sinovels Chapter 26 I will bring my talent to the Wentian Sect
Chapter 26 I will bring my talent to the Wentian Sect
In the dead of night, the candlelight in Wu Cheng's room still emitted a dim yellow glow.
There was a book lying on the table, but Wu Cheng didn't read it.
His gaze remained fixed on the wooden door.
"If everything goes well, Master should be arriving around that time."
Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, the wooden door was knocked three times, neither too loud nor too soft.
Wu Cheng got up and opened the door, and there stood Gong Yuqing.
The sect leader had changed into a looser, light purple robe, and his hair was casually tied into a loose bun with only a hairpin.
Yes, as always, he lacks the authority of a sect leader.
However, upon seeing Gong Yuqing, Wu Cheng's expression was innocent and puzzled. "Master? What brings you here? Why aren't you resting so late?"
Gong Yuqing ignored him and walked into the room on her own. She looked around and her gaze lingered for a moment on the "General Rules of the Wentian Sect" on the table. She curled her lips slightly and muttered, "Pretentious."
Then she sat down in the only chair at the table, crossed her legs, and her long robe was slightly open, revealing a small section of her plump and chewy calves that shimmered in the candlelight.
Wu Cheng was speechless and subconsciously looked away.
This cheap mechanic is really unconventional in private; he doesn't even wear long pants properly late at night.
Gong Yuqing seemed oblivious. She pulled a handful of peanuts from her sleeve and tossed them on the table. Then she picked one up, cracked it open, and looked up at him. "You're not sleeping now, aren't you? You're waiting for your teacher to come. You're quite cunning at such a young age, deliberately telling Xiaobai that nonsense about monkeys learning skills in the middle of the night to provoke me into teaching you."
Wu Chenghun smiled indifferently, then looked at her honestly, "If it weren't for that, I'm afraid the grass on my grave would be three feet high by now, and I would never have the chance to become your disciple."
"Oh? I heard you used to pretend to be crazy, so why aren't you pretending now that you've come to the Wentian Sect?" Gong Yuqing looked up curiously and casually popped a peeled peanut into her mouth.
Chew, chew, chew.
"Several sons in the palace are vying for the throne, fighting openly and secretly. If I hadn't pretended to be stupid, I wouldn't be alive today." Wu Cheng's tone was calm, as if he were talking about what he had eaten that day. "But even so, there are still people who want me to die silently. It was the eunuch dog and guards who escorted me who wanted to kill me."
"You can live for sixteen years by pretending to be crazy in the palace, but once you leave those high walls and palace gates, you can't survive until you reach the Wentian Sect by pretending to be crazy."
It seems someone doesn't want him to come to the Wentian Sect alive... Gong Yuqing didn't respond to this, but her gaze softened slightly.
She peeled two more peanuts and tossed one to Wu Cheng. "Xiao Bai has said a lot of good things about you in front of your master, but this unfilial disciple always speaks with a grain of salt. She said you are seven parts good, so your master can only believe three parts. She said you are simple-minded, but now it seems the opposite. You are quite cunning and have a rather heavy mind."
She paused, then composed herself somewhat, and said casually, "It's not that I don't want to pass on the techniques to you, but if your heart isn't pure, your mind won't be focused, and if your mind isn't focused, your energy won't be stable. The higher you go in our sect's techniques, the higher the requirements for your mental state become. People with heavy minds can't master the real skills."
"It would be a minor matter if you fail to master it, but if you get stuck on it and go astray, that would ruin your life."
Wu Cheng's smile remained innocent. "It would be enough for this disciple to learn even a move or two. Master is one of the most skilled masters in the world. Even if you only teach me a move or two, it would be enough for this disciple to protect himself."
Gong Yuqing paused in her peanut-peeling hand, raised her eyelids and glared at him, "Don't try to provoke me. If I only teach you one or two moves after all this, Xiaobai will definitely pour all my good wine into my foot bath water. Besides, it's not worth me staying up all night to come to the back mountain to find you."
Wu Cheng smiled but remained silent.
This cheap master is quite a genuine person.
After peeling the last peanut, Gong Yuqing put it in her mouth and swallowed it slowly. Then she got up and walked to the center of the room to face Wu Cheng, standing with her hands behind her back.
The lazy, averse-to-trouble demeanor he had just displayed vanished, replaced by the profound and dignified presence of the Wentian Sect Master.
"You've practiced martial arts, haven't you? Come on, punch me with all your might."
Wu Cheng was taken aback. "Master, isn't this a bit inappropriate?"
"Just hit me when I tell you to. Why are you so hesitant at such a young age? Don't you have any youthful spirit?" Gong Yuqing glanced at him sideways. "What, are you afraid of hurting your teacher? I didn't expect you to be so arrogant."
Wu Cheng remained silent for a moment, then bowed and said, "Then please have Master appraise it."
After saying that, his expression turned serious, he lowered his hands and clenched his fists, then took a step forward and suddenly threw a punch!
He didn't hold back with that punch!
The true energy of the "Heavenly Dao Scroll" surged from his dantian, rushing upwards along his meridians, and gathered in his right arm into an unstoppable torrent that crashed heavily into Gong Yuqing's lower abdomen!
The air inside the room was compressed by this punch, producing a brief, sharp crackling sound! The candlelight on the table flickered incessantly due to the force of the punch!
However, his fist stopped three inches from Gong Yuqing's lower abdomen.
It wasn't that Wu Cheng stopped, but rather that his fist force seemed to have crashed into a hazy wall of air, and all his strength was dispersed and then vanished into nothingness in an instant!
