After getting her greeting kiss from Wu Long, Liang Yuhan was surprised to see that Xue Bing arrived with him, but the surprise didn’t last longer than a mont, as she welcod her Dao Sister with a smile.
"Oh~ you’re going to want to watch this~", Fen Baihu jumped from Wu Long’s shoulder and seamlessly turned into her human form, coming closer to Liang Yuhan with eyes full of amusent that she couldn’t wait to share with soone.
She then lightly touched Liang Yuhan’s forehead, showing her a dream of the scene that happened in the canyon. The latter saw it as if it was happening in front of her, or rather, as if she was there. But despite all the ti she spent in that dream, only a mont passed in the real world.
"Pfft...", Liang Yuhan couldn’t hold back a chuckle, covering her lips with her delicate hand as her eyes filled up with the sa amusent as the Celestial Fox as she whispered, "You have to show this to Zhiqiu, no, to everyone"
"I’m planning to at dinner today, I just couldn’t hold back", Fen Baihu nodded with excitent as they giggled while Wu Long made a wry smile.
"I really don’t understand what you find funny in that situation, but I am glad I could make soone laugh", Xue Bing said in a frosty tone, causing the two beauties to freeze.
They then looked at each other.
"See?", Fen Baihu chuckled.
"Yep, this is a gold mine", Liang Yuhan replied and the two began laughing again, unlike any outsiders, familiar with the ice beauty’s temperant, and thus recognizing that statent to be a straightforward honesty.
Wu Long spent the rest of the day going through the massive amounts of information that the Thousand Eyes Palace was collecting. But even with his capabilities, he only had ti for information marked with highest priority and importance.
Soti later, Li Weifang returned with the captured cloaked man from the canyon, which concluded the day as Wu Long went to extract information from him with Fen Baihu’s Second Tail ability, while Xue Bing and Liang Yuhan returned to the Dream Realm slightly ahead of them since it was going to be dinnerti soon.
And when Wu Long returned for dinner, what surprised almost everyone was that Lian Zhiqiu, who was absent from their dinner table for a few days as she was studying the Protective Formations in the Crow King’s Nest, joined them today. So beauties seed to know sothing, but that question was quickly lost in the stream of conversations after Fen Baihu showed everyone the scene from the canyon and the mood flowed in a different direction after that.
It was also notable that Hong Yue appeared at the dinner table following her twin, first appearing slightly fidgety but being warmly welcod, and made feel completely natural there, eased into it.
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One of the notable things that Wu Long saw in the reports of the Thousand Eyes Palace on the day Xue Bing spent his working day with him for the first ti, was the incident at the Three Pillars Sect with the first appearance of the Sect Ancestor in the open for nearly a thousand years.
From this Wu Long also learned more about his circumstances, since the Sect Ancestor’s lifespan was a closely guarded secret among the Sect Leader and Grand Elders, as well as a tight circle of their most trusted subordinates.
It was not conducive to building trust with Yu Zhen if they pried into such sensitive information as soon as he received the position of a Grand Elder.
Thus, the job Wu Long entrusted to Zhao Xieren that evening was to arrange a eting.
The very next day Wu Long ca to the Three Pillars Sect for the first ti since not long after their arrival in the Boundless Profound World when they visited together with Liang Yuhan and Zhao Xieren. This ti, however, aside from Zhao Xieren who led the way, next to him was Hua Ziyan, who watched people training fist techniques in the training fields they passed by with interest.
Both Wu Long and Hua Ziyan wore simple masks. Though Wu Long found it cute that she asked for a matching one to the one he was wearing, so they found a pair of masks that had complenting patterns.
"They practice contact fist", Wu Long whispered to her.
"I see, that’s why their form is closer to Mortal Martial Arts...", Hua Ziyan nodded, since her Spiritual Qi Fists required wider hand movents that left more open areas.
Such a fist style would be ineffective for extre close combat, leaving a lot of openings for the opponent to strike or exploit in other ways, but did not matter for her and those who used Spiritual Qi Fists detached from the body, shifting the fight to effectively short-middle range where the point was not allowing the opponent to breach a periter around oneself similar to Weapon Cultivators.
Contact fist and palm practitioners, however, did not have the luxury of longer reach that would keep their opponents away, so they had to practice more practical fighting styles that accounted for weakness in fist form, which led to naturally compact fighting form.
"Does that an they have to train their bodies to beco weapons like the Brilliant Sun Temple?", she asked, seeing the similarities now.
"No, unlike them they don’t have a superior legacy that turns the whole body into sothing akin to a Spiritual Treasure", Wu Long shook his head, "It seems they use Spiritual Qi hardening technique, covering their hands in dense Spiritual Qi part of which changes their hand skin’s hardness as well"
"So they are more vulnerable to receiving injuries in places other than hands and arms up to... elbows at least...", Hua Ziyan nodded with understanding.
"They do train their bodies, but not to that extent. You’re right that they are far more vulnerable than the Brilliant Sun Temple cultivators, or rather their Body Tempering cannot be compared at all - it is, even if a remnant left in a Fractured World, one of the Major Sects in the entire Seven Boundless Worlds after all", Wu Long explained, "But, from the looks of it they don’t rely on their Body Tempering for protection, I think they have a different protective asure"
Up to now Wu Long spoke mostly from knowledge observed by the Thousand Eyes Palace and Zhao Xieren, but this next part was sothing he was speculating based on witnessing their fist forms practiced by low-level Disciples.
"If my hunch is correct, they use the discharge of Spiritual Qi from their hands to create shockwave-like currents around their fists, which cover most of their body like two invisible shields attached to their arms but they are mostly trying to divert attacks to the outside, not really block anything. This would explain so of the Fist Form choices that seem to leave the outside more open than the inside where changing the direction of attack is less effective as a defense unless you change the form to full evasion"
"I can see it now!", Hua Ziyan beca excited, nodding, "It’s just like you said! That first would normally leave his side to an attack, but if there was a shockwave-like barrier coming off from the fist, trailing behind it in a wide veil-like manner, it would perfectly cover it!"
"I see you’re eager to try creating sothing similar with your Spiritual Qi fists", Wu Long chuckled, seeing the beauty’s excitent coming partly from seeing the signs he was right, and partly from the possibility of replicating the technique.
"Ehehe~ am I a bit too greedy?", she bashfully tucked a lock of hair behind her ear, looking downward, which made Wu Long raise his hand on impulse, almost instinctively to touch her hand doing the motion, his fingers touching her hair a bit as well as they looked each other in the eyes.
"Of course not, Ziyan. It is a perfectly normal response to witnessing a technique you find sothing useful in, to want to try replicating what you find useful", he smiled under the mask, speaking in a warm tone, "I always did it. That’s how I ended up with so many different skills. Although..."
His eyes then turned playful, as did his tone, "I am a greedy man, so maybe it is a bit greedy of you as well..."
They began laughing, as Zhao Xieren walking ahead of them felt like falling through the ground, to not be a third wheel here in such a glaringly obvious manner, just by being present.
He was also receiving weird glances from the Sect Protectors and an Elder of the Three Pillars Sect who guided them, who walked even further ahead.
After all, it was his first experience going out on a mission with his Valley Master when he was with his lady. At least with Liang Yuhan at the ti, he wasn’t so openly flirty because they weren’t in a relationship yet.
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