The Legend of the Condor Heroes: From Being Expelled from Peach Blossom Island

Chapter 106 A Feast from a Hundred Families

As the name suggests, "hundred families' meals" means eating from everyone's house, somewhat like a description of a beggar. Wu Chengyu didn't understand its meaning at first glance.

But upon reading the annotations that followed on the bamboo slips, it became clear that this was not a skill, but rather a mathematical formula, much like the shifting of stars and the changing of constellations.

A formula that can cleverly combine the martial arts of various schools.

It's somewhat similar to the Lesser Formless Skill, but the Lesser Formless Skill imitates other martial arts through internal force; the core remains unchanged.

It is somewhat similar to the Tianshan Plum Blossom Hand, but the Tianshan Plum Blossom Hand incorporates the essence of other palm techniques.

In Wu Chengyu's view, the formula given in the bamboo slips was not as advanced as the Lesser Formless Skill or the Heavenly Mountain Plum Blossom Hand; it was more like a grafting method.

From a vast array of martial arts techniques, select those that can be combined, and then form a new combination based on the concept of "a hundred families sharing a meal." Different techniques have different ways of using force and internal energy, but "a hundred families sharing a meal" can be broadened to ensure that the internal energy of different techniques does not conflict.

Wu Chengyu always felt that it would be simpler and more comfortable to give him the Lesser Formless Skill.

However, if the method of making food from a hundred families is useless to others, you must constantly fill in the content and complete the formula.

However, Wu Chengyu happened to have this advantage. In addition to major sects like Shaolin Temple, he must have also collected a lot of martial arts from other sects besides the Seventy-Two Arts.

From a purely personal perspective, there are probably very few people in the world who possess more martial arts manuals than Wu Chengyu.

How to use the Hundred Families Rice made Wu Chengyu think hard. After much deliberation and consulting many martial arts manuals, he decided to use the Hundred Families Rice as the core processor for close combat.

Without weapons, a person can use any part of their body in close combat: head, fist, palm, fingers, claws, legs, feet, and even elbows, shoulders, hips, and knees.

Even different body parts have corresponding martial arts techniques, with fists, palms, fingers, claws, and legs being the most common. In addition, there is the Iron Head Technique for the head, the Thrusting Foot Technique for the feet, the Shoulders and Hips Techniques for Leaning Against the Mountain, and many techniques using elbows and knees. These techniques are widely used in modern mixed martial arts, such as Muay Thai.

Wu Chengyu, who frequently watches mixed martial arts in modern times, is also deeply influenced by the philosophy of fighting. In his view, if you don't have to worry about losing money or going to jail, you should use any means necessary when fighting, and use whichever part of your body can hurt you. Tyson almost made Holyfield lose an ear by using his mouth.

This kind of fight might not look good, it doesn't have the style of a master. If you let Huang Yaoshi use his Iron Head Kung Fu, he'd slap you across the face.

But if it's truly a life-or-death struggle, who cares about appearances? Pragmatism is the most effective approach.

Therefore, Wu Chengyu selected some martial arts manuals from his possession that could be integrated with other martial arts. The finger technique was the Canhe Finger, the palm technique was Deng Baichuan's Raging Tide Palm Technique, and the claw technique was a combination of the essence of the Disconnecting Bone Capturing Hand and the Nine Yin Divine Claw.

The leg technique is the Gale Kick, the fist technique is the Great Subduing Demon Fist from the Nine Yin Manual, and corresponding moves for other less common techniques have also been found.

For example, there is a style of elbow technique called "Overlord Elbow," which uses the shoulder and hip in wrestling. Wu Chengyu even consulted Aku for this, and he also imitated the later style of Chinese martial arts, "Backing Mountain Sticker," according to its concept.

He even found an unnamed martial art that specifically uses the knees in the secret manuals collected by the Murong family (I can't think of a name for it, can someone help me come up with one).

Of all the martial arts, only Iron Head Kung Fu was shelved by Wu Chengyu. The Murong family possessed both Iron Head Kung Fu and Copper Hammer Kung Fu, but after examining the manuals, he discovered that practicing them would inevitably result in baldness. Having suffered from hair loss in his previous life, Wu Chengyu, after much deliberation, still lacked the courage to practice them. In recent years, with the help of bamboo slips, Wu Chengyu has begun to incorporate some of the moves from these martial arts into his "Hundred Families Meal" (a type of traditional Chinese cooking), achieving a rough draft that still needs practical testing.

