Chapter 30: Moving Like A Swimming Dragon, Power Like A Ferocious Tiger, Body Like Golden Iron
In the rental room in the suburbs, Li Ye turned on the dim yellow chandelier, looking at the pile of rice. He spread his feet slightly, adjusted his breathing, circulated the Twelve Golden Palace Dragon Tiger Gate, condensed Qi and Blood to form another muscle layer. It only lasted an instant before he spat out a puff of white gas that only reached his chest.
“This completely refines the remaining Qi and Blood.” Li Ye murmured.
Today’s meals, under the effect of the Five Flavors Chopsticks, increased his Qi and Blood by 150 points. Plus his own, it should be 240.
However, cultivating the Twelve Golden Palace Dragon Tiger Gate consumed a lot.
Circulating a complete set of martial arts would refine 30 points of Qi and Blood into the 3 points needed for the martial arts.
Ten times the conversion rate.
Li Ye now had only 24 points of refined Qi and Blood, but it was the purest, enough Qi and Blood to breakthrough.
He just needed to eat more food.
These ten tons of rice were originally meant for another leap through the Dragon Gate, but now it seemed that if refined with martial arts, with ten times conversion, it would only increase 30 points of Qi and Blood.
To breakthrough to Two Dragon Gate, theoretically he needed a hundred tons of rice, which he really couldn’t afford.
Luckily, he could go mooch meals every day now, and his appetite could gradually increase. He could completely wait until he had enough Qi and Blood, then condense it all at once and breakthrough to Two Dragon Gate.
Not relying on pure Qi and Blood breakthrough, but storing it directly as sustenance for the martial arts.
“Time to eat!”
Li Ye tore open the rice packaging and began cooking.
The suburbs at night were extremely quiet, with only the dim yellow light from that bungalow, and the moving figure visible through the window.
In the following days, Li Ye was extremely methodical.
In the morning, he ate first, then circulated energy after eating, and followed Xu Yanwu’s guidance to start practicing moves.
In the Twelve Golden Palace Dragon Tiger Gate, the movement technique was like a swimming dragon, while lightness skill required stepping on the air with the soles of the feet to rise straight up. This difficulty was higher than movement technique; it wasn’t just simple jumping high, but stepping on air step by step to achieve levitation.
Before mastering it, he first trained on these iron stakes from low to high, mastering the feeling of stepping on air through constant jumping.
It was more difficult than movement technique, but this was what Li Ye mastered first.
Lightness skill emphasized more on control of Qi and Blood, which wasn’t too hard for Li Ye.
Even if at first he could only step three times, it was just limited by his realm.
After mastering the movement technique and lightness skill, Xu Yanwu began teaching other moves.
The Twelve Golden Palace Dragon Tiger Gate didn’t use weapons, focusing on fist and foot, and excelling in claw technique.
Whether dragon or tiger, both used claws.
This aspect wasn’t difficult, but it emphasized persistence. After mastering power application technique and forming muscle memory, then engraving it into the bones through long-term practice, the moves would be considered mastered.
Li Ye didn’t even go to the Disinfection Bureau anymore. His daily routine was martial arts training and eating, eating and martial arts training.
24, 40, 57, 75, 95, 120
His refined Qi and Blood increased day by day, and the food served up each day also increased day by day. Moreover, he would go to the rental room at night to deal with the remaining rice.
After half a month of martial arts training, under the expenditure of a total of three thousand points of ordinary Qi and Blood, Li Ye refined three hundred points, exactly breaking through to Two Dragon Gate.
The Qi and Blood threshold from Two Dragon Gate to Three Dragon Gates, quantified, became 450.
This noon.
Thud!
On the iron stake, a figure leaped into the air at extreme speed, stepping on the air to forcefully create an air ring, borrowing the air to rise another level. After stepping with the left foot, he smoothly switched to the right foot for another step, continuously ascending into the sky.
Just like a swimming dragon rising into the air, probing claws to step on clouds, but the air rings stepped out also had a sense of explosive power.
After maneuvering in the air seven or eight times, Li Ye turned his body, landed lightly, then drilled into the gaps among the iron stakes, swimming through them like a snake, quickly traversing to the end. His figure rotated without pause, turning back with a claw strike on the iron stake.
Squeak!!
