Chapter 521: Chapter 341 Huang Wu Niang: Golden Snake Secret Manual! [Seeking monthly votes!]_2
But whether it’s 1 point or 2 points, the progress is slow, infuriating.
"One point every ten days."
"Ten points in three months."
"Three years to reach the peak, with the hope of advancing to the Seventh Realm."
This is under ideal conditions, where the difficulty of cultivating each Absolute Skill doesn’t increase with the ’Sixth Realm Middle Stage’, ’Sixth Realm Late Stage’, and ’Sixth Realm Peak’.
If the difficulty increases, not just three years, even five or ten years might be possible.
"For a typical Postnatal Peak, Peak of Limit-breaking person, it would take at most ten years to cultivate an Absolute Skill to the Sixth Realm Peak or even the Seventh Realm, which isn’t bad."
"I am twenty-seven this year, in ten years, I’ll be thirty-seven. With the help of the Seven Realm Absolute Skills, entering the ’Earth Ranking’ shouldn’t be too difficult."
Step by step!
Steady progress!
With the help of ’Mutual Teaching and Learning’, Yan Chuan can certainly reach the ’Earth Ranking’ before the age of forty, becoming a renowned martial artist below the Innate.
For others, they’d die of happiness.
But Yan Chuan is not satisfied—
"I have the ’Purple Mist Palace’, I have ’Mutual Teaching and Learning’. If that’s all, then it’s too wasteful."
At this moment, Yan Chuan could stay comfortably in the military camp of Tan Gu Wang City, waiting for the second batch of bonuses in August, leveraging the interest of Essence Stones generated monthly from the ’Fifth-Rank Treasure Bowl’, thus gaining experience in the ’Heavenly Ladder City’, attending martial arts lectures, and enhancing himself.
But there is still half a month before the second batch of bonuses is released. Moreover, as Yan Chuan’s ’Heavenly Ladder Points’ steadily increase, the ’Thousand-Person Battle’ is becoming increasingly difficult, and Yan Chuan finds it harder to conduct martial arts lectures in the ’Thousand-Person Battle’. Relying solely on the ’Heavenly Ladder City’ for ’Mutual Teaching and Learning’ is not enough.
Yan Chuan does not want to walk on one leg.
Regarding cultivation.
Regarding ’Mutual Teaching and Learning’.
Yan Chuan has other plans.
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"Within the territory of ’Tan Gu Wang City’, there are seventeen cities, each with a population of several hundred thousand, a total population close to ten million. In addition, the population of towns and tribes is scattered, difficult to count, but a conservative estimate would not be less than ten million."
"Among them, the closest to ’Tan Gu Wang City’ are the three cities of ’Yong Mountain’, ’Guangming’, and ’Mengsha’, each with a population over a million. Since the fall of Tan Gu Wang City, the seventeen cities have become almost independent kingdoms, each under its own ruler, striving to develop and expand, but so far, no open flames have been seen for significant conflict; all are quietly developing, hoping to reach a population of over two million soon and meet the royal city standards before the arrival of the Imperial City Envoy in two years, thus inheriting Tan Gu Wang City’s royal city qualification."
"The first stage is population expansion."
"The second stage is the development of inner strength."
"The third stage will then be the mixed battle."
"Currently, the seventeen cities are in the first and second stages, expanding the population while developing inner strength. A storm is brewing; within six months to a year, once the surrounding town and tribal populations are emptied and resources become scarce, when the ratio of ordinary martial artists, limit-breaking martial artists, and innate martial artists are difficult to meet, a bigger battle for resources and talents will be inevitable."
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Half a month later, Chen Ze and Huang Wuniang returned. Based on the intelligence from the ’Mountain and Sea Department’, they further understood the situation and secrets of each major city within the territory of Tan Gu Wang City.
"You’ve worked hard, Grandma."
"You’ve worked hard, Junior Brother."
Yan Chuan busied himself, inviting the two to sit and have tea.
Huang Wuniang, revered as a grandmaster and known as the ’Thousand Snake Swordman’, held a considerable affection for Yan Chuan: "A scroll of the ’Golden Snake Manual’, I am willing to risk my life for you!"
"You flatter me, Grandma." Yan Chuan quickly said he dared not.
Yet Huang Wuniang was carefree, expressing: "Your ’Golden Snake Manual’ starts from ’Snake Fist’, combines it with ’Eight Diagram Palm’ to create ’Golden Snake Body Wandering Palm’, moving like a water snake, with fierce and strange moves that are ruthless. It combines ’Crane Form Boxing’ and ’Twelve Skills of Acupuncture’ to create ’Golden Snake Capturing Crane Fist’, with quite unusual moves, unpredictable and elusive. It also combines hidden weapons to create the ’Golden Snake Cone Skill’, a deadly skill; and with my ’Thousand Snake Swordsmanship’, it creates the ’Golden Snake Swordsmanship’. Holding the ’Golden Snake Sword’, the forked tip can stab or hook an enemy’s weapon, dragging and thrusting at an angle, all can harm the enemy; compared to an ordinary long sword, it offers many more uses. This ’Golden Snake Swordsmanship’ is more exquisite than my ’Thousand Snake Swordsmanship’, with many intricate moves that are hard to comprehend, turning into deadly moves when used with this peculiar ’Golden Snake Sword’.
