Chapter 19: No Such Worldly Desires (5000 words)(1/2)
The Lingzi Tomb has been completely taken over by the US military stationed in Japan. The construction site and underground caves have been sealed off, and no one is allowed to enter or exit.
According to Hoshizaki Yukina, American experts with psychic skills came here from across the ocean to inspect the Tomb of Reiko and planned to use this place as an experimental site.
However, due to the small number of U.S. troops, only the entrances and exits were blocked, leaving the vast space inside to be explored later.
Tomb of Lingzi, interior.
Xu Cheng stood on a hill with his eyes closed, letting the cold wind carrying ashes blow, his chest rising and falling slightly, imitating a certain breathing rhythm.
Regarding the invitation from the Protectorate Council, the reason why he delayed going to the appointment for a few days was because he planned to practice the breathing method of his body to the fourth level first, and also enhance the chaotic energy of the ability card.
Sharpening one's weapons before the battle is a waste of time, there is no better place to practice than Lingzi's Tomb.
So he entrusted Hoshizaki Yukina to bring him in again.
The fourth level of breathing practice is very difficult, many times more difficult than the first three levels. The extremely complex breathing rhythm, heartbeat, and muscles need to be coordinated together. The whole process is comparable to those unsolved mathematical problems.
Even if he could use the killer card to train, Xu Cheng has never been able to succeed. The main body can only last a few seconds at most.
As long as there are a few distracting thoughts in the mind, it will cause slight deviations in the breathing rhythm, and then fail.
"Or not!"
Xu Cheng, who failed again, slowly opened his eyes. He couldn't remember how many times he had failed.
At the current speed, it seems like he won't be able to learn it even if he is given a few more months.
It’s so difficult even with power leveling, I can’t imagine how those killers learned the fourth level breathing method.
Maybe it’s because my breathing method is stronger than before, so it’s also more difficult?
Xu Cheng thought for a while and couldn't find a better way, so he simply switched to the ability card, preparing to exercise the chaotic energy first, so as not to waste the highly concentrated spirit environment here.
However, after switching to the ability card, Xu Cheng looked at the attribute column of the ability card, suddenly froze, and then slapped his forehead with his hand.
"Woc, why did you forget this magical skill?"
The talent of the ability card - Emotional Control.
You can amplify or reduce your own emotions, and in the most extreme case, you can turn yourself into a wooden person with an empty heart, without any distracting thoughts.
When practicing the fourth-level breathing method, what you fear most is having distracting thoughts in your mind and unstable thoughts.
Xu Cheng once again switched to the killer card, first running the fourth level breathing method, and after his body started to operate instinctively, he immediately switched to the ability card while his body was not paying attention, and used emotional control to turn himself into a wooden man.
Once the killer card is cancelled, although the operation of the breathing method has not changed, errors and omissions will occur within a few seconds.
But when Xu Cheng used the talent of the ability card to strip away all emotions, he turned into a training robot with no emotions, and continued to maintain the operation of the fourth-level breathing method without any distracting thoughts in his heart.
This time, Xu Cheng stopped the breathing method after it lasted for more than an hour.
It's not that he made a mistake, it's that he has learned it.
Xu Cheng lowered his head and looked at his hands. It turned out that as long as he found the right method, all the problems would be solved. It was that simple to practice.
The breathing method of the fourth level of the body has been completed, and the next step is to practice the chaotic energy.
Xu Cheng thought of the classic representative works of teachers such as Fujisaki Hikari, Takeda Hiromitsu, and Hana Fufu, and created a ball of chaotic energy in his chest, which he used to control his emotions to amplify it.
His eyes were red and emitted two dark red energy rays.
After the two rays shot out straight, they turned flexibly in the air like snakes, quickly forming various shapes, and finally exploded like fireworks, spewing out dense rays.
Xu Cheng opened his hands, and chaotic energy surged out of his hands, covering his palms and forming two dark red sharp knives.
His figure flashed forward, drawing two dark red tracks in the air, piercing through a huge skeleton.
There were two red-hot cuts on the skeleton, but the sharp knife in Xu Cheng's hand was also broken.
"Although it can be transformed into a weapon, it is purely energy and not strong enough at all."
Xu Cheng looked down at the broken sharp knife and reassembled it, but it only had the appearance of a knife and would break into pieces with a slight collision.
The current chaotic energy only changes in form. When it changes in nature, it can be shaped by Xu Cheng as he pleases.
He now has 4 mission points, and he doesn't know whether he should use them to upgrade Chaos Energy, or save them and continue to let the manager deduce the breathing method.
After thinking about it for a while, he decided to save it first and upgrade it when needed.
After canceling the two character cards, Xu Cheng took a deep breath and summoned the hero's right arm, preparing to test the maximum power and attack range of this thing.
Huge arms emerged from the void behind Xu Cheng, and the terrifying power caused the air to visibly distort.
Under the control of Xu Cheng's mind, the hero's right arm aimed at a hill in front and swung it hard.
