Chapter 2 The Secret Code of Quanzhen

  Yuanbao Town was just a small town, but it was bustling because the paths around it could quickly lead to several state capitals in the northern part of Wei County, with all the large number of merchants traveling to and from them.   After the carriage arrived at Yuanbao Town, Chu Huo arranged for an inn and then brought Yue'er and a dozen or so of the Chu Family's subordinates along with him as they wandered around within Yuanbao Town.   Chu Huo looked in both directions, Yue'er was a bit bored, Tongzhoufu is a big city in Wei County, much more prosperous than this town, what is there to see here?   Just at this moment, Chu Huo suddenly found something, walked straight to a store that sells secret boxes.   This so-called secret box was also a major feature of the Great Jianghu World.   In the Great Jianghu World, martial arts flourished, but ten thousand years ago, there was a great catastrophe of heaven and earth, which led to a heavenly calamity, and countless martial arts sects were destroyed in the last days.   Before the beginning of the catastrophe, there are great masters of the formation road to develop a thing called the secret box, used to store the clan's treasures, books and other things, to prevent it from being damaged in the natural disaster.   The core of the secret box is in its formation, can be used to strengthen and close the secret box, the effect is multiplied, but unfortunately now has been lost.   The material of the secret box is arbitrary, gold and iron can be, stone or even wood can also be, anyway, the stronger the material of the secret box, the array will be able to play out the power of the greater.   The size and shape of the secret box is also arbitrary, anyway, the formation is the same, the size and shape of the secret box depends entirely on the original manufacture of the secret box of the clan is prepared to use them to contain what things.   Therefore, after the ancient catastrophe, the survivors dug up the remains of countless sects and found a large number of these secret boxes.   Some people opened the secret box and found the world's most extraordinary skills, while others found strange and exotic treasures.   Of course, the secret box is not all treasure, most of the secret box is empty or loaded with some useless things.   Empty secret box are those sects prepared in advance, the formation is also engraved, at any time to use can be put into something at any time, the appearance and those loaded with something of the secret box is basically no difference.   There are also some secret boxes containing some for the martial artist is more significant things, but in fact, but not valuable, such as a strong youth with a sword, sweetheart sent handkerchiefs and so on.   In this way, there are good and bad things in the secret box, and because of the special reason of the formation, nowadays no one in the jianghu can detect the internal scene from the outside, so the purchase of the secret box depends on one's own experience and luck.   Experienced people can from the secret box material, size and shape, and even above the decorative pattern to analyze the secret box of the provenance and the things in it, of course, most of the people rely on or luck.   In front of this town in the sale of secret box store is very small, the table in front of just a dozen or so not big secret box, shape and material are not the same, but the only thing in common is that they all look very cheap, the material are ordinary gold and iron and stone, so will be placed in the Yuanbao Town of this kind of small town in the sale.   Chu Huo asked the shopkeeper, "Are you the only store that sells secret boxes in Yuan Bao Town?"   The shopkeeper didn't even raise his head, just lazily nodded his head and said, "Of course, I'm the only one, even if the secret box is trash again, at least ten taels of silver are needed to buy one. Ninety-nine percent of the jianghu people who come to Yuanbao Town are dart walkers, a bunch of poor people! They can't even earn ten taels of silver for a single dart trip, so how could they possibly spare ten taels of silver to gamble their luck?"   At this time that shopkeeper looked up and saw the brocade fancy dress that Chu Huo was wearing, with maids and subordinates around him, his obese face couldn't help but show a hint of fawning smile and said, "That gang of poor people can't afford to buy the secret magazines, Gongzi is surely able to do so, these secret magazines are all found in the relics of the southern barbarian mountains a year ago, the price is absolutely affordable and fair. "   Hearing that shopkeeper say so, Chu Huo's eyes couldn't help but reveal a hint of essence.   If he didn't remember wrongly, it was around this time now, there was a guy with a slave's origin who had bought an ordinary secret box in Yuanbao Town, not realizing that there was a supreme power technique in it.   It is by relying on this technique, that person is crossing the rivers and lakes, breaking down a big name, and even established a not so small sect by himself, becoming a sect master.   Chu Huo had just come to this side of the world, and he was now in dire need of a powerful enough technique.   Their Chu family as a large clan in Tongzhou Prefecture, naturally there is also a merit law inheritance, called "Vast Sea Heart Law", after practicing the great success, the foundation is strong, the internal force is as powerful as the vast sea.   But Chu Huo as a concubine son, from childhood is not valued, no pills and other resources, no elders in the clan to teach, so practice for many years, this gongfu he even barely begin, his own martial arts cultivation is even more pathetic low, even the blood condensation realm has not stepped into.   The martial arts path wants to start, the first thing to go through is the three realms of body refining.   The first step in the three realms of body refining is to beat up the muscles and bones, this realm is called the body quenching realm, refining the physical body, so that the muscles and bones are strong, superior strength.   