Purple Mist Dao Master-Chapter 188 - 169: Wishing to Become the Boxing Instructor for the 800 Horse Stance Army!

Chapter 188: Chapter 169: Wishing to Become the Boxing Instructor for the 800 Horse Stance Army!

[Your ’Horse Form Boxing’ has improved, Fifth Realm of Mastery → Sixth Realm Refining Fire.]

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Yan Chuan couldn’t defeat Fu Zhe, but he enjoyed the fight immensely.

From ’Chicken Form’ to ’Horse Form’.

From ’Swallow Form’ to ’Hawk Form’.

From ’Eagle Form’ to ’Bear Form’.

Yan Chuan felt exhilarated, fighting without reservation. What delighted him even more was that as he sparred and taught boxing, each form he demonstrated was broken and improved, making the experience truly exhilarating——

[Your ’Swallow Form Boxing’ has improved, Fifth Realm of Mastery → Sixth Realm Refining Fire.]

[Your ’Hawk-shaped Fist’ has improved, Fifth Realm of Mastery → Sixth Realm Refining Fire.]

[Your ’Snake-shaped Fist’ has improved, Fifth Realm of Mastery → Sixth Realm Refining Fire.]

...

Until——

[Your ’Twelve Forms’ has improved, Fifth Realm of Mastery → Sixth Realm Refining Fire.]

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"Twelve Forms!"

"Refining Fire!"

Yan Chuan was ecstatic, overjoyed without end.

Not only Yan Chuan.

Fu Zhe was also surprised and pleased: "Dragon, Tiger, Monkey, Horse, Chicken, Hawk, Swallow, Snake, Toad, Badger, Eagle, Bear! For someone who has just broken through the limit to create such a boxing technique with such accomplishments is truly inconceivable!"

It’s genuinely inconceivable!

If in the King City, among the ’Black Dragon Heavy Cavalry’, at Yan Chuan’s age, this level of boxing proficiency might not be significant, given that his overall strength and bone training progress are far behind.

But——

What are the conditions in the King City?

What are the conditions for the ’Black Dragon Heavy Cavalry’?

Resources!

Cultivation Techniques!

Environment!

All are abundant.

And what about the small-town independent martial artists?

What do they have?

Nothing at all!

They can’t even speak official language fluently, which is laughable.

Yet, such a young person has pushed his boxing mastery to a level not inferior to the ’Black Dragon Heavy Cavalry’.

Truly terrifying!

Even more terrifying is that during Yan Chuan’s explanations and while listening to the lecture on ’Xingyi Boxing’, Fu Zhe could also gain insights and make progress.

That’s just ridiculous.

What is his identity? What rank? What power?

What is Yan Chuan’s identity? What rank? What power?

For a newbie who has just broken through the limit to advise a Heaven’s Chosen Son like him?

Fu Zhe was shocked.

He continued to fight, continued to listen.

From ’Twelve Forms’ to ’Five Elements Boxing’, and then to ’Three Body Formation’, Yan Chuan broke down ’Xingyi Boxing’, dissected it, and explained it to Fu Zhe. Afterwards, the fists had no fixed form. Guided by ’Xingyi Boxing’, they were thrown as wished, integrating the ’Three Body Formation’, ’Five Elements Boxing’, and ’Twelve Forms’.

No fist, no intention, only true meaning in unintentional moves!

This is the profound art in ’Xingyi Boxing’.

Throwing like this!

Even in explanation, it becomes too obscure for many, particularly martial artists unfamiliar with ’Xingyi Boxing’, to understand a single bit.

Including Fu Zhe, who felt his head swelling and vaguely finding it strenuous.

But fortunately, he was focused, and Yan Chuan’s explanations were easier to understand, enabling him to barely keep up.

Fu Zhe moved leisurely, as if he wasn’t fighting or sparring, but more like an adult playing games with a child, like a master guiding a disciple through moves, giving Yan Chuan plenty of space to demonstrate and explain ’Xingyi Boxing’.

Yan Chuan kept fighting and explaining.

Finally——

"Half-step Breaking Fist!"

"Shadow-following Shadowless Kick!"

As Yan Chuan performed these two major skills derived from ’Beng Fist’, his repertoire was exhausted. His Shadowless Kick was broken, and he was sent flying back, stepping three times in a row to steady himself.

Stopping at three steps not because he was strong, but because Fu Zhe’s force was well-balanced, intending for him to stop at three steps and he did just that.

"Excellent skill!"

"I am far behind!"

Yan Chuan steadied himself, cupping his fist in self-shame!

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"I suppress you with my cultivation; there’s nothing clever in that."

Fu Zhe’s face was full of approval, "Your ’Xingyi Boxing’ is based on Pile Skill, utilizing Inner Strength, surpassing others with stepping techniques. Seeking form from essence, seeking intention from form, form guided by intention, intention born from form, encompassing everything, it’s worth being an Earth-level Secret Scripture, rare in the world."

Xingyi Boxing!

Earth-level Secret Scripture!

