Chapter Sixteen: Building Foundation Methods

  "I've already told you many times about the rules for entering the Zhuji Cliff, so I won't repeat them again. In short, after entering the cave, you can only stay inside for fifteen days, and food and water will be provided by someone. The various secret recipes and techniques carved on the walls of the cave, you can read at your own discretion, as for whether you can pick up advanced skills, it depends on your luck... Just remember to be mindful of yourself and don't be too greedy." Standing on the high platform, Moyunzi's face was expressionless, his eyes sternly scanning the large group of children below, his tone suddenly becoming serious.

  "Yes!" The loud cheers of many young people.

  "Alright, now that you all know the rules, let's get started."

  As soon as he finished speaking, Moyunzi's toes touched the ground, and his whole body was like a white rainbow flashing across the sky. In the blink of an eye, it was like a strange arc that instantly disappeared into the vast dense forest.

  "Mo Yunzi is really too formidable, I don't know when I'll be able to catch up with him..." Looking at Mo Yunzi's disappearing back, Chuan Lihai's eyes were dazed and he muttered to himself.

  "Heh heh, it definitely won't be too far off, but before considering when you'll become an inner disciple, let's first consider how to choose a suitable foundation-building secret manual." Wen Ya smiled lightly and reminded him from the side.

  Looking at the crowd rushing into the cave, Chuan Li Hai touched his nose and changed his face, shouting: "No good! These guys are too cunning! No way... we have to hurry up!"

  After finishing speaking, he pulled Wen Ya and rushed up in a hurry with one arrow step.

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  The deep and winding cave stretches forward, extending into the infinite darkness, with mottled ancient rocks on both sides, all of which are hard yellow-brown stones, extremely spacious, enough for two horse-drawn carriages to drive side by side.

  The light is slightly dim, and the soft, yellowish glow emanating from the butter lamps in the recesses of the surrounding walls casts a deep and serene shadow on the tunnel.

  The stone walls on both sides were divided into hundreds of small rooms, densely packed. Wen Ya's gaze swept across the passageway on both sides, and at this time, he had already parted ways with Chuan Lie Hai, each searching for their own suitable foundation-building method.

  Under the dim candlelight, one could still vaguely see some children's silhouettes going off to search in the adjacent secret rooms.

  Although Moyunzi had said before that there were countless secret techniques in the Zhugiji Cliff Cave, it wasn't until they entered this dark and profound tunnel that Wenyaa truly understood the real meaning of those words.

  All the secret recipes were engraved on the yellowish-brown rock bodies on both sides of the passage. Wen Ya followed along, seeing that the stone walls of the passage had countless carved postures, with dense and small characters annotating beside them, which were extremely difficult to discern if one didn't pay attention.

  Although most of them were just some basic combat techniques, they were already enough to make Wen Ya's eyes widen in shock.

  "Ben Yun's Swift Wind Leg... Luo Ji's Palm... Whirlwind Slash..." Wen Ya carefully observed the various exquisite combat techniques, savoring the atmosphere each one conveyed. "Hm, why isn't there a foundation-building technique?"

  Gongfa is the foundation-building exercise for practitioners to cultivate their bodies step by step from low to high, while combat secret techniques are skills and methods that utilize internal true yuan or physical strength for attack and defense.

  The secret technique of combat is the means by which the physical body and true yuan are utilized, while the formula is the foundation and origin of cultivation. The two complement each other and neither can be lacking.

  This furrowed Wen Ya's brow.

  After a careful search, he couldn't help but shake his head and smile wryly. It turned out that the core foundation-building techniques were all engraved on the stone walls of about 100 small rooms on both sides, with basically only one foundation-building mantra and diagram in each room!

  That is to say, compared with the numerous combat secret techniques, there are only a hundred foundation-building methods in the entire cliff cave!

  "That's right, those truly top-notch foundation-building techniques definitely won't be easily shown to outer sect disciples like you." Wen Ya shook his head, somewhat regretful. However, the numerous martial arts combat secrets carved into the hard wall in front of him had already broadened his horizons.

  Fifteen days is a short time to begin with, let alone the fact that there are over ten thousand combat techniques carved on the stone walls of the tunnel. The way of martial arts values quality over quantity, so it's not easy to choose one technique that suits oneself best from among them.

  The only consolation was that there were only about a hundred kinds of foundation-building techniques, which saved Wen Ya a lot of time.

  After seven days, Wen Ya finally reached the end of a small room. Under the dim candlelight, his face was somewhat gloomy, with furrowed brows. In front of him were texts and diagrams carved on the bare stone wall, nothing else existed.

  These past few days, Wen Ya has been pouring all his energy into the hundred and three foundational techniques of Qigong carved on the stone walls of the room. However, not a single incantation can stir up that inexplicable, extremely thin, cotton-like thing inside him, which is neither true yuan nor power.

  In the meridians, that extremely thin and mysterious energy, like a thick and large boulder, is being pulled by a weak and lazy donkey, not moving at all, without any reaction!

  It is obvious that all the foundation-building techniques in the cliff cave carvings are not qualified to control the strange power inherited from 'Wu', which is as murky and turbid as black smoke, in the dantian qihai.

  "Are we just going to give up like this?!" Wen Ya's face was full of helplessness.

  Suddenly——

  A faint and extremely obscure breath came, as if it was going to reach the depths of a person's soul. Wen Ya's body suddenly stiffened, he felt that in his dantian, the originally floating and stagnant cotton-like smoke dust suddenly 'moved' a little!

  Wen Ya's face changed, suppressing the excitement in his heart. He closed his eyes and concentrated on sensing that aura. With his eyes closed, his body slowly moved towards the deepest part of the dark passageway.

  Along the passage, after walking about thirty meters or so, a faint light could be seen in front, and then after going down another twenty meters or so, Wen Ya arrived at a magnificent and spacious hall filled with dazzling brightness.

  The martial arts secrets here are even more numerous, and can be said to be vast and immeasurable.

  The entire stone temple presents a regular square shape, with a very large area. Although all the characters are carved on the rock bodies on both sides, the space available for carving secret technique diagrams is already abnormally huge.

  Wen Ya carefully searched every corner of the grand hall, seeking the source of that obscure aura that stirred his physical strength.

  Suddenly, his gaze stayed on the stone steps at the side gate of the grand hall, where hundreds of dense and intricate characters were carved in a dark corner.

  That was what he wanted to find, Wen Ya's eyes lit up and she rushed over in big strides!

  The new book ranking of signed authors seems to be very fierce, Huo Lie also needs to work hard, there is still one more chapter at 12pm tonight, don't forget to support it, starting tomorrow, two chapters a day, one at 12pm and another at 6pm, the plot is almost here.