The Luo Water Fist Technique had a very legendary origin. According to Luo Xu, in the Heavenly Demon Ridge, there was a river called “Luoshui”.
There was a fishing village by the Luoshui River where a story was passed down:
It was said that there was no river in that part of the earth. Until one night, the stars in the sky shone brightly, and a Ganges River descended from the sky and fell to the ground, thus becoming a river, which was later known as Luoshui.
It was when Luo Xu was passing by the Luoshui in his boat that he saw the stars reflected in the water and realized the Luoshui Fist Technique.
Moreover, Luo Xu also instructed Zhang Ruochen that if he had the opportunity, he must return to the Heavenly Demon Ridge once and personally go to the Luoshui.
Luo Xu highly valued Zhang Ruochen and thought that he had a high level of enlightenment, saying that he would not necessarily be able to comprehend something different in Luo Shui.
“That Luo Water, it must not be simple, it’s very likely that it really did land down from beyond the heavens.”Zhang Ruochen said.
Luo Xu raised his head and looked up at the quiet and vast starry sky, revealing a contemplative expression as he said, “The universe is vast and expansive, endless, apart from the Kunlun Realm, there must be other great realms that can be compared to the Kunlun Realm, or even even more vast than the Kunlun Realm. It is not certain that Luo Shui is a certain great being in the universe, passing down the Dao.”
Luo Xu stood up, an ethereal and dusty aura emanating from his body as he talked and laughed, “In the future, if I am able to achieve the position of a great saint, I will definitely go to the depths of the starry skies and explore whether the universe has any boundaries.”
Zhang Ruochen stared at Luo Xu and secretly nodded.
Just from his words and demeanor, he could tell that Luo Xu must be a person with a broad mind. What he pursued was simply different from other cultivators.
Even Zhang Ruochen silently asked himself, “After seeking revenge on Chi Yao, where do I go from here?”
In the end, he was actually a bit bewildered, and in his mind, he was blank.
In the next day and night, Luo Xu passed on all 36 Luoshui Fist Techniques to Zhang Ruochen, and also handed him a fist recipe.
Zhang Ruochen had long known a hint of the true meaning of the Luo Water Fist Technique, and his cultivation speed was naturally extremely fast, and in just this one day, he had already learned it in a decent manner.
Of course, it was impossible for Luo Xu to instruct him in the future, so he could only practice on his own, based on the fist recipe.
On this day, the green colored wooden boat did not continue sailing, but stopped the boat and docked.
Chu Siyuan was the first to disembark, checking out the terrain, and at the same time, casting out his Heavenly Eyes for an in-depth study, looking extremely serious.
“This is the place.”
As if making a certain decision, Chu Siyuan said, “This is where the six spirit veins meet, enough to support the consumption of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi by the Seven Lives and Seven Deaths Diagram.”
Zhang Ruochen was a bit puzzled and said, “Since it is the confluence of six Spirit Veins, why is the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi not particularly dense, and furthermore, there are no great sects entrenched in the vicinity.”
Chu Siyuan lightly stared at Zhang Ruochen, tilted his chin, and said in an impenetrable manner, “The six Spiritual Veins flow in the depths of the earth, and at that kind of depth, an ordinary Spiritual Semi-Saint wouldn’t be able to observe them. Moreover, the spiritual qi of the heavens and earth is concentrated at the bottom of the earth, and it doesn’t reach the surface at all. The old man’s use of an astounding means is enough to draw out the heaven and earth spiritual qi.”
With that, Chu Siyuan took out a broomstick-sized paintbrush and used a rather special ink to draw, on the ground, a circle three feet in diameter.
With that, he put the brush away and began to wait.
“It’s over?”
Zhang Ruochen held his chin and stared at the rather regular circle on the ground, always feeling that Chu Siyuan’s astonishing maneuver was not very subtle and appeared to be too casual.
As if he could tell what was in Zhang Ruochen’s mind, Chu Siyuan blew a mouthful of his beard and said, “The Great Dao is simple.”
Half an hour later, in the circle, a white mist actually did rise.
