Chapter 11 Wind and Cloud Nine Swords

Wu Yan returned to Qiancao Valley in a depressed mood. He felt very upset now. Especially when he left, Lu Chunyang and Hua Chunsheng did not shy away from his conversation at all, which made him very irritated.

"Haha, I thought this kid had trained his internal strength by following Elder Feng every day. Elder Feng invested so much money in this kid, but he trained a waste. It's really not worth it. I don't know what he was thinking."

"Yeah, it's been a year. That kid pretends to meditate and practice Qi every day, and eats Elder Feng's pills as candy every day. Although he didn't eat Qi Condensation Pills, he wasted so many Condensation Pills in vain. I heard that this Condensation Pill can help us Qigong masters avoid going astray when practicing. If Elder Feng gave us more, our alliance might have a few more first-class masters."

"Forget it, we brothers can't see through Elder Feng's affairs. Don't guess blindly. If this kid talks nonsense to Elder Feng later, he will definitely make Elder Feng unhappy again."

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Wu Yan walked back to his stone house. This stone house was built for him by Elder Feng using extra large granite. The thickness of the walls is more than two feet, and the roof is all granite. Although the thickness of the stone door was not as abnormal as two feet, it was not much different. This made Wu Yan a little depressed, because every time he opened the door, he had to use all his strength to open it.

In order to prevent him from being disturbed by the outside world when practicing, Elder Feng took great pains. Wu Yan felt a little sorry for Elder Feng when he thought about it.

His practice speed was so slow, and he took so many pills, and the nameless formula was still stuck in the first level and could not break through. All this made him feel deeply guilty.

Now, in order to let him practice with peace of mind, Elder Feng even went down the mountain to help him find his family. If people knew that Elder Feng was so good to him, maybe they would say that he was a relative of Elder Feng.

Even he himself almost thought that he was a relative of Elder Feng. Why was Elder Feng so good to him? Wu Yan was a little confused.

In boredom, Wu Yan took out the key that Elder Feng left for him. He took the key and went to Elder Feng's study. In the past year, Elder Feng also taught him to read and write. Although he could not say that he was proficient in writing, he could do basic reading.

He began to search on the bookshelf. He hoped to find some books about martial arts. What's more, after searching for more than an hour, he really found a few books that interested him.

He took these books back to his practice room and placed them on the stone bed where he usually practiced and meditated. After thinking about it, he frowned again and returned to Elder Feng's study again to get pen, ink and some blank paper.

He thought these books were quite interesting, but after all, they were Elder Feng's collection of books. Maybe Elder Feng would read them at any time, so he planned to copy them down. Just for his own convenience and to practice writing.

In the following days, Wu Yan began his boring life of practice behind closed doors again.

In the morning and evening, he would take a pill of Ningjing Dan to meditate and practice the nameless formula. At other times, he copied those books while trying to understand them.

Fortunately, these books have illustrations in many places, which are clear and easy to remember at a glance. It is very convenient to understand them after pondering them.

After about two months, he finally finished copying those books and put the original books back. Looking at the crooked books he copied, Wu Yan blushed a little.

He hid the things he copied in the gap between the stone bed and the wall, fearing that Feng Lao would come back and laugh at him.

That day, when he took the last pill of Ningjing Pill and practiced ten great cycles, he was delighted to find that the nameless formula that had never been broken through had magically crossed the first level of obstacles and entered the second level.

Feng Lao once told him that there are thirteen levels of the nameless formula. The first twelve levels are to open up the twelve meridians in the body. Every time a meridian is opened up, it means that he has broken through the original realm and entered the next level.

This breakthrough made Wu Yan, who had always been a little depressed, completely happy.

However, Master Feng is not in the valley now, so no one can share the joy brought by this good news for the time being.

After breaking through the realm, Wu Yan was dumbfounded again. When Master Feng left, he did not pass on the second-level formula to him. Without the formula, he could not continue to practice.

With nothing to do, Wu Yan turned out the books he had copied some time ago and studied them.

On the stone bed, there were four books with crooked words. "Wind and Cloud Sword Manual", "Hidden Killing Technique", "Medicine Classic", "Puppet Fragment".

In fact, since he suffered that humiliation on the Iron Sword Stage more than two months ago, he has developed a great interest and desire for martial arts. After practicing the nameless formula, he can only live longer than others, but he cannot defeat the enemy. This makes Wu Yan, who wants to stand out and become a martial arts master, feel a little depressed.

From the sporadic conversations of those disciples, he noticed that the most powerful martial arts of the Iron Sword League is the Wind and Cloud Sword Method. What made him happy was that the swordsmanship recorded in this book "Wind and Cloud Sword Manual" was the authentic Wind and Cloud Swordsmanship.

As for the "Hidden Assassination Technique", when he opened it, he found that the book recorded some powerful hidden assassination techniques that could be performed without internal energy, which was very interesting, so he copied it down.

He didn't know whether what he cultivated was considered as internal Qi. After all, Feng Lao hadn't told him, and the conversation between Lu Chunyang and Hua Chunsheng made him feel that what he cultivated didn't seem to be internal Qi. He really didn't know what kind of Qi it was.

He copied the "Pharmaceutical Classic" and "Puppet Fragments" purely out of curiosity and fun. In his opinion, if he studied the "Pharmaceutical Classic", he might be able to learn how to prepare the Condensation Pill, and in that case, he could also reduce some of Feng Lao's burden. And the "Puppet Fragments" wrote about how to make a kind of spiritual wood puppet. This reminded him of the puppets placed against the wall in Feng Lao's study.

If those puppets could really move and run like what was said in the book, it would be fun.

Wu Yan sat on the stone bed, holding the "Wind and Cloud Sword Manual" in the light and reading it with relish, unaware of how fast time was passing in the world outside.

After an unknown amount of time, Wu Yan suddenly snapped the book shut, put it beside him, closed his eyes, and rubbed his face hard with his hands. Then he slowly rubbed his sore eyes.

He lay on the bed and closed his eyes to rest for a while.

When he opened his eyes again, his spirit was restored. But he did not get up, but began to think about the contents of the sword manual.

The back of this sword manual recorded some things about Feng Jiuxiao, the founder of the Iron Sword League. After reading this, Wu Yan felt a sense of laughter and tears.

The sword manual said that only under two circumstances can the full power of the "Nine Swords of Wind and Cloud" recorded in the sword manual be exerted. The first one must be that the internal force of Qigong has reached the realm of transformation, so that the sword light can be stimulated and the "Nine Swords of Wind and Cloud" can be used. The second one does not need to practice Qigong internal force, but must practice a strange wind and cloud footwork. With this set of footwork, the "Nine Swords of Wind and Cloud" becomes a strange and bizarre assassination secret technique, which is even more lethal than the sword light.

These two situations are also the biggest reasons why the Iron Sword League was divided into the Sword Sect and the Qi Sect. But for some reason, the strange wind and cloud footwork was completely cut off after Feng Jiuxiao's death.

Feng Jiuxiao relied on his achievements in the realm of internal power to defeat the other two major sects in Yunzhou City, Xueyu Sect and Longhu Gang, with this powerful "Wind and Cloud Nine Swords" swordsmanship, and became the overlord of Yunzhou City, leading the Iron Sword League to dominate Yunzhou for decades. It can be said that he was in great glory.

But unfortunately, since him, no disciple of the Iron Sword League has been able to practice qigong to the realm of perfection. After Feng Jiuxiao's death, the Iron Sword League was jointly attacked by the Blood Rain Sect and the Longhu Gang, and was forced to retreat to Xiaogushan, the most remote lonely county in Yunzhou City, Tianlang Country, and has survived to this day.