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Dual Cultivation God Returns – Chapter 54: How Disappointing

Chapter 54: How Disappointing

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nHe sat in the lotus position and started running Chaos Refining Body Tempering Art, the sole reason he was able to pull off using more of Sword Intent. The resilience and damage resistance this cultivation method brought to his body was able to partially withstand the damage. It was also the reason his external wounds made by enemies in this fight did not worry him whatsoever.

nThe Sword Qi of his opponents lodged in the wounds quickly melted under this tyrannical technique that refined any energy possible to temper him, and his external wounds turned into burning furnaces, where the mechanical impact energy that caused the wound was retroactively extracted and used to temper his body. His wounds started heating up from these energies as they went like streams of lava toward his Dantian. It was as if he was turning time and taking out the cause of the wound, so the wound started closing by itself since there was nothing that caused it. It was a technique that defied some of the laws governing this universe and was extremely powerful, to put it very mildly.

nAny grand technique that had the word ‘Chaos’ in it is something that defies logic and the power they hold could not be described with words. So far Wu Long is using two such techniques in this life, the Chaos Refining Body Tempering Art and the Chaos Origin Eyes which were two too many for someone of his humble origins to have.

nThough it had its limitations, Chaos Refining Body Tempering Art could use any energy and refine it, and it could also use this energy to convert it into matter. Thus any damage Wu Long received, as long as he did not die, will eventually turn into a part of his strength.

nNormally, having such heaven-defying techniques would make Wu Long immediately share them with his loved ones, but there was a catch, and that was that the more powerful a technique was, the more it relied on one’s comprehension. Chaos Refining Body Tempering Art was something the descendants of the Great Rakhshasa Clan had but only a tiny portion could actually comprehend and use. All of his most powerful techniques required thousands of years each to learn and comprehend. Thus it was not that he did not want to share his techniques with for example Ye Ling, but it was that he had to go in an ascending order of difficulty, so he was still deliberating what techniques would be best for her in progression. What he gave out to others was basically trivial to him, and not really that precious.

nHe refined his injuries into tempering his body and then turned to the more severe internal damage which he caused himself.

nThis was one of those limitations of the Chaos Refining Body Tempering Art, that it was refining any outside energy for use and went one way inward from the outside, so it could not refine energy the host of the technique was producing, thus the damage done by energy generated by him was not something he could refine.

nHe took some more medicines and meditated, using healing techniques to mitigate some of the more pressing damage. He also used the golden and silver needles he had and made a moderate recovery that was not complete, but he had to sleep in order for him to be able to operate somewhat normally tomorrow. He recovered enough that there would be no lasting effect, and also to be able to fight in case of emergencies, but he still had some damage left over that he had to slowly heal over time.

nHe was a little unnerved by his experience this night as his sense of danger has gone up. It was one thing dealing with someone in higher realms in this backwater place, it was another entirely if they had the foundation of the powers from the Seven Boundless Worlds. ov𝚕.co𝚖

nThough he really could not predict anything, only generally be prepared, and he was already moving at an astronomical pace through his cultivation given his base talent, as normally someone like him would stop somewhere in the Qi Condensation Realm at best, never having the ability to go higher in realm. And he was far ahead of himself in his past life.

nHe could not make any big progress in the meantime since he made a lot of fast progress with Sui Luxiao, Ye Ling, and Bi Rui over the course of a very short time. If he tried to go any higher in his cultivation at the moment he could shake his foundation.

nThus he had to expand his power horizontally, meaning become stronger while staying in the same realm. He thought of another auxiliary cultivation technique he could use at the moment. Since he would cultivate with Ye Ling and hopefully Sui Luxiao anyway, the energy he could not use for a cultivation base could be used for a method of increasing power without advancing.

nThis cultivation technique was quite straightforwardly named Spiritual Qi War Technique. It was quite a powerful technique that was focused on strengthening the Spiritual Qi of the cultivator. It could increase the capacity one had of Spiritual Qi in their Dantian and the density of their Spiritual Qi regardless of the cultivation base. It would also qualitatively improve the Spiritual Qi recovery rates.

nThis technique was very powerful and quite widely used since it was dealing with the fundamentals of a cultivator. The catch was that everyone’s degree of improvement with this technique was different, and it depended on comprehension, as it seemed like the technique was very simple and straightforward, only to become more profound and mysterious as one further cultivated it, with many people not being able to advance further than the 2nd or 3rd layer of the 108 layers of this technique. In his past life, he was able to advance through 73 layers and was still progressing, albeit slowly.

nOne of the other reasons Wu Long opted to finish the fight as quickly as possible before besides the possibility of them running away as he gained advantage was that his reserves of Spiritual Qi were dismal in comparison to them. It was only because he gained an early advantage by hurting them that he made them hurry to deal with him, otherwise, they could opt to tire him out and wait for his Spiritual Qi to run dry.

