Myths Begin From Boys' Gong

Take the current Seven-Turn Cold Toad Devouring Divine Skill as an example. In two or three generations, if a few martial arts prodigies with amazing talents emerge, this martial art may very well be pushed to the eighth or even ninth level. It is indeed constantly progressing.

Moreover, he could sense that his father, Grandpa Fang, was very confident when he made these remarks.

Fang Zijun's mind raced, and suddenly she thought of something, and asked,

"Father, could it be that you have also gained new insights and made breakthroughs in our family's martial arts?"

Grandpa Fang burst into laughter, his joy and delight beyond words.
"Not bad, I have gained some understanding. I have to thank Zheng Lie for his Nine Heavens Sun Technique. Although its fire poison has caused me all kinds of torment, I have also benefited greatly from it over the years. Putting aside everything else, it has at least added a bit of brilliance to the Fang family's martial arts."

Well then, since you're here, stay here and cultivate for a while longer. I'll share the secrets I've learned with you so you can improve your strength and avoid a similar experience next time!

The world is becoming increasingly unstable, with powerful figures emerging everywhere. No one knows when someone will suddenly appear who can wipe out our Fang family. Therefore, to ensure our safety, we must be skilled in martial arts.

Even if the Fang family ceases to exist one day, a direct descendant like you will still have the opportunity to rebuild it!

Fang Zijun nodded and did not recount her kidnapping experience.

Because he had already tacitly accepted Old Master Fang's handling of the matter.

In fact, after careful consideration, he felt that although Grandpa Fang's approach was somewhat conservative, it at least ensured that the Fang family would not rashly provoke a terrible enemy.

If the opportunity and ability arise in the future, the Fang family will absolutely not let that mysterious person go...

Meanwhile, after disguising Qi Fang, Meng Zhao returned to the county town and lay low for several days. He found that the Fang family had not made any big moves, so he knew that Fang Zijun must have kept the matter hidden as agreed.

He also began secretly collecting various materials needed for the Seven-Turn Cold Toad Devouring Divine Skill's secret medicine through the black market, successfully developed it, and began to practice this martial art day and night.

With Meng Zhao completely hidden away and no one causing trouble in secret, the vast Kaiyan County returned to its former tranquility.

The various factions, large and small, in the county town have returned to calm, and the tense and complex situation has eased.

Three months later, Meng Zhao completely harmonized the Cold Seed, Wind Seed, and Cloud Seed into a unified, balanced, and harmonious state.

Meng Zhao also began to build the Three-Part Returning to Origin Qi system according to his own ideas, and focused on amplifying the underlying framework.

However, although his idea was good and he possessed amazing talent and martial arts skills, Meng Zhao's progress was not fast due to the secret medicine and the difference in the quality of basic martial arts.

According to Meng Zhao's memory, there should be two versions of the "Three Parts Return to Origin Qi".

One version is the initial version, created by Li Jing of the Tang Dynasty. The Cloud-Dispelling Palm emphasizes emotion, and the Wind God Leg emphasizes madness. In his later years, he created the Heavenly Frost Fist, which takes the resilience of the northern desert frost as its core and integrates the other two martial arts. Therefore, the Heavenly Frost Fist is also the first of the three great skills and has the strongest power.

Li Jing's Three-Part Return to Origin technique combines the three ultimate divine skills—Heavenly Frost Fist, Cloud Dispelling Palm, and Wind God Leg—in a tight and coordinated manner. The three skills are used simultaneously, bombarding from different directions. At the same time, the three elements circulate, reaching a state of natural transformation and endless vitality.

Xiong Ba's Three-Part Returning to Origin Qi is different. It takes the coldness of the Heavenly Frost Fist, the fierceness of the Cloud Dispelling Palm, and the longness of the Wind God Leg. It takes one of the three internal energies and integrates them into one, forming an unparalleled internal skill with abundant and inexhaustible primordial energy.

With every gesture, without needing divine weapons, one can wield power and break through enemy lines, for even the strongest divine weapons in the world cannot penetrate the protection of the Three-Part Returning Origin Qi.

Of all the martial arts skills Meng Zhao acquired, the Seven-Turn Cold Toad Devouring Divine Skill was the best, as it was the strongest in nature. It was also quite effective in unifying the Divine Wind Force and the Void Cloud Force. However, in essence, these three martial arts were still unrelated.

The reason why Xiong Ba was able to cultivate the Three-Part Returning Origin Qi is ultimately because the Three Absolute Divine Skills were created by one person. The characteristics of its martial arts contain his life experiences and insights, which are inherited from the same source and are integrated as a whole, with a natural foundation for fusion.

The three internal skills that Meng Zhao is currently practicing are not like that.

Therefore, this is the key reason why, despite acquiring the skills of diligent meditation and vortex force and extracting their essence, he was still unable to initially integrate the three ultimate divine skills.

