Chapter 144

Because the Wedding Dress Divine Skill is so intense, once you reach the sixth or seventh level, you have to destroy all the power you’ve gained and start all over again.

The meaning of the wedding dress skill is to teach people to make choices. This skill is meant to be mastered and then destroyed, just like the saying “to use its advantage, first blunt its edge”.

After this setback, the sharpness of the true energy in the Wedding Dress Divine Skill has been diminished when it is practiced again, but its power has not been reduced at all. It is as if the practitioner has practiced this skill twice, and naturally has a better understanding of the properties of this true energy. Not only can it exert its maximum power, but it can also control and use it at will.

Zen Buddhism places great emphasis on sudden enlightenment. Since this divine skill is called the Zen of martial arts, it naturally also emphasizes sudden enlightenment. However, this sudden enlightenment is often misinterpreted by the world as a divine skill that is to be practiced and left for others to enjoy.

In fact, only a person of great wisdom and intelligence could create such a unique martial art. The person who created this “Wedding Dress Divine Skill” is a natural genius, unparalleled in the world. If this skill could only be used to benefit others, why would he have gone to the trouble of creating it?

Although Jiang Biehe was very shrewd, his shrewdness was more of a cunning and hypocrisy. He was not very insightful, so he was reluctant to give up his cultivation (mainly because he did not understand it and would rather suffer than become a cripple) and he was also reluctant to pass on his cultivation. Even though he had the cultivation method for the seventh level, he did not dare to continue cultivating.

He wasn’t a ruthless person like Yan Nantian, who forcibly cultivated to the eighth level. The pain he endured was something even Madam Ye (Madam Zhu) couldn’t bear.

For the next sixteen years, Lady Ye devoted herself to cultivating this skill, but the result was the opposite: she became paralyzed. In the end, she unintentionally passed on the skill to Tie Zhongtang, the fourth-generation disciple of the Iron Blood Banner Sect. The internal energy she had cultivated for decades, combined with Tie Zhongtang’s own skill, was so profound that, although it could not be said to be unparalleled in history, few in the martial arts world could match it. This directly propelled Tie Zhongshang to the realm of a Grandmaster of the Innate Realm.

Then Tie Zhongtang received the skill from the Night Emperor, the number one martial artist at the time and the first to truly master the Wedding Dress Divine Skill, and directly became the new number one, known as the number one hero in the Central Plains.

This led to a direct defeat of Dugu Can, the leader of the Western Demonic Sect, and the Wedding Dress Divine Skill became famous, even being hailed as the number one extraordinary skill in the Central Plains martial arts world.

When Jiang Biehe first obtained the Wedding Dress Divine Skill, he was incredibly excited. However, after actually practicing it, he discovered that he wasn’t much stronger than his young master. The sixth level was his limit. Now, whenever he tried to circulate his energy, it felt as if a red-hot knife was cutting into his lower abdomen, causing him unbearable pain.

In the world of martial arts, internal energy cultivation techniques are like an operating system, the foundation of everything. However, internal energy cultivation techniques alone are not enough; you also need the corresponding software that is suitable for this system version, that is, the cultivation techniques that can be matched with it to unleash one’s own power.

Under Liu Xi’s various tricks and coercion, Jiang Biehe mastered three palm techniques: the Great Handprint, the Great Kasyapa Qi Shield, and the Ten Thousand Willows Fluttering Wind Palm Technique.

Although no one knows who created the Wedding Dress Divine Skill, based on its inherent Zen principles and extremely strong and yang characteristics, most people in the martial arts world regard it as the supreme divine skill of the Buddhist Zen sect.

The Mahamudra is called “Mahamudra” in Sanskrit, which means “Heavenly Seal” and is equivalent to the “Buddha’s Mind Seal” in Chinese Buddhism.

“Yin” refers to an official seal, and “Da Yin” specifically refers to the essential teachings or transmission of the Buddha’s teachings.

Mahamudra is the essence of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, and it is also practiced in the Sakya and Gelug schools.

