25: Chapter 25 Sect Mission (Request for Recomndations and Favorites) 25: Chapter 25 Sect Mission (Request for Recomndations and Favorites) PS: Brothers, the recomndation tickets are really too few.
Drenched in sweat, even the shorts soaked through, Old Pig desperately begs for recomndation tickets, favorites, and clicks from the brothers!
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Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
The sound of fists like thunder, leaves falling like rain.
In a rarely trodden Iron Branch Pine forest, Ye Zhen twisted and surged, his fists swinging wide and striking hard, his movents thunderous and his pauses like towering peaks.
With a single punch, he could break an Iron Branch Pine as thick as a bowl.
Compared to his days as a servant disciple, bringing down an Iron Branch Pine was now easier than ever.
“Ha!”
With a loud shout, Ye Zhen fiercely launched his Five Mountains Breaking Sky punch towards an Iron Branch Pine.
The blood qi surged with his fist power, traversing his body with the force of a wave, creating an imposing montum of deep valleys and towering mountains.
Crack!
Among the sounds of snapping, the Iron Branch Pine in front of him shattered dramatically.
However, Ye Zhen’s fist was still a foot away from the broken pine.
Witnessing this scene, a look of joy suddenly appeared on Ye Zhen’s face.
“It’s done, the Departure Body Fist Strength of the Five Mountains Divine Fist has finally been mastered.”
It had been half a month, and Ye Zhen’s Five Mountains Divine Fist had finally achieved so success.
However, Ye Zhen did not stop imdiately but instead closed his eyes to contemplate the feeling of that punch, grasping that sensation before resuming his intense practice.
After delivering hundreds of punches, aside from the initial few that were inconsistent, the dozens that followed all landed even before the physical punch did.
Only when the blood qi in his Dantian Qi Cyclone was thoroughly depleted did Ye Zhen stop and slowly sat down to practice the Essence Blood Primordial Body Technique, replenishing the blood qi strength in his body.
Long after, Ye Zhen slowly got up, closed his eyes again to recall the feeling of practicing the punches.
The essence of the punch had been mastered; what followed was the arduous task of ensuring the punches could be controlled at will.
However, today, Ye Zhen dared not continue practicing the Five Mountains Divine Fist.
The reason being, before breaking through to the True Essence Realm, the consumption of blood qi during a martial artist’s cultivation was imnse.
Blood qi stemd from the body’s essence blood, and excessive depletion could harm the body.
It was fortunate that the food provided to the Outer Disciples was excellent, with unlimited types of at to ensure fullness, even allowing so to be taken away.
Otherwise, under such intense daily cultivation, Ye Zhen’s body would nearly have collapsed.
After a rest, Ye Zhen’s body suddenly trembled, moving sinuously like a serpent.
Ye Zhen began practicing the Snake Wandering Steps.
His body movent resembled a slithering snake.
Amidst the hissing sounds of exertion, Ye Zhen’s form eerily circled around a large tree, occasionally feinting a move from the Five Mountains Divine Fist.
Ye Zhen was practicing how to use the Snake Wandering Steps in conjunction with the Five Mountains Divine Fist for attacking.
Occasionally, Ye Zhen’s shoulders harshly collided with the tree; at the mont of contact, his body bizarrely trembled a few tis, and the rebounding force from the tree dramatically reduced.
This was part of the Snake Wandering Steps called the Slippery Serpent Stance, a technique for borrowing and dissipating force.
It was said that when mastered to great accomplishnt, it could make an opponent’s attacks slip off ineffectively, making the borrowing and dissipating of force extrely peculiar.
His!
In his wandering, Ye Zhen suddenly coiled, akin to a king cobra coiling up.
Under a strange frequency, his body suddenly shot forward like an arrow, demonstrating the Snake Bounce Grass technique of the Snake Wandering Steps!
Ye Zhen’s launched form landed six ters away, a look of frustration imdiately surfacing on his face.
Half a month ago, Ye Zhen had chosen two secret manuals from the first floor of the Scripture Storage Tower.
The progress in the Five Mountains Divine Fist was quite gratifying, having attained Departure Body Fist Strength, achieving small success.
However, despite spending more ti and effort on the Snake Wandering Steps than on the Five Mountains Divine Fist over half a month, the progress was minimal.
Although he had perfected the basic footwork, techniques like Snake Bounce Grass and Slippery Serpent Stance remained elusive.
The Slippery Serpent Stance could barely dissipate so of the force, but the Snake Bounce Grass had not even reached the introductory level; on a spring, it covered no more than six ters.