If Meng Zhao truly wants to create the Three-Part Returning Qi, and not just to fool people, but to create a divine skill that is invincible in the world, he must integrate his own experiences and insights into martial arts, and then unify the three elements.

Furthermore, although the Heavenly Frost Fist is more powerful than the Cloud Dispelling Palm and the Wind God Leg, the three are still mutually reinforcing and mutually restraining.

Meng Zhao's Seven-Turn Frost Toad Devouring Divine Skill is different. Its grade is extremely high, which has disrupted the harmony and unity of the three, and is also a major problem.

Even with top-tier internal energy cultivation combined with two first-rate internal energy cultivation methods, the gap is still quite large. It is necessary to integrate more martial arts concepts into the Void Cloud Force and Divine Wind Force.

Once Meng Zhao realized this, he knew that he could not stop and cultivate in seclusion for a while and still had to go out and work hard.

However, this time, Meng Zhao did not want to stir up trouble in Kaiyan County. Therefore, he spent a lot of money in the black market to collect relevant information about several nearby counties, especially the martial arts passed down by martial arts families, focusing on the Fengyun Two Skills.

Immediately afterwards, he and Qi Fang wandered around several surrounding counties, plotting to develop new wind and cloud techniques and collecting related secret medicine materials. This went on for nearly half a year, causing quite a stir in the counties and earning them the reputation of being a pair of notorious thieves.

Six months later, Meng Zhao leisurely returned to Kaiyan County, leaving all the trivial matters to Qi Fang to handle, and then devoted himself to the path of creating martial arts.

In fact, back in the land of China, even without the aid of the Heavenly Mirror, Meng Zhao, after cultivating to become an unparalleled celestial being, could create divine skills and techniques at will, with extremely powerful effects.

The reason why we are now hesitant is that the martial arts of the two worlds are not the same and the gap is huge.

In particular, internal strength and internal power, true qi, are completely different things.

The former is more like a complex combination of the body's Qi and blood, life energy, natural energy, and spiritual energy.

This also involves the secrets of martial arts cultivation, which requires a person's foundation and talent as a guarantee, as well as visualization, secret medicines, and the skills of movement and stillness.

Therefore, Meng Zhao maintained an unparalleled level of external martial arts skills, but although he had an advantage and a commanding position in internal strength, he could not create skills at will.

About three months after Meng Zhao returned to Kaiyan County, he finally sorted things out and incorporated his own insights and emotions into martial arts, creating a brand new version of the Cold, Cloud, and Wind martial arts.

The coldness of the fist is domineering and chilling; the cloudness of the palm is powerful and vigorous; and the windness of the leg is straight, swift, and long.

Based on the Three Ultimate Skills and the Six Paths of Divine Intent, combined with the Vortex Force and the Buddhist path of cultivating the mind through diligent meditation, one can achieve the Threefold Return to Origin.

When this achievement is complete, the three martial arts types within Meng Zhao's body—the Cold Seed, the Cloud Seed, and the Wind Seed—form an equilateral triangle. The internal energies of the three types circulate endlessly, creating a completely new martial arts type, namely the Yuan Seed.

This primordial seed, seemingly ethereal yet substantial, slowly rotates within the dantian, like a vast and boundless nebula, encompassing heaven and earth. Its true essence embodies the principle that the Dao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things.

The same applies to the Yuanzhong; it is formed by the convergence and fusion of the three perfections, and it can also be decomposed into the three perfections.

With the completion of the Yuan Seed, Meng Zhao's Three-Part Return to Origin technique was considered complete.

As for the secret medicine, Meng Zhao also went through many hardships before finally getting a clue.

In order to create his own Three Supreme Divine Skills, he stole and usurped many martial arts techniques. Different martial arts techniques were paired with different secret medicine formulas, making the situation quite complicated.

Drugs can interact with each other; some can enhance each other's efficacy, while others, when combined, can become highly toxic and harmful to the human body.

Even among those who practice the same wind or cloud techniques, the ingredients for their secret medicines are different and may even be incompatible.

After Meng Zhao successfully cultivated the Yuan Seed, he carefully studied its properties. Ultimately, relying on the powerful decomposition and digestion characteristics of the Three-Part Returning Origin Qi formed by the Yuan Seed, he combined the extremely simple three flowers, three insects, and three herbs into a Returning Origin Pill, which served as a secret medicine for daily cultivation of the Three-Part Returning Origin Qi.

These three flowers, three insects, and three herbs can be combined in various ways, resulting in countless variations of medicinal materials. However, in the end, they all still cannot escape the characteristics of cold, cloud, and wind.

Three flowers, three insects, and three herbs can be taken from cold, cloud, and wind, one of each, and then blended together, three times three is endless, nine times nine is inexhaustible.

