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Chapter 459: Chapter 102: Wang Jin’s Astonishment, All Set for Tonight! (Vote for Monthly Tickets!!)_2
"This is...."
Jiang Ning said, "This is the Five Animals Diagram, an improved Five Animals Diagram."
"Five Animals Diagram?" Wang Jin was astonished.
He then picked up the nearest diagram on the table.
Undoing the red string that bound it, he slowly unfurled the rolled-up diagram in his hands.
The next moment,
He instantly saw a fierce tiger.
A fierce tiger whose entire body was bathed in raging flames.
The tiger was trapped in a cage, roaring furiously towards the sky.
At this very moment, the reflection of a raging, flame-engulfed tiger could be seen in Wang Jin’s pupils.
After several breaths,
He slowly shifted his gaze and gently closed his eyes.
Then, after a few more breaths,
He opened his eyes again, looking at Jiang Ning with a sigh.
"Incredible!"
"This is just too incredible!!!"
Jiang Ning asked, "Master, what do you think?"
Instead of answering, Wang Jin looked at Jiang Ning with a complex expression.
"You’ve grasped the essence of the boxing technique, haven’t you?"
While the question sounded doubtful, his tone was filled with certainty.
Hearing this, Jiang Ning slowly nodded.
"That’s right!"
"Absolutely incredible!!!" praised Wang Jin,
Then he became very emotional,
"To have grasped the essence of the boxing technique, and one that is your own creation at that!"
"Who could have imagined?!!"
"You’re just too freakishly talented!"
"Compared to a master of fist skill at your age, they are far behind you!!"
In that moment, Wang Jin fully realized
That the improved Five Animals Fist was not just an idea or aim of Jiang Ning, but it had become a reality.
His cheaper apprentice had already, by practicing the improved Five Animals Fist, developed a true boxing essence.
And this cheaply taken-on apprentice, Jiang Ning, might become a really big shot that would shake Great Xia.
Thinking of this, he was filled with emotion.
Who could have thought that just a few months ago, when Jiang Ning had become his disciple to learn the skills, he now was already a top fighter who had mastered the boxing essence.
Just by mastering the boxing essence alone,
Wang Jin felt that looking across the whole Luoshui County, Jiang Ning ranked among the top fighters.
This coupled with the feeling he got when comparing strength with Jiang Ning just recently,
He understood even more that his cheap apprentice’s progress in martial arts cultivation was now above his own.
He must have already entered the realm of Martial Arts Sixth Grade.
After a moment,
Wang Jin came back to his senses and proceeded to open the other four pictures tied with red strings.
After viewing them all, he looked at Jiang Ning with a serious expression.
"Could you demonstrate the boxing essence, the one that traps the Fire Tiger?"
"Please watch, Master!" said Jiang Ning.
The next moment,
His expression changed, and the reflections of two flame-bathed fierce tigers instantly appeared in his pupils.
The boxing essence reflected.
Suddenly, Wang Jin also saw a fierce tiger, bathed in flames, looking at him with an intense gaze.
Seeing this flame-bathed fierce tiger, Wang Jin instantly felt an inexplicable surge of heart palpitations.
With a slight movement of the Qi-Blood throughout his body, he immediately felt suppressed by the boxing essence.
The circulation of his Qi-Blood also slowed down.
After that,
Jiang Ning withdrew his boxing essence.
Wang Jin’s eyes still contained remnants of fear.
"Is this the boxing essence that traps the Fire Tiger?"
"I can feel as if I might be completely torn apart by this flame-bathed fierce tiger at any moment, and the natural sense of fear makes me unable to act on my own will."
"No wonder martial artists experience a huge increase in combat power once they grasp the boxing essence!"
"Under the influence of your boxing essence, I feel like I can only exert sixty to seventy percent of my strength."
...
After finishing the formalities,
Jiang Ning accompanied Wang Jin for over two hours of drinking before getting up to take his leave.
After leaving the Martial Arts Hall, he made a trip to the market.
Before leaving home at noon, he had promised Little Dumpling to buy her five candied haws.
So he went to the market and bought five candied haws.
Afterward,
He then rode a horse-drawn carriage back home.
Along the way, he continued to flip through his books.
When he returned home,
before getting off the carriage, he took another glance at his own panel.
[Skill]: Reading and Writing (Four times Break Limit 4887/5000) (Traits: unforgettable, Extraordinary Five Senses, Divine Thought Agility, Outstanding Comprehension)
"Tonight’s settled!"
Then he entrusted Lv Yi with the task of seeing to the carriage.
