonic Sect cult members, or whose limbs had been crushed.

The only option is to slowly nurture it, and later find some ferocious beast limbs to attach to it. Using the medicine of the Heavenly Wolf Sect, and relying on one's own magic power to nourish it, the ferocious beast limbs will be transformed into a form suitable for human beings.

Although it wasn't native, the ferocious beast's limbs were strong and resilient, so the effect was still quite good.

The young novice monk had been looking at Chu Tianshu with eyes full of gratitude.

But when Chu Tianshu's gaze lingered on his belly for a moment, the little novice couldn't help but lower his head and quickly used his sleeve to cover the severed arm on his stomach.

"Oh no, how could I possibly be worthy to pay my respects to my benefactor in this state? I must have offended his eyes!"

At this thought, tears welled up in the young novice's eyes, and he wanted to shrink into the crowd, but suddenly he felt darkness in front of him.

Chu Tianshu left the bamboo hut and came before the monks, gently patting the young novice's shoulder.

"Please go back and rest well, everyone. Although Tianyin Temple has suffered a great calamity, its compassionate spirit and its commitment to upholding righteousness and warding off evil can still be passed down by you."

As he spoke, he looked down at the young novice monk and smiled.

"Rest well and cooperate with the treatment. Even if there are still slight changes after treatment, don't be afraid."

"Guanyin has a thousand hands, Tathagata's tongue is so large that it can cover his face. Who could find them strange? But since their hearts are compassionate and without shame, and they do many good deeds, they do not find them strange, and these are called their Dharma Aspect."

Looking at Chu Tianshu's smile, the young novice monk tried hard to hold back his tears and nodded repeatedly.

The monks bowed again and left together.

High Person Jade Toad stayed behind and handed a scripture to Chu Tianshu.

"Amitabha Buddha, Fellow Daoist Chu, I have no way to repay your kindness in saving my fellow disciple."

High Person Jade Toad said, "I heard that you are reading the medical classics of the Heavenly Wolf Sect, hoping to learn a method to resolve Blood Sha."

"This humble monk has compiled the core teachings of our sect's ' Great Brahma Prajna,' as well as the discussions of the path to harmony by many predecessors who were inspired by the Qilin True Person."

"I earnestly hope you will accept it, fellow Daoist."

He made the scriptures float in front of him, clasped his hands together, and bowed his head without moving.

They were clearly determined to send the book out.

Chu Tianshu didn't stand on ceremony and took the money, saying, "Thank you very much."

Yuchan then looked up. "I dare not thank you."

Yue Tianchi, who was watching from the side, said, "Look, since so many people have come today, there's one more. Would you like to meet him too?"

Chu Tianshu looked towards the bamboo forest.

Fang Wuchen walked out from the depths of the bamboo forest, holding the Black Dragon Sword in both hands.

"Senior, I have been infusing the sword you entrusted to suppress and guard with the Great Void Flame, but I still cannot diminish its ferocity. I have failed to live up to your trust."

Fang Wuchen was still dressed as a scholar, but her pale face and light-colored lips made it easier to tell that she was a woman.

In recent battles, she was only entrusted with suppressing one sword, and she was unable to achieve her goal. She felt ashamed and, after much thought, decided to come and apologize.

After Chu Tianshu returned, he focused on reading and practicing his skills, neglecting the sword. Upon hearing this, he couldn't help but say, "I only asked you..."

"Keep it calm, don't let this sword become agitated and hurt anyone."

"The sword's ferocity is stubborn; even reducing it by half is no easy task. You haven't been working tirelessly, day and night, battling this sword to the death these past few days, have you?"

Fang Wuchen was taken aback.

Yue Tianchi laughed and said, "Second brother meant the same thing, but even though second brother advised her, she still put all her effort into channeling the flames into that area."

"Only if you tell her yourself will she realize what's happening."

Fang Wuchen a loss, biting her lip as she looked at the Black Dragon Sword in her hand, wishing she could hide inside it right now.

Chu Tianshu watched her holding the sword, and a thought suddenly struck him.

"You don't have much talent for cultivating the Great Void Divine Art. Even with my personal guidance and your own considerable cultivation, you can only generate a small amount of sparks."

"But----"

Chu Tianshu extended a finger and pressed it on the Black Dragon Sword.

"This sword's demeanor towards you is somewhat beyond my expectations. Raise your eyes!"

Fang Wuchen, not understanding what was going on, raised his gaze.

Chu Tianshu stared at her for a while, then laughed.

