"It's no trouble, I didn't have anything else to do, so I just came over." The young woman smiled and took out a book from among them, handing it to Tan Qing Shan, "Here, take it!"

  Hong Qing Mountain took over, and there was still a hint of body temperature on this book. He lowered his head to take a look at the secret book, and on the cover of the secret book, there were five big characters - Meng Niu Da Li Jue!

  Finally got it!

  After obtaining the third layer of "Wild Bull Great Strength Technique", one's own strength can be further enhanced.

  "Uh-huh." The young girl said, "I won't disturb Brother Teng's morning exercise, I'll just head back first." Before Teng Qing Shan could say anything else, the young girl immediately took off running. In the cold winter wind, the corner of her clothes fluttered in the breeze. Watching her run away was a pleasure.

  Hong Qing Shan smiled and put the secret book in his bosom, then turned back to continue practicing spear on the training ground.

  On the school field where loud shouts rose, the Black Armor Army soldiers were in intense training. However, many of the hundred-man commanders and marshals saw from afar that Tuo Ba Jun and Qing Er had met and parted ways.

  "Hey, look! The green girl and Green Mountain brother are together, looks like... they're quite close."

  "Haha, Qing Shan brothers are young heroes, and Qing girl is just right for them. I think the first flower of our Yuanzong will fall to our Heijia Army."

  ……

  Those hundred husbands laughed and discussed among themselves, in the Guiyuan Sect, many people pursued Zhuge Qing. They are mainly divided into two groups: the core disciples of the Guiyuan Sect and the soldiers of the Heijia Army. In secret, the two sides were also secretly competing with each other. Seeing which side can win the beauty's hand in marriage in the end.

  "Be quiet! This is a schoolyard, not a place for you to idle about!" A cold shout rang out.

  These several centurions turned their heads and looked, and it was indeed General Bai Ze who spoke.

  The hundred officials exchanged a glance with each other, smiled secretly twice, and didn't say anything more.

  Bai Ze looked at Teng Qing mountain in the distance with a cold and detached gaze, sneering: "A poor little thing, just arrived at Guiyuan Sect and already seduced Qing'er! Looks like I need to find an opportunity to let you understand your true identity!" Among the many men pursuing Qing, there was also Bai Ze.

  Martial artists cultivate internal energy, most live a long life, many are still unmarried in their thirties.

  Like Zang Feng in the Four Great Marshals, like the only female surname marshal in the Four Great Marshals, they are all unmarried. Bai Ze Du Tong is also unmarried.

  ******

  Morning exercise, the weather is still good.

  But soon the wind picked up and the sky turned gloomy, by the time Rong Qing Shan and the others were having lunch, big snowflakes like goose feathers started falling heavily.

  "A rich and prosperous year is ahead! It's great to have a big snow before the New Year. The snowflakes falling on my palm feel cold, but I'm delighted. I glanced at Teng Qinghu beside me and thought: 'Brother seems to be worried about something this morning, what's he thinking?'"

  Teng Qinghu walked with his head down, without a word.

  "Older brother!" Teng Qing Shan shouted.

  "Huh?" Teng Qinghu was taken aback, looked up at Teng Qingshan and asked, "What's wrong, Qingshan?"

  "You're still asking me what's wrong, two days ago you were all smiles, now look at you, with a heavy heart. It's as if the words 'I'm annoyed' are written on your face! What's going on that you can't tell me? Come on, don't keep it inside." Teng Qing Shan said with a smile.

  Teng Qinghu hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and looked at Teng Qingshan: "Qingshan, do you like Miss Qingqing?"

  "Huh?" Tong Qing Shan was stunned.

  What's going on here?

  Do you like green?

  "Heng Qinghu wiped his face and said, 'Well, actually nothing! I won't hide it from you. When I saw this young lady Qīng, I don't know what happened but I liked her. I also knew that I wasn't good enough for her! So I secretly thought about it in my heart, didn't dare to say it out loud! Today when I saw Lady Qīng come find you alone, I guessed that she likes you. In my heart, I'm happy for you, but also a bit uncomfortable.'"

