Chapter 31 - Meeting of BrothersXiang Jinghong put on an awe-inspiring expression as he looked towards the sky outside the door, sighing with emotion.
"Ah, second brother is still the loyal general of the imperial court, a dignified fourth rank official. He fought for the country, led the army, shouldered our father and father, the Emperor and the son of the war G.o.d of the Wind Cloud Nation. He naturally does not dare to slack off, even in the clear sky, if he has any free time, he would not waste it right?"As he said these words, Xiang Jinghong even intentionally shook the scroll in his hand, shooting a glance at the worshipful Xiang Yun in front of him as he snickered inwardly.
"Second Brother, it seems like you took the book in your hands backwards."
"Ah!" Xiang Jinghong lowered his head to look, the military manual in his hands had indeed been taken in the opposite direction. The latter immediately turned it around in a flurry, looking extremely awkward as he looked at Xiang Yun, mumbling as if he wanted to explain something, but he couldn"t think of a reasonable excuse.
However, even without Xiang Jinghong"s words, Xiang Yun had already taken the initiative to give him a thumbs up, saying with a face full of admiration, "Second Brother is indeed Second Brother, his cultivation realm is indeed extraordinary. I have heard that there are people who can memorize the military strategies written in the Military Strategy, while second Brother can directly read them.
Xiang Jinghong looked at the pompous praising expression on Xiang Yun"s face, helplessly tossing the military manual in his hands onto the desk. He said snappily to Xiang Yun, "That"s enough, you don"t have to pretend anymore. In front of you, I don"t have any more secrets to speak of."
Xiang Yun chuckled upon hearing this. He looked at his second brother, Xiang Jinghong, whom he had not seen for almost a year, and felt a trace of cordiality in his heart. This second brother of his seemed to have grown even more robust and st.u.r.dy.
"Second brother, when did you come back? Did the army give you, a general, a holiday?"
Xiang Jinghong said rather gloomily, "That"s right, you get angry just by mentioning it. Didn"t Royal Father just celebrate his birthday today? I had originally planned to come again three days in advance to congratulate Royal Father on his birthday. Who would"ve thought that my superior, General Han, would give me a month"s holiday in advance and tell me to hurry back to Silver City.""I said I don"t want to come back so early, so he invited Marshal Hong and the other elders to come over and convince me, I had no choice but to come back a month earlier. I really don"t know why they are so worried about my father"s birthday."
Hearing this, Xiang Yun was also a little speechless. He smiled mockingly and said, "Who asked you to be the son of Prince Jian? It"s naturally the Emperor who is not anxious."Immediately, he raised his head to look at the Xiang Yun before him, only to suddenly discover that compared to a year ago, his Third Brother seemed to have become much more energetic. His eyebags were gone, his eyes had become focused, his face had become shiny, and his body seemed to have become a little firmer.
"Eh?" Xiang Jinghong exclaimed softly. He could not help but stand up and walk around Xiang Yun, taking the latter seriously as he sized her up from top to bottom.
"Hey, hey, hey, second brother, what are you doing? I"m a proper man, I don"t have any Long Yang obsession with me. Don"t look at me like that!" Xiang Yun crossed his arms across his chest, looking at Xiang Jinghong with a wary expression.
"f.u.c.k you, how could I have that kind of hobby!" As he spoke, Xiang Jinghong subconsciously punched Xiang Yun"s shoulder. This punch of his caused him to feel a little regretful. This punch of his naturally was not meant to get rid of Xiang Yun.
Xiang Jinghong was used to being in the army. He momentarily forgot that this was no longer an army, nor was this person in front of him a strong, tough, muscular soldier. Rather, it was his weak third brother.
Even though he had retracted half of his strength, the force of this punch was still not light. It was likely that the stocky man would still stagger a few steps back from the punch. As for his weak third brother, he was afraid that he would be sent flying backwards.Xiang Jinghong"s foot made a mistake, as if he was about to fly out and grab Xiang Yun.
"Bam!"
As this punch was thrown out, a soft m.u.f.fled sound reverberated through the room. Xiang Jinghong had imagined that Xiang Yun, who had been sent flying backwards, actually swayed slightly after enduring this punch of his. He did not even make a move to retreat a single step; he just stood there, unmoving.
"Aiyo, second brother, why did you hit me?" Xiang Yun wore an exaggerated expression as he took in the pain. It was obvious at a glance that it was an act."Whoa!"
If it was said that he had noticed the change in Xiang Yun"s expression earlier and felt that it was a little strange, then right now, he was surprised that Xiang Yun had managed to withstand his punch and had not taken even half a step back!
It had to be known that when that fist struck down, even a martial artist of Yiyun"s level would have to retreat a step. Xiang Yun"s body had actually swayed for just a moment before he was fine!
Seeing Xiang Yun"s tall and st.u.r.dy body looking weak and thin in front of him, Xiang Jinghong rolled his eyes. Suddenly, he reached out and grabbed Xiang Yun"s arm. Immediately, Xiang Yun saw a fiery red energy appear in Xiang Jinghong"s hand as it instantly entered his body.
In the next moment, Xiang Yun felt a warm feeling spread throughout his entire body, causing him to feel warm all over, as if he was standing before a furnace, extremely warm and comfortable.
This feeling only lasted for a short while before a fiery red energy flew out from Xiang Yun"s body and returned to Xiang Jinghong"s palm. The latter looked at Xiang Yun in disbelief as he spoke.
