Chapter 13: Strange Sword Manual

In the past few years, Mo Juren only paid attention to Han Li's progress in practicing Changchun Gong, and never took the initiative to teach him the knowledge of medicine and poison.

Occasionally he asked related questions, but he just thought he was just out of curiosity. He never imagined that this "good disciple" seemed to be able to learn pharmacy, medicine and even toxicology without any teacher.

A few years ago, this kid was a village boy who could hardly recognize words. I never thought that after practicing Taoism, he would have such enlightenment. It is simply terrifying.

On the other hand, the matter of the elixir recipe can be explained, but where did those precious medicines come from?

As a doctor, Mo Juren naturally knew that precious medicines were hard to come by!
In order to provide Han Li with money for cultivation and to delay his own aging, Mo Juren had tried various methods to obtain precious medicines in recent years, and even spent all the wealth he had accumulated from practicing medicine for many years.

But unexpectedly, Han Li himself had such precious medicine, which he could use to prepare pills at will!

A flash of inspiration came into Mo Juren's mind, as if he had grasped something, and it seemed that a great opportunity was right in front of him!

For the moment, he could no longer care about practicing. He had to first figure out the secret of where Han Li got so many precious medicines.

He hurriedly searched Han Li's cabin inside and out carefully, and after finding nothing unusual, he expanded the search range to the entire Shenshou Valley, but unfortunately found nothing.

There is a medicinal field in Shenshou Valley. This is a small piece of land that Mo Juren opened up with the help of disciples of Qixuanmen in order to cultivate medicinal herbs.

Originally, this medicinal field should have been taken care of by Han Li, his disciple, but he has been practicing outside the valley for the past six months, and Mo Juren himself has no intention of taking care of it, so now the medicinal field is almost abandoned and overgrown with weeds, with only a few yellow dragon grasses standing alone on the ridges.

Seeing that there was no clue in the most suspicious place, Mo Juren had to seek help from "outside".

In the past six months, in addition to controlling Han Li with the Corpse Worm Pill, Mo Juren also arranged another little helper to help him monitor Han Li's every move.

It probably knows best where Han Li has been, and now is the time when it is needed.

Mo Juren was seen standing on a high place in Shenshou Valley, imitating the sound of birds singing and whistling long and low sounds.

I kept blowing the bell intermittently for about a stick of incense before I saw a small bird with a green body and yellow feathers on its head flying towards me from a very far distance like an arrow.

This little bird was the "Cloud-winged Bird" that Mo Juren had been using to monitor Han Li.

It flies extremely fast, can understand human speech, give directions, and make various gestures to indicate information. Its intelligence is so high that it can be called psychic, and it is a great help to Mo Juren in secret.

He had obtained this bird when he was in Lanzhou. After so many years, it still maintained the shape of a fledgling and had not grown up.

Because of the bright yellow feathers on the bird's head, Mo Juren has always called it "Little Yellow Hair".

However, after hearing the call, the Cloud-Winged Bird returned to the valley and flew straight to the top of Mo Juren's head, but was reluctant to land.

Mo Juren then remembered that he had taken over Zhang Tie's body, and he was afraid that the little fellow would not be able to recognize him.

However, it is very simple to subdue the Cloud-winged Bird again. Just give it delicious food.

Mo Juren smiled slightly and took out a bottle from his arms. This was the bird food he specially prepared, containing the mountain chestnuts that the cloud-winged bird liked most.

"Little yellow-haired boy, what's wrong? You don't recognize me? I am your master. Look, here is your favorite 'Yellow Li Wan'!"

While talking to the bird, Mo Juren poured out a yellow pill from the bottle and threw it into the cloud-winged bird's mouth skillfully.

The cloud-winged bird took it and after tasting the same old flavor, it squeaked with joy.

Then it landed on Mo Juren's shoulder, rubbing his face with its little beak, making a "gurgling" sound, looking very intimate.

"Okay, okay, I know you're hungry, eat."

He threw several yellow chestnut balls into the air one after another, and the little bird happily jumped into the air to catch them one by one, flying up and down beside him.

Mo Juren looked at the lively little bird with an affectionate expression and couldn't help but smile.

After the man and the pet played around for a while, Mo Juren asked,
"Little Yellow Hair, where does the guy I asked you to keep an eye on usually stay? Do you remember?"

After hearing this, the cloud-winged bird flew over Mo Juren's head and circled around, then flew a distance to the east from his head, then turned back and flew a distance to the east again. It was obvious that it was giving him directions.

"So good." Mo Juren was relieved and told the cloud-winged bird, "Come on, lead the way for me. I want to go to that place and take a look."

The cloud-winged bird circled and flew eastwards, disappearing in the sky soon. Mo Juren hurriedly followed. With the guidance of the cloud-winged bird, Mo Juren arrived at a waterfall more than ten miles away on the east side of Shenshou Valley.

