Playing with fantasy beasts in the martial arts world

Chapter 187 There Really is a Divine Nun of the South Sea (A Long Chapter of 6,000 Words)
As fate would have it, just as Cha Nan was about to travel the world, an old friend came knocking on his door.

"what?"

"You said you found the South Sea Goddess?" Cha Nan looked at Yang Guo, who had an anxious expression on his face, and was so surprised that his jaw almost dropped.

He knew, of course, that the South Sea Divine Nun was just a delaying tactic devised by Huang Rong to keep Yang Guo calm. But now that a South Sea Divine Nun had actually appeared, was someone setting a trap for Yang Guo, or was it just a coincidence because the world was so vast?

"Yes! But she's currently imprisoned in the Eastern Depot's jail by Liu Xi, so I need to find help to rescue her," Yang Guo said confidently.

"Liu Xi?" Cha Nan felt the name sounded familiar.

He couldn't remember which martial arts world the South Sea Divine Nun had appeared in.

But I vaguely remember Liu Xi!

"Liu Xi...Eastern Depot...Legend of Jiang Yuyan?" Cha Nan finally unearthed the vague impression from her memory.

The Little Fish and the Flower Without Flaws, a modified version of the legendary duo, also known as The Legend of Jiang Yuyan.

Cha Nan couldn't remember the plot of the story itself anymore. The only thing she still knew was that in the end, Jiang Yuyan became a powerful demon who suppressed the entire world, killing off the entire main cast until only the title of the drama remained.

If it weren't for the plot-driven death, she could have easily eliminated Xiaoyuer and Hua Wuque, and then become an empress.

"Um... Brother Yang! Have you considered that Senior Dragon Girl didn't go with the South Sea Goddess?" Although Cha Nan wasn't opposed to traveling to the world of Little Fish and Flower Without Flaws, she still had to remind Yang Guo, lest he go through all that trouble only to be greatly disappointed in the end.

Yang Guo said, "I have confirmed that Long'er did indeed go to that world and did indeed become a disciple of the South Sea Divine Nun. Her junior sister even showed me the Jade Maiden Sword Technique."

"Alright! Aunt Guo's words have come true..." Cha Nan was speechless.

What a tragic fate!

“That’s perfect. Uncle Guo and Aunt Guo are here. Let’s set off together and help you rescue them!” Cha Nan immediately agreed. Since it wasn’t a wasted effort, what else was there to say?

"No need! Just come with me!"

"Too many people are actually a disadvantage!" Yang Guo said with some apprehension.

Cha Nan was puzzled, but Yang Guo explained, "Liu Xi possesses the evil skill of absorbing internal energy, which allows him to convert the true energy and internal strength of others into his own. If we cannot control him, the more people who go, the more disadvantageous it will be."

"Oh!" Cha Nan nodded, indicating that she understood.

He vaguely remembered that the "absorbing power" trait seemed to be quite prevalent in The Little Fish and the Flower Without Flaws.

It contains not only Liu Xi's Absorption Technique, but also the martial arts that Jiang Yuyan learned from the Six Ren Divine Dice, which can also extract internal energy, even from a distance, making it quite domineering.

Now that Yang Guo had brought this up, Cha Nan understood why he had come to her for help.

The Absorption Technique absorbs internal energy and true qi, but what if it's a magical beast that doesn't have internal energy or true qi?
Then you won't be able to inhale it!
After all, Liu Xi's Absorption Technique is probably not the same version as that of Iron-Blooded Marquis Zhu Wushi. If it is the latter, then it absorbs not only internal energy, but also drains a person's essence and vital energy, making it even more domineering and evil.

“I also have skill fruits for the lightning, fire, and ice elements here. Would you like one?” Cha Nan asked Yang Guo.

Yang Guo had already eaten a grass-type skill fruit, which is why he changed the nature of his true energy and was able to regenerate his severed arm.

However, there doesn't seem to be a rule that a person can only eat one skill fruit.

At least the mythical beasts don't have this restriction, and the humanoid Paru probably doesn't either.

Based on Ren Woxing's Star Absorbing Technique, it is extremely repulsive to, or even resistant to, internal energy and true qi with strong attribute characteristics when it comes to absorbing internal energy. Even if Liu Xi's Absorbing Power Technique is stronger, it should have similar shortcomings.

