Imperial Cultivation

Chapter 965: Chapter 961: Observing the Manuals

Leng Yuqing glanced sideways at him.

Leng Tieya smiled and said, ”Big sister, stop dawdling, quickly take me over.”

”I really don’t know what madam is thinking.” Leng Yuqing shook her head.

”Madam knows I’m exceptionally perceptive.” Leng Tieya said.

”Ha, exceptionally perceptive, you really dare say!”

Leng Yuqing sneered.

The thoughts in her mind were the opposite of her expression.

Leng Tieya was indeed considered exceptionally perceptive among this generation of disciples.

Among the disciples of the Nine Great Families in Zhongyun City, Leng Tieya already counts as an outstanding one of his generation.

Of course, he is not the strongest. The eldest son of the Fan Family, the second son of the Lu Family, and the eldest son of the Song Family at that time, were all invited into the Great Heavenly Demon Palace.

He’s still quite a ways from being actively invited by the Great Heavenly Demon Palace.

This active invitation in the process of competing for the Demon Artifact doesn’t count.

Leng Tieya kept urging her.

He couldn’t wait to see the original Secret Manual of the Nine Solutions of Heavenly Demon and the Leng Family Nine Swords.

...

Although it’s called the Nine Marvels Pavilion, it is actually underground.

A stone chamber a hundred meters underground, a hundred square meters, six meters high.

Empty and devoid of any objects, just an empty stone chamber.

All around are constructed with Cold Jade, sending a chilling aura.

Thirty-six Luminous Pearls embedded above the stone chamber form a peculiar pattern.

Leng Tieya looked up, faintly feeling that the pattern contained some mysterious aura.

”Stop looking, you won’t understand!” Leng Yuqing stood before a golden beast head, beckoning with her jade-like hand: ”Come over.”

Leng Tieya gazed at the beast head embedded in the Cold Jade Stone Wall.

A discomfort sprouted in him, and he frowned slightly.

The beast head of this Strange Beast was as large as a washbasin, with three vertical eyes, each the size of a baby’s fist, protruding like a fox’s mouth from the stone wall.

The mouth opened to reveal a short, thick tongue, the tip split into five sections, like human fingers.

It looked peculiar no matter how he saw it.

”Hurry up, don’t dawdle, I have other things to do!” Leng Yuqing urged.

Leng Tieya said, ”Then big sister, you go ahead, I’ll handle it myself.”

He felt somewhat uneasy, unsure if he could pass this stage.

Leng Yuqing said irritably: ”You think I have nothing better to do but accompany you? Without two people, can you unlock this? Dream on!”

Leng Tieya shook his head helplessly, bit his index finger, and pressed the blood against the tongue of the Strange Beast.

Leng Yuqing also bit her slender fingers, pressing the blood of her index finger onto another fork of the Strange Beast’s tongue.

The Strange Beast’s three vertical eyes lit up simultaneously, illuminating both of them.

Leng Tieya was inwardly worried, but his face showed a look of annoyance.

Leng Yuqing stared at the Strange Beast.

”Ugh...” A beast’s roar simultaneously exploded in their ears.

Their vision blacked out, feeling as if they were alone in a Barbaric Land, exposed to the wild, ready to be devoured at any moment.

Fear gripped them tightly, threatening to drive them mad, heart racing, breathing accelerating.

The heart thumped faster, as if it wanted to leap out of the chest.

The breathing became rapid and heavy, as if about to expire at any moment.

Both quickly reached their limit state, on the verge of collapse.

Yet, Leng Tieya gradually recovered calm, Leng Yuqing also slowly eased.

Leng Tieya shook his head inwardly.

He didn’t use Super Sense intervention, nor did he let the main body assist, but from deep within his heart and blood emerged a force, suppressing the great fear.

This was the power of the bloodline.

The bloodline power of the Leng Family line.

”Snap!” A crisp sound.

The surrounding Cold Jade Stone Wall began to glow.

Images appeared one by one, a total of eighteen scenes simultaneously presented.

The first nine images showed a dashing middle-aged man practicing Swordsmanship.

Either light as a crane, heavy as a bear, swift as an ape, or slow as a gecko...

