Achieving Hua Jin at Last!

Half a month later, after converting the last batch of gold and silver looted from the American devils into supplies and distributing them free to the poor, you bid farewell to Wong Fei Hung and the others and boarded a steam train bound for Guangzhou, the provincial capital.

As for the guns, ammunition, and gunpowder, aside from keeping a pistol on you and giving Thirteen Aunt a pistol for self-defense, the rest remained soaking in the sea, awaiting donation to men of ambition, such as—Sun Wen.

A day later, everything you saw and heard upon arriving in Guangzhou involved the White Lotus Society. You immediately remembered that this was the plot of Once Upon a Time in China II.

You thoroughly despised the White Lotus Society. Not only did they slaughter innocents, smash, loot, and rob everywhere, but they also spread superstitious lies and extorted money. They were a complete cult.

Three days later, you beat up some White Lotus Society followers performing rituals in the street, then followed them back to the White Lotus Society's headquarters.

The White Lotus Society naturally did not welcome your arrival, and you had no desire to waste words on these idiots who had already been brainwashed by a cult. You immediately began fighting the White Lotus Society members.

You knew that most White Lotus Society followers were ordinary people deceived by True Man Jiugong, so you had no intention of slaughtering them all.

As an all-round expert, you knew sixty or seventy martial arts. Of those, at least ten could render someone incapable of fighting without taking their life.

And the one you used was Shaolin Weituo Zhan Yi Shi Ba Die.

Weituo Zhan Yi Shi Ba Die was also one of the Shaolin Seventy-Two Arts you knew. It emphasized borrowing an opponent's force against them, dislocating joints, and agile movement techniques. It was perfectly suited for this situation.

Your other purpose in doing this was to lure out the White Lotus Society's leader, True Man Jiugong.

Your Shaolin Weituo Zhan Yi Shi Ba Die had long reached Great Accomplishment, so its power was naturally extraordinary.

Thus, in less than ten minutes, more than half of the hundred-plus followers in the White Lotus Society headquarters had their limbs dislocated by you and lay on the ground, unable to move.

This scene immediately made True Man Jiugong, who had been hiding in the shadows, unable to remain calm.

Those present at the headquarters were all core members of his White Lotus Society. If they were all subdued and taken away by the authorities, the White Lotus Society would fall apart on the spot.

Therefore, True Man Jiugong and his Four Great Protectors immediately appeared and charged at you.

Like Yan Zhendong, True Man Jiugong primarily cultivated the hard qigong Iron Shirt. Their overall strength was roughly comparable.

But you were far stronger than when you had fought Yan Zhendong.

So, without any surprise, after testing him for over a dozen exchanges, you seized an opening and directly unleashed the peak Great Accomplishment Hun Yuan Pi Li Quan in a furious barrage.

How terrifying was your strength?

Even though True Man Jiugong wore iron plates for protection, they could not stop your fists. You smashed him to death on the spot, his eyes still wide with disbelief.

Not only True Man Jiugong, but the Four Great Protectors who had joined him in his crimes were also all beaten to death on the spot.

As True Man Jiugong died, the iron plates on his body fell to the ground.

For a moment, the many White Lotus Society followers who had glared at you in fury began weeping bitterly in disbelief.

They could not accept that the leader they believed possessed divine protection and feared no foreign guns had merely been deceiving them with an iron plate.

You failed to find that fleeting opportunity to break through to Hua Jin in your battle with True Man Jiugong, and you left the White Lotus Society in disappointment.

As for where the remaining White Lotus Society followers would go afterward, that was beyond your control.

This was a widespread phenomenon created by this chaotic and dark era: feudal ignorance, arrogance, and blindness...

It was not something an ordinary person like you could change alone.

Seven days later, after digesting the gains from your battle with True Man Jiugong, you went to the Guangzhou Governor's Office that evening, seeking a fight with Governor Nalan Yuanshu.

Over the past year, you had sparred with Wong Fei Hung many times and had never lost.

This had long made you famous through Wong Fei Hung's reputation, and you were respectfully called Master of Wisdom and Courage.

Thus, upon learning that you had come to visit, the extremely self-confident Nalan Yuanshu immediately agreed to your request.

"Nalan Yuanshu? He really is an expert. If not for the plot killing him off, it would be hard to say who was stronger between him and Wong Fei Hung..."

In the death row, Zheng Qian, who had already eaten his final meal, murmured thoughtfully to himself.

As far as he knew, Nalan Yuanshu mainly cultivated four staff techniques and could fight Wong Fei Hung on even terms. His strength had naturally reached the Hidden Force realm.

Moreover, he had created a Great Accomplishment-level first-rate martial art that combined hardness and softness with tremendous power—Bu Gun.

From this, it was clear that Nalan Yuanshu was likely also trying to find an opportunity to break through to Hua Jin by creating his own martial art.

A quarter of an hour later, you and Nalan Yuanshu arrived at a training ground filled with wooden stakes.

Nalan Yuanshu held a long staff, while you held a spear.

Fist techniques were spear techniques; the two shared the same origin and lineage. A master of fist techniques was certainly also a master of spear techniques.

Soon, after exchanging bows, the evenly matched pair of you immediately began fighting.

In terms of techniques and Combat Experience, there was actually little difference between you, Nalan Yuanshu, and Wong Fei Hung.

The differences lay only in the mutual counters between your techniques and your respective physical strength.

But in terms of the number of martial arts you knew, you believed you far surpassed Nalan Yuanshu, while your strength was enough to crush him.

Moreover, with Great Accomplishment Golden Bell Shield and Iron Shirt, you could take Nalan Yuanshu's attacks head-on without injury.

As the situation shifted against him, Nalan Yuanshu's expression grew uglier and uglier. He had no choice but to use his self-created Bu Gun, hoping to use softness to overcome hardness.

It had to be said that Nalan Yuanshu's Bu Gun was indeed exquisite. It could be hard or soft, and its changes were unpredictable. For a time, it kept you from closing in, but as Bu Gun unfolded, your eyes grew brighter and brighter!

Because you had finally found that fleeting opportunity to break through to Hua Jin!

All things in the world generated and countered one another, rising and falling in turn. Just like taiji, yin contained yang and yang contained yin. Only when yin and yang united could there be flawless completeness.

Yet your Hun Yuan Pi Li Shou had previously focused only on ferocity and dominance, seeking to break past its limits by having yin arise at the extreme of yang.

But that was clearly not something the current you could aspire to. Perhaps after growing stronger in the future, you could create such a martial art, but not now.

So, at that moment, you finally understood.

At the end of your twenty-eighth year, you attained sudden enlightenment in your battle with Nalan Yuanshu. You successfully comprehended your Hun Yuan Pi Li Shou to perfection, and your strength consequently broke through to the peak of the Body Tempering Realm, making you a legendary Hua Jin expert.

With your breakthrough, you easily defeated Nalan Yuanshu.