Chapter 101 - Purple Air Comes From The East (Part 12)
Chapter 101: Purple Air Comes From The East (Part 1/2)
Many months ago, before Yi Yun broke through to the Qi Gatherer realm, he had read the notes left behind by Lin Xintong. Among the notes, there were records about this mysterious feeling. Yi Yun had just failed to connect them together last night. When âDragon Rib Tiger Bone Fistâ was completed mastered, a dragon and tiger would appear within the mind; with the Tiger Leaping through the Mountains and the Dragon Rising to Nine Skies!
Seeing a battle between the dragon and tiger in oneâs mind, one canât help but imitate their moves; every move was the move of the tiger and dragonâs. At that point, every aspect of the âDragon Rib Tiger Bone Fistâ would have penetrated into oneâs marrow.
After that, a warrior can forget all the moves of the âDragon Rib Tiger Bone Fistâ, but when they battle, they will be able to perfectly fuse âDragon Rib Tiger Bone Fistâ within their every movement.
This amounted to fully digesting âDragon Rib Tiger Bone Fistâ.
Although âDragon Rib Tiger Bone Fistâ was great, it was just a basic fist technique of the Mortal Blood and Purple Blood realms. If a practitioner of martial arts were to be bounded by the fist moves of the âDragon Rib Tiger Bone Fistâ, then it would be a tragedy for they were destined not to accomplish great things.
Because even with âDragon Rib Tiger Bone Fistâ fully mastered, it was just at the peak of the Purple Blood realm!
But if they could absorb the essence of âDragon Rib Tiger Bone Fistâ within their martial arts system, then it would be totally different!
All of this had been recorded within Lin Xintongâs notes. It was also the true meaning left behind by the creator of âDragon Rib Tiger Bone Fistâ!
Not only âDragon Rib Tiger Bone Fistâ, in this world, every cultivation technique has its limits. Even the âTai Ah Sacred Techniqueâ may be of higher grade than âDragon Rib Tiger Bone Fistâ, but it still has its limits.
To further cultivate, one has to switch cultivation techniques.
Warriors had to continuously change their cultivation technique; those with low perceptivity would go to waste with poor cultivation techniques.
As for those with high perceptivity, they could digest the old cultivation technique, and incorporate it within their martial arts understanding. Eventually, they will be able to go down their own path of martial arts.
This was also known as cultivation techniques having limits, but the path of martial arts had none!
This was also the source of the mysterious feeling Yi Yun had felt. Now, Yi Yun had managed to touch the threshold of that realm.
Yi Yunâs every move and stance became more harmonious, as if it had blended together with the surroundings!
Seeing this, Zhang Tan became more surprised, and slowly turned solemn.
Could it beâŚthis was forgetting the routines, to assume formlessness?
This kid has managed to touch the threshold of that realm at twelve!
This realm was something any person who wanted to make a big mark in martial arts had to understand!
Yi Yun had done this for about fifteen minutes. He had entered a trance-like state, and was completely immersed within his own world.
But the surrounding audience were sick of waiting.
One had to know that before Yi Yun, the person who demonstrated the longest was Lian Chengyu, who only took a few minutes. But Yi Yun had taken five times longer than Lian Chengyu!
If Yi Yun had managed to rage like a storm with vigor and broke rocks and chopped off trees at every turn, they could endure it because it was still a sight to be seen.
But Yi Yun was just doing his ordinary looking moves. They were long sick of watching that.
âThis kid, can he make it?â
â Do we really need to see this cowardly demonstration? I can do better than him!â
The people of the Tao tribal clan all grumbled in private, but none of them dared to shout it out. Zhang Tan was the examiner, and without him shouting for Yi Yun to stop, they did not dare say a word. They could only discuss in private and expressing their discontentment.
Actually, not even the commoner audience, but even Lian Chengyu and Tao Yunxiao could not tell the charm Yi Yun was displaying with his âDragon Rib Tiger Bone Fistâ.
This was because the âDragon Rib Tiger Bone Fistâ Lian Chengyu and Tao Yunxiao had practiced were flawed and was impossible to harmonize.
âDragon Rib Tiger Bone Fistâ was a top skill that trained the body and was a national treasure manual of the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom; hence it was a top cultivation technique. To be able to cultivate to its extreme was not easy.
Not only was a proper master needed, a person had to have their own perceptivity.
But Tao Yunxiao and Lian Chengyu lacked both criteria.
âThe movement may look pretty, but the fists lack a punch. Itâs just for show, nothing worth mentioning,â yawned Tao Yunxiao. He had seen enough of Yi Yunâs fist skills. He was just waiting for Yi Yun to finish his last few moves before jumping off the white jade stage to strike the black ironstone. At that time, he would be able to know Yi Yunâs real strength.
