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

Chapter 362 The Great Accomplishment of Magical Skills
Princess Yuzhu dared not disobey the imperial decree and force her way in. She glared resentfully at the general before her, only to be told that she would be captured if she forced her way in.

She looked at the Palace of Broken Dreams again. The palace gates were tightly shut and silent. It did not respond to the soldiers surrounding it. The entire Palace of Broken Dreams seemed dead and lifeless. She wondered what her mentor was doing at that moment.

Princess Yuzhu had no choice but to turn and leave. Just as she was leaving the palace gate, her legs suddenly went weak and she almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, Wu Chengyu caught her in time.

Wu Chengyu immediately asked, "Princess, you shouldn't be seriously injured."

Princess Yuzhu now completely trusts Wu Chengyu. Wu Chengyu himself was afflicted by the Life and Death Talisman, and he was the one who contributed the most in this arena competition. Now, Princess Yuzhu has completely regarded him as a confidant.

"My Supreme Pure Yang Skill was not cultivated enough. This time, I merged with Junior Brother Wu's Yin attribute internal energy too early. Although my martial arts increased greatly in a short period of time, after several battles, the internal energy was exhausted, which caused me great harm."

As my mentor instructed, I should go to her immediately after the match so she could use her internal energy to heal my injuries and help me recover quickly.

But now, I don't know what happened between my mentor and my father. My mentor is under house arrest by my father, and I can't see her. I have to bear my injuries on my own.

Within a month, I lost all my martial arts skills. It will take another month to slowly recover, and at least three months to fully regain my former strength.

During that period, my health was even worse than that of an average person.

Nie Gongfeng, my junior brother is seriously injured and I am in the same condition. You are the most skilled martial artist in the entire Yangwu Association. We will have to rely on you a lot in the days to come to get through this difficult time.

"Don't worry, my mentor is, after all, a member of the royal family. There must be some misunderstanding between her and my father, but it won't be long before it's cleared up. I am, after all, a princess, and I will definitely fulfill the reward I promised you."

Wu Chengyu nodded outwardly, but inwardly he thought to himself, if this princess was just trying to comfort him, that would be fine, but if he actually believed her, then he was being naive. Political struggles and palace intrigues, once they started, would inevitably have dire consequences.

On the surface, Wu Chengyu remained utterly loyal: "Princess, I do cultivate Taoist techniques. Could you let me try? Perhaps I can heal your injuries."

At this moment, Princess Yuzhu had already been helped onto the carriage by Wu Chengyu. Without suspecting anything, she nodded in acquiescence.

Wu Chengyu placed his hand on Princess Yuzhu's back and slowly channeled his internal energy into her. Of course, he wasn't trying to heal her, but rather to examine her Supreme Pure Yang Skill once again, as well as the effect of the yin-yang fusion of her and Wu Qianyu's internal energy.

To truly assess someone's internal energy attributes, mere combat is insufficient; one must input internal energy into the opponent without their resistance, and gradually sense it.

Sure enough, he first carefully studied Princess Yuzhu's internal energy attribute. It was definitely Yang, not quite reaching the pure Yang realm, but not far off. Once her power reached a certain level, she could indeed generate Yin from Yang, but Princess Yuzhu's current power was not high enough.

While the Supreme Pure Yang Skill is indeed not as extreme as Wu Qianyu's Limitless Profound Yin Skill, and does not delve into the direction of extreme Yang, its flaws are not significant.

After integrating Wu Qianyu's extreme Yin internal energy into the secret method given by the old monster, Yin and Yang were unified in a short period of time, greatly increasing her martial power. However, she herself had not yet fully achieved the transformation of Yang into Yin.

Without the guidance of her own generated Yin-attribute internal energy, the external Yin-attribute internal energy would still clash with Princess Yuzhu's Yang-attribute internal energy, albeit less intensely. This method, which forces growth, is extremely damaging to the meridians.

