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

Chapter 385 New Rewards
The majestic Qinling Mountains, evergreen for millennia, with their overlapping peaks and vast forests, are shrouded in mist and clouds. Once lost, it is difficult to find one's way out.

Wu Chengyu is a remarkable person, possessing martial arts skills sufficient to face any danger. However, he lacks real wilderness survival experience. Although he has watched many wilderness survival videos in his previous life, he would still be at a loss if he were actually thrown into the deep mountains and forests.

Even the most experienced wilderness explorers need to carry a compass when entering a primeval forest, because it is really difficult to determine directions in the deep mountains where the forest is dense and the trees are lush.

The only way Wu Chengyu knew was that sunrise was in the east and sunset was in the west. If he missed these two times, he would immediately lose his way.

Thus, he was trapped in the Qinling Mountains for more than a month before finally finding a way out.

At this moment, he was halfway up a small mountain, gazing at the path that would soon lead him out of the Qinling Mountains. His eyes welled up with tears, and as he recalled the past month he had spent, he couldn't help but feel a little trembling.

In front of him was a campfire with a makeshift barbecue grill made of a few pieces of wood. Two grouse were roasting on it, their skin now golden brown, dripping oil onto the fire and splattering sparks.

But Wu Chengyu had no appetite for the grouse. For the past month or so, he had been eating nothing but roasted meat: roasted snakes, roasted wild boar, and roasted bear paws. The key problem was that there were no seasonings. Wild animal meat was coarse and had a very strong fishy and gamey smell that was impossible to remove. It was definitely a test for his sense of taste.

Having been separated from human society, even if he were the best martial artist in the world, he couldn't suddenly produce an iron pot, and he was powerless to even cook chicken soup. So the past month or so has been truly indescribable, touching the very depths of his soul.

The grouse in front of him wasn't roasted for himself. He was about to leave this wretched forest, and wouldn't it be better to find a small town and have a bowl of mutton stew with bread? He wanted soup and bread, but no meat, and he wanted plenty of bread, as he was desperately craving carbohydrates.

While yearning for the human society beyond the Qinling Mountains, he picked up a piece of firewood and banged it hard against something behind him.

It turned out that Wu Chengyu had been leaning against a huge creature. This thing, lying on the ground, was about three and a half meters long, plump and strong, and at this moment it exposed its white belly without any defense, allowing Wu Chengyu to lean comfortably against it.

“Panda, Daddy is leaving now. No one will grill meat for you anymore. Consider these two grouse a parting gift.”

If you ever encounter a hairless creature like me walking upright in this shabby forest, be careful. They're usually no good, including me.

Anyway, remember this: if the other party doesn't hurt you, let them go; if they dare to fight you, don't hesitate. There aren't many people who look like me and are as powerful.

Don't back down then. They can't beat you; it's best to chase them away. Anyway, don't eat them; their meat is sour and doesn't taste good, and you might even get sick from it.

He calls himself a panda, but Wu Chengyu actually relies on a tiger with piercing eyes and a white forehead, the true king of the mountains and forests, and can be considered a tyrant of the Qinling Mountains.

The Siberian tiger is considered relatively large among tigers, but an adult Siberian tiger's head and body length, excluding the tail, is generally over two meters. The one Wu Chengyu is currently leaning against is a full three and a half meters long, and with the tail, it is over four meters long, which far exceeds the size of a typical tiger.

Moreover, this is a tigress. Female tigers are generally smaller than males. A tigress that grows to this size is definitely an anomaly. It immediately reminded Wu Chengyu of Princess Yuzhu, a super-enhanced version of a fierce tiger.

As for why it was a tigress, Wu Chengyu would never tell you. After getting lost, he was searching for directions while feeling bored. Suddenly, he saw a tiger in the mountains. The tiger was obviously full and had no interest in him.

But Wu Chengyu's mischievous sense of humor kicked in again. He suddenly figured out the tiger's gender. After all, he wasn't afraid of tigers now, and he didn't have to go to the zoo to distinguish which was male and which was female like he did in his previous life. He could check it himself.

At this moment, the tiger must have been full and wanted to go back to its den for a good night's sleep. It glanced at Wu Chengyu, lost its appetite, and turned to leave.

Wu Chengyu used his lightness skill to suddenly appear behind the tiger, grabbed its two hind legs, lifted it up, pried it apart, and finally peeked out. This time he was able to determine its gender; as he expected, it was indeed female.

However, this behavior, which would be criminally detained in human society, thoroughly enraged the tigress. She never imagined that an upright, hairless monkey would dare to do such a despicable thing to her, and in her fury, she immediately launched a frenzied attack on Wu Chengyu.

Tigers typically employ a three-pronged attack: a pounce, a swipe, and a slash. Unfortunately, while tigers' attacks are extremely explosive, they are far too slow for Wu Chengyu. He took the opportunity to practice his Lingbo Weibu (a martial arts technique) on the tigress.

For a time, no matter how the tigress attacked, she couldn't catch a glimpse of Wu Chengyu. Not only that, Wu Chengyu's way of fighting back against the tiger was very unconventional. He would never hit a person in the face, but when he hit a tiger, he would only hit its eyes.

Every time the tiger lunged at him, he deftly dodged with increasingly skillful footwork.

But after the tiger misses its target and prepares to turn around and attack again, it inevitably pauses for a moment. Wu Chengyu will suddenly appear in front of its head, bending down and getting very close. Just as the tiger is about to open its mouth to bite, Wu Chengyu fires a lightning bolt into its eyes.

