Bang!

A muffled sound exploded in his ears, and Xun Xie blocked Ping Xiu's onslaught.

"Yo, not bad."

Ping Xiu's eyes lit up, and she suddenly changed her moves. She jumped forward and bumped into Xun Xie.

What kind of play is this?

Xun Xie was startled, Ping Xiu almost got close to his arms, his elbow crossed and hit his chest.

With a bang, Xun Xie stepped back, sliding with his feet on the ground, his chest was burning with pain.

"Hey, you actually resisted?" Ping Xiu praised with a look of surprise, "You have done a good job in self-defense, come again!"

Xun Xie cheered up and kept moving his feet. When Ping Xiu attacked him, he punched his fist outright.

Ping Xiu loosened her fist and slapped it into a palm, swinging Xun Xie's fist away.

But Xun Xie immediately punched continuously, and the shadow of the fist like a storm shrouded in the past.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Ping Xiu waved her palms to block as she stepped back, quickly blocking every fist with her eyes and hands and avoiding swipes of claws.

Unconsciously, she retreated in front of the wall, her back hit the wall, and she couldn't retreat any longer.

Xun Xie punched and clawed like a dragon, dazzled, hitting her stomach, hitting her bottom, hitting her chest...

Ping Xiu quickly blocked, her body was suppressed by tremendous force, her back kept hitting the wall with a bang, and the dust on the wall was scattered and blown away by the fist wind.

The inner sections started to crack affected by the blood attributes.

Xun Xie punched and clawed more than fifty times in one breath, switching between boxing and claw attacks almost seamlessly, blood poured out of his brain, and finally he was exhausted, and he just jumped away one step at a time.

Ping Xiu stood in front of the wall, the wall behind her cracked like a cobweb, and the wall paint fell off into a silhouette of her back.

She shook her hands, grinned and said, "You kid, your punches are too hard!"

Xun Xie took a deep breath and tried to recover his blood energy quickly. Although the output of the punch just now was very strong, it was a great from and shape, but Ping Xiu was unscathed.

They exchanged a few more blows, Xun Xie found her to be as nimble as ever but he had gotten used to her unexpected sharp movements.

"No more, no more!"

Ping Xiu suddenly called out.

Xun Xie was stunned: "Don't fight anymore?"

Ping Xiu raised her hands: "My hands have been numb from your beating, and I can't move."

Xun Xie was speechless and looked at Old Man Hu.

"Go to the pharmacy and get some rubbing alcohol." Old Man Hu stood up, waved his hand, and let Ping Xiu go out.

When Ping Xiu left, Old Man Hu shook his head and sighed, "If she persists for a while, you will lose."

Xun Xie said with deep conviction, "Yes, my total blood energy is not as good as Senior Sister Xiu's, and my martial arts skills are only the boxing and claw attacks not switching to hard attacks like steel claw and flowing between moves as fast as I can, and my actual combat experience is not as good as hers."

Old Man Hu: "I didn't teach you other martial arts because I was afraid that you would be distracted and waste too much time. After all, at this stage of yours, training your body and accumulating blood is the right way. Besides, martial arts lie in essence, not in abundance. It's about depth, not breadth. You can force Ping Xiu to stop with just claws and boxing, that's the reason."

Xun Xie's mind quickly became clear. Actually, he was fully capable of learning everything and could pester the Old Man to help but like he said martial arts lie in essence and quality, not numbers, he had already glimpsed the heights he could bring his current martial skills to so he only needed to become a martial sage once more to rush towards it. Mastering a few skills and matching them to his style was better than learning a lot of skills and being proficient. Just a singe skill had massive potential to be unearthed.

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Old Hu was definitely aware of this so he only gave out the basics to build a 'toolkit' that could handle different situations. How he used the tools was up to him. Mastery of these skills and knowing when and how to use them.

…

Winter has come.

Goose feather snow fell from the sky, and it was splendid. Blue Grain Town was covered in silver overnight, and it was as beautiful as a picture scroll.

In the early morning, Xun Xie rode a donkey on the street as always, and both the donkey and his mouth let out wisps of white air.

In the past few months, Xun Xie couldn't stop and insisted on practicing the ruling-spirit skill, practicing up to the 5th move in private combined with the second level yielded great results.

He had finally started to grasp the effects of the fifth move and used it on a deer and it fell unconscious with a roar, at first, his roar could only knock out a single deer but now he could knock out five, which was great progress!

and the meat of the beast gradually expanded by one or two more day, after getting to over 7 taels the increase was slower than the beginning, but his appetite still increased nonetheless and wasn’t stagnant and uniform.

