ragginovel Chapter 269 Tampering with Cultivation Techniques
Chapter 269 Tampering with Cultivation Techniques
"True Qi travels through the meridians, and so does magical power. Perhaps we can give it a try..." After a long while, Du Fan's eyes suddenly lit up as he thought of a seemingly feasible method.
"No matter what, I have to give it a try." Du Fan took a deep breath, no longer hesitated, and immediately closed his eyes and began to cultivate according to the contents of the first level of the mental cultivation method. However, he replaced the true qi mentioned in the mental cultivation method with magic power.
Half an hour later, when Du Fan opened his eyes, a smile appeared on his face. He murmured, "Although I don't know what the final effect will be, this method is indeed feasible. At least I didn't encounter any obstacles within the first hundred words of the first level of the mental cultivation method, so I can continue to cultivate for the time being."
Du Fan immediately closed his eyes again and continued his cultivation.
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Half a day later, Du Fan left Green Forest Village and appeared on a flat area deep in the bamboo forest.
At this moment, his expression was composed, his gaze calm, and his inner power was concentrated in his dantian. With each breath, he seemed to resonate with some kind of rule of heaven and earth. At this moment, he seemed to exude an indescribable aura.
Du Fan suddenly let out a low roar, and the lightness technique he had just mastered suddenly began to operate within his body. He lightly touched the ground with his toes and instantly leaped up, as light as a swallow, soaring into the air. He stopped climbing when he was three zhang high in the air, reaching the highest point of his leap.
Although Du Fan was already at the limit of his leap, he did not fall immediately. It was as if there was an invisible force supporting him, keeping his body firmly fixed in mid-air. For a moment, he gave people the feeling of floating in the air.
Du Fan, who was in mid-air, was overjoyed when he sensed his current state. Before practicing this technique, although he could jump more than two zhang high using only his physical strength, he could not do it as easily as he could now.
Just as he was marveling at it, the invisible supporting force within his body seemed unable to solidify for long and began to show signs of dissipating, causing him to be unable to maintain his levitation state any longer and to fall down in the next moment.
He was startled and instinctively spread his arms, his entire body rushing forward like a thrown stone while slowly descending.
After a few breaths, Du Fan finally landed steadily on the ground, having already glided nearly twenty feet in the air.
"This technique is truly wondrous; it really does resemble a form of light-body skill!"
Du Fan looked at his body, then looked back at where he had been standing, and immediately his face lit up with joy.
"The only drawback is that, according to the contents of this technique, after mastering the first level, one can leap up to a height of four zhang. However, when I used magic power instead of true qi to unleash it, I could only leap up to three zhang. The gliding distance was also less, and I could only exert about 70% of the original technique's power."
After a period of excitement, Du Fan finally calmed down, and in his silence, he couldn't help but feel a little anxious.
"Actually, it's already quite good that I was able to do this. I managed to adapt a martial arts manual into a cultivation method, and I even managed to master it by sheer luck. I doubt even the person who created this martial art could have imagined this."
Alas, people are always like this, never satisfied, greed is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant...
Du Fan shook his head with a wry smile, thinking to himself with a touch of self-mockery.
He then practiced there for a while longer, until an hour later, when he stopped and returned to the Green Forest Stronghold by the same route.
At this point, although his mastery of this lightness technique was not quite perfect or at its peak, he could still use it perfectly well in actual combat.
After returning to the bamboo hut, he wasted no time and immediately began to comprehend the second level of the technique. In just a few hours, he had thoroughly understood it and immediately began to cultivate.
This training lasted for three days and nights. At dawn on the fourth day, he had mastered the second level of this modified version of the lightness skill.
"If we judge according to the previous proportions, I can now leap into the air to a height of seven or eight zhang, and the gliding distance should also be forty or fifty zhang."
This lightness technique is not only useful in combat, but also greatly facilitates escaping or jumping off cliffs.
Du Fan sat cross-legged on the wooden bed, resting his chin on his hand, deep in thought.
The next moment, as if he had suddenly thought of something, his eyes lit up, and he murmured, "Right, I wonder if taking the Sky-Soaring Pill will have an amplifying effect on this technique..."
The Sky-Soaring Pill is a pill for Foundation Establishment cultivators. Foundation Establishment cultivators cannot fly, but with the help of the Sky-Soaring Pill, they can fly in the air for a short time.
Although the Sky-Soaring Pill has little effect on Qi Refining Realm cultivators, Du Fan's current situation is rather special. Will taking this pill actually work? If so, how effective will it be? It's really hard to say.
"When I left Qixia Sect, my cultivation level was only at the fifth level of Qi Refining. At that time, I would never have thought of the Sky-Soaring Pill. Sigh."
