Chapter 1072 – Golden Lion Playing with Pearls
Chapter 1072 – Golden Lion Playing with Pearls
Xu Chuniang took the stone talisman order handed over by the Snake-tailed Demoness and nodded with satisfaction, “This place is good.”
This place looked shabby, but the rent of five thousand magic crystals a year was much cheaper than the superior cave residence she had rented before.
“As long as you like it, I’m leaving, just use the talisman order to send a message to me if there’s anything.”
Being able to rent out this kind of place, the Snake-tailed Demoness also felt that she had earned it, generally speaking, no one would be willing to rent a half-abandoned, incapable of cultivation cave like this.
After seeing the Snake-tailed Female Demon leave, Xu Chuniang refined the talismanic order and opened the door of the cave, a sense of emptiness and desolation greeted her.
The cave mansion had fallen into disrepair over the years, and the formations inside had broken down to the point where only a few of the most basic formations remained, and with the opening of the talismanic order, they were barely maintaining their operation, cleaning the dust from the cave.
Xu Chuniang’s demonic thoughts swept through the few remaining formations, and seeing that the original isolation formations in the cave were still functioning, she did not intend to make any further changes.
She found a clean place to sit down, took out a portion of the magic crystals and crushed them, trying to reverse her gong method to absorb the magic qi, and after less than half a pillar of incense, she stopped.
She finally realized why the others would rather share a room than come here.
Even though she was directly using the magic crystals when she cultivated, the magic qi and black breath around her were more or less incorporated into her body together.
On top of that, what was incorporated into her body along with the black breath and magic qi was actually immortal qi!
For demonic cultivators, incorporating Immortal Qi into their bodies, although not fatal, would bring a lot of trouble.
Because immortal qi and demonic qi operated in very different ways, demonic cultivators had no way to manipulate these immortal qi that were running amok in their bodies, so they would have to spend extra time and energy to drive them away.
The immortal qi that Xu Chuniang had absorbed into her body by reversing the Tai Shang Free Heart Sutra was also like an untamed beast, running rampant within her body.
However, this wasn’t too troublesome for her; she had long been able to skillfully convert immortal qi and demonic qi with ease, and could easily transform this immortal qi into demonic qi by spending just a little bit of time.
After practicing like this for half an hour, the black breath in Xu Chuniang’s body accumulated more and more, approximately equal to the portion accumulated in three hours of cultivation in that previous cave.
She stopped cultivating and urged the Chaotic True Qi in her body to devour towards the black breath, devouring all of it before continuing to reverse her gong method and incorporate the demonic qi.
Cultivating in this manner, the speed of the demonic qi refining her body was slower, but compared to the gains brought about by devouring the black breath, this loss was insignificant.
As time passed, the Chaotic True Qi, which had been consumed for the most part, slowly rose again after devouring the Black Breath again and again.
The large amount of demonic qi that had been incorporated into the body was also continuously tearing at the flesh and bones, causing the newborn flesh and bones to become stronger and more solid.
Xu Chuniang was immersed in her cultivation, concentrating on polishing her carapace and devouring the black breath, oblivious to the passage of time.
Her cultivation and aura strengthened little by little at a slow pace, and finally, on a certain day four years later, she quietly broke through to the Human Demon Middle Realm.
Right at the moment of her cultivation breakthrough, the Tai Shang Free Heart Sutra in her mind suddenly turned upside down, revealing a brand new pattern.
Xu Chuniang was the first to notice the change in the Taishang Easy Heart Sutra, focusing all of her attention on the newly-appeared iconography on the scripture.
After scrutinizing it carefully, she discovered that the picture depicted a golden lion with its head wagging and its tail wagging; the lion’s mouth was wide open, and its body was supporting an orb, as if it was playing with the orb.
Just as Xu Chuniang was sizing up the picture, the lion on the painting suddenly moved.
It first shook its head, letting the orb roll from end to end on its back, and then gently exerted force, turning the orb on its back upside down.
The ball flipped in the air, the lion also with the tail rolled up, it turned up and down, left and right, and then steadily caught the ball falling from the sky, the posture of floating and flexible, both strong and soft. Xu Chuniang thought for a moment, recalling the timing of the appearance of this golden lion playing with pearls, her heart vaguely had a guess.
What was recorded on this Golden Lion Playing with Pearls diagram was most likely a physical art.
She opened her eyes and recalled the lion’s movements, wagging her head and tail like it, treating herself as if she were the lion in the painting.
After trying several times, Xu Chuniang stopped, intuiting that she wasn’t practicing correctly.
She pondered for a long time before figuring out what the problem was.
All the movements of the lion in the painting were related to the round ball, whether it was wagging its head and tail, or rolling and turning, the round ball was indispensable.
She had assumed herself to be the lion, but without the orb, it would have been incomplete.
Xu Chuniang refocused her attention on the Golden Lion Playing with Pearls painting, what exactly did the round balls on this painting represent?
Just as she was staring at the Golden Lion Playing with Pearls drawing, the lion on the drawing made a new move.
It slightly lowered its head, letting the orb on its back roll down to its head, and then with a throw of its head, it sent the top of the orb flying.
As the orb flew through the air, the lion rolled and spun with it, moving in surprising unison with the orb.
The lion has a beautiful tail swing, landed firmly on the ground, the ball fell down along its tail, and then rolled back on the back.
Xu Chuniang sort of understood that if she wanted to learn this physical art, she had to figure out what the orb represented.
She tried to find a materialized object to use in place of the orb, but was never able to get the hang of it, unable to be as round and consistent as the lion and the orb in the painting.
Perhaps the orb was not a materialized object.
Xu Chuniang simply visualized an orb in her mind, however, imagining herself as a lion and attempting to use the visualized orb to comprehend the physical art also failed.
After several successive failed attempts, she once again looked at the Golden Lion Playing with Pearls diagram in her mind, and under her gaze, the lion in the diagram moved for the third time.
This time, after the lion toppled the orb and flew away, with a slight force, it flew after the orb and took a bite to hold it in its mouth.
Under the lion’s action, the ball in its mouth shook up, and then it gently spit out, and then stretched out his paws to catch the ball, playing a good time.
I do not know how long, the lion seems to be having fun, and finally actually swallowed the ball in one mouthful.
After the lion swallowed the ball, the luster of this golden lion playing with beads is getting fainter and fainter, and finally it slowly disappeared.
After the Golden Lion Playing with Pearls picture disappeared, the Tai Shang Free Heart Sutra, which had been turned upside down, was also turned over again.
Xu Chuniang opened her eyes, a hint of realization appearing in her eyes, she finally knew what the orb the lion was playing with represented.
She should have thought of it long ago.
Xu Chunniang sat down on her knees, opened her mouth and spat out the demonic seed in her abdomen.
(End of chapter)