Chapter Eighteen: Martial Arts

  The moon unknowingly replaced the sun's position, casting an exceptionally soft glow, and the empty training ground reflected a silver-white hue, vaguely, as if bewildering many people's footsteps.

  At this moment, Yang Yu Xi was one of them. He lay on the ground, letting his body have maximum contact with the ground. He slowly calmed down his breathing rhythm. In this process, his eyes did not leave the bright moon in the sky. He didn't know what he was looking at, nor did he know what to do.

  At this time, a figure appeared in Yang Yu Xi's eyes, it was Yang Lin.

  Yang Yu Xi glanced at him and then continued to look up at the sky, seemingly completely unaware of Yang Lin's arrival.

  Yang Lin didn't speak either, and the pain of love welled up in his eyes again. He stared at Yang Yu Xi on the ground, whose small body was slowly rising and falling slightly, with tears streaks on her tender face and an almost imperceptible pain beneath her immature complexion.

  "Yang Xue, what's wrong?" Yang Lin asked in puzzlement. When it was just the two of them, Yang Lin would stop addressing Yang Ye as Third Young Master.

  Yang Yu Xi didn't respond and just lightly shook her head.

  Yang Lin crouched down, pretending to be deep in thought for a moment, then suddenly enlightened: "Oh... I know, is it because you were defeated by that Nan Gong Cang Jie today?"

  Yang Yu Xi had no reaction.

  Yang Lin smiled slightly, knowing that he had at least guessed part of it. He casually said: "Grandfather is really strange, our cultivation and his are the same, but recently he's been practicing so desperately, how could he lose?!"

  Seeing Yang Yu Xi still hadn't reacted, Yang Lin gently pushed him.

  Yang Yu Xi turned her body and after a long while replied in a very soft voice: "He... knows martial arts."

  Yang Lin was very clear about what happened at the city gate this morning. It wasn't just Yang Lin; the entire City Master's Manor knew.

  But Yang Lin still pretended to be surprised and asked with a smile: "Then, if our Yu Xuan also knew martial arts, wouldn't we not lose?"

  Yang Yu Xi slightly stunned, gently shook his head.

  "Is it that you don't know or can't win?"

  Yang Yu Xi pursed her lips and said in a low voice: "I don't know."

  Yang Lin shrugged and said: "This way is so unconvincing! I was originally going to teach you a set of martial arts if you said 'I can win'!"

  "What?! Is this for real?! Quick, quick, teach me!!" Yang Yu Xi jumped up like a carp, without a hint of calmness.

  Yang Lin spread his hands and said with a pretended helplessness: "But you didn't say you could win!"

  "Hmm..." Yang Yu Xi calmed down, clenched his fists and said, "He's really very powerful."

  Yang Lin nodded indifferently, then pointed to a secluded place in the city. Yang Yu Xi followed his finger and saw several pale white air streams gathering there. At first, he didn't pay attention, thinking it was just ordinary cooking smoke, until Yang Lin said that sentence.

  "It's really impressive, otherwise he wouldn't have broken through to the Spiritual Awakening Upper Level at the age of eight. Look, that's a sign of his breakthrough."

  "Hum"

  Yang Yu Xi only felt a buzzing in his head, he had just stabilized his Ling Qi middle level, but others had already broken through to the Ling Qi upper level, this... the difference was too big.

  He "thudded" and sat down on the ground, his eyes becoming dull again, and said to Yang Lin without any ripples: "He has already reached the spiritual awakening of a higher level, so even if I learn some martial arts now, I will definitely not be able to beat him!"

  Yang Lin seemed to have not seen Yang Yu Xi's second collapse, and only faintly asked: "Do you still want to learn martial arts?"

  Yang Lin was very familiar with Yang Yu Xi's child, and after proper comfort, the pressure would instead stimulate his determination.

  As expected, Yang Yu Xi thought for a long time and slowly stood up.

  Yang Lingguang knew the answer as soon as he saw Yang Yuxi's expression when she stood up, and he smiled: "Follow me."

  Yang Yu Xi was slightly stunned and then quickly followed up.

  The city lord's mansion is neither big nor small, after all it is the place where the city lord of Yushi City lives, so in Yushi City it is naturally the largest, but also because it is the city lord's mansion in this remote place of Yushi City, it cannot be compared with other city lords' mansions.

  But anyway, it's still a wealthy family.

  Yang Yu Xi followed Yang Lin to the back of the study, a place where even Yang Yu Xi rarely went.

  Behind the study, there is a room made entirely of stone. To call it a house would be to flatter it, for it is actually a solid block of stone in the shape of a house - simply a boulder.

  Yang Yu Xi was very curious when he was young, and asked his father about the house. However, his father just shook his head, as if he didn't know either, and told him not to come here often.

  Why did Grandpa Yang Lin take himself here today?

  Although she had many doubts in her mind, Yang Yuxi still kept her mouth shut.

  "Over here." Yang Lin turned his head and glanced at Yang Yu Xi, saying.

  "Oh..." Yang Yu Xi withdrew his gaze from sizing up the stone house and quickened his pace to catch up with Yang Lin in front.

  Scripture Library

  The scripture pavilion of the city master's mansion is not large, but there are also several hundred sets of martial arts. Anyone who wants to learn martial arts must be personally approved by Yang Sanwang.

  It's likely that Yang Lin brought Yang Yu Xi here today, and behind this is also Yang San Wang's intention.

