Narration System for the Journey of Martial Arts

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While suspended in mid-air, Ding Busi moved erratically, creating several afterimages as he pushed his lightness skill to its limit, trying his best to get rid of the palm print.

Unexpectedly, the palm print also curved, and in the blink of an eye, it descended from above and slapped him on the forehead.

With a loud "smack," Ding Busi's forehead turned bright red, and a small handprint was etched on his forehead. Ding Busi fell backward and slammed hard onto the deck, creating a human-shaped hole.

"Is he...is he dead?" Shi Xiaocui asked, looking at Ding Busi who was motionless.

Su Yuchen nodded, too lazy to speak, and with a flick of his right sleeve, a gust of wind howled and crashed into the motionless Ding Busi.

Ding Busi was sent flying backwards towards the river, his chest cracking as his entire body shattered, leaving him with no chance of survival.

With a 'whoosh', Ding Busi fell into the swift current, spun around, and never resurfaced.

"Alright, old lady, do you have a place to stay in the Yangtze River?" Su Yuchen turned to Shi Xiaocui and asked.

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Following Shi Xiaocui's directions, Su Yuchen moved his feet, and the small awning boat shot out, leaving a white wave on the river before disappearing into the distance.

A moment later, a small piece of land appeared ahead. Su Yuchen pushed off with his feet, and the small boat sailed onto the beach. By this time, the sky was already slightly bright, and a hint of purple quietly emerged.

Su Yuchen refused to miss his daily morning class. He spotted a high peak on the island and said, "Excuse me."

He then wrapped the girl in a quilt and tucked her around his waist, grabbed Shi Wancui by the collar with one hand, and leaped toward the summit.

As dawn broke, Shi Xiaocui was able to see clearly. In a casual glance, she recognized Su Yuchen's face and her eyes widened in horror: "You...you...how could it be you, you wretched child!"

Overwhelmed with anger, he coughed up a mouthful of blood, his eyes rolled back, and he fainted from fear.

"Brother... my grandma... what happened to my grandma?" The girl couldn't see Su Yuchen's face, but felt as if she were flying through the clouds.

"It's nothing, she's just scaring herself to death!" Su Yuchen said.

"Ah? My grandma... is... dead?" Ah Xiu exclaimed in surprise.

Su Yuchen said, "She's not dead yet, but she keeps vomiting like this, she'll vomit all her blood and die sooner or later."

'Pfft…' The girl, Ah Xiu, chuckled, then realized she shouldn't have done that, but couldn't help finding it funny. While trying to suppress her laughter, she said, 'Brother, can you save my grandma?'

Su Yuchen nodded, then realized she couldn't see him and said, "Not now. I need to hurry to the mountaintop to collect the Great Sun Purple Qi. I'll save her after I finish my cultivation."

"Thank you, brother. You're such a good person," said the young girl, Ah Xiu.

Su Yuchen paused, feeling helpless. If it weren't for the sunny and cheerful "Dog Brother" in his heart, he would probably never have been able to be with good people.

Ignoring the girls, Su Yuchen stepped into the air and reached the summit. The sun was already rising. Su Yuchen tossed them aside, and they landed lightly under a tree about five or six zhang away. He said, "I need to cultivate now. We'll talk later!"

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By the time Su Yuchen finished absorbing the purple energy, the grandmother and granddaughter had already woken up. The old woman and the young girl, Axiu, were staring intently at him.

As the purple aura on Su Yuchen's face dissipated, the girl gasped in surprise, her body trembling slightly.

Su Yuchen smiled slightly, and the girl lowered her head in fright, like a little deer.

Seeing Su Yuchen walking towards the two of them, the old woman Shi Xiaocui shouted angrily, "You wretched child, you bastard, don't come any closer, I..."

Su Yuchen glanced at her, his eyes cold and clear as the moon. Shi Xiaocui, who had been cursing loudly, opened her mouth, but no matter what she did, she couldn't utter a sound.

The girl kept her head down and didn't see Su Yuchen's gaze. She had been feeling helpless towards her grandmother, but now she suddenly fell silent. Curious, she turned her head to look and saw that the old lady's face was covered in cold sweat and her eyes had involuntarily shrunk to the size of pinpoints.

The girl was startled and hurriedly called out a few times. Shi Xiaocui seemed to come to her senses at that moment, but she never looked at Su Yuchen again.

Seeing this, the little girl secretly glanced at Su Yuchen and whispered, "This big brother, it seems... it seems like it's not him."

"Huh?" Shi Xiaocui was stunned when she heard this. She wanted to yell at him, but when she thought of the boy's eyes, she couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.

She glanced suspiciously at Su Yuchen, who was standing two zhang away, and said, "Where isn't he? It's clearly this face."

Chapter 98 Brothers on Purple Smoke Island

The young girl, Ah Xiu, shook her head and said, "Grandma, I can't explain it either, it's just... it doesn't look quite like it."

After a moment, she exclaimed, "Ah...it's the eyes, the eyes don't look like them."

