Chapter 53: The Hongmen Banquet

  "What's wrong?" asked Mrs. Wang hastily, hearing Chen Xiao speak seriously.

  She had previously heard Ding Chunqiu say that the little Wu Xiang Gong was extremely difficult to practice, and ordinary people couldn't find the key, not to mention even Ding Chunqiu himself, who frankly admitted that he hadn't mastered it yet.

  At this time, Chen Xiao Lian said it was inappropriate, and immediately decided to listen carefully to what was wrong.

  Chen Xiao picked up his brush and drew a circle on the paper, saying: "We Chinese medicine have always emphasized the principle of five elements generating and overcoming each other. Madame Wang, you see, your inner breath first went to the lung pulse, which is the hand Shaoyang Sanjiao Meridian, and then immediately went to the hand Yangming Large Intestine Meridian, which belongs to metal. Fire overcomes metal, this step is already wrong. It should be that after the Sanjiao Meridian, it goes to the hand Taiyang Small Intestine Meridian, which also belongs to fire. After that, I'm afraid we need to add two more meridians to make it complete."

  "What meridian?"

  Madam Wang subconsciously asked it out.

  But Chen Xiao shook his head and said, "It's not clear for now. I'm just saying what I've learned myself, but I don't dare to modify this martial arts manual casually. Unless I can see the specific cultivation method at this step, I can only think of a way after comparing it."

  "En." Madame Wang thought for a moment, then said: "This step is to turn the inner breath in the lung meridian once, in the intestinal meridian twice, and in the heart meridian once. Next, there's another step that involves turning it two more times in the stomach and spleen. But I only practiced up to the first part and already felt a great deal of vexation in my heart, so I haven't even started practicing the second part yet."

  "Spleen... Stomach..."

  Chen Xiao wrote the two characters on paper, suddenly his eyes lit up and he laughed: "Haha, I understand now." He looked at Madame Wang and said: "Madame Wang, your martial arts skills are definitely not a problem, the problem is that you've been practicing them in reverse."

  "The stomach meridian is the Foot Yangming Stomach Meridian, and the spleen meridian is the Foot Taiyin Spleen Meridian. Both of these two meridians belong to the Earth element."

  "In the Five Elements, Fire generates Earth, so Madame Wang should first use her internal breath to pass through the Hand Shaoyang Sanjiao Meridian and the Hand Taiyang Small Intestine Meridian. Then, her internal energy shifts to the Earth attribute of the Foot Yangming Stomach Meridian and the Foot Taiyin Spleen Meridian. Earth generates Metal, so this time her internal breath shifts back to the Hand Yangming Large Intestine Meridian and the Hand Taiyin Lung Meridian. After that, her internal breath returns to the Dan Tian, only then is it a perfect cycle."

  Here is the translation:

  Now that it's been said, Chen Xiao spoke with flying eyebrows and colorful language, and Madame Wang also listened with a sudden enlightenment, smiling as she stretched out her hand to tap Chen Xiao's forehead, saying: "You're quite perceptive, I'll go back and try it out right away. If it really works, I'll have to thank you profusely."

  In these few days, several problems that had been troubling her were solved one by one. Her mood improved and she was no longer as gloomy and frightening as before.

  After sending off Wang's wife, Chen Xiao secretly thought to herself: "This 'Small No Phase' technique seems not as magical as the rumors say. It's probably just a theory of the five elements generating and overcoming each other in cycles. Well, I'll wait another two days and observe again before deciding what to do. What a pity! These martial arts aren't that difficult, and I know quite a few already, but it's precisely this first step of gathering internal energy that I just can't get the hang of - it's infuriating!"

  It turns out that Chen Xiao is extremely knowledgeable about martial arts, but ironically, he doesn't know the simplest way to gather internal energy for a martial artist. As a result, despite having over 20 years of systematic training and reserves, Chen Xiao can't use even a single bit of it.

  Ask Wang Furen how to cultivate internal energy, Chen Xiao still dares not.

  He is now taking advantage of the fact that Lady Wang only regards him as a relatively knowledgeable doctor, not as a quack. But if Chen Xiao asks her to teach him the internal skill cultivation method, at that time Lady Wang will have to kill him to silence him, so as to prevent this small Wu Xiang Gong from spreading out.

