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Chapitre 15: Thunder Occurring in the Nine Clouds, Surprise Bow Drops Flock

Lian Tribal Clan's training grounds.

Thirty strongmen were training in the middle of the ground, causing a tiny sandstorm.

They were the members of the Lian tribe's warrior preparation camp. Instructing them was the Lian tribal clan's Instructor, Yao Yuan. He was one of the three warriors besides the Patriarch and Lian Chengyu who had reached the fifth level of Mortal Blood.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The punches roared into the sky. Each of these members of the warrior preparation camp had been groomed arduously by the tribe.

It was near winter; it was cold and windy in the vast wilderness, but each and every member of the warrior preparation camp was sweating bullets from their practice!

Up on a platform, Instructor Yao Yuan, who was overseeing them, frowned and shouted "Stop!"

Yao Yuan's roar was as loud as thunder!

The practicing warriors immediately stopped.

"Let me teach you the 'Dragon Rib Tiger Bone Fist'. It is one of the basic skills handed down by the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom! This 'Dragon Rib Tiger Bone Fist' may only consist of eighteen stances, but each stance is filled with deep knowledge! You idiotic pigs have only learned the moves, but you do not understand the deep underlying knowledge. It's showy but of no use!"

Yao Yuan's words negated all of the hard work the men had spent cultivating themselves!

However, no one dared said anything because Yao Yuan had extreme prestige in the warrior preparation camp.

Lian Chenyu had high prestige because of his future. He could become a Purple Blood Warrior, or a level even higher than Purple Blood.

As for Yao Yuan, he had high prestige because of his past.

Yao Yuan was not a member of the Lian tribe. He was an outsider who had previously reached the level of Purple Blood. However he had been wounded while being chased by his enemies and fell back into the realm of a normal warrior. He entered the vast wilderness to seek refuge and found it in the Lian tribe where he then stayed for several years.

Although he had lost his powers, Yao Yuan still had his experience. No one was unconvinced of his ability to train the warrior preparation camp.

That was because Lian Chengyu was trained by Yao Yuan!

A youth like Lian Chengyu, having grown up in a small tribe like the Lian tribe, would he have been able to attain so much without a master expert's guidance?

"Do not look down on this 'Dragon Rib Tiger Bone Fist'. In the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom, the most precious skill would be the "Tai Ah Sacred Skill", but you can only gain access to it after reaching a very high level. It's of no use for those below Purple Blood! For those below Purple Blood, you have to practice the 'Dragon Rib Tiger Bone Fist'! Even the royal family members of the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom do so!"

"'Dragon Rib Tiger Bone Fist' is a top skill for training your body. If you want to measure its value, an entire city might not be enough! The Tai Ah Divine Kingdom wanted to strengthen the kingdom's strength by giving the poor an opportunity to learn martial arts and face the dangers plaguing the vast wilderness. As a result, they deliberately made 'Dragon Rib Tiger Bone Fist' a public skill. Being able to learn this set of skills is your good fortune!"

"To reach Mortal Blood's Qi Gatherer stage, you must go through the stages of Valiant, Vigor, Thunderous and Meridians! And to cultivate those, you will need to cultivate your strength, refine your muscles, your bones and your organs! The eighteen stances in the set of 'Dragon Rib Tiger Bone Fist' refine your muscles, organs and bones!"

"If you can truly understand the first six stances of the 'Dragon Rib Tiger Bone Fist', you will be able to lift a 500-kilogram cauldron. With one cauldron's strength, you can draw a nine-picul bow, and with an extended pull, the arrow shot out will be able to travel a thousand paces, and still be able to pierce through chain mail!" Yao Yuan instructed loudly and not a single word was missed by Yi Yun.

"Lifting a 500-kilogram cauldron, drawing a nine-picul bow…"

Yi Yun was fascinated. In this world, nine piculs was 450 kilograms!

"Listening to what Yao Yuan said, this 'Dragon Rib Tiger Bone Fist' is indeed a very good fist technique. To strengthen the kingdom, the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom opened up this basic fist skill to the public. The monarch of the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom has some qualities of a sage."

Without blinking, Yi Yun stared at the training grounds while holding his breath. He was here to secretly learn martial arts!

