Mang Shusheng's Ink Painting Practice

Chapter 86 The Art of Recklessness
Zhao Yifu carried the magical scroll and left the county government office, but then he realized something.

He said, "Father, you must return home quickly, for I'm afraid whoever has this scroll will not let it go."

Zhao Yunhe asked in surprise: "Why is this?"

Zhao Yifu said, "This scroll is probably a rare treasure. They hung it on the wall to warn and intimidate us. I'm afraid they didn't think we had the ability to take it away."

Zhao Yunhe understood what he said and told everyone in the village not to delay any further and to return to the village to discuss it.

They came in a hurry and left in a hurry.

He originally wanted to take the county magistrate as a hostage, but none of the city guards dared to step forward to stop him.

The defense of this place was so rotten that Zhao Yifu sighed.

No wonder Shenhe Villa would rather establish its business in the far suburbs. It is not as safe and reliable as leading the villagers to build a fort to defend themselves rather than relying on these city defenses.

The incompetent county magistrate was left at the city gate, and then more than a hundred people from Shenhe Villa disappeared from the sight of Houling County until all trace of them was lost.

Zhao Yehe was yelling, "Have we captured the county?"

A group of villagers responded one after another, appearing quite excited.

Zhao Yifu was helpless, thinking that this group of strong men in his family really ignored the government.

Then he thought again, if he passed the imperial examination in the future, would he be sent out to be a county magistrate?

Good man, it’s no use for a county magistrate to use such a hostage.

In fact, Juren generally do not hold official positions, but according to the current emperor's behavior, this group of people selected through the special examination may very well be tools for him to promote a certain policy.

This is called "Enke".

Since the emperor has already bestowed favor on the people, those who pass the imperial examination naturally need to work hard for the emperor and act as "consumables".

Zhao Yifu was quite helpless. He felt that it would be difficult to pass the normal imperial examination. After all, there were so many top students in the country and he really didn't have the confidence. This special examination was arguably his only chance.

He had complicated thoughts in his mind when the queue in front of him suddenly stopped.

Zhao Yifu looked up in surprise and saw a group of gangsters blocking the road ahead.

No wonder the journey was so smooth without any significant obstructions. It turned out that these people were waiting for them on their way back!

Zhao Yunhe's expression changed, and then he snorted coldly: "It really is haunting you."

He was obviously a little impatient because he had just seized Zhao Yicheng's soul and was about to go back to revive his eldest son. How could he not be anxious?

However, Zhao Yifu pondered for a moment, then chuckled and said, "Father, these traitors are indeed cunning, but we have already broken their plan without even realizing it, and the victory is obvious."

Zhao Yunhe asked in surprise: "Why is this?"

Zhao Yifu asked, "We have gathered elite troops from Shenhe Villa. Why didn't they stop us when we rushed out from the villa?"

"That's because at that time, we were all determined to avenge our brother and save him. We were united in our determination to fight against all odds, so naturally, they didn't dare to stop us."

"But what if we capture the county and find the portrait, only to find that we can't do anything about it and have to return in disgrace?"

"Do we still have the same courage to fight as before?"

Zhao Yunhe understood and said, "I haven't thought about that. If it's really as he thinks, we must be in a state of panic right now, and these people will just be kicking the can down the road."

At this point, Zhao Yunhe's originally anxious expression couldn't help but brighten up a lot. He laughed heartily and said, "Jun Xin, reading books makes you different. If you hadn't pointed it out to me, I wouldn't have known the insidious ways and would have almost fallen into the trap of those treacherous villains!"

Zhao Yifu sighed upon hearing this... He was also a 'wise man after the event'. If they had not relied directly on the 'Square Founding Chapter' given by his master to break the deadlock, they would have fallen into the trap now.

He asked, "Father, now that we have broken through, how should we deal with these enemies?"

He thought that if he had not broken through the impasse before, he would have suffered great losses in the face of these ambushes.

Now that the situation has been resolved, we can leave the main force behind to deal with the situation, and then a small number of people can return to Zhuangzi with the magical scroll.

However, he found that he was overthinking it.

Zhao Yunhe showed his unparalleled heroism.

He shouted loudly, "A mere clown is blocking our way back from victory. Brothers and nephews, are you up to the task?"

How could the Zhao family members be tired? They were just running to warm up.

They responded enthusiastically and their morale was extremely high.

Then Zhao Yunhe waved his hand and said, "What are you waiting for? Kill them!"

Zhao Yifu: ...

He watched helplessly as his seemingly wise father waved his hand and let everyone go up with 'A'.

How can you be so reckless?

He cursed endlessly.

However, the situation was unexpectedly good.

