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Chapter 1414 Self-created martial arts, nine-level advancement in three years
In the study, Zhou Chen lit the paper in his hand, put it in the brazier, and watched it burn to ashes.

It has been ten days since I came to this world. In addition to studying martial arts, I have also been collecting information about this world.

It is now the sixty-seventh year of the Qing Dynasty era. He has not collected any information about Ye Qingmei, but he knows that there was a great chaos in Kyoto more than ten years ago. He knows that that time must be the time when Ye Qingmei was killed.

According to the time calculation, Fan Xian should be only eleven or twelve years old now, and there are still several years before he can enter Kyoto.

Zhou Chen had not read much of the novel, but he knew that Fan Xian in the novel should have entered Kyoto when he was about sixteen years old. However, the age in the TV series was not quite the same as in the novel. Although the time when Fan Xian entered Kyoto was not specifically stated in the play, he should have been around eighteen years old, and got married at around twenty years old.

There is very little description about age in the play and no exact data, but it is probably similar to what he estimated.

Of course, age and other things are not important. It is enough to know that the plot takes place in the spring of the fourth year of the Qingli period.

As a young man who has not yet inherited the title, Zhou Chen has no intention of building relationships with others, and he is even unwilling to leave the Earl's Mansion.

Anyone who has watched Joy of Life knows that there are too many old silver coins in this drama. As the capital of the Qing Kingdom, Kyoto has complex forces and is extremely dangerous.

The Inspection Institute is omnipresent, and other forces also have their own secret agents and spies. It would not be a good thing to stand out and be targeted.

He has lived for so many years and knows very well that when he has no strength, he has to hide when he should, and then go out and have fun after he has the strength.

Zhou Chen ordered the guards that no one was allowed to enter the study without his order.

After everything was ready, he prepared to start practicing.

This world is full of nuclear radiation. Although he knows that people in this world are already accustomed to nuclear radiation, he still remains vigilant, especially when practicing.

Naturally, the first internal skill he practiced was the Yangzhou Slow Heart Method which suited him best. This method of internal skill was extremely pure and harmonious. It was the strongest of all the internal skills he knew and also the most suitable one for him.

After practicing and improving in many worlds, he was ready to continue practicing it even when he came to this strange world.

Three days later, Zhou Chen, who was sitting cross-legged and practicing, frowned slightly.

Even in this world full of nuclear radiation, his excellent martial arts talent still exists. The internal skills he practiced in the past are still useful in this world, and in less than three days, he has cultivated the first ray of true qi.

But he also discovered a problem. Practicing internal skills in this world is different from that in other worlds. In other martial arts worlds, internal strength is created by guiding the body's potential.

In this world, when he was practicing internal skills, in addition to the power in his body, he actually felt a special energy slowly integrating into his body, combining to form a special internal force.

According to the martial arts of this world, it should no longer be called internal force, but true qi, the energy after the influence of nuclear radiation.

This is where the problem arises. Although internal force and true qi are both stored in the body, they can actually be said to be different energies. After practicing true qi, when practicing according to the Yangzhou slow internal power method, the efficiency becomes lower. There is a feeling of out of tune and the body also feels uncomfortable.

Feeling that something was wrong, Zhou Chen temporarily stopped practicing. If he forced himself to practice with different methods, it would be troublesome if something big went wrong.

So in the following time, he began to study the martial arts of the two worlds, trying to find a balance and create the most suitable Qigong method for himself.

If he had never been exposed to martial arts before, he would never dare to do this. He would only try to obtain a set of true qi mental method from this world to practice.

But he has traveled through many martial arts worlds and practiced martial arts for more than a hundred years. He can definitely be considered a martial arts master. The previous Yangzhou Slow was also modified by him, so he is still very confident in himself.

As the saying goes, if you understand one thing, you understand everything.

True Qi is different from internal strength, but ultimately they are both energies cultivated through the body. It’s just that the process of refining them is different, but when it comes to their use, there is actually not much difference.

He is able to draw inferences from other things, read widely, and is proficient in all kinds of martial arts. He will definitely be able to create a Qigong method that best suits himself.

