A Journey Through the Worlds of Film and Television.

Chapter 413 9-Pattern Dragon Shi Jin

This time when Lu Cheng went on a long journey, he did not bring anyone with him. Instead, he only had a horse, a sword, a parrot and an eagle, and walked westward along the Yellow River, wandering freely in the world.

Wu Song originally wanted to travel the world with Lu Cheng, but Lu Cheng kept him at Lujiazhuang. In addition, the wife Wu Song married a year later was pregnant, so it was not convenient for Wu Song to travel far.

After leaving Yuncheng County, Lu Cheng headed westward at a very fast speed.

In the past six months, in addition to his personal training, Lu Cheng has been researching prescriptions for use with breathing and body building methods. During this period, Lu Cheng also carefully studied the muscles and bones of animals such as tigers, horses, wolves, and wild boars, and specifically developed prescriptions that can help tigers and horses improve their physiques, and conducted experiments on Tiger Liefeng and several horses at home.

Today, Tiger Liefeng's physique has improved by about 5% compared to before, and with the learning of hunting skills and tactics, his overall strength has been greatly improved.

If the tiger that Wu Song encountered on Jingyang Ridge in the original novel was the fierce wind at this time, I'm afraid Wu Song would suffer a great loss.

Of course, Wu Song's combat effectiveness has also improved a lot now. He used the Qiangsheng Pills to improve his physique, and learned the master-level fighting skills and swordsmanship from Lu Cheng, as well as Lu Cheng's newly created internal training method. His martial arts value has skyrocketed.

Even the horse that Lu Cheng was riding at this moment had become a truly one-in-a-million horse after being strengthened. Its ability to withstand and its endurance were far beyond what it had before, which was why it could carry Lu Cheng on long journeys.

After leaving Shandong, crossing the Central Plains and passing through Hedong Road, Lu Cheng did not stop for long along the way. Except for necessary rest, he was basically on the road.

Along the way, we also encountered some bandits who blocked our way and wild beasts in the forest, which only added some fun to this journey.

Calculating the time, Lu Zhishen should still be Lu Dalu Tixia, serving as a Tixia official in the residence of Mr. Xiaozhong (Chong) in Weizhou.

Weizhou is located in the northwest of the Song Dynasty, in Pingliang, Gansu Province in later generations.

If you want to go to Weizhou, you will pass through Huazhou. Therefore, Lu Cheng plans to go to Huayin County to meet Shi Jin, the Nine-Pattern Dragon of Shijiazhuang, Huayin, who is the first hero to appear in the original work of "Water Margin".

Moreover, there are several of the future 108 generals of Liangshan in Huayin County.

After entering Huayin County, Lu Cheng just asked someone and found out the exact location of Shijiazhuang.

In fact, the Shi family and Shi Jin were well-known in the whole Huayin County. Shi Jin was the eldest son of Shi Taigong of Shijiazhuang. He didn't like farming or business since he was a child, and he only liked to practice martial arts. His mother tried to persuade him, but he didn't listen. Shi Taigong had no choice but to follow his son's lead and asked people to teach Shi Jin martial arts. He also asked a skilled craftsman to give his son a set of tattoos.

Because Shi Jin had nine dragons tattooed on his body, shoulders and arms, he was nicknamed the Nine-Patterned Dragon.

Last year, Wang Jin, the instructor of the 80 imperial guards in Kyoto, was forced to flee to the northwest with his old mother because he angered Gao Qiu. On the way, he passed by Shijiazhuang and was warmly received by Shi Taigong. Later, Wang Jin saw that Shi Jin's kung fu was just some fancy moves, so he stayed to teach Shi Jin martial arts.

After Shi Jin had studied for half a year and learned all the eighteen martial arts, Wang Jin took his old mother and left to seek refuge with old General Zhong Jinglie.

Later, Shi Taigong died of illness, and Shi Jin became the master of Shijiazhuang. Afterwards, the bandits from Shaohua Mountain came to rob, and Shi Jin captured the bandit leader Chen Da alive. The other two bandit leaders Zhu Wu and Yang Chun used the trick of self-torture to tie themselves up and surrender.

