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1.69% I Fabricated the Techniques, but my disciple really mastered them? / Chapter 20: Chapter 20: Unimpressed by Golden Bones, I Shall Refine Jade Bones

章 20: Chapter 20: Unimpressed by Golden Bones, I Shall Refine Jade Bones

Li Xuan did not know that Xu Yan had already concocted and tempered the "golden bones" he had made up and was excitedly coming over to tell him, hoping to receive praise and recognition.

At this moment, Li Xuan was playing with the gift Xu Yan had given him last time: a gold sword and the Jade Ruyi.

The gold sword was inlaid with a treasure bead and forged entirely of gold, quite valuable.

The Jade Ruyi was carved with auspicious cloud patterns, flawless throughout, obviously a top-grade jade carving. Its value, perhaps, even exceeded that of the gold sword.

"This gold sword, although not cheap, every time I look at it, I feel like the Jade Ruyi is worth more and rarer.

"Look at the quality of this jade, flawless throughout, bright and clear. It feels warm and smooth in the hand... Compared to the gold sword, I like this Jade Ruyi even more.

"If I could get a matching pair, it would be perfect as a family heirloom.

"Since I've already lied, what's the harm in lying again to get another Jade Ruyi, right?"

Li Xuan fondled the Jade Ruyi, liking it more the longer he looked.

He muttered to himself about having the foolish disciple find another Jade Ruyi so that he would have a pair for a family heirloom.

Just then, Xu Yan walked over.

"Disciple, you've arrived at just the right time."

Li Xuan pushed the gold sword aside, seemingly disdainful, and played with the Jade Ruyi in his hand, his eyes filled with affection for the Jade Ruyi.

"Look at this Jade Ruyi, flawless and nurturing. They say a gentleman loves jade, and as a lover of jade myself, it would be wonderful to have a pair of them."

He looked up at Xu Yan and said, "Do you understand, disciple?"

Thinking to himself: Go find another Jade Ruyi for your teacher.

Xu Yan, originally excited to tell his master that he had tempered golden bones, on par with the heroes of old.

Instead, he saw Li Xuan pushing the gold sword aside with some disgust, playing with the Jade Ruyi.

Speaking about how gentlemen love jade and hoping to have a matched set of Jade Ruyis.

Xu Yan thought to himself that he would find another Jade Ruyi for his master on his next trip home.

But suddenly he had a sinking feeling: "That's not right! Why would my master talk about loving jade at this time?"

"Master must have a deeper meaning in his words...

"I understand now, Master has high hopes for me, hoping that I can refine jade bones. That's why he used the Jade Ruyi as a metaphor, preferring jade bones over golden ones!

"But Master must also be worried that I can't handle the difficulty of tempering jade bones, so he used the Jade Ruyi as a metaphor to remind me. If I fail to grasp the deeper meaning in his words, Master won't insist...

"If that's the case, Master might not say anything, but he must be disappointed in me. If I can't understand the deeper meaning in his words, Master will lower his expectations, considering me lacking in comprehension, unable to understand such a simple metaphor!"

Xu Yan quickly filled in the blanks with his own assumptions, thinking that on the surface his master wanted a pair of Jade Ruyis but was actually encouraging him to continue refining bones, not to give up, and to strive to refine jade bones.

If Li Xuan knew of these assumptions, he would definitely be dumbfounded: I just literally wanted a Jade Ruyi!

After his assumptions, Xu Yan, believing he had grasped the deeper meaning in his master's words, said with a determined look, "Master, your disciple understands. I will certainly not disappoint you!"

Li Xuan showed a satisfied smile: "As long as you understand, your teacher believes in you."

Xu Yan was deeply moved: "Master has such high expectations of me, hoping that I can surpass the ancient prodigies!"

"What does golden bones amount to? I must refine jade bones!"

Xu Yan did not mention his golden bones again. His master had already seen through everything; mere golden bones couldn't catch his master's eye!

Upon resuming his cultivation and attempting to continue bone refinement, Xu Yan found that no matter how he circulated his blood and energy, or how he tried to temper, it was all to no avail.

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It seemed that Gold Bone was the limit already.

It was as if an insurmountable chasm stood in the way, blocking any further advancement.

"Master said that Jade Bone isn't something you can refine through talent, perseverance, or persistence. Those who can refine Jade Bone either possess immense fortune, are beloved by the Domain, or have extraordinary comprehension, capable of perceiving the great Dao..."

Xu Yan pondered, "I don't know if I have immense fortune, probably not; being the Domain's beloved is even less likely, so the only path left is comprehension...

"Master frequently emphasized the importance of intent and understanding, clearly seeing my potential in comprehension, reminding me where my strength lies.

"I must rely on comprehension alone if I wish to refine Jade Bone."

After coming to this realization, Xu Yan's mind once again conjured the two lines of the technique: "Understanding the heart to nurture genuine intent, qi and blood like a dragon forging a golden physique."

"Surely I haven't completely comprehended the core of these two lines yet. If I can, might I be able to break through the constraints of Gold Bone and cultivate Jade Bone?"