At the same time, he secretly resolved that he would definitely visit the ruins of the Western Xia Imperial Palace or the Lingjiu Palace in Tianshan in the future. If he could find the Lesser Formless Skill and the Tianshan Plum Blossom Hand, he could learn from their strengths and make up for their weaknesses. One day, they would surely become divine skills.

Thinking of this, Wu Chengyu immediately retreated ten feet, temporarily leaving the battlefield, and then clasped his hands in a salute and said.

"Seventh Master, it's been many years. Today, I'll treat you, the number one beggar in the world, to a meal of food from a hundred families."

Hong Qigong frowned. He didn't think he had met Wu Chengyu before, but Wu Chengyu's words clearly indicated that he was very familiar with him.

"Who exactly are you, kid?"

Wu Chengyu smiled but did not answer, determined not to tell Hong Qigong. At the same time, he activated all five senses to form a small-scale three-dimensional image.

The most important thing about using the "Hundred Families' Meal" technique is to be able to analyze the opponent's moves in a timely manner and then use different martial arts techniques accordingly.

To achieve this, one must have considerable combat experience and a deep understanding of martial arts, thereby developing the most acute intuition. When making a move, one should not think too much, but rather act first to defuse the opponent's attack or attack the enemy's defenses. This kind of intuition can be called keen insight.

Wu Chengyu is still far from the level of microscopic observation, so he must use three-dimensional images to observe any subtle movements of the opponent's body at any time, just like looking at the shoulder before kicking.

After the three-dimensional image of Hong Qigong was imprinted in his mind, Wu Chengyu rushed towards Hong Qigong in one step and raised his hand to unleash a move from the Great Subduing Demon Fist, Thunderous Appearance.

This move was as swift as lightning. The internal force was concentrated three inches in front of the fist bone without being released. After the punch was thrown, the muscles and bones resonated, and the entire arm seemed to suddenly extend several inches, catching the opponent off guard. The direction of the strike was Hong Qigong's jawbone.

Hong Qigong remained calm and unhurried, his movements seemingly slow but actually swift. He quickly placed his hand on Wu Chengyu's fist, immediately neutralizing the internal force carried by Wu Chengyu's fist, and then used a grappling technique to grab Wu Chengyu's pulse point.

The invisible force field brought by Wu Chengyu's eel skill combined with the flow of hand muscles to neutralize the opponent's grappling hand, and also used the grappling hand method to grab Hong Qigong's wrist, attempting to dislocate Hong Qigong's wrist joint with the key points of the bone-dislocating grappling hand.

Hong Qigong was no ordinary man. With a powerful tremor in his wrist, he instantly shook Wu Chengyu's hand away, and at the same time, he reached out with his left hand and grabbed Wu Chengyu's throat.

Instead of retreating, Wu Chengyu advanced, instantly tilting his body to avoid Hong Qigong's palm. The close-quarters combat became a close-quarters fight. He used his feet, hips, and waist simultaneously to slam his shoulder into Hong Qigong's chest. The immense force of 800 jin from the ox-horse stake would surely injure Hong Qigong if it hit.

But Hong Qigong reacted even faster, as if he had known Wu Chengyu would make this move. He withdrew his left hand and placed it on Wu Chengyu's shoulder first, using Wu Chengyu's immense strength to push back first before Wu Chengyu could exert force.

Wu Chengyu's attack had a limited range; it was still an inch away from Hong Qigong's chest, but he couldn't quite get close enough to touch him.

Wu Chengyu acted decisively, using his powerful waist strength to stop his body, then leaped up and thrust his right knee into Hong Qigong's waist and abdomen once again.

Hong Qigong seemed to have adapted to Wu Chengyu's extremely long-range fighting style. He stopped entangled with Wu Chengyu, took a few steps back to create space, and stopped fighting in close combat. He abandoned all martial ethics and used the move "Kanglong Youhui" to strike Wu Chengyu.

(End of this chapter)