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Chapter 10: The Thousand Year Old Leirion Heart Grass
“Buy from where?” Listening to the excited screams of his younger sister, Huang Xiaolong shook his head and laughed, thinking that the Purple Spirit Monkey is a rare spirit beast, something that you cannot buy even if you have a lot of money.
“Hoo Hoo Haa!” The violet-colored little monkey squeaked loudly in protest against Huang Min for calling her a 'little monkey', startling Huang Min whose outstretched hand wanted to stroke her.
After being startled for a moment, Huang Min widened his eyes and gazed angrily at the Purple Eater Spirit Monkey: it was the beginning of a staring contest between a little monkey and a little girl.
With great difficulty, some time later, Huang Xiaolong managed to escape from Huang Min and, looking back at the silhouette of Huang Min's departure, he heaved a sigh of relief.
Returning to his room, releasing the little monkey from his shoulder, he took out a cold jade bed from the space of the Asura Ring, and sat cross-legged on it, starting his first practice according to the first layer of Asura Tactics.
Shortly after executing the Asura Technique technique, an evil chill appeared as if it came from the deepest hell, enveloping Huang Xiaolong within it. This spiritual energy was continuously engulfed by the two-headed snake martial spirit and then channeled into Huang Xiaolong's meridian.
As an extremely cold chill entered Huang Xiaolong's body, he couldn't help but shiver, feeling like he was buried beneath a thousand-foot glacier. Huang Xiaolong's heart stiffened, quickly forging his mind and will, he still carried out the Asura Tactics to refine the cold energy.
This cold energy moved very slowly along Huang Xiaolong's meridians, every inch passed, his blood felt like it was going to freeze.
Gritting his teeth, Huang Xiaolong persisted; running the cultivation technique of the first layer of Asura Tactics, repeating it continuously. After a long time, the freezing cold sensation diminished and the energy within his body was refined into pure battle qi.
As the cold cold energy was successfully converted into battle qi, Huang Xiaolong realized that it only took half an hour. Compared to Xuan Qin's cultivation technique, the results were ten times better!
This discovery was well liked by Huang Xiaolong: “It seems that what was written on the record was true. Although the spiritual energy of the afterlife is difficult to refine, once successful, the benefits are enormous!”
The records kept at the back of the Asura Technique book stated that practicing the Asura Tactics was similar to establishing a relationship with the physically debilitating underworld spiritual energy. That extremely cold air was, without a doubt, what was called the spiritual energy of the underworld.
The spiritual energy of the Nether World was one of the superior energies between heaven and earth, the higher the quality of spiritual energy, the better it was to temper the physical body, the better it was, and the converted battle qi was much purer and stronger.
This is the gap between cultivation techniques.
The higher the rank of the cultivation technique, the higher the quality of spiritual energy absorbed, the more powerful the converted battle qi became. In Martial Spirit World, those who practiced high-level cultivation techniques were able to jump levels to challenge stronger opponents, due to this factor.
Martial spirits determine one's strength and future achievements, and the quality of cultivation techniques is just as important.
Time passed and soon a month passed.
Within this one month, apart from practicing, Huang Xiaolong was still training. The only difference was, instead of the XuanQin cultivation technique given to him by Huang Peng, Huang Xiaolong turned to practicing Asura Tactics and the Body Metamorphosis Sacred Scripture.
After replacing his cultivation technique, Huang Xiaolong's training speed increased tremendously. One month after returning from the valley, he had reached the peak of the Second Order, in the near future he would be able to break through to become a Third Order warrior.
In the darkness of the bewitching night, silvery moonlight flowed down.
Huang Xiaolong sat cross-legged on the cold jade bed, spiritual energy from the underworld flowing down from the void and being devoured by the two-headed snake martial spirit with his jaw wide open.
The battle Qi within Huang Xiaolong's body continued to swirl violently like raging waves, just as he had felt when he was at the peak of the First Order breaking through to the Second Order.
However, breaking through to a Third Order warrior was much more difficult, the resistance barrier was thicker but Huang Xiaolong stayed on. His battle qi continued to crash into the barrier, not knowing how much time had passed, suddenly a small crack appeared on the third level barrier.
Aware that the barrier of the third level was loosening, Huang Xiaolong felt excited and pushed the barrier more aggressively as the gap of the barrier minutes got bigger when, finally, the sound of explosions echoed within his body.
