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

Chapter 30 Plum Blossom Needle
Duan Rong was standing at the door of the front yard, standing on tiptoe and looking towards the inner courtyard.

He also heard Zhu Xiaoqi's cry, as if something had happened to the second young lady.

Thinking of Xiao Baiqiao's white and tender face like white dough and her graceful waist, Duan Rong suddenly became a little anxious.

But the inner courtyard was a private place after all, and it was not appropriate for an outsider like him to enter without the owner's consent.

Duan Rong was getting anxious when he suddenly saw a red shadow, as invasive as fire, passing through the hall and the courtyard, whizzing past.

Duan Rong only felt a flash before his eyes, and a red shadow had flashed past his side from the door of the inner courtyard. When Duan Rong turned his head, the red shadow had disappeared outside the door of the front yard.

Duan Rong was slightly stunned, and suddenly he thought, wasn't the red shadow from the past Zhu Xiaoqi?
Duan Rong felt a slight chill on his back.

"Yes... Qinggong!"

Xiao Zongting is indeed an old hand who has been a gangster. Even a maid in the Xiao mansion is so secretive!
His attainment in Qinggong is probably no less than that of the masters in the martial arts world!

Qinggong is different from other martial arts and is not easily taught.

All the major forces in Xiangu County have ways to recruit talents, but I have never heard of any one that can teach Qinggong!

Zhu Xiaoqi's lightness skills were naturally taught by Xiao Zongting.

"This little girl must have some connection with the Xiao family. She is definitely not an ordinary maid." Duan Rong thought with a twinkling eye.

Half an incense stick later, Zhu Xiaoqi, carrying a medicine box on his back and pushing a fat old man in his sixties, quickly walked into the front yard.

Gu Suxiu was fat to begin with, and after being carried by Zhu Xiaoqi for such a long distance, he was already out of breath and sweat covered his cheeks.

"Xiao Qi... stop pushing! I'm there! I'm there! Let me catch my breath..."

"Doctor Gu, we can't wait any longer! We can't wait any longer!"

Zhu Xiaoqi pushed Gu Suxiu towards the inner courtyard.

"Xiao Qi, the second lady...she...isn't in any trouble?" Duan Rong asked with concern as the two passed by.

Duan Rong was not being falsely polite, he was really worried about Xiao Baiqiao!

Even though his soul has traveled through time and space, he is still a beauty-obsessed person. It’s hard to change his nature!

What's more, Xiao Baiqiao is such a pure, sexy and graceful woman?
Zhu Xiaoqi turned his head with a red face, glanced at Duan Rong, and without saying anything, pushed Gu Suxiu into the backyard.

Duan Rong waited for more than half an hour.

Only then did they see Xiao Zongting personally escorting Gu Suxiu out with a medicine box on her back. The two of them talked as they walked.

Xiao Zongting's face was as dark as the ashes at the bottom of a pot on the stove.

As soon as Duan Rong saw Xiao Zongting's face, he knew that Xiao Baiqiao's illness was probably serious!
"It seems that this is not an ordinary disease..."

Xiao Zongting sent Gu Suxiu straight to the door, and stood there watching her for a while before turning back.

Xiao Zongting walked into the courtyard and fixed his eyes on Duan Rong who was standing there.

Duan Rong asked: "Second Miss's illness..."

Xiao Zongting waved his hand, interrupting Duan Rong and glaring at him, "Don't talk nonsense when you go out!"

Duan Rong lowered his head and immediately agreed obediently.

Xiao Zongting took out a booklet from his bosom, handed it to Duan Rong, and said: "This is the second level secret manual of the Five Tigers and Sheep Knife. I have to take care of the child Bai Jiao during this period, so I may not be able to work for the time being. You can practice it on your own first, and come back in ten days!"

Duan Rong took the secret book and said, "Yes. Good luck will come to you. The second young lady's illness will definitely get better!"

Xiao Zongting let Kong Bin go first and kept Duan Rong. His original intention was to give Duan Rong some good guidance, but Bai Jiao suddenly got into trouble and he really didn't have the heart to do so now.

After Xiao Zongting finished his instructions, he walked towards the backyard. After a few steps, he suddenly turned around and said, "By the way, tell Kong Bin too. I have something to do recently!"

Duan Rong agreed softly. When he saw Xiao Zongting's figure disappear in the backyard, he put away the secret book and left Xiao Zongting's yard.

Duan Rong walked down the steps in front of Xiao Zong's courtyard in a somewhat lazily manner.

He was thinking about how a pure and lustful woman like Xiao Baiqiao could have developed a serious illness?
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sigh.

