You opened your eyes in confusion, and the ruined temple before you was still the same ruined temple.
The figure that had accompanied you for several hours had long since disappeared.
Random Encounter completed.
You triggered the encounter ending: Fish Leaping Through the Dragon Gate.
You gained Potential Points: 1500.
Encounter Grade: Earthly.
Other rewards: Fish Leaping Through the Dragon Gate Art, Long Qingyu's favor, and the opportunity to trigger the 'Reunion' encounter.
Encounter Summary:
When the river breeze rises, you meet your words, breaking the cocoon of the heart with a single phrase.
Sharing hardships is not true joy; it's better to part ways in the jianghu.
The fish in the abyss knows not the years, with a single thought against the current, it sees the blue sky.
Today, I gift you the three-foot wave of the Dragon Gate, beyond which lies the human world.
Chen Xuan looked at the final words and couldn't help but feel a slight sense of loss.
But soon, that feeling vanished.
He shook his head somewhat speechlessly:
"After all that effort, it turns out to be just a Yellow-rank martial art? This woman doesn't seem to be that impressive, does she? But why is the reward for a Yellow-rank martial art an Earthly-grade encounter?"
However, Chen Xuan wasn't disappointed. As mentioned before, he had seen on the forums that the most precious and rare type of martial art in Martial Dao was the Mental Art.
In Martial Dao, Mental Arts differ from Internal Arts in that they cannot be practiced to generate Inner Force or True Qi like Internal Arts.
Most Mental Arts grant players extremely special states and various abilities.
It's even said that some Mental Arts, when mastered to perfection, can directly manifest a permanent Postnatal Fate.
Thinking of this, Chen Xuan felt balanced and quickly opened his status list, where the previously empty martial arts section was.
Sure enough, in the Mental Art section, the word 'none' had disappeared, replaced by the green-glowing 'Fish Leaping Through the Dragon Gate Art':
Fish Leaping Through the Dragon Gate Art (Yellow-rank)
A special Mental Art foundation created by Long Qingyu, absorbing the strengths of several schools and integrating the true essence of Martial Dao. It is based on the imagery of fish leaping through the Dragon Gate, with the intention of swimming against the current. It can only be comprehended and practiced after being infused with the 'River Carp Riding the Waves Diagram'.
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Current First Stage: Hidden Abyss (0/1)
Possessing Traits:
River Carp Riding the Waves: Water-based constant Movement Technique +2, reduced Stamina consumption. By silently reciting the Mental Art, you can breathe freely underwater for extended periods and master swimming abilities underwater. This chapter was copied from NovelPing without permission.
Hidden Current in the Abyss: When learning or practicing any martial arts or abilities related to 'water', your constant Comprehension is increased by 2 points, and Constitution by 2 points.
Fish Leaping Through the Dragon Gate: After defeating an enemy with a martial arts realm higher than your own, you can choose to advance the Mental Art to the second stage, and based on the battle situation, the process of defeating, and the opponent's strength, determine whether to upgrade the Mental Art's grade to Mystic-rank! Apart from this, no other methods, including Potential Points, can be used to enhance it.
"Damn!?"
Chen Xuan stared at the glowing Mental Art in front of him, eyes wide open.
If he hadn't seen the official forum before, he might have glanced at this Mental Art and dismissed it as a low-level transitional martial art.
But after skimming through the Beginner's Guide on the Martial Dao forum, especially the martial arts settings, Chen Xuan was quite knowledgeable about it!
The rarity and preciousness of Mental Arts need not be elaborated.
Ordinary Yellow-rank Mental Arts generally have 1-2 attributes, as stated in the guides.
The attribute enhancement of this Fish Leaping Through the Dragon Gate Art is within reason compared to the usual.
But what on earth is this third attribute of 'Fish Leaping Through the Dragon Gate'?
An upgradable-grade Mental Art?
Isn't this like the Burning Art?
No, the Burning Art should be considered an Internal Art in Martial Dao.
Regardless, this attribute is undeniably extraordinary.
Long Qingyu?
Who exactly is this woman?
Chen Xuan, shocked, reopened the Martial Dao forum and activated the internal search function.
However, after searching, neither 'Long Qingyu' nor 'Lu Lianshan', mentioned in the game, yielded any results.
Although he had some guesses, Chen Xuan knew that players' exploration of the Martial Dao world was still limited.
Not to mention, among the so-called Heaven, Earth, and Human Rankings, only one person, 'Feng Wuya', had made it onto the Earth Ranking, and he seemed to be at the bottom. It was uncertain if he would be pushed off by someone else next month.
These all proved that players needed a long time to fully explore the game's content.
Thinking of this, Chen Xuan was invigorated again.
He still hadn't left the ruined temple but closed the game once more.
Sure enough, the moment he closed the game, a faint fatigue and drowsiness washed over him again.
Chen Xuan instinctively closed his eyes.
And he entered the realm of dreams once more.
In the dream, he was with an exquisitely beautiful woman in a blue dress in the ruined temple amidst the desolate mountains.
Even though he was prepared, Chen Xuan was still stunned by Long Qingyu's appearance.
Truly worthy of the extraordinary jianghu Martial Dao world, this innate beauty effect was indeed extraordinary.
One could say that, even in the dream, Chen Xuan was more determined to become the 'Yang Dingtian' with a supreme Fate, but it had no practical use.
The real key point was undoubtedly what followed.
"The fish of Jianghai, swimming in the morning and evening, unaware of the Dragon Gate..."
"..."
At this moment, compared to the textual description in the Martial Dao game.
Chen Xuan more clearly sensed what he was experiencing.
He seemed to have truly become a small fish in the river.
While others drifted with the current, he swam against it, continuously honing his abilities in the Hidden Abyss, constantly attempting to leap over wave after wave.
Seeking that leap through the Dragon Gate, which he knew not when it would come!
Such struggle, such a sense of moving forward against the current in the river, left Chen Xuan in a daze even after waking from the dream.
Then, as if realizing something, he went straight to the bathroom, turned on the faucet, watched the sink fill up, and without thinking, took a deep breath and submerged his head.
At the same time, the River Carp Riding the Waves Diagram, which had appeared in his dream and was now etched in his mind, along with the Mental Art incantation, resurfaced in his mind!
Instantly, he felt that the water, which he couldn't breathe in before, became lively.
The suffocating sensation that had been building up seemed to vanish at that moment.
Replaced by an extremely refreshing and moist feeling.
Five minutes later,
He lifted his head from the water, and at that moment, the shock in his heart was finally uncontrollable.
"It actually... works..."
Instantly, Chen Xuan's fist clenched, and in the bathroom mirror, his wet face showed eyes that were now incredibly determined.
However, before Chen Xuan could fully experience and comprehend this seed of Martial Dao initiation, the extraordinary starting point,
The previously empty dormitory door was suddenly knocked on in the dark of night.
Chen Xuan wiped his face and quickly opened the dormitory door.
However, it wasn't the dormitory supervisor who arrived.
But two figures in special uniforms.
A man and a woman, the man looked about thirty, the woman in her twenties, the former stern, the latter sweet.
However, the first words they spoke made Chen Xuan's pupils contract:
"Hello, Chen Xuan, we are from the Dragon Nation Martial Dao Bureau..."