Cosmic Demon

Chapter 192 Lao Liang, your apprentice has made great progress!
Qin Shi had just stepped out of the door and had not yet walked out of the alley of Baogong Street when he saw two bicycles leaning against the wall in front and back.

He looked at the two familiar faces acting furtively and said jokingly:

"Brother Yuan, Brother Cheng, long time no see. Why are you still avoiding me? Xiao Zhou said that you two are now bosses, so you don't plan to recognize your former poor buddies anymore? Are you afraid that I will ask you two to borrow money?"

At the end of the alley, Xie Yucheng, whose hair was oiled and combed, and Li Yuan, who was wearing a formal suit and leather shoes, turned around awkwardly and said:
"Ah Shi...Brother Qin. I heard from the neighbors that you returned to Jiuchang Street, so I came here with Brother Yuan to thank you, thank you."

After most of the summer, Xie Yucheng's expression became less immature and frivolous, and he became much more stable.

"We are all brothers, why should we be polite? My elder sister told me that you hired the workers to renovate the shed, and you did the hard work. You also drove the appliances back."

Qin Shi smiled and no longer maintained a calm expression in front of Fang Butang, Kang Yuner and others. As his brows relaxed, he looked more sunny and cheerful like a young man.

"It's just a piece of cake."

Xie Yucheng heaved a sigh of relief when he found that Qin Shi was not as arrogant as he had guessed, and the smile on his face became more genuine.

"Brother Qin, can you tell us about the Top 100 Competition in Tai'an Metropolitan Area? It was all over the TV before, with many powerful figures from the Central City. I only remember one person, Zhou Yuanchen, who was particularly praised..."

Qin Shi sat with the two men at the entrance of the alley. Opposite them was a stall with a red cardboard sign that read "Five Yuan Quick Hair Clippers".

"It's actually a medium-sized competition organized by the Hengzhou Martial Arts Association. Old Zhou is really not bad. I was lucky to beat him. By the way, Brother Yuan, Brother Cheng, how is your business going?"

Qin Shi chatted briefly and then turned the topic to Li Yuan and Xie Yucheng.

"It's OK." After Qin Lihao's death, a new person came to Yuhai Urban Construction. He seemed to be the driver for Qin Renying, the boss of the Qin family, and took over the remaining projects.

But I don’t know who they offended, but the area originally allocated to them was taken back by Tai’an Metropolitan Area, making it impossible for Yuhai Urban Construction to move forward or backward, and they had to withdraw from Jiuchang Street in disgrace.”

Li Yuan, who had been silent all this time, slowly spoke:

"Brother Ze is in jail, and Dean Shen has also disappeared. No one is in charge of the nursing home, so Ayuan and I took the initiative to take over. There is still money in the account, enough to run it for a while.

The elders living in the nursing home are all old people from the Yiquan Society. They don’t want to just eat and wait for death, so they took out their savings and made suggestions, so that Acheng and I could set up a construction team.

Maybe I was lucky, I got the job from Yuhai Construction right after the opening."

As Li Yuan spoke, he glanced at Qin Shi.

The project they undertook happened to be the construction of Nanhuang Taoist Temple.

"God bless you! Brother Yuan, work hard and try to change 'Sang Yun' to 'Sheng Hu' next year!"

Qin Shi thought about it for a while and roughly understood that this was the work of his ninth senior brother Ren You.

It is not surprising that Old Ren is very meticulous and kicked out Yuhai Urban Construction, which has the background of Qin family in Yancheng, and then took special care of Li Yuan and Xie Yucheng, with whom he has a good personal relationship.

"That's a luxury car worth millions! Unless we get all the renovation projects in the eastern suburbs of Dangyang, I'm afraid we'll have to struggle for several more years!"

Xie Yucheng chuckled.

Several people talked to each other in a harmonious atmosphere, which made them relax unconsciously.

No matter friendship or other feelings, what we fear most about those old days is nothing more than these four words: things have changed and people have changed.

"Brother Yuan, can you drive me to Zidi No. 9 Middle School? I'm planning to visit Teacher Liang."

