Chapter 24: Twelve Scattering Hands Of The Explanatory Gate
Li Weiyi studied the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish for a long time and felt it was the most important treasure to counter the White Bone Demon, so he tried various methods to activate it.
First he used a few drops of his own blood, then Golden Crow Blood and Black Flood Dragon Blood, but there was no reaction.
Injecting the scalding hot qi flow born from the sole of his right foot was like a stone sinking into the sea.
“To activate it, it must be related to my blood, and every time it’s in extremely dangerous moments. Could it be that when facing life-threatening danger, the blood in my body changes?”
Besides that, it seemed a very large amount of blood was needed.
The more blood, the stronger and longer-lasting its reaction.
It was all just guesses and analysis…
Li Weiyi gritted his teeth and decided to do something stupid. So he cut his wrist with his sword to soak the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish, letting out nearly half a bowl, but there was still no reaction.
“Forget it, forget it… Better wait until facing life-or-death danger next time to try.”
Li Weiyi quickly mobilized the scalding hot qi flow from the sole of his right foot to stop the bleeding and heal, wrapped up his wrist. Then he picked up a cup of diluted Golden Crow Blood from the table and drank it to replenish his vitality.
Hands forming the “Submeridian Tai Chi Seal,” practicing the Jade Void Breathing Technique, mobilizing the scalding hot qi flow surging from the sole of his right foot, circulating through the thirteen silver veins to refine the scorching secret power contained in the Golden Crow Blood.
In the past few days, he drank Golden Crow Blood every day, and his physical body power had grown significantly.
Half an hour later, Li Weiyi stopped.
“My physical body doesn’t seem to have changed much… Before, after drinking Golden Crow Blood, my whole body would heat up, heartbeat and blood flow speed increasing a lot.”
“Try another cup.”
A few days ago, after drinking the first cup of Golden Crow Blood, Li Weiyi lost his awe for it.
Because the scalding hot qi flow in his body could refine it, without even needing to wear the Cross Pendant.
Cai Yutong nearly burned to death after just one cup. Luckily she had the Cross Pendant; her body underwent drastic changes, metamorphosing like an immortal spirit.
Li Weiyi had drunk a total of ten cups so far, but showed no signs of burning and no shedding metamorphosis, just enhanced physical body power.
He didn’t know whether to feel depressed or fortunate.
After the eleventh cup, the Golden Crow Blood tasted as bland as water, with no reaction from his body.
“My physical body must have reached another critical point, needing some kind of breakthrough to go further.”
How to break through?
Diluted Golden Crow Blood was too weak; what about undiluted? Could it bring strong enough stimulation?
Could external things alone break through the critical point?
No time like the present.
He could still give it a shot now.
He couldn’t just wait for the White Bone Demon to come take care of him first—that would mean waiting to die.
Li Weiyi drank a cup of undiluted Golden Crow Blood. After entering his stomach, it grew increasingly scalding hot, like filling his body with lava. He immediately practiced the Jade Void Breathing Technique, mobilizing the scalding hot qi flow from the sole of his right foot to refine it.
The thirteen silver veins couldn’t refine it fast enough; the Golden Crow Blood seemed about to burn through his five viscera and six bowels.
Smoke rose from his whole body, blood like boiling.
His mouth felt like it could spew fire.
“Not that scary, I can still hold on.”
The spring eye at the sole of Li Weiyi’s right foot surged more and more intensely, fiercely resisting the Golden Crow Blood.
Suddenly.
“Splash!”
A bone-chilling cold air emerged from the sole of his left foot.
Following that, the first silver vein was born from the cold air spring eye, traveling up his left leg straight toward the five viscera and six bowels that burned the most unbearably.
The second silver vein was born.
The third, the fourth…
Soon, the number of veins born from the sole of his left foot reached thirteen. Adding the thirteen rooted at the sole of his right foot, it totaled twenty-six.
The vitality and destructive secret power in the Golden Crow Blood were instantly suppressed.
The right foot spring eye was scalding hot, the left foot spring eye icy cold.
What was born were two completely different qi flows.
Li Weiyi’s body rapidly alternated between cold and hot; one moment drenched in hot sweat, the next the sweat beads froze into ice beads.
“Too uncomfortable!”
He stopped breathing exercises, rushed out the door, and wildly practiced the Chan Sect Twelve Loose Hands on the deck.
“Bang! Bang! Bang…”
Sometimes forming palms, sometimes punching.
Extremely fast speed, unpredictable body movements.
“Heaven-Overturning Palm Seal.”
He formed a palm seal with his hand, his figure leaping a zhang high, descending from the sky.
The palm wind ahead of the palm seal was condensed, like a heaven-overturning great seal. His palm didn’t directly hit the grave mound, but the grave soil sank, forming a three-chi square depression.
Just like being stamped by a three-chi great seal.
“Grand Unity Opens the Sea.”
The palm seal turned into a palm blade.
The palm wind slashed out like an invisible knife, splitting the air ahead.
“Yellow Dragon Ascends to Heaven.”
Like transforming into a dragon, he consecutively stepped five times in the air, as if on void stairs. On the fifth step, his body was already at eight or nine meters high.
Li Weiyi had practiced the Twelve Loose Hands for many years on the mountain.
