Chapter 124: Secret Letter From The King Of Zhenkbei, Successor Sect Master
The next day.
True Martial Mountain.
The twin sisters stepped onto this mountain that had become famous throughout the world just some time ago, feeling some astonishment in their hearts.
The mountain was originally nameless, but it became extraordinary because of people.
They saw one swordsman after another climbing with excited moods, ultimately heading to a certain place under the guidance of True Martial disciples.
“That is the legendary… True Martial Sword Stele!”
The sisters’ spirits shook. Just by looking from afar, they could perceive the majestic Sword Intent within it. Although they used spears, they could still draw parallels.
They saw.
At the place where the True Martial Sword Stele was located, many high platforms had already been built, centered around the Sword Stele and continuously rising higher. Vaguely, they could see figures carrying long swords sitting cross-legged among them, some frowning in meditation, others opening their eyes with joy. Among them, the auras of a very few made even them feel some fear.
They stopped to watch.
The sisters walked to the mountain gate with emotions of endless admiration.
After reporting their identities, the gate-guarding disciple did not dare to neglect them and directly took them to see Dragon Mountain Daoist.
Moments later.
True Martial Grand Hall.
The sisters politely paid their respects:
“Chen Xing and Chen Yue have seen Dragon Mountain True Person. This time, we are acting on orders from our family’s prince to escort a secret letter. Please have a look, True Person.”
The two were very polite.
As she spoke, the younger sister Chen Xing had already taken out the secret letter from her bosom and handed it over.
Dragon Mountain Daoist felt a chill in his heart.
The sisters did not conceal their auras, displaying Heavenly Human Realm cultivation without reservation. Dispatching two Heavenly Human Realm experts to escort it showed the weight of this secret letter. Dragon Mountain Daoist hurriedly said:
“You two have come from ten thousand li away, taking great pains. Does King Zhenbei have any other instructions?”
Chen Yue smiled and said:
“The prince prepared an Apprenticeship Gift for the Heir Apparent. The prince ordered people to copy all the Daoist Scriptures in the manor’s collection and send them over, but they are still on the road and are estimated to arrive in half a month.”
Dragon Mountain Daoist’s eyes lit up.
Previously, King Zhenbei had said he would prepare an Apprenticeship Gift for Li Ling, but he hadn’t taken it to heart. He didn’t expect it to truly give him a not-small surprise.
Even if King Zhenbei’s Manor was not a Daoist Sect holy land, it surely had no lack of stored Daoist Scriptures.
Copying them all over this time could greatly enrich the True Martial Sect Scripture Depository’s collection.
In addition.
This was very beneficial for his own ninth disciple Ning Qi.
Dragon Mountain Daoist knew that Ning Qi had always liked reading Daoist Scriptures. The ones sent from True Profound Sect before had basically been fully digested. Although True Martial disciples had been continuously collecting them in recent years, the speed definitely could not keep up with how fast Ning Qi digested them.
With King Zhenbei’s Manor’s scriptures arriving now, it was enough to let Ning Qi immerse himself in reading scriptures for another period of time.
“Thank you for King Zhenbei’s kind intentions.” Dragon Mountain Daoist smiled and expressed thanks. He did not stand on ceremony.
Chen Xing added:
“In addition, there is something else we need to inform the True Person of. After this, we sisters will reside in True Martial City to protect the Heir Apparent. If the True Person has any matters in daily life, you can inform us sisters. If the Heir Apparent has any needs, he can also tell us.”
Dragon Mountain Daoist nodded in agreement.
This was a good thing.
While Chen Xing and Chen Yue protected Li Ling, they could also be considered to be protecting True Martial Sect.
If True Martial Sect encountered danger, they naturally would not stand idly by.
Dragon Mountain Daoist stood up and said:
“I will have someone call Li Ling over. You can chat.”
He could tell that the two perhaps had matters to privately instruct Li Ling about.
Moments later.
Li Ling arrived.
