Twin Dimension Yin-Yang Mirror: Attaining immortality through the martial path
Chapter 248 - 218: Can’t Let You Go, Securing the Sword Codex

Chapter 248: Chapter 218: Can’t Let You Go, Securing the Sword Codex

Just then, Tan Mingbo fiercely pushed open the main door and rushed in with his sword drawn.

He then saw his own master, who was extremely powerful and seemingly invulnerable, lying in a pool of blood.

His throat was sliced, nearly half his neck cut through, eyes wide open in shock. His chest clothing was torn apart, and sunk in was a deep fist imprint.

Above the wall where his corpse lay was another shocking, person-shaped dent.

"I didn’t see anything?"

Tan Mingbo said in a hoarse voice, his eyes filled with shock, anger, and fear.

His honest face was covered with cold sweat.

His first instinct was to strike back; however, seeing the fate of his master, he lost all courage.

He wanted to turn and flee.

From the corner of his eye, he then noticed Junior Martial Sister Lin, who looked as innocent as a lamb, silently drawing her sword and blocking the door.

Her aura was harmonious, her intent to kill profound.

What’s worse, standing directly in front of him was Junior Brother Zhou, who usually had a gentle smile. But now, he was engulfed in flames of blood, and spiritual energy rose from his head like a column...

A powerful qi presence, as vast as the tide, firmly locked on to him, making breathing feel difficult.

"You’re too loyal; among all the bootlickers I’ve met, you are second to none, with no one daring to claim first place,"

Zhou Ping’an said as he slightly shook his head.

In some ways, the senior brother was actually an honest man who was truly loyal to his own master.

Even when Su Wenhao committed atrocities, he never betrayed him.

It was loyalty without principle.

And because of that,

he couldn’t be spared.

If such loyalty were directed towards himself, it would be wonderful.

But since it was directed towards Su Wenhao, who had done many evil deeds, how could such a person be considered innocent?

Moreover,

The situation of "killing one’s master" here must remain a secret for the time being.

To cover it up for as long as possible was the goal.

To deceive a lifetime if possible.

Going against the Cloud Water Sect was not a comfortable matter.

Zhou Ping’an finished speaking in one go.

He was not patient enough to continue the conversation.

Having wasted several months of his lifespan activating the Fourth Level "Purifying Lotus Body," he certainly did not want to drag it out any longer.

With a sweep of his sword, he killed the senior brother of Xinyuan, who was only slightly weaker than Zhao Fangjing, on the spot.

Seeing that even in death Tan Mingbo’s eyes were wide open, refusing to close,

Zhou Ping’an felt no ripple in his heart.

When you drift in Jianghu, how can you not be cut by a knife?

Today you chop me, tomorrow I chop him...

What’s there to be resentful about?

It’s just that some people never consider the consequences when they do things.

Only in the face of impending death do they awaken, but by then, it’s already too late.

He silently canceled the explosive force of the "Purifying Lotus Body," allowing the aura of death to transform into vitality, rolling in his body, merging through his meridians, nourishing his blood, and moistening his skin.

The faint weakness and fatigue that had just risen disappeared in an instant.

At the same time, the muscles of his left wrist, which had been pierced, and the bones covered in cracks slowly healed...

Blood stopped, new muscles grew, and the skin was repaired.

"It’s not serious, is it?"

Lin Huaiyu steadily watched Zhou Ping’an’s left wrist, asking worriedly.

"It’s nothing, just a minor wound. It’s nothing compared to Elder Qing’s old injury... I can heal his injury, and these flesh wounds are akin to mosquito bites,"

"That must be a very large mosquito,"

Lin Huaiyu pursed her lips and chuckled lightly.

Both exhaled a long breath simultaneously.

Now, it was time to reap the rewards.

...

While Zhou Ping’an rummaged around, he was silently evaluating the gains and losses, strengths and weaknesses of this battle.

His own cultivation realm was currently at the late stage of the Sixth Refinement "Refining the Five Viscera" of the Mortal Rank.

The Five Viscera Realm had already reached its Fourth Viscera.

Because of cultivating both the "Five Desires Evil Art" and the "King of Light’s Golden Body Method," his basic strength had reached a staggering eighteen thousand jin.

