Chapter 6: The Disciple of Guiguzi

  After doing all this, Li Huan carefully picked up the box and came to the table, with a hesitant look in his eyes. This box was left to him by his grandfather before he passed away, and his grandfather had repeatedly warned him not to open it casually, or else it would be harmful to him.

  At first, Li Huan didn't pay much attention to it and just kept the box as a memento of his grandfather's past. However, after today's events, Li Huan gradually realized that this box might not be as simple as he had imagined, and he had an intuition that everything about his grandfather would become clear once he opened it.

  But recalling his grandfather's last words, Li Huan was again in a dilemma, until finally curiosity overcame reason. Li Huan couldn't help but want to open the box, he was really curious about his grandfather's identity and wanted to know what kind of person his grandfather was.

  "Click!" Soon, Li Huan easily opened the iron box. In front of him was a letter, under which was a white leather book with no words on it, and next to it was a jade box placed beside it. Li Huan saw this and slowly picked up the letter below.

  All that can be seen is the six powerful characters "My grandson Haonan personally opened" written on the envelope, and just these six characters can show that the calligraphy of the person who wrote the letter has reached a state of being extremely practiced, giving people a shocking feeling.

  Li Huan was shocked when he saw the six words, he didn't expect to find a letter from his grandfather here. He hastily opened the letter and began to read it line by line.

  But soon Li Huan's face began to change slowly, from curiosity to surprise, and then to shock. After finishing reading, his eyes were filled with an incredulous expression, as if a storm had been stirred up in his heart that could not calm down for a long time.

  "How is this possible! It's actually like this, Grandfather is a super master!" Li Huan muttered in disbelief, recalling that the grandfather who could be blown down by a gust of wind was actually a super master, which made it difficult for Li Huan to accept. However, he had no choice but to accept the reality before his eyes.

  Li Huan stood there with the letter in his hand, dazed and confused, his mind filled with the contents of the letter he had just read.

  From the letter, Li Huan finally understood his grandfather's past deeds. From the letter, Li Huan also knew that there was an unknown world around him, which was the world of martial artists. The masters of the martial arts world actually existed, but they were not known to the public in peacetime. His own grandfather was one of them and was even a super strong man with a great reputation in the martial arts world.

  His grandfather, Zhang Daoxuan, was the leader of the Gui Gu Men sect in this generation. The Gui Gu Men sect was founded by Gui Guzi during the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period, and it had been passed down to his grandfather's generation for 136 generations. The Gui Gu Men sect was well-known in Jianghu, and no matter which historical dynasty, the Gui Gu Men sect always produced talented people. People like Zhuge Liang, Dongfang Shuo, Li Jing, and Liu Bowen were all disciples of the Gui Gu Men sect, but very few people knew about it.

  However, in modern times, due to some historical reasons, the Onmyodo school gradually declined and was no longer as prosperous as before. It slowly branched out into several factions, while the core disciples of Onmyodo became a single-generation transmission. Gradually, the connection between the core disciples of Onmyodo and other branches also became less frequent.

  However, no one has ever dared to challenge the authority of the Ghost Valley Sect, just like Li Huan's grandfather. Even if there was only one person left in the Ghost Valley Sect, no one would dare to challenge his authority. After all, the Ghost Valley Sect has been passed down for thousands of years and is too mysterious. Moreover, the Ghost Valley Sect's magical secret techniques have suppressed the thoughts of those who are eager to move.

  The Guiguzi school is divided into five major disciplines: Yi, Zhen, Shu, Qi and Qu. Yi mainly refers to the calculation of the heavenly cycle, predicting good or bad fortune, orthodox fortune-telling belongs to one of the categories of Yi. This discipline requires extremely high standards for learners, requiring people with exceptionally intelligent talent to learn, otherwise they can only enter the door but not achieve small enlightenment, let alone great enlightenment.