Shi Xiaocui glanced at Su Yuchen, still stubbornly saying, "What's different? I can't see it."

Ah Xiu glanced at it quickly, then looked down and said, "It's just different. This guy's eyes are clearer, as if they're free of impurities."

“You said he was like an idiot…” Shi Xiaocui said, the last word “idiot” barely audible.

Ah Xiu understood perfectly well. Afraid that her grandmother might say something wrong and the two of them would start arguing again, she exclaimed, "Grandma, no... no idiot, it's pure!"

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Seeing the two of them whispering amongst themselves as if no one else was around, Su Yuchen's aura flashed by, and the two of them immediately looked up. Su Yuchen looked at Shi Xiaocui and said, "Considering you're old and your eyesight is failing, I won't hold it against you!"

He then looked at Ah Xiu, whose face was flushed with embarrassment, and said, "You are such a clever and intelligent young lady, much better than your old lady!"

Su Yuchen pointed to the cave that was faintly visible behind the woods and asked, "Do you live in the cave behind there?"

Ah Xiu nodded, and Su Yuchen appeared between the two of them in a flash. He picked up the quilt with one hand and lifted Shi Xiaocui with the other.

With each stride, he moved with lightning speed, barely feeling the ground, covering more than ten zhang in a short time, and was already standing in front of the cave.

Su Yuchen looked at the simple cave, shook his head helplessly, and had no choice but to find some rice and flour to make do with a simple meal.

Just before it was time to eat, Su Yuchen remembered that both of them had blocked meridians and were still unable to move. Helpless, Su Yuchen had no choice but to use the Dharma Yi Jin Jing divine skill to harmonize the qi of all things. He first cleared the Hand Shaoyang Gallbladder Meridian and Hand Shaoyang Heart Meridian for the old lady, so that she could eat by herself.

The old woman, Shi Xiaocui, felt a vast, ocean-like surge of true energy rushing towards her meridians. Her own true energy was like a wave that could be extinguished in front of it.

Su Yuchen's true energy seemed to be the commander of all energies, and in a short while it had spread to all the acupoints on Shi Xiaocui's arms.

Shi Xiaocui's true energy was easily mobilized by the true energy of the Yi Jin Jing of Bodhidharma, and the true energy that had originally sealed her acupoints was completely swept away.

As the Hand Shaoyang Gallbladder Meridian, Hand Shaoyang Heart Meridian, and Hand Shaoyang Sanjiao Meridian all returned to their original Dantian, Shi Xiaocui was finally able to move her hands.

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The old woman, Shi Xiaocui, ate while secretly glancing at Su Yuchen.

Feeling the almost tangible gaze behind him, Su Yuchen felt helpless. He was afraid that if he didn't explain things clearly, the old lady would never be at ease. He turned his head and said, "Grandma, if you have something to say, please speak frankly. I will tell you what I can."

"What's your name?" Shi Xiaocui asked, squinting her eyes.

Su Yuchen shook his head and said, "We're just passing acquaintances, so there's no need for us to know each other."

"A chance encounter? I'm afraid that's unlikely!"

"Now that the old lady thinks about it, you clearly came here specifically for us, grandmother and grandson. Otherwise, how could you have just happened to run into us?"

"Now that I think about it, that big ship was stopped in the river for quite a while. Don't tell me it just happened to stop at that time."

Shi Xiaocui said.

"Tell me, what is your relationship with Shi Qing and Min Rou of Xuan Su Manor in Jiangnan?"

“You are not him, but you look exactly like him, as if you were made from the same mold.”

Su Yuchen nodded without any surprise and said, "You mean Shi Zhongyu, right?"

"Hey..." Shi Xiaocui exclaimed in surprise, then sneered, "So you really do know? You look so much like him, what's your relationship with him?"

After feeding the girl, Su Yuchen wiped her mouth, smiled slightly, and then sat down to drink his porridge, saying, "I have a relationship with him, but I also don't."

"What nonsense are you spouting? If we have a connection, we have a connection; if we don't, we don't," Shi Xiaocui retorted.

"Grandma, please listen to what this man has to say first," Ah Xiu couldn't help but say.

Shi Xiaocui chuckled, but didn't say anything.

Su Yuchen was too lazy to argue with a crazy woman and thought it best to finish his business and leave as soon as possible. Once he made up his mind, he said, "The Shi Qing couple had two children back then. One of them was Shi Zhongyu, and the other was taken away by their enemies. They all thought that child was already dead."

"Are you the child who was taken away?" Shi Wancui asked.

Su Yuchen ignored her and continued...

"The Shi Qing couple and their enemy can be said to have come from the same school. The enemy not only knows the kung fu that the Shi Qing couple knows, but he uses it even more powerfully."

"So they tried to get revenge on that enemy several times, but they couldn't beat her."

"Left with no other choice, Shi Qing sent his only son, Shi Zhongyu, to Lingxiao City to learn martial arts, hoping that he could master the strengths of both Xuan Su Manor and Xue Shan Sect, and then avenge the murder of his son by his enemies."

