Chapter 2319: The Tortoise's Longevity

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Bai Yuxia's "Small Thousand Phases Sever Thought Knife" is a technique with a positive intent. This "cutting hair" is of course not a literal haircut, and Shopkeeper Bai is not a monk... but it carries the meaning of "cutting away the threads of trouble."

Sever distracting thoughts, dispel troubles, restore original truth.

Exploring the secret treasures of the human body in the Five Mansions Sea since ancient times is a journey of self-discovery for cultivators. The seeds of divine abilities are different for everyone due to chance encounters, and many cultivators never have the opportunity to witness them in their lifetime.

Theoretically, the Inner Mansions realm is a solitary journey inward for cultivators, and theoretically, "divine abilities are sought by oneself." However, practice is fundamentally a process of constant exploration and breakthrough.

In the long history of cultivation, it is inevitable that some people would want to influence this. Among them are not a few stunningly talented figures who have left more or less significant breakthroughs.

For example, the divine abilities "Heaven Son Sword" and "Wolf Diagram," which require erasing the seeds of divine abilities to achieve. For example, the divine abilities "Heavy Profound," "Fight Battle Golden Body," and "South Ming Departing Fire," which can be inherited to a certain extent through bloodline.

There are even killing techniques that can be practiced using the seeds of divine abilities as fuel, such as "Divine Nature Extinguish."

Both Bai Yuxia and Lian Yuchan come from families with deep traditions. Naturally, they know how to assist Chu Yao as much as possible in establishing a direction for exploration, and within the permissible range, choose perfect divine abilities. In the exploration of divine abilities, there is no guaranteed success, but they can still play some role, more or less.

Jiang Wang will not feel that because he suffered, his disciple must also suffer. Having a good starting point, a stable environment, and a smooth process is not a bad thing. Making the people around him live better is precisely one of the meanings of his efforts.

Riding a famous horse after getting drunk on wine, singing long songs on the twelfth floor, how is that not youthful spirit?

He hopes Jiang An'an can reach the absolute peak with her cheerful laughter.

But choosing a divine ability is something that only happens after walking from Teng Long to Inner Mansions. It is not necessary to have so many people gathered around to take care of it, like Sitting Month.

There are too many hurdles in life. How can Chu Yao have so many people guarding her side forever?

At the key moments of life, not everyone can encounter someone like Chu Haoxue who can build a Star Bridge.

Jiang Wang will, of course, spare no effort to help his disciple, but he also fears that there will be times when he cannot be there, just like that powerless time in Maple Forest City. He hopes Chu Yao has the ability to face things on her own.

However, he, as her master, cannot simply dismiss the kindness that Qing Yu and the others have shown Chu Yao.

"Just now, in the battle with Sect Master Shu Weijun, one of the piling methods achieved great success. All of you can practice it, and it should be beneficial for the path of Cave True." True Person Jiang divided three immortal thoughts and gave them to Ye Qingyu, Bai Yuxia, and Lian Yuchan: "It is called 'True Self Fix'. Stand in this stance, and external evils will find it hard to invade."

Bai Yuxia understood the meaning of the Eastern Palace. This is to let them focus more on their own cultivation and not surround Chu Yao too tightly. She smiled wryly: "Good piling skill!"

This is a public supplement, not necessarily considered a salary.

"What about me?" Jiang An'an deliberately made noise: "I don't need the path of Cave True! Although I am very weak, I also have ideals!"

Jiang Wang glanced at his sister, then stole a look at the coming Chu Yao, and popped out two more immortal thoughts: "You two can't even stand 'True Self Fix' steadily yet. First, stand this set of 'Self Fix'. Stand for half an hour before sleeping every night. You are not allowed to sleep if you haven't stood enough. This piling method is not difficult; what is valuable is perseverance."

"Self Fix" is a simplified version of "True Self Fix" and can be cultivated before Divine Arrival. First, fix the "self." As for whether this "self" is true or not, that will be discussed later.

Both Jiang An'an and Chu Yao need to fix something.

Jiang Qingyang, who once ate the rice of a hundred families and cultivated the arts of a hundred families, is now True Person Jiang, capable of opening a sect and establishing a school. With one thought, he can release the true transmissions of a hundred families.

He himself felt no sigh. Only Ye Qingyu stood by his side, her thoughts drifting far away for a while.

As True Person Jiang's direct disciple, Chu Yao has her own way of interpreting her master's "standards."

