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Chapter 233 - 114: Martial Arts Can Connect to the Divine, Former Subordinates of Taiping Duke_2

Chapter 233: Chapter 114: Martial Arts Can Connect to the Divine, Former Subordinates of Taiping Duke_2

"What is this, endless and unbroken?"

"Should he attack, thinking he has withstood my first move, the Wave-Rolling, he doesn’t realize he has already been drawn into the vortex of my Inner Qi. With but a movement from me, he will be deep within the vortex, unable to escape, trapped and easily slain!"

"Come, look again. If you control the Inner Qi like this, hey, doesn’t the vortex reverse its original direction?"

"Isn’t this the cycle of Yin and Yang, ever-changing and infinite, able to be positive or negative, controlled at will?"

"Hahaha, marvelous, truly marvelous!"

Chen Chengbi had won the vortex contest against Li Guanyi, and he laughed in triumph.

And Li Guanyi, watching the changing vortex coalesce, felt as if his mind had been suddenly blown wide open.

The original Wave-Rolling had been a complete imitation of General Xue; what the old man divulged unintentionally was clearly a profound mystery of Martial Arts. Li Guanyi had an inkling, feeling that his own Wave-Rolling might undergo a significant transformation.

This Absolute Skill would eventually take a different path from General Xue’s.

Chen Chengbi slapped his forehead and said,

"Look at me, where was I? Back to ’Mountain Shattering,’ our ancestor later found that it was ’Wave-Rolling’ that could vary greatly, which he couldn’t break through. After much contemplation, one day he climbed South Mountain to gaze afar and saw thousands of mountains and rivers, and suddenly he understood and burst into laughter."

"Ancestor said, ’Mountain Shattering’ is not just about one layer?!"

"Mountains are a multitude, countless!"

"How can my Jin Qi be limited to a single layer?"

"Thus, he comprehended the fundamentals of the ’Six Void Four Union Divine Skill.’

"After several generations of ancestors perfected it, we now have this Divine Skill capable of swallowing many forms of Jin Qi. At first, it was an ordinary Inner Qi, but the more Inner Qi it sees and the more varied Jin Qi it devours, the stronger the Jin Qi of this skill becomes."

Chen Chengbi grabbed a stone and then crushed it, shaking his hand and tossing it.

Each stone precisely shattered a vortex, and the old man said, "Just like this."

"If one trains to Great Success, punching out will release many forms of Jin Qi, be it cold or hot, or overbearing or gentle, almost like countless masters fighting the enemy together. And if with this Cultivation Technique, one operates ’Mountain Shattering,’ one can truly have the grandeur of ’a mountain beyond mountains, thousands of mountains and rivers rolling in.’"

"And that ’Vast Sea Strength’ also has such variations. When you cultivate this method, you can command the Red Dragon for your own use. At that time, your punch will possess the dual strength of the Red Dragon and the White Tiger. Isn’t that wonderful?"

Chen Chengbi was practically dancing with excitement as he said this.

Even happier than Li Guanyi himself.

This joy was pure, simply the delight in witnessing the mysterious aspects of Martial Arts come to life.

Li Guanyi said,

"Then, senior, I will go to the back. Would you care to demonstrate the second layer as well?"

Chen Chengbi’s hearty laughter came to an abrupt halt.

He glared at Li Guanyi, "Don’t talk nonsense, boy, I won’t teach it, not at all!"

"The first layer accommodating three types of Jin Qi is a big gain for you, kiddo. If it weren’t for your commendable loyalty and the fact that you are from the Xue Family, why would this old fellow teach you?"

"Had my father been alive, I would have been hung up and whipped to death with a Golden Buckle."

Chen Chengbi realized he had misspoken, and he struck his own mouth twice with his hand.

Then, turning around, he knelt in the direction of the imperial mausoleum and knocked his forehead on the ground three times, saying,

"Dad, don’t listen to your son’s nonsense, your son hasn’t taught outsiders."

"You heard wrong."

Li Guanyi found this old man quite different from when they had met before, leading the Imperial Guard in pursuit of Yue Qianfeng. Most of the injuries on Yue Qianfeng’s body seemed to have been inflicted by this elder. After all this, Chen Chengbi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He sat down, looking at Li Guanyi, and said irritably, "However, having received benefits from this old man, you must remain loyal to your family and the court, boy."

"Not like Wan Li and Puyang, those two youths."

A hint of sadness appeared on the elder’s face: "More than a decade ago, Prince Puyang was cunning. He deceived me, saying there was a treasure in Kunlun containing the Divine Skills of the Kunlun Sword Sect from three thousand years ago. Excited, I set out, rode thirty horses to death, and finally climbed Kunlun Mountain."

"I fought a white bear as big as the mountain’s peak, and when I brought the White Jade down from the mountain, only then did I find out that the world had changed, Puyang had rebelled and failed. Riding back to the great sacrifice, I saw Qingyan hold off the Night Rider Cavalry."

"It was also after the fire that day that Qingyan gave up her own Martial Arts and switched to cultivating ’Kunlun Heart Skills,’ the Divine Skill with cold attributes. Tell me, why do people fight like this among themselves?"

"They all used to get along well."

The old man muttered, sighed deeply, his hair already graying, looked at Li Guanyi, and with a smile, said, "Anyway, you don’t know who’s who, so this old fellow can only complain to someone like you who doesn’t know anything."

"And I can’t talk about it with outsiders."

"Holding it in makes it hard to eat."

His face showed true melancholy.

Li Guanyi thought for a moment and then asked back, "Then, if there’s a conflict between the Chen Country’s common people and the court, say between a corrupt official and the people, where do I stand to be considered loyal?"

This question seemed to burn the old man’s brain.

His contemplation of Martial Arts could be extrapolated from one to many, enough to give Li Guanyi insight into Wave-Rolling and Mountain Shattering by chance. But such complex matters furrowed his brows, had him scratching his head and ears, and after a long while, he said, "It would be the people, I suppose."

The elder continued, "I haven’t read many books, but I’ve seen pigs run without having eaten pork."

"If a foolish monarch is in power, it’s the officials’ duty to make a change. When I roamed the Martial World, I met the Master of the Gongyang School. He had many views, and when I was young, they made my head spin to the point I almost dozed off; I only remember clearly two sentences."