I became a prince in a martial arts world.

Chapter 94 The Treasure Delivery Convoy Was Robbed

The monk Zhao Rong couldn't drive away was finally driven off by a barrage of scolding from Wang Yu.

Wei Gutong and Yan Ziyu witnessed Wang Yu's arrogant and domineering side once again, but they were not disgusted by it. On the contrary, they felt that this kind of personality, which was gentle to his own people and ruthless to his enemies, was an essential quality of a venerable person.

If even the most respected person is polite to their enemies, how can they win people's hearts?

Although Wei Gutong was a wandering swordsman, he still understood this principle.

Yan Ziyu shook her head and sighed, "My husband and I traveled the world and thought that the area under the jurisdiction of Dajingang Temple was peaceful and prosperous, and that people were happy. We never expected it to be so much worse than the Wangfu Manor."

Wei Gutong shook his head and said something fair: "If we don't compare it to the Prince's Mansion, the Great Vajra Temple is indeed quite good. At least it doesn't force tenant farmers into becoming vagrants or force people to sell their children."

At this point, Wei Gutong cupped his hands in a gesture of respect, saying, "Your Highness has mercy!"

Wang Yu waved his hand and laughed, "Senior, you flatter me. What compassion? I'm just better at accounting than those monks in the Great Vajra Temple. Their output far exceeds their labor."

Li Yunxiu said calmly, "It's not that they can't do the math, they're just too greedy."

Qianqian added sarcastically, "Isn't that breaking the precept against greed? How can they still call themselves high monks?"

Wei Gutong remained silent. To be honest, he and his wife had visited the Great Vajra Temple and discussed Buddhism with the eminent monks there. They felt that the monks were humble and profound in their understanding of Buddhism, but when they saw how the monks exploited the people under their rule, they paled in comparison to the notoriously domineering Wang Yu.

Compared to others, they are naturally eminent monks, but with Wang Yu joining, it is indeed as Zhao Yingjie just said, that he can attain Buddhahood.

"Just a little incident! Just a little incident! Let's continue eating!" Wang Yu called everyone back to the reception room.

That night, Wang Yu took another Snow Lotus Yellow Dragon Pill.

Sun Wenzhu said that the Snow Lotus Yellow Dragon Pill has a strong medicinal effect, a sustained release, and also contains toxicity, so Wang Yu should take one pill a year.

Unfortunately, he didn't know that Wang Yu had a cheat code.

Although the tortoise shell's absorption of the medicinal energy does indeed adjust to Wang Yu's condition, it also has its limits and needs to be consolidated, which prevents Wang Yu from taking it continuously. However, it really cannot last for a year.

Twenty days will suffice.

Wang Yu felt a faint feedback coming from the tortoise shell, knowing that he could take the medicine again, so he took another pill.

Expanding meridians, improving physical constitution, and transforming tendons and marrow —

"Fire Reflection," "Ice Mountain Spring," "Ice and Snow Divine Skill," "Dual Realm of Ice and Fire"—each and every one of these techniques was already perfected long ago.

As Wang Yu's aptitude improved, the cultivation technique circulated, his internal energy grew stronger and deeper.

Soon, his innate talent reached its limit, but the medicinal power was still abundant. Wang Yu had a thought and instead of learning the "Seventy-Two Styles of Wind and Snow", he practiced the "Star-Picking Hand" and the "Star-Chasing Step".

My own "Seven Styles of the Setting Sun" is already quite strong. "Seventy-Two Styles of Wind and Snow" is not a necessity for now, but I can never have too high a level of lightness skill. Besides, I also lack the ability to fight bare-handed.

You remember how clumsy my technique was last time? Even Meng Zixiao couldn't control it safely, and he managed to open the acupoints in the time it took to say a few words.

The next moment, Wang Yu flashed and moved around the room, his hands reaching out and leaving afterimages. He quickly grasped the mystery of these two martial arts.

