Twin Dimension Yin-Yang Mirror: Attaining immortality through the martial path
Chapter 409 - 366: Heaven-Man Sensitivity, Hong Lian’s Killing Intent_2

Chapter 409: Chapter 366: Heaven-Man Sensitivity, Hong Lian’s Killing Intent_2

Through appearances to the essence, one directly perceives the energy of heaven and earth, at which point one can be called a grandmaster.

Capable of founding their own school, passing on techniques, and accepting disciples.

Thinking of how he has now grasped martial intent, yet is still in its infancy.

His true strength, even the True Qi Great Heavenly Circuit, had just reached completion, without having transformed into Gang Qi.

Thinking of Gang Qi.

In Zhou Ping’an’s dantian sea of Qi, a rhythm suddenly pulsed, and a streak of spiritual light flashed across his mind...

His body’s True Qi slowly accelerated, wisps of mist penetrating the meridian walls, merging into his flesh and blood.

’This is, the beginning of transforming mastery.’

When Zhou Ping’an and Green Lady once strategized, they also envisioned securing Qingyang first, then capturing two counties, and thereafter, aiming for Guangyun...

Any more than that, they dared not contemplate.

Based on the increased speed of meridian circulation provided by the cultivation of True Qi, they roughly had a judgment.

That was, simply seizing one city’s land could infinitely accelerate the speed of True Qi reaching the Great Heavenly Circuit.

This momentum, like a person with good luck, makes everything they do twice as effective, with cultivation advancing to the utmost speed.

If they were to take over the land of three counties, their cultivation speed would be even faster, possibly swiftly reaching both Internal and External Strength Qi, leaping over the Eighth Stage Mortal Refinement and catching up with decades of arduous cultivation by others.

The facts proved.

This conception was not wrong at all.

The Red Lotus Sect meticulously rebelled, attacked cities and seized territory, and created a great momentum for good reason.

Zhou Ping’an had just taken the land of the three counties, becoming their actual master.

Feedback came immediately.

True Qi that had just reached completion of the Great Heavenly Circuit, which normally required day and night polishing to remove restlessness.

The result was, he didn’t need to do much at all.

As True Qi surged and boiled, it naturally penetrated into the flesh, striking towards the limbs and organs, thereby refining the whole body.

This is the refining of Qi.

The hallmark of the Inner Strength Realm is allowing True Qi to not be confined within the meridians, able to reach any part of the flesh.

Refining the tiniest parts of the entire body, even reaching the tips of one’s hair.

When Inner Strength reaches great achievement, the blood and flesh contain a layer of mighty Gang Qi, as if adding another layer of protection to the already tough blood and flesh like divine iron steel.

At the same time, it can explode with tremendous force.

As True Qi transforms to Gang Qi, merging and refining muscles and bones, Blood Essence, and Gang Qi become one.

At this point, the strength exerted in every movement, compared to the True Qi Realm, is more than three times stronger.

As for the External Power Realm, it is just a natural progression.

It is simply that Gang Qi is so strong that it can extend three chi outside the body to protect oneself, and can even be thrown out, attacking several zhang away without dispersing.

Compared to the insubstantial external True Qi attacks, it is much stronger.

In simpler terms, the quality of Gang Qi has improved, attacking and defense have increased, and the efficiency of utilization has been enhanced.

At the same time, the power of external attacks exceeds that of physical weapons.

Previously, when Zhou Ping’an crossed swords with Lady of the Wind and Thunder Sword Guard, breaking through her protective Gang Qi and Wind and Thunder Sword Qi actually depleted much of his strength.

If she were only in the True Qi Realm, with Zhou Ping’an’s hundred thousand Jin of physical strength wielding Cang Yue’s precious blade, there wouldn’t be much feeling of resistance at all.

Overall, as Zhou Ping’an begins the transformation from True Qi to Gang Qi, his strength will greatly enhance.

