Chapter 25: The Ancient Cultivator

  Update 2 for today~~~

  Have to say, this skill is indeed too deceptive. The first step requires Zhang Chong to twist his body to an almost unimaginable extent.

  This also caused Zhang Chong to be caught off guard, and he fell heavily to the ground. Of course, after scolding, he got up again and carefully looked at the contents of the jade slip once more.

  The amount of information that Jade Simplified can store is astonishing, which also makes it seem effortless for Zhang Chong, who doesn't know many characters. As for the text content from the first to the third style, Ting Feng had given him a detailed explanation. Zhang Chong's memory was not bad, and after listening once, he roughly remembered them in his heart.

  On the Jade Simplified Form, apart from the content, there are detailed illustrations of body method training. By comparing these diagrams with one's own practice, it is possible to see if any mistakes have been made.

  Zhang Chong finally understood why [Shen Xing Bai Bian] had only taught him three moves out of a hundred, and that was because this set of skills was extremely difficult. In a short period of time, Zhang Chong should have been able to learn only these three moves. And after mastering them, it would be the right time for him to go find Shen Xing Bai again to ask for further guidance.

  After watching, Zhang Chong started practicing again. This time, he didn't ask for speed, but slowly began to move his body.

  His figure, clumsy beyond compare, every step he takes is crooked and tilted, as if about to fall over. Even so, it requires his utmost concentration to move forward slowly.

  After great difficulty, he finally completed the first move of this technique, but by then, more than two hours had passed, and his entire body was drenched as if he had just crawled out of a river.

  "Too tired..." Zhang Da's mouth was on one side, panting, while the other side was pondering the insights from his previous practice. Before long, he fell into a deep sleep.

  In his dream, he once again returned to the black room, and Zhang Chong skillfully pointed at the talisman, dipped his brush in ink, and with a flourish, created a " Refreshing Talisman". It can be said that this time's refining process gave him a feeling of being carefree and relaxed, just like writing an article he had thought out long ago, without any pauses, flowing smoothly like clouds and water.

  The refined "Qu Fa Fu" is finally worthy of being called strong and powerful.

  "How did my talisman skills grow so fast?" Zhang Chong saw this scene, and he was both surprised and delighted. He tried another one again, and sure enough, in just a moment, he had refined another [ Refreshing Talisman]. It seemed that his current success rate could easily reach 100%.

  "Could it be because of the cultivation of this [Shen Xing Bai Bian]?" Zhang Chong looked at his own hands, after many days of training, his fingers had become slender and powerful, and his whole body muscles were also much more flexible than before.

  The postures he used to find difficult are now easily achievable.

  Feeling this change, he finally understood that it was the "Shen Xing Bai Bian" technique that thoroughly broke through his previous constraints, and thus elevated his body to a new realm.

  And this realm was extremely novel for him.

  "Then let's start refining the Fireball Symbol." Zhang Chong's heart was filled with uncontrollable excitement, he took a deep breath and began to refine the Fireball Symbol.

  This time, after four failures, he finally successfully refined a 【Fireball Symbol】. Looking at the symbol, the transparent aura that was faintly visible, lightly swayed several times, and then slowly merged into the symbol. This change caused the symbol to flash with golden light in an instant, and then the light gradually disappeared.

  Is this the Fireball Symbol? Zhang Chong looked at the symbol in front of him, which now looked like ordinary paper, and thought back to the earth-shaking explosion that occurred when he failed to refine it just now. It was really hard for him to connect these two things together.

  But that kind of smooth and natural feeling was truly in his heart.

  He can feel that the process of refining this talisman is exactly the same as what he has seen in the demonstration.

  And the most magical thing is the place where the brush is collected, the faint breath that enters the paper, and the entry of this breath is the key to the refinement of the paper charm.

  What is meant by refinement is that through one stroke and one line, different shapes are drawn on the paper talisman, and the route of the strokes can lead to these breaths gathering on the paper.

  However, these auras appear extremely unstable on paper. Once the brush stops or makes an error, it will produce a violent explosion. Unless it is until the last stroke falls, these auras will not sink into the paper and become stable.

  These breaths should be the power of heaven and earth.

  And this change also made Zhang think of the suitable talent, the "Shen Xing Bai Bian" he cultivated, according to the description on the jade slip, is also through the operation of the body method, to bring out the power of heaven and earth in the air, let it temper his own body.

  If it's like that, can I use my own body as a pen style and then follow the predetermined route to draw along?

  When thinking of this place, a new picture appeared in Zhang Chong's mind. This was no longer just a single movement that needed to be completed, but from the first movement of the first form starting, until the last movement of the first form ended, all movements were connected together, forming a complete pattern like a paper talisman.

  As long as he uses his body method to complete this pattern, the power of heaven and earth will be tempered in his body.

  As soon as this idea emerged in his mind, it quickly turned around and opened up, allowing Zhang Chong to find the common ground between Lianfu and Shenfa in an instant. Not only can they refer to each other, but also take the strengths of each other, and this creative idea has also unfolded a new picture scroll in his heart.

  At this thought, Zhang Chong quickly came to his senses. What he wanted to do next was to find a piece of paper and draw the diagram of the first style that had just appeared in his mind. After carefully studying it, he would start training again. Using the method of refining symbols to refine his body, it must be said that this was also an original idea that only Zhang Chong could come up with.

  Of course, before doing this, he still had something more important to do, that is to identify the 【Fireball Symbol】. This matter can only be found by going to Wang Daozhong in the ring.

  Zhang Chong had an idea and threw this "Qu Fa Symbol" into the ring.

  "Wang Daozhong, Wang Daozhong~~"

  He shouted several times before he heard Wang Daozhong's flustered voice.

  "What's wrong?" Zhang Chong listened to Wang Daozhong's flustered voice and felt a hint of doubt in his heart.

  "What's wrong?" Wang Da Zhong hastily replied.

  "Hmph, you're in my ring, don't think about playing any tricks." Zhang Zhong heard him not say anything, and couldn't figure out why he was flustered. After warning him, he turned to the main topic.

  Wang Daozhong carefully examined the "Fireball Symbol", seeing that the strokes on the symbol were bold and powerful, with a faint flash of heavenly power at the tip of each stroke, already revealing its enormous might.

  "It's indeed a great Fireball Symbol," Wang Daozhong exclaimed, but then he suddenly seemed to remember something and asked Zhang Chong,

  "Didn't you see that senior again?"

  "No, I bought it." Zhang Chong said casually.

  "Oh," Wang Daozhong's enthusiasm immediately dissipated after hearing this, and he said:

  "This talisman is refined extremely well, and there's no sign of any spiritual power inside. However, if a cultivator were to refine it, they should be an extremely powerful person, but he's willing to refine this low-grade 2nd-tier paper talisman, the Fireball Talisman, which is quite strange."

  "Even if a superior person does things that are not in line with common reason, it's also acceptable." Zhang Chong was once again referred to as a superior person by Wang Daozhong, and he felt extremely pleased in his heart.

  "Or perhaps this talisman wasn't refined by a cultivator after all. If that's the case, does it mean that an ancient cultivator has reappeared?"

  Wang Da Zhong's words made Zhang Chong jump in fright.

  "What? Besides cultivators and demon cultivators, there are also ancient cultivators?"

  Zhang Chong was so astonished that Wang Daozhong knew he didn't know about the ancient Taoist, and slowly began to explain it to him.