The Great Martial Arts World: Hot Topics and Great Heroes

Chu Luren ignored her childish, self-comforting venting and instead focused on the "knowledge points" she mentioned.

It seems that the Xingxiu Sect not only uses "insects" to practice their skills, but their sect culture is also related to "insects"—there are no absolute natural enemies, whoever is stronger will eat whom!

This should also be the state of mind required by the "Dissolving Power Technique"?

"Hey... if you're going to use them, you'd better stop them quickly! They're about the same strength, and if they fight to the death, neither of them will be usable anymore." Azi pretended to be distressed.

At this moment, the spider and the centipede had already started fighting...

Upon hearing this, Chu Luren did not hesitate and grabbed both of them in his hands, one in each hand!

Azi grinned as she watched, thinking to herself: "You're acting like you know the 'Dissolving Power Technique'... You're in for a world of hurt soon enough."

The "Dissolving Power Technique" is similar to most poisonous martial arts. It has very low requirements for one's own aptitude, but it is easy to go into qi deviation and become possessed by evil spirits, and it relies on external objects.

At the same time, because the "Huagong Dafa" requires various insect poisons to maintain balance by using poison to fight poison, it requires extensive knowledge of toxicology!

One should be able to identify and know the characteristics of common and unusual insects and creatures. As for the countless subspecies, one should at least be able to infer their toxicity from their appearance and other observable features.

Azi has a solid grasp of this knowledge, which is why she is unwilling to give up the "Dissolving Power Technique"—if she were to switch to an internal skill of the same level, it would either require higher aptitude and mental fortitude, progress would be slow, or there would be other defects.

In her opinion, Chu Luren didn't understand anything about toxicology... or even had any common sense about it!

These are not mentioned in the inscriptions inside the Divine Wood King Cauldron. By acting so recklessly, he is destined to fail and suffer some hardship.

but……

Afterwards, Azi watched helplessly as Chu Luren held the two poisonous insects in his hands without using any skill. No matter how they bit, they could not damage Chu Luren's skin, and instead, they became more and more weak.

Completely unlike the normal detoxification process of the "Dissolving Power Technique," the spider curled up with its eight legs, and the centipede coiled up, both seemingly lifeless...

Chapter 355 Myriad Transformations True Qi

"Brother, let's give it a try." Chu Luren threw down the two "dregs" he was holding.

"Alright! Second brother, be careful!" Qiao Feng said, his right palm sweeping out, accompanied by a dragon-like sound of true energy friction, the dragon-shaped true energy palm force struck Chu Luren from two zhang away.

This move, packed with special effects, has changed somewhat from before.

Chu Luren could see that Qiao Feng's skill was also constantly improving!

After all, Qiao Feng is only in his early thirties...

Just the night before last, Chu Luren shared some key points of the Southern Dragon Subduing Technique and the Ancient Dragon Subduing Technique with Qiao Feng. However, it seems that Qiao Feng has already grasped some of the meaning in the past two days, and this palm strike already carries some significance.

Seeing this, Chu Luren also extended his right palm to meet it, but it was not a martial art like Guixu Jin, but the "authentic" Huagong Dafa!

Chu Luren blocked with his palm, and a hemispherical membrane of true energy formed about an inch away from his palm, completely blocking his front.

Qiao Feng's palm strike, coming straight at Chu Luren, was not only blocked upon contact with the membrane formed by the "Myriad Transformations True Qi," but also without any dissipation of true qi!

It was as if Chu Luren wasn't directly confronting Qiao Feng, but rather that Qiao Feng's palm strike power and inner energy were dissipating...

However, after the two had been locked in a stalemate for only a couple of breaths, Chu Luren could no longer hold on and was unable to continue deflecting Qiao Feng's palm strike. He was forced to take three steps back.

Fortunately, Qiao Feng stopped in time—he hadn't used his full strength to begin with, otherwise Chu Luren wouldn't have had his enlightenment, and the gap between the two would have been huge, so the experiment with the "Myriad Transformations True Qi" wouldn't have worked.

