Longevity Begins with the Seven Injuries Fist-Chapter 117 - 99: Sunflower Manual!

'This martial art might be useful to me...'

Su Que thought to himself, then quietly made a detour and stealthily approached Lu Sheng, who was still immersed in joy.

...

"This cultivation technique is truly formidable. Perhaps with just a few years of practice, I could be invincible in..."

Bang!

Lu Sheng was flipping through the cultivation technique, mumbling to himself.

But suddenly, he received a heavy blow to the back of his head, and his vision went black as he lost consciousness. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

With a 'thud', his whole body went limp and fell to the ground.

As the old manual was about to fall into the mud, Su Que quickly grabbed it, holding it in his hand.

At this moment, the page that Lu Sheng had turned to described the Qi circulation technique for practicing this martial art.

Su Que held the old manual with both hands and turned to the cover, where he saw four characters written in seal script: "Sunflower Manual".

'Indeed...'

Su Que opened the cover and saw the first page that outlined the secrets of this martial art:

To master the divine skill, cut off one's manhood with a knife. Practice alchemy and medicine, achieve inner and outer communication.

'I've hit the jackpot tonight... I'll take it back and practice!'

Su Que joyously tucked the old manual into his inner garment.

He then squatted down and patted Lu Sheng's clothing.

His hand came away sweaty, and he found nothing.

'How could this person carry nothing?'

Su Que thought to himself, then pondered for a moment as an idea formed:

'Could he, like me, have a hideout nearby?'

So Su Que carefully examined the ground and noticed the traces from where this person had come.

He followed these traces and rushed off.

Before long, he arrived at a cave.

He walked into the depths of the cave and saw that the interior was neatly cleaned.

Before his eyes was a tiger-skin rug just about large enough for one person to lie on.

Beside the rug was a flattened bundle.

In one corner of the cave was an incense burner, with an unknown incense burning inside.

Thin wisps of smoke rose, carrying a refreshing fragrance that soothed the soul.

'My bedroom isn't as clean and fragrant as this!'

'This must be more than just a hideout. This person plans to live here.'

Thinking this, Su Que walked over and untied the bundle.

Inside, he found a jade pendant, a string of pearls, and other ornaments, which still gave off a faint glow in the darkness, indicating their value.

In addition, there were two small jade bottles, a token, and twenty thousand taels of silver notes.

Su Que opened a small jade bottle, finding inside a pale green liquid exuding a fragrance that made his body involuntarily tremble.

'What is this...'

Su Que wondered curiously.

'It seems like something valuable... I'll test it on a wild chicken or dog sometime.'

He closed the jade bottle and then looked at the token.

The token was intricately crafted, with elaborate patterns carved on it.

The center was engraved with three gilt characters: "Zaiyang Sect".

'Is this person from the Zaiyang Sect?'

Su Que's eyes lit up.

Recalling the document he saw this morning, a shock ran through his heart.

'Could this person be the Zaiyang Sect criminal Lu Sheng mentioned in the document?'

'And the "Sunflower Manual" he carried is the martial art Gui Risheng practiced?'

'Most likely...'

Su Que remembered the descriptions of Gui Risheng's skills in the Martial Arts circle.

—Strikes with extraordinary speed, body technique strange.

After practicing the "Sunflower Manual", this was the result.

'No wonder the Thunderbolt Army also mobilized so many to search for Lu Sheng.'

'They must have thought Lu Sheng might have fled with Gui Risheng's secret manual.'

'Gui Risheng was said to be not as good in martial arts realm as Li Tunshan, but could fight him without defeat.'

'Everyone wants to know what powerful martial art Gui Risheng practiced!'

'I must go and kill Lu Sheng!'

This thought immediately arose in Su Que's mind.

He believed he was not a bloodthirsty person.

If this was not Lu Sheng, he would only knock him unconscious, take these things, and spare his life.

But Lu Sheng stole Gui Risheng's secret manual, and if Lu Sheng wasn't dead and was captured by others.

Lu Sheng would claim the stolen manual was snatched away.

The Thunderbolt Army and Zaiyang Sect would turn their attention from Lu Sheng and proceed to search for others.

With a thorough search, there might be a slim chance they would find him.

If he killed Lu Sheng and destroyed the body.

Although the Thunderbolt Army and Zaiyang Sect would continue to search for people, they would still only focus on Lu Sheng and not shift attention to others.

Thinking of this, Su Que immediately packed the items from the cave into the bundle.

Then he tied the bundle onto himself and exited the cave.

...

"There's someone over there!"

"Looks like Lu Sheng!"

A believer of the Zaiyang Sect, seeing Lu Sheng in the distance with his face buried in the dirt, whispered to the other two Zaiyang Sect believers.

Since Lu Sheng's escape was discovered that night, the Zaiyang Sect had also sent out some believers to search for him.

However, the number of Zaiyang Sect members was far fewer than the Thunderbolt Army, so there were fewer searchers.

Though Lu Sheng cleared his traces as he walked along.

But he was merely a Fourth Blood Martial Artist with not very high martial skill.

Moreover, before he was eighteen, his Village Chief father had protected him very well, allowing him to live a life of luxury and comfort.

After eighteen, he was confined deeply within Gui Risheng's quarters, with very little experience in the Jianghu.

As he walked, although he was very cautious and cleaned up a lot, he still left some traces.

The followers of the Zaiyang Sect followed these sparse traces to approximately pinpoint the area Lu Sheng might have passed through.

They then split up to search.

The Zaiyang Sect believer speaking was named "Hu Feng", who had just recently entered the Meridian Opening Realm, among the lower-tier Meridian Opening experts in Jiannan Prefecture City.

The other two Zaiyang Sect believers were his subordinates, one in the Fifth Blood realm, the other in the Fourth Blood realm.

Hu Feng walked over and flipped over Lu Sheng's prone body, revealing his mud-smeared pale face.