Chapter 22: Jade Flute Sword, every move strikes empty; Palm force, every palm strikes empty

"What nonsense are you talking about? In the whole world, I only have you as a daughter." Huang Yaoshi frowned slightly.

After hearing this, Huang Rong looked suspicious:

"Then, it's one thing that he looks like you, but how does he know your unique hidden weapon 'Bone-Attached Needle', even 'Flicking Finger Divine Skill', and he can even see through every move of mine?"

Huang Yaoshi's brows furrowed even deeper:

"After I married your mother, I only gave birth to you as a daughter. Besides, I have always lived on Peach Blossom Island and have never left the island. You know that. Your father once swore to create the internal energy foundation of the upper volume from the lower volume of the 'Nine Yin Manual'. If I don't practice the martial arts recorded in the manual, I will not take a step out of Peach Blossom Island."

"Then how did this happen?" Huang Rong suddenly remembered something and muttered in disbelief:

"Could it be as he said before, coming from forty years ago?"

Huang Yaoshi clearly heard this sentence, but how could anyone believe such a fantasy?

"I don't know how you fell out with your family in this world. Let me think about myself."

The green-robed youth suddenly said without beginning or end:

"Generations of high-ranking families, scholarly families, all generations are noble literary officials in the dynasty. If they hadn't been framed by treacherous officials, they wouldn't have left the court. This is family background."

"Since I was young, I have been weak and sickly, and was named Yaoshi by my parents. Later, I became a doctor through long illness and never had to eat the so-called miraculous medicine prescribed by those quack doctors."

"At thirteen, as my body became much better, that father who was determined to bring glory to the family told me to focus on the imperial examination and achieve fame, which is the right path."

"I said directly, if a person has no dreams, how is it different from being carefree?"

"The greatest pleasure in this life is to be a carefree Peach Blossom Immortal."

Hearing this, Huang Rong "puffed" and laughed, thinking to herself:

"It has to be him!"

The others were confused, only Huang Yaoshi continued to listen with a blank expression.

"Furthermore, what is the imperial examination?"

"In a peaceful and prosperous age, the world is the world of the dignitaries. When the country is not a country, the world is instead the people's. But when it is prosperous, the common people have no share, and when it is in danger and needs salvation, the common people are responsible."

"The cattle and horses of the prosperous age, the cannon fodder of the chaotic age, squeezing their strength in peace, using their lives in war—how ridiculous."

"Tsk tsk, once these words were spoken, that was it. They felt that my previous perverse and arrogant personality, at least, would not implicate the family, but now this rampant and rebellious heart is deeply afraid that the Huang family will not be exterminated."

"Finally, they insisted on me admitting my mistake. If I didn't admit it, they would treat me as if they didn't have this rebellious son, but I said another sentence that added fuel to the fire."

Zhuang Buran said leisurely:

"I reflect on myself three times a day; I am not wrong."

These words made the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan and others feel that they were challenging their own sense of loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness, but in Huang Rong's eyes, it was very interesting.

"In the past, although I also fell out with my family, it was because of anger, and I was not the only child in the family." Huang Yaoshi's face was calm.

"About the same." Zhuang Buran nodded:

"After traveling in the Jianghu for some days, the things that martial arts practitioners love to see came. In the East Sea, I discovered various remnants of martial arts unique skills."

"The East Sea you mentioned, could it be on Peach Blossom Island?" Huang Rong couldn't help but ask.

Zhuang Buran said somewhat regretfully:

"I don't know which senior expert placed many martial arts on that island, carving them on the stone walls of the mountain cave."

"Unfortunately, when I discovered them, most of them were eroded, so I had to use this as a basis to create various martial arts that fit my own heart."

"If it's really as you say, no wonder you knew my various moves like the back of your hand before." Huang Rong paused:

"However, since you have the same experience as my father, why are your martial arts paths so different now?"

"As the saying goes, a miss is as good as a mile. Since I cured my stubborn illness, I wanted my body to be healthier. When traveling in the Jianghu, I gained many physical strengthening skills."

Zhuang Buran smiled lazily:

"With this, the martial arts paths are naturally very different. Having said so much, it is ultimately better to see the truth in the hands."

"After all, words can deceive people, but the martial arts in the hands cannot deceive people."

He bowed his hands nonchalantly:

"In this world, my name is Zhuang Buran, and I am willing to learn from the Eastern Heretic."

Huang Yaoshi signaled Huang Rong to walk aside and then said:

"At your age, do you think you can beat me?"

"Father, don't underestimate him. Some time ago, he fought Hong Qigong for two or three hundred rounds and didn't fall behind." Huang Rong reminded hurriedly.

"Northern Beggar Hong Qi?" Huang Yaoshi was surprised.

"That's right, the two of them fought for more than a month and didn't decide the winner. Not only that, this surnamed Zhuang also took the opportunity to steal the 'Dragon Subduing Eighteen Palms' from Qigong."

Huang Rong was afraid that her father would have a sense of contempt and lose to the green-robed youth, so she kept telling him what she knew:

"He has both a hard skill that is impervious to swords and spears, and thirty or forty years of extremely pure cultivation."

"Qigong once sighed that I fear that in two or three years, if he fights him again, he will lose more than he wins."

After these words were said, the eyes of the people present changed again and again, not knowing how much more complicated they were.

"Is there anything else you haven't said? Feel free to say it, Zhuang doesn't care." Zhuang Buran said calmly.

"Father, he also has..."

Huang Rong didn't know what politeness was at all, but just as she was about to continue, she was interrupted by Huang Yaoshi:

"I suppose it is because Brother Qi has been slack these years, to the point that he couldn't even beat a youth under twenty. It seems that next year's Mount Hua Sword Discussion will be my time to dominate."

"Good, your posture of boasting and being arrogant has quite a bit of Zhuang's style." Zhuang Buran laughed and clapped.

"Rebellious."

Huang Yaoshi darted out silently, his jade flute swung out, striking directly at Zhuang Buran's vital points on his chest.

Zhuang Buran shifted his feet, used 'Lingbo Micro-steps', and dodged this attack gracefully.

Immediately, Huang Yaoshi used the flute as a sword. The sword style was elegant and handsome, specifically striking all the major acupoints of the body, which couldn't help but dazzle the bystanders. Internally, there was another sticky force, occasionally launching surprise attacks.

Everyone only saw the green-robed youth's movement technique was extremely miraculous. Between the ethereal and dusty steps, he easily dodged Huang Yaoshi's moves.

At this time, a mocking voice appeared:

"So this is the 'Jade Flute Sword Technique', so-so, nothing more than this."

Huang Yaoshi's eyes condensed slightly. The moment his right hand struck the sword, his left hand suddenly patted, and a fierce and peerless palm force launched a pincer attack on the green-robed youth from front and back.

Zhuang Buran stumbled, appearing to be about to fall, but he slanted half a step to the left and dodged it again.

Huang Yaoshi didn't care, his offensive became more fierce, his right hand using 'Jade Flute Sword Technique', his left hand using 'Palm Force', but he was still dodged by the green-robed youth again and again.

"Jade Flute Sword, every move strikes empty; Palm force, every palm strikes empty."

Zhuang Buran suddenly made a move:

"Let me teach you how to use palm force."

With a few "whoosh" sounds, seven or eight fierce palm forces struck directly at Huang Yaoshi's body.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 23 =====