The Emperor of the Three Realms

chapter 72

Without their leader Jing Man, although the remaining Redbud Tribe confederacy was outspoken, many of the internal forces initially suppressed by the Jing family all turned their coats in the face of the large army pressing against the border. They worked collusionally with the army, one from the inside and one from the outside. The army took over the territory of the Redbud Tribe with almost no slaughter at all.    

The remaining confederates of the Jing family were all captured and locked up behind bars.    

At the same time, the predetermined power of the Jiang family clan resided in the Redbud region.    

Jiang Chen had made a simple agreement that all the elders of the family clan had to abide by, and had inserted his third uncle's son, Jiang Yu, into the Redbud region. Jiang Chen urged the clan elders to treat Jiang Yu as an important center and cultivate it.    

Despite being jealous, these people knew that Jiang Yu was the person closest to Jiang Chen in the Jiang family clan.    

Jiang Chen was the only child and son of Jiang Feng. This meant that Jiang Chen had no other blood brothers. This way, since they had been close since childhood, Jiang Yu had undoubtedly become like Jiang Chen's siblings, as if Jiang Tong was the same as Duke Jiang Han.    

After seeing Jiang Chen use lightning-fast methods to make the various chieftains submit and quell the Redbud Tribe rebellion, the young followers of Jiang Chen were personally overjoyed. To have such a method and be able to shoulder such a burden at this young age, they all felt they had done the right thing in following this young duke!    

The eight newly recruited guards of Jiang Chen were demonstrating their knowledge of martial dao in the field of training of the Jiang Han palace. Since they were now comrades, none of them would want to admit inferiority. All wanted to show his strength in front of his comrades in order not to be underestimated by others.    

Jiang Chen simply observed and did not conduct any evaluations.    

After the demonstration took place once, he had already thought of a few things.    

“From today onwards, all eight of you will be eating at the same table now. I'm not going to ask you too much but just want to remind you of one thing. You can maintain your own personality and thoughts. However, from now on, you are all in the same boat and hence all involved together. You are a comrade on the battlefield, which means you are a partner that can be entrusted by either party. If anyone can't do it, say it now. There is still time to retreat!”    

Jiang Chen's tone of voice was very serious.    

Is that a personal bodyguard? At the core of the matter, it meant becoming a death fighter, a kind of existence that was willing to die at any time for the sake of its master.    

Personal guards were often the ones that a master trusted the most, and entrusted many things to him.    

Personal guards were the most intimate battle comrades with each other. They depend on each other and will live and die together!    

No one backed off. A firm determination was written on their faces.    

“Good, this is also the reason I chose you. I just hope none of you disappoint me.”    

And I, Jiang Chen, will not disappoint you at all!    

Jiang Chen was confident and calm as he turned his gaze to the eight faces. “To prove that your decision was correct, I decided to give you a welcome gift this time.”    

A gift at the first meeting?    

Qiao Shan scratched his ears and cheeks, smiling honestly, “My uncle said that the young duke was too deep to be understood. Looks like uncle he didn't lie to us!”    

Guo Jin did not care about the idea of a congratulatory gift. When he saw Jiang Chen burn incense and pay his respects to his ancestors, he swore to himself that he would follow this teacher to death.    

As for the others, Wen Ziqi's personality was one that was relaxed, without greed for anything.    

Although traces of expectation flowed in the eyes of others, they did not lose their composure.    

Jiang Chen nodded, “You must remember that when you received my gift, it was as if your body was now imprinted with my brand. You must not disclose this gift to anyone without my permission, even to those closest to you. Otherwise, I'll finish you myself.”    

These people felt very confused by the increasing gravity of Jiang Chen's tone of voice. It was just a congratulatory gift, was it that serious? But seeing the young Duke act so carefully and solemnly, their hearts stiffened as they vaguely guessed that this congratulatory gift was no ordinary gift!    

“Don't be wild-minded. The weight of this gift is completely beyond your expectations. Even in the entire Eastern Kingdom, no one else could give a gift like this.”    

Whahuh?    

Everyone looks touched. No one else is capable of giving such a gift in the Eastern Kingdom? This.. could it be that even the royal family cannot give such a gift?    

What was this?    

Qiao Shan was extremely impatient and could barely wait! His eyes stared unblinkingly at Jiang Chen, excitedly.    

“You all currently have six true qi meridians, but I can help you breakthrough to seven true qi meridians in ten days!”    

"What's? Breakthrough to seven true qi meridians in ten days?” Qiao Shan was the first to cry. “Duke young, don't bully us. Ah has been stuck on six meridians true qi for about half a year.”    

Even the gentle and delicate Wen Ziqi cast a look of disbelief from her eyes.    

Guo Jin, on the contrary, had heard many rumors about Jiang Chen before because he was from the capital. He somewhat believes, “Since the young duke has spoken, how could there be a lie?”    

“Six meridians true qi, all of you here have spent two or three months to half a year to a full year after reaching six meridians true qi. There is no other reason for your inability to make a breakthrough other than not being able to sense the seventh acupoint, as there is a boundary between the true qi intermediate realm and the true qi advanced realm. These trenches need to be explored, in order to be understood in time. Have you ever stopped at six true Qi Meridians because you cannot feel the seventh Acupuncture Point?”    

“Indeed be so.” Qiao Shan complained.    

“The seventh acupuncture point is temporary and not temporary, and indeed difficult to feel.” Guo Jin also nodded.    

