Chapter 389: Chapter 388: Challenge Invitation
It’s not surprising.
Li Jingjun is currently stuck at the stage of cultivation technique fusion.
Her family-inherited martial skill, the Wind Seeking and Snow Returning Technique, although fundamentally different from martial skills like the Reversed Tao Qiankun, shares some common principles, allowing for mutual understanding.
Of course, during the teaching process, Li Jingjun might unwittingly reveal certain secrets about her family’s cultivation techniques and martial skills... but this is entirely unintentional. After all, to engage in an exchange, if she doesn’t reveal the most private things she keeps hidden, how can Xu Lingjun deeply understand and interact with her?
From the initial verbal discussion, to later, involving the operation of cultivation techniques.
Then later...
They would spar.
But their sparring was actually quite interesting.
Li Jingjun attacked Xu Lingjun with all her might. She was already quite familiar with this move, as she had often coordinated like this at the Bei Xuanwu Martial Mansion back in the day.
After Xu Lingjun endured this attack, with the momentum of the Reversed Tao Qiankun, he would rebound it mixed with his own power back at her... Li Jingjun would then use her family’s unique Wind Seeking and Snow Returning Technique to diffuse it.
Based on her performance, Xu Lingjun would gradually apply more force, slowly testing the limits of what Li Jingjun could withstand.
After all, his absolute strength now surpassed Li Jingjun, and with the addition of Li Jingjun’s own power, it was absolutely double and then some... Furthermore, the Thousand Slaughter Blade Technique’s blade Qi was chillingly lethal, and if he went all out, this single strike could severely injure Li Jingjun.
This could be considered Xu Lingjun’s strongest and most forceful trump card.
The two were just like playing table tennis, back and forth, having a lot of fun... This method of practical combat training also made Li Jingjun more adept at comprehending her own family’s cultivation techniques.
After all, reading a book a hundred times, its meaning naturally becomes apparent.
Xu Lingjun’s action was essentially helping her get familiar with theory through practice.
And Xu Lingjun was also able to obtain another Supreme Level Technique through Li Jingjun, and he finally understood... why Liu Zhiyuan had said the Wind Seeking and Snow Returning Technique suited him well back then.
The difference between the Wind Seeking and Snow Returning Technique and the Reversed Tao Qiankun wasn’t that significant; one was a rebound, the other was force dissipation, much like the difference between Star Shifting and Tai Chi Boxing.
It seemed less miraculous than the Reversed Tao Qiankun, but in fact, the Reversed Tao Qiankun imposed great stress on one’s physique, and it would easily cause harm if one wasn’t careful.
In comparison, the Wind Seeking and Snow Returning Technique acted externally, rather than internally, imposing almost no constraints on one’s physique.
In a certain sense, it was even more wondrous than the Reversed Tao Qiankun.
Xu Lingjun was secretly delighted...
After consuming those Spirit Liquids provided by Han Xu Yang, his meridians had been significantly strengthened, allowing him to barely absorb the True Essence of Grandmaster-level experts.
However, the purity of True Essence far surpassed True Qi, so he still felt somewhat overwhelmed.
But now, he obtained the cultivation technique of the Wind Seeking and Snow Returning Technique from Li Jingjun, which included the Force Dissipation Technique, allowing him to first dispel part of the True Essence before absorbing it into his body.
This time, his Reckless and Irresponsible under the reinforcement of the Reversed Tao Qiankun and the Wind Seeking and Snow Returning Technique was truly complete.
The two seemed to be in a fierce battle, but in fact, during the battle, they were also continuously exchanging the knowledge within each other.
In no time.
Li Jingjun was already sweating profusely, while Xu Lingjun, having used the Reversed Tao Qiankun several times in a row, only felt his body swelling unbearably, with an urge that needed expressing.
When Xu Lingjun finally exhaustedly released the last strand of blade Qi.
"Let’s rest for a while."
Xu Lingjun wiped the sweat from his forehead and said.
"Hmm, I’ll take a bath first."
Li Jingjun got up and walked out... She was already thoroughly drenched, something she might not have cared much about in the past.
But now with such a relationship with Xu Lingjun, one could say they were engaged, but not quite, as they had already received their elders’ blessing, with even her grandmother advising her to do such embarrassing things.
She still hasn’t gathered the courage yet.
