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

Chapter 372 Getting what you want

Only Wu Chengyu knew what the old monster was up to; he wanted to absorb the internal energy of Wu Qianyu and Princess Yuzhu in order to achieve yin-yang unity.

Their skills are not yet fully developed, and it is too early for them to absorb them now. It will be basically impossible for the old monster to master the Free and Unfettered Wind Riding Technique. However, the old monster can't wait any longer, which also shows that the Western Xia emperor's judgment is correct. Her days are really numbered.

As long as she absorbs the power of Princess Yuzhu and Wu Qianyu, she can live for a longer period of time. At the same time, her martial arts will inevitably make some breakthroughs. When that happens, defeating the mummy and regaining control of the Western Xia royal family will be a piece of cake.

At most, we'll find other ways to extend lifespan later. The old monster's idea is excellent.

However, the Western Xia emperor was completely unmoved and would not give her a chance to meet Princess Yuzhu and Wu Qianyu.

However, if he were to let the old monster be dragged to his death by the Western Xia emperor's methods, and he were to become a mere spectator, it wouldn't fit Wu Chengyu's wicked taste for stirring up trouble. Since he was going to fight the old monster, how could he just stand by and watch?

After investigating Princess Yuzhu and Wu Qianyu's situation, and after fully understanding the profound mysteries of the Xiaoyao Sect regarding the unity of Yin and Yang, Wu Chengyu now completely understands why the old monster made Princess Yuzhu and Wu Qianyu cultivate martial arts that were completely opposite and altered their hormones.

This was a very bold and creative idea, but it also allowed Wu Chengyu to discover a flaw, a flaw that could cause the old monster to go from great joy to great sorrow and finally fall into despair. With this discovery, Wu Chengyu also gained the ability to intervene.

Therefore, we still need to let the old monster go out, but definitely not today; he still needs to make some preparations.

At this moment, the old monster saw the emperor's resolute refusal and her face grew increasingly ugly. Since she was injured and unable to break through, she stopped arguing, turned around and left, returning to her Palace of Broken Dreams.

The emperor's mind was also constantly on edge. As soon as the old monster left, he immediately felt mentally exhausted. He left under the protection of several experts, while only the white-clad woman wearing a mask and his son Xu Zhu, who had become a living corpse, remained outside the Remnant Dream Palace.

Wu Chengyu also used his lightness skill, taking advantage of the moment when everyone was relaxed, to circle around to the back of the Remnant Dream Palace in the night, then quietly climbed onto the roof, found a skylight, used his bone-shrinking skill to shrink his body, and entered the Remnant Dream Palace for the second time.

He has now made great progress in martial arts and his body has undergone a transformation. His mastery of the Innate Skill has made him no longer afraid of the Northern Darkness Divine Skill. He feels that even if the old monster discovers him, given her current physical condition and serious injuries, she will be unable to do anything to him.

Moreover, now that this guy has returned to the palace, he will definitely need to go into seclusion to heal his injuries, so tonight is the best opportunity to find the martial arts manual of the Free and Unfettered Sect.

The Remnant Dream Palace is not large. Last time I came, I saw a dozen or so palace maids. Among them, seven or eight were clearly practicing superior Taoist techniques and were definitely from the Free and Unfettered Sect. These people could be considered guards trained by the old monster.

These palace maids are all quite old, with solid foundations and over twenty years of internal energy cultivation. They would be at least top-tier second-rate in the martial arts world, and might even have learned a few of the Xiaoyao Sect's unique skills.

Therefore, even without the old monster, it would be absolutely difficult for ordinary martial arts practitioners to escape if they secretly sneaked in.

Wu Chengyu immediately wanted to locate the palace maids, but strangely, he couldn't see any of them.

These people were supposed to be the old monster's confidants, so they wouldn't have run away when surrounded by the army, or died on the old monster's way of trying to break through. Therefore, the current situation made Wu Chengyu more cautious.

The Remnant Dream Palace was not large. At this moment, there were three or four palace maids hiding in a small room at the entrance of the palace. They were all young, but they were huddled together, trembling. These people obviously did not know martial arts and should just be palace maids who were responsible for serving and cleaning.

Wu Chengyu probed the palace again. The strong smell of an old man, combined with the bloody smell from the old monster's heavily injured breath, was too obvious. Wu Chengyu quickly determined the old monster's current location.

He first followed the smell to the vicinity of the old monster's palace, but then suddenly smelled a strong stench of corpses in a side room outside the old monster's palace.

Wu Chengyu carefully sensed that there was no heartbeat or breathing in the side room; it seemed that there were only inanimate objects, or perhaps only dead people.

He slowly pushed open the door and immediately saw the corpses of six or seven palace maids piled on the floor. Each corpse was shrunken and had no obvious wounds, but the expressions on their faces told Wu Chengyu about the terror and despair they had experienced before they died.

Four of them looked very familiar. Wu Chengyu immediately recognized them as the side hall where he had entered the Remnant Dream Palace, where the stone wall was engraved with the martial arts legacy of Li Qiushui, and which was completely covered by the calligraphy and paintings.

At the time, these four palace maids were standing at the four corners of the side hall, responsible for monitoring him. Who would have thought that they would now be ghosts, and that they died with great resentment.

Wu Chengyu walked up to the corpse of a palace maid, carefully examined it, and tried to channel his inner energy into her body.

The palace maid's meridians atrophied, indicating she was dead. Her original internal energy cultivation must have been gone. However, this condition of atrophied meridians suggests that all her internal energy was forcibly extracted before her death. This was a complete plunder that disregarded her life or death, leaving her unable to even save her life.

Wu Chengyu immediately understood that these palace maids must have died because the old monster had drained their internal energy, which also meant that the old monster's physical condition had deteriorated to the extreme and he had to rely on absorbing their internal energy to survive.

