At this very moment,
In a hot pot restaurant where the bright moon hung high,
“You… are about to break through again?”
Ke Mo quietly opened his eyes.
Two colors of inner energy circulated, giving the girl’s jade-like complexion an unusual glow, quite a harmonious chill and charm.
Honestly, for the past two days, he had sensed that Ice Chunk’s inner energy had been solidifying more and more each day.
But little did he expect that this day would come so quickly.
Ying Bing opened her eyes and silently stared at him.
“……” Ying Bing.
“……” Ke Mo.
The two fell into a silence.
The icy chill grew increasingly bone-piercing.
In Ke Mo’s perception, his inner energy could no longer find a balance with Ying Bing.
Because Ice Chunk had started to solidify into liquid now.
“Focus on your breakthrough.”
On the first floor,
Zuo Qiuyang and Xiao Qian were startled by the commotion upstairs.
“She…”
“Yeah, it’s turning into liquid.”
Ke Mo nodded.
“This…” Zuo Qiuyang opened his mouth.
She’s only sixteen!
Xiao Qian felt a bitter flavor rising in his throat.
Just recently, he had barely stabilized his inner energy at the condensation stage and still couldn’t touch the threshold of the jade liquid realm.
And what about Ying Bing?
He hadn’t really seen her practice at all…
“Disciple, the gap between people can sometimes be larger than between a person and a dog.”
“The difference between you and the celestial geniuses of the Central Divine Continent is the same as that between those geniuses and her.”
Qianxing Wuzun seemed to just have awakened to a realization, sighing deeply.
Xiao Qian was momentarily speechless, before finally turning to Ke Mo:
“Brother Ke… you…”
“I’ve also reached a full condensation.”
Ke Mo grinned.
The two were dual cultivating, so their inner energies needed to be balanced, or they couldn’t be too far apart.
That was why he had been deliberately controlling his investment.
Xiao Qian: “…..”
Old Xiao felt a bit reclusive.
When they first met, Ke Mo was just opening his meridians, and now he was already ahead of him.
Qianxing Wuzun spoke in a deep, comforting tone:
“When I began martial arts, I was nowhere near those celestial geniuses of the Central Divine Continent.”
“When you’ve mastered Guan Shen, if you can reach the highest realm of the Thousand Forms Secret Art, you may not be able to catch up with them.”
“Yeah!”
Xiao Qian shook off the frost from his brows, his gaze firm once more.
He knew that what the master referred to as the Thousand Forms Secret Art was a divine skill.
Every divine skill had the potential to seize the heavens and the earth.
Boom——
At this moment, a familiar aura enveloped them.
Binding the rolling cold currents within the hot pot restaurant.
It was Shang Wu.
With her taking action, Zuo Qiuyang and Xiao Qian finally felt a bit better.
The commotion from the breakthrough didn’t leak out.
“The ingredients in the back kitchen are saved.”
Zuo Qiuyang sighed in relief.
Xiao Qian looked toward the east, fell silent for a moment, and said, “For the day after tomorrow, we probably don’t need to open the door.”
Ke Mo nodded.
Zuo Qiuyang was taken aback.
Following the direction of Ke Mo’s finger, he saw a firework explode in the capital city, forming the iconic swallows in front of the Misty Rain Tower.
The trial of the void was over.
The day after tomorrow, they were to go to Lingjiang Dock.
To take out Laughing Amitabha.
With Ying Bing breaking through, their plan for a quick strike was undoubtedly bolstered.
The three discussed specific plans, then each went to recuperate and sharpen their edge, making final preparations.
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“Looks like I can’t sleep in my room tonight.”
Li Mo shook his head, sitting down on the ground.
His consciousness sank.
In his dantian, red inner energy filled to the brim, and the destructive aura reached its critical point.
He attempted to condense his inner energy like Ying Bing.
A quarter of an hour later.
Boom——
Li Mo’s face flushed, and he took a sharp breath.
It exploded.
Just a moment ago, the condensed inner energy had erupted during the compressing process and spread back out again.
His inner energy, filled with the purest intent of destruction, could not condense into liquid.
Little Li fell into deep thought.
Ying Bing’s physiology was entirely different from his; her method of refining inner energy might not suit him.
Without a doubt, that divine skill of hers was no ordinary martial art.
But since obtaining it, he had known so little about it, only engaging in the most superficial applications.
It shouldn’t be like this.
【Twenty years of martial arts insights condensed into a skill.】
After a long time of accumulating, Little Li’s martial arts insights were finally wealthy enough.
He could invest heavily.
【You recalled the lotus petal leading you into a split screen. You pondered the source of this martial skill and finally discovered that if not for dual cultivating with Ying Bing, you wouldn’t be able to fully congeal your inner energy.】
【Twenty years in the blink of an eye.】
【However, that bit of divine insight was not substantial; it only vaguely revealed the name of the martial art.】
【“Blazing Fire Red Lotus Method”】
…..
“….. Huh?”
“Twenty years for just this?”
Li Mo felt a bit dumbfounded. His comprehension of the mental method wasn’t too dull; at least, it was much better than his swordsmanship.
Yet after twenty years, being thrown onto this martial art, he only learned its name.
One could only say that the “Blazing Fire Red Lotus Method” was too vast and mysterious.
There was no way to quit halfway through.
Martial arts insights poured in like water.
【In the thirty-sixth year, you finally understood that within that bit of divine insight lay the truth that what flourishes must decline; if it did not contain life, how could the blazing fire red lotus be born?】
【In the eightieth year, you exhausted your mind, attempting to induce that spark of life with utmost destruction.】
【In the two hundredth year, you finally succeeded; the lotus seed showed signs of sprouting.】
【In the three hundred sixty-fifth year, you entered the Blazing Fire Red Lotus Method.】
Entering the door.
Li Mo’s martial arts insights dwindled to a pathetic half; after barely a century, he finally earned entry into this martial art.
This could not be simply called ‘martial art’ anymore.
It was entirely a celestial method.
With utmost destruction giving birth to life, inducing the blazing fire red lotus.
“I wonder what it’s like to reach the realm of perfection?”
Little Li thought with a bit of anticipation.
But rationality told him he couldn’t keep extending it; investing the remaining martial arts insights wouldn’t even yield a drop of water.
Silently closing his eyes, he began to refine the lotus seeds from thirty-six tian veins.
The marvelous scene of cosmic unity reappeared around him.
In the room, Xiao Qian couldn’t help but open his eyes, gazing outside.
Qianxing Wuzun sighed and said something to him. Xiao Qian took a deep breath, focusing even more seriously on his training.
Upstairs,
The fluctuations of energy from the breakthrough gradually faded.
Ying Bing seemed to have changed a little, yet somehow not; she still possessed that icy beauty.
She walked to the window, and the figure of the young man training appeared in her sight.
The words that floated in her mind were exactly what Qianxing Wuzun had once said.
One day, when Li Mo entered the internal realm, he would be very strong.
Those who could achieve cosmic unity were all elite in the internal realm.
At the same time, this depended on his accumulation in the Observation Realm.
As for herself, her path lay in observing the forms of birds as guidance and watching the Taiyin as the vein of her training.
This was a path that even the elders of the Qingyuan Sect and even the high-ranking officials had never anticipated.
Using the essence of the Nine Colors Original Phoenix to gather the Taiyin Moon Phoenix spirit.
However, this wasn’t a journey that could be completed before the next ranking.
If she wanted to take back the top spot, she must first take the lead in the realm.
With the stage rewards of Imperial Liquid, this should be achievable.
Three bottles… should that be too much?
“Is there anything I can cook with Imperial Liquid…?”
