Chapter 45: Suppressing the Dragon Pillar

  Time passed minute by minute and second by second. Sun Yan carefully pondered the words on that wall dozens of times, even to the point where he could recite them backwards fluently.

  Finally, Sun Yan could only sadly acknowledge a fact that the content of this article is just a myth story and has nothing to do with martial arts or skills.

  After realizing this fact, Sun Yan thought of another possibility, maybe there is still a mechanism in the secret room, and Zhang Zhengri hid the reward in a certain safe.

  Unfortunately, Sun Yan searched up and down on the wall and floor, back and forth, for a whole hour, but ultimately to no avail.

  Plop... Sun Yan collapsed to the ground, exhausted, letting the dust fly everywhere. His body was in a "big" character shape, lying on his back. In his heart, he lamented that running into Zhang Zhengyi, this kind of person who would not rest until he had killed him with torment, he could only admit defeat and be tormented.

  "Grandma's bear, Zhang Zhengri is really too sinister. They say that Lin Xinghe is a great master, wise and powerful, with every word being law, how did he teach such a scumbag student? Hmm, no, Coach Carter said that Lin Xinghe and Zhang Zhengri have similar personalities, it's true that if the beam above is not straight, the one below will be crooked!"

  Sun Yan secretly felt depressed and resentful, thinking that after leaving this place, when Feng Ling and Xue heard about his experience, they would laugh so hard they'd fall over, he felt like he had swallowed a fly.

  "When I become a high-ranking martial artist in the future, I'll set up a similar situation and make those who come after me cry without tears."

  The young man was secretly cursing in his heart, and under the double torture of body and soul, one corner of his outlook on life was quietly collapsing.

  "Sigh, I'll just sleep for 2 hours and then head out when it's time."

  Turning his head, Sun Yan closed his tired eyes and prepared to sleep. In the instant he narrowed his eyes, the corner of his eye suddenly caught a glimpse of something strange.

  "What's this?"

  Flipping his body over, Sun Yan lay flat on the ground, narrowing his eyes and gazing past the surface of the floor. Suddenly, he discovered that the center of the secret room's floor seemed somewhat uneven.

  Sun Yan immediately went over and moved to the center of the room, lying on the ground to observe carefully, finally confirming that there was a depression in the central position of the room.

  This mark is extremely shallow, and the depth of the depression is even less than 0.01 millimeters, otherwise Sun Yan would not have noticed it just now.

  Such a depression might have gone unnoticed elsewhere, but in this room made of cobalt-chromium alloy, such a dent was somewhat strange.

  Stroking this mark, Sun Yan quickly determined that it was a footprint, and it was very likely to be Zhang Zhengri's footprint.

  "Was it Zhang Zhengri who finished writing on the wall and fell here? Or was that old scoundrel Zhang Zhengri standing here, with his inner yuan ****, exerting his strength in mid-air, and carving these words on both sides of the wall?" Sun Yan's mind was filled with all sorts of thoughts.

  Regardless of which possibility, Sun Yan couldn't help but admire him. Putting aside Zhang Zhengyi's bad taste, his strength was indeed immeasurable, and his contributions in the third Snow River War were enough to make later generations look up to him.

  It is said that 210 years ago, during the Third Snow River War, Los City was almost destroyed, and the JW Alliance's ace corps, the Pangu Dragon Fleet, was besieging the city. It was Zhang Zheng who single-handedly held off the entire Pangu Dragon Fleet until reinforcements arrived.

  That kind of martial arts achievement, even now hearing that past event, can't help but make people's eyes moisten.

  Following the outline of the depression, Sun Yan's finger moved point by point, drawing out a footprint. He sighed and muttered: "Old Wang, you bastard, no matter how you messed with me today, this old guy is still a real man. Sitting alone in Nan Ying Academy, pulling off an empty city plan, singing for 15 days, if I had half your endurance, it wouldn't be a waste of my life."

  "Old rascal, rest in peace. Los Angeles is prosperous now, you should be smiling from heaven too."

  Stick out your foot and step on this footprint, Sun Yan's shoe size is two circles smaller than it. Just at this moment, a spark suddenly flashed in his mind, and a footprint appeared suddenly.

  Sun Yan was shocked, this situation wasn't the first time he encountered it. Previously when helping Shui Lianqing perfect the [Weak Water Technique], his mind was like a mirror, jumping out a string of text that completed the third layer of the [Weak Water Technique].

  Three days ago at Luoshan Shita, the fist print that suddenly appeared in his mind was still fresh in his memory. Now, a footprint has appeared in his mind again.

  "What's going on here?" Sun Yan cursed in her heart and immediately fell silent.

  Every time such a situation occurs, Sun Yan would naturally enter a state of concentration, whether he wanted to or not, his mind would be tightly locked in his brain, observing the changes within.

  In his mind, the footprint went from shallow to deep, gradually becoming clear. Then, the footprint burst out with a glow, followed by shattering open, countless information flooded in, making Sun Yan's head feel a wave of dizziness and pain.

  One scene after another appeared before his eyes, and Sun Yan felt that the surrounding environment had changed in an instant. The next moment, he was standing on a lake surface, drifting with the waves. The lake was deep and mysterious, making it hard to tell its depth.

  Behind, a thousand-meter waterfall flew straight down, thundering like thunder. The lake surface suddenly surged and rolled, and a giant dragon broke out of the water, close at hand. The dragon scales were like lotus fans, the dragon body was as long as ten thousand meters, the golden dragon claws grasped and held, with thunderous sound shaking, whistling and flying out, rushing to the sky, shocking the world.

  "What is this? A dragon soaring into the sky!"