With wide knowledge, Fu Zhe could roughly gauge the level of ’Xingyi Boxing’, especially after Yan Chuan’s thorough explanation.

"Earth-level Secret Scripture!"

"’Xingyi Boxing’ is an Earth-level Secret Scripture?"

Beside him, Wang Zhengyi was shocked.

Although he also practiced ’Xingyi Boxing’, he wasn’t aware of its level. After all, based solely on the manual or Yan Chuan’s performance, it was hard to see what tier this boxing belonged to.

But coming from Fu Zhe, he believed it!

After all, this person’s strength was undeniable.

Only——

"In Danhu King City, the ’Hundred Beasts Army’ practices only the Human-level Secret Manual ’Hundred Beasts Technique’, and only upon entering the ’Black Armor Army’ can one practice the Earth-level Secret Scripture ’Fierce Dragon Technique’."

"Brother Yan actually managed to create an Earth-level Secret Scripture comparable to ’Fierce Dragon Technique’?"

Wang Zhengyi found it hard to believe.

A great cultivation of ’Fierce Dragon Technique’ endows one with a physique and Qi Power akin to a reincarnated fierce dragon, unrivaled, which was the strongest martial art he had come across.

And Yan Chuan’s ’Xingyi Boxing’ is at this level too?

"It certainly is Earth-level."

"Though it’s not the strongest among Earth-level Secret Scriptures, it is indeed precious."

Fu Zhe glanced at the turkey in the chicken coop, then at the yellow-maned horse on the side, then at the raccoon cat in the woods, and finally back at Yan Chuan. His admiration was intense, and he couldn’t help but recruit: "I am Fu Zhe, from the Hunxi Fu Family. I have a Horse Stance Army under my command, not many, only eight hundred, called the ’Iron Clothes Army’. Would you be willing to join the ’Iron Clothes Army’ and serve as the boxing coach for my eight hundred cavalry and foot soldiers, teaching ’Xingyi Boxing’? I can guarantee that the benefits will be exceptional, at least on par with the ’Red Fire Light Cavalry’."

Fu Zhe!

Fu Family!

Upon hearing this, Wang Zhengyi was shocked.

Yan Chuan was also taken aback.

The ’Red Fire Light Cavalry’ is the second elite force in Hunxi King City, with soldiers enjoying substantial benefits. Many people desperately want to join, but only the ’Green-maned Riders’, the third-level, make it through the recruitment assessment in Hunxi King City.

For Fu Zhe to offer such treatment, it was no small claim.

However, comparing it to his self-proclaimed background, what was eight hundred cavalry and foot soldiers boxing coach, or the same treatment as the ’Red Fire Light Cavalry’, mean nothing.

"Fu Family!"

"The Fu Family among the Four Families and Three Sects of Hunxi King City?"

Yan Chuan looked toward Fu Zhe.

Fu Zhe nodded and smiled, "There isn’t a second Fu Family under heaven."

Indeed there wasn’t!

Yan Chuan glanced at Wang Zhengyi, Jian Rong, and the others, exchanging looks of surprise.

Ordinary townspeople of Nanxiong City, even martial artists, like those dozen or so Nanxiong City martial artists currently in the Divine Doctor Valley to listen to Yan Chuan’s martial arts lecture and learn boxing, had no significant reaction upon hearing Fu Zhe mention ’Fu Family’.

Because they simply didn’t know!

It’s like previous eras.

Those unconcerned with politics might not even know who the Prime Minister is, let alone the Nine Elders.

So it is even more so in the Mountain and Sea Realm.

Instead, Wang Zhengyi and Jian Rong, hailing from Guangling Academy, which intentionally collected information on the Six Great Royal Cities, knew——

"Hunxi Royal City has ’Four Families and Three Sects’——"

"The Four Families are Feng, Ao, Fu, and Chi, with the family head known as ’King’, also referred to as the Four Great Royal Families."

"The Three Sects are Hunxi Palace, Lishan Sect, and Heavenly Seal Sect, with the sect leader known as ’Ancestor’."

"Four Families and Three Sects!"

"Four Kings and Three Ancestors!"

"This composes the highest power structure in the whole ’Hunxi Royal City’."

"As for the ’City Guard Army’, ’Green-maned Riders’, ’Red Fire Light Cavalry’, ’Black Dragon Heavy Cavalry’, they are jointly managed by the Four Families and Three Sects, and each of the seven major forces has its own independent armed forces and vast industries."

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On their way to Nanxiong City, Wang Zhengyi briefed Yan Chuan on the power structure of ’Hunxi Royal City’.

Unexpectedly, before they truly reached the King City, even in Nanxiong City, they encountered Fu Zhe, a member of the ’Four Families and Three Sects’, and from his power, tone, and the ’Eight Hundred Cavalry and Foot Soldiers’ he spoke of, he was likely not lowly ranked and probably a core member.

Such a person recruiting him, and even to take on the role of the coach for eight hundred cavalry and foot soldiers, truth be told, Yan Chuan was tempted.

Coach!

This struck at Yan Chuan’s weakness.

