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Twin Dimension Yin-Yang Mirror: Attaining immortality through the martial path-Chapter 48 - 47 Lucky Star Shines Bright Please Favorite Please Follow
48: Chapter 47: Lucky Star Shines Bright (Please Favorite, Please Follow)
48: Chapter 47: Lucky Star Shines Bright (Please Favorite, Please Follow)
Lin Huaiyu was gentle, but he was not soft.
Indeed, as Lei Hong spurred his horse and thrust his spear, before anyone could react, a dazzling blade light had already cleaved through the air.
Gale like winds surged from all directions, as if they were deep sea waves…
In the midst of the air bursting and roaring,
With a flicker of the blade light, the twelve-foot long spear was sent flying, aiming straight for the opponent’s chest.
Lei Hong, with his overwhelming momentum, had just charged forward seven steps when his spear flew out of his hands as if it had wings.
Both palms of his hands split open at the same time, and eight of his ten fingers were severed.
He could only watch as the blade energy, like a massive wave, heavily struck his chest.
Iron armor shattered and flew like rain…
Lei Hong didn’t even manage to utter a sound.
He was struck by the slash, hurled ten feet backwards, and fell into the midst of the torches as a shadow.
While flying backwards, he was also spewing blood upwards.
Clearly, he was seriously injured.
“This is ‘From Extreme Rigidity to Softness,’ do you see it clearly?”
Lin Huaiyu turned his head to look, with a beautiful smile.
As if a hundred flowers were blooming.
Under the moonlight, her beauty was astounding.
Zhou Ping’an was somewhat stunned by the sight.
He thought to himself that Lin Huaiyu could actually smile, and not to mention, she looked quite pretty when she did.
But this behavior of drawing a sword and slashing fiercely without a word,
truly displayed a heroic elegance.
After all, now that you are so strong, even if not the strongest in Qingyang City, you have few rivals.
Why even bother reasoning with others?
If anyone disagrees, just start the fight and that’s it.
“Now, watch this technique: ‘Great Sea Calming Waves.'”
With soft power, Lin Huaiyu turned that fiery-tempered Instructor Lei into a kite in the sky.
Without turning her head, she simply turned her blade horizontally, blocking beside her.
Tian Baoyi was charging with his spear aimed for a thrust.
The triangular blade of the armor-piercing spear, whistling like an aggressive dragon, was about to strike.
But it was intercepted by the body of the blade midway.
“Hum…”
The long spear in Tian Baoyi’s hands twisted and struggled like a wild dragon, unable to be held steady any longer.
He found himself as if stabbing into the solid wall of a steel fortress.
With the combined force of man and horse in one spear thrust, he was shaken by the immense rebound force back towards himself.
Wanting to retreat and release the force, he found there was nothing to unload.
The shocking force was sometimes rigid, sometimes soft, like towering waves or collapsing mountains.
Both man and horse uncontrollably retreated three to four zhang.
Only then did Tian Baoyi manage to stop.
The long spear in his hand was still buzzing.
His face turned extremely ugly.
Because he saw it.
The ground where Lin Huaiyu stood had sunk half a foot deep.
But her figure had not moved an inch.
It seemed she had not even moved a hand just now.
“Lord Tian, my Lin family’s Supplicant Zhou is in need of a good horse for transportation…
This black steed with white hooves looks very majestic.
Let’s give it to him.
You don’t mind, do you?”
Lin Huaiyu gently twirled the long blade in her hand.
She even twirled out a huge peony flower, extremely magnificent and beautiful.
She laid her hand on the mount left behind by Cavalry Commander Lei Hong and said with a smile.
“No objections.”
Tian Baoyi tasted bitterness in his mouth.
Before, he had thought of taking advantage of the Lin Family’s panic, to press them and win their favor, and in doing so, secure a huge profit from medicinal materials.
But he hadn’t expected that at first, everything was going smoothly.
Towards the end, however, the situation unexpectedly slid in an unpredictable direction.
In just a few words, he had somehow become the unreasonable party.
Plus, he had to worry whether the other side would really just dust off and leave Qingyang City.
When the Red Lotus Army attacked, where else could he find such a genuinely solid yet easily bullied perfect fighter like the Lin Family?
“Let’s go.”
Tian Baoyi raised his eyes and saw Zhou Ping’an’s face, smiling yet not smiling.
Then he saw Lin Huaiyu’s eyes, cold as ice and snow, and suddenly felt a chill in his heart…
Not daring to say anything further, he covered his face with his sleeve and ordered everyone to leave.
He even disregarded the corpses on the street.
Not to mention intervening in the fight between the Lin Family and Baicao Hall, which disturbed Qingyang City.
…
“I owe you one this time.
I’m not good at dealing with outsiders.
