Chapter 88 – Just the right young man

Peng’s manor in the dark night a quiet, not far from the West Lake water is gentle waves, garden lights starry, due to the high wall separation, the back of the mountain is also their own property, so do not worry about the intention of people will notice what.

Thousands of miles down the south of the Yangtze River people are a little tired, this day in Hangzhou city to eat is also extremely real, full of warmth catalyze sleep, not long, the lights are gradually extinguished, most of the people have sunk into a dark sweet dream, only the back of the garden there are two rooms are still lighted, one is the bedroom, one is the study.

In the bedroom, Si Si was dozing off, holding herself together to mend the edge of Fan Xian’s sleeve that had been torn during his time in Shazhou, while she waited for him.

In the study, Fan Xian sat at his desk, his eyebrows slightly furrowed as he looked at the small book on the page. Haitang was sitting on the opposite side of the table, also holding a booklet in her hand, looking at it with a grave expression, the handwriting on the booklet was especially new, obviously written by someone who had just written it out.

After a long period of silence, the two of them looked up at the same time with a tacit understanding, and looked at each other with a hint of a bitter smile for a long time.

After all, it was Fan Xian who opened his mouth first: “Duo Duo, there seems to be some collision.”

Miss Haitang shook her head, “It’s not as if, it’s not some, these two techniques, they are completely contrary to each other, it’s simply impossible to practice them.”

The pamphlets that the two of them were holding at this moment were both absolutely precious things in this world. What Fan Xian was reading was the supreme heart method of Northern Qi’s Heavenly Dao, and what Haitang was reading was the upper volume of the nameless gong skill that Fan Xian had transcribed from his memory.

It was rumored that the heart method of the Heavenly Dao had been sought by Bitter Lotus by kneeling on the green stone steps in front of the temple for several months. Although Fan Xian certainly knew that this was an absurd rumor after his nightly talks with Sean in the cave, the technique itself was still a wonderful skill that martial arts practitioners all over the world fervently pursued. And although Fan Xian’s Nameless Gong Technique had little fame, it could build a young man with no internal martial arts teacher into the ninth ranked expert he was today, domineering and hostile unrivaled in the world, and Haitang naturally knew the weight of it.

In terms of knowledge sharing, Fan Xian was not stingy, since Haitang had so generously brought the supreme heart method of the Heavenly Dao, he of course had to dedicate his own treasure as well.

It was just that this pair of young people had studied it for half a day at night in the light of the lamp, but in the end, they had come to a somewhat depressing conclusion.

The styles of the two gong methods were completely opposite, unlike each other, and vaguely conflicting. Fan Xian’s hegemony technique is a straight and rough school, refining the internal spirit as the main, expanding the meridians as the foundation, the most difficult is the first entrance, the kind of powerful true qi from the back of the waist of the snowy mountains, will cause a strong shock to the practitioner’s meridians, which is the so-called molding.

However, Haitang had been practicing the Heaven’s Path technique for more than ten years, and her meridians had long been shaped, so it was impossible for her to dissipate all her strength and resume her practice no matter what. Moreover, it was impossible for her to go back to her infancy like Fan Xian and fight her way through it by relying on the innate qi in her body that had not completely dissipated, and she did not have the valuable mental experience of myasthenia gravis from her previous life, so she could not pass this first hurdle.

For Fan Xian, Tian Dao’s gong method was also an iceberg beauty that could only be seen but not touched, and this set of recitals was natural, conforming to the flow of qi in and out of the body, which was indeed subtle and incomparable. Especially for the flow line and the way of the body’s true qi, walking is the gradual accumulation of the road, soft and smooth meaning full, accumulation of water drops and for the river, in order to moisten the momentum of the construction of the heart and soul. Naihe Fan Xian cultivated the hegemonic technique in the past ten years, has let his body meridians were widened to a common people can not imagine the point, even if he can according to the technique to condense the spirit as dew, but these dew to adhere to the entire meridian tube wall, the achievement of a trickle of time, I do not know how many years it will take.

The two looked at each other and sighed hopelessly.

“Look at it more, touching it, it will always improve.”

