Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Uncle Li looked around cautiously before he explained, “Li Yuanhao had a lucky break once, where he found a manual for a Yellow Rank Supreme Class technique within some ruins! It was for a technique named, the Cloud-piercing Sword Technique, and it allowed martial artists of the Essence Boundary to unleash sword energies.”
Luo Feng nodded his head and a moment after, he bowed down while clasping his fists to Uncle Li. “I greatly appreciate the pointers you’ve given me today, Uncle Li.”
Had it not been for Uncle Li, Luo Feng would never have found out so many things.
Uncle Li nodded his head in delight. “Well, Ji Wuyue’s my student after all.”
The two then came down from the third floor and Uncle Li went ahead to register the Heaven-crushing Blade Technique into the logs. A moment later, as if he had just remembered something, he raised his head and stated, “Oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention this to you. The director has said that you don’t need to return the Soaring Dragon Steps’ manual. However, you’ll need to supply us with a Yellow Rank Middle Class manual instead.”
“What’s the reason behind this decision?” Luo Feng was slightly puzzled.
Uncle Li chuckled. “You don’t need to be surprised. After all, for the dozen or so years in which the Soaring Dragon Steps have existed within the Martial Arts Hall, not a single student has managed to successfully cultivate it. As such, rather than let it collect dust, the director has decided to exchange it for a more practical technique instead. I believe that the director thinks that the manual would serve you better than anyone else.”
Luo Feng nodded since he felt that the Soaring Dragon Steps was challenging to cultivate too. Due to this, he hesitated whether to return the manual all this time.
Following that, Luo Feng then took out his Moving Clouds Sword Technique and passed it over to Uncle Li. “Uncle Li, I obtained this manual by chance, and I’m exchanging this manual for the Soaring Dragon Steps.”
“The Moving Clouds Sword Technique, huh. It’s considered quite excellent, even among the ranks of the Yellow Rank Middle Class techniques. Not bad.” Uncle Li inspected the manual closely and nodded his head a moment later.
With the Soaring Dragon Steps now in his permanent possession, Luo Feng heaved a breath of relief. After bidding farewell to Uncle Li, Luo Feng then left the Martial Arts Hall.
Upon arrival at his courtyard, Luo Feng opted to cultivate the Soaring Dragon Steps instead of the Heaven-crushing Sword Technique.
After all, it would be difficult for him to cultivate the Heaven-crushing Sword Technique to a level where countering Li Yuanhao was a possibility. Especially within such a short span of time.
However, as long as he could reach a high enough level in his Light Body martial arts, he would have no trouble defending against Li Yuanhao.
Moreover, as Luo Feng had already reached the middle phase of the Iron Bone Boundary, he was finally able to cultivate the third level of the Soaring Dragon Steps.
Each successive level of the Soaring Dragon Steps was harder to cultivate than the previous ones, and this time around, Luo Feng had spent ten days in order to form the new wandering dragons within his kidneys.
Although he had spent a huge amount of time on his efforts, it was not for naught.
At present, Luo Feng was able to leap over two hundred feet, with a speed that was six times greater than his regular speed. Moreover, he was able to travel over several feet in a single step, which made him faster than a spurring horse.
“Even Li Yuanhao himself wouldn’t be able to catch me now.”
A smug grin appeared on Luo Feng’s face. The Soaring Dragon Steps was indeed marvelous. Even though he was only at level three, his speed had already surpassed any ordinary Yellow Rank Upper Class techniques!
After successfully cultivating the Soaring Dragon Steps’ third level, Luo Feng immediately began cultivating the Heaven-crushing Blade Technique.
The Heaven-crushing Blade Technique was a technique that was extremely close in terms of strength to the Black Class martial arts. As such, the Roaring Tiger Fist did not hold a candle when it came to the difficulty in cultivating the technique. Luo Feng would even daresay that its difficulty was on par with the Soaring Dragon Steps.
Within the courtyard, and with the Tiger Essence Saber within his hand, Luo Feng wandered about like a dragon. Flashes of his blade could be seen throughout the courtyard as the air within it began to swarm, forming a mini hurricane.
Woosh…Woosh…Woosh…
As his sword began to pick up speed, the hurricane grew wilder as well. It slashed at its surroundings, causing the trees within the courtyard to sway and rustle loudly…
By nightfall, Luo Feng finally stopped. After heaving an exhausted sigh, he laid his eyes on the falling leaves, and suddenly, a flash whistled past his eyes.
