Volume 3 Huashan Xiaoao Chapter 16: A Continuity of Tradition
Linghu Chong naturally wanted to catch a few more boneless ice carps when he came to the cold pond. For this purpose, he even went down the mountain to buy a fishing net and a pottery jar.
Su Yan didn't stop it, because he didn't know what the habits of the boneless ice carp were.
Perhaps Linghu Chong was really blessed by heaven. When he dived into the cold pond again, the group of boneless ice carp actually came back.
However, this group of ice carps were quite smart. They remembered Linghu Chong, the "evil guy", after the last incident. When they saw him fall into the bottom of the pool, they fled in all directions and disappeared into the cracks of the rocks in the blink of an eye.
Although Linghu Chong came prepared with a fishing net, he only caught four fish.
He was not ungrateful, but smiled and said, "Four is exactly what I want. One for Master and Madam, one for Uncle Feng, and one for Junior Sister."
Su Yan said: "The boneless ice carp resources here are rare. You can't fish out all the fish. Just take a few every year and give them a chance to reproduce. Then you can make them inexhaustible and all the younger disciples of Huashan can benefit from them."
"What the grandfather said makes sense."
Then, Linghu Chong placed the four boneless ice carps in a pottery jar and went down the mountain.
When they arrived at the town, Su Yan noticed with his spiritual sense that several boneless ice carps were looking listless and about to die. Only then did he realize that boneless ice carps should be cold-water fish and would not survive long in water at normal temperature.
So he asked Linghu Chong to buy a few pieces of ice at a high price and put them into the ceramic jar, and the boneless ice carp finally regained its vitality.
Although it was a little slower to travel with the pottery jar, Linghu Chong still returned to Huashan in the evening.
He kept two of the boneless ice carps, and took the other two and the copper box containing the secret book to the courtyard where Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze lived.
Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze had just finished dinner and were now discussing in the house the opening of a glassmaking workshop and the construction of an alchemy room in Huashan.
When they heard that Linghu Chong had arrived, they went to meet him in the main hall.
"Disciple greets Master and Madam." Linghu Chong bowed to them.
Ning Zhongze asked first: "Chong'er, have you had dinner since you came back so late?"
Linghu Chong smiled sheepishly and said, "Not yet. I'll just go to the kitchen and have something to eat later."
Yue Buqun said, "I heard from Shan'er that you went to Mount Zhongnan to do some work for our Grandmaster. How is it going?"
He was actually curious about what Su Yan asked Linghu Chong to do, but he didn't dare to ask directly.
"I was just about to report this to Master." Linghu Chong said, placing the copper box and pottery jar on the table, "This time, I went to Mount Zhongnan to actually look for treasure according to the instructions of the Grandmaster.
This copper box contains ten martial arts secret manuals . Among them, the Quanzhen internal energy seems to be related to our sect's Hunyuan Gong, and the Quanzhen swordsmanship is also about 60% similar to our Huashan sect's swordsmanship.
In addition, under the guidance of the master, the disciples also found many medicinal materials in Zhongnan Mountain, including Ganoderma lucidum and Polygonum multiflorum that are hundreds of years old, as well as top-grade Polygonatum sibiricum and honey, but the most precious one is the boneless ice carp in this jar.
The disciple ate one raw according to the master's instructions and practiced for a few hours. He felt that it was equivalent to two or three years of hard practice.
"I caught these two specially to honor my master and his wife. In addition, I also left one for Master Feng and Junior Sister, and wanted to give it to them personally."
In fact, Linghu Chong didn't originally want to say the last sentence, it was Su Yan who asked him to say it.
Otherwise, with Yue Buqun's mind, he would probably feel a little bit bothered if Linghu Chong didn't report this to him.
In fact, Su Yan was worrying too much, because Yue Buqun was so surprised by the martial arts secrets and rare treasures in front of him that he didn't think too much.
"The Grandmaster is truly extraordinary."
Yue Buqun exclaimed in admiration, looked at the boneless ice carp in the pottery jar, and then went to look through the secret book in the copper box.
At this time, Su Yan also publicly transmitted his voice: "Among these secret books, there is a book called "Xiantian Gong", which is the martial arts that made Wang Chongyang famous in the past. It can be called a peerless martial arts today. You can take a look first."