I always feel these people have too many thoughts, beating around the bush and never speaking clearly, which is annoying.”
Lin Huaiyu looked upwards, her gaze following the distant flames.
She sighed softly.
Zhou Ping’an expressed understanding.
To force a homebody who disliked scheming with others, who only liked to cultivate and preferred directness, to the point of having to leave and start anew elsewhere…
One could imagine how many dirty deeds were involved.
What she really wanted to do was to draw her sword and cut down any injustice she encountered.
Unfortunately.
Life is like a game of chess, and feelings are like a net.
One can’t always live in their own world.
There are too many concerns.
“This Sword Technique of yours?”
Zhou Ping’an was actually quite curious.
On that day in battle, he felt that Lin Huaiyu’s sword technique was abnormally strong.
Today upon seeing it again.
Though the might was not as grand and the murderous intent not as intense.
It was, however, far stronger than what he had seen that day.
A sword in hand, like the clear waves of a limpid lake, had an indescribable harmony and comfort.
It didn’t seem powerful at a glance.
But in reality, the stupendous power hidden within was astonishingly surprising.
“So, only you are allowed to progress swiftly, and I’m not allowed to make any advancement?”
Lin Huaiyu tilted her head and smoothed her hair, lightly laughing, but didn’t offer any further explanation.
She didn’t want to tell Zhou Ping’an.
That she had actually secretly learned those clever moves like Spinning Dance Flower Sword and Looking Back at the Moon, Dragon-Turning-Over moves.
And she had completely merged strength with skill…
Thereby advancing her Sword Technique towards the Human-Blade Union, taking another half step further.
A half step’s difference is as vast as the sky and the ocean.
No more confusion in the heart.
Perhaps, Zhou Ping’an didn’t realize that he had actually helped her immensely, pointing the way for her Wave Subduing Blade Technique to advance to Sword of Canghai.
But she was aware.
Some debts of gratitude simply cannot be repaid.
…
Little Jiu Girl, seeing that they were finally safe, hurriedly climbed down from Zhou Ping’an’s back.
Even though Brother Ping’an’s back was warm and safe.
Having been tied up and hanging there for too long, her limbs had gone numb…
She happily ran over to the large black horse with white hooves, which her sister had commandeered, looking it over from left to right and even mustering the courage to touch the horse’s fur.
The Lin Family does have horses, albeit not many, just seven or eight.
However, horses can be of good or bad quality.
Compared to the majestic high-headed horses from the north before their eyes, the few horses of the Lin Family seemed quite inferior.
While looking at the horses, Little Jiu’s foot slipped, and she almost fell.
She hastily reached out to brace herself against the ground and touched a booklet, which felt soft to the touch.
By the faint light of a distant fire, she looked down and couldn’t help but exclaim, “Is this a picture book, a storybook?”
Lin Huaiyu, with his sharp eyes, had already noticed his little sister’s action the moment she nearly fell.
Seeing the figures on the silk booklet, he instantly blushed crimson.
He furtively glanced at Zhou Ping’an and quickly snatched the booklet from the little girl’s hand, cursing under his breath.
He scared the little girl:
“This album is not something proper, it belongs to bad people, and it’s poisonous.”
Zhou Ping’an pretended as if he hadn’t seen anything, coughed lightly, turned his head away, and kept a straight face without smiling.
His eyes were even better, and he had already seen clearly that the silk booklet the little one flipped through actually depicted “fairies fighting.”
Although it was marked with many red lines and dots, suggesting it was a cultivation technique.
But Zhou Ping’an was a respectable person.
He definitely had no intention of learning such nefarious skills.
“Do you want to learn?
Actually, techniques are not inherently good or bad…
Although the character of the Yin Yang Elder is despicable, he started practising martial arts at the high age of forty and still cultivated to the Organ Refinement Realm.
His [Two Poles of Yin and Yang] technique is quite unique.
The things that fell from him must hold some value.”
Lin Huaiyu held the book as if it were a burning coal.
He thought about tearing it up but felt it was a pity, so he tossed it to Zhou Ping’an.
Out of sight, out of mind.
“No, no, this isn’t something that someone like me should practice.”
Zhou Ping’an had already noticed Tang Lin’er, who was recovering her breath on the roof, was now clutching her belly.
She was evidently laughing so hard that her stomach hurt.
He casually clapped his hands and crushed the silk booklet to pieces.
This situation just wasn’t right.
When there’s a broad road to walk, why choose a risky path?
If he kept the book, Zhou Ping’an worried that he wouldn’t have enough self-control and might be tempted to practice evil skills.
It would be fine if no one knew.
But now, with the big and small pair of shiny black eyes watching him,
how could he have the nerve?
