Chapter 32 Entering the Provincial Capital

  Taking advantage of the favorable wind, the Longfuhao broke through the waves and advanced forward. The only sail on the ship was full, and everyone was in high spirits.

  Lian Pingyuan gazed at Xia Island, which was gradually shrouded in the twilight, with a solemn expression and a hint of melancholy on his face.

  "Can't put down the people on the island?" A voice sounded behind him.

  Lian Pingyuan turned his head and saw that the speaker was Yang Yun, who had presided over the division of wealth.

  With a faint bitter smile, Lian Pingyuan said: "There are some, where is Young Master Yang from?"

  "Meng and I are both students from Jinghai County, and this trip is to Fengming Prefecture for further study. I wonder what plans Brother Lian has after landing?"

  Lian Pingyuan was silent, he now regretted his decision to leave Xiadao Island, his mind was a mess, where did he have the mood to consider things after landing?

  Yang Yun guessed something, and Lian Pingyuan left the island dejectedly, undoubtedly for that woman named Hai Zhu. "Since you can't let go for a while, it's better to leave for some time. Why don't we set a deadline of one year? If you still can't let go after a year, then you can go back." Yang Yun said calmly.

  After listening to Yang Yun's words, Lian Pingyuan fell into deep thought, and the confusion in his mind slowly cleared up. One year, just one year would be fine, this time was for himself as well as for Hai Zhen.

  Lian Pingyuan raised his head and found that Yang Yun had walked away at some point, now standing in the middle of the boat by the mast, holding a jug of wine to admire the moon.

  The night was dark and moonlight was cool as water, shining on Yang Yun's green shirt, it seemed to melt away, a layer of hazy silver mist rose around him. As he looked, Ping Yuan suddenly felt a pang in his heart, a line of clear tears fell uncontrollably from his eyes, the past joys and sorrows appeared one by one, his spirit completely lost control.

  Yang Yun continued to cultivate the Moon Flower True Classic. The divine ability obtained from the third layer of the Moon Flower True Classic was hearing, and then the fourth layer of true energy circulated down along the meridians, starting to condense the orifices in the chest. The cool moon flower true energy washed over the Tian Tuo and Yu Fu acupoints, which were also absorbing the external moon flower energy on their own, gradually accumulating the foundation, brewing a breakthrough that would come when the time was ripe.

  The moist sea breeze was inhaled into the lungs, with a particularly refreshing and cool feeling. Yang Yun took a deep breath, and when he exhaled, he felt that there was a hint of turbid air within. Cultivating to this point, the Moon Flower Scripture had already begun to improve his physique, but it was still far from reaching the level of rebirth and transformation. However, it could also cleanse and renew, clearing out impurities, and with long-term cultivation, one's physique would become strong and robust, immune to all diseases.

  Just as Yang Yun was immersed in his cultivation, the Heavenly Dog Stone bracelet on his wrist suddenly began to heat up, startling him out of his meditation.

  Let Shi Hai take over the control of Yue Hua's true energy, Yang Yun went to check the anomaly of the bracelet. The Tiangou stone bracelet looked normal, but only the skin close to it could feel that a few beads were getting hot.

  This string of beads has become Yang Yun's life-bound artifact, and it looks like the artifact is activating. However, Yang Yun himself doesn't understand the situation with this artifact either, and he doesn't even know what method to use to activate it.

  Went to the kennel and took a look at that black dog, still snoring away in its doghouse, looks like it's not related to this matter either.

  That's the Dharma Treasure automatically activating, this kind of situation is quite common in the cultivation world, only it's unknown what triggered the Dharma Treasure.

  Yang Yun looked around and suddenly saw that Lian Pingyuan's expression was a bit off, so he walked over and patted his shoulder, "Lian brother?"

  "Ah!" Lian Pingyuan let out a startled cry, and it wasn't until then that he came back to his senses and saw Yang Yun.

  "I was thinking of something and got lost in thought, don't laugh at me, Young Master Yang." Lian Pingyuan felt a bit embarrassed, what had he been doing just now? He had even shed tears.

  Yang Yun saw Lian Pingyuan wipe away his tears with his sleeve, and he was deep in thought. Just now when he woke up Lian Pingyuan, the anomaly of the hand chain had disappeared. It seems that Lian Pingyuan was indeed affected by the hand chain, but was it because Lian Pingyuan was influenced by the Tiangou Stone that he became so disoriented? Or did his disorientation trigger the abnormality of the Tiangou Stone? It seems that this life-protecting treasure still has many places to be studied and explored, Yang Yun thought.

  The heavens smiled, and the journey continued with a favorable wind. Two days later, at dawn, the outline of the distant continent was already in sight, and the sailors on board let out cheers.

  After this voyage, all the sailors will quit their jobs and go home. The life of sailing is bitter and dangerous. This time, everyone has obtained a considerable amount of wealth. Along the way, familiar sailors gathered in twos and threes to discuss how to spend this windfall after returning to their hometowns. Most of them were talking about buying houses, land, and marrying wives. The captain tightly hugged the eight-treasured glass bowl, laughing with his mouth wide open, and didn't care about the sailors.

