From the Iron Shirt Technique to physical sanctification

"This humble woman thanks the young hero for saving my life!" Chu Qingwen curtsied slightly to Zhang Yu.

Zhang Yu glanced at her: "How should I thank you?"

"Huh?" Chu Qingwen was taken aback; she hadn't expected Zhang Yu to ask that.

"Young hero, I came out in a hurry and didn't bring much silver with me," Chu Qingwen said.

"No money?" Zhang Yu didn't want to pay any more attention to the other party. What's the point of talking about having no money?

"Mancang, Xiaoyue, take the child and leave." Zhang Yu called out to Mancang and the others.

"Yes, Master!"

The group immediately set off again.

"Miss, what was his attitude like...?" The maid Xiangju spoke up for her mistress.

"Shut up." Chu Qingwen glared at her, then hurried after Zhang Yu, calling out, "Young hero, please wait!"

Zhang Yu pretended not to hear and continued walking forward.

The other party looks like a huge problem. They only glanced at them from afar and were already in danger of being killed. If they really get involved with them, they might get dragged into some serious trouble.

"Young hero, I am Chu Qingwen, daughter of the Chu family of Nanqing City. I am very grateful for your life-saving grace. I do not have any silver on me at the moment, but as long as you escort my servant and me to Nanqing City, the Chu family will definitely offer ten thousand taels of gold." Chu Qingwen caught up with Zhang Yu again.

She realized that Zhang Yu only cared about money.

Hearing Chu Qingwen's words, Zhang Yu curled his lip. Empty promises, and she even offered to escort him home. I don't have time for that.

So he didn't turn back, and continued to urge Mancang and the others to leave quickly.

"Young hero..."

The more Chu Qingwen shouted, the faster Zhang Yu walked.

"Am I that ugly? Why did he leave in such a hurry?" Chu Qingwen felt a pang of frustration.

She was the most beautiful of the four great beauties of Nanqing City, and many talented young men considered it an honor to speak with her.

"He doesn't want silver? He clearly just stuffed all the loose silver from the Three Fiends of Xiling into his pockets." Chu Qingwen frowned slightly. "Does he want rare treasures? Or martial arts manuals?"

A few minutes later, she caught up with Zhang Yu again: "A set of second-rate skills, including stance training, breathing techniques, footwork, and palm techniques."

Zhang Yu slowed his pace.

He was stuck at the peak of internal strength, and without stance training and breathing techniques, he had no clue how to transform internal strength.

Chu Qingwen really hit Zhang Yu where it hurt this time.

"A first-rate technique," Zhang Yu said, turning his head.

"Young hero, our Chu family is a merchant family, not a martial arts family. This second-rate martial arts technique has been accumulated over several generations. Originally, only those who signed a life-or-death contract with our Chu family could learn it. Now, as long as you escort my master and servant back to Nanqing City, you can learn this martial arts technique," Chu Qingwen said.

Zhang Yu said expressionlessly, "Add another ten thousand taels of gold."

"make a deal!"

Hearing Chu Qingwen agree so readily, Zhang Yu couldn't help but scratch his head: "Did I ask for too little?"

Their group of 16 people then grew to 18.

In the next county town, Chu Qingwen found a branch of the Chu family business and managed to get three horse-drawn carriages. The children no longer had to walk, and their speed increased significantly.

(Zhang Yu had rented a carriage before, but the world was in chaos, and the driver only traveled within the county.)

A day later, Zhang Yu sat in the carriage with a slight frown, because he saw a man in black wearing a straw hat standing by the edge of the woods ahead, staring at their carriage.

"What force wants to kill you?" Zhang Yu asked Chu Qingwen inside the carriage.

"Hmm? I don't know," Chu Qingwen said.

She really didn't know.

"That person up ahead has a strong aura; you can sense it from afar. He's at least at the late stage of the Dark Force realm. Small forces shouldn't be able to send out assassins of this level." Zhang Yu gestured with his chin towards the woods and said to Chu Qingwen, "I want to hear the truth, or our agreement will be void immediately."

