Chapter 969 - 431: Martial Arts Schools, Devil’s Flame Engulfs the Sky! Ji Yin’s Grand Exam, Inheriting Fortune!

Chapter 969: Chapter 431: Martial Arts Schools, Devil’s Flame Engulfs the Sky! Ji Yin’s Grand Exam, Inheriting Fortune!

The higher the level of martial arts, the stranger its methods of documentation. This stone has "nine orifices and eighteen holes," with an outer blue-gray color and inner pale red warm jade. It carries the implication of "concealing jade within."

This is the Dubhe Sound Stone.

It contains important martial arts from the Shadow Transformation School. The school consists of five martial arts, the first three being Dubhe Saber Technique, Stone-Pushing Palm Technique, and the Hardship Body Scripture.

The fourth is "Enthralling Heart Melody." It’s an extremely rare "sound-based martial art," hidden within the Dubhe Sound Stone. The fifth martial art requires military achievement to be exchanged for, currently unknown, but if all five martial arts are mastered, the skill will undoubtedly be astounding.

Li Xian made a bamboo flute, plugged his ears with the stone’s orifices, and heard a gentle rhythm. He closed his eyes and felt the rhythm entering through his ear channels, permeating his body, causing his bones to gently collide, resonating mysteriously with it.

Every orifice’s rhythm is different.

The Enthralling Heart Melody involves many uses of the "Martial Arts Second Realm Characteristic: Ethereal Immortal Sound." It holds nine pieces, each corresponding to an Ethereal Immortal Sound. A martial art containing nine usages of Ethereal Immortal Sound.

Li Xian roughly listened to all nine orifices, understanding the general information of the Enthralling Heart Melody, thinking: "Greed is never ending, these nine pieces, each has a different ability, being either to kill, disturb, deter, or confuse. I will focus on one first, and practice diligently, improving my skill before learning them all."

He found the first orifice and listened carefully.

The first piece, named "Devil Flame Scorching Heaven," seems to contain a story. In a trance, a character with overwhelming demonic might plays a flute solo amidst raging flames. The music is somewhat chilling, like the water of the netherworld flowing gently into one’s heart.

Yet, it can stir up internal fire, burning the body inside out, boiling blood, and stewing muscles. As Li Xian practices this martial art, he also endures these effects.

Because "sound-based martial arts" have a wide range, spreading from the center outwards as a characteristic. Using sound-based martial arts inevitably harms and affects oneself. Thus, practice requires first fortifying the body, building resistance against the demonic sound.

Moreover, "sound-based martial arts" deplete Inner Qi the fastest! The ancestor of the Su clan from Jade City once performed a strike "Jade Gate Roar," terrifying countless enemy troops. Jade Gate Roar is a sound-based martial art. The ancestor was extremely glorious, yet nobody knew that his roar consumed entirely his Inner Qi, even exhausting his energy and spirit.

Afterwards, he recuperated for several months, using celestial treasures, and requested the help of divine healers before restoring to his original state.

Li Xian felt as if a furnace was built in his chest and abdomen, growing more intense with the rhythm’s spread, sweat pouring profusely, experiencing the peril of "muscles torn, bones brittle, fluids dried, Qi exhausted."

Li Xian put down the bamboo flute, realizing that forced practice would severely harm the foundation, truly outweighing the benefits. Immediately, he sat cross-legged, maneuvering bone impurities, practiced the "Five Viscera Avoiding Dross and Gathering Yang Scripture," slowly nourishing blood quality, cultivating body fluids, and replenishing Qi and Blood.

The Five Viscera Avoiding Dross and Gathering Yang Scripture is indeed profound.

He breathed calmly, merging with heaven and earth, circulating organ impurities and bone impurities, extinguishing the internal fire, halting the burning sensation. Yet, he frowned repeatedly, sensing hidden mysteries within the "Enthralling Heart Melody." He immediately examined closely and discovered there were eighteen small holes outside the nine orifices.

Containing eighteen Pile Skills. Pile Skills have no use for harming enemies. Given the "Enthralling Heart Melody" easily harms oneself, Pile Skills are for protecting oneself, safeguarding the mind, and understanding sound.

Merely by setting up pile postures and breathing adjustments, miraculous effects can be achieved, evading the adverse effects of the demonic sound. Li Xian memorized the pile postures, practiced a little, knowing that the "Eighteen Pile Skills" are inferior to the "Five Viscera Avoiding Dross and Gathering Yang Scripture," being mostly trivial.

Li Xian pondered: "If I am not mistaken, this Enthralling Heart Melody should be matched with a medicated bath chart. Thus, after being harmed by the demonic sound, using medicated baths and decoctions to replenish losses. Yet, I wonder if it’s due to nobody practicing for too long that it’s missing, or for another reason, preventing me from obtaining the medicated bath chart."

"But it does not matter... I have the Five Viscera Avoiding Dross and Gathering Yang Scripture. If I restrict excessive consumption daily, immediately maneuver impurities, replenish slowly, it can temporarily substitute the usage of medicated baths. However, I still need to find the medicated bathing method in order to expedite melody practice progress."

Li Xian calmed his mind, feeling his body fully recovered, attempting again. He does not understand rhythm, but also does not need to comprehend rhythm. After listening to the stone for a moment, he took out the bamboo flute, attempting to play. When sounding the flute, first resonate the Ethereal Sound within the body, transpiring throughout the Inner Qi, before sounding through the bamboo flute.

Initially feeling extremely unrefined, a breath stuck in his chest, a large stone pressing on his throat, unable to release, forcing a blow would only injure the body. He tried for nearly an hour, barely emitting one tone. If not for possessing the "Iron Lung" characteristic, he would have already exhausted and gasped.

Li Xian, with abundant Inner Qi and ample Qi power, still had strength left. The more challenges he faced, the more he inspired an indomitable spirit, thinking: "Dubhe Saber Technique, Hardship Body Scripture, Stone-Pushing Palm Technique each has its difficulties, and this sound-based martial art of the same school proves no exception. It is rather wonderful; I have always loved cultivating such extremely challenging martial arts. See how long you can obstruct me."

His mind excited, fighting spirit high. Locked all doors and windows, secluded himself in the room for practice. Li Xian, quite clever, gradually discovered the key, able to sound the first tone, second tone, third tone, although spaced apart, not forming rhythm, nor pleasingly melodious, but there was direction.

Half an hour later, Li Xian could sound almost half of the melody. Another half an hour passed, further progressing, sounding most of it, tone after tone, faintly able to form melodies transmitted.