Chapter 86 Lotus Fire God
Many people living near the Li family and even in Xuzhou city have noticed the changes in the Li family.

As Li Shijie got closer, more people discovered Li Shijie who was going against the current and getting closer to the battlefield between Zhu Chengwu and Duke Yan.

Some people marveled at Li Shijie's courage.

Some people also think that Li Shijie is seeking death!
But they all had one consensus, that after today, Li Shijie would never be able to be called the number one genius in Xuzhou Prefecture.

Li Shijie is indeed outstanding, but Fu'an Hou Zhu Chengwu is even more outstanding!

Unless Marquis Fu'an is excluded from Xuzhou Prefecture, the ranking can be made again.

Otherwise, after today, the title of the number one genius in Xuzhou Prefecture will only belong to Marquis Fu'an.

How can you be bright when you are born with beauty!

Many people in Xuzhou city sighed for Li Shijie!
This included someone who thought highly of Li Shijie and even believed that Li Shijie would devote his entire life to being the prefect of Xuzhou, who had achieved mastery earlier than Zhu Chengwu.

However, today, after seeing the battle scene between Zhu Chengwu and Duke Yan, they all had to admit that Zhu Chengwu, Marquis of Fu'an, was the real number one genius in Xuzhou Prefecture.

As for excluding Zhu Chengwu from Xuzhou Prefecture before ranking?
In this world with deep geopolitical ties, no one can refuse to have a peerless genius from his hometown!
Just like Zhu Chengwu's previous life, people from all over the country were arguing over the hometown of Confucius and the hometown of Qin Shihuang.

"The earth gives birth to all things, and the lotus fire makes the gods flourish!"

However, before Li Shijie arrived at the place where the Duke of Yan and the Marquis of Fu'an were fighting, everyone who was paying attention to the battlefield heard a voice that contained inexplicable majesty.

This is Zhu Chengwu’s declaration of performing his secret technique!

With the "Jade Book" by his side, the convenience brought by his status as a prince, and the knowledge accumulated by the Zhu royal family and the Ming Dynasty for more than 300 years, Zhu Chengwu has never lacked secret techniques and desperate forbidden techniques.

It’s just that the previous competitions were not worth Zhu Chengwu’s time to display and expose these secret and forbidden techniques.

After all, there is no danger to life!
Before today, the only time Zhu Chengwu used his secret technique was when he was assassinated at the gate of Xuzhou City.

Zhu Chengwu used a secret technique to break free from the soul control of the Yin God master in the dark.

Got a chance to catch my breath!
Thus the ultimate escape!

In addition to this, before today, Zhu Chengwu had never used any secret or forbidden techniques.

He also never told anyone else the secret and forbidden techniques he knew!

The secret and forbidden techniques that Zhu Chengwu mastered are Zhu Chengwu's last desperate means in this dangerous world of martial arts.

Zhu Chengwu didn't want to be exposed unless it was absolutely necessary.

After all, a trump card that has been exposed is no longer a trump card!

Besides, a good cook cannot cook without rice!

Although the "Jade Book" is powerful, Zhu Chengwu's foundation is there. Those secret techniques and forbidden techniques can only allow Zhu Chengwu to fight one level higher at most.

Even because of the huge gap between the first-rate and the grandmaster!
After Zhu Chengwu achieved first-class status, it became very difficult for him to fight at a higher level.

Before he achieved great success in "A World Away", "Innate Qi" and "Fire Palm", and before he obtained the "Earth Core Fire Lotus", even the forbidden technique with the highest cost and the highest improvement deduced and optimized by the "Jade Book" could only cause Zhu Chengwu to perish together with an ordinary master.

After such forbidden and secret techniques are exposed, the benefits brought to Zhu Chengwu are far less than the dangers brought to Zhu Chengwu.

Therefore, it was impossible for Zhu Chengwu to reveal his forbidden and secret techniques.

