Chapter 167: Nine Revolutions of the Mysterious Elixir, Second Watch, Seeking Flowers

  Yang Feng heard Chi Zheng say that he must gather the nine tripods of Yu Wang in order to truly grasp the fate of Huaxia, but for now, neither he nor Chi Zheng have any leads on the nine tripods, so they can't rush it and can only search slowly.

  Zhēng also knew that finding the nine tripod cauldrons of Yu Wang was not something that could be rushed, he had been searching since the Qin Dynasty but still hadn't found any clues, this meant that the nine tripod cauldrons of Yu Wang were not yet ready to appear, when the time came for them to appear they would naturally emerge, as long as people searched with a sincere heart.

  Chī Zhèng looked at Yáng Fēng, who was still deep in thought, and said to him, "Alright, we can look for the Jiǔ Dǐng later. I have something else to talk to you about now. Come with me." After saying that, Chī Zhèng walked towards the direction of a place with four huge stone gates.

  Yang Feng followed along after hearing Chi Zheng's words, and they walked towards the four massive stone gates opposite them. One of the gates had records of Gu sorcery inside, which Yang Feng had already learned everything about. As for the other three stone gates, Chi Zheng had once said that they couldn't be opened, but now Yang Feng didn't know what Chi Zheng was going to do with him there.

  Chi Zheng walked up to the stone gate with the character "Wu" written on it, stopped and turned around to say to Yang Feng, "I once told you that this underground cave was established by my father Chi You himself. The things inside the Gu Men you have already learned completely. Now I will tell you what is behind these three stone gates."

  "This shrine contains the statues of our twelve ancestral witches and the fundamental skills of our witch tribe, the Nine Turns of the Mysterious Skill. The armory stores various weapons forged by my father Chi You back in the day. As for that martial arts hall, it's actually a desolate ancient space; back then, Father caught many ferocious beasts in the desolate ancient land and put them inside that space, which is used for our witch tribe's young men to cultivate within."

  Chī Zhèng was explaining to Yáng Fēng what was inside the other three stone gates, which made Yáng Fēng feel even more puzzled. He could somewhat understand the things in the Wǔ Mén and Qì Mén, but what were these Twelve Ancestor Shamans all about?! Were they the ancestors of the Shāmàn tribe?! Just as Yáng Fēng was wondering, Chī Zhèng happened to explain it to him.

  Chi You was not the ancestor of the Wu tribe, the ancestors of the Wu tribe were twelve, they were called Zu Wu, and Chi You was just a great witch who rose after the fall of the twelve Zu Wu, he established the Jiuli Wu tribe, making the Wu tribe prosperous for a time!

  The origin of the Twelve Ancestors' Witch is even more remarkable. Yang Feng listened to Chi Zheng telling him about the origin of the Twelve Ancestors' Witch, and he was completely enchanted, never expecting that the witch tribe would have such an extraordinary origin!

  It is said that the heaven and earth were originally a chaotic whole, with nothing existing. Later, this chaos gave birth to a person called Pangu. He used a giant axe to split open the chaos, forming the heaven and earth. After Pangu opened up the heaven and earth, he died of exhaustion. However, his body transformed into all things after death. His left eye became the sun, his right eye became the moon, his hair became the stars in the sky, his body became mountains and plains, and his blood became rivers, lakes, and seas.

  Pangu's primordial spirit split into three and transformed into the Three Pure Ones, the founders of Taoism. Pangu's essence blood split into twelve and transformed into the Twelve Ancestral Shamans. These twelve ancestral shamans were born with great spiritual powers because they were transformed from Pangu's essence blood. Their bodies were incredibly strong and resilient, and no damage could be inflicted upon them by any pre-heavenly spirit treasure. Even the Heavenly Saint was powerless against their robust bodies. Moreover, the ancestral shamans were naturally able to control the winds, waters, thunder, and lightning, and possessed the power to swallow the heavens and earth, move mountains, fill oceans, and change the course of nature.

