The Legend of the Condor Heroes: From Being Expelled from Peach Blossom Island

Chapter 28 Breaking Through Limits
Although his purpose in learning cooking was not pure, Wu Chengyu never expected that this would bring him such a big surprise.

Wu Chengyu came from the future. As a middle-level leader of a state-owned enterprise, he traveled everywhere and had seen and eaten countless famous dishes. China is vast, and every place has its own specialties. Many of these dishes would be absolutely unheard of by people of this era.

Not to mention those dishes that require complicated preparation or extreme knife skills, such as boiled cabbage and peony fish fillets, Wu Chengyu is even less likely to know those unique secret recipes and seasonings. He just took out the dishes that he was familiar with or had some understanding of the preparation, and improved them bit by bit according to the instructions on the bamboo slips.

In just over ten days, Wu Chengyu's cooking skills improved significantly. He felt that he would not be able to be the head chef of a big restaurant, but opening a small restaurant would definitely be a good business.

But in the process of continuous practice, his sense of taste, which had always been unnoticed among his five senses, began to work.

Taste has a huge impact on chefs. It is crucial to judge whether dishes meet the standards, adjust the taste of dishes in a timely manner, or accurately identify the ingredients and combination of raw materials when innovating and developing new dishes.

In a certain urban emotional TV series, the guy who asked whether the watermelon would remain sweet was the one who went from being a Michelin chef to being penniless because he lost his sense of taste.

While practicing cooking, Wu Chengyu discovered that the sensitivity of his taste buds even exceeded the scope of the bamboo slips' instructions. Some dishes had reached extremely high standards according to the instructions, and the bamboo slips' evaluations were all excellent.

However, through his extreme taste buds, Wu Chengyu always felt that he had not tasted enough, as if these dishes still had great potential to be tapped.

Not only that, dishes should have color, fragrance and taste, so Wu Chengyu's vision and smell can also be applied to cooking, even including touch.

It is better to have no books than to blindly believe in them. Wu Chengyu soon realized this. He re-made the dishes that he had already mastered, and used his keen five senses to adjust them bit by bit, including using his taste buds to judge the slightest changes in the seasoning ratios, how to distinguish the aroma of the dishes through his sense of smell, and visually matching the colors of the dishes for a more perfect look.

Even when cutting and cooking, one can use touch to sense little by little how to cut the vegetables more reasonably, in accordance with the grain and without damaging the fiber of the vegetables, as well as how to judge the heat when cooking, etc.

Just like that, after constantly trying dishes, adjusting methods, and experiencing many failures, Wu Chengyu finally broke through the limitations of the bamboo slips through his five senses.

The bamboo slips are no longer able to guide the dishes he cooks now, and there is only one word to describe them: sublime.

When Wu Chengyu did this, he finally became convinced that bamboo slips could help him improve himself, but human creativity and imagination could never be restricted by bamboo slips, nor should they be restricted by bamboo slips.

Wu Chengyu was naturally envious of those cheat codes that came with signing in, adding points, or even summoning something out of thin air. If he could get one right now, he'd be ecstatic. Don't be hypocritical; if he could get something for nothing and achieve success, Wu Chengyu would definitely not turn it down.

But now, Wu Chengyu only has the bamboo slips as a golden finger with many restrictions. He feels that it is the most suitable for him and the most sophisticated among all the unreasonable things. Only in this way will his second life have unlimited possibilities.

After discovering that he could break the limitations of the bamboo slips, Wu Chengyu turned his attention back to practicing martial arts.

Now that his legs and feet are not in good condition, he cannot practice the Bi Bo Palm and Yan Qing Fist. Wu Chengyu's idea is to practice the already perfect Bi Bo Heart Method to the fullest.

The inner vision formed by the three-dimensional dynamic image is also completely constructed by the five senses. Vision, smell and taste are temporarily useless, but hearing and touch can be fully used by oneself.

Not counting the simplest heartbeats and breathing sounds, Wu Chengyu's hearing is such that he can easily hear the movements of internal organs and blood vessels, including the sound of internal force passing through the meridians.

The sense of touch can also be used to perceive the condition of the body. Wu Chengyu can sense if the internal force is running a little too fast, causing discomfort in the meridians, or if the internal force is insufficient, causing a feeling of emptiness in the meridians.