After all, she had begun to gradually become conscious of her maiden modesty in front of Xu Lingjun.
"Women are so troublesome, having to bathe afterward, men have it easy."
Xu Lingjun quietly regained his strength, and once the True Qi within him was completely vented, he flicked his fingers, feeling an impulse to light a post-exercise cigarette.
But he hadn’t touched that stuff in years, easily suppressing the urge.
He picked up the fan on the table, fanning himself leisurely. For men, letting the sweat dry sufficed... Bathing wasn’t such a necessity.
As he turned his head.
Xu Lingjun couldn’t help but be taken aback, discovering Li Fufeng and Li Pingting standing quietly in the distant corridor, looking this way.
Xiaoya promptly said, "Master, they’ve been here for half an hour already, but at that time, you and Miss Jingjun were intensely engaged in battle, so I didn’t disturb you."
Xu Lingjun softly acknowledged, watching as they walked over.
Li Fufeng looked deeply at Xu Lingjun and asked, "The martial skill you just used... seemed to have traces of the Thousand Slaughter Blade Technique in it."
"Madam, you have a good eye; it indeed is Zhou Qianmo’s Thousand Slaughter Blade Technique."
"You..."
Li Fufeng showed a puzzled expression.
But just from her expression, Xu Lingjun knew what she wanted to ask and proactively explained, "Zhou Qianmo intended to betray the Empire, inciting hatred between the sect and the martial mansion, and was discovered and killed by me, which is precisely why I was promoted to Deputy Commander of the Imperial Army and obtained the Zhou family’s inherited martial skill, the Thousand Slaughter Blade Technique. But given the short time I’ve had it, I’m still somewhat unfamiliar with it!"
Li Fufeng nodded, "Indeed, the blade Qi is chillingly cold due to insufficiently internalized power, but your blade Qi is more condensed and different from Zhou Qianmo."
Xu Lingjun thought to himself, of course, it’s different, having been enhanced with a Talent Source, the grade has nearly achieved perfection.
Li Pingting was already absorbed in Xu Lingjun’s words.
The Li family once had members serving in the imperial court, but as their numbers dwindled, the entire Li family became presided over by Li Fufeng, with Li Jingjun as just a young sprout needing diligent nurturing, and Li Pingting responsible for the day-to-day running of the Li family, leaving no extra manpower, thus only holding a few extremely prestigious ceremonial titles in the Empire.
She knew nothing about these deliberately hidden matters.
She gasped, "Zhou Qianmo? Isn’t he the Pavilion Master of the Nanyun Martial Mansion? How could he intend to rebel against the Empire? No way... he’s a Grandmaster, how could you possibly kill him?"
"Zhou Qianmo indeed is the Pavilion Master of Nanyun Martial Mansion, why he betrayed the Empire I don’t know, but given his betrayal intent, I naturally couldn’t tolerate him. Now the Empire is in a precarious state, and can’t afford internal strife."
Xu Lingjun said, "Indeed, he died by my hand, without a doubt."
Faced with others, he might have to say a few modest words, claiming a surprise attack with help covering him... really lucky, incredibly lucky.
But in front of her family.
He couldn’t be modest, even if Han Yun City confronted him directly, Xu Lingjun would dare to say he battled Zhou Qianmo for three hundred rounds before cutting him down... although he wasn’t without others assisting him, they were merely cheerleaders and shout assistants.
With the words out.
Li Pingting was instantly speechless, looking at this young man before her with eyes that...
He was an Upper Realm Grandmaster and the head of a martial mansion, stronger than her aunt perhaps.
Yet he died at this kid’s hands?
Li Fufeng gave Xu Lingjun a deep look and asked, "Ling Jun, your strength indeed surpasses Jingjun’s quite a bit, I haven’t taken action in years, and after watching you two, my hands are itching, care to spar with me for a bit?"
Upon these words.
Li Pingting couldn’t help being startled, thinking her aunt wasn’t a belligerent person, why was she initiating a spar?
Could it be...
She suddenly thought of a possibility.
Could it be...
One is a master of a family, the other a pavilion master, equal in status...
A moment of love, hate, resentment, and the grievance of being forced to part with tears for the family’s continuity.
Now, seeing the enemy again, he had become her granddaughter-in-law.
Li Pingting nodded a few times, feeling the tinge of a bitter romance.