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Chapter 423 Jia Huan's Common Sense (Please Subscribe)

Dongfang Bubai's move stunned the entire audience!

Of course, compared to the fear of many experts, Jia Huan was much calmer.

Although they were surprised by Dongfang Bubai's strength, they were not so easily overwhelmed.

If given another five to ten years, even if he doesn't reach the level of Dongfang Bubai, he'll be close.

With his martial arts prowess, even if he couldn't win, it wouldn't be difficult for him to escape unscathed.

He followed a path somewhat similar to Guo Jing's, where his strength was such that he could solve a problem with a single palm strike.

Judging from the grim expressions on the faces of the Five Mountains Alliance leaders, this incident must have been quite a shock to them.

Unfortunately, the overall environment of the Ming Dynasty was peaceful, so it was not so easy to quickly improve one's cultivation level.

Jia Huan wasn't just a martial arts fanatic who blindly practiced martial arts. He must have studied and researched the cultivation methods of Jin Yong's martial arts novels in his spare time.

One characteristic of Jin Yong's martial arts novels is that during times of war, the strength of martial arts masters is often much greater than in times of peace, which is a result of the prevailing environment.

Of course, true martial arts geniuses are not bound by their environment.

Putting aside the digressions, Dongfang Bubai put on quite a show, and the other demonic sect experts naturally wouldn't stand idly by.

They jumped out one by one, challenging Dongfang Bubai's defeated opponents to battle. Each of them was arrogant and overbearing, because their boss, Dongfang Bubai, was so powerful.

The Five Mountains Sword Sect leaders, who had just been defeated, along with their top-tier companions, naturally did not back down. They fought fiercely against the Demonic Sect experts.

The result was still quite disheartening for the righteous side!

Having just undergone a major purge, most of the ten elders of the Demonic Sect have been replaced, yet their martial arts skills and strength still subtly surpass those of the leaders of the Five Mountains Sword Sect.

This reality is just too stimulating.

The Beggars' Sect leader, Xie Feng, and his deputy, Zhang Jinbie, also refused to believe in the superstition and continued to fight.

The two were remarkably united, both using the Dragon Subduing Palm technique to fight, and in the end, they barely managed to draw with Qu Yang, who was not ranked high in strength among the ten elders of the Demonic Sect.

This was achieved without Qu Yang using his ultimate technique, the 'Black Blood Divine Needle'.

Such a performance is by no means bad. Haven't you seen that even the Tianmen Taoist of the Taishan Sect couldn't beat Qu Yang?

Jia Huan naturally didn't just stand by and watch the show; he personally took action and engaged in a fierce battle with the leader of the Hunan branch of the Demonic Cult.

As a result, the leader of the Hunan branch of the Demonic Sect, who possessed peak second-rate martial arts skills, was unable to defeat Jia Huan, and the battle ended in a draw.

After the outcome of this battle, Jia Huan's fame soared.

After all, according to rumors in the martial arts world, Jia Huan's strength was only at the second-rate level.

In such a short time, he has managed to combine various staff techniques with unparalleled skill and fight to a draw with the dignified branch leader of the Demonic Sect!

Furthermore, Jia Huan is not yet twenty years old, so there is still a lot of room for improvement in his martial arts skills.

Nobody knows what level Jia Huan will ultimately reach.

At least, as long as the Beggars' Sect leaders aren't blind and properly train him, Jia Huan will have virtually no obstacles in becoming a top-tier figure in the martial arts world; even a fool could see that.

If one is lucky or talented, it is not impossible to become a top-tier or even supreme master in the martial arts world during one's prime.

Jia Huan's outstanding performance naturally brought a smile to the faces of the Beggars' Sect heroes who were initially unhappy.

If the Demonic Sect hadn't been so arrogant and domineering, the Beggar Clan heroes who came to witness the ceremony probably wouldn't have behaved so blatantly, giving the impression of being emotionally unstable and incompetent.

Fortunately, Dongfang Bubai's trip was specifically to solidify his reputation as the number one martial arts master, and he did not intend to go on a killing spree and wipe out the Five Mountains Sword Sects in one fell swoop.

All I can say is that this guy's mind is quite clear at this moment!

If he really dares to do that, believe it or not, in a couple of days, Blackwood Cliff will face a heavy blow from the imperial court.

Some things are best left unsaid; there's no point in trying to eliminate anyone.

After the ceremony, the Beggars' Sect heroes quickly returned to their stronghold on Junshan Island. Only after arriving safely did they breathe a long sigh of relief, and the tension in their hearts suddenly eased.

After this incident, Jia Huan was promoted to a seventh-bag disciple of the Beggars' Sect for his meritorious service.

The branch headquarters in various places are basically in charge of the six-bag disciples. Jia Huan is currently in charge of the Yuezhou branch. Although his seniority is a bit too shallow, his status and influence are already sufficient.

What surprised Jia Huan the most was that, at the Hengshan Sect's ceremony, perhaps feeling the pressure, the Hunyuan Gong, which was originally estimated to take another year and a half to master, suddenly showed internal energy!

Although it was only a small amount of internal energy, it had a comprehensive effect on improving Jia Huan's martial arts skills.

When the gang leader, Jie Feng, and the deputy gang leader, Zhang Jinbie, asked him about it later, he simply used this as an excuse to explain, and easily got the two of them to accept it.

In reality, cultivating internal energy is quite different from purely external martial arts.