However, compared to Su Wenhao, who was at the Eighth Refinement of "Internal and External Strength Qi" of the Mortal Rank, there was still a significant gap in terms of cultivation realm.

Thus, even with an indestructible body,

he still suffered damage under the opponent’s External Power Blade attacks.

This discrepancy was entirely due to the difference in cultivation realms, irrelevant to insights and lateral thinking...

But on the other hand,

Facing an External Power Realm expert at the Eighth Refinement level, he was actually able to shatter the opponent’s heart with his fist and even hold the upper hand...

This also proved that with the explosion of "Purifying Lotus Body," his combat power had already surpassed the Seventh Refinement’s Minor Heavenly Cycle and Grand Circulation, as well as the Eighth Refinement’s Internal and External Strength. In total, two major realms, crossing four minor realms.

This result was certainly pleasing.

Of course, achieving such an outcome was also partly due to his surprise attack, the use of the Yanwang Needle, which weakened part of Su Wenhao’s combat power.

Furthermore, it’s possible that Su Wenhao wasn’t among the more formidable combatants within the External Power Realm martial cultivators.

Regardless, the winner stands while the loser falls, an indisputable fact.

Armed with such combat prowess, I can dare to entertain thoughts and take actions that were previously unthinkable.

"Found it."

After some time, Lin Huaiyu’s voice came through, brimming with uncontrollable excitement.

"Is it the Canghai Sword Codex?"

Zhou Ping’an stopped his searching.

His luck was slightly worse, having mostly found Golden Notes, silver notes, and other such items...

He also came across lower-level martial arts of the Canghai descent, such as Wave Stacking Blade, Wave Subduing Blade, Blood-Dripping Blade, Jade Wave Palm, Flowing Cloud Steps, and other manuals.

Of course, there were also things like Hanyang True Qi.

As well as some scattered cultivation techniques and secret methods from various sects and factions in Jianghu, like Scatter Sword Technique, Lightning Sword, Crossing Clouds, Golden Bell Shield, and so forth.

Useful, of course, they were useful.

They could enhance the foundation of one’s own forces.

If you say it’s useless, that could be considered justifiable.

Zhou Ping’an now hardly regarded these cultivation techniques, which were even inferior to the Wave Subduing Blade, with much esteem.

As for the more than three thousand golden notes and over eighty thousand silver notes, these amounted to a substantial fortune.

For Zhou Ping’an, who by now could be considered in control of a city’s troops, it was somewhat of a supplement, not too critical.

It was better than nothing.

"Indeed, aside from the Canghai Sword Codex, that fat man actually collected some auxiliary secret techniques for True Qi to Power Transformation."

Lin Huaiyu’s face lit up with joy.

This trip to the Cloud Water Sect.

What was the thing they most desired?

It was, of course, the sword codex.

With the foundation they had laid, unless they were willing to discard their progress and start over, without this Canghai Sword Codex, they truly did not know how to proceed.

This was the very reason they knowingly faced danger by heading towards the tiger’s den.

They were simply being throttled by others.

No matter how uncomfortable it was, they needed to find a way to obtain it.

"It’s just a pity there’s no Spirit Refinement or Orifice Opening Secrets.

This guy is no good, being in charge of the Zangjing Pavillion, couldn’t he have stolen a few more top-tier secret techniques?"

It was quite normal not to have the Cloud Water Immortal Scripture.

But Lin Huaiyu looked down on the fat man for not even having a complete collection of Nine Refinements secret techniques of Mortal Rank.

"Greed is never enough, you’re even being picky now," Zhou Ping’an said with amusement as he listened to the Third Miss grumble uncommonly, urging her quickly, "While no one dares to probe this secret chamber, let’s start cultivating straight away and see if we can directly solidify the pill and transform blood qi into sword qi?"

"Mmm, please protect me while I cultivate, Senior Brother."

Lin Huaiyu’s spirits lifted upon hearing this.

She had been impatient for a while now.

"Don’t worry, leave it to me. Apart from our Eldest Senior Brother, no one will come here.

