Daily Intelligence System: Don't Kill Me, Honey!

Chapter 292: Chapter 132 Chen Jie: Madam, you are playing with fire

Hiss, hiss, hiss~

Chen Jie clutched the bamboo tube and slowly began to pull it out from the crevice with great effort.

No one knew how the bamboo tube was originally stuffed into this wooden beam.

Finally, after exerting the strength of ”Nine Bulls and Two Tigers,” Chen Jie managed to extract the bamboo tube.

Pop~

Holding the bamboo tube in hand, he found that it could be rotated, and upon twisting it, the tube broke apart in the middle, revealing the slip of paper inside.

It was a slightly yellowed slip, quite small, merely the size of a single page of paper, rolled up and then folded and stuffed into the bamboo tube. When unfolded, four bold characters were written on it: ”Dragon Fighting in the Wilderness.”

”Dragon Fighting in the Wilderness,” the blood of which is of mystical yellow, the fourth palm of ”Seventeen Dragon Capturing Palms,” yes, this was the secret manual hidden by the old beggar, and the very secret manual for which the entire Mianshui County was frantically searching.

With just one move, it was enough to shake the entire super Martial Arts technique of Mianshui, the ”Seventeen Dragon Capturing Palms.”

The ”Seventeen Dragon Capturing Palms” is regarded as the Beggar Sect’s School Martial Arts. During the Pre-Song Period, successive Gang Leaders used this technique to overpower the world, helping the Beggar Sect to achieve the formidable reputation of being the number one guild.

Later, the Mulan people invaded from the grasslands into the Central Plains, the Beggar Sect was no match for the Mulan Iron Cavalry and suffered defeat; what followed was the founding of the nation of Daqian by the Mulan Clan.

After the establishment of Daqian, in order to consolidate their rule, they conducted a sixty-year long campaign to suppress the Jianghu, known as the notorious conquest led by the Mulan National Master, the ”Horse Trampling Jianghu” battle.

During that battle, the Mulan people first recruited members of the Jianghu willing to defect to the Mulan side; later, with these Jianghu people as assistance and the Grey Wolf Army of the Mulan Iron Cavalry as the main force, and the then-world’s strongest, Mulan National Master Basiba Living Buddha as the commander-in-chief.

They began the bloodiest slaughter in the Jianghu.

Within a short time, nearly all the Jianghu experts were wiped out, countless Martial Arts secret manuals were seized by the Mulan people, and the remaining Martial Arts figures either surrendered to the Mulan people or went into hiding.

It was also during this time that the Beggar Sect’s School Martial Arts, the ”Seventeen Dragon Capturing Palms,” were lost along with the death of the Old Guild Leader in battle.

Resulting in the Beggar Sect only retaining the transmission of the Twelve Palm Technique, with the final and strongest six palms being lost.

In order to prevent a recurrence of an event similar to the ”Horse Trampling Jianghu” by the Mulan National Master, the Beggar Sect directly split the remaining twelve palms among absolutely loyal guild members as an incentive.

Additionally, to prevent the loss of the School Martial Arts in the event of another incident like the Horse Trampling Jianghu.

Having more people learn the art meant that as long as one person escaped, they could come together to piece the twelve palms back together, select the future successor of the Beggar Sect, so the Sect’s ultimate skill would never be lost and could be passed down forever.

This was the reason the old beggar could learn the Eighteen Palms, and in order to preserve the legacy, he could not destroy the secret manual, and had to find a place to hide it, unwittingly benefiting Chen Jie.

After the splitting of the Eighteen Palms, there was no distinction of strength between them; each palm was roughly equal in power, and to increase the strength of the techniques, the palms needed to be stacked together.

That is, having learned two palms, the joint power of these two palms would be stronger than knowing just one palm; learning three palms and combining them would again be more powerful than two palms.

It is said that the final move of the ”Seventeen Dragon Capturing Palms,” ”Kanglong Youhui,” is a move with intent but no technique, relying on the idea of combining the previous seventeen palms into a single strike to produce the eighteenth palm, ”Kanglong Youhui,” defying the heavens with its reversal.

And what the old beggar had learned was the fourth palm of the Eighteen, ”Dragon Fighting in the Wilderness.”

The palm strike was exceptionally fierce, as if hiding thunder in silence, like a great dragon lurking in the wild, quiet until it moves, then earth-shatteringly powerful.

Its ferocity was even greater than that of the ”Stone Breaking Hand.”

The ”Stone Breaking Hand” was already fierce, a brave and mighty palm among the fierce techniques, but before the ”Seventeen Dragon Capturing Hands,” it instantly seemed like child’s play.

The difference was as stark as that between clouds and mud.

Chen Jie, studying the record of the palm technique, was enraptured as if he had glimpsed the secrets of the world.

In fact, the ”Four Seasons Celestial Phenomenon Technique” that Chen Jie practiced did not fall short in comparison to the full set of ”Seventeen Dragon Capturing Palms,” it was actually even stronger than the Eighteen Palms, but the power distribution of the ”Four Seasons Celestial Phenomenon Technique” was not as even as the Eighteen Palms, which made no distinction between the first seventeen moves.

The ”Four Seasons Celestial Phenomenon Technique” grew progressively stronger, spring, summer, autumn, winter.

Among the four major Heavenly Phenomenon techniques, the strongest was the Winter Skill.

Spring is for sowing, summer for blooming, autumn for achieving Great Success, and winter for killing.

This aligns perfectly with the progressive nature of Martial Arts.

Like Chen Jie’s Yang Chun Skill, it is a Divine Technique for nurturing the body and solidifying the foundation.

In terms of strength, it is not necessarily stronger than other Inner Strength techniques, its wide applicability is what’s notable, able to be used with the Water Manipulation Palm, the Stone Breaking Hand, and even the newly acquired Seventeen Dragon Capturing Palms.

That is the unique aspect of the Yang Chun Skill, versatile.

It does not conflict with the mental methods of other Martial Arts Internal Cultivation Methods and can be used with all of them. This is somewhat similar to the Carefree Sect’s Little Faceless Skill.

However, the Little Faceless Skill mimics a hundred types of Inner Strength, while the Yang Chun Skill is suitable for a myriad of external skills.

Therefore, in early stages, the ”Seventeen Dragon Capturing Palms” are indeed more powerful!

As Chen Jie was engrossed in studying the ”Seventeen Dragon Capturing Palms,” below, Huang Wan’er was also pretending to test the water temperature with her hand, her eyes fixed on the reflection of the beam above, her lips curling into a mad smile.

Seeing her mistress merely splashing water without actually bathing, the maid Du Juan inquired, ”Madam, will you bathe?”

Hearing this, Huang Wan’er came back to her senses and replied, ”You all wait outside the door. If I do not call for you after the time it takes to brew a pot of tea, then enter; if I call for you, there’s no need to come in.”