Of course, the internal energy that Jia Huan developed through practicing the Hunyuan Gong is probably somewhat different from that developed by other internal energy practitioners.

The reason is simple: he was also practicing Qi and Blood Martial Arts in the Dream of the Red Chamber world at that time.

At the same time, the breathing techniques I've been working on for countless years are also a means to comprehensively improve physical fitness, rather than so-called internal strength.

Therefore, unlike other internal energy practitioners, he did not wait until he had a solid foundation in martial arts before sitting cross-legged every day to cultivate internal energy. He wanted to cultivate internal strength as soon as possible, and after cultivating internal energy, he worked hard to connect the twelve meridians in order to rapidly improve his strength.

Jia Huan, however, waited until his physical condition reached its limit, allowing his qi and blood to naturally overflow and then guide this qi through the meridians, transforming it into so-called internal energy that remained in his dantian.

This kind of cultivation speed seems a bit slower compared to normal internal energy cultivation.

However, Jia Huan's physical foundation became increasingly solid, and in the later stages, the amount of qi and blood he could generate on his own increased significantly, which greatly helped his internal energy cultivation.

Although he wasn't sure how effective this kind of cultivation would be, Jia Huan still enjoyed it immensely.

He felt that this approach, which balanced the body, meridians, and dantian, should be considered a fairly good state of cultivation, and he certainly didn't intend to change it easily.

The reason for this insistence is that I still have some concerns and uncertainties about cultivating internal energy.

In the martial arts novels and stories I've read, once a martial artist's dantian is destroyed, they immediately become a complete cripple. Forget about continuing to fight; even basic daily care becomes difficult.

Are you kidding me?

In Jia Huan's view, both cultivating internal strength and cultivating external skills should have the function of strengthening the body.

Moreover, the effect should be quite obvious. A martial arts master who has cultivated internal energy possesses physical abilities far superior to ordinary people; how could their entire being be rendered useless simply because their dantian is destroyed?

This is not common sense for him!

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On the contrary, someone like Linghu Chong, who couldn't use internal energy, could still blind fifteen masters instantly with pure sword techniques. Although it's a bit exaggerated, it's more in line with Jia Huan's understanding of masters with internal energy.

Anyway, Jia Huan was confident that even if his dantian was destroyed, he could still hold his own in the martial arts world based on his physical strength alone. That's how awesome he was.

Once his physical abilities return to their peak state in the Dream of the Red Chamber world, or even just based on his physical abilities alone, he is confident that he can fight Dongfang Bubai without being at a disadvantage.

Of course, although he had already had experience, he had been practicing breathing techniques in the world of Dream of the Red Chamber for more than sixty years before his physical condition reached its true peak.

It would take at least twenty years to reach that peak state again.

It's not that we can't go faster, it's just that we're not in such a hurry!

With the addition of the "Hun Yuan Gong" he is currently practicing, and the support of internal energy, he might even be able to surpass his previous peak level.

Qi and blood martial arts and internal force martial arts are not in conflict!

In his view, the Qi and Blood Martial Arts had a lot of potential; it was an alternative method devised and researched by wise people in the martial arts world after the Internal Force Martial Arts failed.

However, the underlying principles are currently impossible to explore due to the lack of numerous comparative examples and the assistance of various sophisticated equipment.

However, Jia Huan felt that his current method of cultivating the "Hun Yuan Gong" was the most correct way to cultivate internal energy.

Originally, internal energy cultivation was the process of extracting and refining the essence of the body after digesting grains and cereals!

At this moment, his physical condition was clearly not at its best!

For someone like Jia Huan, it would be much easier and simpler to first bring their physical abilities to the peak level they are capable of at this point, and then extract the overflowing essence and condense it into internal force.

Moreover, according to him, this would greatly improve the efficiency of digestion and absorption of grains, but it's unclear whether this is the case.

At this moment, he couldn't help but think of the teaching model of the Huashan Sect disciples that he was most familiar with.

Upon entering, one must first lay a solid foundation for three years, followed by training in the basic sword techniques of Mount Hua, as well as the basic mental cultivation methods of Mount Hua!

It seems that the Huashan basic mental cultivation method has as many as nine levels?

Generally, once a new disciple of Mount Hua has cultivated to the fifth or sixth level of the basic internal cultivation method, they will switch to cultivating more advanced internal cultivation methods and the more powerful Mount Hua sword techniques.

It seems that no disciple is willing to cultivate basic swordsmanship and basic mental techniques to a high level or even perfection.

In his spare time, Jia Huan had speculated that the Huashan Sect's basic internal cultivation method was probably more effective in improving physical fitness than in combat, which would explain this situation.

After all, the basic mental cultivation method of Mount Hua is derived from the Quanzhen mental cultivation method!

Anyone familiar with the Quanzhen Principles of Cultivation knows just how slow its cultivation speed is.

But the great hero Guo Jing is an exception!

Having practiced the Quanzhen Martial Arts for only two years, coupled with his considerable external martial arts skills, he was able to fight with a group of second-rate martial arts masters at the time.

Jia Huan guessed that there must be a reason why his physical fitness was too strong!

Although Guo Jing wasn't very bright, he received instruction from seven masters from a young age, and due to his unique environment, his external martial arts skills were not just for show.

Even without cultivating the Quanzhen Martial Arts, relying solely on his external martial arts skills and his formidable combat prowess honed through war, he was comparable to even the third-rate masters of the martial arts world at the time.