The Star-Picking Hand technique involves a powerful pull when striking, as the saying goes, "plucking stars with one hand, effortlessly lifting heavy objects." Once an opponent enters the circle of the hand, they are like a star, and no matter how powerful or fleeting the opponent may be, they cannot escape being plucked.

The most prominent feature of the "Chasing Star Step" is its unpredictability and speed, as swift as a star. It seems to appear without any preparatory movement, vanishing in an instant, whether it's body movement, leg technique, or footwork.

Therefore, he was praised as: "He can pluck stars and press down the sun and moon with one hand, and chase the light and determine the primordial energy in eight steps."

"Holy crap, there really was a trap!"

Wang Yu felt the two martial arts techniques improved by the tortoise shell. When he compared them with the content he had initially practiced after obtaining the manual, he found that not only were many parts adjusted, but the activation methods in some parts were even completely different.

He now possessed sufficient martial arts insight to know that if he truly practiced according to the description, there might not be any problems in the early stages, only the power would seem to decrease by 30%.

However, if one were to replenish one's power through diligent practice, it would trigger hidden injuries. These injuries would accumulate and become increasingly severe, eventually leading to irreversible damage, severing the meridians in one's legs and hands, and rendering one a cripple.

Wang Yu didn't believe that Meng Zixiao and Zhao Guizhou had the ability to modify these two martial arts without being noticed. This must be a scheme devised by Tian Can and Di Que to lure him into a trap.

It makes sense, really. In their view, since Zhao Zheng took "All Streams Return to Their Source," he would definitely pass it on to them, since "All Streams Return to Their Source" is clearly stronger than "The Flame Returns."

Once he learns "All Streams Return to Their Source," he will definitely be unable to resist learning "Star-Picking Hand" and "Star-Chasing Step," which are the martial arts most suited to this technique, whenever he sees them.

Then you'll be useless, and then you can do whatever you want with a useless person.

It's possible that those two old guys even plotted against Zhao Rong, since they didn't know whether Zhao Zheng had passed on this technique to Zhao Rong.

Unexpectedly, firstly, the two disciples did not follow the prescribed method, and secondly, he had the tortoise shell cheat. As a result, they lost both their lives and their martial arts skills.

Although he didn't have "All Streams Return to Their Source," he had the Tortoise Shell Adjustment Technique, so Wang Yu was able to use these two adjusted martial arts techniques without any hindrance, and their power was even stronger than that of Meng Zixiao and Zhao Guizhou.

At this point, the medicinal effects had worn off. Although he hadn't mastered the two techniques to perfection, they were sufficient for emergency situations and combat.

"All done! Time for bed!"

Wei Gutong and Yan Ziyu accepted Wang Yu's invitation to stay temporarily at the Zhenxi Prince's Mansion, and will attend Zhao Yingjie and Yuan Feifei's wedding after the New Year as Yuan Feifei's family.

The two also met Yan Xiangxue at the Prince's residence and treated each other with the respect due to juniors.

Every day, Wang Yu would practice the "Ice and Snow Divine Skill" and "Seventy-Two Styles of Wind and Snow" with Yan Xiangxue in the morning, and spend the afternoons eating, drinking, having fun, or traveling with the women.

Unfortunately, Longshan Prefecture was too cold in winter and there was not much fun to be had. Li Yunxiu usually handled political affairs, and Zhao Yingjie also had business to attend to. So Qianqian pulled Wang Yu, Alde, and Yuan Feifei to play cards.

Wang Yu learned it after playing a few rounds, but felt it wasn't very fun and lacked variety, so he immediately summoned craftsmen to recreate the national treasure.

"East Wind!"

"Four!"

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"Eighty thousand!"

"bump!"

"Damn it!"

"A self-drawn pure suit!"

Wang Yu stared incredulously at the perfect hand of tiles that Qianqian had pushed open—a hand he'd only ever seen in mobile games. "Are you cheating?"

Qianqian's eyes widened, her timid pretense gone, replaced by a fierce and coquettish expression. "I didn't!"

