Nine Yang Sword Saint

In regards to the Heaven and Earth Mystic Flame map, Yang Dingtian had been learning the Foxman Race’s words and language daily from the Foxman Race’s girl, Ji’er. As compared to the main language used in this world, the Foxman Race’s words were rather simplified. As long as one could understand a thousand words, there was basically no problem in conversations, and one would be able to understand the records related to the Foxman Race.

As for Yang Dingtian’s half of the Heaven and Earth Mystic Flame map, he had no problem with the words on it.

As such, Yang Dingtian was able to understand what was written on this half of the Heaven and Earth Mystic Flame map. But the words on it had some unique statements, and they couldn’t be comprehended just based purely on the words.

Furthermore, Yang Dingtian could feel that these words didn’t point out to a place, as it was a poetry that belonged to the Foxman Race. There was only half of every statement. Yang Dingtian might be able to understand the words, but he didn’t know much about poetry. With only half of each statement, it was even harder for him to understand the meaning.

To understand the poetry, Yang Dingtian would need the full set of the map. He would then be able to read each of the full statements and would be able to analyze them.

Hence, be it Yang Dingtian’s half of the map or Qin Huaiyu’s half of the map, no information could be obtained from either piece of the map alone. They had to be merged to find out any information.

Yang Dingtian had also tried to use the half of the poem to test Ji’er and inquire about some of the Foxman Race’s folk poems that had been passed down for generations, but he was still unable to find an answer. Hence, the poem on this map couldn’t be a traditional Foxman Race’s poem; it should have been created by the person who drew this map.

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In a large barrel, Yang Dingtian had finished preparing all the ingredients and medicinal materials required for the fourth layer of meridians cleansing.

Half the barrel’s medicinal water was fiery red, while the other half was dark blue. This was truly the fire-ice dual combination as half of it was biting cold, and the other half was flaming hot.

Inside the barrel was filled with terrifying energy! If there were only one of the elements, a person would be incinerated into ashes or frozen to death once they jumped inside. When the energy of ice and fire were combined, it would achieve a balance; hence, it could forge the body and cleanse the meridians.

After taking out a small bottle of holy water from the storage ring, Yang Dingtian poured the holy water into the fluid for the meridian cleansing.

This small bottle of holy water dissolved into the medicinal fluid of fire and ice and vanished without a trace in an instant.

Yang Dingtian let out a breath of relief. It was good that it could be dissolved and not excluded.

After doing everyone, Yang Dingtian took off his clothes and jumped into the medicinal fluid.

“Ahhh…” Immediately, an extremely intense energy of fire spread throughout his body. He felt as though he was immolated in blazing flames, and the pain had instantly reached the limits. He wasn’t even allowed to make a sound.

Soon after the immolating sensation, the bone-chilling energy of ice drilled into his body. In an instant, Yang Dingtian’s bones, muscles, blood, and veins were all solidified.

This horrific energy of ice was superior to the world of ice and snow.

It was fortunate that Yang Dingtian had the Nine Yang Mystic Meridians. This type of bone-chilling sensation was much more bearable than the immolating sensation. If it was someone else without an expert overseeing, they might have instantly gone into shock due to the cold.

Moreover, no matter how cold it was, it wasn’t as cold as the deepest part of the freezing water.

In this punishment of ice and fire, Yang Dingtian started to recite the mnemonic chant and forced out all the mystic qi from his qi vessel. Every corner of his qi vessel was getting cleansed, along with every inch of his mystic meridians.

“Ahhh…” Yang Dingtian didn’t yell out, but in his heart, he was screaming miserably.

This feeling was just too painful. It was at least ten times more painful than getting immolated or frozen.

The cleansing of the mystic meridians and the qi vessel was just like a knife desperately scraping on the inside. It had forcefully scraped off a layer of sediments inside the mystic meridians.

This suffering sensation was even worse than a layer of skin getting scraped off. It wasn’t inferior to the execution by flaying.

“Ahhh…” The progress wasn’t even at ten percent, and Yang Dingtian was already tormented by so much pain that his eyes were turning dark, and he was about to faint.

This could already be considered the extremity of pain for the human body!

But, he must not faint. If he were to faint, he would be crippled for his entire life. His veins and arteries would be ruined, and his mystic qi would burst out.

In fact, Yang Dingtian couldn’t even get his master to reduce the pain by obstructing the nerves in the brain as getting this pain was an important part of cleansing. Only with such pain, would Yang Dingtian be able to control the power of the mystic qi and the direction of the cleansing. If the control were slightly off, Yang Dingtian wouldn’t be able to cleanse the sediments in the mystic meridians, and they might be directly severed.

Hence, without anyone overseeing, conducting the meridian cleansing alone was entirely the same as seeking death!

Just like this, Yang Dingtian forcefully endured extreme pain and carried on with the fourth layer of cleansing, inch by inch.