Lian Chengyu had similar thought to Tao Yunxiao. He too wanted to know Yi Yunâs real strength.
Although Yi Yun had been triumphant all this time, Lian Chengyu had never seen Yi Yun reveal his true strength. When Zhang Yuxian chose Yi Yun, it was because of his martial arts talent; maiming Zhao Tiezhu was nothing as Zhao Tiezhu was too weak; by shining in the Kingdomâs selection preliminary, that was because of his Spirit, not his strength.
Lian Chengyu wanted to tear down Yi Yunâs mask, and see how strong he really was. But Yi Yun had demonstrated a Dragon Rib Tiger Bone Fist that was like an old grannyâs foot-binding cloth; it was long and smelly.
When will it be over?
Fifteen minutes was followed by another fifteen minutes. Tao Yunxiao was totally fed up with waiting.
He began to strongly believe that Yi Yunâs strength was terrible.
As for Lian Chengyu, he too had a similar thinking. If not, Yi Yun should have easily sent out a few strikes to destroy a few black ironstones.
âThis little slave has been deceiving the public through dishonest means. If he really had the ability, he would have revealed it early. As for Zhang Tan that old fellow, he must have realized he made a mistake at the preliminaries. He canât salvage the situation, so he doesnât want the little slave to end.â
As Lian Chengyu was thinking, suddenly he was stunned, for he saw a purple mist appearing above Yi Yun who was still performing.
The purple mist dispersed the light, just like a waterfall dispersing the sunlight to form a rainbow. It became prettier and prettier. This beautiful scene, what did it mean?
âWhew!â
From Yi Yunâs body, a pure essence flew up into the sky reaching to the clouds!
This essence began to spread in the sky and formed a purple cloud; it was as gorgeous as purple satin.
This scene had left many people dumbfounded. In fact, they could not tell if this scene had anything to do with Yi Yun.
How could his punches create a purple mist?
The people collected themselves and they noticed that Yi Yunâs fists were faintly glowing!
Vast amounts of energy came to Yi Yun from all directions; in that moment, Yi Yun felt he was almost at the threshold of touching the gates of the Purple Blood realm!
âOh? This isâŚPurple Air Comes From The East?â Zhang Tan was greatly shocked. When a person concentrates on his martial arts, and eliminates all distractions, they would enter a âNo Law, No Shape, No Void, No Meâ state. Under this state, their essence could emerge.
The essence that emerged could mix with the surrounding Heaven Earth Yuan Qi, condensing into an air surge shooting up into the sky.
This was Purple Air Comes From The East!
Purple Air, was also known as the aura of the Son of Heaven, and it was indescribably precious!
Purple Air Comes From The East had nothing to do with a personâs cultivation. It was purely a state! It was a cultivation state that many martial artists would dream of, but like âepiphanyâ, it was something that came by not by searching for it!
But, many martial art masters, human overlords have never entered such a state of Purple Air Comes From The East in their lives.
âPurple Air Comes From The East?â On the airship, old man Su grabbed his beard and did not realize that he had torn off some his beard because he was oblivious to the pain.
Not far from him was Lin Xintong who was entranced by this scene. A strange glinting light appeared in her eyes.
At this time, Yi Yunâs bones began to emit a soft sound!
This sound began soft but it slowly became louder.
Bones like Thunder, Tendons as a Strongbow!
âBuzzâââ
The sound grew more and more intense. At the same time, the light emitted from Yi Yunâs body grew brighter, as if a small sun had grown from Yi Yunâs body.
At this time, Yi Yunâs essence had united; his understanding of âroutines have limits, but martial arts is without limitâ grew deeper, and the dragon, tiger phantom images in his mind grew more vivid.
Finally when Yi Yun accumulated all his energy to its extreme, he punched out the last stance of the âDragon Rib Tiger Bone Fistâ, even though this was the eighteenth time Yi Yun had demonstrated the entire set of âDragon Rib Tiger Bone Fistâ!
The final punch was drawn in!
âBoom!â
The energy within Yi Yunâs body roared out. His body had compressed a large amount of energy within, and with releasing this, the sounds in Yi Yunâs bones and muscles also united as one.
âPeng! Peng! Peng! Peng!â
On the platform, the dozen teacups beside the Tao tribal clanâs elders and three teapots shattered! The tea spattered giving the elders a great shock.
The elders of the Tao tribal clan were in the Purple Blood realm, but there were some advisors of the Tao tribal clan that had no martial arts background. Seeing their teacups shatter, they retreated in horror.\n