The Immortal Seeker: Legend of Bronze Mirror
Chapter 119 - 80: Tiger Demon Bone Refining Fist_2

Chapter 119: Chapter 80: Tiger Demon Bone Refining Fist_2

He is still too young.

Blame not the circumstance, but fear the man himself.

Their relationship with Xu Qing could be a double-edged sword.

Being too close might not actually be a beneficial thing.

But on closer contemplation, perhaps it was the older monk who wanted them to not be too close with Xu Qing, to prevent Xu Qing from becoming his anchor, helping him to prematurely rise in rank?

Perhaps he is overthinking it; surely his master isn’t that scheming.

Sigh, thinking of Elder Yan Zhi, who is currently picking manure in the vegetable garden, Fayue feels an unavoidable compulsion to think.

Forget it, so what if he’s not the head monk.

Maitreya Buddha has been the Future Buddha for countless eons, and he is still in position!

"Amitabha." Fayue chants the Buddha’s name, quelling his thoughts of ascent.

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Xu Qing returned to the study room, asked Qiu Xiang to grind the ink as he himself started writing lines of text on the white paper, striving to replicate the stone carved texts on the relic pagoda.

After he finished, Xu Qing thoroughly contemplated the scriptures, and the more he pondered, the more his heart became agitated.

These texts made no sense at all.

He was used to the wisdom encapsulated in the Four Books and Five Classics and other classical eight-legged essays; even if he didn’t understand them, repeated reading brought a sense of serenity.

Unlike these writings, delving into their meaning only intensified the sense of illogic, making him feel nauseated.

"Could it be I’m overthinking, and these texts are utterly meaningless?"

As Xu Qing continued to read, he felt something was off.

These characters gave him an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

He couldn’t help but read them aloud, trying to uncover the mystery of these writings through recitation.

The more Xu Qing recited, the deeper the sense of familiarity.

Yet, the meanings of these texts remained profoundly alien and completely nonsensical.

"Pfft." Xu Qing heard Qiu Xiang suddenly laugh.

Only then did he remember, in his eagerness to transcribe these characters and having Qiu Xiang to help with the ink, he forgot the little maid was still around. Xu Qing asked, "What are you laughing at?"

Seeing Xu Qing seemingly annoyed, and realizing her slip-up, Qiu Xiang kneeled in panic and kowtowed, "Forgive me, young master, it will not happen again."

Seeing her like this, Xu Qing sighed, "It’s not your fault, you may leave now."

Qiu Xiang hurriedly thanked him for the mercy, carefully stepping out.

Just as she reached the door, Xu Qing remembered something and asked, "What’s so funny about these characters?"

Qiu Xiang replied, "It’s just that I accidentally recalled visiting the temple fair as a child, where the monks chanted scriptures in the same gibberish manner; my younger sister and I used to mimic the monks, so I couldn’t help but laugh..."

"You mean to say that reading these texts is like chanting scriptures?"

"Not exactly like, but it feels somewhat similar."

Xu Qing seemed to grasp a spark of inspiration, "You may leave; keep the east wing’s door shut, don’t let outsiders disturb me."

"Understood, young master." Qiu Xiang carefully shut the study room door, patting her chest as a reminder to herself not to make any more mistakes.

Being a maid for the young master, her life was already much better than when she was in the countryside, and she must cherish it.

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"This is a scripture, but not quite."

"Not right, are scriptures all in Central Earth characters?"

Xu Qing finally realized something amiss; these characters, though in traditional script, were actually pronunciations of Sanskrit.

In his previous life, he studied ancient literature and history, and had dabbled in Sanskrit.

Xu Qing immediately recalled his past knowledge of Sanskrit and compared the pronunciations with these characters.

"Indeed, it is using Chinese characters to express the pronunciation of Sanskrit, but such transliteration is not very accurate, so I didn’t realize it at first."

Xu Qing, having experienced the bronze mirror, has memories related to ancient literature and history from his past life, like a palace of memories existing in his mind, but it’s not entirely transformed into knowledge he understands in this life. However, as long as there are relevant memories, he can connect back to them.

This matter is somewhat similar to the general outline of the Nine Yin Scripture being transliterated into Sanskrit.

As Xu Qing was translating, a thought occurred to him.

