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

Chapter 214 Leaving
Feng Mofeng's treatment process was quite swift; he really did it so hard that the leg was broken. The stubble was exactly in the same spot as it was back then, and the cut was as smooth as if it had been cut with a knife, without damaging the main tendons. Wu Chengyu's control of strength was now almost as good as Hong Qigong's back then.

It takes a hundred days to recover from a broken bone, but with the constant supply of tonics from Wu Chengyu, plus the snake gall bladder medicinal wine, Feng Mofeng's recovery time shouldn't be that long.

This gourd-shaped medicinal wine is made from the gallbladder of a giant snake. It is extremely effective and can indirectly open up some of Feng Mofeng's meridians and increase his internal strength, which can make up for the martial arts progress that Feng Mofeng has missed in the past five or six years.

Originally, Wu Chengyu wanted to spend more time with his childhood friend, at least until Feng Mofeng fully recovered, but Wu Chengyu gradually became restless.

Perhaps it's because people become more talkative when they can't move, but Feng Mofeng became increasingly verbose and kept trying to ease the tension between Wu Chengyu and Huang Yaoshi. Wu Chengyu, on the other hand, didn't want to argue with a simple-minded guy who was bedridden.

Another reason is that his mindset is different now.

Wu Chengyu now feels like he's always on the road and will never stop for anything.

The more he wanted to see the world and all living beings, the less he wanted to linger in any one place. Whether it was a woman he admired or a childhood friend, they would at most make him stop for a moment.

With worries in one's heart, how can one be free? So it's time to part ways again.

One morning, Feng Mofeng woke up and found his senior brother Qu Lingfeng sitting alone at the table next to him.

The first thing he said when he opened his eyes wasn't to Qu Lingfeng, but rather he shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Chengyu, what's good to eat today? Didn't you say that you can replenish what you're looking for? I don't want to eat walnuts, and I don't want to eat pig brains every day."

"I want to eat the pig's trotters you made last time. Also, you still haven't explained what 'ball protein' actually is to me. How could it be that eating too much round pig's trotters will make your testicles white? I checked last night, and they didn't turn white."

He had been reunited with Qu Lingfeng and Wu Chengyu for a month, and now life was like paradise to him. He was gradually forgetting the suffering he had endured over the past few years.

He greedily enjoyed everything he had, showing a spoiled and pampered attitude.

With his senior brother protecting him, showing him warmth and taking care of him meticulously, and with Wu Chengyu, who not only has such high martial arts skills, but also cooks very well, even better than his master's wife Feng Heng, whose dishes are relatively bland.

Wu Chengyu's large portions of fish and meat, snake soup, and various other dishes were more to the liking of a seventeen or eighteen-year-old martial arts student. During this time, Feng Mofeng ate things he never dared to dream of before.

Wu Chengyu always believed in using the principle of "like cures like," so he acquired a lot of pig trotters and pig hocks. He traveled all over Weinan, bought a lot of seasonings, and even developed a medicinal diet made from pig's feet to replenish vital energy and promote bone development.

Aside from not understanding why Wu Chengyu always fed him stewed pig brain with gastrodia elata, Feng Mofeng did have a particular fondness for gnawing on pig trotters.

One day, Wu Chengyu even brought him back four bear paws.

There are dishes like braised bear paw with rock sugar, braised bear paw with Shaoxing wine, braised bear paw with deer antler and golden jade, and even a dish called "One Palm of Heaven and Earth".

Four bear paws and four dishes completely won over Feng Mofeng. In just one month, the saturated food attack made Feng Mofeng feel that he had gained at least 20 pounds, and the ribs that were once visible on his chest had completely disappeared.

Every night before he went to sleep, he couldn't help but imagine what Wu Chengyu would feed him the next day.

"Stop calling, Cheng Yu is gone?"

"Oh, where did he go? Did he go to get bear paws again? He mentioned last time that there's another way to cook it called 'Bear Paws Stirring Up Clear Waves,' but unfortunately a bear only has four paws, so he didn't have a chance to make it for me."

"Cheng Yu has left and will never come back."

"Why? Is it because I keep urging him to go back to Peach Blossom Island? Senior Brother, you should go and look for him."

"Forget it, he left in the middle of the night yesterday. With his lightness skill, who could catch up with him? Junior brother, Cheng Yu is no longer one of us. He traveled all the way to Shaanxi to treat your leg and stayed here for a month. He is already very kind and righteous." Feng Mofeng lowered his head and remained silent, his body trembling slightly. Fortunately, the hardships of the past had made him less likely to shed tears easily.

After a long silence, Feng Mofeng spoke again, his voice slightly choked with sobs, sounding somewhat weak.

"Senior Brother, didn't he leave any message?"

"He left a letter saying that his relationship with our Peach Blossom Island disciples was over, and the next time we meet should be when he returns to Peach Blossom Island, at which point we will be enemies, not friends."

That brat still holds a grudge about what happened back then. One day he'll come knocking on our door and settle the score with our master.

With his current martial arts skills, he will undoubtedly become a formidable enemy of Peach Blossom Island in the future. At that point, we'll truly have no choice but to take action.

Feng Mofeng's eyes were somewhat confused. He couldn't imagine what it would be like to fight Wu Chengyu to the death. Soon, he gritted his teeth and said.

"His next step will probably be to Quanzhen Sect, but even if we chase after him, it will be useless. Cheng Yu is completely different now than he was back then, and I can't guess what he's thinking."

Senior Brother, as soon as my leg heals, I will return to Peach Blossom Island. I want to rejoin my master's tutelage and practice martial arts diligently.

Didn't you all say I have excellent aptitude? I was better than Cheng Yu before, and I'm sure I'll catch up to him in the future.

When Chengyu goes to Peach Blossom Island, have me stop him. No matter what, I won't let him fight Master.

"Cheng Yu also left you a set of the Raging Tide Palm Technique, which he used when he fought Qiu Chuji before."

He said you have a great talent for palm techniques, and that the Raging Tide Palm Technique and the Azure Wave Palm Technique have similarities, so he'll leave it to you as a memento.

So, do you want to practice?

“Practice? Why not practice? Just like he said before, don’t be pretentious in anything you do. In the future, I will use this palm technique to beat him up.”

Didn't he leave you anything, Senior Brother?

"That brat actually left me a cookbook with 108 children's meals on it, telling me to make them for my junior sister and the others."

"I'm just a martial artist, when have I ever cooked? This is just giving me a hard time."

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The journey from Weinan to Zhongnan Mountain is less than two hundred li. Now that Feng Mofeng, that burden, is no longer around, Wu Chengyu feels a sense of freedom.

This time, he could be considered to have repaid the karma of his predecessor. He felt comfortable from head to toe. It was just a pity that he didn't know what it would be like to see Feng Mofeng again in the future.

On the very night he left the village of craftsmen, the bamboo slips, which had been lying in wait and remained motionless, reacted once again.

He treated Feng Mofeng's injured leg, freeing this martial arts prodigy from lifelong disability, but ultimately preventing him from dying in the chaos of battle.

Reward: Gang Shou (罡手).

A special body-refining method for tempering the hands and arms. Once mastered, the hands and forearms will have their own protective energy, making them impervious to even the most powerful experts using divine weapons.

Disadvantages: Once mastered, you will always lose at gambling, and your chest muscles will become very developed.

(End of this chapter)