Therefore, if Yang Guo's true energy possesses any one of the three attributes of thunder, fire, or ice, Liu Xi will be injured if he absorbs his internal energy or true energy.

"Okay! Thank you for your help!" Yang Guo did not refuse, but silently remembered this kindness.

Cha Nan quickly obtained a lightning-type skill fruit.

The appearance of the lightning-type skill fruit is somewhat like a durian, but the spikes are sharper and more pointed, and it is golden in color with an explosive aura of lightning.

Lightning-type fruits are quite rare, comparable to dragon-type fruits, both being powerful attack-type fruits. Cha Nan currently only has three, and the one he gave to Yang Guo is the best one, with the most concentrated and domineering aura.

"There are many true qi in the martial arts world that contain ice and fire attributes, but those with lightning attributes are really rare. You first ate a grass-type skill fruit, which gave your true qi and body the ability to heal themselves. Then you can eat a lightning skill fruit and you should be able to withstand it and digest and absorb it."

"From now on, your true energy will be imbued with lightning attacks, making it unstoppable!" Cha Nan said.

"But let me make this clear first, I'm not just doing this out of kindness, I also want to see how it goes, and I'll use you as a test subject!" Cha Nan said to Yang Guo.

Upon hearing this, Yang Guo smiled dashingly: "It would be more honest of you not to explain!"

Having said that, without bothering to peel it or worrying about pricking his mouth, he took a bite directly into the lightning-type skill fruit.

In the next instant, golden arcs of electricity crackled around Yang Guo's body.

Crackling!

Crackling!

As the electric arc leaped, his body began to convulse violently, his skin turned red, and traces of electricity flowing through his body began to appear.

Then, with the explosion of lightning, the skin on the body was torn apart.

But as Cha Nan said before, Yang Guo had eaten the grass-type skill fruit in advance, so his true energy contained the self-healing ability of plants and trees, as well as super vitality. Therefore, although the damage and harm caused to his body by the lightning-type skill fruit was great, he still managed to withstand it.

Although Yang Guo was cunning and treacherous in his first twenty years, and was not lacking in trickery, he was more patient, hardworking, and resilient to loneliness than anyone else in the following ten years, and fought against the darkness that devoured his heart.

Their tolerance for pain is extremely high.

Arcs of electricity danced across his body, his skin and muscles being torn apart by explosions time and again, yet he remained silent, instead continuously circulating his internal energy to thoroughly digest and absorb this lightning aura and make it his own.

One hour, two hours, three hours!
The electric arcs that had been leaping across Yang Guo's body finally dissipated slowly, and the redness on his skin and the faint traces of electricity traveling through his meridians also disappeared without a trace.

He opened his eyes wearily, and the first thing he uttered was: "The order is wrong!"

"what?"

"You're eating this fruit in the wrong order!"

"If you don't follow certain rules and methods to eat it, and try to resist the changes, then unless you have an inhumanly strong body and an extremely strong will, you won't be able to eat the third one." Yang Guo told Cha Nan very frankly the information he had personally verified.

There were several moments just now when even he felt like he almost couldn't make it through.

Cha Nan guessed half right. The self-healing and vitality brought by the Grass-type skill fruit did indeed provide Yang Guo with a certain 'safety net'. However, the two energies, which were of the same origin but different natures, fought fiercely, almost using his body as the battlefield.

If it weren't for his profound and vast inner energy, which allowed him to barely suppress it, and if it weren't for the fact that there was no inherent relationship of mutual generation and restraint between thunder and vegetation, but rather a subtle mutual generation, it would be uncertain whether he could have withstood it and successfully subdued and incorporated both forces into his own power.

But at this moment, the original true energy, the energy of plants and trees, and the energy of thunder in his body have gathered into one, yet they stand in a tripod, approaching perfection.

It could no longer accommodate the insertion of a fourth force.

In other words, if Cha Nan were to take out any skill fruit of the fire, water, dragon, dark, or earth type, he could not eat it.

It will explode if you eat it, and there's no saving it.

"order?"

"What order?" Cha Nan asked hurriedly.

"I don't know, you'll have to verify it yourself!" Yang Guo said, shaking his head.

