Ask Wudang Chapter 144

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After a few breaths, Ouyang Feng’s abdomen bulged high, and his cheeks puffed into two round balls. His entire body exuded powerful internal energy, and streams of air swept around, stirring up dust within three zhang of him.

“Croak!”

Suddenly, he let out a strange cry, a thunderous sound that reverberated for four li. At the same time, his round figure lunged forward with lightning speed, leaving an afterimage in the air.

Before Ouyang Feng even attacked, Ye Qingfeng already felt a powerful gust of wind, like an overturned mountain, rushing towards him, causing his clothes to flutter and his long hair to dance wildly. However, he showed no intention of retreating. He flipped his wrist, the tree branch in his hand twirled into a sword flower, and then he suddenly thrust it out. In an instant, a sharp whooshing sound echoed, and the overwhelming gust of wind lost its power, as if it had been torn apart by this single point of force. This point was precisely the “Breaking Qi Stance,” a profound technique within the Dugu Nine Swords.

The Toad Skill was undoubtedly a top-tier qigong.

To break such qigong, one needed to use a supreme finger technique like the One Yang Finger.

Now, there was another method to break it: the “Breaking Qi Stance” from the Dugu Nine Swords.

With one strike, Ye Qingfeng’s tree branch pierced through Ouyang Feng’s palm wind, its momentum still unabated, directly striking Ouyang Feng’s Danzhong acupoint on his chest. This strike was again a pre-emptive move, striking later but gaining the initiative.

In the next instant, the bloated Ouyang Feng suddenly flew backward, then rapidly deflated like a leaking balloon. In just three short breaths, Ouyang Feng returned to his original appearance, and his entire body lost its ability to move.

Ouyang Feng’s accumulated power had reached its peak. Even if he had released all his internal energy normally, he would still have been weak for a while, as the Toad Skill was inherently a martial art that relied on overdrafting to burst forth. But now, he had not released his internal energy normally; instead, Ye Qingfeng had pierced his vital point with a single sword strike, causing his internal energy to dissipate abnormally, thus naturally incurring a certain backlash.

However, Ye Qingfeng had struck with great precision, and this blow did not harm Ouyang Feng’s fundamental essence; he would recover with a little rest.

“Father!”

Seeing Ouyang Feng being sent flying, Yang Guo was greatly alarmed and immediately rushed forward to check his injuries.

Ye Qingfeng said, “Don’t worry, he’s fine. He just needs a little rest.”

Upon hearing this, Yang Guo hurriedly thanked him, “Thank you, Master, for showing mercy.”

At this moment, Ouyang Feng had lost his former sharpness. He looked at Ye Qingfeng weakly and said, “Your martial arts are indeed formidable. I cannot defeat you. I am willing to call you the greatest under heaven. However, the path of martial arts is like sailing against the current; if you don’t advance, you retreat. I will not give up easily. When I master the techniques in the Nine Yin Manual, I will come back to challenge you again.”

Ye Qingfeng smiled, “Alright, I’ll be waiting.”

From then on, Ouyang Feng would challenge Ye Qingfeng every now and then, but without exception, he would lose miserably every time. After more than ten such battles, he was finally defeated and dared not challenge Ye Qingfeng again.

In the time that followed, although the two no longer sparred in martial arts, they began to compete in the art of poison.

Ye Qingfeng’s mastery of poison was naturally exceptional. He spent all his free time meticulously studying medical and poison scriptures, and his medical and poison skills had surpassed those of Hu Qingniu and Wang Nangu. While he couldn’t claim to be divine, he could certainly be called a grandmaster.

As for Ouyang Feng’s poisoning skills, there was no need to mention them; they were definitely above Wang Nangu’s. He was known as “Western Poison,” partly because of his venomous heart and ruthless methods, but also because his poisoning skills had reached their pinnacle. Because his martial arts were extremely powerful, and he was a grandmaster of his generation, he usually settled disputes and battles with his martial arts alone, so he rarely had the opportunity to use poison.

It was rumored that Li Mochou’s Five Poisons Manual was stolen from his White Camel Mountain Villa in the Western Regions. Because of this incident, he pursued Li Mochou for thousands of miles, until he reached the entrance of the Ancient Tomb, where he was desperately repelled by Lin Chaoying’s maid.

