Heavenly Dao Engine-Chapter 40 - 00 Three Chops (Please Collect)

Chapter 40 -0040: Three Chops (Please Collect)

Chapter 40 -0040: Three Chops (Please Collect)

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Despite being no more than three pillars high, why has the water pillar that Qi Tian aroused reached a height of three feet? How is this possible? How is this possible?

This contradicts Zhao Qian’s worldview so deeply, it feels as though it’s on the verge of crumbling in an instant.

At this moment, Qi Tian has already struck the third string, arousing the third water pillar. The resonance of this string gives Zhao Qian a sense of perfection again, and this water pillar still shines like a crystal sculpture.

Including Zhao Qian, everyone present is a bit stunned. Qi Tian’s performance is simply too perfect, too counter-intuitive. However, given the earlier build-up, this outcome doesn’t seem completely unacceptable.

Zhao Qian gets the idea to confer with Qi Tian afterwards, to see if she can buy his method of clearing meridians at a certain price. If King Zhangbei Manor could possess these methods, Prince Manor’s people would undoubtedly avoid many detours in their future cultivation endeavors.

Zing…

Another sound of a vibrating string sweeps across the entire audience, inducing a unanimous gasp of astonishment. Zhao Qian, who was considering how to negotiate with Qi Tian, is jolted back from her musings. She quickly concentrates her gaze towards the Qin pulse, but suddenly, as if under a paralyzing spell, she is left standing still, gaping at Qi Tian as he brings forth the water pillar from the fourth acupoint hole.

Impossible, this is impossible!!

This is the only thought left in Zhao Qian’s mind.

Whether it’s Zhou Kunlin or Liu Haoshuai or Zhao Qian herself, all of them have cleared more than four meridians. But when they cleared the fourth meridian, they advanced to the Qi Training Second Level, which meant that the fourth meridian was the first one they cleared at the Qi Training Second Level. This is evident in the fourth string they resonate with the Qin Pulse, which is the fifth string if counting from short to long, the second thick string on the Qin Pulse. They skip the fourth string between the third string and the fifth string.

If Zhao Qian has ever heard of someone barely able to raise their water pillar close to the height of three feet, she has never heard of someone able to vibrate the fourth string of the Qin Pulse. This sort of thing only seems to exist in legends, taken for bragging rights, with no one taking it seriously. But now, someone has actually vibrated the fourth string of the Qin Pulse.

How could this possibly be true?

What is even more inconceivable to Zhao Qian is that the sound Qi Tian makes when vibrating the fourth string, as well as the height, shape, and texture of the water pillar aroused, all reach the realm of perfection again.

If just now Zhao Qian was still thinking of having a good talk with Qi Tian afterwards, then now she looks at Qi Tian with intense excitement, wondering if she should not hesitate to pay any price to bring Qi Tian to King Zhangbei Manor?

Before Zhao Qian could make up her mind, Qi Tian had already resonated with the fifth string. Unlike the perfect sounds of the previous strings, the sound of this string seemed utterly exhausted, like a singer with a broken voice, sounding worse than a common person singing.

It was weak, hoarse, dry, without a hint of vitality.

Zhao Qian snaps alert, turning to look at the Qin Pulse with a puzzled face. What she sees next is even harder for her to accept. The fifth water pillar rising from the Qin Pulse is languid and dim, lacking any shine, with no precious light surrounding it anymore and, what’s harder for her to accept, is that the height of this water pillar is merely two feet.

How is this possible?

Zhao Qian’s mood immediately plunges from the clouds into the mire, echoing her disappointment. One moment, she was excited at Qi Tian’s performance, expecting him to continue impressing her with a constant stream of amazing feats. She was looking forward to another shocking explosion of talent from him, expecting a continuous burst of three feet, only to find that Qi Tian collapsed at the fifth path, instantly plummeting from three feet to two.

Two feet! This is an absolutely terrible result.

Everyone knows that the water pillar raised by the Qin Pulse has a height of two and a half feet as a milestone, and two and eight-tenths of a foot as another. Only when it surpasses two and a half feet could it be considered a talent, and reaching two and eight-tenths of a foot could it be considered a genius. And this size isn’t the average score, but requires each water-pillar to exceed this size. If even one does not reach this, then it’s all over. Even if your average size is two and nine-tenths of a foot, you would not be of much value.

This is a universal belief in the entire Cultivation World, including Zhao Qian. It’s like a water bucket. What determines the amount of water the bucket can hold is never the highest piece of wood, but the lowest one. The same is true when assessing a cultivator’s potential. You don’t look at their best attribute, but rather their worst.

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Zhao Qian immediately crossed out Qi Tian’s name in her mind, thinking that this kind of person was not worth King Zhangbei Manor spending a considerable amount of resources to win over. It would be sufficient to maintain a general relationship.

As for inviting Qi Tian to King Zhangbei Manor, she scoffed at the idea. To risk offending the Imperial Master Mansion for such a person was simply unworthy.