Huang Wuniang took out the ’Golden Snake Manual’ Yan Chuan had gifted her from her bosom; she came to Tan Gu Wang City because of Jiang Bianliu’s invitation, due to the many opportunities in the royal city, but more importantly, more decisively, it was because of this scroll of the ’Golden Snake Manual’—
"Golden Snake Body Wandering Palm!"
"Golden Snake Capturing Crane Fist!"
"Golden Snake Cone Skill!"
"Golden Snake Swordsmanship!"
The more Huang Wuniang cultivated and comprehended, the more she felt this manual was immensely profound and mysterious. Even better, it seemed tailored for her ’Thousand Snake Swordsmanship’. By retraining with the ’Golden Snake Manual’ based on her foundation in ’Thousand Snake Swordsmanship’, it became incredibly smooth, perfectly inheriting the expertise of ’Thousand Snake Swordsmanship’, and moreover, it was more fitting for herself, far surpassing the few Absolute Skills she had attempted to cultivate after advancing to the Innate.
For an innate grandmaster like Huang Wuniang, Absolute Skills are easy to acquire, but ones that suit her perfectly are hard to find.
She was lucky!
Meeting Yan Chuan, the ’Golden Snake Manual’ made Huang Wuniang reluctant to part with it.
With her fondness for him, Huang Wuniang naturally followed Yan Chuan’s lead, sincerely and wholeheartedly.
"As long as you like it, Grandma." Yan Chuan felt happy seeing Huang Wuniang satisfied with the ’Golden Snake Manual’.
To win over this innate wanderer, Yan Chuan spared no effort; he started from the ’Thousand Snake Swordsmanship’ practiced by Ni Mengtong and Huang Wuniang, combining ’Snake Fist’, ’grappling’, ’swordsmanship’ and other martial arts he had mastered, and developed the ’Golden Snake Swordsmanship’ based on the ’Green Blood Sword’s ’Golden Snake Swordsmanship’.
But Yan Chuan worried that just one ’Golden Snake Swordsmanship’ might not impress Huang Wuniang, so he also conveniently developed more skills such as the ’Golden Snake Body Wandering Palm’, ’Golden Snake Capturing Crane Fist’, and ’Golden Snake Cone Skill’; the four Absolute Skills collectively formed a scroll of the ’Golden Snake Manual’, greatly increasing its weight and making it incredibly stunning.
When gifted to Huang Wuniang, her favorability skyrocketed to the highest level.
Looking at Yan Chuan with a loving expression, Huang Wuniang said: "I heard from Master Xiao Chen that you intend to set up a challenge arena outside the gates of the seventeen cities within Tan Gu Wang City’s territory, challenging the masters of each city?"
"Indeed, I have that plan."
Yan Chuan explained to Huang Wuniang: "I intend to reconstruct Tan Gu Wang City. The army must be strong, and I myself must be strong. Reputation cannot be weak, or else the other cities will not concede. Setting up a challenge serves two purposes: first, to make a name; the second, is that perhaps grandma knows, everyone says I love to be a teacher, but that’s not true. I just enjoy the pleasure of martial arts lectures. Borrowing this indescribable ’pleasure’ emotion, my thoughts become more active, I can comprehend questions and difficulties I couldn’t during normal cultivation, enabling me to think and comprehend more deeply, which is beneficial for my cultivation. This is my unique cultivation technique."
"I see!"
Huang Wuniang suddenly understood: "No wonder you couldn’t stop lecturing during the Cang Mountain Sword Discussion. I heard you also love lecturing in Jian Province."
This explains everything.
Huang Wuniang looked at Yan Chuan: "Yong Mountain, Guangming, and Mengsha, those three cities are too strong. There are at least ten innate grandmasters. It’s better not to provoke them at first. Of the remaining fourteen cities, Zongyang, Sky Peak, and Wan Jiao are the weakest, with only two or three innates in one city. These three cities form an alliance, supporting each other to defend against other cities’ covetousness. If you’re only setting up a challenge, it won’t draw the joint opposition of the three-city alliance. At most, you need to guard against one city. With me, Master Xiao Chen, and Brother Jiang watching over you, it’s not a big issue."
Zongyang, Sky Peak, Wan Jiao.
Small cities and few people!
The alliance of the three cities is actually not weak, but any single city’s overall strength is undoubtedly at the bottom among the seventeen cities within Tan Gu Wang City’s domain.
For example, if Yan Chuan provoked a large city like Guangming City, Huang Wuniang, Chen Ze, and Jiang Bianliu, the three grandmasters might not be able to provide comprehensive protection.
But a city like Zongyang——
"No need to be afraid!"
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