“Ah, Master Ji!”
Seeing that, Yang Guo quickly canceled the power of the Deadly Grief Palm he already dealt out. He had already reached the level where he could cast and recall his True Qi anytime he wanted.
“Young Master!”
Nie Xiaoqian, in her white clothes, was the first to arrive at Ji Ye and give him a hand.
The practice between Ji Ye and Yang Guo naturally drew a lot of audiences. Several players and Reverend Yideng were right at the edge of the battlefield.
“Young Master, you should treat yourself!”
Seeing the blood on the corner of Ji Ye’s mouth and his chest, Nie Xiaoqian said anxiously.
Sensing nausea and the stinging pain in his veins, Ji Ye was of a mind to treat himself.
However, he had just “Healed” Qiu Qianren earlier.
Because it was one of the Lords of the Yuan people who wounded Qiu Qianren and he had a unique True Qi, it wasn’t easy for Ji Ye to heal Qiu Qianren, and his talent was still in cooldown. So, he couldn’t examine himself with this talent yet.
But fortunately, there was a monk who was adept at medicine and martial arts in the Hundred Flowers Valley at this moment.
“Ms. Nie, don’t panic yet. I’ll perform a diagnosis for Master Ji!”
Reverend Yideng had already figured out why Ji Ye didn’t treat himself with the white light.
He was exhausted every time when he treated anyone with the One-finger Death Touch, and it would take a long time for him to recover. It was also why Qiu Qianren came up with the way to force him to treat the wounded kid so that he would be too exhausted to participate in the Sword Contest on Mount Hua.
Ji Ye, on the other hand, had treated Shi Laosan, Cien, and Yang Guo in a row in the past days, so he must’ve been pretty exhausted too. Reverend Yideng simply stepped up and diagnosed Ji Ye.
“Ah, Brother Ji, what happened to you?”
Even the Old Kid had hopped close with the Serpent of Death on his shoulder after learning the situation.
“Gua! Gua!”
Behind him, the Divine Condor who looked ferocious yet hideous was chasing him angrily.
The Old Kid, as a playful man, had a lot of fun shooting the birds above the Hundred Flowers Valley after learning that the Serpent of Death could kill them.
He almost accidentally hurt the Divine Condor today, and it got infuriated and chased him.
Seeing that Ji Ye was wounded, the Old Kid couldn’t have looked more anxious.
The Divine Condor, which had long gained enough intelligence, knew that it wasn’t appropriate to chase him anymore. It simply stood proudly next to Yang Guo and watched Yideng examine Ji Ye.
“Mr. Ji, is your inner strength on the path of extreme yang and toughness?”
After feeling Ji Ye’s pulse, Reverend Yideng asked him.
“You’re right, Reverend Yideng!”
Ji Ye nodded.
His Nine Yang Divine Art wasn’t the authentic version, and it was indeed on the path of extreme yang and toughness. He had also reached Perfect in both aspects!
“You have the hardest inner strength, but Senior Brother Zhou’s ‘Hollow Bright Fist’ is the gentlest fist technique in the world, so they’re unavoidably contradictory.
“Although such conflicts won’t manifest under normal circumstances, they were intensified when you had to fight with your full strength against Nephew Yang, to the point that you got hurt!”
Reverend Yideng slightly frowned.
“On the other hand, while the power of extreme yang was formidable and unparalleled, you may become brittle if you’re too hard. This technique will inevitably limit you when your expertise at it reaches a certain level. You can’t reach the peak of martial arts with such a technique!”
He told Ji Ye that after a brief hesitation.
Reverend Yideng’s claim was well-grounded.
It was because his family’s One-finger Death Touch was also on the path of yang, except that it wasn’t “extreme yang” but “pure yang”.
Together with the Congenital Power that Wang Chongyang taught him, he wasn’t faced with the problem of “being so hard that he’s brittle”.
“I can’t reach the peak of martial arts?”
Ji Ye might have doubted what Reverend Yideng said if he had just entered the Land of Inheritance.
After all, his “Nine Yang Divine Art” was a Perfect technique in two aspects.
However, after such a long time, and since he got to know his talents better, Ji Ye realized that Reverend Yideng was probably correct.
The Perfect level on the Land of Inheritance only meant perfection in a certain aspect. Even though the Nine Yang Divine Art he inferred was “Double Perfect”, which had never happened before, it only meant that the technique reached the highest level in “power” and “yang”, because the result of the Fusion was partly due to what he had desired in the process.
The desire was also what caused shortcomings, if not deficiencies, in this technique.
Although Ji Ye had a thorough understanding of the technique during the Fusion, he might not be able to notice the “shortcomings” due to his limited knowledge of martial arts.
