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Chapter 122 - Martial Dao Genius
Chapter 122 - Martial Dao Genius
Chapter 122: Martial Dao Genius
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Emperor Yuan Feng clutched his chest as his vision darkened.
His heart ached. He felt terrible.
What is this called?
Don’t you feel sorry for your father?
Even the imperial family can’t withstand such torment.
He felt dizzy when he thought of what Yin Wuyou had taken away.
Forget it. I am the emperor. How can I be petty?
Emperor Yuan Feng comforted himself. He rubbed his chest and let out a long sigh.
In contrast, Yin Wuyou left the imperial palace in high spirits.
She was smiling, and her eyes showed contentment. Her high-spirited appearance made the entire sky brighten up.
Hmph, Zhou Shu, quickly thank me!
…
Zhou Shu didn’t expect Yin Wuyou to arrive so quickly. As expected of the princess, she was rich.
She gathered ten thousand taels of gold so quickly!
“Grand Minister, cash or banknotes?” Zhou Shu said with anticipation.
Ten thousand taels of gold, how much was this?
No matter how much, he had never touched so much money in his two lifetimes!
Should I change them all to gold bars and fill my bed??Zhou Shu thought.
“Neither,” Yin Wuyou proudly said. “This is for you!”
She carefully and solemnly took out a jade pendant from her bosom.
“What is this?” Zhou Shu was puzzled.?I just want money. Why do you want to exchange this with me?
I don’t need the jade pendant. If I take it, I’ll have to sell it. It’ll be a hassle.
Couldn’t you just give me money?
Yin Wuyou looked around and whispered cautiously, “Emperor Xuan Jade Book!”
“Emperor Xuan Jade Book? What is it?” Zhou Shu was puzzled.
“Something good!” Yin Wuyou said as she presented it to him.
“You know about Emperor Xuan, right?”
“I don’t know.” Zhou Shu shook his head.
He really didn’t know and didn’t pay attention to it at all.
“Emperor Xuan was the founder of our Great Xia. His real name is Yin Daoxuan, and he was also our Great Xia’s first forger.
“Not only was Emperor Xuan a forger, but he was also a powerful martial artist. Back then, he dominated the world and was invincible in the world.
“This Emperor Xuan Jade Book was left behind by Emperor Xuan.”
Zhou Shu looked at the small jade pendant in Yin Wuyou’s hand in shock. Although he didn’t know who exactly Emperor Xuan was, he could tell that he was an extremely impressive person.
How could someone who was said to be invincible in the world be a simple character?
Not to mention, he was the founding emperor of Great Xia.
“The Emperor Xuan Jade Book is a cultivation technique that my ancestor Emperor Xuan cultivated back then. But ever since the ancestor disappeared, no one has been able to cultivate this Emperor Xuan Jade Book anymore.”
“In that case, why did you bring it here?” Zhou Shu asked.
“For you.”
“For me?”
“That’s right.” Yin Wuyou nodded. “In any case, no one in the imperial family can cultivate it now, so it’s just collecting dust there. Moreover, I feel that Emperor Xuan was a genius in martial arts and forging. You’re very similar to him, so you might be able to cultivate this Emperor Xuan Jade Book!”
Zhou Shu was somewhat stunned.
He didn’t know if he could cultivate the Emperor Xuan Jade Book. Even if he could, he didn’t have any expectations for his own aptitude.
Besides, he didn’t lack cultivation techniques. Why would he need the Emperor Xuan Jade Book?
“Isn’t this too precious?” Zhou Shu said.
“There’s nothing wrong with you receiving it. You exchanged it with a heaven-grade weapon. You don’t have to stand on ceremony.” Yin Wuyou waved her hand.
Zhou Shu was speechless.?Me? Stand on ceremony?
I’m not standing on ceremony. I don’t want this thing. I want money!
I want money. Do you understand?
He felt like he had jumped from one pit to another.
That fellow Shen Yue had used a heaven-grade weapon to pay off his betting debt, and it was the heaven-grade weapon he had lost!
Forget about that. Zhou Shu wanted to sell the heaven-grade weapon to Yin Wuyou for money.
In the end, Yin Wuyou didn’t even give money and directly gave him some useless Emperor Xuan Jade Book!
Zhou Shu looked at Yin Wuyou’s magnanimous appearance and couldn’t express the bitterness in his heart.
From Yin Wuyou’s attitude, she had good intentions.
She even gave him the cultivation technique of Great Xia’s founding emperor. Even if Zhou Shu didn’t understand it, he could imagine the value of this cultivation technique.
It was probably not something that a mere heaven-grade weapon could compare to.
There was a high chance the cultivation technique was Great Xia’s investment in him.
The problem was, he didn’t want this. He wanted money…
“This Emperor Xuan Jade Book is quite magical. When you want to read it, you just have to infuse spiritual essence into it, and words will appear,” Yin Wuyou said. “Oh, I forgot. You haven’t cultivated spiritual essence yet. It’s alright. I’ll help you!
