Chapter 9

Mie Cangqiong's *Chi Gai Si Yang Gong* originates from Fuxi the Great God's *Shang Tian Xia Di Zunzhi Gong*. The *Shang Tian Xia Di Zunzhi Gong* is divided into three volumes: Zunzhi, Disha, and Tiangang. After cultivating to the highest level of Tiangang Qi Jue, one can control the five elements. Unfortunately, Mie Cangqiong's talent is limited, and he only managed to break through to Tiangang Qi Jue by relying on the Nüwa artifact in the imperial tomb. He did not form the Xuan Yin Inner Pearl like Fuxi the Great God, nor did he reach the semi-divine realm. Even the ability of Tiangang Qi Jue to project the soul and control the five elements was difficult to sustain.

To seek further advancement, Mie Cangqiong abandoned the further changes of Tiangang Qi Jue and focused solely on the most destructive of the five elements, fire, creating the *Chi Gai Si Yang Gong*, which has power close to that of a divine level. The *Chi Gai Si Yang Gong* is divided into four levels, with the power increasing at each level. Although it cannot match the various mysteries of the orthodox Tiangang Qi Jue in controlling the five elements, in terms of pure destructive power, it surpasses the Tiangang Qi Jue's five-element techniques.

The first level of *Chi Gai Si Yang Gong*—Fire Essence in the Sky—was created by Mie Cangqiong after comprehending the extreme yang fire, inspired by the image of the sun and the golden crow. Its essence lies in the materialization properties of pure yang qi when condensed to the extreme, compressing the red yang qi, which can burn the sky and boil the sea, into a small qi fireball. This nearly materialized red yang qi ball possesses unparalleled physical and magical destructive power. This move is theoretically flawless and should have no weaknesses. However, since Mie Cangqiong's Tiangang Qi Jue was not cultivated through the proper path, his control over the fire element qi is not perfect. The red yang qi ball, which should be in a stable materialized state, showed a slight instability, which was seized by Dugu Feng to break the unstable qi ball with a Flowing Light Sword, leaving Mie Cangqiong unprepared and suffering a significant loss from Dugu Feng's rapid counterattack.

However, Mie Cangqiong is a world-renowned expert with extensive combat experience. In the first moment of Dugu Feng's counterattack with the silk sword qi, he saw the flaw of high-speed, high-frequency attacks and decisively used the second level of *Chi Gai Si Yang Gong*—Golden Drum Illumination.

If the characteristic of Fire Essence in the Sky is condensation, then the characteristic of Golden Drum Illumination is dispersion. This move was created by Mie Cangqiong after comprehending the essence of yang fire and understanding the principle of yang fire generating light, creating a technique where the more it disperses, the more powerful it becomes.

In the universe, the speed of light is the fastest. Millions of golden fire pillars radiated out instantly, sweeping away the silk sword qi. Where the golden light reached, it repelled all foreign elemental energies, forming a unique fiery golden light field.

Faced with Mie Cangqiong's sudden large-scale clearing move, Dugu Feng drew her sword and pointed it, causing the steam mist around her to suddenly condense into ice crystal cloud swords.

Countless small ice crystals formed long swords that danced under Dugu Feng's sword intent, weaving a rapidly rotating kaleidoscope. The golden light, powerful enough to penetrate metal and erode stone, was refracted and scattered by the ice crystals, creating a rainbow of colors.

Mie Cangqiong couldn't help but feel slightly surprised, not expecting his carefully created two powerful moves to be so skillfully countered. However, from the two rounds of combat, he saw that Dugu Feng's power was a level below his. She relied on her supreme sword skills to counter his two powerful moves. To deal with such a sword expert, he needed to increase his power to an unstoppable level and overwhelm her with absolute force.

"Hey! Little girl, your sword has been destroyed by me. What are you going to do now!" Mie Cangqiong, feeling the humiliation and anger of his injury, shouted and was about to use the third level of *Chi Gai Si Yang Gong*—Ten Thousand Dawn Wheels, to thoroughly destroy this annoying girl with millions of red yang qi balls.

However, just as Mie Cangqiong was halfway through his move, he saw Dugu Feng's actions and his eyes widened, almost falling from the air.

In an instant, dozens of agile long swords suddenly appeared around Dugu Feng.

These long swords, like birds freed from a cage, vibrated and resonated joyfully. Dozens of notes intertwined, rising and falling, composing a brilliant symphony that turned a moment into eternity.

"No more fighting, no more fighting!" Seeing so many Flowing Light Swords ready to strike, Mie Cangqiong let out a strange cry and decisively stopped the fight. There were dozens of Flowing Light Swords, but his Ten Thousand Dawn Wheels were not really ten thousand. Without the confidence to easily use the fourth level, he had no confidence in defeating a top sword expert who could control dozens of swords simultaneously. After all, there was no deep enmity between them, and it wasn't worth risking his life.