He first respectfully called out Master, then his eyes lit up as he called out Star Aunt and Moon Aunt.
Dragon Mountain Daoist smiled faintly and left the space to the three: Li Ling and the others.
He himself took King Zhenbei’s secret letter and headed to Seeker’s Courtyard.
Ning Qi was cultivating.
Under the boost of the Blood Jade Pill, even the great mill condensed from Heaven and Earth Power seemed covered in a layer of blood color, with outstanding effects. Strands of Jade Liquid Gang Qi became even more solid, merging back into the Jade Liquid Sea.
Sensing Dragon Mountain Daoist approaching, Ning Qi stopped cultivating. The pressure around him flashed and then vanished.
Seeing the secret letter in Dragon Mountain Daoist’s hand, Ning Qi’s heart shook, and he couldn’t help asking:
“Master, has King Zhenbei already replied?”
Dragon Mountain Daoist smiled and nodded:
“Correct. This time he sent two Heavenly Human Realm experts to escort the secret letter. For Master, I estimate he has already agreed to your conditions. Take a look.”
He handed over the secret letter.
From beginning to end, he had no intention of opening it in the slightest.
This was a transaction between King Zhenbei and his disciple. Even if he was curious, he would not have any thought of peeking.
Ning Qi took a deep breath.
He opened the secret letter.
He discovered that this thick stack was actually divided into two parts.
The topmost was a sheet of paper made of golden silk.
Ning Qi focused and looked. His pupils involuntarily contracted.
Dragon Mountain Daoist felt astonished in his heart. He rarely saw such an expression on his disciple’s face. Most of the time, Ning Qi was incomparably calm; even if the sky fell, it would be hard to change his expression.
While he was curious.
Ning Qi handed over the golden silk paper.
Dragon Mountain Daoist couldn’t resist looking. The next moment, he froze in place, as if petrified, with gigantic waves surging in his heart.
The information recorded above was not much.
Just a short single sentence.
“There is no longer Martial Saint Method in the world. If one wishes to achieve Martial Saint, one must forge a new path oneself.”
While stunned.
The golden silk paper in Dragon Mountain Daoist’s hand had already begun to burn without wind.
In the blink of an eye, it had turned to ashes and scattered into the void.
Teacher and disciple exchanged a glance, both having various guesses in their hearts. The information content of this simple single sentence was enormous. Moreover, from King Zhenbei carefully using this self-igniting golden silk paper, it could be seen that this information was very secretive and could not be spread. Just now, Ning Qi had used Gang Qi to try to stop the golden silk paper from burning, but it failed.
“There is no longer Martial Saint Method in the world… Does this mean all Martial Saint Methods have been severed? Then why were they severed? Artificially erased or for other reasons?”
Dragon Mountain Daoist murmured to himself, his mood unable to calm.
There were Martial Saints in the world.
Great Yan Martial Saint was clear proof, yet King Zhenbei said that to achieve Martial Saint, one must forge a new path oneself.
“Can’t one follow Great Yan Martial Saint’s path? Or is it that someone doesn’t want people to promote to Martial Saint and deliberately destroyed all Martial Saint Methods?”
Dragon Mountain Daoist’s eyes narrowed slightly.
He actually had an even more astonishing guess in his heart, but he did not voice it. Great Yan Martial Saint had dominated the world alone for two thousand years. Perhaps he wanted to monopolize the universe and thus not let others promote to Martial Saint?
Ning Qi just saw the look in his master’s eyes and already knew what he was thinking.
Actually, his initial idea was the same as Dragon Mountain Daoist’s.
But soon.
He thought more.
When he obtained the Azure Edge Sword Saint Legacy from Zhuang Chen before, it was also missing the inheritance after Martial Saint, as if artificially erased, but with an added note saying that achieving Martial Saint required incorporating Heaven and Earth Power for own use.
