Chapter 1028: Chapter 1027: Taiyue Divine Mountain Painting
The next moment, twenty strands of Light of Fortune turned into flowing radiance and vanished. Immediately after, Lu Zheng’s Heart Spirit completely merged into this mountain, and then, a total of eighty-eight cultivation movements and key points were branded one by one into Lu Zheng’s Sea of Consciousness.
Divine light flashed abruptly in Lu Zheng’s eyes!
Lu Zheng withdrew his Heart Spirit from the Mountain and River Map. Shen Ying looked at him. "Is it?"
Lu Zheng nodded. "Yeah, it really is the Eighteen Mountain-Carrying Techniques—no, it should be the Eighty-Eight Mountain-Carrying Techniques."
Shen Ying was startled when she heard this, and Song Kaichuan couldn’t help but look over as well. "You saw eighty-eight of them? Just in that short while just now?"
You had to know, he had immersed himself in it, fully devoted to comprehending, feeling as though he had deeply merged with that Mountain and River Map, yet he had only grasped sixty-nine cultivation movements.
And Lu Zheng was this fast?
Eh, no, that’s not right!
Only now did Song Kaichuan notice that Lu Zheng’s cultivation had actually already reached two thousand years.
So he was a genius, huh?
Then there’s no problem!
Song Kaichuan wasn’t all that shocked, anyway. After all, he had already experienced being utterly crushed by Lu Zheng at the chessboard; Wansong Daoist had only obtained Chi Songzi’s inheritance thanks to Lu Zheng. So with such extraordinary talent, his cultivation skyrocketing was a perfectly normal thing.
Song Kaichuan had just not expected that Lu Zheng would also have such a high affinity and comprehension for this kind of Mountain and River Map–type cultivation technique.
As expected, the capable really can do anything!
Facing Song Kaichuan’s amazement and the admiration of the three girls, Lu Zheng couldn’t help scratching his head. "It’s alright. Maybe it’s because I practiced the Eighteen Mountain-Carrying Techniques before."
"Then hurry and look at the mountain diagrams behind." Song Kaichuan urged.
"Okay!" Lu Zheng nodded.
With Song Kaichuan here and still in the midst of comprehending the stele, it was of course impossible for Lu Zheng to take the stele away.
However, in the face of such a cultivation technique that might very well be an Upper Realm inheritance, there was no way Lu Zheng could just turn a blind eye and give it up.
Since he didn’t want to have to keep coming back here in the future, the best way was to comprehend it on the spot.
"Next one!"
"Now that I’ve got the foundation of the Eighty-Eight Mountain-Carrying Techniques, the rest will be easier!"
"Buzz—"
The Light of Fortune was consumed like flowing water, and Lu Zheng’s Heart Spirit leapt among the Mountain and River Maps.
On the stele, these one hundred and eight Mountain and River Maps actually had an internal connection. Though they could be separated individually, they could also be combined into a greater momentum.
So, once Lu Zheng comprehended one set of the Eighty-Eight Mountain-Carrying Techniques, it was equivalent to having an entry key. Even if there were gaps in between that he didn’t understand for the moment, just by relying on his own comprehension, he could still figure out a move or half a move, which in turn became a new key and kept him from completely losing the thread.
Thus, the Jade Seal had a chance to show its worth.
Since I already know that one plus one equals two, then deriving the Riemann Hypothesis from that is perfectly normal, right?
"Good grief, comprehending a cultivation technique by yourself really is hard. If I hadn’t taken out that big black fish earlier, wouldn’t this round have drained my Light of Fortune dry?" Lu Zheng secretly clicked his tongue.
But now it didn’t matter; the Light of Fortune in the Mind Jade Seal in his mind was more than enough!
"Buzz!"
With the final strand of Light of Fortune consumed, the last cultivation movement of the last Mountain and River Map also took form in Lu Zheng’s Divine Soul.
The next instant, one hundred and eight sets, for a total of twelve thousand nine hundred and sixty movements—low-level combinations beyond counting, and fused together into an earthshaking cultivation technique—appeared just like that!
The Taiyue Divine Mountain Painting!
The inheritance technique of an Upper Realm Immortal, the Ten Thousand Mountains Sect Leader, Emperor Taiyue!
Once cultivation succeeded, the body would be like a Divine Mountain, untouched by all laws, eternal through the ages.
