Chapter 121: A Martial Art Even a Fool Can Cultivate

After finishing the questioning, Xu Xi took Wu Yingxue and left, not killing the Tax Official directly.

The Tax Official's final fate.

It was to be dragged away by a middle-aged man with a scar on his face.

Looking at his face, the Tax Official was filled with immense terror, while others who also held grudges against the Tax Official tacitly allowed the middle-aged man to drag him away.

From Xu Xi, Wu Yingxue learned the middle-aged man's story.

That was long before Xu Xi arrived in Qingniu Town.

A tragic fate that had occurred.

The middle-aged man's surname was Li, formerly a wealthy merchant in the interior of the Thirteen Provinces of Daqian, but because he offended a county magistrate, his entire family was exiled to the border.

Misfortune always followed one after another.

Not long after arriving at Qingniu Town, the middle-aged man's younger sister was targeted by the Tax Official, and from that day on, that girl vanished from the world forever.

"What can you do to me?"

It is said that the Tax Official back then was just as arrogant as he was today; he stepped on the man's head and carved a knife wound into his face.

The man endured it, enduring for a very, very long time.

Only until today did he finally have the chance to avenge his younger sister.

He wailed loudly while dragging the Tax Official home; that miserable, hoarse weeping formed a stark contrast with the Tax Official's terrified pleas for mercy.

"Killing him a hundred times wouldn't be enough!!"

The young girl finished listening to the story.

She remained silent for a long time, finally saying viciously.

Her palms danced, her fingertips subconsciously feeling for her spear, unable to resist the urge to act, but after gazing at the man surnamed Li for a long time, she decided to let the person involved resolve it.

The deceased younger sister could no longer be brought back to life.

This was the only way the man could comfort his younger sister's spirit in heaven.

Wu Yingxue did not want to steal that.

The matter of the Tax Official was thus turned over, and Qingniu Town returned to its usual peace and rhythm of life.

Xu Xi and Wu Yingxue would either stay at home deducing Cultivation Techniques or head to the Hundred Thousand Mountains, harvesting large amounts of Demon meat while practicing combat.

The common folk used scarce Materials to strive to meet the cold winter.

Everything seemed unchanged.

But A-Niu knew, and all the residents of Qingniu Town knew, that something invisible had quietly appeared in everyone's heart.

Even the world before their eyes had become a bit brighter.

…

After returning home.

Xu Xi quickly stepped into the inner room, picked up the original copy of the Yangyuan Technique, and quickly opened the first page, re-examining it word by word.

"Yangyuan, nourishing Origin Qi."

"If I want to improve it, making it easy for people to pick up while also possessing Blood-Qi Martial Arts cultivation…"

Xu Xi fell into deep thought as one inspiration after another leaped into his mind.

[A Cultivation Technique that ignores Aptitude does not exist.]

[A Cultivation Technique that ignores innate bone structure does not exist either.]

[Everything will produce two outcomes, good and bad.]

[Just as there are martial arts geniuses who understand things at a touch, there are naturally corresponding dull-witted minds.]

[Even siblings in the same family have differences, let alone people without blood relations; wanting to make everyone a Martial Artist based on one Cultivation Technique is an impractical thing.]

[But today.]

[After witnessing the scene of the Qingniu Town commoners beating the Tax Official.]

[You realized belatedly that even people who are starving to death, even people who have nothing, possess something no weaker than ordinary people, or perhaps even superior.]

[That is an unquenchable desire to survive.]

[That is a tenacity like that of weeds.]

[The commoners of Qingniu Town indeed do not understand how to Cultivate martial arts, nor do they understand the circulation of Blood-Qi, but they do understand—]

[Eating.]

"Sir, is there any connection between eating and martial arts Cultivation Techniques?"

"There is a connection, but there is also none."

"Is it true what you said, that one can become stronger just by eating?"

"It is not that eating makes them stronger, but that the only way for them to become stronger is by eating."

[You and Wu Yingxue deduced together and created a strange hybrid; it is not a traditional martial arts Cultivation Technique, and it has no fixed route for circulating energy.]

[Those who farm use it, and they will circulate energy while farming.]

[Those who carry loads use it, and they will circulate energy while walking.]

[The route for Blood-Qi circulation is exceptionally crude, so crude that even without understanding martial arts principles, the practitioner will unconsciously circulate it during daily activities.]

[And its foundation is eating.]

[Not eating in the ordinary sense.]

[But rather, using the will to survive, the struggle of unwillingness, to consume the formless and shapeless, yet truly existent Qi and Spirit, to stimulate the internal Essence of the body.]

[You are somewhat silent regarding this result.]

[On one hand, you are joyful at the successful improvement of the Yangyuan Technique, truly seeing a future where even ordinary people can Cultivate.]

[On the other hand, you feel some reluctance regarding the side effects of the Yangyuan Technique.]

[The improved Yangyuan Technique, as long as the practitioner's will is sufficiently firm, can provide feedback in the form of usable Blood-Qi cultivation.]

[But it is unsubstantial, as fragile as a castle in the air.]

[If nutrition is replenished in time, the body can still be maintained normally, but if there is nothing, practicing until the end will result in autophagy.]

[That is, eating oneself.]

[Burning blood, burning life, burning everything.]

"Can such a Cultivation Technique really be used…"

"No, there is no need to think at all; for those who are dying, this is a truly useful thing."

The Martial Arts Evolution ended.

Xu Xi slowly stood up.

He walked out of the room, and in the extremely quiet atmosphere, he looked up at the cold sun, exhaling mist and inhaling Qi.

Winter is coming, and this Demon Tide is more dangerous than ever before.

Xu Xi had recently frequently scouted the Hundred Thousand Mountains, and he could be certain that this Demon Tide would have major demons of the Xiantian Realm.

In front of such existences.

Mortals would not even have the chance to run away.

Slow as ants, difficult to escape.

If they practiced the Yangyuan Technique, even if the final outcome was autophagy, it would be much better than being devoured by demons.

"If one doesn't even dare to take this step, how can one let everyone survive?" Xu Xi took a deep breath, feeling the cold air enter his lungs, circulate, and then exhale it all.

In reality.

The time left for Xu Xi and for Qingniu Town is truly too little, far too little.

So little that even if they start Cultivating now, Qingniu Town might not necessarily produce a Martial Artist.

"Sir, does this Cultivation Technique need a new name?"

Wu Yingxue stood by his side and asked.

Whether in content or effect, the Yangyuan Technique is far from the initial version, so continuing to call it the Yangyuan Technique is clearly not appropriate.

"A martial art even a fool can practice."

"What?"

"That is its name."

The young girl was stunned, yet felt it was exceptionally fitting.

The birth of this Cultivation Technique was fundamentally a fool acting for another group of fools who could not survive.

"I always feel that after staying with you for so long, I have also become a fool."

The young girl mocked herself.

[The Fools Art was born.]

[The name is simple, but the content is enough to shock the Thirteen Provinces of Daqian; it is a martial art capable of shaking Daqian, and even shaking the blockade of the Hundred Thousand Mountains.]

[You made the existence of the Cultivation Technique public, and A-Niu became the first practitioner; this was something he requested voluntarily.]