Those forbidden techniques and secret skills can only be Zhu Chengwu's last desperate resort.

Until now, Zhu Chengwu has achieved great success in "The World Is Within Reach", "Innate Qi", and "Fire Palm", and obtained the "Earth Core Fire Lotus"...

Zhu Chengwu once again optimized some of the secret and forbidden techniques he deduced through the "Jade Book" to adapt them to the "Earth Core Fire Lotus" and his current situation!

The secret technique "Lotus Fire God" came into being!

The foundation of the secret art "Lotus Fire God" is no longer Zhu Chengwu himself, but the "Earth Core Fire Lotus" in Zhu Chengwu's body. With the help of the characteristics of the "Earth Core Fire Lotus", a high-level treasure of heaven and earth, it can pry the earth and fire vital energy between heaven and earth, and absorb and store these vital energies in the "Earth Core Fire Lotus", and use the "Earth Core Fire Lotus" as the engine of Zhu Chengwu's many martial arts.

In this way, compared with the grandmaster, Zhu Chengwu's internal weakness was avoided by more than 90 percent.

Moreover, most of the power used to launch martial arts comes from the earth and fire energy directly absorbed and stored by the "Earth Core Fire Lotus".

This kind of vital energy is more explosive than the true energy transformed by the human body.

This results in the martial arts displayed by Zhu Chengwu being even more powerful than the master's ultimate martial arts.

Zhen Qi is what this world calls the internal force within a master's body.

Below the grandmaster is internal energy, and the grandmaster is true energy.

From being one point weaker than the ultimate martial arts of the ordinary grandmaster level to being one point stronger than the ultimate martial arts of the ordinary grandmaster level, the secret technique "Lotus Fire God" has brought tremendous improvement to Zhu Chengwu, not to mention that it also allows Zhu Chengwu to avoid the weakness of insufficient internal energy.

This secret technique is not the upper limit of the "Jade Book"'s deduction. With the "Earth Core Fire Lotus" as its foundation, the "Jade Book" is capable of deducing stronger and more advanced forbidden techniques.

However, Zhu Chengwu chose to deduce the secret technique of "Lotus Fire God" at the first opportunity.

Because the biggest advantage of the secret technique "Lotus Fire God" is that it has almost no cost.

The foundation of the secret art "Lotus Fire God" is not Zhu Chengwu, but the "Earth Core Fire Lotus", a high-level treasure of the world.

The price of this unreasonable increase in strength was naturally borne by the "Earth Core Fire Lotus".

However, this level of improvement and this level of cost is nothing more than a drop in the bucket for a high-level treasure like the "Earth Core Fire Lotus" or the source of heaven and earth!

This is why the secret technique of "Lotus Fire God" is a secret technique and not a forbidden technique.

Secret arts have low costs, and the smallest ones are almost negligible. For example, the secret art of "Lotus Fire Shengshen"!
Forbidden techniques have a high price, and the biggest one can be said to be born entirely for the purpose of mutual destruction. For example, the forbidden technique of "burning together"!
As Zhu Chengwu continued to pinch seals to activate the "Earth Core Fire Lotus" sealed in the heart of his body, the secret technique of "Lotus Fire God" continued to operate, activating more and more earth and fire energy, and the range became wider and wider...

At the beginning, it was the first-rate masters who were closer to the battlefield who felt the irregular surge of earth and fire energy in the heaven and earth.

For example, Li Shijie and the old patriarch of the Li family, who are now very close to the battlefield.

Just like Zhao Xinghan, Gao Yao, the father and daughter of the eldest son of Duke Zhao, and the younger brother of Duke Yan, and the Princess Changning and her husband, who all appeared near the battlefield at some point and were facing each other.

When they felt that the earth and fire elements in heaven and earth were converging not far away, their eyes all turned to the target where the earth and fire elements in heaven and earth were converging, that is, Zhu Chengwu who was exchanging moves with Duke Yan.

