Chapter 102 World Three [16]

When Luo Yuezhu heard that his master wanted to pass on fifteen years of internal strength to him as a birthday gift, he was stunned for a while. After he realized what was going on, he immediately shook his head to refuse.

"Master, I have received your gift. The jewelry I wore when I tied my hair this morning was bought by you. I like it very much." Luo Yuezhu said.

More than three years have made Luo Yuezhu grow a lot. As she fights with others more and more times, she gradually understands how much effort her master has spent on her over the years.

Not to mention other top-level skills, just the weapon given to oneself, if it were put into the world, might cause internal strife among small sects.

The internal strength that my master talked about in fifteen years is definitely different from the internal strength that ordinary people spend fifteen years to cultivate. It is the internal strength that I can cultivate in fifteen years.

The most important thing is that I still haven't been able to find out my master's birthday, so I can only give him gifts during the New Year.

"Today is your coming-of-age day. Some small jewelry can't be considered a gift. Just accept what your teacher wants to give you. It's not something too expensive." Jing Ke said, waving her hand.

Fifteen years of internal energy was just a drop in the bucket for Jing Ke. At worst, she could use her technique to absorb other people's internal energy to kill a few wanted criminals, turning their internal energy into her own and replenishing the missing internal energy.

At Jing Ke's insistence, Luo Yuezhu could not refuse the kindness from her master and could only sit cross-legged obediently, silently feeling the familiar internal force flowing into her body.

The Tianyan Heart Method is inherently more effective when practiced, not to mention that Jing Ke used medicine and his own internal energy to help his apprentice improve his physique in the early stages, and later on fed him pills that could improve his cultivation.

So even though the young disciple is only fifteen years old, in terms of internal strength cultivation, he has almost the level of thirty years of internal strength.

Including the internal force sent out this time, Luo Yuezhu's internal force level is almost sixty years, which is much higher than the internal force cultivation of Yin Honglian and Ye Wenxin before.

As for actual combat, Jing Ke usually only taught his apprentice the subtle techniques and some relatively harmless sparring sessions. Most of his apprentice's combat experience came from fighting those notorious bandits and wanted criminals.

In the first few times, the young apprentice could only defeat the opponent and could not bear to kill him.

When Jing Ke saw this, he did not force his apprentice, but took care of them directly.

But Jing Ke did not just let it go. Instead, he took his apprentice to the victim's home afterwards so that the apprentice could more deeply understand what unforgivable things those people had done.

This method worked very well. After the third and fourth times, the sword in the apprentice's hand became faster.

The little apprentice couldn't torture and kill the victims like those bad guys, but he could already cut their throats without hesitation and send them to hell.

This was a very good progress, even though the apprentice didn't sleep well for several days after personally working on it. But as long as he took this step, it would be a breakthrough for himself.

In today's world, murder and arson have become commonplace. If you are afraid of killing, then no matter how high your martial arts skills are, they will be useless.

In the end, they will always be defeated by various villains and conspiracies, and end up with a miserable ending.

-

Back to the topic, after feeling the internal force filling his body, Luo Yuezhu felt that he seemed to have become a little more proficient in the use of certain martial arts moves.

When the peach blossoms were in full bloom on the mountain, Luo Yuezhu watched her master seal up the sect's headquarters with layer upon layer of formations and leave the place where she had lived for several years.

"I heard a few days ago that Yangzhou will hold a martial arts conference in May. Anyone under the age of forty can participate. If you take first place, you can become an honorary elder of the Wulin Alliance and enjoy all the rights that an elder should have."

As they rode down the mountain together, Jing Ke told his apprentice the news, "The Wulin Alliance didn't explicitly ban the Demon Cult from appearing. It's estimated that if the Demon Cult returns, given the Right Protector's style, the probability of him appearing is very high."

"Is it because Lin Yusu is still in the Wulin Alliance?" Luo Yuezhu is no longer the rookie in the martial arts world who knew nothing before. She has almost figured out the grudge between the Demon Cult and the Wulin Alliance.

However, Jing Ke still didn't tell his little apprentice that Lin Yusu was Lin Su. The little apprentice only knew that Lin Yusu was a member of the Wulin Alliance, had a bigger feud with the Demon Cult, and had assassinated the Demon Cult leader.

This is not a big deal. After he expressed his stance, Lin Yusu's life was almost worse than death even in the Wulin Alliance. He was always hanging on by a thread, unable to live or die.