Combined with the bamboo slips' inherent error-correcting function, all this gave Wu Chengyu the courage to make a bold breakthrough. He re-examined the Bi Bo Xin Fa meridian path map in his mind. After all, it was a basic practice, and the meridians it could cover were only a small part, leaving many meridians unused.

Based on the existing path map, Wu Chengyu tried to let the internal force deviate from the original path and flow to other meridians, especially the meridians mentioned in the bamboo slips, except for the hand Taiyin lung meridian, hand Shaoyin heart meridian, foot Taiyang bladder meridian, and foot Shaoyang gallbladder meridian that were completely integrated.

The other eight of the twelve main meridians are not connected, especially the hand Jueyin pericardium meridian and the foot Jueyin liver meridian. The Bi Bo Xin Fa has defects in these two meridians.

Wu Chengyu first tried to break through the Hand Yangming Large Intestine Meridian, Hand Taiyang Small Intestine Meridian, Hand Shaoyang Triple Burner Meridian, Foot Yangming Stomach Meridian, Foot Taiyin Spleen Meridian, and Foot Shaoyin Kidney Meridian, which were not yet connected but had no obvious defects.

Wu Chengyu suspected that the advanced mental method above the Peach Blossom Island's Bi Bo Mental Method must be able to completely penetrate these six meridians.

The four meridians that have been integrated and connected gave Wu Chengyu enough reference. After all, except Wu Chengyu, no one could directly observe the circulation of internal force in the meridians in the body.

Wu Chengyu used these four meridians as templates to improve the remaining six meridians bit by bit. Every time he improved one meridian, he used his internal force to enter the conceived path map. Once there was a mistake, the body would immediately react, such as slight discomfort in the internal organs and a sense of disharmony in the meridians.

The difference is so slight that normal people cannot feel it at all. Only Wu Chengyu's sense of touch can detect it immediately. It is this keen perception that allows Wu Chengyu to stop practicing immediately to avoid causing harm to his body.

If Wu Chengyu felt the slightest discomfort, he would immediately slow down his movements and try to improve it bit by bit, until he found that the new way of exercising not only had no adverse reactions, but after the internal force was circulated, the body would feel comfortable.

Or when he boldly tries certain paths, his intuition will immediately warn him, as if disaster will befall him if he goes one step further. At this time, Wu Chengyu will never be stubborn and will immediately give up.

The bamboo slips also played a role in this process, identifying the already perfected paths of martial arts practice, preventing Wu Chengyu from going astray many times, and even making corresponding suggestions when opening up the meridians, thus minimizing the risks of Wu Chengyu's path to martial arts.

In this way, Wu Chengyu spent ten days to first perfect the Hand Yangming Large Intestine Meridian and the Foot Yangming Stomach Meridian, with the yin and yang complementing each other, and the bamboo slips also gave an evaluation at this time.

'Nameless Heart Method (to be named), an advanced version of basic internal energy, is an improvement on the Bi Bo Heart Method. The basic operating paths are the same, integrating six of the twelve main meridians. There are still four meridians to be integrated. In addition, the cultivation paths of the Hand Jueyin Pericardium Meridian and the Foot Jueyin Liver Meridian have obvious defects and cannot be improved.

Advantages: Large storage capacity of internal force, rapid circulation of internal force, ingenious and changeable internal strength, more condensed internal force, and the initial stage of refining essence into qi.

Correction method: Due to insufficient information, the technique cannot be finally perfected.

Evaluation: If the last two meridians are perfected, the technique will be a complete success, but it is still a basic mental method. With the host's aptitude, it can only be second-rate at best, which is equivalent to a six-bag disciple of the Beggar Gang. You may never be able to surpass Lu Youjiao, who you think is stupid.

I deliberately suppressed the power of the cheat code. The Legend of the Condor Heroes is only for medium or low-level martial arts. If the cheat code were too powerful, it would look exciting at first, but it would quickly upset the balance of power, and the book would be unsustainable. I didn't want to forcefully elevate the world and turn it into a fairy tale.

This book also has a slow pace because I like to tell stories in a leisurely manner. I am in my forties and cannot write the kind of exciting stories that young men in their twenties want to read, because I have long lost the ability to be exciting, so I can only go at my own pace.

Some friends say that I lay the groundwork for too long, and I will pay attention to this, but every author has different habits, so it is difficult to strike a balance.

Finally, thank you all for your support. I am grateful.

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