Seeing the last trace of caution in Lin Huaiyu’s eyes finally dissipate, Zhou Ping’an breathed a sigh of relief and was about to discard the fragments, when he suddenly felt something different under his touch.
“Huh, there’s something else.”
He looked down and saw a golden leaf inscribed with dense writing.
His recent blow hadn’t shattered it.
“Yin Yang Harmonization Pill.”
Zhou Ping’an read aloud.
“What?”
Lin Huaiyu’s eyes lit up.
He leaned over for a closer look and excitedly took the golden leaf.
“Finding it without looking, the entire effort was not in vain, this is the [Yin Yang Harmonization Pill] from the Hehuan Sect…”
Zhou Ping’an’s face was full of weird expressions.
The name of Hehuan Sect itself was suggestive enough to let one’s imagination fly.
“Is it very useful for you?”
“What are you fantasizing about?” Lin Huaiyu’s face turned beet red but he was not angry.
“The Hehuan Sect’s cultivation techniques are too heretical and despised by people… but their Harmonization Pill recipe is wonderfully indescribable.
If I follow the recipe to perform alchemy, I can harmonize the Five Organs and Five Qi, and finally make further progress.”
“Do you know?
This step has stumped me for three whole years.
The Five Qi Pill from the Cloud Water Sect is hard to come by, and I didn’t want to practice just one organ or two to three organs like others.”
“I’ve been stuck at the Blood Exchange Completion Realm, unable to make a breakthrough because I’m worried about damaging my supreme foundation.”
“So that’s how it is.”
Zhou Ping’an roughly understood.
The things that Lin Huaiyu cultivated were actually somewhat different from others.
Whether you say she has lofty aspirations, or that her ambition is too great.
Either way, she aims to achieve great success in both the Five Organs and Five Qi after reaching Completion in the Blood Exchange Realm.
Thereby laying a supreme foundation.
Only then can she hope to break through to True Martial someday.
Unlike others who seek immediate results,
focusing on only refining one organ or two organs might give them an advantage in the early stages,
but they will suffer great losses later on.
The reason why Lin Huaiyu’s combat strength is so formidable is not only because of her powerful Submerged Wave Jin or exquisite sword technique, but also because her foundation is much thicker than others.
Why are the elixirs of the Hehuan Sect so potently effective?
Put yourself in their shoes, and you’ll understand.
These people, regardless of gender, are indiscriminate in their desperation, with more miscellaneous Qi than any other sects.
Without superior elixirs to dispel this Miscellaneous Qi and refine their bodies,
how can they go far?
“Zhou Ping’an, you truly are my lucky star.
After the Yin Yang Harmonization Pills are refined, I’ll keep a share for you.
Start cultivating as soon as possible, so you’ll have the chance to refine the Five Organs and Five Qi with one move, achieve Primordial Pill Qi, and aspire to True Martial.”
Lin Huaiyu was genuinely happy this time.
She smiled so much that her eyebrows curved up.
After thinking for a moment, she then said, “Don’t worry about the elixir.
You just focus on your cultivation.
The Blood Fortifying Pills will be supplied in abundance…
and the Vitality Pills, we’ll find a way to get them too.”
“Well, that’s great.”
Zhou Ping’an felt a burst of joy in his heart.
The Blood Fortifying Pill and the Vitality Pill may seem like low-end pills for replenishing blood vitality and cultivating life force.
But now he also knows.
Marrow Cleansing and Blood Renewal also require vitality and blood vitality.
They can accelerate the pace of cultivation.
He knew that from this moment on, in Lin Huaiyu’s eyes, he was finally not just a Protector, not just an ordinary Offering,
and not even an outsider.
As for the title of “lucky star,”
it shouldn’t be given to himself.
But to the little girl.
Thinking back from the beginning, Zhou Ping’an realized that every time he encountered good fortune, it was because of Little Jiu Girl.
“Could it be, the kid is a treasure-bringing spirit?”
He picked up Little Jiu Girl, settled her on his right shoulder, took the reins of the black horse, and headed toward the Lin Residence with a chuckle.
…
Watching as the energy of the “Broken Mirror” was about to fill up, he could soon return.
He was both anticipatory and slightly apprehensive.
By now, he knew what purpose the “Broken Realm” on his wrist truly served.
He didn’t believe he could keep it a complete secret, without any hint of it leaking out.
Faced with the scrutiny and calculations of “interested parties”…
In either world, with his current strength, he didn’t seem sufficiently at ease to advance or retreat.
The Marrow Cleansing Realm must be cultivated to a great achievement quickly.
After the Blood Exchange Transcendence, his life force will become much stronger, and he will become very hard to kill.
Of course, he still needs to find a way to save up more Wishful Heartforce Threads.
To accelerate his cultivation.
…