“If it was done by Great Yan Martial Saint, does he have the ability to erase the Martial Saint portions from all Martial Saint inheritances in the world from ancient times to now? Then why not simply destroy the entire inheritances? Why add this extra note?”
“In addition, if Great Yan Martial Saint wanted to dominate the world alone, he could also secretly suppress and kill Heavenly Human Perfection Realm experts. Why let them continue growing and pursue the path ahead?”
Ning Qi felt it didn’t make sense.
“But if these were not done by Great Yan Martial Saint, then who erased these Martial Saint Methods?”
He voiced these guesses.
Dragon Mountain Daoist fell silent.
“With what you say, I suddenly feel that the True Martial Inheritance we obtained back then may not be incomplete. Perhaps even the Martial Saint Method of the True Martial Inheritance was artificially erased!” He voiced an astonishing idea, but then shook his head.
This was just his guess. Perhaps the True Martial Inheritance was one of the few well-preserved Martial Saint Methods?
“But… why?”
The two were puzzled.
After all, whether there was a cultivation method to rely on was another matter entirely.
For example, Heavenly Human Realm.
If someone cultivated to Gang Yuan Realm but had no Heavenly Human secret technique to cultivate with, they probably could not break through even exhausting their lifespan, because this was equivalent to blindly exploring the breakthrough method.
Now there was no Martial Saint Method in the world.
This meant that those Heavenly Human Perfection level experts needed to explore the path ahead themselves, forcibly creating a breakthrough method to step into Martial Saint Realm. This was almost equivalent to opening up the next realm of the Martial Way, retracing the path the human race had taken, except knowing in advance that the next realm was called Martial Saint.
Its difficulty could be imagined.
Ning Qi didn’t know how long it took the earliest human race to explore out the Martial Saint Realm, but it surely wouldn’t be short.
Even with a Martial Saint Method, breaking through from Heavenly Human Realm Perfection to Martial Saint was extremely difficult. It might not produce even one in several hundred years.
Now without a Martial Saint Method, it was even more hellish difficulty.
“No wonder no new Martial Saints have been born in these two thousand years.” Dragon Mountain Daoist understood the reason.
Ning Qi’s eyes flickered:
“Perhaps this matter was not done by one person, but by ‘some group’, or perhaps by other forces?”
He recalled the blind old man he met in the small town before, who darkly reminded him not to inquire too much into Martial Saint matters, as if warning him that Martial Saints were ominous.
He felt he was one step closer to the truth.
“Fortunately, it’s only missing the ‘method’.” Ning Qi smiled.
In terms of comprehension, he feared no one.
It was nothing more than lacking a Martial Saint Method and needing to create one himself. For others, it was hard as ascending to heaven, but for him, it truly wasn’t a difficult matter.
“After breaking through to Heavenly Human Realm, start working on creating the Martial Saint Method ahead of time! However, even if creating the Martial Saint Method, keep a low profile until thoroughly understanding the truth.”
Ning Qi always felt.
After Martial Saint Realm, deeper secrets were hidden, especially Great Yan Martial Saint, the only Martial Saint in the current world, who needed vigilance. Although Ning Qi felt Great Yan Martial Saint alone could not erase all Martial Saint Methods, his existence was always somewhat strange.
Teacher and disciple discussed again.
In the end, both felt they shouldn’t spend too much energy on this for now, and it was best to keep a low profile.
Ning Qi exhaled lightly and cast aside distracting thoughts.
Then he carefully read the next part of the secret letter.
This thick stack was the main body of the secret letter, recording King Zhenbei’s signature supreme art, Heaven Suppressing Fist.
Evidently.
King Zhenbei felt the Martial Saint information he knew might not satisfy Heavenly Sword True Person, so he attached his own supreme art in the end, which could be called full of sincerity.
With such a secret letter, no wonder it needed two Heavenly Human Realm experts to escort it.
Ning Qi watched carefully, with some astonishment in his eyes, nodding slightly.
King Zhenbei was indeed worthy of being a prodigy of the world.