Just then, mournful cries came from the old monster's palace, and someone seemed to be kowtowing and begging.

"Palace Master, please spare me! I've followed you for thirty years, and I've done so much for you. Please spare my life!"

Then came the old monster's weak voice. Just now outside, she was forcing herself to hold on, but now her voice was getting weaker and weaker.

"Everything about you is something I taught you, something I created, everything belongs to me. Now I need your internal energy to heal my injuries, so you should obediently offer it up. Of everyone, you have the best aptitude, have been with me the longest, and are already considered a first-rate expert. I left you until today."

"Then go die!" Wu Chengyu had already opened the 3D model and saw the pleading palace maid suddenly raise her head, draw her sword, and rush towards the old monster lying on the bed.

Unfortunately, even injured, the old monster was still beyond her ability to contend with. The moment she drew her sword, the old monster easily snatched it away with a grappling technique. Then, he patted the palace maid on the shoulder, and the palace maid seemed to suddenly fall into an ice cave, unable to muster any strength anymore.

She trembled violently, collapsed to the ground, and frantically scratched her body, leaving bloody welts, while letting out a piercing scream.

Wu Chengyu understood that the palace maid had long been marked with a life-and-death talisman. The old monster didn't need to actually make a move; just a little internal energy would activate it, and the palace maid would suffer unbearable itching, feeling like she was dying.

Unless one uses the excruciating pain of the Life and Death Chain to suppress the intense itching in their body, Wu Chengyu knew he couldn't bear it for long.

“You have a life-and-death talisman in your body, and I taught you all your martial arts. How dare you resist me? You are truly overestimating yourself.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the old monster skillfully seized the palace maid's pulse point and used the Northern Darkness Divine Art to absorb her internal energy.

The palace maid was initially enduring the life-and-death talisman, but then she felt her inner strength being rapidly drained, her meridians collapsing in excruciating pain, as if all her energy and spirit had been sucked away.

She quickly withered away, unable to move or make a sound except for trembling. In the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea, the old monster drained all her internal energy, and she finally breathed her last in despair.

After receiving her internal energy, the old monster's breathing became much more stable, and the bloody smell from his mouth and nose caused by internal injuries was also reduced considerably.

She ignored the palace maid's corpse and immediately sat cross-legged on the bed, circulating her inner energy to heal her injuries.

Wu Chengyu knew that when the old monster taught the palace maids internal skills, he probably had already thought of this day. These palace maids practiced the low-to-mid-level skills of the Xiaoyao Sect, but they were all born from the same source.

The backlash from the old monster absorbing their internal energy was far less than from absorbing the internal energy of masters from other sects.

She had suffered many injuries in the past few days, and the Western Xia emperor had cut off all her medicine supply. Now she could only rely on absorbing the internal energy of these palace maids to heal her injuries and maintain her condition. This woman could truly be called a poisonous woman.

Wu Chengyu had already figured out how to trap the old monster, but now was not the time to act, and the old monster still had a fighting chance.

Now, in the Remnant Dream Palace, there is only the old monster who is doing his best to heal, and a few palace maids on the outermost edge who do not know martial arts; everyone else is dead.

Wu Chengyu no longer concealed himself and walked quickly to the side hall. He pushed open the door and tore down all the calligraphy and paintings on the wall. Sure enough, the martial arts skills that had been shown in a fleeting moment during the Western Xia princess's marriage selection were finally revealed to Wu Chengyu.

The first thing you see is the Lesser Formless Skill, followed by the White Rainbow Palm Force, the Lingbo Steps, the Transmitting Sound and Searching Soul Technique, the Cold Sleeve Acupoint Flicking Technique, and some other techniques not mentioned in Tian Long Ba Bu.

Among these, Wu Chengyu was most concerned about the Lesser Formless Skill, the White Rainbow Palm Force, and the Lingbo Steps.

The Lingbo Weibu (Lingbo Steps) technique can make up for the only weakness in his lightness skill. This is thanks to his early study of Taoist scriptures, and he has even dabbled in the Book of Changes. I dare not say how profound his attainments are, but at least he can use the Book of Changes to practice footwork.

The White Rainbow Palm technique greatly helped his idea of ​​controlling the Black and White Impermanence, and this martial art could give him a lot of inspiration regarding the control of internal energy.

Most importantly, the Lesser Formless Skill was originally intended to improve my own Hundred Families Rice, but now, the deeper my understanding of the Free and Unfettered Sect's martial arts, the more I realize that the Lesser Formless Skill's method of harmonizing Yin and Yang is the greatest gain.

With the twelve Yin-Yang techniques of the Free and Unfettered Sect, plus the Lesser Formless Skill, and integrated into Wu Chengyu's Innate Skill, one can truly reach a higher level.

Unfortunately, only Li Qiushui's martial arts are inscribed here; the other martial arts of Lingjiu Palace are not. Wu Chengyu's goal is to learn the Tianshan Six Yang Palm and the Xiaoyao Zhemei Hand.

Wu Chengyu didn't think too much at the moment. He first seized every minute and second to memorize all the martial arts techniques on the wall, especially the ones he was most interested in.

After his transformation, his memory improved dramatically. While he couldn't say he had a photographic memory, he could memorize all the martial arts techniques with just a little effort.

After memorizing the Lesser Formless Skill and other techniques, he looked at other martial arts, the most powerful of which was called the Netherworld Ghost Claw, whose power was no less than that of the Carefree Plum Blossom Hand.

By this point, he had accomplished most of his purpose in coming to Western Xia, and the sky outside was gradually brightening. Just as he had memorized all the martial arts techniques,

The door to the side hall was suddenly pushed open, and the old monster, who had tidied himself up a bit and was no longer in such a disheveled state, walked in.

(End of this chapter)