Chapter 12 The Only One in the World

  Upon arriving at the courtyard, I found a young stranger standing at the entrance, looking around in all directions, as if searching for something.

  Zhang Heng couldn't help but feel puzzled, he had been in the inner gate for over a decade, yet he had never seen anyone like this before.

  This young man is about twenty years old, with an ordinary appearance. From his aura, it can be seen that his cultivation is around the early stage of Qi Refining, and he is on par with Zhang Heng.

  "You are Brother Tang, aren't you? I'm a new disciple who just entered the inner sect at Wuliu Mountain. I've admired you for a long time, Brother Tang. Please give me more guidance in the future." The young man surprisingly recognized Zhang Heng's identity at a glance.

  Zhang Heng responded coldly and asked: "You just came in from outside, right?"

  "My junior brother, I'm dull and untalented. After more than a decade of cultivating outside the sect, I barely managed to enter the Qi Refining stage. Last night, I officially entered the inner sect."

  Zhang Heng couldn't help but take another look at Wu Ling. It was clear that Wu Ling was an ordinary spiritual root holder, because talented spiritual root holders would be selected by the inner sect as soon as they entered the door, while ordinary spiritual root holders could only rely on their own efforts to cultivate to the refining stage before entering the inner sect. Of course, those with a background like Zhang Heng were exceptions.

  In Zhang Heng's impression, it was extremely rare for outer sect disciples to enter the inner sect through their own efforts.

  Because the qualifications of outer sect disciples are definitely ordinary, there is no guidance from seniors, nor is there anyone to give spiritual elixirs and medicines. When entering the sect, they will only get a set of ordinary cultivation incantations, and their future cultivation will depend entirely on themselves.

  Zhang Heng, as an ordinary spiritual root holder, spent over a decade to enter the Refining Qi stage with the help of a large amount of spiritual medicine. This shows that it is extremely difficult for an outer sect disciple to cultivate to the Refining Qi stage without any assistance.

  Such a person is either a cultivator with great perseverance and persistence, or has had some extraordinary encounters; otherwise, it would be impossible to reach the Qi Refining stage in just over a decade through one's own efforts.

  "Is there anything else you want here? I'm about to go into seclusion for a while." Zhang Heng began to show his guest out.

  Wu Ling respectfully said: "Tang Shixiong, I came here just to visit you. As for the other inner disciples, except for some who are in closed-door meditation, I have mostly been to see them."

  Zhang Heng nodded and chatted with Wu Ling for a couple of sentences before returning to the house. For some reason, Zhang Heng always felt that Wu Ling's behavior was somewhat strange.

  Generally, newly arrived inner door disciples wouldn't go around visiting fellow senior brothers one by one like he did, because after cultivators start cultivating, the time spent is extremely long and everyone will naturally become familiar with each other.

  Like the disciples who had just entered the inner door before, they couldn't wait to drill into the Wind and Cloud Pavilion's scripture storage room, and swallow everything inside. Who has so much time to visit all the inner door disciples? Moreover, among the inner door disciples, there are some with eccentric personalities, and it's not necessarily that they will appreciate your feelings.

  This time after entering the house, Zhang Heng put up a ban on the surroundings of the house and hung a closed sign at the door.

  The closed-door plaque has two functions. The first function is to display the time, after all, a cultivator who closes the door for several years in a row is very normal, and when he ends his closed-door study, he can judge from the closed-door plaque how much time he has spent in seclusion.

  The second function of the closed door sign is to avoid disturbance from outside cultivators, after all, during cultivation, not a single bit of carelessness can be allowed. Of course, this is only done when cultivating within a sect, if one were to close up in the wilderness, they would definitely not hang the closed door sign on the outside, because some cultivators with poor conduct would take advantage of your closed door and rob you.

  In the sect, ordinary people would automatically leave after seeing this closed sign, but Zhang Heng, to be cautious, also set up several restrictions here. In fact, some other cultivators also had this habit before closing their doors.

  After doing all this, Zhang Heng began to retreat and cultivate this long-awaited abnormal skill.

  Steadily sitting on the cushion, Zhang Heng's eyes were tightly closed, and a thread of his consciousness had already seeped into the floating silver-white jade cylinder in his mind.

  The divine consciousness entered the jade cylinder unimpeded, and in front of me appeared a nine-story ancient silver-white pagoda. The first floor shone with a faint silver-white light, while the eight floors above were dull and dark.

  It turns out that the scene in this jade cylinder has changed, and the magnificent palace has become a towering ancient tower. Moreover, one layer of the ancient tower is shining with a faint silver-white light, which may mean that Zhang Heng has already opened up the first layer of the ancient tower.

  In fact, Zhang Heng had already received all the information in the first layer of the ancient tower last time. In theory, he didn't need to enter this mysterious jade cylinder anymore to cultivate his Deviant Skill.

  If you think so, then this set of skills is underestimated!

  "This 'Lian Tian Hua Di' set of skills is not only an existence that is extremely against the heavens and extremely abnormal, but a special point is that it is the only unique skill in this world!"

