Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 79: Money is not everything
On the second one, the name Leng Zhan was written.
"Cold War, combat awareness, top-notch; Star Power Control, above-average; Martial Arts Application, top-notch; Body Movements, above-average; Combat Style, dignified and unrestrained, advances and retreats with reason, a combination of the right and the odd..."
"Only by knowing yourself and your enemy can you fight a hundred battles without danger of defeat. The instructor is quite well prepared." After reading Li Xiaoren's comments on Leng Zhan and combining them with his own experience of a one-move battle with Leng Zhan, Tang Zheng gained a deeper understanding of Leng Zhan.
"It's just... what does this comment on the cold war's fighting style mean? It's grand and unrestrained, it advances and retreats with reason, it combines the right and the strange... all of them are gorgeous and full of praise."
"Damn it, just now I thought you just didn't have enough literary literacy to express my fighting style in a way that I wanted to express, but now I realize that I am still too young. You are obviously of high standard, but you deliberately used low-level words like insidious and cunning to slander me. You are simply seeking revenge for the shaving during the assessment this morning, right!"
After reading it, Tang Zheng held up the two pieces of paper and complained with an indignant look on his face.
"Stop talking nonsense. As for star power control, you are already close to the limit of what a two-star peak can do. Combat awareness cannot be improved in a short period of time, so in the next ten days, you have to work harder on your body movements and footwork!"
“If you work hard enough, you can use your strengths in body movements, footwork, and star power control to offset your weaknesses in the use of martial arts. That way, you’ll still have a chance of winning the cold war,” Li Xiaoren said angrily.
Tang Zheng nodded and stopped acting funny, instead he fell into deep thought.
Li Xiaoren’s special training strategy is still relatively reliable.
In the short term, the area where I am most likely to improve is indeed my footwork and body movements.
Leng Zhan's fighting style is mainly offensive, and his frontal attack ability has almost reached the extreme of what a two-star peak can do. It is definitely not a rational choice to fight him head-on. Tang Zheng knew this before, so he temporarily chose to fight with injuries for injuries, which was a purely risky move.
If I can undergo special training in footwork and body movements before the challenge in ten days, and be better than Leng Zhan, then I will have the opportunity to fight a guerrilla war or a kite war with him, and the chances of winning will undoubtedly be greatly increased.
Moreover, Tang Zheng had not forgotten that there were two rare martial arts books related to footwork and body movements in his storage bag, "Blood Shadow Escape Technique" and "Cloud-Stepping Step".
These two martial arts books, one comes from the assassin Yingshan who came to assassinate Tang Zheng, and the other comes from the "Selfless Dedication" of Pan Yu, a well-known rapist in the mainland.
I won't talk about the "Blood Shadow Escape Technique". Firstly, there is no repair guide, and secondly, it is a self-harm escape technique. It is a last-ditch life-saving martial art that will not be used unless it is absolutely necessary. It is not very useful in this challenge.
"Cloud-Stepping Step" is different. Tang Zheng has seen with his own eyes the amazing speed and skills that Pan Yu displayed when performing Cloud-Stepping Step.
If he could make some progress in practicing the Cloud-Stepping Step within ten days, Tang Zheng's chance of winning the challenge ten days later would increase by at least 10%.
Thinking of this, Tang Zheng said nothing more. He took out the two books of footwork and martial arts from his bag and handed them to Li Xiaoren: "Instructor Li, I have two books of footwork and martial arts, but they both have some problems and I have never practiced them. Can you tell me how to make these two books more suitable for practice?"
Li Xiaoren originally planned to suggest that Tang Zheng go to the Martial Arts Academy to exchange his Martial book on footwork and martial arts skills, but then he thought that Tang Zheng probably didn't have any Martial Arts Academy Contributions on him right now, and that books on footwork and martial arts skills were relatively rare, so the amount of Martial Arts Academy Contributions required was not a small amount, and Tang Zheng would definitely not be able to exchange it.
He was thinking about a solution to the problem, but he didn't expect Tang Zheng to actually take out two books on footwork and martial arts.
Li Xiaoren took the two books on footwork and martial arts of different styles, opened them one by one, and a look of slight surprise appeared on his face .
"Blood Shadow Escape Technique? This is the signature martial art of that sect..."
"I have never heard of "Cloud Stepping Steps", but judging from the style and description , it does not seem to be a modern product. It should be a basic martial arts that has been passed down for a long time in an ancient family. There should be subsequent advanced martial arts..."
