Chapter 120

In the Wuzheng Office courtyard, Lin Chen looked at the note in his hand and said to Gu Shan and Fu Ang: "Two Junior Brothers, I need to go out."

Hearing that Lin Chen wanted to go out, Gu Shan and Fu Ang were somewhat surprised. Gu Shan and Lin Chen don't have a particularly deep friendship, so it's not easy to say anything, but Fu Ang advised: "Senior Lin Lin Shidi, with the county competition approaching, we should stay in the Wuzheng Office peacefully, lest we encounter any accidents."

"It's fine. It's Jiang Jiang Shijie Qing who invited me."

Lin Chen didn't hide it, because he felt there was no need to hide it.

Hearing Lin Chen's words and seeing the envelope in Lin Chen's hand, Fu Ang blinked and changed his attitude instantly: "This Lin Lin Shidi understands. Lin Lin Shixiong, go ahead and keep the appointment. If Kong Kong Guanzhu Tai asks, I'll cover for you."

"Just tell Kong Kong Guanzhu Tai the truth."

Looking at Fu Ang's winking appearance, Lin Chen smiled. He and Jiang Jiang Shijie are clean and innocent, so there's nothing to hide.

If there were really something, Jiang Jiang Shijie wouldn't have just invited him alone; she would have asked him to call Junior Sister Fu and the others in the letter as a cover.

A person must have self-awareness.

If a girl has feelings for you, even a straightforward and carefree personality will become shy and hesitant.

After informing them of his whereabouts, Lin Chen left the courtyard and, based on the memory of when he arrived, quickly exited the gate of the Wuzheng Office.

At the gate of the Wuzheng Office, Jiang Qing, in a green dress, stood there prettily, particularly eye-catching.

Under her high-bridged nose, her red lips were slightly raised, and the corners of her mouth always held a just-right smile, looking at Lin Chen with a smile.

Who would have thought that Jiang Jiang Shijie, who is like a girl next door, is actually a person who is decisive in killing and cutting.

Looking at Jiang Jiang Shijie's black hair casually tied up, with a few strands of hair hanging down by her fair neck, carrying the playfulness of a girl next door, Lin Chen also found it hard to connect Jiang Jiang Shijie with the image of her attacking Zhou San back then.

"Lin Lin Shidi, it's been a long time. Lin Lin Shidi's demeanor is even better than before." Jiang Qing spoke first.

"A day without seeing you, phew, a day without seeing you is like three autumns. This Lin Lin Shidi misses Jiang Jiang Shijie very much."

Damn input method.

Lin Chen hurriedly corrected his slip of the tongue. Jiang Qing didn't dwell on the problem in Lin Chen's words: "Inviting Lin Lin Shidi out this time is to take Lin Lin Shidi to a place."

After the words fell, Jiang Qing turned and walked toward the other end of the street without any hesitation, and Lin Chen followed.

When they arrived at the city gate and saw Jiang Jiang Shijie leading two horses over, Lin Chen had surprise in his eyes. Is the place Jiang Jiang Shijie wants to take him outside the city?

"That place is quite far. Riding a horse still takes an hour."

Jiang Qing explained. Lin Chen nodded and didn't ask any more questions; he would know when they arrived anyway.

The two rode out of the city, galloping toward the south, soon left the official road, passed through a forest, and half an hour later, appeared at the foot of a mountain.

Jiang Jiang Shijie invited him to climb a mountain?

Seeing Jiang Jiang Shijie dismount, Lin Chen followed and got off the horse, but his peripheral vision noticed that at the entrance of the mountain path ahead, there were actually several martial artists standing there.

"Santan Mountain is sealed off, and ordinary people cannot enter the mountain. However, the person responsible for guarding this mountain has some connection with my family, so I will take Lin Lin Shidi up."

Jiang Qing blinked playfully at Lin Chen and stepped directly onto the mountain climbing steps, while the four martial artists guarding the steps at the foot of the mountain only swept their eyes over the two and stood still without moving.

Santan Mountain is not high, only a thousand feet, and with the footwork of Lin Chen and Jiang Qing, it only takes a quarter of an hour to climb to the top.

At the top of the mountain, clouds and mist are drifting, and occasionally mountain winds blow, causing the clouds and mist to disperse, revealing a pool of emerald green lake water.

