Chapter 241: Chapter 241: Hundred Battles Blade Technique (2nd Update)

Feng Jun’s negotiations with the Yu Family didn’t start off smoothly, but as time passed, things became increasingly fluid.

The Second Young Master of the Yu Family had a strong aversion to Feng Jun, yet it was evident that this was largely the resentment of a young girl.

She was quite knowledgeable about cultivation matters, considered an expert within the Yu Family, thus she couldn’t help feeling somewhat proud. After being repeatedly put down by Feng Jun, she subconsciously wanted to oppose him.

However, Feng Jun didn’t take things seriously with her either. What was there for a grown man to quibble over with a girl?

In fact, he intended to ease the relationship between them, after all, he too wanted to learn many of the secrets of cultivation.

Nevertheless, the Second Young Master clearly held a grudge against him, smiling and laughing with others, but sporting an indifferent attitude whenever she saw him.

Feng Jun then sought out Brother Bao to inquire about the origins of the Thousand Faces Technique—why had he given him such a cultivation technique?

Brother Bao was quite puzzled when he heard this news. “No way, just the Thousand Faces Technique… the secret store of the Hundred Flowers Tower? Haha, what a mess of rumors. If anyone asks about the source of the Thousand Faces Technique, you can just mention my name.”

One had to acknowledge yet again the difference in those from Lord Beiyuan Mansion, their sense of responsibility far exceeded that of ordinary people.

But Feng Jun told him directly, “It’s the Yu Family Members who said this, could it be false?”

Upon hearing this, Brother Bao paused for a moment and then waved it off, “No worries, in the world of martial arts, errors in transmission are not uncommon… My Lord Beiyuan Mansion is also considered an enemy of the Hundred Flowers Tower anyway; I don’t believe anyone would dare to be disrespectful.”

He spoke easily, but it was apparent that he was somewhat nettled.

The next moment, he shifted the topic, “When will your goods arrive? My treasures are almost here now.”

Feng Jun smiled, “My stuff is also coming soon, within a few days.”

He didn’t need to go out of his way to procure the items for Lord Beiyuan Mansion.

Early the next morning, he went out again in his three-wheeled farm vehicle, because everyone was now accustomed to his movements. That day, only Lang Zhen followed him, and even the Deng Family Brothers stayed in the yard to guard the house.

By noon, he returned in his three-wheeler, loaded to the brim with goods—this time, he had fully stocked Lord Beiyuan Mansion’s order, and even had a substantial surplus.

Brother Bao was a bit puzzled as to where Feng Jun had gotten the goods from, but that was just curiosity. Over these last couple of days, he had gotten to know the installation crews well. The day after the goods arrived, his men delivered cultivation techniques and Natural Treasures, and they finalized the transfer.

Then, he set off with the installation crew, heading back to install formations in his own little courtyard and took the Deng Family Brothers with him.

Feng Jun was then inventorying the items traded from Brother Bao.

Items worth two thousand taels of gold were indeed not few. Although Lord Beiyuan Mansion had many cultivation techniques, there weren’t many basic Tun Na exercises. This made sense as the Mansion would have a few good sets of such basic exercises for cultivation, and that would suffice.

Brother Bao said that many people who sent gifts to Lord Beiyuan Mansion wouldn’t dare include such cultivation techniques, fearing that the Earl might take it the wrong way—thinking that they either believed Lord Beiyuan didn’t have such basic cultivation techniques or that theirs were superior to the Mansion’s.

In reality, Lord Beiyuan didn’t care about these techniques, because if he needed them, finding such cultivation techniques was very easy.

Once, an old subordinate of his had a child whose physique was different from ordinary people and couldn’t find suitable cultivation techniques. Lord Beiyuan Mansion specifically posted a request for purchase of suitable techniques, and within just two months, he got a response—with people offering them as gifts.

Unlike the basic cultivation techniques, Lord Beiyuan Mansion actually had quite a few skills and secret techniques.

The cultivation techniques Brother Bao brought included one set for each type of weaponry—sabers, spears, swords, and halberds—as well as three sets for exotic weapons, one set of boxing, one set of movement skills, plus two secret techniques, which were the Eagle Eye and Fiery Blood Techniques.

Leaving aside the weapon skills, Lang Zhen said that the Eagle Eye and Fiery Blood Techniques were both military secrets; he himself had never learned the Eagle Eye Technique in the military, which was a technique only the ace scouts were able to cultivate.

He had learned the Fiery Blood Technique, which was a secret technique that stimulated the human body’s potential. Although the military version was formal and much more powerful than the underhanded Fiery Blood Techniques, its use still caused irreversible damage to the body.

The Fiery Blood Technique of Lord Beiyuan Mansion was as effective as the military’s secret technique, if not stronger, with the only downside being that it had to be used in combination with pills—Turbidity Pills and Heart Cleansing Pills.

Without these two types of pills, the Fiery Blood Technique from Lord Beiyuan Mansion would cause even greater damage to the body, much worse than the military version.

However, with these pills, this secret technique called the Pure-Turbid Fiery Blood Technique would cause much less damage to the body, and if treated promptly, it might not even seriously harm the foundation.

This illustrates that the private goods of Lord Beiyuan Mansion were indeed much stronger than the common military items, but this was unavoidable since the two pills were very rare and could not be easily provided for wide use.

However, what impressed Lang Zhen the most were the weapon skills, which he believed were also superior to those taught in the military.

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So, are the techniques used by the military utterly useless? Not exactly. What matters in the military weapon techniques is coordination. When two armies line up and clash head-to-head, the simplest manoeuvres can often be the most efficient killers.