But even if Yang Dingtian possessed extremely tough willpower and tenacity, when the progress of the meridian cleansing was at thirty percent, he started to lose focus. His body was starting to feel numb, and the extreme pain had made his nervous system a little delayed.

At this moment, Yang Dingtian was at his most dangerous juncture.

If his nervous system was delayed, he wouldn’t be able to control the power of the mystic qi and might sever his own mystic meridians at any moment. Once the mystic meridians were severed or pierced, all the mystic qi in the qi vessel would burst out. If that happened, there would be only one conclusion, death by the explosion!

If someone were overseeing and providing protection, with their powerful mystic qi, they could protect the cleanser’s mystic meridians, and even if the cleanser had a wrong mystic qi control, the cleanser still wouldn’t face the danger of rupturing their mystic meridians.

Yang Dingtian gritted his teeth to stay conscious and maintain his sensitivity desperately.

But, this was getting increasingly difficult!

Suddenly, the mystic qi in Yang Dingtian jolted.

A powerful mystic qi vigorously ripped a thin mystic meridian and was about to sever it. Immediately after, the mystic qi in his body was about to burst out.

If that were to happen, Yang Dingtian would instantly die from the explosion.

At this most dangerous moment, gentle energy surged out from the medicinal fluid and immediately homed in on the damaged area of the mystic meridians.

After that, the holy and mild energy eliminated the mystic qi that was about to burst out violently. The mystic meridian that was damaged had also been swiftly repaired.

The holy water was indeed useful, and it was much more powerful than Yang Dingtian had imagined.

The rest of the meridian cleansing process was still extremely painful! But without the fear and danger of exploding to death, Yang Dingtian was much bolder and didn’t control the power of his mystic qi as carefully, as he seemingly barged through.

The progress of the cleansing was at forty percent.

Fifty percent.

…

Eighty percent.

Ninety percent.

During the progress, Yang Dingtian had encountered at least five instances when his body was at risk of exploding. But with the holy water, he got through the daunting experience without mishap.

The final ten percent of the cleansing was especially slow. The mystic qi was seemingly moving by millimeters. Hence, the final ten percent of the cleansing used up more time than the first ninety percent.

Time elapsed by the minute and second!

Ninety-one percent!

Ninety-two percent!

Ninety-three percent!

…

Ninety-nine percent!

Hundred percent!

Yang Dingtian’s body flashed with radiance. All the mystic qi vanished without a trace and rapidly gathered back into the qi vessel.

As all the pain had disappeared, Yang Dingtian’s entire body felt extremely warm and comfortable. It felt like the spring breeze, as though he was in the immortal realm.

His entire body felt light as a feather as though he was about to fly.

The fourth layer of meridian cleansing had ended with a perfect conclusion.

The barrel’s medicinal fluid had turned into another color. It was no longer the fiery red and dark blue as it was now much more turbid.

Yang Dingtian stood up in the barrel and noticed the surface of his body had formed a layer of scab.

The black parts were the body’s impurities, and the red parts were the blood that oozed out.

These were the sediments in the mystic meridians and qi vessel. They were all forced out and had formed a layer on the body which was around one millimeter in thickness.

The current Yang Dingtian looked especially dirty and had an intolerable smell.

Shaking his body lightly, the layer of impurities instantly shattered and fell into the wooden barrel, revealing Yang Dingtian’s clean body.

As compared to before, Yang Dingtian’s body was clean like a jade, like an egg that had just been deshelled. Of course, the scars were still there, but the skin was like newly born.

But the Deep Sea Mystic Clothes were truly incredible. Even the blood and impurities were able to seep out and form outside the Deep Sea Mystic Clothes.

Since the fourth layer of cleansing had ended, Yang Dingtian left the medicinal barrel and entered another wooden barrel. The barrel was filled with limpid medicinal fluid meant for recuperation. Yang Dingtian had cleaned his body inside the barrel.

After doing all these things, Yang Dingtian poured a small bottle of fiery red fluid into the turbid medicinal barrel.

After the fluid entered the turbid medicinal fluid, there was an abrupt ignition that started a blazing flame. In less than half a minute, all the turbid medicinal fluid and the jade barrel had been turned into ashes. Even though it would have been fine to leave the barrel there, Yang Dingtian still didn’t want to leave any evidence behind.

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Yang Dingtian left the secret room and swam to the surface of the lake. It was already daytime, and the sun was in midair.

The fourth layer of cleansing had used up 30 hours! Of course, this was already extremely fast. With the effects of the holy water, making it almost impossible to die from body explosion, Yang Dingtian’s mystic qi was simply barging through. Had it been anyone else, their speed would be a few times slower.

Yang Dingtian swam to the shore and walked over ten miles to the north where a house was situated.

Yang Dingtian walked into the house and saw Qin Mengli waiting with four deaf and blind strong men. There was a giant box on the floor, and those were the things that Yang Dingtian had requested.

When Yang Dingtian entered, Qin Mengli pounced over and spoke in a delicate voice, “Shen Lang, how is your cultivation?”