Xu Yan dedicated his whole being to the technique, his mind devoid of stray thoughts, casting everything aside, forgetting both things and self, striving to grasp the deeper meaning.

"That's it, nurturing genuine intent. I assumed that harboring qi and blood within the bones, within the marrow, was nurturing genuine intent, but where 'intent' really resides?

"Nurturing the marrow is merely the beginning and hasn't truly cultivated 'intent.'"

Suddenly, a light flashed through Xu Yan's mind; he realized he had been mistaken about nurturing genuine intent in the technique.

He had never cultivated genuine intent.

He didn't even understand what 'intent' meant.

"Qi and blood like a dragon forging a golden physique. When I refined the Gold Bone, was the circulating qi and blood truly like a dragon? That was merely superficial, a mere semblance devoid of nurtured 'intent.' How could such a dragon be considered real?"

In a daze, Xu Yan felt as if he had touched upon a barrier.

If he could just break through this barrier, he would completely comprehend the technique, shatter the constraints of Gold Bone, and enter the stage of Jade Bone.

Yet, this barrier remained unbreakable.

He started to feel a bit frustrated for a moment.

"Should I go ask Master for guidance?

"No, Master has already explained it very clearly, 'intent' can only be understood on my own—it is beyond words. I must have missed something..."

In the following three days, Xu Yan focused on understanding the technique during his cultivation, always striving to grasp the "true intent," always just short of that little bit needed.

He remained unable to break through the barrier and comprehend the essence.

Li Xuan looked at his foolish disciple with some bewilderment. Over the past three days, the foolish disciple seemed distracted, occasionally lost in a vacant daze.

"Has he been so long without results, feeling disheartened now? Thinking he's incapable?"

"My Jade Ruyi isn't in my hands yet; how can I sink into dejection?"

"Let me think, how to concoct some pseudo-profound nonsense to bamboozle him."

Li Xuan fell into deep thought.

That day, after finishing his meal, as Xu Yan was about to clean up the dishes, Li Xuan spoke up, "In the path of cultivation, persistence is essential. If you find yourself facing a bottleneck and making no progress, you might relax your mind, clear your thoughts, and seek to understand every blade of grass.

"Feel the natural Domain, capture the hidden Spirit Spark around you. Should you suddenly achieve enlightenment, the gates of Martial Arts will open for you.

"Throughout history, there have been those in cultivation who were stuck at a bottleneck and couldn't break through, yet managed to do so following a sudden enlightenment."

Li Xuan spun lies with open eyes, encouraging Xu Yan to perceive the so-called Spirit Spark. If he could achieve that sudden enlightenment, he would step through the gates of Martial Arts.

Since arduous cultivation wasn't working, then seek sudden enlightenment.

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章 21: Chapter 21 Jade Bone Bottleneck, Diary and Fierce Beast

Li Xuan's words were to Xu Yan's ears as his master's guidance: how to comprehend and how to break through the fetters.

"Catch the Spirit Spark hidden around you, comprehend every grass and tree, comprehend the natural world of Domain..."

As if in a trance, Xu Yan seemed to have some enlightenment.

"Thank you, Master, for your guidance, I understand now!"

Xu Yan said respectfully.

Seeing that he had managed to bamboozle his foolish disciple again, Li Xuan nodded in satisfaction.

For the next two days, Xu Yan didn't practice his cultivation but instead strolled around the small village, feeding chickens, planting vegetables, and at night, sitting on a rock, watching the stars in the sky.

His mind was surprisingly tranquil.

Without the obsession to break through the constraints of Bone Refinement, without the obsession with cultivation, his mind seemed to have set down its burden, and he felt relaxed all over.

At a certain moment, he even had an insight that the Domain was so marvelous.

After three days had passed, as Xu Yan was weeding and was about to leave, he suddenly noticed a segment of an earthworm emerging from the soil, then retracting back into the earth.

He also saw a little bug digging a hole in the ground.

In his mind, a flash of inspiration struck, as if a Spirit Spark had suddenly appeared.

"Cultivation of genuine meaning, blood vitality like a dragon... I understand now!"

At this moment, Xu Yan felt as if he had an epiphany, his mind lit with inspiration, instantaneously comprehending the profound meaning of the martial arts technique.

"Jade Bone, I must be able to temper it!"

"Thank you, Master, for your guidance. It's because of this that I had my epiphany, that I was able to capture the hidden Spirit Spark around me, because I comprehended the technique, understood how to break through the bottleneck!"

Xu Yan was thrilled.

The next day, before dawn, Xu Yan started to practice his cultivation again.

Li Xuan, upon seeing this, was surprised. Had this foolish disciple risen up so quickly and continued to persevere?

As long as Xu Yan didn't realize he had been deceived, it would be fine.

Once the one year period ended, the master-disciple relationship would be severed, the deception would end, and he would go live a simple life in Wu Country!

After that, he would probably never see Xu Yan again.

At this moment, Xu Yan was nurturing his blood vitality into his bones, imbuing it into the marrow. Slowly but continuously, he infused the blood vitality into his bones and marrow.

