Chapter Seventy-Nine: Passing On Techniques

  "Seventh Uncle, it seems we're both viscounts." Bai Cangdong's face was covered in cold sweat.

  "What's wrong with being a viscount? Viscounts also have their strengths and weaknesses, it's clear that I'm the strong-to-explosive type, while you're the super-weak type. Are you not satisfied that I'm your master?" Feng Xuan glared at Bai Cangdong with anger.

  "Let's talk about it later." Feng Xian pulled the two away from the ancient demon cave.

  "Little one, when are you going to find a master?" From the ancient demon cave back to Feng Hua City, Feng Xuan asked more than thirty times along the way.

  "Seventh Uncle, why don't you just be a junior brother instead of an apprentice?" asked Bai Cang with a strange expression.

  "Absolutely not!" Feng Xuan's anger was uncontrollable, and he wished he could slap Bai Cangdong to the ground. Unfortunately, now he needed something from Bai Cangdong, so he had to endure it for the time being. In his heart, he secretly vowed: "You little brat, just wait for me, I'll deal with you properly later."

  "Alright, I can become your apprentice, but I have a few conditions." With the emotional ties of Feng Xian present, Bai Cangdong himself also wanted to learn Feng Xuan's body techniques and swordsmanship, so becoming an apprentice wasn't entirely unacceptable.

  "What conditions?" The muscles on Feng Xuan's face twitched, the anger in his heart was about to erupt like a live volcano.

  "When the master is good, he should treat his apprentice well, listen to his words and follow him. When the apprentice is in danger, rush out to protect him at the first time. When the apprentice is not in danger, he should also take care of him all the time..."

  "Go die!" Feng Xuan couldn't bear it anymore and swung his fist heavily towards Bai Cangdong's detestable face.

  "Good arrival." Bai Cangdong unfolded his imitation of Lai's "Quarter" stance, dodging Feng Xuan's punch and counterattacking with a backhand strike to Feng Xuan's abdomen.

  "You're courting death by showing off your skills in front of me!" Feng Xuan used the "Half-Step" technique, easily deceiving Bai Cangdong. With one kick, he sent him tumbling to the ground and twisted his arm, saying: "You little brat, do you submit? Do you want to acknowledge me as your master?"

  "Not satisfied? Let me go and we'll have another round!" Bai Cangdong shouted.

  "Alright, today I'll make you surrender." Feng Xuan released Bai Cangdong and the two clashed again.

  The fastest way to learn martial arts is never the master's hand-in-hand teaching, but the apprentice's gradual reflection and progress in being trampled by a superior.

  Bai Cangdong was like this, under the tempering of Feng Xuan's attacks, his quarter-step movement technique grew rapidly. From being completely unable to counterattack when facing Feng Xuan at first, he slowly began to guess a bit about Feng Xuan's movement technique and then applied it to his own, accumulating experience bit by bit.

  Two people spent most of their time fighting every day, except for eating and sleeping. In less than ten days, Bai Cangdong's movements had made extremely surprising progress. When facing Feng Xuan, he was already able to attack and defend, and it was completely impossible to see that ten days ago he was a rookie who was brutally beaten.

  "Stop it, if we continue, you'll steal all my techniques. You won't even acknowledge me as your master, what a waste of time." Feng Xuan used the "Half-Step" technique and fought for nearly half an hour, but couldn't take down Bai Cangdong who was using the "Quarter-Step" technique. Feeling somewhat stifled, he flashed out of the battle circle.

  "Seventh Uncle, I'd rather be your friend than your disciple." Bai Cang wiped the sweat from his face: "When representing you in a duel to the death with Mosang's successor, I'm your disciple; at ordinary times, I'm your friend. Is that alright?"

  "Fine, as long as you help me save face, anything is okay." Feng Xuan slightly froze for a moment, then smiled.

  "Are you still worried about my strength? My 'Quarter' stance, how is it? It's not much worse than your 'Half' stance, right?" Bai Cangdong said with a pleased tone.

  Feng Xian disdainfully curled his lip: "It's still far from enough, but it should be sufficient to deal with the successor of Mosangsheng. You take this back and study it well yourself, when the duel comes, use my footwork and swordsmanship to thoroughly crush the people of Huajia."

  Feng Xuan took out a martial crystal plate and threw it to Bai Cangdong, who caught it and looked at it. It was a Gold-rank martial skill called "Sawtooth Knife".

  After a closer look, it was discovered that this is a purely applied method of transforming the innate divine light into serrated knife light, but there is no Wind String's dual knife technique.

  "Seventh Uncle, what about your Twin Blades technique?" That was still what Bai Cangdong wanted to learn most.

  "Dual-handed martial arts require innate talent, and one must start practicing from a young age. You're starting too late now, and it would take too much time to achieve anything. It's not worth passing on to you now, but when you have the time and truly want to learn, I'll teach you then," Feng Xuan said.

  Bai Cangdong casually plucked two branches from the trees in the garden, and with a few swift moves, he executed the "Falling Thunder Knife Method" and the "Shocking Electric Sword Method", his movements fierce and powerful, exuding an aura of grandeur.

  Feng Xuan initially didn't think much of it, but after watching for a while, a look of surprise appeared on his face.

  "How's that? My innate talent for martial arts isn't bad, right?" Bai Cangdong said with great pride after finishing a set of knife and sword techniques.

  "It's barely passable, although I'm still a mediocre person. However, under the guidance of my elders at home, I should be able to learn my three successful moves and that will be enough to deal with Mo Sang Sheng's useless successor."

