Early the next morning, Li Changzu finished his morning practice and called Lin De.

"I saw you were pretty good last night. What kind of martial arts did you practice?" He got straight to the point. This was also the benefit of his status.

"Back to the Second Master, I learned martial arts at the Northern Zhou Martial Arts School in Beicheng. The basics are "Spiritual Snake Picture"." Liu De replied respectfully.

""Spirit Snake Picture"?"

"Yes." Liu De nodded, "Visualize the shape of a spiritual snake and have the flexibility of a spiritual snake."

"Can you teach me?" Li Changzhou asked.

"Second Master, I can teach you the ordinary postures, but the visualization method not only requires a map, but also requires training of Qi and blood. If the Qi and blood are insufficient, even if there is a map, there is no way to visualize the spirit snake."

This matter was a bit supernatural. Afraid that Li Changzhou wouldn’t believe it, Liu De hurriedly said:

"I'm not trying to be mysterious. Nowadays, technological artillery reigns supreme, and telephones can transmit sounds thousands of miles away. However, there are some things in the human body that are equally magical. Second Master, do you think how incredible it is that humans have thoughts?"

"I believe what you said." Li Changzhou nodded, "Okay, if the "Spiritual Snake Picture" is not good, you can teach me the posture to train Qi and blood. Is this okay?"

"No problem!" Liu De agreed, patting his chest, "But Second Master, learning martial arts is very hard. It can only be accomplished in a year and a half. Second Master is older, so I'm afraid it will be even harder."

"You just discipline."

"good!"

The two immediately found a courtyard in the Marshal's mansion.

In this large yard, there are more than a dozen cypress trees planted in the middle, dividing the yard in two like a fence. One side is like a football field, and the other side is full of flowers. The flowers are clustered like a flower basket.

"Second Master, my posture is called "Snake Step". It doesn't have a fancy name." Liu De took a few steps and slid out like a snake.

"The movement is as strange as a snake, the attack is as vicious as a snake, and the beating is as smooth as a snake."

His body twisted strangely, like a snake that was meandering forward. In a blink of an eye, he came to a cypress tree, and his body suddenly bumped into it, but the two passed by as if they were oiled.

Liu De wrapped himself around the tree, as soft as a snake.

At the same time, he raised his forearm like a snake, flicked his palm, hissed in the wind, and caught it on the cypress tree as fast as lightning.

Peng!

It was dull and cautious, the cypress tree was scratched alive, and debris was flying.

Liu De raised his hand, there was no wound on it.

"If there is a "Spirit Snake Picture", when you take action, visualize the mouth of a poisonous snake. It is ten times more powerful. In one bite, it can bite through two such cypress trees."

After the demonstration, Liu De taught Li Changzhou the key points of "Snake Step". There were no formulas, only physical postures.

"When you walk the Snake Step, your Qi and blood will naturally be exercised."

"With the qualifications of an ordinary person, after one year of practice, you can take the first step of 'walking out of the hole'; after another two years of practice, you can take the two steps of 'wandering'; after another three years of practice, you can 'cross body'; and after four years of practice, you can 'dance wildly'.

Five years of 'Lightning', six years of 'Traveling in All Directions', and seven years of 'Snake Shadow'."

"For a total of twenty-eight years, the snake took seven steps and it was completed. You can imagine the "Spiritual Snake Picture"."

"Twenty-eight years?" Li Changzhou asked subconsciously.

"If you are talented, of course this time can be shortened." Liu De replied.

"How long have you been practicing?"

"Twenty years." Liu De was slightly satisfied. This was a full eight years shorter than ordinary people.

Eight years, only three years of high school, really three years and three years, and two more years, saving so much time, a stable genius.

"What were the most powerful years of the Northern Zhou martial arts school?" Li Changzhou asked again.

"Half a year, but it was a record from a long time ago. It is difficult to determine whether it is true or false. Just like the portraits of many people's ancestors, they are all elegant and graceful, which is far from reality." Liu De told the truth, but he didn't want to let it go without him.

The knowledgeable Mr. Li thought he was not good at it.

"Well, if you go and get 10,000 yuan, it's mine."

"Thank you, Master!"

"By the way," Li Changzhou stopped Liu De again, "I will go to the opera theater at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. You can arrange a box for me."

"The people from Liyuan have already sent the tickets. Second Master can go whenever he wants."

"Okay, go get busy."

Liu De left the backyard and went straight to the accounting room to collect the reward.

This ten thousand yuan is quite a lot. In the 1920s, some top literati—the top group—earned just over ten thousand yuan a year.

Nowadays, one tael of gold only costs thirty-one and thirty cents, a thirty-pound bag of foreign flour produced in the United States only costs four yuan, and a table of the best swallow-wing mats in Zhengyang Tower only costs five yuan.

