Chapter 19: Star Absorbing Technique?
"What a joke! No matter how good my son's martial arts are now, how can he compare to my personal teaching? After I find him, I will not only teach him my Duan family's One Yang Finger personally, so that he can surpass me, but also, when I defeat the brothers Duan Zhengming and Duan Zhengchun and sit on the throne, I will pass the kingdom of Dali to him!" Duan Yanqing said passionately.
Chu Lu Ren looked at him with an increasingly strange look in his eyes, thinking: It seems that Duan Yu could have obtained what you said without you...
At the same time, I also discovered that the old guy's aura of keeping strangers away had indeed faded a lot.
So Chu Lu Ren gritted his teeth and directly provoked, "Senior Duan, do you dare to make a bet with me? If I tell you who your son is and your presence will only make things worse for him, will you not go and recognize him?"
At this time, Chu Lu Ren was already 80% sure. Duan Yanqing was still a man of temperament, if we don't consider his obsessive-compulsive disorder. The best example of this was when he used secret telepathy to guide a young monk he liked in playing chess during the Zhenlong chess game.
But then again, judging from the fact that Duan Yanqing likes Xu Zhu, his appearance must be really not that good, no wonder Wuyazi despises him...
Duan Yanqing's eyes changed continuously. He didn't know what Chu Lu Ren was up to, but he still believed that he was a good father to Dali, so he nodded and agreed.
"Listen carefully, Senior Duan. Duan Yu, who was almost killed by you before, is your biological son! He has his own 'father' and uncle to teach him. He just doesn't want to learn the One Finger Zen! The throne of Dali will be his sooner or later, and it will be a legitimate inheritance! So? Do you still want to recognize him?" Chu Lu Ren made his words sound more powerful.
Duan Yanqing was shocked when he heard that the foolish boy he had painstakingly tried to frame was actually his own son. His first reaction was that Chu Luren was playing a trick on him, but when he thought about the boy's expression carefully, it seemed that it was true...
"You lied to me! How is that possible!" Duan Yanqing would not believe it so easily.
"You don't believe it? Then go and see if the Princess of Zhennan is the same person as before! And look at the gold birthday medal in Duan Yu's arms... But don't forget what you promised me."
"I will naturally verify it. If it is true... I will keep my promise, and I will reward you handsomely afterwards..." After Duan Yanqing finished speaking, he used his Qinggong skills to leave.
Fortunately, before leaving, he did not forget to untie Chu Lu Ren's acupuncture point, otherwise Chu Lu Ren would really be worried that someone would pick up his body.
"Are you leaving now? Can't you take me with you?" Chu Lu Ren looked at his sprained foot and had to walk back to Dali City alone, feeling lonely and cold.
At the same time, I also understood that, let alone being "led along the way", if I hadn't been smart, I would probably have been "sent off"!
It was already dark when Chu Lu Ren limped back to Dali City. The guards at the gate recognized him and quickly led him to the palace.
Duan Zhengming and Duan Zhengchun were both relieved to see Chu Luren return safely, but... they still had a worried look on their faces.
Chu Luren's heart skipped a beat, thinking that Duan Yanqing was not keeping his word, but after taking a closer look at Duan Zhengchun's sad expression and the top of his head, it didn't seem like he was wearing a new hat.
After asking, Chu Luren finally knew what happened...
Duan Yanqing just returned and captured Duan Yu again, but this time after taking Duan Yu to Wanchou Valley, Duan Yanqing did not hurt him, but just left with a loud laugh!
What Duan Zhengming and his brother are worried about now is that Duan Yu learned the Star-Absorbing Art from somewhere, and by coincidence he absorbed the internal energy of Yue Lao San, Ye Er Niang, Yun Zhonghe, Zhong Wan Chou, Gan Baobao, Sha Tongtian, Hou Tonghai and Mu Gaofeng in Wan Chou Valley... Now his internal energy is in chaos, and he is in danger of going astray.
Chu Lu Ren complained in his heart that Duan Yanqing was unreliable, but at the same time he explained how he got away - he pretended to have met an old monk and had a good exchange of wits with Duan Yanqing, after which Duan Yanqing let him go.
