Chapter 8: The First Encounter with Little Dragon Maiden

  On the ice bed, Chen Yunfeng's eyes suddenly opened wide, and two sharp lights flashed instantly, even the oil lamp's light couldn't cover them. He let out a long breath that had been held in his mouth and said in a low voice:

  "Hmm... now my true energy can automatically cultivate itself without me paying attention, and there's not much dry rations left either. I'll hurry up and practice the Nine Yin Skeleton Claw and other skills, once I've mastered them, I'll head down the mountain and come back in two years when Yang Guo comes down from the mountain."

  If he remembers correctly, Yang Guo's mother died when he was eleven years old. He met Guo Jing at the age of thirteen or fourteen and left the Ancient Tomb by the time he was seventeen. After several years of practicing in the tomb, relying on his ability to automatically cultivate internal energy, he became a top-notch master as soon as he came down from the mountain. As for learning heavy swordsmanship and practicing dog-beating stick, it all happened later when he had already become a top-notch master.

  Not long after, within less than a year, through a series of events, Dugu Qiubai entered the burial place outside Xiangyang City, ate the snake gall of the Qingputi snake, practiced internal skills and swordsmanship in the mountain flood, and finally broke through to the realm of a top-notch master.

  In the sixteen years that followed, he was only cultivating in the ocean, and usually meddling in other people's affairs. In the end, they all became pre-heavenly masters, even slightly stronger than other top-notch masters.

  Various analyses have shown that the reason why Yang Guo is so powerful is that his cultivation method, which does not leak internal energy and constantly strengthens himself, plays the strongest role. Chen Yunfeng can now also cultivate completely independently, with one day equivalent to ten days for others. That's why it's no longer strange that Yang Guo was able to surpass others in just over a decade of cultivation.

  A person's intelligence doesn't necessarily mean they can cultivate internal energy quickly. Chen Yunfeng had never figured out how Yang Daxia became a master so fast, but after being tempered by the Ice Bed, he finally understood that the big pit dug up by Jin Dadong was actually Yang Daxia's golden finger, and everything else was just some special abilities that assisted him.

  Chen Yunfeng has also mixed into this treatment, he believes that his time to become a master will not be longer than Yang Guo's, let alone with the Nine Yin True Energy and Hunyuan Primordial Qigong, these two world-class internal skills in his body, he believes that he will definitely have more confidence in mixing into the ranks of masters.

  In the following days, Chen Yunfeng began to practice various Jiuyin martial arts in the stone room every day. He knew that there were two more stone rooms in the ancient tomb, one recording Quanzhen Wuxue and the other Lin Chao Ying breaking through Quanzhen's martial arts, even this special skill.

  He didn't want to learn all kinds of martial arts, but he could study them. If he encountered those decadent Taoist priests from the Quanzhen Sect in the future, he would have a way to restrain them.

  Practicing day and night, Chen Yunfeng rarely rested, constantly practicing various martial arts and special skills. After cultivating the Nine Yin Scripture's Soul Capture Technique, he suddenly realized that this skill shouldn't be considered a martial art either;

  According to Chen Yunfeng's idea, Huang Zongxi used thousands of Taoist classics when creating the Nine Yin Scripture. This kung fu can be considered a spiritual hypnosis technique for practitioners who cultivate and practice internal energy, that is to say, it is a kind of skill used in the cultivation of internal alchemy and absolutely not a martial arts technique.

  Inside the stone room, Chen Yunfeng's body was constantly swaying like a ghostly shadow. Occasionally, a palm print would appear on the stone wall without making any sound. When he turned around and left, a faint handprint would remain on the wall.

  Chen Yunfeng trained himself in the integration of body method, palm method and claw method. At one moment, he would use the Crushing Heart Palm, and at another, the Nine Yin White Bone Claw. A cold wind would emanate from his claws, leaving behind faint marks on the stone wall as he struck it with varying degrees of force.

  At first, Mei Chao Feng and Chen Xuan Feng practiced the Nine Yin White Bone Claw because they didn't have the Nine Yin True Energy method. They recklessly guessed that this dark-sounding martial art required human skulls to cultivate, turning a perfectly good Taoist ultimate skill into an evil martial art.

  Chen Yunfeng had been cultivating here for less than two months, but according to his calculations, the inner strength he gained in these two months was equivalent to several years of bitter cultivation by others. Although he couldn't be considered a top-notch expert, his moves still exuded a powerful and intimidating aura.

  Jiuyin Shenfa is not a light skill, but an attacking and evading technique. This was something Chen Yunfeng only understood after he had fully mastered all the current skills. After thinking for several days, he remembered the two martial arts training rooms of the ancient tomb sect and the Quanzhen sect in the ancient tomb. In the dead of night, he finally sneaked into these two strange places.

  The two stone rooms were both wider in the front and narrower in the back, with a semi-circular edge on one side being triangular. According to the records of the Divine Eagle, this was a place designed for cultivating various martial arts techniques. However, Chen Yunfeng wasn't here to sightsee; he quickly looked up at the top of the stone room and relied on his ability to memorize everything at a glance to rapidly record the dozens of techniques within the two rooms.

  The most important thing for him now is to remember the ancient tomb lightness skill and the true Golden Goose lightness skill. He plans to combine these two lightness skills into a unique lightness ultimate technique of his own, plus the Nine Yin Body Method, which will also make him safer when fighting.

  "Rustle rustle rustle..."

  Just as Chen Yunfeng finished recording all the moves, the stone door in the next room suddenly creaked open. He quickly extinguished the torch and rushed to the observation hole of the stone chamber. In the adjacent room, a oil lamp had already been lit by someone.

  A young woman in white clothes stood quietly in front of a painting, looking at the woman in the painting with an expression that was both dull and strange. Chen Yunfeng's heart skipped a beat as soon as he saw this woman, and he hurriedly used his true energy to suppress the excitement and annoyance in his heart, gritting his teeth and staring fixedly at this woman who made him feel suffocated to death.

  To say that this woman is not strange at all, with a round and small face, white and smooth as jade, only to see her white fingers lightly pressed on her face, the slippery skin slightly bounced.

  She must have just returned from martial arts practice, her small face slightly flushed, and a hint of warmth rising from her hair in the cold stone room. Chen Yunfeng looked at her pair of buns that resembled chicken legs, and a special image began to appear in his eyes;

  Old vinegar with added oil and chili, take a bite, and the oil overflows from my mouth. The aroma of oil and meat mixed with the flavor of old vinegar and chili... Oh my god! These delicious small steamed buns, paired with a pair of plump fried chicken legs, make for a rich breakfast.

  "Ancestor lady, why do you have a melon-shaped face while I have a round face? Is it because in the past my senior sister let me eat double portions of food?" The woman said to the portrait with some confusion, holding her own round face.

  Chen Yunfeng's face twitched constantly, this was the little dragon girl who was clear and elegant, calm and serene, without desires or demands, like a celestial being in his previous dreams and memories. After watching that TV series that made him conflicted, his dreams were thoroughly shattered and he died of heartbreak.

  Even if they see the reality now, looking carefully at Little Dragon Girl, she actually looks quite good. However, she is not the pure and lovely girl described by Jin Yong, plus the entanglement she had before her death, Chen Yunfeng would not like her even if he didn't dislike her anymore.