All realms have enabled me to achieve the Great Dao.

The landlord's mundane life is nothing special; the real interest lies in the battle between Ah Xing and the Fire Cloud Evil God.

Zhou Yongcheng arrived at the place where they fought.

Ah Xing had opened up his Ren and Du meridians ahead of schedule and had also studied all the martial arts manuals given to him by Zhou Yongcheng, making him much stronger than before.

Standing in the air, Zhou Yongcheng found the Fire Cloud Evil God's Toad Style Kung Fu quite interesting. Although powerful, it was not very elegant to use.

Ah Xing and Fire Cloud Evil God fought back and forth, neither gaining the upper hand. In fact, those who know Ah Xing know that Ah Xing has not even used any martial arts techniques yet.

The two fought for about 15 minutes. Ah Xing did not use the Tathagata Palm as in the original story. Instead, he used the One Finger Divine Skill to break the Fire Cloud Evil God's Toad Skill.

"If you don't have the ability, don't try to challenge others. It's one thing to challenge, but to lose is another. How embarrassing is that?"

Fire Cloud Evil God was defeated, and his Toad Style Kung Fu was broken. He could only admit defeat and said, "Senior is right."

Ah Xing turned and left after saying that.

At this moment, Fire Cloud Evil God took out a hidden weapon to launch a sneak attack. Ah Xing turned around and struck out with a palm. Ah Xing used the Tathagata Palm, and Fire Cloud Evil God was turned into a meat patty with one palm.

"We've already let you go, yet you still dared to launch a sneak attack. People are just so reckless."

Back at the Axe Gang, Zhou Yongcheng announced that Ah Xing would succeed him as gang leader, and no one objected, as Ah Xing's strength was undeniable.

Although Zhou Yongcheng is no longer the gang leader, he still often comes to the gang and brings them giant beast meat.

In the world of kung fu, besides delivering giant beast meat to them, Zhou Yongcheng often wanders the streets, looking for the old beggar.

After nearly two months of development, the Axe Gang had become quite powerful, and they began to expand their territory.

The various gangs in Shanghai were not very strong to begin with; their strength was far less than that of the Axe Gang in the past, let alone the current Axe Gang.

With the expansion of the Axe Gang, Shanghai fell under their control.

The Axe Gang followed the rules set by Zhou Yongcheng; they did not collect protection money and only conducted legal business.

The Axe Gang established rickshaw companies, security companies, transportation companies, entertainment companies, and more.

They controlled most of the underground businesses in Shanghai; they were involved in all businesses except for flour.

Zhou Yongcheng had previously taken things for granted. After the Axe Gang took over the entire Shanghai Bund, Zhou Yongcheng learned about all the underground businesses.

This made him realize that many women need to make a living, so he discussed with Ah Xing that they could do any business except for flour, but they couldn't force women into prostitution or lend money at high interest rates to allow people to gamble; that was the bottom line.

Countless days had passed in the world of kung fu. Zhou Yongcheng stood on a street corner watching an old beggar selling martial arts manuals.

He smiled and walked forward. After so long, he finally saw the old beggar.

The old beggar was very strong; Zhou Yongcheng couldn't sense his specific strength.

"I want all the secret manuals you have here."

The old beggar glanced at Zhou Yongcheng and said, "Young man, you can have my secret manual, but you have to agree to one condition."

"Please say."

"Help me break through my current realm."

Zhou Yongcheng was somewhat bewildered. Had this old beggar taken the wrong medicine? Asking him to help him break through his cultivation technique was impossible; he himself was still searching for cultivation methods.

"Why do you say that, senior?"

"Some time ago, I went to the Cloth-Clad Sect and asked the sect leader to calculate the opportunity for my breakthrough. After his calculation, he seemed to have discovered an earth-shattering secret. Then he started bleeding from his seven orifices. He said that the person who bought all my secret manuals was the opportunity for my breakthrough. After saying this, the Cloth-Clad Sect leader suffered a backlash and died."

"Then why are you so sure I'm the one you're waiting for? What if I'm not?"

