Sword Roaring in the Sky

Chapter 290 This person must not be allowed to live any longer.

Sun Yanwan originally intended to say a few casual words to appease the students and then let them study on their own.

Yeah, isn't that what most teachers who just want to get by usually do?

Why do so many people rush over to watch him teach?

How can we possibly get away with this?

Being watched by hundreds of people, many of whom were high-ranking officials in the imperial court, was an extremely unpleasant experience.

Sun Yanwan coughed and was about to speak when a student suddenly stood up and said, "I am over twenty years old. Due to poverty, I have never practiced martial arts. Now I wish to acquire both literary and martial skills to expand the territory of my Great Lang. I wonder if Dr. Sun has any plans?"

Sun Yanwan casually replied, "It's not difficult to just have a basic understanding of martial arts."

The student exclaimed, "I desire the summit!"

Sun Yanwan stared at him for a while, and seeing that the student had an upright appearance and did not seem to be someone who had been bribed, she said indifferently, "Are you a superior person, and all other living beings are ants?"

Caught off guard by Sun Yanwan's question, the student hurriedly replied, "I had no such intention."

Sun Yanwan asked, "If you don't have that intention, why do you feel that your efforts are more noble than others'?"

Why should someone else's decades of hard work be so easily defeated by your few years of diligence?

"If one did not consider oneself superior and despise all living beings, why would one ask such a question?"

The student was sweating profusely and didn't know how to answer for a moment.
Sun Yanwan shouted, "Heaven rewards diligence. You reap what you sow. Why is it that you get rewards for your efforts while others can't? Why is it that everyone is working hard, yet some people always think that their one bit of effort is more than ten or twenty times that of others?"

Sun Yanwan said calmly, "If you want to learn the basics of martial arts, even if you have never learned martial arts before, I have a strategy. But if you want to reach the top in one step, I cannot do it myself, nor can I teach you."

Several students couldn't help but exclaim, "We are already old, how can we possibly master martial arts in such a short time?"

If it were any other question, Sun Yanwan really wouldn't know the answer. But this question was right up his alley, so he immediately said, "Humans have eight extraordinary meridians and twelve regular meridians, among which three are the easiest to cultivate..."

He then launched into a long, eloquent explanation of how to cultivate the three meridians that are easiest to connect.

After recounting these three points, Sun Yanwan, still not satisfied, said, "There are also thirty-six hidden meridians in the human body. It is commonly said that one must attain innate talent before one can open them one by one. This is true. Hidden meridians are unique. Without a foundation in internal strength and the ability to manipulate true qi at will, it is inherently difficult to open them. However, there are convenient methods."

Sun Yanwan then taught him how to connect the three most easily accessible hidden meridians. The former was recorded in the lower volume of Sun's Martial Classic, and the latter was a method from the Golden Scripture of the Sun.

These methods were rudimentary, yet they captivated the students. Most of those who could enter the Imperial Academy were destined for academic success. Although there was also a Martial Arts Department, the two looked down on each other. One considered the other crude and illiterate, while the other considered the other weak and frail.

Many scholars had secretly vowed to achieve something in martial arts and show off to the students of the Martial Arts Department, but unfortunately, martial arts training had to begin from a young age, and it was difficult to achieve anything after adulthood. These scholars often felt frustrated and unable to express their ambitions. Even those students of the Martial Arts Department, who found the previous knowledge rather rudimentary, were all shocked when they heard about the method of opening the hidden meridians. These people truly had the teachings of masters and family traditions; how could they not know that opening the hidden meridians was a secret technique of various schools?

The mere method of connecting the Earth Listening Veins can give rise to a sect like the Mind Observation Sect. The Blind Man's Divine Sword, based on the Earth Listening Veins, may not be comparable to the swordsmanship of the major sects, but it is still unique.

Moreover, the methods Sun Yanwan mentioned were shortcuts discovered by the Sun God Temple of Boshi Kingdom after thousands of years of exploration, and their effects were remarkable.

A student from the Qingwei Sword Sect, after hearing Sun Yanwan's method for opening the hidden meridians, secretly tried it out. It was because his skill had reached a certain level, and this hidden meridian was originally the main sword technique of the Qingwei Sword Sect, so he already had some foundation. After trying it, he actually opened it and couldn't help but shout it out on the spot.

"The method taught by Dr. Sun is indeed infinitely profound. I have already connected the hidden meridians of the Savage Serpent!"

Sun Yanwan couldn't help but glance at the student and thought to herself, "His style is a bit strange."

Among the thirty-six hidden meridians, some form their own system, such as the Three Cold Hidden Meridians and the Three Yang Hidden Meridians. Among them, twelve hidden meridians are called the Twelve Beast Forms. Each hidden meridian, once mastered, will allow the body to twist to a terrifying degree. If all of them are mastered, the muscles and bones of the entire body can be twisted at will, to an unbelievable degree.

This hidden serpent coils around your waist three times. If you cultivate it properly, its waist can twist and bend at will, making it extremely powerful.

Therefore, in this world, there is no poem about Fan Su's cherry lips, but there is a line about a slender waist like a willow branch. However, it is not used to describe a beautiful woman, but rather to describe a burly man with extraordinary martial arts skills who can cultivate his skills to his waist, twisting and turning...

After learning about this story, Sun Yanwan could no longer look directly at Yang Liu's slender waist.

Fearing that Sun Yanwan wouldn't believe him, the student stood up, leaned back so his head almost touched the ground, but his feet didn't move. He then got up and spun around in all directions, which was simply inhuman.

Sun Yanwan hurriedly asked him to sit down and said, "This is a convenient method, not a profound martial art. It only has a common name and can provide some martial power in times of crisis, but it is not suitable for experts to fight against."

With this demonstration by the Qingwei Sword Sect disciple, many students in the Martial Arts Department immediately brightened up. They had also taken courses in the Martial Arts Department, but other instructors at most taught some martial arts techniques collected by the court from other schools, which were often incomplete and had nothing of value.

After all, due to the deliberate assignment by the imperial court, the officials in charge of the Martial Arts Department, and even the previous Martial Arts Doctors, were actually not proficient in martial arts. They had only read some martial arts classics and taught by rote, and could not answer any questions the students might have.

Sun Yanwan is different from others. As everyone knows, he comes from the Songyang School and his master is a contemporary grandmaster.

Some people previously thought that although Sun Yanwan was highly skilled in martial arts, he would never teach the Songyang School's martial arts secrets, so what valuable things could he teach? They were quite dismissive of Sun Yanwan's courses, but no one could have imagined that this top scholar Sun was indeed talented, and he could even come up with new and interesting ways to explain the concept of opening up the meridians.

Everyone was immediately filled with admiration. Even Wenxi and Huo Feihu showed some surprise, feeling that Sun Yanwan was indeed extraordinary, just as the legends said, and truly had the bearing of a grandmaster.

The second prince was even more shocked, thinking to himself, "Even a grandmaster probably couldn't come up with such a theory. How could he have come up with it? This person must not be allowed to live any longer. We must find a way to kill him in the next few days."

Zhang Qingxi was both amused and exasperated, thinking to himself, "Second Junior Brother is trying to fool these students with a martial arts technique meant for peddlers and laborers!"

"These rudimentary techniques are known to almost everyone in the Tianma Gang. They take advantage of these people's lack of practical knowledge and never think to ask the peddlers who sell goods."

(End of this chapter)