The fist stances Yi Yun had learned prior to tunneling through space-time were military boxing while he was doing his mandatory military education. It could only be considered street brawling and would not do in this strange world. Although his fitness had improved tremendously, he would be at a disadvantage against a real enemy without martial arts or techniques!

Without techniques, his cultivation would be much slower in the future.

The problem would be magnified the higher he went. If not, the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom's 'Tai Ah Sacred Technique' wouldn't be so treasured!

"I'll do a demonstration for you first. Look carefully!" Yao Yuan's voice roared as Yi Yun paid close attention.

"This move is called 'Fierce Tiger Descends the Mountain'. It's good for training the tendons!"

Yao Yuan stood in front of a wooden stake, and stretched his left foot forward. He grabbed his left ankle with his left hand before bending his right knee. With his body curved, his back was bent like a bow, emitting faint sounds.

This posture looked very weird, but it gave the impression of a bow being pulled. Yao Yuan's right fist, by his waist, was just like the arrow on the bow!

Suddenly, Yao Yuan moved!

His body straightened suddenly.

"Bam––"

Yi Yun heard a very clear loud sound from Yao Yuan's body.

Yao Yuan's right fist had moved like lightning, hitting the wooden stake!

"Boom!"

The wooden stake split apart!

The surrounding warrior preparation camp members let out a gasp.

"Instructor Yao is amazing!"

"Damn, it was such a thick stake, and he split it with a fist. Instructor Yao is teaching the way of the metal fist!"

The bunch of men started to suck up to Yao Yuan, but they were all truly in admiration. In the vast wilderness, the strong was always worshiped.

Yao Yuan's face was furious despite all the fawning he received from the men.

"All you saw was my fist?"

"Hmph! I said previously, this 'Fierce Tiger Descends the Mountain' is a move to train your tendons! The reason my fist destroyed the stake was not because my fist was strong, but because I used the strength in my tendons!"

"Everyone's body is a treasure! Do you know that in the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom, there's a treasured bow named the Star Shooting Bow. Do you know what its bowstring is made of?"

The men were clueless when Yao Yuan asked. Having never heard of the Star Shooting Bow, how would they know what the bowstring was made of?

"Is it made of silk?"

"Is it the legendary ribs of a dragon?"

Yao Yuan shook his head saying, "The Star Shooting Bow bowstring is made of the tendons of the founding emperor of the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom after he died!"

Yao Yuan's words left the men dumbfounded.

Human tendons as bowstrings!?

"That's right! The move I just used, 'Fierce Tiger Descends the Mountain' was to stretch my entire body out. Using the bones as a bow and tendons as the bowstring, I 'shot' out my fist! Being able to perfectly exert one's tendon's strength is the crux of 'Fierce Tiger Descends the Mountain'! So 'Fierce Tiger Descends the Mountain' is a move used to train one's tendons, not fist!"

"Did you not hear the sounds my body made when I threw out the punch?""

There was a very clear sound when Yao Yuan punched. Yi Yun had heard it very clearly and it was exactly the sound a bowstring produced when an arrow was shot.

"Fierce Tiger Descends the Mountain" is a skill that pulls your tendons, making them stronger and more elastic! At the peak of 'Fierce Tiger Descends the Mountain', just the sound the tendons produce is enough to scare a goose flying in the sky! This is known as 'Surprise Bow Drops Flock'!"

"'Dragon Rib Tiger Bone Fist' has another move, 'Dragon Rising to Nine Skies', which is a move that trains one's bones. When this is punched out, the whole skeleton will crack loudly like a lightning-less thunder from a distance!"

"Thunder Occurring in the Nine Clouds, Surprise Bow Drops Flock. If you reach this realm, you can be considered to have mastered 'Dragon Rib Tiger Bone Fist'!"

After hearing Yao Yuan's words, the men stared agape. It had to be an exaggeration!

Could a person reach such a realm?

Seeing the men's expressions, Yao Yuan knew it was hopeless.

He carried on, "The realm of Thunder Occurring in the Nine Clouds, Surprise Bow Drops Flock can be quite a challenge for all of you. I do not expect that you will reach that realm, but if you were to cultivate your tendons to sound out like a bowstring, no matter how tiny; to cultivate your bones to create the skeleton cracking sounds, I would be satisfied!"

"In that case, you will have at least reached the third level, Thunderous."

As Yao Yuan was teaching the men, Yi Yun's blood was sent pulsing through his veins as he heard this.

