Professionals of the Starry Skies - Chapter 686

Chapter 686 The Most Ancient Martial Art in the World

“Huff…”

Bailuyuan, inside the dormitory.

Xun Heihu got up and found himself still lying on the bed.

Not far away, Zhao Daniu was still grinding his teeth and snoring.

The moonlight outside was like water, with mercury pouring down on the ground.

“Dream?”

Xun Heihu tightly grasped the Zhenwu talisman around his neck, then suddenly got out of bed quietly and walked out of the room.

“According to what the spirit of the weapon said, my spirit entered the Zhenwu Talisman. The outside world seemed to be asleep, but everything I obtained inside the Zhenwu Talisman was real…”

Xun Heihu came to the yard, suddenly took a stance, and stood on the White Deer Stake.

He has practiced this skill many times and is now very familiar with it.

But this time, something was obviously different.

Under the moonlight, along with the boy’s breathing, he could feel a stream of warmth emerging from his limbs and bones, and then flowing through his body following his thoughts.

“Controlling the power of Qi and blood… I did it!”

Xun Heihu was overjoyed: “Inside the Zhenwu Talisman, I just practiced briefly and I broke through directly… As expected, I also broke through in the outside world. According to the person who claims to be a weapon spirit… As long as I practice martial arts to the limit, I will naturally accumulate proficiency in the Zhenwu Talisman and then break through?”

“Moreover, when practicing in the Zhenwu space, ten days in the outside world only last one night…”

He was so excited that he couldn’t fall asleep for a long time after lying back on the bed.

Only at dawn, when the sky was about to brighten, did he fall into a deep sleep again.

…

In the Zhenwu space.

“Sure enough… I’m in again.”

Xun Heihu looked at the figure on the steps and suddenly bowed respectfully: “Senior Qi Ling…”

“Well, it looks like you’ve verified it.”

Fang Xing nodded: “Remember, don’t tell anyone about the existence of the Zhenwu Talisman, including your parents… Otherwise, it will bring about a horrible disaster.”

“yes.”

Although Xun Heihu was young, he had also heard the storyteller tell about an ordinary person who obtained a treasure map and had his entire family killed.

Although he had not spent much time with his father, he had taught him many ways of dealing with people through words and deeds. Hearing this, he nodded quickly: “I won’t tell anyone…”

“Very good. In that case, you can temporarily become the host of the Zhenwu Talisman. The Zhenwu Talisman chose you because it hopes that you can become a top-notch warrior in the world in the future, and even push the martial arts forward…”

Fang Xing smiled and said, “You have ten times more time than others, and you have the help of practicing to the peak to break through the realm. You will definitely be able to stand at the top of the martial arts in the future, but if you want to become the host of the Zhenwu Talisman, you must make a vow.”

“What oath?” Xun Heihu felt as if a stone had fallen from his heart.

After all, picking up such a magical item must come with a price!

Now, let’s see what the cost is.

“Zhenwu swears: I will never reconcile with Panwu for eternity.”

Fang Xing said solemnly: “Just remember this. In today’s world, it will be very difficult for you to sense Pan Wu…”

Xun Heihu swore in a daze, and asked expectantly, “Senior Qiling… since you said that the Zhenwu Talisman has many hosts, are there any secret manuals left behind?”

“Martial arts secret manual, of course there is one.”

Fang Xing had a strange expression on his face: “But I can only teach you ‘original martial arts’, oh, that’s the martial arts you call ‘ancient martial arts’.”

“Ancient martial arts? Coach Xiong said that ancient martial arts are outdated. The highest level you can practice is equivalent to that of a mid-level third-grade martial artist. It also requires a lot of blood, flesh and medicine… Ever since Emperor Taizu of Dakang pacified the world and exterminated the ferocious beasts, the number of ferocious beasts has been decreasing. Now they are very rare and have become rare animals.”

Xun Heihu thought about ancient martial arts and couldn’t help but speak.

After entering Bailu Academy, in addition to practicing martial arts every day, there are special scholars to teach these young boys and girls how to read, as well as many common sense and experiences of the martial arts world… to avoid raising a bunch of stupid people.

Therefore, Xun Heihu actually knew something about ancient martial arts.

“Yes, the original martial arts is outdated, but if you want to learn it, I have a copy of the ‘most ancient martial arts in the world’, which was created by the first generation of the Great Xia Emperor – Mang.”

Fang Xing said leisurely.

“Xia… Mang? Is that the Martial Emperor?” Xun Heihu’s eyes widened in surprise: “That’s the one that all the sects in Kyushu worship during the New Year. He’s the ancestor of the origin of martial arts…”

“Yes, it is the Martial Emperor! Moreover, your instructor’s description of the ancient martial arts is wrong. Although the ancient martial arts that have been cultivated to the peak are still not as good as the new martial arts, they can barely have the vitality of the upper third grade… After all, Xia Mang lived for more than 300 years. If his foundation had not been damaged, he should have lived to the limit of 500 years, which is equivalent to the upper third grade master of your new martial arts…”

Fang Xing sighed a little.

The first generation had to work hard from scratch, so it was inevitable that there would be some mistakes and omissions.

Even if he saw it, he couldn’t bring it up in order to maintain the purity of martial arts.

Xia Mang was deceived in this way, otherwise it should not be a problem for him to live to the maximum age of 500.

Although…it’s still short-lived.

As for the later generations of Xia Emperors, they only knew how to practice hard according to the secrets and experiences of their predecessors, which was simply asking for trouble. It was difficult to carve a rotten tree!
“Top three skills?”

Xun Heihu’s eyes lit up: “I want to learn! I want to learn!”

He thought clearly that his family spent five hundred taels of silver to allow him to enter the Bailu Academy, which barely qualified him to practice the lower third-grade martial arts.