Given Ye Zhen’s current level of cultivation, he could easily leap over five ters with just a little effort, and managing over six ters was no issue at all; under these circumstances, the Snake Bounce Grass proved quite useless.
Only a jump that spanned at least ten ters would consider the Snake Bounce Grass properly mastered, according to the secret manual, and if one could advance it to great accomplishnt, a single bounce could cover at least twenty or thirty ters.
“Could it really be as the old steward in the Scripture Storage Tower said, that the Snake Wandering Steps are not ant to be mastered by an Outer Disciple?” Ye Zhen felt sowhat disheartened.
Nevertheless, Ye Zhen imdiately resud his arduous training, “I refuse to believe that with determined effort, I can’t master the Snake Wandering Steps.”
After training hard for a while and seeing that it was nearing noon, Ye Zhen, who had made no progress with the Snake-stepping, decided to return to Donglai Edge for lunch.
The advantage of being an Outer Disciple lay right here; daily als were provided with unlimited servings of at, and even their clothing was exclusively washed by the servant disciples of Chores Peak, sparing the Outer Disciples from any worry.
Compared to servant disciples, an Outer Disciple is like the master and the other like a servant!
As it was noon, many Outer Disciples headed back over the peak for lunch.
Having trained all morning, Ye Zhen was extrely hungry and hurried along.
Suddenly, a figure abruptly crossed in front of him, blocking Ye Zhen’s path firmly.
Ye Zhen’s face darkened, thinking it was soone coming to cause trouble again, when he was about to shout in anger, he saw that it was Steward Liu from Donglai Peak.
“Ye Zhen greets Steward Liu,” Ye Zhen quickly greeted him.
Steward Liu huffed through his nose, his face as black as the bottom of a pot, “Ye Zhen, I ca to ask you, have you done this month’s sect tasks?”
“Sect tasks?
Ah!” Ye Zhen suddenly slapped his forehead, “I apologize, Steward Liu, I have been so engrossed in training these past few days that I completely forgot.
I will attend to it right after lunch.”
“Hmph, of all the people in Donglai Edge, you are the only one I need to remind about the sect tasks.
You have two and a half days left, and if you fail to complete a single sect task in this ti, don’t even think about receiving next month’s pill supply!” Steward Liu said with a darkened face.
There was nothing else Ye Zhen could do but constantly smile apologetically and agree profusely, which only then softened Steward Liu’s stern expression slightly.
“Rember, this is the first and last ti I remind you to complete the monthly sect tasks.
If there is a next ti, your next month’s sect pill supply will be directly withheld.
Choose wisely,” with a cold snort, Steward Liu left, leaving Ye Zhen behind with a wry smile, astonished that he had forgotten about the tasks.
After lunch, Ye Zhen hurriedly rushed to the Sect Main Hall where sect tasks were issued; joking aside, missing out on a month’s supply of sect pills would indeed be a significant loss.
Perhaps due to his previous lack of attention, upon arriving at the Sect Main Hall and perusing the available tasks for Outer Disciples, Ye Zhen realized that the sect tasks were not as simple as he had expected and could not just be completed on a whim.
For example, the sect task of collecting spider silk from the Demon-Pattern Spiders behind the mountain ten ters away was an interdiate mortal-ranked task, rewarding fifty Sect Contribution Points, suitable for an Outer Disciple like Ye Zhen to complete.
However, according to the Sect Steward, even the fastest disciples who had previously completed this task took five days.
Other tasks suitable for Outer Disciples included patrolling the Spirit dicine Garden behind the mountain, helping villagers hunt down Fierce Beasts in the village below the mountain, or managing Chores Peak for several days while a certain steward was away.
At best, these tasks would take eight to ten days to complete, so even requiring half a month.
Ye Zhen did find a few tasks that could be completed within one or two days, but those involved hunting Demon Beasts or gathering Spiritual dicines in areas where Demon Beasts road, with at least an interdiate difficulty level, and only Inner Sect Disciples could handle them.
Ye Zhen was greatly annoyed with himself for being so careless.
Could it be that he would really lose next month’s supply of sect pills?
Feeling rather unwilling, Ye Zhen flipped through the sect task list, trying to find a task that could be completed within one or two days.
Just when Ye Zhen was about to give up, as he turned to the last page of the sect task list, his eyes suddenly lit up.
He saw a task available for anyone to complete, listed at the very end of the sect task list with no difficulty rating.
And the person who posted this task that anyone could complete was none other than Fairy Caiyi, whom Ye Zhen had once t!
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