Ninety-nine percent of the martial artists in the jianghu are almost all quenched body realm, because this realm is the most simple, some people do not even know the internal strength, only practiced some shallow external hard work can reach the quenched body realm.   And quenched body realm is above the blood condensation realm, this realm is from the outside and inside, quenching good sinew and bones and then condense their own blood, so that the thin blood becomes thick, and finally even as if the lead and mercury in general, is considered to be the blood condensation realm into a great success.   This realm would be more difficult, martial artists who would not be able to practice internal martial arts and cultivate internal power would be almost impossible to reach the blood condensation realm.   Just as Chu Huo was thinking about these things, a mediocre looking young man walked in and said, "Shopkeeper, give me two secret boxes."   Ordinary people come to buy secret box shopkeeper must be happy, but he saw this young man but shook his head and said: "Li Jing, your hard work in the Tongzhou Province Li family as a servant to earn money can be thrown inside the secret box, listen to my advice, this thing is not you can play. Your kid brain flexible, only come to the Li family a few years will be Li San Gongzi appreciation, give the surname Li, also from the kitchen transferred to the merchant team, you take this money to make friends with some Li family stewards how good, maybe in the future you can also be a steward it."   Li Jing laughed and said, "Even if I become a steward, I will still be nothing more than an underling of the Li family, maybe I can really open some kind of supreme divine power from among the secret box, and soar to great heights."   The shopkeeper shook his head, "Uncover a supreme divine skill? Where would it be that easy.   There are indeed many legends in the jianghu, some people from the seemingly insignificant secret box opened the most precious treasure, but that is always a minority, more is a waste of money, the odds are pitifully small.   However, he himself sells the secret box, he sees that this Li Jing is also a poor man, which reminds him a few words, but since the other party insists on buying, he can not sell?   Just as he wanted to take the secret box, Chu Huo suddenly said, "Wait, shopkeeper, I want all of these secret boxes."   Just when the shopkeeper shouted out that Li Jing's name and identity, Chu Huo thought of his identity.   He was that martial artist who had once gotten a great chance from Yuanbao Town, a slave origin, but ended up becoming a dominant force in the jianghu by virtue of the Divine Skills that were opened in the Secret Boxes.   And listen to the words of this Li Jing, the other party is also really the kind of people who are not willing to be ordinary, otherwise a chest without great ambition of the waste even if the opening of the divine power also can not go that step, the final end is likely to be their own killed, the divine power was robbed.   Thinking of this Chu Huo also secretly said a fluke, he had come in time, he only knew that there was such a thing, but did not know the exact time, if he came one step later, the chance would be gone.   Li Jing frowned and said, "This gentleman, I was the one who first said I wanted to buy it."   Chu Huo glanced at him and said, "Now that I said I want them all, do you have a problem with that?"   A trace of anger appeared on Li Jing's face as he coldly grunted, "Does this gentleman think that I, Li Jing, am easy to bully because I'm just an inferior? I am a member of the Tongzhou Prefecture's Li Family!"   Tongzhou Prefecture was a large city in Wei County, while the Li Family was one of the three major families in Tongzhou Prefecture.   Although he was only a subordinate of the Li family, some small local ragtag families could not really compare to him, and even some people from small families had to grovel in front of the Li family's steward.   Chu Huo looked at him and laughed coldly, ''Before you said that you don't want to be an underling for the rest of your life, but when it comes down to it, you still don't want to use the Li family as a fox and tiger? You, an underling, also want to use the Li Family to pressure me? I don't know what to say!"   As Chu Huo's words fell, several underlings behind him immediately surrounded him, eyeing Li Jing intently.   He had learned martial arts because he had been rewarded by the third son of the Li family, but he was after all an underling, and what he had learned was some shallow kung fu, and his strength was only at the Body Hardening realm, so naturally he couldn't defeat so many people with fewer people fighting more.   So he could only watch as Chu Huo took away all the dozen or so secret magazines in the store, and for some reason, apart from the feeling of being humiliated, more than anything else, he was heartbroken, as if something important had been taken away from him.   Waiting for Chu Huo to leave, Li Jing gritted his teeth in hatred, this matter was definitely not over!   He had been mixing in the Li family for so many years, although he was only an underling, but he was the person of the Third Prince of Li, and he had made friends with quite a few big names!   At this time, after Chu Huo got that secret box, he returned to the inn, whisked everyone out, and checked those secret boxes one by one.   Because this secret box is only used to save things, so the way to open the secret box is very simple, drop blood on the secret box, the formation can naturally be unlocked.   Of course this secret box once opened, because the sealing formation has been lost, so this secret box will be completely scrapped, can no longer continue to use, which also eliminates the idea of someone to take the empty secret box to fish in troubled waters.   