Qin Shi took three bottles of soda from Aunt Zhou's store and shared them with Li Yuan and Xie Yucheng.

"That's definitely no problem. But there is no No. 9 Middle School anymore. It has been changed into a sports school, and Teacher Liang is no longer a teacher.

Brother Qin, are you free tonight? How about... we get together for dinner?"

Xie Yucheng patted his chest to make a guarantee, then asked carefully.

"Tomorrow, Brother Cheng, I just got back and want to spend time with my family."

Qin Shi answered seriously.

"Okay. I'll arrange a place!"

Xie Yucheng nodded happily.

"Let's go to Brother Yuan's place. I really like Uncle Li's cooking skills. It tastes like home."

Qin Shi said with a smile, holding a straw in his mouth.

"Okay. I'll ask my dad to cook some delicious dishes. It's rare for you to come back. The elders of the Yiquan Society said that outstanding talents like you are directly recruited into first-class universities, or even top universities like the four national universities. There will definitely be fewer opportunities to see you again in the future, so let's have a few drinks."

Li Yuan nodded, and the look he gave Qin Shi seemed to have returned to the same intimacy as before.

Qin Shi got into the white classic Sang Yun sedan. Xie Yucheng volunteered to be the driver and pushed Li Yuan to the passenger seat.

While driving, the two kept talking about the changes in Jiuchang Street. Everything was improving steadily and developing rapidly. Even Beiguan Street was no longer as chaotic as it used to be. The phenomena of collecting protection fees and smashing and extortion had sharply decreased.

"Brother Yuan, Brother Cheng, see you tomorrow."

When they arrived at the destination, Qin Shi got out of the car and waved to the back.

When his back disappeared in the direction of the dormitory building, Li Yuan in the co-pilot seat took out his cigarette box and shook out a Limin cigarette.

"Ah Cheng, let's not talk business, let's get along with Ah Shi. We have indeed benefited from Ah Shi's help, but in my heart, he is a buddy, not a big backer who needs to be carefully served everywhere.

Ah Shi won't like the way you were just now, and I can't adapt to it either."

Xie Yucheng, who was in the driving seat, was silent and asked Li Yuan for a cigarette.

He took two deep breaths before speaking:

"I'm wrong, Brother Yuan. I'm mainly worried that Brother Qin is no longer the same as before. Although he grew up in Jiuchang Street like the rest of us, he's now successful. Not only has he moved to the Tai'an metropolitan area, he can also go to the central city whenever he wants.

You don’t know, when I was a kid, my dad worked in a factory, he was in charge of logistics, and many neighbors, relatives and friends who came to visit called him Brother Xie. Later, he was laid off, and there were fewer relatives, so they started calling him Old Xie.

Xie Yucheng smoked quickly, and in the blink of an eye, only half of the cigarette was left. He wiped his slicked-back hair and his cheerful face sank.

"I thought that Brother Qin might not be willing to pay attention to us, so I tried my best to show my performance. I was wrong. Brother Qin is still the same Brother Qin as before."

Li Yuan patted Xie Yucheng on the shoulder, with a smile on his face:
"When Ah Shi goes to the central city, all the people in Hengzhou will see him, and everyone will know about Jiuchang Street. There are not only bad guys here, but also outstanding martial arts heroes!"

……

……

"Master Liang."

Qin Shi pushed open the door of the dormitory building, put down the nutritional supplements in his hand, and said with a smile:

"I am back!"

Old Liang, who was making medicine, was not surprised at all. He sensed when Qin Shi came up the stairs.

"Come if you want to. Why are you carrying things? At my age, alone, why should I take Dihuang Buqi Pills or Liuwei Zhuanggu Powder?"

Qin Shi grinned:
"The big pharmacy downstairs is having a sale. Buy these and get free eggs. I brought you two baskets."

Lao Liang shook his head. As a martial artist who had once entered a professional field, what nutritional supplements did he take?

It is better to sit and practice for a few days, do some boxing and stand in a stance for a few rounds.

