Blind Spot
Chapter 434 - 396 Source 2

Chapter 434: 396 Source 2

"Come over here, Third," Wang Yifeng called to his youngest son, Wang Yichen, with a wave of his hand, signaling him to come closer, looking quite irritated.

"If you’re going to look, do it openly, not skulking in the corner sneaking around. What does that look like!?"

Li Chengyi blinked and approached.

"It’s like this, I’ve encountered some problems while training and intended to ask my second sister for advice. Then I saw eldest brother burst in asking for money, and then..."

"It was right for the little brother not to come out; otherwise, if he were encountered by the eldest brother again... I’m afraid even he would not escape his harm," Wang Yiheng said helplessly. Her own pocket money had been taken by the eldest brother too, otherwise, she would not have overestimated her own strength and started a fight with him.

"This beast!" Wang Yifeng slammed his hand hard against the big tree in the garden once more. Without using True Qi, he caused the leaves to rustle and fall.

"You’ve just started training, just begun to cultivate True Qi. If you have any problems, ask me directly, not your second sister." His temper had somewhat subsided as he turned his gaze back to Li Chengyi.

Thinking that at least his third son seemed to have had a change of heart and had persisted in hard training for over two months, he felt somewhat comforted and took the initiative to speak up.

"Uh, it’s like this. When I’m refining True Qi, sometimes, even though my body feels good and my spirit is fine, why can I only refine such a small amount each day? Where does this True Qi come from? Isn’t it as the heart method says, formed from our own essence, blood, and spiritual qi?"

Li Chengyi asked aloud.

"So that’s the problem," nodded Wang Yifeng. "The fact that you’re asking this question proves you’ve been sincerely practicing for these two months, not just pretending."

Feeling much more pleasant, he immediately organized his thoughts and explained.

"Speaking of this, it’s about the origin of True Qi."

"Actually, all True Qi has one thing in common, and that is, where there is True Qi, there must be false Qi."

"The Qi spoken of in our medical texts, which assumes essence and spirit, is considered by us martial artists as false Qi.

Between false Qi and True Qi, there’s actually just one thing missing, and this one thing is what fundamentally differentiates the two."

"What is it?" Li Chengyi felt a stir in his heart. He had intended to ask casually, not expecting that his predecessor of a father actually seemed to have a real answer.

"It is the Essence of the True Seal," replied Wang Yifeng.

"The Essence of the True Seal?"

"As the name implies, it is the essence sprinkled from the True Seal. This bit of essence, when attracted and absorbed into our bodies, merges with our essence and blood, and becomes True Qi," Wang Yifeng said seriously.

"As for this True Seal, it is a special mark that inevitably appears among all living beings in the world during their essential sublimation. When you reach a certain limit, your own nature will be restricted by the innate, unable to make any progress. At that time, you must borrow the power of the True Seal to step into a new realm."

"Legend has it that many years ago, our martial ancestors discovered the existence of the True Seal this way.

Subsequently, the ancestors felt that the difficulty and danger of breaking through with the aid of the True Seal at the end were too great, so they devised a method to divide it into many steps and spread it across different stages. This led to the formation of the current martial arts system."

"Then... our Pine Deer Blade!?" Li Chengyi’s heart was slightly shaken.

"Yes, our Pine Deer Blade is also a technique that the ancestors of our Wang Family derived from observing some Five-Color Rank superior martial arts. However, because their understanding was not deep enough, they only acquired the method for cultivating and refining Pine Pattern Energy. The subsequent blade technique was then pieced together from others they sought out," Wang Yifeng confirmed.

Wang Yifeng paused.

"Actually, every martial art in this world needs to attract the Essence of the True Seal in order to cultivate True Qi. There are countless martial arts and infinitely many True Seals associated with them. Our Wang Family’s Pine Deer Blade was uniquely conceived by our ancestor Wang Congzhi, who observed the fight between deer kings and the growth of pine and cypress trees."

He looked at his youngest son, who was listening with rapt attention, and felt increasingly gratified. Previously, when he talked about these matters, his youngest son was quite impatient.

It seemed that after going out and returning, the prodigal son really had come back to his senses.

"Speaking of which, do you know that True Seals also have a spirit? Each kind is only connected to a corresponding martial art. Unless the practitioner of that martial art perishes, that True Seal can only serve one martial art."

"True Seals have a spirit?" Li Chengyi, who initially thought that True Seals were very similar to Imprints, now saw that there seemed to be some differences.

"Could it be that True Seals are living entities?" he asked incredulously.

"At any rate, our ancestor Wang Congzhi mentioned in his handwritten notes that True Seals have strengths and weaknesses. By the time he created his technique, the powerful True Seals had already been selected, leaving only many obscure and weak ones. He had to forge his own path and it wasn’t easy to sense a True Seal that no one else had discovered," Wang Yifeng explained.

Hearing this, Li Chengyi understood why the Essence of the True Seal could be controlled by his Power of Flower Language. Turns out, it really was a living entity.

"Then, in that case, if the spirit of the True Seal harvests the essence, wouldn’t we be..." His face showed a look of concern.

"Our ancestor did mention this. Although True Seal spirits are living entities, they lack divine wisdom and possess only simple instincts similar to those of animals. For example, our Pine Pattern Energy has only the instincts of pine and cypress trees. When cultivated to its utmost, it will transform into the energy of the deer king. However, the secret technique for cultivating deer king energy was lost in previous generations," he said, smiling.

Seeing the look of disappointment in his youngest son’s eyes, he continued.