The Zhao family members who rushed forward aggressively actually broke up the team composed of people from the martial arts world!
The scene at this time was that the Zhao family members supported each other and formed a formation to attack. Although there were only a hundred of them, they were very powerful.

The people in the martial arts world fought on their own, and they were afraid to die. Therefore, although there were more than 300 people, they seemed extremely weak.

Only then did Zhao Yifu understand that "great effort can really make miracles happen."

If your side is united and the other side has their own thoughts, why not act recklessly?

It has to be said that following Zhao Yunhe out this time has deeply touched his heart.

He looked at his fist, then spread out his slender fingers... Well, he could also go for it.

Then he saw that there were two top-notch masters besieging his second uncle, so he no longer hesitated and rushed forward.

After thinking for a while, he swallowed a mouthful of the Qigong pill, and then all the muscles in his body suddenly expanded.

How could the Confucian robe that was torn apart at the city gate still hide his muscular body?
At this time, it spread out like a rag.

Yiyi jumped away with a "meow", or rather, she was bounced away by the sudden explosion of muscles in Zhao Yifu's arm.

Then Zhao Yifu put the scroll on his back together with his sword, and then rushed towards the two top masters who were besieging Zhao Guhe like a rampaging berserker.

"Don't hurt my second uncle!"

He shouted loudly, then opened the five fingers of his left hand into a claw and clawed at someone fiercely.

The man reacted quickly and tried to withdraw when he saw that he was coming at him aggressively.

Zhao Yifu's claw missed and he immediately swept across.

The man immediately swung his knife and pretended to chop at Zhao Yifu's claws.

This is to force back Zhao Yifu's attack, and it is also the difference between having weapons and not having weapons.

However, Zhao Yifu was a numerical freak. His strength, speed, reaction, and control far surpassed those of an average person. Seeing the opponent swinging his sword at him, he didn't retract his hand. Instead, his five fingers nimbly met the blade with incredible precision, then pulled it back with his hand...

The man staggered when he was suddenly pulled, but this was enough for the master.

Zhao Guhe had already spotted the right moment and chopped down the man with one blow, beheading him directly.

"Okay, I don't need your help here."

Zhao Guhe said this with disdain.

Zhao Yifu had just dodged the splattered blood when he heard that his second uncle disliked him.

He said, "My nephew is worried about you, Uncle, as you have just recovered from your serious injury..."

However, Zhao Guhe waved his hand impatiently and told him to go and find trouble with others.

This damn warrior pride...

Zhao Yifu sighed helplessly, and then went to cause trouble for others.

The other party ambushed here and brought a top-notch master to fight against Zhao Yunhe, as if they thought that this was enough.

However... it's not enough.

Zhao Yifu felt that it was not enough at all.

He has no rivals.

He could only wander around, and when he saw an opportunity, he would catch someone and use his crane claw technique to cripple their limbs.

It’s not that he is soft-hearted and doesn’t want to kill, but now that he has officially embarked on the path of cultivation, he still has to pay attention to reducing killing as much as possible.

If he killed too much and his true energy was contaminated with violence, then his cultivation would be ruined.

Well, when he crippled the ninth person's limbs, feeling incredibly kind, and turned back to check on the other nine people...

He just happened to see Wu Zhong following behind him, bending down and breaking the neck of a man with all his limbs disabled.

Noticing Zhao Yi Fu's gaze, Wu Zhong raised his head and grinned. His honest and loyal look seemed to say: The young master is kind-hearted, fortunately there is an old servant to clean up the mess.

Zhao Yi Fu was bewildered. He was being "kind" but ended up feeling lonely.

Why bother?

So he stopped.

Of course, those who tried to stop them had already been defeated and scattered.

Then Zhao Yunhe said, "Meteor Sword, we are old acquaintances. Why did you join others in causing trouble for Shenhe Villa this time?"

Then the Meteor Divine Sword said, "Cloud-shang Divine Crane, don't you understand? One 'God' is enough for this South Lake area."

Zhao Yunhe laughed heartily upon hearing this and said, "That's right, only one is enough."

As he spoke, he quickened his sword moves, a display of strength and speed.

But his movements were graceful, and the connection between each move was like a white crane spreading its body. He used the most reckless fighting style in the most elegant posture.

Zhao Yifu saw the clue. Zhao Yunhe's cultivation should be inferior to that of the 'Meteor Sword'. After all, the other party looked to be in his seventies or eighties.

However, Zhao Yunhe's moves were very well connected, which made up for the slight difference in cultivation.

He then used his youth and strength to his advantage and fought against the opponent...

Sure enough, after just twenty exchanges of full strength, the Meteor Sword began to show signs of fatigue.

This scene also inspired Zhao Yifu greatly. It turned out that the reckless fighting style really made sense.