Haitang said softly, she and Fan Xian were the same as the top people in the young generation, especially since she had already advanced to the realm of the upper ninth rank, but she had never been able to touch the threshold of the breakthrough, that threshold seemed extremely close, yet it was vague, originally thought that with Fan Xian’s help, there might be some benefit, but didn’t think that Fan Xian’s true qi technique was such a perverted existence, and it was hard to avoid being slightly disappointed in her heart.

Fan Xian responded, “It just seems that you won’t be able to use this method of mine, re-topping the meridians, not to mention the pain involved, but even this kind of danger, I won’t allow you to try it.”

Haitang raised an eyebrow and said in a clear voice, “I am not a reckless woman who is just brave.” Then she frowned and said, “This gong method of yours is really strange, where in the world can you find this kind of weird cultivation method that hurts you first and then hurts you later? It’s probably only a monster like you who can practice it.”

Fan Xian remembered the thing that Uncle Five Bamboo had said before and shook his head, saying, “That’s not necessarily true, as far as I know, someone has practiced it before.”

“Who taught you this mind technique?” Haitang asked tentatively, not expecting Fan Xian to answer himself.

Unexpectedly, Fan Xian confessed, “Mother left it to me.”

“Miss Ye family?”

“Yes.”

Haitang laughed slightly astringently, “The world more hidden treasures do not dare to reveal, like you and I two such nonsense, this is rare, so two books of wonderful meanings in front of the world, I’m afraid that it is also a rare scene in the world, but it is a pity that …… there is not even a result.”

Fan Xian is also a slightly gloomy face, from ancient times to the present, can not have the privacy of the division, and the courage to give each other the family background of the people, it is estimated that there is only a pair of strange young men and women themselves and Haitang, this should be the world’s knowledge to share, and the history of the world to remain a wonderful picture, but ……

He suddenly turned over a page, and a smile suddenly appeared in his eyes, “Don’t be in a hurry to sigh …… Isn’t there still a method of double cultivation written on it?”

Haitang frowned and said, “Life dual cultivation, what is life? This is in the sky, called the life, the rate of their own, called the nature of the God for the nature of the heart for the life, the God does not internal guard, then the nature of the mind for the shaking, the heart is not internal solid, then the life for the sound and color of the capture, do not die of love, do not change the road, go and come back to be called the opposite of the …… This is written above clearly, but how do you practice it? You are circling around the officialdom all day long, where can you find away from the realm of sound and color.”

“The heart is far from the ground.” Fan Xian answered her question with a poem by Tao Yuanming.

Haitang’s eyes lit up, then she smiled calmly and said, “That still leaves the biggest problem. Unless you rebuild your meridians, you must not be able to survive with the crude true qi in your body, the newborn drips of true qi, could it be that you would be willing to shatter your meridians with this powerful true qi of yours, and repair them from scratch?”

Fan Xian did not answer this question, and instead inquired about a few difficult points in the Heavenly Dao Heart Technique. Haitang carefully pointed out each and every one of them, not hiding anything. Haitang thought to herself that although she could not practice the Hegemony Technique, but if she could write down this Technique and pass it on to the descendants of Heavenly Dao in the future, it would be a great creation for the people of the country, so she was also reading it attentively, and when she occasionally did not understand something, she was of course not ashamed to ask questions, and Fan Xian was also as she was.

Openly and honestly, there is a say a. Red candle in the room, stars in the room.

Red candle in the room, stars in the sky, the two students, their happy.

Gradually the two began to immerse themselves in the subtle realm contained in these two techniques, and although they had not practiced them, they had already tasted them in their hearts. No longer ask questions, but each side, back to back sitting, quickly memorize the contents of the book.

Don’t know how long, Fan Xian, who had been sitting with his back turned, suddenly said quietly, “Actually …… after the assassination at the Hanging Temple, my true qi blew up my meridians and flowed through my body, and until today …… it has not been collected. ”

Haitang still turned her back to him, only her shoulders slightly trembled, and only after a long time did she whisper back, “You are finally willing to admit it.”

Things in the world were always so marvelous. Originally, Fan Xian would never have been able to destroy his meridians and re-cultivate the Heavenly Dao’s heart method, but now that his meridians were already broken and leaking, it was just the right time to start repairing them, whereas Haitang still couldn’t benefit from them, and when comparing the two, it was ultimately Fan Xian who had taken advantage of the sky, and he would have wanted to remain in the dark, but after a long period of time of facing the back of the two of them, the feeling of discomfort in his heart grew more and more intense, and after a few times of pondering, he finally spoke out naturally and honestly.

