Easy Way of Cultivation: Power Harvesting

Chapter 549: Chapter 331: The Greatest in Two Millennia, Thunder Mountain Celestial Skill

On the official road, Feng Hua and Zhi Hua looked Wei Fan up and down, thinking he was quite the young knight.

"He’s starting to have a bit of that Jianghu aura!"

Zhi Hua’s beautiful eyes sparkled: "But it feels like something is still missing!"

Feng Hua nodded in agreement: "It’s missing a weapon; with a silver spear, it would be perfect!"

A silver spear?

With a flick of his wrist, a silver spear appeared in Wei Fan’s hand. He had slain many Martial King and Demon King, but he truly didn’t have a silver spear of the King Weapon Level, although there were some among the Martial Venerate Divine Soldiers.

He had already forgotten from whom he obtained this silver spear, its design was extremely exquisite.

Zhi Hua and Feng Hua’s eyes grew brighter, a young man on a white horse, clad in purple with a silver spear.

"Every Jianghu knight has a nickname, what do you plan to choose?" Zhi Hua asked.

Choose a nickname?

Wei Fan was taken aback, Silver Spear Guest?

That seems a bit indecent!

White Horse Spear God? That sounds too arrogant; if your Jianghu nickname is too boastful, it’s easy to get beaten.

Purple-clad Guest? Silver Spear Scholar? Wine Spear Immortal?

...

After thinking of several, he realized he was terrible at naming; this was evident when he became a Demon Hunter and struggled to come up with a code name, only to find out they were already taken, forcing him to choose the code name Nether Fire.

"How about Cloud City Gunman!" Feng Hua suggested: "Usually, Jianghu people choose a nickname based on their birthplace and their weapon, like Cyan Peak Swordman or Nanshan Swordsman."

Wei Fan’s eyes lit up: "Great, let’s go with Cloud City Gunman!"

This name should not be taken; the nickname doesn’t matter as long as it is fitting. The most awkward situation is finding out the nickname is already taken.

"Let’s go, let’s wander the Jianghu to uphold justice and slay demons!"

Wei Fan took a swig of liquor, then began galloping furiously.

The white horse he had modified galloped incredibly fast, dashing out like a white lightning bolt, as if the ground beneath its hooves were propelled by wind.

Feng Hua smiled, finally seeing the youthful spirit in Wei Fan.

"Yah..."

She clamped the horse’s sides and followed: "Since we are joining forces to roam the Jianghu, upholding justice, this group should have a name. How about the Three White Horse Heroes?"

"That’s a good name, and very fitting!"

Zhi Hua also caught up. She had never experienced the unabated pleasure and revenge of Jianghu, always focused on cultivation and tasks.

Now, riding the white horse with Wei Fan and Feng Hua, she felt entirely different from before, a long-lost sense of excitement and passion.

"Then we’ll be called the Three White Horse Heroes!" Wei Fan, terrible at naming, agreed it was fitting as long as it wasn’t something like the Seven Monsters of Jiangnan.

"We should have a direction for our journey; wandering aimlessly won’t do!" Feng Hua added.

Wei Fan felt stumped. He didn’t have a goal, just wandering around, slaying demons.

"Why don’t we go to my hometown? The Thunder Mountain Conference is about to begin!" Zhi Hua chimed in.

Feng Hua’s eyes lit up: "Is the Thunder Mountain Conference really starting? Our Three White Horse Heroes should make a name for ourselves; the Thunder Mountain Conference is indeed a good place, and it will be a great opportunity for this novice Cloud City Gunman to broaden his horizons."

Wei Fan was puzzled: "Thunder Mountain Conference?"

"You truly are a novice to not know about the Thunder Mountain Conference!" Zhi Hua was at a loss for words, never expecting that Wei Fan wasn’t from Beiding Continent at all.

She had thought Feng Hua was joking, not expecting Wei Fan really didn’t know about the Thunder Mountain Conference.

