In the courtyard of Xuanhua Courtyard, in a corridor, there are melodious sounds of the piano. The sound is smart and crisp, and even attracts many birds to hover in the sky, creating a fairyland scene.
"Is it settled?"
Chen Mu stood by the corridor and said casually.
Chen Yao nodded: "Yes, I will take office tomorrow, deputy commander of the garrison, starting from the seventh rank."
In this month, Chen Yao naturally broke through to the seventh level of martial arts early. He originally planned to join the Yuan Tianwei training after the seventh level, but it was postponed for a month because of the Jingling Yuanzhu.
Using the Jingling Yuanzhu to warm her bones and body, her current martial arts qualifications have reached a higher level, and she is more confident about the subsequent realm. Breaking through to the sixth level only requires the accumulation of time.
Chen Mu nodded slightly.
Then he took out a small crystal clear pendant.
It looks like a small glazed sword, but when you look closely, you can vaguely feel the sharpness hidden in this small sword, which shines in the sunlight.
"The house should have given you some means to protect yourself and your life, and I will give you the same. This is a sword magic talisman. Take it, crush it and throw it face-on. It will release two points of the power of my magic.
"
After all, Chen Yao is the descendant of Duke Xuan. Not counting Chen Mu, he is also the most promising disciple of this generation in martial arts. Even if he goes to Yuan Tianwei, it is impossible for him to be without someone.
My family must have given me a lot.
There are healing medicines like Rejuvenating Dew, blood-blasting pills that can gather blood energy in a short time and prolong the burst of blood energy, and hidden weapons like explosive arrows.
Ignoring the first ones for now, special hidden weapons such as explosive arrows, which are the most powerful, can only temporarily push back sixth-grade warriors at most, and cannot even stop those above fifth-grade.
But the Taoist symbols are different.
Tao talismans are something that can only be made by magicians above the Taoist realm. The materials are very expensive. As Chen Mu, he can only get one from Si Tiantai every season.
The method of making it was found in books. Because Chen Mu was already at the fourth level, it was not too difficult to make it. He made one easily, which is the one given to Chen Yao.
"So this is what the Taoist talisman looks like."
Chen Yao took the sword-shaped Taoist talisman handed over by Chen Mu, showed a surprised look, and said: "I always thought that the Taoist talisman was that kind of paper talisman."
Taoist talismans are also one of the magician's methods. Chen Yao knew about them, but had never seen them with his own eyes. This was the first time he saw them, and he was surprised for a while.
Chen Mu laughed and said: "The paper talisman is just a trick used by the magician. How can the fragile yellow paper be entrusted with the magician's soul power? Only soul crystals of this kind can be entrusted."
Chen Mu basically spent this month reading in the royal library. He gained a deep understanding of both magicians and martial arts, including the various customs and customs of Dayuan. He also learned a lot about them.
Maybe I can’t be called well-informed, but I already understand most of the things.
"Second brother's two-level powerful Taoist technique, even a fifth-grade warrior can't stop it."
Chen Yao blinked her eyes.
The Taoist skills that Chen Mu showed before were able to suppress even a fourth-grade warrior, so even with only two points of power, it might be enough to seriously injure or even kill a fifth-grade magician.
A Taoist talisman with such power is indeed an extremely precious means of saving life, which is difficult to exchange for a thousand pieces of gold.
"Roughly the same."
Chen Mu did not explain in detail, only said: "Use it only in life-or-death situations."
The heart sword entrusted in this Taoist talisman strikes. Not many warriors, let alone fifth-level ones, even fourth-level warriors can block it. However, there is no need to explain these.
Chen Yao is only at the seventh level now, and the sixth level can threaten her life and death. There is no big difference to her between a Taoist talisman that can kill a fifth-level warrior and a Taoist talisman that can kill a fourth-level warrior.
"Thank you, second brother."
Chen Yao carefully put away the Taoist talisman, looked at Chen Mu with a pair of eyes, and said: "I remember every good thing my second brother has done to me. I can't repay you in this life. I can only marry my second brother in the next life."
The grass holds the ring and becomes a cow or a horse."
Ding!
The sound of the piano was chaotic for a moment, causing the circling birds to scatter in fright.
Ning Qiang stopped playing the piano and looked at Chen Yao helplessly, saying: "What's the point of being a cow or a horse if you don't say something nice in this life and the next?"
She was afraid that Chen Yao's words would not be surprising and he would say two more nonsense words like "I can't repay you with this life, so I'll give it to you". Even if she knew it was nonsense and joking, if the servants listened to it,
, I don’t know how to criticize behind my back.
Chen Yao rolled her eyes and said with a smile:
"Otherwise, what should I do? If only my surname was Ning, I could marry my second brother directly."
"Pooh."
Ning Qiang spat here and reached out to grab Chen Yao's face.
Chen Yao smiled and was about to dodge away when Chen Mu flicked her finger on her head. He glanced at her and said, "Even if your surname is not Chen, I still have to like you."
Chen Yao put her hands on her hips, straightened her chest, and said proudly: "The women in the world are very beautiful, and I, Chen Yao, only have three of them... Ouch."
Chen Mu flicked his forehead again.
