Sword drawn from the constellations, poison as its edge.

Chapter 76 Three Divine Skills
Jiang Mingzhe closed his eyes and circulated his internal energy, placing his hands, one in front of the other, on Duan Yu's lower abdomen and spine. Duan Yu sat cross-legged with his eyes closed, and the two breathed in perfect harmony, entering a state of complete absorption.

After Azi had looked through all the dozens of bronze mirrors, the two of them were still not awake.

Azi walked over and squatted down, looking at Jiang Mingzhe, then at Duan Yu, then back at Jiang Mingzhe, her beautiful brows gradually furrowing.

She stood up and whispered to Zhong Ling, "Actually, that clown isn't that ugly, is he?"

Zhong Ling nodded and whispered, "But the larger ginger looks better."

"You don't need to tell me!" Azi glanced at her smugly.

But then her eyes widened, and she said in a low, fierce voice, "Who told you to call him Big Ginger? You're not allowed to call him that anymore. His name is Jiang Mingzhe, so you should call him that... Never mind, you're not allowed to call him that!"

Seeing her so domineering, Zhong Ling puffed out her cheeks in anger and mentally called out "Big Ginger" ten times before she calmed down.

Azi hadn't expected Zhong Ling to be so cunning. Pointing at Duan Yu, she whispered, "Look closely at that clown monster. He has black eyebrows, long eyelashes, a high nose, fair skin, a small, red mouth, and a small face..."

Zhong Ling was overjoyed and whispered, "You've taken a fancy to that clown monster?"

Azi glared at her fiercely: "You're not a brat, you're a stupid girl! Didn't your parents tell you that many women who venture into the world deliberately dress as men?"

"Ah!" Zhong Ling exclaimed softly, covering her mouth in surprise: "You mean, you mean, that clown monster is a girl?"

Azi chuckled coldly: "Hmph, my master said that people's hearts are unpredictable. Never assume that someone is a good person. You saw how amazing Da Shengjiang's lightness skill is. How many days has this clown monster known him? Why would he pass on such a powerful martial art so easily?"

"Oh my gosh!" Zhong Ling was so excited that she swayed from side to side like a reed in the wind: "You mean, you mean..."

Azi nodded vigorously: "That's right! This little clown must be the young lady of some martial arts family. She disguised herself as a man to roam the martial arts world, and when she saw that our big ginger was handsome and kind, she fell in love with him at first sight."

“Yes, yes!” Zhong Ling nodded vigorously. “He told Yun Zhonghe that his name was Duan Yu and that he came from the Duan family of Tiannan, which is the number one martial arts family in Dali Kingdom! Ziya, you are so smart!”

Azi snorted and glanced sideways at Zhong Ling: "She is indeed a bit smarter than you. She said her name is Duan Yu, maybe she deliberately omitted a character. Actually, Duan Yuyu, or Duan Xiaoyu, isn't that a girl's name?"

He gritted his teeth and said, "That little clown Duan Xiaoyu actually dared to set her sights on Da Shengjiang. Did she think she could bribe him with a mere lightness skill? We have plenty of powerful martial arts manuals!"

She picked up two bronze mirrors and tapped them twice: "Stupid girl, expose this ugly girl!"

Zhong Ling asked in surprise, "Me? How can I expose him?"

Azi chuckled, pulled Zhongling's ear and whispered something. Zhongling's face immediately turned red, and she shook her head repeatedly: "No, no, that's too rude! If she's a girl, she'll definitely cry. But if she's not a girl, then I'll be the one to cry!"

At first, the two of them were whispering to each other, but before they knew it, their voices grew louder and louder. Jiang Mingzhe's eyes twitched, and he slowly opened them. Only then did he realize that at some point, his original internal energy, Yun Zhonghe's internal energy, snake venom, and all kinds of centipede venom had been refined into one, like a blue river flowing endlessly within his and Duan Yu's bodies.

Jiang Mingzhe frowned slightly. He had clearly felt a purple aura when he converted his internal energy earlier, but now it had turned cyan. He wondered if it was because of the infusion of poison.

