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

Chapter 74 The time is ripe
Time always flies by so fast it catches you off guard. Another year has passed, and it's still the dead of winter. Suzhou has had a rare heavy snowfall.

Wu Chengyu has grown quite a bit in the past year. At just twelve years old, he is already nearly 165 centimeters tall. He has mastered the second form of the Ox and Horse Stance, "Tall and Mighty," and can consciously maintain the opening and closing of his epiphyseal plates. Reaching 185 centimeters in height is no problem at all.

Although he was tall, he still looked rather thin compared to the burly figure across the table.

Wu Chengyu was helpless at this moment. He rested his elbows on the table, propped his chins up with his hands, and looked at A Ku across from him with a wry smile.

At this moment, A-Ku was holding a braised pork hock, a large pork hock weighing five jin (approximately 2.5 kg). In just a few bites, half of it had already gone into A-Ku's stomach.

She was wearing a fur coat, and the thick winter clothes couldn't hide her fleshy figure at all; Wu Chengyu really couldn't bear to look at her.

Other people's little sisters are so cute, and my own little sister has a cute personality too, but her figure is really... indescribable.

"You've only been awake for a few days, how come you've injured someone again today, Cuihua?"

"Ugh, brother, don't call me Cuihua! I've told you so many times!"

Today was just a friendly spar with Wu Chengming. I tried to hold back as much as possible, but who would have thought that with just a light move like "Heavenly King Holding a Pagoda," he would be sent flying. Actually, he wasn't seriously injured; it was just a minor bump on his arm, and he'll be fine in a few days."

"You should spar with fewer people. You've injured so many people in the past six months. Although your uncles haven't said anything, it doesn't look good."

Ever since A-Ku started practicing Bear in the Big Blue House, she has become even more gluttonous. She was already a glutton to begin with, but now her appetite has increased dramatically. She eats a lot, absorbs nutrients well, and eats anything, whether it's meat or vegetables. She can eat two pork hocks in one sitting.

In just one year, A-Ku was no longer a ball, but a little bear, and among the little bears, he was the largest.

Now, every time he sees A-Ku, he can't help but think of the female bear Cuihua from Boonie Bears, who is just missing a flower in her hair.

If it weren't for Wu Chengyu's substantial wealth, and the fact that his hotpot and the low-end version of the Black Jade Bone-Mending Ointment are selling well, bringing in several hundred taels of silver a year, he really wouldn't be able to afford to support him.

As expected of a top-tier cultivation technique given by the bamboo slip, the effects are simply too remarkable. Although he hasn't fully mastered it yet and A-Ku's foundation still needs to be honed, his overall spirit and energy are completely different. The key point is that the bamboo slip didn't mention that cultivating Bear Appearance can also increase strength.

Now, A-Ku can handle 100-pound stone locks in one hand and do it in all sorts of ways.

As the bamboo slip says, A-Ku's aptitude is truly exceptional. Not to mention how quickly he mastered the Bear in the Bear and made rapid progress, he also mastered the Yanqing Fist to perfection, far surpassing Wu Chengyu in his prime. He is absolutely the best among the children of the same age in Wujiapo.

However, her current bulky figure somewhat affects her agility, and her short arms and legs make it difficult for her to use many exquisite moves.

As a result, the little guy took a different approach and focused on the wrestling and sumo moves in Yan Qingquan, who was known for his street wrestling skills back then.

When sparring with her peers, she likes to charge at them like a little cannon, grab them, and throw them. If they're not careful, they'll be sent flying. Even if two or three of her peers attack her together, they can't do anything to her. Fortunately, so far no one has lost an arm or a leg.

According to the bamboo slip, during each sleep period in winter, the body absorbs the nutrients accumulated beforehand, and A-Ku will lose a little weight every time she wakes up. After the three-year cultivation period is over, she will quickly regain her slender figure.

However, Wu Chengyu now has serious doubts about this. It's the first year now, and A-Ku sleeps for three days at a time, then gets up and goes crazy for a few days before going back to sleep. A month has passed, and Wu Chengyu has not noticed any signs that she has lost weight.

He was really worried about how his younger sister would ever get married. He wondered if he should write to Sister Niu and ask her how she managed to snatch her husband away from home back then.

