Chapter 53: All Show and No Substance
True Qi is produced by the combination of blood, Qi, essence, and spirit, and the visualized deities will imbue True Qi with various attributes.
The Forest of Souls Palm, when visualizing the Ten Kings of Hell, is a gray palm. Then the Forest of Souls Palm, when visualizing Sun Wukong, is golden like monkey fur.
Perhaps it shouldn’t be called the Forest of Souls Palm, but the Great Sage Palm!
With a “bang,” this palm struck Wu Jing’s chest directly, but Wu Jing remained motionless. Then he raised the precept knife in his hand high and slashed at Shi Feizhe, aiming to cut off Shi Feizhe’s arm.
“…Body Tempering Techniques!” Shi Feizhe rolled like a donkey, narrowly dodging the knife. The clothes on his left arm were cut open by the knife. Just a little bit more, and he would have become Yang Guo.
At this moment, Shi Feizhe somewhat understood how Mister Wang felt back then at the Three Talents Manor.
Damn it!
In the Jianghu, everyone fights with swords and blades, but you’re wearing a whole suit of armor, and it doesn’t affect your agility. Isn’t that a surefire way to dominate everyone?
Therefore, the most powerful techniques in the Jianghu are not necessarily body tempering, but body tempering is the most shameless.
It’s just that body tempering techniques are quite rare. Moreover, cultivation requires enduring hardships that ordinary people can’t, and it consumes several times more herbal resources during training. That’s why there are relatively few body tempering experts in the Jianghu.
More than half of these body tempering experts come from Buddhist sects.
No way around it, Buddhist sects have money!
Techniques like 《Golden Bell Shield, 》《Arhat Golden Body, 》《Medicine Buddha Lapis Lazuli Light Tathagata Pure Dharma Body 》 are all body tempering techniques. Combined with Buddhist visualization of Buddhas, comprehending their nature, and understanding the unique True Qi—Buddha’s Light.
It’s like a turtle shell inside a turtle shell, incredibly tough!
It can be said that stacking armor is a Buddhist specialty. Even small sects like the See the Color Sect will stack armor!
“Kill!” Wu Jing was emotionless, neither disappointed by missing a blow nor happy about having the upper hand, nor did he have any other emotions.
There was only one thought in his mind: Kill this kid, then kill everyone in this courtyard!
All appearances are not retained in the heart, the heart only holds the intention to kill. The precept knife in his hand, its Buddha’s Light, aligned with his intent. The Buddha’s Light flourished, as if a pale yellow moon had risen in the small courtyard.
Then thousands of pale yellow moons flew towards Shi Feizhe. It was precisely “My heart is like the moon, all appearances are void!”
“Hmph!” Seeing these thousands of moons, Shi Feizhe sneered. He threw away his bent rusty sword and shook his numb hand. The damned monk’s strength was truly formidable.
Then a bright white sword Qi shot out from his finger. With a “whoosh,” it made a sound of piercing the air. In the blink of an eye, it had already reached Wu Jing!
External emission of sword Qi! One needs Qi Sea cultivation to achieve this!
This kid is strange!
These thoughts flashed through Wu Jing’s mind as he tilted his head to the right to dodge. However, the sword Qi was too fast, grazing his cheek and scraping off a piece of skin from his left face, leaving half of his face bloody.
Under the intention to kill, Wu Jing couldn’t feel the pain, but he sensed trouble.
The sword Qi was incredibly sharp. If there were a few more strikes, he would definitely fall here.
“The Buddha said, Prajnaparamita, is not Prajnaparamita, and its name is Prajnaparamita.” He lowered his head and recited a line, then slashed out with his knife.
The knife light flickered in and out of existence, like Prajnaparamita, yet not Prajnaparamita, between form and formlessness. It was Wu Jing’s perfected knife technique.
If he could fully comprehend the nature of form, Wu Jing might have become a Qi Sea expert!
Shi Feizhe ignored the knife. He used his hand as a sword, sending out several twinkling sword Qi. In the courtyard with light snow falling, it was difficult to distinguish between the sword Qi and the snow.
Then, accompanied by the wind and snow, the twinkling sword Qi swirled and danced around Wu Jing, leaving countless bloody marks. Like a giant plum blossom, it dyed half of the courtyard red.