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When Hoshizaki Yukina arrived inside Reiko's Tomb, she saw huge traces of destruction remaining on the ground, and a hill in the distance had been completely wiped off the surface.
Hoshizaki Yukina was startled, wondering what happened in the past few days when she didn't come in.
"Witch, you are quite punctual."
Xu Cheng's voice sounded from behind.
Previously, Xu Cheng made an appointment with Hoshizaki Yukina to meet on the river embankment in the evening, and then asked her to help take him into the tomb of Reiko and pick him up in a few days.
I was already prepared for her to let him go, but I didn't expect that she actually came on time.
This time Hoshizaki Yukina was not so frightened that she teleported away. Instead, she turned around and looked at Xu Cheng.
After not seeing each other for a few days, Xu Cheng's appearance has not changed at all, but his temperament has improved tremendously, like an unsheathed sword, so sharp that it seems to hurt people's eyes.
Hoshizaki Yukina narrowed her eyes subconsciously and couldn't help but ask: "Have you... already learned the fourth-level breathing method?"
She had already made this guess when Xu Cheng defeated the poisonous snake easily. Now when she saw the traces of destruction caused by Xu Cheng, she couldn't help but ask.
Xu Cheng flatly rejected: "No."
Hoshizaki Yukina couldn't help but raise her hand and point to the cut hills in front of her: "No, how was that done?"
Xu Cheng grinned: "Because I am born with supernatural powers."
The corner of Hoshizaki Yukina's mouth twitched slightly, feeling as if her intelligence was being insulted in person.
But Xu Cheng didn't want to say it, and she couldn't force him to ask. Besides, she was also confused in her heart, was the fourth-level breathing method really so powerful?
Arakawa Buntais also knows the fourth-level breathing method, but he still looks like a human being.
"Didn't you say that it would be beneficial if I helped you?"
Hoshizaki Yukina couldn't help but repeat the old talk: "What's the benefit?"
"The most you can do now is run errands for me. What benefits do you want?"
Xu Cheng stretched out his hand towards her: "Don't worry, I'm not a black-hearted capitalist. I treat you like a cow and don't give you food. As long as you are willing to continue to help, I will not let you suffer."
You are the beast!
Hoshizaki Yukina secretly spat, but in her mind, she had a dog chain chained around her neck, lying on her knees on all fours, while Xu Cheng was riding on her back, whipping her ass and mouth with a whip.
There is a picture of shouting 'Drive! Drive!'.
She trembled inwardly and quickly put this terrible scene out of her mind.
Why did she have such random thoughts? It must be because she read too many strange novels. She decided to burn the novel called "Fifty Shades of Grey" immediately after she went back.
When Xu Cheng saw Hoshizaki Yukina's eyes flustered and her cheeks hot, he couldn't help but ask: "Why are you blushing?"
"nothing!"
Hoshizaki Yukina's voice of denial was slightly louder. Without giving Xu Cheng a chance to speak, she immediately reached out to hold Xu Cheng's hand and used teleportation to bring him back to the gate of Lingzi Tomb.
The two of them got out of the gate, and when the American troops guarding the gate weren't paying attention, they teleported back to the ground again.
It was night outside, Xu Cheng took a deep breath of the fresh air after a few days' absence, and waved to Hoshizaki Yukina: "You go back first, I will come back to you if anything happens."
This rude attitude made Hoshizaki Yukina very unhappy. She was not an airborne princess who could just come and go when called upon.
Even if she is an airborne queen, she still needs some errand fees, right?
Although she was unhappy, Hoshizaki Yukina had no resistance in her heart. She just snorted coldly and put her hands on her chest: "If you need anything, come to me? It depends on whether I am free."
After saying that, without waiting for Xu Cheng's reply, she immediately teleported and ran away.
Xu Cheng felt that Hoshizaki Yukina's attitude was a bit strange, but he didn't think much about it. Anyway, use this woman who follows Tsugumo Shinji if you can, and pull her down if you can't. There is no need to be polite to her.
When I got home, Qiu Gongyue was not at home, probably because she had gone to resurrect the deceased in a branch.
Xu Cheng had suggested to her before that since she had been attacked by a venomous snake, she should be careful with Jinyun Shinji and his group and not return rashly to give death.
But Akimiya Tsuki had different opinions. She believed that Arakawa Buntais and the advisory board of elders could be used to deal with Tsugumo Shinji's group of young people who wanted to rise to power.
So she had to go back to add fuel to the fire, oh no, go back to expose the behavior of poisonous snakes and stinging wasps.
Qiu Gongyue is too independent and has her own considerations, and Xu Cheng will not forcefully interfere with her actions.
After staying at home all night, Xu Cheng wrote a leave request for the novel early the next morning.
"I'm sorry, family, I have to negotiate with a mysterious evil organization today, and there may be a fight. I really don't have time to update. I hope you will understand me."
The bounty offered by the Invisible Man and two cadres allowed Xu Cheng to directly achieve financial freedom.
However, he did not write the novel The Eunuch, but wrote it as a hobby, so he felt at ease taking time off.
To be continued...