REVEREND INSANITY
Chapter 22: Dancing Moonblade
Chapter 22: Dancing Moonblade
The sky was blue and clear, looking pure as if it had been washed clean. The sun is shining golden.
A white cloud puff floated, and a group of colorful peacock parrots chirped as they flew under the blue sky, forming an arrow formation under the clouds as they soared.
This colorful parrot variant will only appear in large groups during the spring. Their bodies were covered in rainbow-colored feathers, their bodies were the size of an eagle. The birds had parrot beaks, while the tail was like a long flowing peacock tail.
It had been ten days since the day Fang Yuan managed to get number one in the exam to refine the vital Gu. The spring breeze blew over the green grass of the entire mountain, while wildflowers bloomed vigorously, and bees and butterflies danced together. Life was soaring around; it was the beautiful beauty of spring.
The spring breath was so strong that the tall bamboo walls surrounding the training ground could not hold it.
This training field occupies 3 Mu(1). The ground is flat, paved with a thick and wide layer of gray graphite. The four sides were planted with green spear bamboo; these green pillars were placed close together side by side, straight and tall, forming a circle of tall green walls.
While under the corner of the wall there were also rocks, clumps of green grass emerged from many areas. On the sidelines of the bamboo there were also wild roses poking from the outside, some even climbing the wall.
Fifty-seven young teenagers at the age of fifteen stood in the middle of the training field now, forming a semicircle around the academy elders who were in the middle, focusing their attention on him.
This was a lesson to teach the students about how to use Moonlight Gu.
“The Moonlight Gu is a symbolic Gu of our Gu Yue clan, as is the Xiong House Bear Force Gu (2), and Bai House Stream Gu (3). The majority of you in the field have chosen Moonlight Gu as your vital Gu, so you all have to watch properly. Soon I will demonstrate personally how to use Moonlight Gu to attack. Students whose vital Gu is not Moonlight Gu should also concentrate on me, as this classic long-range attack method can also be used on other Gu; the spectrum of methods that can be used is very broad.”
As he spoke, the academy elder stretched out his right hand, his five fingers wide open. He lowered his palm so that the young teenager could see the middle of it.
"First, you used your mind to mobilize Moonlight Gu, moving it to the middle of your palm." Following his voice, the crescent moon mark representing Moonlight Gu moved down the elder's arm and into his palm.
"Then, you mobilized the primordial essence in your aperture, pouring it into Moonlight Gu." A silver-white primordial essence thread gushed out from the elder's body, so smooth that it was almost impossible to see. It entered Moonlight Gu in his palm.
The elders of the academy were of the rank three realm, and only Rank three Master Gu could produce a silver-white primordial essence. The rank one ancient essence Gu Master was commonly known as the green copper primeval essence, while rank two Master Gu had their red iron primordial essence called. When they reached Stage three, it became an ancient essence of white silver.
After absorbing the threads of white silver primordial essence, the crescent-shaped mark on the elder's hand instantly shone brighter and brighter. Although it was daytime, it still gave off a brilliant pale blue light.
“It was amazing!”
"What a beauty." The youngsters could not help but praise the shock and astonishment when they saw him.
The pale blue light was as clear as water. It was faintly flashing in the elder's palm. At first glance, it seemed like the academy elder's hand was picking up a handful of moonlight. The academy elder smiled slightly. “Now take a good look, the last step is like how I will do it, launch it.”
As he said this, his five wide-open fingers slowly closed together, then he raised his arms and slowly moved them forward, his arms straight. Finally he waved his palm lightly in a cutting motion.
The whole movement was stable and strong.
Swoosh's.
The young students could hear a light brushing sound beside their ears.
Following the movements of the academy elder, the pale blue light like condensed water in his palm was thrown out like that.
The light turned into a small moonblade in the air, a faint blue moonblade only the size of a wide open hand, its shape was like a crescent moon in the night sky. It drew a straight line in the air before crashing into the grass puppet ten meters away.
A tearing sound rang out, and the neck of the grass puppet about thirty centimeters thick was cut clean by the moonblade. The puppet's body swayed, the huge head suddenly falling onto the floor.
After cutting the grass puppet in half, the moonblade immediately appeared dim. However it continued to fly about six more meters in the air before the crescent moon started to gradually fade away, eventually disappearing in the air.
Looking at the neck of the grass puppet again, one could see that the area cut was very flat, as if it was cut by the sharpest scythe.
The youngsters were all shocked when they saw this, their eyes wide open. Some of them even touched their own necks subconsciously, dumbfounded by the attack power of the moonblade.
After a brief silence, the sound of the cry began. The teenagers had shining eyes as they stared at the grass puppets, some of them staring at the palms of the older ones. Some of them looked towards their comrades, talking and whispering excitedly.
Only Fang Yuan stood hidden among the crowd with a cold expression, his stature calm.
In his previous life, Fang Yuan had cultivated to rank six, and he had created the Blood Wing Demon Sect in the Middle Kingdom. He taught tens of thousands of people, and was famous as a giant figure of the Devil faction, his fame being famous.
The academy elder was only a rank three Master Gu. This little trick was just a child's play to him; it wouldn't cause any ripples of emotion in Fang Yuan's heart.
“You all who have perfected Moonlight Gu, come out. Each one of you should take the grass puppet and follow the way I just did, throw away the moon sword, practice attacking.”
After the academy elders finished, around thirty students stepped out.
In this batch the entire clan had a hundred young teenagers joining the Resurrection Ceremony. Those with cultivation talent were around fifty-seven. Among these students, those who had chosen Moonlight Gunumbered were around thirty-five. After going through these few days of hard work, they had all refined Moonlight Gu. All that remained were D-class talents. It was not because they did not want to refine Moonlight Gu, but because of the incompetence of their talent, so they could only retreat after knowing the difficulty.
