Chapter 44 - The shadow of a woman II

　"Then it is the martial arts school that has opened its doors to teach students in a proper manner. The second choice is the famous master from the Central Plains, the Soul Breaker Palm Li Ran." Lu Sheng carefully inquired about this person, in the Central Plains by the enemy injured meridians, was forced to bring his wife and children to Yanshan City, is considered anonymity away from right and wrong.

　　"Even if he was injured and still managed to make a name for himself in Yanshan City, his men must be extraordinary. And the palm technique is also the same as mine, so you can take a look."

　　"In addition, in terms of hard skills, it is two people, the invincible Chen Jia, and copper pillar Yang Furei." Lu Sheng personally went to see the martial arts school dojo opened by these two people, not inverted wang is more than seventy years old, the things taught are just ordinary ordinary kung fu. The copper pillar Yang Furei is much more generous, as long as you pay the tuition, you can learn the basic hard gong quenching iron work, after watching the performance, have the opportunity to be selected into the side as a pro student, teaching copper pillar work.

　　"To worship and learn in the martial arts dojo is too slow for me, I just need the secret book. As long as I can get started and get the secret book ....." He thought about it and decided to look for the auction houses in the city first, maybe he could find a powerful kung fu like Black Death Kung Fu.

　　Thinking about the auction house, Lu Sheng suddenly touched his fanny pack, his fingers touched the thin few silver tickets and gold leaves inside, and he let out a long sigh.

　　"Have to think of a way to make money."

　　If it weren't for Wang Ziquan's matter, if he hadn't run into the Red House painting boat again, he wouldn't want to rush so much, and wouldn't be so anxious to try to improve his strength.

　　Packed up things clothes, Lu Sheng ran all the way back to the official road along the mountain city, along the avenue into the city. He decided to meet the famous Chinese artist, Li Ran, the Soul Breaker Palm, first.

　　Stopped a carriage, Lu Sheng let the carriage with in the city ran for a tea time, then arrived at a remote neighborhood.

　　At the end of the street, there is an antique, hanging mahogany plaque mansion. This is the famous Greenwood Dojo. It was also the martial arts dojo opened by Li Ran of the Soul Breaker Palm.

　　It just so happens that the doors are open, and it is the time for people to visit the dojo every day.

　　The crowd was so loud that Lu Sheng squeezed in the middle and followed into the residence, seeing a large red pillar four-sided ring set up inside.

　　On the stage there was a middle-aged man with a white beard, was playing a set of continuous palm technique, tiger tiger wind, from time to time came a faint air-breaking whistle.

　　"Good!"

　　The fight to the wonderful place, the following crowded heads surging, have called out good.

　　Lu Sheng fixed his eyes towards the stage to see.

　　"This is the level of the famous Chinese artists?"

　　He doubted his eyes, this man's palm technique is not bad, the speed and accuracy are okay, but there is a hint of lag between the articulation. And obviously the power is not enough, weak and feeble. The sound of breaking air is also a gimmick that relies on skills to make up for the hit.

　　The most speechless thing is that Lu Sheng also heard someone on the side saying.

　　"Yesterday, Master Li set up a ring, inviting all the Jianghu fellow travelers along the mountain city to fight for victory and defeat, and even the second commander of the Fei Lian army was alarmed and came to have a few moves with Master Li. You don't know that!

　　In less than 30 moves, the second commander was hit on the chest with a palm and retreated several steps, admitting defeat with his fist!"

　　"Amazing! Worthy of being a famous master of the Central Plains! Really extraordinary!"

　　"This is nothing, Patriarch Li has also defeated the field master of the Copper Pillar Dojo, the Mad Lion Dojo, the Cloud Water Dojo, and the Jiuqu Qiankun Dojo one after another before ...." Another person couldn't help but brag about it. "I've watched all of them one by one. No one can last more than fifty moves under Patriarch Li!"

　　There was a burst of admiration all around.