"Huh? Weird, your body clearly doesn"t have spirit root or cloud power, but how did your body reach the level of Fighter 2-Cloud? Moreover, your vitality is as strong as an ordinary Fighter 3-Cloud, or even Fighter 4-Cloud. Did you encounter some sort of fortuitous encounter?"Xiang Yun was stunned upon hearing this. Earlier, he had guessed that Xiang Jinghong was inspecting his body. Naturally, Xiang Yun had nothing to hide from his second brother, allowing him to investigate and not resist at all.
He had thought that he could not hide the fact that he had a spirit root after becoming a martial artist. He was just about to confess to his second brother, but who would"ve thought that his second brother would actually say that he didn"t have a spirit root.He thought to himself, I clearly have a golden spiritual root, but why is second brother unable to investigate it? Xiang Yun was still worried as he examined his own dantian, and only relaxed when he saw that the golden vine was still clearly inside his body, and contained the cloud energy that was being absorbed from heaven and earth.
Xiang Yun did not know that as soon as the golden vine entered his body, it seemed as if it had merged into another s.p.a.ce, instantly vanishing into nothingness. Therefore, the latter was unable to even detect its existence.
As for Xiang Yun, seeing that his second brother had not discovered his own spiritual roots, he did not reveal it either. Xiang Jinghong was a fire cultivation genius with forty spiritual roots.
As for what Xiang Jinghong had said about his physical body being comparable to Eryun"s martial pract.i.tioners, Xiang Yun was rather surprised.He knew that his second brother had broken through to the Seven Clouds Realm and had reached the Yellow Cloud Realm. The words spoken by the latter were absolutely true.
He was clearly a Yiyun martial pract.i.tioner, so how could his physical body reach the 2-Cloud Realm? Xiang Yun suddenly remembered that when he woke up, the cloud energy in his spirit root had also increased by a lot.
Could it be because he drank that huge vat of Five Poison Wine? Xiang Yun suddenly thought of the greatest possibility that his body had changed. The Five Poison Wine was a great tonic; at the same time that his body"s impurities were washed away, it would definitely increase his cultivation base as well."The items from the Jin Yong Wuxia"s system are really good stuff!" Xiang Yun could not help but exclaim in his heart. At the same time, he began to look forward to the lottery draw for the seventh day of the third month.
"Kid, you"re great. I haven"t seen you for a year, but you"ve actually changed so much. You"re no longer that perverted kid who was about to shake when walking. Looks like you"ve really changed." Xiang Jinglei couldn"t help but exclaim once again.
Back then, he had been very worried about Xiang Yun"s weak body, having advised his younger brother to train often and take care of himself, but he knew his third brother"s personality very well. He had never imagined that this meeting would bring about such a drastic change!Xiang Yun smiled proudly, "Hehe, second brother, you don"t understand this, right? This little brother here is called Yin Yang Recovery, a method to strengthen the body and strengthen the body. That kind of thing, it wouldn"t be a problem even for ten women!"
"Come on, look at how proud you are!" Xiang Jinghong rolled his eyes at Xiang Yun. The latter naturally did not believe what Xiang Yun had said about harvesting Yin and nourishing the Yang.
He could only guess that it was most likely because his father had given some miraculous medicine to his third brother that the latter underwent such a shocking transformation.
The two brothers chatted for a while longer before Xiang Jinghong suddenly stood up and went into the room to retrieve a rectangular embroidered box. He placed it on the table with a "pa" sound and said to Xiang Yun, "Third brother, this is for you."
Xiang Yun was stunned as he pointed at the embroidered box, "What is this, the Spring Palace Map?"
"Spring my a.s.s!" Xiang Jinghong was so infuriated by Xiang Yun that he had virtually lost his temper. How could this fellow ever be able to a.s.sociate himself with such a filthy mess of things?"Xiao Yunzi, I thought you were still the sickly ghost you used to look like. This is a tonic I brought you from the Northern Frontier. Even though your body is now much better, eating this stuff is still a hundred benefits without any harm!"
"Oh!" Hearing this, Xiang Yun hurriedly reached out and grabbed the embroidered box. With a twist of his forefinger and thumb, he opened the embroidered box, and as it opened, a rich and fragrant cold aura immediately gushed out, revealing a snow-white flower that was as white as jade quietly lying within the embroidered box.
Although the flower had already detached itself from its roots, it was still lush and open, and wisps of cold air were seeping out from its surface. It looked strangely beautiful.
"Second brother, what kind of flowers are these? Why have I never seen them before?" Xiang Yun was rather curious. There were over a thousand types of flowers in the Duke"s Mansion, but Xiang Yun had never seen such a miraculous flower variety.
Xiang Jinghong looked at Xiang Yun like he was looking at a country b.u.mpkin, saying, "You kid, you"ve never seen it before right? This thing is a great treasure. It"s the Frozen Soul Rose from the peak of the Arctic Mountain Range of the Northern Frontier!""Ice Soul Rose!" It was as if he had heard of it somewhere before. After pondering for a moment, he suddenly recalled that back when he was in the crown prince"s residence, he had once read a book regarding medicinal herbs in the continent. He had seen this item before.
"Second Brother, isn"t this the main ingredient that can refine Profound Jade Pills, "Ice Soul Rose"?"