Chapter 42: Becoming an Apprentice

  "What?" Zhang Huaming exclaimed with a look of surprise.

  "What's wrong? Is there a problem with being my apprentice?" Xuan Tianba said with an unpleasant expression, but in his heart, he was depressed to the extreme. Grandma, if only he had been willing to take on apprentices back in ancient times, just by opening his mouth, many people would have lined up to kowtow and beg to become his disciple. How come it's so embarrassing now that this kid is involved? It's really humiliating, extremely humiliating.

  "Brother!" Karyn, who had fully recovered from his injuries, couldn't help but tug at Zhang Huaming's sleeve when he saw his brother's attitude, giving him a meaningful glance.

  "Not interested." Zhang Huaming directly refused without even thinking about it, completely ignoring Karyn's suggestive gaze.

  "Damn it! You little brat really doesn't know what's good for you. If I wanted to take on an apprentice, there would be plenty of people willing, and yet you dare to refuse me?"

  "Refuse you, what's the big deal? Who knows if you're a tiger eating garlic, pretending to be one. If you have an apprentice, I'll lose nothing, go find him!"

  "You..." Xuan Tian Ba's face turned bright red with anger, and he seemed to be trembling all over.

  "But it's not impossible either." Zhang Huaming said, stroking his chin.

  "Ah!" Xuan Tian Ba felt as if he was on a roller coaster, his originally furious mood suddenly changed, and he hastily asked: "Youngster, what exactly do you want to say?"

  "Ah, this..." Zhang Huaming sneered, rubbing his fingers together and said: "I heard that becoming an apprentice has its benefits, it depends on what benefits you offer me, I'll decide whether to become your apprentice or not."

  "What benefits?" Xuan Tian Ba was stunned, his face turned silly. Grandma's milk, it seems that when someone wants to become an apprentice, they need to offer benefits to the master before they can be accepted as a disciple. How come he had to give benefits in order to accept an apprentice? This seemed to be upside down!

  "What? Don't want to? Alright then, let's go." Zhang Huaming saw that Xuan Tianba was stunned and knew he had to add fuel to the fire, so he turned around and walked down the mountain.

  "Hold on, you little scamp, I'll give you credit, you win! Speak up, what do you want as a reward?" Xuan Tianba said with an angry face.

  "Haha!" Zhang Huaming turned around with a sly smile and said, "I heard that there are storage rings in this space, I want one."

  Standing beside Zhang Huaming, Karyn heard his brother's words and almost fell to the ground. His admiration for his brother was like a boundless river that flowed endlessly! Storage ring? What is this thing? To know that a storage ring is not as simple as a Wu Yuan stone, it can be said that its value is priceless. Even if a super master like Wu Shen saw it, he would have the intention to rob it, which shows how rare this item is.

  "Storage ring? How did you little brat know about this thing?" Xuan Tianba's face showed a surprised expression, and then his eyes glanced at Kai Yan beside Zhang Huaming, and his face showed an epiphanic smile: "It was this little guy who told you, wasn't it!"

  Kaiyan couldn't express his grievances at this moment! He wanted to say that he was wronged, but he didn't dare to, because if he said it, he would become a traitor to his own brother. If he didn't say it, he would have to bear the blame. However, Zhang Huaming's mood at this moment was greatly shocked. What he said about wanting this thing was just to verify whether this space had the legendary storage ring that could hold all things on earth. He didn't expect it to be true, and he was thrilled.

  "Alright, kiddo, I've agreed. Come and pay your respects to your master!" Xuan Tianba said with a smug expression, as if the storage ring was nothing in his eyes.

  "This old man must have a lot of good things in his hands, it seems that there is time to extort some more." Zhang Huaming secretly said a sentence in his heart, and then respectfully came to the front of Xuan Tianba, knelt down, and knocked three loud heads: "Disciple sees Master."

  "Haha! Alright, alright! Get up, this is the master's gift to you for our meeting. You'd better treasure it well and remember, never reveal it in front of others, lest you invite unnecessary trouble." Xuan Tianba helped Zhang Huaming up from his kneeling position with a smile, and somehow a bronze ring-like object appeared in his palm.

  "Thank you, Master." Zhang Huaming stood up with the momentum and took over the ring handed by his master. He examined it carefully, then put the food to his mouth and bit down, instantly fresh blood spurted out and dripped onto the ancient bronze ring.

  Xuantian saw his apprentice's action, and a look of surprise appeared on his face as he stared at his apprentice. At this moment, he was a little suspicious that his apprentice had gotten too excited or had been stimulated by himself to the point of brain damage. How could he suddenly start self-mutilation? What was going on?

