Grinding Cultivation Toward Martial Saint

Chapter 55: Chapter 55 Harvest

Moon Pavilion.

Three-story private room.

Cao Bin pondered for a moment before speaking, “This matter must be resolved quickly! Once that official arrives, the Inspection Office will be as the sky pressing down on Luoshui County, and we must not act rashly for the time being!”

“Falsely accuse Jiang Li and then imprison his entire family in the dungeon!”

Xu Yunfeng immediately bowed his head in respect.

“Yes!”

Then he asked, “What charges should your subordinate arrange?”

“Do you still need me to teach you this?” Cao Bin lifted his head, his gaze calmly upon Xu Yunfeng, “You know of the God Worship Sect, don’t you?”

“Your subordinate understands!” Xu Yunfeng bowed again, “Thank you, Mr. Cao, for the guidance!”

“Hmm!” Cao Bin uttered softly, then waved his hand, “Go and arrange it! Remember to act quickly, I want results within a week!”

“Yes!” Xu Yunfeng replied once more, then raised his head, “Mr. Cao, what about Jiang Ning? He is Wang Jin’s disciple, should arrangements be made for him as well?”

“Make arrangements!” Cao Bin spoke without hesitation, “This person has only just joined Canglang Martial Arts Hall for a few days, he hardly counts as Wang Jin’s disciple! I will personally lead a team to apprehend him, and I believe Wang Jin is a man who understands when to advance or retreat, who grasps the bigger picture!”

“Remove the weeds by their roots!!”

“Besides, this person has been able to stay at the Martial Arts Hall for so long, his martial arts talent must be rather good or Wang Jin would not have taken such care of him! Such a person cannot be spared!!”

“Yes, your subordinate understands!” Xu Yunfeng lowered his head to bow, then slowly exited the private room.

…

Canglang Martial Arts Hall.

In a corner of the Martial Arts Hall’s courtyard, there was a huge iron cage made of fine iron.

The iron cage covered about an acre of land.

The iron cage was completely enclosed by fine iron that crisscrossed overhead and around the sides.

The widest gap between the iron bars was barely 7 inches, just enough for a person to pass through.

Outside the iron cage, several tall stands had been set up.

At this moment.

On the stands, Wang Jin and Shen Congyun stood together.

The rest of the stands were occupied by the true disciples of the Martial Arts Hall, as well as Liu Zhixiang from the Sihe Chamber of Commerce.

“Begin!” Wang Jin said.

…

Time passed.

In the evening, the setting sun reluctantly dipped behind the mountain tops, and night was about to fall.

“Ptui!”

In Jiang Ning’s courtyard, Cheng Ran spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva along with some remnants of the medicinal soup he had just drunk.

“That beast is really ferocious!”

Cheng Ran grimaced, clearly pulling at his wound.

Jiang Ning handed him a bowl of clear water, “Brother Cheng, you’re pushing yourself too hard! You’re fighting with a ferocious tiger while your injuries haven’t even healed!”

Cheng Ran took the bowl of water Jiang Ning offered and gulped it down, then wiped the corner of his mouth.

“There’s no choice but to push! My boxing has fallen behind Xiao Peng. If I don’t face the tiger and battle it up close to grasp its spirit and form, my Tiger Form Boxing will hardly achieve great success, let alone meet Master Wang’s condition to master two forms of boxing.”

“Moreover, Building Owner Shen was present, and it was a chance to show off myself, possibly gaining the favor of that venerable figure!”

“Though the chance is small, if I can achieve two objectives in one stroke, I naturally have to give it my all.”

“I admire you!” Jiang Ning bowed in respect.

At this moment, he had a deeper understanding of what Cheng Ran had said before about the path of martial arts: to make achievements, a martial artist must compete.

Cheng Ran had undergone such a drastic change from a nonchalant attitude in just a few days.

In Jiang Ning’s view, one reason was the appearance of Xiao Peng, giving him a competitor.