“Let’s go!” Yin Wuyou pulled Zhou Shu away without any explanation.
Zhou Shu didn’t see that Yin Wuyou, who was walking in front, was blushing like an apple, beautiful and alluring.
Zhou Shu’s baron’s residence was next door to the princess’s residence. Yin Wuyou and Zhou Shu entered the baron’s residence and found a random room before closing the door and windows.
A man and a woman alone had closed the door and windows tightly. There was ambiguity in the air.
But Yin Wuyou didn’t seem to notice anything unusual. She held the Emperor Xuan Jade Book and infused spiritual essence into it.
Buzz—
With a soft buzz, the jade pendant suddenly emitted a bright yellow light.
The light was like a projection projecting into the air. Then three-dimensional words appeared.
3D projection??Zhou Shu thought.
“Look!” Yin Wuyou said anxiously.
From the moment Yin Wuyou returned with the Emperor Xuan Jade Book to the moment she directly activated it, Zhou Shu didn’t find a chance to refuse her.
How could he reject her now?
In any case, he couldn’t get the heaven-grade saber back, and there was no hope for him to get money. He couldn’t possibly spend all that effort for nothing.
It would be a waste not to learn the Emperor Xuan Jade Book!
Zhou Shu cursed as his gaze landed on the golden words in the air.
The Emperor Xuan Jade Book didn’t have many words, only about three thousand.
Zhou Shu had cultivated the Visualization of the Five Mountains’ True Form, so his spirit was very strong. Although he didn’t have a photographic memory, he wasn’t too far off.
He quickly browsed through it a few times and memorized the words.
The Emperor Xuan Jade Book, or rather, the cultivation path of this world, was different from the Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique and Golden Bell Shield Technique that Zhou Shu was currently cultivating.
The Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique cultivated the body, while the Golden Bell Shield Technique cultivated true qi on the foundation of cultivating the body.
There was no such thing as true qi or internal strength in this world. People absorbed the spiritual qi of heaven and earth into their bodies and converted it into spiritual essence. Then they would break through and improve.
Although the methods were different, the principles were similar.
Zhou Shu pondered over the contents of the Emperor Xuan Jade Book and then attempted to absorb the spiritual qi of heaven and earth into his body.
The first step of cultivation was to calm one’s mind and focus while sensing the existence of heaven and earth’s spiritual qi.
Zhou Shu’s mind stirred slightly. He began to visualize the Five Mountains’ True Form in his mind. His mind immediately calmed down, and all of his distracting thoughts disappeared.
Suddenly, the scene in front of him changed.
There seemed to be particles emitting light in the air. Some were golden, some were purple, and some were blue. They were colorful and looked like stars filling the sky. It was very beautiful.
Zhou Shu used his consciousness to form a small hand and attempted to grab the particles into his body.
Multicolored particles touched the hand formed by his consciousness. Most of them were like fish escaping the net, spreading in all directions.
Only some golden and red particles entered his body through his consciousness.
As these particles entered his body, Zhou Shu felt as if his entire body was soaking in a hot spring. A warm feeling filled his whole body. The feeling made him so comfortable that he wanted to moan.
Before he could moan, lines of messages suddenly floated across the starry sky.
[The Horse Slaying Saber you forged effectively completed a kill. The Golden Bell Shield Technique has improved by 30%!]
[The Horse Slaying Saber you forged effectively completed a kill. The Golden Bell Shield Technique has improved by 12%!]
…
[The Spring Embroidered Saber you forged effectively completed a kill. The Visualization of the Five Mountains’ True Form has improved by 5%!]
…
There was only one Spring Embroidered Saber on the southern borders battlefield, and it was in Sun Gongping’s hands.
What the hell is a 5% improvement for the Visualization of the Five Mountains’ True Form?
Is Sun Gongping only targeting small fries?
He had forgotten that the Visualization of the Five Mountains’ True Form was on a higher level than the Golden Bell Shield Technique and Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique. It was naturally more difficult to level up.
Before he could think any further, Zhou Shu was suddenly rendered speechless.
This is bad!
Boom!
A fierce aura suddenly erupted from his body, and a faint golden light radiated from his body. In an instant, he seemed to have turned into a golden man.
Golden Bell Shield Technique, tenth level!
The sudden feedback caused his Golden Bell Shield Technique to break through to the tenth level!
The commotion caused by his breakthrough dumbfounded Yin Wuyou.
In her eyes, Zhou Shu had only finished reading the Emperor Xuan Jade Book, then closed his eyes and cultivated for a while. Then… then…
He entered the ranks?
Why is his aura after entering the ranks so terrifying?
It’s even stronger than when I broke through to the third rank!
But the spiritual qi he absorbed was so little.
Could this be the profoundness of the Emperor Xuan Jade Book?
It’s indeed the ancestor’s technique!
But it seems like Zhou Shu was a bit more powerful. He’s only seen the Emperor Xuan Jade Book for less than fifteen minutes, and he’s already entered the ranks?
What kind of aptitude is this!
