Taiyin Mountain, Big Bamboo Forest, Guanghan Palace.
After the glory of spring, the bamboos in Taiyin Mountain have grown a little taller.
Different from her previous attire, Yu Ruyi today put aside her bright red dress, which had various styles but was always particularly bright, and put on a pink and white outfit, like a peach blossom waiting to bloom.
Yao Xiangu held the fly whisk and looked at Yu Ruyi by the stream, and said in a deep voice: "It's time to start."
After Yu Ruyi heard the master's promise, she jumped up and stepped into the cold pool. Her true energy, which she had already gathered, stood up. A water dragon rose up from under her feet and held her on top of the dragon's head. The lower half of the water dragon's body was in contact with the cold pool. The pool is integrated into one, but the dragon head has been carved lifelike.
"Hmm...it's interesting." Yao Xiangu commented happily. Yu Ruyi's talent in Qi veins finally came into play. The ability to gather Qi in water and turn waves into dragons with just one hand could not be accomplished without the support of huge Zhenqi, and it was extremely extravagant and wasteful.
But Yu Ruyi is different. In addition to her natural "fairy body", her attainments in true energy have reached a new level - when she is in the best condition, she can regain 10% of her strength in just one breath. .
"I just don't know, how powerful is your hand?" Yao Xiangu took the initiative to ask for a fight. With a wave of her snow-white whisk, a long whip ran towards the water dragon.
The whip-shaped zhenqi caught the water dragon, and rolled it into three parts, and fell into the water. Yu Ruyi stayed in the air for a moment with a slight kick, then turned his palm and waved, and another water dragon from the bottom of the stream moved toward the shore. Yao Xiangu bared her teeth and danced her claws.
Yao Nian saw the water dragon approaching with its mouth open, and twisted the fly whisk into the shape of a spear, and thrust it in from the throat of the water dragon's huge mouth. The true energy and water vapor burst together, but he saw another "dragon swinging tail" hit from the water surface.
"Master!" Yu Ruyi reminded her quickly, fearing that her move would be too hasty and abrupt and might hurt her master.
"You little girl, you underestimate the master too much." Yao Nian smiled and waved the whisk in his hand, and a solid ring bloomed around the fairy girl. The dragon swung its tail and hit it, smashing itself into pieces.
However, what Yu Ruyi wanted to remind the master was not the dragon's tail swing that was a feint attack.
The delicate beauty of peach blossoms makes the spring breeze fade away; the beautiful woman's bare hands bring out the sparkling light again.
Xiaoyu crossed the ten jade fingers of his hands and opened his mouth softly: "Water Dragon Yin."
All the previous offensives were preparations for this move.
The water vapor in the air condensed, and the cold pool under your feet seemed like a deep sea. A total of eight water dragons appeared, biting or frightening, straight or curling, surrounding Yao Nian!
Yu Ruyi fell down and stepped on the water, making clear waves.
"I have taught you a good disciple." Yao Nian defeated the eight water dragons one by one, but it inevitably took a lot of effort.
"Master, thank you." Yu Ruyi has been a person who can't help but praise since she was a child. Although she is inevitably a little proud in her heart, her pretty face is covered with a layer of bright red.
"It would be great if your two senior sisters had the end of their hard work like you." Yao Nian talked about Li Wenqu and Ning Zanghua again. One was idle all day long and made people jump, while the other simply fell into the trap. In the deep pit called "Brother Lingxiao". "To put it bluntly, they are far behind you when they were your age."
After saying that, Yao Nian flicked out two fingers in the air, and with his dense energy, he pulled out the two women hiding in the dense forest.
"Hehe, I've been discovered." Li Wenqu still looked carefree and didn't regard himself as a daughter at all.
"Don't say that I was not as good as her when I was Ruyi, even now I am not as good as her!" Ning Zanghua even smiled playfully. Originally, she was the one who disliked practicing martial arts the least among the three sisters. She was completely forced by Pei Yuan. Come to Guanghan Palace.
