Chapter 171 – Practicing Blood Devil Method
As the contest progressed, Li Qian Xun demonstrated another strong performance, while Blue Dragon exposed a fraction of hidden strength and established himself as one of the strongest contenders.
Moreover, Xuan Yuan Feng, Xuan Ming Yang, Xuan Yuan Wu Ji and Xuan Yuan Yun summoned their beast pets to a.s.sist them. All four of them had Mangalica Pigs.
Although Mangalica pigs are quite ugly in appearance, they can be quite strong.
It appeared that the Wu Ji Sect had found a den of Mangalica Pigs, perhaps that’s why so many of their disciples had them as pets.
All these Pigs were quite strong, and had already reached the ‘transformation’ layer.
With their Beast pets to help them in the contest, they were able to effectively make their fights a two vs one contest, and were able to win their matches with ease.
The faces of the Tian Shui Sect, the City Sect, and the Quinyang Sect were quite sore to see that all the Wu Ji Sect disciples had such powerful Beast pets.
On the other hand, the Rising Sun sect looked quite excited since their ally was stronger than they had antic.i.p.ated, which meant that their common enemies would suffer.
The Ba Gua Sect’s Chen Kang also used to have a Mangalica Pig, and many people were beginning to rea.s.sess the extent of their alliance with the Wu Ji Sect.
Thankfully enough, the Rising Sun Sect hadn’t summoned any Mangalica Pigs yet.
Xuan Yuan Xiao Yu and Wu Ji Xuan hadn’t summoned any Beast Pets yet, but it didn’t necessarily mean that they didn’t have any. Up until now, neither of them had faced anyone strong enough to force them to reveal their true strengths.
Of course, it was possible that they didn’t have a Beast pet, but the probability was quite small.
The Quinyang Sect’s results were a bit of a mix and match on day one.
Bi Fan and Jing Feng had established a two game winning streak, while Mo Nan had lost one and won one, whereas Ji Ying Lan was forced to concede both his fights.
In addition to this, the Wu Ji Sect had displayed some very eye-catching performances. Xuan Yuan Xiao Yu’s ‘Fiend Fright Burst’ especially, had given rise to a very heated debate.
As for the others, w.a.n.g Feng, Hong Yun Tian, Jiang Wen, Li Qian Xun, and Blue Dragon had also given good performances, and had won both their fights.
Even though the contest was over for the day, Bi Fan was still reluctant to leave.
Today, Bi Fan had learnt a lot more than he had in the previous days, and felt that these new skills that he had witnessed were going to prove very useful in his research.
In addition to this, Bi Fan had also learnt that the disciples of the Buddhist way could learn and practice the Devil’s laws as well.
Since Xuan Yuan Xiao Yu was practicing ‘the Fiend Fright Burst’, Bi Fan could also practice ‘The Blood Devil’ method.
As long as the ‘Blood Devil’ method’s practice didn’t overtake his body’s pure energy, there wouldn’t be an issue.
A reserve of evil energy could prove out to be very useful at a critical time, and might even save his life.
As they walked back, Bi Fan was humming in excitement.
“Brother Bi Fan, why are you so happy? You’re practically going lelele…” Jing Feng asked.
“Nothing, I’m thinking that tomorrow’s contest will be even better.” Of course, Bi Fan couldn’t speak his mind freely in front of everyone.
“What was so wonderful about today?” Ji Ying Lan wasn’t very happy with the tournament so far. His strength was at the bottom of the list, and he was suffering for it.
If he encounters a strong enemy, then he would have to concede the fight for the fear of getting injured. If he runs into someone of equivalent strength, then he’d have to worry about conserving his energy for the next round.
Ji Ying Lan’s generally merry face would turn gloomy every time he had to walk to the contest stage.
Jing Feng and Bi Fan hadn’t been able to comfort him so far, but Bi Fan gave it another try anyway: “Brother Ji Ying Lan, you like to study martial arts right? You can use this opportunity to observe some more advanced skills of the different sects, and maybe that will help you with your own research of the ‘Fufeng Double Edged Sword’….”
“Yes, ah, I could learn a lot of new thing here… why didn’t I think about that?” Ji Ying Lan’s eyes suddenly lit up.
Ling Xin Ya stated: “Not only Ji Ying Lan, all of you must watch the contests very carefully, and pay special attention to details since it would help you in your future. This is the reason we brought so many extra people to the Jiu Yu City this time…”
Once they returned to their hotel, Bi Fan hastily finished his meal and sprang back to his room.