Like a flash flood, battle qi rushed into the meridians of the third layer triumphantly!
Huang Xiaolong opened his eyes, unable to hide the excitement in his heart.
After breaking through the Third Order, the Fourth Order was not far away anymore!
“Once I ascend to the Fourth Order, I can start practicing fighting skills; and once I reach the Fourth Order, my martial spirit will flourish. At that time, a skill from my martial spirit innate talent will appear!” Huang Xiaolong thought to himself.
At the age of seven, the martial spirit awakened; however, the awakened martial spirit was still in its infancy. Only when the battle qi reached the Fourth Order would the martial spirit evolve to become stronger, while the martial spirit owner would gain any martial spirit innate talent, ability, or skill.
The higher the martial spirit level, the innate talent after evolving would be even stronger!
But the Fourth Order is only a general indication. People with low-level martial spirits start from first, second, and third grade, due to the natural limitations of their martial spirits, more often than not, failing to break through to the Fourth Order and without any fortuitous adventure, breaking through to the Fourth Order would be a tedious challenge. That was why people with low-level martial spirits had never obtained any innate talent or skill from martial spirits in their lives because they were unable to reach the Fourth Order. Thus, their martial spirits were unable to go through evolution.
Coming down from the cold jade bed, Huang Xiaolong walked out of his room.
At night like this, the misty air under the moonlight and the silhouette of Huang Xiaolong disappeared in an instant, appearing again on the back mountain. Running the Asura Tactics, his eyes turned blood red and his jet-black hair turned completely white. At the same time, a black aura of slaughter flowed all over his body.
This physique was obtained after practicing the Asura Tactics – Asura Body, but this was only the initial stage of transformation. According to the explanation on the sheet of records, once Huang Xiaolong mastered the highest level of Asura Tactics, he could transform into a true Asura.
After transforming into an Asura Body, Huang Xiaolong's movements under the moonlight were similar to those of floating black clouds. Suddenly waving his hand, the palm that carried a trace of cold air struck the large tree in front, piercing through the thick tree trunk and out the other end, through the second and third trees.
On the fourth tree trunk, the palm of a child is scratched a few inches into the trunk.
Looking at the palm print on the fourth tree trunk, Huang Xiaolong nodded in satisfaction. Entering the Third Order combined with the battle qi of the underworld, the damage power of the Hidden Tread had increased by about fourfold and with his current strength, he was able to kill the late Third Order warriors.
Of course, after ascending to the Third Order and due to the forging benefits of the afterlife spiritual aura, Huang Xiaolong's physique became firmer and stronger.
Spending time practicing the Body Metamorphosis Scripture on the back mountain, Huang Xiaolong had only returned to the Huang Clan Manor when the sky started to clear.
After returning to the Huang Clan Manor, Huang Xiaolong was summoned to the hall of the Eastern Courtyard by Huang Peng.
"Dad, iBu, are you looking for me?" Entering the hall of the Eastern Courtyard, Huang Xiaolong asked as he sat down.
Huang Peng and Su Yan looked complicated and hesitant.
“Yesterday, Huang Wei has broken through the First Order warriors.” Huang Peng finally opened his mouth and said.
It was only at that moment that Huang Xiaolong understood the purpose of his parents calling him. In short, they were still worried about the end of the year of the Clan Assembly.
However, in less than two months, Huang Wei had actually advanced to the First Order, so quickly?! Logically speaking, even though Huang Wei possessed a tier ten martial spirit, the Three-Eyed Black Tiger, it was still impossible to advance to the First Order in such a short amount of time.
“Dad spent a large sum of money in the district auction house to get a piece of Leirion Heart Grass thousands of years old!” Huang Peng continued by saying.
Thousand Year Leirion Heart Grass!
Huang Xiaolong was startled and then he sneered; no wonder in less than two months Huang Wei could advance to become a First Order warrior. It was all because Grandpa Huang Qide spent a large sum of money to obtain the thousand year old Leirion Heart Grass for Huang Wei's training. A single thousand-year-old stalk of Leirion Heart Grass was not something cheap, and it was quite clear that Grandfather Huang Qide regarded Huang Wei as the future pillar of the Huang Clan Manor. Thus expending all of his resources and efforts to cultivate it, whereas he, despite being the grandson of the same person, ignored the Leirion Heart Grass, Huang Xiaolong did not even obtain the Battle Qi Dan!