The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#291 - Tian Yi Sheng Shui

The Niwan Palace, also known as the Yellow Court, is actually a term used in cultivation.

Previously, in order to learn martial arts, Lu Jing had studied some basic knowledge of meridians and acupoints from Zhang Sanfeng, but there was no mention of the Niwan Palace among them.

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However, after asking Xia Huai, Lu Jing also roughly knew the location of the Niwan Palace.

According to the division of the cultivation world, there are nine palaces hidden in the human head, corresponding to the nine heavens, and the most central and most important palace among the nine palaces is the Niwan Palace, located between the eyebrows, at the intersection of the Yintang and Baihui points.

It can be said to be the most important place for cultivators.

Most of the so-called Foundation Establishment revolves around the Niwan Palace, to establish a cauldron within it, ignite the Yin-Yang Divine Fire, so that it can become a place for cultivation.

In fact, the term most frequently mentioned in the Sword Control Technique that Lu Jing had previously obtained was also Niwan.

He was afraid of mishearing it at the time, so he asked Gu Zhongling to write it again on the ground.

However, finding the Niwan Palace is only the beginning. Even without Xia Huai's reminder, just looking at the location of the Niwan Palace, Lu Jing knew that this place could not be messed with casually.

Leaving aside cultivation, the area between the eyebrows is first of all an absolute vital point of the human body, and behind it is the brain, the most precise and complex organ. Once injured, the consequences would be unimaginable, so brute force is definitely not an option.

Therefore, Lu Jing could only try to find answers from the valuable experience left by his predecessors.

He asked Xuan Ji to find all the records in the collection about problems with the Niwan Palace, and spent two days reading through them one by one. As a result, he really found something from them.

In a book called "Cultivation Annotations", Lu Jing found three examples of damaged Niwan Palaces, which could no longer be cultivated.

After all, among these three examples, only the last one seemed to have a certain degree of operability.

"Heavenly One Water?" Wu Han's expression looked a little puzzled, "What are you asking about this thing for?"

"I heard about it from a paper figure in Mirror Lake Valley. Perhaps it can allow me to start the path of cultivation," Lu Jing casually made up.

He has now found the correct way to use Mirror Lake Valley. It is the most mysterious place in the academy, so anything he doesn't want to or can't explain can be thrown onto those paper figures in Mirror Lake Valley. Anyway, under normal circumstances, no one can expose it.

Sure enough, Wu Han, although a little skeptical, still said, "Heavenly One Water, this is indeed a good thing, but it is not something you can use now. If you want to use Heavenly One Water for cultivation, you must at least complete the Hundred Days of Foundation Establishment first."

"Why?" Lu Jing humbly asked for advice.

Wu Han didn't hide anything, "Heavenly One Water, as the name suggests, is the beginning of all things. Of course, this is just an exaggerated term. In fact, Heavenly One Water exists in everything from large rivers to small streams and tributaries."

"Simply put, you can understand it as the first drop of water in a river. All other water droplets are born from it, so it also contains infinite vitality. Cultivators can use this characteristic to increase the absorption speed of Heaven and Earth Secret Power."

"But it must be after Foundation Establishment, because before Foundation Establishment, the Niwan Palace is empty, and this emptiness is brought with a person at birth. Everyone has it and it is closest to the source of Secret Power. The so-called Foundation Establishment is to use this emptiness to establish a cauldron and ignite a fire in the Niwan Palace."

"If you drink Heavenly One Water before Foundation Establishment, then due to the special effect of Heavenly One Water, the emptiness in the Niwan Palace will directly transform into Clear and Turbid Qi, and the subsequent establishment of the cauldron and ignition of fire will naturally not be able to continue."

Lu Jing was overjoyed when he heard this. Isn't this exactly what he has been searching for? However, in front of Wu Han, he still tried his best to suppress his excitement and continued to ask.

"Then, what harm does the transformation of the emptiness in the Niwan Palace into Clear and Turbid Qi have on the body?"

"There is no harm. That is originally a piece of emptiness. Ordinary people, except for cultivators, don't need it at all and won't use it. After transforming into Clear and Turbid Qi, the Clear Qi can refresh the mind, and the Turbid Qi will be excreted from the body without causing any harm."

Lu Jing was completely relieved, so he only had one last question left.

"Where can I get Heavenly One Water?"

"As I said before, Heavenly One Water exists in everything from large rivers to small streams and tributaries, but it is not easy to find. The academy has a special method for collecting Heavenly One Water, but it is also very time-consuming and laborious."

Wu Han paused, "However, if you want Heavenly One Water, there is a ready-made opportunity right now."

"What opportunity?"

"In a month and a half, after most people have completed the Hundred Days of Foundation Establishment, the academy will hold a small competition, mainly to encourage you students to work hard in cultivation, and also to verify what you have learned during this period. So, this small competition has prizes."

"According to the usual practice in previous years, there should be Heavenly One Water among them."

"Small competition?" Lu Jing was stunned, "What are we competing in, spells?"

"Spells, formations, talismans, elixirs..." Wu Han said, "Because everyone focuses on learning different things, for the sake of fairness, the small competition usually does not have special requirements for the methods used, as long as you can win."

"That is to say, using only martial arts is also possible?"

"Uh, it is possible, but most of the exam questions inside are related to Secret Power. Without cultivating Secret Power, it may be very disadvantageous to solve the problems."

Lu Jing roughly calculated that a month and a half should be enough for him to upgrade the Fire Scale Armor to the fourth level. By then, it would be difficult for ordinary weapons to hurt him.

And he is now close to completing the fourth path of Wind and Cloud Transformation. In addition, the Zen staff that Chi has re-forged for him should also be available. Lu Jing felt that he could join in the fun for this small competition.

After all, Heavenly One Water is quite important to him now. Seeing that there is an opportunity to obtain it, Lu Jing didn't want to give up.

So, during the following period, he no longer wandered around. Except for going to Mirror Lake Valley to deliver food and going to the lecture hall to attend classes, Lu Jing basically stayed in seclusion to cultivate, actively preparing for the small competition more than a month later.

He didn't even have time to try the batch of poison he had taken back from the green-shirted woman. During this period, there was other good news. The fledgling bird Gu Jing, which Lu Jing had picked up from Another Heaven and Earth, learned to hunt, fly, and other survival skills from its mother, and finally returned to his side.

And this also meant that Lu Jing finally had his own messenger.

After getting Gu Jing, Lu Jing first sent it to deliver a letter to Gu Caiwei. As a result, it took the guy a whole afternoon to travel such a short distance.

However, considering that this was its first time delivering a letter, even its first time leaving the academy, it was not unacceptable. But what Lu Jing could not accept was that it actually brought back a nightingale from outside when it returned.

Moreover, that nightingale was also a messenger, and it seemed to be a member of the large group of messengers raised by the Department of Celestial Observation.