  The twelve ancestor witches occupied the entire Honghuang continent transformed from Pangu's body, ruling all living beings on the Honghuang continent and becoming the overlord of the Honghuang continent. At the same time, two demon emperors were born from the sun transformed from Pangu's left eye, leading the demons that later appeared on the Honghuang continent to establish the heavenly court in the sky and rule the entire Honghuang world's sky.

  Originally, the Witch Clan ruled the mainland and the Demon Clan ruled the sky, with neither side bothering each other. However, two Demon Emperors of the Demon Clan were dissatisfied and wanted to seize control of the Honghuang Continent from the Witch Clan, leading to the Great War between Witches and Demons on the Honghuang Continent. At that time, among the Twelve Ancestral Witches, except for Houtu who transformed into the Six Paths Reincarnation and did not fall, the other eleven Ancestral Witches perished together with the two Demon Emperors.

  After that, the Heaven changed its master in the Desolate World. It was no longer ruled by the Demon Clan, and the Desolate Continent was no longer a stage for the Witch Clan alone. The Human Clan slowly rose to power and gradually became even more prosperous than the Witch Clan, gradually becoming the new overlord of the Desolate Continent. At this time, a Chi You appeared in the Witch Clan, who established the Jiuli Tribe of the Witch Clan and began to contend with the Yellow Emperor Xuan Yuan of the Human Clan for the position of overlord of the Desolate Continent.

  It was precisely because of that great war that the human tribe, with the help of the heavenly gods, ultimately defeated Chi You and became the overlord of the vast wilderness continent. The witch tribe retreated from the stage of the world. However, due to the War of the Gods, the world of the vast wilderness shattered, and the continent broke into countless fragments. The earth is one of these fragments, and hidden within it is the witch tribe that disappeared from the stage of the vast wilderness, led by Chi Zheng, who is also known as the Xijiang Miao people!

  Yang Feng listened to Chi Zheng's account of the history of the Wu tribe and felt a surge of hot blood, never expecting that the Wu tribe was so powerful in the ancient era of Honghuang, actually being the overlord of the entire Honghuang world. The strength of the twelve ancestral witches also made Yang Feng deeply envious, hoping that one day he could have their kind of power!

  "After telling Yang Feng the history of the Wu tribe, he said to Yang Feng again, 'I told you all this just to make you understand our Wu tribe's history, but these are not the key points. The key point is that today I will pass on to you the fundamental and only technique of our Wu tribe - the Nine Turns Xuan Gong!'"

  Yang Feng was overjoyed when he heard Chi Zheng's words, he never thought that Chi Zheng would say so many things to him and finally talk about passing on the Wu tribe's kung fu. This was the kung fu practiced by the twelve ancestors of the Wu tribe, if I could master this kung fu, wouldn't I also have the powerful strength of the ancestors? Yang Feng fell into his own fantasy.

  "Originally, because you have the blood of the human tribe, I didn't want to pass on this technique to you. However, just now I discovered that the blood of our witch tribe in your body has become extremely pure and strong, while the blood of the human tribe has become negligible. That's why I've decided to pass on the Nine Turns Mysterious Technique to you."

  Yang Feng heard Chi Zheng say this and was a bit stunned, his own Wu tribe's bloodline had become pure and powerful?! When did that happen?! Was it when he absorbed the blood pool of Beta and the others last time?! Yang Feng wasn't quite sure if that was true or not, but it didn't matter, as long as Chi Zheng was willing to teach him the Nine Turns Mysterious Skill.

  "This Nine Turns Profound Art is a cultivation technique that specializes in refining the body, and it's said to have existed within the minds of the Twelve Ancestors since the time of Pangu's creation. It should be the cultivation technique of the Great God Pangu himself. However, the Nine Turns Profound Art is extremely difficult to cultivate, and even the Twelve Ancestors, who possessed Pangu's essence blood, only managed to cultivate it up to the sixth turn. And yet, having cultivated it to the sixth turn was enough for the Twelve Ancestors to roam freely in the Desolate World. If not for the two Demon Emperors of the demon tribe possessing Innate Spiritual Treasures at that time, the Twelve Ancestors would never have fallen!" Chi Zheng said to Yang Feng.