However, he clearly sensed that his internal energy at this moment was quite different from the pure Northern Darkness True Qi. In an instant, it could be transformed into poison, and in another instant, it could be condensed back into Qi. It was far superior to his original poison techniques. He couldn't help but exclaim with delight: "Doesn't this mean that in the future, when I'm dissolving poison, I no longer need to open acupoints to hide the poison like in the Tribulation Crossing Scripture, and I don't have to be so careful, always worrying about the poison's balance? I can directly refine the poison with the Northern Darkness Divine Art. From now on, poison is power, and power is poison. Even the Starry Sky Immortal would be envious if he knew!"

Thinking of this, he was secretly pleased with himself. He channeled his inner strength and roused Duan Yu, who was also awakened. Jiang Mingzhe said, "Brother, the poison in your body has been removed, but your internal strength has changed in another way. I will explain it to you in detail later. Now I will say three things, and we will stop our practice at the same time."

Duan Yu nodded, and Jiang Mingzhe began to count. When they reached three, they both stopped at the same time, and the circulating internal energy came to an abrupt halt, returning like a tide to their respective Tanzhong acupoints, each receiving exactly half.

Jiang Mingzhe closed his eyes and sensed for a moment, then couldn't help but smile: his internal strength was now three or four times stronger than before. He couldn't help but think that his sworn brother had achieved a meteoric rise, and he himself had also benefited greatly.

Duan Yu was even more surprised. He had absorbed Yun Zhonghe's internal energy before and thought it was already extremely powerful, but now it was more than double.

He didn't know that this was the effect of the two of them working together to refine the strange poison in Jiang Mingzhe's body into power. He only thought that he had taken advantage of Jiang Mingzhe and shared his power. His eyes immediately reddened.

He grabbed Jiang Mingzhe's hand and said, "Big brother! Why did you leave so much internal energy for me? Quickly absorb it back!"

Jiang Mingzhe was taken aback, then realized that Duan Yu had misunderstood. He laughed and didn't expose him, saying casually, "We are sworn brothers. What's mine is yours, and what's yours is mine. Why distinguish between yours and mine? What, do you want to be distant with your brother?"

Duan Yu waved his hands repeatedly, about to speak, when he heard A Zi shout, "Hey! Duan Xiaoyu, you cry whenever you want, you look like a woman no matter how you look at it. Tell me, are you disguised as a man to try and make a move on my junior brother?"

Duan Yu was shocked and quickly said, "Senior Sister, you misunderstand. I am a man of integrity, how could I be a woman? Besides, my surname is Duan and my given name is Yu, which means honor, and there is no 'little' in the middle."

Azi said unhappily, "You rude scoundrel, how dare you call me 'Senior Sister'?"

Duan Yu said matter-of-factly, "I called him that. My brother said, what's mine is his, and what's his is mine. You're his senior sister, so of course you're my senior sister too."

Azi was furious and, hands on her hips, shouted, "This won't do! Even if you're a man, you can't be so indiscriminate. Well, since you've sworn brotherhood, the younger brother should give way to the older brother. What's yours is his, and what's his isn't yours. Do you understand?"

She thought this was unfair and that Duan Yu would definitely cry foul, but Duan Yu, with his magnanimous spirit, smiled kindly and said, "It is only right for a brother to be filial to his elder brother."

He couldn't help but say in surprise, "It seems you are indeed a good person, and my junior brother is also a kind-hearted person. No wonder he wants to be brothers with you. In that case, if we find the three divine skills here, you won't get any."

Zhong Lingxi said happily, "Great! The Duan family of Tiannan is so powerful and wealthy that they wouldn't care about these kinds of skills anyway. Let's each take one."

Azi sneered, "You stupid girl are really stupid. The stuff is in the hands of the Bai and Qing demons, and you still want a share? Even Da Shengjiang's sworn brother didn't get a share, so naturally you won't get one either."

After saying that, without even looking at Zhong Ling, who was jumping up and down in anger, he picked up a stack of bronze mirrors and grinned as he showed off his achievement to Jiang Mingzhe.

“Big Ginger, look, there are words and pictures on the back of these bronze mirrors. I’ve already looked at them. There are three martial arts styles in total. In my opinion, our Centipede Claw and Ten Thousand Poison Hand are nothing compared to these. You might as well give up on practicing Centipede Claw and just practice this Netherworld Ghost Claw. Wouldn’t that be better?”

She then said happily, "As for me, my Taoist name is Bai Suzhen, the Great White Snake Spirit. It would be perfect for me to practice the White Rainbow Palm technique."

(End of this chapter)