Chapter 25: Earth Traversing Mind Method

  The gourd wasn't stupid, it had just opened the evil bow and hadn't released the bowstring. It rolled its eyes carefully to feel the power of the bow and arrow. After a while, it put away the bow and arrow and returned them to Qu Qing Shi. Then it began to ask Qu Qing Shi about his family's secret techniques. A few sentences later, a look of understanding appeared on its face. Following that, it threw Liang Xin onto its back and swung its paw: "Don't stay in a place with disputes for too long, let's go back, we can talk while walking."

  Three-headed Qianyuan came over and separately carried Qing Shi, Qing Mo, and Liu Yi on their backs, shouting all the way as they ran towards their old nest.

  Liáng Xīn looked at the scenery flying by beside him, initially finding it interesting, but soon becoming bored. He twisted his head to ask Hú Lù: "Why didn't I die?"

  The gourd had been holding a high profile, and had long been waiting for Liang Xin to ask. He coughed and replied slowly: "Ordinary people are ignorant, that's why they think that bow is called Yang Shou."

  Then, as if still afraid that Liang Xin wouldn't understand, he added in a celestial and elegant tone: "You are just an ordinary person."

  Liáng Xīn Cái lazily shook his head and said, "Didn't they say that if you draw the bow and shoot, the evil bow will suck away your yang life?"

  Gourd shook his head: "You only see the person shooting arrows, and will soon become old and die, thinking that the evil bow is taking away the master's yangshou. In fact, the evil bow takes away the master's soul, and the body loses its soul, naturally becoming a withered bone immediately."

  Liang Xin was still a bit dazed, Qu Qing Shi hastily urged his horse forward and walked shoulder to shoulder with Hu Lu, hesitating before opening his mouth: "After we, the Qu clan disciples, cultivated our heart method..."

  The gourd clearly understood the green stone's intention and asked, "Your family's inherited technique is a unique soul-locking method that solidifies your soul, so the evil bow can't drain all of your soul energy at once. It can only snatch away part of it. With your soul energy stolen, your soul will weaken, and your body will also age accordingly."

  The gourd finished speaking, and seemed to have suffered a great loss, humming with an unpleasant face: "Yang Shou Xie Gong, huh? Xie Gong robbed Yang Shou's life? You guys thought of it...". As he spoke, his orange-yellow eyes suddenly lit up, and he thought of another good phrase, hurriedly pulling out the book bag: "You know what it is, but you don't know why!"

  Liang Xin exerted a bit of effort and twisted his body, still with the same old question: "Then why didn't I die?"

  The gourd proudly said, "Haha, this is your good fortune! As I said before, the primordial spirits of the Jade and Stone Double Evils have taken residence within your body!"

  The soul is the master's primordial spirit.

  When Liang Xin held the evil bow and fought to the death with the True Man of Nanyang, there were three sets of souls in his body: his own, that of Cao Xie Yu Bi, and that of Xiong Sha Shi Mai.

  The evil bow has a spirit, it chooses the strong and takes away, among the three sets of souls, Liang Xin's own weakest is not worth mentioning. Yu Bei and Shi Mai are both earth-type giant demons born with the heavenly energy, their yuan shen's strength is comparable to that of the top sword immortal, and it's unknown who the evil bow will ultimately choose.

  He said here, the gourd paused for a moment: "In my estimation, in terms of yuan Shen alone, Yu Bei is slightly stronger than Shi Mai. After all, Yu Bei had once refined human form. What was absorbed by the evil bow should be Yu Bei's yuan Shen."

  Yu Pei Yuan Shen exchanged the evil bow, which was shot with unparalleled power, and after breaking two Ling Lie Fa Bao, it also severely injured Nan Yang Zhen Ren.

  Yupei and Shimai's primordial spirits, under the protection of Benyuan's law power, were hidden in Liang Xin's body, asleep. Later, Yupei's primordial spirit was swallowed by Xie Gong, its original law power suddenly became ownerless power, scattered in Liang Xin's bloodline, so at that time Liang Xin's body would be so heavy.

  The gourd leaped and fluttered about, chuckling as it spoke to Liang Xin: "With your innate talent, wanting to cultivate the Heavenly Dao is simply a fool's dream. But now, for no reason at all, you've acquired the unowned Earthly Origin Power within your body. Later on, you'll refine them into your own use. Although you don't have the Dao heart of a mortal cultivator, you do have the Dao accomplishments of one! Haha, how interesting!"

  Liang Xin was overjoyed and couldn't help but burst out laughing, while struggling to ask: "How do you refine it?"

  A nearby willow tree laughed loudly and reminded him: "Foolish kid, the old immortal ape will surely give you guidance, why don't you quickly thank him for his great kindness!"

  Liáng Xīn was overjoyed, his face almost cramped from smiling, as he lavished praise and thanks on Húlú, pouring all the good words he knew into his ears.

  The calabash mouth hummed in agreement, but the expression on his face was extremely strange.

  Not long after, Liang Xin thought of the Stone Vein Yuan Shen still in his body and regained his spirit. He twisted his head to ask Hu Lu: "After refining the jade plate's power, can I borrow Er Ge's bow to shoot an arrow? Will the original power of Shi Mai also belong to me?"

  The gourd nodded slightly and said a idiom at the right moment: "One move, three counter-moves. Not bad, not bad."

