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Chapter 84 What kind of bizarre martial arts are these?
"Senior brother, watch closely!"
Xia Yuelan moved with a mysterious gait, her body like a hunting cat, her arm outstretched to grasp the curved blade, her posture elegant and unrestrained. "This strike of mine..."
She wanted to say something in a teacherly tone, but lacking in formal education, she couldn't think of any pretentious idioms or phrases that implied being a teacher. She could only add, "You'll be very impressive!"
Fu Hai considered whether he should stop her martial arts training for now and send her to school instead.
"Take this!" As she spoke, Xia Yuelan lunged forward, leaving behind a trail of dreamlike light and shadow. She swung her sword at the wooden stick in her senior brother's hand.
Although she was using an unsharpened curved sword, it would still hurt if it were to strike her senior brother. Therefore, she wanted to break the wooden stick in her master's hand with one stroke, forcing her senior brother to admit defeat.
Fu Hai saw that her strike was like a dream, the blade light rising like the moon before shattering with a crash. Such a mysterious and profound swordsmanship would have been impossible for him to handle in the past.
But now he is using a staff pointing to the sky, and everything in his hand is a staff. This staff is not that kind of staff, but a man's staff that must never be broken.
Heads may be severed. Blood may flow.
A real man's stick cannot be broken.
In an instant, the stick moved like a dragon, sometimes pointing, sometimes stabbing, mysterious and indescribable. He then slid down smoothly, executing a sliding tackle.
"Ah!" Xia Yuelan's sword missed its mark, and she found Shi Ke sliding towards her, so she was forced to spread her legs.
The senior brother's staff moved like a gazelle's horns, naturally lifting her skirt and striking between her legs.
Xia Yuelan felt a deep sense of pity. Fu Hai also felt a little pity.
Don't ask him how he came up with this move. Anyway, once he unleashed the upward strike and found an opening, this move just came out naturally. Even if you asked him to wield the long stick right now and repeat it himself, he might not be able to do it.
Although Xia Yuelan possessed the power of the eighth realm and the mysterious and unpredictable Shattered Dream Blade, the way she cleaved through the air, combined with the staff that her senior brother slid down to deliver, made even her feel like she was throwing herself into his arms.
Her face flushed red as she looked down at the wooden stick that her senior brother had used to brush against the hem of her pomegranate-red skirt.
The wooden stick was newly whittled, thick and long, with half of it held in the hand of the senior brother who was lying diagonally on the ground, and the other half buried in her skirt.
It pressed against the hard part of her pants, making her feel that it had already parted her a little, and with a little more force, it would... go in.
"Ah!" Xia Yuelan screamed. The curved blade slashed downwards.
At this point, they couldn't care less about the Shattered Dream Blade Technique anymore.
So what if she has extraordinary comprehension? A girl is a girl; when she gets shy, she doesn't care about anything else.
Seeing that she was about to strike the stick at the root again, Fu Hai trembled and struck his junior sister's inner thigh twice with a snap. Her body was as slippery as an eel, and the stick was as elusive as a long snake peeking into a hole.
No matter how the junior sister slashes with her knife, she can always break her balance with a "snap" and force her to rearrange her posture.
In fact, Xia Yuelan's Shattered Dream Blade had already reached the "proficient" level. With her eighth-realm skill combined with the "proficient" Shattered Dream Blade, her progress during this period was nothing short of miraculous. If she were to join the county city...
The chivalrous code within the organization is also a core force.
However, Fu Hai, with his supreme martial arts foundation, has also greatly increased his power through these days of training, and has almost entered the eighth realm.
More importantly, his mastery of the upward-pointing staff strike was at a "transcendent" level, reaching a state of divine skill, where its application was entirely at his fingertips, and he had a special focus on girls, making it virtually indiscriminate.
The junior sister tried several times, but failed to hit his staff.
Then came another "snap," this time the stick struck her acupoint, causing a sharp pain as she was forced to spread her legs, forcing her to lift her legs. Her senior brother rolled behind her, his back to her, and casually handed the long stick behind him.
The stick struck her rear, instantly freezing her in place, preventing her from lowering her raised foot. Xiao Ye, watching from the sidelines, stared wide-eyed.
If, in the previous instance, when her brother blocked Yue Lan's front end with the stick, she still felt that the stick technique was strange and mysterious.
At this moment, her brother was behind Yue Lan, his long stick pressed against her buttocks, causing her to blush as well. She felt that her brother's stick-wielding technique was strangely familiar. Xia Yue Lan was being pressed against the back of Shi Ke's stick. She was naive and inexperienced. Although she was embarrassed to have her rear end pressed against, it was slightly better than before. She just felt that her senior brother's stick-wielding technique was too strange. Why did he focus on attacking a girl's front and back?