"Yes, Lin Yusu escaped successfully due to the negligence of the Right Protector of the Demon Cult. If the Right Protector can take down the ringleader, not only will it embarrass the Wulin Alliance, but he can also use his authority as an elder to force the Wulin Alliance to hand Lin Yusu over to him." Jing Ke explained briefly.

"I understand, Master. Our next step is to go to Yangzhou and find the Right Protector to make him pay for what he did four years ago." Luo Yuezhu said.

Time may be able to dilute hatred, but that so-called time must be the time after revenge is taken.

As her strength grew, Luo Yuezhu's desire to avenge her family became stronger and stronger.

"Well, your current cultivation is already very good. People under the age of 40 are basically no match for you. As for those over 40, they are all old veterans in the martial arts world. They should not lose face and attack a child like you." Jing Ke said, turning his head to glance at his little apprentice.

"Master, I am fifteen years old and not a child anymore," Luo Yuezhu emphasized.

I am already better than most people under 40 years old, so the word "kid" should have nothing to do with me anymore.

"Fifteen is indeed not young, but as your master, I will always be ten years older than you. In my opinion, you are still my little disciple who needs my care." Jing Ke said.

Fifteen years old, that's roughly the age of a modern high school student. If not a child, then a teenager, at least three years away from becoming a true adult.

Just raise him a little longer. When he turns eighteen, his martial arts skills should be almost the best in the world.

-

After slowly traveling from the sect's headquarters to Yangzhou, the time passed from March to the end of April, and there was only less than half a month left until the martial arts conference.

There is no threshold to sign up for the martial arts conference. You can choose to sign up regardless of whether you have internal strength or not.

But when registering, you need to pay a registration fee of one or two taels of silver, and also sign a life and death statement. Once you get on the stage, your life and death are at your own risk.

Of course, it is not mandatory to go on the ring. If when it is your turn to compete, you see that your opponent is too strong and you are afraid to retreat, you can also give up directly. There is no cost for giving up.

In addition, if you shout the word "surrender" in time on the ring and your opponent still wants to continue attacking you, the referee on the ring and the elders and leaders of the major sects will not sit idly by. They will do their best to stop the opponent's actions and save your life.

As the headquarters chosen by the Wulin Alliance, Yangzhou City is very prosperous, even more prosperous than the capital.

The capital city is located at the foot of the emperor, so prosperity is natural. However, the safety of the royal family and high-ranking officials is also very important, so security is extremely strict. Ordinary people will be checked when entering and leaving the city gates, and people in the underworld will even want to detain you.

If you have an acquaintance to guarantee you, you can get a so-called pass token. But if you don't have an acquaintance to guarantee you and you must enter the capital, you will be watched by the Sihai Pavilion almost all the time.

When Luo Yuezhu was thirteen years old, she followed her master to the capital. The feeling of being spied on was very unpleasant and made her feel very uncomfortable.

But it is different in Yangzhou. The headquarters of the Wulin Alliance is here. People coming and going are basically martial artists, and they carry their usual weapons with them. There is no possibility of being monitored at all.

In Yangzhou, the presence of government offices has been infinitely weakened. Generally, the people in the government offices will only be relatively tough when collecting taxes. The rest of the time, they are basically just there for show.

After comparing them, Luo Yuezhu felt that the atmosphere in Yangzhou made her feel more relaxed.

Of course, if she was a helpless commoner, she would feel that neither the capital nor Yangzhou was a good place, and that a small county town that was not very prosperous would be a relatively suitable place to live.

With the martial arts conference approaching, the inns in Yangzhou have become very popular. The master and his disciple, who arrived only fifteen days in advance, have already cleared out three inns in a row.

It was not until we arrived at the fourth inn, which was relatively far away, that we heard that the rooms were full.

"My two guests, there is only one upper room and one common bed left in our shop. Please take care of them..." The shopkeeper looked a little embarrassed.

Jing Ke raised her eyebrows slightly. Not only was the bunk bed small, but she also had to squeeze into a large room with other people. How could it be the room she would choose?

"Master, how about... how about we live together?" Luo Yuezhu tugged at her master's sleeve. "It seems like all the inns here are full."

"Then let's have a room upstairs." Jing Ke did not refuse.

Normally, the master and apprentice slept separately, but every New Year's Eve, Jing Ke would make an exception and spend the night with his apprentice. If the bed was big enough, it wouldn't be a big deal for anyone to sleep together, as the apprentice was still a teenager.

