"Bronze Statue Skill"!
This is the martial arts that Xu Yi found from the body of the Twelve Taibo Divine Whip Deng Bagong, or to be more precise, it is the martial arts that belongs to the evil King Kong Cao Quan who was killed by Deng Bagong.
Evil Vajra Cao Quan, an abandoned disciple of Shaolin, was originally a butcher, but later became a bandit, often robbing homes, burning, killing and looting.
After working as a bandit for several years, he met Master Fang Jue, an eminent monk of the Fang generation. Under Master Fang Jue's teachings, he had an epiphany, shaved his hair, became a monk, and became a monk in the Shaolin Temple.
But within a few years, he suddenly couldn't stand the poverty of the Shaolin Temple, rebelled from Shaolin, and became a bandit again, becoming a thief who caused trouble for everyone.
Because he has practiced Shaolin martial arts, he has become more powerful. He usually could only target villages and towns, but now he can set his targets on small and medium-sized families.
These families, which have been inherited for tens or even hundreds of years, may seem inconspicuous, but the wealth they have accumulated is extraordinary.
For example, the Xu family, where Xu Yi was born, accumulated nearly 300,000 taels of wealth over hundreds of years. If you add some fixed wealth, it can even reach as much as five hundred thousand taels!
Perhaps it is impossible for most families to reach this size, but even if more than half of it is cut off, it would still be one or two hundred thousand taels!
He could just rob seven or eight houses and accumulate a fortune of millions of taels.
"Evil Vajrasou Fist, I think I've heard of him. I remembered, my dad once mentioned this name to me."
After all, he is a thief who specifically targets various small and medium-sized families. As one of these many small and medium-sized families, the Xu family is naturally afraid of being targeted by Cao Quan.
"According to the information my father told me, this Cao Quan seems to have been active in the world more than ten years ago under the name of 'Evil King Kong', right?"
"It is said that in the past ten years, as many as forty or fifty small and medium-sized families were destroyed in his hands!"
There are forty or fifty families. Even if one family is based on an average of one hundred thousand taels, it would still be four to five million.
"How much money did I get from Deng Bagong's package before? It seems to be just over 500,000, less than 600,000."
Xu Yi's face showed a half-smiling expression.
"interesting."
As far as he knew, the evil Vajrasou Fist mostly acted alone and rarely acted in conjunction with other people.
In other words, the money he received basically ended up in his own pocket.
But now the money in the hands of Xu Yi or Deng Bagong is only about 500,000 taels.
Where did the remaining millions of taels of silver go?
Did Deng Bagong secretly remain ignorant?
Did the Evil Vajra Cao Quan cost itself?
Xu Yi felt that both possibilities were unlikely.
He knew Zuo Lengchan's methods, and he didn't believe that Deng Bagong would dare to do such a thing.
Maybe tens of thousands of taels of silver would give him the courage, but millions of taels... Unless he plans to remain anonymous for the rest of his life, no, with the power of the Songshan sect, he probably won't be able to remain anonymous. At least he will have to escape overseas. It is possible to escape with a slim chance of survival.
But when you go overseas, they still give you money from the Ming Dynasty?
So basically, the possibility is zero.
If there was no problem with Deng Bagong, the problem would naturally be with Cao Quan.
You definitely can’t spend that much money on flowers.
With millions of taels of silver and more than ten years, it’s impossible for you to eat so much delicacies every day!
Real estate?
Then the money you get here shouldn't be so small.
Many of the banknotes of other CPICs were obtained after buying and selling real estate.
He didn't spend it himself, and he didn't buy any fixed assets, so where did the money from the Evil Vajra Caoquan go?
"Shaolin Temple!"
Xu Yi slowly spit out three words.
"I've long heard that there are white gloves outside the Shaolin Temple, making crazy money for them, but I didn't expect to meet them here!"
The reason why he made such a guess was naturally not only because of the millions of taels of silver that had disappeared, but also, more importantly, because of Cao Quan himself!
He was active for more than ten years without dying!
Are small and medium-sized families really so easy to kill?
hehe.
Then you really are overthinking it.
Perhaps many small and medium-sized families are indeed not strong and do not have much military force, but the power and connections they have are very terrifying!
Let me just say that most of the officials in Huayin County have a close relationship with the Xu family. The Liu family of the Xu Liu family can even reach heaven and make a certain voice in the court.
