However, Xiaolongnu was a diligent woman. Even during her honeymoon, she did not forget to cultivate the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra with Lingchi every day. As the two cultivated for a long time, their skills became more and more profound.

The Jade Maiden Heart Sutra and the Nine Yin Manual are somewhat similar, both being top-tier martial arts techniques that combine internal energy cultivation, lightness skills, and techniques.

Through system attribute observation, Ling Chi discovered that the internal energy effect of the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra was relatively average, but its moves were quite exquisite, with its lightness skill being the most outstanding. Although it couldn't match the tenfold speed increase of the Flying Willow Light Smoke Skill, it still achieved an eightfold effect.

However, the greatest power of the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra lies in its combined attack techniques.

Before beginning his cultivation, Ling Chi sought instruction from Qiu Chuji in the Quanzhen Dao Dao Song and the Quanzhen Sword Technique. In exchange, he also offered the Hunyuan Gong, which he was still using at the time.

Speaking of which, he had been stuck at the advanced blue level for decades, and his internal energy cultivation method had always been Hunyuan Gong. Although he could only control his internal energy for a hundred years, it was still considered a superior internal energy cultivation method, so Qiu Chuji was willing to exchange it.

After Ling Chi learned the mental techniques of the Quanzhen Dao Dao Song and the Quanzhen Sword Technique, he practiced the Jade Maiden Pure Heart Sword Technique with Xiaolongnu, and the offensive and defensive power of his sword increased by 20 times.

20 times! That's absolutely terrifying, like seeing a ghost.

Thinking about it carefully, it's fortunate that Wang Chongyang and Lin Chaoying didn't end up together. If they had, they would have been using the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra Sword Technique to fight every day. What would be the point of the martial arts world? They might as well just go home and take care of their children.

No wonder that after Xiaolongnu learned to use both hands simultaneously and employed the Jade Maiden Sword Technique and the Quanzhen Sword Technique, she was able to fight nine masters alone and gain the upper hand in the battle at Chongyang Palace.

With 20 times the power, it's terrifying.

Even the Five Great Masters are no better than this.

However, Xiaolongnu's internal strength is not yet up to par. Although she has finished practicing the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra, she is not proficient enough, and she has not yet mastered the Ambidextrous Fighting Technique. There is still a huge gap between her and her peak self.

Faced with this problem, Ling Chi no longer held back; he began to use the recipes to his advantage.

……

"Ding! You have conquered the stomach of the ordinary blue-level diner, Little Dragon Girl. Conquest count +0.01. Ordinary blue-level recipe dropped: Dragon Girl's Pure Heart."

"Dragon Girl's Pure Heart: Common Blue Recipe, Elegance +1, Appearance +1. Valid uses: 3."

……

The first time, Ling Chi presented the blue recipe, successfully winning over Xiaolongnu's stomach and revealing a very interesting recipe. His charm and good looks both increased by 1.

Compared to Li Mochou's "Red Serpent Beauty" which permanently reduces stamina by 10 in exchange for a +1 increase in appearance, Xiaolongnu's "Dragon Girl's Pure Heart" is far superior. Not only does it increase appearance without reducing stamina, but it also enhances temperament.

"My Long'er is indeed a little fairy." Ling Chi felt that this recipe was worth at least ten thousand taels of gold.

Without any toxic side effects, it can increase your temperament and appearance by 3 points. Just think about those concubines in the Qing Dynasty, 10,000 taels of gold is definitely a bargain.

Although she didn't know why Ling Chi suddenly praised her, Xiaolongnu felt a sweet warmth in her heart. As a girl, how could she not like sweet words!

Lu Wushuang snapped off a tree branch and threw it into the fireplace: Burn! Burn! Firebird...

……

For the next two years, Ling Chi took out all the recipes that could increase various attributes and fed Xiaolongnu a different one every day. Fortunately, Xiaolongnu practiced martial arts diligently every day, which was enough to burn off all the calories, otherwise she would have really eaten her way into a little steamed bun.

Two years of feeding have yielded remarkable results. Now, Xiaolongnu possesses at least a century's worth of internal energy, and her physique, strength, and agility have all reached triple digits, successfully advancing her to a high-level blue character.