Seeing Mie Cangqiong stop, Dugu Feng also breathed a sigh of relief. Challenging an eighth-level expert with seventh-level cultivation was not easy. Seventh-level martial artists can harmonize with heaven and earth, drawing elemental energy into their bodies, and every movement can invoke the power of heaven and earth. However, at the eighth level, martial artists themselves become a vast source of energy, even repelling elemental energy to create the most favorable battlefield for themselves. There is a huge gap between the two. In fact, if it weren't for Dugu Feng inheriting Beiming Xue's innate ability to control all things and developing the technique of controlling swords with her mind, it would have taken much more effort to challenge a higher level.

"Hey! Little girl, can you do magic tricks?" Mie Cangqiong landed on the ground and saw Dugu Feng retract all the long swords into her cycle wristwatch, exclaiming and coming closer. With his keen eyesight, he could see the wings of flies beyond the physical world, but he couldn't see how the floating swords around Dugu Feng suddenly disappeared, which piqued his curiosity.

Dugu Feng looked at the strange old man, who was dark-skinned and gaunt, and smiled, "This magic trick is my exclusive technique, and no one else can learn it."

"There's nothing I can't learn, little girl. Show me the trick again," Mie Cangqiong spun his body like a monkey, jumping and circling around Dugu Feng, urging her to perform the trick again.

Dugu Feng looked at the crazy old man speechlessly. This old man was once the overlord of the world, but to practice Tiangang Qi Jue, he faked his death and went into hiding. Now that he has completed Tiangang Qi Jue, his potential is severely depleted, and his mind is damaged, making him crazy and forgetful. He has forgotten his ambitious goals and even his own identity.

"Hey! Little girl, show me the trick again, and I'll teach you some martial arts," Mie Cangqiong saw that Dugu Feng was ignoring him and immediately thought of a way to entice her: "Your sword skills are good, but your power is too weak. I'll teach you a few moves, and I guarantee your power will increase significantly."

Dugu Feng's heart stirred, thinking of the divine-level martial arts *Shang Tian Xia Di Zunzhi Gong* that the old man possessed, and smiled, "Hey, old man, my standards are high. If what you teach is too poor, I won't be interested."

Mie Cangqiong jumped on one knee and pointed to the center of the imperial tomb, "I know a lot. Most of the secret manuals in there, I've read. What about the Eight Dao Fist Power, the Dark Sky Divine Technique, which one is not better than what you've learned..."

Dugu Feng ignored his pointing and gesturing, walking towards the imperial tomb on her own, saying calmly, "I'm not interested in those. The only thing worth learning from you is the *Shang Tian Xia Di Zunzhi Gong*."

"No! No!" Mie Cangqiong shouted, jumping far away, and shouted, "The *Zunzhi Gong* is my ultimate technique, and I can't teach it casually." He paused, his eyes suddenly shining with a piercing light, and he carefully examined Dugu Feng, nodding as he examined her, "Hmm! The little girl has good potential, a solid foundation, and her potential has not been fully realized. She is barely qualified to be my disciple."

Dugu Feng was waiting for this sentence. She stopped, turned around, and bowed, "Disciple Beiming Xue, pays respects to Master."

"Wow!" Mie Cangqiong shouted, as if startled by Dugu Feng's action, and repeatedly shouted, "Tricked, tricked. I don't take disciples... I don't have any disciples." He shouted and leaped, disappearing after a few jumps.

Dugu Feng watched Mie Cangqiong's retreating back, shook her head slightly, and was not concerned. She was not a rigid person. If she could learn the *Shang Tian Xia Di Zunzhi Gong*, it wouldn't matter if she really became Mie Cangqiong's disciple. If she couldn't learn it, it would just take more time to deduce it herself. This strong confidence and self-assurance allowed her to face the temptation of the *Shang Tian Xia Di Zunzhi Gong* with a detached attitude, neither being constrained by the so-called pride of experts nor feeling disappointed and frustrated if she couldn't achieve her goal.

When Dugu Feng stepped onto the platform of the imperial tomb, she felt her mind become clear, and her thinking speed instantly increased hundreds of times. Her originally calm primordial spirit also became more lively. This change surprised her. She originally thought that the Nüwa energy would not significantly enhance her. However, the Nüwa energy directly acted on the physical body, fully unlocking the potential of the cultivator.

Dugu Feng's mental cultivation is rated as nine stars in the cycle space, which is sufficient to carry the will of a planetary level. If fully utilized, her thinking speed can exceed the speed of light by many times, and any martial arts can be learned and innovated almost instantly.

Unfortunately, mental will is a more ethereal existence than soul and spirit. If compared to a computer, the body is the hardware, energy is the power source, the soul is the software, and the mental will is the algorithm. Without a sufficiently powerful soul to carry it, without sufficient power to drive it, and without a sufficiently powerful body to realize it, a nine-star mental will is just a theoretical design, unable to become reality.

Dugu Feng's current body, spirit, true qi, and physical body are only at the seventh level, allowing her to utilize only a small part of her nine-star realm's power. Even this small part is enough to challenge an eighth-level expert like Mie Cangqiong. Now, under the influence of the Nüwa energy, Dugu Feng's physical body, true qi, and spirit have been significantly enhanced, allowing her mind to operate at a much faster speed, and the speed of deducing and practicing martial arts has increased a hundredfold.