Mu Hanyan felt the Qi within Yan Yuchu’s body. This Qi was clearly composed of several different mysterious airflows, each endowed with distinct powers—some were fierce, others gentle, some continuous like water, while others solid like mountains. Some were akin to the aura of the Holy Court Continent, while others were vastly different. Follow current novᴇls on N0v3l.Fiɾe.net
Evidently, this was the power from the Nine Heavenly Stars.
The energies that were the same as those of the Holy Court Continent, Yan Yuchu could still manipulate with ease. However, for the different ones, he couldn’t assimilate them at all. Not only could he not use them, but they also became the biggest hindrance to his enhancement and power manifestation.
Mu Hanyan tried Concentrating Inner Vision, seeking to directly observe his Qi circulation just as she had with Qu Shanling, but she found she simply couldn’t do it. It seemed that the cultivation techniques of the Mu Family and the Yan Family, despite some synergy, were still very different and couldn’t be considered the same technique.
But as long as she could detect the abnormalities in his Qi, Mu Hanyan wasn’t too worried. She guided her Qi to merge directly with Yan Yuchu’s.
"Don’t!" Yan Yuchu was truly panicked this time. Once the two completely different energies met, they were incompatible as fire and water. If his Sword Master strength had been unharmed, he might be fine, but now... he feared he would either die or be gravely injured.
Yan Yuchu was stepping back to avoid Mu Hanyan’s Devil Claw but then suddenly stopped, his face full of astonishment.
When the two energies made contact, they didn’t react explosively as he had expected. Instead, they merged as calmly as converging streams.
As his Qi circulated, Mu Hanyan’s energy also flowed through the meridians around his body. The sensation felt as though it was enveloping his Qi.
How was this possible? How did she do it? Yan Yuchu looked at Mu Hanyan in shock. Seeing his face deep in thought as if pondering something, he didn’t ask but simply followed his instructions, running the Yan Family Technique over and over.
Gradually, astonishment intensified on Yan Yuchu’s face, as if he were witnessing the most inconceivable thing in the world.
A few small cycles of Qi circulation later, the mixed and impure energies that had seriously impacted his strength and potential for improvement began to fade.
Finally, as the Qi made another journey throughout his body and returned to his brow, Yan Yuchu found that the mixed energies had disappeared without a trace. Although his current Qi felt somewhat weaker than before, its purity allowed for overwhelmingly greater power, and the bottleneck that had restricted his further progress was also showing signs of breaking.
"How did you do it, how did you do it?" As soon as Mu Hanyan withdrew her energy, Yan Yuchu could no longer suppress the ecstasy within him. He grabbed Mu Hanyan’s arm, eager to ask.
"You don’t need to worry about how I did it. You just need to know that I can help you. If you need assistance in the future, feel free to seek me out," Mu Hanyan said with a calm and inscrutable face. Yet the elation in her heart exceeded even Yan Yuchu’s.
She had intended only to use the Heavenly Heart Technique’s miraculous ability of encompassing and assimilating all things to help Yan Yuchu purge the impurities from his Qi. However, upon trying, she realized that the mysterious energies that were mere impurities and unusable to Yan Yuchu, which severely restricted his power, were actually excellent cultivation resources for her, easily transformable into Heavenly Heart Energy.
Although she was helping Yan Yuchu, the benefits she gained were even greater. In just under half an hour, her strength as a Ninth Rank Middle Stage Swordsman had substantially increased, leaving her just one step away from the Late Stage.