Chapter Fourteen: Lonely Valley

  "Ah...... Hehe......"

  Chen Yunfeng opened his eyes after letting the true energy run automatically, and his body swayed as he flashed to the edge of the cliff like a ghostly spirit.

  He didn't expect that the Nine Yin and Nine Yang combined with the Hunyuan Primordial Qigong would eventually merge into three true energies. Now, the true energy in his body has surged several times, which means that his previous two or three years of cultivation suddenly surged to more than a decade. Although it is still far from opening the Ren and Du meridians, and even farther from penetrating the Heavenly Bridge, it is unknown when it will be achieved.

  But he has been practicing for only three months and has already reached the level of a third-rate martial artist. With the martial skills he has learned, he can now be considered a figure in the Jianghu.

  What surprised him most was the unity of three different techniques, now he didn't need to actively operate, and the three true airs would quickly run in the meridians, pulling each other, and when the three true airs were fully merged, the power inside seemed even more enormous.

  After a burst of wild howling, Chen Yunfeng merged his three genuine energies into one, and with a sway of his body, he activated the Crushing Heart Palm, striking it at the giant boulder where he had previously lain.

  "Hmph."

  After a low response, Chen Yunfeng instantly retracted his palm. Under the curious gaze of the divine eagle beside him, Chen Yunfeng poked the spot where his palm had struck earlier with his finger. He only saw a thin layer of stone fragments breaking off and falling to the ground, with a slow flow of gravel inside.

  Looking closely, this palm-sized pit is more than half an inch deep. If a slap were to land on someone's body, I reckon their internal organs would be smashed to pieces.

  "It's still far from that, the highest realm of Crushing Heart Palm is to make a move without making a sound, and only leave a cicada wing-like shell on the surface of the boulder without damaging it, while the inside of the stone will be crushed into powder. It seems that at least you need to open up Ren Du Er Mai to enter the super master level to achieve this." Chen Yunfeng said, shaking his head as he sifted through those stones that were shattered by his palm from the inside.

  He's indeed a bit overbearing, if he hadn't absorbed the medicinal properties of the Qubodi snake gall and cultivated the Jiu Yang True Energy together, relying on his top-notch skills, even if he worked hard for three to five years, he wouldn't have such abilities.

  "Goo... goo..." The divine eagle, who had been guarding for more than two hours, jumped over and looked at Chen Yunfeng with joy, calling out excitedly.

  "Haha, Old Eagle, just now I broke through a small boundary, although I'm not considered an expert yet, but it's enough to barely make a living in the martial world." Chen Yunfeng said with a smile to the Divine Eagle.

  This divine eagle is a friend of Dugu Qiubai, and it's even much older than Dugu Qiubai. With its large brain as a bird, it has long understood human language. As the saying goes, "people become more clever with age", this old eagle's hundreds of years of life have given it the wisdom of ordinary people.

  "Cuckoo..."

  The divine eagle gently pecked at Chen Yunfeng's clothes with its hooked beak, then hopped and jumped forward. Chen Yunfeng smiled slightly, his toes barely touching the ground, and his body soared high into the air, floating forward.

  His current lightness skill is unpredictable, he just jumped up according to the bouncing method of Golden Goose Skill, in the air turned into an ancient tomb lightness skill and landed on the ground, in order to increase the jumping distance, he also changed his body shape with Nine Yin Body Method in the air.

  The divine eagle took a look at Chen Yunfeng following behind, and it let out a loud cry as it sped up. Chen Yunfeng, who had just broken through the Three Qi Unity, was trying to test his movement skills. The true energy inside his body accelerated rapidly, and his feet kept tapping on the mountain ridge, his body quickly turning and jumping like an ape entering the mountains as he followed closely behind.

  In the relentless pursuit, the mountains gradually fell behind, and after half a time, the divine eagle led the way into a mountain valley. When Chen Yunfeng followed with slight panting into the valley, the divine eagle took him into a huge cave.

  As the Divine Eagle walked into the cave, Chen Yunfeng's eyes scanned and saw a huge pile of stones. On the wall beside the stone pile was indeed Dugu Qiubai's message when he left in despair. After looking around for a while, the sky had gradually darkened. When Chen Yunfeng went out to find a bundle of dry branches and came back, the Divine Eagle had already jumped onto a rock with its eyes closed, resting.

  Chen Yunfeng lit a bonfire, and only then did he realize that he hadn't eaten all afternoon. However, his stomach didn't feel hungry at all. He walked to the grave of Dugu Qiubai and quietly looked on. Some people say that Dugu Qiubai was the founder of the Dugu Jiu Jian (Nine Swords of Solitude). The Nine Swords style can break through knives, guns, swords, spears, fists, palms, claws, fingers, and inner energy. In the world of Xiaoyao, the Dugu Jiu Jian is already considered one of the strongest martial arts.

  However, Chen Yunfeng carefully analyzed Jin Dada's entire middle school and found that just like the world of martial arts in his future, Jin Dada's martial arts world also declined with proximity to modern times.

  The Tianlong world is full of pre-heavenly strongmen, from the carefree ones to the Murong Mountain Villa, Dali Duan's family, and the Beggars' Sect, a large number of strongmen emerged. By the time of The Eagle Shooting Heroes, only one person, Wang Chongyang, appeared in the world. Although The Return of the Condor Hero has several pre-heavenly martial artists, except for Yang Guo, the others are all old devils in their seventies and eighties.

  In the midst of heaven, Chen Yunfeng thinks that only Zhang Sanfeng broke through the pre-heavenly realm, while Zhang Wuji is just a super master who broke through the Ren and Du meridians, and entered the realm of Xiaoyao Dongfang, Feng Qingyang and others did not enter the pre-heavenly realm, let alone the people behind Liancheng Jue Xueshan Feihu.

  In the later stories of The Deer and the Cauldron, there isn't even a single top-notch master, perhaps only a few super masters in another series, The Legend of the Condor Hero.

  This is the decline of Jin Dada's martial arts, where there may also be differences in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and human physique, as well as the loss of martial arts over time, and even genetic problems with later generations being inferior to previous ones.

  Dugu Jiu Jian is said to be in the tomb of Dugu Qiubai, but Chen Yunfeng didn't have any interest in finding it and taking a look. Even if Dugu Jiu Jian was powerful, it was still just a fighting technique that Dugu Qiubai used when he had a sharp sword in his hand. The true strong martial arts were the heavy sword and the way of thinking that everything is a sword.

  Looking at the iron paintings and silver hooks on the stone wall, Chen Yunfeng could also see the sword technique rotation method contained in them. Unfortunately, Chen Yunfeng was not interested in practicing top-notch swordsmanship, so he just glanced at it for a while, understood the sword intent contained in the font, and then returned to the fire pit to sit down and start cultivating.

  The next day, Chen Yunfeng began practicing his various martial arts skills on the grass outside the cave. The main ones were still light body skills and nine yin martial arts. He understood the principle of being greedy for nothing, if it weren't for the fact that both nine yin and yang and Hunyuan Xiantian Gong were very powerful, he wouldn't have been able to divide his attention to operate his true energy, nor would he have rashly practiced so many internal skills.

  Now the three door methods are unified due to the existence of Hunyuan Xiantian Gong, which has left him amazed. He wants to integrate the many martial arts he has learned so far, but it's not that simple with internal strength; choosing a few methods to cultivate and specialize in is stronger than being all over the place.