However, everything is easier said than done.

This process lasted for a full year.

During this period of time, Zhou Chen collected many Qi secrets in this world, but they were basically basic mental methods. It was already good enough to cultivate to the sixth or seventh level. It was almost impossible to cultivate to a higher level.

However, he collected these secret books not for his own practice, but to understand the martial arts techniques of this world. He only used them for reference and to pave the way for creating new Qi techniques for himself.

After a year, he finally created a secret book of Qi that was suitable for practicing in this world of nuclear radiation.

In order to create this technique, he directly increased his spiritual attributes to sixty points. Relying on a stronger spirit, he spent a year before finding the right path and creating the most suitable Qi secret book for himself.

Although it was just a beginning, he was sure that the secret book he created was definitely better than most of the Qi secret books in this world. It might not be as good as the ones that Ye Qingmei brought out of the temple, but there was absolutely no secret book in this world that was more suitable for him than the one he created.

With the right technique, Zhou Chen began to focus on his practice, ignoring everything else outside.

A few days ago, he went out. It was the Spring Examination held every three years. The whole Kyoto was very lively, with students everywhere. The inns and restaurants in Kyoto were also full, and the streets were full of vendors. There were even more people than during the Chinese New Year.

However, when he saw these students, he felt sorry for them. Although Qing Kingdom is now powerful, there are many problems in the court because of Emperor Qing's connivance.

Especially in the imperial examinations held in spring, there were all kinds of cheating, and students from poor families had almost no chance of succeeding. Every time they took part in the examinations, they would come from thousands of miles away with great hopes, but in the end they were no match for those who used connections or backdoors to get in.

How pathetic.

Emperor Qing is undoubtedly an ambitious and talented emperor, but because he became a grandmaster, the existence of the grandmaster and the temple made him gradually go astray, put his talents in the wrong place, and no longer put the people of the world first. He was aware of various problems in the court, but let them go, and secretly plotted and schemed.

From Emperor Qing's perspective, he was not wrong. After all, everything he did was for his own imperial power. He could not tolerate anyone overriding his imperial power, so he made all kinds of calculations just to get rid of the grand master.

He is used to being high and mighty, so how could he care about those at the bottom, let alone sympathize with them? That's a joke.

To be honest, the national strength of Qing is stronger than that of Northern Qi, but for the common people at the bottom, Qing is really not as good as Northern Qi.

After practicing intensively for half a year.

In the training ground of the Earl's Mansion, Zhou Chen knocked his opponent back with one palm, then withdrew his palm and stood up.

Guard commander Sun Yi steadied himself and immediately bowed to Zhou Chen with a respectful expression and a tone full of shock.

"Master, I am no match for you. Your martial arts have surpassed mine and reached the seventh rank."

"Seventh rank."

Zhou Chen, however, did not look proud at all. His self-created martial arts, coupled with his years of martial arts experience, allowed him to reach the seventh rank naturally. It was not something to be proud of.

Even if he had not cultivated true qi before, his physical fitness alone was comparable to that of a third or fourth rank warrior.

After reaching the seventh level, he also clearly felt that the improvement of his true Qi had slowed down a lot, but based on his deduction, he felt that it should not be a problem to practice his self-created technique to the ninth level.

But if you want to reach the level of a grandmaster, it is not enough to just rely on techniques. If you want to become a grandmaster, it ultimately depends on people.

Just like the four great masters today, the three secret books given by Ye Qingmei were not only practiced by the three great masters. There are many people who practiced them, but in the past few decades, only those three people could become grand masters. Among them, Emperor Qing almost lost his life before he became a grand master.

Apart from the Grandmaster, the ninth rank and above is the world's top combat power. There are countless warriors in the whole world, but only a few can reach the ninth rank and above.

The ninth-rank official and the grandmaster are not on the same level. For a grandmaster to kill a ninth-rank official is no different from killing a chicken.

In an ordinary martial arts world, even in a middle martial arts world, the best martial arts masters would find it difficult to fight against an army, but the grandmasters of this world could.