Gong Yuqing stood with his hands behind his back, not even moving the hem of his clothes.
"Ha, nothing special."
Her face remained calm, displaying the demeanor of a true master.
However, her right hand, which was behind her back, unconsciously clenched her sleeve.
Her protective aura was actually shaken?!
Although it was just a fleeting and almost imperceptible ripple, she was a Grandmaster of the Innate Realm!
You must understand that the gap between innate and acquired qualities is like an insurmountable chasm!
She could simply close her eyes and take a nap with her protective aura activated. Even if a hundred experts surrounded her, as long as they hadn't reached the Innate Realm, they probably wouldn't be able to shake her protective aura in the slightest!
Moreover, it wasn't that the kid's fist was heavy, but rather that the force of his punch was strange.
It's so pure, it's not like something a normal person's dantian could refine.
She had never seen such purity among experts who had not yet reached the Innate Realm.
If we're talking about someone who comes closest to that level, it's only my own precious apprentice, Bai Suyi.
However, his own disciple's true qi purity was only close to that level.
Gong Yuqing suppressed the turbulent emotions in her eyes, her face revealing no flaw. Recognizing the martial arts master's demeanor, she asked, "What kind of martial arts do you practice?"
"Master, I'm practicing the 'Heavenly Dao Scroll'." Wu Cheng's eyes were clear, with a hint of respect. "Master, you're truly amazing! This is the first time in my life I've seen such a powerful master!"
Indeed, after taking down Mei Gensheng and Shen Tianba in succession, he thought he was a minor expert in the martial arts world.
But it seems I still need to practice.
Gong Yuqing raised her chin high, her lips almost unable to contain her smile, "It's alright, after all, I am the Sect Master of the Wentian Sect."
Good apprentice! Now I have no choice but to pass on some real skills to you!
Heavens have mercy! So many years! She's never seen Bai Suying praise her master like this before!
But then she suddenly remembered something, "Wait, aren't you practicing the Wu family's 'Huangji Jingshi'?"
Wu Cheng nodded helplessly, "Master, I used to be a fool in the palace. Who would teach me the 'Huangji Jingshi'? This 'Tiandao Juan' was originally just an ordinary mental cultivation method. A brother of mine found it in the library to give to me as a trick to fools."
"This is no ordinary mental technique."
Gong Yuqing frowned and went through it in her mind.
The Heavenly Path Scroll?
I don't seem to have any recollection of this; I've never heard of this mental cultivation manual, either in the Wentian Sect's library or in the martial arts world.
"Xiao Cheng, stretch out your hand."
Wu Chengwen extended his left arm.
Gong Yuqing gently placed her slender, jade-like fingers on his wrist, and a wisp of extremely faint true energy probed into his body.
"How strange..." After a moment, she withdrew her hand, but the doubts in her heart not only did not disappear, but actually intensified.
The child's meridian energy was pure and harmonious, without any bias or impurities, something even Bai Suying, who was almost two years older than him, could not achieve.
Moreover, his true energy was not aggressive at all; it belonged neither to Yin nor Yang, and it did not lean towards any of the Five Elements. Rather, it was like a primordial source of heaven and earth that was not divided into Yin and Yang.
But how is that possible? How can the very essence of heaven and earth be contained within the body?
However, this is also a good thing, as this kind of special true qi can theoretically be seamlessly transformed into the true qi of other cultivation methods.
This saved a lot of trouble.
"Now that you have become my disciple, you are a true disciple of the sect leader of the Wentian Sect. As your master, I will not treat you perfunctorily."
Gong Yuqing sat back down in her chair and crossed her legs, exposing her fair calves to Wu Cheng's eyes once again. However, she didn't care. "I will pass on the internal energy cultivation method of the sect leader of the Wentian Sect to you today."
Wu Cheng withdrew his gaze from the long legs, clasped his hands in a respectful gesture, and said, "Thank you, Master!"
"No need to thank me. You have a lot on your mind, and you may not be able to master it. I can only say that you should give it a try."
Gong Yuqing said calmly, "The name of my cultivation method is 'The Great Void Returning to Origin Technique'."
Wu Cheng's expression turned serious. Just by hearing the name, he knew that this technique was definitely a divine skill!
Gong Yuqing didn't mind and continued, "The Great Void is the state before the separation of heaven and earth. Returning to the Origin is the return of all things to their source and back to their origin. In essence, our mental cultivation method can be summed up in one sentence: use the body as a furnace and the mind as fire to refine the primordial energy of heaven and earth into the most fundamental 'True Qi'."
"You must know that all things are born from the origin. If you cultivate this seed of true qi, you can still display some of the power of the innate even when you are in the acquired realm."
Wu Cheng's heart skipped a beat, and he asked, "Master, could it be that our 'Tai Xu Gui Yuan Jue' is a technique that can unlock the innate potential?"
Gong Yuqing nodded, then raised her eyelids to look at him, "Not bad, but if you want to cultivate this technique, I'm afraid you'll have to dissipate your cultivation and start over."
Wu Cheng immediately made a decision: "I'll fix it."
As you know, Bai Suying is my senior sister. We once faced the Demon Sect's Lord of the Extinction of Emotions side by side. I have long admired the Asking Heaven Sect. It is incredibly powerful!
Sometimes it is extremely difficult to make a decision. After a moment of thought, I decided to bring my talent to the Wentian Sect.
As for my cheap father and his cheap brothers and sisters? I wish them all the best in Lin'an.