  The array mainly refers to marching and fighting, queuing and formation. The method generally refers to martial arts, since it is a Wulin school, the martial arts will not be lacking, and the unique skills of the Guiguzi school are coveted by all schools. The book is a general term, mainly involving qin, chess, calligraphy and painting can be considered as books. As for the last strange thing, it refers to strange people and events, plus some relatively magical techniques, such as easy change, alchemy and so on.

  Each of the Guiguzi's extraordinary skills is profound and vast. An ordinary person who masters one of them can rise to prominence, and those who master a few can gain great fame. This shows just how formidable they are. However, in the history of the Guiguzi school, except for the founder Guiguzi himself, no one has ever fully mastered all five skills. Even mastering four is extremely rare, and those who can master three are already considered geniuses. Generally, the leaders of the Guiguzi school throughout its history have only mastered two at most.

  His grandfather was a rare talent, proficient in three things: divination, magic and calligraphy. In terms of magic and calligraphy, he had reached the level of small accomplishment, but in terms of divination, he had reached the terrifying level of great accomplishment, which is rarely seen in history except for Guiguzi. Even looking at the history of the Gui Guzi school, there are only a handful of people who can bring divination to the level of great accomplishment.

  Relying on his grandfather's reputation as a godly calculator in the Jianghu, coupled with his skills reaching a small accomplishment, his combat strength was also very strong. Therefore, basically no one dared to provoke him in the Jianghu. However, it was precisely because of this that Li Huan's grandfather passed away prematurely.

  According to his grandfather's words in his heart, the Yi Nai Xian Shu is a forbidden technique for ordinary people. If one learns too much of it, they will inevitably suffer heavenly punishment. In his grandfather's words, the heavenly secrets cannot be revealed, and those who cultivate the Yi Nai Xian Shu are stealing glances at these secrets, thus they must suffer heavenly punishment. This was why his grandfather, with his pre-heavenly yellow-grade cultivation, only lived to be 150 years old.

  Martial arts level: Not entering the flow, three flows, two flows, one flow, post-heavenly great achievement, pre-heaven. Among them, pre-heaven is also divided into: Heaven, Earth, Xuan, Huang, and Human five levels.

  Don't look at the 150-year-old, it looks very long, but for a cultivator who has already advanced to the Xiantian Huang level, this is simply unthinkable. Because any martial arts master who enters the Xiantian realm has a lifespan of no less than 200 years, let alone a Xiantian Huang-level master. According to reason, masters of this level can live up to 250 years or more, and as their cultivation increases, their lifespan also becomes longer and longer. Legend has it that Tianjiu can shatter the void and coexist with heaven and earth.

  To say that a yellow-level master in the heyday of ancient martial arts may not be considered top-notch, but in the modern era where martial arts have declined, a congenital yellow-level is absolutely among the very best masters. As industrial civilization develops, the spiritual energy on earth becomes increasingly scarce, making it even more difficult to cultivate ancient martial arts. Those who can break through the innate are at most only two or three in a century, and as for breaking through to the yellow level, there isn't even one. This shows just how terrifying a yellow-level master is.

  Of course, this is not to say that there have only been a few innate masters in the past hundred years. What I mentioned earlier was about normal people making breakthroughs through their own efforts. There's another situation where one relies on external forces, such as using spiritual elixirs or miraculous medicines. In today's world, it's basically impossible to find these kinds of things, and even if they do exist, they're probably just remnants from ancient times. Apart from that, the only other option is to rely on someone else's help.

  For example, the transmission of power from a predecessor, an extremely powerful master can rely on their strong strength and thick internal energy to help a postnatal great master break through the innate level. However, this situation is very rare. On the one hand, the number of super masters is extremely small, and on the other hand, few people will waste so much energy to help others. You know that it takes at least ten years for the sheep to recover, unless it's a close relative, basically no one would do this, or they would only choose to do this when their time is almost up.

