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Chapter 1065 - Chapter 1065 Chapter 359 Provoking and Being Provoked

Chapter 1065: Chapter 359: Provoking and Being Provoked Chapter 1065: Chapter 359: Provoking and Being Provoked Having arrived at Brother Tian’s home, Tang Luo expected things to get better, only to find that Brother Tian would be gone for the entirety of a day. As he waited in vain for Brother Tian’s return, Tang Luo had already made some calculations: if Brother Tian didn’t return within three days, he would employ the Immortal Wind Cloud Body Technique to float into the courtyard and nibble on some raw corn–it wouldn’t matter if it was uncooked.

Fortunately, Brother Tian returned early, preventing Tang Luo from resorting to that last measure. Although Tang Luo looked weak, he was far from his limit–it was just that he appeared rather pitiable. Nevertheless, to prevent Brother Tian from leaving for an extended period again, Tang Luo felt it was necessary to take some precautionary measures.

“My physical body has been shattered and has lost its connection with the Heavenly and Earthly Qi, all breath has ceased, and without nourishment, I am naturally extremely weak.”

After some thought, Tang Luo decided to conceal part of the situation and revealed only a portion of the truth about his condition: “If you had come back any later, I might have starved to death.”

“Ah!” Brother Tian’s expression stiffened. He had thought it wouldn’t matter much if he left Tang Luo alone at home for three days, yet after just one day, Tang Luo seemed as if he were about to die.

Evidently, he could not watch over Tang Luo day and night, for sometimes he himself had no idea when he would return. But he had already saved the man’s life; he couldn’t just send him back to Fuyun Temple.

Brother Tian worried inwardly, starting to consider whether he should wait until Tang Luo was able to move around freely before heading out again. However, given Tang Luo’s current state, it was utterly impossible for him to get up and move around for at least another three to five months.

While this time span wasn’t too long, Brother Tian still had a mission to fulfill. If no intelligence was relayed back, his boss would surely make wild guesses–and it would be bad if they showed up at Chaochang!

Observing the changes in Brother Tian’s expression, Tang Luo had no idea about the drama playing out inside his mind but felt it was time to start making requests: “Cough, actually, you don’t need to worry too much. Just leave some corn cobs and water in my room, and that way, I won’t starve or die of thirst!”

Before one’s body underwent complete spirit qualification, the stronger the physical body, the greater the need for an energy supply. Aside from cultivating, the most important way for martial artists to replenish energy was through food intake.

Thus, the notion of “the rich in literature, the mighty in martial arts.” Only those who ate well could maintain a strong physique. For martial artists who had not yet entered the Fierce Realm, a strong physique meant everything.

Spiritual Food beast meat and precious natural treasures were valuable sources of energy. The Martial Hall’s biggest expenditure was always the dining department; even compared to the medical hall, its consumption was insignificant.

When he left Longxi, he brought a total of three Top-Grade Tai Sui to replenish nutrition, but now all three were stuck inside his Void Stomach, unreachable. To access the contents of his secondary stomachs beyond the main one, he needed to redraw the Divine Array with ten patterns on his lower abdomen.

The Divine Arrays on the Undying Battle Body, each of at least fifth rank, were never independent of each other. To reactivate the lower abdominal Divine Array, he had to recast the arrays on both arms, the upper chest, the middle abdomen, and the lower back.

The internal spirit array of the Undying Battle Body had over three thousand Spiritual Power nodes in each array, and activating a fifth rank required activating over fifteen thousand nodes. Tang Luo’s meridians were shattered; he lacked the ability to flow Spiritual Power into arrays. Even if his meridians were intact, with only 1233 points of Spiritual Power to his name, he still couldn’t activate a fifth-rank Divine Array even if he stretched his Spiritual Power thin.

When one is under someone else’s roof, one must bow.