After breaking through the inner strength and becoming a disciple of the Five Animals Sect, one can be exposed to the middle third-grade martial arts.

As for the secret manual of magical skills that can be cultivated to the upper third level?

Which book would not cause bloodshed in the martial arts world if it was thrown out?
Even if it was ancient martial arts, he would accept it.

“Well, in that case, I will teach you the original weapon created by Xia Mang.”

Fang Xing nodded indifferently: “I think the new martial arts nowadays are taking the path from the outside to the inside. The lower three grades of bronze gates, silver veins, and gold threads… are all hard skills. When you reach the peak of the seventh grade, it is the limit of hard skills. You can then go from the outside to the inside, generate internal strength, and take the internal family path…”

“The ‘original martial arts’ you want to learn, forget it, I’ll call it ‘ancient martial arts’, it’s different from this method, it starts with the physique, although there are some omissions, but there are also wonderful things that complement each other… You try your best to learn as much as you can.”

Xun Heihu was just getting excited when he saw a figure shrouded in gray mist suddenly come forward and point a finger at his forehead.

“ah!”

He screamed, fell to the ground holding his head, and felt a splitting headache.

Suddenly, there were many more memories in my mind.

It was a picture of a man wearing animal skins practicing martial arts!

Sometimes, he even merged his spirit into that person’s body, feeling the circulation of qi and blood, and the changes in various forces…

This is also because Fang Xing knows that the Daxia characters used in ancient martial arts are different from the current ones. There is no need for Xun Heihu to take another ancient characters class. He can just let Xia Mang teach him by example.

“Huff…”

After a long time, Xun Heihu stood up with heavy breathing and looked at his hands: “I… seem to be different.”

Although he has controlled the qi and blood, he has not yet reached the highest level. He is young and his body has not yet fully grown, so his fighting power is just like that of a weakling.

But at this moment, he felt that he had learned many killing skills without any instruction. When he saw a living creature, he would unconsciously aim at the opponent’s vital points, and even his intuition was much more accurate than before.

Of course, no matter how he improved, his expression became more and more awed as he looked at Fang Xing in the gray fog.

His keen intuition enabled him to sense the figure in front of him, who was as majestic as a god.

If there is a god descending from heaven, it would probably be the aura of the weapon spirit in front, right?
“Ancient martial arts are outdated. If you want to practice, you should focus on new martial arts and supplement them with ancient martial arts.”

Fang Xing said: “However, since ancient martial arts are known as the ‘most ancient martial arts in the world’, they still have some advantages. They can help you build a solid foundation. If you can cultivate one or more of the ‘Twelve Body Differences’, it will be of great help to you in practicing new martial arts.”

“Twelve different bodies?”

Xun Heihu asked in confusion: “What is that?”

“You new martial artists now also pay attention to your roots. Before you joined the White Deer Academy, didn’t you touch the martial bones?”

Fang Xing explained: “The so-called ‘Twelve Body Abnormalities’ can be regarded as twelve top martial arts talents. They were manifested by your ancestors who ate raw meat and drank blood, and devoured the blood of fierce beasts. They were passed down from generation to generation along with the bloodline… Now they have all become latent, but they are enough to bring great help to your martial arts training.”

The so-called recessive means that it is unlikely to grow scales, wings, etc., but the benefits are still there.

Unless you encounter someone whose bloodline has regressed to his ancestral lineage, it is possible that a few scales will appear on his body…

“I know.”

Xun Heihu’s eyes lit up: “Is it ‘Ape Arms, Bee Waist, Praying Mantis Legs’?”

When he joined Bailu Academy before, what was found out was just ordinary bones. However, he heard that there was a young man in another examination room whose bones were found to have ‘ape arms, bee waist, and mantis legs’, and he was directly admitted to Wuqinmen.

This is the treatment they will get after they break through to the sixth level in the future!

“Ape arms, bee waist, and mantis legs? That can barely be considered the lowest level of martial bones…” Fang Xing sneered.

Xun Heihu clearly heard a hint of disdain in it.

He tried to practice the ancient martial arts breathing method. Because he had experience in controlling qi and blood, he was able to get started quickly: “But… to practice ancient martial arts, you need to swallow the flesh and blood of fierce beasts or the elixir refined from the blood of fierce beasts. I don’t have…”

This is also the drawback of ancient martial arts. Nowadays, ferocious beasts have become rare animals. If you want to kill them and eat their meat, it will be many times more expensive than eating copper-lead elixir or gold-mercury elixir.

When Coach Xiong was telling them the story of the decline of ancient martial arts, he mentioned an example. It was the She family in Baiyun Mountain. Their ancestral martial art “Double Snake Palm” required eating the flesh and blood of a ferocious beast called “Double-headed Horned Python”. But after the Dakang Dynasty, the two-headed horned python gradually became extinct. Later generations could only eat “Black-horned Python” which had a certain amount of two-headed horned python bloodline. As a result, the power of the ancestral martial art became much weaker.

By the Jiuzhou era, the She family could hardly find even the Black-Horned Python and were nearly wiped out.

Later, the head of the family made the decision to switch to the Five Animals Sect. A master of the Five Animals Sect changed the ancient martial arts into new martial arts, and changed the family tradition of “Double Snake Palm” into “Spirit Snake Swimming Palm”. Only then did many internal force masters emerge again, barely maintaining the reputation of the family…

All ancient martial arts families are like this. If it were Xun Heihu, he would just cry…

“I have the blood and flesh of vicious beasts.”

Fang Xing chuckled. He had originally asked Xia Mang to collect all kinds of flesh and blood. In addition to research, he also planned to store it. “It’s unlikely that you can eat to your heart’s content, but as a primer, it shouldn’t be difficult to guide you to start practicing…”

(End of this chapter)