"Hey, that's right!" Ning Zanghua suddenly remembered something: "Didn't you say that Ananda of yours is also going to the Young Heroes Association? Let's go with you! By the way, I'll help you check."
Yu Ruyi put her hands on her hips and said, "You can go as long as you want, but don't say anything strange in front of him."
"Don't worry, how can we talk nonsense?" Li Wenqu patted his little sister's head, and then took out a copybook like a magic trick: "At most, I can show him this copybook with his name written all over it. Well!"
"Oh! Give it to me!" Xiao Yu jumped up and went to grab the copybook. With her current Qing Gong, she should be able to easily reach it, but her whole body was held in Ning Zanghua's arms.
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Yanshan, Jinghong Sect.
Ever since he joined the Jinghong Sect and He Nan to jointly attack Cheng Qingshu, the Qing-faced Yama, Xiao Kelong has been staying in the sect and has not left even before and after the New Year. Xiao's father and Xiao's mother did come to visit his son, but it was only for a short time. After meeting him once, he was sent home by his son.
In terms of mentality, Xiao Kelong and Wei Kui are very similar. Both of them are practical fighters, and they have full motivation to become stronger.
No matter how strong or weak your martial arts skills are, no matter how talented you are, who has never dreamed of being number one in the world?
"Junior brother, take a rest." The person in charge of sparring today is Chen Longque. Like Xiao Kelong, he is good at martial arts rather than true energy, so the experience he can give Xiao Kelong is very valuable. He had practiced with Xiao Kelong from before dawn until now, and neither of them had any rest except for a hasty meal at noon.
After recent intense training, Xiao Kelong has gradually adapted to Chen Longque's "Fast Sword". However, in order to keep up with Chen Longque's speed, Xiao Kelong paid a heavy price. Sweat dripped from the pores all over his body. It overflowed out, and the palm of the hand was bruised by the rough barrel of the gun.
Although during the Xiaoshan blockade, Xiao Kelong gave up the dual spears he was practicing and chose the dual swords he was good at, he is now able to use the dual spears like his arms.
Regarding this, I really have to thank Wei Kui. After all, as his opponent, he gave Xiao Kelong a piece of advice that could change his martial arts career.
"Brother, you go back first, I will practice by myself." Xiao Kelong did not stop for a moment, and stood up again with his sore legs.
Seeing that Xiao Kelong was so determined, Chen Longque stopped saying anything. After all, whether now or then, he had done as much to surpass Yan Chunlai as Xiao Kelong did today. They were the same kind of people, they understood each other and had a good heart. I could only leave one sentence: "Come back for dinner before dark."
After Chen Longque left, Xiao Kelong dragged two big guns and stood in the center of the training ground.
"It's not enough... Compared to those guys, I'm still too weak..." Xiao Kelong breathed heavily, and his breath formed two streams of white smoke in the northwest where the temperature was still cold.
When his heart calmed down, Xiao Kelong silently mobilized the extremely violent air flow in his body that had not been sorted out. Every inch of the meridians that the air flow passed through felt a faint pain, but he still gritted his teeth and held on.
It's not that he doesn't know the consequences and costs of the turbulent flow of true energy, but he hates his own weakness even more.
"This move... is almost done." After a moment, Xiao Kelong interrupted his move, "At least for a short period of time, I was so strong that I couldn't even believe it..."
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The Hanhai is vast and has undulating waves.
In the dark cabin, several shirtless men were sitting together, drinking some stale fruit. Their clothes were piled randomly aside, exuding an unpleasant smell of fish and sweat. smell.
The destination of this fleet is the Southeast China Sea of the Sheng Kingdom, but judging from the appearance and jittery language of these people, it seems that they are not from the Sheng Kingdom.
They are a group of sailors who travel between Shengguo and New Siam, and they are engaged in the business of reselling the special products of the two countries.