Although Chen Yao is already at the seventh level of martial arts, Chen Mu's cultivation speed is faster, and he is only a hair away from the sixth level. He can break through at any time, and even his force is much better than Chen Yao.
"It's getting late. You should go back to practice martial arts and stop reading random books."
Chen Mu spoke angrily, then looked at Ning Qiang and said, "Sister-in-law, please go back and rest early. She looks much better now, but don't be tired."
After Ning Qiang used the Jingling Yuanzhu to replenish her vitality, she became a bit more beautiful than before, and her facial features and behavior were a bit more agile.
Especially the sound of her piano, which is faintly like a Taoist aggregate, can purify people's distracting thoughts like a clear spring.
Chen Mu secretly checked her body and felt that if she practiced martial arts, she would probably have better qualifications than Chen Yao, and she also had an inexplicable affinity with spiritual energy.
In the sight of the spiritual vision, the aura of heaven and earth is filled in all directions. Ordinary people, such as Chen Yao, will cause these auras to create ripples with just the slightest movement. However, whether Ning Qiang is sitting, standing or walking, the ripples caused are minimal and almost non-existent.
What a sense of rejection.
However, she has no idea about martial arts training, so Chen Mu naturally won't do anything more.
soon.
Send Ning Qiang and Chen Yao away.
Chen Mu stood alone in the yard, closed his eyes slightly, and felt something carefully.
If someone uses spiritual vision to look here, they can see that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is continuously pouring in from all directions and pouring into Chen Mu's body, tempering his body all the time.
The speed of martial arts training by high-level magicians is much faster than that of ordinary martial artists. Another reason is that high-level magicians can 'practice' all the time and guide the spiritual energy to temper the body all the time.
The reason why Ning Qiang and Chen Yao were sent away was because Chen Mu felt that the aura brewing in his body had reached a critical point.
The spiritual energy continuously tempers the body, and the body continuously breeds blood energy. These blood energy surges in the body, and eventually gathers and collapses inward, turning into a completely different nature of energy.
True Yuan!
The blood energy has been gathered and turned into true essence, which is already half a step towards the sixth level.
The next half step is to use your own martial arts will to give the true essence properties, just like after casting a weapon, and then sharpening the weapon, only then can it truly activate its power.
Chen Mu naturally followed his previous idea and directly used the Heart Sword to guide the true energy brewing in his body.
As soon as this true essence touched the idea of the Heart Sword, it immediately trembled slightly. It was completely soaked by the idea of the Heart Sword without any obstruction, and was imbued with a layer of sharp sharpness!
"As expected."
Chen Mu nodded slightly.
The practice of martial arts will is to hone the will to purity and uniqueness, and his heart sword itself has already achieved purity and uniqueness, and is naturally the same as the sword intention in martial arts.
The origin of martial arts cannot be verified so far. It is said that it evolved little by little over a long period of time. There are speculations in the book that the original source may be the lineage of magicians.
Chen Mu somewhat agreed with this guess.
Ordinary people can't see the spiritual energy of heaven and earth at all, so how can they think of using special postures to attract the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the body to temper this kind of martial arts training method? You must first see the spiritual energy before you can create this method.
Moreover, the subsequent so-called tempering of martial arts will is similar to the tempering of the mind and soul of a magician, including the illusion presented by the interference of martial intention, which also seems to be imitating the magician's Taoism, but only superficially.
Moreover, the speed at which magicians practice martial arts is so fast that a high-level magician can leap from the ninth level to the fifth level in just a few months!
Rather than practicing martial arts, it is better to say that you have practiced a technique to strengthen your physical body.
And the most important point is that the highest level of martial arts in the first-level martial saint realm is only equivalent to that of a second-level magician. This is more like a faction derived from magicians.
The system of martial arts may have started out as a way for magicians to explore to strengthen the body, but it slowly spread and gradually evolved into a path that ordinary people can follow.
but.
The root cause is no longer important.
For Chen Mu, practicing martial arts as a skill is better than nothing. After all, there will be an additional method in the future, and it will not delay him from doing his business.
Chen Mu thought and called up the system interface.
[Name: Chen Mu]
【Age:16】
[Force: the power of one elephant]
[Heart and Soul: First Spirit lv28 (+)]
[Soul Points: 4 points]
In the past month, he has solved the obsessions of three more ghosts. However, the two ghosts were very weak and provided very few soul points. Together, they only allowed him to improve by three small levels.
This progress made Chen Mu feel a little slow, but there was no good way to do it, because he had no control over what kind of ghosts he could encounter and how many ghosts he encountered while wandering around the netherworld.
The Netherworld is too big!
Now that he is a fourth-level magician, his soul can travel thousands of miles in a day with ease. However, he has not explored a large area even though he has repeatedly traveled thousands of miles in a day. What he feels is still vast and boundless.
However, after this month, he is almost at the third level. As long as he has a decent ghost, resolves his obsession, and obtains soul points, he can break into the third level.
After thinking about it for a while.
Chen Mu returned to his bedroom, asked Xiaomei and Hua Shi to retreat, and then with a thought, the world in front of him changed rapidly. The familiar bedroom disappeared, and an endless expanse of withered yellow tomb soil appeared.