"Santan Mountain is named because the mountain has three pools of lake water. We cannot enter the two pools inside; we can only stay here at the Shuiyun Pool."

Shuiyun Pool!

Hearing Jiang Jiang Shijie say the name of the deep pool of emerald water in front of him, Lin Chen had a guess in his heart about Jiang Jiang Shijie's purpose in bringing him here.

"Lin Lin Shidi, my Shuiyun Palm is perfected!"

The next moment, Jiang Qing's words confirmed Lin Chen's guess.

"Congratulations, Jiang Jiang Shijie. Jiang Jiang Shijie's Shuiyun Palm is perfected—does it have a relationship with this Shuiyun Pool?"

Jiang Qing nodded slightly: "After leaving Poyang County, I stayed here for a month, and the Shuiyun Palm went through great success to perfection."

Lin Chen was shocked. A month's time allowed Jiang Jiang Shijie's Shuiyun Palm to go directly from small success to perfection. If the students of the Jing Shui Martial Hall all came here to stay for a few months, wouldn't everyone be able to perfect it?

"The predecessor who created the Shuiyun Palm realized the Shuiyun Palm here. As for why the martial hall didn't arrange for disciples to come here to practice the Shuiyun Palm, it's only because this pool water is extremely cold. Without cold-resistant items, it wouldn't take ten breaths for the body to get frostbite, and even in the Organ Cultivation Stage, the Qi and blood cannot withstand this chill."

After Jiang Qing finished speaking, a small jade bottle appeared in her hand. She looked at Lin Chen and introduced: "This bottle contains Warm Sun Pills. After taking them, you can resist the cold of the pool water for a quarter of an hour. There are ten pills in total. Lin Lin Shidi can take one when you enter the water later."

Lin Chen didn't know what materials the Warm Sun Pills were refined from, but he knew they were absolutely extremely precious.

Jiang Jiang Shijie was in this Shuiyun Pool for a month and practiced to perfection. Students like Fu Jingya and Gu Qingqing should also know about the existence of the Shuiyun Pool.

There is only one possibility for not coming here to practice: the Warm Sun Pills cannot be consumed.

Lin Chen showed a look of gratitude, but before he could express his thanks, Jiang Qing spoke first: "When I entered the Jing Shui Martial Hall, I had an agreement with Kong Kong Guanzhu Ceng that I would take first place for the martial hall, but now I have broken my promise. I give these Warm Sun Pills to Lin Lin Shidi, hoping that Lin Lin Shidi can complete the agreement for me."

"This Lin Lin Shidi understands. In this county competition, this Lin Lin Shidi will go all out and not fail Jiang Jiang Shijie's expectations."

"Hmm, Lin Lin Shidi, you only have a quarter of an hour each time you enter the water, and every hour, the clouds and mist on this Shuiyun Pool will pour into the pool water. Only then can you enter the water."

Jiang Qing gave Lin Chen a few instructions. Lin Chen was somewhat surprised. Jiang Jiang Shijie doesn't intend to watch him on the shore.

Seeming to see Lin Chen's confusion, Jiang Qing said gloomily: "After entering the water, it is best not to wear any clothes."

Lin Chen scratched his head in embarrassment. Without clothes, Jiang Jiang Shijie really shouldn't stay here.

After Jiang Qing left, Lin Chen didn't rush into the water. According to what Jiang Jiang Shijie said, he waited until he saw the clouds and mist pouring into the pool water before going down, but now the clouds and mist on the Shuiyun Pool were still some distance from the water surface.

Trying to dip his fingers into the pool, Lin Chen immediately withdrew them just by touching the pool water.

This water is terrifyingly cold and has a bone-piercing pain.

"Pure coldness is afraid it won't reach this level. With my current level of Qi and blood, even at minus dozens of degrees, I can still carry a thin piece of clothing. I think this pool water should have other oddities."

Thinking that there are martial artists guarding at the foot of the mountain, Lin Chen had a count in his heart.

However, for him, it doesn't matter what secrets Santan Mountain has; he is just here to realize the Shuiyun Palm.

A quarter of an hour passed, and Lin Chen's eyes condensed.