Fan Xian also did not turn back and continued, “It can’t always be hidden from you for too long, and I guessed that when the rumors of my life spread to the north, you had already taken this gong method south with you …… You are hiding it from the Bitter Lotus State Master, right?”

Haitang hmmmed.

Fan Xian was a little touched and a little wary in his heart, frowning as he asked, “Why?”

Haitang’s flower cloth cotton goblin blossomed like a painted flower in the yellowish light, “It’s simple, I guessed that you must have encountered something, otherwise you wouldn’t be able to ask me for the Heart Technique in a letter even if you were a scoundrel, a fool should be able to guess that this kind of thing is the secret of a country, how could I give it to you. Since you have something, of course I want to help you solve it well, after all,…… the agreement between you and I still have many years to do.”

Fan Xian asked after being slightly stunned, “So what now? Originally, I was unable to practice your Heart Technique, but at this point in time, my meridians are all shattered, so it’s just the right time to use the Heaven’s Path Heart Technique to rebuild my foundation and regenerate my roots, while the …… that I’ve given you won’t be of much use to you.”

Haitang calmly responded, “It’s useless for me, but it’s always useful for people in the future, and I’m sure you won’t mind if I pass it on to my descendants.”

“Is it possible for your descendants …… and I to have anything to do with each other?” Fan Xian’s knot in his heart gradually went away, and he laughed loudly, taking advantage of the girl’s family in words.

Haitang, however, looked as if she couldn’t understand the underhanded joke and said coldly, “Seeing as you’re honest enough with me, I’ll let it slide.”

Fan Xian turned around with a smile, waved the book on his hand, and shamelessly said, “The thing is in my hand anyway, I’m still afraid that you’re not going to back out?”

Haitang turned around at precisely this time as well, standing up directly and walking to his side. Fan Xian thought she was really angry, and bluffed, hurriedly hiding the booklet in his arms.

Haitang looked at this person, the mood is slightly chaotic, secretly think that this person is young, already hold heavy power, civil and military double success, in front of outsiders is always a kind of gentle in the face of the appearance of a sinister, how to look at every time, always like a scoundrel in the middle of the marketplace small punks? She said in a bad mood, “I’ll change a few sentences for you, the teacher has done something, you have to practice accordingly, and I don’t care if you become an idiot.”

Fan Xian froze, took out the booklet half a day, also did not feel the previous look at the heart of the law has the slightest stagnation of the place, can not help but admire the realm of the bitter lotus, actually fake is also made so beautiful, but immediately after is the great anger, thought that the old bald donkey is really insidious, if not for their own use of the “a word to remember that the heart of the” of the supreme skill ate the death of your female apprentice, still I really don’t know how I will die in the future.

“Could it be that you’re starting to prepare me to become an idiot?” Fan Xian looked at Haitang and said angrily.

Haitang said calmly, “You and I have done something ridiculous with this matter, and if it is rumored, I am afraid that it will shock the whole world, so how can I do it if I am not more cautious? The key lies in you and I must be honest, if there is a trace of concealment, I also dare not trust you.”

“If you didn’t admit to me earlier that you had lost all your true qi, practicing to become an idiot was also something you brought on yourself.”

Fan Xian was stunned, thinking that being a good person really does pay off after all.

After Haitang had changed a few words in those key sentences, Fan Xian picked them up again, and immediately felt that it was like a painting that was already extremely beautiful, and then had been painted by a master of the art of painting in a few spiritually important places, and then the whole picture was brightened up, and the characters in the landscapes and mountains in the painting immediately came to life.

Fan Xian knew that this was the true face of the Heavenly Dao supreme heart method, and his heart trembled, knowing that by practicing according to this, it wouldn’t be long before he would be able to walk according to this way of unity of heaven and man, and naturally mend the thousands of holes in his body’s meridians. The realm that has been away from him for too long is finally coming back, thinking of this section, stoic as he is, he can’t help but feel some emotion, suddenly his mind moved and thought of a pile of things.

“I’ll draw a few pictures for you later.” He looked at Haitang and said calmly with a cheeky face, “That hegemonic gong skill I gave you should be practiced with the true qi routes on the diagrams, if you do the whole thing blindly, you might have a dozen more bloody holes coming out of your body by the time you enter the gate.”

