Mang Shusheng's Ink Painting Practice

Chapter 68: Who is in this mess? (Two in one)

"What are you going to do with this man?"

Hong Shu was unwilling to follow Wu Zhong down to rest. Instead, she pointed at Zhuo Yan lying on the ground and asked him seriously.

Zhao Yifu said nonchalantly, "There's no rush for this matter. Let me take care of your injuries first."

Hong Shu shook his head and said, "No, he is a top-notch expert after all. Even if you break his leg skills, it would be very dangerous..."

Zhao Yifu thought what he said made sense and looked thoughtful.

Zhao Yehe said breathlessly, "If only my eldest brother were here, he could use his Yunshang Yuanling energy to activate the Crane Claw Technique and sever his meridians, causing him to temporarily lose all his internal energy."

Zhao Yifu was quite inspired by what he heard, and even knew what to do just by hearing the idea.

So he pointed at Zhuo Yan's chest and hit the Tanzhong point in his chest.

This acupoint is very crucial. If you interrupt it, the flow of true Qi in the upper body will be cut off.

As for the lower body?
Zhao Yifu had already crushed the opponent's ankle, so there was no need to worry.

Zhao Yehe was extremely surprised when he saw this. He asked, "Jun Xin, your flying finger power doesn't seem to be inherited from your family, right?"

Zhao Yifu nodded and said, "Indeed, this is Lingxu Finger Strength, one of the many unique skills of my sect. Unfortunately, it cannot be passed on to others."

Zhao Yehe was even more shocked when he heard this. He asked, "When did you become my disciple?"

At this moment, he had a lot of thoughts in his mind. The first thing he thought of was whether the other party had any intentions towards Shenhe Villa by accepting Zhao Yifu as his disciple.

Zhao Yifu heard this and said, "My master's sect is on Moshan Mountain. I can't tell you the specific name, but it was thanks to my father who sent me to Molu Academy that I was able to join this sect at the age of fifteen."

Zhao Yehe became even more confused after hearing this.

Hong Shu also asked in confusion: "Moshan? I've never heard of any sects on Moshan?"

When Zhao Yifu was about to say something else, he saw Zhao Yehe coughing and even spitting blood.

It was superfluous to say anything at this time. Zhao Yifu immediately reached out and touched Zhao Yehe, and soon discovered the problem...

He said, "Uncle San, your lungs are bleeding, and there are blood clots."

"Now I'm going to clear the blood clots in your lungs. Please bear with me."

As soon as he finished speaking, he spread out three fingers of his hand and suddenly pointed at Zhao Yehe's chest.

These three fingers accurately avoided Zhao Yehe's ribs on his chest, and penetrated the gaps between the bones with soft force.

"Sigh~"

Zhao Yehe gasped in pain.

But when he was halfway through taking a breath of cool air, he suddenly spurted out a mouthful of black blood.

The spitting out of the blood looked scary, but Zhao Yehe obviously felt much more comfortable and his chest was not as stuffy anymore.

"Jun Xin, I'm fine for now, thank you."

He thanked her.

Zhao Yifu said nonchalantly, "Uncle San, we are family. This is too polite."

Hong Shu also quickly placed her fingers on Zhao Yehe's wrist and carefully sensed it. Then she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Indeed, your condition has improved a lot. You just need to rest from now on."

Zhao Yifu was surprised and said, "Sister Hongshu, you also know medical skills?"

Hongshu couldn't help but feel embarrassed when she heard this, after all, he called her sister.

Zhao Yehe said unhappily, "Hongshu is almost forty years old. You can just call her Aunt Hong. Why call her Sister?"

Hong Shu immediately fell silent, but he couldn't hide the cold look on his face that showed he wanted to kill someone.

Zhao Yifu turned his head to look at Zhao Yehe and said seriously, "Uncle San, you have injured your lungs. It's better for you to talk less now."

Then he looked at Hong Shu and said, "Don't mind me, Sister Hong Shu. Even though I call him Third Uncle, he's actually not much older than me. When I was little, he always took me to play. He was actually more like an older brother to me."

Zhao Yehe was confused. Why was he demoted?
But Hong Shu was very happy. She said, "Is that so? I really envy the affection of your Zhao family. They seem so affectionate."

The matter concerning Zhao Yifu's master was digressed.

It’s not that he couldn’t explain it clearly to them, but he felt that Danqingmen was a matter of the cultivation world after all, and there was no need to tell these things to his third uncle who was an ordinary person.

At this moment, Zhuo Yanbing, who was lying on the ground, struggled and woke up.

After waking up, he looked devastated. He looked down at his legs and said, "My legs... You broke my legs..."

Zhao Yifu looked down at him and said, "Now, let me ask you, why did you attack my uncle and his men?"

