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Chapter 49: The List!
Chapter 49: Chapter 49: The List!"Senior Brother, such impressive skills!"
Wei Wude met Yan Chuan in private and was awestruck, yet still doubtful: "Once mastered, the ’Golden Blade Palm Technique’ can truly let one remain unflustered amidst the Sword Forest, capable of defeating a hundred men?"
Why didn’t he believe it?
"Defeating a hundred men is a bit tough."
"But with persistence, without enduring twenty years of hardship, facing twenty or thirty men wielding sharp weapons would be no problem at all."
Defeating a hundred men?
Ultimate skills are certainly hard to achieve!
Yan Chuan could easily shuttle among ninety-six steel blades in the Sword Forest not just because of his ’Golden Blade Palm Technique’, but more due to the foundation of ’Cheng Family Boxing’, and the recently developed ’Hundred Variations of Divine Flow’.
Through conventional practice of ’Golden Blade Palm Technique’, defeating twenty or thirty is already the limit.
"Now that’s more like it."
Wei Wude breathed a sigh of relief.
If it really was the skill to defeat a hundred men, even though he was already an arrest officer, he would still be tempted to retrain himself.
As for defeating twenty or thirty, it just wasn’t worth it.
Wei Wude’s thoughts turned, and he inquired curiously: "In July, Senior Brother created eighteen ultimate skills—’Iron Arm Skill’, ’Pushing Mountain Palm’, ’Pai Da Skill’, ’Leg-Kicking Skill’, ’Thousand-Pound Gate’, ’Foot Shooting Skill’, ’Snake Formation Skill’, ’Soft Bone Skill’, ’Golden Shovel Finger’, ’Iron Knee Skill’, ’Iron Bull Skill’, ’Whirlwind Palm’, ’Bamboo Leaf Hand’, ’Loach Skill’, ’Flipping Skill’, ’Iron Cloth Shirt Skill’, ’Flying Leg’, ’Roof and Wall Walking Skill’, ’Wave Wrapping Skill’. Today, there’s now an additional ’Golden Blade Palm Technique’, but apart from these, are there others?"
After seeing the ’Golden Blade Palm Technique’, Wei Wude no longer dared to belittle Yan Chuan’s ’Absolute Skills’, nor call them mere ’farming skills’.
He was very curious how many ’Absolute Skills’ Yan Chuan had created over the years.
"Not many."
"Besides these, only added ’One-line Through’, ’Leaping Skill’, ’Flying Skill’, ’Running Board Skill’, ’Flash Battle Technique’, ’Light Body Skill’, ’Penetration Skill’, ’Gun and Knife Immunity Skill’—eight in total, all lightweight body, movement skills."
Ever since the successful re
"I’ve heard a bit about it!"
"Senior Brother should prioritize seeking the Grandmaster path; other matters can be put aside for now."
Wei Wude understood Yan Chuan; he smiled at his Senior Brother: "If Senior Brother truly becomes the last Grandmaster of the Old School, overshadowing all New Martial Artists, I, Wei Wude, would be honored!"
...
After discussing the main topic, Yan Chuan forcibly gave Wei Wude some pointers, then, after he left, Yan Chuan pulled out several stacks of files, including the current and ones from the past two months, and flipped through them one by one.
"Du Hanfeng of Guangling Academy, gone mad, enjoys drinking human blood, skilled in ’Six Sand Palm’, once the leader of the ’Iron Palm Alliance’ at Guangling Academy, one of the ’Guangling Ten Outstanding’..."
"’Tender Love’ Zuo Yifeng, once one of the Four Guardians of ’Coiling Silk Fist Society’ at Guangling Academy, left the academy three years ago, recruited by the Wang family, a wealthy family of Guangling County. Last month, Zuo Yifeng killed the Wang family’s second son, along with fourteen others including the elderly and women, committed heinous crimes, and fled. He is skilled in ’Coiling Silk Fist’..."
"Guangling Academy—"
"Guangling Academy—"
"New Martial Artists—"
...
Yan Chuan swiftly browsed, seeing that nearly ninety percent of the fugitives in the files organized by Wei Wude were New Martial Artists, with eighty percent hailing from Guangling Academy.
The court’s promotion of martial arts has benefits, but considerable disadvantages too.
These New Martial Artists, whose character had not been sufficiently honed, possessed greater abilities and ambitions and greater evil in their nature.
Anger arises from the heart!
Evil arises alongside courage!
They, with superior skills and courage, could commit anything at the drop of a hat, including murder, arson.
"No wonder the court is reluctant to issue open bounties or public arrests, only issuing documents within government offices and the Military Suppression Department."
New Martial Artists committing evil were manageable in small numbers, but if many, especially if manipulated by those with motives, they could become a weapon against the New Faction and Martial Arts Academy.
If it could be hidden, hide it!
Take Du Hanfeng, for instance, highly dangerous, yet the court continued keeping it under wraps. Even Yan Chuan wouldn’t have known if not for Wei Wude’s visit; he wouldn’t have been able to prepare, fortifying and equipping the ’Golden Silkworm Silk Armor’ in advance.
If unprepared, with Du Hanfeng’s surprise attack, Yan Chuan would likely have met his demise!
"The court!"
"Deceptive and harmful!"
Yan Chuan’s condemnation wasn’t of the court’s martial arts promotion or the New Faction and Martial Arts Academy but was directed at the court’s deliberate concealment of these extremely dangerous fugitives, its unwillingness to issue public arrest documents while desperately covering up and whitewashing peace!
It’s disgusting!
Of course.
This situation is common throughout history, a routine practice.
In both past and present lives, Yan Chuan couldn’t change it: "Only by strengthening oneself, being able to handle any villain, any changing situation, is the true and hard path."
He was clear-headed in his thinking.
His slender fingers skimmed over Wei Wude’s organized documents, noting a few of the extremely vicious ones that had appeared in Guangling City, with some degree of location, memorized them silently.
Then.
In the afternoon.
Yan Chuan shouldered the Red Tassel Spear, leaped over the wall, off to kill.
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