  "However, Qing Shan!" Teng Qinghu said hastily, "Don't worry about me, anyway I'm not capable of marrying such a good girl, you just bring honor to our Teng Family Village by marrying this lovely girl."

  Hong Qingshan was shocked!

  "Smack!" Teng Qing Shan slapped a palm on Teng Qing Hu's head, laughing and scolding, "Older cousin, are you brain-dead?! I like Miss Qing? Who told you that?"

  "Huh, such a good girl, you don't like?" Teng Qinghuo asked back.

  "Is she a good girl, but should everyone like her?" Teng Qing Shan cried and laughed, immediately staring at Teng Qing Hu, "Brother, listen to me clearly. I don't have any thoughts about this little girl. If you're capable, you can marry her. As for me... humph, I look down on her."

  Teng Qinghu blinked his eyes.

  "Alright, let's go back. Don't just stand there like an idiot." Tan Qing Shan patted Qing Hu on the shoulder, and the two brothers walked side by side into the house amidst the heavy snowfall.

  "I've fallen in love with Qing?" Teng Qingshan was both amused and annoyed in his heart.

  Seeing this young girl, Teng Qing Shan felt as if he was seeing his own sister 'Qing Yu', a purely brotherly feeling towards her. Moreover... in his past life, he had lived for 29 years and in this life, he had lived for 16 years, long ago losing the mindset of a young man. Having experienced so much, his heart had long been as firm as a rock, how could it be easily moved? When dealing with such an innocent young girl, Teng Qing Shan only had a distant affection but no licentious thoughts.

  Marrying a wife?

  Without his parents' urging, Teng Qing Shan wouldn't rush into marriage either, unless he met someone who truly touched his heart.

  ……

  The snow fell more and more heavily, and by afternoon, a thick layer of snow had accumulated in the courtyard of Teng Qing Mountain.

  Squatting on the snowy ground, Teng Qing Shan's body was already covered with a layer of snow.

  The green-maned horse in the stable looked up at Teng Qing Shan, who was meditating, and then lowered its head to eat some hay.

  "Cultivating internal energy is actually opening up the meridians in the process of cultivation! As the meridians become more and more unblocked, the speed of cultivation can be faster. Many people spend decades or even hundreds of years but are unable to open up the most difficult Ren and Du meridians. However... my entire body's eight extraordinary meridians, twelve regular meridians, and numerous fine meridians are all unblocked. Cultivating internal energy is actually quite easy and simple."

  Teng Qing Shan felt relaxed and pleased in his heart.

  Cultivating internal energy was a straightforward task for him.

  Later generations of transportation, the trouble is just building one by one highway. Each highway has consumed endless manpower and material resources. But when the highway was successfully built, transportation became more convenient, and economic growth also accelerated rapidly. This is to open up the meridians, which is the process of building highways.

  The most troublesome thing is.

  While Tongqing Mountain is equivalent to a highway from the very beginning, transporting goods with "inner strength" is naturally quick and easy.

  "The Eighth Layer!" Teng Qing Shan had already activated the eighth layer of his Heart Technique Mantra.

  Inside the body, the inner energy is surging and swirling, each acupoint has inner energy rotating, wave after wave of numbness and tingling sensation spreading throughout the entire body.

  "By cultivating to the eighth level, the speed of refining the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is more than a hundred times faster than when I cultivated internal energy through Xingyiquan. It seems that even if my internal energy is exhausted, it can be fully recovered in just a few hours." Teng Qing Shan sighed, "In my past life, internal energy was treasured like a precious gem and couldn't bear to waste it. It's completely refined from the essence and blood within the body, but now, this internal energy is worthless!"

  Unconsciously...

  Hong Qing Shan stepped into the 9th layer of the "Wild Ox Strength Technique"!