Lang Zhen certainly had a lot of thoughts on this matter. “I used to hear that the doorkeeper to the Prime Minister is an official of the seventh rank, but now I’ve realized that the techniques casually shown by Lord Beiyuan Mansion are beyond our imagination. Indeed, status has limited my imagination.”

Of the eleven techniques negotiated with Feng Jun for a thousand taels of Gold, the remaining six hundred taels were various Natural Treasures and Pills.

These Natural Treasures can be enormously expensive: even the most modestly impressive ones start from dozens of taels of Gold each.

Feng Jun once dug up a “Sub-Spirit Green Bamboo Shoot” with Lang Zhen’s younger sister. It was said that it could sell for fifty silver yuan in the city, while in Shuangxi Town, it would only fetch around twenty yuan.

That’s the price for a Sub-Spirit Green Bamboo Shoot. What about a genuine Spirit Green Bamboo Shoot? The answer is: it starts at thirty taels of Gold!

And that’s only for a single-ring Spirit Green Bamboo Shoot, with one ring signifying a hundred years of growth. A two-ring, meaning two hundred years of growth, starts at a hundred taels of Gold.

And don’t you dare think it’s too expensive, because even at such prices they’re hard to come by. Without the right connections, you wouldn’t even be able to purchase them.

Among the Natural Treasures Brother Bao gave to Feng Jun, there was a Spirit Green Bamboo Shoot. At the base of the shoot, there was a faint white ring—that marks it as a single-ring Spirit Green Bamboo Shoot.

However, because it’s white, the price of this Spirit Green Bamboo Shoot jumps to fifty taels of Gold.

That’s because most of the rings at the base of a Spirit Green Bamboo Shoot are yellow, indicating an Earth Attribute.

White signifies the Gold Attribute. Strictly speaking, this bamboo shoot should be called a “One-Ring Gold Spirit Green Bamboo Shoot,” due to mutation.

Feng Jun suspected that Lord Beiyuan Mansion might even have two-ring Spirit Green Bamboo Shoots, but obviously, such high-grade Natural Treasures wouldn’t be easily traded away—after all, they don’t lack for treasures, so why trade away the good ones?

Lord Beiyuan Mansion indeed isn’t in want of Natural Treasures. The goods that Brother Bao brought were valued at four hundred and eighty taels of Gold, and the remaining one hundred and twenty taels were made up with Pills.

The mainstay among these were Foundation Establishment Pills and Meridian Opening Pills. Lang Zhen once craved Meridian Opening Pills, which Brother Bao readily provided in a quantity of thirty, along with other Pills for healing wounds, replenishing blood, altering appearance, and fasting.

Even Turbidity Pills and Heart Cleansing Pills were among those that Brother Bao had prepared.

Feng Jun’s haul this time was not small, and he began to seriously contemplate the road map for his advancement to the Innate level.

However, sharpening one’s blade doesn’t delay the chopping of wood; he felt that while planning, he could very well start practicing his saber technique first.

In fact, with so many Cultivation Techniques suddenly at his disposal, his life became exceptionally fulfilling.

He chose the Mobile Phone Plane as his place of Cultivation, believing that staying too long on the Earth Plane before acquiring the Immortal Cultivation Techniques was irresponsible to himself.

If he lived on Earth, his body would age over time, but time in the Mobile Phone Plane was at a halt; nothing there could possibly progress.

In the following days, he spent the nights charging and the days Cultivating the Thousand Faces Technique and saber techniques. One of the saber techniques Brother Bao brought was named the Hundred Battles Blade Technique—simple, practical, and with an extraordinary legacy.

The Hundred Battles Blade Technique was originally created by the first Marquis of Hundred Battles. The title “Hundred Battles” itself needs no further explanation.

The Marquis of Hundred Battles started as a scholar and climbed from being an ordinary soldier to a Marquis. Initially, he faced more defeats than victories. But because he was adept at learning from his experiences, he eventually became unbeatable in battle.

Someone had once tallied that starting from his entry into the army, he went through a hundred and five battles. If it weren’t for his untimely death in his prime due to old wounds, he might well have reached two hundred battles.

His self-developed “Hundred Battles Blade Technique” received high praise. There was also another renowned technique called the Hundred Victories Blade Technique, but people would often say, “Hundred Victories is not as good as Hundred Battles.”

The Hundred Victories Blade Technique and the Hundred Battles Blade Technique were actually not essential for soldiers to master because, besides the complexity of the techniques, another important aspect was that these techniques were suited for charging into enemy lines, not for arranged troops in battle formations.

This means though the techniques are excellent, they were not suitable for ordinary soldiers to master but instead were beneficial for one-on-one combat and charging through enemy lines.

The Marquis of Hundred Battles, a scholar turned war hero, infused his saber technique with a hint of elegance amidst its ferocity and sharpness.

However, because the descendants of the Marquis of Hundred Battles were executed for conspiracy three generations deep, and the technique was not a formation-suitable one, it did not receive widespread promotion. Instead, due to the conspiracy, few people practiced it.

Feng Jun developed quite a liking for this saber technique. Originally, he preferred practicing the saber first because he wanted to learn the Mystic Element Sword Technique, but now it seemed that this technique was a perfect fit for him.

Three days after Brother Bao’s departure, just as Feng Jun finished practicing his saber technique and was about to enter his room to charge, Feifei suddenly came running over, “Divine Doctor, I was in the surveillance room and spotted two suspicious characters.”

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