Alde and Yuan Feifei chuckled to themselves, because Qianqian had just lost ten games in a row, and in the last game, Wang Yu had snatched the win, making her so angry that she almost overturned the table.

"Again!" Wang Yu took out his money.

"Let's play again!" Qianqian decisively collected the money, pushed the mahjong tiles into the pot, and started shuffling the tiles.

Alde and Yuan Feifei readily joined in, finding mahjong much more fun than leaf tiles.

After Qianqian drew a pure suit, her luck improved, and she won back all the money she had lost earlier with a series of winning hands.

In the next round, Qianqian arranged her tiles and had another potential self-drawn pure suit, which made her eyes light up.

Just then, Zhao Yingjie suddenly pushed the door open and rushed in, "Brother Yu, something's happened!"

Qianqian declared confidently, "No matter what happens, we have to finish this hand of cards!"

Li Yunxiu darted out from outside the door, "The Loulan treasure sent to the capital has been stolen!"

Wang Yu's eyes narrowed. "Wasn't there supposed to be three hundred Xionglue soldiers escorting them?"

Zhao Yingjie said, "They were drugged and didn't wake up until the next morning. No one died."

Wang Yu breathed a sigh of relief, then immediately overturned the mahjong tiles in front of him, stood up seriously, and said, "Tell me in detail, what exactly happened?"

Qianqian glared angrily at Wang Yu, as if to say, "Do you even know how valuable a 'pure suit' hand is?!"

However, business was more important, so Qianqian overturned the mahjong set and looked at Zhao Yingjie with curiosity.

Zhao Yingjie said, "Eight days ago, we sent three hundred Xionglue soldiers to escort the treasure to the capital. According to the itinerary, it should arrive before the New Year, which can be regarded as a New Year's gift to the emperor. At the same time, we sent messages to various prefectures and the capital. Each prefecture along the way will be responsible for providing food and drink, and the prefectural soldiers will provide support on the outside."

Two days ago they entered Daxing Prefecture and camped outside Pingxing County. The government provided them with food, and Zhang, as was customary, ate in shifts with three hundred men. There was nothing unusual at the time, but after nightfall he fell into a deep sleep and did not wake up until yesterday morning when he was awakened by the local soldiers.

"Then they discovered that all the treasure was gone," Zhao Yingjie continued. "They immediately notified the magistrate of Daxing Prefecture, ordering Daxing Prefecture to send troops to search everywhere, and then rushed back to the Prince's Palace to report. I only just found out myself."

Wang Yu asked, "Where are they?"

Zhao Yingjie said, "We have already taken over Pingxing County."

Wang Yu nodded. "Did you find anything?"

Zhao Yingjie said, "The chef in charge of brewing their tea soup died. They were just notifying the prefectural magistrate and the messengers sent after the discovery of the chef's death in Pingxing County. I don't know anything else."

Li Yunxiu said, "The official document from Daxing Prefecture was a step behind the messenger's, and there was no other news."

Wang Yu clicked his tongue, asking somewhat uncertainly, "How many people know that the Xionglue Army is transporting the Loulan treasure?"

Zhao Yingjie was speechless. "The Shuntian Army has already transported the treasure back, and the news has spread throughout the entire martial arts world."

The Shuntian Army and the Zhenxi Prince's Mansion joined forces to wipe out a thousand Black Qiang cavalrymen and brought back the Loulan treasure. The two families divided the treasure together, and the reputation of the Zhenxi Prince's Mansion for keeping its promises spread far and wide.

Even if Niu Zilian and others didn't spread the word, there were still many ordinary soldiers in the Shuntian Army at the time. These people couldn't keep their mouths shut, especially since it was a battle that was very worthy of being boasted about.

So when he got back, he bragged about it everywhere, and naturally the news spread that the Zhenxi Prince's Mansion had also obtained most of the Loulan treasure.

In this situation, the Prince of Zhenxi's Mansion dispatched three hundred elite soldiers to escort a caravan to the capital. Even a fool would know what they were sending.