Martial Arts Crossover: My Wife is the Top Scholar

Chapter 177 My wife, come out and see the Great Sage Equal to Heaven!
"I thought I was a big bastard, but I didn't expect you guys to be even more fucking bastards than me!"

Think about it yourselves. Were you even speaking human language? Do you even have normal human logic? Were you kicked in the head by a donkey or bitten by a dog?
They want Huo Tianqing to revitalize the Tianqin Sect, yet they forbid him from gaining experience in the martial world. Is the Tianqin Sect a martial arts sect or a porcelain-selling sect? They can't even touch it.

Lu Xiaofeng started mingling in the streets when he was seven years old.

Fatty left home at fifteen to make his way in the world. My dad caught me and beat me for three days and three nights, but Fatty wouldn't budge. My dad was tough enough, right? In the end, he couldn't outdo me!

Li Zhaoting debuted at the age of nineteen and traveled all over the country in just one year, killing countless old devils. From the beginning of his career, which of his opponents was easy to mess with?
How did Lu Xiaofeng gain his fame?

It was killed with the Spirit Rhinoceros Finger!
How did Li Zhaoting acquire his reputation?

It was cut out with the Purple Rose Soft Sword!
Fatty's reputation isn't as great as theirs, but since his debut, he's fought over two hundred major battles and countless minor ones, totaling at least eight hundred to a thousand battles.

Who hasn't been hurt?
Who hasn't bled?

Who hasn't teetered between life and death?

Who doesn't take a trip to the underworld and then come back?

Fatty really felt sorry for Huo Tianqing.

A man in his thirties is being pampered like a baby, with no right to do this or that. They say one should be established by thirty, but Huo Tianqing is like a baby bottle.

What a load of bullshit, the Celestial Bird Faction!

Go back to your mother's arms and nurse!

Tang Zhuquan kept talking and cursing, while trying to enlighten the disciples of the Tianqin Sect. He said it would be best if they could understand him, but if they really couldn't understand human language, they should go east from here. There was a mass grave thirty miles ahead. They could go there and slit their throats. Once they died, they could be buried directly. They shouldn't disturb Fatty's fishing.

Lu Xiaofeng advised, "If you really care about Huo Tianqing, let him roam the martial world, let him get hurt and bleed, let him experience setbacks and failures."

"What if our sect leader, with his fiery temper, couldn't bear the humiliation of defeat and committed suicide?"

The steamed bun vendor has a unique style.

Li Zhaoting said coldly, "What kind of good-for-nothing would try to revive a sect after just one failure? Expecting such a piece of trash is like hoping for an iron tree to bloom. Get the hell out of my sight and don't spoil my fun."

"Li Zhaoting, the disciples of the Heavenly Bird Sect are not afraid of death. You can threaten others, but you can't threaten us!"

"You ungrateful animal!"

Li Zhaoting formed a hand seal, and Buddhist light flashed. A loud chanting sound came from mid-air. The phantom of Buddha remained solid and did not dissipate. He launched a move called "Buddha Asks the Monk" towards the disciples of the Heavenly Bird Sect.

Sword beams rained down like a shower of flowers, bombarding the disciples of the Heavenly Bird Sect. Moments later, the disciples fled in disarray. Their mouths were tough, but their legs told them they didn't want to die.

Lu Xiaofeng complained, "I heard that Elder Tianqin has unparalleled martial arts skills and is an eccentric genius in the martial arts world. How could he have taught these weirdos? It must have been difficult for Huo Tianqing."

Li Zhaoting sneered, "Believe it or not, if Huo Tianqing expresses a desire to duel with you, they will block your door and force you to admit defeat, or they will commit suicide."

"Is it really that bad? A martial artist who wins in this way will never be able to hold his head up high again."

"hehe!"

Li Zhaoting sneered and cast his fishing rod.

Tang Zhuquan quickly changed the subject: "The most delicious fish I've ever eaten was at Yipinju in Yangzhou. There's a genius chef at Yipinju named Meng Xiaohua. Besides fish, he's also very good at stewing chicken, especially chicken rice. He hollows out the chicken's belly and puts rice inside. I don't know how he does it, but the rice is even better than the chicken!"