Shi Jin was a young man with a strong sense of justice. He admired those loyal men of the world the most, so he released Zhu Wu, Yang Chun, Chen Da and others on the spot.

When Lu Cheng arrived at Shijiazhuang, he happened to hear the people of Shijiazhuang talking about a battle that had taken place not long ago. They were talking about how brave and invincible Shi Dalang was, how he captured the bandits alive and resolved the crisis.

When Lu Cheng arrived at Shijiazhuang and introduced himself, not long after, he saw a young man in shorts, bare arms, and dragon tattoos on his arms walking quickly. When he came close, he looked Lu Cheng up and down and asked casually, "I heard that there was a hero named Lu Cheng who could subdue a tiger in Yuncheng County, Jizhou Prefecture. Since you claim to be from Yuncheng and your name is Lu Cheng, you should be the hero who can subdue a tiger, right?"

"It is Lu."

"I am Shi Jin from Shijiazhuang. I love to wield spears and clubs and make friends with heroes. Since you have the ability to subdue a tiger, I believe you must have real kung fu skills. Can you teach me a thing or two?"

"Since Shi Dalang wants to spar with me, Lu will naturally not refuse."

"please."

The two entered Shijiazhuang. Shi Jin led Lu Cheng directly to the martial arts arena in the yard. He casually pulled out a long stick and threw it to Lu Cheng. He also took a long stick himself: "Spears and sticks have no eyes, Mr. Lu, be careful."

Lu Cheng laughed and swung the long stick in his hand: "I heard that Shi Dalang learned from Wang Jin, the instructor of the 800,000 Imperial Army, and is proficient in all eighteen martial arts, but I don't know how much real ability he has."

Shi Jin was a passionate young man, and he immediately took action upon hearing this: "Then I'll let you see!"

Seeing Shi Jin sweeping the long stick in his hand towards him, Lu Cheng took his time and stretched out the stick with one hand, easily blocking Shi Jin's move.

When Shi Jin saw this, his eyes lit up and he no longer held back. He suddenly pulled back the long stick in his hand and then thrust it out again, using the stick as a gun and stabbing straight at Lu Cheng.

Lu Cheng neither advanced nor retreated. He swung the long stick in Shi Jin's hand away again, then poked the long stick forward and pressed it against Shi Jin's throat.

Shi Jin was shocked and took two steps back. He had never expected that Lu Cheng's moves would be so clean and neat, and so difficult to resist.

"What just happened doesn't count, let's do it again!"

This time, Shi Jin stepped forward, gathering momentum to charge forward, swung the long stick in his hand in a circle, and with one move, he split Huashan and chopped straight towards Lu Cheng.

Lu Cheng just took half a step sideways, letting the stick fall at his feet, then quickly raised his foot to step on the stick, and with a push of the long stick in his hand, he pressed it against Shi Jin's throat again.

"How could this be? How did I lose so quickly?"

For a moment, Shi Jin was still a little bit unbelievable and even began to doubt himself.

Back then, Shi Jin had studied martial arts for many years and thought he was very skilled, but in front of the imperial guards coach Wang Jin, he could not last more than three moves.

Now, Shi Jin has learned martial arts from Wang Jin, and not long ago he captured Chen Da, the jumping tiger on Shaohua Mountain. He was at the peak of his career and full of energy, but he could only last three moves under Lu Cheng.

This made Shi Dalang begin to doubt his life.

But then he quickly threw away the stick in his hand and saluted towards Lu Cheng: "Mr. Lu is indeed a master. Shi Jin admires him. I apologize for my impoliteness just now."

"It's okay. As people who love martial arts, it's common for us to compete with each other."

In fact, Shi Jin's kung fu is pretty good. In terms of moves alone, he is stronger than Wu Song when he first met Lu Cheng. He is just inferior to Wu Song in strength and speed, and does not have much combat experience.

The reason why he could not last more than three moves at the hands of Lu Cheng was because Lu Cheng surpassed Shi Jin in all aspects such as strength, speed, skills and experience.

Of course, Shi Jin is still young and has a lot of room for improvement and growth in the future.