Chapter 38

"Senior Brother!" The next day, Xiong Duoduo ran to Su Fan's courtyard and pestered him.

As one of Xiong Qingyuan's two disciples, Xiong Duoduo's status among the Huashan Sect inner sect disciples was not low.

And with Su Fan's constant guidance and resource provision, Xiong Duoduo's progress over these years was not small. He was only sixteen or seventeen, but his internal cultivation had already reached the third-class level.

The Primordial Technique had also been cultivated to the second layer and was heading towards the third layer.

"You kid, not practicing martial arts properly, what are you doing running here?"

Su Fan looked at this guy, who seemed to have gained some weight. His originally handsome face was slowly starting to lose its shape. Clearly, during the year or so he was away, without his supervision, this guy had become somewhat complacent.

"Uh! Senior Brother."

Hearing Su Fan's words, Xiong Duoduo, who was originally somewhat excited, instantly remembered Su Fan's previous supervision of him and smiled sheepishly.

"Come over! Let me see your progress this year."

After speaking, he stepped forward, his figure like a lone goose flying, and he directly approached, his large palm slapping through the air.

The air vibrated, and a palm wind struck.

"Ah!"

Facing Su Fan's sudden attack, Xiong Duoduo was first panicked, but conditioned reflexively, he also gathered his energy and struck out a palm.

Bang! The two palms met, and amidst the surging internal energy, Xiong Duoduo's whole body shook, and he was forced back several steps.

"Wow! Senior Brother, you bully me as soon as you come back."

Xiong Duoduo's face was somewhat flushed.

"Hmm! Not bad, internal energy has improved." Su Fan naturally would not indulge him, and he also knew this guy was deliberately acting. He had just made a move while holding back his strength.

He also felt the internal energy in the other party's body. This year, he had not been lazy, just not progressing as fast as before.

It was also because of those three years of cultivation; he dragged him to cultivate at the peak of the mountain every day. Although the latter did not have the same cultivation time as him, compared to other inner sect disciples, he had persisted in diligent cultivation for three years, so his progress was naturally fast.

Sixteen or seventeen years old, having third-class internal cultivation—placed in the inner sect, it also belonged to the top-tier level.

"However, your progress has slowed down. Have you been lazy? I tell you, before you are twenty, if your internal energy does not reach second-class, I will definitely make you look good. Don't even think about eating another bite of delicious food in the future."

"Don't! Senior Brother, I know I was wrong. I will definitely cultivate diligently in the future."

Xiong Duoduo heard this and was instantly anxious, hurriedly saying.

This guy was a super foodie, and many of the dishes in Su Fan's restaurant came from later generations. Although the seasonings could not compare to later generations, the dishes made were definitely rare treasures of the world.

Naturally, Xiong Duoduo fell in love with them and could not leave them. He even specially invited a chef from the Su Family Restaurant to the mountain.

"Hmph! You know it's wrong. I tell you, be careful."

Su Fan glared fiercely at the other party.

In the following days, Su Fan stayed on the mountain peak where his master was, practicing martial arts, or went to the Hidden Scripture Cave of the Huashan Sect to flip through secret manuals and classics.

There were thousands of books in the Hidden Scripture Cave of the Huashan Sect, some of which were martial arts, and some were Daoist classics or other Confucian classics.

There were even some Buddhist classics.

Unfortunately, after flipping through them all, Su Fan did not find any divine skill hidden within.

"It seems that the 'Xiantian Skill', Wang Zhongyang truly did not pass it down." The classics on the Huashan Sect side were half moved from the Quanzhen Sect.

Since there was no record, it meant it was truly not passed down.

"What a pity, Hao Datong did not leave behind many martial arts of the Quanzhen Sect." Su Fan secretly felt it was a pity. As the number one sect back then, the foundation of the Quanzhen Sect was indeed not low, and it possessed quite a few profound martial arts.

The number one martial art was definitely Wang Zhongyang's "Xiantian Skill". Unfortunately, this martial art seemed to have not been left behind by Wang Zhongyang at all.

The reason for not leaving it behind was first that this martial art seemed too advanced, and ordinary people could not cultivate it; the second was the fear of being targeted by others.

But other martial arts, Hao Datong did not bring them over—that was truly unreasonable. Daoist Ma Yu's "Jinguan Suoyu Formula" was definitely a profound internal martial art, definitely not worse than the current Huashan Sect's Primordial Technique, and perhaps even no less than the Zixia Divine Skill.

In the book "Legend of the Condor Heroes", although Daoist Ma Yu had always been considered a side character, his strength was not even comparable to Changchun Zhenren Qiu Chuji.

But the book also introduced that among the Quanzhen Seven, in terms of internal energy cultivation alone, he was number one. Secondly, Guo Jing only followed him to learn this martial art for two years, and his internal energy increased greatly, and his strength also increased greatly. Before that, for more than ten years, he was not even considered unranked.

This "Jinguan Suoyu Formula" was truly a martial arts treasure of Daoist dual cultivation of life and nature. Not leaving it behind was also a huge loss. If this internal cultivation method could be passed to the Huashan Sect, the foundation of the Huashan Sect would be even greater.

As for other sword techniques and palm techniques, they were all very regrettable.

Flipping through Daoist classics for several days, even with a cheat, it deepened Su Fan's understanding of Daoist classics, but wanting to learn what Huang Shang realized—the "Nine Yin Manual"—was impossible.

Su Fan also knew that Huang Shang could realize the "Nine Yin Manual" was first because of his extraordinary comprehension, and secondly because he read ten thousand volumes of Daoist classics. There must have been some Daoist secret manuals for nourishing the body and refining the spirit in those Daoist classics.

Otherwise, just pure Daoist classics, it was impossible to realize it. This was not a fantasy immortal world where if you were given a Dao Te Ching, you could realize the Dao and become an immortal.

Pure classics only allowed you to perceive some principles of the sages. Of course, cultivating one's character and nourishing one's nature was indeed not bad.

If Su Fan could calm down and read Daoist classics for two years, Su Fan's realm would probably increase greatly, and at that time, martial arts cultivation breakthrough would be even easier.

After all, most of the Huashan Sect's martial arts were related to Daoism. From the occasional mentions of some artistic conceptions by the predecessors of the past generations, it was clear that this was very important.

True martial arts grandmasters were not reckless men; instead, they were a group of great scholars who had read many books.

Sanfeng Zhenren did not need to be mentioned.

In the Condor Heroes world, among the Five Greats, which one was illiterate? That Eastern Heretic, although both righteous and evil, was originally from a literary background.

That is, Hong Qi might be a reckless man, but if that were true, his martial arts realm might be the lowest.

It was just that this artistic conception was too far away for Su Fan now. He was only a second-class martial artist, not even reaching the Small Heavenly Circuit.

So Su Fan was not in a hurry for the time being. Rice had to be eaten one mouthful at a time. He only needed to know that this artistic conception was important.

It seemed to be related to that breakthrough to the Innate realm.

Su Fan had been quite comfortable these days, but the elders of the Huashan Sect were different.

For several days in a row, they were arguing back and forth. As for what they were arguing about, it went without saying—of course, it was for the Huashan Sect Sect Leader successor.

Both the Qi Sect and the Sword Sect wanted to push their own disciples to become the Sect Leader successor.

Everyone had selfish motives.