Chapter 22: The Nine Yin Scripture

  Although he wanted to continue talking to Little Dragon Girl, Wu Ming understood that Little Dragon Girl's cultivation of the Jade Maiden Heart Scripture, combined with her long-term suppression of her emotions, made her personality aloof and stubborn. It was impossible to change this through a short conversation, and it could only be done slowly. Absolutely couldn't rush things, or else it would likely have the opposite effect and provoke her displeasure.

  In the world of martial arts, strength is king. Wu Ming deeply understood this point. Since he had the opportunity to cultivate on the Cold Jade Bed, he naturally wanted to make good use of it.

  Then Wu Ming gathered his mind and began to cultivate "Spring Sun Melting Snow".

  "Spring Sun Melting Snow Skill" is very mysterious in "Jianghu Legend", many people think it's just a way to absorb others' internal energy, but they don't know that it can also absorb the heaven and earth's Qi for one's own use, equivalent to an extremely profound internal martial art.

  Of course, the effect of absorbing the aura of heaven and earth is far from being as obvious as directly absorbing the inner strength from a master's body, and it is easy to overlook this effect.

  However, the extremely cold air contained in this jade bed is the essence of the gathering of heaven and earth's energy, which coincidentally matches the artistic conception of spring sun melting snow, and is an excellent aid for cultivating "Spring Sun Melting Snow Skill".

  Wu Ming, who had calmed down, absorbed a lot of extremely cold air from the Ice Bed in just a short while. He combined it with some internal energy he had taken from Zhao Zhi Jing's body in the evening and, through the "Spring Sun Melting Snow Technique", slowly transformed it into a very pure congenital Qi, which gradually entered his Dantian.

  This wonderful feeling made Wu Ming even more understand the wonder of "Spring Sun Melting Snow" and the preciousness of the Cold Jade Bed, and soon he was fully immersed in it.

  One night without words, Wu Ming was almost in a state of meditation with no thoughts, until Xiaolongnv called him, and he suddenly woke up.

  "Sister, is it dawn?" Just one night's work, Wu Ming felt that the inner strength contained in his body had increased by a full double. Lying on the icy jade bed, he not only didn't feel a hint of coldness, but instead had an indescribable sense of refreshment. This strange feeling made him ecstatic.

  "It's already bright outside, it's just that you can't see it from here. By the way, how was your practice last night? Was it cold?"

  Wu Ming replied: "At first it was indeed very cold, but later I slowly got used to it. I know that my master sister is doing this for my own good, and I won't be afraid of the cold."

  "Hmm, it's comforting to think that you can think of Shifu like that. Alright, get up and wash up, after breakfast I'll go catch some sparrows, during the day I'll teach you new things, at that time you must study hard, got it?"

  "Got it, Sister."

  In ancient times, there was no toothbrush or toothpaste, and people could only use salt to rinse their mouths. Although Wu Ming was somewhat unaccustomed to it, he had to accept this reality.

  After washing up, Wu Ming followed Xiaolongnv to the kitchen again and found that Sun Bao had already cooked porridge.

  "Girls, kids, you're up, let's have dinner then."

  A sense of home emerged, and Wu Ming's heart was filled with a happy taste.

  After finishing breakfast, Little Dragon Girl indeed went out to catch sparrows, while Old Lady Sun told Wu Ming that she was going out to buy some daily necessities.

  In the past when there were only two people, due to Little Dragon Girl's indifference and the fact that neither of them had a big appetite, Old Lady Sun rarely went out hunting or buying daily necessities.

  It's different now, with Wu Ming added, and Sun Bao naturally wouldn't be slow to react when he grew up, so it was decided to go down the mountain to buy some daily necessities.

  As they were about to leave, Old Lady Sun was worried that Wu Ming would get lost in the underground tunnels like last time, so she specifically instructed: "Child, you must not run around randomly when you're alone in the ancient tomb, do you understand?"

  "Mom, don't worry, this time I definitely won't run around." Wu Ming nodded in response, but in his heart he was thinking, now that he had the ancient tomb map, he could go wherever he wanted, no need to run around.

  Little Dragon Girl and Granny Sun left the ancient tomb one after another, which was exactly the perfect opportunity for Wu Ming to find the "Nine Yin True Classic".

  Wu Ming quickly took out the ancient tomb map and began searching for the location of the stone coffin.

  The ancient tomb map was very detailed, and Wu Ming often played games, so he had a good understanding of the map. After a short while, he found the chamber where the stone coffin was located.

  "If it's still the same as what was said in Shen Diao, then it should be here."

  Wu Ming was extremely excited, with the "Nine Yin True Classic", not only could he restore Granny Sun's appearance, but also make Little Dragon Girl abandon the "Jade Maiden Heart Scripture". As for how to persuade Little Dragon Girl to practice another skill later on, Wu Ming believed that he would definitely think of a way.

  Taking up the firewood and lighting the candle, Wu Ming followed the direction indicated by the map, passing through the crisscrossing ancient tomb passages, and arrived at his destination smoothly.

  Opening the stone gate of the tomb, Wu Ming indeed found five stone coffins inside.

  Although Wu Ming was an atheist, seeing the stone coffin with his own eyes, combined with the dim environment, he still felt a faint sense of tension in his heart.

  Taking a deep breath, Wu Ming calmed himself down.

  According to the description in The Return of the Condor Hero, two of these five stone coffins have already been buried with people inside, namely Lin Chaoying and the master of Xiaolongnu.

  The remaining three were empty.

  If there was no ancient tomb map, Wu Ming would have to find out which specific stone coffin it was, after all, the description in the Divine Eagle was already vague, and with the passage of time, how could Wu Ming remember so clearly.

  However, now with the ancient tomb map, Wu Ming glanced at it and immediately found the correct stone coffin.

  He opened the coffin lid, Wu Ming crawled in, lay flat, and under the candlelight, he found sixteen big characters on the inside of the coffin lid: "Yu Nu Xin Jing, skill suppresses Quanzhen. Chongyang is born, not weaker than others."

  As soon as Wu Ming saw these words, he knew that there was no mistake. At the same time, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. This Wang Chongyang was indeed a competitive person. When everyone else is dead, what's the point of still being so stubborn?

  Apart from the large characters, there are many small ones, on which is written the method of opening the stone chamber.

  In fact, even without these words, Wu Ming was not afraid, because on the ancient tomb map there was an introduction to the opening mechanism.

  Then, Wu Ming found a recessed mechanism in the stone coffin and opened the hidden stone chamber under the coffin according to Wang Chongyang's method.

  The room is extremely spacious and has nothing special about it.

  Wu Ming knew that the "Nine Yin Manual" was engraved on the top of the stone chamber.

  As expected, Wu Ming raised his eyes and under the candlelight, he found a dense array of words, with the four largest characters on the far right reading: "Nine Yin True Classics".

  By the candlelight, Wu Ming carefully browsed and found that the "Nine Yin Scripture" was indeed extraordinary, but at the same time it was also very obscure and difficult to understand. Even if he had successfully found the "Nine Yin Scripture" the night before last, he would absolutely not be able to learn any of its powerful techniques.

  Since it's impossible to learn in a short time, Wu Ming had no choice but to memorize it by rote first and then slowly ponder and comprehend it later.

  Because of the "Nine Yin Scripture" being obscure and difficult to remember, Wu Ming spent a long time memorizing it all, and then checked it again, only returning along the original route after verifying that there were no mistakes.