Thunder Occurring in the Nine Clouds, Surprise Bow Drops Flock!

Could he reach such a state?

Yao Yuan described the 'Dragon Rib Tiger Bone Fist' as something so valuable that "an entire city might not be enough". A city in this strange world was worth more than the cities on Earth. Each city in the vast wilderness had to withstand the test of the desolate beasts. Without many experts, it would not be possible to hold it down. To build a city, a staggering amount of blood had to spill!

It was obvious considering how many of the poor people supported Lian Chengyu's cultivation just from his simple promise of the city.

"I must observe this set of fist techniques well. If I were to learn it well, it would be a breeze during the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom warrior selection. I might even be able to get the title of 'Kingdom Knight'. When that happens, Sis Xiaorou will bask in glory together with me!"

Having come to this world, Yi Yun decided to make the best of it.


Chapitre 16: Leave some soup for Lian Chengyu

"Hand in your herbs! Hand in your herbs!"

As it grew dark, Zhao Tiezhu started shouting at the village entrance.

Five members from the warrior preparation camp had set up a long table. On the table sat five circular pans.

These pans were woven from bamboo, and they were usually used for sunning dates or herbs.

Three of the five pans were already filled.

People lined up to hand in the herbs they picked. A long-bearded elder identified each herb's age and rarity. He used a small scale to weigh the herbs before recording it down.

When it was Yi Yun and Jiang Xiaorou's turn, Yi Yun slowly handed his harvest over.

The bearded old man took a look and his eyes lit up, "Dan Guo! Black Fungus! Liquorice root! Wild Ginseng! These are good herbs!"

The elder looked at these expensive herbs as if they were his babies, and started stroking them the moment they entered his hands.

Yi Yun stood by the side and heaved a sigh of relief. This old man may be a herb expert, but he was unable to tell that the herbal essence had long been sucked dry by the Purple Crystal.

This was understandable. The herbs that were sucked dry by the Purple Crystal did not look any different from a recently picked herb.

"Hehe, kid you sure got lucky. You can keep your rations today!"

Zhao Tiezhu was very pleased seeing the herbs.

They were in charge of collecting the herbs, and they would received rewards from Lian Chengyu if the quality was high!

When Lian Chengyu began his meteoric rise in the future, his lackeys would have something to gain. He could enter the big city, and might even get a job in the city!

"I acknowledge the fact that you are a suitable medicine boy who possesses the natural talent to pick herbs. For me to send you picking herbs was due to my foresight, matching you to your best potential!"

"Surviving your previous accident has improved your herb picking skills. According to this standard, hand in another ounce of herbs tomorrow!" said Zhao Tiezhu as he smiled casually.

"What!?"

Jiang Xiaorou was enraged. Picking 16 oz of herbs was already extremely difficult, yet Zhao Tiezhu added more!

Jiang Xiaorou knew Yi Yun's herb picking speed was fast, and a tiny bit more would not matter to him. But knowing Zhao Tiezhu, it would be him "taking a yard when they gave him an inch". An accident would eventually happen!

"Warrior Zhao, you must be joking. These herbs were picked extremely arduously from my hard work all day. It's my all."

Yi Yun's intonation was extremely slow. As he moved his lips, his eyes were glancing at the three pans filled with herbs.

A layer of light dots had begun floating on the surface of the three pans.

These light dots were obviously drawn out by the Purple Crystal. They were like fireflies in the night, and floated slowly to Yi Yun.

An unnoticeable smile suffused on Yi Yun's face. The Purple Crystal needed some time to absorb the herbal essence. Zhao Tiezhu's bullshit was to Yi Yun's delight.

"Damn it You think I'm negotiating with you!?" Zhao Tiezhu slammed the table, giving the bearded old man a shock.

"You cheap folk only know how to eat. It's rare that there's something you trash could be used for, and here you are coming up with all sorts of excuses! The Lian tribe doesn't rear freeloaders. The people either be warriors, or do honest labor work! Hand over one more ounce of herbs tomorrow. Scram!"

Being scolded in the face by Zhao Tiezhu, Yi Yun's face scrunched up and his body froze.

The people around him understood that for a twelve year old child to be scolded so harshly in public, it would be an extreme blow for Yi Yun.

Zhao Tiezhu saw Yi Yun's face turn white. He wanted to tease further.