"Not difficult" means it will be "very difficult" to practice.

"Maybe a bit difficult" means it will "want your life" to practice.

"Still quite tiring" means you "don't want to live" once you start practicing...

As soon as Little Martial Aunt An'an opened her mouth, half an hour was added to the evening lesson. Who should he complain to?

He closed his eyes and silently recited in his heart: "I have a sever thought knife, I have a sever thought knife..."

Seeing the immortal boat like a knife breaking through the clouds, he instantly severed the cloud sea with his thought.

It seemed as if a large curtain was lifted. The mountains and rivers of Wei Country floated beneath the black and red banners.

Great Wei is located inland on the southern bank of the Chang River, a truly prosperous place. During the era of various saints, where "sects were prosperous and a hundred schools were established," many large sects established schools here. However, none could last long and always perished in the midst of attacks and conflicts.

Since the establishment of the state system, this place has also always been a land of four-way warfare.

From the beginning of its establishment, Wei Country has been a hard bone!

Looking north to the great scene of the central domain, south to the overlord of the southern domain, Chu, west to Song, and east to Xia, all of them are not weak armies, and it is not soft towards any of them.

Of course, the price of not being soft is getting hit on the east side and beaten on the west side. The country's borders become smaller the more they fight, and the country's power becomes weaker the more they fight. It is also because all sides are holding back, especially Jing Country and Chu Country, both of whom are unwilling to directly conflict again and need a buffer zone, so it lingers on.

However, with five cities today and ten cities tomorrow, the more they fight, the thinner they become, truly becoming "emaciated" day by day.

Before Emperor Wei Ming ascended the throne, the country name "Wei" was almost wiped out!

But no matter what, from the founding of Great Wei to now, the bones of the Wei people are evident to the world.

One can say that Wei Country's national power is not strong, but one cannot say that Wei Country's army is not strong. Those are old soldiers accumulated from successive wars, and military edge honed by strong enemies from many sides.

After Emperor Wei Ming ascended the throne, he encouraged and governed, associated with all sides, and changed the old appearance. Thirty years of recuperation, thirty years of hiding wealth among the people. In the sixtieth year of his reign, he carried out major reforms, strengthened the army and prepared soldiers.

The meeting between this country's ruler and the heavenly son of Jing Country on the Chang River is also recorded in a famous chapter of history. He successfully convinced the heavenly son of Jing with the "Ten Discussions on Wei County," breaking Jing Country's long-term blockade of Wei Country, opening a trade window, and obtaining large resources in the central domain.

The current heavenly son of Wei also entered the history books for the first time as a child at that meeting.

Time is vast like the Chang River. After the heartbreaking efforts of two generations of country rulers, Emperor Wei Ming and Emperor Wei Qin, today's Wei can be considered a "great country."

And as Great General Wu Xun of Wei Country said, when Jiang Wang goes to Wei this time, he, with the Wei martial troops who have been wielding their spears for years, invites the world's first heavenly pride to inspect them.

So when they saw the hear boat pierce through the cloud sea, the first thing they saw was a square formation of about ten thousand people.

It is not that Wei Country's mountains and rivers are not vast, or that Wei's land has no grand wonders, but this branch of the army is truly too dazzling. Arrayed on the plain, it is quiet and silent, yet it is a grand existence that surpasses mountains and seas.

Seeing this army, one knows what "qi strong mountains and rivers" means.

These ten thousand people are all martial men. Just their formation posture already sends killing intent rushing into the sky. The fierceness of their qi and blood is like torches held up in the long night. The qi and blood mist that naturally evaporates from them gathers in the high sky as red peaks.

Looking at the soldiers' appearances again—each one is nine feet tall, with broad shoulders and round waists, sturdy and strong. It seems that all the strong men in the world are gathered together, neat and silent like sculptures. They wear heavy armor, helmet tops adorned with horns, quiver backs, carry rhinoceros shields, hold long spears in their hands, hang strong crossbows on their arms, blood-patterned short swords on their waists, and hook iron chains wrapped around their shins.

This entire set of equipment can adapt to the vast majority of battlefield environments.

Just carrying weight is a thousand jin, each one armed to the teeth, living killing weapons.

A young general on horseback swept past, and only the command flag was raised.

This ten thousand-strong army simultaneously propped up their long spears, like drums beating the ground. They shouted in unison, truly like heaven's thunder: "Martial!"

