Chapter Fifty-One: The Stone Man Revives

  Jin Yi Gong Zi's name is Xue Hai Kong, the son of Xue Pan. He grew up with his mother since childhood. Six years ago, Xue Pan clashed with the city guards to save him, and Ding Yan was also present at that time.

  "You think one sentence can take me to meet your father, isn't that a bit too arrogant?" Xue Haikong's right hand stretched out, his five fingers spread wide, pointing at Ding Chen.

  Masterful grasp.

  Xue Haikong has been practicing martial arts since childhood and later received guidance from Xue Pan, now his martial arts skills are unmatched among his peers.

  Ding Chen saw the situation, slightly shook his head, stretched out his right hand, and pointed at the void with his index finger. A strand of yuan force dissipated from his fingertips, transformed into a thin line like a soaring snake, twisted in the air, and easily bound Xue Haikong. The two servants who were about to take action were also trapped, unable to move.

  "This is..."

  ......

  Inside Taiyin Mountain.

  Ding Yan slowly opened his eyes, and his stiff fingers slightly moved.

  Six years of participation and understanding, Ding Yan's words are almost one with the earth.

  In his body, the yuan force was many times more refined than when he first entered the mortal world. The xianyuan force in the dantian was even more condensed, but its quantity had not increased. Xianyuan force is the most important force for scattered immortals and also the main factor that distinguishes them from cultivators of qi.

  For loose immortals, the growth of Xianyuan power is extremely difficult. If you want to increase the Xianyuan power in your body, apart from crossing the tribulation, there is no other way. This is also why every time a loose immortal goes through a heavenly tribulation, their strength will surge violently.

  "The Taoist thought has completely dissipated, unfortunately, if I could have observed it for a few more years, perhaps I would have been able to display a few more inferior Taoist techniques. As for the middle-grade Taoist techniques... my current realm is still too poor. It seems that I need to find some time to go through a scattered immortal calamity..." Ding Yan sighed with regret.

  Taoist techniques differ from Taoist methods.

  The existence of Taoist techniques completely transcends that of magical techniques, and the two are fundamentally not on the same level. The gap between them is like the difference between a Qi-refining master and a loose immortal, which is a difference in essence. Previously, Ding Yan could only cast some magical techniques, but he couldn't even cast one Taoist technique. Now, through the transmission of residual thoughts, he can use three Taoist techniques, which is a qualitative transformation.

  He retrieved his skull, stood up, stretched out his right hand and slowly practiced the fist technique passed down by the old village chief on the nameless small island.

  This set of fist techniques, although belonging to the Qi-refining masters' fist techniques, has unexpected benefits for the physical body. Ding Yan has already transformed into a scattered immortal, his physical body transformed into vital energy, condensed within his thoughts. However, every time he practices the fist technique, Ding Yan can still clearly feel the vital energy slowly growing.

  beside

  On the stone monument, the 'Tao' character projected from the eye sockets of the skull had completely dissipated. Looking at the text on the monument again, it had become ordinary and unremarkable. The transmission of the remaining teachings relied entirely on the power within the skull. Without the support of this power, even if one found the place where the predecessor was seated in meditation, they would not be able to obtain the predecessor's Taoist thoughts left behind.

  After practicing for a long time, Ding Yan stood up and gathered his momentum, letting out a long sigh.

  After exercising, the stiffness has completely disappeared.

  With a sudden stride, Ding Yan took a leap and appeared in mid-air. His right hand flipped over, quickly casting out a seal mark. The seal mark flew out and condensed into a talisman in mid-air, using the power of the talisman script to gather the surrounding energy.

  "Sky Splitting Finger!"

  Ding Yan stretched out his right hand, with his index finger pointing at a point in the void.

  That talisman burst open with a loud bang! In the midst of it, a muffled sound could be heard.

  A powerful yuan force burst out from within, forming a storm. The bamboo forest below was blown by this breath, and the bamboo leaves made a rustling sound.

  Sky Splitting Finger, the second Dao technique grasped by Ding Yuanshan.

  Apart from petrification technique, Ding Yan also mastered a Taoist magic. The three Taoist magics were the result of Ding Yan's six years of closed-door training.

  Ding Yan nodded in satisfaction.

  With a wave of his sleeve, he fell down.

  The greatest advantage of the Void Shattering Finger is that it consumes very little yuan force, because the talisman is the foundation of the Void Shattering Finger. The moment the talisman forms, it will frantically absorb the surrounding heaven and earth's yuan force, and the power produced by the explosion basically comes from all around, so the consumption for the caster himself is extremely rare.

  *gulp*

  Just as Ding Yan's words fell, a faint rustling sound suddenly came from beside him.

  Ding Yan turned around and looked back, discovering that the source of the sound was actually that nameless stone statue.

  "This stone statue......" Ding Yan's eyes showed a hint of doubt as he walked over.

  The stone statue, when he first arrived here, had already been checked and found nothing unusual, just an ordinary stone statue. However, looking at it again now, it seems to contain a strange energy within.

  Ding Yan's eyes narrowed slightly as he carefully swept a thread of his divine consciousness over the stone statue.

  The statue remained unchanged.

  Just as Ding Yan withdrew his divine consciousness, he suddenly seemed to remember something, and his face changed drastically.

  Glanced at the stone statue's right hand, and flew back in an instant.

  His left foot tapped the void, followed by a turn of his body and another step. A phantom Bagua appeared at Ding Yan's landing point, rotated once, and disappeared, while Ding Yan's figure strangely reappeared ten meters away.

  Lei Yun Bu!

  Ding Yan closed his door for six years and learned a third kind of Taoist magic.

  In just three steps, Ding Yan had crossed out of the bamboo forest. Turning his head to look back at the bamboo forest, he couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine.

  "That stone statue..."

  The first time Ding Yan observed the stone man, he clearly remembered that the stone man's right hand held a ruler, pointing straight at the sky. However, when he looked again, he found that the stone ruler in the stone man's hand was gone. The tightly clenched palm had also opened up, with the palm facing upwards.

  "Leave here first." Ding Yan decided quickly.

  Thinking of himself sitting in this place for six years, Ding Yan involuntarily broke out in a cold sweat.

  It's not that Ding Yan wasn't cautious enough, but rather no one would have thought that a stone statue could actually be alive. This feeling is just like when someone finds a seat and sits down, only to discover when they get up that the chair they were sitting on was actually alive.

  ......

  Just about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea after Ding Yan left, in the bamboo forest.

  The stone man's right hand slowly withdrew, and a look of pain appeared on his wooden face.

  "Who am I?"

  "Who am I!!"

  The stone man knelt heavily on the ground, his heavy legs directly cracking the bluestone floor, but he seemed to be completely unaware of it, covering his head with both hands.

  "Who am I!!!"

  A loud roar!

  In an instant, a terrifying yuan force emanated from the mountain top, and all the purple bamboo around turned into ashes. The creatures on the Jiulong Mountain range heard this roar and fell to the ground, trembling with fear...

  "That guy is really alive!" Just as Ding Yan walked out of the mountain top, he heard that roar and couldn't help but turn his head back, a hint of horror flashing in his eyes.