This ten thousand yuan can buy more than 400 acres of good land, and you can become a small landowner in the countryside!

Although there was no note, the accountant gave the money to Liu De and just casually asked the reason.

"Hey, Second Master saw me fighting an assassin last night and suddenly wanted to learn martial arts this morning. I asked him a few questions and then stopped asking. I guess he just wanted to be fresh and didn't want to learn martial arts." Liu De said.

"Perhaps the second master took this opportunity to reward your performance last night," the cashier said.

"Hey!" Liu De slapped his thigh, "It's really possible! No wonder the second master only saw me demonstrate it once and then asked me to receive the reward."

"Liu De, you won the reward, so you won't be able to treat us tonight!" Someone on the side shouted.

"Come all! Zhengyang Tower, the best Yanzhi mat! After dinner, go to Luohua Bookstore to listen to a little song!" Liu De was also very interested.

"If I don't go, I won't go. The female gentlemen there will have to wait for me to look after them, looking for a 'eldest son' or a 'little son'!"

Chang San, prostitutes of this level charge three yuan for drinking and tea, so they are called Chang San.

The same principle applies to Yao Er. Tea is charged one yuan, and accompanying wine is charged RMB 2, so it is called Yao Er.

Under 'Shu Yu', 'Chang San', and 'Yao Er', there is also a 'Wild Pheasant', the folk name is the legendary 'Pheasant'. Prostitutes at this level have much more direct work.

Two things: smoking cigarettes with the guests, and taking off the guests' clothes and belts.

After Liu De left, Li Changzhou was alone in the yard.

As he stepped forward and swung his body, all the energy and blood in his body twisted like a big snake.

One step, two steps, three steps, four steps, five steps, six steps, seven steps.

The big snake of energy and blood neighed and became extremely active, as if it was about to rush out of the body.

The "Snake Step" that would take ordinary people twenty-eight years of hard work had been completed by him in an instant.

This isn’t the end yet!

Li Changzhou followed the feeling and took another step, eight steps!

The blood all over his body was boiling, and wisps of blood mist were steaming, forming a shadow of a giant blood-colored dragon behind him.

Seven steps is a snake, eight steps is a dragon.

Li Changzhou relied on his illegal-level basic attributes to surpass all previous generations of the Northern Zhou Martial Arts School.

At this moment, his temples were beating, there was a sound of thunder in his ears, and his whole body was like strings that were stretched to the extreme. Even if he exerted even a little more force, the strings would break and the instrument would be destroyed.

But is Li Changzhou a person who is afraid of strings? He is full of demons that put himself on the fire.

He raised his feet to take the ninth step...

"puff!"

His body staggered, his body and soul were disintegrated, and he vomited out a large mouthful of blood.

Since there is a dragon, of course there is a dragon, but you can't even take the ninth step with a violation-level physique?

Li Changzhou wiped the corner of his mouth, rolled it into blood beads and threw it into his mouth, unable to help but ponder.

Is it because my own Qi and blood (attributes) are not enough, or is it that "Snake Step" is not enough?

When it comes to Qi and blood, even the value game calls it an "illegal" attribute, so there's no reason why it can't be taken to the extreme.

The dragons and dragons here only have a symbolic meaning. They only represent a state, a change in the level of life, and a manifestation of powerful genes.

"Compendium of Materia Medica·Yi" says: "The dragon is the length of the scale insect. Wang Fu said that its shape has nine similarities: the head is like a camel, the horns are like a deer, the eyes are like a rabbit, the ears are like an ox, the neck is like a snake, the belly is like a mirage, and the scales

Like a carp, its claws are like an eagle's, and its palms are like a tiger's."

If you put it in a value game, it means you are invincible in the world, and you have learned the powerful skills of various powerful creatures. This is a dragon.

Li Changzhou felt it for a while and found that the effect of "Snake Step" on stimulating potential at the eighth step was far worse than that of "Thunder Picture".

As far as he feels, even if there is a supporting visualization method "Spirit Snake Picture", it may not be as good as "Thunder Picture".

The "Thunder Picture" is only one of the "Five Books" of Master Huang's sect, and the "Five Books" are just the concepts learned at the beginning!

No wonder that old man with a goatee always wears that Taoist robe and wants to bully others.

Li Changzhou's heart filled with endless longing for the past.

"Snake Step" is not as good as "Thunder Picture" in terms of training 'ability', but as a footwork, it can be used as a major - Li Changzhou has no footwork at all and relies entirely on reaction and strength.

I practiced in the yard until 9 o'clock when a servant reported that Lin Ziwen wanted to see him for something.

Li Changzhou came to the living room of the front house of the Marshal's Mansion - the living room where he played mahjong last night was the back house. Most of the servants were women, and the front house was occupied by male servants.
To be continued...