Chapter 7

Chapter 7: Sacrificing Kin For Righteousness? Sarira Temple, Extreme Yang Constitution!

【The 1st Layer of the Marrow-Cleansing Scripture is called Turbid Blood Purification.】

【It involves using the Turtle Breath Circulation Art to draw Morning Sun Purple Energy into the body, combined with full-body soaks in the Hundred Herbs Boiling Blood Decoction to eliminate impurities from the blood.】

【After grasping the essentials in an underground chamber, you begin your cultivation atop the Star-Plucking Tower—the tallest structure within Guardian King's Manor.】

【To avoid arousing suspicion, you deliberately choose several beauties to fill the Star-Plucking Tower with laughter, letting others assume you are engaged in debauchery.】

【Naturally, this is quite the test of your self-restraint.】

【After 7 consecutive days of cultivating on the Star-Plucking Tower using the Turtle Breath Circulation Art, your Personal Panel finally reveals a new line of information.】

【Absorbed 1 stream of Morning Sun Purple Energy, Marrow-Cleansing Scripture Proficiency +1】

【Current Realm: Marrow-Cleansing Scripture Lv1 (1/50)】

【Seeing this, you finally breathe easy.】

【Even for an Earth Grade high-tier cultivation art, the Talent Tag 【Hard Work Always Bears Fruit】 still proves useful.】

【The Proficiency cap for the 1st Layer of the Marrow-Cleansing Scripture is 50, same as the Wind-Cleaving Blade Art.】

【But each point of Proficiency is clearly incomparably harder to obtain.】

【In the month that follows, you take up permanent residence in the Star-Plucking Tower.】

【Every 7 days, you are able to absorb 1 stream of Morning Sun Purple Energy and gain 1 point of Marrow-Cleansing Scripture Proficiency.】

【Once 5 streams of Morning Sun Purple Energy have gathered within your body, you feel you have enough of a foundation and begin using the Hundred Herbs Boiling Blood Decoction to cleanse your blood of impurities.】

【This Hundred Herbs Boiling Blood Decoction is prepared from over a hundred rare medicinal ingredients, combined in precise proportions.】

【A single soak costs upward of 1,000 taels of silver.】

【Ordinary families could never afford it.】

【"Scholars grow poor while warriors grow rich"—you have now come to understand this saying at a deep level.】

【Furthermore, you discover that every 3 soaks in the Hundred Herbs Boiling Blood Decoction also yields 1 point of Marrow-Cleansing Scripture Proficiency.】

【Guard Commander Dian Cheng-feng, witnessing your considerable progress in Marrow-Cleansing Scripture cultivation, is filled with doubt and unease.】

【During this period, you truly seem like a changed person.】

【You first mastered the 【Wind-Cleaving Blade Art】 with ease, and now you are even taking to the 【Marrow-Cleansing Scripture】, which you previously could not cultivate at all.】

【All signs point to you looking more and more like a Transmigrator.】

【If you truly are a Transmigrator, how should he face you?】

【Dian Cheng-feng sighs inwardly—for now, all he can do is wait for the Guardian King's reply.】

【This matter is ultimately for the Guardian King to handle.】

"The Guardian King still hasn't replied?"

Zhao Jin is somewhat surprised.

Though the border is far, this is a high-martial world.

Guardian King Zhao Shi-zhong would need at most a few days to receive the message sent by Dian Cheng-feng.

2 or 3 months have already passed within the simulation—more than enough time for a dozen exchanges of correspondence.

Zhao Shi-zhong cannot possibly have not yet received the letter.

Could the letter have been intercepted, never reaching his hands?

Or perhaps Zhao Shi-zhong, faced with the matter of his only grandson, is caught in deep conflict and unsure how to act?

Of course, there is yet another possibility.

That is—the Great Qian imperial family does not take a kill-on-sight stance toward Transmigrators.

Only under such a premise would Zhao Shi-zhong, upon receiving the letter, have refrained from acting immediately.

Otherwise, knowing Zhao Shi-zhong as well as you do, he would very likely sacrifice kin for righteousness.

