Gou Zai Xianwu Wenjing Search for Opportunities

After Liu Xu finished imparting the incantation, she stood up and began to explain, "The static stance of Snake Intent Fist and Black Snake Fist is the same. However, the dynamic stance of Black Snake Fist only involves six snake-like steps, while Snake Intent Fist has thirty-six snake-like steps. I will first teach you the thirty-six snake-like steps..."

Wu Jingang took notes while imitating.

After Liu Xu finished practicing the thirty-six steps of the snake's gait, the scene immediately changed, and after a while:

"Third brother, you've practiced the twelve forms of Black Snake Fist, so learning the seventy-two moves of Snake Intent Fist shouldn't be too difficult. The snake in Snake Intent Fist is also called the Si Snake, which belongs to the number six in the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches. Therefore, Snake Intent Fist takes six and twelve as its base numbers, and the fist technique contains the rules of heaven and earth."

The snake-style fist techniques, knife techniques, and sword techniques circulating in the martial arts world are chaotic and disorderly. They mostly use 5, 7, and 9 as their base numbers, which are fundamentally different. You need to slowly understand them. Watch carefully…”

"The silver snake emerges from its hole."

"The golden snake rises from the land."

"The flying serpent rises from the mist."

"..."

The scene of Liu Xu's 72 moves of Snake Intent Fist, just as she reached the thirteenth move, Divine Snake Refining the Moon, suddenly disappeared.

Yes, it's gone.

In the mirror, only Wu Jingang, with thick eyebrows and small eyes, was bowing with his hands clasped.

At the same time, Wu Jingang's soul gradually shattered, breaking into specks of starlight that drifted out from behind the mirror and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Lin Yuan then realized that the mirror's playback time had expired. According to previous calculations, the mirror's playback time for answering each question was between 15 and 25 minutes, which was no more than half an hour.

Unexpectedly, the answer to the question was too long, and the mirror couldn't play it all. It could only play the main part of Snake Intent Fist before immediately ending the video.

Lin Yuan opened his eyes and came to his senses. He withdrew from the mirror, feeling both helpless and regretful, as well as excited and happy.

What's exciting is that this time the harvest was huge; he actually learned the ultimate skill of the Black Snake Gentleman's Snake Intent Sect, "Snake Intent Fist." In reality, even a scion of a powerful family like Wu Yong would find it difficult to learn such an ultimate skill.

Ordinary people can only be as lucky as Wu Jingang to meet a capable godfather, but this is equivalent to signing a lifelong contract. Liu Tianxing's apprenticeship and martial arts training are not just about feeding the eight Vajras; each of them has to do things to repay him.

Lin Yuan regrets that he only learned the footwork, breathing techniques, and the thirteen-move routine.

Fortunately, I've learned the basics of Snake Intent Fist, so at least I can practice and use this style of boxing.

Lin Yuan got up and found that he wasn't feeling too dizzy. As his physical strength improved, his energy and spirit also became better.

He immediately urinated and left the latrine.

Wu Yong was waiting for him to go home, but Lin Yuan told him to go home first and that he would stay behind to keep watch.

Now that the constables have all gone to search homes, there's no one watching over things. If the witnesses, physical evidence, and even the body are lost, it won't be good.

Lin Yuan took the opportunity to run over to Wang Jingang's corpse, touched and pressed it, and at the same time closed his eyes and called to the mirror, but there was no response.

It seems that Wang Jingang's spirit has long since vanished.

Lin Yuan summoned all the guards to be on duty that night, and lit all the lanterns in the pavilion, making it brightly lit.

He then checked the witnesses of several people who had reported the case and found that they were all sleeping in a large dormitory. So he ordered his elder brother to personally lead a group to keep an eye on them.

Lin Yuan sat alone in the main hall, dismissed the guards, and practiced the Snake Intent Fist he had just learned in the open space outside the hall.

Practicing the thirty-six steps of the snake movement, combined with breathing techniques, only made it more and more difficult.

This footwork is completely different from the Eight Directions Footwork. The Eight Directions Footwork is straightforward and expansive, while the Snake-like Footwork is elusive and unpredictable, involving constant movement and entanglement.

The straightforward and simple ones are easy to remember and practice, but the tricky and strange ones are difficult; without some martial arts skills, they are really hard to learn.

Fortunately, he had a foundation in the Eight Directions Step and the Seven Snake Steps, so he practiced them with difficulty, but he forgot the later steps as he practiced.

He had no choice but to close his eyes and try to recall the information. Once he remembered, he continued practicing.

The mirror only taught him once, and he only watched it once, but he wasn't a true martial arts master and hadn't reached the level of photographic memory, so it was impossible for him to remember it all at once.

He discovered by chance that whenever he closed his eyes and recalled the past, everything would come vividly to mind. If he exited this state, many past events would gradually fade from his memory.

He thought that when he closed his eyes, the mirror had the ability to trigger his memories. Just last year, the mirror even helped him awaken his past life memories.

Perhaps this is one of the reasons why he was able to quickly learn basic arithmetic and mathematics within six months.

I used to think I was exceptionally gifted.

