The First Martial Arts Transmission

The drinking session fell apart completely. By the end, Duan Yun had even used Body-Breaking Sword Qi to force some of the alcohol out of his body, barely managing to keep himself from passing out drunk.

Zhang Tielan, who had drunk the fiercest and most recklessly, had wailed until he cried his heart out and was already dead drunk.

Thinking of Zhang Tielan's despair as he watched his younger brother get violated to death, thinking of Hua Wen and Hua Wu's helplessness at being unable to save him because the Red Tower Madwoman's movement technique was so exquisite, Duan Yun—who normally held no grudges—recalled how he himself had nearly been violated. A fire burned in his heart.

Before leaving Riverside City, the outline of an idea had already formed in his mind: "Cleanse away filth and spread martial arts across the world."

He wanted to pass down the life-changing spark of the Jade Sword True Canon and let more people benefit from it.

But he also knew that this cultivation method could not be passed around carelessly.

At the very least, it had to be taught to people as upright and righteous as himself. Otherwise, it would bring chaos upon the world.

And now, it seemed that he had found someone to teach.

After speaking with the two middle-aged heroes, Hua Wen and Hua Wu, he had already confirmed that his improved Jade Sword True Canon had a certain restraining effect on the Red Tower Fairy.

Back then, the two men could only watch as Zhang Tielan's younger brother was violated to death because their methods could not keep up with the Red Tower Fairy's ghostlike movement technique. They could only save one person.

But what if they could learn his improved Jade Sword True Canon?

The Red Tower was not the Black Bear Gang. It was a mysterious and terrifying great sect. Those demonesses ran rampant, violating and killing men throughout the world. It would not be easy for him to slaughter them all alone.

Having two more righteous people like himself—or even people more righteous than himself—the Lingshui Twin Heroes, to kill demonesses alongside him could not have been better!

He could both spread martial arts for the good of all under heaven and unite whatever friends could be united to destroy the enemy. It was killing two birds with one stone.

Duan Yun was already a little drunk, so he no longer hesitated. Taking out his copy of the Jade Sword True Canon, he said to the somewhat tipsy Hua Wen and Hua Wu, "To be honest with you two, I practice the Jade Sword True Canon too. But I succeeded."

"The Sword Qi I cultivated before wasn't very powerful either. But after I refined this manual, the Sword Qi worked."

The moment they saw the booklet, Hua Wen and Hua Wu sobered up at once.

Or rather, the two were heroic men who could drink a thousand cups without getting drunk. They had remained in a lightly intoxicated state all along, wondering whether they could coax some words out of the drunken Duan Yun.

Yet he had simply laid all his cards on the table!

Happiness had come too suddenly, leaving both men stunned for a moment.

Hua Wu said, "Brother Duan, surely you are joking?"

"How could killing all those Red Tower Madwomen be a joke?" Duan Yun replied.

Thus, Hua Wu picked up the old-looking, oil-stained Jade Sword True Canon with an outwardly calm but inwardly excited expression.

Upon turning to the annotations on the first page, the two immediately confirmed that this was the Great Medicine manual they had ordered their trusted household servants to distribute.

Because those annotations were written in his own hand.

Seeing the oil stains, Hua Wu could not help feeling annoyed, angered that the servant had handled the matter so poorly.

But before long, the two brothers were drawn in by Duan Yun's new annotations.

"Body Pillar, Yang Ravine, Clasped White, Hand Three Li."

On the meridian diagram covered in oil stains, Duan Yun had twisted and redrawn the markings into an entirely new meridian route.

The writing in those annotations was damn ugly!

Hua Wu could not help complaining inwardly.

But that was not the important part. What mattered was that this new meridian diagram differed somewhat from the original.

First, the order in which the meridians circulated was wrong. The original went from Clasped White to Body Pillar, then Yang Ravine, while his went from Body Pillar to Yang Ravine, then Clasped White. As for Wind Palace and Hand Three Li, those had been added.

The original had never passed through those two acupoints at all.

Could this accidental blunder have produced the Great Medicine's fierce Sword Qi?

Suppressing their excitement, Hua Wen and Hua Wu continued reading. When they reached the part about breathing in Lunar Essence, they were utterly baffled.

What the hell did this have to do with Lunar Essence?

Lunar Essence could be breathed in?

And the later passages about the Jade Sword Immortal's Dharma Aspect, uniforms, and skin were simply heavenly scripture, completely incomprehensible.