At this moment, Chu Qingwen also saw the man in black wearing a straw hat.

"How can you be like this? My young lady really doesn't know," Xiangju said.

"Xiangju," Chu Qingwen interrupted Xiangju, "Young hero, I really don't know. My Chu family has been doing business for three hundred years, always adhering to the principle of making money through harmony and helping others. We have never offended any powerful forces."

"If anything has happened recently, it's that I offended the city lord's son in Jiangzhou City half a month ago."

"How did you offend them?" Zhang Yu asked.

"He invited me to the city lord's mansion to admire the flowers, but I refused. He then said that no woman dares to refuse me. Is it because of this trivial matter that he sent people to kidnap me?" Chu Qingwen stared wide-eyed, her face full of doubt.

Zhang Yu didn't speak, but the man in the straw hat and black clothes had already walked over.

"It's you! I've seen you with Zhou Jingyuan before!" Chu Qingwen exclaimed as she saw the face of the man in the black hat.

Zhou Jingyuan is the son of the city lord of Jiangzhou.

"My young master requests that you return, young lady," the man in black said, then coldly looked at Zhang Yu: "You killed the Three Fiends of Xiling, didn't you? I will cut off your head and bring it to my young master."

Zhang Yu carefully sensed the opponent's qi and blood, and determined that the opponent was at most in the late stage of Dark Force, so he felt relieved.

As for his own vital energy, because it is concealed by the system, no one can see through it unless he actively reveals it.

At this moment, Zhang Yu's displayed Qi and Blood realm was at the peak of Ming Jin.

"Young hero, can you defeat him?" Chu Qingwen asked softly.

"It's possible, but the opponent is a powerful martial artist at the late stage of Dark Force, which will be very difficult for me to deal with. If I get injured, you see..." Zhang Yu stared into Chu Qingwen's eyes, his meaning was self-evident.

When he raised the price by 10,000 taels of gold, he felt the asking price was too low, and that was the perfect opportunity to raise the price on the spot.

In fact, even if Chu Qingwen didn't offer more money, Zhang Yu would still kill the man in black, because the man's words just now already indicated a path to death.

"Let's add another hundred-year-old blood ginseng," Chu Qingwen said.

"Deal!" A barely perceptible smile appeared on Zhang Yu's lips.

"You little brat, I was going to give you a quick death, but I've changed my mind." The man in black heard Zhang Yu and Chu Qingwen's conversation and a cruel expression appeared on his face. He was going to torture Zhang Yu to death later.

Zhang Yu jumped off the carriage, walked up to the man in black, and said, "Hey, do you have any martial arts manuals on you?"

"Did you bring any money?"

"Not going to talk? Fine, I won't ask anymore. I'll beat you to death later. I'll find it myself slowly," Zhang Yu said calmly.

The man in black was instantly enraged when he saw Zhang Yu's disdainful attitude towards him.

"You little brat, you're asking for it!"

Uh...

He immediately struck Zhang Yu in the chest with a palm strike. He had practiced the Mighty Stone-Smashing Hand technique, which could shatter stone tablets with a single palm strike.

Without wasting words, Zhang Yu directly unleashed his ultimate move at the peak of Dark Force – Great Avalanche.

Sink your waist and sit on your hips, channeling all your inner strength into your right fist, and punch out.

The man in black sensed that Zhang Yu's qi and blood power was at most at the peak of the Ming Jin realm. Thinking that he shouldn't kill him all at once, but rather torture him slowly by beating him half to death, he didn't use his full strength.

boom!

Fists and palms clashed.

In an instant, the man in black's eyes bulged out, revealing an expression of fear.

"No!"

He only had time to say no before, with a bang, the right half of his body exploded.

The powerful force of the avalanche traveled from the opponent's palm to his body, instantly turning half of his body into fragments.

"This..." Chu Qingwen and Xiangju, the mistress and servant, stared wide-eyed in the carriage, thinking to themselves, "Is this what he meant by 'difficult to deal with'? He died in one move."