Volume 1: Peaceful Childhood Chapter 32: Washing Marrow

  "Tell me about the current situation in the martial arts world." Having made arrangements for the two of them, Yun Qingran began to ask about the martial arts world. Since she last saw the Wang family, she knew that her own family had been drawn into the conflicts of the martial arts world. Although the people she met last time were only second or third-rate aristocratic families, it was inevitable that they would enter that circle sooner or later, and making early preparations wasn't a bad thing.

  Know yourself, know your enemy, a hundred battles without danger. She has always regarded this as the truth. However, in her previous life, she had no contact with this circle, so she could only let them tell her about it. As for the royal family, she didn't believe them and didn't think they were qualified to know the secrets of the martial arts world. Even their old master was only at the peak of a later stage, one line lower than Cold Frost.

  Although he was born into a large martial arts family and had been taught from a young age, Su Ying was only an eleven or twelve year old child after all, so he wasn't very clear about these things either. So it was up to Leng Han to explain.

  In the current martial arts world, there are mainly six major families and four major schools. They are Xiao, Yun, Bei Ao, Nan Gong, Xi Men. The Yun family is a medical family, so they yield to others regardless of right or wrong. There is also a special existing family called Long Jia. The Long family is the guardian of the country, every generation of Long family children must enter the national special action agency for training and solve the country's special troubles. Other major martial arts schools include Shaolin, Wudang, Emei, and the Xianyao school which is classified as an evil school. There are countless other small schools and factions that are not worth mentioning.

  These aristocratic families and sects have at least one innate master on the surface, with the Dragon Family having more, two of them, one of whom has just entered the innate realm. As for those behind the scenes, it's unclear. The smaller aristocratic families and sects may or may not have innate masters backing them, but they do have many acquired masters, albeit mostly in their sixties and seventies, unlike the acquired masters of larger aristocratic families who are generally in their fifties. However, transitioning from acquired to innate is a major hurdle, with many people unable to break through even after decades at the peak of acquired mastery.

  The cold description allowed Yun Qing to roughly understand the situation in this martial arts world, and also found that his own Yun family seemed to have a bit of a relationship with that Yun family. However, there's no need to think about it now, let's talk when we meet again.

  Clouds lightly speculate, but due to the spiritual energy problem on Earth, people who practice martial arts are far inferior to those of the past. Those who reach Xiantian are very few, and most are around 80-90 years old, existing secretly in individual sects and families. Those stuck at Later Heaven's Great Completion are relatively more numerous, and a significant portion is due to the lack of subsequent heart methods.

  However, she had doubts about Su Ying's situation.

  "How is it that you don't have a bit of spiritual power inside you? Of course, this question isn't convenient and can be left unanswered."

  A faint smile appeared on his face, with a hint of bitterness and helplessness: "There's nothing inconvenient. I've been practicing internal energy with Leng Shu since I was young, but no matter how hard I try, I just can't condense even a single thread of internal energy."

  Yun Qingran's mouth twitched slightly, and she thought she knew why. "You don't cultivate the heart method passed down by your family, but instead cultivate internal energy, you can cultivate whatever skills you want, it's ridiculous." This guy is wasting such a rare physique that has been difficult to obtain for thousands of years, it's shameful. Yun Qingran's emotions rarely fluctuated so much.

  "But our family's inherited heart method was lost a hundred years ago." Shu Ying said innocently. "For some reason, the head of the family at that time took the family's starry sky secret to participate in the martial arts conference and disappeared without a trace. No matter how the family members investigated, they could only find out that the last place where the head of the family appeared was the venue of the martial arts conference."

  So that's how it is, I suppose they were ambushed. Yun Qingran left Xing to stay here and communicate with the two of them about "feelings", anyway in the future she would be the one teaching the two of them, while she herself went to the library.

  She remembered that she had seen it in the study room before, tens of thousands of years ago, a person appeared in the Xiūzhēn realm and established the Sīkōng family. The people of the Sīkōng family were very mysterious, with a talent for astrology, predicting heavenly fate, but they did not easily divine for others, because changing one's fate was an act against heaven, which would bring disaster to oneself or loved ones.

  In the Si Kong family, the thicker the bloodline, the better the effect of the Starry Sky Technique passed down through generations. On the other hand, the worse the other techniques are. Each generation of the Si Kong family chooses the person with the highest bloodline to be the head of the household. The density of each generation's bloodline can not only be measured by the Stargazing Sacred Land but also roughly seen from their appearance.

  The first generation was the founder of the Sī Kōng family, with silver hair and silver-gray eyes. Later generations had at most a full head of silver hair or silver-colored pupils, but never both at the same time. As time passed, people with purely silver hair and eyes became fewer and farther between. It was unexpected that she would see one on Earth, where spiritual energy was scarce.

  And the one on Earth was just a thousand years ago, the main family was expelled from the Xiuzhen realm and came here to rely on the foundation of the Xiuzhen realm to establish the Sī Kōng family. Although it's not as good as the Xiuzhen practitioners on Earth, it's still a superfamily compared to the martial arts world. It's just that the Sī Kōng family doesn't exist anymore, but looking at the two of them, they don't even know about the secrets of the Xiuzhen realm, and they don't even know their own family's origins.

  The starry sky formula and the Eastern Heart Method were printed on paper from the jade slip, because Su Ying had not yet begun to cultivate, there was no spiritual power to support the soul's power to explore the jade slip, only so that he could cultivate.

  At the same time, she also found a cultivation method for Leng Han. His current cultivation method might still be good enough for the martial world today, but to her, it was far from satisfactory. Looking at his cultivation level, which had reached the Great Completion of the Post-Heavenly stage, perhaps due to the lack of subsequent cultivation methods, he had been stuck at this step for a long time. This method happened to be one that started from the Great Completion of the Post-Heavenly stage, and afterwards, there was also a subsequent cultivation method for refining reality, but this couldn't be given to him for now. As for these matters regarding the Realm of Cultivating Reality, they still couldn't be let known to either of them.

  Found a good cultivation method for them, Yun Qingran went to get two more Washing Marrow Pills for the two. The Washing Marrow Pill could help the two remove impurities from their bodies and make their cultivation twice as effective. However, this process was... thinking about it, she prepared several sets of clothes for the two again.

  Leave the Dan medicine for the two of them, Xing is just a spiritual body, only mobilizing the spiritual power outside, but can't accurately control it, so the matter of washing and protecting the law for the two of them can only be handed over to her.

  It's still early outside, and the time in the space is enough for the two to refine their minds and bodies. In order not to waste time, Yun Qingran took them to the martial arts training ground. The training ground has a special cultivation room for people to close up, where the density of spiritual energy can be adjusted.

  "Come in." He led the two of them to a stone room, where Yun Qingyan adjusted the spiritual energy to the most suitable concentration for the two to wash their marrow.

  Inside the stone room, there were exactly three jade mats, just enough for one each. After they sat down cross-legged, Yun Qingran took out a jade bottle containing the Washing Marrow Dan and poured two pills for the other two people.

  Smelling the fragrance of medicine, his cold eyes lit up. "This... this is the legendary Washing Marrow Dan." He looked at Yun Qingran's hand with a green and shiny pill with eager eyes.

  "Alright, one pill each, it's a bit painful, but you have to endure it. I'll give you two protective charms." Yun Qingran nodded and signaled for the two of them to swallow the pills.

  Without any hesitation, the two of them took the medicine and swallowed it. At first, both of their expressions were calm, but after a while, Su Ying's face began to change, frowning in pain.