For such a family, a single move can affect the entire family and wipe out this family. You don't even know how many people you have offended!
Do you think this can be done casually?
If it's just to wipe out one family, then some people might just leave it alone, but how many families have been wiped out by the Evil Vajrasou Fist? Forty or fifty!
There are so many families, even those with deep connections, who knows how many forces are involved, let alone some who are related to each other. It is no exaggeration to say that they cover most of the Ming Dynasty.
Even if these people don't want to take care of it, aren't they afraid that the evil Vajrasou Fist will target them?
If you are worried, just go to the black market and buy a bonus. Can the evil King Kong Caoquan survive to this day?
A 50,000 taels of silver from the Cuiweishan group of thieves can make the five masters of the underworld take action. The strength of the Evil Vajra Cao Fist is strong, but can it be compared with Shangguan Yundun and Jin Yin?
He can't even compare to Deng Bagong, the divine whip of the Twelve Taibos!
The "weak" evil Vajrasou Fist can still live freely for more than ten years after wiping out forty or fifty small and medium-sized families. There is only one answer.
There is someone behind him!
And he is a very, very powerful person!
Looking at the entire world, the only ones who can save his life in this situation are probably Shaolin Wudang and the Sun and Moon Demon Sect.
Even the Songshan Sect is probably still a little behind.
Thinking back to the relationship between the Evil Vajra Caoquan and the Shaolin Temple, many things do not need to be explained.
"Speaking of which, Zuo Lengchan dared to kill Shaolin Temple's White Gloves? This is really brave!"
Xu Yi's eyes were a little playful.
He was able to guess Cao Quan's identity just by relying on the little information he knew. He didn't believe that Zuo Lengchan, who was located in the same Songshan Mountain as Shaolin Temple, would not know Cao Quan's identity.
How dare you attack Cao Quan when you know who he is?
Is this a temptation? Still want to do something?
Xu Yi's eyes flickered, wondering if he could make a fuss about it, but then he thought about it and shook his head.
"The reason why Zuo Lengchan dared to do this is probably because he was sure that Shaolin did not dare or would not do something. If I do something, it will most likely not have any effect."
Thinking about the later period of "Swordsman", the Songshan sect was so rampant that Shaolin had no intention of taking action personally, but relied on Linghu Chong to stir up trouble.
It is conceivable that if Xu Yi wanted to use this incident to bring down the Shaolin Temple and directly fight with the Songshan Sect to buy him more time, it would probably not work.
Although the plan didn't work, for Xu Yi, it was quite good to obtain the Shaolin "Bronze Statue Skill".
"Shaolin's "Bronze Statue Kung Fu" is said to have originated from a lost Shaolin innate secret skill called "The Eighteen Arhats' Golden Body Kung Fu."
"This is a top-notch hard-working skill at the first-class level. Once you practice it to perfection, you can even compete with a first-class peak warrior with pure physical strength without falling behind!"
Hard skills, or external skills, are usually divided into two types.
One is practicing internally.
One is practicing outside.
The well-known "Golden Bell" and "Iron Shirt" are external hard skills, which mainly rely on continuous "beating" to continuously strengthen oneself.
The saying goes that if you want to learn to hit people, you must first learn to be beaten, which means practicing hard skills.
There is not much talent required to practice hard skills externally. As long as you can endure the pain, you can practice. Most people in the world who have no talent practice this kind of hard skills externally.
Of course, in order to prevent oneself from practicing hard skills to death, these external hard skills are usually equipped with various medicinal baths, ointments and so on.
You won't be able to practice hard skills by just being beaten all the time. It will only injure yourself all over.
Only by using various specialized medicinal baths and ointments to fully absorb the power of your own practice and heal your injuries can you master this hard external skill.
Since these medicated baths and ointments usually use some very precious medicinal materials, although practicing hard skills externally does not require the talent of internal skills, it is still quite necessary to determine whether you have the ability to make money.
Compared with practicing hard Kung Fu externally, practicing hard Kung Fu internally is relatively 'gentle'.
It does not require you to be beaten, it only requires you to have internal strength and then use your internal strength to strengthen your physical body little by little.
The well-known "Dragon Elephant Prajna Kung Fu", "Vajra Indestructible Magic Kung Fu", etc. are a type of internal hard kung fu.
