Indestructible Body Of Vajra Of The Village Leader
Chapter 125 - 0120: Divine Thought Strike Skill, Heart Shadow (Ten thousand characters burst, adding 3 more - s for Alliance Hierarch Baldy)

Chapter 125: 0120: Divine Thought Strike Skill, Heart Shadow (Ten thousand characters burst, adding 3 more Chapters for Alliance Hierarch Baldy)

A cold current almost instantly streamed from the top of his head down to his heels, making Jiang Dali’s body break out in goosebumps.

Buzz buzz buzz—

The Golden Nine-Ring Blade on his back suddenly hummed and trembled, unleashing an extremely dominant and sharp Sword Intent along with the vibrations of the blade.

Hiss hiss—

The surrounding vegetation was instantly torn apart by the incredibly sharp Saber Qi.

Jiang Dali felt his Nine Yang Inner Qi burst forth explosively inside him.

An energy shield, solid in appearance, surged forward with sudden force.

Bang!

Almost at that instant, a colossal black shadow attacking from the side collided with it.

Boom—

It was as if a bolt of thunder exploded in the bushes.

The exceedingly wild Qi Force surged outwards, tearing the ground within a ten-foot radius.

"What is this thing?!"

Jiang Dali bellowed angrily, throwing out a punch based on instinct; his powerful and abundant Qi Force surged insanely from his fist, overwhelming the black shadow that had broken through the Nine Yang Inner Qi Shield.

The black shadow also seemed to roar as it suddenly switched its punch to a claw, striking ferociously with the Shaolin Dragon Claw Hand, tearing at Jiang Dali’s body.

Crack thud...

When the two fists met, it was like two giant stones colliding, emitting the sound of metal striking stone.

The huge black shadow trembled and shook violently, and as Jiang Dali watched in astonishment, a face identical to his own but in black emerged from it, along with a string of text floating above its head. A large "-221" damage number popped above its head.

"Jiang Dali·Heart Shadow (Strength: Outer Qi Realm)"

"My Heart Shadow?"

Jiang Dali was stunned.

Suddenly, the shadow changed from a fist to a claw, striking fiercely with Shaolin Dragon Claw Hand, tearing at his body.

Jiang Dali roared, his body turning from a dark green to gold as the Nine Yang Energy burst out, forcefully shaking off the incoming heavy Claw Shadows; he launched a palm strike as if in prayer.

Boom—

Once again, their punches clashed violently, releasing a series of metal-on-stone sounds.

The wind of punches and the shadows of palms destroyed the surrounding vegetation, as if a whirlwind had swept through the wreckage.

Gradually, Jiang Dali took the upper hand in the fight.

The shadow that resembled him became increasingly distorted and weaker as it began to fall behind.

Jiang Dali calmed down, taking advantage of the fight to observe the shadow.

He quickly realized that this so-called Heart Shadow was merely a vain illusion within the spirit.

At that moment, it seemed as though he was fighting the shadow, making an impressive clamor, but it was essentially no different from practicing the Divine Thought Strike Skill in his mind.

He abruptly changed his straightforward and powerful offensive to a more elusive and unpredictable style; his movements nimble as a Jiao Dragon leaping out of the water, he flashed to the shadow’s left side. His left leg, carrying a strange Spiral Force, smashed savagely into the shadow’s chest, his potent Nine Yang Energy unreservedly piercing into the shadow’s chest.

Boom—

The shadow collapsed and dissipated.

A notification appeared on his panel.

Jiang Dali frowned and looked around the severely damaged bushes from the fierce battle, a flash of light in his eyes as he quietly reflected on the recent encounter.

Thinking back now.

He wasn’t actually fighting any shadow.

If there had been others present, they would have seen him seemingly fighting the air by himself, creating a spectacular show that devastated the surroundings.

So much so that, when the fight was over and he was relieved, seeing the destruction around him, he might truly believe he had just been through a real battle.

But in reality, the Heart Shadow he had just encountered, influenced by the abnormal effects of the Jade Bi, was nothing but an enemy projected between his spirit and mind.

The spiritual combat he had with the Heart Shadow in his mind also happened to be what martial arts refers to as Upper-Level Skill—Divine Thought Strike Skill.

There are three realms of practice.

The first is the practice of techniques, various routines that ordinary people begin to learn when they start martial arts.

