Outside the Tang family's front gate.
Gu Chenan stretched out his hand and knocked on the big gate.
"Who is it?"
Before long, a clear and sweet voice came out from between the two wide open redwood doors.
"It's me, Gu Chenan." Gu Chenan said.
Swish!
The next second, Tang Yunjin, dressed in a floral tight-fitting dress, opened the door with a look of surprise on her face.
Unlike the charming figures of Su Qianmo and Liu Mengrue, Tang Yunjin was a sweet girl through and through.
She didn't have the kind of allure that would make vital essence gather in a certain area just by looking at her. All she had was the youthful cuteness of a girl next door.
She was in the prime of her youthful beauty.
It seemed that just seeing her would make one full of energy for the whole day.
"Mr. Gu, I knew you would come looking for me!"
Tang Yunjin's face lit up as she made a gesture of invitation and said, "Please come in."
Gu Chenan stepped inside. The scene in front of him made him somewhat startled.
The overall style of the Tang family was completely like the manor of an ancient official.
The vermilion gate was antique, leaves were floating on the white jade steps, and the colored glazed tiles reflected dazzling lights.
Several servants dressed in plain antique mandarin jackets were standing in the courtyard.
"Mr. Gu must be puzzled about our Tang family's martial arts, so he wanted to come and ask me for advice, right?"
"Hehe, I won't hide it from you. Our Tang family's Primordial One Qi Exercise is very difficult to understand the essence of without a master's guidance for two or three years."
"Tell me, where are you confused?"
Tang Yunjin walked ahead to lead the way for Gu Chenan, but her mouth rattled on like a machine gun without stopping for a moment.
She was quite confident about the difficulty of their family's martial arts.
She was gifted since childhood. Under her father's attentive guidance, she was able to understand the whole set of martial arts in just one month.
In her eyes, Gu Chenan didn't have anyone to guide him, so she thought he must have come to find her because he couldn't understand the martial arts.
However, Gu Chenan awkwardly scratched the back of his head and said, "Emmm, would you believe me if I said I don't have anything I don't understand?"
"Huh?"
Tang Yunjin was taken aback. She turned her head back in surprise and said, "How is that possible? Don't tell me you understand everything?"
"Oh no, not everything..." As soon as Gu Chenan's words came out, Tang Yunjin's eyebrows twitched.
I thought you really understood everything, you scared me.
Our Tang family's martial arts are different from other ancient martial arts. The whole book is obscure and difficult to understand ancient texts. It would be scary if you could understand it.
Just as Tang Yunjin was complacently thinking, Gu Chenan went on to say, "...I've learned it all."
Tang Yunjin: (๑ʘ̅дʘ̅๑)!!!
Bro, don't brag like this.
I've been practicing Primordial One Qi Exercise since I was a child. Although I can't operate it now, I've always been practicing it.
Even I don't dare to say that I've completely learned it. How dare you say that!
Do you think you have Doraemon's memory bread? You just paste it on the book and eat it to learn it?
The servants who were listening to Gu Chenan's words were also shocked.
This young Mr. Gu really likes to brag, doesn't he?
You've completely learned it? Who are you kidding?
Miss Tang's previous disciple had been following Miss Tang for so long but only learned the basics.
You've only had the martial arts manuscript for a few days and you say you've completely learned it?
Although the servants didn't speak out, they glanced at each other, shook their heads and smiled contemptuously.
"Ha?"
At this moment, Tang Yunjin frowned and said, "Are you kidding me?"
Gu Chenan shook his head: "No, I'm serious. I have completely learned it myself and have mastered it."
Tang Yunjin glanced at him, then crossed her arms arrogantly and said, "I don't believe it."
"I'll show you if you don't believe me." Gu Chenan rolled up his sleeves.
"Good!" Tang Yunjin said, "If you've really mastered Primordial One Qi Exercise, I'll grant you one request. If you're lying to me, then you'll have to grant me one request too!"
"Deal!" Gu Chenan readily accepted.
His purpose in coming today was to learn the Tang family’s medical skills. He didn’t know how to bring it up. After all, he had just been given a hand-copied manuscript of Primordial One Qi Exercise.
But now it was good. Tang Yunjin wanted to gamble with him, which went right along with Gu Chenan's intentions.