Zhuo Yan snorted coldly and said, "Stop talking nonsense. Today, I'm outmatched. I admit defeat."

"But it's absolutely impossible to get words out of me."

Zhao Yifu looked at him and shook his head, "I really hope you can cooperate. I can promise to re-set your bones after this is over."

Zhuo Yan sneered, "How ridiculous! By the time this incident is over, Shenhe Villa will no longer exist. You frogs in the well will never know what kind of enemy you are facing."

Zhao Yehe no longer cared about the difficulty he had speaking due to his injured lungs. He asked breathlessly, "What do you mean? Is there a peerless master behind this?"

Zhuo Yan smiled and said, "Although it's not perfect, it's almost there."

The contempt in his expression and behavior was not concealed. It was obvious that he believed that even a peerless master was not as terrifying as the person behind the scene.

Zhao Yehe was furious and instinctively unsure.

But when he wanted to ask more, Zhao Yifu reached out and pressed Zhao Yehe's shoulder and said, "Don't worry, Third Uncle. Let me ask more about this."

Zhuo Yan sneered, "That's all I have to say. I won't say anything more even if you ask me anything else."

Zhao Yifu looked at him and asked, "Seeing you so confident and quickly recovering from the despair of your leg injury, I guess you think that as long as you can return to the person behind the scenes, even the most serious injury can be healed, right?"

Zhuo Yan was stunned. This was an angle he had never thought of, and he was caught off guard and revealed some real emotions.

Zhao Yifu understood instantly: "It seems to be like this."

Then he looked at Hong Shu beside him and said, "Sister Hong Shu, you know medicine. Is this possible?"

Hong Shu shook his head and said, "You crushed his ankle with that blow. This kind of injury cannot be cured by ordinary medical skills."

"Anyway, I don't know how to solve this. At most, we can remove some of the broken bones and restore some function to his ankle, but it's impossible to fully restore it."

Zhao Yehe then added, "Hong Shu is a renowned beauty and medical genius in the martial arts world. Her medical skills are unmatched in the Jiangnan martial arts world."

Zhao Yifu looked at Hong Shu in surprise. He was quite surprised that this person was so powerful.

Then he nodded and said, "Okay, I roughly understand."

"It seems that the person behind the scenes has shown you some magical powers." Zhuo Yan immediately frowned and refused to speak.

Zhao Yifu didn't care. He asked again, "If Shenhe Villa is willing to withdraw its forces and stay closed, will you let it go?"

Zhao Yehe was about to get angry when he heard this, but Hong Shu held down Zhao Yehe's arm and asked him to calm down.

At this time, Hong Shu looked at Zhao Yi Fu with burning eyes, wanting to know what he would do next.

Zhao Yehe was held back by Hong Shu and did not get angry. There was obvious awe in his eyes when he looked at Hong Shu.

Zhuo Yanbing was once again confused by Zhao Yifu's questions and didn't know what to do.

He seemed to have never thought about this question before, but this time he thought about it seriously and sneered, "Shenhe Villa, such a big name, how could they hide away?"

Zhao Yifu understood and said, "Yes, it seems that all we need to do is to take all our clansmen back to Shenhe Villa and stay indoors. Then the people behind the scenes will stop pursuing this matter."

Hong Shu shook his head and sighed, "But with Yun He's personality, I'm afraid it's impossible."

Zhao Yifu was surprised. He asked, "Is Sister Hongshu also familiar with my father?"

Hong Shu nodded with a smile and said, "I am very familiar with the previous generation of your Zhao family."

"That's why I came all the way to help you when I heard that your Zhao family was in trouble."

Zhao Yifu didn't delve into Hong Shu's identity. He turned to look at Zhuo Yan and asked, "What if Shenhe Villa knew it couldn't win and simply disbanded everyone in the villa and relocated the entire family away?"

Zhuo Yanbing obviously thought about it for a longer time this time. Finally, he shook his head and said, "Impossible. Things have come to this point. The arrow is on the string and must be shot. The Zhao family of Shenhe Villa must be destroyed!"

Zhao Yifu nodded and didn't ask any further questions.

Zhao Yehe looked at Zhao Yifu, then at Zhuo Yan, and said, "Junxin, why don't you ask again? Why don't you ask anymore?"

Zhao Yifu said, "He has told me everything I wanted to know. Now I need to think about how to break the deadlock."

Hong Shu asked in surprise: "Why, did you see something?"

Zhao Yifu said, "What I've noticed is that the person behind the scenes targeting Shenhe Villa isn't doing so out of hatred towards us, but rather because the Zhao family's Shenhe Villa is just the right size among all the forces in Mozhou, or in other words, in the Xianren Lake area."

Zhao Yehe asked puzzledly: "What is appropriate?"