Just as I was about to leave, I suddenly saw a flash of white light in the flower bed in front of the door under the sunlight.

Duan Rong walked closer and took a closer look. It turned out to be a silver needle that had fallen on a branch. When the sunlight shone on it, it flashed.

Duan Rong reached out and held the silver in his hand. After a brief thought, he guessed that the silver needle must have been dropped by Doctor Gu when Xiao Qi pushed him. Duan Rong's eyes turned, and he thought to himself, "Read the spirit of the instrument."

Utensil: Silver Needle Tea

Spirit Level: Level 1

Devouring requirements: Host's mental strength level 1 (satisfied)

Devouring effect: Mastery of plum blossom acupuncture.

"It's actually at the mastery level!"

Duan Rong was quite surprised. It seemed that Doctor Gu, although chubby, had excellent medical skills.

At least we can get a glimpse of the state of acupuncture from this perspective.

"This plum blossom needle technique is obviously not a martial art, it should be acupuncture. However, since it has reached the mastery level, I'm afraid this acupuncture method is not easy to master!"

Duan Rong's eyes moved, and he took out the secret book that Xiao Zongting had just given him from his inner pocket, flipped open three pages, inserted the silver needle, closed the secret book, and put it back.

Seeing that it was time for lunch, Duan Rong turned and walked towards the cafeteria in the central courtyard.

Although he was also worried about Xiao Baiqiao, that couldn't delay his meal!
After Duan Rong finished his meal in the canteen of the Central Courtyard, he came to the martial arts arena, found a secluded corner, and began to stand in a stance.

It was in vain for him to worry. It would be better for him to practice hard. Maybe he could be of use in some way!
Since then, Duan Rong has been practicing harder and harder every day!
Three days later, in the early morning, Duan Rong suddenly whistled softly, and a thick white mist as thick as a baby's arm spurted out from his mouth, shooting diagonally upwards, rushing into the air, and dissipating when it was more than ten feet high.

"I have achieved the first level of inner breath!"

As soon as Duan Rong moved his energy slightly, he felt the surging power in his meridians. At this time, the internal energy in his meridians and dantian had become as thick as a thin hairpin.

Duan Rong let out a long sigh, and a bright smile spread across his tired face.

During these three days, except for leaving the escort agency and going to the herbal medicine shop to buy blood deer antlers, he almost went back and forth between the dormitory and the martial arts field.

His feet seemed to have taken root in the training ground.

After Duan Rong mastered the first level of internal breath, he immediately began to try to practice the second level of internal breath.

It was early morning.

A day's plan begins in the morning, so how can we waste it?
Xiao Zongting gave him the second level secret book that day, but in fact, he no longer needed the second level secret book of the Five Tigers and Sheep Swords.

Because he had already devoured the spirit of the unsharpened machete in the inner treasury, and had already digested and absorbed the second level of internal energy and the mastery level of martial arts.

However, it cannot be said that this Five Tigers and Sheep Swords secret book has no effect on him at all.

This was at least a cover-up. Even if one day he revealed his mastery of the Five Tigers and Sheep Swords, it couldn't be said that he learned it secretly.

This was taught to him seriously by Old Master Xiao.

Duan Rong held a piece of blood deer antler in his mouth, then stood in the Hunyuan Posture. His mental strength sank into his Dantian, and he controlled the internal energy in his Dantian that was as thick as a hairpin. He began to practice according to the second level of internal energy.

Duan Rong only stood there for half an hour before the piece of blood antler in his mouth completely turned into saliva and flowed into his stomach.

Duan Rong immediately put another piece in his mouth.

"The second level of the inner breath circulation circuit is so complicated and winding!"

Duan Rong devoured and absorbed the spirit of the weapon, which was equivalent to directly gaining the experience of operating the second level of internal energy. It should have been no pressure for him to operate the internal energy.

But only half an hour had passed and Duan Rong actually began to feel a little sluggish.

"It's spiritual power!"

"Such a complicated inner breath circulation circuit consumes a lot of mental energy!"

"Is this the true meaning of martial arts being centered on mental strength?"

An hour later, Duan Rong put another piece of blood antler in his mouth.

At this point, his condition had changed from feeling a little lethargic to feeling a little heavy, and because of the continued loss of mental strength, the efficiency of his internal energy circulation had dropped.

And in the next hour, Duan Rong discovered another phenomenon in his body. He clearly felt a sense of deficiency.

For the second level of inner breath practice, the medicinal power of blood deer antler seems to be insufficient!
(End of this chapter)