Ling Han pondered for a moment, then said, “Then do as you like.”
Though he had only casually taught Zhu He Xin a bit, he was the actual Alchemy Emperor. This little bit of teaching would be enough for Zhu He Xin to benefit from for the rest of his life.
Zhu He Xin immediately looked delighted. To be able to do something for Ling Han, even if it was only such a small favor, made him extremely elated. He even felt honored!
“Then I’ll buy some Return Origin Pills,” Ling Han said after thinking for a while.
“Return Origin Pill, this kind of cheap thing, how can I let Grandmaster buy it? Anyway, it’s something I can casually create, so naturally, it’ll be a gift to Grandmaster,” Zhu He Xin quickly said.
Liu Yu Tong was once again rendered speechless. Return Origin Pill could allow a martial artist to quickly recover his Origin Power. It was an indispensable support during combat, and it was not something simple that could be “casually created”.
Although Ling Han only required the lowest level Lower Grade Return Origin Pills, even one of them would be worth three silver coins at least.
Zhu He Xin was very generous, immediately giving Ling Han one hundred Return Origin Pills. If it was not for the fact that Ling Han was still only in the Body Refining Tier and could only take low-level Return Origin Pills, he would definitely have presented him with high-level Return Origin Pills instead.
Ling Han and Liu Yu Tong descended down the stairs and left, seen off by Zhu He Xin.
“Where are we going now?” Liu Yu Tong could not help asking after the two had walked for awhile.
Ling Han smiled slightly, and said, “Naturally home, to wait for the medicine to be delivered.” Without healing the Spirit Base first, he had no way to start cultivating.
Liu Yu Tong curiously asked, “You really know how to concoct pills?”
“There should be no one on this world who knows that better than me,” Ling Han bluntly said.
“You’re bragging!” Liu Yu Tong harrumphed. Although Ling Han had completely subdued Zhu He Xin, Zhu He Xin was only a Black Grade alchemist. There were still alchemists of Earth Grade and Heaven Grade above him!
Ling Han did not argue with her. His status had long been engraved in history.
“Why didn’t you agree to let Grandmaster Zhu follow by your side? He’s not only an alchemist, but also a warrior of Gushing Spring Tier,” Liu Yu Tong asked.
Ling Han paused in his step, turned over to look at her, and continued walking forwards, saying: “First, your Spirit Base is of Heaven Grade, and you’ve now reached the eighth level of Element Gathering Tier, so you’re one step away from breaking through to Gushing Spring Tier. Second, I don’t need anyone to concoct pills for me. Third, if I really need to have someone by my side, then a beautiful girl is far easier on the eyes than an old man.”
Liu Yu Tong could not help but be speechless. However, his words did cause her to be a little pleased deep within her heart.
“We’ll go home first. I still have to teach you Three Yin Mysterious Arts,” Ling Han said.
Liu Yu Tong could not help feeling a bit excited and her steps quickened. The illness that caused her to fall asleep without reason has troubled her for far too many years.
The two returned to the Ling Clan Residence. On the whole way, all servants they saw were wearing peculiar expressions. They had heard of what had happened that morning—that the Chief Butler had actually been trashed by Young Master Trash. It wasn’t too surprising for them to know about it, for this kind of news would naturally spread throughout the whole clan quite quickly.
Ling Han pretended to see nothing and brought Liu Yu Tong to his room to start teaching her Three Yin Mysterious Arts.
“Aren’t you afraid I’ll go back on my word?” Liu Yu Tong suddenly asked when Ling Han was about to recite the arts.
“Will you?” Ling Han asked in return.
Chapter 9
Translator: _Dark_Angel_ Editor: Kurisu
If it was half a day ago, Liu Yu Tong really would consider casting Ling Han aside. Get the cultivation technique through deception first, and then compensate Ling Han with some material objects—is what she thought. Who asked Ling Han to ignore her noble status as the princess of a noble family and insist on having her as his follower?