It wasn’t …… fog.
Rather, it was heaven and earth aura.
It was important to know that the heaven and earth aura had always been colorless and formless, and only when its concentration reached a level where it was about to liquefy would it turn into a mist state.
Chu Siyuan placed the Seven Lives and Seven Deaths Diagram at the center of the circle, and then let Zhang Ruochen and Shi Beauty walk into the circle and sit opposite each other with the scroll as a boundary.
“The Seven Lives and Seven Deaths Diagram can only be opened once every seventy years, you must cherish this opportunity, once you fail …… there is no second chance.”
Obviously, using the Seven Lives and Seven Deaths Diagram was a rather extravagant act, and Chu Siyuan was not willing to use it a second time on Beauty Shi and Zhang Ruochen.
Chu Siyuan warned once more, saying, “In the scroll, there will be some unpredictable dangers, and as a guide, you must always be aware of this. Otherwise, the two of you, most likely, will never be able to wake up again.”
Chu Siyuan glared at Zhang Ruochen, and then, sitting on the outside of the circle, he pushed his palms forward and pushed his spiritual energy into the Seven Lives and Seven Deaths Diagram.
“Wow…”
Inside Zhang Ruochen and Shi Beauty’s bodies, a soul shadow flew out from each of them, condensing into two grains of light that fell into into the scroll and disappeared.
The bodies of the two of them were still sitting in the circle, their eyes tightly closed as if they were petrified.
Luo Shuihan stared in the direction of the circle, her eyebrows slightly furrowed as she asked, ”Zhang Ruochen and Palace Master Ling are experiencing seven lifetimes of entanglement inside the scroll, so many things are bound to happen, leaving behind many memories. Once they leave the picture scroll, will they be unable to distinguish between reality and illusion?”
Luo Xu said, “Zhang Ruochen and Ling Fei Yu are not ordinary people, and this will not happen. For the two of them, this is an opportunity to refine their spiritual will, and once they successfully walk through the seven lifetimes, they will undergo a great transformation. There is only one point that is worth worrying about.”
“Which point?”Luo Shuihan asked.
Luo Xu smiled and gently shook his head without saying anything.
Before Zhang Ruochen’s eyes, there was a dim blackness, and when he opened his eyes again, he unexpectedly appeared in the center of a street with a lot of traffic.
“Buy sugar gourds.”
“Buy knives, buy the Absolute Treasure Knife for only nine taels of silver.”
……
The surrounding area was bustling with people coming and going, a completely unfamiliar country.
“This is the illusory world in the Seven Lives and Seven Deaths Diagram? With the real world, there doesn’t seem to be any difference.”
Zhang Ruochen could feel that he still possessed a flesh and blood body, with very real senses of sight, hearing, smell, and touch.
“The Stone Beauty should have already descended into this world, right?”
Zhang Ruochen closed his eyes and quickly found the location of Stone Beauty.
This was a very strange feeling, even if she was far away, Zhang Ruochen could still locate her.
Zhang Ruochen did not immediately go to look for Shi Beauty, but, instead, came to a tavern, ordered a table of good food and wine, and ate without slowing down.
Whether it was in his previous life or this one, Zhang Ruochen had spent the vast majority of his time on cultivation, rarely doing anything mundane.
Now, Zhang Ruochen was ready to do all the things he hadn’t done before, experiencing the world of people, not only was he sensing the Dao of Heaven and Earth, but he was also sharpening his mind and will.
At noon, on the streets, the sounds of gongs and cheers rang out.
It turned out that in the royal palace, there was happy news that the Queen Mother had given birth to a little princess.
When the little princess was born, the sky above the royal palace was filled with purple qi, thunder and lightning shuttled, and everyone thought that the little princess was a god descending from the earth.
Only Zhang Ruochen was the only one who knew that that little princess was actually the first life of the Stone Beauty.
Time passed like a white horse, and soon it was sixteen years that passed.
In the sixteen years, Zhang Ruochen had done many things, going to work as a coachman for a large family, also going to work as a woodcutter, a fisherman, doing many ordinary things, completely treating himself as an ordinary person.