Noticing the changes in his body, his interest in discussion faded.

He simply instructed, "I trust Brother Xiao to reorganize the affairs of Pinghu County.

After two days, someone from Qingyang City will come...

At that time, someone will announce the laws, issue decrees, and moreover, re-measure the land, providing financial assistance."

"General Zhou, please be assured, I shall do my utmost," came the reply.

Xiao Chengfeng’s face brightened.

Thereupon, the master-servant relationship was established.

Zhou Ping’an’s words didn’t quite spell it out.

But he understood.

It simply meant that the control of Pinghu County was to be entrusted to himself.

However, some chaotic situations within the city need to be well addressed.

Moreover, we must govern according to the laws of Qingyang and not act on personal initiative.

If this had been requested of him in the past, he might have felt handcuffed.

But times have changed.

A fugitive County Magistrate, already considered dead within the Imperial Court, what more could he wish for?

He just hoped to be able to make good use of his abilities, to care for the common people while keeping his family safe.

That in itself would be quite an accomplishment.

On the contrary, he felt very grateful to Zhou Ping’an for giving him some respect.

Without treating him as a demoted officer.

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Zhou Ping’an cast aside the trivial matters.

He began to organize his gains.

Mastering Transforming Mastery was not something that could be achieved overnight.

Slowly by slowly.

He could do it with practice and elixirs.

What truly surprised him were the two soul secret techniques he acquired from the Red Lotus Saintess Yun Ling.

"Must learn, must learn quickly."

Zhou Ping’an didn’t know why the Red Lotus Holy Maiden possessed two more Visualization techniques than him?

It didn’t stop him from using them immediately.

"Substitute Lotus Shadow" had infinite uses, capable of substituting in times of death or injury.

At advanced levels, it could even produce an alter ego shadow, useful for surreptitiously gathering intelligence.

Additionally, the information suggested that the technique was extremely effective for breaking in, stealthy assassinations, and was advantageous in any situation.

Especially skilled at spiritual shock.

An opponent, not too strong in spiritual soul power, hit by the Substitute Lotus Shadow, would find it hard to defend or resist, no matter how agile he was.

"It’s a good skill for ambushing others."

The other technique, "Lotus Garment Spirit Protection", goes without saying; the more adept someone is at sneak attacks and underhanded tactics, the more he anticipates others employing the same methods.

With the Lotus Garment Spirit Protection, curses, spiritual piercing, illusions, suppression, and other such despicable tricks would be largely ineffective against him.

This greatly compensated for the shortcomings in his repertoire.

Learning new skills is normally very difficult, even just getting started requires painstaking practice and study.

But Zhou Ping’an had tens of thousands of wish power at his disposal.

After acquiring three counties, for some reason unbeknownst to him, he felt that the wish power continued to pour in ceaselessly.

Spending a bit of wish power to practice skills didn’t hurt him at all.

By the time dawn broke on the horizon, he had practiced both skills until he was quite proficient.

Without further ado, he spent eight thousand wish power on each skill, practicing them until Great Achievement.

By that point, it was time to stop.

To reach Completion for both skills would require a total of fifty thousand wish power.

Looking at what was left, Zhou Ping’an had to set them aside for now.

In time, once he had accumulated more wish power, he would resume practicing Lotus Garment and Lotus Shadow.

However, the Sun Shooting Divine Arrow True Intent Map he obtained from the Yi Heavenly King was worth studying thoroughly.

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As Zhou Ping’an diligently prepared to face powerful enemies.

To the west, in the Jiuyao Mountains.

Surrounding Lianfeng.

In a palace at a corner of Lianfeng, a middle-aged woman dressed in light gauze, plump and gorgeous, looked at the small piece of paper in her hand, her expression growing extremely ugly as she huffed heavily through her nose...

The four maids serving her, as well as a sparrow pecking at red rice on the windowsill, suddenly looked up.

Their heads exploded like watermelons with a "pop".

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