As Li Xiaoren flipped through the pages, he looked thoughtful.
The first book was "Blood Shadow Escape Technique". Li Xiaoren was only slightly surprised when he saw the cover, but he just glanced at it and quickly put it aside.
However, Li Xiaoren carefully read the "Cloud-Stepping Step" which looked very simple and had no guide or annotations for a long time. After reading the last page, he closed the martial arts book and thought for a while with his eyes slightly closed.
After reading the two martial arts books, Li Xiaoren looked at Tang Zheng deeply before speaking, “Your two martial arts books on footwork, Blood Shadow Escape Technique originally had a guide, but it was just used by someone else. If you want to practice, you have two choices.”
"The first option is that you spend 500 academy contributions, and the academy can help you send this footwork martial arts book to the academy of the Wenhua family for repair. It may take a long time."
Tang Zheng nodded. This was similar to what he had learned from Ban Yiluo at the time. The restoration of the martial arts in Jubao Pavilion was also commissioned by the Wenhua family. At the time, Tang Zheng thought it was too troublesome, and he also did not know the whereabouts of the second volume, so he did not choose to use this method to repair it.
I didn't expect to get similar information from Li Xiaoren today, but this option was obviously time-consuming and laborious. Fortunately, Li Xiaoren was much more reliable than Ban Yilou and provided another option.
"What about the second option?" Tang Zheng asked.
"The second option..." Li Xiaoren said this, his eyes staring at Tang Zheng's expression calmly, and then continued: "It is to find the source of this martial arts book, Yingshan, and use the Shadow King Token to buy the new "Blood Shadow Escape Technique". As long as you can kill enough people for Yingshan, you can naturally get the token to buy a full set of "Blood Shadow Escape Technique" martial arts books with guidance."
When Tang Zheng heard the second option, he almost laughed out of anger and didn't pay any attention to the look in Li Xiaoren's eyes when he spoke.
"Damn it, if I had known that this martial arts book was a specialty of Yingshan, I would have extorted the full set from Azhi a long time ago. It wouldn't be as troublesome as now when I have to find a way to get the Shadow King Order to buy it. It seems that Yingshan's no-cost business really needs to be considered as soon as possible. Otherwise, not only will I not be able to pay off my debts, but I will also have no idea where to get the martial arts books." Tang Zheng thought to himself.
Li Xiaoren watched Tang Zheng's expression change for a long time before he spoke: "However, this Blood Shadow Escape Technique is not very useful for you to learn now, so you can put it aside for now. But this Cloud Step is quite interesting. You can focus on it in the next ten days. However, with your shallow understanding of martial arts, it is probably very difficult to master it only through martial arts books. I can make an annotation for you first."
When Tang Zheng heard what Li Xiaoren said, his face lit up, and he thought to himself that the academy really had many advantages. When he got the Tiaoyunbu, he didn't understand how to practice it, so he wanted to find his teacher in Jubao Pavilion to see if he could buy a "famous teacher's signed version" of the Tiaoyunbu.
As a result, Tang Zheng was very disappointed. Ban Yilou said that he had never seen the martial arts book "Treading on the Clouds", let alone the "famous teacher's signed edition". He had only seen the single copy of the ordinary edition in Tang Zheng's hand.
Therefore, after Tang Zheng got the "Cloud-Stepping Step" from Pan Yu, he had been drooling over it, but he had never been able to practice it.
It was not until today, after entering the academy, that I finally saw hope in Li Xiaoren to master this extraordinary footwork and martial arts.
"Don't be happy too soon! According to the rules of the academy, making annotations for martial arts is a very stressful thing. According to the academy regulations, instructors can collect a certain amount of academy contributions from students. Your book, "Cloud-Stepping Steps", is a nearly unique copy of a martial arts footwork, and it is very difficult. I will charge you 500 academy contributions." Li Xiaoren looked at the joy on Tang Zheng's face and immediately poured a bucket of cold water on him.
"Ah?!" Tang Zheng was dumbfounded when he heard this, "Another contribution to the academy?!"
He has money, plenty of it!
He wanted to make a contribution to the academy, but now he could not find even a tiny bit even after searching all over his body and even down to his underwear.
Tang Zheng looked at Li Xiaoren's stiff poker face speechlessly, and deeply realized what it meant that money is not everything!