Soon, Xu Qing translated the entire ancient stone inscription into Sanskrit, then deciphered the meanings of the Sanskrit, gradually grasping the original meanings of these inscriptions.

"It’s actually the Fist Scripture of the Tiger Demon Bone Refining Fist."

The Tiger Demon Bone Refining Fist is Great Zen Temple’s Foundation Building Skill and also one of the most superior Bone Training Skills in the world.

It comprises two hundred and six variations, corresponding to the two hundred and six bones of the human body.

It can be said that, in the world of Bone Training Martial Arts, at most it could only match the Tiger Demon Bone Refining Fist, but not be more comprehensive and detailed.

But because the Tiger Demon Bone Refining Fist involves very detailed and complex bones, even within Great Zen Temple, only a few have mastered this technique completely, most choose to practice only the parts they can handle.

"My Divine Soul is strong, and with the practice of Divine Soul Disguise Technique enhancing my soul control, all these are advantages for cultivating the Tiger Demon Bone Refining Fist."

"Also, ordinary martial artists lacking Absolute Focus spend a vast amount of painstaking effort just on understanding Martial Arts; in this aspect, they are far inferior to me."

Absolute Focus, combined with a stronger Divine Soul than ordinary people, is equivalent to giving Xu Qing an advantage in Comprehension.

With all these advantages accumulated, Xu Qing potentially could fully master the Tiger Demon Bone Refining Fist.

Moreover, if he soon succeeds in obtaining the spirit blood and spirit meat of the Three-tailed Black Fox, even without the Secret Medicine of the Tiger Demon Bone Refining Fist, it wouldn’t matter much.

At least the early to mid stages of practicing the Tiger Demon Bone Refining Fist would pose no problem.

Once the Tiger Demon Bone Refining Fist is successfully cultivated, Xu Qing’s Bull Demon Strong Fist can also improve significantly.

Now, Xu Qing saw the hope of surpassing King Lin.

Even if the opponent could also obtain spirit meat and spirit blood.

But the advantage of age is on Xu Qing’s side.

"However, the scripture’s content mainly consists of oral formulas, without diagrams; I need to understand and digest them properly."

Fortunately, Xu Qing was not an outsider; with a foundation in Crane Form Skill, Eight Diagram Wandering Palm, and Bull Demon Strong Fist, he could easily understand the martial arts terminologies in the Fist Scripture.

"These Fist Scripture terminologies indeed have a profound effect of enlightening clarity, pointing directly to the essence. And the text leaves some imagination, which actually carries more lingering charm than diagrams." Xu Qing contemplated the Fist Scripture repeatedly, and surprisingly discerned the poetic beauty of ancient masterpieces.

Learning boxing is just like writing and painting, having its own unique aesthetics.

A term in the Fist Scripture, called ’striking like hanging a painting,’ could also be described as ’striking like painting.’

The Tiger Demon Bone Refining Fist consists of eight forms, each having over twenty variations.

Xu Qing began with the first form, Tiger Demon Stretching.

This form also starts from the spinal bones.

Indeed, any higher-level Bone Training Skills in the world start from this great dragon, the spinal bone.

As Xu Qing felt the movement of his spinal bones, this was different from regular spine exercises; Tiger Demon Bone Strengthening uses a trembling force to stretch every segment of the spine.

While practicing, he compared the effect of Crane Call on the spine.

"Crane Call uses Divine Soul Sound to cultivate the spine from inside to outside. Tiger Demon Bone Refining Fist is an external to internal cultivation, and actually, the effects of the two can be combined."

Xu Qing continuously threw punches, stimulating the effect of Tiger Demon Bone Refining, with Absolute Focus activated; he became deeply immersed and gradually, under the state of Absolute Focus, forgot himself, even forgetting that he was practicing Tiger Demon Bone Refining Fist.

However, his body naturally exuded an air of tiger-like strength during this process.

After a long while, Xu Qing felt hunger in his stomach and finally stopped.

He looked up, and the moon was high in the sky.

Beneath the parasol tree, a figure in black leaned weakly against the tree trunk, with a clear paw print on the chest.

It was Su Lianqing, who came to teach every night recently.

"What happened?"

Su Lianqing rolled her eyes, "I almost got killed by your Tiger Claw Hand."

After saying this, she spoke again uncertainly, "I’m not sure if it’s an illusion, but I felt like there was a hint of Fist Intent in your boxing practice just now."

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