Chapter 22

After listening to Jiang Ping's words, Li Qian's mood became very complicated. She felt relieved but also somewhat disappointed. Although her rationality told her that it was best for Jiang Ping not to have done those things, she was still a young girl with a bit of a hero complex. If Jiang Ping had really dealt with Jiang Jun and his three companions alone and knocked them all down, Li Qian would likely have felt a greater admiration for him.

However, Jiang Ping's mental age had long passed the stage of showing off in front of girls. So in this matter, he was destined to disappoint Li Qian.

Although the rooftop incident was just a minor episode for Jiang Ping, it also served as a reminder. Despite appearing to win easily, he had only relied on his intimidating presence to suppress Jiang Jun and the others. If he hadn't frightened them, he would have definitely been beaten up, and he would have lost face in front of the entire school.

Jiang Ping was clear in his mind that even though he was a reincarnated person with the memories and insights from his previous life, and even the ability to see others' fortunes, he was still just a high school student. Therefore, Jiang Ping had to find a way to improve his physical fitness and combat skills immediately. This way, if he encountered similar situations in the future, he would at least have the ability to protect himself.

For others, achieving such a goal might simply involve running, going to the gym, and practicing some martial arts techniques like kickboxing or boxing. However, these methods were too basic for Jiang Ping. He had a better way to enhance his own strength.

This, of course, had to start with Jiang Ping's experiences in his previous life. At that time, in his early twenties, Jiang Ping was already a rising star in the world of thieves. While scouting for his next heist in Europe, he accidentally met a Chinese man who ran a bar there. The two shared many similar views on women and quickly became good friends.

However, what Jiang Ping didn't expect was that this middle-aged man, who called himself Xiang Sheng, was a master of traditional Chinese martial arts and held a high rank in a mysterious sect that had been passed down for hundreds of years. Perhaps because they got along so well, the worldly Xiang Sheng taught Jiang Ping a set of advanced skills.

The skills Xiang Sheng taught Jiang Ping included methods for strengthening the body, improving physical fitness, grappling and combat techniques, and even clean and efficient methods for killing. This set of skills had a name that sounded like something from a martial arts novel: the Xuan Kong Jue!

Jiang Ping did not disappoint Xiang Sheng. He showed a high level of talent in practicing the Xuan Kong Jue and made astonishing progress.

In fact, Jiang Ping's ability to become a notorious thief, feared by police around the world after the age of thirty, was closely related to his mastery of the Xuan Kong Jue. After practicing the Xuan Kong Jue, Jiang Ping's physical fitness improved significantly, and he became a combat expert capable of taking on ten opponents at once. This allowed him to succeed in every heist until he was betrayed by Dong Zhen and met his end at the White Cliffs of Dover.

Although Jiang Ping made rapid progress in practicing the Xuan Kong Jue in his previous life, Xiang Sheng was still somewhat dissatisfied. He often complained that Jiang Ping had not started practicing the Xuan Kong Jue as a child. He firmly believed that if Jiang Ping had started as a child, his progress would have been even faster, and his future achievements would have been much greater.

Logically, what had already happened could not be changed, but fate gave Jiang Ping a second chance to live and to practice the Xuan Kong Jue as a child.

Of course, Jiang Ping had already learned from Xiang Sheng in his previous life that once the foundation of the Xuan Kong Jue was established, whether or not he remained a child was not important and would not affect his further practice.

According to Jiang Ping's experience in his previous life, it took about a year to establish the foundation of the Xuan Kong Jue. In this life, starting as a child, the time required would be even shorter. Jiang Ping was only eighteen years old, and even if he waited a year, he would only be nineteen, not wasting much of his youth.

This is why Jiang Ping decided to practice the Xuan Kong Jue in this life. If he had to give up one of the great pleasures of life to practice the Xuan Kong Jue, he would never accept it.

After being reborn, Jiang Ping faced many issues. He originally planned to start practicing the Xuan Kong Jue after a while. However, after this incident, he realized that he needed to put this matter on the agenda immediately.

However, Jiang Ping lived at home, and it would be impossible to practice the Xuan Kong Jue without his family knowing. So before officially starting, Jiang Ping had to tell his parents.

Of course, Jiang Ping could not reveal the truth to his parents. He only told them that he was worried that focusing on his studies every day would damage his health, and he planned to get up earlier to run and do exercises to strengthen his body.

Jiang Jianhua strongly supported his son's decision. In his view, health was the most important thing. If his son became a weakling due to overstudying, even getting into a key university would be a loss.

Although Zhu Yun was concerned that this might affect her son's studies, her husband had already agreed, and Jiang Ping promised to get up early to exercise without affecting his studies, so she went along with it.

With his parents' support, Jiang Ping could finally start practicing the Xuan Kong Jue.

The Xuan Kong Jue contained a lot of content, not only methods for strengthening the body and improving physical fitness but also techniques for defeating enemies and even killing with one strike.

For Jiang Ping, the most important thing at this stage was to establish a solid foundation for the Xuan Kong Jue and prioritize improving his physical fitness. Physical fitness was the foundation, and only by improving it could he effectively use the techniques for defeating enemies in the Xuan Kong Jue.

The content of the Xuan Kong Jue was complex. Although the methods for strengthening the body were the foundation, they were by no means easy. To truly establish a solid foundation, one needed not only sufficient physical training but also special breathing techniques to strengthen internal organs and even special medicinal baths to enhance overall bodily functions.

Of course, Jiang Ping, living with his family, could not use medicinal baths for the time being. He could only start with the first two methods to improve his physical fitness.

So, Jiang Ping got up to run as soon as it was light every day. In addition to this, he also used other methods to exercise his muscles. Besides these regular exercises, Jiang Ping spent an hour every night practicing the breathing techniques of the Xuan Kong Jue. The breathing techniques of the Xuan Kong Jue were very powerful, not only enhancing internal organ function but also increasing nerve reaction speed and sensory acuity, making them a crucial part of the methods for strengthening the body.

However, the effects of the breathing techniques were so remarkable that they were not easy to master. In his previous life, Jiang Ping spent more than two months just to get a handle on them. This time, with his previous experience, he had already grasped the basics of the breathing techniques by the third day, making his progress unprecedented.

Although his progress was rapid, Jiang Ping knew that practicing the Xuan Kong Jue required gradual progress. The next step was to practice diligently every day. There were no shortcuts on this path; only persistence could lead to results.

In addition to starting to practice the Xuan Kong Jue, Jiang Ping did not forget to continue exploring the secrets of the fortune-telling eye. He found opportunities to use the fortune-telling eye several times to learn more about the meanings of different colors.

Unfortunately, Jiang Ping's luck was not good, and he only saw colors he had seen before, gaining no new insights. After two or three attempts, the spiritual energy in the Qing Dynasty ancient books was also completely absorbed.

However, Jiang Ping was not too concerned about this. He now had a better understanding of his abilities and knew that as long as he could absorb spiritual energy from antiques, he could continue to use the fortune-telling eye and eventually uncover all its secrets.

Since the spiritual energy in the Qing Dynasty ancient books had been completely absorbed, there was no need for Jiang Ping to keep them. He planned to sell the ancient books to a collector he had heard of in his previous life as soon as possible to free up some funds. After all, the most important thing for Jiang Ping at the moment was to earn enough money for medical expenses, and he did not want to let the items he bought sit idle for too long.

Fortunately, the weekend arrived quickly, and Jiang Ping used the excuse of going to school to take the ancient books out of the house.

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