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Chapter 88 Martial Arts Furnace, Extinction Returns to the Mountain (Fifth Update, Please Read On)

Faced with the two notification messages that popped up one after another, even Gu Shaoan, with his calm and collected nature, was overjoyed.

Over the course of nearly four months, from the height of summer to the current heavy snowfall, Gu Shaoan has finally succeeded in cultivating the three superior martial arts techniques he has mastered to the level of "comprehension and mastery," and these techniques are lightness skills that determine a martial artist's movement speed.

It should be noted that, at present, even Miejue's mastery of "The Three Appearances of the Divine Dragon" has only reached the level of "comprehensive understanding".

However, Gu Shaoan had already reached the level of "comprehension" in "The Three Manifestations of the Divine Dragon" in less than a year of cultivation, which was quite fast.

However, when Gu Shaoan saw that the proficiency required to move from mastery to a smooth and perfect level was as high as 50,000 points, his eyelids couldn't help but twitch again.

"Another 50,000 points of proficiency."

Over the past few months, Gu Shaoan has continued to diligently repair the equipment every day.

Both "Golden Top Cotton Palm" and "Sunset Sword Technique" have reached the level of "comprehension and mastery".

However, like "The Three Appearances of the Divine Dragon," both of these martial arts require 50,000 points of proficiency to advance further.

At Gu Shaoan's current pace, it would take at least a year to cultivate these three martial arts to the "perfect and complete" level.

"I just don't know how difficult it is to master the martial arts in the Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms and the Nine Yin Manual."

Immediately afterwards, Gu Shaoan had a thought and brought up the achievement point lottery panel.

"Hopefully I'll get something better this time!"

Gu Shaoan had drawn prizes several times in the past few months, but he hadn't been as lucky as he was at the beginning and hadn't drawn anything that could greatly improve his strength.

As soon as the thought crossed his mind, and with the achievement points he had just acquired depleted, the lottery wheel in front of him immediately began to spin.

A few breaths later, the pointer stopped, and a notification popped up in front of Gu Shaoan.

[You have drawn the Martial Arts Forge once.]

The moment his gaze swept over the notification message, Gu Shaoan's expression changed.

"They actually managed to pull that thing out?"

The Martial Arts Furnace, as the name suggests, is a furnace that allows one to fuse their existing skills or techniques into a new martial art based on their characteristics.

Gu Shaoan never expected that the martial arts furnace would be extracted this time.

Currently, Gu Shaoan possesses two versions of the Nine Yang Skill within both the Emei and Wudang sects.

Although both techniques originated from the Nine Yang Manual, they have become very different from the original Nine Yang Manual after being created by the founders Guo Xiang and Zhang Sanfeng.

Although cultivating both skills simultaneously made Gu Shaoan's internal energy extremely mellow, it even had some of the extremely strong and yang flavor of the "Nine Yang Manual".

Once Gu Shaoan cultivates both Nine Yang Skills to the highest level, he is certain that by combining the two Nine Yang Skills, the purity of his internal energy will be no less than that of the internal energy condensed by cultivating the Nine Yang Manual.

The problem is that cultivating both skills simultaneously now places too much time demands on Gu Shaoan.

Excluding the four hours of rest each day and other expenses, Gu Shaoan can only cultivate for six hours each day.

The time that Gu Shaoan spent practicing these two Nine Yang Skills took a full three hours.

This is because my internal energy is currently in the stage of nourishing my meridians.

Otherwise, it would be quite good if Gu Shaoan could squeeze out an hour to practice martial arts.

This problem was already giving Gu Shaoan quite a headache.

But now, with the emergence of the martial arts furnace, Gu Shaoan can easily merge the two Nine Yang Skills into one.

This greatly reduces the time spent cultivating internal energy.

Thinking of this, Gu Shaoan disregarded his martial arts training, gathered his energy, and leaped back to the bamboo courtyard.

Pushing open the door of the bamboo house, a wave of warmth washes over you, mixed with a faint fragrance reminiscent of orchids.

Looking up, one could see Zhou Zhiruo, dressed in a bright green dress, sitting at a bamboo table. Her left hand, white as a scallion, supported her cheek, while her right hand flipped through a medical book on the table.

There were still some characters that Zhou Zhiruo had just copied on the table.

Yang Yan paced by the window with a book in her hand, sometimes looking up and moving her lips slightly, sometimes looking down at the book in her hand, as if she was memorizing something.

Zhou Zhiruo, Gu Shaoan, and Yang Yan were still young and at the age where they needed to learn to read and write and study more.

