For a moment, the villagers all felt dazed on the spot and they could not believe what they heard.
They felt that like a pie falling from the sky hitting somebody which sounded almost unreal.
Noticing their expression, Ding Hao smiled and said, “Well, you feel that my strength was not worth 15 taels of silver?”
“No, no…” the middle-aged man shook his head hurriedly and said with wild excitement, “We just collected 15 taels of silver, and we only wanted to find a… and it was an extravagant expectation for us to hire a common vagrant warrior. Unexpectedly… I feel that you with an imposing appearance are not out of an ordinary family and you should be from a rich and noble family. You are willing to come to our small village, and we, we really cannot believe it!”
“Yes, if you really can go to our Valley Village, and that is too good!” Some people looked excited.
“On behalf of 160 people in the village, I would like to thank you for your kindness…” Some people knelt on the ground and they were so happy that their tears were almost coming out.
“Big Brother is a good man!” the little black girl Xue’er said, skipping.
“So it’s settled. That’s all right, all elder brothers!” Ding Hao helped them get up.
These people were Guo Nu’s relatives and brothers, although their positions were not high, they were poor, Ding Hao was born in the slums, and with these people, he felt warmer and more comfortable. They just chatted for a moment, and began to get familiar with each other. Ding Hao knew from the chat that the thin middle-aged man was Gao Feng, the chief of Valley Village. Other young men were also surnamed as Gao. Out of more than 100 people in Valley Village, over eighty percent of them were surnamed as Gao.”
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As time went by, the bustling night market gradually became bleak.
Ding Hao, with Gao Feng and other villagers, found a relatively clean inn next to the night market and settled down. The villagers were tired and hungry. After a whole day of worries, they fell asleep soon.
Ding Hao returned to the room, took a little rest and began to conduct his cultivation.
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This time Ding Hao didn’t want to attract others’ attention, and he did not want his real identity to be recognized, so he did not use the rusty sword but the Dragon Shape Blade when he began fighting. What he urged was the sabre technique Burning Flame Qi in his middle Dantian in the chest.
Before he returned to Swordsmanship-seeking Sect, Ding Hao intended to use his sabre technique to fight with others.
Ding Hao sat cross-legged on the bed with his thought sinking into Dantian. Running One Saber to Begin Your Journey Technique, he began to cultivate the burning flame Qi.
After the integration of the “Crystal of Extreme Yang Skyfire”, the seeds of burning flame Qi in the middle Dantian in the chest had turned golden yellow with a ball shape like an eternal star that shone brilliantly.
The whole Dantian Sea of Consciousness and even the body was like the cosmic space. The previous seven refined apertures in the Ren Channel shone rays of halo, rotating forever by itself, and this had an extremely mysterious relation with the Qi seeds like the planet rotating around the fixed stars.
No wonder the Sabre Master and the Sword Master had said that the universe was the greatest truth and the great way was invisible, but they had traces to follow. Everything in the world was contained in the human body.
In some way, the human body was said to be a miniature universe with infinite mysteries.
When 108 apertures in the human body were completely refined, they coincided with 108 stars in the universe, echoing the universe, and that was the realm of immortality, which could mobilize all forces between the universe and heaven and become the respect of all things.
Ding Hao’s Sabre Technique Mysterious Qi had already reached the Seven-apertured Martial Disciple Realm. He was running the liquid burning flame Qi to strike the eighth aperture Air Sea Aperture in the Ren Channels of Six Extra-Channels.
The Qi was rotating in every mysterious aperture, and every circulation completed was called as a small circulation.
The Qi completed its evolvement in all meridians and it was called as a large circulation.
Now Ding Hao had not broken through both Shaoyin First Channel of Hand and Ren Meridian, so he had no ability to run the large circle of vital energy so that the Qi had to be kept in each of apertures to run the small systemic circulation.
Each stream of Qi was energized out of the Qi seeds in the deep Dantian. Through each aperture, it would become more powerful than before. When it passed through the seventh aperture Purple Palace in the Ren Meridian, it had turned to be as thick as ten hairs from one hair. Like a magical python, the Qi struck the eighth aperture Air Sea Aperture constantly.
Nobody knew how long it took.
Boom!
A bang sounded in Ding Hao’s mind, his body shook, and in the Ren Meridian, the passageway of the Qi ran through suddenly.
The liquid Qi like a python roared joyfully into Air Sea Aperture. A new Qi planet was slowly formed, as if it were the gradual appearance of planets after the Big Bang. Ding Hao’s divine awareness witnessed this process. It was both slow and fast. In a split second, Air Sea Aperture sparked.
The sparks were completed.
The Eight-apertured Martial Disciples Realm!
Ding Hao opened up his hands, a pale-yellow flame, like water and crystal, beat joyfully like an elf.
The next second, with his thought, the flame spread along the palm spiritually, like running water, covering the whole palm in a twinkling of an eye, as if wearing a light golden glove, only a thin layer. Its temperature was restrained, and it seemed not to have enthusiasm.
Ding Hao took out an iron shield from the storage ring with his other hand and struck it with his right fist.
With a whooping sound, the fist covered with the golden flame, pierced through the half-cun thick iron shield without the feeling of resistance, like running through a layer of soft tofu. Drops of reddish molten iron were flowing on the ground, and immediately they became solidified into black iron.
This was the liquid burning flame Qi after the Crystal of Extreme Yang Skyfire was integrated and transformed, containing the extremely horrible temperature. In an instant, if the fist struck on the human body… just imagine that scene, it made people shiver all over though not cold.
With Ding Hao’s thought, the liquid burning flame Qi had been changing continually, and it turned into a small knife, or a palm-sized shield, or a pair of boxing gloves with barbs. It was so changeable and amazing.
This was the advantages of the liquid Qi and the Eight-apertured Martial Disciple Realm.
With the improvement of the cultivation realm, the Qi’s liquefaction could simulate a lot of things. Those strong people whose strength had reached the primordial level were extremely powerful with the Qi. They could conjure up magically a suit of armor to cover the whole body, which was impervious to blades and spears and impervious to water and fire and it was extremely horrible.
Ding Hao benefited from the Crystal of Extreme Yang Skyfire. He was able to liquefy the Qi, but his vigorous and forceful level could not be compared with that of the primordial strong people, so things conjured up magically by him were at most just palm-sized, however, the power was already very amazing.
As for how to use it in battles, he had to think about it deeply and gradually.
At this time, there were bursts of voices outside, and the light became brighter.
