Chapter 580: Collecting Martial Arts!

Wu Pifu did not leave immediately.

For one thing, there was still enough time; for another, he did indeed owe Huang Rong an answer.

"Good!"

Huang Yaoshi exclaimed loudly, "Having love and righteousness, having persistence and morality—even if there are millions, I will go! My disciple Pifu, go ahead!"

"Father!!"

Huang Rong immediately shouted at Huang Yaoshi, tears falling in large drops again.

Huang Yaoshi, however, said to Huang Rong with a serious face, "Rong'er, don't be presumptuous! Although I haven't been to the Heaven beyond Heaven, listening to your explanation, I know how sinister that environment is. The human race is truly walking on thin ice there. This is a reenactment of the past story of our human race rising from the wilderness. Our ancestors also walked in rags, and I don't know how many sacrifices and how much heroic spirit it took to have the reality of our human race spreading across the earth today. My disciple is truly magnificent!!"

Huang Rong cried loudly, "Father! What's magnificent about it? That woman is clearly ill-intentioned, using words to squeeze Brother Pifu! If the Heaven beyond Heaven loses Brother Pifu, humanity will lose one of its three pillars! That woman is too bad; she must be a spy from a foreign race, or fighting for power and profit... Brother Pifu, don't go!"

Huang Yaoshi said angrily, "In this situation, how can you let the private feelings of children ruin a man's magnificent journey!? Hu Nao, truly nonsense!"

Wu Pifu listened quietly from the side.

This was indeed something Huang Yaoshi would say and do.

In the original text of *The Legend of the Condor Heroes*, Huang Yaoshi had always looked down on Guo Jing, thinking he was dull, stupid, and not handsome. The key was that he was also pedantic and boring. He was very much against Huang Rong being with Guo Jing.

But later, when Guo Jing defended Xiangyang, acting as a hero for the country and the people, he admired him very much. Although he didn't say it, he was quite proud. Only then did he truly regard Guo Jing as a worthy son-in-law, and he helped Guo Jing secretly many times. Even later, when Yang Guo became the Hero of the Condor Heroes, he helped Guo Jing face the Mongol army at the most critical moment together with Yang Guo.

Huang Yaoshi admired this kind of heroic spirit from the bottom of his heart!

At this time, Hong Qigong also said from the side, "Listening to what Rong'er said, the Heavenly Man is truly a great man, rushing into fire and water for his partners, and not wanting to implicate the human race, causing many weak people to die in vain. That's why he made the decision to fight alone. Rong'er should also support him."

"You, you... Wah!"

Although Huang Rong was intelligent, she couldn't say anything at this time and could only cry loudly.

In fact, although the culture was different, the era was different, and the information was different, the meaning of Huang Yaoshi and Hong Qigong was very clear.

Salute to those who go to their deaths!

This was actually the biggest difference between men and women. Who was right and who was wrong wasn't so absolute, but from the perspective of Huang Yaoshi and Hong Qigong, if they knew how to describe it, they would definitely say this was a man's ultimate romance.

After crying, Huang Rong's face became determined. She wiped her tears hard and said loudly to Wu Pifu, "Brother Pifu wants to die, and you definitely won't take me with you, right? Fine! Brother Pifu, I will wait for you here for a year. If you don't come within a year, I will go to the Yellow Springs to find you. If you haven't died but were delayed by something and only come after a year, then Brother Pifu, you must resurrect me!"

Wu Pifu lowered his head slightly, truly moved in his heart.

Since he was awakened from the old-style cryogenic sleep by the Human Unified Government and treated for his terminal illness and the trauma suffered during the old-style cryogenic sleep, he signed a maintenance personnel agreement. Since then, he had fallen into cryogenic sleep again. Fortunately, this time the cryogenic sleep was new-style. After his mental consciousness gradually awakened, he would also perform alternative sleep in a personalized virtual space.