In front of these top-notch masters nearby, Duke Yan, who was fighting with Zhu Chengwu, felt countless fire and earth vital energies continuously gathering towards Zhu Chengwu.

This unusual scene made Duke Yan feel nervous, and he immediately increased the intensity and frequency of his attacks.

However, Zhu Chengwu relied on his more advanced light-kung skills to dodge all of Duke Yan's powerful attacks.

Once Duke Yan pursued the hit rate and coverage, Zhu Chengwu would not dodge or evade, but use the protective air shield to withstand it.

For a moment, Duke Yan was unable to do anything to Zhu Chengwu and interrupted his spell.

As the fluctuations of the secret technique continued to expand, after Li Shijie, Zhao Xinghan, the younger brother of Duke Yan and other first-rate masters nearby, all the martial artists above the entry-level level in the entire Xuzhou city vaguely felt this unusual fluctuation.

"Hmm~"

Zhao Yuguang and Chang Qingshan, who were fighting fiercely, finally noticed this unusual and unignorable fluctuation of vital energy and let out a light exclamation at the same time.

With Zhao Yuguang and Chang Qingshan's master strength, they should have discovered this unusual fluctuation long ago.

But their fight was too intense!

All their attention was on each other, calculating each other's next move and finding each other's flaws...

So, I didn’t notice it until the very end!

The fluctuation of this energy was too strong and the essence of its power was too high, so they had to devote some attention to pursue and explore it. As they shifted their gaze to pursue the source of this unusual fluctuation of energy, they saw an unexpected figure.

Zhu Chengwu!
At this time, Zhu Chengwu's secret technique of "Lotus Fire God" was finally completed.

A considerable amount of earth and fire energy has been stored in the "Earth Core Fire Lotus", and the interactive channel between the "Earth Core Fire Lotus" and the surrounding world has also been built...

From now on, Zhu Chengwu no longer needs to keep making hand seals and practicing Qigong to pry open the “Earth Core Fire Lotus” in his body!

"Brother Chengyi, be ready!

I’m going to take action!”

Zhu Chengwu once again dodged the Ananda finger power that Duke Yan had fully unleashed, stood on a roof, looked at Duke Yan opposite him and said.

The secret technique "Lotus Fire God" was completed, and Zhu Chengwu's whole body radiated a red and yellow light.

This makes Zhu Chengwu look like a god of light or fire.

One can tell at a glance that the current Zhu Chengwu is very different from the previous Zhu Chengwu!

“Hmph~~
Pretending to be mysterious!

Those below the Grandmaster will always be below the Grandmaster!"

Although the mysterious intuition was constantly warning Duke Yan that Zhu Chengwu was in danger and the situation would become extremely dangerous, Duke Yan still showed no fear and refused to admit defeat.

The situation has developed to this point!
Duke Yan has only one way to go, and he must go all the way.

Although Duke Yan seemed to be unconcerned about the secret technique Zhu Chengwu had just performed, in fact, he was already extremely vigilant against Zhu Chengwu.

This can be seen from the actions of Duke Yan!
Because at this moment, the Duke of Yan did not continue to attack, but was highly concentrated and took a defensive stance.

"is it?
Then try it! "

Zhu Chengwu smiled and strode forward!

"The Great Fire Seal!"

The moment Zhu Chengwu moved forward, several palm prints made of flames broke away from Zhu Chengwu's palms.

It was at the Marquis of Fu'an's Mansion that Zhu Chengwu used his first offensive move against the Duke of Yan!
"You dare to show off your old tricks?"

Faced with the old tactics, Duke Yan's response remained unchanged.

After all, Duke Yan had the upper hand in his response at Marquis Fu'an's Mansion.

Duke Yan put his index and middle fingers together on his right hand and pointed out!
It was at the Marquis of Fu'an's Mansion that the Duke of Yan broke Zhu Chengwu's "Great Fire Seal" move.

