Chapter 15: Rapid Metamorphosis (Part 2)

  As time passed, Qin Yu spent most of his time understanding his own attacking methods apart from training. He focused on three aspects: body techniques, close-range attacks and weapons.

  Body method.

  Body technique is related to dodging defense, close combat, and tracking escape. Qin Yu's requirement for body technique is: as fast as lightning, as agile as a rabbit. To study body technique, one must study the art of Qimen Dunjia, as well as other various body techniques.

  Close combat.

  During training, Qin Yu discovered that he liked to challenge the limits and was passionate about it. When choosing an attack, he chose to cultivate... close combat! Close combat can determine life and death in an instant, making it the most dangerous, but also the most full of life's passion.

  Weapons!

  So far, Qin Yu has not decided what weapon to use. The eighteen kinds of weapons such as swords, guns, clubs and sticks all have their own special features. Qin Yu prefers to use his fists and feet, at least for the time being he has not decided which weapon to choose.

  In the study.

  Qin Yu held a book in his hands, the title of which was "I Ching".

  "Hmm, the principle of this chapter seems... to be similar to the body method 'Cloud Dragon Nine Appearances' on the third page of the 'Ancestral Dragon Scripture'. " Qin Yu muttered to himself, then closed the book in his hand and naturally began to organize some of the knowledge he had just seen.

  One by one, various body techniques and principles, or other escape arts, kept flashing through Qin Yu's mind...

  "The six lines, three quas, eight gates and nine star layouts form the Qi Men Dun Jia formation. The eight gates are: Du, Shang, Jing, Xiu, Sheng, Si, Jing, Kai. The Qi Men Dun Jia is divided into three plates of heaven, earth and man, which are the three talents... Some basic concepts of Qi Men Dun Jia took root in Qin Yu's mind."

  Although these are the most basic, they are also the most fundamental. Countless formations and escape techniques have evolved from these most basic principles.

  Various mysterious physical methods have more or less influence.

  Qin Yu was unable to cultivate internal power because he practiced external martial arts and didn't have any inner energy. Generally, lightness skills couldn't be cultivated, only created on one's own. The sixty-eight secret manuals of internal power usually came with some corresponding internal power fist techniques, knife techniques, body methods, etc.

  Even among the twenty-eight external skill secret books, there are various attacking methods.

  Qin Yu absorbed the essence of a hundred rivers, observing ninety-six internal and external Gong methods, various attacking techniques, and body movements. Afterwards, he combined what he saw with the mysterious door escape method, the I Ching, and the overall outline, searching for some profound principles hidden in the body movements. These were all extremely difficult, but Qin Yu did not distinguish between day and night, as soon as he finished training his body, he would diligently study.

  ……

  To cultivate the ultimate external skill, one must study medicine. These were Zhao Yunxing's words on his first day of teaching Qin Yu, and at this moment, Qin Yu was looking at a medical book. In the past three years, Qin Yu had read many medical books and had gained a lot of insight from them.

  "Every bit of strength, every bit of attack must make the enemy pay the greatest price. A palm strike on the opponent's belly can only make their stomach ache, but the same palm can also cut off the opponent's throat and take their life."

  Qin Yu closed the book, and his eyes sparkled with light.

  The human body's various vital points, Qin Yu remembered them clearly in his mind. The body's bones and joints, the paths of the meridians, the places where the flow of qi and blood is smooth. Attacking the vital points, attacking the key acupoints, attacking the physiologically weak areas, or using grappling techniques to break the opponent's bones and joints, etc.

  In short, Qin Yu's attacking principle is: to make every bit of strength reach the maximum damage power, absolutely not wasting any strength!

  One hand has a hundred pounds of strength, but it must reach the attacking power of a single-handed two-hundred-pound master, and even more ferocious attacking power!

  To achieve this, one must strive in various ways, including physical technique, attacking weaknesses, utilizing environmental advantages, and taking advantage of the opponent's psychological changes. Qin Yu was very confident, with a body that had speed, explosive power, flexibility, and other aspects all well-coordinated, as well as various secret techniques for him to refer to.

  At noon, in the training ground.

