In the palace of the divine capital of the Northern Zhou, inside the Hall of the Nurtured Heart.
Qing Yu leaned back on the dragon chair, resting his cheeks on one hand as he looked at the scroll held up in front of him by his true qi.
This ancient scroll was the Heavenly Son’s Martial Science that Emperor Qian and the previous Zhou emperors had sought but could not find. Qing Yu had once seen it during the battle for the throne in the literary arena. At that time, the scroll was sealed in a crystal and Qing Yu wanted to see it but could not open it.
Later, the Martial Science of the Son of Heaven was returned to the Academy by Feng Jiuyu in exchange for its support.
Time pa*sed, and after more than two years, this scroll once again came into Qing Yu’s hands.
“So that’s how it is,” Qing Yu whispered to himself, “This Heavenly Son Martial Art is a purely heart-based martial art, very heart-centered, and requires a far more demanding state of mind than the rest of the martial arts.”
Heart-based martial arts were actually very mysterious. Generally speaking, the cultivation of heart-based martial arts did not require much in terms of qualifications and did not place any importance on the root and bone, only the right state of mind was the door knocker for the cultivation of heart-based martial arts.
Once the right state of mind is achieved, then the Heart martial arts can be practised rapidly.
It is not only because of the requirements for cultivation of Heart martial arts, but also because of the need to bring their power into play.
The upper and lower limits of heart-based martial arts are extremely high, and some extreme heart-based martial arts can be strong enough to slay dragons in the sky, but weak enough to catch loaches on the ground.
Once you lose the heart state that fits, a heart-based martial art is not as good as a big road product like a Five Tiger Broken Door Blade.
“Although the various divine arts in the jianghu all have requirements for the state of mind, there are not many martial arts that are as extreme as the Heart-based martial arts. As far as I can remember, it seems that only the Seven Absolute Mountain Villa of the Devil’s Dao still cultivates Heart-based martial arts all the time.” Qing Yu mused.
Martial arts of a higher level all had not a low requirement for the state of mind, like the Confucian Sect’s “Hao Ran Zheng Qi” and the martial arts of the two Buddhist and Taoist schools, all of which required the maintenance of a corresponding state of mind.
However, these martial arts, even if their state of mind is out of balance, can still exert a minimum of combat power. As for the heart-based martial arts, once the state of mind that corresponds to them is lost, the martial art is equivalent to practising in vain.
The Heavenly Son martial art in front of Qing Yu was this extreme heart-based martial art.
In this world, there is actually no shortage of martial arts that absorb dragon veins and the like, so the Dragon Qi martial art is not considered a Heavenly Son martial art. The only martial arts that can be practised by the Son of Heaven, who is the ruler of the heavens and the earth, are those of the Son of Heaven.
This martial art of the Son of Heaven requires the practitioner to be in charge of the kingdom and the country, to meditate on his qi, to be in harmony with the people, to use the welfare of the country as his sustenance, and to promote rapid growth in strength.
Although short in length, it deals with the art of qi, the way of the mind, and some obscure and inexplicable principles of humanity. The martial arts are nameless, and are more like a secret art, a secret art of meditating on the human path.
Martial artists in general, and Taoist martial artists in particular, all seek to unite heaven and man, to reach the heavenly path. This martial art of the Son of Heaven, on the other hand, is meant to merge with the kingdom it commands, forming a kind of mysterious humanity, enabling the practitioner to reach the level of “I am the state”.
“No wonder, no wonder —— that the Great Qian’s Great Ancestor Ji Muqing was able to defeat both the righteous and the devilish dao, making it possible for the two dao’s combined efforts to kill him.”
Ji Muqing had only advanced to the Tong Shen level for a few years back then, yet his strength was already comparable to the rest of the Tong Shen realm powerhouses’ centuries of cultivation. In the final battle of Dragon Slaying, he even managed to kill more than half of them before he fell under the siege of both the righteous and devilish dao.
