Chapter Thirty: The Wooden Element of Yuan Qi

  The last move of the 72 Road Knife Method, "Sealing the Sword and Retreating into Obscurity", this move, Gu Chao couldn't find a corresponding scene. After some thought, Gu Chao realized that the 72nd move, "Sealing the Sword and Retreating into Obscurity" shouldn't correspond to a scene, it's more like a state of mind, a transcendent and detached state of mind.

  Gu Chao stopped observing and instead sat cross-legged on the ground, savoring this state of mind.

  Sheathed sword and retreated from the world, looking down on worldly affairs, and looked down on everything.

  But to be honest, it's too difficult for a teenager to grasp this kind of transcendent and detached state of mind. Even if Gu Chao had more than 20 years of experience from his past life, adding up to 40 years of experience, he still couldn't fully understand this kind of transcendent and detached state of mind, always missing it by a hair's breadth.

  The sky is gradually darkening, it's deep autumn, the cold crows return to their nests, withered vines and old trees.

  Looking at all this, Gu Chao gradually had a feeling of putting down his sword and retreating from the world.

  After one night, at dawn, when the sky breaks through, endless time shines out from the east, illuminating everything, just like a person's youth.

  The sun is high in the sky, its rays shining straight down, it's right at noon, and there are no clouds for thousands of miles. This is just like a person's youth.

  The sky is dark again, the cold crows return to their nests, withered wisteria and old trees.

  One day and one night, a cycle.

  Just like the cycle from youth to old age.

  He faintly felt something, stood up, and drew out the crimson long knife. It was a move called "Sealing Knife Returning to Hiddenness". The momentum of this knife was retreating, seemingly about to be sheathed, but at the moment of sheathing, it still contained some sharpness. If someone tried to take advantage of the opportunity to attack, they could immediately turn defense into offense, and retreat into advance.

  This grasp of advance and retreat has reached an extreme level. Originally, it was impossible for Gu Chao to achieve, but after watching the countless cycles of day and night, he suddenly gained insight, and this move became more and more exquisite.

  Gǔ Chāo struck out with another knife, this one could only be called half a move. Immediately he switched to the light-as-a-feather move, and then struck out again with another knife, which was the second half of the sealing-and-hiding move. Gǔ Chāo casually broke down these moves, combining them at will, half-move by half-move, as casual as can be. Finally, Gǔ Chāo let out a breath, he had succeeded, and finally mastered the 72nd style of the 72 Routes Knife Method, Sealing-and-Hiding.

  That is to say, he had already practiced the 72 roads of knife method to a state of great perfection.

  A set of martial arts has been mastered, and he has finally succeeded in practicing it to perfection. The speed at which he practiced this set of martial arts to perfection should be faster than Murong Ying's, right? In Gu Chao's mind, his true opponent is not someone else, but the so-called child prodigy Murong Ying. If others knew that Gu Chao wanted to compete with Murong Ying, they would definitely laugh at Gu Chao for being overconfident and ridiculous.

  However, Gu Chao has always been like this, always striving to be first.

  Moreover, Gu Chao doesn't consider Murong Ying as his ultimate goal, but only a temporary goal for the time being.

  My goal is to surpass everyone, at the end of the clouds, at the top of heaven.

  "Huh, it seems there's a commotion over there. Gu Chao had just mastered the 72 Routes of Knife Techniques and was eager to test his skills against heroes from all over. Instead, he heard the sound of people fighting. Gu Chao quickly walked over and found that indeed two groups were fighting. One group consisted of three girls from Xin Xue Mountain Villa. Upon closer inspection, the elegant girl in the middle was none other than Liu Ya, the most popular girl from Xin Xue Mountain Villa. The petite and lovely Huang Chang was being fought over by Gao Ren and Feng Pingfeng. Zhu Dan, who had a big fight on the challenge stage, and another ordinary-looking girl named Ye Qian were also present. Gu Chao knew their names because Gao Ren had repeatedly emphasized them in the dormitory."

  The three of them also entered the mountain to practice, which is normal. The mid-year exam is approaching soon, and many outer disciples of Xue Shan Villa are practicing outside to improve their strength and get a good ranking in the mid-year exam. In fact, not only the disciples of Xue Shan Villa, but all ten villas on Zhong Xi Peak, every disciple is intensifying their practice and improving their strength.

  While Liu Ya and Zhu Dan's opponents were two young boys, both of whom looked like they were thirteen or fourteen years old, wearing the attire of the Tai Shan Sect. At this age, they should be senior brothers from the Can Xue Mountain Villa. There are a total of ten mountain villas in Zhong Xi Peak, with Xin Xue Mountain Villa being the tenth and Can Xue Mountain Villa being the ninth. The people from Can Xue Mountain Villa entered two years earlier than those from Xin Xue Mountain Villa, and their overall strength was much stronger than that of Xin Xue Mountain Villa.

