Narration System for the Journey of Martial Arts

"Thinking about it this way, there seem to be two Grandmasters in my family. If I add my uncle, that makes three. What do I have to be afraid of?" Liu Ye thought to himself.

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Just as Liu Ye was pondering how much help he could get from Su Yuchen, Su Yuchen had a thought, and a thin booklet flew over from the teacup.

"Here we go again." Liu Ye reached out and grabbed the half-worn booklet. The three words "Zhe Mei Shou" on the cover made him pause in surprise.

"Congratulations on your promotion, Assistant Director of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices, and congratulations on winning the heart of your beloved. Consider this my congratulatory gift to you."

“You have been cultivating since childhood, but you have not received systematic training. Although this makes your moves more unpredictable and unpredictable, it also leaves too many flaws for a true master.”

"Below the Grandmaster level, it's alright. But above the Grandmaster level, the higher the realm and the further one goes, the less useful your little tricks become; on the contrary, they're a path to death."

"This book, 'The Plum Blossom Hand,' integrates the characteristics of various techniques, including fist, palm, finger, claw, sword, knife, spear, staff, and halberd, and can unify your various skills into one."

"The more you learn in future battles, the stronger you will become. You could say that as long as you are not killed on the spot, you will become stronger when facing stronger opponents."

Su Yuchen said to Liu Ye, who was flipping through the booklet.

Liu Ye flipped through the booklet and said meaningfully, "It's this name. It feels strange to me. It's similar to a book I've heard of called 'The Plum Blossom Hand of Tianshan,' and the content is almost the same. Do you know the Child Granny of Tianshan?"

Su Yuchen glanced at him with a half-smile and said calmly:

"I've said it before, strength is the foundation of everything. I gave you a chance, and if you can't seize it in the end, that's your own problem."

"Alright, now tell me, what were you rushing around for just now?"

Liu Ye knew that he probably wouldn't get any response unless he reached the Grandmaster level, so he immediately thanked him and put the booklet in his pocket. Then he said, "My mother is Ye Qingmei, you should know that."

Su Yuchen nodded, smiled, and said, "Everyone in the world knows the name Ye Qingmei. It's hard not to know about the stone tablet that the cripple put up at the entrance of the procuratorate."

Liu Ye said with slight annoyance:

"You know that's not what I meant."

"My mother is Ye Qingmei, from the Ye family, which practically controlled the country through commerce. I really don't understand why the Ming Emperor dared to let me take over Ming Enterprise?"

"And Father? What makes him think he can protect me? Just because of his relationship with His Majesty? Is that relationship more important than the chair His Majesty sits on?"

"And Jia Zhen, what gives him the right to openly slap that person in the palace? It's one thing if it's someone else's face, but does he dare to slap His Majesty the Emperor's face too?"

"You should know that it was Emperor Ming's decree to bring the Ye family under the palace's control and turn them into Ming Enterprise."

"Moreover, I ran into His Majesty the Emperor today at the Taiping Villa outside Kyoto. Now that I think about it, what a coincidence!"

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With each sentence Liu Ye spoke, Liu Ruolan's face paled a little more; the clever girl vaguely discerned another meaning in his words.

The things that happened after he entered Kyoto made Liu Ye suspicious of his partner's origins.

Su Yuchen asked calmly and coldly, "So, what are you trying to say?"

Liu Ye stood up irritably and paced back and forth in the courtyard. He couldn't suppress a thought that was driving him almost crazy.

"Perhaps you're right. Without power, even if I'm Ye Qingmei's son, what good is it? I'm just a front man. If the Emperor issues an edict, I'll still have to obediently hand over all ownership of Ming Enterprise."

"Is that what he was thinking?"

Liu Ye let out a long sigh, trying to find a convincing reason for himself. Rather than asking Su Yuchen, he was trying to convince himself.

Su Yuchen didn't look at him again and said, "In the end, it all comes down to strength, but you still don't understand that."

