The Legend of the Condor Heroes: Starting from the Bodyguard

Chapter 13 training made his figure as light as a swallow.

Beyond the sparse trees and woods in the distance, half of the autumn mountains are bathed in the blazing sun.

In the corner, the wind stopped, and the leaves ceased to sway.

The towering mountains stretched into the distance under the sunlight, and after a few brisk footsteps, Zhou Yan appeared in a valley.

Instead of rushing to Zhongdu, he went in the opposite direction and entered the deep mountains.

Liang Ziweng's carefully nurtured treasure snake had been drained of all its blood, leaving him feeling extremely hot all over, as if he were being roasted by a fire, his blood surging. Even when he squatted down and dipped his hands into the icy stream, they remained burning hot.

He took off his blood-stained clothes, washed them clean, and laid them out to dry on the river stones. Following the original owner's memories, he crossed the valley. He arrived at a simple hut built in the woods and sat cross-legged.

Ignoring the bitter taste and medicinal flavor in his mouth, he silently practiced the Qi-guiding method of the "Taizu Changquan" given to him by Zhang Wangyue. He held a breath in his chest and let it slowly circulate with the boiling blood and qi. Soon after, the thick blood and qi nourished by the precious snake blood was guided and pulled, gradually surging and becoming intense, and then it had the meaning of a great river surging endlessly.

Blood is the mother of Qi, and Qi is the commander of blood. Blood and Qi can carry the Qi of the pulse, and conversely, when the Qi of the pulse moves, it can move the blood and Qi. Because Qi and blood contain power, the movement of Qi of the pulse can stimulate internal strength. This is the method of cultivating Qi from the outside to the inside in the external martial arts of Taizu Changquan given by Zhang Wangyue.

Zhou Yan tirelessly cultivated his inner energy. After about an incense stick's time, his dantian suddenly stirred, and a wisp of internal energy emerged. This wisp of internal energy was not strong, but it was extremely pure, equivalent to the results of five or six days of diligent practice.

Zhou Yan was overjoyed and continued to cultivate his inner strength by using the method of moving blood and qi through the pulse to refine his inner power into the purest and most refined form.

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The setting sun hangs over the distant mountains, and the dense foliage of the trees rustles in the wind.

A heart-wrenching roar rang out from the old man with ruddy complexion and white hair: "My precious snake!"

Suddenly, the old man shifted his body, punching and kicking. Several men dressed as ginseng guests screamed and flew out. The remaining people dared not dodge and trembled like leaves.

"who is it?"

The old man with such a dignified and otherworldly appearance who could elicit such a violent reaction was none other than the venerable Liang Ziweng. After visiting his friend, he went straight to the Zhao Prince's Mansion in Zhongdu to see the Great Jin Prince, only to be told that none of his disciples had arrived beforehand. Immediately, a bad feeling arose in Liang Ziweng's mind. Before he could even leave the mansion to search, a disciple rushed over to report that something had happened: the precious snake had escaped and could not be found, and five disciples had been killed. There was also a dead, fat wild boar at the scene.

It turns out that this Jin prince was named Wanyan Honglie. The former Jin general Wuzhu was a skilled strategist, but he always suffered defeats when facing Yue Fei. With the rise of the Mongols, the Jin dynasty was severely weakened by successive wars and was unable to launch a large-scale southern campaign.

Wanyan Honglie was an ambitious man. He accidentally saw a document left by the previous dynasty in the old archives of the palace. It contained Yue Fei's handwriting. After several deliberations, he concluded that Yue Fei had written down the secrets of military strategy, tactics, and warfare that he had learned in his life and hid them in Lin'an.

Wanyan Honglie then offered a large sum of money to recruit skilled martial artists from the Jianghu (martial arts world) in an attempt to steal military strategies. Liang Ziweng was one of those recruited, along with others like Sha Tongtian, the Ghost Dragon King, and Hou Tonghai, the Three-Headed Flood Dragon, whom Zhou Yan encountered outside Datong Prefecture. Others included the infamous Thousand-Handed Butcher Peng Lianhu, the Tantric master Lingzhi Shangren, and Ouyang Ke from White Camel Mountain in the Western Regions.

Ouyang Ke was the one who coveted Li Mochou's beauty.

When Liang Ziweng arrived, everyone except Ouyang Ke had already entered the manor. Upon hearing that the precious snake had escaped and his disciples had suffered misfortune, he rushed out of the manor to come over. The Three-Headed Dragon Hou Haitong and the Ghost Gate Dragon King enthusiastically accompanied him.

In truth, neither of them had any good intentions. These people were secretly vying for power. The reason they seemed righteous was simply because they had found a sense of balance in the fact that the Four Demons of the Yellow River had been killed.