He only had a vague feeling, but as for being able to describe any specific tricks... well, sorry, he couldn't!

"All right!"

"So it can be considered as a gain!" Cha Nan said.

He doesn't yet have the ability to control his fruit, so experimenting with the order in which he eats the fruits is not yet feasible.

But once he unlocks the ancient technology skill of the orchard, which allows him to continuously plant a single fruit until he is completely wealthy and free, he will be able to experiment with the correct order of eating the fruit.

If you try enough times, you'll eventually figure it out.

At the same time, Cha Nan was also somewhat relieved, relieved that she hadn't been greedy for a temporary increase in power and immediately consumed the skill fruit.

If he has already eaten it, even if he doesn't die from overeating, he can forget about eating the All-Skill Fruit and getting the best and most comprehensive buffs.

"When are we going to rescue them?" Cha Nan asked Yang Guo.

"Now is the time to act... I happen to have a portal, and now is the time for it to open," Yang Guo said.

Cha Nan said, "Alright... Let me prepare for a little while, and then we'll set off immediately."

Now that it's decided to go to the world of Little Fish and Flower Without Flaws, Cha Nan naturally needs to make targeted preparations.

In Cha Nan's team list, four positions had already been confirmed: Grandmaster Liang Xiao, Cloud Sea Deer Thunder Wind No. 2, Tank Keglis, and Overturning Sea Dragon Ao Bing. Cha Nan hadn't thought of the last position before, but now he had a clear idea of ​​where to go.

I've decided on this one: Thorn Fairy.

A grass-type humanoid mythical beast.

Its upper body resembles a red-haired little girl, but its lower body is a huge grass skirt woven from thorns.

Originally, it wasn't considered a powerful mid-tier magical beast. Although it had many work abilities, only its pharmaceutical skills reached the second level.

However, its main skill 'Thorn Entanglement' is a strong control skill of the grass type. Due to the characteristics of the Thorn Fairy, this skill has a stronger control effect than other grass-type monsters. It also comes with strong paralysis, illusion, and lethal poison. Which poison to use depends on how Cha Nan commands and utilizes it.

In The Little Fish and the Flower Without Flaws, whether it's Liu Xi's Absorption Technique, or Yao Yue and Lian Xing's Mingyu Skill and Shifting Flowers and Grafting Trees, or even the most powerful Liu Ren Divine Skill, all of them are martial arts with strong control effects.

Therefore, in order to deal with strong control, Cha Nan also had to set up a strong control unit for protection.

The main idea is to have a give-and-take approach, and to be prepared for any eventuality.

After taking stock of some other odds and ends, Cha Nan and Yang Guo set off together.

Following Yang Guo, they stepped into the boundary gate together.

Yang Guo's movable portal is a strange wooden plaque. When activated, the plaque transforms into a doorway, and a crack appears on it. Obviously, after a few more uses, once the plaque completely cracks, Yang Guo's movable portal will dissipate and become unusable.

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In a secluded hiding place, the fairy was pacing anxiously back and forth at the door.

Inside the room, Murong Shu and Jiang Yufeng were helping Murong Wudi heal his injuries.

"Little fairy! Can you please stop walking around in front of me all the time? It's making me dizzy, my eyes are blurry, and my whole body is dizzy," Little Fish said to the little fairy, a blade of grass dangling from his mouth.

The little fairy exploded like a firecracker, immediately unleashing a barrage of words: "How can I not be anxious? My master was captured, and my father is seriously injured inside!"

"I wonder when Brother Yang will be back. He said he's going to find someone who can deal with Liu Xi... I don't know if he'll be able to find one!"

"No! He can definitely do it. Brother Yang is so reliable, unlike you, you little brat."

Her speech was somewhat incoherent, clearly due to her concern.

"I hope Brother Yang can find a few more helpers!"

"That Liu Xi is already troublesome enough, and now Cao Zhengchun has appeared, along with this so-called Nine Thousand Years Alliance..." Xiaoyuer rarely showed a hint of worry.

He wasn't someone who easily got worried; he believed that things would work themselves out and that there was always a solution to everything.

However, he is now genuinely worried.

It wasn't just Murong Wudi and the captured South Sea Goddess who were worried, but also the Little Fairy.

