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

Chapter 93 Martial Arts System
Other families find it extremely difficult to obtain a genuine internal energy cultivation method, but the Wu family has only had the breathing and exhalation method of Yan Qing Fist for over a hundred years.

Therefore, the Wu family can only be considered a local powerful clan. No one has ever considered the Wu family to be a martial arts family. The biggest flaw of the Wu family is that they have no good internal energy cultivation methods.

To be able to select three intermediate-level techniques, each with its own unique characteristics, after careful consideration, while temporarily setting aside top-level techniques and ultimate skills, is a truly impressive feat.

Only Wu Chengyu, who had obtained the Murong family's inheritance, the second volume of the Nine Yin Manual, and the bamboo slips as instructions, could have accomplished this.

However, Wu Chengyu, who had many secret manuals at his disposal and often lamented that he didn't have time to practice them, wasting his resources, was not willing to give up. Having internal strength without corresponding moves was not enough; at the very least, it would be a disservice to the resources he possessed.

Wu Chengyu wanted to build a complete system of martial arts, even if it wasn't high-end at first, it had to have everything it needed.

Besides the two different internal skills, the Iron Shirt skill, which was previously used for external defense, was selected first. Martial arts, to put it bluntly, is about fighting. As the saying goes, to learn martial arts, you must first be able to take a beating. Only by enduring the beating can you win.

The Guiyuan Heart Sutra cultivates Qi, the Mangniu Dali Jue cultivates strength, and the Iron Shirt Technique cultivates defense. If one truly masters these three techniques to a certain level, even if one encounters someone with superior martial arts skills, the opponent will likely have a greater headache. In a prolonged battle, one will be as tough as a copper pea, making it difficult to defeat easily.

However, this is only the best-case scenario, aside from the Guiyuan Heart Sutra being the main cultivation method for the young disciples of the Wu family.

Iron Shirt and Raging Bull Might Technique can only be practiced in combination. Without good aptitude and abundant resources, trying to cultivate all three at the same time will only waste time and energy, resulting in more harm than good.

In terms of fist and palm techniques, Wu Chengyu prepared two types according to their different functions. The first type is the Great Coffin Splitting Hand.

The Great Coffin Splitting Hand is similar to the Great Stele-Smashing Hand of Shaolin Temple, and it has existed in the martial arts world for a long time. It has nothing to do with the Great Coffin Splitting Hand of the Ye family in Joy of Life.

This palm technique is fierce and powerful, with strong destructive force. It is best suited for attacking strong points. When used as a killing move, it is suddenly unleashed when the enemy is locked in a stalemate, and it will be difficult to defend against. Moreover, once hit, one will be seriously injured.

There are many people in the martial arts world who know the Great Coffin Splitting Hand, but they only know scattered moves. Only the Murong family has the complete manual, which has nine moves in total, and each move is deadly.

However, the drawback of the Great Coffin Splitting Hand is that it consumes a lot of internal energy. When fighting desperately, one will naturally hold back. Unless one's internal energy is extremely profound, after nine consecutive moves, the internal energy will be basically exhausted. If the opponent does not die, then one will die. It is really not suitable to fight desperately with someone right away.

At this point, a fist technique is needed that wins by using exquisite moves, consumes little internal energy, is better at grappling, and also has a certain degree of lethality.

This time, Wu Chengyu chose the Eagle Claw Grappling Technique, which was a common and widely available version in the Murong family's collection.

However, while the Eagle Claw Grappling Technique met Wu Chengyu's requirements, it was simply too ordinary.

Under the guidance of the bamboo slips, Wu Chengyu combined the bone-dissolving and grappling techniques of the Disarming Hand with some finger-strengthening methods from the Nine Yin Manual, slightly modified the Eagle Claw Kung Fu, and gave it a rather domineering name: Eagle Transformation Grappling Hand.

The modified Eagle Transformation Grappling Hand reached the upper limit of advanced fist techniques in the martial arts world. Although it cannot compare to ultimate techniques such as the Falling Flower Divine Sword Palm, it is still sufficient for martial artists to use.

The Murong family doesn't have many collections of light-body skills, and those they do have are mostly common items.

