Black Tiger Fist, Tiger-Subduing Stance!

Jiang Wangzu pricked up his ears and listened to the onlookers whispering, and his heart could not help but give a jolt.

Did monsters really exist in this world?

In the mountains, there were Mountain Lords and Mountain Ghouls.

In the water, there were Water Monkeys, Water Ghosts, and Water Ghouls.

There were also things like Fox Immortals and Yellow Immortals.

But at first, Jiang Wangzu had only thought the people of this era were ignorant and benighted.

That was why they spread stories of strange powers and chaotic gods.

But now, when he thought about it carefully...

Since this world had paths of cultivation, and of the three hundred and sixty trades, every trade could lead to the heavens...

Then demons and monsters should naturally have their own paths too.

When chaotic times descended, demons and monsters were bound to emerge!

In this bizarre and motley world, those words were absolutely no empty claim!

Rongsheng Street.

The rear courtyard of Hongyun Mahjong Hall.

"I curse your mother!"

"A-Zu, where the hell did you go?"

"Do you know the brothers spent the whole night looking for you?"

The moment Jiang Wangzu returned to their lair, Chen Tai cursed at him.

"Boss, A-Wei and I were chased and hacked at by a few bastards from Blue Society's Xinglong Street yesterday. I barely managed to get away. You have to stand up for me and A-Wei!"

"Right, where's A-Wei?"

Jiang Wangzu naturally could not tell Chen Tai and the others that he had gone off to enjoy himself at Immortal Music Gate yesterday, so he directly changed the subject.

"A-Wei had the tendons in his hands and feet cut. I sent him home to recuperate."

"A-Zu, you're a real talent. I don't want to lose you!"

"It's good that you're back. As for the grudge with Xinglong Street, we'll settle it sooner or later."

"But when all's said and done, this time it was you and A-Wei who accidentally stepped onto Xinglong Street's turf. You were the ones who broke the rules first."

"As long as you're fine."

"Oh, right. Your sister-in-law told you to weed the yard and loosen the soil in her little flower garden while you're at it."

"I'm going to the gang this morning to hand in the regular dues. Everyone else, do whatever you're supposed to do."

"When you get back, go to Dragon River Pier with Big Ox and Second Tiger. Things haven't been peaceful there lately, so the gang wants every branch to send a few men over to hold the place down."

"You three, don't go charging to the front in everything. If you die there when the time comes, don't you dare blame me for not warning you."

"Because what's going on there isn't something you can handle."

Chen Tai patted Jiang Wangzu on the shoulder, and the tremendous force made Jiang Wangzu grimace in pain.

"All right, boss. I understand!"

Hearing this, Jiang Wangzu nodded hard.

"Dragon River Pier?"

"Could it have something to do with the Water Ghoul?"

"This really isn't something we can solve."

"Gotta lie low for a wave!"

Jiang Wangzu thought to himself.

Chen Tai soon took Zhou Wei, the best fighter on Rongsheng Street, and his younger cousin Chen Xing to the Canal Gang headquarters to hand in the regular dues.

Jiang Wangzu ate a flatbread by the roadside, drank a bowl of soy milk, and then ate a serving of deep-fried stinky tofu.

The life of the rich was just this plain and unadorned.

The day before yesterday, his sister-in-law had given him one hundred silver dollars.

Last night, Ru Meng had given him another one thousand silver dollars.

In this world where the lower-class common folk earned less than five silver dollars a month...

The more than one thousand silver dollars in his hands was money ordinary people could not save up in an entire lifetime.

However, the Iron Crotch Technique he was cultivating now was only an unranked external hardening technique, and the quick-success method did not require much in the way of resources, so it did not cost much money.

But once he obtained a more powerful technique, even if it was a quick-success method, it might still require resources to assist him.

Because even quick-success methods, or even evil-cultivation methods, still had to obey the conservation of energy.

By that time, his expenses would be enormous.

Chen Tai was a Strength Training martial master, and his body's power was extremely fierce.