This Heaven Suppressing Fist he created truly had something to it, giving Ning Qi great inspiration, especially in the use of suppressing and sealing with Heaven and Earth Power. Previously, King Zhenbei had used Heaven Suppressing Fist in front of Ning Qi, and Ning Qi had learned a bit of it.
But only now, by studying the full Heaven Suppressing Fist, did he realize that on that day, King Zhenbei had only used part of the mysteries of Heaven Suppressing Fist.
“It is Heaven Suppressing Fist, worthy of being a supreme fist technique.”
Ning Qi did not stint on his praise.
Dragon Mountain Daoist smiled and nodded. He consciously did not look. Even if Ning Qi handed it over, he wouldn’t take it. The previous Martial Saint intelligence was fine for one more person to know, but this Heaven Suppressing Fist was after all King Zhenbei’s supreme art, used to exchange with Heavenly Sword True Person. He would not be so shameless.
Ning Qi did not force it.
He was already organizing several Heavenly Human secret techniques to teach to Dragon Mountain Daoist later, which would not be inferior to Heaven Suppressing Fist. As for stronger ones, it wasn’t him being stingy; he feared Dragon Mountain Daoist temporarily could not learn them.
“After some time, I will have ‘Heavenly Sword True Person’ quietly appear to teach Little Eleven. Master, you help me reply to King Zhenbei to set his mind at ease.” Ning Qi smiled.
Since he obtained King Zhenbei’s intelligence and martial arts, he would not violate the promise.
Dragon Mountain Daoist also smiled and nodded.
He also mentioned the Apprenticeship Gift sent by King Zhenbei, and Ning Qi was immediately delighted.
This was truly timely aid.
He had completely digested True Profound Sect’s Daoist Scriptures. King Zhenbei’s Manor’s Daoist Scriptures were enough to increase his foundation another level.
…
Half a month later.
The Daoist Scriptures copied by King Zhenbei’s Manor were delivered to True Martial Mountain. Excluding duplicates, there were still fully two thousand volumes!
It had to be said.
King Zhenbei was truly magnanimous, and King Zhenbei’s Manor’s foundation was truly deep. This level of collection was not inferior to some great Daoist Sects.
Ning Qi once again lived a fulfilling life of reading scriptures and enlightenment. His own Gang Qi also grew stronger and more solid day by day, constantly approaching the final metamorphosis.
During this period.
Ning Qi also condensed the Formless Gang Body and taught Li Ling some preparatory Sword Dao secret techniques for Heavenly Sword Technique in the back mountain.
Li Ling was wild with joy.
These days, he had been somewhat troubled. Although his talent was also top-notch, compared to Zhuang Chen’s Innate Sword Bone, it was still somewhat inferior. It was only by relying on his own passion for Sword Dao that he barely kept up with Zhuang Chen’s pace, but it was also somewhat difficult.
Now, with Heavenly Sword True Person’s guidance, he felt much more relaxed.
However, during this time of close contact with Heavenly Sword True Person, although he admired Heavenly Sword True Person even more, in his heart he secretly felt that his own master was still better. Nothing else—Heavenly Sword True Person was simply too strict and too cold. Although his Sword Dao was supreme, he preferred his master’s teaching style.
After some entanglement, Li Ling still quietly told Zhuang Chen about his old man ‘funding’ Heavenly Sword True Person to teach him Sword Dao.
Zhuang Chen was somewhat envious but still sincerely happy for Li Ling from the bottom of his heart.
The two senior brothers were very friendly, with only benign competition and no jealousy.
Dragon Mountain Daoist saw it in his eyes and smiled with relief.
With Qin Yun’s example before, he now paid great attention to the situation among his disciples.
Time passed quickly.
When Ning Qi took the eighth Blood Jade Pill.
Year End arrived.
A major event also occurred in True Martial Sect.
Dragon Mountain Daoist passed on the position, and Luo Wentian succeeded as True Martial Sect Sect Leader.