Yet now, she was hesitant. The reserved nature of a girl caused her to really want to leave Ling Han’s side, but once she recalled the endless miracles Ling Han had displayed, she wanted to stay at his side, curious to see where his limits were.
“Maybe yes, maybe not. Who can say for sure?” She gave him an ambiguous answer.
Ling Han laughed heartily. If Liu Yu Tong had solemnly vowed to be steadfastly loyal to him, he would not have believed her. However, he was a grand warrior of the Heaven Tier and the Alchemy Emperor! How could he be unable to subdue this little slip of a girl?
“Take off your clothes,” he casually said.
Liu Yu Tong suddenly looked furious. Could Ling Han want to force her to sacrifice her body in exchange for teaching her the cultivation technique? Although she didn’t want to die, and really did very much want her illness cured, if she had to use her body in exchange, then she would rather die!
“Don’t misunderstand!” Ling Han said with a smile, “I only want to guide you in the circulation path of the Origin Power. This particular cultivation technique requires the Origin Power in your body to circulate through many odd paths and can’t be explained simply through words. You should know yourself that the slightest difference leads to a huge loss, so if there is the tiniest discrepancy in the circulation of the cultivation technique… that’s why we must make sure that there is no any discrepancy or error at all.” [1]
Liu Yu Tong paused. Ling Han’s words were not false. There were uncountable veins and arteries within human body. If there was the tiniest bit of error in the circulation path of Origin Power, then the results would be vastly different.
The problem was that she was an unmarried young lady; how could she take off all her clothes and allow a man’s finger to roam over her whole body?
She considered for a long while, then suggested a compromise—she would keep her undergarments on, and Ling Han would use a chopstick instead of a finger in guiding the circulation of her Origin Power.
“Get out first!” Liu Yu Tong said, pointing outside.
“Hey hey hey, this is my room!” Ling Han laughed, but he still stood up and walked outside. He still had this little bit of gentlemanly character.
He waited for a long while before he finally heard Liu Yu Tong say, “You can come in now.”
Ling Han entered the room to see Liu Yu Tong seated on the bed, her beautiful figure concealed by a bedsheet, her beautiful hair falling over her shoulders like a waterfall. She was very enchanting.
‘She really is a captivating and extraordinarily beautiful girl,’ Ling Han thought. Even considering the demanding eyesight he had in his last life, he couldn’t help but admit that the charm of this icy beauty caused his heart to slightly stir.
Snow-white teeth biting red lips, beautiful eyes roaming around… looking both resentful and pitiful, Liu Yu Tong slowly slipped out of the bedsheet, and her beautiful, jade-like figure appeared.
There was only a tube top on her upper body, and her fair, smooth skin was like the highest grade of jade, exuding an entrancing luster. She wore underpants on her lower body, but she had torn the trouser legs from her upper thigh downwards, revealing two long, straight legs. They were neither too plump nor too thin, rather, they could be considered perfect, causing one’s heartbeat to speed up. [2]
Seeing Ling Han’s roaming eyes, she couldn’t help feeling embarrassed. Her beautiful, jade-like face blushed, adding on to her allure.
Goodness, she was supposed to be an icy beauty, but now that she was blushing, she suddenly became a universal temptation, looking so enchanting that even Ling Han’s Heaven Tier temperament from his last life was slightly disturbed, causing
him to want to devour this captivating little demon.
But he quickly came back to his senses and said, “Sit in a cross-legged position, I’ll be teaching you the first level of mental cultivation method from Three Yin Mysterious Arts.”
He recited it word by word. At first Liu Yu Tong couldn’t enter into the right state of mind. After all, she was almost naked in the same room with a man, but her martial artist’s heart very quickly defeated her embarrassment as she listened carefully to Ling Han’s verbal chants, committing them to her memory.
Ling Han spoke very quickly, but Liu Yu Tong showed shocking talent—it was almost like whatever she heard, she would never forget. Ling Han only recited everything twice, and Liu Yu Tong already managed to remember almost a thousand words’ worth of verbal chants.