It is absolutely no problem for a grandmaster to defeat ten thousand alone. One man can suppress an entire country, and this is not just boasting. Even if tens of thousands of troops besiege the grandmaster, they may not be able to stop him.

To use the words in the plot, the Grand Master is no longer a human being.

"Has none of you managed to master the Ruyi Jin?"

Ruyi Jin is the name Zhou Chen gave to his newly created Qigong method. It contains the concept of getting what one wants and having Qigong satisfying one's wishes, as well as the meaning of missing Ren Ruyi.

Ruyi Jin is a secret book of true Qi that can lead directly to the ninth level, formed by combining various mental methods from several martial arts worlds and this nuclear radiation martial arts world.

This is the most suitable Qigong method for him, but it is not certain whether it is suitable for others, so he specially selected the seven most loyal guards in the mansion to teach Ruyi Jin, just to try the effect.

Sun Yi replied with a look of shame on his face: "Master, I'm sorry, we are too stupid and can't enter the Ruyi Jin at all."

Zhou Chen sighed, feeling slightly disappointed. It turned out that not everyone could learn martial arts secrets, especially the self-created Ruyi Jin. The entry requirements were too high. Without sufficient talent and ability, even getting started was a luxury.

In fact, this was also within his guess, and he didn't care if it didn't succeed.

"Take the Qi secrets I gave you and select suitable loyal people to pass them on. Your cultivation is too poor."

Sun Yi felt even more ashamed. He had practiced martial arts for twenty years before reaching the sixth rank. It was only recently that he made a breakthrough after sparring with the young master and reached the seventh rank. The rest of the guards were worse than him.

Our young master reached the seventh rank in just half a year. Compared with him, these people are indeed worlds apart.

"Yes, Master. I will definitely train them hard and make sure they don't embarrass you."

After the death of the old uncle, the prestige and status of their Anyuan Earl's Mansion in Kyoto plummeted. As a member of the mansion, he was also worried about the master. The old uncle was also a famous general on the battlefield, and his cultivation had reached the eighth level.

The Earl's Mansion of Anyuan was built by the old man who fought on the battlefield with every sword and every gun. Once the old man was gone, everyone seemed to have lost their backbone.

But things are different now. Zhou Chen's talent has given them hope that the Earl's Mansion will take off again. At the age of sixteen, he has reached the seventh rank in half a year, and will definitely reach the ninth rank in the future.

Even with the young master's talent and ability, there might be hope for him to become a grandmaster.

Every time he thought of this, Sun Yi felt extremely excited and couldn't wait to see that day.

"Master, it's best not to make your martial arts training public for now."

Although he is full of expectations, Sun Yi knows that now is not the time to get carried away. Talent is important, but before he grows up, stability is the most important thing.

Zhou Chen understood better than him and waved his hand.

"Not many people know that I practice martial arts, and you are the only one who understands my current level of cultivation. As long as you don't spread it, no one else will know."

Sun Yi immediately knelt down on one knee in front of Zhou Chen: "Master, we swear to be loyal to you until death and will never do anything to harm you."

Zhou Chen helped him up and said solemnly: "I know your loyalty, otherwise I would not tell you the truth. As long as we don't make it public, no one will pay attention to us given the current situation of our Earl's Mansion."

It has been more than a year since I came into this world, but even during the New Year, not many people came to visit me, except for a few of the old earl's former subordinates. Only my aunt came once, but she only came once, and that meeting was not pleasant.

Simply put, the aunt came to beg for money because she did not marry well and followed her husband to leave Kyoto to be an official. She finally returned to Beijing and had a hard time, so she wanted to ask for help from the Earl's Mansion.

Zhou Chen is not a stingy person, and the assets of the Earl's Mansion are in good condition. If the other party is just asking for help, he will give it to him.

But his own aunt took advantage of his young age and made huge demands on him, demanding a farm outside the capital and ten thousand taels of silver.

At that time, Zhou Chen stood up before he even had time to sit down, asked the butler to take out 100 taels of silver, and then drove the man out of the Earl's Mansion.

