Chapter 5
As Jiang Chen was recovering his meridians, the winter hunt was coming closer and closer .
The quarrel between the west and east courtyard had been known in the whole Southwind Ridge . Many rumors had arisen .
Fan Tu's recovery had made the east courtyard less passive . And many people loyal to the east courtyard felt greatly eased .
However, Fan Tu was only one man . It was far from enough just relying on him . Huge amounts of people were needed in the east courtyard .
Since they suffered such a great loss in the Black Dragon City that day…
As a result, Gao Yue went in person to the Sus living in the Whitewater City to ask for help .
The Sus was a family from the Hundred Thousand Mountains, not as powerful as the Jiang Mansion, but powerful enough to lend them a hand for an extreme urgency .
Their eldest daughter was engaged to Jiang Chen . The two families were relatives by marriage . So there was no big problem to get help from them .
On the day of the winter hunt, Jiang Chen finally had all of his damaged meridians fully recovered . It had taken him a fortnight, no more and no less .
But he only achieved the Cloud Six, instead of the Cloud Nine as he had imagined .
This was actually nothing unusual, since such a great injury resulted in the previous Jiang Chen's death, for sure his genuine Qi was greatly lost .
He had to continue practicing so that his state would be enhanced .
""Besides the Scripture of Spirit Nurturing, any practice method that I know will drive the Nine Heavens Continent crazy . ""
But he didn't rush to practice .
Since he had to prepare for the winter hunt…
He took a look at the daybreak and wanted to have some more sleep .
Jiang Chen's face turned to a terrible look instantly . He was feeling an unendurable hotness, as if his blood and flesh were burning . The most horrifying part was that he felt as if there were a hand digging in his body .
""What's going on? Could there be any problem?""
No matter how many theoretical knowledge he had, it was the first time for Jiang Chen to practice . He was totally taken by surprise .
Luckily, no other bad feelings other than some discomfort for now .
In a moment his meridians got pressured to some extent, but Jiang Chen showed an ecstatic face .
It felt like a new meridian was growing in this body .
If he wasn't wrong, this new meridian was exactly the holy pulse .
""Hahaha, the Nings must have been too lame to take away the holy pulse completely . ""
It was like reaping Chinese chives . The Nings only took away the top part other than the root, so it totally could be recovered .
""It's true . It's no easy to transplant the holy pulse . How would the trivial Nings from the Nine Heavens Continent be qualified to do that? However, they caused that poor guy's tragic death . "" Jiang Chen thought .
In addition, it was Ning Haotian who got the holy pulse . The holy pulse in his body would only exist temporarily . It would disappear soon .
But it was a pity that the holy pulse cannot be recovered once and for all . Instead, one pulse grows after another . The pulse growing in him now was extending to his throat from his Dantian area, which made him feel like to puke .
With the holy pulse, not only the progress of practice would be brought forward greatly, Jiang Chen also found a powerful advantage .
Besides many practice methods, he also remembered lots of secret methods .
The Scripture of Spirit Nurturing was a secret method . This kind of method would make his body indestructible, able to resist fire and water, and even grow out three heads and six arms .
The method to take in the spirits of the universe is a practice method .
Besides, to adopt a secret method requires you to enhance your state .
For example, Tai Ji Wan, what was on Jiang Chen's mind now, is a secret method aiming at your genuine Qi .
Manipulating the genuine Qi in a spiral way will have much more power than the normal way .
However, this method requires the practicer to be in the Mind Wander State, since the spiral genuine Qi will hurt the practicer's merdidians . Only by achieving the Mind Wander State will the practicer experience a thorough change and will his meridians be able to bear the tearing of that kind .
But now, he only had one holy pulse .
Oh, holy pulse!
If he couldn't achieve this, it would be impossible to get the complete holy pulse .
""I can take advantage of the winter hunt to practice!""
Jiang Chen lost the desire to sleep . He sat up and got off the bed, changed into his hunting outfit .
He saw Fan Tu, who was about to go somewhere, when he left the room .
"Uncle Fan, how is the east courtyard going recently?"
"Not very good . The west courtyard keeps expanding . It's said that they are going to swallow us up before the spring festival . "
"We can do nothing about it . Don't blame yourself for that, Uncle Fan . Let's see whether mother could bring some help . "
Jiang Chen found that everyone in the east courtyard, even servants and maids, was in a low mood . The atmosphere was extremely depressing .
It seemed all of them had lost hope .
In these people's opinions, even though the property of the east courtyard could be kept, still, Jiang Chen would be unable to practice . Unless their lord was released from the Black Dragon Pool, otherwise the hands would be changed in the east courtyard .
""If I don't do well enough in the winter hunt, the west courtyard for sure will push us to move out . Fortunately, I've regained the Cloud Six . It's my show time . ""
…
The winter hunt was an annual tradition of the Jiang Mansion . All adult disciples had to participate in it . Different awards would be given according to their performance .
The mountain behind the Jiang Mansion was where the hunt took place . All disciples had to gather on the lawn at the foot of the mountain before noon .
When Jiang Chen arrived, many disciples of the Jiang Mansion were already there .
Although we were talking about the disciples of the Jiang Mansion, actually they were the excellent youngsters of the whole Southwind Ridge . They were all from ordinary families . As a result they didn't dress in such a fancy way like the children and young ladies from the mansion .
These disciples were very surprised to see Jiang Chen . Recently there were many rumors about what had happened to the east courtyard, among which Jiang Chen was the center of people's attention .
As people already knew, most of his meridians were damaged and his state went back to the Cloud Two . In their eyes he had no chance to rally for his whole life .
The awkward thing was that he had to take part in the winter hunt since he had turned adult this year .
The hunting result usually represents one's status in the mansion .
In addition, Jiang Chen was the child of the east courtyard .
Considering the current situation of the east courtyard, Jiang Chen was in an awkward dilemma as to whether to come or not .
But he had chosen to come, which was quite admiring .
However, some people were quite scornful of him .
"I cannot believe he has really come . "
"After all, he is an adult now . If he doesn't come, it only means that he is a disabled man . "
"But what's the point to push himself to come? He was brought back like a dead dog . "
Unpleasant gossips kept cropping up around him . The harsh words were all coming from the disciples of the west courtyard . As to the east courtyard, the disciples were suffering a low morale . Some of them were looking at Jiang Chen in a blaming manner .
Probably they were thinking that if Jiang Chen hadn't been found to have a holy pulse, no disasters would have happened to the east courtyard, let alone his father's imprisonment .
…
In previous years it was the lord of the mansion who hosted the hunt . Sometimes there were special occasions in which one of the four lords of the courtyard would host on behalf of him .
However, this time it was the Second Elder of the Jiang Mansion who host the hunt .
He was an old man over 50, with an experienced face, a pair of deep, bright and piercing eyes .
He was very well respected in the Jiang Mansion, famous for his rigidity . All of the disciples of the Jiang Mansion there were standing far away from him .
In addition, a team of Wind Move Guard was also on the lawn . They were the elite forces of Jiang Mansion . Each and every one of them was tall and strong, in black armour and having a cloak hanging down from the shoulder until the floor .
They were fully armed, with longbows and arrow bags on back and long knives in hand .
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