As Chao Ge’s voice rang out.
Xu Qingnian quickly got up and plopped up from the Wenchi.
Sure enough, in the middle of the great hall, Chao Ge manifested his original self, looking very excited.
“Brother Chao Ge, have you remembered?”
Xu Qingnian was very excited, so excited that he didn’t even notice that some changes had occurred in the Palace of Literature.
“Brother Qingnian, I remember now, I really remember now.”
Chao Ge was extremely excited, he grabbed Xu Qingnian’s shoulder and looked very happy.
“Brother Chao Ge, what have you remembered?”
Xu Qingnian enquired, a smile on his face as well.
“I remember a lot of things, my identity still doesn’t come back to me, but a lot of things about the martial dao, I remember.”
Chao Ge said excitedly.
“Martial arts?”
Xu Qingnian froze a little.
How could it be the martial dao?
Shouldn’t it be Confucianism by definition?
But soon, Xu Qingnian remembered, the Great Sage was a master of both literature and martial arts, he had become a saint in Confucianism and was also strong in martial arts.
As Chao Ge was worshipped as a half-saint, it was believed that it was acceptable for people to know some martial arts.
And when you think about it, it’s better to remember the martial path, isn’t he himself a martial artist?
In this area of Confucianism, although I need Chao Ge to guide me later, but in the early stage, my own Confucianism is already considered very good, and if I improve it further, it will be a bit plucky.
“En, it’s the martial dao.”
“Brother Qingnian, as a Human Half-Saint, it is only reasonable for me to know some martial arts.”
“And brother Qingnian, look at what’s extra inside this Palace of Literature?”
Chao Ge was in a good mood.
“What’s extra?”
Xu Qingnian had just finished carving the article and coalescing the third literary artefact when he heard Chao Ge suddenly speak up and say that he remembered.
That was why he hadn’t looked closely at the Palace of Literature.
Looking at it now, a door appeared on the left side of the Palace of Literature.
On the door were even the four words [Martial Dao is King] written.
“This is?”
Xu Qingnian was curious and asked Chao Ge.
“I recovered some of my memories, most of them related to the martial dao, and there happened to be information about this door.”
“This is the place where Master practiced martial arts, so you can judge your own strength, but the greatest ability is to observe your enemy.”
Chao Ge spoke out, explaining to Xu Qingnian.
“Contemplating the enemy?”
Judging one’s own strength, Xu Qingnian could understand, but what did it mean to visualise an enemy?
“Brother Qingnian apparently knows many people who practice martial arts, and only needs things of the other party’s skin to conjure up a dummy body, which has all the abilities below the first rank, but no intelligence.”
“It is used to hone one’s martial dao.”
Chao Ge replied, leaving Xu Qingnian shocked.
With just a skin, one could evolve a false body, and thus one could hone the martial dao?
This was simply a divine technique.
Imagine you have an enemy that is on par with him, you want to defeat him, but you can’t directly strike, in case you can’t, it’s embarra*sing right?
In case you have beaten them, they deliberately let you off the hook, and when you think you are strong and want to finish them off, they end up undermining you and come up with a line kid, you didn’t expect that, did you? That’s what I call hiding a hand.
Wouldn’t that be embarra*sing?
But having this ability to evolve a dummy, but with the same strength, is nothing more than having no intelligence.
But at least you can roughly tell from the force whether you can beat it or not.
It’s a good thing, it’s like a one-upmanship tool.
“Fur?”
Xu Qingnian began to ponder in his mind, who was his biggest enemy at the moment?
Without a doubt, it was Cheng Lidong.
In fact, with his current prestige, it was not a difficult task to get Cheng Lidong killed, but Xu Qingnian could not allow Cheng Lidong to die suddenly.
This would lead to bigger problems.
Xu Qingnian wanted Cheng Lidong to step into his own trap step by step, but there was one necessary part of the trap, and that was a fight with Cheng Lidong.
Xu Qingnian has been struggling with this, after all, Cheng Lidong’s strength is definitely above his own, but how strong is he and how far behind he is is another question.
Now with this martial arts arena, this trouble can be solved.
There was no hiding, whether it was strong or not, Xu Qingnian would be able to know.
“Brother Qingnian.”
Suddenly, Chao Ge’s voice rang out.
“Present.”
Xu Qingnian turned back to his senses and looked at Chao Ge.
“Brother Qingnian, although I don’t know what has happened to you, you and I are one, plus I know that you are very intelligent and have a good heart, there are some things you choose to do, you must have your hardships.”
“I will not discourage you from anything, I watched you while you were thinking about other things, your martial dao is flawed.”
Chao Ge spoke out, he didn’t care what Xu Qingnian was going to do because he believed in him.
It was just a matter of advising Xu Qingnian to think twice, but these were not important matters, what was important was that he sensed a problem in Xu Qingnian’s martial dao.
Before he recovered his memory, he could not see it.
After his memory was restored, he could see at a glance what was wrong with Xu Qingnian now.
“Please also ask Brother Chao Ge to enlighten me.”
Something was wrong with the martial arts dao?
Xu Qingnian really didn’t understand, until now, he had been crossing the river blindly in his own martial arts practice.
Now that there was someone to guide him, Xu Qingnian was naturally hungry for guidance.
“You will write down the original foreign arts for me to read.”
Chao Ge changed into the Four Treasures of the Writing Room and asked Xu Qingnian to write down the foreign arts first.
“Okay.”
Xu Qingnian didn’t hesitate and put down the complete version of the Golden Crow Body Tempering Technique with his pen, not missing a single word.
