Chapter 678: Anomalous Behavior
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They were not allowed to use secret treasures and charms in the next task, so they should focus on improving their strength. ng Qi had to adjust his original plans, hence his hesitation. He pondered.
“After successfully crossing the first step of the Celestial Ladder, the key is to sense the operation of the world from ti to ti and intertwine with Dharma and Logos often. Counting on hertic training alone won’t be very helpful, but my knowledge and experience of these are quite complicated. I shall spend six months on the organization of bladesmanship, sword art, fist movent, and palm stroke, truly achieving mastery of the movents that I’ve learned.”
Although Eight Nine Mysteries was adaptive to changes and was pretty good at imitation, this didn’t preclude ng Qi from operating many other movents. There was a huge difference between simply using a movent and having mastery of it. The forr was rigid—at most soone would know when to use which movent. What was more, during a fight, the cohesiveness of the changes between movents wasn’t fluent, and it would be easy to find its flaws. If it were not for the Eight Nine Mysteries’ ability to sense danger and fight with resistance, ng Qi would have suffered much pain by now.
On the other hand, the latter was the extraction of the essence from his part of the preliminary knowledge of the Six Strokes of the Overlord and Divine Nine-Annihilation, and then combined with his own bladesmanship, not being restricted to a particular movent. This would allow those movents to cooperate with each other, learn others’ strengths and make links smooth, enabling ng Qi to operate them at his fingertips!
It was like an analogy of sword art by telling stories—every movent was like a coping thod. After suddenly learning so many Dharmakaya movents and skills of the Exterior, he was solely operating those coping thods. Operating once or twice would be fine, but if he fought an enemy too many tis, it would expose the rules of the coping thod. It could easily lead to failure unless his strength was far superior to his enemy’s.
Ever since he was promoted to the Exterior, the enemies he had fought were either killed or had faced him just a few tis such that it wouldn’t expose the problem. However, coming up was a Death Task. As he was aware of this flaw, he should redy it as soon as possible.
The real master wasn’t the one who was unwilling to use coping thods but the one who understood how to abandon representation images and grasp the essences of coping thods, which should be combined according to the circumstances. The fascinating stories ca out, therefore, when one abandoned vulgarity, repetition and monotony.
In the past, ng Qi’s palm stroke and sword art were in the master’s realm, but once he got a promotion to the Exterior, he encountered too many adventures and attained many skills and movents with mighty power that couldn’t be combined with each other. They had to be preserved separately. In this aspect, bladesmanship, fist movent and palm stroke of Heavenly Golden Scripture were way more serious than his sword art problems.
ng Qi knew this very well and had always been trying to solve it. His primary result was his movent, “The Big Bang Technique” combined with “Let All Begone” and “the Singular Existence of Mine.” The movent “Falling Sun” — the “Universal Demise” combined with “World of Dao” and “the Chaos Vortex” — was the one that really belonged to him. He thoroughly rembered every change in his heart and the specific level in different situations, which was extrely important.
However, these were just two movents that he had formulated. There were still many bladesmanship, sword arts, and palm strokes that he hadn’t combined, and the two sole movents were also divided into “coping thods” that he had rely developed on his own. There was still a long way to go before he had a thorough understanding of the essence of the new coping thod and their linking stories without repetition.
When his movent reached the realm of coming in handy fluently and flawlessly, he could extract his own “Taoism” from it, which would act as the soul of the whole story.
Therefore, after pondering about it, ng Qi planned to “waste” half a year to do this thing. After all, it would be used as an exchange for the Six Taoist. What a pity if he wasted this chance!
Jiang Zhiwei’s eyes shone brightly. “Indeed! I should exchange for half a year as well!”
After she realized the World of Dao, movents such as Unmoved Tai Shang all had new paths and changes. It was true of Anatta Sword when she learned the Twenty-three Swords Skill, Six Kills on Twenty-three Swords Skill, and Cutting Tao And Seeking True-self as described by ng Qi. The present stage was to extract the essences of other sword arts and combine and achieve mastery given the fra of World of Dao, trying to thoroughly remove the sword art of the Exterior realm.
ng Qi smiled as his idea gained support. He continued speaking. “Aside from this, I plan to exchange for the Three knives corresponding to the Three Swords so that they would have their own correspondence when I organize the bladesmanship and sword art instead of forcing to combine the sword and knife. What’s more, I plan to improve the quality of Heaven Inflicted Pain and make it a Top Grade weapon.”
