Chapter 90

The Paper Intoxication, a flower king that even the Heavenly Medical Valley yearned for, had, with just four petals, quickly stopped the bleeding and sealed the fatal wounds all over Tang Xuan's body.

Not long after, the news of Tang Xuan waking up spread throughout Tang Family Manor.

Although Tang Zhongxing didn't tell anyone it was because of the Paper Intoxication, many of the younger generation still vaguely knew that Tang Xuan's survival was related to a certain precious medicine their teacher had taken out.

With Tang Xuan's condition stabilizing, the dark clouds that had hung over Tang Family Manor gradually dissipated.

Tang Zheng had just received this news when Tang Boyuan came in and said, "Xuanxuan has already woken up. However, there's a problem with the flower field..."

"Oh? What problem?" Tang Zheng asked.

"The fruit of the Paper Intoxication has an extremely low yield. A plant only bears fruit once every three to ten years, and once the fruit is produced, most of it is used to make hallucinogenic poison. There isn't much of it on the market. We can only get this small packet of seeds for now, and at most, we can plant a flower field the size of half a bedroom."

Tang Zheng slapped his forehead; he had really forgotten about the seed issue.

The seeds are the fruit of the flower!

But the fruit of the Paper Intoxication is the raw material for making hallucinogenic poison, and it might be impossible to buy even if you wanted to.

For Tang Family Manor to get a small packet is already quite good.

Without enough seeds, there's nothing that can be done. Tang Zheng could only smile and say, "Plant as much as we can. After all, we're growing it to nurture the flower king, and we don't need a large area. If the flower field is too big, it would be easier to expose, and it would be inconvenient to enter and exit."

Half a bedroom is less than ten square meters. It can't even be called a flower field, at most a small nursery.

However, in the flower field in Fengmen Village, a circle of Paper Intoxication could heal Tang Zheng's injuries, so a ten-square-meter nursery should be enough for now.

"How long will it take to bloom?" Tang Zheng asked Tang Boyuan again.

"If planted well, it usually takes about a month to bloom for the first time. But... we're planting the flower king first and then the seeds. Who knows what will happen..." Tang Boyuan smiled and shook his head, indicating he didn't know.

The Paper Intoxication should have a flower field first, and then the flower king grows in the field, and not every field has a flower king...

Who has ever planted Paper Intoxication like this?

Tang Boyuan didn't know, and Tang Zheng knew even less. The two of them simply put the planting of the Paper Intoxication aside.

Tang Boyuan picked up the "Dagger Technique" from Tang Zheng's desk: "Is it that you encountered a skill barrier while practicing this martial technique?"

"Um-hum." Tang Zheng nodded.

"A handwritten martial technique?" Tang Boyuan looked carefully and exclaimed.

A handwritten martial technique is a very rare martial technique!

What's even rarer is finding the first volume.

"Only the first three volumes, and we don't know if we can find the ones after that," Tang Zheng replied.

"Having the first three volumes is already quite good," Tang Boyuan was even more amazed.

Tang Zheng also knew that having a complete set of the first three volumes of a handwritten martial technique was already very rare.

His other handwritten martial technique, "Blood Shadow Escape Technique," was a real pit. The first volume was obtained from the female assassin who tried to kill him, the third volume was found in the Treasure Pavilion, and the second volume was nowhere to be found.

Moreover, the skill guidance in the first volume of that martial technique had already been used and needed to be repaired.

"Wait a moment, let me take a look." Tang Boyuan took the "Dagger Technique" and started reading from the beginning.

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Tang Boyuan read very carefully.

After a while, he put down the book, stepped aside, and the bright black thorn star constellation behind him rose up.

His left hand made a grasping motion, and a dagger-shaped object extended directly from the star power!

Then, the star power turned...

One strike.

Crack...

The strike, containing the peak star power of three stars, crashed into the table next to Tang Zheng!

However, it only broke one table leg.

Tang Boyuan didn't stop and immediately flipped to the second page, performing the second move, "Crown Rush."

After completing "Crown Rush," he didn't stop and directly performed the third move, "Rain Rest," followed by "Skyward Roar," and finally the finishing move, "Hate Annihilation"!

"I don't have any double-star constellations in my life," Tang Boyuan said after completing the first volume, "But I can basically confirm that you might encounter skill barriers at 'Crown Rush' and 'Hate Annihilation.'"

Tang Zheng looked humble, "Why?"

"Crown Rush and Hate Annihilation involve conflicting use of double-star power. On one hand, you need to release, and on the other hand, you need to retract. So, either the released power is insufficient, or the retraction is not timely, creating a vulnerability." Tang Boyuan, being a peak three-star martial artist, almost immediately saw the problem.

Whether the martial technique's damage is insufficient or it leaves a vulnerability after being released, neither is acceptable to a martial artist.

Tang Zheng nodded twice, "That's right, the problem is here. Should I demonstrate once?"

"Sure!" Tang Boyuan stepped back two steps.

Tang Zheng gathered the double-star power within him and started from the beginning, performing up to "Crown Rush."

After practicing for so long, his "Crown Rush" had become much smoother, so he performed it twice.

