Chapter 277 - 195: Passing Down the Tyrant Body
This matter is easy to understand; isn’t it just about secretly taking on an apprentice?
Anyway, apprenticeship and learning a craft are about acquiring skills. As long as the master is genuine and the background is real, one can seek support when bullied, regardless of whether outsiders know about it or not.
At this moment, Qin Yuxian looked at Shan Lingguan with a sense of shame and said, "Master Uncle, over the years, your lineage has already done too much for me. Now, there’s a new junior brother, and I can’t let him stay hidden either. Rest assured, even if it can’t be disclosed outwardly, I can say he is ’an apprentice received on behalf of my master’. I must ensure that little junior brother is not without status by my side in the future."
"Status is a small matter, life and death are big matters," Shan Lingguan said lightly. "Why don’t you let Chen Ku choose? Does he want to be your junior brother openly, or is he willing to be your junior brother secretly?"
Chen Ku immediately replied, "This disciple has always disliked showing off."
Since his rebirth, he has engaged in secretive activities like hitting people on the sly and underhanded schemes. If he were to stand openly in the spotlight, it would instead be restricting for him.
"Thinking this way, the role of ’inner lineage’ suits me well, silent and without identity, simply focused on nipping threats in the bud—low-key, steady..."
Shan Lingguan chuckled and pointed at Chen Ku, saying, "I’ve seen you twice and already discerned that your cautious temperament is very much in line with my path. Good, since you’ve decided to agree, these two matters have been laid out in advance. Today, here, in front of the ancestral masters of the Imperial Enlightenment Sect, I accept you as a disciple. Now, serve the tea!"
Then he stood up, facing away from a portrait inside the grand hall. It was a composition of individual portraits, forming a collective image of ancestral masters, like a root system from top to bottom.
Chen Ku looked at the prepared tea set beside him, stepped forward with respect, filled a cup with tea, held it with both hands, and knelt before Shan Lingguan, bowing and saying:
"Please, Master, have tea!"
Seeing Master Uncle drink the cup of clear tea, confirming the master-disciple relationship, Qin Yuxian was overwhelmed with joy. He followed in happiness and immediately took a pill box from his sleeve, saying:
"Little junior brother, you are now part of the Imperial Enlightenment Sect family. I have prepared a welcoming gift for you, noticing that you have reached the Third Realm Peak. This is a ’Dragon Tiger Qi Multiplying Pill’, which will significantly aid you in breaking through to ’Meridian-Opening’."
Chen Ku looked at this pill, and despite his familiarity with various pills at the Medicine King Hall in Baojiao County, he had never heard of such a pill.
Shan Lingguan chuckled and said, "Quick, accept it; Little Qin’s gift is generous. This Dragon Tiger Qi Multiplying Pill is a supreme Fourth Realm level pill, which can boost your Inner Qi several times during a breakthrough. In the breakthrough moments before the Fifth Realm, having such a pill will drastically reduce your breakthrough difficulty."
Hearing this, Chen Ku was overjoyed, swiftly accepting it and gratefully saying, "Thank you, Senior Brother Qin."
Uttering the words "Senior Brother Qin," he felt a bit dazed.
The president of Qiu Dragon Martial Meeting.
One generation’s grandmaster, Qin Yuxian, had just become his ’senior brother’ like this.
Qin Yuxian smiled without saying much and said, "I’ve already heard that you possess a Five Elements Spiritual Body, an extraordinary divine power, and special spiritual abilities. It’s estimated that you are qualified to practice the three ultimate skills of the Imperial Enlightenment Sect. For now, follow Master Uncle and first practice ’Huntian Overlord Body’. Once you master the First Layer of Huntian Overlord Body, come to me, and I will teach you two other supreme-level martial arts ’Giant Spirit Hammer’ and ’God Shaking Decision’."
The three supreme martial arts!
Chen Ku’s heart raced, suddenly feeling the benefits of apprenticeship surging toward him one after another.
"Alright, Little Qin, you must have a lot to attend to, so go ahead and be busy," Shan Lingguan said, unwilling to take up much of Qin Yuxian’s time.
"Since he is my disciple, let me be the one to teach him."
"Take care, Master Uncle, I’ll take my leave now."
Before leaving, Qin Yuxian looked at Chen Ku and said:
"If you have any difficulties, come to me directly, and I will take care of everything."
Chen Ku was rendered speechless by the grandmaster’s dominant promise to handle everything.
"Take care, Senior Brother."
After sending off Qin Yuxian.
"Alright, now it’s just the two of us, let’s not waste words. First, let this old man feel your root bone to see how much divine power you really have."
Shan Lingguan finished speaking and, without further words, placed a hand on Chen Ku’s shoulder, silently employing the Bone Touching Skill of the Imperial Enlightenment Sect to test how heavy Chen Ku’s root bone was.