After that, it was everything he experienced. The maintenance personnel agreement was activated. After awakening, he found that the entire Gaia had undergone drastic changes. The Dream World was born, and he had no choice but to follow his predecessors into the Dream World to struggle for survival. At that time, there was no Land of Redemption, and Chu Minghao was nowhere to be seen. It could be said that every time he entered the Dream World, he was gambling with his life.

And later, all the old predecessors died. He met the little mute woman in a desperate situation. That was the first time he had such an intense bond with an "NPC" in the Dream World. The little mute woman died for him in the end, which was also the reason he felt he must resurrect her. After that, Jiu Jiu, Daphne, Beelzebub, and the Golden Tree—these all became his companions and followed him all the way...

Although he always said things like "sleeping with Jiu Jiu after she turned into a human" or "marrying them all," he always felt that these were actually very far away from him. The three pendants were less like "child brides" he was raising and more like partners he wanted by his side...

And Huang Rong before him was truly an accident among accidents. He met her in a situation he never expected, and then unknowingly came to the present...

Unlike his companions, Huang Rong was the first to make him feel that this woman was not just a companion...

It was just that the beauty's kindness was heavy, and he didn't know how to repay it.

"Good."

Wu Pifu stood up. He looked at the sky and said, "If I don't die this time, I will definitely come back to find you within a year. If I haven't died but have been delayed, I will definitely resurrect you. This word... this promise!"

Huang Yaoshi and Hong Qigong were simply stunned. They looked at each other and saw horror in each other's eyes.

It wasn't just the Heaven beyond Heaven, and it wasn't just the Heavenly Man—did you two just mention... resurrection?

Huang Yaoshi's eyes were suddenly incomparably excited, but this was not the time to ask. He endured the excitement in his heart, and then heard Huang Rong immediately say, "Don't go! Brother Pifu is very stupid and easily deceived. If you go alone, I won't be at ease at all, so I want to help you study it!"

Wu Pifu thought for a moment, and considering Huang Rong's "wise" attribute, he nodded, "Fine. You help me study it too."

Huang Rong then broke into a smile, although the smile was very reluctant. She pulled Wu Pifu to sit down and said to Huang Yaoshi and Hong Qigong, "Father and Seven Beggar, help us study it together."

After the two nodded, Huang Rong said to herself, "Brother Pifu, does the martial arts of this world improve your strength a lot?"

Wu Pifu said, "Yes, it improves me a lot. But in fact, the most important thing is to let me obtain internal energy. As for the difference in internal cultivation methods, it may only have reference significance for me. Because listening to Rong'er, the difference in internal energy is mainly the amount of internal energy that can be condensed every day, the strength of the quality of internal energy, and very few internal cultivation methods carry different attributes. For me, the amount of internal energy and the strength of the quality of internal energy are not very significant. On the contrary, the different attributes carried by internal cultivation methods are very valuable to me. Besides these, the efficiency and methods of using internal energy are also estimated to be improved for me. For example, the Seven Beggar's Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms improve me a lot."

Huang Rong's martial arts were weak, and she didn't understand these deeply. But Huang Yaoshi and Hong Qigong were the peaks of the martial dao in this world. Although Wu Pifu's terminology was strange, the two thought about it slightly and understood Wu Pifu's meaning.

Compared to Hong Qigong seeing Wu Pifu lift a water tornado with one hand, Huang Yaoshi didn't know much about Wu Pifu's strength. Currently, he only knew that his strength was very strong and he could fly, but he didn't know how strong he was. So he pondered for a moment and asked, "That is to say, the special techniques of internal energy improve you a lot... How big is the improvement, and how much does it help you on this trip?"

Wu Pifu pondered silently. After a moment, he shook his head and said, "My trip is very dangerous, so I can't say for sure how much it helps. But the improvement to my strength is at least calculated by doubling... Let me demonstrate for the two of you."

Huang Yaoshi and Hong Qigong both nodded. Wu Pifu stood up and faced the lake. He struck out with a palm casually, and the lake more than ten meters away suddenly exploded with a splash. Huang Yaoshi and Hong Qigong were both shocked and moved.