His might was derived from this Heavenly Son martial art, and from the Ten Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers of the Great Qian.
“However, the difficulty and risk of cultivating the Heavenly Son Martial Art is not small.” Qing Yu murmured as he looked at the not-so-long scroll repeatedly in detail with a ghostly gaze.
Cultivating the Martial Science of the Son of Heaven would be meditated with the community and carry the weight of the community. This weight is not on the body, but in the heart.
Only if one’s heart allows for the rivers and mountains, can one draw on the strength of the community. This power can be said to be the power of the land and society in the underworld, or it can be said to be the power of one’s own heart. This is also the reason why Qing Yu said that the Heavenly Son martial art is a heart-based martial art.
If it carried the power of rivers and mountains, then how broad and powerful should the heart of the practitioner be. Bringing this heart power into play, it should have the power to ward off gods and demons.
Although Qing Yu’s current realm could not yet see through the mysteries of this Heavenly Son martial art, he could see the power of this power.
When one carries the rivers and mountains, one’s mind will also be washed by this rivers and mountains, acquiring countless spiritual sustenance and making one’s mind soar.
Of course, the prerequisite is that the practitioner must be able to carry the weight of the mind, so that he or she can access the power of the Son of Heaven martial arts. If he cannot, then the only result is that his mind will collapse and he will become a living death.
In Qing Yu’s estimation, the previous Zhou Emperor Feng Tianming was ruthless, but he was not ruthless enough towards himself, nor did he have the determination to die as he did. If Feng Tianming had practiced the Heavenly Son Martial Arts, he would have become a living death.
This should also be the reason why the Mountain River Academy refused to hand over the Heavenly Son Martial Arts.
As for Feng Jiuyu, he was not as strong as Feng Tianming, and although his mind had become strong under Qing Yu’s influence, he was not yet strong enough to practice the Heavenly Son Martial Arts.
“So, does the Mountain River Academy side still want Feng Jiuyu to sign that edict ——”
Before the Heavenly Son Martial Science was handed over to Feng Jiuyu, the Mountain River Academy also put forward a condition.
If Feng Jiuyu failed to cultivate the Heavenly Son Martial Arts and became a living death, then Feng Chaonan would ascend to the imperial throne of Northern Zhou as the emperor’s younger brother.
With this imperial edict and the position of State Master, the Mountain River Academy would only hand over this Heavenly Son Martial Art.
This move was both an insurance policy against the possible death of Feng Jiuyu and a way to keep the demon Daoist Qing Yu from becoming the State Master of Northern Zhou. Overall, the Shanhe Academy did not lose out.
Originally, Qing Yu had thought that the Mountain River Academy had gone soft and exchanged a still unfulfilled position of State Master for the Heavenly Son Martial Science.
Only when he really looked at the Heavenly Son Martial Arts did Qing Yu understand that it was not that the Mountain River Academy had gone soft, but that they had never thought that Feng Jiuyu would practice the Heavenly Son Martial Arts at all.
Feng Jiuyu either did not practise it, and put the Heavenly Son Martial Arts into a high shelf, which was equivalent to being left empty-handed by the Shanhe Academy, using a chicken rib to keep the position of State Master empty.
Either he practices it, but with Feng Jiuyu’s state of mind, 90% of the consequences of practicing it will be failure and becoming a living death. If that was the case, Feng Chaonan could ascend to the throne with that imperial edict.
“Zhuge Longxu is worthy of being Zhuge Longxu, using the inequality of information to play a good trick on us.”
“Unfortunately, you didn’t expect that Feng Jiuyu and I are related ——”
The corners of Qing Yu’s mouth showed a cold smile, “This deal, it is still uncertain who is losing?”
Zhuge Longjue had calculated a thousand times, but he had not calculated that Feng Jiuyu was Qing Yu’s robbed slave. With their psychic connection, the requirement of mind state was not the biggest problem.
The difficulty, after Feng Jiuyu received the Heavenly Son martial arts, was gone.