Fu Zhe’s ’Iron Clothes Army’, holding eight hundred cavalry and foot soldiers, must not be ordinary, even if not on par with ’Black Dragon Heavy Cavalry’, ’Red Fire Light Cavalry’, or even ’Green-maned Riders’, surely superior to ordinary ’City Guard Army’, right?

The martial cultivation level of soldiers in this Iron Clothes Army is surely not low.

With such eight hundred troops listening to him teach boxing, with the aid of ’Mutual Teaching and Learning’, Yan Chuan would grow significantly.

Sadly.

If it were ’Boxing and Feet Coach’, ’Spear and Stick Instructor’, or even ’Head of Eight Hundred Cavalry and Foot Soldiers’, perhaps—

"Even then, I won’t go!"

Better to be a nonentity than a house servant!

"A coach?"

"That sounds nice!"

"Once you join Fu Zhe, enter the Fu Family, you become a house servant!"

Yan Chuan had no intention of considering it.

He remembered Wang Zhengyi talking about Hunxi King City’s ’Four Families and Three Sects’——

Among them, the Four Great Royal Families speak in terms of bloodline, with direct bloodlines considered superior to collateral, and collateral superior to external surnames. Someone like Yan Chuan, even if joined Fu Zhe’s command, would naturally have to lower his head in front of Fu Family members.

If Fu Zhe is strong, he is strong.

If Fu Zhe is weak, he is weak.

Whether to insult him or bully him, depends entirely on Fu Zhe’s strength.

How is this different from owning a dog?

Even hitting a dog had to respect its owner?

In time, it would certainly lead to countless frustrations.

Yan Chuan had no intention of going!

On the contrary, the Three Sects founded by loose cultivators, who had been oppressed and harmed by ’bloodline theory’ themselves, deeply detesting it, established sects with overwhelming strength, accepting disciples regardless of class—not entirely regardless of class, as the Three Sects do not accept disciples from the Four Great Royal Families, or even those from mid-sized families.

Only accepting loose cultivators and small family disciples.

If Yan Chuan genuinely seeks a power to rely on in Hunxi King City, the ’Three Sects’ would be the first choice.

The Four Great Royal Families?

Would he go there to be a dog?

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"Thank you, General Fu, for your appreciation, but Yan seeks a different path."

Yan Chuan’s mind turned quickly, he declined politely.

Fu Zhe had experienced many such rejections and was used to it, but he was so fond of Yan Chuan, he asked further, "If you have any conditions, just state them."

Yan Chuan’s strength and potential were secondary; his ability to explain boxing techniques was the main reason for Fu Zhe’s high regard.

But Yan Chuan still shook his head.

Seeing this, Fu Zhe knew this was not a matter of treatment, he smiled wryly: "All the world’s talents have fallen into the Sects’ hands!"

The Four Great Royal Families succeeded by bloodlines, but also failed by bloodlines.

In terms of talent recruitment, especially among top-notch geniuses with high aspirations, they were far inferior to the Three Sects.

Fu Zhe had faced numerous setbacks and was accustomed to them.

He looked at Yan Chuan, contemplating the ’Xingyi Boxing’ he demonstrated, genuinely admiring him. Suddenly, he recalled Yan Chuan indeed seeming to demonstrate and explain for the turkey, yellow-maned horse, and raccoon cat while demonstrating the ’Chicken Form’, ’Horse Form’, and ’Tiger Form’.

Fu Zhe had an inspiration: "If I’m not mistaken, you raise them in the courtyard to observe the Hundred Beasts and refine your ’Twelve Forms’?"

"Indeed."

Yan Chuan nodded; there was no point in hiding this.

The true core of ’Mutual Teaching and Learning’ and ’Experience’ remained unknown to others.

"As I thought!"

Fu Zhe smiled and said to Yan Chuan, "In Nanxiong City, there are currently fifty ’Black Dragon Colts’, these are the world’s top warhorses, capable of carrying a thousand jin for a thousand li, possessing superior Qi Power and endurance, able to kick ordinary basic limit-breakers to death, invincible. Would you be interested in taking a look?"

Black Dragon Colt!

Indeed, it’s the ’Black Dragon Heavy Cavalry’!

Yan Chuan finally confirmed the origin of Fu Zhe and his men, a group of ten lightly equipped and secretly moving, presumably leaving armor and Black Dragon Colts in the city.

Fifty Black Dragon Colts!

This was a platoon of ’Black Dragon Heavy Cavalry’!

Inviting me to see the Black Dragon Colts?

What’s there to see!

Perhaps——

Yan Chuan glanced at the yellow-maned horse nearby and immediately understood: "This is to invite me to teach the ’Black Dragon Colts’ the ’Xingyi Boxing’ and ’Horse Form Boxing’, however, ’teaching horses’ isn’t well-regarded, they are being tactful!"

Teaching horses?

Coachman?

This doesn’t sound good.

But Yan Chuan was overjoyed: "Sure, sure! ’Black Dragon Colts’ are rarely seen; being able to take a close look is an honor for me."

"Haha!"

Fu Zhe laughed heartily.

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