Even though Abbess Miejue and Abbess Juechen hadn't set any homework for Gu Shaoan, he would still set aside half an hour every day to practice calligraphy, not to mention his continuous study of medical books.

On the days when Abbess Miejue was not around, Abbess Juechen would also set homework for Zhou Zhiruo.

As for checking the students' homework, that was left to Gu Shaoan.

She would conduct random checks from time to time to eliminate the possibility that Gu Shaoan was deliberately covering up for the two of them because he spoiled them too much.

As if sensing the cold wind blowing in from outside when the door was opened, Zhou Zhiruo, who was engrossed in reading, immediately looked up and saw Gu Shaoan enter the room and close the door.

Seeing Gu Shaoan return to the house, Zhou Zhiruo's beautiful eyes flashed, and she got up with light steps, picked up the teapot that was warming on the stove stand, poured a cup of hot tea and walked to Gu Shaoan.

"Junior brother, be careful, it's hot!"

Yang Yan also moved closer to Gu Shaoan, with her hands behind her back and her eyes crinkling as she looked at him.

Facing the two young maids, one considerate and the other pretty, Gu Shaoan couldn't help but smile the moment his gaze fell on Zhou Zhiruo and Yang Yan as he entered the room.

After taking the teacup, Gu Shaoan glanced at the medical books on the table and asked, "Senior Sister, is there anything you don't understand?"

Zhou Zhiruo shook her head and said, "I'm still memorizing it by rote. I'll ask Junior Brother after I finish reading this book."

Gu Shaoan nodded in acknowledgment, then looked at Yang Yan.

Meeting Gu Shaoan's gaze, Yang Yan sighed, "I haven't finished memorizing it yet."

As she spoke, Yang Yan looked at Gu Shaoan with a hint of helplessness and said, "But the contents of the Huangting Jing are too obscure. Do we really have to memorize it all?"

Gu Shaoan gently patted Yang Yan's head and said, "Many of the acupoints and meridians involved in the 'Huang Ting Jing Nei Jing Tu' are also used in later cultivation. It also involves some fatal acupoints and vital acupoints of the human body, which are of great help in both offense and defense when facing an enemy."

"Moreover, some of the acupressure techniques of my Emei Sect require memorization of the meridians and acupoints. I must also memorize the entire 'Huangting Jing Neijing Tu'."

Hearing Gu Shaoan's words, Yang Yan could only lower her head.

Seeing Yang Yan's listless appearance, Zhou Zhiruo laughed and said, "Only Junior Brother can control Junior Sister Yan'er. I've told her several times before, but she wouldn't listen."

Upon hearing Zhou Zhiruo expose her shortcomings, Yang Yan immediately moved closer to Zhou Zhiruo. Like a cat with its fur standing on end, Yang Yan pounced on her with a playful laugh, aiming straight for the soft flesh on her waist.

As Zhou Zhiruo nimbly dodged, she couldn't help but laugh out loud, her laughter carrying the unique crispness of a young girl.

As the two women playfully moved around, their skirts swirled open in the warmth like two newly blooming flowers, the fabric rustling softly as it rubbed against each other, creating ripples of tenderness in the dim light of the fireplace.

The hot tea in Gu Shaoan's teacup rested quietly on the small table beside him, wisps of white steam rising from it. The warm smile on his lips was even gentler than the firelight.

Outside, snow was falling heavily, and the snow scene was delightful, but inside the bamboo house, wasn't the scenery even better?
After the two had been playfully bickering for a while, Gu Shaoan finally spoke up, and they returned to the bamboo table to continue their unfinished homework.

Gu Shaoan then went to another bamboo bed and sat cross-legged.

With a thought, he retrieved the martial arts furnace he had previously obtained through a lottery.

As soon as Gu Shaoan decided to use the Martial Arts Furnace, several prompt boxes immediately popped up in front of him.

The prompt boxes contain information on the martial arts techniques that Gu Shaoan currently possesses.

After selecting the two martial arts techniques to be integrated, namely "Emei Nine Yang Skill" and "Wudang Nine Yang Skill", Gu Shaoan made the decision.

Ten breaths later, a notification message popped up in front of Gu Shaoan.

[Martial arts fusion successful. Players are requested to name the new martial art.]

After a moment's thought, Gu Shaoan named the newly formed technique "Emei Nine Yang True Scripture".

Almost the instant the name was decided, a flood of information rushed into Gu Shaoan's mind.

