Zodiac Guardian

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"Did you say it's the Kylin?" Qi Yue has already caught on to something. He is not a simpleton, but the ideas Xie Zhi has presented are so novel that it's somewhat bemusing.

"That's right, the Kylin. Regardless of how advanced a Kylin's cultivation becomes, its lifespan can never exceed one thousand five hundred years. This is also why the Kirin ultimately went extinct. However, even within this limited lifespan of one thousand five hundred years, if one puts in even a little effort and devoutly cultivates according to the Kylin's methods, they could become an exceedingly strong being in just five hundred years. They could even be on par with a ten-thousand-year fierce beast. This means that the speed of a Kylin's cultivation is twenty times that of other ancient great beasts. Your zodiac partners have all inherited bloodlines that are passed down from ancient great beasts. They can all become powerful through cultivation, so as an inheritor of the King of Divine Beasts, why can't you?"

Qi Yue was overjoyed, "Are you saying that if I cultivate according to the proper method, I can quickly become an eminent expert?"

Xie Zhi responded: "There's something I need to warn or remind you about beforehand. More haste, less speed. Even if you become more powerful, you should always remain humble and downplay your abilities unless necessary. Only by being underestimated by others can you survive better or achieve your goals more easily. Do you understand?"

Qi Yue gave a sly grin, saying: "I get it. You mean to tamp down expectations, right? Pretending to be a pig in order to eat the tiger isn't something I'm opposed to."

Xie Zhi smiled faintly: "As long as you understand. The only reason I helped you ignite the primal force of the Kirin Arm from your Kirin bloodline today was because I had no choice and the dignity of the Kirin is inviolable. However, this can only happen once, from now on you will have to rely on yourself. Do you feel that all your cloud force has already disappeared? That's because the Kirin Arm exhausted the energy inside your body. You need at least a month to recover. Of course, if you cultivate according to the correct methods, this duration would be significantly reduced. To truly use the Kirin Arm and the Nine-character True Words, you need to put forth more effort. Now, we can come back to the initial topic. Didn't you ask me why I ended up inside your body? I can tell you now."

"Why? Because I inherited the bloodline of the Kirin King?"

"You could say that, but not quite. Because the bloodline you inherited is the strongest among the Kylins, so the bloodline passed down from the Kirin King carries a very deep Kirin Origin force. Inside this Origin force, there were some fragments of the Kirin King's Divine Sense. The day when I discovered your Kirin Bloodline, I used my own bloodline as a guide and drew out the residual Divine Sense of the Kirin King. With his approval, I became your shadow. So now, I am your servant. Becoming a Kirin King's shadow is something every Xie Zhi aspire to. Because, once the Kirin King becomes genuinely powerful, as his shadow, it's possible for a hybrid Xie Zhi to transform into a pure-blooded Kirin and ascend to the ranks of the Kirin clan. You need not worry about the Divine Sense of the Kirin King anymore. His last Divine Sense could only instruct me on a few matters and has now completely dissipated. The bloodline of the Kirin King can be said to truly belong to you alone now."

Qi Yue suddenly felt a peculiar sensation surging within his heart, like a gentle emotion filling his body. It reminded him of a father comforting his son. Having been orphaned since childhood, this sudden emotion startled him. For the first time, he felt the reality of the Kirin bloodline he inherited. The presence that felt like a father's touch must have been left by the Kirin King. "It's my honor to be the successor of the Kirin King. Brother Xie Zhi, thank you for telling me all this. As for the shadow, what's the deal with it? You becoming my shadow, how does it affect you and me?"