A total of seventeen secret box, chu xiu opened eight in a row, but there are seven is empty, one of them has a booklet inside, has long been rotten, and is not a technique, just record the details of a clan's property of the booklet, and there is nothing to use.   Until Chu Huo opened the ninth secret box, that secret box is only made of brown stone, only palm size, there is no pattern on it, it looks very casual.   But after opening it, there was an ancient jade in it, emitting an eerie warm light.   In the ancient times, some powerful people in order to better preserve the gong method, they would not write the gong method on paper, but use the spiritual branding carved in the good jade, as long as there is no accident, millions of years will not be damaged.   "This is it!"   Chu Huo gripped that jade slip with excitement, and immediately large sections of text surged within Chu Huo's mind.   "The secret code of the Dao Sect, the Preliminary Skill!"   This innate gong that Chu Huo had obtained was the inherited gong method of the Quanzhen Dao, a branch of the Taoist lineage from the ancient times, cultivating innate true qi, rejecting a hundred diseases, regulating the real and the imaginary, harboring the foundation, and the true qi being born without end.   Taoist gong method is the most important foundation, is also the most neutral and peaceful, this innate gong although at first glance there is nothing special, but in the original plot of the gong method rating is full of four turns.   People have strong and weak, gongfa also have strong and weak, although the strength of the gongfa with the cultivation of people have a relationship, there are amazing and talented people can even rely on low-level gongfa across the jianghu, but that is after all only a few, so the jianghu is still roughly divided into several levels of gongfa.   Normal gongfu have nine turns, one turn is the lowest, nine turns is the highest.   The first three turns of the gongfu can basically be used as a small sect's inheritance of the gongfu, unusual jianghu people they can only be regarded as boxing and kicking style, even the first turn of the gongfu are not enough to qualify.   In the middle of the third turn of the gongfu in the whole jianghu are considered to be a treasure, get it can start a sect.   As for the last three turns of the gongfu, basically in the hands of some big Jianghu sects, in the hands of the individual is very little.   There are two levels above the nine turns, one of which is the supreme technique, which can dominate the jianghu and become the supreme martial arts master.   There is also a great skill, as its name suggests, the best at that time, unrivaled in the world, is the existence of the legend.   In addition to these levels, the jianghu there are some strange function, can not be measured by the level, some people cultivate very weak, but some people cultivate but very strong, there are also some strange function is some strange role, can not be purely with the power to count.   This innate function was evaluated by the later generations as four revolutions, which could be used as a gong method to start a sect, naturally for a reason.   The characteristics of the Taoist merit method to contain the foundation are played to the extreme by the innate function, unusual martial arts cultivation is from a young age need to build a good foundation, the older you are, the slower the progress, but the innate function is not, it can quickly wash the body of the martial arts practitioner, no matter how old you are, you can reshape the foundation.   In the original version of the plot, Li Jing got the innate merit, but his own age is not small, past the best stage of martial arts, it is because of the innate merit in, he can remodel the foundation, realm in a day by leaps and bounds, and even than those who grow up since the cultivation of martial arts disciples of the family foundation is stronger.   Chu Huo's situation is similar to that of Li Jing, although he is from the Chu family, but in fact, when he was a child, there was no one to teach him, basically no elixir used to build the foundation, so his foundation is also very poor.   But now with this innate gong, Chu Huo could make up for this, and even make his martial arts path a cut above martial artists of the same rank from the starting point.   Looking at the remaining secret box in front of him, Chu Huo also opened it, not expecting to find another gong method, which had not appeared in the original version of the plot, of course it could have appeared, but Chu Huo didn't know.   This gong method was not an internal martial art, but a strange sword technique called Green Dragon in the Sleeve.   Chu Huo's martial arts were only just introduced, apart from those feats with great fame in the original episode, the rest of the feats even if they were placed in front of him, he couldn't tell if they were good or bad, but with his current gaze, this Green Dragon in the Sleeve was much better than those first turn unusual martial arts passed down by their Chu family, and at the very least it should have been a second turn.   This Green Dragon in the Sleeve's knife method emphasizes the art of hiding the knife, the shape of the knife is hidden in the sleeve, the knife intention is hidden in the body, a knife cuts out, as if the green dragon comes out of the sea, the power is infinite.   The knife is the green dragon, and the sleeve is hidden in the sea of the green dragon, the whole knife method is very simple, its charm is only this green dragon out of the sea that instantly chopped out the strongest knife.   The Chu family's main internal strength is the ocean heart method, as for other martial arts moves are not too strong, are some common martial arts, fists, feet, palms, swords, guns, sticks and what have, choose which depends on their own preferences.   This sleeve green dragon chu xiu although can not see the depth to, but certainly than their chu family those simple knife law is much better.   And in Chu Huo side open the secret box, not willing to be robbed by Chu Huo something Li Jing is also came to Yuanbao town another inn in the middle of to find backing.