Wen Ziqi did not say anything, but her expression that seemed to be deep in thought had already proven the accuracy of this statement.    

The others also nodded.    

“I have a series of methods that can teach you how to find acupuncture points. You no longer need to worry about not being able to find acupoints while practicing in true qi fields in the future. You will be able to easily find acupuncture points with this method, allowing you to achieve double results with half the effort in your training path!”    

Find acupuncture points easily!    

Is... is this true?    

We should know that the most difficult thing when practicing in the field of true qi is not to clear the meridians, but to find the acupuncture points. If the acupoints could not be found, then there was no way to clear the meridians, then how could a breakthrough be achieved?    

It could be said that most of the time in martial dao training was spent on comprehending acupoints. If the process of finding acupuncture points can be skipped, how can the results be doubled with just half an effort?    

This will save you a lot of effort compared to the others!    

The “Resonance Method of True Acupuncture Point is undoubtedly a revolutionary secret method for the entire Eastern Kingdom. However, it was only a lowly existence in Jiang Chen's memory bank.    

Jiang Chen was the epitome of caution not because of how valuable “Resonance True Acupuncture Point was, but because if this problem got out, many hidden problems would lurk in the background.    

Jiang Chen had previously passed down the “Resonance True Acupuncture Point method to his father and two best friends.    

These eight personal bodyguards were the third group of people worthy of this inheritance.    

“I'll pass this method to you. If any of you secretly spread it and this news spread, the others would rise up together and attack the person in the group, and I, Jiang Chen, am, won't be lenient towards this guy!” Jiang Chen once again issued a warning.    

“The young Duke treated us very kindly and generously, how dare we fail and disappoint him?” Ke Mu of the Summer Tribe of the Jiang Han territory was the first to step forward and make a promise.    

The others stepped forward and swore after.    

“Follow your ears and listen carefully, I will only pass down this legacy verbally and will not give you any book to record it. How much you can understand and remember is up to you. I'll just say this three times.”    

Only three times!    

The faces of the eight personal bodyguards all became extremely grim. Three times, but they needed to accept the method with strong memory and comprehension ability.    

As he said, Jiang Chen discussed this method three times.    

What Jiang Chen did not expect was that the first person who seemed to think of something and sat cross-legged where he stood to ponder the theory was Xue Tong, the thin youth who was buried deep into oblivion.    

After which, Guo Jin and Wen Ziqi also seemed to be deep in thought while sitting cross-legged.    

Brothers Qiao Shan and Qiao Chuan, Ke Mu, Shen Yifan, and Bi Yun all also sat cross-legged, pondering over the theory and using the newly learned methods to understand the seventh acupoint.    

There really was a difference in potential in martial dao training.    

Xue Tong was the first to ponder and see the results.    

Xue Tong's eyes opened after an hour, with all sorts of incredulous gazes emanating from his eyes. His gaze at Jiang Chen was engulfed in endless gratitude and admiration.    

“Old cousin Jiang Chen and I have never interacted much since we were young. Thinking that cousin Jiang Chen would rather offend aunt and uncle for choosing me over Lan Yizhou. What do I, Xue Tong, have? My parents died early and I was bullied by Lan Yizhou since I was a child. Compared to Lan Yizhou, I have nothing, yet my cousin still chose me, trusted me, and bestowed upon me this great change of fortune. If in this life I, Xue Tong, did not follow my cousin to achieve something big, then how could I face my parents in another world? How can I deserve the generous treatment of my older cousin towards me?”    

Although Xue Tong looked cold and aloof, he was only cold on the outside and was actually warm on the inside. He will remember firmly the drops of kindness from others. Jiang Chen practically helped him be reborn by choosing him and changing his luck. How could Xue Tong not understand the concept of gratitude?    

Lan Yizhou training wasn't enough? Not meeting the standards? These were all pretexts his oldest cousin used to deceive his aunt. Cousin elder was so capable, would he be worried about not being able to increase Lan Yizhou's training to six meridians true qi?    

What the hell does this mean?    

This meant that in the heart of the eldest cousin, his position, Xue Tong, was bigger than Lan Yizhou!    

A man is ready to die for his best friend!    

Xue Tong's blood was pounding at the moment as he was filled with gratitude and admiration towards Jiang chen.    

Jiang Chen glanced at Xue Tong, knowing that Xue Tong had found the seventh acupoint and was just waiting for the main opportunity to breakthrough.    

He smiled faintly and nodded towards Xue Tong, gesturing for him not to speak anymore, so as not to affect the understanding of others.    

A glance made Xue Tong feel as if he was bathed in the spring breeze and his heart surged with emotion.    

Shortly thereafter, the others managed to find the seventh acupoint.    

“Excellent, amazing, haha, unexpectedly it will work!” Qiao Shan let out his overwhelming excitement. “Haha, Ah finally had a chance to attack seven true qi meridians!”    

Although the others did not lose their composure like Qiao Shan, happiness emanated on their faces and their gaze towards Jiang Chen also changed.    

If it was said that they had the respect and loyalty as the subordinates of the young duke before, then they were really worshipping Jiang Chen like paying homage to a god or Buddha right now.    

They are well aware of what this method means.    

Such a method that was contrary to nature was most likely the only method that existed in the surrounding sixteen kingdoms, not to mention the territory of Jiang Han or the Eastern Kingdom!