Chapter 79: Feeding Moves
Su Yan restrained his qi and blood, calming his breathing.
After reaching Great Accomplishment in Muscle and Bone Realm, his qi and blood had grown even stronger.
A strange glint flashed in Bai Yun’s eyes; Su Yan’s qi and blood, which had flashed past, was truly astonishingly thick.
“Thank you, Senior Sister, for your guidance.”
Su Yan cupped his fists in thanks. Bai Yun shook her head slightly: “This is the result of your own hard cultivation. I just happened to pass by.”
Ever since arriving at the mountain stronghold, Su Yan would stand in stance training after every meal until the moon was high in the sky before stopping. The next day before patrol, he was also the first to get up, stand in Golden Ape Stance Training, and then attend to other matters.
In these past few days, she had run into his morning cultivation practice several times.
With such talent and such hard work, how could he not break through?
“Without Senior Sister’s reminder, it probably would have taken a few more days to break through.”
Su Yan was telling the truth, but Bai Yun didn’t think so. Looking at Su Yan, she suddenly asked: “Your Fierce Ape Three Forms, Monkey Fist, and Golden Ape Stance Training have all reached Transformation Realm?”
“All of them, Senior Sister wants to?”
Su Yan looked at Bai Yun and saw her say: “I have something to ask for your help with.”
“Please speak, Senior Sister.”
“I want you to spar with me so I can experience the feeling of Transformation Realm. In exchange, I’ll exchange the experience of Golden Ape Jade Body Skill and Tiger Body Bone Forging Technique with you.”
Her tone was calm, but her eyelashes trembled slightly, her eyes showing a hint of nervousness, full of sincerity.
She was the one with the best aptitude among the true disciples; whether Fierce Ape Three Forms or Golden Ape Jade Body Skill, she had progressed the farthest.
But she was stuck at Great Accomplishment, just a tiny gap from Transformation Realm.
“I’ll definitely help Senior Sister, but Master and Elder Li both said that Transformation Realm shouldn’t be forced. Forcing Transformation Realm might delay cultivation and put one at a disadvantage.”
Su Yan didn’t mind sparring; it was also a form of actual combat tempering for him.
But while Transformation Realm was ingenious, it was merely perfection in martial skills and cultivation manuals, and couldn’t replace a breakthrough in realm.
“You haven’t reached Spirit Nurturing Realm yet, so naturally you don’t know.”
Bai Yun patiently explained: “Realm breakthrough doesn’t require Transformation Realm as a threshold, but that doesn’t mean Transformation Realm doesn’t help with breakthroughs, especially the condensation of beast spirit true intent. Fierce Ape Three Forms, Golden Ape Stance Training, and Monkey Fist all derive from Golden Ape Skill. Reaching Transformation Realm in each technique inevitably leads to comprehending its essence and intent; that accumulation helps with condensing beast spirit true intent.”
“I’m already at Spirit Nurturing Realm now. Every bit more I condense, the artistic conception and aura of White Ape helps with forming true intent.”
At this point, Su Yan already understood.
Essentially, it was accumulation, using quantitative change to cause qualitative change.
“I understand.”
Seeing him agree, Bai Yun cast a grateful look, then restrained her aura and suppressed her qi and blood circulation somewhat.
“I’ll suppress my qi and blood and power to match yours. Please be careful, Junior Brother.”
As soon as the words fell, a pair of delicate fists capable of shattering metal and cracking stone swept over.
Excitement gleamed in Su Yan’s eyes. This senior sister’s movements differed slightly from Senior Brother’s—amid the grand sweeps, there were even more nimble changes. He had never encountered such an opponent before.
Thus, he also swung his arm and punched out, meeting her with Fierce Ape Three Forms.
Though they called it sparring, once they started, both were fierce. They weren’t as reckless as martial fanatics, but they were truly serious.
Fists came and went, afterimages dancing like flowers. Though qi and blood were suppressed, between swings, there were faint tiger roars and ape cries.
Fist strength clashed, great strength surging over. Su Yan shook and retreated half a step.
‘Senior Sister’s power integration is slightly stronger than mine. Even with qi and blood suppressed, this gap remains.’
He was shocked inwardly, but even more excited in his eyes.
Such integrated technique—right now it was Senior Sister’s experience, but after a few more fights, it would be his.
And Bai Yun opposite him was no less shocked.
Clearly, she had suppressed her qi and blood and power from Spirit Nurturing Realm to Muscle and Bone Realm to fight Su Yan.
Though suppressed, experience and physical qualities couldn’t be fully suppressed.
