The most precious weapon of the Moon Dao Sect was a broadsword called Moon Broadsword.
This broadsword was in the hands of the Virgin Goddess, Ye Wuhen.
However, what the others did not know was that the Moon Dao Sect actually possessed another treasure called Osmanthus Blossom, which was said to be a long stick made of the osmanthus spiritual wood beside an immortal palace.
The broadswords and the stick were treasures left behind by Li Bai, the founding father of Mount Shu.
A myth from Earth claimed that there was the Moon Palace on the moon, and on the side of the palace was an osmanthus tree. The moon and the osmanthus tree were never seen without each other. Hence, in addition to the Moon Broadsword, the Moon Dao Sect also had the Osmanthus Blossom as their most powerful weapon.
The long stick was in the hands of Ye Hen, Head of the Moon Dao Sect. It was precisely the black long stick that she used as a walking stick all year round.
“Clink!”
The recently-refined Oceanic Shadow Sword collided with the Osmanthus Blossom, producing a cluster of dazzling sparks.
With the wails and tremors of the Sea Shadow Sword, Qin Rushuang stepped back three paces. Staring at Ye Hen with a shocked expression, he uttered, “You…” The power from the other party’s long stick made his wrist numb. It was a power that far exceeded his imagination.
Ye Hen, Head of the Moon Dao Sect, was indeed an expert in the Void-breaking Realm, but her strength definitely couldn’t be so high.
“What? Surprised?” Ye Hen’s long hair billowed in the air like raging dragons. She remarked, “Do you think that you are the only one who can improve your cultivation and strength with the means of outer space?”
“Boom! Boom! Boom!”
She waved the long stick and it hit the sword dozens of times.
Sparks sputtered and zoomed around.
Qin Rushuang’s sword skills were completely suppressed by the omnipresent stick shadows. Under the constant collisions, Qin Rushuang could only keep retreating. The part of his hand between the thumb and the index finger had gone numb, and he could hardly hold the Sea Shadow Sword securely.
Qin Rushuang found the result hard to accept.
It also caused an uproar among the nine sects in the distance.
At first, they thought that they would win today’s battle like before. Yet, the situation did not seem promising. How could Ye Hen, Head of the Moon Dao Sect, possess such horrible strength?
Unlike the others, the girl in the black gauze had a curious light gleaming in her eyes.
“Very good. It seems that Li Mu finally made a move. The strength of this old woman is obviously stimulated by external force with the premise of burning her source energy… But, how long can she hold on like this?”
She sneered, waiting in patience.
On the divine flying shuttle of Mount Shu, while everyone was astonished, Li Nianhao, the future leader of Li Shan Sect, said with a stern look, “Yesterday, Head Ye came to me and took the ‘Dreamy Drug’. She can only hold on for two hours tops. If she can’t beat Qin Rushuang within two hours, things will get tricky…”
The Dreamy Drug!
The experts of Mount Shu who knew the meaning of these two words paled out of a sudden.
It was a magic-working drug developed by the first head of Li Shan Sect, who was proficient in Chinese medicine and had mastered the power of medical enchantment. This was a drug that could stimulate the essence of the warrior’s life and cause an eruption of magnificent fighting power.
Even an expert in the Void-breaking Realm could multiply his strength under the stimulation of this kind of magic medicine.
This medicine was known as the Dreamy Drug.
That was because once one took this drug, one would be half-drunk, half-sober. With the sudden surge of power, the wonderful feeling of having everything under control could drive countless people crazy. They would feel liking being in the most wonderful dream.
However, this medicine also had terrifying side effects.
When one took it, after his source energy was burnt out, in the worst case, one would eventually die of exhaustion. If not, the cultivator’s mind would be shattered, and the cultivator would fall into a befuddled state and become an idiot since then.
In the battle 100 years ago, to save the Divine Sect, countless masters of Mount Shu resolutely took the Dreamy Drug. With an eruption of power, they managed to keep the White Emperor City, but in the end, they all died.
Even the first head of Li Shan Sect, who created the treatment of Intoxicated in Dreams, became crazy because of taking the drug. Eventually, he died in less than three years after that battle.
Hence, the Divine Sect later classified this drug as forbidden medicine.
Before the first head of Li Shan Sect died, he had recovered his sobriety for a very short time, during which he himself destroyed the formula of the Dreamy Drug because the drug was too strong and was against the harmony of heaven and earth. Once it was in the wrong hand, it would incur endless trouble.
It was not until recent years that Li Nianhao recovered the formula.
After hearing Li Nianhao’s words, members of Mount Shu looked at the fighting ring again, but this time with grief and concern in their eyes.
By this time, an hour had passed since the battle began.
Ye Hen’s momentum was as strong as that of a demon. The Osmanthus Blossom moved so fast that it was like a dark cloud hovering over Qin Rushuang, completely suppressing his moves. However, she was still unable to achieve a complete victory in such a short time. If it went on like this, once the effects of the Dreamy Drug were gone in one hour, she would definitely lose.
On the floating fighting ring, Qin Rushuang, the Top Sword of West Sea, looked anxious and agitated.
Endless waves of pressure from the stick shadows ceaselessly carried over, which made him feel suffocated.
The Sea Shadow Sword in his hand had once been cut off by Duan Shuiliu. After being refined again, the crack did not fully disappear. Thus, under such violent clashes, new cracks as fine as strands of hair began to emerge.
“What the hell is going on?”
He couldn’t figure it out.
