Chapter 31 The Broken Sword Monument
Once the immortal cultivator standing behind the Qixuan Sect lost his power, the entire Qixuan Sect was also implicated.
It was not until recent years that the situation began to change. It was said that the supporter of the Seven Mysterious Sect had made a breakthrough in his cultivation and would soon be able to suppress his opponent again.
Wang Juechu and other high-level officials of Qixuanmen are waiting for the reappearance of this supporter so as to give Qixuanmen an opportunity to take off again.
Therefore, the top leaders of the Qixuan Sect are not very interested in competing with the Wild Wolf Gang. They would rather preserve their strength than start a war that would be detrimental to both sides.
As I walked along and listened to Wang Juechu's narration, I finally understood that the Qixuan Sect actually had such a history.
Although he only had a vague understanding of it from Yu Zitong, Mo Juren still knew nothing about the power of the entire cultivation world.
Any immortal cultivator from the Giant Sword Sect can become the backer of the Seven Profound Sect and have the trust of all the disciples of the Seven Profound Sect for more than two hundred years. It is obvious that this is a powerful immortal cultivation sect.
Moreover, from what Wang Juechu had said, after the Qixuan Sect retired, the Jujian Sect supported another mortal sect in Jingzhou. This shows that no matter how powerful the immortal cultivators are, they cannot do without some help from mortals in the secular world.
By analogy, in a place like Lanzhou with a large population and abundant resources, there must be a force of immortal cultivators secretly controlling it.
It's just that the Jingjiao Society he founded, although it was extremely powerful and dominated the world for a time, was after all a newly created gang, and could not compare with the other two long-standing gangs, Duba Villa and Wuse Gate, and no cultivators had ever come into contact with it.
Could it be that the two rival gangs also have immortal cultivators as their backers?
When he thought of this possibility, Mo Juren recalled many things that happened in Lanzhou in the past, and some new guesses came to his mind.
After Wang Juechu led Mo Juren through a long secret passage, the two arrived in the belly of the mountain.
As soon as you come in, you can tell from the sound echo that there is a huge space here.
However, the torch that Wang Juechu brought in was very weak and could not illuminate it at all.
Fortunately, Mo Juren was a cultivator with far better eyesight than ordinary people. He soon discovered that this was actually a huge natural cave, which was extremely wide and so high that it seemed as if the end was out of sight.
Mo Juren looked at the size and scale of the cave and estimated that it was almost the same size as Sunset Peak, almost occupying the entire mountain.
It can be said that the entire area below the peak is empty!
Moreover, in some places in the upper part of the cave, there are obvious man-made stone pillars, which seem to be supporting the foundation of the peak to prevent it from collapsing.
This place is too dangerous. Even though Mo Juren feels that he is already an immortal cultivator, if this cave collapses, he will definitely be dead.
Wang Juechu was walking in front and did not take the initiative to explain it, as if he did not want him to know the secret, so Mo Juren did not ask about it.
Soon the two of them passed through the cave and entered another section of the mountain.
I saw a smaller cave here, which was only the size of a small building.
This place looks like a cave, but also like a wider tunnel space, but the front has been sealed off, turning it into an inner cave, while the surrounding areas show signs of artificial excavation and expansion.
In the middle of the inner cave stood a broken black stone tablet. Under the light of the fire, one could vaguely see some words written on it.
The stone tablet as a whole is very spectacular, as tall as two people stacked together, occupying almost half the height of the inner cave.
The whole thing looks like it was polished from a huge stone. Its surface is black and smooth, and it is shaped like a four-sided sword blade, but the tip of the sword has been broken, leaving only the sword body.
After Wang Juechu brought Mo Juren to this inner cave, he lit several fixed oil lamps around with torches and began to explain the origin of the black stone tablet.
It turns out that this sword-shaped stone tablet is the secret of the inheritance of the Qixuan Sect's highest skills.
This stele was originally from the Giant Sword Sect behind it, and is some kind of missionary object of the Giant Sword Sect.
Because it was damaged beyond repair, it was abandoned. With the help of the immortal cultivators behind the scenes, Master Qi Jue brought it back and placed it in the sect.
Later, the Qixuan Sect retreated to Caixia Mountain, and this important inheritance stone tablet was brought along and placed in a secret place here.
All the true disciples of the Qixuan Sect will be brought to this secret place to gain enlightenment after obtaining the status, and other elite disciples can also accumulate merits in exchange for time to enter the secret place.
Although there are no words on the surface of the stone tablet, if you sit under it and concentrate and calm your mind, you will have a chance to be chosen by the stone tablet and enter an inexplicable state.
In this state, it is easy for a warrior to enter a state of ecstasy, thereby gaining enlightenment of the various scattered cultivation techniques passed down by the stone tablet.
Whether each person who comes in can get the opportunity and what skills they can obtain are all random and unpredictable.
However, the disciples who receive the skills need to record what they have learned and put it in the Qixuanmen library. After supplements and additions by successive disciples, it will gradually form a skill that can be practiced.