nOnce he decided to move forward with Spiritual Qi War Technique, he went to sleep, taking a few mild medicines that would help him recover while he was asleep.

nWhen he woke up he was sore all over, he knew that he had some sour days ahead as he could not solely focus on recuperating by just cultivating day in and out, as he had his mortal needs to take care of, as well as beauties to attend to.

n*Trrrrr…. BAM!* “Wu Long!”

nThe sliding wooden door to his room suddenly and violently opened up with a familiar and worried voice sounding out at the same time.

nOf course, Wu Long was not surprised since he anticipated it and also could hear Ye Ling approaching his room at a hurried pace.

n“Ling’er, it’s ok”

nHe smiled at her, trying to calm the worry in her eyes.

n“But… but I heard you returned bloodied and injured yesterday…”

n“No worries, there were a few obstacles I had to overcome, but I am mostly okay now, see?”

nHe comforted her while giving her a light embrace. She still looked at him with slightly worried eyes but if he said he was fine she trusted him. She was not one to nag at him anyway or inquire about his matters if he did not mention them. She was just genuinely worried and once she actually saw him, she gradually calmed down.

nOnce he calmed her down he went out to the Peacock Feather Trading Company, as he was ‘pardoned’ from lessons today by both Ye Ling and Hua Ziyan in light of his injuries. Although he said it was okay since they decided to skip the lessons he did not push them.

nSui Luxiao met him with a bright smile on her face that was brimming with life and energy. Something she did not have for who knows how long.

nAs he sat in her office and they chatted, her husband as well as all of her three sons arrived at her office some hours later as they were told there would be a meeting today. The youngest son was brought out of his house arrest for this one day since this was an important occasion for the family, or as Wu Long and Sui Luxiao understood, for the discontinuation of the family.

n“What is he doing here?”

nSui Feng immediately noticed Wu Long’s presence in the office as he was quietly sipping tea on the sofa as if this meeting was not concerning him.

n“You do not have to concern yourself with him, the issue is different here”, Sui Luxiao said in a strict tone which immediately turned Sui Feng timid.

n“I am going to divorce you”, she said quite straightforwardly while looking at her husband, whose eyes flew wide open, gawking at her. His jaw dropped, as were his sons’ jaws beside him. He was speechless for a few moments before his face became distorted.

n“Y-you what?!?! I dare you to say it again!!!” he shouted.

n“I am going to divorce you”

n“Y-You…”

nShe said her phrase in the same manner of voice and tone, making it identical in every single way and in the slightest detail to the last one. His words caught in his throat as he was too angry and flabbergasted.

n“Yes, me”

nShe replied, implying that he was not wrong in his choice of words, it was indeed her divorcing him.

n“…”

nThis time he just stared at her with anger and frustration. Veins popping on his forehead.

n“I knew it! You were cheating on father with this slimy basta-…”

n*Pow!*

nBefore the oldest of the brothers could end his sentence the palm of his mother flew through the air and hit him in the cheek sending him flying backward in a graceful arc, prompting the hereto tranquil Wu Long to send a fascinated look in their direction. There was a light of amusement, curiosity, and even some awe.

nAs the oldest of the brothers landed on the floor, Wu Long suddenly stood up, prompting everyone in the room to look up at him as his motion was a very sudden and excited one, quite different from his usual calm demeanor.

n‘Is it really…?’

nThere was a look of fascination on his face as he went their way and came in front of the second of the brothers.

n“Wh…What? Why are you looking at me this wa-…”

n*Pow!*

nThe middle brother was sent flying through the air, but he just fell down miserably and rolled away. As he landed and looked up while holding the cheek that was slapped by Wu Long in shock, anger and confusion he saw a look of severe disappointment on his face.

n“How disappointing…”, Wu Long said somewhat dejected, and went back to sit where he was before with now a melancholic look on his face, leaving the whole room, including Sui Luxiao to look at him in utter dumbfounded silence.

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n***Note: Here is a part of the chapter I cut out since it seems too theoretical, and I am not sure how helpful it would be yet, in any case, I could introduce it later again if it is necessary for the story. It is actually a widely used concept and part of the Chinese Creation Myths, though a bit deliberated on by cultivation novels over the years and some ideas thrown into the mix. Anyway, regular cultivation novel readers should probably recognize it:

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nOne of the widely known but rarely actually understood, even partially, concepts of the cultivation world of Seven Boundless Worlds was the “Unity, Duality, Trinity and Creation”.

nThe Grand Dao gave birth to Unity, which gave birth to Duality, which gave birth to Trinity, which gave birth to Creation. The Unity refers to Chaos, the Duality refers to Yin and Yang, the Trinity refers to Energy, Matter, and Soul, and finally, the Creation refers to the Universe.

nThus all of the creation bears the mark of the trinity, and the trinity bears the mark of duality, while duality bears the mark of the unity.

nSo everything in existence has energy, matter, and soul.

nAnd every energy, every matter, and every soul has Yin and Yang (as there is a Yin fire and Yang fire, Yin Spiritual Qi and Yang Spiritual Qi, the flexible metal of Yin, and the hard metal of Yang, etc).

nAnd Yin and Yang both have chaos (as there is Yang in the Yin and Yin in the Yang).

nChaos Refining Body Tempering Art, in truth, was dealing mainly with two of the trinity born from duality: Energy and Matter. But the degree to which it interacted with the concept of Chaos was already worthy of it being a Godly technique that warranted the name ‘Chaos’ in it.

nThough there were many techniques that bore the names of Yin and Yang which were of higher order than Energy, Matter, and Soul, they rarely were actually close to the real Duality and merely dealt with an Energy or Matter that was of Yin and Yang attribute.