After another ten moves, the Meteor Sword was finally defeated. Zhao Yunhe stabbed it through the shoulder and then escaped.

Zhao Yunhe wanted to chase after her.

If he catches up now, he will definitely be able to deal with this master of the same level who he had trouble dealing with in the past.

But then he stopped and calmed down a bit, then he said, "Clean up the battlefield, and then we'll go back."

Now is not the time for a fight.

So everyone stopped and took a few captives back to Shenhe Villa.

Zhao Yifu, who had not killed anyone, was in a complicated mood. When he saw the honest Wu Zhong beside him, his mood became even more complicated.

Those people shouldn't be considered murdered, right?

Anyway, he has never had the intention to kill... Well, that's it.

I simply cleaned up the battlefield and did some post-battle statistics.

Among them, Zhao Guhe had the most kills, having killed a total of 11 people.

After all, Zhao Guhe was one of the few people in the Zhao family who was good at fighting. After Zhao Yifu helped him deal with an opponent, he became unstoppable and used his powerful strength to roam around the field and take the most "kills".

However, Zhao Guhe was not the one with the greatest achievements, because he only killed one first-rate master, and the others were mostly third-rate or even not worthy of being named.

The real person with the greatest achievement is Wu Zhong... Wow, it’s actually Wu Zhong!

Because there were two first-rate masters whose throats were crushed by him, and four second-rate masters, and the remaining three were third-rate.

The quality of this kill is extremely high.

However, after Zhao Yunhe learned about it, he simply patted Wu Zhong on the shoulder and said earnestly, "Well done, keep going."

There was no other reward, but Wu Zhong was very happy and didn't care at all.

After all, he was really just 'picking up heads'.

Overall, in just a quarter of an hour of fighting, 120 enemies were killed or wounded, and 31 were captured. The rest were like dogs that had lost their homes, and fled in panic, not daring to mention the word "divine crane" again.

As for the damage to Shenhe Villa itself... unfortunately, two people died in the battle and three were seriously injured.

Even if the Zhao family members won a big victory, they all looked sad.

It is said that it would be better if all enemies were killed, but it would be painful to see one of our own men injured.

After returning to Shenhe Villa, Zhao Yunhe said to Zhao Yifu, "Junxin, go save your elder brother. I will go to comfort the families of the dead and injured..."

At this moment, Zhao Yifu admitted that his father was a qualified owner of the manor, or a qualified patriarch.

Even though his eldest son, whom he cared about the most, was still in danger, he had to go and comfort the families of the dead first.

Zhao Yifu quickly returned to Zhao Yicheng with the scroll.

In order to prevent someone from using evil methods to attack him while he is away, Peng Hu stayed here to watch over him.

When the old man saw Zhao Yifu coming back, he immediately rushed over as if he had seen a close relative and asked, "Junior Master, what's going on?"

"Not being able to follow Junior Master is truly a lifelong regret for me."

Zhao Yifu: ...

Could you be more shameless?
He said helplessly: "Grandpa, you are my grandpa."

Peng Hu said, "You are not my daughter's biological child, why are you bringing one up to me?"

"From now on, we will discuss our own affairs. Your father is still my son-in-law, and you are my junior uncle."

Good man, Zhao Yifu was left speechless by this shameless old man.

Zhao Yifu said, "Let's not talk about this anymore. It's more important to save my brother first."

As he said that, he came to Zhao Yicheng's bedside and opened the scroll he had obtained.

The scroll reveals the appearance of Zhao Yicheng's soul.

At this time, the soul is next to the physical body, and it naturally has an attraction to return to the body.

But the soul was too weak, and after struggling on the scroll for a while, it was unable to return.

Zhao Yifu couldn't help but feel anxious when he saw this. He shook the scroll gently and applied soft force, and finally helped his brother's soul escape from the scroll and return to his body.

When his soul returned to his body, Zhao Yifu immediately felt the difference.

The originally soulless body had scattered Qi and energy, but now it was like an army with a commander, spontaneously gathering and converging.

Zhao Yifu took out another porcelain bottle from his arms, opened the lid and turned it over in his palm, but there were only two pills.

This was the remaining 'Chao Yuan Yi Qi Pills'. He sighed and fed it all to Zhao Yicheng.

It's not that he didn't want to refine more, but the 'Wuwu Fruit' he had obtained earlier had been used up. Without this key item to harmonize the medicinal properties, he couldn't arbitrarily reduce the amount of auxiliary materials.

However, my eldest brother was saved, but his spirit was weak and needed to be nourished by the qi of his internal organs. He should be able to wake up after digesting the medicinal power of these two pills.

Next, it’s time to talk about the future of Shenhe Villa.

　One chapter today, a lot of things to do at home during the holidays

　　
　
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