In this way, it is understandable that Duan Zhengming and Duan Zhengchun only regarded Duan Yanqing's previous reaction as a sign of great enlightenment. Even if Duan Zhengchun's secrets were exposed in the future, people would only think that it was a revelation from a high monk in Tianlong Temple who knew the truth.
"The Star-Absorbing Art... Ever since Ren Woxing of the Sun and Moon Sect disappeared, he has never appeared in the world again. How could Yu'er learn this evil skill?" Duan Zhengming said in confusion.
In this world, Duan Zhengming did not mistake the "Northern Divine Art" for the "Energy Transformation Art", but mistook it for the "Star Absorbing Art". After all, the Xiaoyao Sect... really didn't have much of a reputation.
"Did Uncle Duan misunderstand? Brother Duan and I first met at Wuliang Mountain. At that time, Brother Duan and I learned two peerless martial arts under the cliff, Lingbo Weibu and Beiming Shengong. Among them, Beiming Shengong can also absorb people's internal strength!" Chu Lu Ren opened his mouth and pointed out the matter.
As for whether Tiedan Shenhou practiced the Star Absorbing Technique? Or... the Power Absorbing Technique?
Anyway, that was not the official statement of the Song court, and the people of Chulu didn’t know and didn’t dare to ask.
"Lingbo Weibu? Beiming Divine Art? Could it be that we have lived in Dali for too long and have limited knowledge... I have never heard of these two unique skills. My dear nephew, your body movement is the Lingbo Weibu?" Duan Zhengming couldn't help but ask.
“That’s not the case. To learn these two unique skills, one must have extremely high comprehension and be extremely proficient in the Eight Trigrams and the Book of Changes. My aptitude is limited. I have only comprehended three or four points of these two unique skills. I forced the two techniques together, and ended up with a hodgepodge.” Chu Lu Ren said modestly.
"My dear nephew, you are too modest. You are a natural genius as you can combine the two martial arts with your strengths!" As Duan Zhengming spoke, he thought of Chu Luren's finger techniques and thought that Chu Luren was "even better at integrating various martial arts."
"But... this Bei Ming Divine Art will have such side effects? Is there any solution to this problem in the art?" Duan Zhengming quickly asked about the main point.
"In my humble opinion, the key to the Bei Ming Divine Art is to continuously accumulate one's own internal strength, and to achieve a state where all the martial arts in the world can be used. Although practicing it completely in accordance with its method may have the effect of absorbing people's internal strength through the thirty-six major acupoints around the body, it is only a byproduct." Chu Lu Ren said after recalling the Bei Ming Divine Art.
If you really want to use Bei Ming Divine Art to absorb other people's power, the risk is actually very high - after all, you have to use your own acupoints to touch the other person's acupoints, and the acupoints must be the ones that the method of practicing the art takes care of...
Does this have any practical significance?
The normal way of cultivation is more like the thirty-six major acupoints, absorbing the essence of heaven and earth in an attempt to accelerate the accumulation of internal strength.
Wuyazi and the ancestors of the Xiaoyao Sect should have practiced in this way, otherwise they would have caused a bloody storm long ago, and how could the Xiaoyao Sect be unknown in the martial arts world?
On the contrary, Li Qiushui, as Wuyazi's wife, also watched the martial arts practiced by the headmaster and might have had some other ideas.
Think about it, when she was drawing the Bei Ming Divine Art Atlas, she used herself as a model, and in all 36 pictures, she was wearing very cool clothes, even less than the flesh-colored silk that Jack drew, and the Heart of the Ocean...
Chu Lu Ren guessed...she really had a way to use her acupoints to touch other people's acupoints!
Because this method of accumulating internal energy through thirty-six acupoints at the same time is opposite to the meridian operation of most martial arts in the world, it has the ability to absorb people's internal energy.
"Ah, so it turns out that Yuer unintentionally violated the taboos of this technique and integrated so much mixed internal force into himself, which led to him going astray." Duan Zhengming also understood at this time.
At this moment, Mu Wanqing rushed in from outside the door: "Chu Lu Ren, Chu Lu Ren! Are you dead? Ah, father and uncle are here too..."
Before, Mu Wanqing knew that Chu Luren was captured by Boss Duan, and she was really worried. When she heard that he was back, she waited for him in the room. Who knew... Chu Luren was chatting endlessly with her father and uncle, and had no intention of coming over. So Mu Wanqing went straight to the palace!
