Chapter 95: Malicious Guests Arrive

After everyone's grasp of it satisfied Wu Chengyu, next came the cheat time again.

At this time he chose one-on-one teaching, found a quiet room, called each disciple in one by one, then obediently took off his upper garment and placed his wicked hand on their back.

Next was to input inner force into the other's body; as long as the other did not resist and let the inner force circulate, after about a dozen breaths' time a map of the other's meridians would appear in Wu Chengyu's mind, achieving the effect of internal vision.

Then he would continuously input his own inner force, circulate it for several cycles according to the Guiyuan Heart Sutra's internal cultivation path, until the disciples who had long memorized the internal cultivation path diagram mutually verified and committed every circulation trajectory to memory.

After everyone had gone through a round, he would monitor their self-cultivation at any time; those who learned slowly would be pulled into the secret chamber to start over from the beginning, repeating back and forth like this.

This was actually somewhat pulling up seedlings to help them grow, skipping the waiting process where disciples would find Qi sensation through their own comprehension, then slowly accumulate internal Qi and gradually cultivate internal force.

Generally speaking this method would make disciples' sensitivity to inner force circulation not high, losing that moment of insight when Qi sensation first arose, only able to copy mechanically.

Basically these disciples would find it very difficult in the future to create their own techniques and innovate, or have the possibility of becoming experts at the Five Absolutes level.

But this is a low martial world ah; Wu Chengyu doesn't even consider it mid-martial anymore; with internal force cultivation, once mastered there are still advanced techniques afterward; whatever happens they can still become martial arts masters later; are those insights useful?

Relying on this method Wu Chengyu helped each disciple familiarize themselves with the cultivation path one by one, until every person could correctly circulate inner force without error; just like that another three-plus months passed, and these disciples all reached Initial Threshold, operating inner force easily without mistakes, no longer needing him at their side to rescue them.

Nearly half a year consumed here, Wu Chengyu also suddenly felt some annoyance; teaching disciples really isn't a good job; if not for the cheat these people might not even have entered the door yet.

At this point he felt a stopping point, directly let these twenty-odd people free-range; in between he only came a few times, taught them Hawk Transformation Capturing Hand and some basic Lightness Skill essentials; the rest of the time he hid in his own home cultivating martial arts and reading scriptures.

Until his uncles couldn't stand it and found him a job at Wumei Tower again.

Waiting for Wu Chengyu to lead A Ku by the hand slowly arriving at the Martial Arts Field, at this time Wu family disciples were either practicing footwork on plum blossom stakes, or performing Grass-Atop-Flying on obstacle courses, and some were practicing Hawk Transformation Capturing Hand; not a single one dared slack off.

Upon seeing Wu Chengyu, except for two clansmen slightly older than him who called out "Chengyu," the rest all addressed him as "Twenty-First Brother."

Only the few youngest, just eight or nine years old, first greeted A Ku at the first moment, obediently calling out: "Eldest Sister."

Wu Chengyu checked their internal cultivation progress and corrected mistakes and omissions in their moves; not long after he heard a commotion not far away, only to see a clan elder bringing the Wu Family Direct Lineage Third House's helmsman, welcoming a group of guests in from outside.

They were called guests, but the leader looked rather arrogant and domineering, eyes on top of his head, oily-haired and powdered-face notwithstanding, he even had a flower stuck in his hair; Song Dynasty men in some regions had the habit of wearing flowers, but this person was truly asking for a beating.

As he walked, his mouth didn't stop picking faults with Wu Family Slope; separated by several dozen meters, Wu Chengyu heard it clearly.

"This young master has come, yet your Family Head didn't personally greet at the main gate; truly country bumpkins, ignorant of etiquette...."

Wu Chengyu hadn't wanted to hit someone on his own initiative for a long time; he really hated that he couldn't walk over and slap him to feel satisfied; he turned his gaze to the eldest among the Wu family disciples: "Nineteenth Brother, what are these guys here for?"

This Nineteenth Brother in Wu Chengyu's mouth was named Wu Chengping, belonged to the Wu Family Main House; the first eighteen of the Wu family's Cheng generation were already adults, basically all studying in the clan or managing part of the industries.

Wu Chengping couldn't hear what that man said, but seeing that arrogant attitude he knew they were malicious guests; he was well-informed in the Main House.

"Heard they're people who recently moved from Hangzhou to Gusu City; some time ago they sent people to our door opening their mouths to buy our Wu Family Second House's iron mine outside Gusu City; later they also set their sights on the Main House's shops inside Gusu City; the prices they offered were simply outrageous; the Family Head refused without even thinking.

Later some people came to make trouble for our Main House's industries in Gusu; but heard this person has some background; the Family Head's meaning is to avoid force if possible."

Wu Chengyu nodded, once more looking deeply at that man, until their group walked into the Discussion Hall.

This guy should be Shi Miyuan's clan nephew; yesterday's Wumei Tower matter was also his doing.

According to Wu Chengyu's thinking, dealing with such a person is best done cleanly and decisively; find a moonless windy night, sneak up to his door and directly finish him off.

But that's a martial world person's thinking, too simple; used to acting alone, if trouble arises one can run anytime.

But now Wu Chengyu belongs to a large family; Wu Family Slope has Wu-surnamed and outside-surnamed people totaling over a thousand; Gusu City's population is also near a thousand; every person has a whole family in tow.

And this person represents Shi Miyuan, the Powerful Minister of the Southern Song for the next twenty-odd years, holding sole power; never mind whether he can be killed, if killed and it implicates the Wu family it would be a loss outweighing the gain.

Don't think just because your martial arts are high now you can do as you please; the famous top experts in The Legend of the Condor Heroes are only those few; but as the royal family how could they not have experts; even Bai Yu Chan, a top expert who didn't appear in The Legend of the Condor Heroes, was also enfeoffed by the royal family.

Hong Qigong often ran into the imperial palace to steal food; probably knew his martial arts were high, just running to the Imperial Kitchen, so no one was willing to bother with him.

But if Hong Qigong suddenly got a whim to sneak to the Emperor's bedside in the middle of the night, see if he could succeed.

In a martial world, if the Emperor had no real experts under his command, how could he live in peace.

Just as Wu Zhengliang said yesterday, family matters aren't that simple with just fighting and killing; this guy coming to Gusu City definitely doesn't just have designs on the Wu clan alone.

The subsequent result is nothing more than these local snakes of Gusu uniting to give him a little color, finally compromising with each family giving a bit of benefit, feeding him two pieces of meat.

Gusu is one of the most developed cities in the Southern Song; the forces behind the families here are deeply intertwined; even Shi Miyuan wouldn't lightly make an enemy of the entire Gusu's large clans.

This guy's previous trouble-making method was actually just to disgust people; if things really blew up Shi Miyuan also wouldn't allow it; these political figures play at a higher level.

Thinking this is a middle-to-upper-layer political interest struggle, the outcome is nothing but compromise and mutual use; Wu Chengyu then no longer paid attention.

He continued checking each disciple's internal cultivation progress, demonstrated Hawk Transformation Capturing Hand again, then answered questions and resolved doubts, correcting each person's movements; like this a full half hour passed; body not tired, but heart somewhat weary.

Just as he prepared to end today's teaching task and accompany A Ku to go boating on Taihu, the people who had been in the Wumen Hall all came out again.

(Chapter End)