“I only spent half a day cultivating the Heaven-crushing Sword Technique to its first level! My apprehension really is amazing!” Luo Feng could not help but praise himself as he was extremely pleased with the speed of his cultivation.
However, this was only the beginning. There were a total of six levels to the Heaven-crushing Sword Technique, and each technique was more difficult than the previous one. This was especially true for the final three levels, as they were unable to be cultivated through normal means and had instead relied on learning the nuances of the technique through killing.
A moment later, Luo Feng began to cultivate the Heaven-crushing Blade Technique’s second level.
Originally, Luo Feng had planned to use around five days to cultivate the second level, but once again, he had underestimated his abilities.
In just three days, Luo Feng had successfully cultivated the Heaven-crushing Blade Technique.
Just by being in the second level, the Heaven-crushing Blade Technique’s power had already surpassed that of a Yellow Ranked Middle Class martial art! In other words, Luo Feng was already able to go toe-to-toe with Li Heshan’s Wind-chasing Sword Technique with just his level two Heaven-crushing Blade Technique!
Nevertheless, his progress after the second level had gradually slowed down.
Luo Feng was only able to cultivate his Heaven-crushing Blade Technique to the third level on the eighth day. Despite that, its power had already surpassed a Yellow Rank Middle Class technique and was akin to a Yellow Rank Upper Class technique instead!
As it had already possessed such immense power just by being in the third level, Luo Feng believed that once he cultivated it to the sixth level, the technique would surpass even Black Class techniques!
Alas, the stronger a technique was, the harder it was to cultivate. Even with Luo Feng’s self-proclaimed amazing apprehension, his cultivation rate had diminished greatly once he reached the third level.
Sensing that he had reached a bottleneck, Luo Feng reluctantly halted his cultivation.
Throughout his half-a-month-long isolated cultivation, he made constant breakthroughs, and at long last, he had reached the apex of the Iron Bone Boundary!
Nevertheless, his sudden spurt had not occurred without reason.
With the eighteen Meridian Cycles within his body coupled with the strong and powerful Heaven-crushing Blade Technique, Luo Feng was able to reap multiple benefits in his cultivation. As such, he was able to make such an advancement within this short span of time.
“I’ve already achieved the Success State with my Roaring Tiger Fist, and both my Soaring Dragon Steps and Heaven-crushing Blade Technique are now at the third level. I suppose that I’ll stand a chance against Li Heshan, or even Duanmu Yu now. However, I’m still not fully confident in claiming victory.”
Luo Feng mused to himself as he looked down at his Tiger Essence Saber.
Duanmu Yu was a genius, one who had entered the Inner Institution at the age of fifteen. Coupled with the fact that he was of the Heroic Boundary and had cultivated a Yellow Rank Supreme Class martial art of his own, he was not someone to be scoffed at.
After cleaning up his mess, Luo Feng decided to take the assessment to become an Inner institution student. By doing so, he would be able to prevent Li Yuanhao from carrying out any funny business, and once he had cultivated his Heaven-crushing Sword Technique to the fifth level, he would no longer have anything to fear.
“Luo Feng!”
The moment Luo Feng walked out of his courtyard, he heard someone crying out to him.
He spun his head around, and to his surprise, Li Yuan and a couple of Golden Sun Class students were running his way with terrified expressions.
“Li Yuan, what’s the matter?”
“The hooligans from the Extensive Net Institution are here to cause trouble! The one that claims himself to be Chen Xin says that he wants to challenge you! He’s already defeated our class representative along with Qin Luoxue and the others!”
Li Yuan’s face was flushed red as he spoke, and the surrounding Golden Sun Class students nodded along with Li Yuan’s words. They all looked respectfully towards Luo Feng.
Since Luo Feng had obtained the title of the First Roaming King, no one from the Outer Institution had dared to look down on him any longer.
‘Chen Xin?’
Luo Feng raised his eyebrows as he attempted to remember the familiar name. Alas, he could not remember anything.
“Bring me there!”
The Extensive Net Institution had always been at odds with the Purple Sun Institution. Due to this, Luo Feng had to step up as it was a matter of the institution’s pride. Moreover, his opponent had called him out directly, and as such, there was no way he would flee from the challenge.