  Yang Yun stood with his hands behind him, gazing at the increasingly close land, his green robe fluttering, looking rather like a scholar, quite different from the common people around him.

  Zhao Jia disdainfully curled her lip, pretending to be innocent. But Missy had already seen through his true nature - a greedy and gluttonous super commoner. Just wait until the boat reaches the shore, then you'll be in for a show.

  Yang Yun suddenly turned his head and smiled at her, Zhao Jia's heart skipped a beat. "What does he mean? Did he guess something? Impossible, he's not some kind of mind-reading immortal, how could he know what I'm thinking?"

  "Lao Meng, come over here." Yang Yun called out.

  Meng Chao had just stepped out of the cabin and walked over upon hearing this.

  "He was just greeting Meng Chao, wasn't he smiling at me?" Zhao Jia suspected.

  The night before, Yang Yun transcribed the Shan Jun Gong Ji annotations and handed them over to Meng Chao. He was overjoyed, and after receiving the method, he recited and comprehended it for a whole night, almost swallowing those few sheets of paper into his belly.

  It's no wonder that Meng Chao, Yang Yue and Chen Hu, who obtained the Sea-Skimming Technique, were not diligent in their daily practice. Under the impact of the Xianjia Secret Book, even the joy of dividing up the treasure had dulled a lot.

  He and Yang Chen's two people from the beginning of practicing Hai Jue initial method are different, Meng Chao's family pass down fierce tiger fist and tiger claw skill already have a certain fire, put in Jianghu is also a small high hand, Yang Yun gave him Shan Jun Gong Ji Zhu Shi is a cultivator who practices fierce tiger true energy with martial arts to enter the Tao, which describes how to use ordinary fierce tiger true energy to condense acupuncture points until the innate method.

  The Meng Chao family's fierce tiger technique was derived from the true energy of the fierce tiger, and he was more suitable for studying this method. As soon as he started practicing the technique, after reading a small part of it, Meng Chao felt his horizons broaden, and he realized that the fierce tiger technique could be practiced in such a way, as if a new world had opened its doors to him.

  But after all, the realm is different. When that cultivator wrote the annotation of "Ji Gong's Collection", he had already reached the stage of great completion in the Qi Refining period and was about to lay his foundation. Meng Chao, on the other hand, was only at the middle layer of the Condensing Aperture period. Many cultivation concepts were beyond him, and many places looked like he understood but didn't really understand, or seemed enlightened but wasn't really enlightened.

  "Yang Xian-di, this manual is too suitable for me, it's simply a perfect extension of my family's traditional martial arts. Unfortunately, my late father didn't get to see this manual, otherwise he would have never given up on martial arts and turned to business. A great kindness doesn't need to be thanked, from now on, just give me direct orders if you need anything." Meng Chao said seriously.

  Yang Yun smiled, and among the millions of techniques recorded in his mind, choosing one that suited Meng Chao was simplicity itself. "This technique suits you, it's your destiny, and in my hands, it would be useless anyway."

  Meng Chao didn't say much more and instead asked about some things he didn't understand.

  "Isn't the Mōkō Kyū supposed to be bold and fierce? But somehow this spell's meaning seems a bit off?"

  "Hardness cannot last, except for some extremely esoteric techniques, all masculine techniques that reach a high level of proficiency emphasize the integration of hardness and softness. Just like a tiger on a mountain, it can't be hunting all day, or else it would exhaust itself to death. As the saying goes, even tigers have moments of drowsiness; you should study the appearance of a tiger dozing off, it will help with this technique."

  Meng Chao suddenly enlightened, "Your meaning is that during cultivation, one should be like a crouching tiger, using soft and gentle energy to nurture the strong and fierce, but when taking action, it's like a ferocious tiger capturing its prey, strong and unstoppable?"

  Yang Yun nodded with a smile, his brother's comprehension was pretty good, it seemed that giving him this manual was the right decision.

  Meng Chao suddenly remembered the first page of his family's legendary Tiger Fist technique, which was a diagram of Zhang Wotiger. He had originally thought it was useless and skipped over it when practicing, but now he realized its profound meaning. He felt the true energy of the tiger surging within him, with hints of breaking through to a new realm. Overjoyed, he hastily returned to his cabin to practice.

  This practice took half a day, when Meng Chao came out of the cabin with a happy face, Yang Yun knew he must have made some breakthrough.

  At this time, Changfu had already entered the dock of Fengming Prefecture and was mooring.

  The people on the dock caught the ropes thrown by the Changfu, tied them to the pillars on the dock, and then lowered the gangway from the ship and placed it on the dock.

  The gangway was already set up, and Yang Yun urged her second brother Yang Yue and Chen Hu to bid farewell to the old captain. The old captain knew he couldn't keep them, so he said a few words of courtesy and let them go, but in his heart, he envied their good fortune, as they had encountered such a great opportunity on their first voyage with the Changfu ship.

  Yang Yun and Meng Chao were passengers, without saying hello to the old captain of the same boat, just about to get off the boat. Yang Yun saw Lian Pingyuan who was a bit at a loss and shouted: "Lian brother - if you don't have anywhere to go, how about having a drink with us?"

  Lian Pingyuan thought for a moment and then followed him.