Crossing the Sword

Although the translation was smooth for the time being, Ye Shisan did not dare to practice rashly without translating every word clearly. However, he was smart and integrated the parts he thought made sense into his own martial arts according to his own understanding, eliminating distracting thoughts and practicing with his eyes closed.

The greatest feature of the technique recorded in the "Weak Water Sutra" is that it can absorb the innate energy between heaven and earth to replenish itself. It cultivates a kind of energy called true energy, which can emit various water-based spells. While cultivating this true energy, the energy of heaven and earth can also continuously transform the body, making it gradually perfect. In this way, it also provides a regenerative condition for his martial arts practice.

The martial arts itself is constantly developing one's potential. With his superior understanding, he has now reached a bottleneck. The method of transforming the body proposed in the "Weak Water Sutra" is just the perfect way to break through this problem that has troubled him for a long time. When he just dueled with Xing Tian, ​​he was on the verge of death, and his realm was improved. This improvement is a kind of tempering of the state of mind, which naturally has many benefits. One of the manifestations is that he entered the state of meditation much faster than before.

The rich ancient vitality of heaven and earth was continuously absorbed into every pore of his body, injecting new vitality into his body that had already been developed to nearly the limit. Both his meridians and his skin, flesh, and bones all benefited greatly from his cultivation.

After nourishing his body, the heaven and earth energy turned into a trace of true energy, which flowed into Zhang Tianya's Dantian and condensed with his own skills to become one. At this point, Ye Shisan finally reached a new realm of practicing Taoism and martial arts.

Originally, it was difficult to practice Taoism and martial arts at the same time. Among the ancient practitioners, those who practiced Taoism practiced Taoism, and those who practiced martial arts practiced martial arts. Except for some top masters of the god level, almost no one would spend their time practicing Taoism and martial arts at the same time. Because even if they practiced at the same time, their skills and true energy would be divided into two independent individuals, each doing their own thing. In this case, if you want to reach the same realm, you need to spend twice as much time practicing as others. Although such practice can add a lot of changes to the battle, in terms of power, it is far less practical than practicing one of them alone. If the time required to practice both powers to the bottleneck of the acquired nature can usually allow a person who only practices one of them to break through the bottleneck and reach the innate realm. And two acquired masters are simply unable to compete with one innate master.

But Ye Shisan's current Taoist martial arts practitioners are different. He combines the two energies into one, so he can take care of both at the same time. With the complementary effect of the two, he can even exceed the speed of practicing one alone. Moreover, due to the perfect combination of the two energies, he can perfectly combine and use them in battle, which is an advantage that other Taoist martial arts practitioners cannot match. The reason for this advantage is somewhat ridiculous, because he has limited knowledge of ancient characters. In this case, he dared not rashly practice the true energy alone, and after seeing the power of Xingtian, he fully realized his shortcomings, so he had to seize the time to improve his skills to deal with all possible troubles. Because of this, he had to take the risk of combining the two energies with his understanding of martial arts. Fortunately, he finally succeeded. This success took the first crucial step for him to become a top master in the God Realm in the future.

With the help of inner vision, Ye Shisan saw the perfect combination of true energy and his own internal force, but its volume did not expand, but became more concentrated than simple internal force. In this way, when he completely replenished the energy in his dantian, his own energy was more than twice as much as before. This discovery surprised him and he began to practice even harder.

An unknown amount of time had passed, but when Ye Shisan had replenished nearly half of the energy in his dantian, the vitality of the surrounding heaven and earth suddenly decreased sharply. Not only was he unable to continue absorbing any more, but there were signs that it was leaking out.

Startled, he immediately stopped practicing, opened his eyes and observed the movements around him.

But as soon as he opened his eyes, he was shocked by the scene in front of him. With a pine tree about fifty feet away as the center, the surrounding grass and trees continued to wither and turn yellow, and this phenomenon continued to spread. Not only the grass and trees, but also the surrounding heaven and earth vitality were madly taken away and finally absorbed into the pine tree.

Trying hard to control the internal energy in his body from leaking out, Ye Shisan quickly took out the "Weak Water Sutra" again and read it carefully, hoping to find the corresponding record in the miscellaneous notes on the back.

As expected, time makes waste. After about ten minutes, he finally found the record of this situation in the text about the heavenly treasures. From the text he knew, he also understood the general situation.

Tianyan Tan Pine Cone: A spiritual object that can be encountered but not sought after. It grows on ordinary pine wood, but it is one in a billion. Eating it can take the energy of heaven and earth it absorbs for yourself, open the third eye, and improve the strength of the Nigong Pill. Once it appears, it must first absorb all the energy of heaven and earth within a radius of a mile. After it matures, it will naturally fall off the trunk after a quarter of an hour, release all the energy, and then turn into an ordinary pine cone. Therefore, this short-lived fruit is named Tianyan Tan Pine Cone.

It is also recorded that the fruit must absorb enough energy to appear, so once it appears, there must be a spiritual being under the tree. And because it is short-lived, there is no sign before it, so although it is a treasure, there is no spiritual being guarding it, which is considered a rare species among the natural treasures.

Moreover, this treasure has another characteristic, which is that it is afraid of the five elements. Just like the ginseng fruit in Journey to the West, it falls when it encounters gold, withers when it encounters wood, melts when it encounters water, burns when it encounters fire, and dies when it encounters soil. If he had not found the relevant records in time, he would probably not be able to eat this treasure even if he encountered it.

After checking the information, Ye Shisan hurried to the pine tree and arrived under it after a few jumps. As expected, he found a quail egg-sized pine cone on the tree, which was golden and was constantly absorbing the energy of the surrounding heaven and earth. At such a close distance, the energy in his body was also constantly lost and absorbed into the pine cone.

Ye Shisan was not only depressed but also thought, could this pine cone have practiced the "Northern Divine Art"? Otherwise, how could it be so powerful that even his extremely restrained internal energy was ruthlessly sucked away. He was now beginning to doubt whether he could hold on until the moment when the pine cone matured. He tried several times to escape from the absorption range of the pine cone, but he was still attracted by its benefits and decided to persevere.