Chapter 12: Nine Breakthroughs in One Breath! Rising to the Top!
Chapter 12: Nine Breakthroughs in One Breath! Rising to the Top!
A fighting ring was set up outside the Li family's money shop to test the strength of its guards. If they were no match for the guards, the money shop would be forced to close down.
Could the Li family's money shop really be in such dire straits? It's reached a point of life or death.
Li Youning then asked him to go and help.
"Now, I will teach you the Nine Palaces Palm, which is the accompanying martial art for the Nine Palaces Living Stake. As long as you can master it, you will have the opportunity to break through the Nine Palaces Stake in one breath!"
Wei Jinlin slowly asked, "Are you ready?"
Lu Ming put away the letter, remained silent for a moment, and then cupped his hands in greeting:
"Master Wei, I can now break through nine defenses in a single breath."
"Very good... Hmm?!" Wei Jinlin suddenly turned his head, staring at him and said, "What do you mean?"
Lu Ming pointed to the stone tablet and the nine-palace pillar, and solemnly said:
"I have already achieved the Nine Breaks in One Breath, and I can pass through the Stone Tablet Nine Palaces Stance."
Wei Jinlin's expression turned slightly serious as he said, "I haven't taught you the Nine Palaces Palm yet."
Lu Ming said, "I don't use the Nine Palaces Palm."
Wei Jinlin paused for a moment, then said, "Try walking it."
He said this and stepped back.
Lu Ming took a deep breath and came to the stone tablets in front of the Nine Palaces Stakes. Looking at the heavy stone tablets that were not moving in the wind, his eyes suddenly became deep.
The view suddenly changed, the surrounding wind turned into gray dotted lines, and black holes appeared on each stone tablet, like a small wisp of black smoke that the wind could not blow away.
He had already tested the Grasshopper technique; he couldn't complete a Nine Palaces Stake in a single breath, it would take a little longer.
However, that was when he did not use the Heavenly Leakage Divine Power.
Once he uses the Heavenly Leakage Divine Power, his momentum and power will increase slightly with each strike to a black leak point, allowing him to control the time within a single breath.
As for breaking the stone tablet, it requires the power of a mastered skin refinement expert, which is naturally true for others. But for him, even the stone tablet does not possess more power than he does.
and so……
Lu Ming suddenly pushed off the ground, his whole body slamming into the nine stone pillars like a cannonball. His body moved rapidly between the nine pillars, and at the same time, he pointed with his index and middle fingers.
In a mere instant, he tapped nine times.
Targeted kill!
The instant he touched the stone tablet, he felt his aura being able to suppress it. In that instant, whether the stone tablet turned to dust or shattered into pieces was entirely up to him.
clap clap clap...
He chose to break the stone tablet into several pieces.
In a single breath, he passed through the Nine Palaces Stone Tablet, and the stone tablet behind him shattered into dozens of pieces scattered on the ground.
The dust was noisy for a moment, but a gust of wind blew it away, revealing Lu Ming's resolute face.
"Master Wei! Do I now have the qualifications to leave the Military Service Department?" Lu Ming asked slowly.
A hint of surprise finally appeared on Wei Jinlin's usually calm face. He glanced down at the shattered stone tablet on the ground, then looked up at him and said:
"If you can break the stone tablet, you can naturally leave. But are you going to help Li Youning?"
Lu Ming was taken aback upon hearing this, and then thought to himself, it seems that although Wei Jinlin did not pay attention to the struggles between these big families, he was not completely ignorant of them.
He immediately replied:
"Yes! Senior Sister Li has helped me a lot. The grass-flying lightness skill I just used was a gift from her."
"There are also medicines for injuries and Qi-nourishing powders, all of which were given to me by her."
"Without Senior Sister Li's help, I wouldn't have been able to reach my current level so quickly."
"Now that I can help, I will naturally do my best."
A hint of admiration appeared in Wei Jinlin's eyes as he pondered, "You just used lightness skill and finger techniques?"