Using the Mountain Collapse Combat Calculation and divination," the fluctuations in Fang Wuchen's thoughts were calculated, and what was detected was a faint dragon shape.

But it wasn't a black dragon; it was a crimson dragon shadow.

This girl has a dragon hidden in her eyes.

Chu Tianshu said, "Do you often think back to that day in the dilapidated temple when I healed your sword?"

Fang Wuchen recalled carefully and couldn't help but nod.

As she gathered her fire and fought desperately against the Black Dragon Sword, whenever she felt she couldn't hold on any longer, yet unwilling to give up even this small task, she couldn't help but recall the crimson dragon shadow from that day.

For some reason, Chu Tianshu's single-handed dragon-taming scene...

It gave her a very deep, indescribable feeling.

Each time she reminisces, the more she thinks, the more she can persevere and gather a little more spark of hope.

"Then keep this sword with you and try to subdue it."

Chu Tianshu seemed to be deep in thought, and an ice bowl materialized in his palm, filled with small characters.

"But you must not use the Great Void Fire Seed anymore; use the new cultivation method I'm teaching you."

Fang Wuchen took the ice bowl and had already seen the name of the cultivation technique.

Dragon-Subduing Divine Palms!

The Dragon-Subduing Palm originates from the I Ching, possessing profound principles and limitless potential.

But to be honest, neither Chu Tianshu nor the Diba Deng are actually the most suitable people to cultivate the Dragon-Subduing Palm.

They may achieve great things, but they will definitely go in a different direction, rather than continuously elevating the original intent of the Dragon-Subduing Palm.

Fang Wuchen, however, was captivated by Chu Tianshu's Dragon Dragon-Subduing Palm move after just one glance, and almost grasped its true meaning.

Her compatibility with the Dragon Subduing Heart Sutra is practically off the charts.

In this world of Immortal Dao, where magical artifacts are valued and cultivation emphasizes lightness and agility.

Surprisingly, this training resulted in someone perfectly suited to cultivate the Dragon-Subduing Divine Palms.

Some strange thoughts quietly began to grow in Chu Tianshu's mind.

The Black Dragon Sword is made by exchanging the malevolence of the human heart for the malevolence of heaven and earth. In any civilization that studies heaven and earth, such an outcome is almost inevitable, only the form of expression may not be the shape of a sword.

The Dragon-Subduing Divine Palms, at first glance, seems to be just a solitary martial art.

But fundamentally, he was destitute and had nothing, but because he was upright and righteous, like a straight wheel that never fell over and kept rolling, he accumulated a great momentum and eventually subdued the dragon.

This pursuit of starting out with nothing but bare hands and eventually subduing dragons is something that almost every civilization inevitably reaches when it reaches a certain stage of development.

Could the encounter between the Black Dragon and the Subduing Dragon be considered a preordained, auspicious connection?

Spanning different worlds and different paths of cultivation, they can finally find their destiny.

"I brought this together—I was already part of that destiny—"

Chu Tianshu's mind was filled with a series of self-questions, each one deeper than the last, until a hundred, three hundred, five hundred questions appeared in his mind.

In the end, he was completely unsure whether he was asking himself or the universe.

But he still wanted to ask!

You can only get a response if you ask.

Chu Tianshu unconsciously looked up at the sky, his eyes filled with a sense of desolation, and his clothes began to flutter.

Yue Tianchi looked surprised, then suddenly remembered something, grabbed Fang Wuchen's shoulder, and silently carried her away.

High Person Jade Toad also looked surprised and hurriedly retreated, getting further and further away.

The monks, who were about to leave the valley, also sensed something and looked back.

In the bamboo forest, a ray of colorful light, like a silken thread, slowly rose and shot straight into the sky.

Suddenly, colorful petals condensed and fluttered across the entire valley, filling the sky.

The pond in the valley began to churn from its center, the water quality subtly changing, and the flowers and plants along the pond seemed to be renewed.

That refreshing and peaceful feeling is like someone is blowing away the turbidity of the mountains and rivers, revealing a clear and refreshing world.

On the main peak of Heavenly Wolf Mountain.

Yue Gude turned his head to look at the valley, both surprised and delighted, and murmured to himself.

"It really exists! There really is such a thing as Heavenly Dao's Good Affinity in this world. It's no longer just something that exists in manuscripts and deductions. Master, have you seen it?"

He kept his voice down, but he couldn't hold back his last sentence.

"Look, flowers are falling from the sky, and sweet springs are gushing from the earth!"