　　Lu Sheng could hear that it was not a perfunctory and ato, but a real admiration and praise.

　　He carefully looked at Li Ran, who was practicing on the stage, and someone had already challenged him. Perhaps it should not be called a challenge, but rather called a try.

　　The young man on the stage was stout, but he was very respectful to Li Ran, and said straight out of his mouth that he was asking for guidance from Patriarch Li.

　　The two soon fought in a tiger-like manner.

　　Only after watching a few strokes, Lu Sheng understood why this Li Ran was so highly respected.

　　"It turns out that that Li Ran's strength and speed, for a regular person, is already unbeatable ....." Seeing that later lad's frame, Lu Sheng woke up at this point. He because there is no reference, and do not fight with other experts, has been hidden strength silent practice, and even to what level of strength to their own, can only rely on guesses.

　　"Now it seems ..... This Li Ran, I will be able to solve within three moves." Lu Sheng slightly shook his head, turned around and squeezed out of the crowd, no longer look.

　　"That soul-breaking palm, is just a little stronger than my heart-breaking palm Dacheng, without the use of internal energy to promote the movement, perhaps he can fight me, once the use of internal energy ...." Lu Sheng thought about it, perhaps three moves are considered an overestimation of each other.

　　One move, he can finish this person on the spot.

　　The difference between him using internal qi and not using internal qi, the difference in between, several times the power.

　　"What I'm looking for is not this kind of so-called expert." Lu Sheng left the Greenwood Dojo all the way, he originally wanted to go to the Copper Pillar Dojo, but it was already late, so he went home to rest first.

　　The next day, Lu Sheng went to the Copper Pillar Dojo, as well as a few other dojos.

　　That hard gong performance, he did see. The Copper Pillar was rumored to be able to bend a spear up by its throat. It did look good. But Lu Sheng had seen such hard kung fu before, but it was just hard qigong. The practice is very simple, that is, it requires suffering and persistence.

　　And copper pillar of hard kung fu practice, is the need for a large number of medicinal materials to wash, otherwise it will leave a lot of dark injuries after-effects. Several hard gong dojo is quite generous for the gong method, directly published, but which wash the medicinal formula, but not a word.

　　Lu Sheng carefully understood, only after joining the dojo can enjoy the medicinal material washing.

　　He was disappointed, without the prescriptions for the washing, even if he practiced will fall all over the injury, although the modified weapon practice and normal practice is not necessarily the same, but he did not want to waste time trying, a breakthrough in the third layer of the Black Death Kung Fu, let him recuperate half a year of internal injuries, if another, then he must not be unable to move for years?

　　Leaving the dojo, another day has passed most of the time.

　　Lu Sheng had nothing to gain, disappointed, so he went to the famous ghost market street along the mountain city.

　　The ghost market along the mountain city, is specializing in selling all kinds of burial goods, dumped goods, stolen goods, or some stolen goods and tricky things place.

　　Lu Sheng sorted out all his belongings, and a total of two thousand taels worth of silver tickets and gold leaves. And the store in his name that sells the four treasures of the writing room dividends, only a few dozen taels a month, for him is a drop in the bucket.

　　"Finally stroll around and see if I can find some good goods." The reason he ran here was that he always heard Zheng Xiangui say that many of the good things they auctioned were turned out from the ghost market.

　　Since then, he often came to the ghost market along the mountain city to stroll around, thinking to try his luck.

　　The ghost market is not crowded, just a dozen stalls, crowded in a narrow alley.

　　Lu Sheng walked along the alley, from time to time will crouch down and reach out to touch the things on the stalls.

　　After strolling for a while, he still had no harvest, and was about to turn around and go back to practice internal qi. Suddenly at the other end of the alley, a slightly hesitant male voice came from the opposite end.

　　"You are ..... Lu Sheng... Lu Yuesheng?"

　　Lu Sheng looked up, the person opposite was a young male, wearing a yellow shirt, wearing a yellow jade at the waist, with an upright posture, although he did not know the other party, but he recognized the person's identity at a glance.