And in the Condor Heroes world, there was also an instance of Ouyang Feng using poison. That year, Ouyang Feng and Zhou Botong made a bet at sea. He said he could kill all the sharks in the sea, but Zhou Botong didn’t believe him. Who knew that the venomous snakes on his snake staff were extremely potent? Just a little snake venom was enough to poison one shark to death. The other sharks then scrambled to eat the flesh of the dead shark, and they too were successively poisoned. After this batch of sharks died, other sharks swallowed them, and so on, until all the nearby sharks were killed.

As a result, Zhou Botong lost and was forced to jump into the sea to commit suicide. If Ouyang Ke hadn’t been cruel enough to block the mouth of a shark with a wooden stick, causing one shark to survive, Zhou Botong might have died then and there.

This incident of slaughtering sharks at sea alone showed how formidable Ouyang Feng’s poisoning skills were.

In terms of poisoning skills, Ye Qingfeng might be slightly inferior to Ouyang Feng, but he was a master of both medicine and poison, and the two complemented each other, creating various wonders that single-minded poisoning skills could not compare to. Thus, their competition was truly a match between equals.

As the two competed, the wild beasts around Sword Demon Valley suffered greatly, all becoming pitiful experimental subjects.

Of course, the divine condor was an exception.

In this manner, they fought for two months without a clear winner, finally ending in a draw. Afterward, the two harmoniously exchanged knowledge on the art of poison, and with mutual supplementation, each of them advanced to a higher level.

Ye Qingfeng, a master of both medicine and poison, made great strides in his poisoning skills, and with mutual supplementation, his medical skills naturally rose as well.

To further refine his medical and poison skills, he turned his attention to the Bodhi Serpent in the nearby mountain forest.

This Bodhi Serpent was a treasure. This snake was mentioned in Buddhist scriptures, faintly emitting golden light all over its body, with a fleshy horn on its head, and moving like the wind, making it extremely difficult to catch. Its gall was deep purple, and consuming it instantly invigorated one’s spirit and greatly increased one’s strength.

In the original work, after Yang Guo’s right arm was severed by Guo Fu in Guo Jing’s mansion, he escaped to a canyon and was rescued by the divine condor. The divine condor would go out daily to catch these snakes, take their gallbladders, and give them to Yang Guo. After consuming them, Yang Guo’s internal energy and strength greatly increased, and his meridians became completely unobstructed. In just a few months, he cultivated a powerful internal art and used it to master the incredibly potent Heavy Iron Sword Technique.

Before this, the giant python that fought the divine condor was the King of Bodhi Serpents. After the divine condor killed it, it took the gallbladder and gave it to Ye Qingfeng. Ye Qingfeng treasured it and stored it in a jade box, precisely because he knew the value of this snake gallbladder.

After three months of diligent research, Ye Qingfeng’s studies finally bore fruit. He developed a miraculous elixir primarily made from the gallbladder of the Bodhi Serpent (of the) and named it the Serpent Gallbladder Poria Pill. This pill not only had remarkable healing effects for internal injuries but also possessed the special ability to enhance one’s cultivation. Consuming one Serpent Gallbladder Poria Pill could increase one’s cultivation by ten years. However, this cultivation-increasing effect was diminishing: consuming the second pill would reduce the effect to nine years, the third to eight years, the fourth to seven years, and so on, until by the tenth pill, the effect had diminished to one year. Consuming the eleventh pill would only have a healing effect, with no further cultivation-enhancing ability.

Of course, this was only the effect of pills made from ordinary Bodhi Serpent gallbladders. The gallbladder of the Bodhi Serpent King would certainly have effects far surpassing ordinary ones, but Ye Qingfeng did not use it. He planned to save it for refining even more powerful elixirs in the future.

The efficacy of this Serpent Gallbladder Poria Pill was absolutely heaven-defying. Ten pills could increase one’s cultivation by fifty-five years.

With such cultivation, even a clumsy pig, with just a few clumsy moves, would be enough to become a first-rate master.

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