When Yue Buqun heard this, he realized that "Xiantian Gong" must be the peerless martial arts that Su Yan had promised him before.
So he responded and took out the "Xiantian Gong" to read.
After only reading a few pages, he was stunned and said, "This... this Xiantian Gong seems to have a lot in common with Zixia Gong."
Hearing this, Su Yan was a little surprised at first, but after thinking about it, he felt that it made sense.
He had previously speculated that the Xiantian Gong should have been left by one of the Seven Quanzhen Sons. That is to say, the Seven Quanzhen Sons had access to the secret book of Xiantian Gong, but just did not practice it.
Zixia Gong was created by Hao Datong, one of the Seven Masters of Quanzhen.
Most magical skills are not created out of thin air, so it is reasonable that the Zixia Skill passed down by Hao Datong is related to the Xiantian Skill.
Thinking of this, he said, "Really? Take out the secret book of "Purple Cloud Divine Art" and show it to me."
Although Yue Buqun treasured the secret book of "Purple Cloud Magical Art", he was not afraid of Su Yan coveting it. In his opinion, there was no need for the Grandmaster to do so.
So he took out the secret book of .
Su Yan quickly scanned it with his spiritual sense and couldn't help but smile: "Purple Clouds Skill is more than just related to Xiantian Skill. It is clearly an internal skill derived from Xiantian Skill. It can be regarded as a simplified version of Xiantian Skill."
At the same time, Su Yan also determined why the Seven Quanzhen Masters did not practice Xiantian Gong back then.
This is because Xiantian Gong requires too high a level of physique and comprehension, and none of the Seven Quanzhen disciples meet the requirements. If one insists on practicing Xiantian Gong, the progress may be extremely slow, and it is better to practice other ordinary internal skills.
Just like the Zixia Gong that was derived from the Xiantian Gong, it also requires sufficient knowledge and experience in Qi refining before practicing.
Xiantian Gong, Zixia Gong, Hunyuan Gong and Baoyuan Jin, these four Qi-refining exercises are absolutely all from the same lineage, just simplified one by one.
However, this is beneficial to the development of Huashan Sect.
As the saying goes, a skill should not be passed on lightly, the Qigong method (i.e. the internal power method) as the core inheritance of a martial arts school should definitely not be taught casually to new disciples.
What if there are spies deliberately sent by other sects, like Lao Denuo, wouldn't it be easy for them to steal the essence of our sect's martial arts?
Therefore, with these four Qigong methods that have been passed down from generation to generation, disciples of the Huashan Sect can learn them one by one and test their character and loyalty during the process.
Yue Buqun had been the head of the sect for more than ten years, so he quickly thought of this aspect and said excitedly: "Grandmaster, with the Xiantian Gong, the Zixia Gong does not have to be learned by the head of the sect and his successor, it can be passed on to the true disciples of Huashan Sect.
With the help of the Yunqi Pill, within a few years, the internal strength of our Huashan disciples will definitely be significantly higher than that of other sects!"
Su Yan smiled and said, "This copper box contains more than just internal skills. Take a look at the other secret books."
Yue Buqun immediately looked through the other secret books as well.
After reading it, even though he was used to maintaining a gentlemanly demeanor, he couldn't help but laugh heartily.
"Hahaha, with these martial arts secrets, our Huashan Sect's swordsmanship can be further improved. If we let our disciples cultivate a combined attack formation, we will surely be invincible in the martial arts world!"
Linghu Chong was also very happy to see his master happy. He bowed and said, "Congratulations, Master! Congratulations, Master!"
Yue Buqun said with a smile: "Why congratulate me? If you want to congratulate someone, you should congratulate our founder and our entire Huashan Sect!"
Su Yan smiled secretly. It seemed that Yue Buqun could never take off his hypocritical mask.
After thinking for a while, he said: "Now that we have martial arts skills, we just need to refine the Qi Condensing Pill, and then Huashan can focus on development.
At this critical moment, whether you are the head of the sect or other disciples, you must not be careless, let alone cause any more trouble, understand?"
"Disciple understands!"
Yue Buqun, Ning Zhongze and Linghu Chong all responded.