Everyone said that she was a Martial Dao genius, but she had cultivated for a full month before breaking through to the ninth rank.
Just as Yin Wuyou was sighing with emotion, she suddenly saw a vortex visible to the naked eye above Zhou Shu’s head. A large amount of spiritual qi of heaven and earth surged into his body.
Her eyes widened, and her mouth opened so wide that a duck egg could fit inside.
It’s not over yet??Zhou Shu was also somewhat dumbfounded.
He didn’t understand what was happening.
After his Golden Bell Shield Technique broke through to the tenth level, he originally planned to open his eyes and come up with a reason to explain it to Yin Wuyou.
But he felt that the Emperor Xuan Jade Book that he had just learned began to automatically circulate and absorb the spiritual qi of heaven and earth!
Then he felt the amount of spiritual essence in his body increasing. The entire process seemed to happen naturally, and he didn’t need to waste any energy.
It felt like…
His body was an empty bucket, and the spiritual qi of heaven and earth seemed to be pouring into it.
Zhou Shu didn’t know what was happening, but he knew that he couldn’t allow the spiritual qi of heaven and earth to continue pouring in. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be able to explain the situation.
Even though he was a genius, it had to make sense!
He visualized the Five Mountains’ True Form, and his spirit jolted as he forcefully cut off the circulation of the Emperor Xuan Jade Book.
At this moment, he suddenly realized that he seemed to be a genuine ninth-rank martial artist.
That’s right. From the depth of the spiritual essence in his body, he had already entered the ranks and became a glorious ninth-rank martial artist…
Zhou Shu was somewhat speechless. He was still not a Forging Master, yet he became a ninth-rank martial artist first?
How was he going to explain this?
“Grand Minister…” Zhou Shu looked at Yin Wuyou and tried to think of a reason to brush her off.
“Ah!” Yin Wuyou suddenly shut her mouth and almost bit her tongue. “Zhou Shu, I was right about you. You can really cultivate the Emperor Xuan Jade Book!
“Back then, my ancestor obtained the Emperor Xuan Jade Book and entered the ranks in one day as well. You’re even more powerful than my ancestor!”
Zhou Shu was speechless.?Your Highness, are you trying to kill me with your words?
I am more powerful than the founding emperor of Great Xia?
What would your father think of me?
“That’s great! I want to tell this good news to Father!” Yin Wuyou excitedly rushed outside.
“Don’t—” Zhou Shu couldn’t stop her in time, so he could only watch as Yin Wuyou ran like a little bird toward the imperial palace.
She doesn’t seem to have discovered my true strength. She just thinks that I’ve cultivated the Emperor Xuan Jade Book and broken through to the ninth rank?
Zhou Shu recalled Yin Wuyou’s words and came to a realization.
If that’s the case, it’s actually a good thing.
In any case, the origin of the Emperor Xuan Jade Book was open and aboveboard. As for breaking through to the ninth rank, it was a little fast, but there was nothing suspicious about it.
He was only worried that his true strength would be discovered by others. If a Forging Apprentice suddenly became a peerless expert, everyone would know that he was hiding something. Then, it would be hard to guarantee that there wouldn’t be experts who had their eyes on him.
As for being treated as a genius, Zhou Shu wasn’t that worried.
There were many geniuses in the world. At most, they would occasionally be assassinated. But not many powerful experts would be sent for the assassinations. Would Zhou Shu be afraid?
In any case, he was already being treated as a forging genius. It was no big deal to be treated as a Martial Dao genius.
In the eyes of Emperor Yuan Feng and the others, he should have been a Martial Dao genius long ago. When he had gone to the Saber Cave to comprehend the saber intent, he had immediately comprehended it.
Zhou Shu thought about it carefully and felt that it wasn’t all bad that Yin Wuyou had witnessed his breakthrough.
At least in the future, when he occasionally made a move in front of others, it wouldn’t arouse suspicion.
Using this portion of his cultivation to display in front of others to conceal his true strength might be even more effective.
Ranked martial artists seem to be qualified to become officials. But I’m already a baron now. This qualification is useless to me. What a waste.
…
Yin Wuyou excitedly rushed to the imperial palace but was stopped by Eunuch Zhao at the entrance of the imperial study.
“Your Highness, His Majesty is discussing important matters with the court ministers. No one is to disturb him.”
“Even me?”
“His Majesty’s instructions are for everyone,” Eunuch Zhao said profoundly.
Yin Wuyou frowned. “Alright, when Father is free, get someone to inform me. I have something to report!”
With that, she left unhappily.
Eunuch Zhao only returned to the imperial study after Yin Wuyou left.
There were no ministers in the imperial study. Emperor Yuan Feng looked up from his memorial. “Gone?”
“Yes, she’s gone,” Eunuch Zhao said.
“This girl has been so startling recently that even I’m afraid of her.” Emperor Yuan Feng shook his head with a wry smile.. “Eunuch Zhao, keep an eye on her. Before the Standard Armament Manual is released, if Wuyou comes looking for me again, stop her!”