Wulin : Martial Heroes

Chapter 37: Zhu Wen

Zhu Wen is someone that Li Xin wanted to meet and stop. He wanted to see whether he could really change the future.

It is ironic especially when he thinks of Zhu Wen, who is also called Zhu Quanzhong.  When Zhu captured Tong prefecture in Shaanxi, he submitted to Huang Chao during the Huang Chao rebellion.

When Huang Chao captured Chang’an many had submitted, but they soon reverted to the Tang court once these people realized that the cause was not yet lost

By 882 Huang Chao was effectively surrounded, controlling only two prefectures outside Chang'an, one of which was Zhu Wen's Tong Prefecture.

It is at this time that Zhu Wen now found the time opportune to change sides.

After first assassinating his military overseer Yan Shi sent by Huang Chao to guard against just such a possibility, Zhu Wen surrendered to the Hezhong Circuit military governor Wang Chongrong

As reward for his timely defection Emperor Xizong appointed Zhu Wen Grand General of the Imperial Guards and deputy field commander of the armies stationed at Hezhong, also conferring the new personal name Quanzhong – "wholeheartedly loyal.

If Emperor Xizong only know that this person who he named wholeheartedly loyal would be the one ending the dynasty, he probably would roll in his grave right now

Li Xin just sighed. and then he closes his eyes. After thinking about many things, he rested his eyes and his mind and coupled that with the calming sound of water and the cold breeze of the wind, Li Xin take a nap on the boulder

After almost half an hour, Li Xin opens his eyes slowly. The heat of the sun could be felt by him on his face.

‘Hah’ he releases his breath. He could feel his entire body is refreshed. And his inner energy had also been restored.

He sat up on the boulder and uses the water around him to wash his face and then he got up from the boulder. The cold did not affect him that much.

He then looks at the water below the boulder.

Smiling, he jumps into the water, washing himself once again.

 This time he did not take long. After around five minutes he goes back to bank of the stream and walk up to land

He dresses himself.

After that, he uses his lightness skill to quickly to traverse the forest to return to his home

 Now, that his inner energy had been restored Li Xin did not restrain his speed and quickly arrive at the entrance of his hut.

He could guess that many branches and marks is left on his trails. He could not do anything about this. he is also helpless about this.

It is not like he wanted to left a trail of himself wherever he goes.

But it is because he could not control the intensity of his inner energy.

The thing is when he uses his lightness skill he had to restrain his speed.

 This led to his lightness skill maximum speed could not be achieved.

It is better to think of Li Xin as always having a few weights on his feet each time he uses his lightness skill. Because if he uses his inner energy, it would always overshoot itself.

This is the disadvantage of having high inner energy but without the corresponding inner energy practice.

If he restrains it, the full effect of the lightness skill could not be executed.

But if he uses his inner energy to the appropriate usage of Qi, he would always overshoot it because his control of Qi is not perfect.

He could only sigh at this. He is also helpless.

‘Wait for a few more days. If I really could not find that demonic woman, Zhou Qingxuan, I guess I just have to suck it up and but some inner energy skill from the system store’ he thought to himself

He walks to his hut and the moment he arrived he boiled water.

At home, he put down a few herbs he had grabbed when he was passing the area.

Not long after the water had been boiled and then he quickly brew tea.

Maybe, it is because he is affected by the taste of this body that he had been inhabiting but he has slowly developed some taste to tea.

He did not relax for long. After eating some snacks and finishing his tea, he got up from his seat.

It is time for him to patrol the mountain.

Maybe, if he is lucky he would meet a few more drugged up wolves and those wolves could attack him and trigger some quest.

He looks at his status window once again and sighed.

Looking at the pitiful amount of skill points he had he really want to do some quest right now

He sighed and then immediately once again went out from the area of the hut. Right now, he is entirely energized.

And he is more confident. If this time he is once again ambushed, he would show that person the strokes of the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palm.

He wanted to test how powerful this palm skill of his when it used to fight a real person of this world.

This is something that Li Xin had not tested yet.

If he looks at the simulation, the skill is very powerful. But he would not know for sure until he tests it on a real person.

He once again goes out from his home. By now, it is late afternoon. He went out and then he began running. His speed from the very beginning is very fast and it only get faster as he keeps running.

And he is not running only in straight line, he could easily change direction and avoid any obstacle. He jumps and runs and dodges

Then as his speed become faster and faster, there is a force on Li Xin feet and then when this force is accumulated, Li Xin pushed his feet up and like a bird soaring to the sky, Li Xin rose into the air

landing on a branch of a tall tree, the feet kick the branch, the branch only sways a little as Li Xin is like a soaring birds jumping through branches like an immortal touring the mortal realms, effortless

Li Xin had already restrained his inner energy but even though he restrains his inner energy no one would have thought that his lightness skill is slow

If he could really control his inner energy, this lightness skill that he is now using could easily become faster.

Every movement seems to be light and it was more like of a feather following the trail of the wind.

Li Xin is climbing down the mountain.

At first he would patrol around the area of his hut before he would go down further.

This is the only way he could think of. He knows that Zhou Qingxuan would appear on this mountain.

He just doesn’t know when.

This is after all some Jianghu rumors that he heard in tavern.

At that time, Zhou Qingxuan is known as the Demoness Zhou Qingxuan. She is a rising star in the heterodox faction at that time

He heard rumors that she once had been pursued by the people of the Underworld Gate. Years after that, it was discovered that when she had been pursued, she fell unconscious in Grey Mountain.

She then found some fortuitous encounter in the Grey Mountain and then rose steadily. This is news someone bought from Tianji Pavilion.

That is why Li Xin is staying here. He did not care much about that fortuitous encounter. What he cares about is the secret manual.

There are some other rumors that the reason why Demoness Zhou quickly rose to prominence is because she had stolen some secret manual from the Underworld Gate and practices it and that is why she become strong in just a few years

Li Xin is actually making a gambit here. If he is right then, he might possess a secret manual without him having to use money.

Yes, his plan is to stole that secret manual from Zhou Qingxuan. After all, it is not like Zhou Qingxuan is a good person

Of course, if that is the only reason, it would be too idiot of him. After all, it is not like the system store did not have powerful supreme inner skill

It is just that he believes that the secret manual that the Demoness had stolen is an inner energy manual and a supreme one at that.

Some of the supreme skill inner energy manual in the system store is very expensive.

Some could be bought but could not be practiced right away.

For example, the Nine Yang Divine Skill is something he could buy right now but he could only practice it when certain condition is met.

It is not a supreme skill if there is no condition; he complained in his heart.

He sighed and then focus on the task at hand