"The Thunder Mountain Conference is one of the eminent martial arts events on Beiding Continent, even known as a Martial Arts Holy Land. Every year, thousands of young people head to Thunder Mountain, hoping to comprehend the cultivation techniques there!"

Wei Fan once again showed a look of confusion.

Feng Hua explained: "The Thunder Mountain Conference originated from martial arts recorded on Thunder Mountain. Three thousand years ago, someone discovered a nameless cultivation technique inscribed on a mountain in a deep valley. Its origin was unknown, and its creator remained a mystery.

This person meditated there for a hundred years but gained nothing, so he left the mountain and invited friends to meditate there, but they too found nothing.

As time passed, more people knew about the nameless cultivation technique, and many went to meditate, including even Beiding Continent’s Martial Saints.

But without exception, not even the Martial Saint powerhouses could comprehend anything.

Initially, the Thunder Mountain Conference was just people meditating on the cultivation technique, discussing their insights. But after thousands of years, it has evolved into a grand event in Beiding Continent’s Jianghu, no longer limited to just discussing the nameless cultivation technique but more about exchanges in Martial Dao."

"Has no one yet comprehended that cultivation technique?" Wei Fan showed a hint of surprise.

Over all these years, if even a Martial Saint couldn’t comprehend it, his own comprehension might also fall short, but he had a system, so his eyes just needed to scan it.

Back then, when trying to comprehend Situ Feng’s Soul-Slaying Demon-slaying Saber at the Demon Suppression Bureau, Ning Xuan focused on understanding it, only to be intimidated by its Sword Intent, but when he just scanned it with his eyes, his system recorded it immediately.

Feng Hua shook his head, "It seems not, it’s said that even the senior of Xuanyuan Peak sat there for half a year contemplating, but eventually shook his head and left. Of course, some might have understood it but kept quiet, though that’s unlikely."

Wei Fan showed curiosity, "Is the senior of Xuanyuan Peak formidable?"

When Elder Gongyang mentioned Xuanyuan Peak to him, all he said was that Xuanyuan Peak, when crossing over to the Wilderness, was a Martial King under twenty who founded the Demon Hunter Organization and then left the Wilderness.

Being a Martial King under twenty in the Wilderness was earth-shattering, but within the Five Great Domains, it would only be dazzling.

Yet, at this moment, Feng Hua mentioned Xuanyuan Peak as an example, evidently showing that he was outstanding in the Five Great Domains too, otherwise Feng Hua wouldn’t have set him as a benchmark.

He was quite curious about this figure who created the Demon Hunter Organization and left behind the Five Emperors Fist.

Zhi Hua looked at Wei Fan like he was a monster, "More than just formidable, the senior of Xuanyuan Peak is known as the greatest genius in the Eastern Domain in two thousand years, and you know his name yet don’t know his fame?

The records set by the senior of Xuanyuan Peak remain unbroken to this day."

She realized Feng Hua was right saying Wei Fan was inexperienced, as he seemed to know nothing. Not knowing about the Thunder Mountain Martial Contest was one thing, but not knowing about Xuanyuan Peak, who is a legend, was another.

"The greatest genius in two thousand years!"

Wei Fan was deeply moved; without extraordinary talent and overwhelming peerless power, it was impossible to earn such a title.

"Even the senior of Xuanyuan Peak couldn’t comprehend it, so it’s no wonder no one has done so over all these years!"

With Xuanyuan Peak as a benchmark, it seems normal no one could comprehend the unnamed technique of Thunder Mountain; perhaps it’s not even a true technique, as no martial art should be so profound that the greatest genius in the Eastern Domain in two thousand years couldn’t understand it.

"Some people speculate that whether the Thunder Mountain Celestial Skill can be comprehended isn’t necessarily due to a lack of comprehension, and the cultivation technique isn’t a useless mess either.

If it were truly useless, it wouldn’t have kept attracting waves of geniuses from Beiding Continent to contemplate it for thousands of years because some have comprehended superficial parts and greatly benefited from it.