The second is standing and cultivating Qi, a level reached only by experts who have mastered their martial arts practice.

The third is to close the eyes, meditate, and imagine various striking skills.

Divine Thought Strike Skill is generally hard to achieve.

However, influenced by the strange effects of Wuliang Jade, Jiang Dali had just entered that realm, even closer to reality than ordinary Divine Thought Strike Skills, offering a deeper experience.

Now coming back to his senses, Jiang Dali checked the panel that had changed.

"You have defeated the Heart Shadow created by Wuliang Jade. Your spirit feels more stimulated. During the confrontation, you have gained some insights. ’Nine Yang Divine Skill’, ’Great Vajra Palm’, ’Iron Cloth Shirt’, ’Golden Body Skill’, ’Gecko Wall-Crawling Skill’, ’Four Directions Fist’, ’Six Paths Leg’, ’Tiger Evil Golden Ring Saber’, and other martial arts proficiency has all increased."

"What!? All these martial arts have increased their proficiency?"

Upon seeing the notification on the panel, Jiang Dali’s heart trembled.

Only then did he feel that in the brief fight just now, he seemed to have suddenly gained new insights into these martial arts.

While not significant, they were moments of inspiration nonetheless.

He immediately opened the panel to check.

He found that all the martial arts mentioned in the notification had increased in proficiency to varying degrees. To his utmost delight, the proficiencies of ’Nine Yang Divine Skill’ and ’Iron Cloth Shirt’ had also increased.

"The proficiency of the Nine Yang Divine Skill has increased by 2 percentage points, reaching 11%, and even the Iron Cloth Shirt in the Returning to Truth Realm has increased by 0.01 percentage point?"

Jiang Dali rarely showed a delighted expression.

Although he was happy for the two percentage points increase in the Nine Yang Divine Skill, he was even more thrilled to see the 0.01 percentage point increase in the Iron Cloth Shirt that had reached the Returning to Truth Realm.

Iron Cloth Shirt, upon reaching the 9th stage of Returning to Truth, could not be improved simply by spending Cultivation Points and Potential Points.

It required an opportunity for insight.

In his previous life, there were many Martial Arts Experts who had cultivated their martial arts to the 9th stage.

But those who could cultivate to the 10th stage, Shocking the Ancient and Modern, were one in ten thousand.

Even Mortal Martial Arts are the same.

In his previous life, Jiang Dali knew that the renowned figures of the Martial World, like One God, Two Queens, Three Immortals, and Four Buddhas, only had strength far beyond ordinary Players because they had practiced one or several Martial Arts to a ’Shocking the Ancient and Modern’ degree.

Yet, he hadn’t even had a single Martial Art that had reached the ’Shocking the Ancient and Modern’ Realm.

He couldn’t even find an opportunity to elevate his level 9 Martial Arts to level 10.

But now, he suddenly saw such an opportunity.

At this moment, on the panel, the progress bar for Iron Cloth Shirt, although only displaying a progress of reaching level 9 at 0.01%, could not be increased through the consumption of Cultivation Points or Potential Points.

However, Jiang Dali saw the hope of training this Cross Training Technique to a ’Shocking the Ancient and Modern’ level.

"In the previous life, the Little Overlord among the Eight Kings was only included within the ranks of the Eight Kings because of his Iron Cloth Shirt, which had been cultivated to the ’Shocking the Ancient and Modern’ level, in addition to the Golden Bell Shield that had reached level 8.

The Little Overlord once said that an Iron Cloth Shirt cultivated to the ’Shocking the Ancient and Modern’ level, in terms of power, was not inferior to the level 8 Golden Bell Shield, how strong must that be?"

The Golden Bell Shield is an Earth-rank Ultimate Skill of Shaolin Temple.

Such a secret technique, just to obtain it is very difficult, to practice it to level 8 requires consuming a vast amount of Cultivation Points and Potential Points.

But a level 8 Golden Bell Shield is only equivalent to a Mortal Rank Iron Cloth Shirt that has reached the ’Shocking the Ancient and Modern’ level, which shows the strength attained at the pinnacle of Martial Arts.

Jiang Dali’s gaze immediately returned to the vine-covered stone wall in front of him, his eyes blazing with eagerness.

Just now, whatever Martial Arts he used in combat had indeed seen an increase in proficiency.

This had allowed him to have a clear understanding of the Wuliang Jade’s uses after its transformation.