Ananda points!
However, when old moves collide with new ones, the results are very different.

Although it was a point-breaking attack, Duke Yan's Ananda Finger was unable to defeat and disperse Zhu Chengwu's Fiery Handprint as it had just done in Marquis Fu'an's Mansion.

This time, Duke Yan's Ananda Finger could only penetrate the Fiery Handprint used by Zhu Chengwu.

Looking at the power of Ananda's finger that pierced through the flaming handprint and attacked him directly, Zhu Chengwu did not stop.

When～~
The force of Ananda's finger, weakened by the Fiery Handprint, hit Zhu Chengwu's body-protecting Qi that had been compressed three inches close to his body, and a sound like the collision of metal and iron was heard.

This method of compressing the protective qi is an improvement upon Zhu Chengwu's combination of his insights from the "Vajra Indestructible Divine Art" and the characteristics of the "Earth Core Fire Lotus".

However, Zhu Chengwu could ignore the power of the Ananda finger of Duke Yan.

However, Duke Yan was unable to ignore Zhu Chengwu's strengthened "Great Fire Seal".

Especially, there were several "Giant Fire Handprints" pressing towards Duke Yan at the same time.

Duke Yan originally wanted to point out with one finger, first break up one of the "Giant Fire Handprints", and then deal with the others one by one.

But unexpectedly, the first step gave Duke Yan an unexpected surprise.

With Duke Yan's master level cultivation, it is not impossible for him to deal with Zhu Chengwu's strengthened "Great Fire Seal".

However, such an unexpected change would put the Duke of Yan at a disadvantage in terms of "moving moves" and "response".

For example, now, one finger won’t work!
Duke Yan had no choice but to point out the second finger.

After successively dispersing several "Great Fire Seals" released by Zhu Chengwu, Duke Yan, who had lost the initiative, was dragged to the spot by Zhu Chengwu.

Zhu Chengwu suddenly appeared from behind a scattered "Giant Fire Handprint".

He was about to engage in close combat with Duke Yan.

The Duke of Yan only has one unique martial art that he has mastered, the "Ananda Finger".

However, Zhu Chengwu has three skills, one of which is a unique self-defense skill.

Close combat is more advantageous to Zhu Chengwu!

"Heaven's broken legs!"

Duke Yan wanted to distance himself.

The Ananda Finger is a finger technique that focuses the attack on one point. Its power weakens much faster after leaving the body than Zhu Chengwu's palm technique!

Keeping a distance and fighting at a long distance would be more beneficial to the Duke of Yan.

"So close to the end of the world!"

However, how could Zhu Chengwu let Duke Yan get his wish?

Although "A World Away" is not an earth or fire-attributed martial art, it cannot receive much blessing from the secret technique "Lotus Fire God".

But relying on Zhu Chengwu's internal strength, the great level of "A World Away" was enough to prevent Duke Yan from getting rid of Zhu Chengwu.

This is the benefit of strong Qinggong skills!
You can pursue when you advance, you can escape when you retreat!
While keeping up with Duke Yan, Zhu Chengwu was also constantly entangled with Duke Yan's men.

Of course, the same goes for Duke Yan.

Continue to attack Zhu Chengwu.

The intention is to find Zhu Chengwu's weakness and defeat him.

Or disrupt Zhu Chengwu's rhythm and create some distance between them.

The two men were confronting each other, and as they moved, their figures could be seen everywhere in Xuzhou City.

Duke Yan is indeed a true master, and his strength should not be underestimated.

If Zhu Chengwu can easily suppress and defeat Duke Yan after performing the secret technique of "Lotus Fire God", then the Grandmaster may not be that inferior!

Such a master is not worthy of being called a strategic nuclear deterrent between dynasties.

During the more than 300 years of the Ming Dynasty, there were so many geniuses and evildoers, it is impossible that there was no one who could defeat the master.

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