The Mahamudra practice is generally divided into three types: 1. The Mahamudra of Real Abiding.

By studying Buddhist scriptures, or receiving instruction from a teacher, one can understand the principles of “truth” and cultivate meditation and mind according to one’s understanding, so as to resonate with reality; II. The Great Seal of Emptiness and Bliss.

Belonging to the Highest Yoga Tantra, it requires initiation, practice of vase breathing, Vajra recitation, Kundalini, or the union of the two paths to gradually reach a state of abundant breath and tranquil mind, experiencing a meditative feeling of emptiness and bliss non-duality; 3. Mahamudra of Light.

This method relies primarily on the blessings of the guru to achieve sudden enlightenment.

This Mahamudra is the “supreme transmission” of the Mahamudra teachings. It does not require a foundation in Qigong or similar practices, but practitioners must possess superior qualities and encounter a superior guru.

Jiang Biehe’s Great Handprint is the second type of Empty Joy Great Handprint. It is unleashed by the accompanying extremely yang and powerful Wedding Dress True Qi, making it extremely powerful. When used at full strength, it is in no way inferior to the fully mastered Shaolin Vajra Palm. A single palm strike can directly pierce through a three-meter-high artificial mountain.

The Great Kasyapa Aura Shield is a unique, secret, profound, and supreme skill formed by combining the formless divine power and the great power of Prajna in Buddhism. When in stillness, it forms a unified aura shield, leaving no opening for the enemy to exploit. Its range can be large or small, changing according to the user’s will.

The range of distance can vary from several feet to several meters, depending on the practitioner’s skill; closer to the body, it can adhere to the skin.

If gathered in the palm, it can be unleashed with the power to shatter mountains and split peaks, displaying unparalleled might.

This is also one of Liu happy’s signature skills. You might not believe it, but most real eunuchs practiced extremely hard and soft techniques, and most of them were Buddhist Shaolin techniques.

Because real eunuchs are not only not effeminate, but also unable to release their yang energy, they are very suitable for practicing some virginity-based martial arts, which are vigorous and intense.

Well, true castration actually only involves removing the testicles, not the genitals. Complete castration only occurred after the Wanli Emperor’s reign. It’s said to be related to a scandal that happened during his era.

It is said that during the Wanli era, when eunuchs held power (and he was supposedly cuckolded), the Wanli Emperor discovered that even if his testicles were removed, his penis would still develop; if the testicles were not removed completely, it could even still become erect.

During the Wanli Emperor’s reign, a pit was dug up, and urine would leak out incessantly, leaving the man with an unbearable stench.

Only the lucky ones can solve the problem perfectly in one go.

Furthermore, if the patient is young at the time of surgery, the growth may increase in the future, but if it is discovered, it will still need to be removed.

Now it is the Zhengde reign, and Wanli’s father was not even born yet, let alone Wanli, so it is not a complete cut.

The self-castration in the Evil-Repelling Sword Manual is not a complete removal of the penis, but mainly the removal of the testicles. Otherwise, given the current medical technology and sanitation conditions, most of the self-castrated heroes would die from infection.

The Ten Thousand Willows Fluttering Palm Technique is a miraculous martial art recorded in the Pure Yang Manual.

It is a collection of the essence of various schools and sects’ palm techniques, including the Dragon Soaring and Tiger Leaping from the Dragon and Tiger Seven Birds Palm of the Tianshan Sect’s Mountain-Suppressing Palm Technique, the tenth move of the Shaolin Subduing Demon Ten Palms, the Leading Heaven and Absorbing Jade from the Zhongnan Sect’s Scissors Ox Palm Technique, the fourth move of the Spring Butterfly Piercing the Willow from the Kongtong Sect’s Red Belt Ten Forms, and the Horizontal Sweep of Taiping from the Kunlun Sect’s Mountain-Suppressing Flying Rainbow Eight Legs. It is a very powerful martial art collected by the Imperial Palace and can be considered a treasure in the armory. It is also Liu happy’s reward to his adopted son-in-law Jiang Biehe.