This was only the first step. The next step, and also the key factor, was the circulation path of the Origin Power.
Ling Han, using a chopstick in place of his finger, lightly drew all over Liu Yu Tong’s beautiful figure, guiding her in circulating her Origin Power.
Once, twice… only three times were enough for Liu Yu Tong to already circulate her Origin Power according to the new cultivation technique. She truly deserved the title genius!
Ling Han hurriedly departed from the room. This little demon was really too enchanting. He seemed to have overestimated his own willpower. If things continued in the same way, he very possibly would end up taking advantage of and pushing down this entrancing beauty.
Since Liu Yu Tong had already started cultivation, she would definitely not regain consciousness in the short term. Thus Ling Han decided to just sit outside and similarly begin cultivating.
However, he was not cultivating Five Elements Heaven Grade skill. Instead, he began cultivating Indestructible Heaven Scroll.
Because his Spirit Base was not healed yet, he did not dare to take any risks. If his Spirit Base was injured further, then it would not be healed even by Element Heart Recover Spirit Powder.
The circulation of Indestructible Heaven Scroll was like a bottomless pit, very quickly expending the little Origin Power he had within his body to refine his muscles, veins and bones and make them stronger.
If it was cultivated to the limit, then the body would neither deteriorate nor age. Even if a meteor crashed into him, the meteor would shatter while he would be completely unharmed.
Of course, he was much too far from reaching that state.
After merely five minutes, the Origin Power stored within his body was completely exhausted, so he swallowed a Return Origin Pill to quickly recover the Origin Power within his body and then continue cultivation.
Each medicine has poisonous properties. In the beginning, the Return Origin Pill could exhibit the best effects, but as the amount he took increased, the immunity of his body to the pill’s effects also largely increased, causing the pill’s effects to worsen until, finally, he could only recover less than one tenth of his Origin Power after taking a pill.
Ling Han stopped. The day had ended; to continue cultivation would be of no effect.
However, his improvement was very obvious.
His muscles, veins and bones have all become slightly stronger. According to his estimate, this kind of strength would compare to the third level of Body Refining Tier.
No wonder it was called Heaven Scroll! It was awesome!
In his last life, Ling Han had also cultivated a few recovery type skills, like Golden Body Secrets and Boulder Technique, which allowed the body to become stronger. However, their effects could not compare to Indestructible Heaven Scroll’s effectiveness. The difference between them was like that between heaven and earth.
That was normal. If Indestructible Heaven Scroll was not that good, how could it be possible that a warrior of the Heaven Tier would need to spend over ten thousand years to comprehend it? Not to mention, even then it was only the first layer he comprehended!
‘However, cultivating this Indestructible Heaven Scroll really expends a lot of Origin Power, and would still need a large amount of valuable medicines to support refining the body! This would definitely delay my cultivation! However, this Indestructible Heaven Scroll has too great a power; the delay would be worth it. My Spirit Base is Immortal Grade, anyway.
I shouldn’t think about the highest tier of neither deteriorating nor aging body yet. The first level of Indestructible Heaven Scroll is also further divided into four tiers, which are respectively the Dead Tree Tier, the Rock Cliff Tier, the Iron Sheet Tier and the Diamond Tier.
Once I reach the Dead Tree Tier, my body would be like a dead tree. Attacks on me would be as if hurting a dead tree without damaging its life. I can even have my body be like a dead tree, without any life signs. No one would be able to tell that I would still be alive. Once I reach the Diamond Tier, then no matter how heavy the injury, it could be recovered in an instant; even a torn off limb would be able to recover. It’s practically a godly skill!’
“En?”
Ling Han turned around and looked at the door to the inner chamber. The curtain moved, and a goddess-like figure walked out, her lightly blushing face incomparably graceful, beautiful and entrancing.