Haitang looked at him in a daze, and only after a long time did he say quietly, “When will the talents of this world be lesser in the world …… at least, between you and me.”

Fan Xian fell silent, then said, “I’ll try to study …… hard in the future Of course, you also need to study.”

It was only after a long time that the two of them were able to get rid of this somewhat awkward silence, and perhaps to ease the atmosphere, Haitang said softly, “Let me take a look at your injuries.”

Fan Xian nodded in silence, although the art of internal observation was subtle, sometimes it was always the onlooker who knew better, especially for someone in Haitang’s realm, it was even easier to find out what the problem was, and with his own subtle knowledge, he could propose a solution accordingly.

Haitang walked behind him, and without seeing how she did her power maneuver, her right hand was naturally pasted onto Fan Xian’s back Yu Men acupoint.

Inside the study, a wind arose from nowhere, the light on the case suddenly brightened and dimmed, and an extremely soft power fluctuation suddenly appeared in the air.

Haitang closed her eyes and carefully transmitted the true qi in her body into Fan Xian’s body, inspecting his injuries.

At this moment, the surroundings abruptly quieted down, there was not a trace of wind, the flame on the lamp went straight upwards, and the air seemed to be stagnant, but it was not sticky, instead, it carried a bright feeling.

Nine products on the strong body of the true qi overflow, but in an instant and the surrounding environment in perfect harmony, the sky one of the law of nature’s trick, really wonderful.

After a long time, Haitang, who had her eyes closed, frowned, as if she had encountered some strange situation.

Fan Xian at this time, but there is no feeling, only feel warm, very comfortable, a clear flow of true qi in their own waist after scattering, quickly spread throughout the body, like in the barrel bath, but also like in Hawaii sunshine, the whole person’s spirit is extremely relaxed, even seems to be about to fall asleep.

Suddenly heard the girl behind him yelp lightly, Fan Xian thought about it without thinking, his eyes did not open, yawning and asked, “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing.” Haitang frowned and responded, “Don’t you fall asleep.”

“Yeh, the Heavenly Dao is really powerful, you can actually chat while healing.” Fan Xian laughed, “But if this is considered healing, I’d be willing to be injured every day, it’s more comfortable than horse-killing chicken.”

“Can you shut up?” Haitang said calmly, “Otherwise, I can’t guarantee that my mind will suddenly increase in power when I’m distracted.”

Fan Xian heard the girl’s threat, but wasn’t scared at all, saying roguishly, “Do you want to murder your own husband?”

Two muffled grunts were sent out from both of their mouths at the same time, and the air in the study suddenly exploded, with countless swirls of air currents leaving the body, and passing away in a flash, but the books collected by former minister Lin Ruofu were rolled up to fly all over the sky, and paper filled the sky, so it was not a mess!

Fan Xian and Haitang were not injured, but Fan Xian sat in the pile of paper on the ground, looking at the girl who was lightly stroking her hair with palpitations, and said in a trembling voice, “I really want to kill someone.”

Haitang stared into his eyes, forcibly hiding her anger, and calmly said, “I said, don’t ruffle my feathers at this time.”

Fan Xian choked speechless for a moment, but in his heart, he slandered, “Then you didn’t say it clearly first, I thought you liked to flirt while working.

Haitang calmed her slightly panting chest and looked at Fan Xian’s eyes, but her eyes became strange: “Although the true qi is dispersed within the internal organs and organs, the true qi …… that is contained in the snowy mountains behind your waist today is still very majestic, and the degree of violence is even more frightening than when we last fought, and now there is no meridians to circulate, only the more it accumulates the thicker it becomes.”

She shook her head and said, “Luckily I came in time, or else in another half a year, you’ll really be finished once your Snow Mountain Life Gate explodes.”

Fan Xian had two teachers in his life, one was Uncle Wuzhu and the other was Fei Jie, one taught to cut radish julienne, the other taught to put in poisonous condiments, but in terms of true qi cultivation, he was always self-taught. In this way, in terms of knowledge of the subtleties of the true qi dharma, it was quite a bit worse than these people of the Xuanzong proper school, so he had never realized the greatest danger he faced, and today, when he heard Haitang talk about it, he realized that he was originally in danger for the first few days, and he couldn’t help but be a bit scared.