Upon hearing this, Lu Xiaofeng drooled: "I've been to Yangzhou dozens of times, but I've never heard of Meng Xiaohua. Is she a new chef? Is she a disciple of the God of Cookery?"

Tang Zhuquan shook his head: "I don't know! I only know that he cooks well, I'm too lazy to ask anything else."

A flash of inspiration struck Li Zhaoting.

I finally realized what I had forgotten.

The death of Shen Yumen!
The plan of Shangguan Jin, Shangguan Danfeng and others was only aimed at the former officials of Jinpeng. There was no need to create unnecessary complications. The assassination of Shen Yumen by Qingyi Tower was an independent case.

In other words, the assassination of Shen Yumen was not the plan of the Green Robe Pavilion Master, but rather an assassination carried out by members of the Green Robe Pavilion under the instigation of certain individuals.

The Green Robe Pavilion had long been infiltrated, and an unknown force existed within it. As Shangguan Jin replaced Shangguan Mu as the pavilion's leader, the rift became increasingly apparent.

As we all know, fishing requires complete concentration.

Li Zhaoting's mind was wandering, and his attention wasn't on the fishing rod, so it was perfectly reasonable that he couldn't catch any fish.

The next morning.

The three of them went to the market and bought two buckets of fish. They asked the chef at Yan's mansion to make soup, and the rest of the fish was made into fish balls.

Tang Zhuquan proudly showed off his fish fry.

This was the only "trophy" for the three of them.

After spending a few days in Shanxi, the three of them returned to their respective homes with Yan Tieshan's generous gifts. Lu Xiaofeng went to Yangzhou to sample Meng Xiaohua's cooking, Tang Zhu wandered around aimlessly, and Li Zhaoting carried a load of bamboo slips back to his ancestral home in Jinling.

In the end, he was outsmarted by Li Shengnan.

Li Shengnan handed over the martial arts heritage of the Strategists and Xiaoshengxianzhuang as promised, and it was the original heritage.

Most of them are bamboo slips.

Some are in the Great Seal script, and some are in the Small Seal script.

The Small Seal script is still faintly recognizable, but the Large Seal script can only be translated slowly by Feng Suzhen. This can be considered a kind of self-cultivation process, which is beneficial to practicing Confucianism.

Confucianism has a tradition of martial arts.

The philosophers of the pre-Qin period, when they debated the Dao and destroyed the gods, often resorted to violence when they couldn't win an argument with others.

Furthermore, Confucius was by no means a weak scholar who couldn't lift a finger, but rather a strong Shandong man who was as strong as an ox, skilled in archery and horsemanship, and highly skilled in martial arts.

The three sets of ultimate skills that Li Shengnan gave away were Fu Nian's Holy King Sword Technique, Yan Lu's Sitting in Oblivion Mind Technique, and Zhang Liang's Soaring Through the Void and Riding the Wind, with the Sitting in Oblivion Mind Technique being the most complete.

The "sitting in oblivion" method is not the same as the "Tao of sitting in oblivion," but rather describes a state of mind that blends Confucianism and Taoism.

A virtuous person is not contentious, conceals their brilliance, and sits in oblivion, free from worldly

Act naturally and go with the flow. Face everything with a non-competitive mindset. Even if the enemy's martial arts foundation is far stronger than yours, you can still deal with the enemy by doing so.

The meditation technique of "sitting in oblivion" is quite interesting!
……

To be entrusted by others is to be loyal to others.

Finally, someone, unafraid of Li Zhaoting's fierceness, asked him to help find the person. Li Zhaoting returned home, rested for two days, and immediately prepared to set sail.

Lan Fenghuang's name contains the character "Feng" (凤), and she shares the same flaw as Lu Xiaofeng, but it is relatively milder.

If she is sailing on the Yangtze River, Lan Fenghuang will not get seasick. However, if she is sailing at sea, she will get seasick and will have to stay behind to watch over the house.

Meizhu is in charge of teaching a few unruly children.

Feng Suzhen and Jiang Yuyan went out to sea together by boat.

The mental techniques and incantations in the Six Ren Divine Dice, when translated by Feng Suzhen, were not the extremely powerful absorption techniques that could absorb the Mingyu Divine Skill and the Wedding Dress Divine Skill that she remembered. Instead, they were a method that described the geography of mountains and rivers, lakes and seas, and the unity of heaven and man, with some traces of military strategy.

