Narration System for the Journey of Martial Arts

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"I've been in seclusion for the past few days. I didn't know that Bai Wanjian of the Snow Mountain Sect had gone to the Chang Le Gang."

"Later, Bei Haishi told me that Bai Wanjian had asked me for information, and I think he was looking for the two of them."

"It just so happens that the Chang Le Gang still has some influence in the Central Plains. After some effort, we found the two of them and had them intercepted on the Yangtze River."

"Hmph!" Shi Xiaocui snorted coldly and said, "I will not go back to the Great Snow Mountain."

Su Yuchen said...

"Whether you return to the Great Snow Mountain or not is none of my business, and I don't care. But no matter how you look at it, this little girl's injury can be attributed to Shi Zhongyu."

"Although I don't want to get involved with him, now that I know, I should give this girl some compensation. You have no choice but to accept it."

"Hey!" Shi Xiaocui said, "There are even cases of forcibly offering benefits to others!"

Su Yuchen nodded and said, "That's just how I am. If I'm going to do something, I won't do it at all; if I'm going to do it, I have to do it."

After saying that, he looked at Shi Xiaocui and said, "Your hands have now recovered. You can slowly open up the remaining acupoints on your own. I want to take this time to teach this little girl some things."

After saying that, he walked to Ah Xiu's side, picked up the little girl, and carried her to the cave entrance so that Shi Xiaocui could see her but not hear their voices. He said...

"From now on, stop practicing your grandmother's unorthodox internal skills. I'll teach you a new one."

"This internal energy cultivation method can unify the scattered true energy in your body, help you regulate your meridians, and restore them to normal."

"You must write this down carefully..."

After saying that, he explained the abridged version of the Yi Jin Jing, which he had taught Xie Yanke, to the little girl sentence by sentence.

Shi Xiaocui glanced at it from afar, then angrily went to open her acupoints herself.

For the next ten days or so, Su Yuchen took time every day to explain the Yi Jin Jing to the little girl, guiding her to open up her acupoints, open up her meridians, and return her scattered true qi to her dantian.

More than ten days later, the little girl had unblocked all the acupoints on her hands and legs. Shi Xiaocui had also opened up the meridians in her legs and was able to walk outside the cave.

………………

That day, Su Yuchen returned from collecting purple energy at the highest point of the mountain and saw the little girl waving a tree branch outside the cave. Shi Xiaocui sat cross-legged beside her, explaining the sword technique to her.

Seeing Su Yuchen approach, Shi Xiaocui didn't avoid him and continued explaining the sword technique to the little girl until the girl finished the last move. Only then did she say triumphantly...

"Grandma's swordsmanship is specifically designed to counter that old geezer's swordsmanship."

"When we get back to Lingxiao City, we'll give him a good slap in the face and see how he still has the nerve to call himself 'Mr. Weed.' 'Weed and Weed,' indeed! Pah! Pah! Pah!"

"Didn't he call himself the Snow Mountain Sword Technique? Our sword technique is called the Golden Crow Sword Technique, specifically designed to counter him and prevent him from seeing the sun."

"Grandma..." Seeing her like this, Ah Xiu called out helplessly from the side.

Shi Xiaocui, who had been feeling smug, was immediately enraged when she saw Su Yuchen shaking his head dismissively. She exclaimed, "What? You look down on my Golden Crow Saber Technique?"

Su Yuchen nodded and said, "It's crude and vulgar, full of flaws in its moves. I really can't stand it."

“You…” Shi Xiaocui was furious.

Su Yuchen reached out and grabbed a dry branch from the side, saying...

"I learned some of the Snow Mountain School's sword techniques a few years ago, but I don't remember them all; there were only about twenty moves."

“I will use the first move of the Snow Mountain Sword Technique, ‘Welcoming Guests with the Pine Tree,’ to break your Golden Crow Saber Technique.”

After saying that, he beckoned to Ah Xiu and said, "If your grandma doesn't believe me, then let's show her. Come on!"

Before Ah Xiu could answer, Shi Xiaocui, unable to contain her anger, shouted from the side, "Ah Xiu, you can use the Golden Crow Saber Technique. I want to see what tricks this kid can pull off with his Snow Mountain Sword Technique."

Helpless, Ah Xiu could only step forward and say, "Brother, please be careful."

After saying that, he made a move called "opening the door to welcome the thief," seemingly bowing with his hands clasped, but as he bent over, he swung the tree branch, aiming for Su Yuchen's vital waist and abdomen.

With a flick of his withered branch, Su Yuchen unleashed a move called "Welcoming Guests with Pine Trees," a move that was originally countered by "Opening the Door to Thieves." However, he struck first and hit Ah Xiu's wrist.

Ah Xiu exclaimed "Ah!" and immediately changed her move to "Plum Blossoms Meet Summer," a sword technique with five or six variations that enveloped Su Yuchen's sword tip, aiming to completely encircle it within the sword's wind.

Su Yuchen used the same move, "Welcoming Guests with Pine Trees," where a withered branch would touch A Su's branch, each time striking a crucial point in her transformation.