He himself, carrying several strings of candied hawthorns, ascended the steps to the front door.
Thump, thump, thump—
He knocked on the door.
"It’s Uncle!"
"It must be Uncle!!"
"Uncle has brought back rock candy hawthorns!!!"
"..."
Hearing the chattering voices coming from the front yard, Jiang Ning couldn’t help but smile.
"Who is it?" Liuu Wanwan’s voice followed shortly after.
"Sister-in-law, it’s me!" Jiang Ning spoke.
After a moment,
the tightly closed front door suddenly swung open.
"Wow—"
Jiang Ning immediately saw Little Dumpling, standing behind the door gap with her mouth wide open, exclaiming in surprise.
"Ah Ning, you really brought back five rock candy hawthorns for Little Dumpling!" Liuu Wanwan spoke.
Jiang Ning smiled, casually ruffling the hair of Little Dumpling who had crossed over the threshold and was hugging his thigh.
"A promise to a child can’t be forgotten!"
"One must always deliver!"
"Otherwise, how disappointed Little Dumpling would be!!"
Liuu Wanwan’s tone was gentle: "You spoil her so."
Finishing, Liuu Wanwan made way.
Jiang Ning chuckled shaking his head: "This isn’t spoiling, it’s about keeping promises! Otherwise, they shouldn’t be made!!"
He then stepped over the front door’s threshold.
Entering the front yard,
Jiang Ning handed the rock candy hawthorns he was carrying to Little Dumpling.
Little Dumpling’s two small hands instantly grabbed one in each, left and right.
The next moment,
"Mother! This one’s for you!" Little Dumpling raised the rock candy hawthorn in her right hand high toward Liuu Wanwan.
"Mother doesn’t want it!" Liuu Wanwan’s face revealed a gentle smile.
"Yuanyuan doesn’t believe it!" Little Dumpling shook her head firmly: "Yuanyuan knows, Mother likes sour and sweet things too."
Seeing Little Dumpling this way, Liuu Wanwan smiled, accepting the candied hawthorn Little Dumpling offered.
Then,
Little Dumpling took another rock candy from Jiang Ning’s hand and ran towards the house.
Watching Little Dumpling’s retreating figure, Jiang Ning took another look at the rock candy hawthorn in his hand, then said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, Little Dumpling is quite sensible, hasn’t gone awry."
Liuu Wanwan also smiled softly.
"Yes!" She nodded.
In less than a moment,
the two of them saw Little Dumpling return empty-handed.
At this point, Jiang Ning also wanted to see how Little Dumpling would deal with the remaining two rock candy hawthorns.
After that, Little Dumpling took the two rock candy hawthorns from Jiang Ning’s hand.
"Uncle, come with me!" Little Dumpling grabbed Jiang Ning’s fingers and pulled him along.
Seeing this, Jiang Ning let himself be led by the finger by Little Dumpling.
They came to the side yard and saw a snowman piled up in a corner of the yard, a round, one-meter-tall snowman.
"Uncle, look!" Little Dumpling stood next to the one-meter-tall snowman and solemnly introduced it to Jiang Ning: "Uncle, this is Xiaobai! He’s a friend I made in the winter."
On hearing this, Jiang Ning smiled warmly.
Little Dumpling continued: "I promised to give my friend a rock candy hawthorn!"
As her words ended, she inserted the tightly held rock candy hawthorn in her right hand into the right hand of the snowman.
Now, Little Dumpling had only one rock candy hawthorn left in her hand.
She then skipped happily back to Jiang Ning’s side.
"Uncle, let me give you two bites first!"
As she spoke, she raised the rock candy hawthorn in her hand forcefully, holding it in front of Jiang Ning, her eyes shining brightly as she looked at him.
Jiang Ning bowed his head to look at Little Dumpling, then smiled as he bit off a piece of the rock candy hawthorn.
"Uncle, is it tasty?"
"Tasty!" Jiang Ning said: "Sour and sweet."
"Uncle, you eat half, and I eat half! Uncle, have two more bites." Little Dumpling looked up at Jiang Ning.
On hearing this, Jiang Ning smiled slightly.
Then he ruffled her hair: "You eat! I’m afraid of sour!"
"So Uncle is afraid of sour, huh!" Little Dumpling seemed enlightened.
Then she stuck out her tongue and gently licked the rock candy hawthorn, her eyes narrowing into crescent moons and her face filled with a sense of bliss.
"The happiness of a child, so simple!!"
Watching this scene, Jiang Ning reflected in silence.