"Okay, then we'll arrange a room for the two guests. Go upstairs and turn right, it's the third room..." Before the shopkeeper finished his words, a powerful voice came from behind Jing Ke.

"Wait a minute, could you two ladies please make a deal and let us have the upper room? We're willing to pay three times the price." A black-robed man who was obviously a martial artist came over and asked with his very upright-looking facial features and strong muscles.

"No, we are not short of money." Jing Ke replied politely. To prove her words, she took out a silver note and handed it to the shopkeeper.

"We will probably be staying here for more than half a month. Remember to take good care of the two horses for us and prepare hot water every night." Jing Ke ordered.

"Okay, gentlemen, don't worry, our service will be absolutely excellent." When the shopkeeper saw that the note handed over was worth one hundred taels of silver, he couldn't suppress the corners of his mouth that raised.

The shopkeeper is also very contract-minded and understands the first-come-first-served rule.

"Ladies, we can afford five times the price. We hope you can forgive us. Our junior sister really needs a room upstairs." The sturdy man continued.

This time, Jing Ke ignored the man's words. After turning around and confirming the location of the room with the shopkeeper, he grabbed his apprentice's wrist and went upstairs with him.

"Hey, do you know who my senior brother is..." A junior brother following the burly man couldn't stand it anymore and seemed to want to use the backer behind him to intimidate Jing Ke and Luo Yuezhu.

"Come back and be careful with your words." Fortunately, the burly man had some sense. Before his junior brother could finish his words, he pulled him back and told him to shut up in a firm tone.

"Brother, we have offered five times the price. We are not trying to seize the room opposite by force." The junior brother who was pulled back said with a little dissatisfaction.

"Have you forgotten where this is? This is Yangzhou, where there are many masters. Don't take yourself too seriously." said the sturdy man.

His own sect might be considered a considerable force in the town where the sect was headquartered, but in Yangzhou, where there were many large sects, it was not worth mentioning at all.

Their strength is also like this. They are almost thirty years old and have only cultivated their internal strength for about thirty years. It is hard to say whether they can get into the top ten in the martial arts conference.

After thinking about this, the strong man couldn't help but start to regret in his heart. Why did he bring this spoiled little junior brother here?

He should be more ruthless and come here alone, so that it would be okay even if he had to sleep in a dormitory!

The junior brother seemed a little dissatisfied. After muttering to himself for several times, he reluctantly went to another inn to ask if there were any vacancies.

-

"Master, that man looks so strong. Is he practicing martial arts?" Luo Yuezhu couldn't help asking after successfully arriving at her own room.

"In your opinion, what do you think he is practicing?" Jing Ke turned the question to his own apprentice.

"Based on his physique, stable lower body and great strength, it is very likely that he has palm skills combined with some hard qigong." Luo Yuezhu judged based on his own experience.

"But the junior brother following him looks a little thin. If they are master and disciple from the same school, shouldn't they practice the same technique?" Luo Yuezhu asked.

"The martial arts skills of fellow sisters and brothers are not exactly the same. Some have high talents and some have low talents, and they are good at different things." Jing Ke explained briefly.

"Like I told you, there are many kinds of swords, divided into light and heavy, soft and hard. The same is true for palm techniques. Some palm techniques require a strong physique, while others require agility and elegance."

Jing Ke: "The more profound a sect is, the more techniques and secret manuals it inherits. Even the same master can hand over disciples who are proficient in different weapons."

Luo Yuezhu nodded thoughtfully. Some of her ideas seemed too one-sided. It seemed that she had not accumulated enough experience in the martial arts world.

"Okay, there's no need to think too much about those two people. What you need to do now is to pack your luggage and then go out to find out the news about the right protector of the Demon Cult." Jing Ke said.

"Also, you can start preparing for the martial arts conference in advance. The senior disciples of the major sects need to pay special attention. At least you need to find out what weapons they usually use and what their fighting styles are like."

Jing Ke paused and patted his apprentice on the shoulder. "You always say you're an adult on the road, so I won't interfere with your registration and competition process. I'll let you handle everything on your own."

"Okay, Master, don't worry, I will get it done." Luo Yuezhu's eyes lit up, and there was a different emotion in the look she gave Jing Ke.

Luo Yuezhu actually wanted to prove herself in front of her master a long time ago, but there had never been a suitable opportunity before.

Now that Master has said so, I must repay him smoothly and win the championship of the martial arts conference.

She wanted to let her master know that she was no longer the child who needed the master's protection to drive away the bad guys. She could now stand on her own!