　　"You are .... Chen Yunxi's elder brother? Chen Jiao Rong?"

　　Chen Jiao Rong's handsome face was stunned, and then he smiled.

　　"Brother Lu really has a discerning eye."

　　"It's not that I'm wise, it's really because you and your sister look too much alike ....." Lu Sheng shook his head and said.

　　Chen Jiao Rong's face was just a little more masculine compared to Chen Yunxi. The two did look very similar.

　　"Since I ran into Brother Lu here, why don't we go sit together? Zhen Guo has often mentioned Brother Lu in my place." Chen Jiao Rong proposed with a smile.

　　Lu Sheng settled down and nodded his head in response.

　　The two of them went out of the ghost market, found a wine shop on the side and sat down to drink.

　　The lobby is crowded with people, the sound of the waiter serving wine, the sound of customers talking and laughing incessantly. But both were unaffected, just silent for a while.

　　"I heard Yun Xi say that Brother Lu has a high moral character, it is me who underestimated Brother Lu earlier." After the silence, Chen Jiao Rong was the first to speak.

　　After a pause, he added: "The matter of Wang Ziquan, the official government has already intervened, it was not Brother Zhen Guo who reported the case, it was his cousin and family."

　　Lu Sheng held his glass of wine and took a slight sip, letting the light, slightly spicy liquor flow slowly in his mouth.

　　"Yun Xi's matter, let's not mention it, what does the official government office say?"

　　Chen Jiao Rong shook his head: "Zhen Guo also asked me to ask, custom is lost in the water missing, the sheriff around the conclusion of the investigation is also the same. It is said that there are people who saw him fall into the Pine River. The evidence is all there."

　　Lu Sheng did not make a sound, tilted his head and drained the wine.

　　"So this is settled?"

　　"Yes, what else can be done?" Chen Jiao Rong helplessly said, "In fact, every year there are many people missing on the Pine River, like Wang Ziquan is not a few. Officials are so handled, and also not allowed to spread the word, otherwise also be convicted and imprisoned."

　　Lu Sheng then also understood, along the mountain city's reputation for good security came from.

　　"My sister, said the reason you don't accept it is because there is not enough mutual understanding." Chen Jiao Rong changed the topic.

　　"Then the matter of Wang Ziquan, really just let it go?" Lu Sheng continued to ask.

　　"Yes, just let it go." Chen Jiao Rong replied. "The big Pine River, can't you expect people to dive underwater one by one to find a corpse that may have been eaten by fish?"

　　Lu Sheng exhaled and sat upright, with some discomfort in his heart. Both the officials of Jiulian City and the officials of this Yanshan City acted as if they were deliberately not acting. This made his heart annoyed.

　　"Then what's the use of having this official government?" He blurted out a sentence.

　　Chen Jiao Rong suddenly froze, reaching out unconsciously to pinch the topaz at his waist.

　　"Yes .... This official government, what is the use?"

　　Both were in a mood of boredom for a while, and each thought of other things.

　　There was silence for a while.

　　Lu Sheng gaze unknowingly fell on the topaz in Chen Jiao Rong's hand, his eyes slightly moved.

　　"Brother Chen, can you show me this piece of jade of yours?"

　　Chen Jiao Rong nodded his head and casually handed the yellow jade to Lu Sheng. "This is a gift given to me by a friend of mine to a friend a while ago. The best Jiu Yuan jade."

　　Lu Sheng took it, and as soon as it reached his hand, he felt an icy cold aura in the jade rush into his body along his palm.

　　That icy cold aura actually felt exactly the same as when he absorbed that powder before.

　　"What a strong Yin Qi!" Lu Sheng's heart trembled, he named this breath as Yin Qi, and the abundance of Yin Qi in this piece of jade is much stronger than the powder he absorbed before, so much so that he can absorb a lot by skin contact without dripping blood.