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Chapter 251 - 120 Martial Arts Legend, Undying Divine Skill_2

Chapter 251: Chapter 120 Martial Arts Legend, Undying Divine Skill_2

He had no choice but to test these medicines cautiously, pouring out just a little bit.

It took about half an hour.

In the end, he understood the functions of most of them.

There were a few bottles containing solutions that could corrode rock and steel.

Li Guanyi suspected they were super strong acids, as the steel visibly bubbled up and emitted a pungent white vapor upon contact.

Even the tough skin of a martial artist could not withstand contact with this substance.

Another was highly poisonous; Li Guanyi tested it on a snake, and the snake convulsed from the poison.

Yet another powder, upon application, melted skin and bone into a puddle of blood and water within just a few breaths.

Gradually, even the blood color faded, leaving only water.

Li Guanyi’s eyes twitched.

He thought back to his fight with Hou Zhongyu, recalling how the magician continually hurled porcelain bottles at him from his belt. Had it not been for his agility, he might have been struck, his armor melted to his skin, and hit with this substance, resulting in certain death.

There was also a bottle of anesthetic; merely opening it for an instant and then closing it caused half of Li Guanyi’s body to go numb. It took several breaths to recover.

There were also several bottles of Healing Pills and Qi Replenishing Pills.

Just by smelling them, Li Guanyi could tell that they were made with top-grade medicinal ingredients worthy of tribute. The effects of these pills were excellent, but Li Guanyi knew he could not consume them. High-level cultivators had tempered their stomachs, livers, and kidneys, endowing them with strong abilities to absorb medicinal effects and neutralize poisons.

If he took them, he would likely be poisoned on the spot.

After all, these were not of the same caliber as the Eternal Moon Undying Medicine.

After eighty years of tempering, the toxicity was extracted, and even so, if it weren’t for his Golden Muscle and Jade Bone physique, the battle-hardening against Hou Zhongyu, the empowerment from Tiger Roar Bone Forging Skills and the Four Symbols Sealing Spirit Formation, Li Guanyi would have been overwhelmed by the medicine, reduced to a slow-witted state.

Li Guanyi repackaged these elixir pills into new porcelain bottles and carried them with him.

The letter had yellowed with age; its words were simple and elegant. As Li Guanyi read it, he was momentarily taken aback. This letter wasn’t written by Hou Zhongyu; it was the account of Hou Zhongyu’s teacher. Yet surprisingly, Hou Zhongyu had always kept it.

It was a letter written by Hou Zhongyu’s teacher to a friend.

’Brother Zhou, it’s like seeing your face when seeing your words.’

’I have left my master and taken his Cultivation Technique with me. After much deliberation, only by seeking refuge with the Chen Kingdom Royal Family can I evade my master’s wrath. It’s not that I forsook the kindness of my teacher, but ever since that day when he met the green-robed guest, he changed, becoming increasingly mad.’

’I have also heard what the green-robed guest has said, and his words often suggest the notion of Gathering All Living Beings into One Body, which I find frightening upon reflection. Yet, what he speaks of points directly to the Tao. Occasionally, when I awaken, I find that my Inner Qi moves just as the green-robed guest described, and I can hardly express my alarm.’

’My teacher’s actions have grown increasingly eccentric, to the point where he drinks human blood at noon for his cultivation. This I have witnessed and it fills me with terror; we alchemists are neither part of the Three Sects of the World nor of the orthodox Mystical Sect of Taoism, we walk a line between good and evil, with only one taboo.’

’It says: Do not exceed in good, nor complete in evil.’

’Pure good is Tao, pure evil is tyranny.’

’We only seek one magic skill, to know one ’stop’, to understand one ’enough’.’

’I can no longer tolerate my teacher’s conduct. I took advantage of his midnight cultivation to steal his scriptures and classics. After opening them, I found such Cultivation Techniques to be wilfully unrestrained. I became immersed in them, only to realize in fear and become covered in cold sweat. I wanted to burn them but could not bring myself to do it.’

’My only hope is to conceal myself within the palace and dissipate the malevolent Qi of this Cultivation Technique.’

’The green-robed guest only had a casual conversation with my teacher that night, but to dissipate this malevolent Qi, at the very least, would require 60 years. Observing his demeanor, unrestrained and domineering, I fear this man is one of those ephemeral legends of the Martial World.’

’In my father’s youth, there were already legends about this person, and now I am thirty.’

’Yet he still matches the legend precisely?’

’I observed him, only his temples were white, yet his aura was utterly unrestrained.’

’Could it be that in this world, by cultivating you can indeed stay for a long time?’

’Can you truly achieve immortality?’

Li Guanyi reading this letter that suddenly ended understood the reasons for Hou Zhongyu’s persistence and longing, as well as why he kept this letter. Li Guanyi, glancing over the letter, muttered to himself, "The three great legends of the Martial World..."

He thought of the "Imperial Pole Worldly Scripture" he was practicing, which Elder Zu had mentioned, was also a Martial Arts Legend. However, according to Elder Zu, there were now four great legends of Martial Arts. It seemed that this letter must have been written decades or perhaps even a hundred years ago.

The legends of Martial Arts...

One was the guide to the number one in Mathematics of the age.

Another was a magician capable of creating Undying Medicine that fled into the night in terror.

Li Guanyi silently noted these two individuals.

Then he stored the letter away before he opened the several books.

One book contained Hou Zhongyu’s records; Li Guanyi found the method for mixing the elixir pills. Another scroll was a breathing Qigong technique and the basic Cultivation Method of a magician, but it did not contain the Cultivation Techniques Li Guanyi desired. He did not mind, though.

He knew keeping such things was inviting disaster.

He noted down the potion mixtures and the breathing Qigong technique, then sparked a fire and threw the two scrolls directly into the flames, seeking to leave no trace behind. Paper ignites easily, and the fire quickly blazed high. But gradually, Li Guanyi noticed something was amiss.

As the flames burned, the two scrolls would not go up in smoke.

Instead, in the firelight, they still shone brightly. Li Guanyi’s expression shifted, and he reached for a basin of water nearby and poured it over. The water extinguished the flames, and the two scrolls no longer resembled white paper, instead revealing themselves to be forged from some unknown metallic thin sheets.