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Liu Ye wanted to refute, but didn't know what to say. After a moment, he said, "I've read the 'Indestructible Body' you gave me. It's too domineering. It requires using domineering true energy to force internal organs, first harming oneself, and then strengthening the five internal organs and meridians. I'm afraid I'll die even faster."

“Didn’t I have Xia Zhu give you a pill?” Su Yuchen said.

Liu Ye paused for a moment, then carefully took out a small, colorful pill the size of a broad bean from the deerskin pouch at his waist. He asked, "What's this for? You didn't tell me."

Su Yuchen: ...

“This is my problem. I thought you had studied with that drug addict for so long and could figure it out on your own.”

"This is a Vitality Pill, condensed from pure vitality. When you cultivate the Indestructible Body, while the seven different domineering true energies destroy the vitality of your internal organs, it can quickly repair your internal injuries. It will be enough for you until you achieve minor success in the Indestructible Body."

Liu Ye's eye twitched, and his eyebrows twitched involuntarily. Looking at the colorful appearance, it looked more like a poison.

"So, you knew about my problem from the beginning and prepared this for me?"

Faced with Liu Ye's question, Su Yuchen shook his head and said, "I gave it to you because you were attacked and injured on Guotou Street. I was afraid you wouldn't be able to hold on, so I treated your injuries. But you didn't use it later, so I gave you a powerful body-refining technique. Anyway, it would be a waste to just leave it there, so I might as well make use of it."

Chapter 505 Envoys Enter the Capital

Perhaps it really is true that "a gentle embrace leads to a hero's grave."

After working on the project for less than two days, Liu Ye resolutely abandoned the agonizingly difficult film "The Unbreakable Body" and went off to play with his fiancée.

Su Yuchen remained lying in the courtyard, oblivious to the changing seasons, refining his true essence and honing his primordial spirit day after day, striving for progress with each passing year.

Faced with Aunt Liu's occasional, impulsive ramblings, Su Yuchen responded half-heartedly. His son, Su Yuchen, remained cold and indifferent, but Aunt Liu seemed unconcerned.

"In a few days, it will be the festival, and according to the usual custom, our household will also need to go to the palace to pay our respects."

"Now that Liu Ye is engaged to that woman, he will inevitably have to enter the palace this year. I'm afraid that Zhu Yunrui will cause a lot of trouble."

"Mother cares a lot about Liu Ye, huh?" Su Yuchen smiled.

Aunt Liu glanced at him with her phoenix eyes, seemingly showing extreme disdain, and said:

“He’s from a small town after all, and he hasn’t learned any court etiquette. I’m just afraid he’ll embarrass the Earl’s mansion and the master.”

"Besides, after that incident back then, Liu Ye and that crazy woman Zhu Yunrui are now irreconcilable enemies. I'm afraid Liu Ye might not be able to resist starting a fight in the palace, and then..."

"After all, Zhu Yunrui is Liu Ye's future mother-in-law. If he loses his temper and starts arguing, no one cares what the reason is. In the end, it will be our family that suffers."

Su Yuchen smiled silently and said:

"So, you and my dad are the true love!"

"Don't worry! Liu Ye isn't a child anymore, and he's been in Kyoto for so long, he can guess who wanted him dead back then."

"As for patience, someone will teach him. He's not a child anymore. Even if he doesn't want to grow up, someone will teach him to grow up."

Seeing that Aunt Liu remained skeptical about the matter, Su Yuchen's eyes flickered. He looked at Xia Zhu and Qiu Ju beside him and said, "When we enter the palace, let Xia Zhu and Qiu Ju accompany Mother!"

"This……"

"Don't worry, Mother. Xia Zhu and Qiu Ju's martial arts are both good at concealing themselves. As long as they don't make a move, no one will be able to tell their strength. At most, they will just think of them as guards with some skills." Su Yuchen saw Liu Yiniang's doubts and answered directly.

Aunt Liu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Why didn't Mother tell Father about this?" Su Yuchen asked.