  It's really hard to make a decision about what to do at this point after thinking it over and over again.

  It's like Chen Xiao has a mountain of gold behind him, but he doesn't have the tools to dig it up. It's frustrating, as you can imagine.

  Fortunately, Chen Xiao had always been an optimistic person. If he couldn't figure something out, then he wouldn't think about it for the time being. After all, he was still in command at the Mandala Mountain Villa and had Mrs. Wang teaching him the Small Wu Xiang Gong. He could leave after mastering it, which wasn't too late anyway.

  On the second day, early in the morning, Chen Xiao had not woken up yet when he heard Wang's wife's voice. This time her mood was obviously good, and it seemed that the cultivation method was correct. As soon as Chen Xiao sat up from bed, dazed, he saw Wang's wife enter the door and say: "Little rascal, you're really something. The method you told me is indeed effective. Yesterday I cultivated again for a while, and I feel that it's really different from before. Speak, how do you want me to reward you?"

  This time she didn't call Chen Xiao "Chen Gongzi", but instead called him "Little Bad Egg", which almost meant that she had already considered Chen Xiao as one of her own.

  "King Xue's treasure is not something that can be easily appreciated, so I'll just push it away: 'Madam Wang is being polite, hehe, this kid just happens to have some knowledge about these things and can help you out. I'm already happy to do so, no need for any reward. Having food and drink here is already not bad.'"

  Madam Wang smiled and said: "You little scamp, if I don't reward you with something, I'll always feel a bit uneasy in my heart."

  Chen Xiao said: "How about letting the kid go after a while? To be honest, the kid still has something important to do."

  It won't do to stay here all the time, how can I go find that Eastern girl then?

  It's been so long since we last met, I really miss you a bit, hehe.

  After hearing Chen Xiao's words, Wang Furen's face suddenly darkened for a moment, but she quickly agreed: "Alright, little scoundrel, you win. I originally planned to kill you, but you kid are quite to my liking, and it's a bit reluctant to take action. How about this, after you help me solve the problem of cultivation, I will let you leave?"

  Once you've helped me solve the problem of cultivation, you'll have to make a move on me, right?

  Chen Xiao was very suspicious of her words, but on the surface, he couldn't show it, and smiled: "Good, little one will definitely do his best."

  In the following days, Chen Xiao was almost always with Wang Fu, and this small Wu Xiang Gong was almost from beginning to end. In his heart, he had already understood about 80% of the training method of this martial art.

  This minor Wu Xiang Gong is simply using internal energy to expand the body's meridians as much as possible, increasing the speed of internal energy cultivation. At the same time, based on the principles of the five elements generating and overcoming each other, it allows internal energy to circulate better in the body. In this way, when imitating other martial arts, internal energy can instantly simulate the usage method of the internal energy of the imitated martial art, so naturally, whatever is seen can be imitated.

  On the sixth day, in the morning, as Chen Xiao helped Wang Furen improve the last few steps of her Small Wu Xiang Gong cultivation, a voice suddenly appeared in his mind: "Task: Analysis of Small Wu Xiang Gong completed. Task completion rating: Good. Task reward: Four years of cultivation."

  Finally finished this task, hehe.

  Actually, according to Chen Xiao's analysis of the Small Wu Xiang Gong, it should have been given at least an excellent evaluation. However, after all, Wang Furen's Small Wu Xiang Gong was incomplete, with one volume taken away by Ding Chunqiu, so it could only get a "good" evaluation.

  But anyway, the task is already completed, and Chen Xiao naturally won't stay here any longer. Just then, Wang Furen also stood up and said warmly: "Chen Gongzi, thank you for these few days. I'll go ahead first and set a banquet for you at Yunjin Building to thank you for your help in recent days."

  Slowly walked away.

  At this time, whoever goes to the banquet is a dead man, that's obviously a feast of death.

  Chen Xiao didn't say a word and started packing things up, then went out the door and grabbed Ah Zhu and Ah Bi's arms, heading towards the lake. As they walked, she said: "Hurry up, hurry up, or else we'll have to move house!"

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  Friendship spoiler, tomorrow I will meet Huali's Xiao Feng Xiao Da Wang at my house!!! Tears in my eyes ahhhhh!!!!!

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