Could it be that Devil Cult’s experts from outer space had finally descended and sneaked into White Emperor City to cast some secret tricks? If that was the case, wouldn’t he be in dire danger today?
He could not help but feel daunted.
Just at this moment, a voice suddenly reached his ears.
It was from the black-robed fairy.
At her words, the anxiety on Qin Rushuang’s face vanished, which was instantly replaced by a look of delight and enlightenment.
“Well, crazy woman, your burning of source energy can’t last for more than two hours, am I right? So, I have enough time to exhaust you to death,” said Qin Rushuang with a sneer. He switched his sword technique into a defensive stance and began to play for time.
A hint of uneasiness flashed across Ye Hen’s eyes.
But she didn’t say a word. She just started to attack wildly with the Osmanthus Blossom in her hand at all costs.
“Still have the last two lines to go.”
Joy climbed onto Li Mu’s face.
He had almost comprehended the Sword Intent in the words of Ode to the Gallant that were flying all over the sky. There were only two sentences left for him to study—”who can be like that man, working on his work even when his hair already grew gray?”
This was the last line of the whole poem, as well as the summary of the entire Sword Intent.
In Li Mu’s body, the Precious Qi of Cyan Lotus was almost saturated, so he could no longer absorb more. The Xiantian Skill continued running the Green Lotus Qi, refining it, and delivering it into his limbs and bones. Then, following special routes, the qi converged into the Dantian, where the power of the Green Lotus Qi was refined into Li Mu’s unique primitive natural qi.
His spiritual force was condensed into tangible tentacles, stretching out, capturing the silver figures derived from the last two sentences. Then, he started fathoming out the meaning and refining them.
He didn’t even know how much time had passed since he fell into the Green Lotus Pool.
Like an unborn baby in his mother’s womb, Li Mu was bathed in the Precious Green Lotus Liquid, completely naked. His body constitution was changing. The Taoist Principles and the Great Way Brand in his body were also undergoing a process of quantitative alteration to qualitative alteration.
If experts in the Void-breaking Realm were present, they would realize that this was the process of entering the Void-breaking Realm. Moreover, compared with the experience of the ordinary experts in the Void-breaking Realm, what Li Mu was going through was more complicated and enigmatic.
All that happened without Li Mu noticing.
And one more thing that Li Mu did not know was that, not far from him, in the same Green Lotus Pool, Ye Wuhen, the beautiful Virgin Goddess with long green hair, was also naked and bathed in the Green Lotus Spiritual Liquid.
The girl’s eyes were tightly closed, and she was in a highly mysterious state.
Since some of Li Bai’s Cultivation Methods Li Mu had inherited was no use to him, he eventually passed them on to Ye Wuhen.
To Ye Wuhen, this was a golden opportunity.
She has already entered a bizarre state of transcending herself, people, and everything else.
As far as she could tell, the place she was in was not the Green Lotus Pool. Instead, it was a boundless void of the universe, in which she was constantly cultivating and comprehending. Time seemed to have stopped running there. But it also seemed to have become a torrent raging past, which did not mean anything to her.
She had no idea that Li Mu was actually less than 10 meters away from her.
Because her mind was on a journey to the universe.
Time flew by.
“Rumble!”
All of a sudden, Li Mu’s mind became clear.
The Primeval Qi gradually dissipated, and the lakes and mountains gradually came in sight again.
He suddenly opened his eyes, and his senses returned to normal.
He immediately noticed something funny. When he suddenly looked back, he saw a beautiful naked woman floating in the Green Lotus Spiritual Liquid about 10 meters away.
Her body, which seemed to be sculpted out of jade, could arouse men’s wildest fantasies about women. It was so pure and impeccable that any man who saw it would tremble with amaze.
It was Ye Wuhen.
“Can’t believe she’s also here.”
After casting that first glance, it immediately occurred to Li Mu that he shouldn’t be looking at that body. He quickly turned his head. Still, her perfect nude body could not be erased from his head.
So, Li Mu quickly began to run the Xiantian Skill to dispel the unbefitting longing in his heart.
With a leap, he had already got out of the Green Lotus Pool.
When Li Mu looked back, the green cover of the tactical deployment and the white mist generated by the spiritual liquid had blotted out everything so that he couldn’t see anything inside the pool at all. He then let out a sigh of relief.
“It’s alright. It’s alright.”
Otherwise, if others learned that he and Ye Wuhen once both “bathed in the hot spring naked”, it would damage the reputation of the girl.
Li Mu changed into a daily robe that he had put in the storage space. Seeing that no one was around, he wondered what day it was.
He tentatively turned on the primitive natural qi in his body and felt it. At once, his countenance altered.
“Yeah, everything has changed. This is…” Li Mu felt that his strength had undergone a drastic change.
The primitive natural qi roared and surged with great momentum. As it raced down his meridians, Li Mu gradually felt as if being filled with energy. Even the meridians too fine to be perceived before had the primitive natural qi course through. The primitive natural qi was running on its own, and the circulation seemed never-ending.
The human body itself was a treasure house.
And the meridians were the keys to the various vaults.
“How many meridians does a man have exactly?”
No one could give a clear answer.
The more meridians a man opened up, the stronger he would be, and the more treasure vaults in human body he could explore.
The number of meridians opened by the experts in the Void-breaking Realm was far larger than that of the other experts, which was also one of the reasons why the strength of those in the Void-breaking Realm was so terrifying.
“This is a sign of being in the Void-breaking Realm. Have I already entered the Void-breaking Realm?”