He frowned and said, “I stopped practicing since the Hanging Temple incident, so why are there still more and more in the snowy mountains?”

After thinking about it, Haitang said, “It’s about the fact that you’ve gotten into the habit of practicing since you were young, so even when you’re sleeping ……”

Fan Xian raised his right arm, not letting her continue, and shook his head, “That’s the reason.”

For Fan Xian, meditation and sleeping were a recreational life that had been merged into one since childhood, and in the hands of another cultivator, he would have envied him, but now it had become an extremely sinister reason.

I don’t know what came to his mind, his face was a bit grim as he said in a chilling voice, “I don’t understand, neither does Mr. Fei, but can’t Eunuch Hong see it?”

“Hm?” Haitang didn’t know that he had begun to suspect a certain nobleman, and was somewhat puzzled.

Fan Xian shook his head and said, “It’s nothing …… hard for you.”

At this time, the house was in a mess, everywhere pieces of paper flying around, Fan Xian did not dare to let the subordinates come to do things, and Haitang two people slightly cleaned up, the two precious to the extreme of the heart method, respectively, by the two people put back into their arms, as for the desk below those chaotic pieces of paper, but also did not go to bother to go.

“Start practicing from tomorrow.” Fan Xian said sincerely, “I’ve taken a big advantage in this matter, but I’ll also have to trouble Duo Duo to guard the law for me for the rest of the month.”

Hai Tang didn’t mind acting as his bodyguard for the time being, and nodded gently, suddenly turning to ask, “Anzhi, give me a word of truth, the man in black that my senior brother met in front of the Western Mountain’s Jade Wall in the Upper Capital, was it you or not?”

Fan Xian fell silent, knowing that Haitang had finally confirmed that the character of the violent true qi in his body was extremely similar to the one that Wolf Peach had encountered, only that matter was related to Sean, to the temple, and the matter was too big, and after a long while, he replied seriously, “Actually, that morning, when you went to the embassy to look for me, you should have just guessed what was going on, but . . as you know, I will never admit anything.”

“Teacher should have guessed something as well.” Haitang smiled and said, “But you don’t have to be too nervous, he said that in past years your hall had once been kind to him.”

Fan Xian laughed coldly, “Sending me a fake heart method, and this is considered repaying a favor?”

“Although that previous heart method was fake, it was not harmful, and it was a decision that teacher had no choice but to make after he heard that you were the …… son of the Southern Qing Emperor.” Haitang said with a straight face, “This heart method is the supreme secret of my sect, so please ask Lord Fan to keep it carefully.”

Fan Xian pointed to his head, “You stay and take it back, destroy it or whatever, I’ve already memorized it.”

Haitang frowned, surprised at the other party’s perverted memory, wondering who taught this little monster when he was young. From this, thinking about side matters, her heart moved, and said sincerely, “Listening to my teacher, you have a blind master by your side, I don’t know if Duo Duo can have the chance to pay a visit face to face?”

As the pride of a generation of martial arts, what she was most interested in was, of course, the blind master who was able to injure Patriarch Bitter Lotus, but had no reputation in the world, and at this time, she purely wanted to pay a visit to Five Bamboo as a junior to ask for some advice.

Fan Xian shook his head and smiled bitterly, “I find it really hard to have any secrets in front of the Bitter Lotus Patriarch, but unfortunately, you won’t be able to see my uncle these days, he doesn’t know what’s going on in these recent years, he’s fallen in love with Ye Liuyun’s style, and likes to travel around alone.”

Haitang was a little disappointed, and asked again, “Anzhi, although teacher did not say it explicitly to me, but his words are permeated with information, your lord should have some involvement with the temple.” The conversation she had with Bitter Lotus that day did not state this matter, but Bitter Lotus mentioned Sean and mentioned some clues, and smart as she was, she naturally guessed a little.

Fan Xian shook his head and said firmly, “The temple is too far away, it’s better for us to discuss worldly affairs first.”

Haitang was slightly angry, hating Fan Xian’s extraordinarily hateful endowment more and more, and said coldly, “What world affairs?”

Fan Xian laughed and said, “For example …… how old are you this year? We’ve known each other for so long, and we’ve written quite a few letters, and I still don’t even know this most crucial question.”