Chapter Thirty Shock

  "Are there few examples of martial artists being killed by their own masters in the Jianghu?"

  He waved his hand and let Qin Feng sit down, saying: "Tongue against the palate, nose inhales mouth exhales, inhale like a long whale swallowing water, exhale like a silkworm shedding its cocoon, at the same time, circulate my breath throughout my body, complete one cycle of circulation!"

  Qin Feng was stunned for a moment, but he quickly reacted and realized that his master was teaching him the method of practicing internal energy, so he hurriedly concentrated his mind, calmed down, and slowly inhaled through his nose.

  In the past, when practicing Bajiquan standing stake, it was necessary to coordinate breathing. Qin Feng was not unfamiliar with this. Following Zai's instructions, he raised his inner energy from the dantian and began to circulate it throughout his body.

  But unlike practicing stances, as Qin Feng breathed in, a warm and cozy feeling spread throughout his entire body.

  The inner strength in his body, with Qin Feng's every breath, had actually grown much stronger. The meridians that were previously impassable now flowed unimpeded.

  "Knock your teeth seventy-two times, and divide that golden essence into three mouthfuls to swallow into your belly!"

  More than half an hour later, just as Qin Feng finished walking a week and was about to collect his gains, he suddenly heard Zai Yi's voice in his ear.

  Qin Feng didn't dare to slack off, and his upper and lower teeth clicked together seventy-two times in a row. Suddenly, his mouth was filled with saliva, and a refreshing fragrance reached the tip of his nose.

  "Knock, knock, knock!"

  Qin Feng divided into three mouths, swallowing the vital fluid into his abdomen. What surprised him was that after these three mouthfuls of vital fluid entered his abdomen, they actually transformed into essence and qi, nourishing Qin Feng's entire body.

  Qin Feng, who had been feeling a dull ache in his chest and lungs since the palm strike from Zai Na, now felt incredibly smooth breathing, but the hidden illness within his body had already been completely cured.

  "Qin Feng, how do you feel?" During Qin Feng's qigong practice, Zai Ye also stared at his apprentice without blinking. Qin Feng was still young, and if this hidden illness wasn't cured, it would have a profound impact on him in the future.

  "Thank you, master, I feel great..."

  Qin Feng took a deep breath, and the pungent feeling in his chest and lungs that had been making him pant earlier suddenly disappeared. He couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Master, what kind of breathing technique did you just teach me? How can it have such an amazing effect?"

  At this time, Qin Feng not only felt the stagnant Qi and blood of many years dissipate, but also the aura in his Dantian grew much stronger. Although he had yet to put it into practice, Qin Feng was confident that his Kung Fu had improved by more than just a notch.

  "It's nothing much, just the Taoist breathing and exhaling method."

  Zai Ye waved his hand and said, "You already have a foundation in internal martial arts and have developed internal energy. Practicing Taoist qigong should be twice as effective for you. However, don't get too excited, the effects are more obvious at first. Next time I'll teach you the detailed methods, so remember to practice diligently!"

  After confirming their master-disciple relationship, Zai Ye's attitude towards Qin Feng underwent a huge change, no longer as casual as before, with an unconscious hint of sternness on his face.

  "Yes, Master, I understand!"

  Although the old man's change made Qin Feng slightly uncomfortable, he had the awareness of being a junior and respectfully poured a cup of tea for the old man, saying: "Master, when can I leave here to find my sister?"

  To be honest, Qin Feng didn't take this prison seriously. As long as the old man didn't stop him, he had at least ten ways to escape from here.

  "Qin Feng, don't be in a hurry." Zai Ye shook his head and said: "Qin Feng, do you believe in divination, asking for hexagrams, and the study of fate?"

  "Master, you said fortune-telling?"

  Qin Feng was taken aback, hesitated and said: "I didn't believe it before, but... Old Man Liu had read my face before, saying that I have a fate with many twists and turns, this year there will be a great disaster, it's an early death omen..."

  Since he had already acknowledged Qin Feng as his master, he didn't want to hide his past anymore. So, from start to finish, he told Qin Feng about the five years he spent stealing from his former master, including his interactions with the Liu family.

  "Ah, is it him?"

  After listening to Qin Feng's words, Zai Ye couldn't help but laugh, "I know you practice Bajiquan, I didn't expect it was actually passed down from Liu Yunjiao, he is a direct disciple of Li Shixiong, and that makes you a lucky kid."

  "Master, do you know Old Man Liu?"

  Qin Feng's eyes lit up, and after the changes at home, apart from his sister, Liu Yun Jiao and Liu Zi Mo had become like family to him, holding a very important position in his heart.

  "What an old man, he's almost ten years younger than me."

  He sighed and said, "In the 50s and 60s, I had some dealings with him. I didn't expect that he would pass away before the age of 85. The old friends in this world are fewer and fewer..."

  Although he was born into a royal family, he followed his master to travel the world at the age of ten or so. Relatively speaking, his friendship with friends in the Jianghu is even more important than the Aixinjueluo surname.

  Although Zai and Liu Yunjiao's relationship was also ordinary, when they heard the news of their friend's passing, they still sighed endlessly, with a face full of melancholy.

  "Master, what did you mean by what you just said?"