To the young children of the Gu Yue clan, Moonlight Gu was not a simple Gu worm, but a symbol of clan glory.
Very quickly thirty-five of them stood in a row. Each of them faced forward, standing ten meters away from the grass puppet opposite him.
Fang Yuan stood in the middle of the line, but he did not attract any attention. The training begins.
But when they drew vertical pieces with their palms, only seven or eight crescent moons flew out. Among these crescent moons, some of them only appeared for a moment before disappearing. Some flew for two to three meters before being violently shattered into blue light. Some flew further, but the direction was very distorted, flying straight into the sky.
All the young teenagers frowned. When they saw the elder's demonstration earlier, it seemed quite easy. But when they start practicing on their own, they realize the skills needed in this action. To throw out the moon knife and smash it into the grass puppet, it was not that simple.
The elder smiled faintly as he looked. He saw this scene every year, and was not surprised. The remaining twenty-two students could only stand outside the field, watching enviously.
After practicing for five minutes, the children were gradually able to produce moonblades. For a while at the training ground, a pale blue moonblade flew everywhere.
Some moonblades will fade in the middle of the road, some unluckily bumping into others. Some flew out of the training field, circling. Those who were able to hit the grass puppets were only a few small. Of course, this is all due to luck.
The academy elders began to teach and guide each one personally.
He was very focused on Fang Zheng, Mo Bei and Chi Cheng and others with good pent-up talent. He patiently corrected their posture, teaching them his experience. Against a C-class talented student like Fang Yuan, he only mentioned two sentences.
Fang Yuan continued to condense the blue light in his hand. He waved his palm several times cutting through the air, but he did not release the light, pretending and acting. With the current messy field and no one focusing on himself, he shifted his mind and released his grip on Moonlight Gu, his palm slightly tilted, making a cutting motion.
In order not to attract attention, he did not focus on his own grass puppet opposite him, but aimed at the puppet on his left.
With the whoosh, a moonblade flew quickly, passing through the center of the chaos, drawing a straight line in the air and cutting accurately into the neck area of the grass puppet.
The grass puppet wavered for a moment, the area of its neck was cut deep by the moonblade. But very quickly, the cut green grassy area began to grow back, tangling together and healing the wound.
Of course, this grass puppet was no ordinary scarecrow. It was a rank one Gu Scarecrow, possessing a natural type self-recovery ability.
Unless the puppet was cut into two at a time, it would only recover back to normal within a short period of time.
"Wow, look at that crescent moon!"
"It's good, who threw it?"
Moonblades that were capable of hitting grass puppets today were extremely rare. Fang Yuan had only casually hit one, yet it caused the most significant result so far. Then in an instant the students outside the field cried out in shock. Even the academy elder's attention was seized, and he asked, “Moonblade earlier wasn't bad. Is that yours?”
He stared at the talented student of C class with curious eyes, as the grass puppet was right opposite him.
This male student blinked his eyes, feeling somewhat confused as he faced everyone's sudden gaze at him. To be honest the field was only in chaos earlier with the moonblade flying, so even he did not know if he himself threw it.
But look at it, maybe it's me? Thought the young man. Then he nodded his head unconsciously.
The young people around him immediately looked at him with admiration.
"Who is he, what's his name?" Some students wonder.
"Even he can throw away the moon sword, I can't lose!" Gu Yue Mo Bei's eyes shone with a hint of determination.
"So it wasn't big brother who threw it," Gu Yue Fang Zheng inexplicably sighed in relief. After Uncle and Aunt comforted him, he could recover from the previous blow.
“Sister, you won first place last time because your luck was good, choosing the weak-willed Moonlight Gu. Cultivation Master Gu cannot always rely on luck, I will win you over. ” Fang Zheng was cheering for himself in his heart.
"You did well. Keep trying hard, grab the feelings you had before. ” The academy elder patted the student on the shoulder, smiling as he cheered him on.
The boy quickly showed excitement and he nodded continuously, his eyes appearing with a different luster.
Elder took the opportunity and announced, “Listen to everything, this will be your homework. Practice well after class, in three days I will check the results. Whoever did his best would receive ten pieces of ancient stone as a reward. Understand?"
"Yes!" All the young students shouted loudly. They could not help but become more excited when they heard about the ancient stone gift.
Yet just three minutes later, the moon sword that flew through the air began to thin gradually.
"Damn, each moonblade takes up 10% of the primordial essence."
“Moonblade consumption is too much, I am only a C class talent, my aperture can only hold 38% green copper primordial essence. I can only throw away three moon swords.”
Those who stopped all sighed.
The academy elder calmed down as he watched everything, but his heart sighed, “This is a benefit of those with high cultivation talent. To use moonblade, just with three words – Practice to be perfect. Those with high-level talents could store more primordial essence in their hole, and the recovery rate was faster, so they had more opportunities to practice. Those with worse talents could also use ancient stones to make up for it, strengthening the amount of practice. But those with low-level talent and no ancient stones, even though they had the mind to practice, they would still be helpless. Huh, Master Gu's cultivation process is very cruel. I'm just better off taking care of those high-class talented students. ”
(1) – Mu, ancient China size. 1 Mu is 666 meters²
(2) – Home Xiong, Xiong is the word for Bear
(3) – Bai House, Bai is the word for 'white' like white color
T/N: As mentioned, Gu Yue from the Gu Yue clan means Ancient Moon. I will keep the names of people and clans in their original Chinese terms, but if there is a significant meaning or something important and relevant to the story, I will explain it, of course.
I'll probably create a page in the future, detailing and listing all these names and things so you can refer to them at any time.