Chapter 139

Romance of Dragons and Snakes Chapter 139

Huo Ling’er immediately felt regret and sat down with a gloomy face.

“I didn’t think that you would have any fans.” After their exit, Lin Yanan laughed, “But, are you really going to accept her as a disciple?”

“We’ll see. That girl has potential.” Wang Chao spoke.

“Indeed. I saw her skill, it’s higher than mine own.” Lin Yanan spoke seriously, “But still, accepting her as a disciple has more benefits than detriments. The higher ups told us to establish the Laoshan School of Internal Martial Arts and for you to become well known and accept disciples. The Huoshi Corporation has huge influences in Hong Kong and even China. If you can take them into your wing, then that will be a huge matter. You cannot shirk this.”

“I know that.” Wang Chao nodded. “I’m tired of strolling around, let’s go eat something. Was there anything else you wanted to buy? Or should we come back to stroll later in the afternoon?”

“Don’t worry about it, I’ve already spent fifty to sixty thousand RMB, let’s go back and rest. Tomorrow the people from central will come investigate the matter. We should think of ways to prepare instead. You killed Duan Guochao, and I fired a gun. There’ll definitely be some trouble.” Lin Yanan pulled at Wang Chao’s hand.

“I wonder if the Shaolin Temple and monks know about me killing Duan Guochao yet? If they do, then how will they act now? Duan Guochao’s martial arts was extremely skilled, even Cheng Shanming or Chen Aiyang aren’t that far away from him in skill. With his age, he had a good path ahead of him. For the sake of cultivating such a disciple like this, who knows how much the Shaolin Temple had invested. But then his life was put to an end at my hands. If they said no love was lost, then that would be a lie.”

Duan Guochao’s Eagle Claw and Iron Body had reached a point of utter mastery. But to Wang Chao, it was still not enough to make up for the differences between he and Chen Aiyang and Cheng Shanming.

But Duan Guochao was still quite young at 26 years old.

26 years old and yet his martial arts had reached perfection. This was a clear example of the meticulous care of the Shaolin Temple in raising a disciple who was capable of keeping up their front of martial art masters.

A master could accept many disciples, but a disciple who could keep up the shop front was limited to only just one. They were called the inheritor

What was a inheritor? When the disciple is learning martial arts, the master cannot simply watch from the sidelines and give pointers. At the very beginning process where the disciple was learning, the master must spend everyday making sure to help cultivate the disciple’s health, massage the acupoints, and unblock the blood vessels. Whatever the case, whether in martial arts theory or insights, they had to be explained clearly.

An inheritor was even more important than one own’s son! The treatment would therefore be better for them.

From this, it could be seen that raising a genuine disciple required a lot of energy. A true master and disciple was not like father and son. It far surpassed that of father and son.

Think to how Tang Zichen had expended so much time and energy on Wang Chao. From that, it could be seen how a genuine inheritor was taught.

An inheritor within the Wulin was not the same as teaching martial arts in a school in this modern area where a thousand people gathered and laughed here and there as they fought.

That type of school was incapable of teaching. It was incapable of acquiring true martial arts.

A disciple who would inherit was not someone who could be mass-produced.

For the other disciples, the masters held a teaching position were at most, they would explain several concepts and have the disciples learn by themselves. If they could not, then it mattered not to the master.

A master who would point out the right postures as they watched the disciples practice was a good master. Giving a disciple daily massages with medicinal water was already enough. If the master wanted to bring up several inheritors, he would have far too much work on his hands.

Duan Guochao was 26 years old whose martial arts had reached a terrifying level. He was clearly breeded by the Shaolin Temple’s monks to be their inheritor. Those who became monks halfway through their lives like Yong He and Yong Bao were not even cut from the same cloth as he was.

Later, Wang Chao and Lin Yanan had returned back to the military headquarters from their stroll. At the same, a monk from the Shaolin Temple had arrived to check up on the matter with Yong He and Yong Bao.