As Xiaolongnu advanced to the advanced blue rank, Lingchi also felt the pressure.

Xiaolongnu is not unrecruited; her level can be continuously increased by eating vegetables. Once Xiaolongnu breaks through to the top-tier blue character level, how will Ling Chi cope?

The little white creature on the farm has been urging him to level up quickly for the past few years. It has been an 'earthworm' for hundreds of years and doesn't want to be stifled any longer.

It is said that when you are about to fall asleep, someone will bring you a pillow. Just as Ling Chi was preparing to go down the mountain to find the Five Wonders, a madman who walks upside down broke into Zhongnan Mountain that night.

Chapter Sixteen: Advanced Blue Recipes

At midnight that day, Ling Chi and Xiao Longnv came to the illusion array as usual to cultivate the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra.

The two had been practicing the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra for more than two years, and their proficiency was getting higher and higher. Their coordination in the Jade Maiden Heart Sword Technique was also becoming more and more tacit. They could almost know each other's next move with just a glance or a breath.

Unfortunately, the internal energy cultivation method of the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra is not high-level, only equivalent to the Hunyuan Gong. Currently, Ling Chi's internal energy cultivation of the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra is only level 8. Objectively speaking, if he does not use the Jade Maiden Pure Heart Sword Technique, his combat power will actually decrease by 20%.

In comparison, Xiaolongnu has already cultivated the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra to level 9, and at the current pace, reaching level 10 is only a matter of time.

This also made Ling Chi realize a cruel fact: his talent... was inferior to Xiaolongnu's.

Despite possessing immense true energy accumulated over four hundred years, his cultivation speed is still slower than that of Little Dragon Girl.

Feeling blue and sad, like a mushroom.

……

Just as the two were steaming, a whooshing sound came from outside the formation, followed by a surprised "Eh!"

The two immediately stopped their practice and opened their eyes to look outside the formation.

They saw an old man, dressed in rags and with disheveled hair, looking in their direction from outside the formation, seemingly having noticed something amiss.

But that's not the point. The point is that the old man was walking upside down, supporting himself on his hands, and his face was completely different from that of people from the Central Plains; he was clearly from the Western Regions.

Ouyang Feng!?

Ling Chi was startled, then overjoyed.

"Long'er, wait for me!" Ling Chi hurriedly put on his clothes, rushed out of the formation, and unleashed a Dragon Subduing Eighteen Palms strike at Ouyang Feng.

Ouyang Feng let out a strange cry, using his feet as hands to collide with Ling Chi's powerful palm strike.

The next moment, a loud bang was heard, and Ouyang Feng's body was blasted halfway into the ground, with only his buttocks and two legs sticking out, twitching like a tormented frog.

Ling Chi clapped his hands and pulled Ouyang Feng out of the ground. He saw that Ouyang Feng's head was bleeding and he had already fainted.

"So easily defeated, could his level be low?" Ling Chi muttered to himself, about to strike his acupoints, but then remembered that Ouyang Feng had practiced the Nine Yin Manual in reverse, and his acupoints were already different from ordinary people. The Huashan acupoint striking technique probably wouldn't be very effective.

After thinking about it, I decided it would be safer to tie it up.

"Brother Ling, did you kill him?" Little Dragon Girl finished dressing and walked out of the formation, looking at Ouyang Feng curiously.

"No," Ling Chi said. "I need this person, so I can't let him die."

"Oh." Little Dragon Girl nodded and said, "But he seems to be dying."

"Don't worry, he won't die." Ling Chi told Xiaolongnu to go back to the cabin first. He took some food from the Chef God Space to boost Ouyang Feng's physique and stuffed it into his mouth. He then bandaged Ouyang Feng's wound with hemostatic gauze and pressed his finger to make him fall asleep. This way, even if he practiced the Nine Yin Manual in reverse, he wouldn't be able to release the pressure point while he was asleep.

About half an hour later, Ling Chi brought out a thick, long iron chain that Pu Heng, the blacksmith, had just forged from the farm and put it around Ouyang Feng's neck. On the other hand, when he returned to the courtyard, he buried a rectangular iron block weighing five tons two meters deep in the ground, and fixed the other end of the chain to this iron block. Even an elephant would not be able to escape.