It goes without saying how powerful they are.
With the thirteenth level of "Dragon and Elephant Prajna Kung Fu", Jinlun Dharma King can master the tenth level and be able to forcibly defeat many powerful people at the five levels.
After Cheng Shifei unlocked the indestructibility of the Vajra, he could even fight for hundreds of rounds with Zhu Wuwu, the iron gall god who had absorbed hundreds of years of inner strength.
All these prove that the upper limit of these internal hard skills is not bad at all.
Although the "Bronze Statue Kung Fu" is not as good as the two martial arts above, it is already regarded as one of the best in today's arena.
Why was the Evil Vajra Cao Fist able to destroy forty or fifty families in a row by himself?
Although the power of these small and medium-sized families is not particularly powerful, they cannot find a single first-rate master, and there are only a few second-rate masters at most, but they have many third-rate warriors!
Dozens or hundreds of third-rate warriors are joining the battle, and even first-rate peak warriors will be frightened when they see them!
One of the biggest reasons why the Evil Vajra Cao Quan was able to destroy so many families one after another was that he had already practiced the "Bronze Statue Kung Fu" to the tenth level, and his hard skills were no less than those of a first-rate warrior.
The attacks from those second- and third-rate warriors hit him, not to mention itching, but it was difficult to really hurt him.
If the enemy can't hurt him, then he can't do anything unscrupulous and do whatever he wants?
If it hadn't been for the person who took action this time, the Twelve Taibo Divine Whip Deng Bagong. His iron whip had the power of shock and was specialized in breaking hard skills. If it had been any one of them, even Lu Bai, who was second only to Ding Mian among the Thirteen Taibo, It is estimated that they may not even be able to kill him.
In the world of martial arts, hard skills are the most difficult to master, but once they are mastered, they are also the hardest to kill.
If there was a ranking list of survivability, warriors who practiced hard skills would definitely be ranked first.
"The emergence of this "Bronze Statue Skill" can just make up for my shortcomings in the physical aspect."
Xu Yi looked at the "Bronze Statue Skill" secret book in his hand, feeling very happy in his heart.
He already has considerable attainments in internal skills, swordsmanship, light skills, palm skills, etc., but only in terms of body, his body is still very 'weak'.
Without the blessing of internal energy, his body would only be a little stronger than ordinary people. If he really ran out of internal energy that day and there was no sword in his hand, his combat effectiveness would be weakened by at least 95%!
Although that possibility may be difficult to occur, nothing is absolute, so what if it does happen?
"If I had a strong body, even if that happens, I wouldn't be helpless and just wait for death."
While Xu Yi was studying hard skills.
A shock caused by Xu Yi finally began to unfold.
Songshan sect.
The Great Hall.
Zuo Lengchan was still sitting in the top position, high up, as if he was looking down at the overlord of his territory.
"Have you passed on all the news I asked you to pass on to the uncles outside?"
"They have all been sent, and according to their reply, they should be able to return to Songshan by tomorrow morning at the latest and tonight at the earliest."
Stenda glanced at Zuo Lengchan cautiously. He was not sure what he meant by this question.
This message was sent the day before yesterday, and even the reply was given this morning. Why are you asking him again now if he has sent the message?
Is it because I haven't done anything well that you are deliberately beating me up?
While Stenda was kicking him in the heart, Zuo Lengchan couldn't help but frown.
"Tonight at the earliest and tomorrow morning at the latest?"
He didn't know why, but when he heard this time, he always had an inexplicable feeling of something bad, as if something bad was going to happen.
At this moment, a disciple suddenly came in to report.
"Report to the head, the sixth uncle is back!"
"Junior Brother Zhong is back?"
Zuo Lengchan's face relaxed when he heard this.
It seemed that I was too nervous and nothing bad happened at all.
"Let him in!"
"Senior Brother Head."
"Junior Brother Zhong."
Zuo Lengchan called Zhong Zhen in, encouraged him as usual, and affirmed his outstanding contribution to the Songshan Sect.
Then when Zhong Zhen took out what he had harvested, Zuo Lengchan showed a rare smile on his face, praised him again, and was about to ask him to go down and rest first.
Just at this time.
"Master, there is news from Huayin County!"
"What news? Tell me."
"They said that they, they found Uncle Ding's... body."
(End of chapter)