Lu Ming said, "Yes, I once obtained a secret manual by chance called the Bone-Dissolving Technique, which includes finger techniques. After practicing it, I found that it was very powerful, allowing me to shatter stone tablets even though my cultivation level was not yet at the Great Perfection of Skin Refinement."
Wei Jinlin said: "Finger techniques were once very popular in ancient times due to the development of acupoints."
"It's just that the acupoint system's lineage and fortune have dissipated and disappeared into the long river of time, and the finger techniques have also fallen into obscurity as a result."
"You have good talent in finger technique, but finger technique has no future."
"Since you also have a talent for lightness skills, I can teach you one. What do you say?"
Lu Ming's heart skipped a beat, and he said, "Why do you say that finger techniques have no future? Does that mean I can't cultivate them on my own without a lineage of acupoint techniques?"
Wei Jinlin stood with his hands behind his back, glanced at the sky, and a hint of melancholy appeared in his eyes. He said:
Those things are too far removed from you.
"For now, all you need to know is that the Daoist tradition will give those with exceptional talent an extremely powerful boost."
"The difference in strength between a martial artist with the support of a Daoist lineage and one without is like heaven and earth."
"Now that there is no lineage for acupuncture points, even if you have the best finger technique in the world, in the end, when a group of disciples from different lineages are competing, how can you defeat them?"
"In the path of martial arts, the further you go, the more you need to compete. If you can't compete with others, it's hard to go further. You should learn lightness skills instead."
Upon hearing this, Lu Ming's eyes were opened.
It turns out that the reason this world values talent so much is because later on, the Daoist tradition will bless those with talent.
However, Wei Jinlin was unwilling to elaborate on the specifics, and he could only suppress his curiosity, saying:
"I would naturally like to learn lightness skill as well, but I heard that everyone else learns the Nine Palaces Palm."
Wei Jinlin said, "Your talent in palm techniques is not as good as your talent in lightness skills, so naturally you should learn lightness skills."
Lu Ming asked, "Could I... learn all of them?"
The Nine Palaces Palm is clearly a palm technique. If he could learn it, wouldn't he be able to evolve palm techniques into divine powers?
Wei Jinlin glared at him slightly: "Don't bite off more than you can chew."
Lu Ming pleaded, "Master Wei, I have very good teeth."
Wei Jinlin said expressionlessly, "The Military Service Department only stipulates that I need to teach one type of skill. If I want to learn two or even three... I'll have to pay extra!"
"Never mind then." Lu Ming immediately shook his head; he was penniless right now.
At the same time, he thought to himself that Wei Jinlin's stinginess caused him to miss out on investing in a disciple with such unparalleled talent as him, which was a loss for Wei Jinlin.
In the end, he still chose to learn light-body skills.
After all, although the Nine Palaces Palm can evolve into palm techniques, he already possesses the Bone-Dissolving Technique and the Point-Killing Technique, which, combined with his point-killing ability, already gives him considerable combat power, so he doesn't really need to use the Nine Palaces Palm for the time being.
Since he would be temporarily leaving the Martial Arts Department in three days, he naturally needed to learn more advanced lightness skills to be on the safe side.
More importantly, he asked an extra question earlier and discovered that the lightness skill Wei Jinlin was going to teach him was actually a first-class martial art that was close to being a peerless skill!
He naturally couldn't miss the opportunity to learn top-notch martial arts.
According to Wei Jinlin, the grass-flying lightness skill he is currently practicing, although it has reached a certain level, is only a third-rate martial art.
The Nine Palaces Palm is only a second-rate martial art.
Clearly, Wei Jinlin had high hopes for his talent in lightness skills; otherwise, he wouldn't have taught him top-notch lightness skills.
"Watch closely."
After Lu Ming made his final decision, Wei Jinlin led him to a spacious open area in the courtyard and spoke to him.
"Next... I'll teach you 'Soaring to the Top'!"
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