Chapter 320 Dual Enlightenment
Zhou Wen observed carefully and found that these dragon-patterned snakes were just acting on instinct, which was very different from the posture he learned from dragons. But for some reason, Zhou Wen felt that there was some similarity.
While killing the dragon-patterned snake approaching Jiang Yan, Zhou Wen was thinking about the reason. He thought for a long time, and suddenly his eyes lit up, as if he understood something.
"A snake cultivates for a thousand years to overcome tribulation and becomes a dragon. A dragon cultivates for another thousand years to overcome tribulation and becomes a dragon. The Dragon Transformation Technique is the process of a snake transforming into a dragon. After transforming into a dragon, it is not yet a dragon. Naturally, it still retains the nature of snakes. I used the Dragon Transformation Technique to forcibly imitate the posture of a real dragon, and naturally I felt that I failed to draw a dragon and ended up drawing a snake. I always felt that there was something missing in the body skills I understood, and it turns out that the problem lies here." Zhou Wen suddenly understood the problem with his body skills.
Now that we know the problem, we can start to solve it, unlike before when we had no idea where to start.
"If you want to truly shed the influence of your snake nature and become a true dragon, you can only start from the basics, allowing the Dragon Transformation Art to shed its mortal form and truly reach the realm where you can transform into a dragon." While fighting with the snake, Zhou Wen used the Dragon Transformation Art and constantly comprehended the true meaning of the Dragon Transformation Art.
There are two ways to improve the rank of Qi skills. One is to use Qi skill crystals to improve. As long as the rank of the Qi skill crystals themselves is high enough, refining and absorbing them can directly improve the rank, up to the ninth level.
Another method is to increase one's rank through increasing familiarity and understanding of Qi skills, reaching a maximum of rank 10. This method is very slow and difficult to advance. Aside from a few exceptionally gifted individuals like Lan Shi, who can easily grasp the true meaning of Qi skills and raise them to rank 10, most people require a considerable amount of time to study and comprehend, and this is much slower than using Qi skill crystals.
The Dragon Transformation Art is too difficult to be revealed. It is unknown how long it will take to reveal the ninth level of the Dragon Transformation Art. Zhou Wen does not have time to wait. What he needs is not just the ninth level, but the extraordinary tenth level. Only in this way can he match the posture of a true dragon and truly be able to use the posture of a true dragon.
While observing the movements, forms, and habits of the dragon-patterned snakes, Zhou Wen recalled the postures of the nine black dragons, compared them, and gradually understood the differences between snakes and dragons.
Zhou Wen gradually discovered that the movements and habits of dragons and snakes do have many similarities. No wonder snakes are called little dragons in the East District. However, even though they are so similar, when people see a dragon, they will never mistake it for a snake. In addition to the difference in shape, the most important thing is that the charm between the two is completely different.
Zhou Wen constantly felt the difference in spirit between the snake and the dragon. It was a feeling that could not be expressed in words, and was difficult to describe in writing. It could only be felt with the heart.
As Zhou Wen gained more insights, his body movements did not change much, except for some subtle differences. However, his every move was more spiritual.
Jiang Yan was concentrating on reading the inscription, frowning slightly from time to time, as if there was something difficult to understand, and sometimes he looked like he had suddenly understood something, as if he was very happy.
But not long after, Jiang Yan's brows became tighter and tighter, and did not relax for a long time.
As Jiang Yan read the inscription, he muttered to himself, "The Twenty-Five Paintings of Longmen are a representative work of Northern Wei calligraphy, a typical Wei stele style. The brushstrokes are sharp, with the tip of the brush exposed. Before a horizontal stroke, the vertical stroke is followed, and vice versa. It's square and sharp, like a knife's edge, yet not as square as regular script. The Wei stele style inherits the Han official script from the Han official script and the Tang regular script from the Tang official script. Its spirit is the most difficult to grasp. If it's too thick, it becomes regular script; too thin, it becomes official script. Trying to gain enlightenment from the Twenty-Five Paintings of Longmen and transform it into a technique is simply too difficult. If the spirit is off by even a fraction, it loses its flavor."
Jiang Yan pondered over it, but still couldn't grasp its charm accurately.
Feeling a little restless in his heart, Jiang Yan knew that he couldn't go on. Otherwise, if he read the text with a restless mentality, even if he gained some insights, he would not be able to reach the purest state.
Jiang Yan retracted his gaze and planned to rest for a while, waiting for his mind to calm down completely before looking at the inscription again. If he couldn't calm down, it would be okay to come back another day.
He turned around, sat down on the stone next to him, took out the small teapot and teacups he had brought with him, and even a small copper charcoal stove.
He lit the charcoal stove, heated water, and made two cups of tea. Just as he was about to call Zhou Wen over to drink with him, his eyes fell on Zhou Wen, and he couldn't move his eyes away for a moment. He even forgot to take back his hand that was pouring tea. The water in the small teapot had already covered the teacup and flowed out of the teacup, but Jiang Yan was completely unaware of it. He just stared at Zhou Wen who was fighting with the dragon-patterned snake.
Rather than saying that Zhou Wen was fighting the dragon-patterned snake, it would be more accurate to say that he was dancing solo. His movements were vigorous and majestic, with an indescribable charm.
As Jiang Yan was watching, he suddenly dropped the small teapot in his hand, ran to a stone wall, stretched out his finger, and drew directly on the stone wall.
His fingers were like blades, breaking the stone wall directly and writing one word after another on it. Those words looked like Weibei style, but there was something different about them.
Each stroke is like a knife edge, yet not too sharp. It is fair yet free and easy.
“A snake walks for a thousand years, a dragon hides for ten thousand generations, and when the true self emerges from the sky, it will cleanse the sky and turn into a blue dragon.” When Jiang Yan finished writing the word “dragon”, Zhou Wen also let out a long roar, and his figure broke through the air and rose into the sky, like a real dragon ascending to the sky. It seemed that the whole person had completed some kind of transformation.
The dragon-patterned snakes around him actually retreated one after another, as if they were trembling. For a moment, no snake dared to attack Zhou Wen again.
Although he had not looked at the information in the game, Zhou Wen was now certain that his Dragon Transformation Art should have broken through to the tenth level. That feeling could not be explained in words.
"Junior brother, thanks to you, I have finally figured out some meaning from this word today." Jiang Yan said with a smile.
Zhou Wen turned around and saw the words carved by Jiang Yan on the wall. Although he did not understand the words, he found that there was a sense of familiarity in the words. After thinking about it carefully, he understood that the words contained the body movement and artistic conception that he had just comprehended.
"These words..." Zhou Wen looked at the words and asked with a strange expression.
"This is what I wrote after observing your body movements and combining it with the font of the Longmen Twenty-Four Styles. It's quite interesting. In the future, I will use this as a foundation and combine it with the Longmen Twenty-Four Styles to develop a technique. You have half the credit for this, so you can choose the name." Jiang Yan said.
"I don't know how to name it, so you choose it." Zhou Wen shook his head.
"The word 'dragon' already exists in the Twenty-four Styles of Longmen, and your movement skills have the shape of a dragon, so naturally we should use the word 'dragon'. Adding our names together, we will call this technique 'Dragon Inkstone'." Jiang Yan said, and stretched out his hand to wipe out a line of words he had carved on the stone wall.
(End of this chapter)
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