"Then I'll start."
Gu Chenan walked to an open space nearby, took up his stance and circulated his elixir field.
Tang Yunjin crossed her arms and looked at Gu Chenan arrogantly like a teacher examining a student.
She wanted to gamble with Gu Chenan because she hoped that after Gu Chenan lost the bet, she could make him accept her as master. Then she could get him to cripple Lin Yu’s martial arts.
She was the one who taught Lin Yu martial arts in the first place. According to the rules of the ancient martial arts world, a master had the right to cripple a disciple's martial arts. But the premise was that the master had to be stronger than the disciple.
And if the master knew they were no match, they could also get another disciple to do it for them.
Seeing Gu Chenan's proper starting style, Tang Yunjin sneered, “Not bad. The Embracing the Moon in the Bosom starting style is quite standard.”
The Tang servants were also paying attention to Gu Chenan.
They were somewhat surprised to see Gu Chenan's standard starting style.
It was unexpected that young Mr. Gu could really understand Primordial One Qi Exercise!
It's just that...
Understanding and learning are two completely different things. Although you know the starting style, you can't defeat anyone with just the starting style!
However, just as the servants were thinking so, they saw Gu Chenan smile slightly at Tang Yunjin, "Watch closely."
In the next moment, he put away his smile, his figure accelerated instantly, his eyes as sharp as blades, following the movements of his hands quickly.
The wind howled wherever his fists passed, blowing the leaves of the surrounding trees.
Where his legs swept, dust flew, stirring up sand all over the yard.
Tang Yunjin watched Gu Chenan's figure, the smile in her eyes slowly froze, and finally turned into shock.
"This...this is impossible!"
She clearly knew that what Gu Chenan was demonstrating to her now was Primordial One Qi Exercise, and extremely skilled at that!
It was as if Gu Chenan was already extremely proficient with Primordial One Qi Exercise!
But the problem was, Gu Chenan had only gotten the manuscript of Primordial One Qi Exercise a few days ago!
The servants who were present were also completely dumbfounded by this scene.
Young Mr. Gu really learned Primordial One Qi Exercise, and was so skilled at it?
This was too magical, too unbelievable!
After a while, under everyone's surprised eyes, Gu Chenan's figure slowly slowed down and finally withdrew the qi back into his elixir field.
"How was it?" Gu Chenan looked at the shocked Tang Yunjin and asked.
Tang Yunjin was awakened from her astonishment by Gu Chenan's voice. She looked at him in horror and said, "Mr. Gu's Primordial One Qi Exercise has really...really been mastered..."
"I didn't lie to you, did I?"
Gu Chenan patted the dust off his pants and walked over.
At this moment, Tang Yunjin's eyes suddenly turned red. She threw herself into Gu Chenan's arms.
"That's great, that's so great. My parents can be saved, my parents can be saved!"
Hearing this, Gu Chenan's mouth twitched slightly.
In the original plot, Tang Yunjin’s parents lost to their opponents in a martial arts contest in Yanjing. According to the agreement made before the contest,
Tang Yunjin’s parents had become attendants of the other party, which can be understood as obedient subordinates.
The two parties agreed that the successors of both sides would have a contest two years later. If the successor from Tang’s side defeated the opponent, Tang Yunjin’s parents could return to Donghai.
If not, they would continue to be the other party's followers.
That was why Tang Yunjin so readily taught her martial arts to Lin Yu.
And of course, in the original plot, it was Lin Yu who helped Tang Yunjin rescue her parents.
But Gu Chenan didn't want to have too much involvement with Tang Yunjin. He wasn't interested in Tang Yunjin or Yanjing.
All he wanted now was to bring down Lin Yu. Other than that he had no other thoughts.
[Bro likes your looks, but not so much your childish behavior.]
[A dragon does not lament, nor a tiger howl. Such childish behavior is laughable.]
[But don't feel down. You are still young. At least 36D awaits you in the future!]
"But having said that, bro doesn't have the free time to compete with you. Bro is currently racking his brains trying to figure out how to kill that idiot Lin Yu," he said.
"Besides, bro is the villain and needs to maintain his image. Even if I wanted to save your parents, I couldn't use that method. You'd better find someone more capable to handle this."
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