Chen Ku did not know what to make of it and simply stood still.
Yet the old man, lifting Chen Ku’s shoulder with one hand, became increasingly astonished, saying:
"One dragon... two dragons... three dragons..."
Looking at Chen Ku with eyes filled with disbelief:
"Without having even practiced the God Shaking Decision, you possess the Power of Three Dragons. If you were to practice the God Shaking Decision, wouldn’t you attain the Ten Dragons and Ten Elephants Power at the Seventh Layer?"
"God Shaking Decision?" Chen Ku was curious, "Is that what Grandmaster Qin Yuxian learned?"
"It seems that Qin was right, you truly might inherit all three supreme inheritances of our Imperial Enlightenment Sect. However, before that..."
Shan Lingguan said:
"First, I will teach you the spell of the Huntian Overlord Body. This is the most prized martial art of our Imperial Enlightenment Sect. Although its initial power increase is not as fast as the God Shaking Decision, with each layer, your qi power will include more of the natural power of heaven and earth. For example, the First Layer ’Fire Cloud Technique’: Once mastered, your physique will become a ’Li Fire Body’, and your inner qi will transform into the masculine and domineering ’Li Fire True Qi’. Thereafter, when fighting others, each move will naturally carry the molten rock energy to burn your enemies, ensuring invincibility!"
"Cultivation Body?" Chen Ku asked curiously, "Master, what does Cultivation Body mean?"
He could understand the concepts of inner qi and true qi.
But the term Cultivation Body was entirely new to him.
"The so-called Cultivation Body is the concept of merging martial arts inner qi and physique into one. Henceforth, martial arts no longer need to be actively executed but become as natural as breathing."
Shan Lingguan gave an example, saying:
"Just like some special demons you see, they have not practiced martial arts, but can unleash thunder and lightning with natural ease, this is their innate physique and talent. Humans, being born without many special abilities, can only integrate martial arts into our physical foundation, making it a part of our body. In layman’s terms, this is called ’Rebuilding Physique’. This is the ultimate path of martial arts, where at the Eleventh Realm, almost everyone possesses their own ’Martial Path True Body’, which is their personal cultivation body."
"And our Imperial Enlightenment Sect’s Huntian Overlord Body is a cultivation technique that leads straight to the Eleventh Realm. The first nine layers encompass fire, earth, metal, water, wood, wind, thunder, yin, and yang—gathering the nine natural energies to condense nine different cultivation bodies, reaching the Ninth Realm. Then, at the Tenth Layer, ’Huntian Condensing’, and at the Eleventh Layer, ’Metamorphosing Overlord Body’.
"According to the records of the Imperial Enlightenment Sect, if someone succeeds in mastering the Overlord Body, this martial art can leap into the divine skill level, crushing other true bodies within the Eleventh Realm of martial arts."
Upon hearing this, Chen Ku couldn’t help but ask:
"It seems like it has been a long time since anyone mastered the Overlord Body?"
Shan Lingguan sighed, "That is why I must come to accept you as my disciple. The Overlord Body is exceedingly difficult to cultivate; one must amass nine types of cultivation bodies to practice it. The creator, the ’Overlord’, was naturally an Overlord Body. Later, another reincarnated Overlord appeared, but his starting point was at least seven spirit roots... In the thousand-year history of the Imperial Enlightenment Sect, those like the Master or you, possessing a Five Elements Body, are rare, hence the Overlord Body seldom manifests."
After hearing this, Chen Ku thought to himself, "My Five Elements Spiritual Body was acquired from a peacock. If that’s the case, then I only need to find demons with the physiques of wind, thunder, yin, and yang to complete my Transformation Diagram, possibly re-establishing the starting point of Overlord Body cultivation?"
"Enough talk, let this old man teach you the First Layer of the Huntian Overlord Body now. Since you already possess Third Realm Peak inner qi, you only need to transform all your inner qi into Li Fire True Qi, then integrate it into your foundation to master the ’Li Fire Body’." Shan Lingguan finished speaking and began teaching Chen Ku the incantation.
The First Layer of the Huntian Overlord Body had only about three thousand words, and was quickly conveyed:
"Then I will teach you the combat skill of the Overlord Body called ’Thousand One’, which contains 1,101 moves and 1,101 variations. Do not rush into mastering it; this is a slow craft, testing your martial arts qualifications. Only when you can integrate over a thousand variations into a single move, will this combat skill reach perfection."
Shan Lingguan spent less than an incense stick’s time teaching Chen Ku the Huntian Overlord Body, but it took the entire night to teach the ’Thousand One’ combat skill.
Fortunately, Chen Ku’s spiritual power enhanced him, and after going over everything once, he remembered all those moves and techniques.