Chen Wentian decided help Zhou Ziyun fully recover and check her cultivation progress. Much like Lin Qingchen, Zhou Ziyun had also slowed down after enter the Spirit Initiate Realm. She was still squarely at the 1st Level after two months. He wasn"t too worried about it because she still trained hard and had made a large amount of progress on all aspects of her spiritual energy.Her improvements to spiritual sense was particularly impressive. She could sense his position even in his resting state. Normally, it took until the middle levels of the Spirit Initiate Realm for someone to be that sensitive. Her spiritual control and spiritual strength were also improving steadily and she could beat Lin Qingcheng in a spar in any condition, even though she was one level weaker.
However, his main purpose for staying with her was actually Summer and Winter"s Eternal Sutra. Of his first three disciples, Zhou Ziyun was the only one without an overpowered innate cultivation method. He wanted her to learn this new immortal art and see what would happen. He wasn"t sure if she would be compatible with it but it didn"t hurt to try it out.
"Hmph, why don"t you go find the ice sisters." Zhou Ziyun muttered gloomily when he brought this up.
"Come on… Ziyun!" Chen Wentian hugged her and tried to soothe her, "Please?"
He traced a line of kisses up her cheek and nibbled her earlobe. "Remember how I promised to find you a suitable immortal art? Baby, when I found this art, the first one I thought was you."
"Really?"
"Mmhm, I swear. The ice sisters will benefit from this art no doubt but it doesn"t mean you can"t learn it. You"re a smart girl, you"re special. I"m sure you"ll be able to gain a lot regardless of what happens."
"Fine, okay." Zhou Ziyun sighed.
Chen Wentian laughed and kissed her properly, showing her just how much he cared about her. After a long make out session, he went and drew a cultivation array on the stone floor of her room.
"Ready?" He asked as they sat down.
She nodded eagerly, her prior hesitation nowhere in sight. He couldn"t help but feel like he had been played. This little wench had wanted to study the secret art from the start! He smiled wryly and pulled out the stone tablet. He projected the text into the air and they both began to read…
Summer and Winter"s Eternal Sutra was separated into three parts. Two of the parts were for each gender and contained the ice and flame arts used for individual cultivation as well as martial arts. Their true names were Winter"s Snow Dance and Summer"s Blazing Sun. When the two parts were separated, there were many characters missing that resulted in the incorrect names as well as many wrong a.s.sumptions.
The third part was the dual cultivation secret art which had no t.i.tle but instructed the male and female pair on how to join the fire and ice arts together along with their sources of yin and yang. This part also included some secret stages not included in the first two parts.
Winter"s Snow Dance and Summer"s Blazing Sun by themselves contained seven stages but the combined art gave them access to three more stages for a total of ten. Murong Aiyin had forcibly comprehended the eight stage, Freezing Vortex. It contained much more profound ice energy than the first seven stages and allowed her to easily overpower Fen Jue.
"Master, I noticed something interesting." Zhou Ziyun spoke up.
"Hmm?"
"You mentioned Murong Aiyin was even more crazed and unhinged after she unlocked a part of the dual cultivation text."
"Yeah, I think she had s.e.x with at least two hundred guys. Her elders also became pretty wild…" Chen Wentian wrinkled his nose in disgust as he recalled that scene in the courtyard that he wished he could forget.
Zhou Ziyun had a thoughtful look on her face, "I think their deranged mental states were due to incorrect application of the dual cultivation secret art. There are many places in here that mention how fire and ice should be balanced."
"And here," She pointed to another section, "This implies that the use of multiple partners for both the male and the female can have adverse effects. I think this art is only meant for a dedicated pair of dual cultivators. Both Divine Blazing Mountain and Murong Aiyin were doing it wrong."
"That"s a good catch, excellent!" Chen Wentian praised her. He was impressed by her comprehension ability and her insight. A normal Spirit Initiate Realm cultivator would take months to pick up on these details yet she managed in less than an hour.
"I think if those Glacier Palace disciples were forced to have s.e.x with groups of men, they would have lost their minds as well. Master, you were right to save them." She said and gave him with a sweet smile.
They returned to studying the text and spent the rest of the day discussing and a.n.a.lyzing various aspects of the secret art. The more they studied, the more they realized that it had several problems.
The basic concept of Summer and Winter"s Eternal Sutra was for the woman to cultivate extreme yin and the man to cultivate extreme yang. The two of them would then join together and achieve balance of their energies. The resulting energy that combined ice and fire, yin and yang, was extremely beneficial for improving their spiritual sea.
In terms of dual cultivation, secret art could only be considered ordinary and it came with all the normal problems. The first was that it required a lot of time to achieve extreme yin and extreme yang. Zhou Ziyun didn"t have that kind of time to cultivate Winter"s Snow Dance from scratch. The second problem was that the dual cultivation also took a lot of time. Both parties were expected to gradually expel their ice and fire so that it could join together gently.
The third and largest issue was that unbalanced yin and yang could cause side effects. The text wasn"t clear as to what those side effects were but it probably also had a hand in Murong Aiyin going crazy.
Zhou Ziyun had a disappointed look on her face when they finished. She was admittedly curious about the dual cultivation aspect but it turned out to be impractical. Still, she didn"t want to leave empty handed and she tried out the ice and fire portions with their corresponding martial arts. He helped her out with Summer"s Blazing Sun while she handled Winter"s Snow Dance all by herself. And on the fifth day…
"Meteor Fist!"
Zhou Ziyun"s right fist shot out a red fireball barely the size of an apple. It weakly splashed against Chen Wentian"s spiritual cloak and dissipated. He was still impressed considering she was only working with the tiny bit of yang that naturally existed within women"s bodies.
Without pause, frost energy began to circulate from her hands which formed into a one-meter long blade.
"Ice Sword!"
Zhou Ziyun clutched the ice blade with both hands and charged at him, slas.h.i.+ng several times. On the third strike, the blade was completely melted and the ice vanished from her hand.
She looked up at him with a dazzling smile, her face full of happiness. Chen Wentian pulled her into his embrace and gave her a congratulatory hug.
She had surpa.s.sed all of his expectations and managed to enter the first stages of both Summer"s Blazing Sun and Winter"s Snow Dance in five short days. Her talent in comprehension was simply heaven defying. He didn"t think it was possible but it allowed her to bypa.s.s many requirements of the two elemental arts and directly practice them.
But what happened next stunned him and left him without words. Zhou Ziyun"s spiritual sea had reached the boundary without either of them noticing and it overflowed at that moment.
Boom!
2nd Level of the Spirit Initiate Realm was achieved, just like that!