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

Chapter 151 Thunder Smoke Knife
Ximen Kankan was grilling the food and sprinkling spices on it. Duan Rong walked over and sighed, "Who wants to eat barbecue so early in the morning?"

Ximen Kankan smiled and said, "I don't just do it for the food, I just enjoy the process. It's called interest..."

Ximen Kankan spoke in a rhythmic manner, and Duan Rong laughed silently in his heart. This short and fat guy's problem of bags under his eyes came back again.

"Shi Kang, bring a jar of aged wine from the cellar." Ximen Kankan turned his head and ordered.

Upon hearing this, Shi Kang turned around and left immediately.

Duan Rong saw Shi Kang leaving, glanced around, walked a few steps closer, and asked quietly: "Is there any news about Long Yanzhi?"

Ximen Kankan was flipping a piece of pork belly and sprinkling spices on it. Hearing this, he glanced around and said, "Not yet! I think it will be soon. According to the date, Lao Qin should be back in the next few days!"

Since there is still no news about Long Yanzhi, he can only wait a little longer. However, he came here to teach Ximen Kankan a lesson, so he doesn't have the time to stay here and barbecue with him.

"Hi!" Duan Rong called out to Ximen Kankan.

"What?"

"Shall we fight each other?"

"What?" Ximen Kankan was stunned and asked, "Gambling?"

"What gambling? Sword skills!" Duan Rong patted the oxtail knife tied around his waist and said.

"You're sick! Why spend such a great time using swordsmanship? Fighting and killing, burning pianos and cooking cranes, it really ruins the scenery!" Ximen Kankan said, glancing at Duan Rong.

Burning the piano and cooking the crane?! When did you become elegant?

Duan Rong wanted to mock Ximen Kankan, but when he saw the look Ximen Kankan gave him, he suddenly stopped talking, because he saw a hint of real reluctance in Ximen Kankan's eyes.

Duan Rong immediately understood that this guy didn't like practicing martial arts at all! Not only did he dislike it, but looking at his eyes, he was simply annoyed.

Although Ximen Kankan was gifted, he really hated practicing. If his father Ximen Yong hadn't pushed him every day, he would never have been able to achieve the fourth level of internal energy.

However, after he achieved the fourth level of inner energy, his father saw that it would be no problem for him to be admitted to Taiyi Sect, so he was not so strict with him later on.

By this calculation, Ximen Kankan has only been living a carefree life for half a year!

Duan Rong's eyes flickered, and he said, "How about this! You fight with me, and I'll draw you a pornographic picture!"

"Really?" Ximen Kankan was startled, his eyes sparkling as he asked, "Just like last time?"

"Yeah." Duan Rong nodded.

"Then...deal!"

Ximen Kankan's eyes flickered, and he said, "Let me make it clear first. Can you practice with me for a few days and give me a painting?"

"Five days!"

"Three days!" Ximen Kankan bargained.

"Okay, just three days!" Duan Rong was too lazy to waste words with him. After all, it wasn't a big deal for him to draw a pornographic picture.

“Well, come on!” Ximen Kankan drew out the crescent-shaped scimitar from his waist, looked at Duan Rong and said, “I’m practicing a sword technique passed down from our Ximen family, the Thunder Smoke Blade! Be careful!”

Ximen Kankan was about to attack when he said this. Duan Rong immediately shouted, "Wait a moment!"

"what happened?"

"What state are you in?"

"The fourth level, the realm of great success!"

Duan Rong's breathing stagnated, he was slightly surprised, and thought to himself: Is this shorty so powerful?

"I am only at the second level of mastery. Please control your internal energy and don't let my weapon fly away."

"Got it. Come on."

Duan Rong drew out his oxtail knife, and the two of them exchanged several moves in an instant.

At first, it was just a test, neither of them opened up, Ximen Kankan began to suppress his internal energy a little bit, and was shocked so much that his tiger's mouth trembled, but he immediately raised his internal energy a little, and basically matched Duan Rong. Duan Rong suddenly performed the Cloud Snake Step, and used all the moves he thought about in the experiment, but Ximen Kankan was calm and relaxed, and he easily resolved them all.