“You’ve completed cultivating the first level of Three Yin Mysterious Arts?” Ling Han said with a little surprise.
“En!” Liu Yu Tong nodded, slightly afraid to meet Ling Han’s eyes. An odd feeling was stirring to life within her heart, one that she had never felt before.
‘This girl really is a genius!’ Ling Han thought in his heart.
[1] ED/N: , meaning “the slightest difference leads to a huge loss” is an idiom equivalent to the English “a miss is as good as a mile”.
[2] ED/N: Here, those interested in some, cough, research can copy-paste the following word in google images: . It refers to those bigger pieces of underwear that extend to the upper stomach ( ͡°͜ʖ͡°)
Chapter 10
Translator: _Dark_Angel_ Editor: Kurisu
Three Yin Mysterious Arts has a total of nine layers, corresponding with the nine tiers of martial arts. The ninth layer would be the Heaven Tier, which was the highest tier that Ling Han had reached in his previous life.
Out of the many cultivation techniques circulated all over the world, none have broken through to the tenth tier, which was the Shattering Void Tier. That was why Ling Han travelled all over the world to visit all kinds of ancient historical sites.
The first layer of the cultivation technique known as Three Yin Mysterious Arts corresponded to the Body Refining Tier, a stage Liu Yu Tong had long passed through. It was naturally easy for her to cultivate it again. It was just like a high school student doing the homework of a junior high student.
But the problem was, she had actually completed cultivation of the first layer within such a short time! Wasn’t her talent way too strong?
But thinking once more, Liu Yu Tong had the Three Yin Vanishing Veins, and Three Yin Mysterious Arts was originally formulated for someone who possessed such veins, so her impressive cultivation speed was something normal.
Ling Han nodded, saying, “Then I’ll continue to teach you the second layer. As long as you are able to cultivate the majority of the third layer, you will have completely suppressed the Three Yin Vanishing Veins, and will no longer be affected by them.
The third layer—in other words, she would reach strength equal to the Gushing Spring Tier.
However, Liu Yu Tong was already at the eighth layer of Element Gathering Tier. Moreover, she could already sense the juncture to break through to the ninth layer, so she was only one step away from breaking through to the Gushing Spring Tier.
Liu Yu Tong couldn’t stop the blush on her beautiful face from increasing even more. To begin teaching her the second layer now, wouldn’t that mean that she would have to take off her clothes again?
“Don’t let your imagination run wild!” Ling Han said in reprimand.
Liu Yu Tong could not help fiercely glaring at him. Her imagination was not
running wild; rather, she was afraid that Ling Han’s imagination was running wild instead!
The two once again returned to the inner chamber and, just like the previous time, Liu Yu Tong removed her robe, allowing her alluring, beautiful figure to appear practically naked in front of Ling Han. As the saying went, the first time is awkward, the second is easy; although she was still very embarrassed, it was much better than the first time.
When Ling Han taught her the second layer, it was almost night. So, he had servants deliver two servings of dinner, of which he himself ate a large portion, leaving a smaller one for Liu Yu Tong.
Women, you see, have small appetites, so a small portion was enough.
After about three hours had passed, Liu Yu Tong once again exited and said in extreme surprise, “My cultivation speed now is actually ten times faster than it used to be!” This meant that once she broke through to the ninth layer of Element Gathering Tier, she’d need less than two months to be able to reach the top before tackling the Gushing Spring Tier.
Too fast!
Ling Han could not help smiling, and said, “Three Yin Mysterious Arts is a Heaven Grade cultivation technique.”
Heaven Grade cultivation technique!
Liu Yu Tong almost fainted. What did Heaven Grade cultivation technique mean?
Let’s just put it this way: the reason why the Liu Clan had become one of the Eight Great Clans in the Imperial City was because they had a scroll named <
In other words, a Black Grade high level cultivation technique would allow the creation of an empire, and a Black Grade medium level cultivation technique would allow a power to become one of the great clans of Rain Country and thrive for a thousand years!
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