"Legend has it that when Taiping Duke removed his face mask and rode the Qilin into Jiangnan, countless women from the second-floor painting galleries scattered petals down. The petals fell on the green stone slabs and into the streams, spreading endlessly downstream."
"I really wonder what the young, spirited, famous general looked like back then..."
"However, the children of Jiangnan are still playing with those smooth stone beads."
Yue Qianfeng gestured to illustrate. It was when Li Guanyi and Xue Shuangtao went out and saw the stone beads that the boys treasured so much. Yue Qianfeng smiled faintly:
"Especially the boys, they really like them."
"These are all spread from the story of Taiping Duke."
"A general who changes the era, even if kings and marquises want to erase his traces, it’s absolutely impossible."
Li Guanyi listened to the story and asked, "Did she agree?"
Yue Qianfeng replied softly, "She agreed. General Yue said the girl happily accepted. Everyone around them offered blessings, but in reality, he could have won her over with the same stones he used to skip across water as a boy. In the end, those Bright Pearls were exchanged for gold and silver and given to his injured comrades during the grand wedding."
"But I heard that at the time, an eleven or twelve-year-old girl, furious with a headache, fiercely pounded Taiping Duke’s battle robe with a zither."
"She kept saying, ’Let it go, let it go!’"
Li Guanyi narrowed his eyes, perhaps knowing who his parents were now.
Feeling a warmth in his heart as he listened to these stories.
Yue Qianfeng looked up and said, "It’s just that at the end of the tale, both she and Taiping Duke died ten years ago when General Yue was defending the border. By the time he received the news and rushed to help, all he saw were the palace flames soaring. Perhaps from that day on, General Yue was no longer tolerated by the current Emperor."
"The ’Taiping Book’ he created, I’ll pass it on to you today."
"I’ll demonstrate it once, and if you have any questions, I’ll show you again."
Yue Qianfeng stood up, and the Red Dragon spiraled upward, teaching Li Guanyi the method of Condensing Inner Qi.
The bronze tripod quietly completed the last of the Jade Liquid accumulation.
Before Li Guanyi, a blurry scene appeared, the scene of the breeze in Jiangnan, the silhouette of a general, riding a Qilin into Jiangnan, but then the scene shattered. Li Guanyi seemed familiar with this Cultivation Technique, and the Qi Condensation technique, influenced by the breath of the bronze tripod, finished at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Taiping Book," entry level!
"Taiping Book," proficiency!
"Taiping Book," Great Success!
But just then, in Li Guanyi’s ear, came the sound of Dragon Roar and Tiger Roar. The Red Dragon Dharma Form’s long chant rose, appearing beside Li Guanyi with the White Tiger Dharma Form. Inside him, the White Tiger and Red Dragon Dharma Forms reached similar levels.
One represented Body Casting with the strength of a fierce tiger.
The other represented Red Dragon Qi Condensation.
At that moment, metal and fire ascended, confronting each other. The clash of metal and fire began to riot inside Li Guanyi. His expression became rigid, his face showing a look of agony. Yue Qianfeng was happily eating meat and drinking wine when he suddenly noticed the change in Li Guanyi’s complexion, pausing momentarily, then immediately realizing what was happening.
Yue Qianfeng was instantly at Li Guanyi’s side.
His broad hand pressed down.
Forcefully controlling the rioting Qi Mechanism inside Li Guanyi. But in that instant, the fierce fire and ruthless Geng Metal burst inside Li Guanyi’s body, Inner Qi swirling, with Dragon Roar and Tiger Roar in his ears, the clash of Dragon and Tiger Qi causing Li Guanyi’s Inner Qi to riot inwardly.
The Jade Liquid pushed forward, unhurried.
With someone helping protect his organs, the Dragon and Tiger Dharma Forms seemed to start a struggle inside the young body. Metal and fire collided, like cold water splashing into a hot oil pan, causing an upheaval of Inner Qi. Yet being suppressed by Yue Qianfeng, so as not to damage the organs, it was natural that only one path remained.
Inner Qi surged wildly toward the meridians.
Stars illuminated, before the sharp Qi of the White Tiger Dharma Form, the stagnation of the meridians was nothing.
The originally stagnant meridians, under such circumstances—
A Qi Mechanism exploded on Li Guanyi’s shoulder, repelling Yue Qianfeng’s hand.
Yue Qianfeng saw this and was stunned, his pupils contracting, recognizing the state Li Guanyi was in now.
This wasn’t Qi Condensation.