Tian Yuan War Chronicles: The Path of Artifacts to Ascension – Chapter 7

Ch 7: Magical Little Book

Hua Kong carefully examined the small book in the somewhat dim shack. There really was a flowing radiance in the book!

Moreover, when he turned the small book over, he discovered that a few strands of radiance actually entered his hand.

He thought he was mistaken, so he moved closer to observe carefully. There really were a few strands of radiance tentatively probing his hand, and then, like small insects, they burrowed into his body.

“Ah!” Hua Kong was so surprised that he almost cried out, and he quickly covered his mouth and threw the small book on the ground.

“Erlang, what’s wrong?” Hearing movement from the “wall,” his Second Elder Sister, who was embroidering, asked.

“Nothing! I saw a big spider!” Hua Kong explained haphazardly.

“Haha! Stop it!” His Second Elder Sister was speechless.

“Okay!” Hua Kong replied, while staring in shock at the small book on the ground.

After a while, Hua Kong came back to his senses and stretched out his hands to observe carefully, but he didn’t find anything special. Then he checked all parts of his body and didn’t find any special changes either.

He hesitated for a while, then picked up the small book from the ground, but this time there was no flowing radiance, and the small book returned to its ordinary appearance.

“Huh?” Hua Kong was really dumbfounded. What did he just do? Was it just his hallucination?

He tried to rub the cover of the small book, but nothing happened. Did he really hallucinate? Did he eat something bad?

He continued to try, and even got some water to wipe the small book, but still nothing happened.

Hua Kong was completely dumbfounded, but his interest in the small book grew even stronger, and he began to study the contents of the small book carefully.

“Tian Yuan Qi Guiding Art, First Chapter ━ Breathing Method…”

After a whole day of research, Hua Kong had basically mastered the breathing method in the first chapter, and he immediately began to practice after dinner.

Hua Kong practiced until late at night. Everyone in the camp had already rested, and he picked up the small book, exhausted.

Suddenly, a wisp of radiance flowed out of the small book, tentatively burrowing into his hand as before, and then disappeared without a trace, like a mud ox entering the sea.

“Ah!” Hua Kong trembled with surprise, and he quickly covered his mouth, afraid of disturbing others.

He wasn’t so scared anymore. He knew that he could control this kind of radiance, so it was likely harmless.

In the next few days, Hua Kong studied the remaining body techniques, meditation, and Qi introduction chapters of this small book. This health preservation book was magical, but the content was not much, and Hua Kong could almost recite it.

After a few days of practice, the radiance increased significantly when Hua Kong touched the small book. When these radiances entered Hua Kong’s body at the beginning, he couldn’t feel anything.

But after a few days, he could feel a trace of coolness wandering in his body, a feeling like never before!

Hua Kong was very fascinated by this feeling, and he kept practicing every day except for eating.

So much so that when his friends came to him to read picture books together, he gave them all his picture books, but he didn’t participate himself, just making excuses that he wanted to sleep.

The friends were a little strange, but they didn’t dwell on it. It was really boring here, and everyone had already read these picture books many times.

Hua Kong was completely immersed in his practice every day except for eating and sleeping, and did not pay attention to the movements of the camp.

But the others in the camp had begun to feel anxious, because recently someone had seen a team of soldiers twenty miles away.

Finally, the old people in the camp decided that night to set off tomorrow morning and go deeper into the forest. Everyone had already determined the new camp address a few days ago.

Compared to the anxiety in Hua Kong’s camp, in the big camp outside Duanshan City, the young general and another skinny young man were very happy.

After a few days of city-wide arrests, they had a clear understanding of the Old Beggar’s movements since he came to Duanshan City.

Although they haven’t caught him yet, they can be sure that he has escaped into the mountains and forests in Duanshan Mountain.

They even found traces of the Old Beggar living in several places in the forest, and found some of the objects he left behind.

Because the Old Beggar’s movements have been determined, except for leaving a few hundred auxiliary soldiers to block the entrances and exits of the Duanshan City gate and the official road, the blockade of Duanshan City has been lifted.

More than 10,000 regular soldiers and auxiliary soldiers in the city can be put into Duanshan Mountain tomorrow to search for the Old Beggar.

In order to speed up the search, thirty more hunters and hunting dogs were even transferred. Together with the sixty hunters who came before, there will be ninety hunters and hunting dogs involved in the search for the Old Beggar.

With such a dragnet, the young general and the skinny young man were confident that the Old Beggar would be caught soon.

The two were currently feasting and drinking with a group of officials and gentry from Duanshan City, and the atmosphere was as lively as fire cooking oil.

“This matter is thanks to Brother Yang Guanhe’s active cooperation, otherwise how could it be so smooth? Come, I’ll toast you!” The young general raised his wine glass towards Yang Guanhe.

“How dare I? How dare I? Thanks to the help of the big households and elders in the city, I, Yang Guanhe, only have a little bit of meager credit! How dare I boast in front of the general!” Yang Guanhe said with a “sense of the big picture.”

“Brother Guanhe doesn’t need to be humble. If there is merit, there will be reward. After this matter is over, we will definitely inform Father of Brother Yang Guanhe’s achievements,” the skinny youth also raised his wine glass.