  Yang Feng heard the Nine Turns of the Xuan Gong and was instantly very excited, but when he heard that the Nine Turns of the Xuan Gong were so difficult to practice, he was shocked. He didn't expect that even with the Pan Gu's refined blood, the twelve ancestral witches had only cultivated up to the sixth turn. When would he be able to possess the same power as the twelve ancestral witches?!

  "How many turns of the Nine Revolutions of the Mysterious Tao has Chi You cultivated to?! And you, how many turns have you cultivated?!" Yang Feng asked Chi Zheng.

  "Father Chi You Tian Zong has a rare talent, and he has cultivated the Nine Turns of the Mysterious Skill to the fifth turn. He is only one turn away from obtaining the body of the Ancestor Witch! I have been cultivating for thousands of years, but I have only reached the fourth turn." Chi Zheng said to Yang Feng.

  Originally, the Nine Turns of the Mysterious Merit were not considered a secret technique among the ancient Wu tribe. Almost every member of the Wu tribe possessed this technique, but very few could cultivate it to a high level. Except for the Twelve Ancestors of the Wu tribe who cultivated it to the sixth turn, no one else in the tribe was able to reach that level. Before Chi You, there were many talented individuals among the Wu tribe, such as Xing Tian, Kuafu, and Houqi, who had all cultivated the Nine Turns of the Mysterious Merit to the fifth turn. However, these people either fell during the Great War between the Wu and the Yao or disappeared without a trace. As a result, after the Twelve Ancestors of the Wu tribe fell, the Wu tribe declined until Chi You once again cultivated the Nine Turns of the Mysterious Merit to the fifth turn, bringing the Wu tribe back to its former glory for a time.

  Only twelve ancestral witches can cultivate the sixth turn of the Nine Turns Xuan Gong, because they are transformed from Pangu's essence and blood. Although their descendants, the witch tribe, also have Pangu's essence and blood in their bodies, it has become increasingly diluted over time, making it extremely difficult to cultivate the Nine Turns Xuan Gong. The purer the Pangu essence and blood, the faster one can cultivate the Nine Turns Xuan Gong!

  The Nine Turns of the Mysterious Merit is almost a combat merit method, it is specialized in cultivating the body, but the first condition for cultivating the Nine Turns of the Mysterious Merit is that your body is strong enough to withstand the transformation of the Nine Turns of the Mysterious Merit. Secondly, the cultivation of the Nine Turns of the Mysterious Merit also requires a huge amount of spiritual energy. These two points are indispensable, and only when both are reached at the same time can one cultivate the Nine Turns of the Mysterious Merit.

  However, if one were to cultivate the Nine Turns of the Profound Mysteries to its completion, they would possess a powerful body and no longer fear attacks from magical artifacts. As the realm of the Nine Turns of the Profound Mysteries is elevated, it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to use magical artifacts to harm those who have cultivated this technique. For example, the Twelve Ancestors of Witchcraft only cultivated the sixth turn of the Nine Turns of the Profound Mysteries, yet even the Primordial Spirit Treasure could not cause any harm to their bodies. If someone were able to cultivate to the ninth turn, it is unknown what could possibly harm a person who has reached that realm!

  Yang Feng, although listening to this Nine Turns Profound Art being extremely difficult to cultivate, still did not retreat in the slightest and decided to cultivate this Nine Turns Profound Art. This was because Yang Feng liked that kind of close-quarters combat fighting style, whereas in the Cultivation Realm, those people were all using flying swords or jade talismans to attack. This made Yang Feng feel very displeased. If he could ignore those cultivators' flying sword or jade talisman treasure attacks, then Yang Feng would be able to thoroughly deal with them!

  It was with this intention that Yang Feng made up his mind to master the Nine Turns of the Mysterious Skill, and when he met Li Yi and others again in the future, he would be able to avenge the grudge of that day!