The tiger, in pain, became even more enraged and pounced again. Wu Chengyu vanished once more, leaving only a shadow in place. Just as the tiger was about to turn around, Wu Chengyu shamelessly approached again and, for the sake of symmetry, fired another electric shot into its other eye.

In this way, the tigress pounced more than ten times, each time receiving a hard punch to the eyes from Wu Chengyu. Tears streamed down the tigress's face, but Wu Chengyu's force was so skillful that it didn't injure her eyes; at most, it caused some irritation and tearing. Otherwise, her eyes would have been smashed open long ago.

However, Wu Chengyu, intentionally or unintentionally, knocked off all the fur around the tiger's eyes. After being hit hard, without the fur to cover it, the area around the tiger's eyes swelled up and turned purplish-black, and it really ended up with panda eyes.

The tiger knew it couldn't handle this shameless fellow, so it turned to run away. But Wu Chengyu was really trapped in the mountains and needed to vent his frustrations. He had finally found a toy, so he couldn't bear to let it go. In any case, it would be good to use it to improve his proficiency in Lingbo Weibu (a martial arts technique).

So, the tigress was thoroughly entangled by Wu Chengyu for two days and could not get rid of his torment. In the end, she had no choice but to lie down and not run away. She lay on the ground, exposing her belly, to show her submission.

Feeling bored, Wu Chengyu caught a few wild animals and roasted them. He threw the leftovers to the tigress. To his surprise, the tigress was a little ecstatic about eating cooked food for the first time and actually stayed by Wu Chengyu's side, refusing to leave.

For the past month, the tigress has been following Wu Chengyu around, helping him find the way down the mountain. Wu Chengyu noticed that its dark circles under its eyes hadn't gone down, so he simply gave it a cross-species name: Panda. Tigers are also cats, and the dark circles under its eyes, the way it looks when it gets beaten up, and its shamelessness are quite fitting.

A month later, Wu Chengyu's ill-fated relationship with the tigress finally came to an end. During this month together, Wu Chengyu discovered that the tigress was extremely intelligent, far surpassing that of ordinary wild animals. He was somewhat reluctant to part with her, so he roasted two grouse and gave her a final word of advice.

He left the tigress's soft belly, stood up, took the grouse off the grill, then used his magic to shovel a pile of sand to extinguish the fire, and threw the grouse to it.

The tigress didn't eat immediately, as if she knew Wu Chengyu was about to leave. Wu Chengyu patted the tigress's head, pushed off with his legs, and leaped down from the mountainside.

The difference is that his figure in the air is like floating on air. Every time he falls, even though there is nothing under his feet, there is always a point of leverage that can support him to fly in the air for a long time until he disappears into the mountains and forests, leaving only a tiger's roar behind him. It is unknown whether it is reluctant to leave or sending away the plague god.

Killing the old monster was a way of avenging Xu Zhu, the chosen one of destiny during the Tianlong era, and also a way of sending off the completely extinct Xiaoyao Sect. Those who were killed by the old monster's schemes can now rest in peace.

Therefore, the bamboo slip, which had remained unresponsive for a long time, offered a new reward that left people feeling resentful. This time, the reward was different from the previous ones, which were clearly meant to annoy Wu Chengyu.

Previously, they were all animal-themed, but this time they have a very modern industrial feel. It's not exactly high-tech, though, but four words appeared on the bamboo slip: turbocharger.

What appeared next was actually the principle of turbocharging, along with some basic structural diagrams, such as turbines and compression devices, and even emphasized that the compressed air needs to be cooled to maintain its density.

Wu Chengyu didn't study mechanical engineering; his understanding of turbocharging was limited to its use in car engines to improve power and reduce fuel consumption.

But he just couldn't understand what use this thing would be in the modern world.

The turbine blueprints given in the bamboo slips could be hand-printed by an old craftsman, regardless of the precision required, but the prerequisite is to have an engine first.

Internal combustion engines are too far removed from our time. Let's just talk about steam engines. The world's first practical steam engine appeared in 1698, almost five hundred years later than our time.

Wu Chengyu was confident that with the guidance of bamboo slips, he could find a few experienced craftsmen to study them carefully, and with some time and money, he might be able to make one himself.

So what? What's the use? Industrial progress is a whole system. Simply taking out a steam engine won't change the current era. Most importantly, it has absolutely no practical effect on Wu Chengyu.

Wu Chengyu couldn't help but curse his own stupid cheat code. If this reward had been given in the early 20th century, it might have been patented.

After repeatedly criticizing and hurling insults at the bamboo slips, the bamboo slips finally gave a hint, just one word: 'Turn'.

Spin? Spin what? Does the magic of love go round and round? Wu Chengyu continued to curse, but this time the bamboo slip did not respond.

Afterwards, while searching for a way out of the mountain, Wu Chengyu pondered the word "turn". The only thing that seemed to be related to what he had learned was "the shifting of stars", since it also contained the word "turn".

Now that his "Shifting Stars" technique is nearing completion, and after obtaining the Yin-Yang Rotation technique from the Free and Unfettered Sect, coupled with the White Rainbow Palm Force and the secret technique of remotely controlling palm force outside the body, it seems he can reach an even higher level.

However, it seems that the principle of turbocharging can also be applied to the "shifting of stars" technique. By analogy, the application of this boosting method to operate internal force can be used in more than just the "shifting of stars" technique.

(End of this chapter)