Chapter 21: Another Breakthrough?
Lin Feng could tell by Jun Zihao's expression that the man wasn't telling the whole truth.
Lin Feng gave Jun Zihao a cold look and said, "It seems you don't want to keep your legs. If that's the case, then I have no choice but to cripple them."
"Wait a minute!"
Jun Zihao's face turned pale as he called out.
Lin Feng looked at Jun Zihao with a smile that was not quite a smile, "What? Had a change of heart?"
"I really don't have a Tao Artifact, but I do have a half-finished Dao Artifact," said Jun Zihao with a mournful face.
"Half-finished Dao Artifact?" Lin Feng asked, surprised.
A half-finished product meant it had not yet become a real treasure.
Jun Zihao explained, "This is a defensive Dao Artifact. There were some mistakes made during its forging, causing a shortage of one type of material. As a result, it could only be made into a half-finished Dao Artifact. Its power is not comparable to a Dao Artifact, but it's dozens of times stronger than a Peak Treasure. If in the future one can find some Divine Materials and then find a powerful Forging Master to re-forge it, this half-finished Dao Artifact could possibly be turned into a true Dao Artifact."
"Good, hurry up and take out this half-finished Dao Artifact for me," said Lin Feng.
A violent twitch appeared at the corner of Jun Zihao's mouth, and he took out a magical treasure, a Seven Treasures Glazed Tower.
Surrounded by seven-colored lights,
it emitted a powerful fluctuation.
"Indeed, it is a formidable treasure," Lin Feng said delightedly as he looked at the Seven Treasures Glazed Tower.
In fact, Lin Feng wasn't lacking powerful offensive treasures.
What he needed were defensive ones, and the Seven Treasures Glazed Tower was just that.
For Lin Feng, this treasure was extremely important.
Lin Feng remembered Sikong Zhaiyue's ancestral Supreme Treasure, the Heavenly God Shield, which once brought out, could withstand the attacks of hundreds of powerful cultivators.
Although the Seven Treasures Glazed Tower could not compare to Sikong Zhaiyue's ancestral treasure,
if one day he could turn the Seven Treasures Glazed Tower into a Dao Artifact,
then its power would surely be revealed.
"I'll take this treasure. You gave it to me willingly, even if you complain to the sect, it won't be my problem," Lin Feng said indifferently.
"Willingly? I was coerced, alright?" Jun Zihao felt like crying.
He was thinking that he definitely would go to the sect to report Lin Feng.
At that moment, Lin Feng said, "Quickly swear that you voluntarily gave me the treasure and that you absolutely won't go to the Law Enforcement Hall to accuse me. If you dare break your oath, may you have a miserable death."
Cultivators do not swear lightly, for they themselves are defying the heavens and seizing life, against the wishes of Heavenly Dao.
Once a cultivator takes an oath, the Heavenly Dao senses it, and if the cultivator violates the oath, Heavenly Dao will immediately impose calamity and eradicate the oath-breaker.
The Heavenly Dao couldn't wait for all cultivators to take oaths and then break them, so that it could use the power of the oath to kill those who break their promises.
Heavenly Dao loathes cultivators the most because what they seize against nature is "the life of Heavenly Dao."
Heavenly Dao is not immortal, and it also ages with the passage of time.
The old order of Heavenly Dao is destroyed,
and a new order of Heavenly Dao will be born.
...
Hearing Lin Feng demand an oath, Jun Zihao wore an utterly dejected expression.
If he swore, he really would not be able to denounce Lin Feng,
and he wouldn't be able to reclaim his Seven Treasures Glazed Tower.
But Jun Zihao didn't dare to refuse. He gritted his teeth and swore to the sky, "I, Jun Zihao, swear to the heavens that I will not go to the Law Enforcement Hall to accuse him, otherwise may lightning strike me dead."
Then a rune made of lightning condensed from the sky, descended and entered the center of Jun Zihao's forehead.
The oath was established.
"Alright, now you can leave," Lin Feng said with a slight smile.
The trend that had been suppressing Jun Zihao dissipated like smoke in the wind.
Jun Zihao climbed up from the ground, glared fiercely at Lin Feng but ultimately did not dare to speak harshly.
Not wishing to stay a moment longer, he left in a hurry.
Lin Feng, however, returned to his Cave Mansion.
Outside, everything that had transpired was witnessed by Bai Ying.
She had not anticipated Lin Feng's strength, that such a formidable person as Jun Zihao could be suppressed in an instant.
And she, at last, no longer had to worry about Jun Zihao's prying eyes.
As a man and a woman lived together in one room, affections warmed up very quickly.
Approximately ten days later, one evening, Lin Feng planned to engage in Dual Cultivation with Bai Ying for the first time.
Lin Feng said, "The Dual Cultivation Skill emphasizes Yin Yang Balance. If the Yin and Yang are not balanced, it becomes a Replenishing Skill instead, like some male cultivators replenishing themselves from female cultivators, completely disregarding whether the female cultivator's body can withstand it or not, absorbing all the Yin Yuan Power within the female cultivator's body into their own. The female cultivator, having lost all her Yin Yuan Power, will not last long before passing away."
"There are also female cultivators who practice the Replenishing Skill. They absorb male cultivators' Yang Yuan Power, completely devouring it clean, and the male cultivators too will meet their doom. The Magic Decision I taught you a few days ago is the Dual Cultivation Skill of Yin Yang Balance. Have you clearly remembered how to circulate it? If you haven't remembered clearly, you need to commit it to memory before we can proceed with Dual Cultivation. Because if you don't understand the Dharma Gate of Yin Yang Balance, you won't be able to absorb the energy that flows into your body after the Yin and Yang have balanced."
Bai Ying shyly said, "I'm ready."
After Dual Cultivation, both Lin Feng and Bai Ying operated the Yin Yang Balance Skill, absorbing the vast and powerful energy.
This Yin Yang Balance Technique was a Secret Technique recorded within the Ancient Dragon Elephant Technique, a most top-tier Cultivation Technique.
A typical Dual Cultivation Skill might be fine if it absorbed twenty to thirty percent of the Yin Yang Balance Power.
But the Secret Technique recorded in the Ancient Dragon Elephant Technique could absorb at least eighty percent or more of the energy.
After absorbing the energy of Yin Yang Balance,
a powerful force exploded within Lin Feng's body, with a thunderous rumble of mana,
Lin Feng seemed to be on the brink of another breakthrough.
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