After it was written down.
Chao Ge examined it carefully, and only after a long time did he nod his head, suddenly coming to an understanding.
“I understand.”
“Brother Qingnian, the technique you cultivated before was also a pure Yang technique, but it was one that was more basic.”
“This Golden Crow Body Tempering Technique, which draws the power of the sun to cut down your hair and cleanse your marrow and unblock your tendons and veins, is too overbearing in its pure yang, causing one to have a violent temperament and give birth to killing thoughts.”
“Its main reason is that this technique is not complete and should be a castrated version.”
Chao Ge replied.
It made Xu Qingnian understand clearly.
So that was how it was, although it wasn’t very clear, it sounded like it made sense.
“Then is it time to go hunting for the full version?”
Xu Qingnian asked.
“No, my brother can help you deduce it.”
Chao Ge said confidently.
Extrapolate?
Xu Qingnian was really surprised this time.
“Magnanimous Brother Qingnian, my brother is still a Half-Sage no matter what, so I can still push out a mere piece of such a gong method.”
Chao Ge looked very confident.
“Thank you, Brother Chao Ge, my humble brother is just surprised, not questioning.”
A half-saint, Xu Qingnian would certainly not question it, when people were at their peak, they might blow a hundred thousand of themselves to death with a single breath, so what was there to disbelieve.
“However, you should consider yourself clearly, my brother can deduce the full version, but it is not clear whether it can solve the trouble of the foreign arts.”
“But the benefits are twofold.”
“One, the complete version of the Golden Crow Body Tempering Technique can help you condense the Sun Saint Body, a physique that I remember is so strong that it can even qualify you for cross-grade combat.”
“Two, keep cultivating this neutered version of the foreign arts, it will destroy your foundation, don’t look at the fast cultivation speed now, sooner or later you will be stuck in a realm and unable to break through for the rest of your life, no kidding about that.”
Chao Ge’s face was serious as he said.
He could see the fatal flaws of this gongfu at a glance, so he told Xu Qingnian the good and the bad first, so that he could make his own decision.
“Brother Chao Ge, I am willing to cultivate it.”
To be stuck in a realm for the rest of one’s life, wouldn’t that be a dead end?
Definitely cultivation, ah, at the very least, it could again condense the so-called Sun Saint Body, and also enhance the strength, as for whether the side effects would be greater, then this Xu Qingnian could not care.
The first stage of the matter can not be solved, you still think about the later stage?
It’s not that Xu Qingnian is a rat, instead he acts decisively.
“That’s fine, then my brother will make a good deduction for you, you should not break through the martial dao realm in these few days, once my brother has made a good deduction, I will immediately look for you.”
Chao Ge said.
“I beg your pardon, brother.”
Xu Qingnian performed a great salute.
“You’re welcome.”
Chao Ge returned the salute.
Since this was the case, Xu Qingnian did not say anything more and slowly withdrew from the Heaven and Earth Palace of Literature.
After Xu Qingnian exited the Palace of Literature.
What he saw was the guest room.
“Cough.”
With a light cough, Xu Qingnian got up and pushed the door of the room open, with two people standing guard outside the door.
“Mr. Xu.”
Hearing Xu Qingnian’s movement, the two of them were already fully focused, and now that Xu Qingnian opened the door, they were respectful.
They knew better than anyone what kind of corner this man was in front of them, and that he would have to soar to great heights in the future, so how could they not show some respect?
“The government exams have ended, please inform Lord Zhao.”
Sweeping a glance at the sky, Xu Qingnian opened his mouth and told the two to inform Zhao Yuan.
“Yes, Mr Xu, wait a moment.”
The two men nodded, and then the man on the right immediately moved off to find Zhao Yuan.
In less than twenty breaths of time, Zhao Yuan’s figure appeared.
He was holding the jade box and looked cautious.
“Greetings, Lord Zhao.”
“Greetings, Mr Xu.”
The two men made a salute, but Zhao Yuan was holding the jade box and was unable to salute, so he just shouted.
“You guys go stand guard outside, whoever comes, don’t disturb.”
Zhao Yuan ordered down, and the guards left at once.
After the guards had left, Zhao Yuan walked into the room, put the jade box down, and immediately looked at Xu Qingnian and said.
“Mr Xu, when it comes to the examination hall, there are many people and eyes, so many things cannot be said.”
“Now that there are only you and I, these words can be said straight away.”
Zhao Yuan spoke up, voicing his previous concerns.
“Mister Xu understands.”
Xu Qingnian nodded his head.
“Mr. Xu, now you are about to become famous in the world, with a thousand famous words in the past and a great article in the future.
“But you are only 20 years old and have only been studying for a month, and you have already achieved such a feat.
“But there are one or two disadvantages.”
“It’s fine to say that this superb article, even if it really is ruined, it will only be less national luck, but the impact is not great.”
“But there are many people in the world who do not want Wei to flourish again, especially the demons.”
“I have just informed the three masters, as well as the Prefect, to invite martial and Confucianists from all over the world, and even immortal powerhouses to guard this place, and the sight of a white rainbow crossing the sun will definitely attract the attention of the demons.”
“If they turn against you, that would be the true source of destruction and the thing we fear the most.”
Zhao Yuan spoke out, revealing worry in every word.
All this, Xu Qingnian had already guessed part of it, but there was just something that Xu Qingnian did not understand.
Demons?
With Confucianism in place, was he still afraid of a mere demon?
This was what Xu Qingnian did not understand.