I must say, our [Master]’s arrangements have indeed come in handy for us," Zhou Ping’an said, not waiting for a reminder as he already spread his spiritual power around, enveloping an area of eighty meters around himself, nearly covering the entire Xinyuan backyard.

The yard was large, and his spiritual power was formidable.

If someone approached, he would be warned in advance.

Of course, given Su Wenhao’s usual way of doing things, no one would bother to disrupt his leisure time late at night on a full stomach.

The reason he let Lin Huaiyu enter a state of cultivation and comprehension at this time

was because, after killing Su Wenhao, the two were bound to flee overnight.

For the sake of caution, in case anything happened,

having even a little more strength would mean additional safety for them.

Zhou Ping’an was still a day and a half away from the Perfection of the Five Viscera, and despite taking numerous supplements, conversion time was needed.

He possessed many wondrous skills and secret techniques. The aspects that could be improved had mostly been maximized.

Any last-minute efforts would not be very effective.

It was better to take advantage of the time to practice Tidal Breath Control Technique, cleansing the Five Viscera and saving time for the breakthrough.

And Lin Huaiyu?

Having suppressed her state of peak perfection of the Five Viscera for a long time was like a reservoir brimming with water, about to overflow.

As soon as she got the cultivation technique and grasped the essence of it, it would all come together naturally, and she would immediately achieve Sword Pill and enter the True Qi Realm.

Once the Third Miss had refined the Canghai Sword Qi, combined with her Ninth Level Wave Stacking and Ninth Turning of Wave Subduing of seamless level, even if she encountered a powerful expert of the Gang Qi Realm, it was not impossible to put up a fight.

Zhou Ping’an was acutely aware of the martial cultivator talent of the beauty known as Fairy Huaiyu.

To have cultivated to the perfection of Five Viscera at the age of eighteen, in the absence of resources, was already astonishing...

And to have trained the difficult Sword of Canghai and Wave Subduing Blade to a level of softness and firmness at such an age.

It could be said that she had already surpassed all the true disciples of the Cloud Water Heavenly Sect.

Consider that Fang Yu, the True Successor, only managed to perfect Canxia Energy and White Cloud Energy at the age of twenty-five.

And in the year he turned twenty-six, he formed the Floating Cloud Sword Pill...

With this, he was already renowned among the true disciples of the Cloud Water Sect as one of the top three extraordinary talents.

Even amongst the many legendary geniuses of other sects, he held a place of his own.

Such a Fang, the True Successor, was already considered a hero of the world.

Therefore, Lin Huaiyu’s talent could indeed be considered monstrous.

With such an impressive offspring, Lin Zhongguang, the head of the Lin Family, instead of cherishing and nurturing her properly, used her as a tool for a marriage alliance.

Sometimes Zhou Ping’an felt that Lin Zhongguang, known as "Guangyun’s Number One Blade," must have had his brains addled by his training.

He was incomprehensibly foolish.

However, this also proved, from another angle, the diversity of the human species.

There is a vast array of people in the world.

Back in modern times, he had read many history books; some emperors, generals, and people in high positions were as mindless as cattle, let alone ordinary folk.

Zhou Ping’an always knew that a person’s status or achievement had nothing to do with their intelligence.

Still, he found the Lin Family’s approach hard to comprehend.

’Of course, no matter how talented the Third Miss is, she ultimately cannot compare to me.’

He thought of himself, a man who could be said to have ’cheats.’

Zhou Ping’an couldn’t help but want to laugh.

The saying goes: one’s fate, two’s fortune, three’s geomancy.

Fate is a strange thing indeed.

He had lucked into the "Red Lotus Visualization Technique," then lucked into a mirror that traversed two worlds, creating the best cultivation conditions.

Luck is also a form of strength, isn’t it?

He had no reason to be unduly modest.

Entertaining these thoughts,

Zhou Ping’an’s consciousness wandered outside, monitoring the stillness of the Xinyuan backyard, watching the moon reach its zenith.

Inside himself, the Tidal Breathing Technique flowed steadily.

Slowly, he felt the last of his viscera, the kidneys, become increasingly supple and resilient...

Traces of faint blue luminescence appeared beside his kidneys...

...

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