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Chapter 1: A Gift
Chapter 2: Broken Sword
Chapter 3: Beauty With a Sword
Chapter 4: Doubts
Chapter 5: Mission Hall
Chapter 6: The Yin Yang Unity Palace
Chapter 7: Fractured World
Chapter 8: The Way of the Sword
Chapter 9: Yin Yang Conversion Cauldron Body
Chapter 10: In the rain
Chapter 11: Prime Disciple
Chapter 12: Nine Mistakes
Chapter 13: Lust Cultivation
Chapter 14: Aftermath
Chapter 15: Certainty
Chapter 16: Yin Yang Unity Palace Master
Chapter 17: Unexpected carriage companion
Chapter 18: Shopping and Fighting
Chapter 19: They blocked my path
Chapter 20: You Chose Wrong
Chapter 21: A Garden of Flowers
Chapter 22: The Art of Invisibility
Chapter 23: She Was Before Him Again
Chapter 24: Two Love Birds
Chapter 25: A Tragic Love Story
Chapter 26: Arriving in Imperial City
Chapter 27: Cooperation
Chapter 28: What Perfection
Chapter 29: Sui Luxiao
Chapter 30: The Map
Chapter 31: This Could be Fun
Chapter 32: Qi Gathering Realm
Chapter 33: (R18) Fire Flickering in the Eyes
Chapter 34: Qi Manipulation Ring
Chapter 35: Amithaba
Chapter 36: Mortal Shackles
Chapter 37: (R18) Warm embrace
Chapter 38: I Trust You
Chapter 39: Confession
Chapter 40: (R18) Continuous Pleasure
Chapter 41: Delusions and Ambitions
Chapter 42: Bahshi Assassination Group
Chapter 43: (R18) Fingers to Heaven
Chapter 44: Alive again
Chapter 45: Weapon Mastery, The Sword is Reforged
Chapter 46: I Want To Hold You Tonight
Chapter 47: (R18) A Night of Passion
Chapter 48: The New Day
Chapter 49: Consideration
Chapter 50: (R18) Returning the Favor
Chapter 51: Making an Act a Reality
Chapter 52: (R18) Clap to the Spear
Chapter 53: A Dangerous Move
Chapter 54: How Disappointing
Chapter 55: You Have Misunderstood
Chapter 56: (R18) Feeling His Touch Again
Chapter 57: Sharks’ve Sensed the Smell of Blood
Chapter 58: Generous People
Chapter 59: The Real Dual Cultivation
Chapter 60: (R18) Riding into the Night
Chapter 61: Infinite Union
Chapter 62: Wood Spirit Continent
Chapter 63: The Crown Prince
Chapter 64: Reward
Chapter 65: (R18) Adding More Options
Chapter 66: Heaven Transcending Lotus
Chapter 67: You lose some, you gain some
Chapter 68: A peaceful evening after the banquet
Chapter 69: (R18) Yin Yang Pleasure
Chapter 70: Motivation
Chapter 71: Leaving the Imperial Capital
Chapter 72 First Snow
Chapter 73 [Bonus chapter] Her Determination
Chapter 74 (R18) Deep
Chapter 75 Schemes and Conspiracies
Chapter 76 Stingy People
Chapter 77 (R18) Passionate Echo
Chapter 78 Setting Out
Chapter 79 Extreme Yin Spiritual Root Body
Chapter 80 Two Beauties
Chapter 81 Dao Cultivation
Chapter 82 Challenge
Chapter 83 (R18) Bite in response
Chapter 84 (R18) It’s fine...Continue
Chapter 85 (R18) In his embrace
Chapter 86 It has been a while
Chapter 87 Rematch
Chapter 88 (R18) Triumphant smile
Chapter 89 (R18) I will be gentle
Chapter 90 Which way is correct?
Chapter 91 Courting Death
Chapter 92 The Way of the Spear
Chapter 93 Night Raid
Chapter 94 [Bonus chapter] Prime Demon Hong Ye
Chapter 95 Feelings and ambitions
Chapter 96 (R18) Phoenix Spreding its Wings
Chapter 97 (R18) Locked eyes
Chapter 98 Sharing the Dao
Chapter 99 Bittersweet Winter Night
Chapter 100 Mortal Again
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