This was not a solid, flesh-to-flesh attack, but a long-range palm strike through the air—the so-called "Empty-Splitting Palm." Even for the two of them, the world's Five Greats, they could at most strike out three or four meters; the power would at most knock someone back or stun the weak. Moreover, the further it traveled, the more the power decayed. At five meters away, it would likely be nothing more than a light breeze. It was fundamentally impossible to create such a massive spray of water from over a dozen meters away; this power was at least ten times greater than theirs.

But Wu Pifu's next words made them feel that all the martial arts they had learned in their lives were garbage.

"This is my normal, casual strike."

"Then, this is my full-power attack without using internal energy."

Wu Pifu began to move his *Qi* and blood, mobilizing his blood and *Qi*. A wave of air erupted from his body. Huang Yaoshi and Hong Qigong saw a straight white smoke rising from Wu Pifu's body, like a wolf-smoke rising straight into the sky a thousand meters high. Then Wu Pifu struck a palm toward the lake. When the palm struck, Huang Yaoshi and Hong Qigong only felt dizzy, because under this palm, they instinctively felt that the palm's weight was a thousand times, and each force was subdivided into countless parts. At the same time, the force itself seemed to be a living thing, changing constantly.

With one palm strike, heaven and earth were shocked. Suddenly, like a thunderclap on dry land, a wave of water from the lake shore where the palm struck retreated, turning into a hundred-meter giant wave that rolled to the other end. Half of the lake exploded toward the opposite shore, directly collapsing and destroying the dam on the opposite shore.

"Then, this is my full-power attack using internal energy, without using the moves of the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms."

While Wu Pifu was speaking, he was about to use his internal energy. These words made Hong Qigong and Huang Yaoshi feel so shocked they were about to die. Both of them shouted at the same time, "Stop, Heavenly Man (my disciple), stop!"

Wu Pifu looked at the two in confusion. Hong Qigong asked first, "May I ask, Heavenly Man, how much internal energy do you have?"

This was originally a taboo in the martial arts world, but it didn't matter to Wu Pifu. Before he could answer, Huang Rong said proudly from the side, "Brother Pifu has thirty *jiazi* (60-year cycles) of pure internal energy!"

What!?

Thirty *jiazi*? Pure internal energy?

The combination of these two terms brought a kind of indescribable, grotesque feeling to Hong Qigong and Huang Yaoshi.

The two were silent for a long, long time. Then they looked at each other, and Hong Qigong said first, "Since that's the case, the *Nine Yin Manual*, which we see as a supreme treasure, is truly useless."

Huang Yaoshi nodded in agreement. Then their eyes lit up at the same time, and they said the same martial art in unison: "... Six Meridian Divine Sword?"

The two laughed heartily at the same time. Hong Qigong immediately said to Wu Pifu, "The old beggar can finally repay the Heavenly Man's kindness of teaching martial arts... Knowing that the Heavenly Man is in a hurry, the old beggar will whip his horse to Dali in the south to seek the sword manual of the Six Meridian Divine Sword for the Heavenly Man!"

Huang Yaoshi also said, "Then I will go to the Shaolin Temple and the Chongyang Palace. These two places also have many special moves and techniques, as well as internal cultivation methods with special attributes."

Both looked at Wu Pifu. Huang Rong ran to Wu Pifu's side and held his arm, "Brother Pifu, what are your plans?"

Wu Pifu saw the determined expressions of Huang Yaoshi and Hong Qigong, and saw Huang Rong's full expectation. He was moved and guilty in his heart. After a moment, he said, "I also have martial arts I want to collect. I am prepared to go there myself. This set of martial arts might be the most suitable for me, but I will only know after I obtain it."

All three were curious. However, Huang Yaoshi and Hong Qigong naturally couldn't ask more. Only Huang Rong was uninhibited and asked directly, "What martial arts does Brother Pifu want?"

"... Dragon-Elephant Prajna Art!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 581 =====