I Slay Gods and Demons in the Deceit Night
Chapter 173 - 130: Vast Righteous Qi, Phoenix Blood Ancient Jade

Chapter 173: Chapter 130: Vast Righteous Qi, Phoenix Blood Ancient Jade

In the small courtyard.

The tea brewed today was personally prepared by Lu Changsheng, the first temple priest of the Wutong Temple in Qifeng Prefecture City.

The water came from a spring on Bull Horn Mountain.

The fragrance was refreshing, and the taste was smooth and mellow.

After one cup, it imparted a sense of cool refreshment.

"The parasol leaf that was bestowed upon you last time in the Prefecture City, if placed at the bottom of the cup, can have miraculous effects."

Mr. Lu pointed to the empty cup and said so.

Upon hearing this, Lin Yan reached into his bosom, took out the parasol leaf, and placed it at the bottom of the cup.

As Mr. Lu poured tea into the cup, he slowly said, "You’ve done quite the deed in just the few days we’ve not seen each other!"

"It’s not a big deal, I was just dissatisfied with the expansion of the city, which involves the survival of the Human Clan, and yet there were some parasites that dared to covet these materials!"

Lin Yan said, "Earlier, when I entered the inner city, the Commander ordered me to take full charge of the new city’s expansion, explicitly telling me to act as a mere blade! Therefore, it was the Observatory’s decision, and I was simply striking early... It’s not a big deal to carry out one’s orders."

"..."

Mr. Lu fell silent.

In his memory, the Commander of the Observatory in High Willow City seemed to have a different opinion from Lin Yan?

However, what was done was done, and it was now a settled matter; there was no need to delve deeper.

He stroked his beard lightly and said, "Indeed, for you personally, this matter is no big deal, which is exactly why I said you’ve done quite the deed."

"..."

Lin Yan immediately understood that Mr. Lu must have known the moment he first saw him.

Refining Essence into Qi!

True Qi housed in the ancestral orifice!

He had stepped into the realm of Qi Refinement!

"During the days when you were in seclusion, I had some suspicions, but I truly could not imagine that with your age, your advancement would be so shockingly exceptional," Mr. Lu slowly said. "It is said that a genius of the Li Shen Sect appears once every three hundred years, but to describe your talent, even ’once every five hundred years’ would not do you justice. A rare prodigy of a millennium could hardly be more fitting."

He extended his hand, gesturing for Lin Yan to drink the tea.

Lin Yan picked up the tea cup and drank it all in one gulp.

He felt the Qi Mechanism within his body flowing, and that stream of True Qi seemed to grow even stronger.

His body’s Qi-Blood became even more vigorous.

This cup of tea was roughly equivalent to the effect of two strands of Evil Qi.

"The first sip of tea has the highest efficacy, but it will gradually weaken thereafter," Mr. Lu said slowly.

"I had thought that before you made your breakthrough into the Qi Refining Realm, you would first seek me out to inquire about it; I didn’t expect that you would already have such a profound grasp on ’Refining Essence into Qi’," Mr. Lu continued to pour tea and said.

Looking at your brother’s body, did you see that strand of ’Qi’?"

"My main reason for coming here is precisely for that matter," Lin Yan hesitated.

"That was not granted by me," Mr. Lu replied.

"Oh?"

"All along, he has had that strand of Qi within him," Mr. Lu said slowly. "It’s just that previously, you were not in the Qi Refining Realm, so you couldn’t see it clearly."

"That strand of Qi?" Lin Yan fell into contemplation.

"You once referred to it as the air of a scholar," Mr. Lu stroked his beard slightly and said, "In you too there exists such Qi, but it’s more domineering than his."

"Willpower?" Lin Yan mused, "When faced with malice, one feels indignant at heart and dares to step forward, showing bravery without fear, can this be called the vigor of hot blood in the heart?"

"Basically, that’s it," Mr. Lu said slowly. "But if you want to differentiate it carefully, it’s much more than that. This kind of Righteous Qi that exists within the body... introduced a few years ago into Qifeng Prefecture’s ’new method’, is called ’Vast Righteous Qi’!"

"In recent times, having my second brother copy the classics, was it ’to clarify his aspirations,’ to stabilize the Vast Righteous Qi in his heart?" Lin Yan pondered.

"Indeed, that was part of my thinking," Mr. Lu stroked his beard and nodded, revealing a smile.

"He has this strand of Vast Righteous Qi within him, how is it different from the True Qi within me? Does this count as being in the Qi Refining Realm?" Lin Yan contemplated.

"Strictly speaking, having ’Qi Mechanism’ gestating within oneself can be considered being in the Qi Refining Realm... but not to mention your brother, just to talk about me, do you think I seem like I am in the Qi Refining Realm?" Mr. Lu asked slowly.

"I have almost reached the end of this path, do you think I can be considered the pinnacle of the Qi Refining Realm?" he pointed to Lin Yan’s knife and continued, "I require a guardian, otherwise, a youth untrained in martial arts, wielding a kitchen knife, could kill me."

Hearing this, Lin Yan immediately fell silent.

This was a shortcut!

But it had a fatal flaw!

It bypassed the lengthy process of tempering the skin, flesh, tendons, bones, and even skipped refining blood, cleansing the marrow, and the tempering of the five viscera and six bowels.

It bypassed the long martial path of the Refining Essence Realm!

With one’s own will, it birthed Vast Righteous Qi!

With Righteous Qi in one’s heart, evil spirits cannot invade!

But truthfully, after all, it’s just a mortal body, a common person with no strength to truss a chicken!

"In the face of Evil Spirits, I’m more formidable than the peak of the Qi Refining Realm," Mr. Lu sighed and said. "But if I were out in the wild, an evil wolf that hadn’t turned into a spirit could devour me."

He reminisced about the past with a sense of emotion and said, "In my early years, I went to Qifeng Prefecture City but missed the age for practicing martial arts, and by some twist of fate, embarked on this path, ultimately becoming the temple priest of the Wutong Temple."

Hearing this, Lin Yan couldn’t help but look towards the north.

That was the direction of the inner city.

Mr. Lu knew what he meant and nodded, "Now the twelve temple priests of the Liu Zun Temple are walking the same path as I did."

Lin Yan hesitated, "So, does my second brother qualify to become an incense burner in the Temple, or even a temple priest in the future?"

Mr. Lu shook his head, "The path I have chosen for him is different from that of a temple priest, it’s the ’new method’ introduced into Qifeng Prefecture! But this ’new method,’ in terms of cultivation, will be much more difficult!"

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