Luo Xia asked gravely, "Are you really okay?" As she checked his pulse carefully, she found that he had internal bleeding and contusions in his organs. Although the injuries were serious, with a few days of rest, he could fully recover.
Luo Xia exclaid, "How strange! How strange!"
Zhang Hou’s face was pale, "It seems I can’t escape this calamity." Luo Xia laughed, "What are you thinking? I an, your injuries are unexpectedly light!"
Luo Xia said, "Lady Broken Sword is renowned for her ruthlessness. Even if she spares soone’s life, she ensures they endure torture, wishing for death over life."
"You confronted her today; logically speaking... losing limbs would be the least punishnt. But... your injuries are so light. Hence, how strange and curious."
Zhang Hou said, "In this light, it’s truly peculiar." Luo Xia began to understand, guessing that although Wen Caishang intended to stir trouble, she undoubtedly treated Li Xian differently.
Luo Xia thought, "Proximity to virtue or vice? Could it be ’Love the house and its crow?’ Does Li Xian truly have the capability to cause Lady Broken Sword to extend such affection? What kind of charm did he use?"
Looking at the corpse on the ground, it beca clearer: "If it’s truly ’Love the house and its crow.’ Then this scoundrel’s change of sides wasn’t unjust in death. Wen Caishang loves Li Xian dearly, venturing to stir trouble in anger, yet, considering Li Xian, she surely held her hand from dealing a fatal blow. But... with your sudden betrayal, you just ran into danger."
Having sorted this out, a sigh of relief was breathed.
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Li Xian spent two days traveling to "Baishan State." Eating two flatbreads early and late, walking, practicing Martial Arts... monotonous yet fulfilling, Heaven rewards diligence.
The inheritance of Tomb Hidden Mountain: Crane Pill, Five Viscera Avoiding Dross and Gathering Yang Scripture, Recipe · Sword Control, a Marriage Contract.
’Marriage Contract’ and ’Recipe’ are still distant. The "Crane Pill" and "Five Viscera Avoiding Dross and Gathering Yang Scripture" are right before him, lingering in his mind. Li Xian felt that he was already a hundred miles away from Yihetang Manor.
He was ntally exhausted.
It was noon, and the sun was blazing.
The intense sumr was approaching, and the cicadas were noisy.
Li Xian stepped on starlight, leaping like a flash, his Seven Stars Step skill level had reached [2899]. The Light Force was concentrated, his body floated lightly.
Hanging from a tree branch, he took advantage of the height to look around and saw a lake. He noticed a few travelers relieving themselves of the heat by removing their clothes and cooling off in the lake. Li Xian, shading himself with a mat, glanced at the sky, feeling the oppressive heat unbearable, so he too removed his clothes and jumped into the cool lake water.
He had already developed the characteristics of the Martial Arts Second Realm, having gone through the "Purity Rises, Turbidity Falls" process, thus was cautious not to venture too deep into the water. Hence, he tied a vine as a rope to a tree trunk by the lake.
Grabbing the vine, he soaked in the lake water. As soon as his body touched the water, it sank, as though weighed down by a thousand pounds.
After ridding himself of the heat, he tugged the vine and leapt out of the lake.
With a splash, water scattered everywhere.
Li Xian felt refreshed, clear-headed and wise, as he simply tied his long hair up. Sitting nearby, he opened his backpack, eating dry cakes with water.
The Five Viscera Avoiding Dross and Gathering Yang Scripture is vast and profound. Martial Arts renowned for "scriptures," "techniques," and "formulas" often transcend the frawork of "fists and legs" and "swords and knives," encompassing a wide range, with peculiar uses.
Li Xian had explored fists, legs, swords, knives, and fingers alike, already having laid the foundation in Martial Arts. At this mont, as he studied the "Five Viscera Avoiding Dross and Gathering Yang Scripture," it first felt abstruse and complicated, its principles deeply mysterious. But its essential core could be realized through personal reflection and understanding.
He had a natural thirst for knowledge, his mind as vast as an ocean. When accompanying Wen Caishang on travels, he often explored the sea of learning. Wen Caishang couldn’t bear to keep secrets, sharing all she knew, explaining origins and stories in detail. Gradually, Li Xian gained so insight into the doctrines of Daoism, Buddhism, and other teachings. After a few monts of careful contemplation, he sensed a faint connection between the Five Viscera Avoiding Dross and Gathering Yang Scripture and Daoism and Buddhism.
Vast and profound, benefiting greatly.
Divided into upper and lower volus.
From days ago, Li Xian took the opportunity to read during idle tis, always lingering in the upper volu. Concise and comprehensive, requiring careful appreciation and reflection to grasp the deeper aning.
The upper volu mainly recorded the teachings of how to conduct oneself.
Such as the third page of the upper volu, recorded in the scriptures:
"Zhao Zheng was the ancestor of the Pure Yang Sect, a gentleman of integrity and noble character. One day he visited an old friend, but because the friend was in a deep sleep, Zhao Zheng chose not to disturb him. He waited outside the door for three days to et his friend, exchanged just a few words, and left again."
Li Xian was enlightened: "Zhao Zheng’s temperant was excellent, with a broad and accommodating mind. The scriptures recorded this surely to teach future generations to maintain calmness and sincerity in dealings."
Although his understanding was shallow, his attitude was earnest, ticulously considering every word and morizing them gradually. When he read the lower volu, he suddenly realized: the seemingly useless teachings of the upper volu, rely instructing in conduct, in fact, involved profound dinsions and held other mysteries!
The lower volu contained the "Five Viscera Avoiding Dross and Gathering Yang Inner Cultivation thod," also called the "Five Viscera Dross Movent" thod, which had five levels:
Strengthen the five viscera, fortify bones and blood, initiate creation, cultivate five auras, and tread the lotus path.
Practicing deeply enough, the five viscera would be like jade, the whole body flawless. Li Xian read through the scripture several tis, believing he understood its general idea, and from today he would attempt the "movent of organ dross," refining extraordinary skills.
The five viscera harbor the Five Dross.
Ordinary people consu the five grains of the earth, delicacies from mountains and seas... all accumulate dross and filth. Although martial artists cleanse their fetal selves, purging fetal dross, the world is full of impurities, how can one remain pure alone?
They are inevitably gradually tainted by impurities.
And the five viscera are the places where impurity accumulates.
The thod of the Five Viscera Avoiding Dross and Gathering Yang Scripture utilizes the "wonders of the Five Elents," naturally aligning with "the workings of nature," thereby moving the dross of the five viscera. Moving the dross strengthens the organs, extends lifespan, nurtures essence, enhances foundational energy, nourishes blood, and fortifies the soul.
Li Xian knew the intricacies within.
While practicing hands, feet, swords, and knives was manageable, the organs were hard to train. The organs, buried within flesh and blood, are difficult to sense and even harder to control... naturally making them hard to train.
The Iron Copper Body trained the body, leading the lungs. Having tempered the Iron Lung, Li Xian felt it was very beneficial.
Yet the lungs connect to the nose. Breathing techniques and body pounding skills... can sowhat train the lungs. But training the "heart," "liver," "spleen," "kidneys"... these organs, are extrely difficult.
Li Xian closed his eyes.
The thod for training organs requires forgetting "Inner Qi." Qi movent must not interfere, relying purely on the flesh to sense the organs, as though an invisible giant hand grasped the organs.
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