plumnovel Chapter 11 Ghost Python and Golden Snake
Chapter 11 Ghost Python and Golden Snake
"Lord Shen, this is your residence... If you need anything else, please don't hesitate to ask..."
The next day, early in the morning, a servant courteously led Shen Yuan to a courtyard.
The courtyard is not large, but it is decorated with some flowers and plants, creating a quiet and elegant environment that is quite lovely.
Moreover, the stable, kitchen, outhouse, living room, bedroom, and training room are all complete, which is much better than the previous four-person dormitory filled with foot odor and dampness!
Shen Yuan, dressed in a blue robe, calmly nodded: "Okay, you can go now. I'll call you if I need anything."
"Yes, I'll take my leave."
After everyone left, Shen Yuan put away his expression, strolled around the courtyard, and gradually a wide smile spread across his face.
"Not bad... Now that things have come to this, we can be considered homeowners."
Although the house doesn't belong to Shen Yuan, he is free to live there and arrange his own affairs.
That's great!
After all, this is the Hua Rong Mansion, where every inch of land is precious. Not only is the environment excellent, but it is also safe, and it is no less impressive than the Z Fu Mansion in the city center of the provincial capital in my previous life.
"I earn fifteen taels of silver a month, have my own courtyard to live in, and manage a dozen or so servants. I have a certain amount of power. I, Shen Yuan, am now a nobody with a name and a reputation."
That's what they say, but Shen Yuan knew perfectly well that everything he had gained was nothing but a rootless duckweed, and could be taken back with a single word from someone else.
Therefore, he did not become arrogant or complacent in the slightest.
"I still need to keep improving! Not only do I need a promotion and a raise, but I also need to train as soon as possible and become a martial arts master!"
Shen Yuan knew that this world possessed extraordinary power, so although power and wealth were desirable, they were all external things. In critical moments, only one's own cultivation could be relied upon!
Upon arriving at the training room, Shen Yuan closed the door, pondered the "Dragon and Snake Treasure Record" for a while, and then began to practice the boxing techniques step by step according to the records.
After asking Yinling'er during the day, Shen Yuan understood the ranking system of martial arts masters.
This system, from lowest to highest, is as follows: Martial Master – Innate Martial Master – Martial Arts Grandmaster – Martial Arts Grandmaster – Martial Arts Great Grandmaster – Martial Saint.
The martial arts master stage is divided into three minor realms: skin refinement, tendon refinement, and bone refinement.
A martial artist who has reached the peak of the Bone Refinement stage is said to have tough skin and flesh, and bones of steel and iron. They can pull a bull's tail backwards, and can shatter a person's skull with a single punch. With a single scoop, they can rip out a person's heart and lungs and pull out their internal organs. One person can fight against ten well-trained soldiers!
In the eyes of martial arts masters, ordinary people are as fragile as clay dolls.
The innate martial arts master is divided into three minor realms: purification, marrow cleansing, and blood exchange.
At this level, the innate martial artist's entire body—skin, tendons, bones, internal organs, and marrow—is perfectly integrated, like a diamond. Furthermore, their qi and blood are as abundant as a furnace, their will is as strong as iron, they are not afraid of bewitching arts, and evil spirits cannot get close to them.
They have abundant physical strength and endurance, and are full of vitality, and can live to be over 150 years old!
This is a true way to prolong life, and it gives Shen Yuan a lot of motivation!
As for martial arts masters, they involve the mysterious and unpredictable true meaning of martial arts, which has its own profound mysteries.
Shen Yuan was unaware of the titles that followed: Martial Arts Grandmaster, Martial Arts Grandmaster, and Martial Saint.
But without a doubt, martial arts is a cultivation system that is no less powerful than the path of immortality!
Because of Hua Qinglian's empowerment, Shen Yuan was able to practice his boxing much more easily, only needing to imitate the movements of a cat or a tiger.