"Hmm," Tang Boyuan watched carefully, "You've already done a good job minimizing the vulnerability."

"Then how should I solve it?" Tang Zheng asked.

If Tang Zheng always encountered chaotic battles like yesterday, it would be fine, but if he faced a one-on-one expert, a vulnerability in the second move would mean no chance to use the subsequent "Rain Rest," "Skyward Roar," or "Hate Annihilation."

Even a small vulnerability is still a vulnerability!

And Tang Boyuan was here to solve the vulnerability.

"To break through this skill barrier, you need to break down the moves and practice them to the extreme," Tang Boyuan stood in place and demonstrated again, "First, practice the move without worrying about the retraction!"

"Hmm? Then what?"

"After you have practiced the move well, then practice only the retraction!" Tang Boyuan said.

Tang Zheng suddenly felt a sense of clarity.

Since there is a conflict point in the move, just practice them separately!

Tang Boyuan then took out a notebook from his inner pocket, which was only half the size of a martial technique book, and said, "This is a 'Step Through the Threshold' notebook left by the ancestors of the Tang family, detailing the principles and solutions for over a hundred skill barriers. You can read it yourself, and if you have any questions, you can come ask me."

"..." Tang Zheng looked at the "Step Through the Threshold" notebook and then looked up at Tang Boyuan.

The "Step Through the Threshold" notebook had a dark red seal, but only the character "Tang" could be barely recognized. The other characters were already illegible.

Tang Family Manor didn't have secret martial techniques, but a notebook that could solve over a hundred skill barriers was clearly very valuable!

Just as Tang Zheng was about to open the notebook, he suddenly heard a plaintive cry...

The source of the cry wasn't far, it should be within Tang Family Manor.

"I'm so hungry, give me some food... I'm so hungry... I'm so hungry..."

Tang Boyuan didn't hear it at first, but when Tang Zheng suddenly stopped and looked out the window, he faintly heard some noise.

However, Tang Family Manor was noisy, and he couldn't distinguish it like Tang Zheng, so he asked, "What's that sound?"

"Uh... Didn't we imprison a group of bandits? They haven't eaten for a day and are starving," Tang Zheng said.

"..." Tang Boyuan waved his sleeve, "Who has time to care about their lives now!"

After saying that, he flipped open the notebook, pointed out the position of the skill barrier Tang Zheng was currently facing, and marked the possible skill barriers for the finishing move, "Hate Annihilation."

Tang Zheng, unable to stop the plaintive cries of "I'm so hungry, we're about to starve to death" from entering his ears, listened to Tang Boyuan with a mix of laughter and tears...

It's unknown whether Zheng Qian, who was about to starve to death, could still analyze for his bandit brothers when they would get food.

...

After teaching everything he knew, Tang Boyuan left Tang Zheng's courtyard.

Tang Zheng, following the method of breaking down the practice, focused on the power of the move without worrying about the retraction, regardless of how big the vulnerability was after the move!

This way, he progressed much faster.

In just three days, he had completely mastered the explosive move of "Crown Rush."

In the following seven days, he mainly practiced the retraction.

After more than ten days...

He almost devoted himself entirely to practicing the martial technique, and the star power in his body accumulated rapidly, unknowingly breaking through three thousand threads and reaching the high stage of the first star!

The entire Tang Family Manor was shocked.

Everyone knew he had been in seclusion, but no one expected the result to be so astonishing!

Not to mention Tang Xiaotang and the others, even Meng Fenghua, who had excellent talent, took four months to go from the middle stage of the first star to the high stage.

And Tang Zheng, a martial artist who only started practicing at the age of twenty-two, did it in just one month!

"The Purple Jade True Phoenix Pendant is already so useful, I wonder if the 'Rain Flower Seal' in Lan Shaoye's hands will be even better?" Tang Zheng took a long breath and said to himself with a smile, "Hey, thinking about the pot while eating from the bowl, is that what they criticize?"

Reaching the high stage of the first star, the thickness of the star power was already very strong, at least enough to perform over twenty martial technique moves in one breath without needing to rest.

If he could reach the peak of the first star, he could perform the five moves of the first volume of the "Dagger Technique" ten times in a row, only feeling slightly tired.

The rapid increase in star power was the foundation of combat.

What made Tang Zheng even happier was that his martial technique had progressed very quickly. After practicing the move and retraction of "Crown Rush" solidly, he immediately performed a unified release. The move, which had always felt stuck, was now executed perfectly without any delay!

One successful attempt!

He had only taken less than a month to master "Crown Rush," and the subsequent "Rain Rest" and "Skyward Roar," which had no skill barriers, should be even faster!

"Teacher, Teacher... Master Mo Feng from Hundred Refinements Workshop has sent a letter!" A servant from Tang Family Manor knocked on the door and ran in while he was practicing the third move, "Rain Rest."

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Meow, I was originally going to write "Skill Barrier Notebook," but suddenly had a brainwave and thought that if the font changed on the web page, it would look very much like "Tea Drinking Notebook," so I laughed uncontrollably and changed it to "Step Through the Threshold Notebook."

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