Aunt Liu chuckled, glanced at the silent Xia Zhu, Qiu Ju, and Dong Mei, and then got up and walked away leisurely.

Aunt Liu told the Earl that her family had gained three ninth-rank officials and one suspected grandmaster, but unfortunately, the family members obeyed orders but not summons.

The Earl is quite alarmed by your hidden strength, but he cannot investigate it without telling others.

The Earl finally accepted this fact, and at the same time felt more confident in his plans. He believed that you would not stand idly by when necessary.

After glancing at the narration, Su Yuchen remained noncommittal about the four people's obedience to orders but not to orders. In the end, he had been 'paralyzed' in bed since childhood and later started his own business, so he was not close to anyone except Aunt Liu.

How could his personal attendants possibly obey the orders of the Marquis of Chengyi?

Such a trivial matter was not worth Su Yuchen's time, and he immediately immersed himself in his cultivation.

Seeing this, Xia Zhu and the others immediately exchanged glances and left the courtyard with light steps; Su Yuchen's silence was also a form of attitude.

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Within a few days, Kyoto became even more bustling and noisy than before, and the ordinary people of Kyoto walked on the streets with a bit more pride.

Although they had never lacked arrogance in the past, this arrogance became even more pronounced after winning a battle at the front and forcing the northern barbarians to send envoys to negotiate peace.

Although His Majesty the Emperor seems to have been inclined towards civil administration in recent years, this battle made the proud people of the Ming Dynasty realize that their Emperor was, at heart, still the emperor who governed by military force.

And they did not waste the excellent situation of the Ming Dynasty; they did not waste the soldiers' desperate fighting at the front; they did not waste... the hard work of the secret agents of the Procuratorate who went deep into the northern barbarian territory to gather intelligence; both the common people and the officials were very satisfied.

Even Xia Zhu, Qiu Ju, and Dong Mei, who were loyal to their master, felt honored upon hearing Zhang Yi's account.

While the whole country was celebrating and watching the envoys from the Northern Barbarians and the East Sea arrive in the capital, the narration system was not idle either...

[When the envoy from the Northern Barbarians arrived in the capital, Princess Zhu Yunrui reached an agreement with Zhuang Mo, exchanging the interests of the Ming Dynasty for the opportunity to tarnish Liu Ye's reputation.]

Unfortunately, like the mantis stalking the cicada, with Emperor Mingwu behind and Liu Ye by his side, their efforts were in vain.

Young man, you were right not to trust women!

Emperor Wu of Ming, Liu Qingtian, Jia Zhen, and Liu Ye seized this opportunity to achieve multiple goals at once.

[Has Liu Ye obtained the key to the 'heavy sniper rifle' and become the biggest winner? Perhaps?]

Su Yuchen glanced at the narration but showed no interest and quickly forgot about it.

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Time flies by.

Early that morning, Aunt Liu came and took Xia Zhu and Qiu Ju away to the palace. She only breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Liu Ye and his sister off.

Su Yuchen scanned the area with his divine sense and saw two pale-faced people hiding in Liu Ye's courtyard, drawing a layout map of the palace. He knew that Liu Ye was about to sneak into the palace.

"I would like to ask Miss Xia Zhu for a favor." The Prophet's cold voice came from the corner of the wall.

"Liu Ye is going to the palace tonight to retrieve something. I can try to stall the Grand Eunuch Hong Si, but Zhu Yunrui has a ninth-rank expert under his command. Liu Ye is no match for him."

"Aren't you underestimating Liu Ye? He might surprise you," Su Yuchen said casually.

Beneath the prophet's unfathomable eyes, he coldly said, "He practiced your techniques, and recently he has been fluctuating between repeated internal injuries and recovery. His strength is no longer as stable."

"When are you going to bring the people from the Divine Court?" Su Yuchen suddenly asked a completely unrelated question.

The prophet, seemingly lost in thought, said, "I need some more time."

The prophet needs to determine how Emperor Mingwu established his connection with the Divine Court; he needs to sever this connection to ensure Liu Ye's safety.