It is the internal energy cultivation method of "Emei Nine Yang True Scripture" formed by the fusion of two Nine Yang Skills.

"Golden summit burns clouds, ivory pool sinks moon; strength and gentleness complement each other, yin and yang harmonize; qi rises from jade pillow, sinks into secluded spring; alchemy furnace burns brightly, nine times condensing true essence; soft water winds around stone." In just a hundred breaths, the contents of the nine-layered "Emei Nine Yang True Scripture" were all imprinted in Gu Shaoan's mind.

After comparing the fused "Emei Nine Yang Manual" with the two versions of the Nine Yang Skill, Gu Shaoan found that the fused "Emei Nine Yang Manual" was more profound and obscure.

Moreover, the operational route of the first level alone is several times more complex than the two versions of the Nine Yang Technique.

After mentally simulating the cultivation path of the first level of the "Emei Nine Yang True Scripture", Gu Shaoan's internal energy, which was as condensed as mercury, began to circulate slowly according to the new cultivation method.

Inside the room, all three were quiet. The only sounds were the soft rustling of pages turning, the crackling of the fire, and the subtle rumble of Gu Shaoan's surging internal energy flowing through him, all intertwining to create a reassuring tranquility.

A month passed in the blink of an eye as Gu Shaoquan fully immersed himself in the first level of the "Emei Nine Yang True Scripture".

As dusk fell that day, the wind and snow subsided, and twilight streamed through the window into the bamboo hut, creating a serene atmosphere illuminated by the glow of the charcoal fire in the stove.

On the bamboo bed, as the powerful internal energy within him suddenly connected a hidden meridian around the Jade Pillow acupoint, a notification appeared in Gu Shaoan's mind.

[Congratulations to the player! You have successfully entered the perfect state of the first level of the Emei Nine Yang True Scripture. Achievement points +1000]

At the same time, Gu Shaoan's internal energy circulation speed suddenly increased several times.

A warm and cool sensation suddenly emanated from the "secret spring" orifice at his coccyx.

Like a clear spring flowing over rocks, it rushes straight up following that incredibly intricate and complex route.

Along the way, it felt as if the meridians were being nourished by sweet rain, making people unconsciously intoxicated by the experience.

As his internal energy circulated rapidly, Gu Shaoan's already exceptionally pure internal energy and origin were refined and perfected once again.

Furthermore, as internal energy circulates, the characteristics of internal energy and its origin also begin to change.

It wasn't until an incense stick had burned that the internal energy in his body transformed from a raging river into a gentle, murmuring stream.

Entering a state of introspection, and feeling the internal energy flowing slowly through his meridians, Gu Shaoan could clearly sense the changes in his internal energy over the past month.

After a month of arduous practice of the "Emei Nine Yang Manual," Gu Shaoan's internal energy now perfectly integrated the characteristics of the two Nine Yang techniques.

The internal force contains both the resilient and penetrating power of "soft water flowing around stone" and the inexhaustible strength of fierceness.

As it circulated, the internal force was powerful enough to split stone tablets and shatter rocks, yet it was also as soft and flexible as silk threads, penetrating every nook and cranny.

With a single thought, the internal energy can instantly transform from the softest to the hardest, from the most powerful to the most refined, changing effortlessly without any hindrance, already carrying a sense of the balance between softness and strength.

It can be said that the "Emei Nine Yang True Scripture" that Gu Shaoan is now practicing is a completely different technique from the original "Nine Yang True Scripture".

Moreover, the fused techniques opened up and strengthened the connections between many subtle hidden meridians.

Just as in the past internal energy surged in a few main rivers, now it is being drawn in by thousands of streams and ravines.

When internal energy circulates within the body, it circulates faster and is less depleted.

Even the speed at which internal energy recovers has increased threefold, already showing a hint of "endless vitality".

And this is only the change after the first level of the "Emei Nine Yang True Scripture" has reached perfection.

Once Gu Shaoan completes the second level of the "Emei Nine Yang True Scripture" with his profound skills, his internal strength will become even stronger.

The change in his internal energy made Gu Shaoan feel incredibly strong.

If Gu Shaoan were to compete with Song Qingshu again now, he was certain that if he controlled his internal energy to the level of someone who had only cultivated for a year, he could easily send Song Qingshu flying with a single palm strike.

The improvement in his strength made Gu Shaoan feel extremely happy at this moment.

Looking up at Yang Yan and Zhou Zhiruo, who were each sitting cross-legged and cultivating in a different spot inside the house, Gu Shaoan appeared at the door and stepped into the courtyard in an instant, his figure as swift as the wind.