  Moreover, this approach also has a significant drawback for the recipient, because by relying on external forces to break through, it will be much more difficult to strive for higher levels in the future. Therefore, people with good qualifications generally do not choose this method.

  It's precisely because of these reasons that one can imagine how terrifying Li Huan's grandfather is, and apart from those super-old freaks who have been in seclusion for hundreds of years, no one else can rival him. It can be said that Li Huan's grandfather can absolutely sit on the throne of the number one martial artist since modern times.

  As for those old monsters, they have already reached the state of Tian Xian cultivation. They are all old monsters who survived from the past, and basically, none of them are under 500 years old. They also basically never ask about worldly affairs, with a single-minded focus on closed-door cultivation. Of course, people like this can be said to be extremely rare, even his grandfather has never seen one before, nor does he know how many such people exist.

  Li Huan's grandfather told him in the letter that Zhang Daoxuan originally wanted Li Huan to be the next generation of disciples of the Ghost Valley Sect, but unfortunately, after observing Li Huan, he found that Li Huan couldn't cultivate true energy no matter what method he tried. In the end, he gave up and the inheritance of the Ghost Valley Sect was also shelved.

  His grandfather had been to many places but couldn't find a suitable candidate, which became his heart disease. After all, the Ghost Valley Sect's inheritance of thousands of years would be cut off at his generation, which was unacceptable. Until he died, he used up his life's energy to divine one last time, and it showed that Li Huan was actually the turning point of the Ghost Valley Sect's fate. His grandfather had three parts surprise, three parts worry, and four parts doubt about this result, because he already knew that Li Huan absolutely couldn't cultivate. So for this result, he himself didn't know what to do, and in the end, he could only hide it and write it down in a letter, which was also a way of testing his luck.

  In the letter, it was mentioned that if Li Huan had the opportunity in the future, he would find a successor for the Gui Gu Valley sect. Of course, there was no need to deliberately do so, otherwise, he would have told Li Huan earlier. Another point is that Li Huan's grandfather, before his death, infused his lifelong skills into the Tianyuan Pearl, the secret treasure of the Zhensheng Sect of the Gui Gu Valley sect, and asked Li Huan to pass it on to the next generation of the sect leader. He also warned Li Huan that this matter must not be known to outsiders, otherwise, the consequences would be very severe.

  After all, this is the lifelong skill of a top-notch master, and for the current backward martial arts world, its appeal is exceptionally great. Coupled with the Ghost Valley Sect's shocking secret treasure and martial arts secret book, each one can make martial artists flock to it like a swarm of bees. Therefore, we must be extremely cautious, and finally, I entrusted Li Huan that the inner strength can only be absorbed when it reaches the realm of a top-notch master, otherwise, it will definitely explode and die. As for the Tianyuan Pearl, it is stored in that jade box.

  Then Li Huan picked up the white-skinned book below, opened the first page and immediately saw the four big characters "Gui Gu Qi Shu" written on it. After flipping through a few pages, Li Huan found that this was indeed the secret book of the Gui Gu Men's Zhen Pai, but his grandfather had already said that he couldn't cultivate it, so he could only reluctantly give up.

  As soon as he picked up the jade box and opened it gently, a white pearl appeared in front of Li Huan, emitting a soft white light that gave people a warm feeling. Li Huan knew this was the legendary Tianyuan Pearl, which also contained his grandfather's lifelong skills.

  After finishing, Li Huan also solemnly put away the pearl and covered the iron box. He glanced at the corner of the wall and was about to put it back when he suddenly felt that it wasn't very safe there. Suddenly, he had some doubts in his heart.

  Where to put it? It's definitely not safe at home, who knows when a thief will visit, but wearing it on the body is even more unsafe. If only there was a legendary storage treasure, from his grandfather's introduction, Li Huan also learned about some strange things, such as when one's power reaches the legendary heavenly level, they can create a kind of magical storage equipment, of course this thing only exists in legend, no one has ever seen it.