Du Fan couldn't help but sigh. He had quite a few pills and pill oils on him, but most of them were for the Qi Refining Realm. Of course, because of the monthly salary from Qixia Sect and Seven Star Merchant Alliance, he also had a few Golden Core Realm pills. However, he didn't have a single Foundation Establishment Realm pill, nor did he have any pill formulas.
"Although the Sky-Soaring Pill is not a basic pill for improving cultivation, it should still be considered a common pill. Even in a barren place like New Moon Island, it shouldn't be too difficult to find some. If we could get the pill formula, that would be even better."
Du Fan pondered for a long time in the bamboo house. Now that things were almost settled, he decided to set off immediately for the location of the cultivator's cave.
After leaving the bamboo house, he first went to the Four Elders of the Green Forest to give a brief explanation, then said a short farewell to Tian Wu, before swaggering out of the Green Forest Village gate and rushing off in one direction.
At first, Du Fan's running speed was not slow, but it was still within the acceptable range for ordinary mortals. However, when he appeared deep in the bamboo forest, his speed suddenly increased, and he immediately turned into a streak of green smoke, whistling away in an instant, and disappeared into the far distance ahead in a short while.
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Three days later, at night, Du Fan arrived near a lake. Looking around, the lake was more than ten miles wide, which should be considered a large lake in the eyes of ordinary people.
Crescent Island is slightly chilly all year round, much like late autumn on the Kyushu continent. However, the temperature difference between day and night is significant. Therefore, at night, especially in areas with water, a faint layer of frost appears in the sky, which, under the moonlight, appears hazy, dreamlike, and elusive.
The Ten-Mile Calm Lake where Du Fan is currently located is just like that.
Moonlight filtered through the frost-covered sky, scattering across the lake's surface and creating shimmering ripples. As the ripples gently spread, the lake appeared so mysterious and tender, as if telling a story that no one could understand.
Du Fan's eyes were glazed over, and he seemed lost in thought as he strolled aimlessly along the lakeside.
He did not immediately search for the cultivator's cave dwelling, firstly because he was currently immersed in the tranquil night and unwilling to wake up, and secondly because... the cultivator's cave dwelling was located at the bottom of this ten-mile lake.
After walking for an unknown amount of time, Du Fan stopped in his tracks. The light ahead was so bright that it woke him up.
It was a bonfire, a bonfire for two people. A man and a woman sat there with their backs to Du Fan, leaning against each other, their heads very close together, as if they were whispering something.
Faced with this scene, Du Fan did not want to disturb it with his divine sense. He could vaguely see that the man was wearing a blue robe and had long hair. From his back, he could tell that this person must be a handsome young man.
The woman was graceful and gentle, wearing a light green dress of excellent quality, suggesting she was a young lady from a wealthy family. The two, a handsome man and a beautiful woman, stood close together, and even just their backs created a beautiful and harmonious picture.
"Frost covers the ten-mile-long lake, a gentle breeze and bonfire illuminate the passing years. Alone under the moon, I yearn for companionship, envying not the immortals, but the mandarin ducks."
Du Fan frowned slightly, a look of pain on his face. He sighed inwardly, "That classic poem, after being modified by one line, does quite fit the mood of the three of us here and now. How are you doing in your past life...?"
Just as Du Fan sighed heavily and prepared to leave, the blue-clad man in front of the campfire seemed to sense something and turned around abruptly with a puzzled look. But the next moment, the expression on his face froze, and he stood there dumbfounded.
"Huh?" Du Fan was stunned when he saw this person, and stopped in his tracks.
The man in blue was not yet twenty years old, with delicate features and a handsome appearance. However, it was unclear what he and the woman beside him had been talking about just a moment ago, but now his face was all smiles, revealing a lewd and obnoxious expression...
The key point is... Du Fan recognized this person. This guy was none other than Guo Huaifu, the leader of the Kunwu Sect, a rare breed in the cultivation world, an extremely lewd man who had never been with a woman and suffered from kidney deficiency!
After a moment of stunned silence, when Du Fan came to his senses, his face darkened. The ten-mile-long calm lake, the frost flying all over the sky, the mandarin ducks and the bonfire, the past life and the mortal world—all the artistic conceptions shattered instantly from the moment this guy appeared!
Du Fan was merely frustrated, but Guo Huaifu was truly on the verge of tears, so aggrieved that he felt like dying.
"You wanted the Kunwu Sect, I gave it to you; you wanted to win, I lost; you wanted to put on a show, I played along. Isn't that the end of it? Why are you still chasing us all the way here! Are you trying to kill us all?!" Guo Huaifu wailed silently in his heart.