"Second brother, are you alright?" Qiao Feng asked hurriedly.

The Chu Lu people's persistence lasted even shorter than Qiao Feng had imagined!

"It's alright, this 'Dissolving Power Technique'... is a bit of a waste! I need to use six or seven parts of my Myriad Transformations True Qi to dissolve even one part of my elder brother's Dragon Subduing Palm power. My internal strength is already much weaker, so..." Chu Luren said, his face turning bluish, his palms as if stained with ink!

"Hey..." Qiao Feng was getting anxious.

Chu Luren closed his eyes, took a few deep breaths, and his complexion immediately returned to normal, and the strange phenomenon in his palm disappeared.

Ah Zi, who was waiting to see the excitement, couldn't help but show a look of surprise while feeling disappointed.

When Azi saw Qiao Feng's palm strike, she was already startled—was this the strength of Qiao Feng from the North? Indeed, it seemed... perhaps, maybe, probably stronger than Old Monster Ding?

This comparison is a bit beyond what Azi is capable of!

What surprised Azi even more was that Chu Luren actually used the unique Myriad Transformations True Qi of the "Dissolving Power Technique"...

Although it is still very basic, how can one completely transform their internal energy into Myriad Transformations True Qi without changing their cultivation level?

Furthermore, Chu Luren had clearly failed in the palm strike and suffered a backlash from the Wanhua True Qi under the impact of Qiao Feng's palm force. He should have been poisoned, so how did the remaining poison disappear in an instant?

Hearing Chu Luren's disdain for the "Transformation Technique," A Zi said somewhat indignantly, "It's not the problem with the Myriad Transformations True Qi, it's your problem! You only transformed two kinds of poisonous insects, and their toxicity is barely enough to be used for cultivation, so naturally it's very weak! If I had mastered it, even a fraction of the Myriad Transformations True Qi could neutralize ten parts of your palm strike!"

Chu Luren and Qiao Feng exchanged a glance, both convinced she was exaggerating—was Qiao Feng's Dragon Subduing Palm technique a joke? Leaving aside Qiao Feng's internal energy cultivation and palm technique skills, the Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms themselves were already quite difficult to erase…

Even when he was fighting Chu Luren just now, Qiao Feng did not use his full strength.

To divide it into ten parts...that's really bold of them!

Even if Ding Laoguai could split his attacks bit by bit against Qiao Feng, who was going all out, he still couldn't win. Qiao Feng's skill was even greater than Ding Laoguai's.

However, at the same time, the two of them roughly understood what Azi meant.

Although it's true that splitting one into ten is probably because Azi is ignorant and unwilling to accept that others say the "Dissolving Power Technique" is too weak, and is deliberately making a fuss, it is true that Chu Luren's current Myriad Transformations True Qi efficiency is too low because he has just entered the beginner level.

If Chu Luren had truly cultivated the "Dissolving Power Technique," his progress with these "two kinds of poisonous insects" would never have reached such a profound level of internal energy. The level of mastery of the "Dissolving Power Technique" is also closely related to the quantity and quality of the poisonous insects transformed.

What Chu Luren just used was actually "Myriad Transformations True Qi" simulated by "Chaotic True Qi"...

Before transforming into two poisonous insects, Chu Luren's simulated "Myriad Transformations True Qi" had little effect, just like when he could first simulate the Vermilion Toad True Qi, its poison-avoidance effect was also very weak.

After all, humans don't have poison glands, and without the help of venomous insects, they can't create something out of nothing...

The "Chaos Technique" can only make Chu Luren naturally suited to practicing poison techniques, but it cannot make him grow poison glands that humans do not have...

Chu Luren has not yet integrated the "Great Method of Transforming Power". The reason he was able to transform the poisonous insects is because Chu Luren used a more "effective" dual cultivation method - the Dao Embryo Releasing Calamity Scripture!

With the foundation of the "Divine Foot Scripture" in it, Chu Luren instantly fell asleep while completely absorbing the venom of the two poisonous insects. He then combined their venom to simulate the "True Qi of Myriad Transformations"...