In this way, the two went back and forth, and no matter how Ah Xiu changed her moves, Su Yuchen only responded with the move "Welcoming Guests from the Pine Tree".

Until the little girl finished using her last move, the Golden Crow Saber Technique, all seventy-three saber techniques were defeated by Su Yuchen's single move.

Shi Xiaocui sat to the side with an extremely ugly expression. She couldn't understand why her Golden Crow Saber Technique couldn't even break the first move of the Snow Mountain Sword Technique.

Chapter 100: Instruction on the Sword Technique, Returning to the Chang Le Gang

Su Yuchen smiled slightly at the little girl, looked at Shi Xiaocui who was muttering to herself, and said...

"How is that possible?"

"You created the Golden Crow Blade Technique, but can you really use it?"

Shi Xiaocui looked up and said, "This is a sword technique that I created myself. How could I not know how to use it? Do you look down on me?"

Su Yuchen gestured for the little girl to go aside, then held up the branch in his hand and said, "I haven't formally studied swordsmanship. Since you say you can use it, then I'll show you my Golden Crow Sword Technique."

After saying that, Su Yuchen waved the withered branch in his hand and used the same move, "Open the door to let the thief in." When he used it, the blade felt like it was impossible to avoid, like the rays of the sun, which were all-encompassing. No matter how you dodged, it would still cut you.

Then, with a move called "Plum Blossoms Meet Summer," Su Yuchen's technique seemed to illuminate everything like the sun, leaving both plum blossoms and snow-capped mountains shrouded in his blade, with no escape.

As Su Yuchen unleashed his seventy-three sword techniques, they acquired an additional aura of melting heaven and earth and shattering mountains.

"How is it?" Su Yuchen threw down the branch in his hand and looked at Shi Xiaocui.

Looking at the incredulous Shi Wanxiaocui, Su Yuchen shook his head and said...

"Martial arts are not practiced like this. You treat a mere set of sword and saber techniques as if they were secrets you don't want to share."

"Martial arts are static, but people are dynamic."

"Since your sword technique is called the Golden Crow Sword Technique, it should have the aura of a golden crow illuminating the heavens and earth, melting away all things in the universe. What you've used is at best the Candlelight Sword Technique!"

"Of course, you've only seen and learned the Snow Mountain Sword Technique. Talking to you about these things would be like talking to a brick wall; it would be of no use."

After saying that, he said to Ah Xiu, who was standing next to Shi Xiaocui, "From today onwards, I will explain the true Golden Crow Saber Technique to you."

After the meal, Su Yuchen didn't hide from Shi Xiaocui. Right at the cave entrance, he explained the variations of the Golden Crow Saber Technique to Axiu, detailing the changes contained in each move and the corresponding situations.

It took a whole day of explanation to fully elucidate the variations inherent in swordsmanship.

The next day, after Su Yuchen returned from collecting the purple energy, he practiced with her outside the cave, using various moves to train her and try to familiarize her with the variations of swordsmanship.

The young girl was indeed clever and quick-witted. In just three days, she had already mastered most of the changes. The remaining problems were insufficient internal energy and inadequate transitions between changes, which would require time to resolve.

Su Yuchen couldn't help but admire the girl's quick wit and agility: "This sword technique should have been the perfect match for the Purple Cloud Divine Skill, but unfortunately, it is a secret technique that Mount Hua does not pass down."

On the morning of the fourth day, after collecting the purple energy, Su Yuchen left without saying goodbye, knocked down a large tree in the forest, and crossed the river.

By the time the grandfather and grandson realized what was happening, Su Yuchen had already drifted away on a tree trunk, and they could only see his back in the distance.

………………

"Boss, you're back?"

As soon as Su Yuchen returned to the headquarters of the Chang Le Gang, Bei Haishi approached him.

Su Yuchen asked while sipping his tea, "What's wrong? Is something the matter?"

Bei Haishi said, "Chief, the four major sects of Guandong: Fan Yifei, the 'Crane of Liaodong'; Feng Liang, the 'Nine-Section Whip' of the Qinglong Sect of Jinzhou; Lü Zhengping, the 'Purple Gold Saber' of Changbai Mountain; and Gao Sanniang of Wanma Village, among others, have gathered to pay their respects."

"What for?" Su Yuchen asked curiously.

Bei Haishi coughed twice and sighed...

"The gang leader may not know, but our former gang leader, Situ Heng, became sworn siblings with these four people in Guandong."

"Two years ago, Chief Situ... unfortunately passed away from illness. When these four people in Guandong found out, they insisted on making a fuss, saying that someone in the gang had committed treason and killed Chief Situ."

"These four have stirred up quite a bit of momentum and come with the prestige of righteousness, but our gang cannot ignore them."

"Heh!" Su Yuchen said with a half-smile...

"Since that's the case, then you should deal with it. You know best how Situ Heng died."

"You handle all the affairs of the Chang Le Gang, so I don't need to get involved. You can deal with these things yourself."

Bei Haishi coughed a few more times and said helplessly...

"I didn't want to trouble the leader."