Of course, "reselling" here does not have a derogatory connotation. The business they do is approved by the governments of both countries, and the exotic specialties they bring to the people of the two countries are also very popular.
Most of the money is put into the pockets of the fleet owners. These sailors and boatmen earn hard-earned money. If there is anything that attracts them to this line of work, it is simply that compared with other hard-working professions, they earn more money. It is indeed several times more, and the food and accommodation on board are guaranteed.
Of course, this kind of high-paying job must come with a high price. The risks on the sea are much higher than on land. Fragile ships, ferocious sea fish, and storms that are about to come at any time, all of which will lead to a shipwreck. People sink to the bottom of the sea forever, without seeing people alive or dead bodies, not to mention the long, boring, and dizzy life at sea.
There are not many entertainment activities on the ship, nothing more than gambling and bragging. These are all newly recruited sailors. Their wages are not high and their status on the ship is also very low, so they don’t have much money to rely on gambling for entertainment. He was not qualified to sit at the same table with those old sailors, so he had to vent his emotions through rice wine.
"Hey! Boy over there, come over and have a drink?" A strong sailor looked towards the end of the cabin. It was dark, but everyone knew that there was a young child sleeping there.
No one knew where this man came from. They only knew that he wandered around the pier for several days with a small jar filled with pickled fish meat and dried mango. There were scattered small copper coins in the cracks of the jar. He took these small coins. A jar of things was handed over to the captain of the ship, which meant he got a ticket and followed them to Shengguo.
To put it nicely, he is a "passenger", to put it harshly, he is a "stowaway". Every time he goes to sea, there will be some people who are not part of the fleet, and the captain will place them at the bottom. cabin. Some stowaways will help with some shipping work in exchange for rations on the road, but most of them are "slaves" who have been trafficked to foreign countries, so they do not have free food and cheap rice wine like sailors.
This teenage boy came on the ship voluntarily, and sometimes helped the sailors with some odd jobs, so he was squeezed into the same cabin as the sailors.
"I've never drunk." The boy said, but he still poked his head out of the darkness.
"Hey, aren't you hungry before you have eaten?" A sailor smiled heartily, but he felt that his analogy was not very good, so he added: "Everything has a first time. "
These sailors were all very impressed by this taciturn but very capable boy, so they invited him to sit over.
Unable to resist the hospitality, the boy still sat among them, but instead of using a bowl to fill the wine, he picked a small piece of dried fruit and put it into his mouth.
"I don't know what your name is yet?" The sailor brought a bowl of wine to the boy and introduced himself: "My name is Varadan."
The boy hesitated for a while, but still took the bowl and held it in his hand without drinking: "Na Guai, my name is Na Guai."
"Guess, how old are you? Why do you want to go to Shengguo? Do your parents care about you?" Someone next to him asked. There are often people who want to go to Shengguo, but there are very few children at this age.
Nachai pursed his dry lips and responded: "Seventeen, I have no parents. Master adopted me. Master asked me to go to Shengguo before he died."
After saying this, Nacai shut up and didn't say any more reasons.
But these words aroused the interest of the sailors: "Master? What did your master teach you?"
This brand-new topic made the sailors happy and discussed it, but no one's statement convinced the others.
Only Varadan took a deep look at the thin Nachai. He possessed him and whispered in Nachai's ear: "Martial arts, you study martial arts, right?"
Nachai glanced at Varadhan in surprise, but remained silent. His eyes were obviously asking: "How do you know?"
Varadan smiled without saying a word and rubbed his joints. Nachai soon understood what Varadan meant.
Different from all the sailors sitting around here, the joints of Na Gui's body are extremely thick and hard, and the bones protrude as if trying to break free from the constraints of the thin layer of flesh. Although the boy is very thin, he is not weak - his The strength is no less than those of these sailors, and the tightness of the muscles is far superior.
"You are very powerful, boy." Other sailors also saw Varadan's movements and noticed that his guess was different.
Nachai smiled shyly and waved his fist at everyone in a friendly manner.