If the Ice Soul Jade required one’s own insight to slowly improve Martial Arts proficiency,

Then the Wuliang Jade improved Martial Arts proficiency through creating actual combat, a truly miraculous object, its effects more direct and effective than the Ice Soul Jade.

No wonder in his previous life, after Tyrant Hall monopolized Langhuan Blessed Land, they sealed it off for a whole month before opening it to a select few top guilds, and then continued to unite and blockade; the interest involved was just too great.

Had these blessed lands not been sealed off, all Players’ Martial Arts standards would likely have seen a crazy improvement.

However, Jiang Dali quickly realized that he had thought wrong.

After probing the stone wall again, the corresponding Wuliang Jade had no further reaction.

"What’s going on?"

Jiang Dali was puzzled and approached the stone wall for a closer look.

His shadow was cast upon the stone wall, while the Wuliang Jade to the right of the distant waterfall once again had no corresponding shadow emerging.

Looking up at the moonlight obscured by the clouds above, Jiang Dali had an epiphany.

"So, this Wuliang Jade requires the reflection of moonlight to project a human shadow in order to produce its mysterious effects.

Is that why Tyrant Hall blockaded this place in the previous life? Because the effects produced by the Wuliang Jade are not always available and require waiting for the right moment?

If it were made public and everybody rushed here, the experts of Tyrant Hall might not get to enjoy the miraculous effects of the Jade."

To confirm his speculation,

Jiang Dali took out saltpeter to create a flame and deliberately reflected his own shadow.

But this method, as expected, did not work.

Although this artificial light indeed caused his shadow to cast successfully onto the Wuliang Jade,

The Wuliang Jade did not produce any strange phenomena.

However, taking advantage of the firelight, Jiang Dali saw clearly a character "Duan" engraved on the bare stone wall.

The character was elegant, fresh, open, and dynamic.

Presumably, it was a playful inscription left on the stone wall by Duan Yu, the Dali Prince, when he was once trapped there.

"If this life is to follow the same development as the last, Duan Yu should currently be in the midst of pursuing Wang Yuyan, right?

It has nothing to do with me at the moment. First, let’s enjoy the benefits of this place, and later on, choose some worthy Players to bring here, enjoying the supreme VIP treatment of Black Wind Village ahead of time."

Thinking so jokingly in his heart, Jiang Dali began to practice his movement technique Martial Arts between the sheer cliffs around the valley using his qinggong.

Cultivating Martial Arts does not just rely on Cultivation Points and Potential Points.

Regular self-training or actual combat with others are also ways to improve Martial Arts proficiency.

Especially fighting with experts, which greatly exceeds the speed of improving proficiency compared to practicing alone.

However, qinggong, the movement technique, is one of the more difficult categories to practice in Martial Arts.

Mainly because the consumption of Inner Qi when qinggong is used is too fast.

And the effect of training through actual combat on qinggong is not very strong.

This is why experts in qinggong are so rare in the Martial World.

Jiang Dali once also had headaches over the practice of qinggong.

But now, with Nine Yang Divine Skill in his body and a surprisingly fast regaining energy rate, the consumption of Inner Qi when using qinggong was nearly balanced with the regaining energy.

Thus, he was almost able to continuously use qinggong, rapidly improving his proficiency in the skill.

Such cultivation continued for thirty minutes.

As time passed, the dark clouds in the sky slowly dispersed, and the cold moonlight once again fell down.

Jiang Dali, noticing the change in the moonlight, rapidly shot into the forest.

Immediately, his shadow was again projected onto the Wuliang Jade through the stone wall.

But at this moment, the black shadow that suddenly appeared on the Wuliang Jade was no longer a massive one like a monster or demon; it was instead a graceful female figure.

"What is this?"

Jiang Dali stared at the suddenly appearing female shadow with an odd expression.

The instant the female shadow appeared, she moved as if a fairy wielding a sword, swiftly drawing near.

A sword light broke through the wall and arrived almost instantly in front of Jiang Dali, twisting like a dragon or serpent, flicking like the tip of a needle, turning into countless feather-like light rain, collapsing towards him, aiming at all his acupoints in an instant.

Such a familiar Swordsmanship, he had once experienced it from Feng Ying.

But the lady’s graceful figure above, emerging in front of his eyes was the message - "Li Qiushui·Heart Shadow (Strength: Outer Qi Realm)"!

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