With a leap, he traversed ten zhang (approximately 33 meters) across the swirling snow.

Not only with "The Three Appearances of the Divine Dragon", after some experimentation, Gu Shaoan discovered that the power of any martial art he used almost doubled.

However, just as Gu Shaoan was immersed in the rapid increase in his strength, a strange sound suddenly entered his ears.

Turning my head quickly, I saw a figure that had appeared beside the bamboo forest.

Who else could it be but the extinct creature that has been away from the mountains for almost half a year?
Upon seeing Miejue's figure, Gu Shaoan's face lit up with joy. As his inner energy circulated, his body moved like a dragon, instantly appearing in front of Miejue.

"Master!"

At this moment, Miejue's hair bun had obviously not been carefully styled for a long time, and it was slightly loose, with a few strands of black hair hanging down her cheeks, also stained with the dust of wind, snow and the journey.

His eye sockets were even deeper than when he left, filled with fine blood vessels, but his gaze was still as sharp and deep as an ancient well, only now that sharpness was wrapped in a thick layer of fatigue.

Even the Heaven-Slaying Sword seemed to be covered with some dust.

Seeing Gu Shaoan arrive in an instant, his face beaming with joy, a faint, almost imperceptible warmth flickered in the depths of Abbess Miejue's cold, weary eyes.

Looking at the familiar back mountain and bamboo huts, Abbess Miejue felt a string that had been taut in her heart finally loosen.

It even evoked a sense of peace and security, like a traveler returning home.

Looking at the self-satisfied Gu Shaoan in front of her, Miejue raised her hand and patted Gu Shaoan's head, then carefully examined him.

"Not bad, you've grown taller, and you seem to be stronger too."

At this moment, Gu Shaoan was still wearing the clothes he had worn after entering the family.

In the past six months, Gu Shaoan has been practicing with a heavy sword every day, and with the addition of internal energy cultivation, his physique has naturally improved significantly compared to six months ago.

Clothes that used to be too big now fit perfectly.

At his current rate of development, in another month or two, he might need to go inside to get a size bigger of clothes.

As Miejue scrutinized Gu Shaoan, Gu Shaoan's gaze also fell upon Miejue's face.

At this moment, Miejue's face showed obvious signs of fatigue, but her brows and expression showed no signs of defeat. On the contrary, there was an unconcealable joy.

Seeing Miejue's expression, Gu Shaoan knew that Miejue's trip away from the mountain must have been successful.

Thinking about the two more martial arts techniques he would soon learn, Gu Shaoan felt his heart beat a little faster.

Having been away from the mountain for only half a year, as the sect leader, Miejue's first priority was still matters within the sect.

In the afternoon, after resting and washing up, Miejue immediately summoned the elders of the Emei Sect, including Abbess Juechen and Abbess Wujue, to gather in her bamboo courtyard.

Through these people, I learned about the many things that had happened in the inner sect during the six months I was away from Emei.

Fortunately, during these six months, although there were still some conflicts among martial artists or Jianghu forces within the Emei Sect's sphere of influence, none of them were major incidents.

Within half an hour, after Miejue made some decisions and gave instructions, the elders who had gathered in Miejue's house left one after another.

Only Abbess Juechen, Abbess Juejue, and Gu Shaoan remained.

Inside the bamboo hut, a charcoal fire burned brightly, dispelling the chill from the outside.

Abbess Miejue sat upright in the main seat. Although a trace of hardship still remained between her brows, she had regained her former meticulousness, exuding a solemn and authoritative aura.

Gu Shaoan stood obediently behind Miejue.

Seated to the left and right of her were Abbess Juechen and Abbess Juejue.

Seeing the joy on Abbess Miejue's face, Abbess Juechen spoke first, her voice gentle yet concerned: "Senior Sister, you've been out of contact for the past six months, leaving in such a hurry, which has truly worried us. What could possibly require you to leave the mountain for half a year?"

The nun couldn't help but nod in agreement, her heart filled with curiosity.

Facing Abbess Juechen and Abbess Wujue, Miejue slowly revealed the secret of the Heaven-Slaying Sword.

Upon learning that there was another secret within the Heaven-Slaying Sword, both Abbess Juechen and Abbess Juejue turned pale with fear.

After calming down, Abbess Juechen asked, "So, Senior Sister, you left for the past six months for the treasure on this treasure map?"

“Not bad!” Miejue nodded in agreement.

He then slowly and carefully took out two neatly folded sheepskins from his bosom.

(End of this chapter)