Wu Chengyu didn't know what secret method the old monster had to alleviate the situation, but Princess Yuzhu was indeed temporarily unable to mobilize her internal energy due to the problem with her meridians, and it would indeed take several months to recover.

Wu Chengyu could recommend the healing chapter of the Nine Yin Manual to Princess Yuzhu, as this technique is specifically for internal injuries and meridian problems. However, he wouldn't do something so mindless as to aid the enemy.

At the current Yangwu Martial Arts Hall, Wu Qianyu has become a eunuch, Princess Yuzhu has temporarily lost all her martial arts skills, and Helian Kenan is quite skilled in martial arts, reaching the level of a first-class master.

But now, Princess Yuzhu has lost the favor of the Western Xia emperor in everyone's eyes. The more arrogant she was in the past, the more destitute she will be now. Even if the museum is temporarily closed, the museum owner, Helian Kenan, will have to face attacks from all sides and will be too busy to take care of himself.

What about the rest? Chen He? He's smart and resourceful, in charge of intelligence, but he's basically defenseless, and as a Han Chinese, he's not really part of the core of the upper echelons of power.

Therefore, the Yangwu Guild Hall no longer had any constraints on Wu Chengyu, and Wu Chengyu had too much room to maneuver.

However, Wu Chengyu chose to do nothing at this time.

He really wanted to find out what the conflict between the old monster and the Western Xia royal family was, and most importantly, where the martial arts inheritance of the Xiaoyao Sect was.

The side hall where we last met the old monster is suspected to be the place where Li Qiushui's martial arts were passed down. But don't forget, the old monster somehow obtained Wu Xingyun's inheritance, and no one knows where these inheritances are hidden.

However, one side was an old monster at the Innate Realm, and the other side was the Western Xia royal family, who could surround the old monster and whose hidden trump cards were unknown. Wu Chengyu felt that if he, as a transmigrator, got involved at this time, he might immediately get burned.

He wasn't confident he could withstand the old monster, especially the old monster's Northern Darkness Divine Art. If he made a move now, he would just become a tool to replenish the old monster's internal energy.

Considering that the Old Monster and Wang Chongyang were evenly matched, the Old Monster's Beiming Divine Skill would certainly be no match for Wang Chongyang's ascetic version of the Innate Skill. Wu Chengyu's Innate Skill and Wang Chongyang's share the same origin and many fundamental aspects, such as the requirement to connect the hidden meridians of the five internal organs. Logically, his skill should also be able to counter the Beiming Divine Skill.

It can't be that the reason the Northern Darkness Divine Art couldn't absorb internal energy is because that version of the Innate Skill required a virgin to abstain from sexual activity; that would be absurd.

After analyzing the situation, Wu Chengyu finally came to a conclusion: both Wang Chongyang and he himself required the unblocking of the hidden meridians near the five internal organs—heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys—in order to achieve the unity of the five elements.

Only when the internal forces of the human body complement each other under the five elements can external forces fail to seize control of one's own internal forces.

Although Wang Chongyang had health problems at that time, his five hidden meridians must have been opened, which is why the old monster couldn't do anything to him.

The old monster broke into Zhongnan Mountain after Wang Chongyang's death, but was forced back by the old Taoist Zhenxiang, which shows that the Beiming Divine Skill was also useless against Zhenxiang.

Whether it's Zhenxiang, Wang Chongyang, or Wu Chengyu, the internal energy they practiced was all derived from the Quanxing Nameless Divine Skill. They were just three versions of the same origin, but Zhenxiang believed that Wu Chengyu's version was the most advanced.

After all, when Wu Chengyu was deducing this internal skill, he had bamboo slips beside him to provide comprehensive guidance, something that Zhen Xiang and Wang Chongyang could not match.

Therefore, it doesn't make sense that Zhenxiang and Wang Chongyang's techniques could withstand the Beiming Divine Art, while Wu Chengyu's advanced version couldn't.

