Chapter 475: Chapter 431: Turning Their Own Trick Against Them (Extra Chapter for 3,000 Monthly Yue Tickets in March)
That night, Jiang Yuebai and Lu Nanzhi went invisibly to investigate at the residence of the Iron Palm Sect’s Right Elder Zong Lie, but they did not see him, nor did they find the Cloud-Breaking Charge.
They then went to the peak where the Left Elder Chai Chong resided. The place was filled with a chilling Yin Qi, and Lu Nanzhi even felt some traces of Demonic Qi, but no specifics were found, so they had to return.
After a fight with Yi Zhenying, Jiang Yuebai dared not underestimate Yi Zhengyang. After all, his cultivation level was higher than theirs, so they did not venture to explore Yi Zhengyang’s residence at night.
Now that the Cloud-Breaking Charge and Transmission Array were both in the Iron Palm Sect, even if they could leave silently, they could not go.
Day after day, the three of them remained in the Iron Palm Sect. Xie Jingshan had to deal with Yi Zhengyang’s visits or invitations every so often, drinking and chatting with him, all while being wary of being tricked into revealing information.
They had more or less tacitly agreed on the appearance that they were from the Green Dragon Realm and didn’t divulge more.
Lu Nanzhi and Jiang Yuebai exchanged some low-level cultivation techniques and sword techniques from the Earth Spiritual Realm for some yellow-grade martial arts cultivation techniques from the Iron Palm Sect, and together they compared and analyzed the differences in cultivation methods between the Earth Spiritual Realm and the Iron Palm Realm.
After a brief look at several books, Jiang Yuebai discovered that upper realm Qi Cultivation cultivators did not particularly emphasize the Five Element Spiritual Energy Attribute in the early stages of cultivation. Instead, their method of mobilizing spiritual energy was quite rough.
During the first three layers of Qi Cultivation, they went through a vein-forging practice, taking elixirs specifically to widen and strengthen their meridians.
On the other hand, Earth Spiritual Realm cultivators generally expanded their meridians during Foundation Establishment, by infusing spiritual energy into the body.
Jiang Yuebai and Lu Nanzhi surmised that the reason for these differences was due to the concentration of spiritual energy in the upper realm.
Upper Realm cultivators had no concern about a lack of spiritual energy and did not worry about wastage during the mobilization of spiritual energy. They focused solely on channeling as much spiritual energy as possible into spells for greater damage.
Though the Iron Palm Realm now experienced a scarcity of spiritual energy, it must have been abundant before; otherwise, why would Divinity Transformation cultivators take an interest in this realm? Their cultivation techniques were all left by the Iron Palm Master.
Despite this, they still held some advantages over upper realm cultivators. Their meticulous control over spiritual energy was something upper realm cultivators could not compare to.
Currently, this advantage allowed them to control their techniques with greater precision, accuracy, and subtlety during battle methods, catching opponents off guard.
Jiang Yuebai still needed to continue probing for other advantages.
Apart from this, the Imperial Decree Golden Book on Jiang Yuebai was constantly absorbing the Incense Fire Power from the Dongyue Continent to purify the Long-Haired Water Ghost.
Thinking of Wuwei Mountain Man, Jiang Yuebai speculated that Incense Fire Qi could ignore realm boundaries. As long as she kept the Imperial Decree Golden Book, it would collect the Incense Fire Power generated in the Iron Palm Realm, even if she left it.
The Imperial Decree Golden Book allowed Jiang Yuebai to monitor the situation in the Dongyue Continent, where things were progressing smoothly in both Guangling and Yann Hongyu, and the Incense Fire Power was rapidly increasing. At this rate, it wouldn’t take more than a few months to cleanse the Yin Qi from the Long-Haired Water Ghost and form a Dharma Body.
Regarding the Array Map of the Two Realms Transmission Array, Jiang Yuebai had been studying it with her Crane Feather Avatar. After hundreds of rearrangements and modifications, she finally realized that her familiarity with the Array Map came from the runes incorporating a Small Transposition Array.
She retrieved those Array Dao Jade Scrolls that True Monarch Fuyi had given her, found the explanations for the Small Transposition Array and Big Shift Array, and, combining them with her realization from studying the Space Great Forbidden Technique, formulated over fifty restoration plans.
Whether they could succeed or not depended only on the "stupid" method of trial and error. Array construction, like mathematics, required precision; if any step was incorrect, the entire array or calculation would not hold.