Yet in the exchange, she felt a force evenly matched.
‘His qi and blood and body tempering are truly impressive.’
The two fought another forty or fifty exchanges like this, and gradually, Bai Yun fell to the disadvantage.
Suddenly, after Su Yan’s Sky Lifting from Fierce Ape Three Forms, he followed with a divine stroke of White Ape Offers Peach tapping her shoulder.
Her figure staggered back a step, her arm going numb. She knew she had lost.
“Junior Brother, you win.”
Her eyes flickered, brows slightly furrowed, her mind full of the Transformation Realm fist technique’s moves and actions from the spar.
“After your Sky Lifting punch, how did you connect so smoothly to White Ape Offers Peach?”
“My understanding of Transformation Realm is transcending the shackles of the original moves, innovating by combining with oneself, or tracing back to the source and unifying, no longer constrained, changing freely.”
The two discussed in detail. Bai Yun was truly as obsessed with practicing martial arts as Su Yan.
Thus, they continued until the third or fourth watch of the night before parting.
The two sparred and exchanged experience, and several more days passed like this.
Bai Yun also imparted the experience of Golden Ape Jade Body Skill and Tiger Body Bone Forging Technique without reservation.
Like Su Yan, she had dual cultivated these two skills to Great Accomplishment.
She had even cultivated Jade Body in Golden Ape Jade Body Skill; when circulating it, her arms were like white jade, able to withstand blades and spears.
With such cultivation experience shared one by one, Su Yan naturally progressed greatly.
On this seventh day, Su Yan successfully cultivated Golden Ape Jade Body Skill to Great Accomplishment, forging Iron Bone.
Iron Bone was the second layer of Golden Ape Jade Body Skill. Achieving it elevated his bone strength to a new level.
Without needing Bai Yun’s reminder, Su Yan immediately infused qi and blood into his spine, attempting to enter the marrow and move blood.
Strands of qi and blood continuously soaked in. Within his body, streaks of bright red essence blood slowly formed.
His face flushed red, he exhaled mist like swords, his aura sank, then like clouds parting to reveal the moon, his qi and blood slowly rose like a long river.
Bai Yun’s beautiful eyes lit up, thinking to herself: “Truly a monster. Just a few days ago he reached Muscle and Bone Realm Great Accomplishment, and now his qi and blood unified, refining essence blood successfully—he’s truly entered Blood Moving Realm.”
Su Yan circulated for a long time, feeling the wonder of Blood Moving Realm refining essence blood and circulating it through his body to strengthen it.
After about a quarter of an hour, he gradually stopped circulating, revealing a smile. He hadn’t expected Blood Moving Realm to break through so quickly.
“When I get back, I’ll have Father directly take you as a true disciple and pass you the Visualization Diagram as well.”
Bai Yun was now familiar with Su Yan and didn’t speak politely. With her identity as the School Master’s daughter, saying this wasn’t overstepping.
“Not afraid others will say Master is unfair?”
Su Yan asked. Bai Yun replied: “Who? Lu Ling or Gao Zheng?”
Her tone was flat: “Your qi and blood accumulation is so thick, and after integrating whole-body qi strength, it supported you breaking through all the way to Blood Moving Realm. With such bone structure, not taking you as a true disciple would be unfair. Senior Brother Lu Ling thinks he’s pulled in factions and reached Spirit Nurturing, so as long as he marries me or forms true intent, he can be the next master of Golden Ape Martial Arts School. But he doesn’t know my ambitions aren’t in Yun Cang Town, not entering the upper sect—a lifetime just at true intent.”
Su Yan chuckled speechlessly, suddenly realizing: “So Senior Sister knew his plans. He’s become a clown.”
Among the disciples, these days some had openly and covertly passed messages to him, only saying how Senior Brother Lu was interested in Senior Sister Bai, and even openly sent pastries and gifts to Bai Yun.
This seemed like declaring sovereignty.
Su Yan naturally ignored it. What mattered more than his martial practice?
He hadn’t expected Bai Yun to be so perceptive, seeing through it all, with ambitions not low.
Bai Yun didn’t pick up on that: “Junior Brother, have you figured out the Wolf King’s position?”
Seeing her bring it up, Su Yan didn’t conceal: “Two days ago I got the direction, and now I’ve locked it in, but there’s another situation to discuss with Senior Sister.”
“What is it?”
“The Wolf King drove away mountain villagers and martial artists, seeming to want to give birth to wolf cubs.”
Bai Yun’s eyes brightened slightly, asking: “Are you sure?”