This mental cultivation method treats heaven and earth as a whole, analogous to human beings. Rivers, lakes and seas are blood vessels, mountains and earth veins are meridians, and heaven and earth are the mother that nurtures human beings. The so-called unity of heaven and man is actually the connection of the umbilical cord, merging with the mother and forming a resonance between heaven, earth and man.

The essence of the unity of man and nature is "borrowing".

Heaven and earth are boundless, and the universe borrows their laws.

By drawing upon the boundless energy of heaven and earth, one can unleash powerful techniques far exceeding one's own internal strength.

The essence of this method is "mother and baby".

If one wishes to borrow the power of heaven and earth, heaven and earth may refuse.

However, the mother will always protect the child, and unless the umbilical cord is cut, the child's vital energy will continue to flow.

Its advantage is that its power is inexhaustible. No matter the time or place, it can seize the opportune moment and the favorable terrain, and maintain at least 60% of its innate combat advantage.

The downside is that the longer one remains in harmony with nature, the easier it is to assimilate with the universe, leading to a feeling of fully opening one's heart and completely returning to nature, which may result in signs of atavism.

"My lady, do you mean that this mental cultivation method can turn a person into a monkey, or into an ape?" "I tried it once. Compared with heaven and earth, humans are too insignificant. The human brain cannot understand heaven and earth. Rather than a return to our ancestors, it is more like being assimilated by heaven and earth."

"Whose brilliant idea was this?"

"Perhaps it was the philosophy of a Taoist master that was transmitted to Persia along the Silk Road. Persian masters combined it with their own philosophy to create a martial art that was very different from that of the Central Plains."

Has the "Sitting in Oblivion" method been translated?

“These bamboo slips are more interesting than the cultivation methods. If I were to publish them, I don’t know how many great scholars would beg for them to be enshrined in their ancestral halls.”

"why?"

"Of course, it's to get into the Confucian Temple."

Military generals have temples dedicated to them, while civil officials have temples dedicated to them to them.

To be admitted to the Temple of Martial Arts, one must have battlefield merits.

The requirement for entering the Confucian Temple is neither poetry and prose nor local governance, but rather the ability to annotate the classics.

Has anyone visited both the Civil and Military Temples at the same time?
In this era, there is only one person.

Du Yu, a famous general of the Western Jin Dynasty, was nicknamed Du the Armory!

For renowned Confucian scholars to be enshrined in the Temple of Literature after their death, they not only needed a good reputation, but also to write books and comment on Confucian classics. If they could obtain bamboo slips left by Confucian sages from the pre-Qin period and use them to annotate the Spring and Autumn Annals, they could gain great prestige and possibly be enshrined in the Temple of Literature.

Of course, they must be renowned scholars from prestigious families.

Feng Shaoqing and Li Nanxing are definitely not suitable.

Feng Suzhen and the Sitting in Oblivion Mind Method were quite compatible. She was a learned and talented top scholar, but she disliked official life and preferred the carefree life of the martial arts world. This idea originally seemed awkward, but after seeing the Sitting in Oblivion Mind Method, Feng Suzhen suddenly understood.

All doubts have been resolved.

All thoughts were connected.

In a moment of sudden enlightenment, his martial arts skills greatly improved.

Li Zhaoting and Feng Suzhen sparred. Feng Suzhen relied on the "Sitting in Oblivion" mental technique to follow the momentum and withstand Li Zhaoting's fierce attacks. Li Zhaoting attacked all night but failed to win in one go and eventually suffered a complete defeat.

Feng Suzhen won a great victory.

Li Zhaoting rubbed his lower back and admitted defeat.

The Vajra Indestructible Divine Skill has its flaws.

There are no kidneys that are indestructible or made of iron.

……

The fleet of ships for the sea trip was prepared by the Hua family.

It was a caravan bound for Izumo Province.

Previously, the Izumo Kingdom's delegation was attacked by Japanese pirates on its way to the capital and was completely wiped out. Duan Tianya was ordered to investigate the matter and found out about the Giant Whale Gang. The Giant Whale Gang was experiencing a very serious internal strife and lost a lot of business.

