Master of Kaidan
Chapter 277 Mystical Lord

Chapter 277: Chapter 277 Mystical Lord

"Life and death are like yin and yang, two sides of the same coin, ’solitary yin does not generate, lone yang does not prosper.’ So it is with life and death, the so-called metabolism, decaying to bring forth new growth, the cycle of withering and flourishing, only then can it endure long..."

In the morning, Feng Xue stood in front of the Mystical Lord Pavilion, explaining the essentials of the Mystical Lord Secret Scripture to many Jianghu figures. Although in the past half year, most common questions could already be answered in the "Mystical Lord Hundred Solutions," to maintain interest, Feng Xue still lectured weekly at the front of the Mystical Lord Pavilion for ’preaching and solving doubts.’ The content was not necessarily confined to the Mystical Lord Secret Scripture; sometimes he would also use some Kung Fu developed by Jianghu people based on the scripture as examples to broaden everyone’s horizons, thus preventing it from becoming "an old chestnut’s tale."

Just as Feng Xue was using the life and death philosophy in the "Immortal Sand Soul Returning Skill" to explain various problems easily encountered during training, a sudden noise came from the northeast direction.

Although it was an open-air environment, everyone would remain silent during Feng Xue’s lectures, and most of those present were Jianghu figures with keen senses, making that noise particularly jarring in such an environment.

The noise gradually approached, the sound of metal clashing with the ground mixed with faint shouting, causing many martial arts veterans to frown. However, as the voices shouting "Guo Degang, Guo Degang, Guo Degang..." grew clearer, they suddenly became serious.

After all, in Jining City, only one type of person could be riding horses at full gallop!

Sure enough, as seven or eight riders in conspicuous red vests, holding command flags, charged through the streets, their voices finally became clear—

"Great victory in Qing Province! Great victory in Qing Province! The Demon Extermination Department’s Yellow-Clothed Guards have successfully captured Le’an, and the surrounding Demon Sect demons have been cleared..."

The squad of riders shouted as they galloped southwestward, and before they disappeared from view, the previously quiet square erupted into a frenzy.

Feng Xue’s expression subtly shifted as he watched the riders gradually disappear from the horizon. However, before he could restore classroom order, he was slightly stunned, because as the good news spread throughout Jining City, the accumulated "Identity" over several months was finally fully ignited.

Metamorphosis thus began.

Labels within his body continuously separated and recombined within the vortex, then, like sparks shooting out from the extreme friction of high-speed rotation, a strand of deep black, yet slightly eerie blood-colored flame flickered beside the gray-black gradient of the Kaidan Fire.

The Kaidan was born.

Entry: Mystical Lord Label: [Heavenly Pride], [Grandmaster], [Savior], [Renowned Sect], [Scholarly], [Healing the World], [Mastercraft Artisan], [Martial Arts Legend], [Reclusive Sect’s Disciple]

Introduction: A legendary Heavenly Pride who emerged from nowhere, an outworldly disciple of the mythical hidden sect "Mechanical Palace," not only possessing supreme martial arts, but also having profound achievements in forging and medical skills.

He once ventured into Qing Province alone, facing countless difficulties, slaying innumerable Demon Sect demons. Upon his return, he compiled his experiences, insights, and all he had learned into a book and spread it widely, naming it "Mystical Lord Secret Scripture."

This work contains seven sections: inner strength, mental methods, cross training, fists and feet, weapons, movement technique, and medical skills. Hence, it is also known as "Mystical Lord Seven Chapters Secret Scripture," forming the foundational Strange Book that finally provided the martial arts of Chu Country with the ability to confront the Demon Sect demons head-on.

It was precisely because of his emergence that Chu Country, after more than two hundred years, finally reclaimed territory from the Demon Sect demons.

He was the backbone against the Demon Sect demons, a heroic savior of the people of the Chu Country.

The only regrettable thing was, he never publicly revealed his name, and people could only refer to him as "Mystical Lord" based on the name of the "Mystical Lord Secret Scripture."

Power: [Evil Slayer], [Cleverly Crafted], [Martial Arts Legend], [Mystic Lord Pavilion Master]

Current World Rules: [Preaching and solving doubts]

Companion Phantom Objects: [Yellow Robe], [Iron Armor], [Mystical Lord Secret Scripture]

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"Wow, this is really impressive!" Feng Xue felt the power transmitted from the Kaidan Fire. Although currently, the strength of this Kaidan far surpassed [Libra-Swearer], that was because not many people knew about this news yet.

