Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 47: Po Jun Jiu Zhou Tian
It's very late at night.
Tang Zheng returned to the safe house with two nameplates and a jade bowl that was hollowed out by a little fox.
"Brother Tang Zheng...my..." As soon as Xiao Lingdang saw Tang Zheng, she rushed over to him. However, when she saw the empty bowl in Tang Zheng's hand, her little face immediately fell again.
She was waiting for Tang Zheng to get her rabbit meat back, but she hadn't eaten any dry food and was always hungry!
What Tang Zheng brought back was just an empty bowl.
Just as tears were welling up in her eyes, Tang Zheng smiled and pulled out a gray, big-eared fat rabbit from behind.
"Ah! Brother Tang Zheng is the best, the best..." Little Lingling immediately burst into laughter and was busy helping Tang Zheng to light the fire, making her little face covered with black stuff.
Several people were busy. Meng Fenghua looked at Tang Zheng's face and asked, "Did Xiaotang get the target nameplate? The battle was fierce, right?"
"Hey, how did you know?" Tang Zheng was a little surprised.
"Master, your face is disfigured and covered in blood...how could the battle not be intense?" Tang Zixie said with a smile when he saw that Tang Zheng was in good condition and did not seem to have suffered serious injuries.
"Face? Disfigured?" Tang Zheng touched his face and suddenly remembered that the little fox had scratched his face with its claws, and the wound was not shallow.
Although it was burning with pain at the time, Tang Zheng was concentrating on studying his newly-realized Kaio-ken. If Meng Fenghua and Tang Zixie hadn't mentioned it to him, he would have really forgotten the wound on his face.
Tang Zheng quickly pulled out a bronze mirror from the bag on his waist, looked at himself in the mirror, and immediately became angry: "Fuck, my face is really disfigured. Where is the elegant gentleman style I was promised? From now on, with a big scar on my face, I can only follow the path of a gangster..."
"This... Master, actually this is not a problem. Yaoshan tribe and Tianyifang both have a lot of scar removal medicines. Although they are expensive, it should not be a problem for you, Master." Tang Zixie said, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead.
"Oh, really? That's good. Anyway, Xiaotang has already got the target nameplate, so it's not a loss this time..." Hearing that there is a way to remove the scar, Tang Zheng smiled again.
"Sister Xiaotang's nameplate was exchanged for my rabbit meat! It was exchanged for my rabbit meat!" As soon as Xiao Lingdang heard that Xiaotang's nameplate was obtained, she also started to laugh happily along with Tang Zheng, as if she could take the greatest credit for getting Xiaotang's target nameplate.
"Haha, good little Lingling, not only did you get a nameplate in exchange for your rabbit meat , you also got a buy one get one free deal." Tang Zheng said as he took out another nameplate and waved it in front of everyone.
Zero zero zero one!
When everyone saw the nameplate, they were stunned for a moment: "Uh, where did this nameplate come from?"
So Tang Zheng became a storyteller again.
He told Meng Fenghua and the others the whole story of tracking the little fox, encountering the illusion array, using his sense of smell to find the center of the array, and finally getting the two nameplates from Leng Jing.
"Master, your experience today was really full of twists and turns and extremely thrilling. But... wait, you said that little girl said her brother was in a cold war?!" Tang Zixie listened with relish to Tang Zheng's story about how he had just cleverly captured two target nameplates. After praising him for a while, he suddenly remembered something and asked in a raised voice.
"That's right, his name is Cold War. Speaking of which, this name is very strange. I wonder if he has an older brother named World War II... How do you know this Cold War?" After Tang Zheng complained, he asked curiously.
When Meng Fenghua and Tang Zixie heard Tang Zheng's words, they looked at each other and laughed at the same time.
Meng Fenghua looked at Tang Zheng's puzzled expression, and said with a smile: "I'm afraid that among the candidates this time, you are the only one who doesn't know Leng Zhan... He is now the signboard of Yisu Academy and the pride of the Leng family."
"The current signboard, the 'former' pride?" Tang Zheng quickly smelled a hint of gossip from Meng Fenghua's words.
"That's right, Leng Zhan, born in the direct line of the Changyuan Leng family, was once the most famous genius of this generation of the Leng family, and broke through to the two-star level at the age of thirteen."
"At that time, he was directly invited to enroll at Jiuhua Academy. However, contrary to everyone's expectations, he did not choose to enter the academy. Instead, he went to the border where the human race and the demon race clashed in the Leng family's jurisdiction to train for more than a year."
"In less than two years, he has advanced from the initial two-star level to the peak of the two-star level, and is about to ascend to the Star-Seeking Tower..."
"Oh." Tang Zheng touched his nose. Hearing Meng Fenghua mention that Leng Zhan had reached the peak of two stars from the initial two stars in less than two years, it seemed like a great thing. He was recognized as a genius boy...
However, he only took about half a year to complete this stage. I don't know how to count him, a genius young man? A genius uncle?
However, even though Tang Zheng complained, he was actually very clear in his mind that the younger the age, the less formed the star veins were, and the speed of cultivating star power would be much slower than after adulthood.
But it can lay a solid foundation. The higher the star power cultivation when you are young, the wider the star veins will be opened up, and the faster the speed of star power cultivation will be after adulthood.
This is why most academies have thresholds for age and star power cultivation.
At this point in the story, Tang Zheng knew that a turning point was coming.
