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

Chapter 215 At the Foot of Zhongnan Mountain
When Wu Chengyu saw the reward, he almost cursed the bamboo slip to death. Unfortunately, the bamboo slip did not retaliate and had no reaction, so he could only stop talking helplessly, which was a waste of his breath.

What does it mean to always lose at gambling and have well-developed pectoral muscles? Could this Gangshou be Tsunade? Is playing with puns really that interesting?

If you're so capable, create a real Tsunade for me, a big-breasted, super-strong female ninja who always loses at gambling. Wu Chengyu wouldn't mind marrying another one.

The biggest problem is that this is a martial arts world. Even if the rewards given by the bamboo slips have different effects and strange names, they are at least logical.

Practicing this Gang Shou technique can lead to well-developed pectoral muscles, which is understandable. Perhaps the Gang Shou technique's Qi circulation starts from the chest. After all, men can tolerate a little bit of well-developed pectoral muscles, and it's not like they have hypertrophic pectoral muscles. Besides, he also has ways to contract his muscles.

But if practicing this martial art makes it impossible to lose every time you gamble, that makes no sense at all. It can't possibly be related to luck or anything like that; there's no such rule in the world of The Legend of the Condor Heroes.

Despite his complaints, Wu Chengyu immediately decided to cultivate. Even though the bamboo slip was causing him trouble again, why be coy? He didn't like gambling anyway.

This set of techniques did solve Wu Chengyu's immediate problem.

He disliked practicing with weapons and always used his bare hands to fight.

With his current martial arts skills and the white scales that appear on his skin at any time, ordinary weapons cannot harm him at all.

However, when he fought with Qiu Chuji, he knew that if Sun Bu'er's sword fell into Qiu Chuji's hands, with his many years of cultivation and profound swordsmanship, he could definitely break through Bai Lin's defense and hurt him. Therefore, Wu Chengyu always avoided the sharp edge in that battle.

Even a powerful snake king was killed by Wu Chengyu with a single sword stroke wielding the Qingfeng Sword.

Sun Bu'er's sword was inferior to Zhao Feng's Qingli Sword and Dugu Qiubai's Qingfeng Sword, and Qiu Chuji was not a top master either.

So if one day he were to encounter a master of the Five Greats level again, and that master had a divine weapon, Wu Chengyu would only be able to use the Star Shift technique to restrain him. But now, those whom Wu Chengyu could consider his opponents were at least at the Microscopic Realm.

These people wielded divine weapons and employed equally meticulous fighting techniques, which inevitably hampered Wu Chengyu's ability to fight effectively.

Therefore, this set of Gang Shou techniques came at just the right time. After mastering it, he would no longer be afraid of those weapon masters, and the power of his palm techniques would inevitably increase greatly.

However, the way the bamboo slips were disgusting had changed. Instead of playing tricks with the names, they now directly added negative effects, debuffs. How could Wu Chengyu tolerate this?

Along the way, he began to practice the Gang Shou technique. This technique is essentially a body-refining method, which generates a protective aura through body refinement. It cannot be released outward like internal energy, but rather forms a thin layer on the surface of the arm, about five millimeters thick, invisible and intangible.

In the future, when Wu Chengyu fights with others, he first uses the invisible force field of "Shifting Stars" to restrain the opponent's movements, plus the protective aura of "Eel Kung Fu" that specifically negates the attack power, the white scales that can appear and disappear, and the protective energy that can withstand sharp blades. With four layers of protection, he is like an N95 mask. Very few people in the world can hurt him.

However, the requirements for cultivating the Gang Hand technique are extremely high. Not only is there a special body-refining method, but it must also be combined with a medicinal bath. The prescriptions provided on the bamboo slips are very complicated, and Wu Chengyu searched all the pharmacies along the way but could not find all of them.