"Come here, let me touch you." After Lao Liang adjusted the flame of the coal stove, he waved at Qin Shi:
"Nanhuang Dojo told me that you broke through the professional field barrier and defeated Zhou Yuanchen. I was a little skeptical. After Senior Zhang confirmed it, I completely believed it. Have you broken the fourth limit? The skin level?"

Qin Shi leaned over, took off his shirt, and showed off his muscles.

He used his breathing technique, and his chest rose and fell in a gentle rhythm.

It was no longer like before, making a whirring sound as if a bellows was being pulled.

Immediately afterwards, the bone marrow pumped out boiling hot plasma, which flowed rapidly throughout the body. Waves of heat surged and gradually filled the entire body.

The black dragon-like tendons were pulled and stretched like springs, slowly covering every inch of the body and interweaving into a large net.

Tick.

Because his body temperature rose instantly, beads of sweat oozed out of Qin Shi's forehead. They rolled down one by one, flowing downstream, and then were gently shaken.

"The tendons, bones, and skin have all reached perfection."

A look of relief flashed in Lao Liang's eyes. He exerted strength at the tendons, nourished blood at the bones, and relieved force at the skin.

The Qin Dynasty made rapid progress in these three steps and did a very good job.

"Your bones are tight and solid, your tendons are tough and flexible, and your skin is as smooth as clothes. You have mastered the wonderful meanings of 'emptiness' and 'spirituality'."

Lao Liang leaned on his lame leg, just like the first time he met Qin Shi, he put two fingers together and started from the shoulder and back to the waist and hips, scraping and stabbing like a steel chisel.

"Check" Qin Shi's physical condition bit by bit.

It is most likely to leave hidden injuries when practicing old martial arts.

He was worried that his apprentice might walk too fast or too aggressively and something might go wrong.

The more I look at the results, the more satisfied I am, even a little intoxicated, just like an artist facing a masterpiece of exquisite craftsmanship.

The fingers poked into the bones, as if running towards the steel pillars, and almost broke;
Scraping across the big tendons was like pulling at a strong spring, which could not be pulled apart without great effort;

When the sting hits the surface of the skin, sometimes it feels like sinking into cotton, with nowhere to put force, and sometimes it feels like hitting tanned leather, with no gap to penetrate.

"If your master saw this, he would probably laugh so hard that his mouth couldn't close. Throughout the history of Hongsheng, for hundreds of generations, there are very few people who can achieve a 'perfect body of tendons, bones, skin, and membranes'."

Lao Liang praised it highly and said with emotion:

"I haven't had many good fortunes in my life. It's God's blessing that I can take you as my apprentice."

Qin Shi was like a student who handed in his homework to the teacher for review. After receiving full marks, he quietly put on his shirt.

"Thanks to Master Liang for leading the way, I was able to avoid taking detours."

Lao Liang squatted down with great effort, fiddled with the coal stove, and continued to boil the medicine:
"There are mediocre masters like me who have no skills everywhere. It is rare to find a genius apprentice like you who has outstanding talents and can be called the sun.

Fortunately, I let you enter the Nanhuang Dojo, otherwise I'm afraid I would have delayed you. There's really not much I can teach you now."

Qin Shi also squatted down, sniffing the medicinal smell emanating from the clay pot, and said:

"I still have a lot to learn from Master Liang. Of the Hundred Phases of Refining Techniques, I have only mastered 'Its speed is like the wind' and have entered the realm of 'Invasion is like fire'. I still have a long way to go."

Lao Liang laughed:

"If my master heard you, he would be furious. He barely mastered the three styles at the age of 40. You were distracted by the inheritance of Nanhuang Daoguan, and you also took over He Lanchan's "Void Meditation Method", and you haven't put down the Hundred Aspects Refining Style.

It’s not an exaggeration to call him a genius!”

Qin Shi was ashamed, after all, it was only by relying on cheats to speed up and various features that this progress was guaranteed.

He took out half of the "Blood Flower" from the inside of the Bronze Demon Mountain and handed it to Lao Liang:

"Master Liang, I heard from Lao Zhou that this thing can heal Dao injuries! I finally brought it to you, so eat it while it's hot and see if it works!"