Wu Chengyu combined three very common light-body skills in the martial arts world: Grass-Walking, Wall-Running, and Eight-Step Cicada-Catching. Sometimes, the more common a martial art is, the more likely it is to be excellent. Grass-Walking is good for long-distance running with low energy consumption, Wall-Running is a high-end version of parkour, which is good at light-body leaps and bounds, and Eight-Step Cicada-Catching is a short-distance speed-up attack skill.

These three light-foot techniques, combined with basic footwork such as the Ape Step, Continuous Step, Plum Blossom Stake, and Seven Star Step, under the guidance of the bamboo slips, allowed Wu Chengyu to create a set of ever-changing divine movement techniques. While not top-tier in any aspect, it can handle various different environments.

Finally, regarding weapons, Wu Chengyu chose to focus on swordsmanship, as it is quick to learn, powerful, and more suitable for martial arts practitioners.

Wu Chengyu wasn't particularly skilled in this area; he hadn't practiced weapons much until now, only selecting two sword techniques and one formation from the Murong family's collection.

The Five Tigers Severing Gate Saber is known for its ferocity, along with its insidious and ruthless hidden killing technique and a set of Five Elements Saber Formation.

The battle formation method given to Lu Zhiyi is more suitable for these brave generals on the battlefield, while this Five Elements Blade Formation is more suitable for martial arts figures to surround masters or fight against a large number of enemies.

Once this system is established, and trusted young members of the martial arts family are selected to teach it, at least ten years later, a group of true martial arts masters will emerge from the martial arts family.

According to Wu Chengyu's prediction, ten years later they would all be above Ke Zhen'e, the strongest of the Seven Heroes of Jiangnan. If they cultivated for more than fifteen years, they would inevitably catch up with the leaders of their respective forces, such as Sha Tongtian and Peng Lianhu.

By then, the entire Wu clan will possess formidable strength.

Moreover, if these martial arts disciples are talented enough and of a character worthy of Wu Chengyu's trust, Wu Chengyu will definitely believe that he has already stood at the top of the martial arts world fifteen years later. Therefore, he will not hesitate to teach them martial arts of similar level to the Dragon City Heart Sutra and the Murong family generals.

When Wu Chengyu gave these martial arts techniques to Wu Zhengliang, Wu Zhengliang was shocked. These martial arts techniques seemed to be very common on the surface, but it was not easy to collect them all or to obtain the true teachings. This was exactly what the Wu clan had been lacking.

Especially the Eagle Transformation Capturing Hand and the Hundred Transformations Divine Movement Technique modified by Wu Chengyu. Wu Zhengliang was not a high-level martial artist, but he was amazed by the extraordinary skills displayed by these two martial arts.

When asked about the origins of these martial arts skills, Wu Chengyu did not want to lie and could only guarantee that there would be no future troubles and that outsiders would not know. He remained silent about the true origins.

That very night, Wu Zhengliang gathered the clan elders and the leaders of the eldest and second branches of the family together. These secret manuals immediately drew gasps of amazement from them. Only Wu Chengyu sat to the side, smiling silently, displaying a rather smug demeanor.

These elders discussed the matter all night and finally decided that all martial arts skills would be limited to the direct line of the Wu family for the time being. Those with good aptitude and loyalty from the collateral branches would be considered for instruction later when the direct line members had grown up. Those from other surnames were not qualified to be taught martial arts at the moment.

Those who usually slack off and do nothing in the direct lineage were excluded. Only those with good character and potential for development were selected. A portion of the Wu family's future profits was used to purchase resources for these direct lineage members who received instruction.

Finally, after praising Wu Chengyu highly, the elders gave him an informal position as the head instructor of Wujiapo.

In fact, the Wu family is very fair in its rewards and punishments. Contributions like his should be richly rewarded. However, Wu Chengyu lacks nothing, and the clan leader couldn't come up with a reward after thinking for a long time, so he had to put it aside for the time being.

However, thanks to Wu Chengyu, the third branch of the Wu family gained much more influence within the family. Wu Chengyu's status in the family was no longer the same, and no one treated him as a junior anymore.

(End of this chapter)