While lost in thought, A-Ku had already finished a pork hock: "I don't have much of an appetite today, so I'll just have this one. Brother, I'm sleepy again, I'm going to sleep now."

She took two steps, then turned back and pulled a crumpled letter from her fur coat, handing it to Wu Chengyu. "A letter from Lu Family Village. I almost forgot to give it to you."

Wu Chengyu held the letter, somewhat disgusted by the oil stains on it. Judging from the handwriting on the envelope, the letter was not written by Lu Zhiyi, but by his former fourth senior brother, Lu Chengfeng.

In the past year, Wu Chengyu has done many things besides practicing his skills.

The first thing I did was to personally go to Jiaxing two months ago to find Lu Chengfeng.

As fellow sufferers in the same boat, Lu Chengfeng was pleasantly surprised to see Wu Chengyu, feeling even closer to him than on Peach Blossom Island. However, he was somewhat dissatisfied that Wu Chengyu no longer used the name Wu Mianfeng.

They are all incredibly filial to Huang Yaoshi, still hoping to return to Peach Blossom Island.

Wu Chengyu had previously intended to help Lu Chengfeng treat his disability, and upon inquiring about the bamboo slips, he learned that the Black Jade Bone-Mending Ointment was effective in treating bone injuries and also had a therapeutic effect on tendon injuries.

However, for those like Qu Lingfeng and Lu Chengfeng who had their Achilles tendons severed directly, the tendons had completely atrophied after this period of time, and even the Black Jade Tendon-Regenerating Ointment was powerless to help.

Therefore, Lu Chengfeng's fate of lifelong disability could not be changed, and Wu Chengyu could not receive any reward from the bamboo slips.

But this is for the best, at least the secret of the Black Jade Rejuvenating Ointment will not be revealed, and Wu Chengyu will no longer have to worry about it.

The two almost had a falling out before they even exchanged a few pleasantries because of their attitudes toward Huang Yaoshi, and Wu Chengyu had no intention of saving Huang Yaoshi's soul.

These people are all brain-dead. If this happened in later generations, and someone was crippled out of nowhere due to their anger, even their own father would probably turn against them.

Although they didn't see eye to eye, the two quickly found common ground: Chen Xuanfeng and Mei Chaofeng.

Over the past year, the Black Wind Duo's fame has spread throughout Jiangnan. They dare not provoke the local powerful clans, but instead target martial arts practitioners and ordinary people without a strong background. They have escaped several times when they were besieged, and their martial arts skills have become increasingly advanced.

Wu Chengyu and Lu Chengfeng immediately agreed that Lu Chengfeng would recruit martial arts masters, while Wu Chengyu would also have manpower to help, and the two sides would work together to gather information.

After the Black Wind Duo disappeared after being chased last time, Lu Chengfeng's letter this time must have found a clue.

For Wu Chengyu now, the time has come to hunt down the Black Wind Duo and avenge himself and Feng Heng.

In just one year, Wu Chengyu's martial arts skills improved by leaps and bounds. His internal energy cultivation method has now been partially mastered. Although it has only integrated into two hidden meridians near his heart and liver, this method has been evaluated as a divine skill for the first time by the bamboo slip.

While he may be slightly inferior to a master like Mei Chaofeng in terms of internal strength accumulation, the quality of his internal strength far surpasses that of his opponent.

Wu Chengyu focused his main efforts on the "Shifting Stars" technique, using it as a template to incorporate the Quanxing Protection Method.
He has also mastered the third move of the Ox and Horse Stance, Qi Chong Dou Niu. This Qi refers to strength. Although he has not practiced for long, each of his arms has more than 300 jin of strength.

Having mastered the Turtle Sun Technique, I can maintain most of my sleep time each day, keeping myself and my mind in optimal condition for extended periods.

Not only that, but he has also mastered the basics of cat walk, eel kung fu, thousand-machine hand, and Yu walk.

Currently, due to his short cultivation time, he cannot yet be considered a top-tier expert. However, with his various unique skills and the profound mysteries of the Star Shift technique, he can hold his own against either of the Black Wind Duo and even defeat them unexpectedly.

　It will be available for purchase next week. I'm currently building up my drafts. The next chapter will begin with the hunt for the Black Wind Duo.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)