A stream of water of moderate size rushed down, and there happened to be a flat ground near the pool, hidden in the shadows of trees. It was really a good place to hide.

There were obvious signs of human activity on the flat ground. It seemed that this was where his good disciple Han Li had been staying for the past six months.

Mo Juren searched carefully and finally found something unusual in a dry hole on the mountain wall.

He carefully examined it and pulled out nearly a hundred books.

"Blinking Sword Manual? What kind of martial arts is this? I've never heard of it."

Mo Juren curiously flipped through the outline and read it for a while, then he realized that Han Li's martial arts, which he had learned without a teacher, all came from this secret book.

This book is huge, with hundreds of volumes of secret manuals. In addition to martial arts, it also records the deeds, experiences and various strange and clever skills of many founders.

Such as cartilage skills, breath-holding skills, disguised hiding skills, Luoyan step, sword-shooting style, bewitching smoke, lip-reading, ventriloquism and dozens of other secret skills.

The various martial arts recorded in this so-called "Sword Manual" are far more than just swordsmanship. The overall feeling is more like a kind of assassination technique, which was created by a strange elder in the early years of the Qixuan Sect.

The book records his life.

He lost his Qi at a young age due to an injury, so he worked hard for decades to study various methods that did not require Qi but could kill the enemy, and compiled them into this sword technique.

To practice this sword technique, besides talent and perseverance, the most important thing is that you cannot have internal energy!
Who wouldn't want to possess a profound martial arts qi for a normal martial arts disciple? After all, this is the standard for mainstream martial arts masters.

It just so happened that among so many members of the Qixuan Sect, Han Li was perhaps the only one who had never practiced any true qi or internal skills because he was deliberately controlled by Mo Juren.

This Blinking Sword seemed to be tailor-made for Han Li! Mo Juren had to admire the wonder of God's will.

Of course, not requiring internal energy does not mean that anyone can practice it. On the contrary, "The Blinking Sword Manual" has extremely high requirements for physical strength, and many moves require strong physical strength and muscle burst skills.

The book also records many methods of using external medicines to help improve physical strength. Mo Juren took a quick look and found that these methods require long-term persistence to be effective and cannot be achieved in a short period of time.

Since this sword manual can be practiced by Han Li, it is naturally very suitable for Mo Juren, who has lost his martial arts and true energy after taking over another body.

However, there was no rush for this matter. Mo Juren remembered the purpose of his visit, put the sword manual aside for the time being, and continued to explore the secret of how Han Li obtained the precious medicine.

Seeing that there was nothing else unusual on the flat ground, he called down the Cloud-Winged Bird again, and after patiently communicating with it, he climbed up to the top of the waterfall under its guidance.

Finally, we found a small medicinal field on a flat rock halfway up the mountain.

In the medicinal field were the herbs he was looking for, such as Huanglongcao, Red Ginseng, Sanguisorba Officinalis, and Polygonatum sibiricum. Beside them were some copper basins, wooden racks, medicinal hoes and other miscellaneous items.

In the small space, he saw various medicinal herbs densely piled together, but they were growing well, with no signs of competing for fertilizer and soil, which made him marvel inwardly.

Mo Juren himself is a doctor and is also quite knowledgeable about herbal cultivation.

He used to take care of the medicinal fields in Shenshou Valley himself, but the results were never as lush as those from this small plot of land here.

After a closer look, I found that some herbs had just emerged from the soil, some were lush and green, and some were already several years old! Some were even picked whole, leaving behind pits.

This doesn't make sense. If these herbs were all planted by Han Li during the past six months, it's impossible for their ages to be so uneven.

Moreover, the medicinal plants cannot be so densely spaced, and these are exactly the herbs needed to prepare the "Huanglong Pill" and "Yangjing Pill"?

Han Li must have transplanted these herbs intentionally, and used some strange method to make them grow quickly! That's why he was able to obtain those extremely rare and high-year precious herbs in a short period of time and make the "Yellow Dragon Pill" and "Yangjing Pill"!
Thinking back on what he had come across in the past two days and after gathering together all the information about Han Li, Mo Juren finally thought of something and took off the cloth bag disguised as a talisman from his neck.

It seems that all of Han Li's opportunities must be related to this piece of magical porcelain that he had carefully hidden!
When taking over another's body, Mo Juren could sense in his spiritual state that the porcelain piece emitted a warm yellow light that could soothe the ghost and calm the mind, so Mo Juren concluded that it was not an ordinary object.

He opened the cloth bag, took out the porcelain pieces, and studied them carefully.

However, it was found that all the efforts were in vain. The porcelain piece looked nothing special. Except for the sharp break, it looked like a piece of broken porcelain or tile, ordinary, as if it had been thrown into a garbage dump and no one would pick it up.

So Mo Juren looked at the sundries beside the medicinal field again, and after fiddling with the wooden racks, copper plates, ropes, and other things, he finally saw a clue...

　Goldfinger is coming-_-
　　
　
(End of this chapter)