  The lair of the heavenly ape was deep in the great mountains, extremely far from the residence. Even with the group of monkeys' quick and nimble movements, they had been running for several hours. Finally, after crossing countless mountain ridges and turning through numerous valleys, Liang Xin suddenly felt a fragrance wafting before his nose, the sound of water ringing clearly, and a gigantic valley teeming with life appeared right in front of him!

  In the distance, a waterfall cascades down a cliff like a silver curtain, its misty veil merging into a small lake. Three or four small streams wind their way out of the lake and flow through the valley.

  Everywhere flowers are in clusters and brocades, colorful butterflies flutter about, and everywhere is filled with tender green grass.

  At a glance, hundreds of heavenly apes with red tails scattered all over the place, some were lazily rolling around, while others were jumping and playing. When they saw their leader, Hu Lu, return, they suddenly burst into cheers. But when they saw outsiders entering the valley, they hastily stopped cheering. Those who were lying down immediately got up, those who were jumping quickly stood still, each with a serious expression, clasping their hands together and walking slowly, all putting on an air of being superior to the world.

  Only a small gibbon, barely knee-high to an average person, came running over with its teeth bared and mouth agape, jumping onto Liang Xin's body and biting down.

  Liang Xin was so frightened that his soul flew away, luckily the gourd-handed man was quick-witted and grabbed the little monkey, scolding: "This isn't food! It's a guest..."

  The heavenly apes of Kunlun Mountain are civilized people and must have Liang Xin worship as a teacher before the gourd will impart to him the heart method of refining and transforming his magical powers.

  Liáng Xīn naturally didn't feel like he was losing out. In the grand ceremony of becoming a disciple, presided over by the Tiān Yuán, he paid his respects to his ancestors, to heaven and earth... in short, apart from not kowtowing to Hú Lù Shī Fù, he did everything that needed to be done, and became the first great disciple of Kǔ Nǎi Shān Hóu ér Gǒu.

  The other three were also properly settled and each nursed their wounds.

  Among the three brothers, after experiencing life and death together in just a few days, no one bothered with polite words, but they were all secretly grateful and happy for this sworn brotherhood.

  Xiao Yatou Qingmo has also become a thorough traitor to the sect, she and Liang Xin are about the same age, very close, but only to Liu Yi, always with a cold little face, never willing to give him a good look.

  In the following days, Kunlun Mountain was extremely lively. The imperial court, Zhulei Daochang, Donghai Qian, and some other sects closely related to them either dispatched large troops or sent out their elite disciples, constantly shuttling back and forth among the mountains. Soon, the bodies of Nanyang Zhenren and his four disciples were found, and the mountain was thrown into even greater chaos...

  However, due to the presence of barbarians and heretics, the investigators suspected that the native people of Kunai Mountain were not involved in the case. Additionally, the old nest of the Tengu, Sarugakure, was unusually secretive, and Hyouto did not allow his subordinates to go out casually, so everything remained peaceful.

  Including Feng Xi, Liang Xin's relatives and friends all managed to keep their lives, and they will be fine after a period of recuperation.

  The apes in the valley are wary of outsiders and have to put on a show every day, it's unbearable.

  After becoming an apprentice, Liang Xin's cultivation did not start immediately. His master, Hu Lu, didn't know what to do and went out early and returned late every day, seemingly very busy.

  It wasn't until more than a month later that Hu Lu finally finished his work and invited Liang Xin to come, and they finally began their "sermon".

  Humans who cultivate the Tao must first have a 'Tao heart', which is simply to say, enlightenment.

  Only with high awareness can one feel the energy scattered throughout the universe, only with high awareness can one communicate with this energy and guide it into the body.

  Nanyang Zhenren wants to cut off worldly emotions with a sharp brush, just to let her better dissolve her thoughts in the universe, experience nature, and get rid of worldly entanglements. Only then can she fully devote herself, thoroughly unite with the universe, and thus gain insight into more and greater energy.

  Liang Xin was blessed with a good fate, although he lacked intuition and couldn't even mention the word "Tao", but he obtained a pure Earthly Yuan Qi. All he had to do was cultivate an Earthly Heart Method, stimulate the thick earth spiritual yuan in his body, and transform it into his own use.

  But gains and losses are intertwined, and it's impossible for one person to have everything. Liang Xin's cultivation will also reach a limit, and once he refines all the spiritual energy in his body, there will be no more room for progress.

  Liāng Xīn was quite content with himself, and he was extremely satisfied with the two Ling Yuan that he had exchanged for his life. He bowed to the gourd: "Disciple understands, please Master grant the method of refining the Ling Yuan."

  Bang!

  The gourd threw a book under Liang Xin's feet: "This is the kung fu you want to practice, understand it yourself!" After finishing speaking, he walked away with his hands behind his back.

  Liáng Xīn picked up the booklet and saw that on it were scribbled four big characters in a crooked, slanted manner: Tǔ Xíng Xīn Fǎ

  He flipped through another two pages, but inside were all elegant small seal scripts, however all the characters were ancient seal scripts, and the writing style was even more obscure with phrases like "one yang one yin", "two strings three treasures". Liang Xin couldn't understand it at all, so he could only furrow his brow and hold onto the Heart Method to go find the gourd again.

  Unexpectedly, the gourd saw him coming and became like an enemy, waving his claws wildly from a distance, shouting fiercely: "The master leads to the door, cultivation is up to the individual, go and understand for yourself!" After finishing, he jumped away like the wind and ran off.

  Liang Xin gazed at the back of the calabaza and anxiously stomped his feet: "Master, where is the door......"