Chapter 64: Chapter 61: Unmoved_1
Practice Room.
Lu Yan set out three pieces of Dao Food in a line.
The three Dao Food pieces, each of a different shape, lacked regularity.
One was a chunk of copper, an orange-yellow stone that looked like some kind of ore, very hard.
The other was a yellowish-white bead, similar to the first piece of Dao Food Lu Yan acquired, but slightly larger in size. It had a hole in the middle, looking like a string of beads from a hand chain.
Lu Yan planned to feed the Dao Book the Dao Food to elevate his Shape-shifting Technique to Reaching the Peak of Perfection.
If the Shape-shifting Technique only achieves Mastery, it is greatly limited.
For example, last time Lu Yan disguised himself as a cold, muscular man in his thirties, if you ask him to transform back now, it’s difficult, he can’t make it look exactly the same, that requires fine control over the face.
Forcing it might make it easy to see through.
Lu Yan does not want to reveal his true identity for now, planning to continue meeting Shen Yinuo with the previous appearance.
But a Shape-shifting Technique that only achieves Mastery couldn’t manage it.
He estimated that once his Shape-shifting Technique reaches the Peak of Perfection, it would suffice.
Putting away two of the pieces of Dao Food, he held the bronze piece in his hand, connect to the Dao Book, light shimmering from his eyebrows, the Dao Book Illusion materialized and eagerly ’swallowed’ it down.
Next to the Dao Book, the Avatar of the Shape-shifting Technique was bathed in a halo, and the progress of his Shape-shifting Technique accelerated rapidly.
Even though the energy required to improve the Shape-shifting Technique is three times that of second-rate martial arts, it is now Mastery level, a low realm, so the speed of improvement is very fast. After the energy of the bronze piece is exhausted, the Shape-shifting Technique has advanced to 80% of Mastery.
Next, Lu Yan took out the piece of orange-yellow ore for the Dao Book to absorb. Soon after, his Shape-shifting Technique broke free from the shackles of Mastery and entered Reaching the Peak of Perfection.
After entering Reaching the Peak of Perfection, the speed of improvement dropped sharply, finally stopped at 20% of Reaching the Peak of Perfection.
Lu Yan took a mirror and reflected his face, while facing the mirror, he used his Shape-shifting Technique. His facial muscles started to squirm, soon a cold, strong man in his thirties appeared in the mirror.
It was almost exactly the same as last time.
Lu Yan was very satisfied.
Then, Lu Yan took out the manual of the Broken Sky Blade Technique and started to ponder over it.
Nothing happened overnight.
On the second day, Lu Yan went to the market to buy some food and returned to Changfeng Mountain. He made several rounds within Changfeng Mountain and changed his direction several times before heading to his destination, the crevice.
Upon arriving near the crevice, he noticed that Shen Yinuo was not present, he deduced Shen Yinuo must have entered the Blood Land Vein again. He did not rush to follow, instead, he sat on a stone, closed his eyes and rested. After waiting for two hours, making sure no one was following, Lu Yan then crawled into the weeds, followed the crevice, and returned to the Blood Land Vein.
Upon entering the Blood Land Vein, he didn’t see Shen Yinuo either, but he saw three words left: Bloodthirsty Flower.
Lu Yan knew where Shen Yinuo was. He carried the food, avoided the Alien Beasts, and found Shen Yinuo in the sea of Bloodthirsty Flowers.
Shen Yinuo had cut some of the Bloodthirsty Flowers in the middle of the sea and cleared a piece of empty ground.
On the ground lay an Ironclad Lizard, and Shen Yinuo was seriously dissecting the flesh of the Blood Armor Lizard with a small knife.
"This really is a good place to cook."
Lu Yan nodded his head.
Cooking elsewhere would inevitably attract Alien Beasts, making it impossible to cook in peace.
"Did you buy everything?"
The young girl looked up at Lu Yan.
"I bought some food for you first, other items are more complicated, I’ll buy them in a few days."
Saying this, Lu Yan crossed the ocean of flowers and placed the food down.
Shen Yinuo pounced on the food like a hungry tiger, the food parcel was already in her hands. She eagerly unwrapped the parcel, and the smell of food instantly filled the air. She grabbed a roasted chicken and started eating it, a satisfied look on her face.
Lu Yan walked towards the ruins.
"What are you carrying that iron hook for?"
After devouring a roast chicken in a whirlwind, Shen Yinuo picked up a lamb leg and asked in her spare time.
"To hook up some antiques."
Leaving that one sentence behind, Lu Yan strode on.
He was longing for those Martial Food that he couldn’t take away, especially that Bronze Ding.
The safe zone was marked, but one must be wary of others. He was afraid that Shen Yinuo had tampered with the markers secretly, and if he stepped in rashly, he would be dead without even knowing how he died.
He connected to the Dao Book, carefully sensing its early warnings, feeling the changes in the intensity of warnings.
In the end, he confirmed that Shen Yinuo hadn’t touched the markers.