Before, he only saw them as health and fitness methods, never imagining such power.
Against Xie Tianshu and others, he never even needed these moves.
Though called “Loose Hands,” they weren’t just hand techniques, but a comprehensive martial art of twelve overarching moves combining fist and palm, movement technique, leg work, finger seals, claw seals, and more.
Not fixed forms.
Each move had infinite variations, following the heart’s will.
He didn’t know how long he practiced until the cold and hot in his body balanced, and when he stopped, the surroundings were already filled with scientific expedition team members drawn by the noise.
The crowd showed varied expressions: some shocked, some reverent, some admiring, some fanatical.
Of course, some guessed Li Weiyi had swallowed the Buddha’s Sarira, but none dared have any improper thoughts. From the momentum of his fist practice just now, if Li Weiyi got serious, one punch could probably pierce their chests.
They didn’t know Li Weiyi’s situation and thought he was showing off his muscles to deter potential troublemakers.
Qin Ke walked up and wiped the sweat from Li Weiyi’s forehead: “Brother Weiyi, you seem even more powerful now. Is it because you drank Golden Crow Blood?”
“Yes.”
Li Weiyi didn’t deny it.
He had planned to let everyone on the ship gradually drink Golden Crow Blood to change their constitutions, thereby increasing their survival ability in this strange world.
Cai Yutong’s physical metamorphosis couldn’t be hidden. As she said, better to openly reveal it than let everyone guess and breed resentment.
Qin Ke was full of anticipation yet a bit nervous, asking: “Can I drink it too?”
“Of course.”
Li Weiyi added: “But wait until the First Mate wakes up first.”
Four days ago, Zhao Meng’s injuries worsened, and in desperation, Li Weiyi gave him diluted Golden Crow Blood and put the Cross Pendant on him.
But the Golden Crow Blood took effect too slowly, and Zhao Meng was about to die.
Li Weiyi then gave him Black Flood Dragon Blood and put the Dragon Pattern Ring on his finger.
Since then, Zhao Meng underwent drastic changes every day.
This morning, his fixed broken bones in the knees and shoulders had fully recovered, and his body and physique had exaggeratedly grown to nearly three meters tall.
Fortunately, there was no horrific flood dragon-like mutation like Xie Tianshu’s.
Only his arms and legs grew a small amount of black scales.
His hair turned fiery red like Golden Crow feathers.
…
After the spring eye at the sole of his left foot opened, Li Weiyi’s combat power greatly increased, finally giving him the confidence to face the White Bone Demon again.
Last time was too embarrassing!
Li Weiyi wore Corpse Skin Armor, Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish around his neck, Silver Thread Gauntlets on his hands, Three-headed Snake Bracelet on his wrists, Scripture Belt tied around, Black Iron Seal and Golden Crow Blood in his bosom, Yellow Dragon Sword in one hand, Black Long Spear in the other.
Finding the Black Long Spear too heavy and cumbersome, he tossed it aside.
Arriving near the grave where the White Bone Demon was, he took out Golden Crow Blood, poured it on the Scripture Belt to activate it.
Li Weiyi’s movement technique speed was lightning-fast, like a blood-colored ghost charm. He charged up the grave mound with sword in hand. Standing at the edge of the pit he had dug himself at the top, he looked down; the Ice Coffin had long melted.
Inside…
It was completely empty.
In an instant, Li Weiyi’s whole body went numb, his heart feeling like it would jump out of his body.
Had that White Bone Demon already escaped?
He immediately mobilized the two streams of cold and hot qi flow, raising all his senses to the maximum, scanning all around for any trace, but found nothing. Even the White Bone Wind Chime on the tombstone was gone.
“Lying immobile in the coffin, using only her hair, she was already terrifying. Now that she’s out…”
Li Weiyi could hardly imagine how strong the freely moving White Bone Demon would be.
“Since she’s out, Doctor Qi’s disappearance might really be related to her.”
After scouting around the grave mound, Li Weiyi found footprints left by the White Bone Demon, looking up toward the nether mist.
In the direction of the Golden Crow Corpse.
“Since she attacked me and Doctor Qi in succession, she’ll definitely strike again. The reason there’s no next victim yet is probably because her body has some issue, like before when she couldn’t leave the grave mound.”
“Can’t let her continue reviving; by then, I probably won’t have any power to resist.”
After thinking for a moment, Li Weiyi ultimately decided that no matter how terrifying the White Bone Demon, he still had a fighting chance now. If he retreated in fear today, he’d only be at her mercy in the future.
Following the footprints, Li Weiyi cautiously and extremely carefully arrived under the Golden Crow Corpse.
At the blood pool’s edge, he saw that red-robed figure.
She sat cross-legged, golden glow flowing over her body, black hair floating in the air like long silk threads, a pair of several-meters-long flame light wings on her back, very similar to the Golden Crow fire wings when Cai Yutong metamorphosed into an immortal spirit, both dazzling and brilliant.
Without any hesitation, Li Weiyi pushed his speed to the limit, arriving a zhang behind her, leaping up, cleaving down with one sword.
“Splash!”
This sword was Grand Unity Opens the Sea from the Twelve Loose Hands.
Full body power poured in, sword edge flashing yellow light, slicing the air.