Liang Ziweng was furious. His eldest disciple knelt down with a thud: "Master, that precious snake must have been captured by the thief who killed our fellow disciples. I led people to search an area of ​​more than ten miles, but we could not find the thief. It is not that I am incompetent, but the thief is truly elusive and cunning."

"Useless beast." Liang Ziweng kicked his eldest disciple away. The disciple, who had just gotten up, knelt down again, secretly relieved that his life had been saved.

Sha Tongtian felt much better. He had lost four disciples, Old Man Liang had lost five, and they had also lost a large snake that sounded very valuable. Young Master Ouyang had also suffered a loss on the road, abducting a pretty woman, only to encounter the Quanzhen Sect and lose two of his concubines. None of them felt sorry for each other.

While thinking this to himself, he had to put on a show and advised, "Immortal Ginseng, don't be anxious. There are traces left by the thief at the scene. Your Highness is all-powerful; perhaps you can catch the thief by following the clues." After saying this, he walked to the corpse of Liang Ziweng's disciple, looked at the steel knife that had pierced his head, and imagined the opponent's moves. Suddenly, Sha Tongtian's expression changed drastically.

"What's wrong?" Hou Tonghai asked, noticing Sha Tongtian's unfriendly expression.

Ghost Gate Dragon King muttered to himself, "Look at the footprints on the ground, and then look at the angle of the knife. Doesn't it resemble the swordsmanship of my disciple, 'Soul-Severing Blade' Shen Qinggang?"

"It's not just similar, it's his swordsmanship."

"how so."

“Let’s take another look.” Hou Tonghai also began to analyze the situation. He looked at Liang Ziweng’s disciple who had been killed by a punch, examined his injuries for a long time, and said with certainty, “This man died from the punch of a master who was skilled in ‘Yanqing Fist’.”

Yanqingquan is widely practiced. Hou Haitong recognizes the moves and can easily identify the style of the boxing from the footprints on the ground and the marks left by the punches.

“Immortal Ginseng, I have a breakthrough!” Hou Tonghai was overjoyed, but what he saw was Liang Ziweng, whose beard was trembling.

The eldest disciple, kneeling on the ground, cautiously spoke: "My master is proficient in the 'Yan Qing Fist'."

Liang Ziweng's mind was filled with what Sha Tongtian had said: the murderer had used the knife technique that Shen Qinggang was skilled in.

Hou Tonghai, suddenly snapping back to his senses, said, "Immortal Ginseng, you don't think we were the ones who did it, do you?"

Liang Ziweng's eyes grew increasingly suspicious.

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call!
Zhou Yan practiced Qi cultivation for about half an hour, but no more internal energy was generated. He knew that the efficacy of the precious snake's blood had been completely absorbed.

His body underwent obvious changes; his heart pounded like a drum, his muscles felt like a fully drawn bowstring, and when his strength and bones stretched, he felt completely refreshed. After spending most of the day circulating his blood and qi and stimulating his internal energy, his internal energy was now as accumulated as if he had cultivated for several years.

"Liang Ziweng's treasure snake not only gave me four or five years more internal strength, but also strengthened my muscles. No wonder after Guo Jing swallowed the snake's blood in The Legend of the Condor Heroes, the old monster still tried to find ways to suck human blood. It's a pity that a lot of it was wasted."

Zhou Yan didn't even consider the possibility of seizing Guo Jing's opportunity. What's gained in one area may be lost in another; perhaps the Golden Knife Prince Consort has an even greater opportunity.

Shi Baichuan, a bodyguard from Fu'an Escort Agency, said that the Qiao Meridian has the effect of lightness, agility, and quickness. Zhou Yan obtained the boxing manual the night before and was already familiar with the pathways of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians.

He guided the Qi with his mind, and the Qi in his Dantian circulated along the meridians, starting from the Shenmai acupoint on the outer side of the heel of the Foot Taiyang Meridian. It then ascended along the back of the outer ankle, along the posterior border of the lower limb, to the abdomen. It then traveled along the posterolateral chest, through the shoulder and the outer side of the neck, up to the corner of the mouth, and reached the inner corner of the eye, where it met with the Foot Taiyang Meridian and the Yin Jiao Meridian. Finally, it ascended along the Foot Taiyang Meridian and met with the Foot Shaoyang Meridian at the Fengchi acupoint at the back of the neck.

The pure internal energy flows smoothly through twelve major acupoints, including Shenmai, Pucan, Fuyang, and Juliao, without any obstruction, thus opening up the entire Yangqiao Meridian.

Continuing his efforts, Zhou Yan successfully opened up the Yin Qiao Meridian.

Shi Baichuan said that when the two meridians are connected, one's body is as light as a swallow.

At this moment, his Achilles tendon was strong and elastic. Overjoyed, he got up and ran out, leaping with all his might, going straight for several meters. He was much lighter and faster than the day before.

(End of this chapter)