After spending three days, Xu Yan began to feel a sense of sour swelling in his bones, and that's when he started the tempering process.

During his cultivation, Xu Yan seemed to forget everything else; only the mystical Spirit Spark of the Domain floated in his mind.

Boom!

The blood vitality in his marrow roared like a dragon at that moment, and the marrow surged and bubbled as if coming to life.

At this time, Xu Yan felt an indescribable pain in all his bones.

Itchy, stabbing, and swelling...

His entire skeleton, now and then, would expand as if about to burst, then contract as if becoming finer, even compressing and solidifying the marrow.

Between expansion and contraction, even purer blood vitality was born.

Xu Yan felt as if a mysterious mood was being born within his bones.

This sensation was more painful, more unbearable than his first Bone Refinement.

Sweat kept dripping down.

Xu Yan gritted his teeth and persisted until he could hardly hold on before ceasing his practice.

"The Golden Bone has loosened up a bit..."

Xu Yan discovered that the Golden Bone, which had reached its limit and could no longer be tempered, had now become slightly loosened and grown stronger.

"I comprehended correctly, Jade Bone is not far off!"

With newfound enthusiasm, Xu Yan practiced with even more diligence over the following days.

The pain he endured grew even more intense.

Seven days later.

His splendid golden bones had actually faded in color.

While the Golden Bone had faded, the strength of the bones had improved by more than thirty percent.

Half a month later, his bones had turned back to white, but they were more than twice as hard as golden bones.

His blood had become purer and stronger.

"I'm already this powerful without achieving Jade Bones," he mused, "what heights would I reach with Jade Bones? My martial arts foundation is beyond any prodigies of yore!"

Xu Yan was brimming with excitement—the Jade Bones were no longer far off.

After ten days, Xu Yan's bones had taken on a crystalline appearance, just one step shy of flawless Jade Bones.

However, at this final step, Xu Yan once again felt resistance.

It was as if he had hit a bottleneck, unable to continue his transformation.

He was just one step away from fully forging Jade Bones, so how could Xu Yan possibly be content?

Thus, over the next two days, he persistently tempered himself, yet made no progress. It seemed that only by breaking some kind of shackle could he complete the last step of his transformation.

...

Li Xuan did not know that his foolish disciple was close to developing Jade Bones.

Having nothing to do that day, he dug out some relics from the old people in the village, mostly books.

The villagers had fled to this place for refuge, some of them literate, leaving behind books. Though not many, these were the most valued treasures of the village.

Thud!

A rolled-up cloth fell to the ground, and Li Xuan bent down to pick it up, noticing there was writing on it.

"Whose relic is this? I don't think I've seen it before."

Curious, Li Xuan unrolled the cloth.

The cloth was rather long and, once spread out, he saw it was full of writing—could it be a diary?

"Is this Da Niu's diary?"

Li Xuan looked surprised.

Da Niu, a simple brute, kept a diary?

"Da Niu died in the Evil Spirit Forest, but the tiger that killed him has already been slain—we've avenged him."

Li Xuan felt a pang of sorrow.

Da Niu was among those who left the village with him, but only Li Xuan had escaped back.

Flipping through the cloth, reading Da Niu's diary, Li Xuan treated it as idle gossip.

"Da Niu actually wanted to marry eight wives—he had lofty ambitions, what a pity."

As he read to the end of the cloth, Li Xuan suddenly froze, his expression turning solemn.

The final entries documented Da Niu's lone departure from the village, aiming to go to the city.

Outside the Evil Spirit Forest, he encountered a fierce beast!

"What Da Niu saw wasn't that tiger!"

The village had long whispered of a fearsome tiger within the Evil Spirit Forest; Li Xuan subconsciously believed that it was the only one.

Was there truly another beast besides that tiger?

"That beast was bigger than the tiger, with fiery mane and tusks over a foot long..."

Reading the description in Da Niu's diary, Li Xuan was shocked—this creature was far more terrifying than the tiger.

Why was there another fierce beast in the Evil Spirit Forest, aside from the tiger?

The tiger is the king of the forest.

In its territory, how could it allow another fierce beast to exist?

How could such a formidable creature tolerate the tiger's presence in its domain?

"The first time I heard about a fierce beast in the Evil Spirit Forest, it was Da Niu who mentioned it; he spoke of the creature more than once. When a few of us planned to leave the village, it was Da Niu who warned us of the beast, that it was too dangerous.

"Until that fellow came back, claiming he had learned the art of tiger slaying, only then did we gain the confidence to leave the village..."

Li Xuan contemplated a possibility—could the tiger be the subordinate of the fierce beast in the Evil Spirit Forest?

"My silly disciple, leading the hunt for the tiger, did they encounter that fierce beast? It seems not. Perhaps because there were many people, the beast hid and didn't show itself?"

"No, I must ask the foolish disciple; he must lead a search through the Evil Spirit Forest and ensure that beast is slain!"

Having tidied everything up, Li Xuan left his home to look for Xu Yan.


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