A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Chapter 150: Making a Living
Once he carefully studied and deeply understood the Yuan style among these three styles, he even had a unique ability to break down any sword technique.

In other words, he can break down any sword technique into a combination of Yuan styles.

This opened up a new field for him, who had been thinking hard before but had been unable to find a way to integrate his ideas.

"Introduce the Yuan style into the fusion!" Duan Rong thought with a twinkling look in his eyes.

Duan Rong started trying it as soon as he thought about it!
But after trying it, Duan Rong suddenly became discouraged. He thought the fusion was too simple. Even if he could separate the sword skills, how could he combine them after separating them?
As the saying goes, it is easy to destroy but difficult to create!
No wonder Mr. Xiao spent his entire life thinking hard and only learned three incomplete moves!
If you want to create martial arts from the Yuan style level, the difficulty is not reduced but increased.

As soon as Duan Rong found that it was not working, he quickly adjusted his thinking and returned to the fruit of Mr. Xiao's life's hard work, which was these three incomplete moves!

Based on this, embark on the road of integration!
Fill different moves into the intervals between these three moves, integrate them, and advance into different sword moves!
Before, Duan Rong only tried the Five Tigers and Sheep Sword that he was most familiar with, but now, he wanted to open his mind and include all the sword moves from more than ten minor sword techniques that he had absorbed and digested into the scope of integration.

For example, the loop attack structure of the first style!

Before, he used the Black Tiger Climbing the Mountain and Leopard Diving into the Forest from the Five Tigers and Sheep Swords, but now he decided to incorporate the Rough Ox Sword and the Abi Sword into the first style's loop attack structure.

The Mangniu sword technique is fierce and powerful, while the Abi sword technique is sinister and treacherous. These two sword techniques are intertwined with each other in a way that is incredible and must have miraculous effects!

It felt good to think about it, but when it came to really trying to incorporate the two different sword techniques into the first move, Duan Rong failed after several attempts. This was because the martial art that Xiao Zongting was most familiar with in his life was the Five Tigers and Sheep Sword, and he put the most effort into this sword technique, so he created these three incomplete moves, which were vaguely based on the Five Tigers and Sheep Sword.

Therefore, when Duan Rong switched to other sword techniques, he suddenly felt that the difficulty increased greatly!
After a series of attempts, Duan Rong felt that this closed-door approach was not working. He suddenly remembered the time when Liu Ao suddenly attacked him during the escort mission. It was during that life-and-death trial that he suddenly performed a sword flower that combined the techniques of the Mang Niu sword technique and the Abi sword technique.

"Looks like I need to find someone to help me!"

"Only actual combat can bring out true knowledge!"

Duan Rong thought with twinkling eyes.

As for finding someone to teach him tricks, the Yuanshun Escort Agency was full of skilled fighters, but apart from the Xiao family, there was no one he could trust.

But this is normal. One of the workplace rules in the previous life was not to make friends with colleagues.

Duan Rong's eyes lit up, and he suddenly thought of a suitable candidate.

He stood in the yard, thinking of Ximen Kankan’s chubby, white face!
With such a childish face, he always acted like an adult. Duan Rong couldn't help but smile and said to himself, "I wonder if Ximen Kankan has found the Dragon Flame Fat for me? I should go ask him tomorrow."

Duan Rong looked at the sky and felt that it was almost time, so he went to the medicine furnace room to drink the medicine. After drinking the medicine, Duan Rong returned to Liu Lu's yard and stood in the yard in the Hunyuan Posture until midnight before going to bed.

The next morning, Duan Rong climbed out of the spacious carved bed, feeling a little dizzy. He was shy when sleeping, and he needed some time to adapt to the new environment.

Duan Rong walked to the yard with sleepy eyes, scooped cold water from the large water tank at the kitchen door with a ladle, and washed his face.

Duan Rong walked to the willow tree by the wall, broke off a willow branch, bit off one end of the branch with his teeth, then picked up the branch, bit off the other end, and started brushing his teeth with it.

After brushing his teeth, Duan Rong scooped up some water with a ladle and rinsed his mouth. He felt his mouth was quite refreshed and exclaimed, "It's really convenient to brush your teeth in Liulu!"

After Duan Rong finished washing and getting dressed, he left Liulu and went to the canteen in the central courtyard to have breakfast. He then prepared to leave the escort agency and go to Ximen Mansion.