  What is meant by "unique" is that this skill can only exist in one set in this world and can only be practiced by one person.

  For example, Zhang Heng has now recorded all the information on the first floor of the ancient tower. He can completely hand over the password for this floor to others, but even if he hands it over to others, it will be useless. Others, even with enough spiritual instruments and rare treasures, are absolutely unable to cultivate this set of skills.

  Because this set of exercises is closely related to the jade cylinder in Zhang Heng's mind, only with the help of this jade cylinder can Zhang Heng cultivate this "most perverted exercise in history".

  It can be said that this mysterious jade cylinder is the core part of this set of skills, and it is also because of the existence of this mysterious jade cylinder that this set of skills has become a unique existence in the world.

  Zhang Heng couldn't help but feel a sense of awe, the more he understood this technique, the more he felt its power, not only defying heaven, but also unparalleled in the world. He wondered how many more secrets were waiting for him to uncover in this mysterious jade cylinder.

  After making preparations, Zhang Heng took out the Tie Ling mining mother from his storage bag, grasped this top-grade ore with both hands, and stuck it to his lower abdomen.

  Following the mnemonic chant obtained from the first floor of the ancient tower, Zhang Heng began to circulate the spiritual energy within his body.

  Under Zhang Heng's mental drive, the spiritual energy in his body circulated in a way that defied logic, passing through some very strange meridians, which made Zhang Heng worried.

  Because the human body has many mysterious acupoints and hidden meridians, even the most skilled cultivators in the realm of cultivation who are most proficient in medicine may not necessarily be familiar with all the meridians in the human body.

  There are some people with extraordinary talents, who have opened up certain secret and unknown acupoints and meridians in their bodies, which enables them to possess talents that surpass those of ordinary people in certain aspects.

  It can be said that the human body is a mysterious treasure trove, and cultivators are just ordinary people who unlock more treasures in this treasure trove.

  According to the oral formula, Zhang Heng was extremely cautious in controlling the spiritual energy in his body. He understood that if he made even a slight mistake, something beyond his imagination might happen.

  As the spiritual energy circulated, Zhang Heng felt that manipulating the spiritual energy was becoming more and more laborious. Moreover, after the spiritual energy circulated through some extremely fine meridians, his body would experience a sour and painful sensation.

  Before long, Zhang Heng broke out in a cold sweat and his body began to tremble slightly.

  At this moment, Zhang Heng finally understood why the perverted skill required cultivators in the Qi Refining stage to cultivate. Those with high cultivation levels had to abandon their cultivation and start over, while those with low cultivation levels couldn't cultivate at all.

  Because during the inhalation period, the use of spiritual energy in the body is still in its infancy.

  What is the Guiding Qi Period? It is also called the Thinking and Planning Stage, which is the initial stage of guiding external spiritual energy to unblock the main meridians in the body.

  It wasn't until they reached the Refining Qi stage that they began to focus on refining and condensing their internal spiritual energy, and their control over it also entered a completely new state.

  The reason why the cultivation above the Refining Qi stage cannot cultivate the transformation skill is that this set of skills must start to change the quality and properties of the spiritual energy in the body from the beginning, and transform the physical constitution of human beings in a specific way from shallow to deep, until it reaches the physique of a demon beast.

  Relying on Zhang Heng's early cultivation of refining Qi, he barely managed to operate the spiritual energy in his body according to the formula, allowing the spiritual energy to form one cycle after another in a strange and mysterious way through the hidden meridians and acupoints throughout his body.

  At this moment, Zhang Heng had already formed three circulation webs in his body, while the requirement of one layer of oral formula was to form nine circulation webs, which made Zhang Heng feel apprehensive.

  That is to say, Zhang Heng must control nine spiritual energies in his body at the same time, and these spiritual energies must run simultaneously, otherwise it would be a waste of effort.

  If it is in the period of guiding Qi, let alone controlling nine spiritual energies, even controlling two spiritual energies is extremely difficult. Generally, cultivators in the refining Qi period can control several spiritual energies at the same time, but to control all nine is very difficult, not to mention running them through these unfamiliar meridians.

  Originally, with Zhang Heng's cultivation, controlling the nine spiritual energies was a must to reach the heavens. Not to mention controlling all nine, even controlling three spiritual energies to form a circulating network in these hidden meridians was extremely arduous.

  Lian Zhang Heng himself was about to give up and planned to take it slow later, after all, going from controlling three spiritual energies to nine wasn't something that could be done in a short amount of time.

  However, the change in facts was beyond Zhang Heng's expectations. In the process of controlling these three spiritual energies to form a circulating network, Zhang Heng vaguely felt that his divine consciousness had become stronger, and he unknowingly became much easier to manipulate the spiritual energy within his body.

  Zhang Heng couldn't help but feel a surge of joy in his heart, and he began to exert more control over the circulating web formed by these spiritual energies.

  As long as the nine spiritual energy circulation networks are formed, Zhang Heng's variant skill can officially enter the door!