After years of accumulation, the Qixuan Sect has obtained five or six top-level skills from this stele, including the three elders whose lifespans were extended by Mo Juren. Their skills and insights also came from here.
According to the agreement, as one of the three conditions, Mo Juren had one hour to comprehend here. And Wang Juechu, who brought him in, was not idle either. He sat directly in front of the stele and took the time to comprehend.
Mo Juren was not in a hurry. He did not move the torch. Relying solely on the powerful eyesight of a cultivator, he walked around the entire stone tablet in the dim firelight.
According to Wang Juechu's description, the way this stone tablet transmits power is very extraordinary, and it is very likely a magical object belonging to immortal cultivators.
So he went around to the back, and after making sure that Wang Juechu could not see it, Mo Juren used his divine eye technique to observe the stone tablet carefully.
Under the vision of the Sky Eye Technique, it was seen that this stone tablet was indeed not an ordinary object. There was a faint trace of spiritual power flowing around it.
Moreover, in that part deep underground, there was actually a spiritual energy slowly rotating around the bottom, as if it was being absorbed by the monument.
Mo Juren was very interested and observed it carefully.
Soon he discovered that every once in a while, inexplicable words would appear on the stele, which looked like symbols, array patterns, and veins.
After comparing and observing for a while, Mo Juren discovered some patterns in the appearance of the text. He silently walked to a place on the side of the stone tablet and sat down cross-legged.
Wang Juechu closed his eyes and meditated, and had no time to look at Mo Juren, so Mo Juren just kept using the Sky Eye Technique openly.
He chose the right moment, and when the words on the stele flashed in a certain order and a blank space appeared, he reached out and pressed on it.
In an instant, a stream of pure information surged out from the stele and directly poured into Mo Juren's consciousness.
He saw some indescribable words jumping and changing in his mind, and then transformed into certain experiences and insights, which were imprinted in his mind one by one. He didn't need to remember them at all, and they were directly engraved into his consciousness like turning the pages of a book.
After all the words finished jumping and changing, they formed an article in his mind that included the techniques of practicing Qigong and the insights gained from cultivation.
However, this technique is obviously missing the front part, which may be caused by the broken part of the stele.
"Tiansha Sword Body Technique!?" Mo Juren silently recited the name of the technique in his mind and said with some surprise.
The moment of power transmission was so fast and the skills were so clear that Mo Juren, who was exposed to it for the first time, was caught off guard. He did not dare to assert whether this was a special opportunity for him or a real way to obtain the skills from the stone tablet.
Seeing that Wang Juechu was still meditating with his eyes closed and didn't notice anything about his actions, he put down his hand that was touching the stone tablet and concentrated on meditating and studying.
The so-called "Tiansha Sword Body Art" is, at first glance, a body-building exercise similar to the Elephant Armor Skill, which opens up acupoints all over the body to increase physical strength and cultivate the physique.
But different from the Elephant Armor Power which is divided into nine levels and three hundred and sixty acupoints, the Tiansha Sword Body has no levels. It will continue to open up all nine hundred and ninety-nine acupoints in the body, and eventually it will become an acquired sword body that is indestructible, can cut through anything, and can protect itself with spontaneous sword energy.
The exercises contain a lot of descriptions of how to open up the acupoints in the body, including both the visible and hidden acupoints.
The bright orifice is opened up with magic power, which can directly improve the body's cultivation; the hidden orifice, in addition to body cultivation, can also hide evil spirits and release them when fighting the enemy, which can directly amplify and strengthen the killing power of various spells.
The so-called sword body means that every move is like a sword and every move is intended to attack.
Judging from this method of practicing the combination of magic power and evil spirit, in which both Gang and evil are integrated into one body, Mo Juren speculated that the previous part should be the method of refining Gang into evil spirit and transforming evil spirit from spiritual energy.
For ordinary cultivators who only cultivate magical powers, if this part is missing, then there is no way to get started with this technique, and they can only use it to gain sporadic insights into the subsequent techniques and skills.
A technique that cannot be practiced is like chicken ribs to a cultivator. No wonder they gave up this tool for passing on the technique.
But even such a broken stele is of great use to mortal warriors.
The Qixuan Sect constantly sent people to comprehend those scattered artistic conceptions and transform them into martial arts with infinite uses. I'm afraid that their martial arts strength that can dominate a state comes from this.
However, the missing part of the "Tiansha Sword Body Technique" did not pose any difficulty for Mo Juren!
Thanks to his predecessor Zhang Tie's experience of becoming a corpse, he can naturally absorb the free evil energy from the heaven and earth when practicing. It can be said that he has perfectly avoided this shortcoming.
It is difficult for ordinary cultivators to practice Gangsha together, but it is a natural thing for him.
Mo Juren felt an inexplicable emotion in his heart. He was happy that this was a method of cultivating immortality that could be practiced, and it seemed to be much more advanced than the Elephant Armor Technique. Moreover, they could be practiced at the same time without affecting each other.
But unfortunately, this was not the immortal cultivation technique that he most desired to obtain, which could cultivate his magic power and improve his realm...
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