This portion of the business was divided up among those nearby.

The Eagle Cult comprises 40%, and the Flower Family 60%.

The Hua family, whose main business was originally real estate, quickly built a fleet of ships for overseas operations, which is now quite large.

Li Zhaoting stood at the bow of the ship, gazing into the distance.

Feng Suzhen sat beside her, playing the zither for her own amusement.

Jiang Yuyan looked at the two of them and thought to herself that, according to the records in the vernacular novels, the master should be inspired to write poetry.

Sure enough, Li Zhaoting opened his arms and recited a poem to the sea: "Ocean, you are all water!"

Jiang Yuyan: o((⊙﹏⊙))o
Feng Suzhen: You spoil the mood, get lost!
Feng Suzhen kicked Li Zhaoting off the deck. Li Zhaoting leaped down and landed lightly on the crest of a wave. His true energy transformed into ice, condensing into an ice boat beneath his feet as he surfed the waves.

Li Zhaoting didn't expect to find anyone by going to sea.

The vast ocean, how could it be so easy?
Just follow the convoy to deliver goods.

While you're at it, try some local specialties from Izumo... Hmm?

What the hell!

I saw the Monkey King!

As everyone knows, only the Monkey King can cross the ocean on a raft. Not far ahead, a small raft is floating, with a family of three sitting on it.

I'm so lucky!
Upon seeing the fleet, the family of three shouted, "We are Zhang Cuishan from Wudang! Please give us a ride!"

"Zhang Wuxia, wait a moment, I'll be right there!"

Li Zhaoting ordered his men to bring the boat closer.

Not long after, Zhang Cuishan and the others boarded the ship.

Zhang Cuishan, Yin Susu, Zhang Wuji.

After months of continuous sailing, their hair and beards were disheveled, making them look like wild men. However, the sailing experience of Zhang Cuishan and his family of three could be compared to that of the Monkey King.

Traveling south from the northern polar regions, crossing the vast ocean on a small wooden raft, Zhang Wuji's protagonist aura was shattered by this journey, resulting in a series of setbacks upon landing and his luck almost completely dissipating.

Is this something a normal person can do?

There's no other explanation besides the protagonist's halo.

Give Lu Xiaofeng a mirage-shaped treasure ship and fifty skilled sailors, and let him sail south from the North Pole for several months. Even then, he would likely perish if the ship sank and everyone perished.

How lucky was Zhang Cuishan's family?
First of all, there were no strong winds or waves, and the wind was favorable all the way south; otherwise, the raft would have been capsized long ago.

Secondly, whenever their freshwater supply is running low, timely rainfall allows them to store freshwater.

Finally, when they migrate south, they encounter changes in ocean currents, and the fish follow the warm currents southward, making them easy to catch.

Although eating fish leaves my mouth smelling fishy and makes me nauseous at the sight of salted fish, at least there's plenty of food.

Li Zhaoting arranged for the three of them to take a fragrant bath.

Zhang Cuishan and Li Zhaoting were of similar build, so Zhang Cuishan could wear Li Zhaoting's clothes. Yin Susu changed into Feng Suzhen's dress, and Jiang Yuyan made a set of clothes for Zhang Wuji, replacing the animal skins they were wearing.

After taking a shower and changing their clothes, the three regained their former charm. Zhang Cuishan was already handsome and refined, and after ten years of training on Icefire Island, he had become more mature. In particular, his skin, after months of continuous sailing, had been tanned to the bronze color that Li Zhaoting envied the most, giving him a mature charm.

"Thank you for your help, Young Master Li."

"Zhang Wuxia, you're too kind. Your junior brother Hua Manlou and I are good friends. I went out this time just to try my luck in finding you, and I'm really lucky."

“Young Master Li, since you are my junior brother’s friend, I won’t keep it from you. Xie Xun is long dead, and the Dragon-Slaying Saber has sunk into the sea. We don’t know its whereabouts.”

"Oh~"

Li Zhaoting gave a curt reply.

"Young Master Li, do you not believe me?"

"Believe!"

"Your expression..."

"I am a swordsman, I never use a knife!"

　Sixteen thousand, a perfect end to the month.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)