For example, a flower contains the power of cold, an insect contains the power of wind, and a blade of grass contains the power of clouds. The next flower can contain the power of wind, the next insect can contain the power of clouds, and the next blade of grass can contain the power of cold. And so on, until the last flower can contain the power of clouds, the last insect can contain the power of cold, and the last blade of grass can contain the power of scenery, forming a continuous combination of medicinal properties.

Similarly, the medicinal properties of the three flowers can all be wind, the medicinal properties of the three insects can all be cold, and the medicinal properties of the three herbs can all be cloud. The resulting Guiyuan Pill can also be used for the cultivation of the three parts of Guiyuan Qi.

Such a mysterious and ever-changing prescription is absolutely rare in the world, and may never have existed before.

It is only because this action was not publicized that Meng Zhao's status and influence were probably no less than that of the capable person who founded the demonic path.

However, unlike the universality of the demonic path, Meng Zhao's Three-Part Returning Origin Qi and Returning Origin Pill can only be adapted to each other and are difficult to promote.

Inside the Li residence in Xiaohan Village, Kaiyan County.

At this time, Li the Cripple's house, which was originally somewhat dilapidated and simple, had been demolished and rebuilt. Meng Zhao also bought several neighboring houses and merged them together to build an extremely spacious and bright mansion, which was unique in the entire Xiaohan Village and overshadowed the three major families.

However, after Meng Zhao revealed his superb martial arts skills, the Han, Sun, and Zhang families no longer had any objections.

At this time, although it was a clear and crisp autumn day, a light snow was already falling in Xiaohan Village.

On the spacious stone platform that Meng Zhao had transformed into a training ground, Meng Zhao breathed deeply, and visible waves of air surged between his nostrils. With his hands on his chest, he rubbed them together, and a cloud of energy condensed and condensed, eventually turning into a water ball, which Meng Zhao controlled remotely with his palms.

Meng Zhao's Three Ultimate Divine Skills were based on Xiong Ba's ultimate techniques from his memory.

At this time, they were also trying to explore and create attack methods that fit the Three-Part Return to Origin Qi.

While he was cultivating, Qi Fang, beaming with happiness, came to the sidelines and silently watched Meng Zhao.

The time she spent with Meng Zhao was arguably the happiest period of her life.

No need to worry about gambling debts, no need to fret about money, there are martial arts skills to practice, and every day you can feel yourself getting stronger.

Even seemingly perilous experiences can be a thrilling way of life if viewed from another perspective.

Therefore, Qi Fang was completely devoted to Meng Zhao at this time.

After arriving in Xiaohan Village, Qi Fang completely integrated into the local life.

Moreover, she knew that although she was beautiful, she was ultimately a withered flower and dared not dream of becoming Meng Zhao's wife.

She maintained a good relationship with Zhou Zhihan and often addressed Cui Ying and Sun Xiaohua as sisters, appearing very approachable. Gradually, the entire Xiaohan Village accepted her presence.

Meng Zhao finished his practice and regained his senses. His eyes shone brightly, a manifestation of his abundant internal energy and the power that made his inner strength shine.

He walked to the edge of the stone platform, took the white handkerchief Qi Fang handed him, wiped the fine sweat from his face, and asked,
"Why did you suddenly come to watch me practice martial arts? Did something happen?"

At this time of day, Qi Fang would usually be cooking in the kitchen. After he finished his cultivation and exhausted his energy, it would be time for him to eat.

Qi Fang is also willing to cook with her bare hands, after all, she has plenty of money now and can buy any ingredients she wants.

The kitchen has everything: chicken, duck, fish, meat, fresh seafood, seasonal vegetables and fruits, and all kinds of seasonings.

All of these gifts came from San Gouzi.

San Gouzi was Meng Zhao's first helper and younger brother in this world. With Meng Zhao's financial support, he established a small caravan that traveled between Xiaohan Village and the county town.

The main purpose was to help him purchase the necessary secret medicines and ingredients, but under the cover of noticing, he also did some small business of helping people carry goods, which earned him a lot of money.

Originally, it was highly unlikely that a rural person could take over this business, but a gang from the county town came to cause trouble.

However, under Meng Zhao's guidance and support, San Gouzi has begun to practice martial arts. Meng Zhao also secretly took action and killed two important figures from the county gang, letting them know that San Gouzi had a master as his guarantor.

In this way, San Gouzi was able to thrive and was no longer satisfied with Xiaohan Village and the county town. Instead, he monopolized several surrounding villages and formed a large-scale caravan.

However, this approach did gain the approval of several villages.

Firstly, it increased the villagers' income. Their labor output was uniformly allocated to San Gouzi, and San Gouzi didn't squeeze it too much.

Secondly, rural life is inconvenient, and the buying and selling of goods by San Gouzi has helped improve their quality of life.

Most importantly, San Gouzi had Meng Zhao's backing and a martial arts master vouching for him; no one dared to utter a single word against him. (End of Chapter)