The three knives referred to Three Sabers, Three Swords, and Three Souls. The outline that Evil God Xuan Tian extracted from his own bladesmanship was ten out of countless knives could break the world, and just one attack could separate the air, achieving the effect from complex to simple and that was the essence of bladesmanship which had the significance of reference for ng Qi.
After he finished speaking, ng Qi had already thought it through. He chose to spend 8,800 Karma points for the Three Knives and 1,200 Karma points for six months. He also selected so materials and made the Dominator of Samsara in Six Realms promote Heaven Inflicted Pain, which was close to Mid Grade, to Top Grade, costing him a total of 1,200 Karma points.
“Heaven Inflicted Pain, Precious Weapon of the Top Grade, with a blade made out of Sky Thunder Gold and a handle carved out of Thunder Wood, and other precious materials... It is exceptionally heavy, weighing more than 700kg... It has definite control over various kinds of lighting and is extrely powerful. The weapon is worth 6,700 Karma points.”
As for Flowing Fire, which had absorbed the blood of Wild Ox Monster, it was infinitely close to Exquisite at present. ng Qi firmly believed that even without the aid of the Six Taoist, Flowing Fire could naturally get promotion after several challenges of fight and stimulation!
When he finished all these things, ng Qi still had 1,190 Karma points left. He smiled at his friends and said, “Who needs to borrow so Karma points and exchange for training? Rember to pay back before the Death Task.”
He didn’t worry about problems such as his own protection devices or materials for the Immortality Elixir of East Pole. The inspiration of “World of Dao” the second ti around was to collect Karma points. ng Qi did not believe that if they had a choice the mbers of The Immortals could suppress their desire and only sense once!
They would be “scourged” if they didn’t take advantage of such a precious opportunity!
In addition, ng Qi found that he had other things that he could exchange for Karma points. He had forgotten about things like the skills of Shang River Fairy that he had kept in his mind, or the wages from Six Fan School that could buy exotic minerals and produce and elixirs.
Zhao Heng’s eyes shone when he heard what ng Qi had said, but then he said with a wry smile, “With enough materials, it didn’t take too long for to get a promotion to the Third-fold Heaven, but to successfully pass the first Celestial Ladder, one could barely count on hertic training.”
This was the first barrier for the Exterior. The key point was the perception of the rule existing in the world that needed challenges.
The reason why Ruan Yushu didn’t choose to exchange for ti previously was that she had given the exotic minerals and produce needed for training to the Six Taoist before this task in order to collect Karma points. Under the circumstances without enough materials, hertic training lasting for five or six years wouldn’t help her break through to the second-fold Heaven. Therefore, her first choice had focused on materials. Now that she knew that ng Qi had so Karma points left, she slightly lowered her head and tried to keep calm as she said, “I need your Karma points.”
With enough ti and exotic minerals and produce, reaching the Third Heaven realm before the next task would not rely be a dream for her.
“I will give it to you later after the trade. We all need to stay here for hertic training anyway.” ng Qi considered the affairs of the Immortals and decided to lend Ruan Yushu the points after having the conversation later.
If she promised to join the Immortals, she could gain not just skills but also selective exotic minerals and produce at a real bargain in the Immortal-tracking Alley. She could earn extra Karma points by completing mber tasks. She could simply wait until she gets there to exchange training ti and enter the Third Heaven realm!
Following ng Qi’s example, Jiang Zhiwei decided things she needed to exchange. She wandered in front of the thick light pillar and exchanged for six months in order to practice the sword arts that she had achieved during this period of ti, including but not limited to World of Dao and Yuding’s Immortal-stabbing Sword.
Then, she spent 2,200 Karma points to exchange for “Blade-curing Wine” in order to preserve the Sword of the Sun-Penetrating Rainbow when she encountered challenges after she finished hertic training. She expected her own promotion through her sword.
After she exchanged for these two things, she said with a smile, ” If nobody wants to borrow Karma points, I want to use them to exchange for a protection device. After all, other things won’t work anyway.”