He has undergone repeated tempering of his vital essence and blood, and beneath his handsome appearance lies a physique that can be described as steel, with exceptional strength, speed, and coordination.
So even on its first attempt, it was quite impressive.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Shen Yuan twisted his waist, hips, and back like a snake, his movements looking somewhat strange and awkward, with a kind of effeminate and boneless quality, which forged all the muscles, bones, skin, and flesh of his body.
However, when combined with Shen Yuan's long and rhythmic breathing, this set of boxing techniques had a unique beauty and rhythm.
From a distance, it looks like a snake demon that has become human, stretching its body and breathing in and out spiritual energy.
Shen Yuan fought more and more smoothly, feeling exhilarated, with his blood, qi, muscles and bones flowing freely and stretching out!
After a long while, Shen Yuan finished his practice, feeling soreness and pain in every part of his body, as if he had undergone a rough and long process of tempering and refining.
However, after the soreness subsided, as the abundant blood and energy flowed throughout the body, the original soreness disappeared instantly, and a tingling or numb sensation began to appear.
"The effects of the 'Ghost Python Breathing Technique' and the 'Golden Snake Swimming Body Fist' are indeed significant..."
Shen Yuan subconsciously clenched his fist, feeling as if all the strength in his body had been integrated and twisted into a single rope.
In particular, the membrane had become much tougher, even tougher than cowhide, giving Shen Yuan the feeling that he was wearing an invisible iron armor, protecting him in every way.
The Dragon and Snake Treasure Record is a profound and rare superior martial arts manual, containing methods for tempering muscles, bones, skin, and flesh, as well as techniques for meditation and breathing exercises, and techniques for attacking and killing.
The "Ghost Python Breathing Technique" and the "Golden Snake Swimming Body Fist" are both secret techniques recorded in it, applicable to the training of martial arts masters.
"The skin-refining stage of a martial artist involves external stimulation, using qi and blood to cleanse and strengthen the skin and muscles, making them tough and powerful, like wearing an iron armor. So... I've already mastered skin-refining??"
Shen Yuan looked somewhat bewildered. "But doesn't this stage usually require three to five years of refinement?"
But in an instant, Shen Yuan had another guess: "Could it be because I have undergone the refinement of my essence and blood from the feedback of my clone more than twenty times, resulting in a profound foundation, that I was able to quickly achieve mastery of skin refining?"
Thinking about it this way, it does seem quite possible.
His physique has undergone repeated tempering and refinement of his essence and blood, resulting in a solid foundation. His strength is no less than that of a martial arts master. Under such circumstances, his martial arts cultivation will naturally progress by leaps and bounds, and success will come naturally!
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In the afternoon, led by Yinling'er, Shen Yuan arrived at a warehouse.
"This is the young lady's storeroom?"
The stone door opened, and Shen Yuan walked in. He saw that the spacious warehouse was filled with boxes of various sizes, jade bottles, and wooden boxes, which were placed on the ground or on wooden shelves and labeled accordingly.
170,000 taels of silver, 13,000 taels of gold, 130 catties of purple gold sand... 75 catties of black iron, 3 ingots of copper essence... 3 plants of 500-year-old Solomon's seal, 2 flowers of earth marrow, 1 plant of 800-year-old ginseng... 26 pearls from the East Sea, 300 catties of mermaid oil, 2 pieces of fire rat skin, 1 set of demon tiger bones...
He casually opened a wooden box, inside which were layers upon layers of gold bars, radiating a dazzling golden light that almost blinded Shen Yuan's titanium alloy eyes!
"Holy crap... so much gold! If I had sold it when the price of gold was over a thousand per gram in my past life, I would have made a fortune!"
Shen Yuan's lips twitched, and he subconsciously closed the wooden box.
He could tell, of course, that the gold and silver were probably just the most ordinary things in the storeroom; the truly valuable items were the rare medicinal herbs and things he had never even heard of.
Without a doubt, those are the truly invaluable treasures!