"Don’t worry about it. The energy of the deer king might sound impressive, but its effects are far weaker than those of Pine Pattern Energy. It’s a special kind of True Qi that cannot harm anyone and its only purpose is to heal and grow bones.

Because it’s so weak and difficult to train, your great-grandfather simply couldn’t be bothered with it and only cultivated Pine Pattern Energy. Over time, it was lost through the generations."

"...I see..." Li Chengyi nodded, having come to an understanding.

"Speaking of which, you’ve also trained in Pine Pattern Energy for two months now. Let me take a look, how is your progress? Have you managed to cultivate a strand of True Qi?" Wang Yifeng, in a good mood, turned to his third son.

"I did manage to cultivate it... otherwise, how could I sense the differences within it? But... I feel that what I’ve cultivated... might be somewhat incorrect..." Li Chengyi hesitated.

"What’s incorrect? I’ve trained in Pine Pattern Energy for more than twenty years, and I have a thorough understanding of every step. If there’s any difficulty or problem, just tell me!" Wang Yifeng said.

"It’s like this..." Li Chengyi glanced at him, and then at Wang Yiheng and Wang Lin’s Clan beside him.

All three were curious about what he had managed to cultivate, and the incidents caused by his older brother seemed less significant for the moment.

"How is it?" Wang Yiheng asked. "Don’t beat around the bush, can you just be straightforward?"

"...Alright... I just feel that it’s a bit abnormal... so I’m worried...." Li Chengyi hesitated.

"Where is it abnormal? Is the True Qi you’ve refined too weak?" Wang Yiheng frowned.

Looking at her hesitating younger brother, she urged him.

"Just say it. If you don’t speak up, how can father know what the problem is?"

"So I said it, huh?"

"Say it!"

"Did I really say it?" Li Chengyi looked at the three people in front of him.

"Say it! No matter how bad it is, it can’t be that it’s not Pine Pattern Energy, right??" Wang Yifeng couldn’t stand it anymore and urged aloud.

"I just..." Li Chengyi hesitated, "feel like the True Qi I’ve refined is a bit too much..."

"A lot?" Wang Yifeng frowned and sized up the youngest, "You’ve only practiced for two months, how much can there be? Just this and you’re calling it a lot? Look at how spineless you are!"

He walked to the middle of Sifang Garden and patted his chest.

"Come on, hit me here. You only know if you’ve got a lot of True Qi when you use it. Let me show you what really a lot means."

Li Chengyi blinked, feeling like he had seen this scene before.

"That’s not good, I really feel like I have a bit too much True Qi..."

"Stop the nonsense, let your dad see how much you think is a lot," Wang Yifeng said impatiently, patting his chest.

"Come on, hit with all you’ve got. Today I’m going to teach you a lesson, that you only regret not having enough True Qi when you need it!"

Li Chengyi looked at his second sister, Wang Yiheng, who made a gesture with her eyes, "What are you looking at me for, go on."

"So I’m going to hit?"

"Hit!"

Wang Yifeng patted his chest and took a horse stance.

Then, the three people in the garden saw Li Chengyi raise a hand, palm up, in front of his chest.

A strand of white True Qi surged rapidly around the edge of his palm.

Then came two strands.

Three strands.

Ten strands.

A hundred strands...

Innumerable strands of True Qi wrapped around his palm and entire arm, lighting up with a dazzling white glow.

Six indistinct pine patterns slowly became visible, flickering within the True Qi.

"!!!??"

"!!?"

"!!!!"

At first, the three of them were normal.

Then, as more and more True Qi surged from Li Chengyi, their expressions started to go out of control.

Wang Lin’s clan member was fine, she didn’t practice martial arts and simply felt there was a lot, only surprised.

It was Wang Yiheng and Wang Yifeng who could not understand at all, their mouths starting as small o’s, and as the True Qi kept increasing, their mouths open wider.

When the six pine patterns emerged, their mouths were completely agape.

"You you you you...!?!!" Wang Yifeng pointed at Li Chengyi, and for a moment, his mind was a chaos, unable to form any words.

You call this a little more?!?

Wang Yifeng felt like he had lived for decades and that all of his lifelong beliefs were collapsing on this day.

The junior son practiced for two months and managed to have six pine patterns!? Two months equaled his six years of practice!?

Even the tales in mythological storybooks weren’t this exaggerated!?

It was too exaggerated!?

It was so exaggerated that he began to think he was dreaming, and couldn’t help but pinch his own thigh hard.

Hissss.

The sharp pain from the bruised thigh confirmed that he was not dreaming, but witnessing it with his own eyes.

"Little brother... how exactly did you practice this!?" Wang Yiheng beside him shifted her shocked gaze to a perplexed one, clearly beginning to doubt her life.

"I just practiced this way, isn’t all True Qi like that?" Li Chengyi said blankly.

With the Shadow Exchange Ability, he had now completely absorbed Wang Yichen, and to understand the truth of True Qi in this world, he had considered keeping it a secret from those around him, but eventually decided against it.

It was too tiring to hide it from the people close to him, there were too many traces, and very hard to do without any flaws.

So, creating a suitable genius identity and then gradually spreading fame to enter the world’s official circles through the proper channels to gather information became his plan at this time.

Looking at the stunned expressions of his former family in the garden, unable to process the shock, Li Chengyi felt like he might have gone a bit too far.

But without going this far, there was no way to leave this small town quickly, from the information he had at hand.

Without the spread of a prodigious talent, to be specially admitted officially and leave here would be more difficult than reaching the heavens.