  Feng Xuan began to teach Bai Cangdong the "Double Blade Knife Method", teaching very carefully, with strict requirements, not allowing any mistakes in even a single move or style, and if there was even a slight error, he would directly whip him without showing any mercy.

  It was precisely because of Feng Xuan's strictness that Bai Cangdong quickly mastered the "Double Blade Technique", lacking only actual combat experience.

  "You stinky brat, today I'll show you my true strength, so you won't think you're all that every day. Your martial skills are only half-baked, and when you encounter a real master, you'll suffer a great loss." Feng Xuan had high praise for Bai Cangdong's learning ability, but he was afraid that his youth and arrogance would make him think he was a born genius, losing the heart to work hard and progress, and eventually becoming ordinary.

  "Bring it on!" Bai Cangdong, wielding a pair of wooden knives, said with his head held high.

  Feng Xuan smiled slightly and also picked up two wooden knives. With a movement of his body, he charged towards Bai Cangdong.

  Bai Cangdong originally thought he had learned quite well, but when Feng Xuan really got serious, he realized how far off the mark he was.

  No matter whether it was his swordsmanship or footwork, he was completely suppressed by Feng Xuan, every move he made was within Feng Xuan's expectations, and he was being toyed with in the palm of his hand, without even a bit of strength to fight back.

  He was really helpless under Feng Xuan's pressure, his body had been cut by countless knives, Bai Cangdong suddenly used a move imitating Mosangsheng's technique to dodge Feng Xuan's originally unavoidable knife, taking advantage of the moment he hesitated, he counterattacked with a knife slash towards his arm.

  Feng Xuan leapt out of the battlefield, staring at Bai Cangdong and asked: "How do you know Mosangsheng's 'Ta Yi Bu Fa'?"

  "It was naturally learned that day when I saw you and him fighting, how about it, didn't I learn it well?" said Bai Cangdong.

  "Don't learn his rubbish footwork, just master my 'Half-Step' body method and you can easily defeat his successor." Feng Xuan said angrily.

  Bai Cang East smiled: "Seventh Uncle, why are you so angry? Think about it, if your disciple can't even use their own strongest martial skill, but just by looking at them, they can defeat the enemy using their own skills, how frustrating would that be for the enemy?"

  Feng Xuan's eyes lit up, and he slapped his thigh heavily: "Right! How could I have forgotten? My disciple Feng Xuan only took one look and can use the 'Tai Yi Bu Fa' to defeat Mo Sang Sheng's transmission of the 'Tai Yi Bu Fa', which was bitterly practiced for over a decade. It will definitely make that Mo Sang Sheng guy so angry he spits blood! Come, come, let me take a look at what you've secretly learned. Is there anything wrong with it? I'll point it out to you. I'm not bragging, but in this world, no one understands his 'Tai Yi Bu Fa' better than me."

  The days passed quickly, and soon it was the day that Feng Xuan and Mo Sang Sheng had agreed upon. A few days ago, the seasonal winds had also stopped, and the master of Feng Hua City had distributed the eight heavenly pearls. Those who had obtained the eight heavenly pearls were all making preparations to enter the depths of the abyss.

  Feng Xian was also busy getting to the bottom of the abyss, and Bai Cang had not seen her for several days.

  "I've mastered the Sawtooth Knife, but the crystal plate is gone. How can I explain this to Feng Xuan now?" After Bai Cangdong cultivated the Sawtooth Knife once, the crystal plate was absorbed into the sword sheath and transformed into a sword pill, allowing Bai Cangdong to directly master the Sawtooth Knife, but also losing the crystal plate in the process.

  Feng Xuan had told him that the Sawtooth Knife was his unique martial skill, which he had obtained from the Undying Altar back then. There was no second person in the world who could use it, so he still attached great importance to this crystal plate.

  "It's mine once I've got it, and if I don't return it, that's just the way it is." Bai Cangdong comforted himself.

  "Come on, kid, let's go! Today you must defeat Mosangsheng's successor and make him a laughing stock. Let him know that my Wind String's martial arts are the true number one in Fenghuacheng!" Feng Xuan had every confidence in Bai Canghai. Apart from his weak innate divine light, Bai Canghai's movement skills and swordsmanship had already reached 80-90% of their potential. Even if he were to take action himself, it would still require a great deal of effort to defeat Bai Canghai, and there was even a risk of being counterattacked. And this opponent was only Mosangsheng's successor, not Mosangsheng himself! Feng Xuan thought that victory was already certain for Bai Canghai; the key was how to win in a way that would make people gasp in admiration.

  On the hillside full of yellow flowers, Mosang Sheng had already been waiting in the field. Behind him stood a woman and two men. The woman was naturally Huajianwu, one of the men was Hua Mingyang, and the other man who looked 70% like Hua Mingyang was Hua Buyu, the elder brother of Huajianwu and Hua Mingyang.

  "Silence, today I permit you to use your full strength." Mosang Sheng said with a smile to Hua Silence.

  The flower nodded slightly but didn't speak, not because he didn't want to talk, but because he was mute.

  "Uncle, Feng Xuan didn't pass on his skills to anyone, I think he won't be coming," said Hua Mingyang.

  "I know him, he will definitely come." Mosang Sheng gazed deeply into the distance: "I have fought with him a total of seven times, I lost four times and won three times. The people of Fenghuacheng think that I am inferior to him by half a step, in fact it is indeed very difficult for me to defeat him, but he also finds it hard to defeat me. Now that he has withdrawn from the path of noble title advancement, I no longer have the opportunity to truly defeat him in front of the world, so only silence can prove to the world on my behalf that my martial skills are not inferior to his, and may even surpass his."