Chapter 107 - Golden Tempest Technique

The next morning. The fifth day of First Rising.

Outside the city, I was training on a different movement technique. The silver Sand technique was good for earlier stages but as I would quickly reach Meridian Opening, it would become insufficient for the needs of my body.

Meridian Opening was different from another stage in Initiation Realm. That was when a practitioner starts to interact with unseen energies.

His/her meridian would slowly gather worldly energy which wasn't yet formed into Qi. Such energies would be detrimental to a practitioner's overall strength and the capability to advance to the Qi gathering stage.

In my case, I was practicing Star Pagoda to get a Perfect Yang Body. When my meridians open, they would be pure gold and superior in quality to any Meridian Opening practitioner that had or was still living in this world.

In this lower mortal world, the concept of Yin and Yang was only known to the cultivators of large sects. These two energies were the purest and thus gave a huge advantage to a practitioner in many ways.

Once I reached Qi gathering, I would have numerous top-quality techniques available for me to cultivate.

Zuifan's memories contained those fancy names. However, it was all because of my low stage and rank that I had no choice but to practice in seemingly mediocre techniques that the previous immortal was too arrogant to care about.

Even so, these mediocre techniques were better than what most people practiced here. For example, this ''Golden Tempest Technique,'' that I was currently practicing. It wasn't just a movement technique but a complete battle manual.

For attacks, there were Tempest Punches, Gold Bending Palms, Sun Dragon Kicks, Nine Consecutive Strikes. For movement, Yellow Wind Steps, Shining Rush, and Tempest Retreat. As for defense, this had the best one, the Unbreakable Bell.

I had chosen this technique because it perfectly matched the Yang attribute of my body technique and for this defense it gave.

I could even resist 1000 kg heavy attacks with this Unbreakable Bell defense. My whole body would concentrate on taking the attack, my skin and flesh hardening, the whole skeleton becoming firm, muscles and tendons protecting my internal organs.

However, as this body wasn't strong enough to combine all of such effects, I could only practice the earlier steps. I could write a whole book about it, with there being three notable steps for the attack, movement, and defense techniques.

It was a all-in-one manual that I was planning to practice after reaching the Meridian Opening stage. However, it didn't matter if I was a little early. I could familiarize myself with it.

Right now, I was only practicing Tempest Retreat. I had noticed that my arsenal of techniques for running away during emergencies was missing.

Tempest Retreat could temporarily give me the speed of a Peak Viscera purifying practitioner. However, once I advanced to the next stage, that speed would increase with my rank.

The earlier steps weren't hard to master but difficult to get used to. One could remember how to move and what force to use but a practitioner would become dizzy due to the rapid speed it provided. My feet would form into a golden blur and I could practically glide backward hundreds of meters in one or two seconds.

That was bound to put serious pressure on one's thighs and legs. However, the mind would become disoriented as well.

That was why, after just an hour of practicing, I couldn't keep going and chose to stop. My body was also still in Viscera Purifying and it was best to not give my legs too much toll.

If I could master it, even Meridian Opening practitioners would become astonished. Even they wouldn't be able to think when I try to escape.

…

Sublime Choice.

When I reached that park, I saw Sheng Yin sitting there as usual. She saw me, she stood up and ran towards me, getting into my arms.

''I missed you. Where were you these days?'' She asked.

I stroked the back of her head and internally thought, 'Fucking my sister?' I couldn't tell her that…

The reason I had come here was to tell her that the CangGong courtyard was unsafe now. She would tell her brother about it and he would bring guards to check. I could get free security that way. After all, Sheng Shao had gifted it to me. If such a place wasn't safe, that would be equivalent to losing his face.

''So where are you staying now? Is it those criminals? You can come to our mansion?'' She clung to me worriedly.

''Yes, I will but you don't have to worry too much.'' I looked deep into her eyes, confidently walking.

Sheng Yin finally noticed my rank and not only that, I seemed like I would break through to rank six in just one or two days. 

''I want your help. Help me gather some materials to practice formation.'' Sheng Yin, who was hugging my arm, nodded like it was no problem and kept staring at me, lost.

We sat on the veranda bench and conversed for some satisfying minutes. Sheng Yin seemed anxious about my state when I told her that those enemies of mine were out to hunt me.

''It's okay. I'll stop by the mansion or hide somewhere if I can't fend off all of them,'' I assured her again. Actually, I planned to go to the northern district again and participate in some arena matches.

What was the best way to practice new techniques than to fight? Be it beasts or people, the arena had them. I was going to use Golden Tempest Technique so they won't be able to know it is me as long as I kept my identity hidden.

I couldn't use my sword there but my cultivation wasn't suited for using weapons anyway. Perfect Yang Body would be immune to the damages of weapons that weren't inscribed by an advanced inscriber.

It was highly resistant against fire damages, so much so that I could walk amidst flames and remain unharmed. As Yang was a positive attribute, it was a perfect counter to evil energies and other things such as poisons, demonic curses, death, and blood type inscribed talismans, weapons, and formations.

For a high-tier initiation realm technique, it was pretty fucking overpowered but this all was basic in upper worlds.

When I left the veranda, Sheng Yin kissed me goodbye and told me to be safe, wherever I may be, whatever I might be doing. I showed her the required amount of fake love and waved my hand before leaving.

She had come alone and I hadn't sensed any guards hiding around us. It seemed this young miss had learned how to slip away without being noticed.

…

Later this evening, at Immortal Wine Hotel. In a private bathtub inside my own room which I had given to Feng Yi, I was submerged in a medicinal bath. The girl responsible for brewing the solution was standing before me.

Unlike others, she didn't blush seeing my naked body inside the water. Sheng Yin or my sister would have had their cheeks and ears red seeing me like this.

This girl, however, was more concerned about the medicine she had made.

''I am only a novice alchemist, so I don't know if the effects are good enough for your body.'' She came and dipped her hand in the green bathwater.

It was potent actually, extremely potent. Because she was a novice, she didn't know how much materials were enough for one bathtub worth of water. Thus, she had put in an excessive amount of Purple Lightning blood and other ingredients, making this medicinal bath rather saturated.

I didn't, at first, think it was a waste. While it may seem this potent medicine was excessive for my current body, it had to be taken note that I was practicing a superior body technique.

However, when I felt my bones heating and internal organs nourishing at a rate that was dangerous to me, I changed my mind.

This medicine wasn't too powerful but it would be better if I put some more water here. Still, it was such a waste trying to dilute such an effective medicinal bath.

''Ahhhhh, feels hot now.'' My whole body was feeling vigorous energy coursing through it. After all that training earlier today, my legs were tired and this medicine was nourishing and strengthening the muscles and tendons extremely quickly.

''Wow!'' Feng Yi took out her hand and I could see the apparent change there. Her honey-colored skin had turned red and her veins were showing.

Slowly, Feng Yi herself touched that skin and it peeled off naturally, showing smooth porcelain baby skin. When she clenched her hand, she was baffled by the gripping power. Her hand looked harmless as if that of someone who never had to do any work.

''This is… too awesome.'' She dipped her other hand as well and when I asked her if it hurt, she said no.

''Then what are you waiting for? Strip and get in!'' Of course, sharing this medicine was better than letting it go to waste.

Feng Yi was a little bit hesitant but she was someone who didn't care about societal norms like me. Such a chance to improve her body was rare and she wouldn't pass it.

''Wait I'll go bring my towel!'' She ran out of the bathroom and came in just a minute, stark naked. Her body had become more curvy, yet there was still a little immaturity remaining.

SPLASH!

The sound echoed inside the bathroom as she jumped in the large tub.