Wasn't a Dharma Aspect supposed to remain pure and primal?

Why did it need to be altered randomly and dressed in clothes?

The elder brother, Hua Wen, steadied himself and humbly asked, "Brother Duan, what exactly does absorbing Lunar Essence mean?"

Duan Yun knew it would probably be difficult for others to understand the thought process of someone who had crossed over from another world, so he suggested, "Brother Wen, why don't you make a copy first? You copy it while I explain."

"That would be excellent!"

Thus, Hua Wu quickly ground ink and began copying the manual, while Duan Yun explained its mysteries to them in simple yet profound terms.

Hua Wen and Hua Wu were seasoned veterans of the martial world after all, and they had already immersed themselves in the Jade Sword True Canon for a long time. Gradually, they began to grasp Duan Yun's meaning.

What they had told Duan Yun before had been half true and half false.

The Jade Sword True Canon had indeed swept through Cloud Prefecture for a time, even spreading as far as Thunder Prefecture.

Hua Wu had followed the trend and cultivated it as well, spending a great deal of money to buy the manual.

One day, a strange old woman with flowered cloth wrapped around her head suddenly came to their door and ambushed Hua Wu, saying she was going to stew him into soup.

Though the old woman was advanced in years, she had not expected there to be another Hua Wen who looked exactly the same behind her. She was ambushed and knocked down at once.

Later, after the two brothers subjected her to brutal questioning, they obtained the other half of the Jade Sword True Canon.

Only then did Hua Wen and Hua Wu learn that this was actually a miraculous Great Medicine Method.

The two brothers had felt as though they had found a priceless treasure. This was also how they had become Medicine Planters.

As for where this cultivation method had originated, it was now difficult to investigate, because they had tortured that old woman to death.

At this moment, listening to Duan Yun's explanation, Hua Wen and Hua Wu could not help feeling their hearts surge like the tide. They were even more excited than when they had obtained the other half of the Jade Sword True Canon.

This rookie truly had a fool's luck. By stumbling about blindly, he had actually forged an entirely different path.

So this was the secret of how the Great Medicine could bite people!

After finishing the martial arts transmission, Duan Yun felt rather exhausted.

He deeply realized that teaching martial arts was no easy task.

After all, not everyone was a once-in-ten-thousand-years swordsmanship genius like him, able to understand everything without being taught.

Even for renowned heroes like Hua Wen and Hua Wu, who had previously cultivated the Jade Sword True Canon, he had spent a great deal of effort getting them to understand his ideas.

It reminded Duan Yun of the class representative from his previous life who had tutored him in mathematics. Her tenderness and patience had truly not come easily.

Forget the class representative—even he, the one being tutored, had thrown tantrums when he could not understand. If she had not been a gentle beauty, he would have stopped studying long ago.

Through this, he finally understood the painstaking care of that beautiful class representative.

Unfortunately, after so much time had passed, he could no longer remember her pretty face.

Though this was difficult, Duan Yun was happy, because it was meaningful.

Thinking of how there could soon be two more heroes with formidable Sword Qi in the martial world, bringing even the slightest change to this world of killing and violation, Duan Yun's heart brimmed with motivation.

A single spark could set the prairie ablaze.

Duan Yun had originally planned to set out that afternoon, but he could not withstand Zhang Tielan, Hua Wen, and Hua Wu's insistence, so he could only stay another night.

That night, Hua Wen and Hua Wu could no longer hold themselves back. They cultivated beneath the moon.

They racked their brains to sense the "Lunar Essence" Duan Yun spoke of, and in the end, they finally caught the feeling in the middle of the night.

Feeling Lunar Essence enter his body, Hua Wu could not help sending a message to his elder brother: "Big Brother, we have obtained the secret. Should we boil the medicine quickly? This kid is quite a good person, so don't torture him. Give him a quick death."

Yes, this manual absolutely could not be leaked.

If more people mastered this sword art, then in this man-eating martial world, would that not mean their own cultivation had been for nothing?

The only one to blame was this rookie's loose tongue!

The two brothers had gained an immense advantage, yet they resented Duan Yun for revealing the information too easily.

Hua Wu stopped the idea and replied, "We have only just entered the gate of this method. If there is anything we have not understood properly, we will still need this kid. Cultivate quickly. When you and I have mastered it, that will be the day this kid becomes medicine broth!"

For a moment, Hua Wen and Hua Wu's eyes filled with a light both scorching and chilling.