  At this moment, a black dot suddenly appeared in the cloudless sky, growing from small to large, and in an instant, it was above. It was a human figure.

  But what Sun Yan saw in his eyes was only the foot of that person, one foot stepped into the air and landed on the dragon's head, a circle of golden light appeared in a ring shape, spraying towards all directions, shaking the ground and mountains.

  The giant dragon, as if under the weight of a mountain, let out a mournful cry and plummeted straight down into the lake, causing a massive wave to rise up. After a long time, the wind calmed and the waves subsided, but the waterfall continued to fall, and the giant dragon was never seen again emerging from the water's surface.

  The man who stepped on the dragon slowly fell, standing on the lake surface, walking slowly towards the shore. With each step, a strange scene appeared: spring thunderstorms, summer heat waves, autumn leaves turning yellow, and winter rain and snow...

  When the figure disappeared into the shade of the trees, Sun Yan's mind cleared up and he came back to his senses from his meditation. He found himself still standing in the secret room, covered in dust, everything restored to its original state.

  "What the...?! What was that just now? Are we watching a movie?" Sun Yan's heart was shocked and felt inexplicably puzzled.

  In his subconscious mind, Sun Yan felt that something was off again. Vaguely, he seemed to have grasped something, but couldn't quite get a hold of it.

  Sun Yan furrowed his brow and scowled, muttering to himself: "Strange, really damn strange. What the hell is it? I clearly felt something, but can't quite put my finger on it."

  This feeling is the most annoying, Sun Yan scratched his ears and cheeks for a long time, his eyes turned around, and unintentionally saw the words on the wall, falling on the last sentence, suddenly, he was like a sudden enlightenment, and his eyes were wide open.

  "Why is it called Sealing Dragon? It uses the four seasons as a guide, dispersing the five Qi and transforming into the Five Elements. This is what is meant by 'Sealing Dragon Pillar'."

  "So it is, so it is, the four seasons - spring, summer, autumn and winter. Spring belongs to wood, summer belongs to fire, autumn belongs to metal, and winter belongs to water."

  "Taking the four seasons as the guide, the five Qi transform into the Five Elements, which is also known as the Five Elements lacking Earth."

  "Earth is the ground."

  "Step on wood, fire, metal, water, take this as a guide, and combine with the five elements of the earth."

  "When the Five Elements are in harmony, they generate and overcome each other, and their power is endless."

  ……

  Sun Yan muttered to himself, his whole body dancing with excitement. He finally understood what Zhang Zhengyi had left behind - a unique martial art.

  As soon as the thought moved, the elixir in the dantian turned with it and poured into both feet. The picture of the immortal stepping on the dragon reappeared in his mind. Sun Yan only felt a shock in his feet, his feet stepped on the five elements, and the heavy weight suppressed the dragon. His whole momentum changed, as if he was a towering mountain, standing upright on the ground, unshakeable.

  Then, a strong and tenacious power surged up through his legs, causing Sun Yan's body to move involuntarily. He unleashed all the combat techniques he had mastered so far: "Soldier's Stance Three Forms", "Bear Monkey Cling", "Collapse Fist", "Elbow Cannon", "Two-Section Collapse Fist"...

  In the room, the boy's figure was moving back and forth, his palm wind and fist shadows flying non-stop, a house full of dust also rotated with it, forming whirlwinds.

  After a long time, Sun Yan repeatedly demonstrated the combat skills he had learned dozens of times, only to stop and feel refreshed all over his body. His pores emitted a thread of white mist, and the inner yuan in his dantian stirred, which was a sign that it was about to break through at any moment.

  "Great, great!"

  Sun Yan burst out laughing, "So that's how it is! This combat skill, Dragon Subduing Stake, is really something special. It can be used in conjunction with other skills. And this skill is only at the rough understanding level, yet it can increase the power of other skills by 10%. I wonder what kind of amplification a perfect-level Dragon Subduing Stake would have! This is great, brother, I'm going to make a fortune now!"

  Clutching his fists, Sun Yan felt an increasingly powerful force within him. He was overjoyed that the "Dragon Subduing Pillar" could amplify other techniques, making its value far surpass that of a second-grade technique. Even compared to the "Two-Section Crumbling Fist", it was far superior.

  Cough... A faint sound came from afar, and Old Man Huang's voice echoed beside his ear: "Xiao Yan, the time has come, come out."

  Sun Yan responded with a sound, looked around again, bowed three times against the wall, and left the secret room.

  As Sun Wen walked out of the secret room and stepped onto the stairs, he didn't know that the marks on the wall inside the secret room and the footprint on the ground were slowly disappearing. The walls and floor were spotless and mirror-like, as if no traces had ever existed.

  As soon as they walked out of the channel, everyone immediately stared at Sun Yan. Wang Sen and his group had been waiting impatiently for a long time, eager to know what the reward was, or rather, the reward for the "Regular Elimination Match" was just a big joke.

  Under the gaze of a pair of eyes, Sun Yan scratched his head and said: "The combat skills left by Mr. Zhang Zhengri are indeed a set of combat skills, which should be the one that Huang Lao said is very difficult to practice, a second-rate combat skill."

  Sun Yan was also a straightforward person, ordinary combat skills could be mastered to perfection level or even mastery level in his hands. However, the combat skill 【Dragon Subduing Pillar】 was extremely special, Sun Yan had been practicing in the secret room for two hours and still lingered on the edge of rough understanding, its difficulty could be seen at a glance.

  At these words, Old Man Huang suddenly stared at him, and two flashes of electricity burst out from his half-asleep eyes, illuminating the surroundings instantly.

  Sun Yan suddenly felt a chill all over his body, as if he had been seen through, and his whole body was transparent.