Besides, Luo Feng was keen on testing out his skills too, as he had just completed his isolated cultivation.
Along the way, Luo Feng learned from Li Yuan and the others that both Li Heshan and Lin Xiaoxiao had made it into the Inner Institution a few days back.
Since Li Heshan was already in the later phase of the Iron Bone Boundary, Luo Feng had not found anything weird about his admission. Lin Xiaoxiao, on the other hand, had given Luo Feng quite a surprise.
Nevertheless, Luo Feng soon connected the dots.
Since Duanmu Yu was somewhat of a celebrity himself within the Inner Institution, all he needed to do was pull a few strings, and Lin Xiaoxiao’s admission would be as good as guaranteed.
The party picked up their pace, and soon after, arrived at the Institution’s gate.
Outside the institution’s gate, a ruckus could be heard.
“The Purple Sun Institution is getting worse day by day. Is this what they call the Outer Institution’s elites? Hah, they can’t even take a single hit!”
“Haha… I guess they should rename the four great institutions into the three great institutions instead!”
“Exactly, none of these punks from the Outer Institution could even hold a candle to you, Brother Xin…”
“Hey, hurry up and call Luo Feng over!”
A dozen or so Extensive Net students were standing right out of the gates, and they were talking loudly with an air of disdain.
Beside them, laid a few Purple Sun students, namely, Qin Luoxue, Bing Ruolan, Nan Fei and a few others.
Each of them had a few injuries on them, including Bing Ruolan and Qin Luoxue.
“Hmph! Don’t act so pompous! Had our number one student, Li Heshan not entered the Inner Institution two days ago, none of you would even be left standing right now!”
The Purple Sun students were growing frustrated at the Extensive Net students’ ridicule, and in the end, one of the Golden Sun Class students had finally retorted.
“Hahaha… Li Heshan? I’ve crossed swords with him before, but he couldn’t even handle ten blows from me. He has no place here.” An Extensive Net student with dark skin shook his head and chuckled.
Qin Luoxue and the others were extremely mad at the Extensive Net students’ remarks, but none of them were capable of retorting.
After all, everyone present had been defeated fair and square by the Extensive Net students.
It was at this moment where Luo Feng had finally appeared.
“It’s you!”
As Luo Feng noticed the sword-wielding teen among the crowd of Extensive Net students, he recognized that the student was the person he had met back in the Red Training Mountain Range.
At the moment, Chen Xin was also in the apex of the Iron Bone Boundary, and he had exuded an imposing aura. From the looks of it, Chen Xin worked hard in his cultivation.
“Chen Xin, you know this guy?” The dark-skinned student took a glance at Luo Feng before looking back at Chen Xin.
Chen Xin remained silent, but a square-faced student leaped out from the crowd and pointed at Luo Feng. In an angry tone, he declared, “It’s that punk! The one who stole the Crimson Blaze Fruit from the Red Training Mountain Range!”
Woosh!
Everyone’s eyes were instantly trained on Luo Feng.
“Luo Feng!” A spark of delight was ignited in Bing Ruolan’s eyes upon noticing Luo Feng’s presence.
“Luo Feng did you …”
Noticing that the aura Luo Feng exuded had changed, Bing Ruolan widened her eyes with disbelief.
“You’re in the later phase of the Iron Bone Boundary!”
Even Qin Luoxue was surprised by Bing Ruolan’s statement. In response, she began to inspect Luo Feng, and soon after, she formed a surprised expression as well.
She knew that Luo Feng was only in the middle phase back when the Roaming King Tournament was held, but within a span of just ten days, Luo Feng had already reached the apex of the Iron Bone Boundary! His cultivation rate was insane!
“Luo Feng… So, you’re the First Roaming King in this year’s Roaming King Tournament, eh.”
The dark-skinned student took a quick glance at Luo Feng, but a moment after, he lost his interest and shook his head. “It’s just a nobody in the apex of the Iron Bone Boundary. I think it’ll be better to call in the previous First Roaming King, Duanmu Yu instead.”
Luo Feng stared at the dark-skinned student with a focused expression.
The dark-skinned student’s cultivation was even higher than Chen Xin’s! He was an expert in the Heroic Boundary!
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