  Seeing Master Liu fall silent, Qin Feng became somewhat anxious. Liu Yun Jiao said that he had a calamity in his fate, and indeed it was confirmed. When he mentioned this fortune-telling again, Qin Feng couldn't help but feel uneasy in his heart.

  He glanced at Qin Feng and said, "As I mentioned earlier, among the eight external gates, there is a golden point pulse, also known as the wind-water divination master. This pulse has been passed down since ancient times from Fuxi, who created the Eight Trigrams of the Book of Changes. It can be used to measure human destiny and even change the fate of a nation..."

  "Wait, Master..." Before he could finish speaking, Qin Feng couldn't help but ask, "Master, I've seen many fortune tellers, but are they really as amazing as you say?"

  From the late 1980s, fortune tellers and diviners sprouted up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, and could be seen walking on the streets and alleys of Cangzhou. Qin Feng had only two words to describe them: "scammers".

  These fortune tellers are best at observing words and expressions, even the smallest things can be exaggerated countless times by them. Their purpose is naturally to help people resolve difficulties and collect money from them afterwards.

  "Qin Feng, I know all these things you said, but every industry has its good and bad people..."

  Zai Ye didn't blame his disciple for interrupting him, and continued: "I once met a mysterious person in the jianghu who was extremely accurate at divination and asking about hexagrams. Although I also have some knowledge of this, compared to that person, I am still far inferior."

  "Master, why are you telling me these things? Am I supposed to learn that divination technique too?"

  Qin Feng was puzzled by what Zai Yue said. He was originally asking if he could leave the prison to find his sister, but didn't expect to bring up so many unrelated things.

  "Learning, of course, must learn!"

  "Being the master of the outer eight gates, they will learn what you can do, otherwise how can you unify the outer eight gates?"

  "Unify the outside eight gates? Go manage those who only know how to swindle and cheat!"

  Qin Feng's eyes widened upon hearing this, and his head shook like a rattle drum. "Master, I don't have such grand ambitions, besides, those guys are all good-for-nothings, what can I do about it?"

  "Cough cough, Master said it's going smoothly..."

  He also realized that what he said was a bit unrealistic, coughed and said: "As long as the main gate is passed down, it's up to you whether to take care of it or not, choose whatever you want..."

  At that time, Zhang Sanfeng was able to integrate the outer eight schools, which were actually under pressure from the imperial court and faced with survival, so they were willing to accept Zhang Sanfeng's command.

  But those masters of later generations did not have that kind of heaven, earth and human harmony, even Wu Liuqi at the time when the Qing dynasty entered the pass could not reach Zhang Sanfeng's level.

  It was like when I was young, I also had the ambition to unify the eight schools outside, but the reality is that even my closest disciples betrayed me, this blow is not small.

  "That's about right." Qin Feng nodded and said, "Master, you've gone off topic again."

  "Weren't we just talking about the golden point?"

  Zai Ye pulled the topic back and said: "Qin Feng, Master also has a lot of research on divination. The grave of gold is Chou, the grave of water is Chen, the grave of wood is Wei, and the grave of fire and earth is Xu. Your eight characters are Wu Huo Mu, Ke Xing Ru Ben Gong, fate against relatives and friends, and before the age of 16, you also have many disasters and difficulties!"

  Carrying the legacy he received, with a divination method different from the world, and having spent decades of effort in it, without asking Qin Feng for his birth date and time, he deduced his destiny.

  "Master, you...you said something about my family, does it have anything to do with me?"

  After hearing Master's words, Qin Feng's voice trembled involuntarily. Was he really a jinx? The culprit who caused all this?

  "Don't think like that, it's completely like this."

  He waved his hand and said, "Your destiny is very unique, it seems to be tough, but in your childhood, it was extremely dangerous, with two life-and-death crises. If you can get through them safely, you will have a smooth sailing future and achieve great things!"

  Qin Feng shook his head hastily and said, "Master, I just want to know if my parents were killed because of me?"

  "Did you get your parents killed?" Zai Yi was taken aback, "Who said your parents are dead? I saw that your parents' palace is bright and clear, they must not be dead. Who told you this, you little brat?"

  In physiognomy, if one's parents died early or one of them passed away, it can be seen from the facial features. This is not a fantasy, only some true and learned masters of physiognomy can do this, and they are confident that they will absolutely not make a mistake.

  "I...my parents aren't dead?" Qin Feng was stunned, wanting to refute Zai Yi's words, but couldn't say anything, standing there with his whole body involuntarily trembling.

  Qin Feng had heard his father's miserable cries the year before, and the next day his parents disappeared together, but he never saw their bodies. Qin Feng, who had been extremely calm since childhood, was convinced that something had happened to his parents, so he took his sister and escaped.

  But Master said that his parents were not dead, which made Qin Feng's mind confused. The hardships he and his sister had suffered for more than five years, was it all because of the choice he made back then?

  This result made Qin Feng feel extremely uncomfortable in his heart, as if a huge stone had pressed down on him out of thin air, making it difficult for him to breathe.

  "Foolish child, wake up!"

  A loud slap landed on Qin Feng's back, and he let out a deep breath. His mind cleared up instantly, but his eyes welled up with tears. "Master, my parents really didn't die?!"

  He nodded and said: "They're not dead, and they're doing quite well!"

  "I... I'm going to find them!" Qin Feng's calm and composure had completely disappeared, he let out a low growl and was about to rush out the door.