The clouds and mist originally floating above the water pool began to surge, constantly pouring toward the water surface. Seeing this, Lin Chen hurriedly took off his clothes and poured out a Warm Sun Pill from the bottle to take.

The moment the Warm Sun Pill entered his abdomen, Lin Chen only felt an extremely pure heat flow gushing out from his lower abdomen, surging toward his whole body.

Not daring to delay, Lin Chen took off his outer shirt, stepped barefoot into the shallow water by the pool, and the bone-piercing cold feeling didn't appear again. Only then did he step into the water with his whole body and walk toward the depths.

With every step he took, Lin Chen could clearly feel the fluctuation of the water waves and a resistance.

As the son of a fisherman, Lin Chen naturally played in the water a lot. He wouldn't dare to say he was a little white dragon in Poyanghu, but he was also extremely familiar with it.

However, as soon as he entered the Shuiyun Pool, he felt the difference between the pool water here and the lake water of Poyanghu.

The water of the Shuiyun Pool cannot be called water, especially after the clouds and mist pour in at this moment, it is more like some kind of liquid.

Thinking of Jiang Jiang Shijie's instructions, Lin Chen began to submerge his whole body in the water.

The moment he submerged to the bottom of the water, Lin Chen's pupils contracted, and he saw a picture completely different from the one on the water.

Looking from the water, he only saw clouds and mist pouring into the water, but the moment he opened his eyes underwater, he saw countless silver silk-like mist flows twisting and stretching in the water.

However, he only insisted for two breaths before Lin Chen had to close his eyes.

Although the pool water was no longer bone-piercingly cold, soaking into his eyeballs made it difficult for his eyes to bear.

In a quarter of an hour, Lin Chen finally only opened his eyes ten times.

Returning to the shore, Lin Chen carefully recalled the trajectories of those clouds and mist twisting and stretching at the bottom of the water, which were actually somewhat similar to the moves of the Shuiyun Palm.

"Jiang Jiang Shijie said that the predecessor who created the 'Shuiyun Palm' realized the Shuiyun Palm here. Could it be that the moves of the Shuiyun Palm were created based on the trajectories of these clouds and mist entering the water?"

While Lin Chen was thinking, at this moment, in a pavilion on Santan Mountain, Jiang Qing and a woman were sitting in the pavilion.

"Xiao Qing, this is the first time you have used your family background to help an outsider."

"Aunt Wan, I am not doing this to repay a favor to the Jing Shui Martial Hall. After all, it was my willfulness to leave and break the contract first."

"Is that really so?" The woman had a teasing look on her face: "You only left the Jing Shui Martial Hall, but your status as a disciple is still there. If you want to help the Jing Shui Martial Hall get a ranking in this county competition, you can completely play yourself. Furthermore, your agreement with the Jing Shui Martial Hall is to help the martial hall take first place in Poyang County. The county competition is already beyond the scope of the agreement."

"Aunt Wan!"

Jiang Qing rarely showed the attitude of a little woman: "Okay, I just feel that it is not easy for Lin Lin Shidi to get to this step with his family background, so I want to help him, and Lin Lin Shidi also has a connection with our Jiang family."

"What connection? Just because Lin Chen is from Linhu Village? Your father doesn't have any good feelings for Linhu Village. Back then..."

Seeing Jiang Qing listening with her ears pricked up, the woman immediately changed the subject: "Do you think your Lin Lin Shidi can use the Shuiyun Pool to practice the Shuiyun Palm to perfection?"

"The time is too short, I'm afraid it's too late. However, with Lin Lin Shidi's understanding, with such an opportunity, he will definitely be able to practice the Shuiyun Palm to perfection within a month."

Jiang Qing had a look of certainty on her face. The beautiful woman smiled without saying a word. Knowing that it was impossible to practice the Shuiyun Palm to perfection in such a short time, and that it would not be of much help to this county competition, she still wanted to bring her Lin Lin Shidi here. It was completely using the agreement with the Jing Shui Martial Hall as an excuse to help that young man.

The little girl is still unwilling to admit it!

In the second hour, Lin Chen went into the water again.

In the third hour, Lin Chen did not go into the water again.

He had already discovered the peculiarity of this Shuiyun Pool. Even if the sky gradually became late, he could still clearly see the white silk transformed by the clouds and mist at the bottom of the water.

