Chapter 227: Peng Feng, First on the Hidden Dragon Talent List
“Hidden Dragon Talent List, Fourth. Yan Yingyuan of Jiangyin. Divine-grade talent, Iron Wall. Any defensive techniques or formations he cultivates can increase in power, reaching the point of an iron wall, impenetrable by anything. It is the strongest defensive talent in the world.”
Wait a minute!
The people on the Hidden Dragon Heaven List’s top ten are all famous figures.
For example, the son of Emperor Chongzhen, the son of Sun Chengzong, Yuan Chengzhi, the son of Yuan Chonghuan, and Li Guo, the nephew of Li Zicheng.
However, this Yan Yingyuan doesn’t seem to have any significant background, and no one has ever heard of him before.
Now, this person has suddenly appeared.
For a time, many people are inquiring about Yan Yingyuan’s background, wanting to win him over.
While others don’t know Yan Yingyuan’s background, Peng Feng does.
In history, the Great Ming failed.
Many Great Ming officials defected to the Manchu Qing.
There were also loyal ministers, like Shi Kefa, who was a great loyalist, but incompetent. He allowed Jinling to fall quickly.
And Yan Yingyuan, at that time, was just a minor official, a clerk, such a small position. When the Manchu Qing invaded, he immediately organized the local people to resist them.
Leading 100,000 righteous people, facing 240,000 Qing iron cavalry and over 200 heavy cannons, he defended the isolated city for eighty-one days, causing the Qing army to lose three princes and eighteen generals, with 75,000 deaths. This is known as the Eighty-One Days of Jiangyin. On the day the city fell, not one righteous person surrendered, and only 53 survivors remained, mostly the old and young. After being captured, Yan Yingyuan resolutely refused to kneel before the Qing Beile, had his shinbones pierced, “blood gushed out and he fell,” and ultimately died heroically.
Before his death, he left behind that poem: “Eighty days with hair, loyal to the cause, representing the seventeen generations of the Great Ancestor.
One hundred thousand people died with one heart, leaving the Great Ming three hundred miles of land.”
Of course, there is an even more famous poem from this battle: “Rotting bones fill the battlefield, the isolated city refuses to surrender even in death. Tell passersby not to hold their noses, the living are not as fragrant as the dead.”
Yan Yingyuan is definitely a genius of this era.
It’s just that no one discovered his talent before.
For a time, all sides were vying to win over Yan Yingyuan.
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“Hidden Dragon Talent List, Third. Zheng Chenggong. Talent: Boundless Sea God Body, capable of endless water control, invincible on water. Even if someone is a major realm higher, they cannot defeat him in the ocean.”
Zheng Chenggong is indeed invincible on water. Even when the Manchu Qing was at its strongest, they were helpless against Zheng Chenggong’s navy.
Of course, others in this era are also stunned.
“Zheng Zhilong is just a mere pirate, yet his son has such a talent, ranking third on the Hidden Dragon Talent List. It’s truly unimaginable.” Emperor Chongzhen pondered, and many others had the same thought.
Of course, on a certain island.
The still-young Zheng Chenggong frowned: “My Boundless Sea God Body is only ranked third? I thought I was destined to be first. I wonder who those two people are who can rank ahead of me.”
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“Hidden Dragon Talent List, Second place, Li Dingguo, adopted son of Zhang Xianzhong. Divine-grade talent: Martial Saint Body. A saint among martial artists, a saint among saints. Any martial art can be learned easily, and its power can be unleashed to an extreme level. The Martial Saint Guan Yu of the past possessed the Martial Saint Body.”
This news alone shocked a large number of people.
Zhang Xianzhong is considered the second-ranked rebel.
Everyone thought that Zhang Xianzhong was just so-so.
As a result, no one expected that Zhang Xianzhong’s adopted son, Li Dingguo, could actually rank second.
Martial Saint Body!
This is the same talent as Guan Yu!
Amazing!
Li Dingguo’s name was not well-known before, but it can instantly resonate throughout the land. Of course, everyone also knows that with Zhang Xianzhong around, it’s impossible to win over Li Dingguo.
At this time, Zhang Xianzhong, who was ten meters tall, laughed heartily, slapping his thigh: “Good, my son is extraordinary, actually ranking second. Hahahaha. I bet that Chongzhen brat is already stunned by my son. His son is ranked tenth, and his daughter had to cut off a hand to be sixth. My son is ranked second, much stronger than his children.”
“Li Zicheng has always been called the number one bandit, and I’m ranked second. But Li Zicheng’s nephew, Li Guo, is only ranked fifth, while my son is ranked second.”
“Hahahaha, I’m winning big time.”
“I just don’t know who the first place on the Hidden Dragon Talent List is.”
It’s not just Zhang Xianzhong who has such doubts.
At this time, everyone in the Great Ming has such doubts.
Now, all the young experts have been listed, without exception. All the forces and the descendants of famous people have been listed.
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Then, who exactly can be ranked first on the Hidden Dragon Talent List, using their talent to dominate this generation?
Everyone is curious.
Very curious.
“Who exactly is this first place on the Hidden Dragon Talent List?”
“I wonder which powerful clan it is from.”
“Yes.”
Amidst everyone’s anticipation.
The first place on the Hidden Dragon List finally appears slowly.
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“Hidden Dragon List First, Peng Feng, a disciple of the Flower Sect. Divine-grade talent: Supreme Innate Holy Body!”
Damn it!
Suddenly, the entire Great Ming is in an uproar!
Supreme Innate Holy Body!
This is the top of all divine-grade talents!
The Martial Saint Body is amazing, they say that they can learn any close-combat martial art easily, master it quickly, and cultivate at an extremely fast pace. But they are not so good at long-range immortal techniques.
However, it is said that the cultivation speed of this Innate Holy Body is several times faster than that of the Martial Saint Body, and they can also learn and master long-range immortal techniques with ease.
The Supreme Innate Holy Body is said to be specifically for producing saints among immortals!
The Supreme Innate Holy Body does exist.
But one only appears every thousand years.
Or even one every few thousand years.
In the Great Ming’s three thousand years,
Only two Innate Holy Bodies have ever appeared.
Zhu Yuanzhang.
Wang Yangming.
Unexpectedly, another one has appeared now.
“Supreme Innate Holy Body.”
“This is the top of all divine-grade talents.”
“And look at the sect this person was born into, just a small sect like the Demon Sect Flower Sect.”
“The Demon Sect is said to have two factions and six sects, and the Flower Sect is just one of the eight sects. And its strength is ranked at the bottom of the eight sects. Unexpectedly, such a Supreme Innate Holy Body was produced.”
“Win him over, such a person must be won over.”
Emperor Chongzhen was also overjoyed at this time.
Li Guo, ranked fifth on the Hidden Dragon Talent List, is the nephew of the rebel Li Zicheng.
Zheng Chenggong, ranked third, is the son of the pirate Zheng Zhilong.
Li Dingguo, ranked second, is the adopted son of the rebel Zhang Xianzhong.
It seems that all the talented young people of the Great Ming are among the rebels and pirates. It’s really embarrassing to say it out loud.
Only Yan Yingyuan in the top five is holding on, but Yan Qingyuan is only ranked fourth, not very high.
Now, the first place is finally not a rebel or a pirate’s son. Although he is from the Demon Sect, he is much better than rebels and pirates.
“This Peng Feng must be won over.”