The reason the backlash was instantly cured was precisely because Chu Luren instantly switched his "Myriad Transformations True Qi" to "Vermilion Toad True Qi".

Originally, "Zhuha True Qi" and "Wanhua True Qi" were a perfect match. If Chu Luren could directly reverse the poison resistance accumulated in "Zhuha True Qi" into the toxic components of "Wanhua True Qi", it would be at least equivalent to the minor success of "Huagong Dafa" or even reaching a higher level.

In terms of profound mystery, the "Dissolving Power Technique" is not as good as the original "Northern Darkness Divine Skill" and "Lesser Formless Skill," and is ultimately just a clever trick.

However, it does have some advantages in certain applications. For example, for the Chu Lu people, if the "Gui Xu" lineage were to incorporate the properties of "Wan Hua Zhen Qi", it would be even easier to deflect force.

The finger techniques of the "Bei Ming" lineage can also draw inspiration from its off-body manipulation techniques...

Unfortunately, this "Divine Wood King Cauldron" only contains the part about cultivating internal energy from the "Great Method of Transforming Power." It not only lacks the poison balancing method that the Chu Lu people do not need, but also lacks complementary techniques such as the "Corpse Poisoning Technique."

Of course, the "Divine Wood King Cauldron" itself is already a powerful weapon for the Chu Lu people to restrain Ding Chunqiu. Ding Chunqiu's poison skills mainly come from various poisonous insects. As long as the Chu Lu people use the Divine Wood King Cauldron to continuously attract poisonous insects and then forcibly dissolve them with the Dao Embryo, the Zhuha True Qi will naturally become more and more resistant to insect poisons...

However, how to completely bind the "Vermilion Toad True Qi" and the "Myriad Transformations True Qi" into two sides of the same coin, instead of imitating them separately as they are now, is still a problem that Chu Luren needs to solve.

Chapter 356 Split Up

With A'Zhu's mediation, Chu Luren was indeed not stingy and directly passed on several powerful martial arts techniques to A'Zi... In the opening chapter, Chu Luren mastered quite a few internal energy techniques that were even more profound than the "Dissolving Power Technique".

Not counting those that were integrated into the body, there were the *Northern Darkness Divine Art*, *Lesser Formless Art*, *Muscle/Tendon Changing Classic*, *Arhat Subduing Demon Art*, *Divine Foot Classic*, *Absorbing Power Technique*, *Indestructible Vajra Divine Art*, *Nine Yin Manual*, and so on...

This doesn't even include those things that shouldn't be shared, such as the internal skills of Quanzhen and Ancient Tomb sects, and the "Hun Yuan Gong" and "Star Absorbing Technique" taught to me by Mu Renqing and Ren Yingying.

Unfortunately, Azi's aptitude was decent, but she was not a prodigy, especially since her temperament was already unsettled.

Although she seemed very interested after learning that the "Northern Darkness Divine Art" was the ancestor of the "Dissolving Power Technique", unfortunately she knew nothing about Taoist principles and could not master it at all. The "Yi Jin Jing" and the like were useless even if she were killed.

As for quick and easy methods like the "Divine Foot Classic," Chu Luren didn't dare teach it either—his mind was already unsettled, and if he were to rush things further, problems would inevitably arise.

As for other superior internal skills, Azi either lacked the aptitude or the mental state. Even with the "Lingbo Weibu" movement-oriented internal skill, she couldn't even begin to learn it because she lacked common sense about the I Ching hexagrams—did you really think Duan Yu learned it all by luck? The fact that he instantly mastered "Lingbo Weibu" was also due to his usual accumulation of knowledge about the I Ching!

Chu Luren thought about it and realized that there really wasn't a cultivation method that could be simple, easy to learn, safe, and also allow for rapid progress!

Finally, Chu Luren reluctantly came up with a solution: to have her practice the "Tendon Changing and Bone Strengthening Chapter" of the Nine Yin Manual to gradually improve her aptitude.