The second reason was the arrival of opportunity.

The Inspection Office, the newly established power structure in Great Xia, allowed Cheng Ran to see a different future, a path to leap from being a fish into becoming a dragon.

The appearance of Shen Congyun also filled Cheng Ran with even more motivation.

As these thoughts flashed through his mind, Jiang Ning continued to ask, “Did Brother Cheng reap any benefits?”

Cheng Ran shook his head, then nodded slightly, “A little, but not much! I need to go back and organize my thoughts properly.”

Then he continued, “Please bother Brother Jiang for another bowl of water!”

Jiang Ning smiled as he took the bowl from Cheng Ran’s hand, refilled it with fresh water from the tank, and handed it back to Cheng Ran.

After drinking the bowl of water in one gulp, Cheng Ran finally stood up.

“It’s getting late, I should be going back!”

Jiang Ning also stood up, “Let me see Brother Cheng off!”

“Alright!” Cheng Ran nodded, and then added, “I will come to pick up Brother Jiang for the banquet at the Sihe Chamber of Commerce tomorrow night, but I won’t come to the Martial Arts Hall during the day. I need to ponder over today’s battle with that beast and see if I can catch that fleeting spark of insight to elevate my Tiger Form Boxing to Great Success.”

“No problem!” Jiang Ning nodded and then, clasping his hands, said, “Thank you, Brother Cheng.”

Cheng Ran smiled in response.

The two then walked out of the Martial Arts Hall.

…

After seeing Cheng Ran off, Jiang Ning returned to his courtyard within the Martial Arts Hall.

Entering his room, he saw ten brocade boxes placed on the table.

Within these ten brocade boxes were ten wild ginseng roots.

In the afternoon, Zhou Xing had arranged for someone to deliver the ten wild ginseng roots to the Martial Arts Hall.

Jiang Ning had also successfully obtained the nourishing medicinal herbs he had been longing for.

“Ten wild ginseng roots should be enough for me for some time!”

He opened a brocade box and gazed at the wild ginseng lying within, his eyes revealing a delighted light.

Ever since he ran out of wild ginseng for nourishment, his daily practice of boxing had decreased by nearly thirty percent. @@novelbin@@

This not only slowed the speed at which he fermented liver to generate Experience Value, but the rate at which he accumulated Qi-Blood had declined as well.

Likewise, the rate at which he acquired Energy Points also decreased considerably.

On the day he consumed the most, eating a third of a wild ginseng root, his Energy Points increased by 0.6.

Later, without the supplement of wild ginseng, even though the soups provided by the Martial Arts Hall increased to three bowls a day and he had meat with every meal, his daily Energy Points growth was only 0.4.

“It’s different now! With these ten wild ginseng roots, it will be completely different in the short term! My rate of improvement will inevitably be faster!”

After that, Jiang Ning took out a brocade box with wild ginseng and walked out to the small courtyard.

…

Under the enveloping sunset.

Jiang Ning stood still on the spot, not moving an inch.

In his mind, he replayed the scenes of everyone fighting the fierce tiger from the afternoon.

That afternoon.

Besides Cheng Ran, Li Qing, Zhou Xing, Zhao Hu, and Zhang Tiesheng, these four True Disciples took turns battling with the tiger.

Jiang Ning had watched the entire battle; it was his first time witnessing a fierce tiger fighting humans.

With his “unforgettable” trait, the battle from that afternoon was etched into his mind as vividly as a movie scene.

The tiger was the best teacher for Tiger Form Boxing.

From the battles that afternoon, Jiang Ning learned a great deal.

At this moment, he continued to deepen his understanding of the tiger’s spirit and form.

Only by mastering both spirit and form could he elevate the Tiger Form of the Five Animals Fist to Great Success.

Once he achieved Great Success in the spirit and form of one boxing style, each time Jiang Ning practiced the Five Animals Fist, he would gain at least two Experience Value Points.

This was an effect he had already tested out.