Liang Shanbo.
"Bang!" "Hmph!"
On the stage, the man in athletic clothes was pushed back several steps by a punch, feeling a severe pain in his chest, almost unable to catch his breath.
"Sorry, you don’t et the qualifications for the challenge. Please leave!"
The man clutched his chest, his face showing reluctance.
He had traveled a long distance here just to challenge the top expert in the world, only to be defeated by an unknown expert before even eting him...
Helplessly, he clasped his fists in respect.
"Brother, exceptional skills, I admit defeat! May I ask your honorable na, so I know who bested ?"
The muscular man in the stretch tank top took off a black security uniform that was hanging on the ring post and flashed a big white smile.
"Liang Shanbo Security Team, Deputy Captain, Li Lei!
Security team... Deputy captain...
Man: "..."
So, I, the great senior brother of Changbai Mountain, was floored by a security team captain?
...
"Hey, can you go easy and let fight a couple of rounds too?"
Xiang Wenlong, who had been watching from below, couldn’t help feeling a bit depressed as he saw Li Lei descend from the stage with a refreshed look on his face.
As the saying goes, no acquaintance is ford without a fight. Xiang Wenlong and Li Lei had sparred a few tis and had been hanging around Liang Shanbo for days and quickly beca familiar with each other.
"Go easy? I just joined the company, I have to show what I’m capable of, don’t I?
Earning such a high salary without doing anything all day, I’d always feel uneasy.
Besides, you aren’t from Liang Shanbo, why should I let you take the stage?" Li Lei chuckled.
"Our Liang Shanbo... you’ve really gotten into character quick..." Xiang Wenlong tugged at the corner of his mouth. "To think a notable expert in Baji Fist would beco a security guard..."
"Easy for you to say standing there. Your Shaolin was almost listed on the stock market, so obviously you’re not short on cash.
Those of us without a background, we still need to earn our keep with our fists at the end of the day.
Being the captain here, I just need to keep an eye on the place, and during free ti, I can still co to Liang Shanbo and practice my boxing.
The job is easy, the benefits are good, and not only do I get to fight, but I also get paid—way better than my previous underground boxing,"
Li Lei grabbed a towel and started wiping the gym equipnt, looking completely at ease as if he belonged.
"Also, you may think Liang Shanbo is just a small security company’s training field, but didn’t you notice it’s filled with hidden dragons and crouching tigers?
Out in the open, we have Master Yan as a strong Dark Energy expert, and in secret, there’s the unfathomable Master ng.
Every now and then, experts from various places co for a challenge...
When I spar with top-class fighters from all over the world regularly, and there’s even a chance to learn so breakthrough insights in Dark Energy from Master Yan.
Where else can you find such a good place?"
Li Lei glanced at Xiang Wenlong as he spoke.
"What do you think? You also seem pretty free. Are you interested in joining Liang Shanbo?"
"I’m not short on money," Xiang Wenlong shook his head in refusal.
"Being rich doesn’t an you can’t lack other things. Don’t tell you’ve been hanging around here for several days because you can’t get a ticket back to Songshan?"
Xiang Wenlong, seeing through his thoughts, suddenly felt a bit embarrassed.
Just a couple of days ago, he had regained so confidence, only for Master Yan to defeat him with Dark Energy and knock him down again.
Although he was beaten several tis, for a top-notch expert, such opportunities to be ’defeated’ are incredibly valuable!
If you’re not defeated, how would you know your own shortcomings? How would you learn and improve?
In this era, which old Dark Energy experts aren’t established giants, even too old that you’d feel bad even striking them?
Finding a young Dark Energy powerhouse like Yan Weiwei, you’d have to search with a lantern all over the world.
Moreover, the opponent had just made a breakthrough, which is the best ti to learn from. Sparring with such a contender, maybe you can also find inspiration for your next breakthrough?
Not to ntion, behind Liang Shanbo, there lurked an even more terrifying and inscrutable ’Hero of Guanzhong.’
Maybe one day, if he feels like it, he might even give you a few tips...
"Don’t bla for not warning you, but there are only thirteen captain positions in the Liang Shanbo Security Team.