This move was called “Snow Wave Sword Surge”!
“All show and no substance!” The old man in the house yawned and said. He was almost falling asleep watching such a dull fight. It was less interesting than watching two dogs biting each other.
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He felt that Shi Feizhe could have clearly used sword Qi to launch a sneak attack and killed the little monk while he was off guard, but he insisted on fighting for so long.
Weak, too weak!
After the sword attack, Wu Jing was covered in blood. He knew that his path of cultivation had probably come to an end. He didn’t regret chasing after these two people, but he regretted not having fully comprehended the Buddhist teachings and not having cultivated his protective Buddha’s Light well enough.
“Good sword Qi!”
With a “thud,” he fell into the blood-stained snow.
Shi Feizhe raised his hand and shot out a sword Qi, piercing through Wu Jing’s skull to ensure he was truly dead!
“Old man! How were those moves?” Shi Feizhe said to the old man in the house. His 《True Origin Sword Finger Formula 》 had not yet reached minor completion, and he hadn’t attained the realm of True Qi being endlessly generated and circulating. Those two sword Qi strikes would require him to cultivate diligently for several days to recover.
But the old man kept saying that his stance training was just fooling himself, and it was impossible to generate True Qi. He usually was reluctant to use sword Qi externally, so killing the enemy today was the perfect opportunity to slap the old man’s face!
“Oh? Except for the final blow, the rest was all show and no substance!” The old man then remembered that the sword Qi Shi Feizhe used wasn’t the sword Qi he practiced with his sword every day, but the sword Qi from his stance training.
Stance training can also generate sword Qi? Isn’t that nonsense?
“Li Yiyan and Su Yeye of the Saber Dragon School, thank you for saving our lives!” Li Yiyan and Su Yeye, who were originally meditating and adjusting their breath, preparing to intervene, saw Shi Feizhe suddenly release sword Qi and kill the demonic monk. They quickly clasped their hands and bowed in gratitude.
“Saber Dragon School?” Hearing this name, Shi Feizhe couldn’t help but say, “Do you have something like a Dragon’s Eye that, when opened, surpasses one’s limits and greatly increases one’s power?”
“Uh?” Li Yiyan was taken aback and said, “There’s no Dragon’s Eye in the Saber Dragon School.”
“A dragon can be big or small, can rise or hide; when big, it creates clouds and mist, when small, it conceals itself and hides its form; when rising, it soars between the universe, when hiding, it lurks within the waves. The Saber Dragon School emphasizes that saber techniques are like dragons, unpredictable, able to rise and hide.”
“People are also like dragons, able to be big or small, outwardly round, inwardly square! Even when at a disadvantage, one must seek opportunities and not give up easily!” Li Yiyan explained.
“Good sect, good spirit! Truly admirable!” Shi Feizhe exclaimed. Just listening to their ambition, they were far more impressive than the Sun Moon Brilliance Sect!
Could this be a righteous sect in the Jianghu?
“We still don’t know your name, benefactor!” Li Yiyan added, “Please tell us!”
“No need for benefactor or anything like that, my name is Shi Feizhe.” Shi Feizhe introduced himself.
“Shi Feizhe? Old Demon Shi?” Su Yeye couldn’t help but exclaim.
“Huh?” This time it was Shi Feizhe’s turn to be surprised. It had been two and a half years, how come there were still people who remembered his name, Shi Feizhe?!
Isn’t the Jianghu supposed to have the shortest memory?
“Junior Sister Su!” Li Yiyan glanced at Su Yeye and said disapprovingly, “That Old Demon Shi wreaked havoc on the martial world, he must be an old demon who’s been around for years. Brother Shi is so young, it must be someone with the same name!”
“It was my mistake!” Su Yeye stuck out her tongue and apologized to Shi Feizhe with clasped hands.
“I heard that Old Demon Shi appeared in Qiuyang City two or three years ago. Why are there still stories about him in the Jianghu?” Shi Feizhe said in puzzlement.
Damn it, I’ve been hiding in the mountains for two and a half years, who the hell is spreading my name around?!
Shi Feizhe: Isn’t the Jianghu forgetful? （The sea, it’s all water. That’s right, I am the sea! ）
