Chapter 117: Jiuxiao

  "Little Tian, now that this ancient martial art is being passed down to you, it might hurt a bit, so Little Tian, you have to endure it." As soon as these words echoed in his mind, Wu Xiaotian hadn't even had time to prepare himself when his head was hit with an intense, unbearable pain, as if something was trying to be forcibly stuffed into his brain. The sudden onset of this severe pain caused Wu Xiaotian to pass out directly. If it were just physical pain, he might have been able to bear it, but this pain pierced straight through to his soul!

  In the conscious space, Leilong Ziling also knew that when imparting this ancient martial art, it would be extremely painful. However, she had no choice but to blame Wu Xiaotian for not being able to freely enter his conscious space. Originally, Ziling intended to merge the information of the martial art into the thunder and lightning, allowing Wu Xiaotian to absorb it on his own. But since Wu Xiaotian couldn't enter, Ziling could only directly stuff the martial art into Wu Xiaotian's mind. Therefore, one can't blame Ziling, but rather Wu Xiaotian for being too weak.

  Wu Xiaotian, who was usually decisive and calm, was now enduring the piercing pain that reached his soul. He wanted to cry out but couldn't, he wanted to roll around but his body was completely paralyzed, he wanted to faint but couldn't, all he could do was stand still and endure the pain.

  Fortunately, the pain didn't last long, only about three minutes or so, but Wu Xiaotian never wanted to experience this kind of pain again. In those short three minutes, his clothes were soaked with sweat and his body felt as exhausted as if he had been fighting a battle for a day and a night.

  After taking a deep breath, Wu Xiaotian said to the purple spirit: "Hey, Purple Spirit, why didn't you remind me that it would hurt so much? I almost bit my tongue off!"

  "Little Tian Tian, I didn't want to do this either, but you can't enter the conscious space, and there's nothing I can do about it. Besides, enduring this soul-wrenching pain will also be beneficial for your spiritual growth!"

  Wu Xiaotian could only blame himself after listening to Ziling's explanation, blaming himself for being too weak, and blaming himself for not even being able to enter his own consciousness space. Wu Xiaotian wanted to know what the martial arts that had suddenly been stuffed into his brain were, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't remember the knowledge of those martial arts, and could only ask Ziling in his mind, "Ziling, what is the name of the martial arts you stuffed into my head?"

  "Jiuxiao" is just a name of a martial art, everything else you need to experience and understand yourself. Now go think about it yourself, I'm going back to sleep!

  “……”

  Wu Xiaotian couldn't help but sleep, did the divine dragon need to sleep? Probably only she herself knew, after all Wu Xiaotian wasn't a dragon. Changing her train of thought to that martial art's name, "Jiuxiang" was such an overbearing name, it was just unknown whether its power and effect lived up to this name or not?

  He sat directly on the sofa, too weak to care about his already drenched clothes, as he had been completely drained of energy by the severe pain earlier. After resting for a while, information about "Jiuxiang" suddenly popped up in his mind.

  "Heaven has nine layers, also known as the Nine Heavens. The Nine Heavens are: one is Middle Heaven, two is Auspicious Heaven, three is Following Heaven, four is Changing Heaven, five is Clearing Heaven, six is Expansive Heaven, seven is Harmonious Heaven, eight is Sinking Heaven, and nine is Accomplished Heaven. The nine layers often have the sound of thunder, thunder comes from above the ninth layer, when it arrives, the rumbling sound shakes the nine layers, lightning illuminates the nine layers, and when it leaves, it disperses within the nine layers. Therefore, the method of merit takes the name of Nine Layers, with the name of Nine Layers as its realm."

  When the introduction of that martial art sounded in Wu Xiaotian's mind, Wu Xiaotian couldn't help but praise: "I really want to see the demeanor of the predecessor who created this kung fu!"

  Wu Xiaotian finished speaking and continued to learn this martial art.

  "Those without great willpower, those without great wisdom, and those who are not fearless should not practice this method. If you use this method to harm others, I will surely kill you..."

  Wu Xiaotian gradually came to understand this technique and discovered that it was a completely doomed path. For example, in the first realm of "Tian", one must attract lightning into their body to achieve it. Let's not talk about how to attract lightning, but what are the chances of a normal person surviving after being struck by lightning? Not being turned into charcoal and preserving one's corpse is already considered lucky.

  Not to mention that this technique requires continuous absorption of lightning power. Even if one is lucky enough to cultivate the first realm, there are still eight more realms behind it. Each realm requires absorbing lightning, whether in terms of quality or quantity, with very high requirements. For example, the third realm "From Heaven" requires absorbing over a thousand natural lightning bolts to cultivate successfully. The fifth realm "Thunder Heaven" requires absorbing five elements of lightning, which is impossible for ordinary people to find.

  Therefore, those who can cultivate this technique are either crazy or stupid!

  But Wu Xiaotian is neither a madman nor an idiot, he's a normal person. Moreover, Wu Xiaotian has practiced this technique, although the requirements for practice are extremely strict, but for Wu Xiaotian, it doesn't have any difficulty, and there's no need to attract lightning to strike himself like the technique says, because Wu Xiaotian can already produce the power of lightning by himself. The lightning in his conscious space has now exceeded the limits of calculation, as thousands of lightning powers appear every moment. No wonder that Zi Ling said this technique is tailor-made for Wu Xiaotian!

  Wu Xiaotian also discovered that each realm of the "Jiuxiang" had an abnormally huge power, and every time he upgraded a realm, his strength would increase by several orders of magnitude. Moreover, the cultivation levels on Earth were completely unable to encompass all the realms of the "Jiuxiang". As long as he cultivated to the seventh realm "Xiantian", even without external help, his strength could shatter the void. The last two realms had already reached a level that could be calculated using cosmic cultivation standards. Wu Xiaotian was also astonished to find that it seemed there were still realms behind the nine heavens, and the predecessors who created this technique only mentioned a few strokes.

  Wu Xiaotian was pleasantly surprised to find that this "Jiuxiao" contained almost all martial arts, including internal strength, lightness skills, and weapons, which could be practiced as long as the boundary was reached. In the first boundary "Zhongtian", there were three swordsmanship, knife methods, and gun methods to choose from. The lightness skill of "Leidong Jiuxiao" in the second boundary made Wu Xiaotian's eyes widen with excitement, not to mention the later moves like "Tianlei Kuangxiao", "Shi Tian", "Mie Xie", and "Zhu Shen".

  Wu Xiantian was not eager to start practicing this technique, but he couldn't muster up the energy, and could only drool at the "Jiuxiang" manual. He also knew that although he could use his own thunder and lightning, there were both advantages and disadvantages, because Wu Xiantian's own thunder and lightning didn't have the same wildness as natural thunder and lightning, and its power was greater than Wu Xiantian's own thunder and lightning. Of course, absorbing natural thunder and lightning also had drawbacks, that is, it would suffer from the backlash of thunder and lightning. And his own thunder and lightning would never harm himself, nor would it backfire, which eliminated one of the conditions for practicing "Jiuxiang", that is, only in weather with thunder could he practice. But if Wu Xiantian used his own thunder and lightning to practice, then the power would be slightly inferior, but the control would be better than natural thunder and lightning.

  Thinking of this, Wu Xiaotian could only sigh: "Mengzi did not deceive me, indeed, fish and bear's paw cannot be obtained at the same time!"