Chapter 69: Buddha is Dog Shit
The dozen or so people were still studying the cultivation techniques when suddenly one of them said:
“Oh! Let’s go to the next hall!”
“Right! Why are we studying these Mortal Realm techniques? Who cares if we don’t recognize those characters!”
After saying that, the dozen or so people each displayed their unique skills, sprinting like they were in a race, flying, leaping, or jumping towards the next hall!
After they left, Shi Feizhe also arrived in front of the flipped stone bricks. He managed to decipher, through guessing and piecing together clues, that these were all Mortal Realm techniques for tempering Qi and blood and visualizing deities.
By analogy, this entire hall contained only Mortal Realm techniques.
So there must be other halls containing techniques for the Qi Sea Realm, the Zhoutian Realm, and even the True Realm!
The dozen or so martial artists had also thought of this, which was why they rushed to the next hall.
Shi Feizhe was not in a hurry because he had the 《True Origin Sword Finger Formula》 that could lead him directly to the True Realm. All he needed to do was practice it step by step. However, he could memorize the techniques on the stone walls and study them slowly later, drawing inferences from one another.
After carefully studying the techniques on these stone bricks, Shi Feizhe moved on to the next hall.
While he was looking at these techniques, other people also came in. Some studied the techniques alongside Shi Feizhe, while others glanced at them and headed straight for the next hall.
The next hall contained techniques for the Qi Sea Realm. Only one stone brick had been flipped over, and a few people were studying it.
After taking a look, Shi Feizhe continued to the next hall.
If nothing unexpected happened, the next hall would contain Zhoutian Realm techniques.
Many people were gathered in this hall. After all, most martial artists in the Jianghu were between the Qi Sea Realm and the Zhoutian Realm.
Although these people couldn’t recognize the characters, they took turns performing a set of techniques, causing the stone bricks to flip over and reveal the cultivation methods.
Shi Feizhe was quite curious about the Zhoutian Realm techniques and wanted to take a closer look.
“Brother! I am Yu Zeze. My fellow Jianghu friends are kind enough to call me Iron Head Arhat!” A man saw Shi Feizhe approaching and greeted him with cupped fists.
“It’s a pleasure to meet you. I’m just an unknown wanderer in the Jianghu, Shi Feizhai!” Shi Feizhe also cupped his fists.
“You’re too kind, brother. We are all unknown wanderers!” Yu Zeze said politely, “Therefore, in the Jianghu, we must huddle together for warmth!”
“We, a few fellow Jianghu friends, have gathered here to study the techniques on these stone bricks. If you’re interested, brother, you’re welcome to join us!”
“As long as you perform a set of techniques and make the stone bricks flip, you can view any of the techniques revealed!”
“If you’re not willing, please go to another area and flip the stone bricks yourself, brother!”
Yu Zeze pointed to the opposite stone wall in the distance.
To be fair, what he said made sense. The techniques were all on the stone bricks, and it wouldn’t hurt for everyone to study them together.
However, seeing a martial arts manual didn’t necessarily mean understanding it, and understanding it didn’t guarantee mastery.
It would be better to join forces and study more manuals, to find the one that suited each individual best.
And by doing so, they could establish connections, stay in touch, and perhaps even collaborate with each other in the future.
The Jianghu was not just about fighting and killing, but also about human relationships and social skills!
However, Shi Feizhe just wanted to freeload!
The techniques were all on the stone walls, they wouldn’t run away. He’d check out the others first!
“In that case, I’ll go take a look elsewhere!” Shi Feizhe said, cupping his fists.
“Feel free, brother!” Yu Zeze said, not showing any displeasure.
The techniques here were almost inexhaustible, and it wasn’t worth wasting time on such a small matter!
He watched Shi Feizhe go to the next hall and turned to another Jianghu person, saying, “This brother…”
Shi Feizhe arrived at another hall. To his surprise, this hall was packed with people!
The stone bricks in the hall had also been flipped over, and there were still people constantly performing martial arts in front of them, trying to flip them over.
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These were all veteran Zhoutian Realm experts, like Hua Xiaomei and Zhan Yunfan whom he had met at the Three Talents Manor.
They had been stuck at the bottleneck between the Zhoutian Realm and the True Realm for too long!
They desperately needed a True Realm technique to help them break through and achieve a leap in both strength and status.
But… they couldn’t understand it. They simply couldn’t understand it!
With their strength and experience in the Jianghu, they could easily modify those Mortal Realm techniques into another set.
The stone walls surrounding the hall worked on some unknown principle, as long as it was a martial arts technique, it could make the stone wall flip.
So they kept performing martial arts, just to find one they could understand.
The True Realm techniques were all lengthy and obscure, with many rare and archaic characters.
Even among them, some had studied the standardized manuals of the Great Cai Dynasty and were proficient in deciphering the hidden meanings within them, but they still couldn’t understand these!
Would you become a mathematician just by being given a calculus textbook?
Would you become a poet just by memorizing a collection of poems?
Would you treat a scripture as a land deed just because you have it?
At this moment, they finally understood that the most important thing for a major Jianghu sect had never been the martial arts manuals, but the people!
With people, there would be inheritance, with people, there would be martial power, and with people, all of this would continue!
Therefore, it was always the major Jianghu sects that had the final say!
They realized it too late!
After understanding this, they were ready to leave.
In the Jianghu, one either became a dog for a major sect to obtain inheritance, or established their own sect to experiment with techniques and break through to the True Realm!
Becoming a dog was out of the question!
They were old, past the age where they could be loyal dogs.
There was only one path left!
They already had many techniques; all that remained was to find a place and experiment slowly.
These Zhoutian Realm experts came and went like the wind. After figuring things out, they either went to the next hall or returned the way they came.
In this hall, Shi Feizhe encountered a familiar bald donkey.
Liaocheng was staring blankly at a clearly Buddhist technique that read, “Buddha is dog shit! The Ten Stages Bodhisattvas are dung carriers, the two bodhisattvas of equal and wonderful enlightenment are precept-breaking mortals, Bodhi is a donkey tether, and the twelve divisions of Buddhist teachings are books of ghosts and gods, papers for wiping sores.”
He understood about fifty to sixty percent of it, but the parts he understood completely contradicted the Buddhist scriptures he had read and the knowledge he possessed.
However, this technique was undoubtedly Buddhist in style, which confused him.
Could this be another one of those demonic Buddhist sects like the See the Color Sect, the White Bone Sect, or the Celestial Maiden Sect?
Just then, he heard someone call out to him, “Bald donkey, you run pretty fast!”
“So it’s Benefactor!” Liaocheng turned and saw Shi Feizhe. “This poor monk is a monk, not a bald donkey.”
“Even Buddha is dog shit, how can a monk not be a bald donkey?” Shi Feizhe also saw the technique. He couldn’t understand most of it, but he understood the opening sentence clearly.
“…” Liaocheng was speechless.
However, he was an honest man, so he said frankly, “That’s not right.”
“Even if Buddha is dog shit, this poor monk is not a bald donkey!”
Liaocheng: I am not a bald donkey. （ These chapters are transitional and a bit watery, not very well written, so three updates today! ）