She wanted to admit defeat! Her senior brother chuckled behind her, "I forgot to mention, if you win you'll get ten times your allowance, but if you lose, you won't get any allowance at all." Xia Yuelan was shocked.
My head may be severed, my blood may flow, but if I lose my allowance, how am I going to get through this lesson? I'll practice!
The curved blade burst forth with a series of slashes as it slashed backward.
Fu Hai changed his staff technique again, combining thrusting and flicking; it was more like a provocation than a cut. "Senior brother!" Xia Yuelan said angrily, "You're cheating."
The moment she uttered the word "lazy," her senior brother's wooden stick spun around, and the other end naturally slipped into her mouth.
Xia Yuelan held the knife, her mouth agape, the tip of the stick almost touching her throat, causing her to swallow the rest of her words. The two siblings froze in place.
Xia Yuelan had never seen such strange kung fu before. Her eyes widened in disbelief, and she was forced to open her mouth, unsure of what to do. Hai couldn't help but sigh, looking at his junior sister with her mouth agape, and imagined it for a moment... It might work!
Xiao Ye, who was watching from the sidelines, was also stunned. For some reason, she followed Yue Lan and opened her mouth wide, as if her brother's wooden stick had entered her mouth.
Fu Hai sheathed his staff, looking dignified: "How about it? Do you admit defeat? If you want to say something, come at me again if you're not convinced."
The junior sister sheathed her sword, turned around and ran out, saying, "Senior brother, you're cheating! What kind of weird martial arts is this? I'm not practicing with you anymore!" She ran away, embarrassed and angry.
Fu Hai also thought that this stick technique was indeed a mess, but to be honest, it was actually quite powerful.
He then looked at Xiaoye, who was standing at the edge of the training ground with her eyes wide open and her rosy cherry lips wide open, which made him quite tempted as he realized that "it might be possible".
He chuckled and walked towards Xiaoye, calling out, "Xiaoye." Xiaoye stepped back, then suddenly turned around and ran away with a "whoosh."
Fu Hai chased after her, saying, "Xiao Ye, don't run away! Let's play some fun games."
Xiaoye ran all over the mountain, relentlessly pursued by her brother. She wasn't stupid; she realized what her brother wanted to do.
On a sudden impulse, she abruptly turned around, revealing her skeletal form, and bared her pale teeth at her brother, as if to bite. Fu Hai was startled and dared not play the "fun game" he had just thought of with her anymore.
On another note, little sister, you may be able to dodge the first day of the month, but you can't dodge the fifteenth, can you? He, who would eventually infuse his sister with yang energy, watched with little sister's smug satisfaction.
Xiao Ye sensed her brother's ill intentions, but she figured it was best to avoid that kind of game for now and deal with it later. Just then, Xia Yuelan ran up again: "Senior brother, you've been caught! The officials are here to arrest you!"
Chapter 85 These two constables are a bit of a ghost.
Fu Hai descended the mountain and arrived at the inn at the foot of the mountain, where he indeed saw two government officials. However, these two officials were somewhat sinister.
A man dressed in a white, straight-cut robe with a looped collar, wearing a tall white hat, holding a mourning stick in his left hand and a hook in his right, with the words "Peace Under Heaven" written on his hat.
A man dressed in a black, straight-cut robe with a looped front, wearing a tall black hat, holding a mourning stick in his right hand and a rope in his left, with the words "Promotion and Wealth" written on his hat.
"What are you two doing?" Fu Hai glared at the two men.
A perfectly normal person, dressed as a ghost in broad daylight? Do they even do cosplay in this world?
He recognized both men; they were brothers, the elder named Zheng Yi and the younger named Zheng Zhi, from Zheng Family Village in the city. They used to attend the same school as Fu Hai and had a fairly good relationship.
"Haven't seen you for a while, and you two have already reached the end of your lifespan and are now serving in the underworld?" Fu Hai turned around. "Lingyue, go buy some paper money for me, I'll burn it for them."
Song Lingyue, who was already helping out at the inn, walked over expressionlessly, holding a tinderbox: "Where can we buy paper money at this time? Why not just burn it?"
The two brothers recognized Song Lingyue and were actually quite afraid of her.
Song Lingyue usually gives people the impression of being taciturn and aloof. To those who don't know her, she seems like a chilling, icy beauty.
The two brothers shrank back and quickly hooked their arms around Fu Hai's shoulders, pulling him outside. Fu Hai asked, "What are you doing? What are you two up to?"
