Chapter 1: Qin Yu Eight Years Later (Part 1)

  Time flies, and it has been three years since the great battle where one person single-handedly defeated over a hundred bandits in a small village. Qin Yu has also transformed from an eight-year-old child who gritted his teeth to cultivate into a true external martial arts expert at sixteen years old. Sixteen years old is the age of adulthood on the Profound Dragon Continent.

  Xiao Lu was seriously injured and was taken to Yunwu Mountain Villa by Qin Yu for recuperation. Tie Shan was also brought to Yunwu Mountain Villa, where he began training with the masters there. With both of their parents deceased, they settled down at Yunwu Mountain Villa, occasionally returning to the village to take a look.

  A gentle breeze blew, carrying fallen leaves, at the entrance of Yunwu Mountain Villa, two guards were chatting with each other in a relaxed manner.

  "Xiao Tian, it's been almost half a month since the third prince left home this time, hasn't it?" A slightly older guard said with a smile to another guard in his twenties.

  The young guard nodded and smiled: "Since the third prince returned three years ago, he often goes out, and it's common for him to be away for ten days or half a month. However, the third prince really works hard in his cultivation, every time he returns from outside, he spends several days in the mountain villa, cultivating day and night without stopping." The young guard couldn't help but sigh at this point.

  The elder guardian shook his head and said, "Xiao Tian, you don't know this, but you've only been here a few years. You don't know how rigorous Third Highness's training was back then. When he was eight years old, the terror of his training already made us elite soldiers look away. Eight years old! You can't imagine it - other children at that age were playing and having fun, but Third Highness trained from dawn till dusk. That kind of training was even more bitter than the training of the Liehuo Army!"

  The young guard nodded.

  The elite guards and servants of Yunwu Manor were initially affectionate and pampering towards Xiao Qin Yu, but as Qin Yu's extreme training progressed, those elite guards and servants increasingly admired Qin Yu in their hearts. In the past three years, King Zhen Dong, Qin De, had only come to Yunwu Manor once.

  "Xiao Tian, look! The Third Highness has returned!" The older guard's eyes suddenly lit up as he pointed to the sky and said, and at once the younger guard also looked up.

  In the high sky, a huge black eagle soared with its wings spread wide. This black eagle was at least one size larger than ordinary eagles. The golden feathers on its head were like a crown, and its sharp eyes scanned the surroundings below like lightning. Its overbearing aura was awe-inspiring, and the cold light flashing from its sharp claws left no doubt about their deadliness.

  The huge black eagle is estimated to be as tall as a person when standing upright on the ground.

  On top of the black eagle, a young man in black was sitting cross-legged, but the black eagle flew too high and for a while, it was impossible to see the youth's appearance.

  Suddenly, a huge black eagle swooped down, and the young man also stood up on the eagle's back. At this moment, the guards below could clearly see the young man's appearance. The young man was about 1.8 meters tall, with angular features on his face, always with a warm smile that made people feel close to him. He was only wearing a black vest made of special material and a pair of black trousers, which completely highlighted the muscles on his body.

  "Little Black, go find food yourself." The young man said affectionately as he patted the eagle's back. At an altitude of about 100 meters, the young man suddenly plunged down from the eagle's back at high speed, his body like a flash of lightning, and landed on the ground in an instant. Such a rapid dive did not produce even the slightest sound of wind.

  "Your Imperial Majesties!" The two guards immediately knelt down on one knee and saluted respectfully.

  "Uncle Lan, Ah Tian, it's your shift today, okay, I'll go in first. We'll talk later." Qin Yu said with a smile to the two guards, not forcing them to kneel down either, as he also understood that this was the rule of the Wang Manor.

  Qin Yu directly headed towards Xi Yuan, and all the servants he met along the way looked at him with great surprise.

  "Hmm, training outside is not as comfortable as in the mountain villa." Qin Yu took off the black vest on his body and threw it to the ground with a "Pong!" sound. The vest hit the ground with an unusually loud noise, as if it were made of steel.

  This vest is made of 'black gold silk', incredibly heavy and precious, more valuable than gold by a hundred times. Please refine the master's hand to pull the black gold into silk, then weave it into a vest. Such a 100-jin-heavy black gold vest is priceless treasure, this was given to Qin Yu by Qin De last time he came to Yunwu Mountain Villa. The black gold vest not only protects the body but also serves as excellent weight training equipment, Qin Yu naturally accepted with great joy.

  He took off his arm guards and leg guards, and Qin Yu felt completely relaxed.

  A pair of dark iron arm guards, a pair of dark iron leg guards, plus a black gold vest, weighing up to three hundred catties. Even when practicing outside or sleeping, Qin Yu never took them off. Now that he was about to enter the hot spring and wash his whole body thoroughly, taking off the weight of three hundred catties, Qin Yu felt extremely relieved.

  "Haha, hot spring, I'm going to die!" Qin Yu laughed and jumped into the hot spring, wearing only his shorts and revealing his robust upper body.