The most pressing task facing Wu Chengyu now is to open up the hidden meridian of the last kidney meridian in his innate skill as soon as possible, so as to cultivate the innate skill to its full potential. Only in this way can he have a real trump card to fight against the old monster.

In other words, before he has mastered the Innate Skill, Wu Chengyu will absolutely not provoke that old monster. He will at least let that old monster fight with the Western Xia royal family before making any plans.

After examining the princess's injuries, Wu Chengyu shook his head, indicating that he was powerless to help. Princess Yuzhu had not held much hope for him anyway.

When they returned to Yangwu Hall, Wu Chengyu immediately announced that he was going into seclusion. He secluded himself for seven days and finally broke through the bottleneck that had left him with only a breath left by using the excruciating pain brought by the Chain of Life and Death.

In an instant, his already superior internal strength underwent another transformation. With each cycle of internal energy circulation in the hidden meridians near his five internal organs, it seemed to remove some impurities and become more refined. At the same time, he could clearly feel his five internal organs improving little by little under the stimulation of this internal energy.

This, in turn, affects other organs and meridians in the body. It's like a top-of-the-line sports car whose engine, transmission, chassis, braking system, and electrical equipment have all been upgraded, with improvements that are almost visible to the naked eye.

Wu Chengyu even underwent another cleansing and marrow purification, expelling many impurities from his body. These impurities all came from his own internal organs and were things that had accumulated in his internal organs over the years and could not be expelled through metabolism under normal circumstances.

The transformation of Wu Chengyu after mastering the Innate Skill was second only to his successful metamorphosis using the Silkworm Transformation technique in Xiangyang.

At this point, Wu Chengyu had completely entered the ranks of top masters, ranking alongside the Eastern Heretic, Western Poison, Southern Emperor, and Northern Beggar. Although his accumulated skill might be slightly insufficient, he was definitely at the same level.

At the same time, Wu Chengyu was also completely certain that the Innate Skill after its mastery could definitely resist the Northern Darkness Divine Skill. The internal energy circulated in the hidden meridians of the five internal organs according to the five elements, forming a self-contained system that could completely suppress external suction.

Even when facing the old monster, a Xiantian cultivator, Wu Chengyu is now fearless. Although there is a difference in their cultivation levels, their combat strength may not be the same.

The old monster, with his innate constitution steeped in the smell of old age, and having been poisoned by Wu Chengyu's Burning Scripture Powder, would soon suffer if Wu Chengyu used his lightness skill to maneuver around him and avoided a head-on confrontation.

When he walked out of his courtyard, full of pride, he saw that the entire Yangwu Guild Hall was decorated with lanterns and colorful streamers, completely transformed. Red silk was hung everywhere, and even many of the exterior decorations had become more luxurious.

Before he could react, he saw a familiar face: Princess Yuzhu's future husband, Yeli Mingzhu.

Ironically, Wu Chengyu had seen him here twice before, both times hanging on the flagpole by the door, swaying in the wind. But this time, the guy was standing on the ground, and not only that, he was now beaming with pride and acting arrogantly.

"Hurry up and call your princess out! I'm about to marry her and become her prince consort, which means I'll be your master. Who dares to stop me?"

Yeli Mingzhu made a lot of noise, as if he wanted to rush in to find Princess Yuzhu, but he was stopped by the maids and servants.

At this moment, Chen He, who was in charge, saw Wu Chengyu appear and walked over to Wu Chengyu with a limp. Before he could speak, Wu Chengyu pressed him for an answer.

"Is this Yeli Zhu so arrogant now? He even dares to go and see Princess Yuzhu?"

Chen He said with a wry smile, "The princess is injured and has lost all her martial arts skills for a short time. I don't know how this news got out."

As a result, this Yeli Mingzhu came to cause trouble, repeatedly saying that she wanted to uphold the husband's authority.

(End of this chapter)