This means he can completely wait until night to enter the pool.

After all, at night, there is the enlightenment bonus of 【Black to the End】.

Three hours later, the sky turned completely dark.

A man sent dinner, all poultry meat that greatly supplements Qi and blood. Lin Chen didn't recognize these poultry meats either. Since it was arranged by Jiang Jiang Shijie, the price must be expensive.

In the fourth hour, Lin Chen entered the water again after taking the Warm Sun Pill.

In the pool water, Lin Chen observed the silver silk-like mist flows going to the bottom of the water like earthworms, and at the same time, he also began to perform the Shuiyun Palm in the water.

The palm wind that should have been washed away by the water flow, when touching the mist silk, suddenly condensed, and those mist silks seemed to become a traction, actually beginning to surge toward where he was.

"Is it scattering clouds into silk?"

Lin Chen whispered, and a picture flashed in his mind. Perhaps it is not water in this Shuiyun Pool.

It is clouds and mist!

Every drop of water is countless clouds and mist broken into silk, and then gathered again at the bottom of the water.

Lin Chen continued to palm, no longer the Shuiyun Palm, just ordinary casual fluctuations, quietly observing the trajectories of those mist silks flowing.

The fifth hour...

The sixth hour...

The seventh hour...

In the water, Lin Chen patted out a palm again. This palm was patted out, and the mist silk that should have been drawn by him was drawn by his palm wind, carrying the palm wind to split a three-foot-long vacuum waterway.

This palm seemed to push open a door. In the pool water, Lin Chen patted one palm after another. Even in the water, Lin Chen's palms had no obstacles, and his palms were extremely ethereal and formless.

The Qingfeng Palm takes the ethereal and formless path.

The Shuiyun Palm takes the unpredictability of clouds, but has the agility of water, and acts according to the situation.

Hiding changes in the palm momentum, like that huge wave, it looks like a wave, but in fact, there are multiple layers of overlapping waves under the water.

Those mist silks are the change, and they are the overlapping waves.

Lin Chen looked at the panel.

【Shuiyun Palm: Perfected!】

But Lin Chen didn't stop. At this moment, he suddenly had an impulse. Perhaps the Qingfeng Palm and the Shuiyun Palm can form some kind of complementarity.

Slap!

Lin Chen changed his palm technique, changing the Shuiyun Palm to the Qingfeng Palm.

The Qingfeng Palm patted out, and the mist silk splashed, like scattered silk running around, without the gathering in one place when performing the Shuiyun Palm before.

However, Lin Chen was not in a hurry. How could it be so simple to integrate two ranked martial arts? He was just trying it out on a whim.

Once, twice.

When the ten Warm Sun Pills were finished, Lin Chen had already returned to the shore, but the practice was still not over.

On the shore, for a while, the wind was howling, and for a while, the sound of waves hitting the shore rose one after another...

"Aunt Wan, there is no time. The competition will start in two hours."

Jiang Qing, who was around the corner of a mountain col, had a look of anxiety on her face and couldn't help but want to rush over.

"It's just a county competition, it doesn't count for anything. Do you know what your Lin Lin Shidi is doing right now?" The beautiful woman had a look of deep shock in her eyes.

"What?"

"Integrating two ranked martial arts."

Jiang Qing was stunned, her small mouth slightly agape: "Aunt Wan, is this true?"

"Disturbing him now will destroy a great opportunity for him. As for the county competition... you go to the Wuzheng Office and let the county competition be delayed for another day. If it doesn't work, then give it up."

"Okay, then I will go to the Wuzheng Office side, and Lin Lin Shidi will be handed over to you, Aunt Wan."

"Rest assured, Aunt Wan will naturally take good care of the Lin Lin Shidi you care so much about."

A blush flew onto Jiang Qing's cheeks. She didn't answer and turned to go down the mountain.

"Even if it fails, it will be beneficial to his future martial arts path. This girl Xiao Qing has a very accurate eye for people. She actually found a piece of uncut jade."

The beautiful woman didn't think Lin Chen could integrate two ranked martial arts together, but even if it failed, the benefits would be huge.

PS: Four thousand words delivered, asking for a minimum monthly ticket, Jiudeng continues to write the next chapter.

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