  "The Scripture Pavilion may not be large, but it also has several hundred sets of martial arts. In the past, you were too young and your Yuanli foundation was not good enough, so Master did not allow you to come here, but now that you have entered the middle stage of Ling Qi, it is also time for you to learn martial arts." Yang Lin turned around and said to Yang Yu Xi.

  "Uh-huh, I know." Yang Yu Xi nodded, with a resolute glint in her eyes.

  "From today on, this scripture pavilion is open to you, and you can come whenever you want. In addition to the hundreds of martial arts sets in this pavilion, there are also many insights from past sages that will be extremely useful to you."

  "Awesome!" Yang Yu Xi's eyes sparkled.

  "However..." Yang Lin deliberately dragged out his voice, waiting until Yang Yu Xi's attention was focused on him before continuing, "You can look at the notes anytime you want, but if you want to learn new martial arts, then you must go through an examination."

  "What inspection? What inspection?"

  "Nature is a test of the old martial arts, if you don't master it, learn another one, in the end it's just miscellaneous and not refined, there's no use at all. You understand this principle, right?"

  Yang Yu Xi scratched her head and thought it made sense, so she nodded and said: "Okay, I understand."

  Yang Lin smiled with relief and rubbed Yang Yu Xi's little head, saying: "Alright then, let's go in."

  "Uh-huh."

  Entering the Scripture Pavilion, Yang Yuxi only then realized that what Yang Lin called "not big" was actually not small at all. It's likely that Yang Yuxi would get lost if he wandered around inside.

  "It's so big......" Yang Yu Xi raised his small head and looked around, although it was the family's own scripture pavilion, but he had also come for the first time.

  Yang Lin led Yang Yu Xi to a corner that was packed with books and bamboo slips.

  Yang Lin said: "You can choose now, the martial arts here should be more than enough for you to use. Just pick whatever you want!"

  Yang Yu Xi had already been attracted by the dazzling array of books and didn't know if she heard what Yang Lin was saying.

  Anyway, let him choose whatever he heard.

  "Suishan Fist... Pingwu Middle School..."

  "Flame Palm... Ping Wu Middle School..."

  "Grandfather, what does 'Ping Wu Xue' mean?" Yang Yu Xi asked, pointing to the three characters on the scroll in his hand.

  Yang Lin smiled warmly and said, "This is the general classification of martial arts, huh... Simply put, from low to high, it's divided into Ping Wu Xue, Shang Wu Xue, Wang Wu Xue, Ying Wu Xue, Sheng Wu Xue, Tian Wu Xue, Shen Wu Xue. Each level is further divided into three small levels."

  Yang Yu Xi nodded, then pouted: "These martial arts are too rubbish... only mid-level in the ordinary martial arts, can't we learn some advanced ones like Tian Wu Xue or Shen Wu Xue... ah, why did you hit me..."

  Yang Lin was speechless for a moment, and could only raise his hand to give him a slap on the head, saying in a bad temper: "Do you think Tianwu Xue's Godly Martial Arts is something like leek pancake or meat bun?"

  Yang Yu Xi sulkily withdrew his head and stuck out his tongue.

  "Anyway, you can just choose one here and practice it first, we'll talk about the others later." Yang Lin could only say that in the end.

  "Whatever... fine." Yang Yu Xi shrugged and climbed up onto the shelf to search carefully.

  After about an hour or so, Yang Lin was almost asleep when Yang Yu Xi finally found one that she liked.

  "Day and Night Seal", the highest level of martial arts... Upon seeing this name, Yang Lin couldn't help but laugh and cry, "You guy, you actually chose the most powerful technique among them all! You should know that the most powerful doesn't mean it's the most suitable, the most suitable one is always the best!"

  Yang Yu Xi smiled mischievously and said: "I think I'm most suitable for the strongest one, what do you think, Grandpa?!"

  "Oh, you kid..." Yang Lin was speechless and could only shake his head.

  A moment later, Yang Yu Xi walked out of the Scripture Pavilion with a smile on his face, holding the volume of "Sun and Moon Seal". Yang Lin locked the door behind him and turned around to ask with a smile: "How is it? Do you have confidence in defeating Nan Gong Cang Jie?"

  Yang Yu Xi tilted her head and thought for a moment before responding: "Mmm... I'll try my best!"

  Yang Lin pretended to laugh and glanced at Yang Yuxi, who was infatuated with the book of classics, jokingly saying: "If you don't work hard, Xiao Yan'er will be snatched away by Nan Gong Cang!"

  "What?!"

  Yang Yu Xi was stunned for a long time before reacting, her face suddenly turned red, and she lowered her head in embarrassment: "Who, who cares?! Being robbed has nothing to do with me!"

  "Ha ha ha......" Yang Lin laughed and said, "Grandpa, I'm old, the taste of these things has long been forgotten, but looking at you like this, Grandpa still knows a bit - you're jealous!"

  "I didn't!"

  "Don't deny it anymore!" Yang Lin smiled and waved his hand, then suddenly became serious. "If you really like her, go chase after her! A man's life is all about taking the initiative, otherwise you'll regret it for a lifetime!" Yang Lin seemed to have forgotten that he was still talking to an eight-year-old kid.

  "Uh... but I had a fight with her..." Yang Yu Xi scratched his head.

  Yang Lin was taken aback, then said: "Then let's invite her out and have a good talk. What problem can't be solved by children?"

  "Ah..." Yang Yu Xi lowered his head and fell into thought, then slapped the Buddhist scripture with a palm, laughing and saying, "Alright, thank you Grandfather, I'll go find Xiao Yan tomorrow."

  "Uh-huh."

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