The Martial Lord of the Troubled World

Chapter 73 Five Elements Profound Fiend Technique (Thanks to Alliance Leader Qingfeng Fuwoxin)

The night was as dark as ink, and the cold dew brought frost.

Fu Juemin quietly opened the door and entered the room. He quickly walked to the window and looked down by the moonlight. He saw Li Tong, who had followed him back, slowly appearing on the lawn in the backyard, talking to the two guards on night patrol.

His eyes flickered slightly as he retreated step by step to the center of the room, then casually sat down cross-legged on the floor.

Recalling his conversation with Li Tong tonight, Fu Juemin still feels somewhat dazed, as if in a dream.

He gazed at the swaying, dense shadows of the sycamore trees outside the window in the night, then slowly reached into his robe and took out a piece of cloth covered with tiny writing.

By the moonlight, I looked down at the words on the tattered cloth in my hand. It was a strange prescription. The contents of the prescription were normal at first: "Phellodendron bark, Kochia fruit, Angelica dahurica, Mentha, Sophora flavescens." But the further I read, the more bizarre and strange it became.

Especially when Fu Juemin's gaze fell on the words "take live snakes, live scorpions, live spiders..." in the prescription, his eyes couldn't help but freeze.

"The Five Aggregates...Mysterious Demon Technique".

Fu Juemin spoke slowly, his expression a mixture of joy and complexity.

Just as Li Tong told him, this strange martial art, which claimed to help him break through the Tongxuan Qi membrane in the Blood Refining Realm, was an out-and-out evil art, a demonic art.

The "Five Aggregates Mysterious Evil Technique" refers to the Five Aggregates, which are also the Five Poisons, Five Evils, Five Calamities, Five Disasters, and Five Diseases.
During cultivation, one must draw in the five poisonous energies to temper the muscles and strengthen the meridians, thereby forming a poisonous aura within the body, similar to the internal energy possessed by martial artists in the Profound Realm, which has the effect of corroding and penetrating the Profound Realm's energy membrane.

According to Li Tong, ordinary people who practice this "Five Elements Profound Evil Technique" need to supplement their practice with corresponding healing and nourishing medicines to protect their heart meridians each time they practice, in order to prevent the poison from attacking their heart and causing them to die on the spot.

Furthermore, after each period of practice, one must stop for three months to eliminate residual toxins through other means such as herbal decoctions, massage, and acupuncture.

Only by proceeding cautiously and gradually can one master the skill.

Even so, once this technique is mastered to a high level, practitioners will inevitably suffer from tooth loss and rotting, skin and flesh injuries, internal organ ulcers and tuberculosis, and ultimately, death due to the attack of all poisons on the heart.

To put it bluntly, this is a pure "self-torture and suicide" technique!

Practicing it will inevitably lead to death; this has been true throughout history without exception.

unless
"Unless you have already mastered the 'Medicine Master's Glass Body' technique!"

Fu Juemin's eyes flickered as he carefully recalled every word and sentence Li Tong had said to him.

According to Li Tong, although the four great external martial arts techniques of the previous dynasty all have the name of external martial arts, in fact, they each have their own emphasis when practiced. The core focus of "The Medicine Master's Glass Body" is to nourish the body and purify the body.

Martial artists who practice the Medicine Master's Skill are born with the ability to dispel miasma and detoxify. Those who master the Medicine Master's Skill become immune to all poisons and evil spirits.

It is precisely the supreme holy body that cultivates this "Five Elements Profound Fiend Technique".

That is why there is a saying that "the pharmacist is in charge of the five animals and can ward off the five poisons".

"According to Li Tong, with my current progress in the Pharmacist Technique, if I only want to cultivate a wisp of poisonous energy to break through the Tongxuan Qi membrane, I won't even need any medicinal methods to assist in detoxification during cultivation. The body will naturally eliminate the residual poison."

Fu Juemin sat on the ground, lost in thought.

Should we practice this poison technique or not?
To be honest, he was indeed somewhat tempted.

The main problem was that Li Tong painted an overly rosy picture of his prospects in practicing the Five Elements Profound Fiend Technique. Although he didn't explicitly state what the effects of mastering the Five Elements Profound Fiend Technique would be, he casually mentioned the terrifying side effects of the technique.
Fu Juemin could also sense that this evil skill was probably among the top tier.

Otherwise, why would so many people knowingly choose to die, yet still rush headlong into the training without a care in the world?

In fact, Fu Juemin was not against any evil or demonic martial arts; his main concern was whether what Li Tong said was true or false.

Li Tong's identity remains a mystery to this day.

