Chapter 29: The Scripture Pavilion

  "By the way, my father said that if you're interested, you can take a look at our family's Scripture Pavilion. You can also learn the skills inside, but only up to the first level." Si Tu Qing An reminded him of something.

  Zhang Shan's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but feel extremely interested.

  He spent several years at the Tianxue Academy, but due to his slow progress in cultivation, he only learned one style of Four Images Boxing. As for the Xiang family, who had inherited their techniques for hundreds of years, they might have even better skills stored away than those taught at the academy.

  "Then please take me to see it, Miss. I also feel that now there is only one style of boxing, which is a bit insufficient in battle." Zhang Shan said with a smile.

  All the way, according to Si Tu Qing's introduction, the first floor of her family's scripture pavilion stored yellow-level gongfa and martial skills, while only legitimate children were allowed to enter the second floor and above.

  Before long, they arrived at the head of the stairs and saw an old man lounging in a rocking chair at the entrance to the pavilion, dozing off.

  When the two men walked up to him, the old man finally opened his eyes.

  When he saw Qing'An, a joyful smile appeared on his face: "Qing'An girl, you haven't come to see me for a long time. I've been worried about you."

  "Second Uncle is wrongly blaming us, there are many things going on at home recently, and we have to help Father deal with them, so we're all very busy." Xiāng Qīng ān nǐ's voice was sweet as she went up to pull on the old man's hand.

  Looking at the normally serious and dignified Situ Qingyan, revealing such a childish attitude, Zhang Shan was slightly taken aback for a moment.

  "Women are indeed unpredictable, the elegant and refined Miss Situ in front of people, who would have thought that she would also act like a little girl throwing a tantrum..." Zhang Shan thought to himself.

  The Second Uncle was delighted by Sito Qing's words and his face lit up like a blooming chrysanthemum.

  After the noise had subsided, Situ Qingwan finally took out a jade plaque and explained his purpose.

  "Then take him in, your father has surprisingly agreed to let an outsider enter the Scripture Storage Pavilion, it's quite unexpected."

  He blinked his old eyes and suddenly asked with a strange expression: "Your father isn't planning to take in a son-in-law, is he? I've got to be careful about this."

  Situ Qing's face turned red with anger, and she scolded: "What nonsense are you talking about? He just helped our Situ family a great deal... Never mind, we won't talk to you anymore. We'll go in first."

  As he spoke, he pulled Zhang Shan's hand and rushed into the Scripture Pavilion like an escape.

  After running inside, Situ Qingwan finally loosened her jade-like hands with a hint of embarrassment on her face.

  Zhang Shan subconsciously clenched his fist, savoring the softness of the slender hand that had lightly grasped it earlier, and inexplicably felt a little lost in his heart.

  Situ Qingwan gently stroked her hair, and her expression returned to calm. "You look at it yourself, I'll go rest over there. If you don't understand anything, just call me."

  Zhang Shan came back to his senses, nodded, and began to look around.

  There are rows and rows of bookshelves, with a rich collection of books. Zhang Shan thought to himself that he had the Sen Luo Wan Xiang Jue, a divine-level skill, so he didn't consider any other skills. He mainly wanted to see if there were any martial techniques that could be used.

  "Blood-killing Thirteen Styles, Golden System Martial Arts, those who possess a weapon-type Wu Xing will receive bonus effects when cultivating."

  "The tide of the blue sea is born in the palm, the water system is martial skill, suitable for those who possess a water attribute martial soul to cultivate."

  "Aokigiri Swordsmanship, a Wood-type martial skill, suitable for practitioners with a Wood-attribute Martial Soul."

  "Vermilion Bird Blazing Seal, a fire-based martial skill, suitable for practitioners with Fire Attribute Martial Souls and Beast Martial Souls."

  Zhang Shan flipped through a few secret books, looking at the introductions on them, and didn't rush to make a decision.

  "Monument Spirit, which type of martial skill should I choose? Are you an earth attribute?"