In fact, from the first meeting with Brother Tian, Tang Luo had been certain that Brother Tian, staying in Chaochang, must have a significant plan. This was not only because the other was a descendant of the Yun Clan and possessed the Immortal Cloud Whisk Soul.

It was also because, from the very first meeting, Brother Tian had presented himself with a false facade. Tang Luo could clearly see that Brother Tian’s current appearance was molded by a stream of pure Spiritual Energy, including his body shape and posture, all cloaked within the Yun Clan Spiritual Technique.

Even Tang Luo’s eyes could only see a hazy outline, unable to glimpse the true essence within. This was even more exquisite than the Liu Clan’s Illusion Demon Body Technique seen on Martial Saint Mountain. The Yun Clan’s face-changing technique was indeed the best in the world, its reputation well earned.

Now that his body was in such a condition, Tang Luo was no longer in a hurry. After all, he couldn’t leave Brother Tian, since the Divine Symbol inside him would have been exposed long ago without the suppression of the Immortal Cloud Whisk Soul.

As a worldly scion deeply versed in the ways of the world, Tang Luo would never let his injuries hinder Brother Tian’s important matters. After all, Brother Tian had saved his life, so the request he made would definitely be within the bounds of reason.

Brother Tian couldn’t have imagined that the problem plaguing him had such a simple solution and he said with doubt, “This won’t do, this won’t do. You can only move your head right now, and with only corn stubs and Clear Water left in the house, how will you eat?”

Tang Luo did not respond; he simply controlled his Spiritual Power to spray out a small cloud hand from his navel, which appeared and vanished instantly. If it weren’t for Brother Tian’s sharp eyes, he would have thought it an illusion.

“The Yun Clan’s techniques have spread throughout Longzhou, and although the cloud hand is not considered an exceptionally outstanding Spirit Art, it is easy to condense and simple to control. With my current level of Spiritual Power, a range of barely a few feet is no problem!”

In Tang Luo’s mind, he thought he was being modest, but to Brother Tian’s ears, it sounded like an outright boast.

Because of the call to lift the martial restrictions by the sacred land, the Yun Family from Chaochang made their archive of knowledge public during that special period, not even hoarding the methods of transforming Spiritual Energy into cloud miasma.

As a result, during that time in Longzhou, eight out of ten wandering martial artists were practicing the Yun Clan’s Spiritual Technique. This situation only gradually came to a halt when the major families started creating many different sects’ techniques through the analysis of Spiritual Power by Xu Sheng.

Even now, in an era flourishing with martial arts, the Yun Clan’s Spiritual Techniques remain one of the choices for wandering martial artists because the transformed cloud miasma, although not having any distinctly outstanding attributes, is not suppressed by Five Elements Spiritual Power. That alone makes it incomparable to those highly specialized techniques on the market.

The only complaint is that it is quite difficult to cultivate the Yun Clan’s Spiritual Techniques, or rather, for ordinary people, there are only two outcomes of practicing them: they either surpass everyone else or are surpassed by everyone else.

Just as Brother Tian, who had seen Tang Luo condense a cloud hand using the Divine Cavity, was about to compliment him, he grew unhappy on hearing this remark, “With your skill, who needs a few feet? Seeing you use the Divine Cavity to make a cloud hand, even if you place the corn sack outside the door and tie it tight, it wouldn’t matter, right?”

“Uh…” Tang Luo, who had no idea what he had done to make Brother Tian lose his temper, paused and then suggested gently, “Placing it at the door? That works, but there’s no need to tie it tight–that would be quite troublesome to untie.”

“Hmph, hmph!”

Brother Tian, vexed, huffed twice, unable to **** speak, and turned to leave angrily.

After a while, he came back in, holding a large jug of medicine and roughly poured it into Tang Luo’s mouth.

Inside, he was still roaring wildly, “You’re capable, so capable! You’re the greatest, able to produce a cloud hand with the Divine Cavity. You’re so impressive; it’s all so simple and easy for you. I’ll drown you, drown you!”