Chapter 3 Moonlight Grass

  A plate of braised pork made Yang Yun savor the taste for a long time. Since that day, Yang Yun had an additional habit, every night climbing to the rooftop of his own home to watch the moon.

  When asked by family members, Yang Yun would say that she had been reading books during the day and contemplating under the moon at night.

  After Yang Yun's dream, although her appearance did not change, her temperament and expression gradually changed. Her family saw it with their own eyes, thinking that Yang Yun was growing up year by year, plus the fact that she had made progress in her studies, they no longer treated Yang Yun as a child.

  So Yang Yun said he wanted to face the moon and think, and his family didn't suspect anything, thinking it would be beneficial for Yang Yun's studies, and it would also save on lamp oil money.

  Yang Yun was actually practicing the Moon Flower True Classic on the rooftop every night. This technique is relatively simple to start with and is one of the few techniques that Yang Yun can fully memorize.

  It was the fifteenth day of the lunar month, and the moon was full and bright. The soft moonlight shone down on Yang Yun's body as he sat cross-legged.

  Yang Yun's body moved slightly, with his breathing, a layer of blurry light gradually rose from his body, as if the moonlight from tens of meters around him had gathered together.

  When Yang Yun inhaled, this layer of light would contract, and when he exhaled, it would expand a bit. If one looked closely, they would discover that within this layer of light, there were dozens of small white dots actively flying around and jumping about Yang Yun's body, like many mischievous children.

  Suddenly, Yang Yun crossed his hands, making a gesture like a lotus flower blooming. Instantly, all the small white dots stopped flying and slowly fell towards Yang Yun's body, as if pulled by invisible threads.

  A white dot corresponds to one of Yang Yun's acupoints. Thirty-five white dots are thirty-five acupoints, each one accurate to the millimeter.

  Just as all the white dots were about to enter Yang Yun's body, the light around Yang Yun shook and another white dot suddenly appeared out of thin air. This newly formed white dot flickered unsteadily, as if it was about to go out at any moment.

  Yang Yun opened his eyes, and the two beams of light fixed on the white dot as if they were solid. The white dot immediately stabilized. Under Yang Yun's gaze, the white dot slowly floated towards Yang Yun's forehead and finally entered Yang Yun's Yintang acupoint.

  A burst of energy erupted from the Yintang acupoint, and the other thirty-five orifices on his body began to vibrate simultaneously. This true energy flowed down from the Yintang, running through the other thirty-five orifices in a circle before returning to the Yintang. A refreshing coolness emanated from the Yintang, causing Yang Yun's eyes to well up with tears.

  After a while, the cool feeling gradually faded away. Yang Yun raised his head to gaze at the moon, which was now radiating endless brilliance in his eyes, as if it were a scorching sun that dazzled him. He dared not look at it for long and shifted his line of sight to the ground.

  Only a faint moonlight is seen flowing and jumping on the rooftops, trees, hills and grasslands, everything is shrouded in it, incredibly magical.

  Yang Yun was overjoyed, "Moon Flower True Classic" first layer finally succeeded.

  In just over 20 days, he had mastered the first layer of the Moon Flower True Classic. If this were to be spread in the martial arts world, it would certainly cause a sensation. However, Yang Yun was not very satisfied because the Moon Flower True Classic only had two realms: Refining Qi and Releasing Qi, and did not have any techniques that could break through to the Foundation Establishment stage. Therefore, it couldn't be considered a true cultivation technique, but rather just a secret manual of the martial arts world.

  Even if there are only two boundaries, the Moon Flower True Classic already belongs to the ranks of the so-called "pre-heavenly" secret books. If it appears in the martial arts world, it will definitely cause a bloody storm. In the martial arts world, the vast majority of secret books only have cultivation methods for the Refining Qi boundary. Any book that can induce qi to exit the body is qualified to become a treasure of the martial arts world.

  Yang Yun chose to cultivate this technique because, according to the introduction of the technique, after completing the first layer of the Moon Flower True Classic, one can obtain a divine ability. As long as the Moon Flower true energy is circulated to the Yintang, the Moon Flower spiritual eye can be activated.

  There are several villages around Xiaoyue Mountain, and it's not a desolate mountain that people rarely visit. The valuable medicinal herbs that can be easily identified have already been picked clean by others. Yang Yun doesn't plan to waste a lot of time searching all over the mountains, even if he could find something that others couldn't identify, but doing so would be too inefficient.

  He set his sights on Moonlight Grass, a key ingredient in the production of a special hemostatic agent that was in high demand by medicinal merchants. However, Moonlight Grass was extremely difficult to harvest, not because it was particularly rare, but because it looked almost identical to ordinary wild grasses, making it hard to pick out from the vast expanse of wild grasses covering the mountains.

  "Today is exactly the fifteenth day of the lunar month, it's not suitable to delay, let's go pick the Moonlight Grass immediately. If we miss this opportunity, we'll have to wait until next month. Hopefully, the Moon Flower Spirit's eyes are really effective."