  Zhang Shan began to converse with Bei Ling in the Sea of Consciousness. His martial soul was a stone stele, so no one understood it better than Bei Ling itself.

  "I may be in the form of a stone monument, but I am compatible with all attributes. Any attribute-based martial skills and techniques are suitable for me, and there will be no mutual restraint situation, so you don't need to worry about this aspect." The Monument Spirit replied immediately.

  Zhang Shan was delighted to hear this, and his options were now wider: "So what's your good suggestion?"

  "The host has already practiced a fist technique, now lacking a weapon-based martial skill, and it's best to also cultivate a body technique." said the Spirit of the Tablet.

  Zhang Shan's heart skipped a beat as he recalled his past life on Earth, where he would watch martial arts films and yearn for the ancient swordsmen who roamed the jianghu with their swords, living a life of chivalry and vendetta. He decided to choose a sword technique to cultivate.

  He thought of this and found the bookshelf where he placed his sword techniques, starting to flip through them quickly.

  "The whirlwind dance of the sword, the sword comes out in a continuous stream, the sword style is agile and unpredictable, the posture is beautiful... This one, it's more suitable for women to practice, isn't it?"

  Zhang Shan shook his head and put down the book on "Returning Wind Dancing Sword Technique", then picked up another one.

  "Mystic Sound Captures Soul Thirteen Forms, using a special technique to emit soul-capturing devil sound when attacking, disrupting the enemy's mind and defeating them."

  He furrowed his brow and put down the book again. He actually hoped to find a powerful attacking technique, preferably one that was invincible and could defeat an enemy with just one move.

  One sword technique after another was picked up and put down, always feeling like it wasn't what I wanted.

  When he picked up the book again, he found that it was a incomplete and nameless sword manual with only three pages at the beginning, which recorded a sword move called "Jiemiethan".

  "Silent destruction, every exit must see blood, empty return is ominous, one strike does not hit, life and death reverse."

  Zhang Shan looked at the introduction in the sword manual, and couldn't help but secretly sigh. This style of sword technique emphasized a single, unstoppable strike, leaving no room for retreat or defense, it was simply an overbearing and unparalleled move that would either lead to victory or death.

  The power of this sword technique moved Zhang Shan involuntarily. "Unfortunately, there is only one move, and the rest are incomplete."

  With a tinge of regret in his heart, he was about to put it back when the Spirit of the Stele suddenly spoke up, "That such a sword technique exists here is truly unexpected... The host of this technique would do well to cultivate it with diligence."

  Zhang Shan was taken aback and said: "But it only has one move, the rest is incomplete."

  "This sword technique is different from the others, it's an independent sword technique that doesn't have a follow-up part. In my opinion, this sword manual may be collecting powerful yet mutually independent sword techniques." said Lingyun thoughtfully.

  Zhang Shan's eyes lit up and he said, "Really? Let me take a closer look then."

  At this point, he memorized the three pages of sword scripture word by word and sentence by sentence in his mind, closed his eyes and began to ponder and comprehend.

  After a long time, he opened his eyes and a surprised smile appeared on his face. "What you said is not wrong, this sword technique can only be achieved in one style, and with the improvement of the boundary, its power will also rise with it. This time I really made a profit."

  "I always feel that this sword technique has a familiar feeling, as if I've seen it before." The voice of the stele spirit had a slight fluctuation.

  "So that's how it is. This sword technique must have an extraordinary origin, and it's likely that the ancestors of the Situ family obtained it by chance, but they thought it was incomplete, so they put it here."

  Zhang Shan put the sword manual back in its original place, then started looking for a body method.

  Last time in Rouge Street when he was ambushed, if he had learned a subtle body technique, perhaps he could have quickly broken out of the encirclement and wouldn't have had to fight desperately.

  Zhang Shan flipped through it and found that there were only three forms of body methods recorded here.

  It's reasonable to think that the number of excellent martial arts and body training methods is relatively small, and exquisite martial arts techniques are even more rare.

  He chose a body method called "Shen Xing Bai Bian" among them. Although the speed is not fast, it is good at dodging and is not bad either.

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