Zhao Yifu looked at the red bundle and said, "Shenhe Villa was established by my great-grandfather and has been passed down to the third generation by my father. Although we have many enemies in the martial arts world, we definitely have more friends and allies."

"This will gradually pressure Shenhe Villa with the added fuel to the fire, allowing Shenhe Villa to call on its friends and seek help, leading to a fierce confrontation in the martial arts world of Mozhou and even the entire Nanhu Province."

Zhao Yehe asked puzzledly, "But what good will this do for them?"

Zhao Yifu replied, "What they wanted was never Shenhe Villa, but to use Shenhe Villa to disrupt the entire Jianghu of Nanhu Province."

"What they want is the word 'chaos'."

Zhao Yehe showed a puzzled look, he seemed not to understand.

But Hong Shu understood. She looked at Zhao Yehe and said, "Yehe, you always put your own gains and losses first. That's why you can only think about your own gains and losses and can't see the overall situation."

"It's true that Jun Xin's reading of these books was not in vain. If we think about it from this perspective, then all the unusual and unreasonable things that Shenhe Villa has encountered during this period can be explained."

Hong Shu thought for a moment and then said, "But there's still a question. What's the point of him doing this?"

"Shenhe Villa is already the strongest entity in Mozhou Jianghu. If they can easily destroy Shenhe Villa, why do they have to do so many things?"

Zhao Yifu rubbed his forehead and sighed, "Generally speaking, only when the weaker side faces the stronger side will they choose to win by creating chaos."

Hong Shu said, "This powerful party is obviously not Shenhe Villa."

Zhao Yi Fu nodded, and turned to look towards the north of Moyang City. Thinking of the group of corrupt scholars on the hill over there who spent the whole day writing, playing the piano and playing chess, he felt very tired.

Who is this mess for?

Zhao Yifu really couldn't think of any other target for Mozhou.

But the question is, will those arrogant old Confucian scholars care about the chaos right under their feet?

Most likely they would just glance at it lightly and then ignore it... No, they would still pay attention to it. At most they would send him, the outer sect guardian, to take a look, and then come back to "write a report" and that would be the end of it.

According to Zhao Yifu's judgment, the actions of the mastermind behind the scenes were probably meant to be shown to the blind.

If we think about it again, the fact that the Midnight Kingdom, which was originally planning to move north, suddenly stopped here might be another operation by the mastermind behind the scenes.

He wanted to divert the chaos from the ordinary human world to the cultivation world...

Hong Shu looked at Zhao Yifu's expression and said in surprise, "It seems like you know something..."

Zhao Yifu said, "If I'm right, they're actually doing this for my disciples to see."

"But my sect may not care, so the most important thing for Shenhe Villa right now is to save itself."

Zhuo Yan sneered, "Stop flattering yourself. How can your sect have the dignity to allow... us to treat you like this?"

Zhao Yifu pondered for a moment, then looked at Zhao Yehe seriously and said, "Third Uncle, I shouldn't talk too much about my master's affairs, but I hope that my master's affairs can be used as a reference so that father can make the right judgment."

Zhao Yehe stood there, not knowing what to say, and looked a little clumsy.

Instead, Hong Shu said, "Just tell me, I'll tell you. Yun He won't disobey me."

Zhao Yifu blinked. He had thought that his third uncle and Hong Shu would be a couple, but now it seemed that something was not right.

He considered his words carefully, then said, "I still can't tell you the specific details. I can only talk about my own affairs..."

"When I was fifteen, I had already begun to cultivate internal energy and became a formal outer disciple of my master."

Just these one sentence moved everyone.

Anyone who can cultivate internal energy is considered a second-rate master in the martial arts world!
Zhao Yifu was already a second-rate master at the age of fifteen. If he were in Shenhe Villa, he would definitely be trained as a genius.

But such a promising young man is only an outer disciple in that sect?

Zhao Yifu said calmly, "When I was twenty, my outer sect period ended. I hadn't made any breakthroughs in my art that satisfied my master, so I had no choice but to leave the mountains and venture out on my own, seeking my own opportunities."

"And not long ago, I finally opened up my Ren and Du meridians."

Zhao Yehe couldn't help but interrupt: "Jun Xin, are you a top-notch master?!"

He was a little skeptical, but thinking back on Zhao Yifu's previous performance, it seemed that there was nothing wrong.

Zhao Yifu nodded and said, "So, Master said that I have reached the qualifications to enter the inner sect, but I can only truly enter after I have opened up all the meridians in my body."

Here they stopped talking.

But the meaning behind those words left everyone speechless.

What is the state when all the meridians in the body are open?
In the words of the martial arts world, he is a peerless master!
What kind of sect is it that only peerless masters can barely reach?
(End of this chapter)