  The inner energy is like a flood, flowing freely in the eight extraordinary meridians, and the ninth layer is the most difficult to "break through the Ren Du two-meridian checkpoint".

  "The numbness is getting stronger! I didn't expect that stimulating the acupoints and using internal energy to stimulate the meridians would actually make the meridians even more resilient." Teng Qing Shan followed the secret manual, which described the stimulation of acupoints as a gentle circling motion around the points, afraid of hurting the vital points.

  According to the secret recipe, once the key point is injured, afterwards the internal energy will move to this place and the speed of passing through will be very slow.

  "Acupoints? I understand the principle, meridians are highways, and acupoints are the bridges over rivers on those highways! Once a bridge is damaged, the speed of crossing will naturally slow down. If the bridge breaks, the entire highway becomes useless." Teng Qing Shan felt that his internal energy was like a snowball, getting thicker and more solid.

  A large amount of internal energy surged towards the lower abdomen, and the lower abdomen seemed like a bottomless pit, continuously absorbing the internal energy.

  After a long time, Teng Qing Shan felt that his dantian was bulging and could no longer store more internal energy.

  "Hmm, is it full?" Teng Qing Shan sighed to himself, "According to the 'Wild Bull Great Strength Technique', when one first starts cultivating internal energy, their dantian is very small. As time goes on, the dantian gradually gets bigger. Eventually, there will come a day when the dantian reaches its limit and can no longer expand. However, I should still be some distance away from reaching my dantian's limit."

  The size of the dantian is limited, and the storage of internal energy is also limited, not infinite.

  It is precisely because of this that warriors exhaust their internal energy when they engage in fierce battles.

  However, with practice, the dantian will gradually become larger. Just like a person's belly, the more you eat, the bigger it will swell. Of course, there is a limit! Once you reach that limit, no matter how much more you cultivate, it won't get any bigger.

  ……

  In the snow-covered courtyard, Teng Qing Shan, who was sitting cross-legged, had turned into a snowman.

  Wow!

  Teng Qing stood up, and the snow fell off her with a rustling sound.

  "The ninth layer? It's that simple, I've reached the ninth layer. To me, the most precious thing is still the ninth layer, the incantation to release inner energy!" Teng Qing Shan's heart moved, and the inner energy in his dantian suddenly burst out, surging along the eight extraordinary meridians, then merging into the right arm meridian.

  "Ah!"

  Hong Qing Shan felt a severe pain in his meridians, his face changed color with the pain, and his internal energy quickly dissipated from the fine meridians on his arm.

  "Hahaha!"

  Many internal forces shot onto the snowy ground, revealing small holes one by one.

  "What a close call." Teng Qing Shan's face changed color.

  Just now, the eight inner energies surged out from the Eight Extraordinary Meridians and converged in Teng Qing Shan's arm. The capacity of the arm meridian was not enough to withstand the convergence of the eight main meridians of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians. This converging inner energy was too much, almost bursting one of the meridians in Teng Qing Shan's right arm. Fortunately, all the meridians in Teng Qing Shan were unblocked and immediately dispersed through the tiny static veins.

  "My Eight Extraordinary Meridians are too wide, although I can burst out a lot of internal energy in an instant, the number of meridians in my arm is small, which means the cannon mouth is too small! No matter how much ammunition there is, it can't be fired out instantly! What a pity." Teng Qing Shan smiled helplessly.

  At first when practicing the sixth layer, that converging internal energy was weak, and Teng Qing Shan's arm meridians could still withstand it, but this time they couldn't.

  "It seems that what was said in 'Meng Niu Da Li Jue' is true, I also need to spend time expanding and nourishing my meridians." Teng Qing Shan thought to himself.

  ……

  In the following days, Teng Qing Shan leisurely stayed in the Black Armor Army. Apart from practicing his marksmanship and occasionally leading the soldiers to practice horse riding, he spent most of his time practicing the "Mangniu Dali Jue" to nourish his meridians. As time passed by, Teng Qing Shan's meridians gradually became wider and more resilient.

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