What delighted Meng Zhao most was learning of clues concerning wind-based cultivation arts.
According to Zhou Zhihan, the county city was home to a tangled web of forces, large and small, all possessing Internal Martial Arts inheritances. However, truly exceptional martial arts were not numerous.
After all, this was merely a single county. Having two top-tier internal arts like the Seven Revolutions Cold Toad Swallowing Spirit Skill and the Nine Heavens Sun Radiance Skill was already remarkable.
Still, there were quite a few methods just beneath the top-tier internal arts, most of them family martial arts passed down through several generations.
Within the County Yamen of the county city, there was an essential Internal Martial Arts manual related to wind, known as the Raging Waves Art. The so-called raging waves did not refer to surging, roiling water, but to winds swelling and crashing like a howling tempest sweeping across heaven and earth.
This martial art belonged to the County Yamen, meaning it was officially owned. It was a first-rate martial art, and its accompanying secret medicine was rather special: the Startling Wind Pill.
One of its required ingredients was a secret medicine controlled by the authorities. Only the government could refine it; no such secret medicine circulated among the people.
It was generally bestowed upon constables under the government, because once this art was mastered, it greatly enhanced one's movement technique, granting an innate advantage in pursuing bandits and thieves.
However, its killing power was fairly average.
This art was also one means by which the authorities kept martial artists under control.
Once one cultivated the Raging Waves Art, one's secret medicine could only be bestowed through the Imperial Court and the authorities. One could only keep earning merit and working without rest.
Should one harbor even the slightest thought