  "Ah, refreshing, really refreshing." Qin Yu let out a long sigh of relief. Although the Cloud and Mist Mountain Villa's hot spring was magical and could change one's physique, Qin Yu had bathed in it often since childhood, so its effects on improving his physique were no longer evident. However, its ability to relieve fatigue remained excellent.

  After lying comfortably in the water for half an hour, Lian walked to Xiyuan.

  "Xiao Yu, I knew you'd come here as soon as you got back. You must be feeling pretty relaxed by now. Come on up." Lian Yan had been waiting for half an hour, guessing that Qin Yu wouldn't show up until he was fully relaxed.

  "Wait a minute, Grandpa." Qin Yu washed the black gold vest, leg guards and arm guards on the shore of the hot spring clean, and then rushed to a room next to the hot spring. That was the changing room. After a while, Qin Yu came out wearing a clean set of clothes.

  Lian Yan looked at Qin Yu, his eyes full of kindness, watching a child grow into an adult, Lian Yan's heart was also filled with gratification.

  "Xiao Yu, in three months it will be your 16th birthday and at that time your father the king will also hold a grand ceremony for you to come of age. You must remember, don't go out and play too much, or even forget to return for the coming-of-age ceremony." Lian said with a smile.

  "Don't worry, I won't forget my own birthday. The coming-of-age ceremony will definitely be crowded and scary at the Wang Manor." Qin Yu sighed, recalling his second brother Qin Zheng's coming-of-age ceremony four years ago, which was also crowded and intimidating.

  "This goes without saying, the Crown Prince of Zhen Dong's coming-of-age ceremony is an event that even the Emperor would send someone to attend. Most of the nobles in the Chu Kingdom will be there." Lian Yan said with a smile, but with a hint of arrogance, after all, the status of the King of Zhen Dong in the Chu Kingdom was extremely high, second only to the Emperor himself. "Alright, Xiao Yu, I won't disturb you anymore. By the way, Xiao Shan and Xiao Lu have both returned to the village to pay their respects. You've really come back at an inconvenient time."

  "Oh, I was just wondering, in the past when I came back, Xiaolü would immediately come to find me, but today until now she hasn't come, so that's how it is." Qin Yu nodded and smiled, then left, while Qin Yu walked onto the familiar training grounds.

  Next to the training ground was a set of bluestones, these bluestones weighed increasingly more, the smallest only had 100 catties, while the heaviest exceeded 1,000 catties.

  "Cheers!"

  Qin Yu's eyes suddenly lit up, and with a low shout, he kicked the tip of his foot, sending the 300-jin bluestone flying seven or eight meters high. Qin Yu stretched out his right hand, and relying solely on one hand, he completely supported the 300-jin bluestone, holding it for nearly ten seconds. With a shake of his right hand, Qin Yu threw the bluestone to the side.

  "Wearing a heavy load, single-handedly holding three hundred catties, it's almost the current limit." Qin Yu secretly evaluated in his heart.

  With one hand, he could lift an object of over 300 jin in weight. If he were to punch with that strength, it would be terrifying. Some people can even exceed a thousand jin. After all, the strength required to lift something heavy with one hand and the power of a single punch are completely different. Qin Yu is now facing that Wu Meng again, and he can definitely kill Wu Meng without relying on the Fish Intestine Sword.

  Qin Yu wore a weighted vest and walked to the center of the nearby sandbag group, with sandbags hanging all around him. Every move he made would cause them all to swing, requiring great agility from the person.

  Pong!

  Qin Yu suddenly threw a punch, and instantly the sandbag moved. One move, all moves, all the sandbags around Qin Yu collided with each other. Qin Yu, however, smiled and closed his eyes, his fists lightly pounding every approaching sandbag.

  To be honest, Qin Yu's current speed was not fast, but he withstood all the sandbag attacks.

  This is the subtlety of body technique, every sandbag attack brings about a change in the wind, Qin Yu relies on sensing the changes in the wind to easily block each sandbag attack. In fact, at this moment, even if Qin Yu wanted to move faster, he couldn't be much faster with three hundred catties on his back, and letting him move like lightning would be too terrifying.

  "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"...

  Suddenly a string of explosions rang out, and every sandbag was smashed open by Qin Yu's punch. Qin Yu finally opened his eyes at this moment, with a satisfied smile on his face. "My self-created martial art - 'Beidou Qixing Moonlight Dance', the effect is quite good after it has been fully mastered."

  Qin Yu still remembered the scene of that night's battle, where he killed his opponent with a fish-gut sword under the moonlight. This body technique was based on the 'Seven Stars' of the Qimen Dunjia, and it was perfected under the moonlight, so it was named 'Beidou Seven Star Moonlight Dance'. When this technique was mastered, not only did it have the effect of confusing the opponent with the Qimen Dunjia, but it also allowed one to move without being hindered by even a slight breeze, and the movements would not produce any wind sound.