Chapter 43 What's the Purpose

The Seventh Young Master stretched out his hand and scratched his head: "My mother lied to me again?"

There was no trace of anger at being cheated on his face, but instead there was a smile.

"Madam should not have lied." Zheng Fa hesitated for a moment, but still spoke.

The Seventh Young Master and Coach Xu were stunned. The smile gradually disappeared from the Seventh Young Master's face. He looked at Zheng Fa, as if he didn't want to believe what Zheng Fa had just said: "Then you have mastered it, haven't you?"

Coach Xu standing by also frowned, obviously having the same question.

"I can do it, but most people probably can't."

The two people in front of him were actually people Zheng Fa trusted very much, but he did not reveal anything about modern times.

But many things cannot be hidden. From the Seventh Young Master's words, it can be understood that Madam is very aware of the difficulty of practicing the "Spirit Crane Body".

As long as Zheng Fa can master the "Spiritual Crane Body", his wife will be able to guess that he has a secret.

He had been mentally prepared. As his strength grew, this was inevitable.

Hiding things will only make people suspicious, so it’s better to be like this now, not explaining but not hiding either.

Sure enough, the Seventh Young Master and Coach Xu looked at each other, as if they had some guesses, but neither asked.

But the Seventh Young Master's face showed a frustrated look again: "So my mother didn't lie to me."

He looked like he would rather be badly deceived once.

Zheng Fa looked at Coach Xu and said, "So Master Seven is right. Coach, you don't have to doubt yourself."

Coach Xu's expression changed back and forth, and he finally let out a long sigh: "So that's it..."

The Seventh Young Master said in a low voice: "Coach Xu, it's my mother..."

"Ma'am, you don't have to do this."

"ah?"

Coach Xu looked at the Seventh Young Master and said with a smile, "Seventh Young Master, you probably forgot that I am a family-born child and have a body indenture in the Zhao Mansion."

The Seventh Young Master was stunned.

"If you don't want to let me go, Madam, just one word is enough. If it weren't for maintaining this master-servant relationship, why would you go to so much trouble?"

Zheng Fa nodded, thinking that what Coach Xu said actually made sense.

From his point of view, his life belonged to the Zhao family, and the madam’s methods could be described as gentle.

It’s just that Zheng Fa has modern experience and doesn’t agree with this kind of personal dependence.

And the Seventh Young Master... Zheng Fa glanced at the stunned Seventh Young Master. This man was simply too stupid to have expected this.

"Master Xu, you have wasted twenty years after all..."

The Seventh Young Master was still a little conflicted.

"No one forced me to do this. I just valued this "Spiritual Crane Body" too much."

Coach Xu smiled sincerely, as if he had never blamed his wife.

The Seventh Young Master's complexion gradually improved.

"I have some friends who, like me when I was young, yearn for the martial arts world." Coach Xu continued, "They rushed in headfirst and never came back."

Zheng Fa and others listened quietly.

"And I have been living in the Zhao family for twenty years, and now I even have a disciple. So, my wife might have saved my life." Coach Xu patted Zheng Fa on the shoulder and said, "My only regret before was this "Spiritual Crane Body". Now Zheng Fa has also let me know what this martial art is like. What regrets do I have?"

The Seventh Young Master thought for a moment and clapped his hands: "So, my mother did a good thing? She made me hold it in for so long!"

Seeing him smile with relief, Zheng Fa glanced at Coach Xu and said nothing.

"It's late, you two should go back." Coach Xu said to them.

Zheng Fa and the Seventh Young Master said goodbye to Coach Xu. Coach Xu stood with his hands behind his back and watched the two men walk away.

In the middle of the night, when Master Xu's nephew got up, he saw a dark figure standing in the moonlight. He woke up with fright. He heaved a sigh of relief after recognizing the man. He rubbed his eyes and asked:

"Uncle, why aren't you asleep yet?"

"Didn't you tell me before that you wanted to venture out into the martial arts world?"

"Why are you saying this? Uncle, don't you agree?"

