Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The operation to surround and kill the underground gang had ended.
Apart from the Wild Wolf Sect chief and the Fierce Tiger Sect chief who escaped, the rest were killed in the woods of Xiao Tang Mountain.
After learning that two qi cultivating realm chiefs had escaped, Lu Yu felt that this operation was a failure. They had let go of two most dangerous enemies.
From Zhang Lun’s words, he learned that the escaping Fierce Tiger Sect chief was nothing to worry about. The chief used an unknown technique and burst out with great power at the last minute. After repelling the three squires, he jumped off the cliff and escaped.
This time, he was either dead or crippled. He was basically not a threat anymore. Right now, Zhang Lun had already arranged for guards to go down the cliff to search for traces of the Fierce Tiger Sect chief.
The sinister and cunning Fierce Tiger Sect chief, who was nearly at full strength, was the real worry in Lu Yu’s heart. From the many battles, it could be seen that the Fierce Tiger Sect chief would do anything to achieve his goal.
The Fierce Tiger Sect scattered lime to create chaos and escape. They didn’t even inform their other comrades. Even some of the members of the Fierce Tiger Sect and the Blood Blade Sect were blinded by the lime and lost their lives in the chaos.
Lu Yu believed that the usage of lime was the order from Hei Lang.
Looking at the experience points he had now, Lu Yu asked permission from Butler Zhang to look for the chief of the Fierce Tiger Sect who had jumped off the cliff to escape.
By killing the chief of the Fierce Tiger Sect, he might be able to get enough experience points to level up his cultivation technique.
While the others were looking for the chief of the Fierce Tiger Sect at the bottom of the cliff, Lu Yu observed the cliff where the chief had jumped off. He stood at the edge of the cliff and looked down.
The surface of the cliff was not flat. There were many trees that extended horizontally. It was also possible that the chief had not completely fallen off. Otherwise, the guards would have already found him after searching for a long time.
The chief of the Fierce Tiger Sect was already heavily injured. It was too difficult for him to move without leaving a trace.
Many people were searching at the bottom, yet there was still no trace of the chief of the Fierce Tiger Sect. Therefore, it was very likely that he was still halfway up the cliff.
Lu Yu took out a rope from his backpack and tied it to a big tree at the edge of the cliff. Then, he climbed down along the rope.
On the way down, Lu Yu saw the branches that were broken by the Fierce Tiger Sect chief and the leaves that were stained with fresh blood. When Lu Yu was halfway up, he was surprised to find that there was a stone platform that was blocked by trees.
He stopped descending and carefully observed the stone platform. Most of the stone platform was blocked by trees, he could not see the situation inside clearly. It seemed that the Fierce Tiger Sect chief was blocked by the stone platform and did not fall to the bottom.
Realizing that the Fierce Tiger Sect chief might be hiding in the bushes on the stone platform, Lu Yu did not dare to continue descending. He was not sure if he could deal with the severely injured chief.
After thinking for a moment, he tied the rope around his body and hung it in the air. He took out some spare clothes and stuffed the sack that he used to store sand. Then, he propped up the clothes.
He used a rope to tie up the clothes and made a dummy. He then dropped the dummy onto the stone platform.
“Die with me!”
The Fierce Tiger Sect chief roared and rushed out from the stone platform to jump down with the dummy. When he hugged the dummy, his face was filled with shock and confusion. He was completely dumbfounded.
He turned his head to look up and only saw a figure hanging in mid-air.
Lu Yu released the rope in his hand, his heart still palpitating with fear. Fortunately, he did not go down, or he would have died from the fall!
Bang! The Fierce Tiger Sect chief fell from the sky. He smashed onto the ground after breaking many tree branches, alerting the surrounding guards.
Following the gap created by the smash, the Fierce Tiger Sect chief looked at Lu Yu who had descended from the cliff. His eyes were as big as goose eggs, like a ferocious tiger that could kill at any time.