As always, he quickly replayed the entire memories of the day to create a deeper impression.
Subsequently, once he had restored his energy, he started practicing the ‘Blood Devil’ law.
If the ‘Blood Devil’ law is used to increase the internal energy, then with time the body would eventually acc.u.mulate a large amount of evil energy.
Bi Fan understood the value of this evil energy, especially since he had seen its power and effect now.
In fact, since Bi Fan had already learnt and practiced the ‘Blood Devil’ method earlier, he didn’t need to study it again since it was already imprinted onto his mind.
But practicing the Devil’s laws can be very risky, especially while raising internal energy, and upon even the slightest mistake, the pract.i.tioner’s body might end up getting possessed.
However Bi Fan didn’t hesitate for even one moment and immediately started his practice. He had made up his mind, and once he does that, he doesn’t alter it.
Since he had some time now, Bi Fan had decided to start with the practice of inner energy first, and then he even wished to practice some of the martial skill of the ‘Blood Devil’ law, post which he’d practice some methods for promotion of physical strength.
Since this practice was very risky, Bi Fan was proceeding very carefully.
He started his practice slowly, and began absorbing the Aura of the outside world, which upon entering his body started converting into evil energy.
Once this evil energy entered into his Dan Tian (Pubic region, Qi), his internal energy immediately started resisting it, and it appeared as if the two energies were revolting from blending together.
Bi Fan got a bit worried, and halted his practice temporarily since he was afraid that his body might get possessed, and started inspecting the situation very carefully.
The evil energy wasn’t being supported by his body, and his Dan Tian was constantly repelling.
He tried to push it down again, when suddenly the Yin Yang Lotus issued the black silk threads and swallowed the entire negative energy.
“The Black Silk threads acted up again, it seems that the evil spirits and evil energy are its favorites, ah.” Bi Fan was quite surprised.
Bi Fan thought for a second, and figured that since he his body isn’t willing to accept this negative energy, then maybe he give it directly to the Yin Yang Lotus. This negative energy would certainly be of some use to the Lotus, which might give some very unexpected and helpful a.s.sistance in the future.
The Yin Yang Lotus had been very helpful to Bi Fan in the past, so naturally Bi Fan was confident that it will stay the same way in the future as well.
Out of the all treasures that Bi Fan possessed, the Yin Yang Lotus was the most precious one, but also the most mysterious one.
Since the idea had crossed his mind, Bi Fan decided to verify it, and continued to practice the ‘Blood Devil’ method.
He half expected the idea to crash out, but it didn’t.
The outside Aura quickly converted to negative energy under the influence of the ‘Blood Devil’ law, and Bi Fan was comfortably able to circulate it around his body.
Bi Fan was overjoyed at first, but calmed down soon enough. He pushed the energy to his Dan Tian and towards the Yin Yang Lotus.
Once the evil energy reached close to the Yin Yang Lotus, the black petals started acting up again, and issued the threads, which immediately absorbed their food. After the black threads had absorbed the evil energy, the black lotus seeds grew bigger.
Bi Fan’s idea had worked, so he was obviously quite happy.
“I don’t know why, but since the Yin Yang Lotus seems to be benefiting from the evil energy, I must help it out in my free time.” Bi Fan had made his decision.
The ‘free burst’ was a continual practice, but didn’t require dedicated practice time, whereas the ‘Fire and Ice burst’ method only needed a finite time every day, and its excessive practice wasn’t very fruitful.
Practicing ‘Blood Devil’ laws would be a good use of free time since it would help in the growth of the Yin Yang Lotus’s seeds.
Bi Fan had tried several techniques to achieve this result in the past, but had always failed.
He figured that since the black petals absorb the negative energy, then the white petals might be interested in absorbing the positive energy.
Since the idea had crossed his mind, Bi Fan started using the ‘Fire and Ice burst’ law to absorb the positive energy in his surroundings, and circulated it towards his Dan Tian and sent it straight towards the White petals of the Lotus.
Once the positive energy reached close to the Lotus, the white petals gave rise to White strands, which quickly absorbed the entire positive energy. Bi Fan carefully observed the Lotus, and realized that the Lotus had sprouted small white seeds now.
Bi Fan was very excited by his findings, and decided that he would invest his free time in feeding energy to the Yin Yang Lotus, since the quicker he was able to help the Lotus mature, the sooner he’d be able to benefit from its new and improved capabilities.