Chapter 26: Zhuang Buran keeps his word

"What do you mean?"

Zhou Botong scratched the back of his head: "Don't tell me you have learned them all?"

Zhuang Buran smiled without saying a word, set up his fist stance, and at first, he was still practicing 'Empty Bright Fist' move by move, but after practicing twenty or thirty roads, he actually looked very proficient.

Zhou Botong watched the green-robed youth's posture of learning as soon as he saw it and becoming proficient as soon as he practiced, and was directly stunned in place.

It wasn't that he hadn't seen geniuses, and he himself could be called a person of excellent aptitude, but he presumed that even an existence like the Five Greats could not reach the level of twenty years of experience in the first learning.

Zhuang Buran finished practicing the fist technique, and then showed the 'Lüshuang Pojing Palm' that he had practiced for more than twenty years, and then turned 'One Qi Transforms Three Pure Ones' and 'Quanzhen Sword Technique' into two finger techniques.

Zhou Botong was stunned again and again, but he was naturally naughty and playful. He didn't care if people scolded him or angered him, and he didn't take it to heart if people loved him or pampered him. He thought it was very interesting.

"As the saying goes, if the army is strong, it will be destroyed; if the wood is strong, it will be broken. The firm and strong are below, and the soft and weak are above." Zhuang Buran stood still and smiled:

"Zhuang is particularly good at fist and foot skills. The martial arts I practice all grasp the true meaning of 'the highest good is like water', so I can understand the key points as soon as I see the many skills you taught."

"Is that so? I don't believe it." Zhou Botong laughed, made a face, and his expression was very funny:

"I have a skill that is impossible for someone as smart as you to learn."

He waved his hand:

"For someone like you who has a deep mind and thinks a lot, no matter what you encounter, I fear that thousands of thoughts will turn in your heart."

While Zhou Botong was speaking, he set up a strange attack stance, and his left and right hands suddenly started fighting, and the left attack and right defense were fought very fiercely.

Zhuang Buran's eyes condensed, and he saw that his fist technique was strange and mysterious, unimaginable. Between mutual attack and defense, every move and every style was attacking his own vital points, and at the same time, he was solving the moves attacked by his other hand. He understood in his heart that this was the 'Left and Right Mutual Combat Technique'.

"For these years, I have been staying in the cave without any trivial matters, so I have been practicing martial arts wholeheartedly. But practicing alone, although I know I have made great progress, I suffer from the situation of having no one to dismantle moves, so I had to let my left hand and right hand fight."

Zhou Botong finished his stance and laughed:

"I don't know how I practiced this skill. Do you think you can learn it?"

"If I learn it, what will you do?" Zhuang Buran asked back with a smile.

"You wouldn't want to plot for my 'Nine Yin Manual'?" Zhou Botong suddenly looked vigilant.

"Hahaha, it doesn't matter about your 'Nine Yin Manual'. Anyway, it can be considered that I took advantage of it. So whether I can learn it or not, I will give you something that will make you overjoyed."

Zhuang Buran raised his hand to signal:

"Please teach me."

Zhou Botong chuckled. He had a child's temper and liked to play the most in his life. And betting and competing with others was endless fun for him, and he had a strong desire to win and would not stop until he won.

Therefore, he really didn't believe it. This green-robed youth looked like Huang Laoxie's ghost-like personality, how could he learn it.

"Don't worry, Old Urchin always keeps his word. If you can really learn it, I will teach you a few more skills."

After Zhou Botong said this, he walked over:

"Commonly, people only know that sitting quietly and breathing is the work of advancing virtue, but they don't know that the superior person, round and clear, practices both body and use, moving and quiet, even if disturbed, it is peaceful."

"Come, you pick up two dry tree branches and draw on the ground to let me see if you have the aptitude to practice this skill."

Zhuang Buran's mouth curled up, he squatted on the ground, picked up two dry tree branches at will, and drew a square and a circle at the same time on the ground in one go with his left and right hands.

