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

Chapter 276 Future Planning
Wu Chengyu's original plan was to head west. Since he didn't know what he was going to do, he decided to leave the plan as it was for the time being, though he could change it at any time.

In Jin Yong's martial arts world, many highly skilled sects are located in the west, far from the Central Plains. I don't know what Jin Yong was thinking, why are the martial arts sects in the relatively economically and culturally backward Western Regions so powerful?

Let's take a closer look. First, there's the Western Xia Imperial Palace, located in Gansu Province. In one of the stone chambers of the palace, there are murals depicting some of the martial arts manuals left behind by Li Qiushui. Wu Chengyu was most interested in the Lesser Formless Skill, the White Rainbow Palm Force, and the Lingbo Steps.

The Lesser Formless Skill is infinitely compatible with his Hundred Family Rice Fighting Method. Hundred Family Rice connects various moves together, but only the surface is connected. The internal energy circulation of each move is still different, so only some individual moves that can be combined together can be extracted, which is very limiting.

However, the Lesser Formless Skill can simulate the internal energy circulation of various different moves. If combined with the Hundred Families Rice, it can achieve unity of mind and body, and the Hundred Families Rice will no longer be a fighting method, but will become closer to a divine skill.

There's also the White Rainbow Palm Force, a palm force that can bend and straighten at will, travel a long distance from the body, has strong control, and can be directed at will. This isn't a set of moves, but a way of controlling internal energy, which is extremely sophisticated. In the world of Jin-style martial arts, it seems that only this set of skills can do this.

After leaving Zhongnan Mountain, Wu Chengyu's Quanxing Nameless Divine Skill was officially renamed Quanxing Innate Skill, and Wang Chongyang's version could only be an incomplete one.

However, his innate skill is not yet perfect. The Star Shift technique, which integrates the Quanxing Protectorate method, complements the innate skill. If the innate skill cannot be perfected, the Star Shift technique cannot unleash its full power.

Now Wu Chengyu no longer wants to deliberately memorize scriptures and pretend to cultivate Taoism. According to the old Taoist priest Zhenxiang, it's all nonsense, and the reason he can't succeed is actually Wu Chengyu's own problem.

Therefore, he no longer expects anything else, but can only collect other martial arts techniques as much as possible and improve them using bamboo slips.

The invisible force field of the Shifting Stars can only be used within three feet of the body. Beyond three feet, the effect of the force field is immediately reduced to less than one-tenth. However, the unique technique of White Rainbow Palm Force, which controls the energy outside the body, can definitely make up for the weakness of the Shifting Stars.

Finally, there's Lingbo Weibu, which should be considered the number one light-body skill in Jin Yong's martial arts world. It allows one to slowly recover internal energy during long-distance runs. Most importantly, the footwork is mysterious and unpredictable. Duan Yu, that weak scholar, relied on Lingbo Weibu to repeatedly escape danger in his early days.

Wu Chengyu's lightness skill has already reached its peak, and it is extremely difficult to take it a step further. Just like the human 100-meter record, 9.58 seconds was set in 2009. By the time Wu Chengyu traveled to 2025, a full 16 years had passed, no one had been able to advance even 0.01 seconds.

Even at the current stage of human evolution, it is unknown whether anyone can make a breakthrough.

Wu Chengyu's lightness skill has also reached a bottleneck, and he can no longer go any faster.

Therefore, he carefully analyzed his own lightness skill, which consisted of many parts.

The long-distance raid is like a crane's shadow and flowing light, and in terms of speed, it is no less than the Lingbo Weibu (a martial arts technique), but it does not have the effect of recovering its strength while running.

For short-distance dashes, there's the cat-like movement; for footwork, there are the Spiral Nine Shadows and the Snake-like Leap; and one can even use eel-like skills to counteract air resistance during high-speed movement.

His only current weakness is that he lacks a footwork technique of the same level.

The Murong family's martial arts manuals also contain many footwork techniques, such as the Seven Star Step, the Swimming Dragon Step, and the Plum Blossom Step, but they are all of very low level.

Back then, Bai Yuchan used his power to pressure Wu Chengyu into a reconciliation, offering him a book on Yu Bu as a way out. Wu Chengyu thought it was some kind of profound footwork technique, but he had also practiced it, though it was only slightly better than the footwork techniques he had seen on the market, and it was by no means a peerless footwork technique.