However, among martial artists, his strength did not count as particularly great.

But even so, most of the money he earned had been poured into martial cultivation.

It was only in the past few years, after his martial cultivation hit a bottleneck and he could not step into the next level, and with his physical prime already behind him, that he had started thinking about saving money to marry.

So if Jiang Wangzu wanted to cultivate martial arts to an extremely high realm, he would need a vast amount of funds, and a vast amount of resources as well.

The appearance of every peerless martial artist required talent, background, and fortune—not one could be missing.

In fact, behind every person who reached the peak of martial arts stood the support of a massive power.

Otherwise, relying on talent alone, it simply could not be done.

"I won't think about it anymore. From the looks of it, sister-in-law should have succeeded. Otherwise, she wouldn't be calling me over to her house in broad daylight to loosen the soil in her little garden."

"With big brother's Black Tiger Fist Manual, plus my Attribute Panel, I should be able to step into the Strength Training realm very soon and become a true martial artist!"

"To sister-in-law's house!"

Jiang Wangzu cast aside his distracting thoughts, left Hongyun Mahjong Hall, and soon arrived at Chen Tai's home.

Xu Zhenzhen had left the door for him. After entering, he immediately slid the bolt into place, then went with practiced ease to Xu Zhenzhen's bedroom.

"Sister-in-law, I'm here!"

Jiang Wangzu spoke with a smile on his face.

"You wretch, you're finally here!"

"I finally got Chen Tai's Black Tiger Fist Manual for you."

"He went to the gang this morning to hand in the regular payment. You have the whole morning to copy it. Once you're done, I still have to put it back for him."

"That guy goes to the hidden compartment in the study every few days to flip through this fist manual. You absolutely can't just take it away."

Xu Zhenzhen lay on her side on the bed, one fragrant shoulder half exposed, a smooth, fair leg bared outside, making anyone who saw it feel their blood surge.

"All right, sister-in-law, I understand."

"But right now, we should take care of the proper business first. As for that Black Tiger Fist Manual you mentioned, we can learn while doing!"

Jiang Wangzu directly raised his head, puffed out his chest, lifted his chin, and then pounced straight over!

After a hearty and satisfying battle ended, Xu Zhenzhen once again fell into a deep sleep.

And Jiang Wangzu also got his wish, obtaining the Black Tiger Fist Manual he had been longing for all this time!

The fist manual was made of fine cowhide paper, bound with silver thread. It felt heavy in his hand, carrying a sense of passing years.

However, there was not the slightest bit of dust on the fist manual. One look and it was clear that someone often flipped through and maintained it.

"Tiger-Subduing Stance: lift the crown lightly, contain the chest and pull up the back, sink the qi to the dantian, loosen the shoulders and drop the elbows!"

"Internal Martial Arts, through stance cultivation, reaches the realm of subduing the heart-monkey and mind-horse, controlling one's own essence, qi, and spirit, thereby strengthening oneself from within, subduing dragons and tigers!"

"Besides stance work, there is also Black Tiger Fist and cultivation essentials."

"This is a very powerful Strength Training method. Cultivated to the extreme, it can reach the realm of tiger-leopard thunder sounds and tendons and bones ringing in unison!"

"But Chen Tai probably hasn't cultivated it to that level!"

Jiang Wangzu read ten lines at a glance and remembered everything he saw, engraving all the contents of the entire Black Tiger Fist Manual into his heart.

With a thought, he opened the Attribute Panel:

[Name: Jiang Wangzu]

[Profession: Martial Artist]

[Cultivation Method: Iron Crotch Technique (Great Accomplishment)]

[Quick-Completion Method: Strike the crotch one million times, perfect the Iron Crotch Technique, and obtain the talent Golden Dual Kidneys!]

[Cultivation Method: Black Tiger Fist (Not Yet Initiated)]

[Quick-Completion Method: Practice three times daily and eat ten jin of beef per day; initiation possible in five days. Or practice once daily and eat three jin of tiger meat per day; initiation possible in three days!]

[Talent: Succubus]