The other nine scenes showed the dashing middle-aged man moving slowly, performing a set of Fist Technique, then pausing, assuming a strange pose and remaining still.

Sitting, standing, lying down, each posture different.

”Alright, you ponder slowly, I’m off.”

Leng Yuqing glanced at the eighteen images, casually waved her hand.

Leng Tieya stared at one of the images, distractedly waving his hand.

Leng Yuqing shook her head and turned to leave.

The Cold Jade Stone Chamber returned to tranquility.

Leng Tieya exhaled.

Luckily passed the test, really worried if the Strange Beast would detect something wrong with him.

He began to focus on the eighteen images.

The memory of the ten images in his mind had already blurred somewhat.

Last observation was ten years ago, even with a stellar memory, there would still be subtle changes.

Especially when he’s been practicing, unconsciously altering the memory.

He employed Super Sensing Illumination, trying to discern the origin of these images, and the Strange Beast.

Unfortunately, all around was shrouded by an invisible force, unable to explore.

Super Sense couldn’t break this invisible force, making him vigilant, lest his guard drops.

The Nine Marvels Pavilion was indeed marvelous.

This was merely a family’s within a city, yet how many Zhongyun Cities like this, how many families like the Leng Family exist in the Demon World.

The prosperity of the Demon World indeed far outstrips the Human World.

It weighed heavily on his heart.

Quickly dismissing all that, he continued focusing on the eighteen images.

It’s said that the Nine Solutions of Heavenly Demon was incomplete, what he’s seeing were not its entirety.

Subsequent ancestors themselves patched them.

With Leng Tieya’s current knowledge, consulting his main body and Chu Liezhao’s knowledge, he faintly felt there was a slight discord in the Nine Solutions of Heavenly Demon.

This slight discord was subtle, a very nuanced feeling.

As for why it was discordant, couldn’t quite say.

This discord became apparent starting from the Sixth Form.

Leng Tieya frowned.

Could it be this much of the Nine Solutions of Heavenly Demon is incomplete, only the first five forms are original, the remaining four were all patched?

The Leng Family ancestor was indeed remarkable, completing the cultivation technique enough to practice to the Heavenly Demon First Grade.

He carefully pondered, experiencing its mysteries, feeling greatly rewarded.

Especially the Leng Family Nine Swords, the previous self’s understanding of this Swordsmanship was too superficial, merely grasping the surface.

The intricate subtleties within were completely missed, squandering this Swordsmanship.

——

He spent two days comprehending before leaving the pavilion.

At noon, he was having lunch with Leng Yuqing in the pavilion of his small courtyard.

”Big sister, wasn’t the original version of the Nine Solutions of Heavenly Demon different from this?”

”Hmm——?”

”Is there an earlier version?”

Leng Yuqing chewed a piece of beast meat carefully: ”The earlier version was on a Stone Plate, you couldn’t read the words, couldn’t practice following them.”

”What words can’t I recognize?”

”The words were very peculiar, unrecognizable.”

Leng Tieya’s spirit lifted: ”Can I take a look at it?”

He had a bold guess: Could it be Divine Language?

Leng Yuqing tilted her head looking at him: ”You think our current Nine Solutions of Heavenly Demon is inadequate for practice?”

”Big sister, we’re aware of the issues with the Nine Solutions of Heavenly Demon, the ancestor might not have patched them correctly.”

”Such bold words, can you surpass the ancestor?” Leng Yuqing snorted.

Leng Tieya said: ”How would we know if we don’t try? Can’t we descendants surpass our ancestors?”

”...Fine, I’ll fetch it for you later!” Leng Yuqing glared at him for a while and eventually agreed.

...

Leng Tieya examined the Stone Plate before him.

A palm-sized Ink Stone Plate, with five etched diagrams, a small figure posed in five positions.

It’s clearly a fragment, one edge was uneven, in an arc.

Tiny words carved beside the small figure.

But it wasn’t as he’d guessed, not Divine Language, indeed unrecognizable, exceedingly peculiar.

Leng Tieya frowned in thought, searching his mind for clues of this language.

No words, just the small figure, no difference from the ancestor’s five positions.