【At your current cultivation pace, you will need a little under half a year to break through to the 2nd Layer of the 【Marrow-Cleansing Scripture】, "Jade Bones Radiant Glow."】

【However, only by completing the 3rd Layer of the 【Marrow-Cleansing Scripture】, "Meridians Clear As A Dragon," will you be able to refine essence into energy and step onto the martial path.】

【To reach that point will likely take several years.】

【You still carry the black Talent Tag "One Foot In The Grave," and the longer you drag things out, the worse it becomes.】

【You ask Guard Commander Dian Cheng-feng if there is any faster method of cultivation.】

【Dian Cheng-feng shakes his head, saying your current cultivation speed is already the limit—pushing any faster will harm the body. If your primordial yang were intact and you were still a virgin, perhaps cultivation could be accelerated.】

【Primordial yang?】

【Your primordial yang has long since been spent heaven knows where, and your body's essential energy has been severely depleted—it still hasn't been replenished even now.】

【Not that this is your fault, of course. This was already the state of things before you transmigrated.】

【Since transmigrating, you have actually been quite restrained.】

【Dian Cheng-feng has no solution.】

【But for you, that is not the end of the road.】

【Your Talent Tag 【Tag Plunderer】 allows you to additionally plunder 2 white Talent Tags and 1 green Talent Tag.】

【So far, you have only plundered 1 white Talent Tag—【Born With Brute Strength】—and 1 green Talent Tag—【Hard Work Always Bears Fruit】.】

【You have deliberately kept 1 Talent Tag slot open, in preparation for future needs.】

【Now it is time to put it to full use.】

【You begin searching for high-potential Talent Tags related to primordial yang.】

【Such tags are more commonly found among monks.】

【You make a special trip to Sarira Temple on the outskirts of the capital and take a look around.】

【Before long, you spot a high-potential Talent Tag on a thick-browed, coarse-faced monk.】

【Extreme Yang Constitution (Five-Star White): The Yang energy within your body flows endlessly—even when consumed, it replenishes itself with ease, and cultivation of Yang-attribute arts is twice as effective for half the effort.】

【At the sight of this Talent Tag, you decide on the spot: this is the one!】

【You seek out the abbot of Sarira Temple and express your willingness to donate 10,000 taels in incense money—on the condition that the thick-browed, coarse-faced monk from earlier teach you a set of fist techniques.】

【The abbot of Sarira Temple agrees readily.】

【And so that thick-browed, coarse-faced monk—a man called Fa Zhen—begins teaching you a set of Luohan Fist.】

【He had assumed this was simply a matter of passing on a fist art, but once he makes contact with you, he discovers it is anything but simple.】

【You keep pawing at him from every angle, sending a chill down his spine.】

【Were it not for the 10,000 taels of incense money, he would truly like to deck you with a single punch.】

【After an incense stick's worth of time, you successfully plunder the Talent Tag 【Extreme Yang Constitution】 from Fa Zhen.】

【You feel as though a small furnace has ignited inside you, ceaselessly channeling Yang energy into your body.】

【Afterward, you revert to your normal self and earnestly begin learning the Luohan Fist.】

【Fa Zhen is left utterly baffled.】

【He had assumed someone like you—a pampered young master—had some peculiar fetish.】

【To think you were truly here to learn fist arts?】

【But of course—you paid 10,000 taels of incense money, and you absolutely intend to get your money's worth.】

【The Luohan Fist is nothing particularly profound as a martial art, but for someone like you who has yet to set foot on the martial path, it is an excellent foundational art.】

【After 1 hour, you bring the Luohan Fist to the entry level and then take your leave of Sarira Temple.】

【Fa Zhen watches the direction you depart in, puzzled.】

【Your martial foundation is not bad, and your family circumstances are clearly excellent—so why, at your age, have you still not broken through to the Postnatal Realm?】

【Upon returning, you resume your Marrow-Cleansing Scripture cultivation.】

【Having obtained the Extreme Yang Constitution, cultivation feels entirely different.】

【Your efficiency in absorbing Morning Sun Purple Energy and the effects of the medicinal soaks are both greatly enhanced.】

【Where it used to take several days to gain 1 point of Proficiency—】

【Now you need only a single day to earn 1 point of Proficiency.】

【Your cultivation speed has increased 2 to 3 times over.】