Chapter 58: Regular and Peaceful Days

  Time passed day by day, and Ye Wen's days were very comfortable and regular.

  Every day, he wakes up to do some simple exercises, then sits and practices his Qi. After finishing all of this, it's just about time for breakfast. After eating breakfast, Ye Wen would walk around the entire Shu Shan Sect as if patrolling his own territory. No matter how many times he did this, he never felt bored.

  After finishing his walk, he would go to instruct Xu Xian in basic sword techniques or go to instruct the outer sect disciples.

  This group of outer disciples, since joining the Shu Mountain Sect, have been desperately cultivating everything they can learn. These people with rich experience understand that such opportunities are like pies falling from the sky, and if they don't quickly reach out to grab them, others will snatch them away, leaving not even a single crumb for themselves.

  Moreover, practicing internal strength and more profound techniques is the dream of every martial artist. Although what Ye Wen brought out may not be considered good stuff, for many people, this is already a very extraordinary thing.

  These twenty people, in less than two months, had fully digested the basic swordsmanship that Ye Wen had initially prepared, the Shu Mountain Basic Swordsmanship, and the Shu Mountain Entry Boxing (Taizu Changquan), and also mastered the set of entry-level breathing methods. All twenty people had gained a sense of qi within two months and could further cultivate their internal skills.

  When faced with this situation, Ye Wen did not hide anything and directly took out the basic internal skill for these outer door disciples to practice. Anyway, his Shu Mountain Sect inner door people already had a suitable internal skill cultivation method, and the basic internal skill was no longer something that couldn't be taken out.

  At the same time, after further training and improvement, five of these twenty people have reached a pretty good level in their kung fu skills. They also had a very solid foundation in knife techniques, so Ye Wen decided to teach them the Five Tigers Broken Knife technique. These five are now among the strongest in the outer school, with three coming from the Yue Shan Escort Agency and two being sent by the Xu family as guards.

  Now, Ye Wen is worried that the remaining fifteen people, although not as strong as those five, are also making progress, albeit slower. However, when they reach a certain level of cultivation, what else can he teach them?

  Is income inside?

  Ye Wen had considered this issue, but these twenty people, although making good progress, still hadn't reached the point where they could move Ye Wen's heart.

  Especially when there were two disciples beside him, they absorbed everything he learned at an even more exaggerated speed, and Ye Wen didn't think that those twenty people were any kind of martial arts geniuses.

  Since there's nothing to teach, staying in the mountains for a long time would easily lead to trouble, so Ye Wen opened the door of convenience for these outer disciples and told them they could go down the mountain, only needing to come back once every period of time.

  Those ten Yueshan Escort Agency's porters have become escorts, especially those who learned the Wuhu Duanmen knife technique. So after they went down the mountain, they didn't worry about where to go, but rather the ten guards didn't know what to do after going down the mountain. In the end, Ye Wen said: "Go down the mountain and take a walk, not too far away, just turn around in Pingzhou nearby, increasing experience is also a way to improve one's cultivation!"

  The last ten outer disciples thought it was a good idea to go down the mountain and have some fun, so they all went out together. However, four of them stayed behind to guard the mountain gate. They had to wait for their fellow disciples to return before they could leave. As for those who went down the mountain, some traveled alone, while others went in groups or went to look for their fellow disciples at the Yue Mountain Escort Bureau, wanting to spend some time there.

  Ye Wen naturally had no reason to oppose this, and now he hoped that after these people left, they could create a bigger reputation for the Shu Shan Sect. Although with the growth of Yue Shan's strength, the Shu Shan Sect was gradually becoming known to others, its fame was still limited, and even Ye Wen had the urge to go down the mountain once and make a big move to boost his reputation.

  Although the outer disciples' cultivation gradually got on track, Ye Wen's daily tasks did not decrease at all. After all, he still had two personally taught disciples waiting for his guidance.

  Zhou Zhiruo has also started practicing the Quanzhen Heart Method. Anyway, this Taoist martial art heart method can be used as a basic part of any martial art. As for what Zhou Zhiruo will practice in the future, it depends on what her ring gives out.

  And her Floating Snow Through Clouds Palm has already been learned, and later with the growth of age and internal power, it will gradually show its might, but the swordsmanship hasn't been studied much. Yeh Wen also thinks that she is not very old now, her body has not grown up yet, so just lay some foundation first, so he didn't hurry to teach either.

  Yue Ning's situation was different, he started practicing Quanzhen internal skills a month after becoming an apprentice, and Ye Wen also passed on the Mian Zhang to his eldest disciple. Even the Quanzhen swordsmanship he obtained later was not put down, and for this first disciple of his, he did not hide anything at all, basically teaching whatever he knew. This master really did his job conscientiously.