Thanks to Xie Jingshan, who had brought enough Star Meteorite Iron, Jiang Yuebai could afford to waste some in the process.
Every night, she would send an avatar into the Iron Palm Sect forbidden grounds to test the Array Maps modified that day. Fortunately, the guards in the forbidden grounds were not diligent, so her activities remained unnoticed.
Overall, Jiang Yuebai felt that life in the Iron Palm Sect was not too bad, except for Yi Zhengyang’s schemes and Yi Zhenying’s frequent ’visits.’
Initially, Jiang Yuebai quickly defeated her to send her away, but after studying many martial arts cultivation techniques of the Iron Palm Sect, she slightly modified them using the algorithms from the Great Derivation Scripture. She decided to use Yi Zhenying to test the moves and personally experience upper realm cultivation techniques.
That day, Jiang Yuebai repelled Yi Zhenying for the eighteenth time with a single palm strike.
Yi Zhenying looked down at the steaming palm imprint on her chest, feeling that the spiritual energy and flesh within her were dissolving under the fiery breath, forcing her to resist with all her might.
"I learned this Fiery Fire Palm when I was young, a Yellow Grade Middle-Level Palm Method at most, causing superficial burns. How did you manage to make the fire attack straight to my organs and dantian?"
Jiang Yuebai ended the move and stood straight. When she was at Foundation Establishment, she couldn’t control the Earth Evil Fire within her body well, and every move had to include it. After Core Formation, especially after learning precise control of spiritual energy from her master, she could switch at will and use only ordinary Fire Spiritual Energy without triggering Earth Evil Fire.
"Watch more, learn more, practice more, and think more."
As she finished speaking, Yi Zhenying saw Lu Nanzhi, looking tired, walk out of the study with a thick pile of books and papers filled with strange symbols.
A gust of spring wind carried a piece of paper drifting down in front of Yi Zhenying; it contained the main principles of the Fiery Fire Palm, heavily revised with numerous corrections.
Jiang Yuebai raised her hand to draw the paper to herself, "These were scribbled, not to be taken seriously."
Yi Zhenying stared at the books in Lu Nanzhi’s arms, "You finished all the cultivation techniques you exchanged from my Iron Palm Sect’s Cultivation Technique Pavilion and even comprehended enough to modify them yourself?"
Jiang Yuebai casually replied, "Idle time is still idle time, so I read more books..."
Yi Zhenying had a furrowed brow, "Just you wait, I will surely win against you!"
After finishing, Yi Zhenying turned to leave, but after a few steps, she came back, aggressively stepped in front of Jiang Yuebai, secretly glanced around, and whispered, "Take my advice; leave as early as you can."
After Yi Zhenying left, she headed straight for the Cultivation Technique Pavilion, unwilling to believe someone else could comprehend what she could not!
At dusk, Xie Jingshan returned from outside.
"Yi Zhengyang seems to be preparing for Nascent Soul formation. Today, many small sects from the Weixiting Continent came to offer him tribute, and this wine is also from him."
"Is he forming the Nascent Soul so soon?"
Jiang Yuebai was puzzled. Last time she saw Yi Zhengyang, although he was at Golden Core Peak, his energy wasn’t full, so he shouldn’t be advancing to Nascent Soul so quickly.
Jiang Yuebai called Lu Nanzhi over, and the three returned to their room.
After discussing the situation, Jiang Yuebai suggested, "Why don’t you leave first? I’ll stay secretly and continue attempting to repair the Two Realms Transmission Array?"
Lu Nanzhi thought for a moment, then asked, "How confident are you about the repairs?"
Jiang Yuebai sighed, "For this type of transmission array, if I had Divinity Transformation stage strength, it wouldn’t be difficult. Now I still have 21 repair plans not tested, which will take at least two months and are not guaranteed to succeed."
Xie Jingshan opened the wine jar, releasing a tempting aroma.
"I suspect Yi Zhengyang has secretly activated the Iron Palm Mountain’s Mountain Protection Array; it won’t be easy for us to escape."
Jiang Yuebai, smelling the aroma, stopped Xie Jingshan’s hand from pouring the wine, drew closer, and sniffed it.
"This wine is poisoned."
"Ah?"
Jiang Yuebai dipped her finger in the wine and tasted it, "Hmm, it’s indeed poisoned."
Lu Nanzhi: ......
Xie Jingshan scratched his head, "Even if it’s poisoned, you didn’t have to taste it! Do you think you’re me?"
Jiang Yuebai’s eyes shifted, "We have no choice but to play along with their plans."