Furthermore, after the medicinal bath, one must undergo a process of scalding and freezing. This doesn't mean simply placing one's hands over a fire, but rather close-range high-temperature roasting. Any slight injury must be immediately treated with a special ointment; otherwise, one can only sprinkle on some thirteen spices and give it to Feng Mofeng to "repair the body's condition through similar methods." The requirements for freezing are also unusual. Winter ice and snow are generally ineffective. The best method is to find the ice silkworm that You Tanzhi practiced with during the Tianlong era. If that's not possible, one must obtain ten-thousand-year-old cold jade. Currently, Wu Chengyu only wants the cold jade bed in the ancient tomb.

But the Ice Silkworm is the most effective. Wu Chengyu might have to make a trip to Kunlun Mountain in the future. If he really can't find the Ice Silkworm, he'll have to find a way to conquer the ancient tomb.

Little Dragon Girl hasn't been born yet, and Li Mochou is still a five or six-year-old loli. Wu Chengyu is having a bit of a headache. It seems that the only person he can win over right now is Lin Chaoying, the maid. He doesn't know how old she is now, but she's probably not much younger than Sun Bu'er.

Or perhaps she should now be called Granny Sun? In The Return of the Condor Heroes, she is described as having an ugly appearance, so she probably wasn't much better in her middle age.

Therefore, conquering the ancient tomb is only an option. Wu Chengyu can't bring himself to do it. Or, if he were to force his way into the ancient tomb and bully the old lady and the young girl, that would be somewhat inconsistent with his identity as the only one in the Nine Provinces.

He continued his journey, researching the cultivation methods of the Gang Shou technique and searching for medicinal herbs. He traveled towards Zhongnan Mountain, stopping and starting along the way. It took Wu Chengyu three full days to reach the foot of Zhongnan Mountain.

By this time, the sun was setting and darkness was falling. Wu Chengyu had no intention of going up the mountain at night, as that would truly be considered an intrusion into Chongyang Palace.

He was wandering in the mountains, looking for a place to stay, when he suddenly remembered the stone tablet that Guo Jing had photographed at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain when he sent Yang Guo there in The Return of the Condor Heroes.

It was this slap that caused the Taoists of Zhongnan Mountain to misunderstand, forcing Guo Jing to force his way into Chongyang Palace, and allowing Huo Du's men to take advantage of the situation.

Now that he had come to Zhongnan Mountain, Wu Chengyu certainly wanted to pay his respects at least once, since this stone tablet directly determined Yang Guo's treatment upon joining the Quanzhen Sect.

Wu Chengyu thought of the sign-in system again. This kind of cheat code is really useful. Unlike his own bamboo slips, it can only make him cultivate little by little and cannot be obtained without effort. Moreover, while it helps him achieve his goals, it also disgusts him time and time again.

I just don't know if this stone tablet has been erected now, several decades earlier than when Yang Guo went up the mountain.

He searched carefully near the entrance to the mountain road and finally found the stone tablet in a patch of grass. The stone tablet looked very new, and the writing on it was fresh, so it must have been placed there less than two years ago.

The inscription above should have been written by Qiu Chuji himself, and then rubbed and engraved. Each character is written in a simple and rigorous style, with extremely high calligraphy skills. At the same time, it also has a tense and confrontational feel. You can see Qiu Chuji's temperament and contradictions just from the handwriting.

The inscription on the stone tablet reads: "The vast sky overlooks the earth, why does it not save all the suffering souls? All the souls are tormented day and night, swallowing their breath and dying in silence. They cry out to the heavens, but the heavens do not answer, they toil in vain for such trivial matters. How can the world be restored to its original chaos, so that the Creator will not create spirits?"

Qiu Chuji's compassion for humanity is evident in his poems, but in today's world, simply acting as a chivalrous knight-errant and assassinating corrupt officials is useless.

Wu Chengyu is the best example. He killed Shi Miyuan, who would later wield immense power in the Song Dynasty for twenty years, yet the Southern Song court still groveled and begged for peace.

Thinking of this, Wu Chengyu suddenly felt bored. He was just about to find a place nearby to rest for the night and go up the mountain the next morning to experience the Big Dipper Formation when he suddenly heard someone approaching.

(End of this chapter)