Xie Zhi seemed to sense the change in Qi Yue's emotions. "Becoming your shadow means I have sealed myself within your body. My breath, bloodline, and abilities will be subtly altered under the influence of your pure Kirin blood. Thus, I can't assist you in battle or become your guardian. However, by becoming your shadow, I can enter your inner world and understand past events, although this understanding only comes once, it's enough for me. By understanding you, I can pass on the knowledge stored in my heart to you according to your character traits and physical condition, assist you in cultivation, and guide you in skills during cultivation. Under special conditions, I can even induce your Kirin bloodline to help you utilize the true power of the Kirin. From its birth, the Kirin growth from weakness to powerful status guided by the shadow can certainly yield twice the results with half the effort. We can say that we benefit each other. My master, I've explained everything. Do you have any more questions?"

Qi Yue shook his head, "Thank you, Brother Xie Zhi, I think I will strive to become a qualified Kirin. Now, I would like you to start teaching me the true method of cultivation. I want to make myself stronger as soon as possible. As a Kirin, I don't want people to look at me the way Ji De did. I want to become a truly strong one."

"Excellent." Xie Zhi bellowed excitedly in Qi Yue's mind, "My words are not in vain. Then let's get started. Remove your upper clothes."

As Qi Yue took off his upper garment, his shoulders, wider than before, were revealed.

"The true method of cultivation is something you need to feel for yourself. I will guide you when you have fallacies in your cultivation. Concentrate. Up next, I will help you induce your Kirin bloodline so that you can experience the mystery of cultivation technique. This is something only you can see." With these words, a scorching hot current suddenly surged from the Dantian in his lower abdomen and go straight to Qi Yue's brain in a straight line.

With the rush of hot waves, the temperature of Qi Yue's body rose sharply. He faintly heard a low roar. Immediately afterward, the Kirin symbol on his chest manifested itself. The massive Kirin pattern spread from his chest to his back, from the illusory to the real, and clearly appeared on his skin. The body was black, the hair was silver, and the intertwined black and silver single horn was an invisible tyranny. For the first time, the four-colored auspicious clouds on its back started moving, each belonging to the four attributes of thunder, fire, water, and wind, appearing under the Kirin's limbs. The Kirin stepped on four clouds, and a layer of black and silver light gradually enveloped Qi Yue's body.

The eyes of the Kirin pattern brightened, the black and silver light flickered and then disappeared. At this moment, Qi Yue had already lost his perception of the outside world. He was surprised to find that he seemed to have entered another place, before his eyes, was a three-dimensional and transparent Kirin body.

The giant Kirin body was slowly rotating. Even though it was transparent, Qi Yue could discern that the Kirin before him was exactly the same as the one depicted on his own body. Just as Qi Yue was puzzled, the memory of his Rise of the Kirin Technique rushed to his mind. Then simultaneous purple, red, blue, and green lights appeared from the bottom of the transparent Kirin. The lights didn't rise as a whole, but turned into thread-like lines, slowly climbing up along the Kirin's limbs. The threads were not complicated, but as they gradually moved towards the Kirin's body and started to intersect with each other, they became increasingly chaotic, leaving Qi Yue confused.

When the four-colored thread-like light covered the entire Kirin body and returned to where it began, the Kirin's figure gradually dimmed. The Kirin that was initially on all fours stood upright and transformed into a humanoid figure, which Qi Yue surprisingly found to resemble himself. The four-color threads appeared again, revealing the Eight Extraordinary Meridians of the human body, which were identical to those depicted in the Rise of the Kirin Technique. As Qi Yue pondered their oddity, the humanoid figure slowly shifted back into the form of a Kirin, and the four-color threads reappeared. But this time, the previously appeared Eight Extraordinary Meridians did not disappear. It was at this moment that Qi Yue had an epiphany, recalling Xie Zhi's words. Indeed, the Rise of the Kirin Technique was a Kirin cultivation method, and the alternating transformations of the humanoid and Kirin figures reflected the way of merging the Rise of the Kirin Technique with the Kirin bloodline! Only by mastering this fusion method could he activate the Kirin bloodline within his body and cultivate as per the Rise of the Kirin Technique. So, the Rise of the Kirin Technique isn't a standalone method of cultivation, but rather a technique for cultivating under the stimulation of the energy within the Kirin bloodline.