"This..."

Zhou Botong's jaw dropped instantly.

"Not to mention that Zhuang often practices the observation method of calming the heart and guarding the intention, and when practicing martial arts, my state of mind is clear and transparent, without any other thoughts, which can be said to be crystal clear, unstained by dust."

"Furthermore, I know some Daoist internal energy methods of calming the heart and guarding the quiet, so how can I not use one heart for two, or even three or four."

"Okay, it was Old Urchin who underestimated you."

Zhou Botong didn't say much and passed on the key points of the 'Left and Right Mutual Combat Technique'.

"Didn't you just say that you are a martial arts genius who learns as soon as you see it and becomes proficient as soon as you practice? Why don't we play a game of four people fighting? You and I have one person on the left hand and one person on the right hand. Four hands are four people. Four people don't help each other and have a melee. It must be very interesting."

After speaking, one of his palm forces was soft but exquisite and sharp, and one hand brought a fist wind with softness and toughness to hit Zhuang Buran.

The green-robed youth was not in a hurry, using Dragon Palm in one hand and Empty Brightness in the other to parry. Zhou Botong suddenly let out a strange cry, and his left hand fought his own right hand with Zhuang Buran's two hands.

Zhuang Buran saw that his right hand couldn't parry, so his own left hand became an ally with him. After twenty or thirty rounds, Zhou Botong's left hand jumped back, instantly turning into a siege of three people.

The two went back and forth, fighting thousands of moves purely with moves, and only then did they stop.

"Brother, your talent is truly rare." Zhou Botong seemed to have figured out something and asked excitedly:

"Could it be because of your extraordinary talent that you got the favor of the Five Greats, and that's why..."

He shook his head busily when he said this:

"No, no, to say that old beggar and Huang Laoxie, it is possible to pass on your martial arts. If it is the old poison, you don't have the surname Ouyang, why would he pass it to you."

"Based on Zhuang's comprehension and martial arts, why do I need others to pass it on? Can't I rely on my own ability?"

Zhuang Buran had a lazy look:

"The Western Poison's descendant ran to the Central Capital to work for the Zhao Wangfu, and happened to run into my hands, so I obtained the 'Toad Technique'. It shouldn't be too difficult."

"I fought with the Northern Beggar for more than a month, and his 'Dragon Subduing Eighteen Palms' was struck thousands of times in front of me. If I still couldn't learn it like this, I would just find a piece of tofu and hit myself to death."

"The Southern Emperor's disciple fell in love with the adopted daughter he raised since childhood, so he went to cause trouble at the wedding. It happened that he ran into my hands again. As the saying goes, if heaven gives it and you don't take it, you will suffer the blame. The 'One Finger Art' was also obtained."

"As for the Eastern Heretic's 'Flicking Finger Divine Skill', Zhuang was Huang Yaoshi when he was young. I don't know how I came to forty years later. It is only natural that I know this skill."

"What?"

Zhou Botong felt it was fun at first, but when he heard the end, he couldn't believe his ears. He couldn't help but turn around the green-robed youth again and again.

"Eh, it really looks more and more like it. If he weren't younger and taller, saying you are Huang Laoxie wouldn't be too much."

He stood in front of the green-robed youth, chanting:

"If it is as you said, no wonder that little girl never said you existed."

"Believe it or not, I said I would give you something that would make you overjoyed, so I must give it to you."

Zhuang Buran flicked his sleeve, and Zhou Botong took it.

He looked at the thing that was like cloth but not cloth, like leather but not leather, with some doubt, and saw it was full of words. He stared at it and found that it was full of the mysteries and formulas of practicing martial arts. After reading ten or twenty words, he knew that this was actually the scripture of the 'Nine Yin Manual'.

Zhou Botong raised his head in astonishment and looked at the green-robed youth, only to see him smiling lightly and breezy:

"Is it overjoyed?"

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