Exchanging the gold, silver, and pearl jewels went a lot smoother than expected, he had to use six different places and only two were suspicious of him and only one actually acted out this cliché bandit scene to warn others not to show wealth.

Unfortunately for them, that day was the Grand Prize and he had poisoned needles as a backup. Not only did he actually rob them instead, but Xun Xie exploded their heads by accident and used all the needles which were unnecessary, when he watched from a distance, he realized the first all-out blow had already killed each of them, the needles were used on corpses, but since time was stopped, he didn’t realize.

If only they weren’t so poor and only had 12 taels amongst them. He wanted to go back and rob the store as punishment but that had to be on the calendar, he wasn’t willing to risk it while his plug-in had already expired and he was still not that strong.

Now that Xun Xie thought about it was probably so easy to explode their heads because of his blood energy attribute. Quite awesome. This plus the money in hand had made him incredibly happy for a few days.

His blood energy increased steadily, and it was able to cover two arms, head, and his chest, and half a thigh.

There is still a long way to go before the whole body is covered.

Old Man Hu did not arrange for other apprentices to compete with Xun Xie.

And those three fights were all behind closed doors, and outsiders had no way of knowing. The losers were embarrassed to say, and the winners didn't show off.

So, this matter was not spread out.

Xun Xie is still that low-key young man.

Snow covered the street. Early in the morning, there was no one on the street. The donkey stepped on a line.

At this moment, Xun Xie raised his head and saw a figure appearing in front of him.

The other party should be a woman, wearing a large fluffy apricot cloak, dragging the ground, holding a yellow umbrella, covering her face, and walking slowly from the opposite side.

Xun Xie didn't care and walked straight forward.

The two passed by. At this moment, Xun Xie glanced at the woman, wanting to see if the other party was good-looking.

Just seeing this, Xun Xie's heart trembled and his whole body froze.

The donkey hunched over him and walked forward.

The woman didn't give him another look from beginning to end.

After a while, Xun Xie let go of his breath and took a deep breath of cool air into his lungs.

The cold air calmed him down.

Xun Xie resisted all impulses and did not look back.

"It’s her!"

That summer night!

That luminous body!

The young woman who was eaten!

"Demon!" Xun Xie met her again and saw she was dressed like a young lady from a big family.

"Fortunately, fortunately, if I hadn't been riding the donkey Abao, I would definitely have reacted unnaturally at that moment, which might have alerted the demon." Xun Xie thought to himself, feeling a little scared.

When he arrived at the Hu residence, Xun Xie was full of thoughts and wanted to discuss with Old Man Hu.

But he suddenly remembered that old man Hu led a group of apprentices to escort food and had been away for several days.

Going through the day with a restless mind.

When evening came, Xun Xie returned to the Song Mansion, and stood in front of the desk, the woman's face appeared in his mind, and he started to draw it in one go.

In the end, he rolled up the paper and took it back to the room.

day by day...

Finally, I waited until Old Man Hu came back!

However, what Xun Xie did not expect was...

Old man Hu was injured, and there were two more ugly scars on his face. The little finger and index finger of his left hand were missing, and there was a lot of white hair on his temples.

"Sun Bin didn't come back, so did Ping Xiu..."

Xun Xie discovered that of the apprentices that Old Man Hu took out he only returned with less than half.

A senior brother revealed: "We were attacked on the way, and the food was not kept."

"It was robbed?"

"No, that group of men in black didn't plan to grab the food at all, they set fire to the food directly."

"The food escort failed, many apprentices were killed and injured, and Mr. Hu was also injured by the master. The 'Hei Yun City' side will definitely punish the failure..."

For a time, everyone sighed.

Old Man Hu entered the main room on his own and rarely showed up since then.

Not long after, Xun Xie once saw the blue-shirted guest coming and talked with Old Man Hu for a while.

Old Man Hu summoned all the apprentices.

He only heard the dry cough from the blue-shirted guest and said loudly: "Hu Piao failed to escort the food, he brings shame for Black Cloud City Lord, is deprived of the title of 'teacher', and from now on he can no longer teach anyone martial arts."

The world was suddenly dead silent.

"Then what about us apprentices?" Si Luoyan stood out from the crowd and asked loudly.

The blue-shirted guest with the blue-eyed green bull pattern on his cloth said disdainfully, "You can do whatever you like."

Si Luoyan looked at Old Man Hu and said, "Old Man Hu, do you have something to say?!"

Old Man Hu shook his head, waved his hand, and said, "Just go, don't come to me again in the future."

Having said that, he turned around and walked back into the house, leaving behind the apprentices who were at a loss.