"It’s not that I’m being suspicious, but the world forces it. If I don’t be careful, I could die at any time."
Muttering to himself, Lu Yan stepped into the safe zone, approached the Bronze Ding, then he extended the iron hook, hooked the Bronze Ding, and pulled it with force.
But the bronze ding remained motionless.
"I don’t believe it."
Lu Yan’s Qi-blood exploded, and with a sudden pull, the iron hook was straightened by the force, but the bronze ding still did not move.
Next, Lu Yan tried to strike the altar, only to find it was unyieldingly sturdy and immovable.
"The duck within reach, yet uneatable."
Lu Yan voiced his frustration.
Lu Yan tried several methods to no avail. He could only give up and arranged with Shen Yinuo to bring the materials in a few days. Then, he left the Blood Land Vein.
Returning to Changfeng City and disguising himself, he met with the people of the Green Bamboo Gang and the Fierce Tiger Gang, asking them to help procure some of the materials. Lu Yan personally went to the Linglan Chamber of Commerce and purchased several valuable spiritual medicines.
Two days later, at night, Lu Yan continued to follow the Red-clad Guard, proceeding to the outskirts of the forbidden area for guard duty.
After a few more peaceful days, when everything was almost ready, Lu Yan found the right opportunity to move all the materials into the Blood Land Vein and handed them to Shen Yinuo.
"Let’s start cooking the martial food."
Shen Yinuo was pepped up and without avoiding Lu Yan, she ignited the fire, boiled the water, put in the meat of the alien beasts, divided the spirit grass into small parts, and added them bit by bit, her actions smooth and unhesitating.
It was clear that the young girl had considerable skills in the field of martial cooking.
Lu Yan watched for a long time but was completely baffled.
It looked quite similar to cooking ordinary food, but the process was many times more complex. It seemed that the heat control also had to be very precise and it could not be even slightly off.
"You don’t have to wait here. Even cooking the lowest level of martial food takes several days. Come back in three days."
Shen Yinuo said, continuing to concentrate intently on the furnace.
Lu Yan left the Blood Land Vein, returned home, and continued to comprehend the Broken Sky Blade technique.
Three days later, when Lu Yan returned to the Blood Land Vein, a pot of fresh martial food was ready, emitting an inviting aroma.
But Shen Yinuo was clearly not very satisfied, shaking her head, "Without a proper recipe, and having no understanding of the Ironclad Lizard’s meat, I had to rely solely on general cooking experience. Although luckily successful, the taste and effectiveness are not quite right."
"It’s not poisonous, right?"
Lu Yan tentatively asked.
"Of course not. As long as it’s successfully cooked, it means that the poisonous blood in the meat of the alien beast has been completely removed. You can be assured while eating."
Shen Yinuo filled a plate and started eating heartily.
Lu Yan also filled a plate without any hesitation.
One pot of martial food weighs around twenty jin.
Shen Yinuo informed him that with her cooking skills, she could only cook twenty jin at a time. More than that would be hard to control and risk issues.
The place was too crude. Neither the stew pot nor the furnace were professional cooking utensils for martial food, which limited the cooking process.
If the environment was better, coupled with professional martial cooking utensils and one or two professionals as assistants, then the quantity of martial food she could cook at once would be much larger.
But Lu Yan was quite satisfied. He ate five jin there and took another five with him in a lunch box, then went to practice martial arts.
First, he started practicing the Gale Hand technique. His legs moved swiftly just like the wind, and his palms stroke the air, making a cracking sound, as if the air was breaking apart.
As he was practicing Gale Hand, his stomach and intestines moved involuntarily, digesting the martial food while a part of it was absorbed by the Dao Book for his shape-shifting avatar and another part was absorbed by his intestines, infiltrating into his blood vessels. As his Qi-blood circulated, it got converted into Qi-blood over time.
After completing a round of Gale Hand, he practiced Antelope Hand, and finally, he worked on Vajra Body.
In such a way, after several hours, the five jin of fresh martial food that he had consumed was totally digested.
"The quality is indeed average. Five jin of fresh martial food is equivalent to only three jin of normal fresh martial food."
Lu Yan silently realized.
However, it was not bad for a start. Shen Yinuo had just started cooking martial food. Lu Yan believed that over time, the quality would catch up with normal martial food and might even surpass it, considering it was made from the flesh of a wild alien beast.
Taking the remaining five jin of martial food home, Lu Yan continued pondering over the technique of the Broken Sky Blade.
The Broken Sky Blade technique comprises fifty-four forms. Only by mastering all fifty-four one can be considered a novice.
After becoming a novice, by continuous practice and reducing the fifty-four forms to forty-five, one could achieve slight achievement.
And when the forms are further reduced to thirty-six, one could break through to integration...
So on and so forth, until all the forms are merged into one, one would reach the Unity of Man and Martial Arts.
Although the number of moves decreases, the power in each move increases.
Especially after reaching Unity of Man and Martial Arts, the unity of man and blade transforms into one move, possessing the power to cut gold and break jade.
Lu Yan was looking forward to this.