And I’ve heard... there are hidden perks at the captain level!" Li Lei suddenly said mysteriously.
"Hidden perks? What perks?"
"Hehe! Do you know how Master Yan broke through the Dark Energy barrier?"
"How did he do it?" Xiang Wenlong asked curiously.
Li Lei leaned in and lowered his voice. "I heard... it’s related to a secret manual!"
"Secret manual?" Xiang Wenlong was stunned for a mont. "You’re not joking, right?"
"I didn’t believe it at first either, but my master heard from recent rumors in the martial arts community that the Yan family of the Twelve Road Spring Leg truly obtained a secret manual.
Now they are studying it behind closed doors like a treasure, and it’s so mysterious that even several elders who visited to borrow it weren’t allowed to see it.
Also, Master ng accidentally let it slip when he was talking to my master last ti, ntioning the words ’secret manual’!"
"Really?" Xiang Wenlong obviously still had so doubts.
"Of course! Considering Master Yan’s age, he really is quite young.
By the way, you might not know that it was just recently during a ’mountaineering eting’ that Master Yan made his breakthrough.
The match where he broke through was the one he fought with !"
"What?" Xiang Wenlong suddenly widened his eyes.
If they were just hearsay before, now soone was speaking from personal experience.
"In this world, are there really such miraculous secret manuals?"
He had never heard of any secret manual that could let soone directly break through to Dark Energy, not even in the Dharma Institute, which housed an extensive collection of martial arts scriptures.
"Hehe! My master said that such secret manuals really do exist in legends, and they actually co from your Shaolin!"
"What?" Xiang Wenlong was stunned for a mont. "If Shaolin has such a thing, how could I possibly not know about it?"
"Because they were lost! According to my master, he once heard from his master’s master that Dharma Ancestor’s Yijin Jing and Bone Marrow Cleansing Scripture, one improves external techniques and the other cultivates internal energy.
Combine the two, and they grant Yijin Bone Marrow Cleansing, a miraculous effect that allows rapid breakthroughs in Dark Energy."
Xiang Wenlong thought for a mont.
"Yijin Jing and Bone Marrow Cleansing Scripture... I’ve heard the elders ntion them before, but sadly, Shaolin has suffered many hardships over the centuries, and many traditions have been lost or incomplete.
Even if this is true, these two books have been lost for so long, could soone actually be able to rewrite them?"
"That, I don’t know." Li Lei spread his hands.
"Uh... about that hidden benefit you ntioned earlier..."
"Hehe! Yesterday, Brother Biao invited and Brother Ah Xing to have dog at hotpot.
Brother Biao drank a few extra glasses and accidentally let slip that Liang Mountain harbors a ’treasure of the temple,’ which seems to be a book..."
Li Lei gave Xiang Wenlong a "you know what I an" look.
"Gulp—" Xiang Wenlong swallowed his saliva.
This was sounding more and more plausible...
If soone had told him such a fantastic tale a few days ago, he would have slapped them right away!
Talking nonsense without taking responsibility?
But these last few days, he had not only t the young Master Yan who had broken through Dark Energy, but also the even younger, yet more terrifying Master ng...
Even if they had been training in the womb, such achievents were hard to believe.
To say there wasn’t an expert guiding them, he wouldn’t believe it.
But if there was such a secret manual... it did seem to make sense?
"No way! With such a good thing, you’d keep it a secret if you could, why would you just tell ?"
Xiang Wenlong looked suspiciously at Li Lei.
Although they were well-acquainted, they didn’t seem to be at a heart-to-heart trust level yet.
Isn’t hogging it all much more appealing?
"Ahem!" Li Lei coughed a bit embarrassedly.
"There’s a new employee referral bonus at the company, 50,000 for a Captain level."
Xiang Wenlong: "..."
New employee referral bonus...
Are you sure you are not the Rat Association?
"Hand it over!" Xiang Wenlong held out his hand.
"What?"
"The employnt application form!"
Joking aside, if there really was such a thing, even just getting a glimpse of that secret manual...
What’s being a security guard? He would even sweep floors!
What’s that saying?
If you can’t beat them, join them! It’s not shaful!
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