The sky was just beginning to lighten.

Lin Yuan practiced the 36 steps of the snake movement three or five times. He could only say he practiced, but his steps were very clumsy. This footwork was much more difficult than the 7 steps of the snake movement.

The reason why the seven steps of the snake walk are easy to learn is that these seven steps are the simplest and most straightforward of the thirty-six steps.

Looks like I'll have to get some private lessons from Coach Hong!

I wonder if she understands Snake Intent Fist?

At this moment, the people in the pavilion returned, carrying boxes and loads on their shoulders, bustling about happily. Among them were two Zhang family members who had been searching the house.

Obviously, when there's meat to eat, no one cares whose meat it is; even family members are ruthless when it comes to their own.

The group not only searched the homes of Liu Tianxing and the two Vajra, but also the homes of the other Black Snake Gang disciples, reaping a rich harvest this time.

Li Shi also returned with them.

Li Shi held a small meeting in the main hall, opened one of the boxes and distributed cash to everyone. Those who participated in the operation to capture the thieves were divided according to their cultivation level: those at or above the late stage of Body Tempering received 20 taels of silver each, those of lower level received 10 taels each, and the rest who only went to search houses and do odd jobs received 5 taels each. The guards each received 5 qian of silver, and those who killed Wang Jingang and Wu Jingang each received 100 taels.

As for the appearance fees of the martial arts instructors in the manor, that was calculated separately and not included in the general fee, so Li Shi would not mention it.

Lin Yuan received twenty taels for capturing the thieves, one hundred taels for killing Wu Jingang, and thirty-three taels each for Hu Cai and Wu Yong, for a total of more than fifty-three taels of silver.

To his surprise, his nearly depleted wallet was replenished.

He currently has over ninety taels of silver, which seems like a lot, but since reaching the peak of the Body Tempering Realm, the amount of Body Tempering Pills and tonics used in this medicinal diet has been increasing, and the price has also risen accordingly. Now, a set of medicinal diet costs two taels of silver, and even if he eats it sparingly, it would still cost him about fifty taels a month.

Ninety taels of silver can only last for one or two months!

However, given his current personal prestige and network of connections, a group of his fellow disciples are willing to lend him money, so there shouldn't be much of a problem for him to break through to the entry level of the Bone Forging Realm.

Once he breaks through to the Bone Forging Realm, passes the entrance-level martial arts master assessment, and becomes a retainer of the Li family, this debt will be nothing.

Li Shi then had Lin Yuan collect Wu Yong's reward money on his behalf. Although Wu Yong was at the Bone Forging Realm, he did not lead the charge against Li Si. Li Shi compromised and gave him forty taels of silver.

Li Shi dismissed everyone.

Before leaving, Lin Yuan handed his elder brother three taels of silver. Seeing that his brother refused to accept it, he advised, "Brother, make Dali a summer robe. I see he's still wearing his early spring clothes, and his classmates will laugh at him. You should also get yourself a decent outfit. After all, you're working in the pavilion, so don't dress too poorly."

"I also received five qian of silver today. I only need one tael." The elder brother said, emphasizing each word. He knew that it was fine to wear tattered clothes while doing hard labor at the docks, but to dress like that in the pavilion would make him lose his authority, fail to command respect, and be looked down upon.

"Use the rest to buy some sugar figurines for Gou Dan. I forgot when I went back last time." Lin Yuan insisted on giving the rest to his older brother, and then left the pavilion with Hu Cai.

Seeing Lin Yuan leave, Old Zhang earnestly advised Lin Dalu, "Hey, your brother's made something of himself, he's someone important in the village now. As his older brother, you should wear some nicer clothes, lest Old Li and the others laugh at you and embarrass your brother. Your brother isn't even married yet."

The older brother nodded.

……

Lin Yuan and Hu Cai returned to the Hu family's courtyard.

As soon as he entered, Hu Cai pulled out a pair of gold earrings from his pocket: "Junior brother, why didn't you come when we searched the house tonight? It's a waste not to come when you get freebies! It was my first time searching a house, so I didn't go all out and only took these. I saw that Junior Brother Zhao and the others took a lot, and Deacon Li too..."

"A pair of gold earrings weighs less than two qian (a unit of weight), which is less than ten taels of silver. It's not worth it. Besides, taking too much will only make others envious. Zhao Sheng is a close relative of the village head, so no matter how much or how little he takes, the senior brother won't say anything. But it's different for others. The village head may not say it, but he'll definitely remember it." Lin Yuan's view on money was quite different from his.

Hu Cai stared at him intently, then suddenly felt a pang of regret: "Oh dear, I should have known better than to go. I didn't earn much money, and now the village head is even eyeing my money."

"You only took this little bit, Senior Brother won't mind, as long as it's not excessive," Lin Yuan said indifferently.

The next day.

Under the spur of Coach Hong, Lin Yuan and Hu Cai finished practicing their boxing in the small peach grove.

With Hu Cai present today, Lin Yuan did not practice Snake Intent Fist; he didn't want too many people to know this secret.

Given Coach Hong's temperament, she probably wouldn't care where her boxing style came from.