Ultimately, the strength of the Mystical Lord’s Kaidan did not lie in his personal power, but in the influence of his teaching cultivation techniques. Before Qing Province was reclaimed, he was just a "slightly famous" martial arts veteran, at most a "Martial Arts Legend," but with the place named "Le’an" being retaken, his status instantly became the only major victory in two hundred years.

And it could be foreseen that as more people mastering the Mystical Lord Secret Scripture gradually reclaimed territories, the Mystical Lord’s Kaidan would grow stronger and stronger. If one day, Chu Country could eradicate all Demon Sect demons on this planet, then the Mystical Lord would undoubtedly become a planet-level super Kaidan, not like the dispersed Kaidan of "Everyone in Yan Country practices martial arts," but a super cake enjoyed solely by him!

"The future is promising, the future is promising indeed!"

Seeing the students already unable to contain their joy, Feng Xue, the teacher, joined in their happiness, but no one knew that this martial arts legend was actually reveling in his own power—

[Evil Slayer] didn’t need much explanation, it was an attack-type label, providing damage bonuses against the enemy evil faction. Moreover, as the evil’s degree, influence, and fame increased, the damage also enhanced.

[Cleverly Crafted] was a manufacturing-type power, in a sense inheriting the legacy of the so-called "Mechanical Palace" of this world, allowing Feng Xue to truly craft all kinds of weapons instead of crudely inserting a Full Bottle into a weapon to masquerade as a divine weapon (the bottle could provide enhancements even without transformation).

Compared to the first two, [Martial Arts Legend] as a power was somewhat redundant. It did not grant Feng Xue the highest combat power in martial arts, nor did it make him always enter a battle with only ten percent strength left. Essentially, it was a "reputation-type" power.

To put it simply, as long as Feng Xue faced "martial artists," they would invariably regard Feng Xue as a "Martial Arts Legend," even if they had no idea what remarkable deeds Feng Xue had accomplished. They would still have the cognition of "I have long admired your great name, so it really is the legendary Martial Arts Legend."

However, from the perspective of Kaidan propagation, this power could not be considered useless.

Although these three powers were quite good, compared to [Mystic Lord Pavilion Master], they were secondary at best—

As the owner of the Mystical Lord Pavilion, Feng Xue held "sovereignty" over all cultivation techniques within the pavilion. Simply put, this power allowed Feng Xue to learn everything placed into the Mystical Lord Pavilion.

Don’t underestimate this, for ultimately, the Mystical Lord Secret Scripture, this set of martial arts, was essentially a creation brought to life by combining the illusions and powers such as "Masked Rider System," "Enemy and I of the Same Source," "Revision." Many aspects theoretically seemed like martial arts, but in reality, they were not martial arts.

From a certain perspective, the Mystical Lord Secret Scripture was essentially a deception. The initial part Feng Xue took out was just a cultivation technique developed using the safely modified demonic Qi powered by the Knight System.

Of course, his public explanation was that this was the basis of the seven parts of the Mystical Lord Secret Scripture, used to comprehend the characteristics of demonic Qi. Only by understanding the characteristics of demonic Qi could everyone learn the subsequent content. In truth, the subsequent content didn’t even exist!

However, the creativity of the people was boundless. The reason they had been pushed to such a state by the Demon Sect demons was purely that demonic Qi was something they couldn’t study.

When Feng Xue displayed the "demonic Qi" purified by the Knight System as "True Qi cultivated from the Mystical Lord Secret Scripture" to those initial Jianghu elders, martial arts heroes, and renowned doctors, they utilized Feng Xue’s modern medical and anatomical theories (Ganoderma Life Extension Method) along with their own martial and medical experiences to research various experimental cultivation techniques.

Feng Xue then used Mo Ju’s power of [Revision] to alter, refine, and cloak these created techniques, presenting them as the "more advanced parts" of the Mystical Lord Secret Scripture. Through such a positive cycle, as the Mystical Lord Pavilion filled with numerous insights and secret manuals, the Mystical Lord Secret Scripture truly took shape.

From a certain perspective, it was actually a crowdfunded martial art concentrating the wisdom of countless Heavenly Prides in the entire martial arts world.

As the foundation of this crowdfunded martial art, the importance of the "Mystical Lord Pavilion" was self-evident, and coupled with Feng Xue’s current promotion of martial arts sharing systems, as long as they persisted, Feng Xue had no doubt he would have an inexhaustible question bank—at the very least, it would fill the gap left by supreme martial arts existing only as top-level martial arts.