Jiang Xiaorou could not bear it anymore before pulling Yi Yun away. However, Yi Yun's feet were rooted in the ground and were immovable. It was as if he had turned to stone from Zhao Tiezhu's harsh words.

"I'm almost done absorbing… If I were to absorb anymore, Lian Chengyu will be suspicious."

Yi Yun was unfazed by Zhao Tiezhu. He was treating his words as a mad dog's barking. He was only concentrating on how much herbal essence he should absorb.

"Absorbing about 80% would do. I need to leave some soup for Lian Chengyu. Even a fool would be able to spot something amiss if such a large amount of herbs lacked any herbal essence."

Yi Yun could not go into conflict with the upper echelons of the Lian tribal clan. He may be able to get rid of Zhao Tiezhu, but he was still no match for people like the Patriarch or Lian Chengyu.

The herbal essence absorbed by the Purple Crystal quickly entered his bloodstream, circulating through Yi Yun's body, warming his channels. His body grew warmer and his face turned a hearty pink.

Yi Yun felt his body light with euphoria.

Yi Yun's appearance looked pathetic to the crowd. His face was red, and his limbs were limp. It must have been a result of Zhao Tiezhu's reprimanding.

"Poor kid. He's so young. He's being singled out because he opposed Zhao Tiezhu on the day of the ration distributions"

"This kid sure has a bitter life. His mother died shortly after they arrived in the Lian tribe. He's weak and prone to illnesses. He has no strength, he won't be able to resist Zhao Tiezhu."

"What's up with the people from the warrior preparation camp using the village. You guys think Young Master Lian Chengyu will really bring us into the city?"

"Shh, don't speak nonsense. If the people from the warrior preparation camp hear it, you'll be in shit luck!"

"I think this kid will get fixed to death sooner or later…"

It was common for people to fall to their deaths when picking herbs up in the mountains. The more expensive a herb, the higher it was. Yi Yun must have climbed up high, risking his life to hand over such high grade herbs. He was doomed to fall to his death going forward.

But so what if someone died in the Lian tribal clan? The lives of the people here were worthless.

Late at night, the moon hung in the sky like a silver hook.

In the Lian Patriarch's drug room, a few men were fanning the flames made from a large pile of timber under a big pot.

A few old men from the drug room were carefully arranging the herbs. They began brewing the herbal medicine made of several combinations of herbs and supplementary drugs.

The supplement drugs and heat were passed down confidentially in the Lian tribal clan. It was not to be known to the commoners. For if they knew how, they could secretly pick herbs and brew it for themselves.

The upper echelons of the Lian tribal clan felt that using herbs on the commoners was the same as using good grain to feed the pigs. It was useless.

Even the members of the warrior preparation camp did not have a chance to soak their body in herbs.

The herbal stew that was meticulously brewed was meant for Lian Chengyu.

"Good! Good! You did well this time. There were several good herbs collected!"

The Patriarch was very satisfied after looking at the herb roster.

"This is expected of little me," said Zhao Tiezhu nodded with a fawning smile. "It was ordered by the Patriarch and it concerns the future of Young Master Lian, little me would never dare to fail to comply. The moment I left the training grounds, little me ran to the herb mountain to supervise the picking of herbs. Even the cowardly ones had to climb up the cliffs. As such we had good luck finding the Black Fungus and Dan Guo."

Zhao Tiezhu took all the credit from Yi Yun.

"Not bad! You worked hard. Go to the warehouse and collect a catty of meat," the Patriarch patted Zhao Tiezhu on his shoulders.

"Thank you Patriarch!" said Zhao Tiezhu happily.

"Yes, do well. When Chengyu becomes a kingdom warrior, he will be in need of errand runners. If you are wise, you can get the appreciation of Chengyu. If you can be by his side, when Chengyu soars, you will definitely reap some of the benefits."

"Patriarch, thank you for your kind words!" Zhao Tiezhu knelt down kowtowing. He was inexplicably excited.

That kid Yi Yun was his lucky star. He didn't expect that little minion to be that good at picking herbs. In the future, he'd give him benefits like a tiny bit of herbal dreg and some rations. That poor kid would be so thankful receiving that tiny amount and would do everything as his slave horse!

Zhao Tiezhu walked off as he dreamed of his bright future in which he commanded the masses in the big city.


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