But see the qi and blood rise from their bodies, instantly turning into military fiend. That extremely condensed military fiend formed a blood-spined black-scaled evil dragon in the air, extremely agile and extremely majestic!

"True Person Jiang!" This dragon coiled above the cloud sky, bowing its dragon head low, hanging towards the pure white boat: "How does my army appear?"

Everyone on the boat was cultivating, and Jiang Wang stood alone at the boat's head.

He glanced down and saw that the young general leading the army was only a martial dao twenty heavens martial man, yet he had not cultivated qi and blood into divine nature, not reaching the level of "I am like Divine Arrival." Then he casually said: "Yuchan, the Great Wei martial troops have already formally formed an army. You have also just achieved Divine Arrival and have not yet stretched your muscles and bones. It doesn't hurt to go down and try a long edge."

Lian Yuchan withdrew from the True Self Fix she had just learned, and her god-like breath instantly burst forth like a released wild horse. She leaped down from the immortal boat without hesitation, crossed her double swords, and directly cleaved into this army.

The shop assistant who delivers dishes in the White Jade Jing wine house is also a strong person of god and brightness. Placed in a small country, she could already镇 Country.

With one sword, she led the cloud qi to surge, and thunder rumbled in the cloud sea. With one sword, she led the earth qi to roar, and cracks appeared everywhere on the plain.

From the depths of that cloud sea, a thunder dragon swooped down. From the abyss of that ground crack, a giant tiger burst out.

As soon as this dragon and tiger met, the entire drill plain was in chaos, the yuan qi confused, and the five elements overturned. Half the sky was clear and half rained, with wind, frost, snow, and sun changing incessantly.

This is the so-called "Two Yi Dragon Tiger"!

But hear—

Strong wind howled!

That strict army array instantly covered in military fiend, and from within that military fiend, a large flag with a black bottom and red characters was shaken out. On the front was the character "Wei," and on the back was the character "Martial." Other than this, there was no extra decoration.

As soon as this flag was erected, heaven and earth became orderly. Wind adjusted, rain followed, and thunder and frost suddenly stopped.

That blood-spined black-scaled fiend dragon turned back at this moment, pressing down on the huge earth tiger with one claw and drawing open the thunder dragon with lightning with one tail.

"Release!"

This short command, perfectly matching the drum beat, had the power to captivate hearts and souls. As soon as that "Martial" character large flag rolled up, crossbow arrows instantly filled the sky, flying densely, a rain of people falling from the sky!

These crossbow arrows are not ordinary goods. Their arrowheads are sharp and bright, their arrow shafts are hollow, their arrow tails are round and straight, and they are engraved with different patterns of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. They seem dense and messy with no pattern, but they are orderly in their flight. They form arrays in the air, pushing and hooking each other. To this extent, this arrow rain is colder than a frosty night and faster than thunder!

Lian Yuchan spun her body with her swords in the air, just about to meet the momentum and counterattack, when suddenly her shoulder was led, and she flew back to the hear boat.

Yet she saw Jiang Wang standing at the boat's head, pressing with five fingers from afar—

That roaring military fiend dragon, the howling boundless arrow rain covering the sky, was thus fixed in the air.

All were locked by the hear lines!

Then Jiang Wang wiped with his large hand, and they disappeared without a trace.

Just between this fixation and wipe, the feelings were already clear.

True Person Jiang also gave his own evaluation at this moment: "Wei Martial Troops, truly strong martial in the world!"

Lian Yuchan stood behind Jiang Wang, still feeling some dissatisfaction, yet she also knew that there was no need to try again. No matter how you put it, she came from a general's family. Although Bai Yuxia always mocked her military strategy as rigid, only knowing how to follow books. But her military strategy level is not low, and of course, she also recognized the strength of such an army before her eyes.

Strictly speaking, the current Wei Martial Troops cannot be compared with an army as strong as Dou E. But from ancient times to now, how many armies like Dou E have there been?

The advantage of martial men's surging qi and blood in a military array was already clearly seen by Lian Yuchan.

The current Wei Country, where martial dao has just opened up and occupies the first opportunity of martial luck, indeed has great potential!

At this time, yet see that martial flag unfold, rolling up mountains and rivers like a curtain. Wu Xun, with thick eyebrows, wide eyes, and wearing heavy armor, pushed open the military fiend, like pushing a screen. He walked up into the cloud sky, a bright smile on his face: "These four characters, 'world strong martial', I shall order someone to record them down, engrave them as a stele, and stand it in the martial troops military camp!"

