JSCMU-Chapter 146: That Desperate For A Beating?

Yun Jin sensed the Golden Core in her Dantian, somewhat dazed.

In this world, only legends of the Nine-patterned Golden Core circulated. It was said to be the highest grade of Golden Core.

But other people’s Nine-patterned Golden Core merely had nine lines of pill patterns, the color was still golden!

It was still fine moments ago, why did her Golden Core suddenly become black and white?

This kind of yin-yang-like pattern did match quite well with the Tai’a Sword.

But surely it didn’t change appearances just to match her sword, right?

It’s not like this is Miracle Nikki! 

Yun Jin’s gaze shifted subtly.

Could all of this be related to her five-element spiritual power?

In this world, five-element spiritual roots were considered the lowest grade of spiritual roots.

But Yun Jin always felt that wasn’t the case.

Five-element roots were just harder and slower to cultivate, that’s all.

If they could be cultivated to the extreme, with the five elements coexisting and mutually reinforcing, they might in fact be the strongest spiritual roots.

“Five elements… Yin-yang…”

Yun Jin looked at her Golden Core with a thoughtful expression.

In a world she visited before, there was a saying.

Yin-yang gives birth to the Two Forms; the Two Forms give birth to the Four Symbols; the Four Symbols give birth to the Eight Trigrams; and the Eight Trigrams give rise to all things.

These black and white dual colors, symbolizing yin and yang, in that philosophy, represented the source of all things.

On the other hand.

Metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. These five powers were also the most fundamental forces of the world and living beings.

All things in the world cannot escape the Five Elements.

In a certain sense, Yin-yang and the Five Elements had a kind of intangible connection.

This black-and-white Golden Core was likely a transformation brought about by the influence of her Five Element spiritual power.

Yun Jin didn’t think this was a bad change. She smiled, quite satisfied with it.

A Nine-patterned Golden Core, perhaps there were others in this world, a second or third.

But this black-and-white Nine-patterned Golden Core was likely the only one of its kind.

Yun Jin liked this kind of unique feeling.

After advancing to Golden Core Stage, Yun Jin felt a comfortable sensation spread throughout her entire body. However, a sticky black substance appeared on her skin.

While she could clean it off with magic, Yun Jin still felt like something was missing.

So she left the Earth-Fire Chamber and made a quick trip back to Heavenly Sword Peak.

“Yun Jin has emerged from seclusion?” Yang Hui received the report immediately and narrowed his eyes slightly. “Has she returned the token?”

“No,” the disciple shook his head. “She still has ten days remaining on her rental. Since she hasn’t returned the token, she’s probably planning to go back.”

“Keep observing,” Yang Hui instructed.

The disciple didn’t quite understand why Yang Hui was paying so much attention to an outsider, but since Yang Hui gave the order, he quickly complied.

Yang Hui’s expression remained calm, but deep down, it felt like a thousand cat claws were scratching at his heart, itchy and restless!

That Yun Jin had someone deliver a piece of refined iron, and before he even had the chance to ask about it, she went into seclusion and stayed there for twenty days!

Now she came out briefly, but he, a dignified peak master, couldn’t just run over to her, could he?

He’d wait a little longer!

Since Yun Jin went out of her way to send that refined iron.

Surely she would come to explain it in person, right?

Yang Hui calmed himself.

He is a Peak Master.

He is a master.

He must have the demeanor of a master!

So he would keep waiting!

Yun Jin returned to Heavenly Sword Peak.

Gun Gun and Gu Jinghong sensed her presence. One person and one beast were already waiting outside early on.

Gun Gun leaped and jumped into Yun Jin’s arms.

Yun Jin skillfully rubbed its fur, and Gun Gun showed an expression of enjoyment.

Suddenly, Yun Jin raised her eyebrows, “You’ve already broken through to Foundation Establishment Stage?”

She honestly forgot to check Gun Gun’s stats lately.

At this moment, Yun Jin couldn’t help but check.

Gun Gun was now at early Foundation Establishment Stage. Its basic skills, Charge and Roar, were trained to the fifth level! At the same time, Gun Gun awakened a new racial skill: Iron Armor.

Iron Armor skill: Constructs a layer of metal-element outer armor on the body. The higher the skill level, the harder the armor.

At present, the Iron Armor skill’s proficiency was barely more than nothing.

On the other hand, compared to its Foundation Establishment level, these basic skills were trained to quite a high degree.

Of course, many spirit beasts, after increasing in cultivation and awakening new skills, would become lazy and stop training basic skills.

After all, basic skills were definitely not as powerful as racial skills.

Gun Gun also couldn’t help proudly raising its head.

“I, Lord Gun Gun, have been working hard lately,” Gun Gun said arrogantly.

“Good, keep it up,” Yun Jin smiled as she patted its head, pondering to herself.

The cultivation of spirit beasts is different from humans. Compared to humans, they rely more on bloodline and race.

Some high-grade spirit beasts only need to lie down and breathe to quickly advance.

Some low-grade spirit beasts, no matter how diligent, might not make more progress than others do by sleeping.

It was said that spirit beasts above high-grade level even came with inherited memories, born knowing all kinds of cultivation methods, and they were always the ones most suited to them.

Gun Gun was currently a mid-grade spirit beast, and didn’t have inherited memory at all. Without inherited memory, becoming stronger in the early stages could only rely on slowly increasing spiritual power and practicing skills.

As for spiritual power, Yun Jin had plenty of pills. Gun Gun’s growth rate shouldn’t be slow.

As for skills, since it awakened a new one,it naturally had to be trained.

Yun Jin tapped a few times on the Simplification Attempts.

“Simplification successful. Iron Armor training condition simplified: Get beaten to grow stronger! Every ten hits increases Iron Armor proficiency by one point. (Ten per cycle; must be from ten different people. Repeatable after one full cycle.)”

Emmm…

This isn’t Yun Jin trying to mess with Gun Gun!

The simplification only changed in the number of times, at the end of the day, it still had to get beaten up!

Yun Jin looked at Gun Gun with some sympathy and said, “Gun Gun, do you want to quickly level up your Iron Armor skill?”

Wow!

Is Master going to teach it a new spell again?

Gun Gun nodded excitedly.

Yun Jin took a deep breath and said in a low voice, “The key to training the Iron Armor skill is to get beaten up! You need to find ten different people to take turns beating you! Remember, each person can only beat you once for the first ten times. After that, you can cycle and repeat.”

Gun Gun listened, dumbfounded.

It got anxious, “Master, I’ve been very well-behaved lately! I really haven’t done anything bad! At most, I just wrecked the house ten times, tore Big Sister’s clothes twenty times, and broke Big Brother’s teacups thirty times…”

Yun Jin fell silent.

It seems these “Big Sister” and “Big Brother” must be Eldest Senior Brother and Second Senior Sister?

Looks like their days weren’t easy either!

Perfect timing. Since Gun Gun had so much energy, let it go harass other people for a while!

Yun Jin said seriously, “When have I ever lied to you? I even prepared a chant for you. When you’re getting beaten up, just silently recite it in your heart while performing the Iron Armor skill, and you’ll definitely get good training results.”

Yun Jin’s expression was extremely sincere. Gun Gun couldn’t help but believe it.

Gu Jinghong looked at Yun Jin with a strange expression.

If it were before, he would’ve had no doubt that Yun Jin was deliberately messing with Gun Gun.

But at this very moment, he actually couldn’t be sure anymore.

Could it be that… in this world… such a desperate-for-a-beating training method really existed?