Chapter 28: Accidental Success

  "I didn't expect this child to cultivate to the third layer of Qi Refining in such a short period of time, and can even actively absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Moreover, he also broke through the first layer of 'Kan Yuan Gong'. This way, it's considered that he can hide the secret of his innate true energy from ordinary cultivators." Wu Mu Dao Ren secretly rejoiced in his heart, and instead of disturbing Shui Sheng's cultivation, he intensified his own efforts to refine the elixir.

  Shuǐ Shēng had just finished gathering his inner energy when he heard Wū Mù Dào Rén's voice transmitted from the adjacent room, as clear as if Wū Mù Dào Rén was speaking directly into Shuǐ Shēng's ear. At first, Shuǐ Shēng was startled, then overjoyed, and hastily ran over.

  After listening to Shuǐshēng's account, Wūmù Dào rén first used his own true energy to perceive the state of Shuǐshēng's internal energy. Then he said: "It seems that you have broken through the third layer of the Qi Refining stage. Since this is the case, from today on, you will begin cultivating magic with Wáng Lóng and the others!"

  Although Shuǐ Shēng was the first to condense his true energy, Wū Mù Dào Rén had always required him to temper his internal energy and practice the first layer of "Kǎn Yuán Gōng", not allowing him to spend time practicing magic. Seeing that Xiǎo Juān and Tiě Xīn Táng were only at the Qi Refining stage, yet they could make the Ice Spike Technique and Fireball Technique sound loudly in front of him, he had already been itching with impatience. Now, hearing that he could practice magic, he was overjoyed.

  Wu Mu Dao Ren took out a book and handed it to Shui Sheng, saying: "This is the cultivation method of Bing Zhui Technique, Yin Wu Technique, Xuan Tie Ci and Jin Guang Shield, which matches your double Linggen attribute. Remember, don't be greedy, first master these four techniques to perfection, then consider others. As for Wang Long and Xin Tang, one has a wood spirit root and the other has a fire spirit root, their spirit root attributes are different from yours, so don't think about their techniques."

  Xiao Juan and Shui Sheng are of the same Water Spirit Root, practicing exactly Ice Cone Technique and Hidden Mist Technique.

  Unexpectedly, as the heavy rain stopped and Shui Sheng exerted his full strength to urge on his true energy, that strange itching sensation also alleviated somewhat. At the same time, the amplification of his true energy correspondingly weakened.

  In the Yun Tai Temple, apart from a well, there was no pond or pool, nor was it close to a river. It didn't have a majestic mountain or a vast lake like the Xiūxiān Mén Pài (修仙门派) sect. Wu Mu Dao Ren had considered finding another place for Shui Sheng to live and cultivate in peace, but after some thought, he decided against it. Firstly, considering Shui Sheng's young age and mischievous nature, if he wasn't kept under close supervision at Song Tan Ju, who knows what kind of trouble he would get into? Secondly, the extent of the Tian Pa Sha Qi's (天罡煞气) influence on Shui Sheng was still an unknown quantity. Wu Mu Dao Ren didn't want to risk Shui Sheng encountering any accidents while cultivating far away from him and being unable to provide timely assistance.

  Fortunately, Shui's interest had shifted to practicing the four magical arts, and he didn't particularly mind the weakening of his internal true energy amplification.

  It's been half a year since the grand gathering, and one by one, the little friends have all started practicing magic, but I still can't even condense my true energy, and it's making me anxious, so I've been shutting myself in every day.

  Just as the autumn days arrived, at a time when Wu Mu Dao Ren had given up all hope for Da Niu, a thunderous explosion suddenly shook the heavens from within Da Niu's quiet chamber. After the explosion, the roof was instantly blasted open, creating a three-foot long hole, with shattered tiles and mud flying everywhere.

  Seeing the big cow fainting on the ground with a dark aura surrounding it, Wu Mu Dao Ren was overjoyed and helped the big cow up. He slowly transmitted a thread of true energy into the big cow's body. Indeed, as soon as the true energy entered the big cow's dantian, it was drawn in by an attractive force. Although this attractive force was far from being as powerful as the one within Shui Sheng's body that day, it was still clear and discernible. Without a doubt, there was also a thread of innate true energy existing within the big cow's body, and it was precisely the Heavenly Slaughter Aura.

  With such a commotion, several people from the Water Clan naturally also came to see what was happening. Seeing Wu Mu Dao Ren treating the Great Ox's injuries with true energy, they were worried but could only stand quietly on the side and watch, not daring to speak out of turn.

  Half a time later, the big cow finally woke up and saw that everyone was worried and anxious. A bitter smile appeared on his face, and he wanted to speak, but his whole body felt a sharp pain like needles, and he couldn't help but let out a loud cry. The faces of the four people by the water changed at the same time.

  Wumu Daoist rolled his eyes and said, "What's the fuss about? He won't die for a while!" Turning to Shuisheng and the others, he said, "You four should leave first! Don't disturb my cultivation. If anything happens to him, it will definitely be related to your disturbance!" Although Shuisheng and Xiaojuan were extremely worried, seeing Wumu Daoist's attitude, they could only hastily retreat.

  Two hours later, the sharp pain on Big Cow's body finally eased. Wu Mu Dao Ren stopped injecting true energy into Big Cow's body, looked up at the broken hole in the roof, frowned, and carried Big Cow to another empty room. Fortunately, there were still a few empty rooms in Song Tan Ju.