Hearing his nephew's somewhat complaining voice, Master Xu did not turn around, but just looked at the waning moon in the sky and said, "Go ahead. I will go to ask Madam to get your indenture back in two days. After today, Madam should give me this face."

"Didn't you ask me to stay in your house to take care of you in your old age..."

"Remember to write more often and tell me what the Jianghu is like that I have never seen."

…

The "Linghe Heart Sutra" brought some unexpected changes to Zheng Fa. When he got up the next morning, he stretched out his hand and saw a thin layer of skin on his arm falling off, and the bed was covered with white skin fragments.

When washing his face, Zheng Fa almost couldn't recognize himself in the bronze mirror.

In his early years, he helped Zheng's mother with farm work. Under the sun and wind, his skin became dark and rough.

But the face in the mirror was so white and glowing, the skin was delicate and smooth, and the pores were invisible unless you looked closely.

The Seventh Young Master’s study.

Zheng Fa found that Gao Yuan was staring at him and kept moving closer to him.

"What's the matter?"

"Zheng Fa, you... smell so good!"

As Gao Yuan spoke, he put his nose close to Zheng Fa, as if he wanted to smell him carefully.

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"Stop! If you hear me again I'll do it!"

Zheng Fa swore that he had never been so scared.

"If Gao Yuan hadn't told me, I wouldn't have realized that, Zheng Fa, you really do have a fragrance on you." The Seventh Young Master in front of the desk also raised his head and looked at Zheng Fa carefully.

"Why is your face so pale? Did you put on powder?"

"What am I applying..." Zheng Fa was stunned. He touched his face and guessed, "It should be because of the Spirit Crane Body."

"You said you have mastered the Spirit Crane Body. Your face has turned pale, and you have a fragrance on your body?" Gao Yuan's eyes widened, and his tone was full of envy: "To enter the Tao through martial arts is amazing."

The Seventh Young Master seemed to have thought of something, and stroked his chin and said, "I heard from my mother that the Spirit Crane Body seems to be a way to cultivate into a Taoist body."

"Tao body?" Zheng Fa recalled the strange power he felt after he mastered the "Spirit Crane Body" and seemed to have realized something.

"Zheng Fa, how did you cultivate the Spirit Crane Body? When I learn the Songhe Posture, I will ask Madam to grant me the Spirit Crane Body."

Gao Yuan didn't know the secret of practicing the "Spirit Crane Body". When he heard what the Seventh Young Master said, he obviously became interested in this martial art.

More importantly, he was attracted by the miraculous changes that occurred after Zheng Fa practiced this martial art.

The Seventh Young Master standing by didn't say anything either. He looked at Zheng Fa with bright eyes, seeming to be very curious as well.

"The most important thing should be visualization, visualization of various birds." Zheng Fa had nothing to hide.

They both nodded, looking like this sounded really impressive.

The Seventh Young Master also commented: "Visualization method, I have seen it in storybooks, it is really a method used by immortals."

Zheng Fa frowned, and said the doubts he had ever had since he mastered the Spirit Crane Body: "But why is visualization useful? What exactly is visualization?"

When he looked up, he found that the Seventh Young Master and the other man were not listening to him at all. Instead, they were huddled together and discussing with great interest everything from visualization to the stories they had read recently.

Seeing Zheng Fa's frown, the Seventh Young Master raised his head and said in confusion, "It's enough that the visualization method is useful. Why is it so important?"

"Is it not important?"

The two men shook their heads and looked at Zheng Fa with confusion.

…

"Mom, what do you want me to do?"

"Zheng Fa, has he really mastered the Spirit Crane Body?"

"I've mastered it!" said the Seventh Young Master with a smile.

"What are you laughing at? Do you know what it means if he succeeds?" The lady looked at her silly son and said unhappily.

"What?"

"It means there is at least a Yuanying Zhenren behind him, who might be plotting against our Zhao family!"

The Seventh Young Master was stunned. He blinked his eyes, as if he didn't understand what was said. He slowly put these words together and said, "Master Yuanying, do you have a conspiracy against our family?"

The lady nodded.

"No, what does he want?" The Seventh Young Master asked from the bottom of his heart: "Are we worthy?"

“…”

(End of this chapter)