  Yang Yun descended the ladder quickly to the ground, "The body is more agile than before, but the power of the Moon Flower Scripture is really too weak, and it's estimated that it won't work when fighting with others." Yang Yun thought this way, completely forgetting that he had modified the content of the secret book for quick success, the first layer of the Moon Flower Scripture originally required condensing 48 acupoints, but was directly reduced to 36 by him.

  Those who can enhance the power of Zhen Qi, all omitted by him, directly leading to a sharp decline in the power of Gong Fa. The Moonlight True Qi cultivated now is still beneficial to the body, but wanting to use it against enemies is just an illusion.

  From the corner of the yard, Yang Yun dug out a small basket that Yang Lin usually used to cut grass. Yang Yun's heart moved, and she walked to the window in front of Yang Lin's room, knocking "bang bang" several times.

  "Who is it?" Yang Lin asked drowsily.

  "It's me." Yang Yun said in a low voice.

  Yang Lin sleepily pushed open the window, "Third brother, what's going on? It's late at night."

  "Xiao Lin, don't you want to eat that braised pork again like we did that day?"

  "Braised pork? Think about it!" Yang Lin's drowsiness immediately flew away. "Third brother, do you have a way?" she asked excitedly.

  "If you want to eat, come with me." Yang Yun swung the medicine scoop in his hand.

  Yang Lin said in a disappointed tone: "We're going to pick herbs, but it's dark at night and we can't see anything, how are we supposed to pick them?"

  When Yang Lin went to the back mountain to cut grass, she always carried this medicine spade with her. When she encountered familiar medicinal materials, she would also pick some, but most of the time it was used to dig wild vegetables.

  "I can naturally find good things that others can't, are you going or not?"

  Yang Lin hesitated for a moment, and finally her curiosity got the better of her. She tidied up and quietly left the house with Yang Yun.

  The road up the mountain was familiar, and tonight's moonlight was very bright. Yang Lin wasn't afraid at all, and along the way, she kept asking incessantly, but Yang Yun just smiled and wouldn't tell her what good method he had.

  After walking for more than half a time, they had already climbed to the middle of Xiaoyue Mountain. Yang Lin finally became impatient and sat down on a rock, shouting: "I can't take it anymore! I'm exhausted! If you don't think of something, I'll go back to sleep!"

  "Stop arguing, let me take a closer look." Yang Yun saw that the grass and trees around were lush and decided to try it out here.

  The true energy of the first layer of Moon Essence Scripture circulated through the 36 apertures and finally converged at Yintang, instantly activating the Moon Essence Spirit Eye.

  The green hills in Yang Yun's eyes suddenly changed, and all the grass and trees were shrouded in a faint silver moonlight, looking like a rippling silver lake.

  "Found it!" Yang Yun exclaimed in surprise, his gaze swept slightly and he found a blade of grass with an exceptionally bright moonlight on top, compared to other pale silver blades of grass, it was like a candle emitting a faint blue glow.

  "What's going on?" Yang Lin jumped up and asked excitedly.

  "Come here—" Yang Yun brought her little sister to the front of that grass, pointing and saying: "Do you see this clump of grass? This is called Moonlight Grass, it can be used as medicine, and the pharmacy in town will buy as much as they can get."

  Yang Lin almost touched her nose to the grass leaves, looked again and again, and asked suspiciously: "Really or fake? It just looks like ordinary wild grass."

  "Take another look, the moonlight on it is brighter than other grasses."

  Yang Lin looked at it for another half day and hesitated: "It seems to be a bit brighter, but this is also too difficult to distinguish. Are you sure this is the moonlight grass?"

  "The leaves look almost the same, but once you pull it out, it's clear." Yang Yun said confidently, stretching out his hand to pull out the moonlight grass. "Look at its roots, they're completely different from ordinary wild grass."

  Yang Lin took over the moonlight grass, pulled out several wild grasses, carefully compared them, and found that they were indeed different. The cross-section of the moonlight grass root was white as ice and snow, the juice squeezed out had a faint fragrance, and it felt cool and comfortable when applied to the hand.

  Seeing this scene, Yang Lin couldn't help but believe it eight or nine parts. She held the Moonlight Grass tightly with her small hands, afraid of accidentally dropping it.

  "We're rich, we're rich, we finally have money."

  Yang Lin's eyes sparkled, "Brother, let's pull out all the grass here and see if there is any more of this moonlight grass."

  Yang Yun was taken aback, then burst out laughing, "Haha, you're really funny! Do you think you can uproot all the grass on this mountain?"

  "It doesn't matter how much is taken, there will always be some left."

  "The value of this grass lies in its roots, now that you've pulled it out, it's unsellable."

  "Ah!" Yang Lin was shocked, "Then this grass..."

  "This root is worthless now, I'll just pull it out and let you take a look."

  Tears welled up in Yang Lin's big eyes.

  "Don't cry, brother will bring you over, there's definitely a way to find lots of this kind of grass. I'll come and find it, then use the medicine spade to dig up the moonlight grass along with the soil."

  Yang Lin burst into tears of laughter, "Brother, let's hurry up and get started."

  "Good." Yang Yun replied.