Having done all that, Ling Chi clapped his hands, took out an ice pop, and shoved it into Ouyang Feng's mouth...

……

When the thirty-fifth popsicle was inserted, Ling Chi finally heard a beautiful sound.

"Ding! You have conquered the stomach of Ouyang Feng, a high-level blue-ranked diner. Conquest count +1. High-level blue-ranked recipe dropped: Flying Toad."

"Flying Toad: Advanced Blue Recipe, Jump +2, Valid for three uses."

……

As Ling Chi carefully examined the recipe, tears streamed down her face.

Finally... finally... finally...

The premium blue recipe has finally been revealed!

Ling Chi cried like a 1.83-meter-tall child.

After decades, he finally obtained a standard high-end blue recipe book. It was no easy feat.

Looking at Ouyang Feng, who was squatting on the ground having diarrhea, Ling Chi's eyes softened: Ouyang Feng, a good person.

……

The next morning, Lu Wushuang came out of the wooden house to use the toilet and was startled to see Ouyang Feng, who was exhausted from defecating: "My God! There's a ghost!"

After a flurry of activity, Ling Chi came out and explained Ouyang Feng's identity.

"He is Ouyang Feng!?" Upon hearing Ouyang Feng's identity, Xiaolongnu instantly felt a surge of murderous intent.

"..."

Ling Chi remembered that Xiaolongnu's master was killed by Ouyang Feng. Xiaolongnu was too young to be there at the time and didn't recognize Ouyang Feng, but she remembered his name.

With her master's killer right before her eyes, Xiaolongnu harbored murderous intent for the first time.

"Does Long'er want to kill him?" Ling Chi asked.

Little Dragon Girl looked at him: "Brother Ling, are you going to stop me?"

Ling Chi shook his head: "No."

Little Dragon Girl smiled, and her smile was breathtakingly beautiful: "Brother Ling, you are so kind."

“You’re my wife, so of course I’ll treat you well.” Ling Chi smiled and said, “But killing him with one sword would be too easy for him. I have a better way.”

"What method?" Little Dragon Girl blinked.

“I fed him dozens of popsicles last night, and this is how he got diarrhea.” Ling Chi chuckled and said, “If you feed him popsicles every day and he gets diarrhea like this every day, how long do you think he can keep it up?”

Little Dragon Girl: "..."

"Ugh! How disgusting." Lu Wushuang shuddered, looking disgusted. "I don't want to see a madman having diarrhea all the time. It's too disgusting. What if he makes the room stink?"

"Don't worry! The house is upwind, so the stench won't get inside," Ling Chi said. "For a master, dignity is more important than life. If Ouyang Feng, one of the Five Greats, died from diarrhea, what do you think people in the martial arts world would say? What kind of reputation would he leave behind after his death?"

After thinking about it, Xiaolongnu and Lu Wushuang both felt that Ling Chi's method was too vicious.

"Let's do as Brother Ling says!" Little Dragon Girl nodded: "Anything is fine as long as it can avenge Master."

Ling Chi smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will personally 'take care' of Ouyang Feng and make sure he experiences ecstasy."

Seeing Ling Chi's sinister smile, Lu Wushuang shuddered: Are you a devil?

……

Ling Chi kept his word and began personally feeding Ouyang Feng popsicles every day; those who refused would be severely beaten.

Ouyang Feng can feel pain and get injured, but he won't die. Luckily, he's already gone mad, otherwise he really would have taken his own life.

During this process, Lingchi also discovered an interesting phenomenon.

Whenever the popsicle effect is triggered, Ouyang Feng does not show any rational behavior. Instead, he immediately lies down on the ground and falls asleep, only waking up an hour later and reverting to his crazy state.

Ling Chi didn't know what was going on either, but based on a rough guess, there were probably two possibilities.

One possibility is that the madman, unable to maintain his sanity, was rendered unconscious for an hour by the effects of the popsicle; another possibility is that the popsicle was repairing Ouyang Feng's brain. During the repair process, Ouyang Feng was unable to remain conscious, hence his unconsciousness.

That's interesting.

If it's the second one, then wouldn't popsicles have the effect of treating mental illness? If we go back to modern times, could we open a mental hospital to professionally treat mental illness?

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