"But... but those four from Guandong have invited Shaolin Zen Master Puyuan, the Xuan Su Zhuang couple Shi Qing, and Wu Yuan Gu and Bai Hao Tian from the Seven Swords of Jiangnan to be witnesses. They want to confront us."

“Now, the gang leader has no choice but to step in. I lack the prestige and authority to lead the Chang Le Gang, so it would be too disrespectful to these gentlemen!”

"When will they arrive?" Su Yuchen asked.

Bei Haishi said, "The people all agreed to meet on the Double Ninth Festival."

Su Yuchen nodded and said, "I can step in at that time, but you will have to deal with everything yourselves. I won't interfere."

Bei Haishi was overjoyed. He coughed a few times and said, "As long as the gang leader is willing to step forward, I will handle the rest."

Su Yuchen nodded, indicating that he could leave.

Bei Haishi took out a brocade box from his sleeve, opened it to reveal a ginseng that had already taken on a human shape, and said, "This is a ginseng that my brothers specially asked a ginseng farmer to pick from the depths of Changbai Mountain, and we are presenting it to the gang leader."

Su Yuchen took it and examined it carefully for a moment. He was extremely satisfied and nodded, saying, "Not bad, the ginseng is very well preserved."

He put away the brocade box and said, "You've put in a lot of effort! You don't need to worry about the reward and punishment decree anymore. I probably won't be leaving again. I'll go after I accept the decree."

Bei Haishi was overjoyed and bowed, saying, "The Chief's kindness is immense; the entire Chang Le Gang is deeply grateful."

Su Yuchen waved his hand, indicating that he could leave. Bei Haishi was not annoyed at all, and with a happy expression, he backed away.

………………

After Bei Haishi left, Su Yuchen looked at the ginseng in the brocade box and was immediately overjoyed. He went to the medicine room next door to prepare new medicine.

It wasn't until evening that Su Yuchen emerged, reeking of medicine. He was now preparing to refine a Five Elements Pill to strengthen his internal organs, so that he could master the Five Elements Six Harmonies Palm technique.

At that time, one will be in harmony with the outside world, and one's body will be as strong as diamond. I wonder if one can reach the state of Bodhidharma, who was indestructible, unharmed by fire, unextinguished by water, and immune to all poisons.

In this way, Su Yuchen immersed himself in his daily routine of cultivation and alchemy, which made him overjoyed.

The day after he returned, Xie Yanke made a rare visit. The half-mad and half-paralyzed Shi Zhongyu and Su Ziye had been handed over to Shi Qing and his wife.

Shi Qing and Min Rou were heartbroken to see their son Shi Zhongyu turn out like that, but there was nothing they could do now.

The main reason is that they are no match for Xie Yanke, and at least the feud with the Snow Mountain Sect has been resolved, and the reputation of Xuan Su Manor has been preserved.

To their delight, Shi Zhongyu finally had an heir, and it was very likely to be a boy. It was quite an unexpected surprise, so the couple were extremely satisfied with her.

The Shi Qing couple had reservations about Su Yuchen's actions, saying that he had personally injured his twin brother so badly and that he had no intention of acknowledging his parents or returning to his ancestral home.

Su Yuchen simply smiled dismissively at these remarks and didn't say anything more. If the Shi couple continued to pester him, he wouldn't be polite either.

"If that child proves to be promising in the future, I would be grateful if you could take care of him and pass on the Yi Jin Jing to him. If he is not, then just pretend you didn't see it."

After saying this, Su Yuchen ended the conversation and devoted himself to cultivation and alchemy.

Chapter 101 The Power of the Tiger Hall

Three months passed in this way.

As Su Yuchen mastered the Five Elements and Six Harmonies Palm and refined his internal organs, he successfully merged with the Bodhidharma Yi Jin Jing and the Golden Lock Divine Illumination Technique.

I felt that my blood and energy were vigorous and powerful, flowing like a great river. Every move I made had the strength of a bear or a tiger. Even without using lightness skills, I could move as fast as a galloping horse, and my breath was long and smooth without any hesitation.

Its skin is supple and, under the sunlight, it shines and glows like ivory. Ordinary sword strikes can only leave a faint white mark.

Moreover, as time goes by, his physical strength, blood and energy are slowly increasing, moving closer to the indestructible body of Bodhidharma.

Su Yuchen was like a furnace of qi and blood, constantly refining his vast and boundless essence into qi, and then into spirit, making his inner light ever stronger.

………………

The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the Double Ninth Festival.

Around noon, Bei Haishi arrived at Su Yuchen's residence. He bowed and greeted him through the door, saying, "Chief, everything is ready. I have come to invite you to the Fierce Tiger Hall!"

As the door opened, Su Yuchen stood in the sunlight. The young man was dressed in a blue robe, his long hair tied back with only a copper ring. He was simple, yet in the sunlight, he looked like an immortal, his whole being glowing.

Even Bei Haishi, who had met him several times before, was stunned for a moment and exclaimed, "The gang leader's skill is astounding, like that of an immortal!"

Hearing Bei Haishi's compliment, Su Yuchen nodded and said, "Since we're here, let's go!"

Bei Haishi immediately led the way, heading towards the Fierce Tiger Hall.