  Generally speaking, Ye Wen spent his mornings like this, and after lunch, Ye Wen would let his disciples go back to their own practice, while he also found a place to cultivate his martial arts.

  Neigong is absolutely not to be put down, Ye Wen has been looking for various methods to improve his internal strength since he became aware of his insufficient internal strength realm. Snake gallbladder was the first test, because this method can be tested as long as the snake is caught.

  First, he adjusted his inner breath, then prepared some antidotes. Only then did Ye Wen pick up a snake gallbladder that had just been extracted from the body of a live snake. He had heard that swallowing a snake gallbladder could be poisonous if not done carefully, so he had to make preparations first. But even so, he didn't know if what he was doing was the right choice.

  "I'll risk everything to improve my cultivation!"

  He closed his eyes, opened his mouth, and felt a slippery thing slide down his throat into his stomach. Then a bitter smell made him feel nauseous for a while, but he could only endure it because he needed to calm down and feel the changes in his body. If it really helped with internal energy, he would need to start his inner strength to digest it properly.

  The final result left Ye Wen both happy and sad, happy that the snake gall had indeed helped his internal strength grow, but sad that not all snake galls would be beneficial to him, and sometimes swallowing a snake gall wouldn't even bring half a bit of benefit, and he'd end up spending the whole day with diarrhea.

  After trying for half a month, Ye Wen had to admit that the method of swallowing snake gall was somewhat not worth it. If he utilized the time spent on diarrhea, his strength might increase just as much as if he only swallowed snake gall, and some snake gall didn't even have any effect at all.

  "On the contrary, it makes my stomach churn from time to time, and I feel miserable to death every day!"

  Enduring the discomfort of diarrhea for one more time, and feeling unwell in his heart for a whole day again, Ye Wen finally gave up this method with too much uncertainty, especially when he was nervous every time he swallowed snake gall, fearing that he would be poisoned to death.

  The first plan failed, Ye Wen's second set of plans followed closely, and the things he had asked Zhao Shu to customize from the blacksmith when he went down the mountain were specially sent up the mountain. Looking at this huge sword-shaped object in front of him, Ye Wen was very satisfied.

  "How many catties is this thing?"

  "Fifty-seven catties, eight taels and four mace. According to what Master Ye required, this thing is absolutely solid!" The delivery man was the owner of that ironwork shop. He didn't understand why Ye Wen wanted such a big iron lump, and even asked for it to be as heavy as possible, but he couldn't care less, as long as the customer paid him, he would do as told.

  Ye Wen nodded and finally settled the wages with the blacksmith's boss, only then did he try to pick up this thing when no one was around.

  The shape is much wider and thicker than a normal long sword, with a sturdy hilt and the requirement of not having an open blade. It's more like a large iron rod than a sword. Ye Wen thought of making a heavy sword similar to Yang Guo's Xuan Tie Heavy Sword, but due to material limitations, it couldn't be as heavy as the Xuan Tie Heavy Sword. However, it was already sufficient for Ye Wen's current needs.

  A weight of nearly sixty kilograms is already an unbearable weight for Ye Wen now, and Ye Wen has to carry this big guy all day long and practice his skills. In order to drive him freely, he naturally needs strong arm strength and frequent driving of internal force to support him, indirectly achieving the purpose of tempering his internal skills.

  "This thing has been used for a long time, even if the internal force doesn't increase much, the strength will probably become quite considerable! At that time, it can also be considered to have become much stronger!"

  That's right, Ye Wen's idea is to use a similar concept of negative weight to enhance his combat power. According to his thinking, if he can wield this nearly sixty-pound giant with ease and bring out the true swordsmanship, then when using an ordinary long sword, the accuracy, speed, and stability of his moves will all be greatly improved.

  And the first time he tried to wield this heavy sword with his Quanzhen Swordsmanship, Ye Wen was even grateful that he had started practicing the steady and powerful Quanzhen Swordsmanship. If he had learned the light and agile Hengshan Swordsmanship, he would probably have wanted to die by now...

  But since he had already made up his mind, it was impossible to give up halfway. In fact, if there were waterfalls on Mount Shu, he would have gone to practice under the waterfall - because he remembered that many places used the impact of waterfalls to cultivate internal strength.

  "It's a pity that Mount Shu is not by the sea; otherwise, going to meet the tide to practice, the progress of internal strength would be even faster..."

  Ye Wen once wanted to leave Mount Shu and run to the seaside to practice for a year or two, but when he carried this custom-made heavy sword for less than half a day, he found that if he really ran to meet the sea tide to practice, the only result would be that he would be knocked over by a big wave of the sea, and then he would be swept into its arms, returning to the embrace of Mother Sea!

  Realizing that some methods he knew but didn't have the qualifications to use at present, Ye Wen began to diligently practice with his heavy sword, even wearing it on his back when training in lightness skills, hoping that his own lightness skills could also improve.