For Liu Xi to master the Absorption Technique, he must use it to absorb five Yang and two Yin elements on the day the Seven Stars Align. The day of the Seven Stars Align is not far away, which means that Liu Xi's pursuit of them will definitely become more and more frantic.

Because the fairy is one of the two yin that Liu Xi needs.

Little Fish vowed that if he could overcome this crisis, he would practice his skills diligently and never slack off again.

Suddenly, a cry of an eagle echoed across the sky.

The little fairy cheered, "Brother Yang is back!"

Then, unable to resist, he began to imitate bird calls, his voice clear and melodious like that of an oriole, carrying far and wide.

After waiting for less than the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, two figures swept through the woods one after the other and appeared at the entrance of this secluded farmhouse.

Their gazes first focused on Yang Guo, and then moved toward Cha Nan.

"So young, and... her martial arts seem to be quite good, but... can she really do it?" The fairy hesitated.

To be honest, she was a little disappointed.

After all, even the most skilled masters need time to hone their skills, meaning that the prerequisite for becoming a senior master is that one must be old.

The young man in front of me looks to be only in his early twenties. He has been practicing martial arts since he was born, and at most he is comparable to Hua Wuque. How could he possibly defeat Liu Xi?
Moreover, Liu Xi now has an accomplice... Cao Zhengchun, who uses the Heavenly Gang Boy Skill.

Two old eunuchs together are extremely troublesome!

The master could have escaped, but they still managed to catch him and bring him back.

"Well done!"

"What's this brother's name?"

"My name is Xiaoyuer, Xiaoyuer as in Xiaoyuer, Yu as in Xiaoyuer!" Unlike the worried look on Xiaoxiannv's face, Xiaoyuer was very excited because he knew that Yang Guo was not a person who spoke carelessly, and the fact that he could find this young man in front of him meant that he was indeed capable.

Being talented yet young... that can only mean that one's talent is extraordinary and transcends the limitations of age.

"I am Cha Nan, I have long admired your name!" Cha Nan politely cupped his hands in greeting.

Little Fish laughed and asked, "How long?"

“More than ten years is a long time!” Cha Nan answered truthfully.

“No wonder we hit it off so well. It turns out we’ve been thinking of each other for a long time. Why don’t we cut off the chicken’s head, burn some yellow paper, and become sworn brothers? From now on, we don’t ask to be born on the same day, month, and year, but we ask to die on the same day, month, and year!” Little Fish immediately seized the opportunity, showing no signs of awkwardness or unfamiliarity.

Cha Nan looked Xiao Yu'er up and down, then suddenly pulled out a book from his pocket: "If you can learn the martial arts in this book in one day, we'll become sworn brothers!"

The moment Cha Nan saw Xiao Yu'er, a mischievous idea flashed through her mind.

The point of a brilliant idea isn't whether it works, but whether it's brilliant enough.

"Learn martial arts? Isn't that a bit too late!" Little Fish said, seemingly unhappy, but his hands honestly flipped the book over: "Tai Chi Classics?"

"Wudang Tai Chi?"

"I heard it takes a long time to learn, it's too late now!"

"It might take others a long time to learn, but if you learn... you might learn very quickly!"

"Also, this is Zhang Sanfeng's original handwritten Tai Chi Classics. Remember not to damage it, otherwise 100,000 Wudang disciples will surely turn you into a beehive with their swords!" Cha Nan reminded him.

Upon hearing this, Little Fish became curious and indeed opened the manual to take a look.

Cha Nan had also read the Tai Chi Classics, but to be honest... she couldn't understand it!
If it's a big watermelon, the kind you cut in half, he can do that.

However, the Tai Chi Classics contain very little explanation of specific moves and energy flow routes. Instead, they focus on profound and mysterious principles, which are very stream-of-consciousness and philosophical, but not much about martial arts.

No wonder the Sun Moon Cult has been holding onto it for so long, yet no one has been able to learn even a single move from it.

This is similar to how in modern society, many theoretical formulas involving extremely advanced science can be found online, but more than 90% of people get dizzy just looking at those formulas, and they might even make mistakes when copying them, let alone understand them.

Cha Nan's martial arts talent is neither good nor bad, only above average, so it's understandable that he can't learn it.