After a few moves, Ximen Kankan suddenly hit the blade of the oxtail knife in Duan Rong's hand with the handle of his knife, which immediately disrupted Duan Rong's moves. Then he jumped up and slashed with his knife, cutting off a strand of Duan Rong's hair.

Ximen Kankan grabbed the broken hair, looked at Duan Rong and said with a smile: "Broken hair is like broken head, you lose!"

Duan Rong nodded and praised: "Good swordsmanship!"

Ximen Kankan's swordsmanship is indeed powerful, sometimes as fast as thunder, and sometimes with repeated false moves, like clouds and mist!

Duan Rong murmured: "Thunder Smoke Blade..."

Ximen Kankan smiled happily when he heard Duan Rong's praise. Just as he was about to show off, he suddenly heard Shi Kang's voice behind him, saying, "Young Master! The meat is burnt!"

"Oh no!" Ximen Kankan jumped up and ran towards the fire at the door of Xueyanju.

Ximen Kankan looked at the blackened pork belly and chicken legs and felt very distressed. He had sprinkled a lot of spices on them and even brushed them with a layer of honey.

Ximen Kankan took the burnt meat off and handed it to Shi Kang, saying coldly, "Shi Kang, feed it to the dog!"

Shi Kang took it, looked at the black meat in his hand, and wondered, "Is this... something that dogs can eat?"

"The dog doesn't eat it, so you eat it." Ximen Kankan glared at Shi Kang angrily.

Shi Kang was yelled at for no reason and had no choice but to take the burnt meat to feed the dog.

On the grass over there, Duan Rong was brandishing his oxtail knife, his moves were intermittent, and he would stop there from time to time to ponder for a long time...

He reorganized his thoughts based on the gains and losses from his previous fight with Ximen Kankan...

Ximen Kankan's use of the Leiyan Knife was extremely exquisite and indeed gave Duan Rong a lot of inspiration!

Seeing Duan Rong lying on the grass, doing all kinds of strange movements like a madman, Ximen Kankan curled his lips and said, "What's the point of martial arts? It's all about fighting and killing! Brother, why is he obsessed with this? And practicing martial arts is so hard, isn't this just making things difficult for himself?"

"It's strange that a man who is so good at painting erotic paintings is so obsessed with martial arts!"

Ximen Kankan took a look at Duan Rong, who was immersed in the world of deducing moves on the grass, and sighed. Then he took some chicken legs and pork belly and roasted them on the fire...

Duan Rong's deduction lasted for nearly an hour.

Ximen Kankan sat on the threshold of Xueyanju, eating barbecue and drinking green aged wine. He shouted to Duan Rong, "Stop practicing, eat something first! This chicken leg is roasted so nicely... Look, it's oozing with oil..."

Ximen Kankan tore off a piece of chicken and stuffed it into his mouth, but Duan Rong acted as if he didn't hear him and continued practicing his half-baked sword moves on the grass over and over again.

Another half an hour later, Duan Rong suddenly turned around and said, "Come on, try again!"

"Come!" Ximen Kankan immediately jumped up from the threshold and wiped his shiny lips.

Ximen Kankan also became interested at this time. He really wanted to see what Duan Rong could come up with after thinking for an hour and a half. He didn't think that martial arts could be improved by just thinking about it.

After a few moves, Duan Rong was still defeated.

"Good, it paid off. I took three more moves than before!" Ximen Kankan said with a smile.

Ximen Kankan was surprised. Duan Rong's moves this time were more bizarre and powerful than their first fight.

Could it be possible to improve martial arts skills just by thinking about it?
This is a bit weird.

Duan Rong sighed. Ximen Kankan’s swordsmanship was truly sharp.

Duan Rong looked up at the sky and said, "Let's stop here today and continue tomorrow."

After Duan Rong finished speaking, he sheathed his sword and turned to leave. He still had to cultivate the third level of internal energy, and he couldn't spend all his time on integrating swordsmanship, which would be a bit of a waste of time.

"It's been three days since I painted a picture!" Ximen Kankan shouted.

"It's clearly half a day!" Duan Rong replied without stopping.

"Treacherous!" Ximen Kankan was suddenly a little discouraged. He couldn't wait to see what Duan Rong's next erotic painting would look like!

(End of this chapter)