At that time, the aunt Zhou Xingniang was still cursing at the door of the Earl's Mansion, calling the Earl ungrateful, cold-hearted and so on, but Zhou Chen did not tolerate her. He directly sent someone over and put a knife to her neck, scaring Zhou Xingniang so much that she fled.

If we were dealing with such people in the 21st century with highly developed information, we would have to be more cautious, but this is a feudal society, so don't talk about rights with the powerful.

The seventh-grade skills were not enough to satisfy Zhou Chen, so he continued to practice hard in the mansion. He would also teach martial arts to guards like Sun Yi when he had time, and he basically did not go out at other times.

Although he seldom goes out, he has heard a lot about the current situation in Kyoto.

The first thing to be affected was naturally the dispute among the princes. Although Li Chengqian was the crown prince, his mother, the queen's family, had been massacred, so he had no help from his mother's relatives. Even though he was made the crown prince, his position was not stable.

The second prince Li Chengze is his biggest rival. The second prince has a good family background and is a smart and resourceful man. He is not very old, but he is quite capable.

The most important thing is that Emperor Qing deliberately supported him to compete with the prince, so the prince not only has the righteousness of being the prince, but he does not have the upper hand in the fight.

Today in the court, the Crown Prince and the Second Prince are confronting each other, and many officials have joined their camps, while Emperor Qing is sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai.

The Crown Prince and the Second Prince were recruiting soldiers and officials everywhere. A declining Earl's Mansion like Zhou Chen's was not even qualified to be won over.

Years, time settles and life passes by. When you look back, you see a scenery; when you turn around, you see a story of time.

In the blink of an eye, it was the autumn of the second year of the Qingli period.

Zhou Chen stood under the shade of a tree, watching the dead leaves falling in the wind. His mood was as depressed as the gloomy weather in the sky.

It has been more than three years since I traveled to this world, and I have been practicing my self-created Ruyi Jin method for more than two years, and I have mastered it to perfection a few months ago.

His current level of Qi may not be as good as the level of internal strength he had in the Lotus Tower world, but his combat power is not much different, because the nuclear radiation Qi in this world can enhance physical fitness.

He has reached the ninth-grade warrior realm. His physique, which had been stagnant for a long time, has also been enhanced by ten points. His strength and agility have also improved. This is due to the strengthening of his true Qi.

It has been four months since he reached the ninth level of combat power, but in this four-month world, no matter how he condensed his true energy, he could not improve it any further. Even though he had practiced the Ruyi Jin mental method to the extreme, he could not perfect it to the next step.

He knew that the next step was to become a grandmaster, but no matter how he tried, he could not make any progress, as if his body and Qi had reached their limits.

This kind of bottleneck was something he had never encountered since he started practicing martial arts.

Even in the Lotus Tower world, his martial arts became the best in the world, and he had practiced Yangzhou Man to perfection. But if he continued to work hard, even if the progress was very rare, there was still hope for improvement.

But now, after he reached the ninth level, he tried many methods, but could not improve. He had not made any progress for more than two months. If he could not become a grandmaster, this would probably be his limit.

In less than three years, he had reached the ninth rank in combat power. In this world, that was definitely a rare talent and comprehension. Anyone would be very satisfied.

But Zhou Chen was not satisfied. His goal was to become a grandmaster. If he could not achieve that, even if he became an upper ninth-grade master, he would still feel like a failure.

With a slap of his palm, powerful true energy swept out, shaking away the fallen leaves within two feet around him.

"This can't go on any longer."

It is now the second year of the Qingli period, and it is less than two years since the beginning of the plot. There is not much time left for him. According to the current situation, even if he continues to practice diligently for ten years, he may not be able to become a grandmaster, so he must change his strategy.

He already had an idea in his mind, but he just hadn't made up his mind yet.

After such a long time, he has a very thorough understanding of true qi. True qi is nuclear radiation energy, which is transformed after the body's optimization and becomes a controllable force. It is similar to internal force, but also different.

So he wanted to try going to a place with stronger nuclear radiation energy, which might promote his Qi cultivation. And in "Joy of Life", the place with the most nuclear radiation is it.

Dadongshan!