“Really? Thank you, young friend, for your praise! Thank you, young friend, for your praise!” Yang Guanhe tried to calm his mood, but his voice was still a little trembling.

“Hmph~~” Seeing this scene, Granny Hua, who was alone in the corner drinking wine and eating meat, snorted softly, but of course she did not interrupt the enthusiasm in the room.

When the gentry saw that Yang Guanhe was so respected, they all felt that a brand new popular figure of the Great Zhou Dynasty was about to be born, and they immediately became active, and came over to show their courtesy one by one.

After all, the county official is not as good as the current administrator. Although the two youths on the stage are undoubtedly noble, they are after all in the Divine Capital, thousands of miles away.

Seeing the lively scene, the young general waved his hand and summoned two teams of dancers to help liven things up.

Seeing this group of beautiful dancers from the Divine Capital, Yang Guanhe was still a little restrained, but the gentry from Duanshan City almost drooled on their feet, staring blankly at the scene, speechless.

Seeing this situation, Yang Guanhe suddenly felt ashamed.

“Hmph! Um!” Yang Guanhe deliberately cleared his throat, but none of the gentry paid attention to him.

“Is Lord not feeling well?” Commander Zhao asked, who was staying in the corner with Master Li.

“No!” Yang Guanhe said unhappily.

Seeing that everyone ignored him, Yang Guanhe no longer sought boredom and picked up his wine glass to drink.

This important person’s wine and food are really good. Originally, it was just an ordinary mountain chicken from Duanshan Mountain, but after being cooked by the important person’s chef, it directly became a delicacy.

Everyone drank and feasted until late at night before bidding farewell and returning to the city. Most of the group were drunk and swayed back to their homes by their respective servants.

Early this morning, Hua Kong got up early and practiced the contents of the small book again. He vaguely felt that some big changes were about to happen in his body, and he hurriedly ate breakfast and was about to go back to practice.

“Erlang, don’t play around, pack up! We’re going to the new camp!” Hua Ermei said.

“New camp?!” Hua Kong was surprised.

“Yes! The old people said that the soldiers are already twenty miles away, and they may find us soon! We have to go deeper into the forest!” Hua Ermei explained.

“Okay then!” Hua Kong said helplessly.

Hua Kong quickly packed his things into a bamboo basket and prepared to set off.

In less than half an hour, Old Man Huang called everyone to set off. Because this was a new camp, most people had not been there and needed to follow those who had been there in the past few days.

Because they had already gone deep into Duanshan Mountain, this road was not easy to walk. Everyone stumbled and walked until late at night before arriving at the new camp. This place was nearly a hundred miles deep into Duanshan Mountain.

There was no time to build shacks. Everyone was tired and thirsty, so they directly made a fire and cooked some rice, ate some dried meat and pickled vegetables, and then fell asleep on the spot.

But Hua Kong was not very tired, but rather a little excited, because all the way he had been breathing according to the breathing method he had practiced for the past ten days, and he had a feeling of being as light as a swallow.

Looking at his family who had already fallen asleep, Hua Kong found a big tree and climbed up it gently, very easily!

At this time, the sun had completely set, and the moonlight was also covered by dark clouds, and no light fell into the forest. It was pitch black all around.

But Hua Kong’s eyesight could still see the young men patrolling a hundred zhang away, and he could even see his Elder Brother’s face clearly. He was pleasantly surprised, knowing that this was the result of practicing that health preservation method.

He immediately took out the small book and studied it, and then practiced the health preservation method in the book on the branches of the big tree.

After a day of trekking, constantly using the breathing method in the small book along the way, Hua Kong felt that he had a greater affinity for the radiance in the small book.

After those radiances entered his body, they would turn into a cool Qi and wander in his body for a while before disappearing.

When that cool Qi wandered in his body, at the beginning, there was an unspeakable feeling, a numb and comfortable feeling.

Now, as his body’s affinity for it increased, the cool Qi could continue to wander in his body for the time it takes to burn an incense stick.

And when it wandered to certain places, there was some pain and a feeling of blockage, and he gritted his teeth and resisted it.

Because once that cool Qi broke through that feeling of blockage, there would be a strong feeling of openness.

Making his five senses much more sensitive, he felt that the world seemed to be alive, and there was a sense of intimacy that the heavens, earth, mountains, and rivers all knew him and were very familiar with him.

As his breathing method, body techniques, meditation, and Qi introduction became more and more proficient, sometimes he no longer needed to use the small book to feel that radiance.

Sometimes, just picking up a stone or a branch, there would be a trace of radiance flowing into his body, although compared to the small book, it could only be said to be better than nothing.

But he felt in his heart that perhaps this was the ultimate goal of the health preservation method in this small book ━ to break away from the small book to absorb these radiances and wash and transform his mortal body.

At first, those radiances disappeared immediately after entering the body.

After practicing for a few days, the radiance from the small book increased, and it could turn into coolness and wander a short distance in the body.

In recent days, the radiance from the small book has become more and more, and it can wander in the body for a long time, break through some blockages, and then merge into the Dantian in the abdomen and disappear.

Even since yesterday, sometimes picking up some ordinary things would also have a trace of radiance entering the body, which made him excited.

He felt that it was not that this radiance had increased, but that his perception of this radiance had increased.