Indeed, as the saying goes, people are refreshed by happy matters.

With the current situation of Wei Country, he had to keep his mouth corners pressed down all the time.

Jiang Wang looked at this martial dao sect master and also laughed: "Jiang is not good at military matters and cannot make accurate evaluations of the martial troops. However, I roughly understand some martial arts and can recognize gold and jade. Sect Master Wu, do not hold back later, let me know what is the peak of martial arts!"

Wu Xun said confidently: "Neither of us needs to evaluate ourselves. This stone stele stands there, and future generations will know what kind of eyesight True Person Jiang has!"

He didn't say anything else and immediately got to the main topic: "If we both let go and fight, the eight thousand li of Wei Country's mountains and rivers are not enough to toss around."

In the cloud sky, he reached out to lead: "How about going to the military drill ground? With the country's power surrounding the borders, military fiend plundering the array, and tiger tallies suppressing the field, it is not a problem for us to stretch our muscles and bones."

Jiang Wang only said: "The guest follows the host's convenience!"

Immediately, one after the other, they fell down from the high sky.

Earlier, from the high place, they only saw a plain, their eyes filled with the military might of the Wei Martial Troops. As they pressed down from the cloud head, they then felt a sense of familiarity.

Jiang Wang had been to this place...

Although it has changed greatly, and the scenery is completely different, the feelings it once brought to Jiang Wang are very profound.

A group of people directly fell to the edge of the drill ground where the Wei Martial Troops usually drill. They saw the vast emptiness, with knife and arrow marks everywhere.

Wu Xun said: "Does True Person Jiang recognize this place?"

Jiang Wang was silent for a while: "Xin Lan County, Mou City, Late Mulberry Town."

In former years, the ancestor of the No Birth Teach, Zhang Linchuan, in order to harm the present world, owed accumulated blood debts. One of them was the tragedy of this Late Mulberry Town.

Jiang An'an subconsciously clutched the corner of Ye Qingyu's clothes tightly. Ye Qingyu stroked her head. Who hadn't read that open letter written in blood?

Wu Xun said: "After that incident, it was not suitable for people to live here anymore. We flattened it and made it a military camp for the martial troops. Late Mulberry Military Camp is now our largest military camp."

As he spoke, he walked to the middle of the drill ground, his sword hitting the leaves of his armor with a rustling sound: "The resentment here is heavy, only the army can suppress it."

Martial virtue first is to pacify the country with martial arts.

Military merit first is to protect the borders and pacify the people.

The tragedy of Late Mulberry Town is undoubtedly a shame for the soldiers of Wei Country. Although it is said that raising the power of the Wei army to seek Zhang Linchuan, who was hiding his shape and traces, is like shooting a fly with a large crossbow, it is hard to be accurate. Although it is said that Zhang Linchuan was extremely cunning and cruel, and many places in Qi, Dan, Song, Yue, Gao... were unwilling to carry out the execution. This fact is really not the fault of the Wei army's negligence, and it cannot be said that they did not try their best.

But the soldiers of Wei Country who witnessed the tragedy of Late Mulberry Town find it very hard to forgive themselves.

The general Tan Wenqi, who was responsible for sealing the scene in Late Mulberry and verifying the crime at that time, was planted with an evil seed by Zhang Linchuan and died as the carrier who helped him escape the border of Wei Country. Among the soldiers who followed Tan Wenqi out of the country to pursue him at that time, twelve committed suicide in Late Mulberry Town, seven went mad, and one died in the process of practice because he was too eager for success and rushed too intensely.

Of course, these things are not important to people outside of Wei Country and probably do not need to be remembered. One stroke in the history books is redundant.

Jiang Wang followed Wu Xun as he walked towards the drill ground, finally saying: "It's a good thing Zhang Linchuan is dead. He died very cleanly."

The huge drill ground had already been cleared. Except for a large flag rustling in the wind, there were only the absolute top true persons standing on either side of the drill ground.

Wu Xun said nothing else, raising his bronze long spear with one hand, holding it horizontally in front: "This is the martial spear, named 'Turtle Though Longevity'."

Then he patted the short sword at his waist with the other hand: "This is the killing sword, named 'Great Ye'."

"True Person Jiang, please grant instruction."