[Life Master: Jiang Yi]
[Cultivation: Skin Refining Realm]
[Physique: None]
[Cultivation Scriptures: Nameless Scripture (Incomplete), Rock Steadiness Fist (Mastery), Eagle Claw Technique (Mastery)Mountain Splitting Palm, Tiger Roar Fist, Cauldron Origin Art, Soaring Cloud Leap, Wrathful Blade Art]
[Techniques: None]
[Lifespan: 51]
Looking at the five additional ranked martial arts manuals!
Jiang Yi sat cross-legged on the bed, filled with a sense of satisfaction that reached from body and soul to the world beyond him.
As for that martial arts manual, Cauldron Origin Art!
He had long since casually tossed it onto the table.
Everything had already been recorded in his mind. Why would he still need a physical book?
Jiang Yi was itching to move!
He could hardly wait to embark on his "cultivation" journey.
But he forcibly held himself back!
After all, this was the Fishing Guild Courtyard. As the core grounds of a major power, it certainly did not lack martial arts experts.
Once he received the boost from these cultivation methods!
Those people would likely sense it at once. Even if he had acknowledged an uncle who was a steward,
that uncle might not necessarily be able to protect him.
Being seized, tortured under brutal interrogation, and sliced apart for research would probably be unavoidable.
They had even arranged the order for him!
Jiang Yi did not have that confidence!
He had no assurance that gambling fifty years of his lifespan in one go would let him break through the Body Tempering stage and reach the second Great Realm of martial arts.
Since he lacked complete confidence, then he could only...
keep a low profile!
"First, I'll study the Cauldron Origin Art!"
Cauldron Origin Art!
Use the body as a cauldron and blood as its patterns, shifting one's qi, blood, and force while circulating them through the hundred meridians of the entire body!
The feet were like cauldron legs, standing firm upon the earth; the hands became cauldron handles, drawing in light from all eight directions; the body served as the cauldron itself, breathing in and out the spiritual radiance of sun and moon.
Once cultivated to great mastery, Cauldron Origin would cover the body, making it indestructible. One's strength would reach a thousand jin, and one's might would awe all directions!
This happened to correspond to the first Great Realm of martial arts—
the Skin Refining Realm and the Muscle-refining Realm.
"I wonder whether, after reaching great mastery, I'll be able to storm Black Wind Stronghold again and avenge this blood feud?"
Jiang Yi's eyes were like an abyss, cold light hidden deep within.
"Or perhaps it would be safer to continue raising my cultivation and break through to the second Great Realm of martial arts..."
With his golden finger, it should not take him too much time.
Jiang Yi remained holed up in the small courtyard, quietly absorbing the five martial arts manuals.
When mealtime came, servants naturally brought him food and drink!
The night passed without incident!
Early the next morning, Jiang Yi prepared to leave and head to the Fishing Teaching Pavilion to return the martial arts manual.
Just then, a dull knock sounded at the door.
Jiang Yi opened it and looked!
The one knocking was a youth about the same age as him.
He wore a white martial outfit!
He stood tall and straight, and his face... well, bore a seventy to eighty percent resemblance to Liu Sheng.
Only his expression was gloomier!
With a cold face, he looked at Jiang Yi with complicated eyes.
There seemed to be hostility, anger, and defiance within them!
"Come with me!"
"My name is Liu Zhanpeng. That old man... my father, is busy today, so he told me to take you to Qiaonan Qingshi Street."
No wonder he looked so much like him. He was Uncle Liu's son!
Still, that expression was rather strange!
Look at how Uncle Liu started laughing heartily after only a few words, then look at this guy—he kept a dark face the entire time!
He looked as though everyone owed him eight hundred thousand!
"Alright!"
"However, wait a moment first. I need to go to the Fishing Teaching Pavilion and return the martial arts manual I borrowed yesterday!"
Liu Zhanpeng nodded with a cold face!
Jiang Yi said nothing more and followed the path he had taken yesterday toward his destination.
"Greetings, Elder Chang!"
Upon arriving at the Fishing Teaching Pavilion!
After entering, Jiang Yi followed Liu Sheng's instructions and respectfully bowed to the white-haired elder.
He was still the same as yesterday!
His head tilted back, eyes narrowed, sleeping with loud snores, one leg propped on the table without the slightest regard for appearances.
There was no sign that he intended to wake up.
He looked like nothing more than an eccentric old man, yet he was absolutely no ordinary person!
How could someone appointed to guard a place where martial arts secret manuals were kept possibly be unremarkable?
If he was not an expert, then he was—
an expert among experts!
Jiang Yi returned the martial arts manual to its original place and bowed to the white-haired elder once more.
"Once you achieve great mastery in Cauldron Origin, come here again, lad!"
A voice carrying a nasal snort drifted over leisurely!
"Yes!"
Jiang Yi froze for a moment. After answering, he finally turned and left!
The white-haired elder's eyes beneath his two white brows narrowed slightly, as though watching that thin figure gradually depart.
"Two martial arts essences. Interesting!"
After muttering a few words!
He turned over!
And continued with his daily routine...
Qiaonan, Qingshi Street!
It was named for the large slabs of bluestone paving its ground!
It was a fairly bustling street!
"Fresh perch just hauled up! Cheap at five copper coins a jin, only five copper coins, only five copper coins..."
"Freshly baked flatbread! Hot flatbread!"
"Straw sandals woven from aged cattail! Passersby, take a look! Durable and comfortable!"
"Candied hawthorn, candied hawthorn! Thirty years of craftsmanship, thirty years of—"
"Delicious meat buns! Thin skins and generous filling! Come, come, have a look, customer—Young Master Liu..."
"Give me two. Wrap them separately!"
"Right away!"
Liu Zhanpeng handed over several copper coins before taking the two steaming hot meat buns.
He held one in each hand, then extended one of them toward Jiang Yi.
"Here!"
"Thank you!"
Jiang Yi thanked him and did not stand on ceremony, taking it.
He bit into it.
Sure enough, just as the shopkeeper had said, it had a thin skin and plenty of meat filling—
and the juices burst forth!
The ancients truly could not be deceived.
Liu Zhanpeng merely grunted and lowered his head to start chewing as well.
His face remained cold!
Though it seemed to have improved quite a bit!
The two stopped beneath a small building at the end of Qingshi Street.
"This is the Fishing Guild's station on Qingshi Street."
As if recalling something, Liu Zhanpeng snorted again, his eyes filled with defiance.
"It is also the place you'll be stationed at from now on!"
Before this!
His father had promised to let him be stationed here, but yesterday, he suddenly rejected the idea.
He said he had already found someone!
Then he tested Liu Zhanpeng's martial arts progress, and afterward...
gave him a vicious beating!
Damn it!
That old man was utterly hateful!
Not long after!
A middle-aged man dressed like a manager hurried out with several Fishing Guild disciples.
The moment he saw Liu Zhanpeng, the middle-aged man's face immediately broke into a wide smile!
"Greetings, Young Master Liu!"
"Young Master Liu, we've finally been awaiting your arrival. It seems the steward has decided to let you take charge of—"
"Wait..."
Liu Zhanpeng raised a hand, his face dark, stopping him from continuing!
"I'm not. I didn't!"
"This one beside me is. His name is Jiang... Jiang Yi. From now on, he will be the keeper of your station—
the Keeper!!!"
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