If there wasn't a "but" at the end, Leng Zhan should have been able to successfully advance to three stars before the age of sixteen. According to his advancement speed, he would be around twenty years old this year, and he would be at least a peak three-star, or even a four-star warrior.
If the story developed like this, Leng Zhan would not just be the number one genius of the Leng family "once", he would still be the number one genius of the Leng family until today.
As Tang Zheng expected, Meng Fenghua continued speaking.
"But when he was fifteen, everyone thought that after the experience at the border, he would choose to enter Jiuhua Academy this time, be the first to climb the Sushiwenxing Tower, complete the 'questioning the stars' in one year, and successfully overcome the important hurdle of three stars..."
"But he once again surprised everyone. He once again declined the second invitation from Jiuhua Academy and chose to stay in Biancheng and applied for Yisu Academy!"
"It's quite interesting. Then what happened? After that, he never recovered from his experience at the Yisuli Academy. His cultivation level never improved at all until today?" Tang Zheng asked with a smile.
"Hey? Master, how do you know? Don't you know Leng Zhan?" Tang Zixie asked curiously.
"No, no, no, the main reason is that there was a type of novel in my hometown that was written like this. It seems that this Cold War has great potential to be the protagonist!" Tang Zheng replied with a smile, and began to become a little interested in this Cold War.
"At that time, not only the Leng family, but also other unrelated warriors could not understand his idea. However, when he came out of the Sushiwenxing Tower and announced that he would perform the star-guiding exercise of 'Pojun Jiuzhoutian'... everyone knew why he chose Yisu Academy. Because only Yisu Academy would allow him to make the choice of 'believing in miracles'."
"Nine Zhoutian of Po Jun?" Tang Zheng paused for a moment.
Po Jun Jiu Zhou Tian, this is a very ancient way of attracting stars. Tang Zheng had seen in the historical records of Xingyao Continent that there was a marshal who had made great military achievements beside the Purple Gold Emperor and he used this method of attracting stars.
Specifically, the guiding star of the "Nine Zhoutian" is three consecutive three stars penetrating the sun, and in the third, sixth and ninth life palaces, add the "Zhoutian main stars" such as Tianji and Tianliang with the word "Tian" in them. In other words, the third, sixth and ninth life palaces must have two stars in one palace!
Originally, it is not easy to complete the "Nine Zhous".
Not to mention, this is one of the two most difficult levels in the "Nine Zhoutian", the Pojun Nine Zhoutian!
Po Jun's nine cycles of heaven begin with the main star Po Jun in the first life palace. Three main stars of Po Jun are introduced in the first, second and third life palaces. The third life palace needs to have two stars in one palace, so in addition to Po Jun, a main star of the cycle needs to be introduced.
Then, the fourth, fifth and sixth life palaces introduce the Qi Sha main star. Similarly, the sixth life palace needs to introduce the Zhou Tian main star. The seventh, eighth and ninth life palaces introduce the Tan Lang main star, and the ninth life palace introduces the double stars.
"Yes, it is the Nine Zhoutian of Pojun, one of the most difficult methods of attracting stars in the history of Xingyao Continent!" Meng Fenghua nodded affirmatively, with a hint of admiration on his face.
She has two stars in her life palace, so she naturally has a natural sense of identification with warriors who dare to choose such a challenging way of attracting stars.
"Oh? Could it be that there is a more difficult way to attract stars?" Tang Zheng asked curiously.
"Of course, there are a few others with similar difficulty to Po Jun Jiu Zhou Tian. The only one that is more difficult than it is the 'Jin Lin Gui Yi Jue' used by the legendary Purple Gold Emperor. It sounds simpler and more brutal. No matter what method is used, as long as all fourteen main stars are eventually introduced into the fate palace, the task will be accomplished." Meng Fenghua answered patiently.
Seeing that Tang Zheng was listening attentively, Tang Zixie took over the conversation with some concern, "Master, you are not interested in 'The King's Return', are you? It's just a legend."
"Although the star-attracting methods such as 'Po Jun Jiu Zhou Tian' are extremely difficult and have a very high failure rate, there have been people who have succeeded in the history of Xingyao Continent. One of their Leng family's ancestors once succeeded. Only 'Jun Lin Gui Yi Jue' has never been successful except for the Purple Gold Emperor. It is even a mystery whether the Purple Gold Emperor actually used this star-attracting method..."
Tang Zheng laughed and didn't answer. He changed the subject and asked, "What about Leng Zhan? Did he succeed in attracting the star?"
"Of course not. How could the heaven-defying star-attracting method of Po Jun Jiu Zhou Tian be so easy to succeed? Even if Leng Zhan is a rare genius in a century, Xing Yao Continent probably hasn't produced a strong man who can successfully attract stars with 'Po Jun Jiu Zhou Tian' for thousands of years."
"In the past few years, I heard that Leng Zhan used the 'Po Jun Jiu Zhou Tian' method to attack and light up the third life palace three times, but failed each time. It took a long time to recover the first two times, and the third time... It is rumored that it left permanent damage to his star veins, and he may not be able to make any further progress in this lifetime..." Tang Zixie said with a sigh.
"Tsk, you're becoming more and more like a loser protagonist..." Tang Zheng smiled and shook his head.
"However, there is another rumor that says that Leng Zhan was very confident of successfully reaching Samsung last year, but for another reason, he forced his advancement to be postponed for a year!" Tang Zixie said.
