The Yin-Yang Pill and the Three Talents Technique
Tang Myung’s firm words caused Tang Jang to speak up.
“No matter what, the Samyang Divine Art is the Young Family Head’s martial skill. You cannot teach it to us.”
Tang Myung looked at him and answered.
“A few months ago, how much more powerful is the main family than it was then?”
“The main family faced crisis, yet five elite units remain intact and every inner and outer expert is present. The Tang Family is strong.”
The elders nodded in agreement.
Tang Myung shook his head.
“Externally, the forces have not weakened compared to before. However…… the elders and my father have all passed away.”
A low groan escaped the elders.
“As you know, every sect has elders. They do not engage in external affairs due to age, but their presence grants the sect strength.”
The elders nodded at Tang Myung’s words.
Elders were the respected seniors of the sect. The elders of the Sichuan Tang Family had all been peak experts skilled in poison.
Thus they had combined six elite martial units with the demon cult and wiped them out. Whether relying on ambushes and strikes around the Tang Family’s buildings and estate, or even explosions, it was the same.
With all those elders dead, the strength of the Sichuan Tang Family could only weaken.
Thirty or more peak experts had vanished at once.
“In my opinion, the main family has only half, perhaps a bit more than half, of its former power.”
Tang Myung glanced at the elders.
“That is why the main family must become stronger with the current personnel.”
“Is that what the Samyang Divine Art is for?”
Tang Myung nodded and pulled a small pill bottle from his robes. The sudden appearance of the pill bottle made the elders stare at him in surprise.
“The Samyang Divine Art is the symbol of the main family’s Young Family Head. That means all of you have the qualifications to become Young Family Head.”
“We do not have such ambitions.”
“I know. However…… if anyone believes they can raise the Tang Family better than I can……”
Tang Myung drew the pill bottle and said.
“You may present the pill bottle to me at any time.”
The elders looked at him with solemn faces.
“Young Family Head……”
“This is my resolve, for the sake of the main family. If someone better than me exists, I will step down as Young Family Head.”
Tang Myung’s resolute words made the elders exchange glances.
The Milyeong Unit leader sighed and bowed deeply, lowering his head.
“We accept the Young Family Head’s command.”
The Milyeong Unit leader’s words prompted the elders to nod slightly and bow in unison.
Tang Myung nodded at them and said.
“And…….”
Tang Myung turned to Tang Jang.
“Uncle Jang, please step down from the Visa Unit.”
“……”
Tang Jang looked surprised at the request to step down.
“……If it is an order, I will obey, but may I ask for the reason?”
“The strongest expert of the main family is Uncle. However…… you must be aware that you are lacking compared to the strongest expert of another prestigious sect.”
Tang Jang bit his lip at the blunt words.
But since it was the truth, he nodded.
“……Yes.”
“Therefore, Uncle, please relinquish your duties in the Visa Unit and focus solely on cultivating martial arts.”
“Martial arts…… do not become strong in an instant.”
Tang Myung nodded at Tang Jang’s words and pulled a small jade bottle from his robes.
“Five pills of Qihua Yulu Wan.”
“Qihua Yulu Wan!”
The elders looked at the jade bottle in astonishment.
“A precious medicine recently discovered at a border outpost.”
Tang Myung gazed at Tang Jang.
“Uncle, with these five Qihua Yulu Wan, please transcend the wall.”
The word “wall” made Tang Jang’s face harden.
“The Gang Qi Materialization realm?”
“It must be achieved. Without fail……”
Tang Jang hesitated for a moment, then stood and bowed.
“I will stake my life.”
Tang Myung nodded and looked at the elders.
“From now on, I will transmit the Samyang Divine Art.”
He then turned to the Milyeong Unit leader.
“It would be better for the elders to transmit it rather than myself.”
The elders looked at the Milyeong Unit leader with puzzled eyes.
The Milyeong Unit leader bowed and said.
“In the past, the Milyeong Unit leader has prepared for emergencies and memorized the Samyang Divine Art without practicing it.”
“Understood.”
The elders looked at him.
The Milyeong Unit leader removed his mask after a moment.
“Hah!”
The elders’ eyes widened in shock as the Milyeong Unit leader removed his mask and brushed his hair back before looking up.
“Uncle Song?”
Surprise filled the elders’ faces. The face revealed beneath the mask was an unexpected person.
Song had been an elderly man in his sixties.
And he was someone they all knew well.
One of the elders in the elder roster, he lived quietly, liking the simple work of tending herb fields.
Tang Myung also looked at Song in surprise. The identity of Song was something Tang Myung had not known.
“The main family needs a peak expert for external activities. From now on, I will no longer be the Milyeong Unit leader but the elder supporting the Young Family Head.”
“Then what about the Milyeong Unit leader position?”
“A successor has been prepared.”
The elders nodded at Song’s words. The Milyeong Unit leader was the shadow of the Young Family Head.
That was why he did not engage in external affairs.
But the main family now required a peak expert for external activities.
“Thank you for this great decision.”
“The five elite unit elders will enter closed-door cultivation with me.”
“All of us?”
Tang Jang said urgently.
“Then the main family might be in danger.”
“That is exactly why it must be done now.”
Song looked at Tang Myung.
“We must raise our power immediately.”
Tang Myung nodded at Song’s words.
“I will not be able to spare much time.”
“Understood.”
Song bowed and straightened up.