At this moment, a commotion had already broken out among the audience below.

“What’s going on with Qi Tian? Wasn’t he quite remarkable earlier? How come he couldn’t keep up when he reached the fifth water pillar? He just suddenly wilted. Is he still a man?”

“It scared me. I thought Qi Tian was going to defy the heavens. Turns out, that’s all there is to him.”

“In my opinion, Qi Tian just performed too well in the first part, but actually, to reach this terrifying stage today, he must have used some secret technique and exhausted all his potential. That’s why he couldn’t handle it when he got to the fifth water column. I dare say that this is the beginning of his decline, by the time he reaches the sixth meridian, he is bound to be worse off than the fifth one, and later he will become worse and worse, ultimately being indistinguishable from ordinary people. Sigh, Qi Tian was too impatient for success, and it ended up harming himself.”

“I originally wanted to ask Qi Tian how he cultivated, but it turns out he’s like this. Forget it, I’ll just stick to my own cultivation, I absolutely won’t ask for Qi Tian’s cultivation method. Imagine if I cultivated into his state, I’d rather be dead.”

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The people below the stage were engaged in heated discussion, and Qi Tian could hear some of them, but he didn’t care too much. It was just a meridian after all, he was confident in opening up even more meridians, even if one or two of them were slightly inferior, there was nothing unacceptable about it.

In Qi Tian’s view, these meridians were like a team of horse-drawn carriages. Even if one or two were weaker, as long as the whole team was strong enough, they could still pull a very heavy carriage.

Moreover, from the perspective of his own safety, the weakness of the fifth meridian actually saved Qi Tian himself. The people in the field now included two thousand disciples from the outer sect, Zhao Qian of King Zhangbei Manor, and thousands of spectators. Who knew how many among them harbored ill intentions.

If Qi Tian had performed splendidly all the way and crushed everyone, someone would certainly not be able to bear it and would kidnap him, torture him harshly, or even use vicious soul searching techniques. Even if it meant turning him into an idiot, they would still try to get his cultivation secret. Don’t look at how effortlessly Qi Tian beat Huang Yaozu and Liu Haoshuai, that’s because Huang Yaozu and Liu Haoshuai were not as strong as him. But if it were someone like Liang Xiaolong, a veteran in the Qi Cultivation Period, his chances of defeating Liang Xiaolong would be infinitesimal. And people like Liang Xiaolong were dime-a-dozen in the Imperial Master Mansion and the entire Great Zhao’s Cultivation World. Just a few bouncing out would be too much for Qi Tian.

Now, everyone was sure that Qi Tian would stop here, believing the method he used for cultivation was a big trap, whoever took it would have bad luck. So, who would want to kidnap Qi Tian?

There would definitely be some, but the chances of strong cultivators like Liang Xiaolong taking action would decrease a lot, almost negligible. As long as Qi Tian was clever, he could still get through this early, most vulnerable period of his cultivation path.

Of course, if possible, Qi Tian still hoped to open every meridian to its best, with each capable of raising a three-foot-high water column on the Qin Pulse, but he still hadn’t had time to figure out the cause. He would have to wait until Zhao Qian’s test was over, then go to the Hundred Spirit Hall to look for information and see if he could solve this problem.

Qi Tian took his hand off the Qin Pulse, looking at Zhao Qian with a smile, he said, “Princess, I’ve finished my demonstration. Now it’s time to announce the results. Judging by the degree of each meridian opened, who did better, me or Liu Haoshuai? Please make your judgement, Princess.”

Zhao Qian frowned for a moment; she was very dissatisfied with the current situation. Qi Tian initially performed incredibly, but his display at the end was hugely disappointing. It was like an Olympic shooting competition, where the early scores were unsurpassed 10.9s, but at the end, suddenly a five came out. Could that be anything but revolting?

What upset her even more was that it was clear the shooter’s abilities had declined and the subsequent scores would keep getting worse, thus causing a plunge in the total score. Yet, the competition stopped here and didn’t continue.

Zhao Qian took a deep breath, trying her best not to let her gaze fall on Qi Tian. She had to maintain the image of King Zhangbei Manor, even though she was extremely frustrated, she had to announce the result impartially.

“I declare that Qi Tian has achieved the highest score in this round of testing. If there are any senior brothers or sisters in Huangque Hall who disagree, they can come on stage and challenge him.”

“I do not accept this.” Liu Haoshuai was the first to protest, “Princess, as everyone can see, Qi Tian only has three skills. After these three skills, he is useless. If another meridian is introduced, his true incompetent nature will be exposed. To give him the five-hundred-year-old wild ginseng, not only do I not accept it, I believe that no one in this field will sincerely concede.”

“Qi Tian, what do you say?” Instead of responding directly to Liu Haoshuai, Zhao Qian turned to Qi Tian.

Qi Tian shrugged, “We can go with the Princess’s judgement.”