  "My goodness! You old scoundrel, how dare you deceive me? This is not a storage ring at all!" Zhang Huaming seemed to have suffered a great injustice after trying the ancient bronze ring several times, and he furiously shouted at Xuan Tianba with an angry face.

  "Isn't it a storage ring?" Xuan Tianba was suddenly yelled at by Zhang Huaming, and he was stunned for a moment. The next moment, he jumped up and shouted angrily: "Damn! You little rabbit, you actually dare to doubt my words, what is this if not a storage ring? Nonsense, you actually dare to say I'm biased towards you, it's infuriating!"

  "Ah!" Zhang Huaming saw the defeated appearance of Xuan Tianba, and his heart couldn't help but feel a little empty. He weakly said: "Isn't this storage ring supposed to recognize its owner through blood? Why can't I claim it even after dripping my own blood?"

  "Blood oath to recognize objects?" Xuan Tian Ba's face showed a mixture of laughter and tears, only now did he understand why his disciple would scold him as a swindler. It turned out that this kid had not figured out how to use the storage ring all along.

  Kaiyang, standing beside Zhang Huaming, patted his own head with a small hand, and he was really speechless about this master of his. He couldn't help but say: "Brother, the storage ring isn't recognized by blood, it's recognized by spiritual imprint."

  "Mind branding." Zhang Huaming heard Kayan's words, his facial muscles twitching, and after getting used to it, he chased after Kayan, shouting angrily: "You little brat, why didn't you say so earlier? You made me lose face!"

  Bang! Zhang Huaming's body was directly thrown high into the air while chasing after Karyn, and he crashed straight into the mountain wall, instantly creating a human-shaped deep pit in the wall.

  "Cough, cough, cough..." Zhang Huaming rushed out of the mountain wall with a grey face and closed his mouth again after opening it, because he saw that his newly-bowed master had a gloomy expression.

  After being scolded by his own master, Zhang Huaming finally came to understand some unknown things in this world. He finally realized that he had been watching the scenery and sky all along, and it turned out that there were so many masters hidden in this Martial Continent.

  "Disciple, do you know what you lack most right now?" Xuan Tianba asked with a master-teaching-disciple demeanor.

  "The apprentice does not know."

  "Your original cultivation method, which your master had only briefly glanced at, is indeed powerful, but it has only served as a supplementary aid. However, you lack a fierce and sharp attacking method, so I have prepared to teach you the most powerful method that I myself have created."

  Zhang Huaming was slightly shocked when he heard Xuan Tianba's words, because what Xuan Tianba said was indeed the case. The Longevity Technique was a set of anti-heavenly cultivation methods, but its function was only auxiliary. Simply put, this set of techniques was at the level of a wet nurse, and could be used to heal wounds and save people. As for his own cultivation method in his previous life, there were many incomplete parts, and none of them were complete. After all, the Huaxia tradition had been passed down for over 5,000 years, and many techniques had been lost or destroyed during the decades of turmoil in Huaxia.

  "Thanks a lot, Master."

  "Stop flattering me, but there are some things I must say beforehand. The name of this set of skills that I created is called One Qi Mixed Yuan Skill. Although it may be slightly inferior to your Long Life Decree in terms of skill level, when it comes to attacking, I can say that there is no other skill on the entire Martial Continent that can compare to it. Don't look at me with that kind of eye, I'm not one to brag. You'll understand once you cultivate this skill. Also, I must tell you that cultivating this skill requires inhuman torture, and if you're not careful, you might lose your life. So, you choose for yourself, if you don't want to cultivate this skill, I can let you cultivate another one."

  Zhang Huaming fell into deep thought after hearing Xuan Tianba's words, and after a few breaths, he said: "Master, I will cultivate the kung fu you created."

  "Have you decided?" Xuan Tian Ba seemed to have expected Zhang Hua Ming's choice, so he didn't even react.

  "I've made up my mind." Zhang Huaming said with a resolute expression, what a joke, in his past life as a strong person, he had always liked the challenging life, let alone this life.

  "Alright, since you've chosen that, I'll now teach you the introductory mental method of the Qi Hún Yuán Gōng. You little kid, take your time to think it over carefully, and if there's anything you don't understand, come find me." Xuan Tian Bá directly used one hand to tap on Zhang Huá Míng's occipital bone.

  "Ah!" Zhang Huaming only felt that Xu Tianba's finger had touched the back of his head, and a vast amount of information came flooding in, almost crushing his brain.

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