A dull sound mixed with a strange twisting noise appeared on that iron stake as thick as a thigh, caved in a deep claw mark. The originally straight iron stake bent backward, showing the immense force.
Only then did the figure stand still, exhaling a breath of turbid Qi from his nose, but unlike before when it turned into white gas spraying out, it was just slightly longer breath.
“Moving like a swimming dragon, power like a fierce tiger, body like golden iron. This is just Two Dragon Gate, yet it’s already showing a glimmer.”
Pan Zhengyang, watching from the side, clicked his tongue, looking at Xu Yanwu, “I always thought you only started getting abnormal at Nine Dragon Gate.”
“Pure martial arts condensation, of course the higher the realm, the more powerful it gets. Two Dragon Gate can’t be underestimated either, but it’s indeed a bit stronger than I thought. Li Ye is very diligent.”
Xu Yanwu said indifferently: “Besides, without this level of power, you wouldn’t spend the money so happily.”
Hearing this, Pan Zhengyang clutched his chest, pretending to be heartbroken.
“Li Ye, time to eat.” Xu Yanwu didn’t look at him, but said to Li Ye in front of the iron stake.
“Coming, Master.”
After adjusting his breath for a moment, Li Ye smiled at the two and walked over.
But he didn’t go toward the stone table; there were only a few dishes on the stone table, for Pan Zhengyang who came this time to eat with Xu Yanwu.
While his meal…
Li Ye walked to a large cauldron half a person’s height, took out the Five Flavors Chopsticks with his right hand, supported under the cauldron with his left hand, and effortlessly lifted the large cauldron right to his face. As the cauldron rim tilted, he guided the chopsticks in and ate.
Starting from a couple days ago, Li Ye’s food container changed from that spacious stone table to the large cauldron.
Just as Pan Zhengyang had once said, Li Ye’s eating now could be called “bell chimes and cauldron food”.
After so many days of disguise and gradually increasing appetite, the two no longer prepared digestion-promoting ingredients for him. What he ate now were all big hard dishes, mixed into one pot and directly cooked.
Taste didn’t matter; with the Five Flavors Chopsticks, even the most unpalatable could become delicious.
Even tasty with two cigarette butts thrown in!
The huge appetite’s benefit was that Li Ye could now gain about two hundred points of ordinary Qi and Blood from three meals a day, which converted to twenty points of refined.
The downside…
“One day wipes out 100,000 of mine.”
Pan Zhengyang wasn’t pretending to be heartbroken; he really was.
With his channels, getting these ingredients wasn’t too expensive, not like the outside market price, but not cheap either. Li Ye’s appetite meant he had to spend an average of 100,000 bucks a day.
“If we go to Nine Dragon Gate, I’d have to sell my collection…” Pan Zhengyang cursed.
Money wasn’t an issue; his family background was thick. Worst case, sell some collections obtained in the past.
“Who said to Nine Dragon Gate?” Xu Yanwu said.
“Huh? Not to Nine Dragon Gate? You’re almost dead, and this is your only successor. Don’t you need to raise him well?” Pan Zhengyang said in surprise.
Xu Yanwu shook his head: “No need. A martial artist raised like that, no matter how strong, lacks spirit. Besides, how long can you support? Don’t talk about Martial Arts University; even in the Martial Arts Track, experience is needed. Three Dragon Gates is enough; he can self-preserve.”
“Director Pan, you’ve helped enough.”
During the meal, Li Ye also looked up and joked: “Any more, and the favors turn to grudges. Then I couldn’t repay and would have to kill.”
“Get lost! Not even grown hair yet and talking murder. Do you have that ability? You think it’s our era back then?”
Pan Zhengyang rolled his eyes, then nodded, saying to Xu Yanwu: “Alright, listen to you, just Three Dragon Gates.”
Li Ye grinned, continuing to bury his head in eating.
Director Pan’s great kindness was beyond repayment.
Giving magic treasures, handling troubles, giving white-collar salary, finding a master to teach world-class martial arts, plus supplying three meals a day with such high expenses…
He had only helped Pan Zhengyang a little, yet the return was so great. Even if the big shot didn’t care, Li Ye was very satisfied.
One can’t be so shamelessly greedy.
With authority and martial arts, couldn’t he find ingredients?
Most of these ingredients came from demonic creatures anyway.
Worst case, spend more time mooching meals!