It should require certain conditions to be met for comprehension, but over the years, no one has met these conditions."

Zhi Hua shook her head, saying that if the Thunder Mountain Celestial Skill wasn’t true martial art, the strong individuals of the Eastern Domain would have recognized it.

Wei Fan raised an eyebrow, "Thunder Mountain Celestial Skill? Who comprehended its superficial parts and gained benefits?"

He was intrigued. If someone gained benefits from comprehending it, it proves the cultivation technique is sound.

Zhi Hua said, "Tong Jingchang, the Sect Leader of Thousand Peaks Sect. Initially, Thousand Peaks Sect was just an ordinary Body Refining Sect, but it’s said that when Tong Jingchang was young, he contemplated the Thunder Mountain Celestial Skill at Thunder Mountain and comprehended something unusual.

After that, his combat power became unrivaled in the same rank, and in Beiding Continent, he was hailed as the strongest below the Martial Saint, leading to Thousand Peaks Sect being recognized by Jianghu people as the first sect below the Holy Sect.

This led some to speculate that the Thunder Mountain Celestial Skill might be a type of Body Refining Martial Arts."

Body Refining?

Wei Fan showed confusion again.

The Wilderness had the concept of Body Refining, but after reaching the Celestial Being, breaking into the Divine Realm, Body Refining was unheard of. The strengthening of the physical body was no longer through specific cultivation techniques but was achieved by regular power enhancements.

Could it be that Body Refining in the Five Great Domains doesn’t end at the Celestial Martial Artist level?

Seeing this, Feng Hua immediately understood that Wei Fan had encountered something different from Wilderness common knowledge. She quickly spoke, "Body Refining has always existed, from ancient times to the present, and singular realm cultivation has always had practitioners..."

After speaking, she realized she provided another unfamiliar concept to Wei Fan and continued to elaborate, "The Ancient Martial Arts we spoke of doesn’t only refer to those requiring cross-realm cultivation. In fact, Ancient Martial Arts are diverse.

True Qi Realm jumping to Celestial Human Realm, Celestial Human Realm jumping to Martial Venerable—these types were considered normal martial arts in ancient times.

Among Ancient Martial Arts, the most unusual were those singular realm martial arts, and Body Refining was one of them.

A singular realm martial art refers to cultivating only one realm. For instance, some only cultivated the True Qi Realm, opening the Dantian, accumulating and refining True Qi throughout their lives.

It is said that after someone refines their True Qi thousands or hundreds of thousands of times, the sharpness of their True Qi can match the Martial King’s Power and even compare to the Dao Power of a Martial Saint Powerhouse. Although their realm is low, their True Qi can annihilate everything.

Others only cultivated the Divine Soul, with a single thought comparable to a Divine Spirit, even capable of creating objects out of the void.

Body Refining is also a type of singular realm in Ancient Martial Arts, with practitioners only honing their physical bodies and wills. At its extreme, the sheer physical power alone could break through voids, pluck stars and moons, and endure eternally, which is quite terrifying.

Others only cultivated the Unity of Heaven and Man realm, with a single thought merging them with heaven and earth, wielding boundless Power of Heaven and Earth.

There were also those who only opened acupoints, creating thousands of acupoints throughout their bodies to contain True Qi, unleashing powers equivalent to hundreds of thousands of years of power with one palm.

In truth, our current martial arts system is the result of predecessors integrating these singular realms, refining and discarding unnecessary parts to form the dazzling and brilliant era of cultivation we have today.

To this day, there are still people practicing Ancient Martial Arts, believing them to be stronger.

Body Refining, because of its relative simplicity, has more practitioners. Many True Qi Martial Artists also supplement it in their lower realms, although not purely.

As for other singular realms, the requirements for qualifications are too high, having almost vanished. I haven’t encountered any practitioners, so I don’t know if anyone is still cultivating them."