“You fought well. I initially thought that after you advanced to the Golden Elixir stage, your basic swordsmanship wouldn’t keep up with your current realm. I wanted to remind you, but it seems I was overthinking.”

“All thanks to your good teachings, Senior Sister.”

Lu Yang dared not slack off in his basic training. He remembered when he first started cultivating, his Senior Sister trained his basics by making him play with tofu during the day and soaking in hot water baths at night. If it weren’t for the ample supply of miraculous pills, he might not have survived.

If his Senior Sister found out his basics were not solid and decided to repeat the training… Lu Yang shivered at the thought.

He couldn’t go through that again!

“Little Tao, it’s good that you’ve comprehended the Yin-Yang transformation of the Golden Elixir from the Twin Lotus and linked it with illusion techniques. But don’t forget, you’re also a Feathered Immortal Body. Don’t neglect its development.”

“Yes, Senior Sister!”

“Alright, you two can review this battle later. Let’s watch Little Meng and Little Man’s fight now.”

“They’ve been fighting for so long?” Tao Yaoye was surprised. She thought her fight with Lu Yang was long enough, but Meng Jingzhou and Man Gu were even more enduring.

“Both of them are body cultivators, so it’s hard to determine the winner.” Lu Yang wasn’t surprised. Meng Jingzhou’s Golden Elixir was effective against demons and monsters, but it was useless against Man Gu, who was also a body cultivator.

Man Gu held a beast leg bone, his spoils from the dense forest, taken from an Elemental Infant stage beast that he and Tao Yaoye had defeated together.

Man Gu swung the beast leg bone, howling like a wild man, his eyes filled with madness and savagery.

Lu Yang was puzzled. He had never seen Man Gu in this state before, and this behavior didn’t seem to match Man Gu’s character.

Man Gu fought with brute force, but he had never been this wild, like he was hunting beasts in the wilderness.

Meng Jingzhou was also taken aback by Man Gu’s appearance, losing the initiative in the fight. He was suppressed from the start, spending most of his energy on defense and rarely attacking.

Although Man Gu’s fighting style was wild, upon closer inspection, it was a refined form of savagery, balancing offense and defense. It was a fighting style formed after countless trials and improvements.

“Hey, this fighting style looks familiar. It’s like the barbarians I’ve met, wielding stones and bones, swarming up and smashing their enemies’ brains out!” The Immortal Fairy was excited to see something familiar.

Lu Yang was puzzled, “Is this the ancient barbarian’s fighting style? But I heard that the ancient barbarian’s fighting style has been lost?”

The barbarians also had a serious problem with broken lineages, and they had little record of ancient times.

“Did you forget? Man Gu’s bloodline has been blessed by me. If beasts can pass on their divine abilities through their bloodline, of course I can do it too!”

When a beast reaches a certain realm, the inheritance power hidden in its bloodline will be activated, allowing the beast to learn its innate divine abilities.

The “Devour” of the Gluttonous Clan and the “Charm” of the Nine-tailed Fox Clan are examples.

The purer the bloodline, the earlier the inheritance power is activated.

“By the way, what kind of Golden Elixir did Man Gu form?” Lu Yang turned to ask Tao Yaoye. There was no need to keep it a secret now, right?

“It should be the same as mine, a Golden Elixir that has never existed before. It seems to be called the Ancestor Elixir, which can summon the spirits of the ancestors to possess and assist in battle.”

“That’s amazing?!” Lu Yang was shocked, “Does that mean the souls of the ancient barbarians are still around?”

Yun Zhi shook her head slowly, “It’s not as you think. Souls dissipate after three hundred thousand years, only immortals have such ability.”

“Then what’s the deal with Man Gu?”

“Although Man Gu’s ancestors’ souls have dissipated and returned to the heavens and earth, they are connected to Man Gu through their bloodline. Sensing the existence of the barbarians, they reassembled the dissipated souls in the heavens and earth, descended into Man Gu’s body along the ancient barbarian bloodline. However, this form of possession is more instinctive and lacks intelligence.”

Lu Yang thought of the Immortal Fairy. This was somewhat similar to her method, but far less against the heavens.

“So Meng Jingzhou’s opponent is not just Man Gu, but the entire ancient barbarian tribe?” Lu Yang felt that Meng Jingzhou was in for a tough fight.

The ancient barbarians were a tribe that had mixed with the Immortal Fairy. They fought as frequently as they ate, and their combat experience was rich. How could Meng Jingzhou be their match?

On the stage, Meng Jingzhou was steadily losing ground. His Arhat Fist and Shaking Heaven Six Styles were ineffective.

Man Gu’s eyes were lifeless, completely taken over by the ancestors of the ancient barbarians, fighting purely on instinct.

In terms of physical strength, Meng Jingzhou was slightly stronger than Man Gu, but he couldn’t match Man Gu’s rich experience.

The combined combat experience of the ancestors of the ancient barbarians was hundreds of thousands of years. Meng Jingzhou was no match for them.

Although Man Gu had the upper hand and was pressing Meng Jingzhou, he couldn’t defeat Meng Jingzhou in a short time.

“Doesn’t Meng Jingzhou look a bit off?”Meng Jingzhou felt as if he had entered a peculiar state. Inside his body, two single Golden Elixirs sensed Man Gu’s Golden Elixir, as if they were provoked. They spun uncontrollably, like two miniature suns, warming his body. His body was transparent, his acupoints opened, each one inhaling and exhaling spiritual energy.

As the two Golden Elixirs spun, Meng Jingzhou’s mind went blank, and his past experiences entered his mind one by one.

His past experiences contracted to the extreme, and suddenly there was a roaring in his mind, exploding.

Meng Jingzhou’s head swayed slightly, and he felt the world was clearer than ever.

“Did I just have an enlightenment, and figured out a set of boxing techniques?”

Meng Jingzhou clenched his fist, somewhat incredulous.

He had heard that enlightenment was a state that could be encountered but not sought, and most cultivators would not experience it in their lifetime. He was only at the Golden Elixir stage, and he had already achieved enlightenment?

And from his recent experience, it seemed that the two single Golden Elixirs were helping him to achieve enlightenment?

“I knew my single Golden Elixirs were invincible!”

Meng Jingzhou practiced the boxing technique he had just learned in his mind, his expression strange.

“This boxing technique seems like…”

“Stop!” Meng Jingzhou stretched out his hand, stopping Man Gu who was attacking.

“I just figured out a set of boxing techniques. If you, the ancestors of the barbarians, insist on fighting, don’t blame me for using this set of boxing techniques!”

Man Gu stood still, seemingly wanting to hear what Meng Jingzhou had to say.

“The boxing technique I figured out involves the power of cause and effect, the power of curses, and even carries my resentment of being single!”

“Anyone hit by my fist will be like me in this life, forever single. This is the curse of cause and effect!”

“I named it the Single Curse Fist!”

“This should be the innate boxing technique of the double single Golden Elixirs!”

“If you are willing to let Man Gu take this punch, you can continue to attack me!”

The ancestors of the ancient barbarians quickly conceded defeat by jumping off the stage with Man Gu’s body.

Their instincts told them that Meng Jingzhou was telling the truth!

(End of the chapter)