Ruan Yushu had already borrowed ng Qi’s Karma points, and Qi Zhengyan shook his head, indicating that he had enough Karma points. Therefore Jiang Zhiwei selected for a while and exchanged for “Seamless Robes of Heaven”, a Top Grade Precious Weapon worth 8,800 Karma points. When fully stimulated, it was equivalent to ng Qi’s current defense power and was both water- and fire-resistant.
“Senior Brother Qi, have you decided yet?” ng Qi turned around and looked at Qi Zhengyan.
Qi Zhengyan said expressionlessly, “Promote the level of Golden Dragon Stripe Sword to Top Grade, exchange for a Dark Chaos Crystal to assist training, and exchange for a year.”
“Book of the Chaos” needed a different specific amount of power in every stage, but exotic minerals and produce were necessary which was divided into a different stage. For example, Qi Zhengyan exchanged for Core of a Fallen Star when he cultivated Purple Star River, thus he already had preparation, using materials with chaotic power that won’t consu too much.
ng Qi saw Qi Zhengyan had his own opinion in this matter, so he didn’t give any other suggestion. Instead, he said with a smile, “Strive for Third Heaven at the next task.”
Qi Zhengyan slightly nodded his head and exchanged 2,400 Karma points for one year and 2,000 Karma points for the second Dark Chaos Crystal. Then he exchanged 4,600 Karma points for material Dragon Skeleton as well as its cultivation, in order to improve the level of his Golden Dragon Stripe Sword.
“The Golden Dragon Stripe Sword, being a Top Grade precious weapon, is a cold dragon sword. Its blade is particularly solemn and sharp, listed as Exquisite, which is difficult to break. Its edge is sharp enough to cut tals and stones. If one were to be hit by the sword, one’s blood and heart would freeze. If used well, it could blow clouds and mists as well as change the climate and freeze rivers with its Sword Qi. It is worth 6,400 Karma points.”
Once the exchanges were completed, three people, as well as ng Qi, needed to have hertic training. Zhao Heng left Samsara Square after bidding them farewell.
ng Qi cleared his throat when he saw Zhao Heng leave. He began talking about The Immortals and explained all the incentives to them in the sa detailed way he had used to persuade Jiang Zhiwei.
Ruan Yushu listened quietly, and she didn’t hesitate to say, “No problem, I’m in.”
With the Death Task looming, she found no reason to reject it. It was a way to improve herself without harming her family. Moreover, it was a recomndation from her trusted friends.
ng Qi breathed a sigh of relief. He then looked at Qi Zhengyan with a smile. “Senior Brother Qi, what about you?”
Qi Zhengyan blurted out. “I don’t like being bound, so I’m going to pass.”
He then turned around and walked into his room to begin his hertic training, not giving ng Qi a chance to persuade him.
“Senior Brother Qi seems a bit odd.” ng Qi frowned. “In order to improve his strength, he would rather exchange his sect skills to the Six Taoist. With the Death Task imminent, why would he refuse so firmly when there are so many benefits that co with joining the Immortals?”
“I hadn’t even ntioned ‘World of Dao’ yet!”
Ruan Yushu suddenly said, “Qi Zhengyan was a bit surprised when you collected the core with the tiny erald tree. It was the kind of surprise that things were beyond his expectation.”
She was a very observant person.
“It also seed like he wanted to touch the core in the tree.” Jiang Zhiwei recalled the scene.
ng Qi was still frowning. “Is there any possibility that Senior Brother Qi is hiding sothing?”
“Zhiwei, you need to bring Yushu to The Immortals when we leave Samsara. I will talk to Senior Brother Qi.” ng Qi continued.
“Okay.” Jiang Zhiwei didn’t say much.
ng Qi set aside his thoughts and gave Ruan Yushu a detailed explanation about the Immortals.
After their discussion, Ruan Yushu chose the movent “Fairy of the Moon” as it contained so knowledge of lody. It would not be suspicious if she changed to Sonorous Skills at a crucial point. In addition, the movent could help her develop outstanding Lightness Skills and achieve her purpose—it was suitable for saving her life.
Once Ruan Yushu was finished with the Supre-wisdom Tree, ng Qi began his hertic training and temporarily dropped his worries.
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