  One by one, mechanical wooden men were placed on the training ground, forming a wooden man alley. This was the ultimate achievement of the mechanical masters. To break through the wooden man alley was extremely difficult, and it was not something that ordinary people could accomplish. However, Qin Yu had decided to use the wooden man alley to train his close-range combat skills today.

  Qin Yu stood in front of the wooden puppet alley, motionless. Suddenly, Qin Yu rushed into the alley, and with a slight movement, all the puppets in the entire alley came to life as soon as he touched the first one. In Qin Yu's eyes, there was only calmness.

  "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"...

  His hands were like lightning, attacking at extreme speed, directly breaking the wooden man's joints. His legs were mainly defensive, occasionally coming with a powerful kick, one leg breaking the wood. Qin Yu's speed was very fast, only because he had taken off his heavy load, because Qin Yu understood that if he wore those hundred jin of heavy load, it would be impossible to break through this wooden man alley.

  Shedding a hundred pounds of weight, Qin Yu's speed was incredibly fast, but... the wooden men in the Wooden Man Lane were too numerous. Qin Yu was still hit on the head by one of the surrounding wooden men and was struck several times in succession. He could only roll continuously and immediately escaped.

  "Not bad, each of the wooden man's joints is close to the human body's joints, so the training effect will be much better." Qin Yu's eyes lit up again as he rushed into the Wooden Man Alley.

  The wooden dummy in Qin Yu's plan was just a relatively easy training method, and above the wooden dummy was the copper dummy. Of course, it wasn't made by casting a copper man, but rather by applying a layer of copper iron skin to the surface of the wooden dummy. This way, the copper dummy's attack and defense would be significantly stronger than before.

  ……

  After all, what kind of weapon to use, Qin Yu had not made up his mind. On this late night, Qin Yu once again carefully examined the attacking methods attached to each secret book in the secret room. Most were knives and swords, but there were also a few unusual weapons.

  "Huh?" Qin Yu suddenly opened a book on internal strength, and in one chapter that talked about sword techniques, there was a passage that said: "Although the Residual Shadow Sword of our school is an assassination sword, if we're talking about close-range assassination swords, the first place still belongs to the Yu family's One Sword. No matter who they kill, the 'Yu' killer has never failed, and back in the day, was even the legendary number one killer of the assassin organization 'Tian Wang'."

  Qin Yu was shocked.

  Tianwang, Qin Yu had also heard of it. This was an extremely ancient assassin organization with a history spanning over a thousand years, its influence extending throughout the entire Qianlong Continent. The histories of the three countries on the Qianlong Continent were not as long as that of 'Tianwang'. This assassin, 'Yu Shi', was even known as the number one legendary assassin, so his methods of killing people must be extraordinary.

  Suddenly——

  Qin Yu's eyes widened into circles.

  "Yu's One Sword, Yu's One Sword, Ah, it seems to be mentioned on the back of the third page of 'Zu Long Jue'." Qin Yu had carefully read through 'Zu Long Jue', nearly half of which was internal skill secrets on the three golden pages, and the other half was body method 'Cloud Dragon Nine Appearances', fist method 'Flame Dragon Fist', sword method 'Nine Yang Split Heaven Sword'. As for Yu's One Sword, it was only briefly described at the end, Qin Yu hadn't paid much attention to it back then.

  At this moment, Qin Yu finally understood that the unremarkable 'Yu Shi's One Sword' in the 'Zu Long Jue' was actually the legendary first killer sword technique.

  "Zu Long Jue", the internal skill absorbs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth at an extremely fast speed, ranking first among all internal skills. The body method "Yun Long Jiu Xian", fist method "Yan Long Quan", and sword method "Jiu Yang Lie Tian Jian" are all extremely terrifying and powerful, but they require the internal skill "Zu Long Jue" to be cultivated in conjunction with them. Qin Yu can only watch but cannot cultivate it.

  Turning over the last piece of paper, Qin Yu finally saw some information about Shi Yi Jian.

  "Ah, there's actually a way to cultivate the Yu family's One Sword method." Qin Yu's eyes lit up, and his heart was filled with wild joy. No one had expected that the "Ancestral Dragon Scripture" would actually contain a cultivation method for the "Yu Family's One Sword". Qin Yu immediately began to study it carefully, but as he read on, his face turned paler and paler, until towards the end, his complexion was even slightly greenish.