"intuition."

Well, Zhou Yongcheng didn't expect the fortune teller to be so powerful, with such strong predictive abilities. However, fortune telling is against the will of Heaven, and ordinary people don't dare to tell fortunes for others casually, as it's easy to die suddenly.

"Can't you break through now?"

"If we can't break through, there's no future in this world. Moreover, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is decreasing. After this war for the fate of the nation, the end of the Dharma era will come. At that time, our cultivation will regress, and we will slowly die."

Zhou Yongcheng nodded. If a martial artist above the Innate Realm lived in a world without spiritual energy, their true energy would be exhausted and they would not be able to replenish it with spiritual energy. Their true energy would be depleted and their cultivation would regress. When their cultivation regressed, they would not be far from death.

"Let's go, let's talk somewhere else."

The old beggar put away the manual and followed Zhou Yongcheng to the Axe Gang.

When Ah Xing saw the old beggar, he quickly went up to him and bowed.

"Thank you, senior."

"No need to thank me. Your talent is one in a million. It's fate that we've met."

Ah Xing didn't disturb Zhou Yongcheng and the others' conversation and left.

“I don’t think your selling of the secret manual was fate as you claim,” Zhou Yongcheng asked.

"That's not true. Many years ago, I consulted the sect leader of Buyi Sect. He said that if a large number of experts above the Grandmaster level appeared in the world, the world might experience a reversal of the natural order."

"What's the meaning."

"Due to the reduction of spiritual energy in this world, the number of Grandmaster martial artists that can appear is limited. If I find a large number of people like Ah Xing and let them cultivate, then a large number of Grandmaster martial artists will appear in this world. However, this world can only accommodate a small number of Grandmaster martial artists, exceeding the limit of the world's capacity to accommodate Grandmaster martial artists. At that time, there is a certain probability that the world will undergo a major change and usher in a revival of spiritual energy."

Zhou Yongcheng shook his head, not understanding.

"I don't quite understand either; this is what the Commoner Sect Leader said."

"Didn't you say that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is decreasing? How could there still be a large number of Grandmaster martial artists?"

“People like Ah Xing have innate energy in their bodies, and they can reach the Grandmaster level as soon as they break through.”

Zhou Yongcheng knew this; many novels wrote it this way: some people have special constitutions and their bodies contain their own energy. If they don't have special techniques to consume this energy, they won't live past eighteen, and so on.

"So how many people like Ah Xing have you found over the years?"

"Few, very few. I've traveled all over the country and met no more than a handful of people like Ah Xing."

Zhou Yongcheng nodded. "Give me all your secret manuals. I'll take you to a place later that should be able to help you."

The old beggar gave all his secrets to Zhou Yongcheng.

There are only about ten manuals, roughly the same as those in Jin Yong's novels, but they are more advanced than those in Jin Yong's novels.

Just like the Nine Yang Divine Skill in the old beggar's hand, it is even more advanced than the Nine Yang Manual.

The Nine Yang Divine Skill is divided into three parts: the first part is the Acquired Realm, the second part is the Innate Realm, which is also the Grandmaster Realm in this world, and the third part is the Perfect Master Realm, which is also the Great Grandmaster Realm in this world.

Therefore, it seems that the limit of martial arts techniques in this world is the Grandmaster realm.

Besides the Nine Yang Divine Skill, there are also the Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms, the Nine Swords of Dugu, the One Yang Finger, the Nine Yin Divine Skill, the Golden Bell Cover, the Innate Skill, the Northern Darkness Divine Skill, and so on.

"Are there any more advanced techniques than these?"

"No, all the secret manuals I obtained are here. I don't have the ones that I gave away. Do you want me to copy them down for you?"

"I can't ask for it."

Zhou Yongcheng quickly took out a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone for the old beggar, asking him to write down the secret manual.

The old beggar wrote manuals containing techniques such as Tathagata Palm, Yi Jin Jing, Zi Qi Gong, and Tai Xuan Jing.

Zhou Yongcheng put away the secret manual and led the old beggar to the gang's martial arts hall.