For a martial arts prodigy with the talent and comprehension of A Zi, this is the most stable and promising path.

Of course, Chu Luren could tell from A Zi's obedient and hardworking appearance...

This little brat is probably still thinking about the "Dissolving Power Technique," and is just pretending to be well-behaved here.

"Deer Man, is Azi's 'Dissolving Power Technique' really okay?" Duan Zhengchun asked, still somewhat worried.

"Uncle Duan, don't worry. Azi has only just begun to learn the basics. The poison hasn't taken root yet. Theoretically, as long as she stops coming into contact with poisonous insects, her power will gradually decline. With the help of the Duan family's inner cultivation method, the shallow foundation of that 'Dissolving Power Technique' can be naturally erased." Chu Luren said, combining his understanding of the "Dissolving Power Technique".

Once you've achieved a certain level of proficiency, there's no chance to give up. If you don't absorb new poisonous insects for a while, you risk being devoured by them, and your death will be extremely gruesome!

As for those who have just entered the beginner level, the poison itself has not penetrated into the whole body's organs, and... the "Dissolving Power Technique" can dissolve other internal forces, and correspondingly other internal forces can also "dissolve" it. Practicing some stable techniques is enough to eradicate it.

Actually, "Quanzhenxin Fa" is more suitable, but "Quanzhenxin Fa" was taught to Chu Luren by the Quanzhen School, not learned by Chu Luren through his own abilities, so it would not be passed on to outsiders without authorization.

"Azi, will you return to Dali with Prince Duan, or will you go north with me and Azhu first?" Qiao Feng asked Azi.

Duan Zhengchun wanted to say, "I don't want to go back to Dali yet," but he didn't say it out loud.

Azi kept shaking her head and said, "I don't want to go, I don't want to go, I want to go to Fuzhou!"

She had already found out where Chu Luren was going...

"Nonsense! The Deer Man has important business to attend to. If you don't want to go back to Dali, then go north with your brother-in-law. Even the Starry Night Monster can't do anything to you there," Duan Zhengchun quickly scolded.

Chu Luren glanced at Duan Zhengchun in surprise—when did Uncle Duan become so considerate? Is he worried that Azi will cause trouble for me?

“That’s right, I haven’t been able to stay calm on this journey, Azi, don’t make things worse.” Chu Luren has the treasure map of the “Southern Heaven Treasure” and is also preparing to deal with the provocations of evil masters. Moreover, once they arrive in Fuzhou, Chu Luren estimates that it won’t be easy for Xiao Linzi to retrieve the “Evil-Repelling Sword Technique”.

Azi's eyes darted around and she said, "Then don't regret it. When we get further south, there will be plenty of poisonous insects that are hard to deal with. Don't use the King's Cauldron and end up in a mess. Besides, many poisonous insects can't be simply 'dissolved'. And Old Monster Ding has many strange methods that you don't even know about!"

Upon hearing this, Chu Luren hesitated for a moment, and A Zhu then said, "Why don't we trouble Second Brother first?"

Chu Luren has been promoted to "Second Brother".

A'Zhu also saw through her younger sister's nature—if she were to follow her or go to Dali, she would probably secretly leave and follow Chu Luren later!

It's better to let the vixen have her own Tai Sui to deal with her...

"This..." Duan Zhengchun hesitated for a moment after hearing this.

I glanced at Wang Yuyan, then at Mu Wanqing…

However, at this moment, Murong Jiu interjected, "Your Highness, rest assured, Young Master Chu and I will do our best to protect your daughter's safety!"

Upon hearing this, Chu Luren gave her a strange look—"Are you giving up? What's the point of trying to please Azi? Even if you want to marry Azi, do you think she'll help you?"

However, the person Chu Luren hesitated the most was actually Murong Jiu. After all, it's better to have fewer people know about Xiao Jiu Jiu's affairs, especially with A Zi's personality. If she accidentally let it slip, Murong Jiu might have a headache.

If Murong Jiu herself isn't worried, then Chu Luren has even less reason to worry.