“Ah, Reverend, how should this problem be addressed?”
Nie Xiaoqian asked Reverend Yideng worriedly.
In fact, technically speaking, this problem wasn’t too hard to resolve.
Since the “Nine Yang Divine Art”, which was extremely yang and tough, didn’t agree with the “Hollow Bright Fist”, which was yin and subtle, all Ji Ye needed to do was to use yang and tough moves, such as Qiu Qianren’s Iron Fist Art and Reverend Yideng’s One-finger Death Touch.
In this Battlefield of Providence, there was even one particular fist technique known as the most yang in the entire world, which would definitely match his inner strength perfectly!
However, exactly as Reverend Yideng had said, the path of extreme yang and toughness had shortcomings, and he might not be able to climb to the peak of martial arts because of that!
Speaking of which, the technique that he counterfeited didn’t have such problems even though it was also on the path of extreme yang, because the Nine Yang Divine Art was created based on the Nine Yin Sutra to correct the latter’s proclivity towards yang and gentleness.
“Therefore, another solution is, obviously, to acquire the authentic Nine Yang Divine Art. But it’s probably difficult to do that, and there’s no time for that.
“Then, there’s still the last way, which is to acquire the Nine Yin Sutra and fuse it with my counterfeit ‘Nine Yang Divine Art’. Then, the shortcomings will be removed!”
However, how could he get the Nine Yin Sutra, whose complete version was a Transcendent Perfect martial art?
It would’ve been difficult under normal circumstances!
After all, not many people could’ve studied such a top martial artist.
But as it happened, while not many people knew this technique, the three Extraordinary Rank-7 experts on the spot had all learned it!
“I happen to know a formula that may be helpful to you, Mr. Ji.”
Ji Ye didn’t even need to ask, and Reverend Yideng already spoke of a long formula after a moment of consideration.
The formula he said appeared to be on the path of “extreme yang” when Ji Ye first heard it.
But on second thought, it was clearly about the compatibility of yin and yang, and it could be very helpful for Ji Ye’s situation!
For example, people usually understood nine as the greatest of all numbers, so the extremity of yin should be “Nine Yin”.
However, in the formula, “Six Yin” was the extremity, and “seven” would be too much. Ji Ye was in this situation exactly when his “Nine Yang Divine Art” reached Extraordinary Rank-7.
Although the formula was talking about yin, yin and yang were complementary, so its mechanism applied to yang as well.
“Huh? Prince Duan, why does your formula sound so familiar to me?”
However, before Ji Ye said anything, Zhou Botong had shaken his head curiously with the sniper rifle on his shoulder.
“Truth be told, Senior Brother Zhou, the formula is from the preface of the Sanskrit version of the Nine Yin Sutra. Nephew Guo asked me and my junior brother to translate it to help me heal my wounds,” said Reverend Yideng solemnly.
This was a preface to the Nine Yin Sutra, and it was all meta-theories about martial arts and did not involve specific moves, so Reverend Yideng didn’t have to keep it a secret.
He told Ji Ye that also because Ji Ye saved Ci’en, who was hurt by the Yuan Lord partly because of him. From that point of view, Reverend Yideng owed the master of the Twin Dragon Mount fort a favor too.
Therefore, Reverend Yideng fully expounded on the preface according to Ji Ye’s situation.
“Oh, it’s the Nine Yin Sutra. I was wondering why it sounded so familiar!”
Zhou Botong was greatly enlightened after hearing what Reverend Yideng said.
The “preface” of the Nine Yin Sutra was hidden in the last part of its first volume. It was a Chinese transliteration of its Sanskrit version. He had forced Guo Jing to memorize it at the beginning.
Later, because Huang Rong was wounded, Reverend Yideng treated her with the One-finger Death Touch at the cost of his inner strength. To let Reverend Yideng recover his inner strength faster, Guo Jing recited the preface to him, and Reverend Yideng then translated it together with his junior brother, a monk from India.
“Haha, I got it.
“Brother Ji, you were wounded because of the Hollow Bright Fist I taught you, so I’ll teach you another martial art that will solve the problem of your inner strength.
“Prince Duan has told you the preface of the Nine Yin Sutra, and I’ll tell you the remaining part of it. It won’t be a violation of my senior brother’s last words as long as I’m not practicing it!”
Zhou Botong clapped his hands and declared proudly.
Of course, the Old Kid was in a hurry to teach Ji Ye the Nine Yin Sutra not exactly because Ji Ye was wounded because of his Hollow Bright Fist, but because he had a chance to return Brother Ji Ye’s favor!
It completely eluded him that the favor could’ve been returned with only “Left and Right Inter-fighting”, and after Ji Ye turned it down, he now had to offer the Nine Yin Sutra too!
