Chapter 418: Chapter 157 Heaven Silkworm Technique! Hundred Herbs Essence!_2

As Qian Rui stood bewildered, the Giant Ape Illusion suddenly moved, its massive palms grasping Qian Rui’s arms and yanking hard.

“Crack! Crack!”

Amidst the crisp sounds of bones cracking, accompanied by Qian Rui’s pained grunts, his arm joints were dislocated by the Giant Ape Illusion.

“Crack! Crack!”

Qian Rui wanted to resist, but even at his peak, he couldn’t contend with Su Changkong’s 10th tier Five Animal Frolics manifesting intents as forms, let alone now that his arm joints had been dislodged. The Giant Ape Illusion pressed him down to the ground, also dislocating the joints of his legs.

Since Su Changkong intended to comprehend and practice the Heaven Silkworm Divine Intent Picture in the Heaven Silkworm Cave, he naturally couldn’t let Qian Rui go. Otherwise, if he were to leave, he would definitely inform the disciples of the Spirit Taoist Sect, and then Su Changkong’s hope of peacefully practicing the Heaven Silkworm Technique would be a fool’s dream.

As for killing Qian Rui over this, Su Changkong really couldn’t do it. He wasn’t exactly a saint, but he wouldn’t kill innocents either. He was desperate to restore his meridians and restart his martial arts path, hence he practiced the Heaven Silkworm Technique without permission, but to kill for it would be going too far.

The most Su Changkong was willing to do was to avoid causing undue harm to the Spirit Taoist Sect. Therefore, he first restricted Qian Rui’s freedom, planning to release him when it was time for him to leave!

Su Changkong placed Qian Rui against a cave wall at a distance.

Qian Rui’s heart was a tumult of shock and fury, “This Su Helai is too fanciful! To think he could learn the Heaven Silkworm Technique from just a Divine Intent Picture? In my Spirit Taoist Sect’s thousand years, only three people have learned the Heaven Silkworm Technique!”

Many profound martial arts are divided into the cultivation technique and the Divine Intent Picture, neither of which can be neglected. The Heaven Silkworm Technique itself is an incredibly difficult odd technique to practice, and since he hasn’t learned the cultivation technique, Qian Rui thinks Su Changkong won’t give up until he hits a dead end!

Powerless, Qian Rui slumped in the corner, only hoping that Su Changkong would quickly give up and not vent his anger on him if he failed to learn the Heaven Silkworm Technique.

Having dealt with Qian Rui, Su Changkong took a deep breath to calm his emotions, and with an inward apology, he also moved Old Man Qishi’s corpse from the edge of the pond to a distant place.

Old Man Qishi must have died while meditating about half a year ago, but as an Innate Martial Artist, even in death, his body wouldn’t decay for several years.

In fact, Old Man Qishi was quite fortunate. He lived to the ripe old age of two hundred and did not die at the hands of another but passed away naturally while meditating, which was already more fortunate than ninety-nine percent of the people in the world!

Su Changkong sat cross-legged by the pond inside the Heaven Silkworm Cave, positioned so he could clearly see the Divine Intent Picture at the bottom of the pond.

“Whew!”

Su Changkong soon entered into a meditative state, concentrating his attention wholly on comprehending the Divine Intent Picture.

Before Su Changkong’s eyes, the unremarkable Divine Intent Picture gradually came to life!

Su Changkong saw the silkworm eggs, which hatched to reveal the young larvae, their bodies showing a light black hue. As the young larvae began to feed and grow, their bodies started to glisten.

Once they reached this phase, the silkworms would spit silk to form cocoons around themselves. As time passed, the cocoons broke open, and the matured silkworms emerged with wings, transforming into moths!

“The life of a silkworm is incredibly short. From birth to maturity, then to death, it only spans about fifty days…” Su Changkong murmured to himself.

Then, Su Changkong observed the moths fluttering about, only to fall to the ground, dead. Strangely, these moths spat out silk, wrapping themselves once more, but as the cocoons broke open, the moths seemed to reverse aging, returning to their larval form!

“The Heaven Silkworm spins endless silk! Reverting age to remain forever young!”

Su Changkong gradually gained realization, understanding the essence of the Heaven Silkworm Technique from the Divine Intent Picture.

The Heaven Silkworm Technique was an extremely profound martial art, derived by a martial arts expert in his later years from observing a spring silkworm spinning silk. He had an epiphany and created this unique technique.

It was said that this martial artist managed to reverse his aging with the Heaven Silkworm Technique, extending his life by many years before he finally died while meditating!

Of course, for the young Su Changkong, reversing age was useless. What he valued most was the Heaven Silkworm Technique’s healing method.

“The Heaven Silkworm Technique starts with the basics of breath cultivation. As this breath cultivation progresses, the filth accumulated within the body will be expelled, and the cultivator’s skin will become as tough as metal, their bones as hard as iron. Only then can one proceed to the next step: collecting Hundred Herbs Spirit Liquid to soak in and further purify and temper the body, completing the Foundation Establishment stage.”

“With Foundation Establishment complete, a strand of True Qi will be born within the body, this Heaven Silkworm True Qi can be exhaled as threads, forming Heaven Silkworm Silk.”

“The Heaven Silkworm Silk can be soft or rigid, it can probe into the human body’s meridians, circulating throughout, dissolving all poisons, and healing internal injuries. Broken bones, damaged internal organs, severed meridians—all can be regenerated with the life force of Heaven Silkworm True Qi!”

“The Heaven Silkworm Silk can also become a lethal weapon, sealing acupoints and stopping the flow of energy, entangling and binding, impervious to blade and sword!”

“If one could cultivate to the Profound Boundary, he could spin silk while exhaling, form a cocoon and bind oneself. Depending on the severity of the injuries, they could heal in mere hours or several days!”

What Su Changkong learned from the Heaven Silkworm Divine Intent Picture made his eyes shine with enlightenment.

The Heaven Silkworm Technique was incredibly difficult to master. Just the initial step of breathing and expelling impurities took a very long time, not to mention cultivating the Heaven Silkworm True Qi.

The Heaven Silkworm True Qi was the core of the Heaven Silkworm Technique. As long as one could cultivate this True Qi and reach this stage, they could display the profoundness of the Heaven Silkworm Technique. Whether it was to heal others or oneself, it would be effortless!

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