When I was little, I didn't know any better and liked to befriend other boys, putting my arm around their shoulders.
Now that he's grown up and more sensible, he only likes to touch girls' breasts and bump their butts; he feels a bit disgusted when he gets too close to men. Zheng Yi said, "Brother, we've come to ask you for a favor; we can only rely on you for this."
Fu Hai said, "Get out of here! Dressed like this, you come to my inn looking like this? Are you trying to cause me trouble?" Not to mention Lingyue wanting to burn them down, I want to burn them too.
He used to receive a good education based on the materialism of another world and didn't care about such things at all. Now, seeing that Xiaoye could still live even with just her bones, and that monster last time trying to drink children's blood to level up, he was completely indifferent.
I started to think that the world might not be so materialistic after all. So I started to be a bit more particular!
Fu Hai led Zheng Yi and Zheng Zhi to the outside of the inn and asked them in the sun why they had suddenly come to see him.
Zheng Yi said, "I really have to ask you for help this time. There's been a problem with the lantern troupe at the Goddess Temple. Uncle Ping An, who was dressed as the big monster, had an accident and fell from a height, sustaining serious injuries."
Fu Hai said, "Then go find a doctor. Why are you looking for me?"
He secretly opened the system and looked at the "female" in the female scientist's name, confirming that he really couldn't help.
Don't say he can cure any woman's chronic illness; firstly, the woman herself must be the one to cure it.
Zheng Zhi said, "I'm not asking you to treat an illness, I'm asking you for an emergency: join our lantern troupe and help Uncle Ping'an dress up as a monster." Fu Hai was taken aback: "Join the lantern troupe? Me?"
Zheng Yi sighed: "Uncle Ping'an is very skilled; he's a trained fighter. When playing a monster, he needs to jump around a lot, so he can't do it without some martial arts skills."
"He can't participate now, so where are we supposed to find someone who's skilled in martial arts to temporarily find? I just thought of you. Aren't you a martial artist? I heard you've already reached the ninth level."
He looked at Fu Hai with a hint of admiration. Just as a low-ranking official is still an official in the eyes of ordinary people, a low-ranking martial artist is already considered a master in the eyes of ordinary people.
Fu Hai glanced at his attribute panel. [Host: Fu Hai!]
[Martial Arts Level: Eighth Realm!]
He was quite pleased with himself... after all, he originally thought he would never have the chance to reach the eighth realm in his entire life.
Even disregarding factors like martial arts talent, obtaining a martial arts manual that doesn't belong to one's own sect in this world is no easy feat.
Even the Dragon Claw Hand technique, which they barely managed to reach the ninth rank, was never easily passed on to outsiders.
That's why he was so moved when Sister Butterfly was willing to give him the secret manuals of "The Flying Red Blade of Chaotic Butterflies" and "The Flying Star Steps." Only when you're in the martial arts world do you truly understand what it means to "cherish even the smallest treasure."
Martial arts manuals are something that each school, sect, and family would rather lose than pass on to outsiders.
He shook his head and said, "I won't say anything. The Lantern Festival is in two days. If you ask me to replace Uncle Ping An now, do you think I'll have time to practice? I already have this inn to manage; where would I find the time?"
Zheng Yi said, "Forget it! Every time I come to this inn, I only see Sister Qiu Ying; I've hardly seen you. I don't think it'll be any different without you, and besides, you've hired people to help out, haven't you?"
Zheng Zhi said, "Let me tell you, although the performance fee is not high, the magistrate of the village and other wealthy families will give you a reward. The real performance is on the night of the lantern festival."
"You played a very important role, and that night you received a bounty of several dozen taels of silver."
Zheng Yi looked worried: "The main problem is that the others don't have that ability. Those who do have been busy these past few days and simply haven't had time to go."
“If you don’t go, the whole team will have to disband, and everyone will have worked for nothing.” Fu Hai was always willing to help others, and he happened to need the money.
He knew that the lantern troupe could earn a considerable amount from the bounties during the important festival, and therefore he was somewhat tempted.
He pondered for a moment and said, "Hmm, it's not impossible... but why play a demon? Since it's done in the name of your Goddess Temple, who will play the goddess?"
Zheng Zhi and Zheng Yi exchanged a glance.
Zheng Zhi whispered, "Not a goddess, but a fairy. It's a legend about a fairy driving away demons and protecting everyone. You know the actress playing the fairy..." Zheng Yi said, "It's that one. The second young lady of the Cen family who used to be quite close to you at school."
Fu Hai turned and left: "No time! Don't bother seeing me out!" He remembered that Miss Cen all too well.