Chapter 471: Chapter 245: Profound Lady Sword Technique and Five Elements Escape Art
Deep in the secluded stream, mist and clouds swirled.
Xu Qing used water as a curtain, setting up a secluded space at the bottom of the stream to prevent outside eavesdropping.
The secret arts are not lightly passed on, the teachings are not cheaply sold.
Elder Yuan privately inscribed the Celestial Scripture, allowing the Fox Demon to learn the Nine Heavens Secret Scripture, resulting in a great calamity. Since then, he has never again had the thought of spreading the teachings to the world, allowing them to be passed down through the ages.
As it is said, sweet dew does not moisten rootless grass, sublime methods are only for those with destined affinity. If the arts are lightly passed on, it is like giving a knife to a three-year-old child, the consequences will be hard to predict.
Now Elder Yuan saw that Xu Qing and Xuan Yu were so understanding and had merit upon them, he felt that destiny lay with these two.
In a world of great tribulation, encountering people of such virtue and capability is not easy.
Xu Qing did not know Elder Yuan’s thoughts, he only tried his best to appear harmless, at least to learn the Divine Techniques before the other noticed something was amiss.
This Elder Yuan before him was merely a stone statue, an incarnation of incense. If it were the real Elder Yuan, it would be hard to say whether his Heaven Concealing Skill would work.
After all, immortals like Elder Yuan, who have a rebellious nature, defy the heavens one by one. Even if the heavens themselves wore a skirt, they would dare lift it to see what color the undergarments were.
Xu Qing, a weak zombie, not even considered a Flying Corpse, if he truly encountered these lawless beings, it would be like running naked.
Heaven Concealing Skill? Even your undergarments would be stripped!
With piercing eyes, divine sight, Xu Qing knew too well!
Underneath the dual isolation of the water curtain Dharma Realm, Elder Yuan felt the pure thoughts passed on by Bao Sheng Temple, and his impression of Xu Qing rose significantly.
At first meeting, he assumed the other was a person of justice and courage, a hero who hates evil.
Now, amidst the Dharma Realm of the blood lake, Elder Yuan discovered that the other was actually a saintly person with great ambition and resolve!
"In the path of Dao, there are three hundred and sixty schools, each leads to righteous fruition. Which school would you like to learn?"
"Could it be that Elder Yuan is proficient in all three hundred and sixty schools of the Dao?"
Elder Yuan laughed and said, "I am neither a Dao ancestor nor a sage. What virtue or ability do I have to be proficient in all three hundred and sixty methods? However, I am roughly acquainted with one or two most of them, and am adept in a dozen or twenty. In total, it’s only seventy or eighty types; full proficiency is out of question."
"I ask you merely to know your intention, whether it aligns with what I have learned. If it coincides, then we have affinity. If not..."
"..."
Xu Qing remained silent for a long time.
It is said that heavenly affinity is hard to seek; truly, it does not deceive me.
He went through much hardship, together with Xuan Yu, vanquished demons, and with the good karma from seven years ago, came here to meet Elder Yuan.
After much difficulty, he finally touched heavenly affinity, yet when it came to receiving the teachings, a trial awaited him.
Xu Qing’s thoughts were rushed, and upon seeing Xuan Yu beside him, he suddenly devised a strategy.
"Elder, I have not learned the Cloud Soaring technique nor the retreat magic methods. If I could learn a Divine Technique for traveling..."
Hearing this, Elder Yuan instead breathed a sigh of relief. He saw Xu Qing thinking so long, he thought the other wanted to learn the method of immortality.
If that were the case, he would truly be hard-pressed to teach it.
Now it seemed this young man was not only upright in heart but also very broad-minded in conduct.
If it were someone more avaricious, they might have relentlessly pursued the immortality arts.
"The technique of flying and Cloud Soaring will be naturally understood when you attain immortality and enlightenment. In your current state, what can be learned of Cloud Soaring is merely the art of riding the wind and driving the mist."
"Is there any other suitable method for escaping... for traveling?"
Xu Qing humbly asked.
Elder Yuan did not answer directly but instead said, "The Nine Heavens Secret Scripture of the White Cloud Cave has two volumes. The first volume has thirteen pages, which are the thirty-six Heavenly Gang transformations; the second volume has twenty-four pages, which are the seventy-two Earthly Fiend transformations. I once had a monk disciple who copied twenty-four pages of the Celestial Scripture from the White Cloud Cave and learned the Earthly Fiend Divine Techniques. Among these divine techniques is a walking method called the Pot Heaven Method."
"What is the Pot Heaven? It means the heaven within a pot. Though it has ’heaven’ in the name, it actually refers to concealment and shortening the earth, measuring the cave heaven within the pot. It is an Earthly Fiend Divine Technique, not a Heavenly Gang transformation."
Intending to teach Xu Qing an Earthly Fiend Divine Technique, Elder Yuan deliberately changed his tone, saying this with deep meaning.
Sure enough, as he expected, the next moment Elder Yuan saw Xu Qing ask, "I wish to learn the Heavenly Gang transformations. Is there a similar method for traveling?"
Elder Yuan, surprised, asked, "Why don’t you ask me the difference between Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend, yet assume Heavenly Gang is better than Earthly Fiend?"
"..."
This statement, not to mention the Sutra of Salvation’s reward, delineates heaven, earth, and man, with heaven being the best. Xu Qing had not lacked hearing stories of Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend.
Moreover, heaven is yang and earth is yin, with heaven above and earth below. How could he not understand such simple reasoning?
However, these words cannot be spoken to others. Xu Qing blinked and smiled, "I heard you say that my monk brother copied the Nine Heavens Secret Scripture from the White Cloud Cave but did not learn the Heavenly Fiend Divine Techniques. The self-proclaimed Lady Saint Fox Demon was suppressed in the White Cloud Cave, yet also did not learn the Heavenly Gang methods."
"I have no other thoughts, merely a bit of stubbornness within me. What everyone else can learn, the monotonous things, I do not wish to learn. Instead, I want to try the things others don’t wish to learn, or cannot learn."
Xu Qing spoke clearly: I too have a rebellious nature, we are of the same kind. You should teach me the Heavenly Gang Divine Techniques!
This is called catering to one’s interests.
Indeed, upon hearing this, Elder Yuan’s demeanor instantly softened.
"You, ah, do not know the dangers within. All Heavenly Gang divine techniques and arts are acts of defying the heavens, they are forbidden practices among the forbidden arts."