Tonight was a "frankness session" for the two of them, but they weren't completely honest with each other.

Fu Juemin did not mention the so-called "Senior Ji" to Li Tong until the end of the conversation, mainly because Li Tong might not have mentioned it anyway, and it could easily cause further estrangement between the two.

"The death of the previous incarnation is certainly related to Li Tong, but it's not necessarily Li Tong who did it..."

The logic is actually simple. Although Li Tong has always been lukewarm towards him, given his methods, he has a thousand ways to kill him. Why would he need to find another group of people to shoot him in the heart?

That was true then, and it is true now. If Li Tong really wanted to harm him, given the fact that Fu Juemin's full-force strike hadn't even scratched him, he could have easily killed him with a single palm strike. Why would he go to all that trouble and trick him into practicing some evil technique?

"The Medicine Master's Pure Light Blade is both orthodox and unorthodox, and its dignified and majestic appearance is not without its strange and wonderful twists. According to this logic, the combination of Medicine Master's Skill with the Five Poisons and Five Birds makes sense."

The Five Poisons is the "Five Elements Profound Evil Technique". As for the Five Animals, Li Tong briefly mentioned that they were the unique skills of the Five Animals Sect of the previous dynasty. However, since the fall of the previous dynasty, the inheritance of the Five Animals Sect has been scattered and broken. They are easy to find, but it takes some effort.

"At worst, I'll just learn it first, and if I find anything wrong, I can stop and dissipate my skills immediately."

As Fu Juemin pondered, before he knew it, the rooster crowed three times, and dawn broke in the east.

As he rose from the cold floor, Fu Juemin slowly walked to the window.

Looking out the window at the dawn breaking and the gradual return of people to normalcy, I had already made up my mind.

After practicing blood cultivation, Fu Juemin's energy far exceeded that of ordinary people, and this is even more true now.

He hadn't slept all night, but he didn't feel tired. So he went downstairs for breakfast and instructed his subordinates to collect the ingredients for the prescription given to him by Li Tong as soon as possible.

The introductory recipe for the "Five Elements Mystic Demon Technique" is simple; the other ingredients are not much, but collecting the few live poisonous creatures might take some effort.

After having breakfast, Fu Juemin changed his clothes, had his butler, Uncle Chen, prepare the car, and went out.

On the banks of the Luan River.

Fu Juemin stood on the riverbank, squinting as he gazed at the distant river view.

The morning river breeze blew in my face, carrying a hint of the chill of late autumn turning into winter, and a strong fishy smell.

A thin layer of mist shrouded the river, and the sunlight reflected off the surface, creating large swaths of golden-red hues.

In the distance, fishing boats returning to port after night fishing were seen; nearby, a group of women were washing clothes and picking vegetables by the river with wooden basins in hand, the sound of their washing sticks hitting the clothes constantly reaching Fu Juemin's ears.

"Is there any way to lure Song Lin off the shore and onto the ship? Once he's on the water, killing him will be much easier."

Fu Juemin pondered to himself.

For Fu Juemin, luring out the water monkeys hiding at the bottom of the river was actually the simplest thing.

If he were to emit even a slight aura of being a fellow demon, the water monkey would, without fail, quickly find him, like a fish drawn by a fishy smell.

His trip to the dock a few days ago had already confirmed this; he only needed to activate [Hidden Listening] to investigate, and the water monkeys that were "dormant" underwater were immediately awakened from their slumber.

Fu Juemin wanted to use someone else to do his dirty work and break the predicament of the Fu family. Now he faced two main difficulties: how to lure the enemy into the trap, and how to retreat safely after using himself as bait.

Just then, a person hurriedly walked up to him and whispered something.

"Young master, someone is looking for you."

The person giving the report was a manager surnamed Liu, who was in charge of the Fu family's business at the dock. It was also this person who told Fu Juemin about the water demon when he first came to the dock.

"Bring it here for us to see."

Fu Juemin's eyes flickered slightly, and he casually gave the order.

Before long, Steward Liu led someone over.

Fu Juemin took a look and discovered that it was Qian Fei, whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

Qian Fei had not visited the Fu family for about half a month after returning to the Civil Affairs Department. When they met again, Fu Juemin noticed that Qian Fei looked dejected, his clothes were wrinkled and sore, and his hair was greasy and matted. He wondered how long it had been since he had taken a bath.

Compared to when she was with him, she was completely different, always beaming and full of energy.

Upon seeing Fu Juemin, Qian Fei immediately became somewhat agitated. He quickly stepped forward, but hesitated to speak, and finally said in a low voice, "Young Master, Second Master asked you to come over if you have nothing else to do."

(End of this chapter)