  For the next half month, Wumudao stayed in the Big Bull's room every day to help him recover from his injuries and cultivate. When the Big Bull's injuries were fully recovered, Wumudao's initial joy turned into a bitter smile.

  At first, when Wumuwu's true energy was injected into the body of the giant cow, a suction force would swallow up the true energy injected by Wumuwu, not allowing Wumuwu's true energy to flow through the giant cow's body. In this way, it was very difficult for Wumuwu to use his true energy to repair the broken meridians of the giant cow, and even more impossible to unblock the meridians that had been closed due to injury.

  Slowly, Wumuwu discovered that this strange suction not only swallowed the true energy of Taiyi's body to heal his wounds but also turned the true energy condensed by Taiyi into nothingness. No matter how hard Taiyi tried to cultivate, the true energy in his body could never gather in the dantian and could not flow smoothly. In this way, it was impossible to improve his magical powers or practice magic, let alone condense true energy.

  As for this strange suction, as long as the big cow does not cultivate the "sitting forgetting scripture", does not condense its true energy, it will disappear without a trace. As long as the big cow cultivates with heart, it will come out again to make trouble.

  Wumudao people thought about it, flipping through many books, but couldn't find the reason. Obviously, this strange suction force is related to the innate true energy inside Dacow, but the effect of this innate true energy is completely opposite to that of Shuixian and Xiaojuan's innate true energy, not only does it not enhance the effect, but also affects Dacow's condensation of true energy.

  The reason why the house roof was blown up on that day is related to the big cow's desperate attempt to condense true energy in its dantian. The two air flows collided in the dantian for some reason, and then rushed out of the body, which led to the accident.

  Three days passed, and the big cow's injuries not only didn't improve but became more severe by the day. Wumudao put his heart into it and poured 70% of his spiritual power into the big cow's body. However, the resistance also increased greatly, and the two streams of true energy clashed inside the big cow's body, causing it to be on the verge of exploding at any moment. Wumudao was shocked and decided to change his approach, using a different technique to absorb the suction force into his own body instead. Unexpectedly, this unorthodox method actually worked, and he successfully absorbed a significant amount of the strange suction force into himself.

  In the next five days, the strange force in the bull's body was finally absorbed by Wumudao. Without this resistance, Wumudao was able to use his true energy to heal the bull's wounds. Unexpectedly, after the strange force disappeared from the bull's body, not only did Wumudao quickly cure the bull's chaotic meridians, but its meridians also became unusually smooth, and the speed of gathering true energy in the dantian was even faster than that of Wang Long, Xiaojuan, and Tie Xintang.

  The flow of Wu Mu Dao Ren's law was affected by this force, and it began to become obstructed. Wu Mu Dao Ren understood that the strange power that had run into his body must have been transformed from the Tian Geng Sha Qi hidden in Da Niu's body. At first, he was both surprised and delighted, but then he was bewildered and couldn't understand the reason. He searched through all the classics he treasured again, but still couldn't figure it out.

  Fortunately, this heavenly punishment aura was not powerful, although it affected the circulation of Wumudao's mana, it did not cause any other damage to his skills, divine abilities and state of mind.

  When the injury of the great cow recovers, Wumudao people have to find a way to refine and transform the strand of "pre-heavenly true energy" that loves to make trouble in their bodies. After instructing several water-born people on some matters to pay attention to during cultivation, they began to close the door and cultivate.

  After several months, this strange "innate true energy" finally merged into Wu Mu Dao's body's true energy, and it was impossible to distinguish between them. What Wu Mu Dao did not expect was that just this small amount of innate true energy allowed him to break through a bottleneck in his cultivation method that he had never been able to overcome, causing his spiritual power to surge greatly. After being overjoyed, Wu Mu Dao fell into confusion once again.

  The Great Cow's body lacked this innate true energy, and soon condensed its own true energy, entering the first layer of Qi Refining.

  After that, Wumudao continuously tested the Great Ox several times and finally found that the "Tian Feng Sha Qi" in its body became as rare as Xiaojuan's. Thinking about his own law power surging because of this, he couldn't help but feel a little guilty. Fortunately, the Great Ox was a Tu Ling Gen, which perfectly matched Wumudao.

  Although Da Niu is not as clever as Wang Long, nor as cunning and bold as Shui Sheng, he is honest and diligent in his practice of magic. After some thought, Wu Mu Dao Ren decided to teach him the top-level skill "Kong Ling Jue" that he had been cultivating himself.

  Regarding "innate true energy", Wu Mu Dao Ren has gained another layer of understanding. However, he also didn't become arrogant due to his rapid progress in martial arts and still remains humble.

  Expel the idea of robbing the "innate true energy" from within the body of aquatic creatures.

  Actually, no matter how hard Ren Wumudao thought about it, he couldn't figure out why there was a hint of "mysterious" "innate true energy" in the body of the big cow. It was because both Shuisheng and the big cow were nursed by Luo Xiuying that this happened. After Shuisheng was brought to the Luo family, although Luo Xiuying had been practicing martial arts since childhood and had a strong physique, her milk was still not enough for both the big cow and Shuisheng, who had an astonishing appetite. Coincidentally, Zhou Jinping caught a mother leopard in the mountains that was also in its lactation period, so he had no choice but to use the mother leopard as a wet nurse.

  Two young children have "leopard milk mother" to help, only to grow up vigorously. In this year or so of shared breastfeeding, the big cow unexpectedly obtained a strand of innate true energy from the aquatic body. If it weren't for this strand of innate true energy quietly changing the big cow's physique, whether the big cow could have possessed spiritual roots is probably a matter of debate.

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