As for Liang Xiao, he did have some feelings about it, but his knowledge was not deep enough. He was not at his peak yet, and it would take him some time to truly understand Zhang Sanfeng's handwriting.

I looked at it from the front and back, from the top and bottom, from the left and the right... but I still couldn't understand it.

Little Fish is very clever, but his cleverness is often just superficial; he lacks the great wisdom that comes from time, experience, and the accumulation of knowledge.

It would be a miracle if he could understand Zhang Sanfeng's handwritten Tai Chi classics!

"I don't understand!" Little Fish sighed.

“It’s okay if you don’t understand it. How much have you memorized?” Cha Nan asked with a smile.

Little Fish was taken aback, then thought for a moment and said, "You've remembered most of it, right?"

"I just can't understand it, it's a bit difficult to memorize, and I definitely won't remember it for very long!"

"As long as you can remember it!"

"After we go to rescue people, we'll dress you up first. You'll need to impersonate someone! If an emergency occurs, you'll appear as that person. We'll have someone secretly assist you to make sure you act well!" Cha Nan said.

"Pretending?"

"Who are you pretending to be?" Little Fish asked.

“Zhang Sanfeng, the founder of Wudang!” Cha Nan replied.

This kind of trick of Guan Sheng impersonating Guan Gong would definitely not work in a single world.

But the interconnectedness of the various worlds made everything possible.

Within the gates of the dimensional world, the existence of the Void Realm may have already made those renowned grandmasters famous throughout the heavens and earth renowned in many worlds.

Zhang Sanfeng... The different appearances and personalities of Zhang Sanfeng have probably already been noticed and known by many interested people.

This gave Xiaoyuer the opportunity to play Zhang Sanfeng.

Cha Nan made him recite the Tai Chi classics so that when he was pretending to do it, he would have some sense of what he was doing and wouldn't say something like an emperor using a golden hoe to dig the ground.

Of course, this move may not be without flaws.

But!
Cha Nan's plan wasn't aimed at Liu Xi.

Instead, they were helpers that Liu Xi recruited from other worlds.

Those people can't prove that Xiaoyuer is real, but they also can't prove that Xiaoyuer is fake... right?
Moreover, even if it's fake, it's hard not to have doubts because it looks almost exactly like a certain Zhang Sanfeng and knows the profound meaning of Tai Chi!
For this reason alone, as long as their interests are not deeply intertwined with Liu Xi's, even if they see through Xiaoyuer's disguise, they will still choose to remain on the sidelines.

Looking at it from the perspective of a single world, although Shaolin and Wudang are the leaders of the righteous path, they are often used as background figures or stepping stones for the righteous and the villainous.

However, all realms are interconnected. Shaolin and Wudang have many people, much money, and extensive influence. They also have invincible patriarchs who are rarely matched even in the heavens. Who would dare to provoke them easily? Who could provoke them easily?

It can be said that the emergence of the boundary gate has already changed many things and many people invisibly.

It's just that the changes it brought about weren't particularly drastic, so many people didn't notice them immediately.

"Me, impersonating Zhang Sanfeng?" Xiaoyuer was stunned. He was usually fearless, but he was also taken aback by Cha Nan's ingenious idea.

"What am I, to impersonate Zhang Sanfeng?" Little Fish was very self-aware.

Cha Nan patted him on the shoulder: "Relax, he's not dead! According to my intelligence, at most one or two Master Zhangs are still hot-tempered even at a hundred years old. Most of them are still very dignified and tolerant! Even if word gets out that you're impersonating Master Zhang, it won't cause any big trouble... probably!"

"perhaps?"

"No! Explain yourself clearly...!" Little Fish was getting a little anxious because he was sweating. For a moment, he forgot that he could also choose to refuse.

But he didn't, which only shows that he actually wanted to try, wanted to take risks, and wanted to play around as 'Zhang Sanfeng'.

That's just his personality—he's the kind of person who's always up to no good and doesn't care how much trouble he might cause!

　My child has been a bit sick these past few days. I've been taking care of him during the day, so I can only write at night. I haven't been able to write as much as I should. Once he's better and back at kindergarten, I'll definitely get back to updating! Thank you everyone!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)