Emperor Wu of Ming deduced the approximate location of the Divine Court by using clues left by Liu Ye's mother, but unfortunately, the Divine Court's intelligent AI remained as arrogant as ever.

Emperor Mingwu will not make any rash moves to the Divine Court until all the assassins he sent out have returned.

Emperor Wu of Ming has secretly dispatched assassins to the Divine Court with news of Liu Ye and the Prophet. He believes the Divine Court will see this letter.

"After today, I will be leaving the Liu residence for a while," Su Yuchen said.

As soon as he finished speaking, Su Yuchen's body radiated a seven-colored light, and his internal organs glowed simultaneously, communicating with the five elements supernatural powers in his primordial spirit. Su Yuchen soared into the sky and disappeared into the clouds in the void.

Watching Su Yuchen disappear into the clouds, the prophet and Xia Zhu, who appeared silently, gave each other a signal before disappearing together from the courtyard.

Chapter 506 Seventh Revolution of the Primordial Spirit, Achievement of the Indestructible Body

A favorable wind lends its strength, sending me soaring into the blue sky.

The profound allegorical meanings in Du Mu's poems have now become reality in Su Yuchen's life.

An immense amount of true essence surged forth from all the meridians of his body, and each strand of true essence transformed into a blue wind at his will. Su Yuchen also transformed into the wind, soaring straight up to the ninth heaven.

In the blink of an eye, the vast capital city, along with Su Yuchen, soared upwards, transforming into a tiny, insignificant firelight under the night sky. Here, the surrounding clouds lingered at his feet, and the endless gale-force winds were like frost and knives, carrying the boundless chill of the Yin energy.

With a flash of Yin and Yang energy, the illusory Yin-Yang millstone within a radius of seven hundred miles flashed, and endless Yin cold energy was absorbed by the Ice Soul Divine Light. As the Yin and Yang energies circulated, the primordial energy of heaven and earth was drawn in, forming a huge primordial energy funnel.

Endless Yin spiritual energy was ground and transformed. With each breath, Su Yuchen's internal organs glowed simultaneously, and the endless primordial energy split into five parts, surging into his bottomless body.

Su Yuchen closed his eyes, his breathing like that of a dragon. With each breath, a massive amount of vital energy was swallowed, and the surrounding area made a "whooshing" sound like the tide. The invisible vital energy turned into liquid and surged towards Su Yuchen like a tide.

The two fingers encircling the lower abdomen formed the Wuji Mudra, and a dark, deep point of light, like a black hole, came without rejection, continuously absorbing the liquid form of the primordial energy of heaven and earth...

The true essence within the body is like a sea, and strands of true essence transform into threads, flowing from the acupoints and meridians throughout the body into the internal organs, flesh, bones, and skin.

Under the influence and absorption of the true essence threads, the blood nurtured within the bones undergoes earth-shattering changes with each circulation, until all the blood turns into a purplish-gold color.

Then, strange purple-gold patterns began to slowly cover the pale bones, until all the bones were dyed purple-gold, shimmering with an indestructible aura.

Blood was generated, bones changed again, and then countless purple-gold threads surged into every cell in his body, beginning to infect, devour, and divide. The true essence threads transformed into transparent and profound runes of heaven and earth, gradually completing a closed loop within Su Yuchen's body.

As the vital energy continued to be refined, the five-colored light gradually brightened, and Su Yuchen's whole body was glowing. The seven colors danced on his hair and eyelashes, like an elf dancing.

With each breath, the primordial energy of heaven and earth was swallowed up like water, and Su Yuchen was surrounded by strange phenomena of heaven and earth such as wind, fire, thunder, lightning, ice, frost, rain, and mist.

The vital energy underwent a violent change, transforming into lightning. With a deafening roar, the lightning, branching out like countless tree branches, illuminated the heavens. As if finding its target, bolts of lightning struck down one after another towards Su Yuchen.

Su Yuchen sat motionless, while thunder and lightning descended upon him.