"Min Rou was unaware that because she had lost one son, she doted on her only son, Shi Zhongyu, and still thought he was a well-behaved child."

"Hehe, as it turns out, spoiling a child is like killing a child. You all know what Shi Zhongyu did in Lingxiao City later."

"Hmph!" Shi Xiaocui snorted coldly, not wanting to hear it, but unable to resist asking, "You still haven't answered my question. Are you and that bastard brothers?"

Su Yuchen didn't answer her, and continued...

"After the incident in Lingxiao City, Bai Wanjian and a group of junior brothers and sisters went down the mountain overnight. Although that kid escaped, Xuan Su Manor did not fare well either."

"Xuansu Manor was burned to the ground by Bai Wanjian. A few years ago, Geng Wanzhong and Hua Wanzi from another group met Shi Qing and his wife and explained the matter."

"But Shi Zhongyu knew what he had done and that even his own father couldn't protect him, so he never went back to Xuansu Manor. He's been living a carefree life outside all these years."

Shi Xiaocui couldn't help but curse, "Bai Wanjian is a piece of trash, and Bai Zizai is an even bigger piece of trash."

"Hehe, they really are good-for-nothings, the entire Bai family is a bunch of good-for-nothings," Su Yuchen said with a grin.

Shi Xiaocui had already realized that he was deliberately trying to provoke her, and glared fiercely at Su Yuchen.

Su Yuchen wasn't afraid of her. He shrugged and continued...

"Shi Zhongyu wandered the world and was later tricked by Bei Haishi into becoming the leader of the Chang Le Gang. A group of villains gathered together, and they were even more lustful and committed all kinds of evil deeds."

"But he later discovered that Bei Haishi wanted to use him as a scapegoat, so he found an opportunity to escape from the Chang Le Gang."

"However, Shi Zhongyu was rather unlucky."

"For the past few years, I have been living in seclusion in Motianling and have never been involved in the affairs of the martial arts world. It was only in the last two years that I started to move around in the martial arts world because of some things."

"As a result, Bei Haishi of the Chang Le Gang mistook me for Shi Zhongyu and forced his way onto Motianling, wanting to take me back to the Chang Le Gang."

"It just so happens that I also wanted to use the power of the Chang Le Gang, so I went down the mountain with them."

"As a result, when I wanted to cultivate peacefully in the Chang Le Gang, his mistress and people from the Snow Mountain Sect came knocking on my door one after the other. I had no mood to deal with these messy things, so I had to cut the Gordian knot."

"The result is that I crippled Shi Zhongyu, and his mistress and her grandfather Ding Busan were killed by Xie Yanke. Now, hmm? Shi Zhongyu should be insane by now!"

Chapter 99 Breaking the Golden Crow Blade Technique

"You mean you crippled him? How did you cripple him?" Shi Xiaocui asked.

Su Yuchen said calmly...

“I asked his mistress, as well as Geng Wanzhong and Hua Wanzi from the Snow Mountain Sect, and Xie Yanke, the ‘Skyscraper’, to be witnesses.”

"Sever his tendons in his hands and feet, so that he can no longer use the Snow Mountain School's kung fu."

"They also shattered his throat bone, damaged his dantian and eyes, so he can no longer pass on the Snow Mountain School's kung fu to others."

“Since he is lustful, I will break his perineum, so that he can only be a castrated man and will never be able to have sex again.”

"However, I also preserved a bloodline for Xuan Su Manor. A courtesan was pregnant with his child, and I had someone save the fetus."

"He's crippled and blind, so he's probably half-mad now, if not completely insane. Plus, he can't lift a finger or speak, so it won't affect the reputation of the Snow Mountain Sect."

"Therefore, the feud between the Snow Mountain Sect and Xuan Su Manor is considered settled."

"Ah!" Ah Xiu exclaimed in surprise, and couldn't help but worry, "But, but will Mr. and Mrs. Shi Qing agree to this?"

Shi Xiaocui cursed, "Bullshit! If Shi Qing were truly 'clear-cut,' he should have killed that kid with one blow. The fact that he spared his life is already a stroke of luck. What more does he want?"

“But…but this elder brother, he…and that person are brothers after all. I’m afraid…I’m afraid Master Shi and Madam Shi will have some reservations about it,” Ah Xiu said.

Shi Xiaocui said, "So what? If Shi Qing doesn't acknowledge it, this kid can still come into our Lingxiao City."

Su Yuchen said calmly, "My affairs are none of your concern. I have my own plans."

Shi Xiaocui glared at Ah Xiu and then scolded her, "Look, look, you're just worrying about nothing. They don't appreciate it at all."

"It's good that this brother is alright," Ah Xiu said.

Shi Xiaocui snorted coldly and looked at Su Yuchen, saying, "After talking for so long, I still don't know your name. You also have the surname Shi, what's your name?"

Su Yuchen said, "My surname is not Shi. As for my name, we are just passing acquaintances, so there's no need for an introduction!"

“Hey…” Shi Xiaocui snorted angrily.

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Su Yuchen waited until they had processed the information before speaking...