“Follow me.”
After Song left the tent, Tang Jang looked at Tang Myung with worried eyes and said.
“If a problem arises, send people to the closed-door cultivation room immediately.”
“Do not worry.”
Tang Myung looked at Tang Jang and the five unit leaders and said.
“If a situation arises that requires you, the future of the main family will be dark. I will ensure that does not happen.”
Tang Jang looked at him, bowed, and left the tent.
Once they were gone, Tang Myung turned his head.
“Milyeong Unit leader.”
After Tang Myung’s call, a thud echoed and a masked man fell to the ground.
Tang Myung sighed at the sight.
“Uncle Hong, are you all right?”
Tang Myung’s words caused the new Milyeong Unit leader, masked, to grunt and stand up.
“I thought it would be easy when Uncle Song showed me, but this is difficult.”
Tang Myung said at the Milyeong Unit leader Tang Hong’s words.
“Did you know Uncle Song was stepping down as Milyeong Unit leader?”
“He mentioned there would be something like this soon. Apparently there is a shortage of peak experts for external activities in the main family.”
Tang Myung nodded and said.
“Inform the five elite unit elders of the Milyeong Unit leaders’ closed-door cultivation and have them fill the vacancies.”
“Yes. No, understood.”
Tang Hong kicked the ground and vanished with a flash.
He may have entered awkwardly, but he had clearly mastered exiting.
Tang Myung sighed at Tang Hong’s empty spot. Tang Hong…… had been the leader of the Bicheon Unit, his uncle, protecting his side since he was young.
His uncle who talked to him more than his father and played with him. But the Milyeong Unit leader Tang Hong could not reveal his identity even to family or friends.
He had to live as an ordinary Tang Family member, hiding his true identity like Uncle Song.
After Tang Hong left, Tang Myung stepped out of the tent.
Tang Myung looked at the Tang Family people quietly working around him.
More than two thousand people had gathered in the Tang Family Town.
Retainers, workers, and their families from across the lands were all working with the Tang Family and the people of the town.
That was why the Tang Family Town was bustling.
Smoke from dozens of cooking places rose into the air.
With thousands of people, the sky above the town was hazy with the smoke of cooking rice.
Tang Myung looked up at the sky.
“The cooking smoke of the main family…… will only grow larger.”
***
Tang Myung was cultivating martial arts.
Pa pa pat! Pa pat!
In front of Tang Myung, two Visa Unit members were fiercely sparring with him.
Pa at! Chwa ak!
Sparks flew from shoulders grazing each other, yet neither Tang Myung nor the Visa Unit member stopped their spar.
Pa pa pat!
Tang Myung’s Yin energy unfolded toward the incoming pill bottle.
Saa ak!
The Yin energy that had been drawing a circle in the air around Tang Myung bound the pill bottle and shot it straight toward its owner.
“Kwoh!”
With a groan, the pill bottle pierced the shoulder of one Visa Unit member.
Tang Myung moved back instantly, stopped his hand, and rushed over to the Visa Unit member.
“Uncle Ki, are you all right?”
Tang Myung’s words caused Tang Jang to smile and pull out the pill bottle stuck in his shoulder.
Tak tat!
Tang Jang stopped the bleeding with medicine from his pocket and smiled as he unfolded a piece of paper.
“The Young Family Head’s martial arts are really becoming strong rapidly. At first it was enough for just me, but now even two Visa Unit members are not enough.”
The Visa Unit was the main family’s strongest martial force. Every individual was a first-class expert, and among them were peak experts worthy of being called famous experts in the martial world.
Tang Myung had faced two of those Visa Unit members.
Tang Jang unfolded the paper to reveal medicine. He pressed it against the wound and said.
“Next time, three might be manageable.”
“Thank you.”
Tang Myung nodded, took out paper of his own, and applied it to his shoulder wound.
Hwa ak!
A strong hot sensation filled him. Tang Myung frowned slightly and sat down to enter qi circulation and breath adjustment.
Tang Jang and the other Visa Unit member positioned themselves to guard him front and back.
As Tang Myung circulated the Samyang Divine Art, he examined his body’s condition.
His martial arts had long since surpassed the late-stage level and become more than double as strong as before.
Through repeated deaths, the accumulated experience, the focus training with a peerless expert, and his burning desire to grow had transformed his martial arts beyond recognition.
Tang Myung exhaled deeply after finishing the qi circulation.
“Hoo!”
Tang Myung observed his own body.
‘The Three Talents realm of the Samyang Divine Art…… when reaching the Four Talents, one of the three energies—Yang, Yangming, or Soyang—will activate according to my body’s characteristics.’
Currently it was Soyang energy that was slightly stronger, matching his father’s inner energy circulation.
But upon reaching the Four Talents, one of the three energies would activate more powerfully according to Tang Myung’s unique characteristics.
Tang Myung briefly examined his dantian, then stood up.
Swoo!
Tang Myung stood, and Tang Jang and the Visa Unit member rose with him.
“Then I will see you in the evening.”
“We will have three in the evening.”
“Please.”
Tang Myung left the cultivation room.
As Tang Myung emerged, Tang Hong suddenly appeared.
“People have come from Qingcheng and Amu.”
Tang Myung’s face hardened at Tang Hong’s words.
“Where are they?”
“At the main gate of the Tang Family Town.”
Tang Myung nodded and walked toward the entrance of the Tang Family Town.