Looking back now, Bai Yuchan didn't really take Wu Chengyu and the Yue Family Army seriously; he was just maintaining his image as a superior person on the surface.

Therefore, at this stage, the only skill that can match Wu Chengyu's lightness skill and make up for the last slight deficiency in his lightness skill is Lingbo Weibu.

Back then, Li Qiushui left the Northern Darkness Divine Skill and the Lingbo Steps in the Langhuan Jade Cave of Wuliang Mountain, so she must have left a copy in Western Xia as well. Western Xia was in Gansu, and after passing through Western Xia, Wu Chengyu headed north, his destination being the Lingjiu Palace in Tianshan.

According to later analyses, the Lingjiu Palace in Tianshan is located on the southern slope of Tianshan Mountain, near Bogda Peak in Xinjiang. After a hundred years, it is unknown whether anyone is still living in the Lingjiu Palace.

In later fan fiction, many stories depict the Thirty-Six Islands and Seventy-Two Caves encountering Xu Zhu, a benevolent yet pedantic leader. Initially, they would be grateful, but over time, they would inevitably rebel, and the Tianshan Lingjiu Palace would essentially be destroyed by these people.

Some analysts believe that the Drunken Monk who wrote the Nine Yang Divine Skill was actually Xu Zhu. Since he practiced the Free and Unfettered Sect's divine skill, he was already incredibly resilient, so Xu Zhu might still be alive during this period.

In any case, if you travel to a martial arts world with a gold theme and don't visit Lingjiu Palace, then you've come for nothing.

Wu Chengyu was not interested in the Eight Desolations and Six Directions Supreme Technique, which had obvious flaws; at most, he would only borrow from it.

His favorite techniques are the Tianshan Six Yang Palm and the Carefree Plum Blossom Hand.

Wu Chengyu's Great Subduing Demon Fist and Raging Tide Palm Technique are both unique skills, but they are still inferior to true divine skills such as the Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms.

In The Legend of the Condor Heroes, the only palm technique comparable to the Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms is the Six Yang Palms of Tianshan, which is equally powerful and fierce.

In addition, Wu Chengyu was determined to obtain the Life and Death Talisman, a secret technique of the Tianshan Six Yang Palms. His Life and Death Talisman was, in essence, a method of torture and forced confession, and could not be remotely controlled.

Wu Chengyu instinctively felt that this Life and Death Talisman would be of great use in the future.

The Free and Easy Plum Blossom Hand is similar in principle to the Lesser Formless Skill and the Hundred Families Rice. The Lesser Formless Skill simulates internal energy, the Hundred Families Rice connects and pieces together, and the Free and Easy Plum Blossom Hand transforms the essence of the moves into one's own. When the three are combined, they form a divine skill.

Wu Chengyu believed that as long as he obtained the inheritance of the Xiaoyao Sect and integrated it with his own learning, whether he had mastered the Innate Skill would no longer matter, and he would definitely be able to defeat the Five Greats.

Besides the lineage of the Free and Unfettered School, the Western Regions also have the White Camel Mountain, the Vajra Gate, and various branches of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism.

The location of White Camel Mountain has been debated by later generations. Some say it is in Xinjiang, while others say it is in Qinghai. Wu Chengyu inquired about it with Qiu Chuji at Chongyang Palace.

This White Camel Mountain is confirmed to be located in Xunhua County, Qinghai Province, the place where Lanzhou noodles spread all over the country.

This place no longer produces ramen; it is, however, the territory of Ouyang Feng, the Western Poison.

Wu Chengyu's plan was to go from Xixia to Xinjiang. If all went well, he would take over the Xiaoyao Sect's inheritance, cultivate diligently for a few years, and then conquer the world.

He first traveled from Xinjiang to Tibet, where there were many esoteric Buddhist sects, many of whom had died at the hands of Wu Chengyu. There was also the Vajra Sect of the Fire-Worker Monk. He challenged them all the way, and finally went north from Tibet to Qinghai, where he would make Ouyang Feng, the Western Poison, his last opponent.

If Wu Chengyu can defeat the Western Poison, he will immediately return to the Song Dynasty and go to Peach Blossom Island to collect his debt from Huang Yaoshi.

(End of this chapter)