"What the hell? Taiyue? Tai Yue?" Divine light flickered in Lu Zheng’s eyes. "No way, right?"
This cultivation technique was a top-tier Body Refining Technique. Qi and Blood Power of the Martial Dao was included within this method as one way of body refinement. But those dull-witted types didn’t understand; they only grasped the superficial layer and treated it as a Martial Arts Technique to cultivate.
Of course, if one completed cultivation of this Taiyue Divine Mountain Painting, it actually counted as a top-tier Martial Arts Technique as well. At the same time, it conferred the ability to draw on the Power of the Earth Veins for cultivation and battle. You could call it Body and Skill Dual Cultivation, with the body as the main and skills as the auxiliary.
Terrifying!
Lu Zheng sucked in a breath of cold air. With this cultivation technique, he could happily and easily cause landslides and ground ruptures.
And for some reason he suddenly thought of those "little island days," what was he supposed to do about that?
...
Lu Zheng’s process of comprehension sounded fast when put into words, but in reality a day and a night had already passed.
Seeing divine light flashing in Lu Zheng’s eyes and his upper body involuntarily leaning back in a tactical recline, Liu Qingyan and Shen Ying hurriedly rushed forward to support him.
"Lu Lang?"
"Are you alright?"
The two women were very worried. Liu Qingyan said, "There are over a hundred Mountain and River Maps here, and every single one requires total focus. To comprehend them will consume an immeasurable amount of Spirit, so Lu Lang mustn’t rush."
"Exactly, exactly. This stele isn’t going to run away anyway. We can just come whenever we have time." Shen Ying also advised gently.
Song Kaichuan, however, could tell that Lu Zheng didn’t show signs of excessive Heart Spirit exhaustion, but rather looked somewhat shocked. He couldn’t help asking curiously, "What did you see?"
Lu Zheng braced himself on the two women’s arms and shook his head. "I finished looking."
"Finished looking?"
Liu Qingyan and Shen Ying were both a bit dumbfounded.
"Finished looking?"
Song Kaichuan, on the other hand, was stunned.
Lu Zheng nodded. "Finished. In total there are twelve thousand nine hundred and sixty movements, called the Taiyue Divine Mountain Painting."
"The Taiyue Divine Mountain Painting?"
"Exactly. I don’t know if what I comprehended is correct or not—please point it out, Senior."
Lu Zheng said this and lightly pointed toward Song Kaichuan. Before the latter could speak, a strand of inheritance Spiritual Light, glimmering faintly, flew into Song Kaichuan’s Sea of Consciousness.
"This..."
Song Kaichuan froze for a moment, but didn’t refuse. After receiving the Spiritual Light, he straightened up, then bowed deeply to Lu Zheng, bending all the way to the ground.
"Senior, please rise!" Lu Zheng hurriedly stepped forward, wanting to help Song Kaichuan up, but couldn’t move him.
Song Kaichuan insisted on completing the full bow to the ground, and only stood up after a full nine breaths, sighing, "The intent of imparting a technique is no less than a teacher’s grace!"
"Don’t, don’t. Didn’t you also casually pass me the Earth Travel Technique and the Mountain Opening Curse back then? And that Earth Travel Technique helped me a great deal—it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say it saved my life. Not to mention you just gave me that Stalactite Essence as well. Today I just happened to comprehend this; I’m only giving a tiny bit back to you."
"Good, good, good, what a fine child."
Song Kaichuan shook his head with emotion. "You helped that old pine tree obtain Chi Songzi’s inheritance, and now you’ve helped this old man gain Emperor Taiyue’s inheritance. I never expected that calling out to you on a whim that day would actually lead to such a fate."
At the side, Liu Qingquan interjected, "Brother-in-law said before, this is called ’good people get good returns.’"
Song Kaichuan couldn’t help but laugh out loud. "Exactly, exactly, the little girl is right!"
Lu Zheng rubbed Liu Qingquan’s head, mussing up her hair ornaments, then said to Song Kaichuan, "If Senior doesn’t mind, I’ll collect this stele."
Song Kaichuan shook his head. "Go ahead and take it. You’ve already given me the cultivation technique—what do I need to keep watching the stele for?"
Lu Zheng nodded. With a wave of his hand, he put this Hundred Peaks... no, the Taiyue Stele into the gourd.