This kingdom, however, was not so peaceful.
In that very year, four neighboring kingdoms gathered their armies and exterminated this prosperous country, and at the same time, captured the royal city.
Hundreds of thousands of enemy soldiers, killed into the royal palace, in front of the little princess, killed her father, obscene .In front of the young princess, they killed her father, and humiliated her mother.
Originally, the little princess, who was living a life of luxury and being favored by thousands of people, immediately fell into the abyss of darkness and lost everything.
It was also on this day that Zhang Ruochen entered the royal palace and took her away from the hundreds of thousands of troops.
The little princess had obviously suffered a severe mental blow, her eyes were red and swollen from crying, and her entire body was in a state of stagnation, as if she were a puppet, following behind Zhang Ruochen.
It was only after a month that her mental state recovered a bit and she took the initiative to approach Zhang Ruochen, saying, “Can I worship you as my master?”
A month ago, Zhang Ruochen had put on a great display of power in the King’s Palace, killing hundreds of thousands of troops in fear.
The little princess knew that Zhang Ruochen was a supreme powerhouse and wanted to worship him as her master to gain the same powerful strength as him to avenge her parents and the entire country’s people.
With his hands behind his back, Zhang Ruochen stood at the edge of the cliff with undulating clouds, with a very ethereal air about him, smiled, and said to himself, “Indeed, it is the immense hatred of the country’s destruction that can inspire the will deep within her heart.”
The little princess did not know the meaning of Zhang Ruochen’s words, and immediately knelt on the ground, begging bitterly, hoping that Zhang Ruochen would accept her as his disciple and pass on the Way of the Sword.
Zhang Ruochen did not immediately agree, preparing to continue sharpening her as he said, “There are hundreds of thousands of enemy troops that have attacked the royal palace. If you go kill one of them and bring back his head, I will accept you as my disciple.”
“But, I …… don’t practice the Sword Dao, I can’t kill them at all. Moreover, I have never killed anyone …… before.”
The little princess was very frightened and timid.
“If you are so weak, why should I take you as my disciple?”
Zhang Ruochen’s eyes were very stern as he glared over, scaring the little princess into a ball of fear and trembling.
In the end, the little princess left alone, heading in the direction of the royal city.
Half a month later, she limped back with a bloody human head and handed it over to Zhang Ruochen.
Above her originally beautiful face, there were dozens of hideous scars, and she had broken her right leg, as if she was a beggar.
No one could even recognize that she was once the most beautiful little princess of this kingdom.
For the sake of revenge, for the sake of worshipping her master, the little princess had suffered a lot and put in a lot of effort.
“How did you kill him?”Zhang Ruochen asked.
In a hoarse voice, the little princess said, “As long as a person dares to fight to the death, to kill another person is, in fact, not a difficult task.”
Since she passed the test, Zhang Ruochen naturally accepted her as his disciple and taught her the Sword Dao.
After spending ten years, the little princess’s sword skill was maximized, and she broke into into into the four kingdoms alone, killing all of her enemies from back then.
After the revenge, when she went to look for her master again, she found that he disappeared without a trace as if he had evaporated from the earth.
The young princess was very lost and felt lost, without the guidance of her master, she had absolutely no idea what to pursue next?
In the end, instead of restoring her country, she chose to continue practicing the Way of the Sword and traveled the world, searching for her Master’s traces.
A hundred years later, the little princess eventually died of old age.
When she was dying, she continued to chant the name of her master, and was very unwilling in her heart.
Her life’s wish was to see her master once more.
The little princess didn’t know that her master teacher had been following her around all along.
It wasn’t until she died that Zhang Ruochen went to her grave and burned incense.
At this moment, Zhang Ruochen clearly felt that his spiritual power and state of mind, both underwent significant enhancements, and muttered to himself, “Experiencing seven lifetimes, the strength of my spiritual power should be able to be raised to an extremely high level. I wonder if I’ll be able to become a saint with my spiritual power?”
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