  Ten villages, usually rarely interact with each other and hardly ever fight, how did they end up fighting?

  Gu Chao looked again and found that not far away, there was a piece of wood about two fingers long and one inch thick. On its surface, there were faint dragon shapes appearing and disappearing, the whole thing was a deep blue-green color, without any impurities.

  Gu Chao couldn't help but be stunned when he saw it.

  This seems to be the Mōki of the Origin that Nangong Yuanyuan once mentioned in a casual conversation.

  There is a primordial energy between heaven and earth, this energy is vast and fills the space between heaven and earth, but it's not easy to tap into. Cultivating internal power as a martial artist actually means tapping into this heavenly primordial energy for one's own use. Martial artists can only slowly absorb some of this heavenly primordial energy through repeated meditation. Those medicinal substances that can enhance internal power have absorbed the heavenly primordial energy during their growth process, which is why they can help martial artists increase their internal power.

  However, the Yuanqi wood is a very special kind of wood. Ordinary medicines can only accumulate the yuanqi of heaven and earth, but cannot automatically produce the yuanqi of heaven and earth. The Yuanqi wood, on the other hand, can automatically produce the yuanqi of heaven and earth. Due to this characteristic, once a warrior possesses the Yuanqi wood, it can greatly accelerate the speed at which they absorb the qi of heaven and earth, thereby increasing their internal strength much faster.

  So, this yuanqi wood is quite precious.

  At that time, Nan Gongyuan elder said: "How to identify this yuanqi wood? Generally, a dragon shape will automatically appear on the surface of the yuanqi wood. Except for the yuanqi wood, no other wood has this characteristic, so it's easy to recognize. The yuanqi wood is also divided into three levels, namely lower-level yuanqi wood, middle-level yuanqi wood, and upper-level yuanqi wood. Upper-level yuanqi wood is extremely precious, hard to find, and middle-level yuanqi wood is also very expensive, with a price but no market. Lower-level yuanqi wood, although not comparable to the upper and middle levels of yuanqi wood, is still quite precious. Of course, this is just idle talk, your chances of getting yuanqi wood are basically zero."

  Right in front of me, this should be the Lower Grade Yuan Qi Wood. I never thought that I would see the extremely precious Lower Grade Yuan Qi Wood here. The reason why Liu Ya and the other three, as well as the two from Can Xue Mountain Villa, are fighting each other is probably also because of this Yuan Qi Wood.

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  In the arena, a fierce battle was underway. On one side were Liu Ya, Zhu Dan and Ye Qian from Xue Shan Villa, while on the other side were Li Tong and Zhao Fan from Can Xue Villa. The young man named Li Tong had raised eyebrows and extremely small eyes, with an arrogant look on his face. The one named Zhao Fan was ordinary-looking, with a square-shaped face.

  Li Tong sneered with a smile: "The junior sisters of Xin Xue Mountain Villa, you also want to compete with us for the Yuan Qi Tree, how ridiculous."

  Zhu Dan said: "This yuanqi wood is clearly something we discovered early on."

  Li Tong smiled: "In this world, the strong are respected, and good things should be given to the strong. The two of us are stronger than you three, so it's only natural that they belong to us."

  What Li Tong said about Zanxue Mountain Villa is indeed true.

  Liu Ya is in the middle of the fifth layer of the Post-Heaven Realm, Zhu Dan is in the middle of the fourth layer of the Post-Heaven Realm, and Ye Qian is at the beginning of the fourth layer of the Post-Heaven Realm.

  Li Tong is in the later stage of the fifth layer of the acquired realm, and Zhao Fan is also in the later stage of the fifth layer of the acquired realm.

  So Li Tong and Zhao Fan are indeed stronger than Liu Ya and her companions.

  "Whoever is stronger will take it, haha." Li Tongheng's one knife sent Liu Ya retreating several steps, and Liu Ya was originally injured. Now being hit like this, the internal energy in his body was chaotic, and he had already lost his combat effectiveness.

  On the other side, Zhao Fan was fighting against Zhu Dan and Ye Qian alone. His knife skills changed rapidly, "dang dang dang", Zhu Dan and Ye Qian were both hit several times. Zhu Dan's right leg and Ye Qian's left leg were cut by the blade, they were seriously injured, and fresh blood flowed out.

  Li Tong and Zhao Fan, the two disciples of Canxue Mountain Villa, knocked down their opponents Liu Ya and others, leaving them severely injured. With a hearty laugh, they said: "The Yuanqi Tree now belongs to us!" They strode towards the Yuanqi Tree in big steps.

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