But just as Duan Rong reached the door of the escort agency, he was stopped by the doorman Ma Wentao.

"Master Duan, my daughter said that she would treat you to a meal in the backyard tonight. She will cook for you herself and thank you Master Duan!"

Duan Rong said with a smile: "Uncle Ma, please tell Madam Chunying that there is no need to do this. I am just an apprentice escort and I cannot take on this responsibility!" "Oh... no way, you saved my little grandson, so you are the benefactor of our family, how can I not take on this responsibility?" Ma Wentao said: "Escort Master Duan, please don't refuse!"

Duan Rong saw that he couldn't refuse, so he nodded and agreed.

Seeing that Duan Rong agreed, Ma Wentao walked back to the duty room with satisfaction.

Duan Rong looked at Ma Wentao's back and shook his head secretly. Although he wanted to concentrate on cultivation, this kind of worldly social engagements were inevitable no matter which world he was in.

Duan Rong walked along West Street towards Ximen Mansion.

Duan Rong arrived in front of Ximen's mansion and was about to walk up the stone steps to knock on the door when suddenly a sedan chair stopped not far away. Duan Rong glanced sideways and saw Shi Kang, Ximen Kankan's servant, coming out of the sedan chair carrying a food box.

As soon as Shi Kang got off the sedan, he saw Duan Rong standing on the stone steps. His eyes lit up immediately and he trotted over and said, "Master Duan, my young master has asked me to go to the escort agency to look for you several times these days, but you were not here!"

"I haven't been in the escort agency recently." Duan Rong smiled, glanced at the food box in Shi Kang's hand, and said, "Did you go to buy breakfast for that shorty?"

"Shorty?" Shi Kang was stunned for a moment, not understanding what Duan Rong meant.

"Oh." Duan Rong looked at Shi Kang's expression, touched his nose awkwardly, and said, "It's your young master."

Shi Kang has known about the relationship between this escort and his young master these days. Unlike ordinary people, Ximen Kankan has repeatedly called Duan Rong "big brother" when mentioning him.

Shi Kang thought that Shorty was a nickname between them, so he didn't dare to get angry and replied, "Oh...my young master suddenly said he wanted to eat barbecue. He asked me to go to the restaurant and buy some ready-made pickled meat!"

Duan Rong listened, shook his head secretly, and sighed: This shorty is so willful! He insists on eating barbecue so early in the morning!

When Shi Kang and Duan Rong arrived at Yanxueju together, Ximen Kankan had already lit a fire at the door. It was a hot day and Ximen Kankan was sweating profusely while lighting the fire.

When Shi Kang saw Ximen Kankan starting a fire, he immediately shouted: "My little master! You won't let me do this kind of work? Be careful not to get a heat stroke again, or I will skin you alive."

Ximen Kankan turned around and was about to say something when he suddenly saw Duan Rong. He jumped up with his round body and shouted, "Where have you been recently? I've asked Shi Kang to go to the escort agency every other day, but I've never seen you?!"

Duan Rong looked at Ximen Kankan, whose face was covered with charcoal dust, and said with a smile, "I am an escort! Of course I have to escort! Do you think everyone can be like you, with a father who runs a herbal medicine shop?"

Ximen Kankan blinked his eyes and said, "Why don't you come to my house and be a security guard? I'll give you an easy job, and we can catch chickens and fight dogs every day, wouldn't that be fun?"

"I have a legitimate business, who would fight with you?" Duan Rong rolled his eyes at Ximen Kankan. Although his identity as an escort seemed insignificant, the Yuanshun Escort Agency was one of the major forces in Xiangu County after all. With this identity, at least no one dared to provoke him for no reason. Moreover, he had a contract with the Yuanshun Escort Agency, and he could not leave just because he wanted to.

"Isn't it tiring to escort every day?"

“It’s hard work, but I feel at ease!”

Ximen Kankan glanced at Duan Rong and knew that Duan Rong had made up his mind and would not listen to him, so he said no more. However, he seemed to understand what Duan Rong meant.

Ximen Kankan was cheerful by nature, and seeing that Duan Rong had no intention, he had already let the matter go.

"Come, grill with me!" Ximen Kankan picked out a large chicken leg and a piece of pork belly from the pickled meat that Shi Kang bought from the restaurant, squatted beside the fire, and started grilling...

(End of this chapter)