Qin Shi's eyes were bright and full of anticipation.

Although he has not seen Lao Liang display his full strength so far, based on his current vision, he thinks that he should be at least at the fourth level of the professional level. If he were not hindered by his lame leg, he might be able to recover to around the second level of the professional level.

"Hour, you..."

Lao Liang was stunned, looking at the half blood flower that seemed to have been split by a knife, his lips trembling slightly.

It took him a long while to get rid of the complicated emotions, and he slowly turned his face away and said:
“I can’t use it. My Dao injury has been left for too long, causing irreversible damage to my body. Even if my legs are intact, it will be difficult for me to regain my strength.

Using this precious thing to make a cripple walk properly is too extravagant and wasteful! You should keep it to increase your success rate in your professional field!"

Qin Shi seemed to have guessed what Lao Liang would say, and raised his eyebrows with a disdainful look:

"Master Liang, you look down on me too much! A dragon among men, a peerless hero like me, do I need external help? Give me two months, and I will definitely enter the professional field, catch up with Zhou Yuanchen, and defeat him again!"

This was the first time that Qin Shi had made such a serious statement.

He seldom showed the arrogance and disdain that befitted a "young genius" and "top 100 in Hengzhou".

If Kang Yuner saw this, she would definitely get a close-up.

"Little boy, listen to me carefully."

Lao Liang blinked hard as if his eyes were filled with smoke from a coal stove.

"I am already disabled, and I am used to living as a disabled person..."

Qin Shi's face suddenly became serious, and he said in a teaching tone:

"Master Liang, I'm not saying anything bad about you. Your disciple is at least a supernova in the Tai'an metropolitan area, the first in the Hengzhou Top 100 Competition, and one of the future top ten in the new world!

To be honest with you, Kang Yuner, the editor-in-chief of Outlook Weekly, is following up on me and interviewing me. She said she wants to make me a benchmark figure in the Four Alliances region!
The apprentice has achieved such success, but the master is a lame physical education teacher. It would be so embarrassing if the news got out!

It is said that a good teacher produces good students. If the image of the teacher is not good enough, it will affect others' evaluation of me as a student!"

Qin Shi's call was like a legendary hidden weapon from ancient times, a rain of pear blossom needles, coming so densely and quickly that it caught Lao Liang off guard.

He looked at his apprentice's solemn expression and suddenly felt guilty, as if he was a head shorter than him for no reason. He hesitated and asked:

"Is it really...like this?"

Qin Shi's eyes were firm and his tone was determined:
"The prejudices of the world are as huge as a mountain. There is nothing we can do, Master Liang. For the sake of your disciple's future, you must put up with it, obey me, and swallow this.

As for the effect, let’s not talk about it for now! If you insist on not using it, I will be attacked by the Central City Education Department in the future, saying that the supernova of Tai'an Metropolitan Area was taught by a lame physical education teacher and is not worthy of the name... Oh, it might affect my brave and diligent invincible Tao heart, and I will sink from then on! "

Lao Liang felt dizzy and raised his hand with difficulty to take the half blood flower handed to him by Qin Shi.

He opened his mouth and wanted to say something else, but his apprentice raised his hand and clapped his hands:
"Don't waste my breath on this nagging mother-in-law! Master Liang!"

Half of the blood flower immediately entered his mouth, and then turned into strands of blood essence, flowing into his body.

Lao Liang's face was shaking violently, and his tendons, bones, skin, and membranes were all trembling.

Like a dragon shaking its scales, stirring up the water in the rivers!
The extremely terrifying aura was suddenly released, as if breaking through some kind of blockade!
It was as if a torrent squeezed a crack through a thick gate, and then burst out with an impact!

Qin Shi's eyes narrowed, and his mind, which was in the form of a holy fetus, reflected Lao Liang who had taken the blood flower. For no reason, an image of a giant brass spirit that supported the sky and stepped on the earth appeared!

(End of this chapter)