When Lu Yu was about to reach the ground, he released the rope in his hand. He was afraid that the Fierce Tiger Sect chief would die too quickly, and the game system would judge that the chief was dead because of suicide. By then, Lu Yu would not get any experience points, so he used his fastest speed to finish the job.
The chief of the Fierce Tiger Sect felt that he was going to die. When he was on the stone platform, he knew that he had no chance to live, so he chose to die together with the opponent.
But he did not expect that he was actually carrying a dummy. He was not reconciled. He wanted to know who was the one who tricked him! Who was it!
Then, he saw a knife, a knife that fell from the sky and hit him. He also saw the person’s face clearly, the person who was going to take away his last wish. Then, he took his last breath.
[You have killed a qi cultivating realm second level martial art cultivator, obtained 1,472 experience points]
[You have obtained achievement! Your combat strength is astonishing — you have killed an opponent at much higher realm than you. Reward: 5,000 experience points]
Lu Yu pulled out the knife that was stuck in the Fierce Tiger Sect chief’s body. He was very surprised. He had never thought that killing the Fierce Tiger Sect chief would bring him such a huge reward.
This was the first time he knew about the achievement system. However, from the first achievement that he had obtained, it could be seen that its difficulty was very high. Moreover, the achievement was hidden, so he could not know the requirements to achieve it.
They carried the body of the leader of the Fierce Tiger Sect chief back to the Han Residence. When Butler Zhang learned that Lu Yu had tricked the Fierce Tiger Sect chief into jumping off a cliff to his death with a dummy, he praised Lu Yu greatly.
Under the suggestion of Butler Zhang and Han Yaozong, Lu Yu was accepted by Han Yaozu as a disciple of the Han family with a different surname. He had the same rights as a member of the Han family and could regain his freedom.
He could freely enter and leave the Han Residence. If he contributed enough, he could exchange for any cultivation technique or martial skills in the Han Residence’s depository.
Butler Zhang even gave him a secret skill that he had found on the Fierce Tiger Sect chief as a reward. However, Lu Yu asked Butler Zhang to not announce his achievement to the public.
He was afraid that he would be targeted by Yang Xiu and the escaped Hei Lang. He just wanted to quietly make a fortune.
Lu Yu took the Fierce Tiger Sect chief’s secret skill and flipped through it.
[Detected that the player is learning the Burning Blood Secret Skill. The Burning Blood Secret Skill template is 1% … 2% …]
Secret skills and martial skills were different types of skills. Martial skills had different levels, and secret skills had no levels. However, there was a higher risk to use secret skills.
The Burning Blood Secret Skill was a common explosive secret skill. The Han Residence had similar secret skills, and the risk was lower than the Burning Blood Secret Skill of the Fierce Tiger Sect chief. However, it was harder to use it.
The Burning Blood Secret Skill reversed some of the qi-blood, causing the qi-blood to collide, resulting in an explosion. It pushed the circulation of the qi-blood, causing the speed of the qi-blood to increase greatly in a short period of time.
The speed of the qi-blood circulation was closely related to the maximum extent of the qi-blood that could explode, and the qi-blood explosion was related to the power of martial skill moves. Martial skill moves relied on the explosion of the qi-blood, allowing the user to fill with extraordinary strength.
When Lu Yu used all his strength to perform the Black Tiger Heart Piercing, he used 10 points of qi-blood. When these 10 points of qi-blood were concentrated on the finger, it could instantly strengthen the finger as hard as iron. He could easily cut open the chest of a sixth level body refining realm martial art cultivator.
Concentrating 10 points of qi-blood between the fingers was the limit of what he could do. If he concentrated more qi-blood surged into the finger, it would be restricted by the speed of qi-blood circulation and the strength of the body, and it would not be able to have a strengthening effect.
In the same way, the Eight Steps Chasing Cicada was also gathering qi-blood to strengthen in his legs, enhancing the instantaneous strength of his leg muscles to achieve extreme speed displacement.
After using the Burning Blood Secret Skill, the speed of his qi-blood circulation would be greatly accelerated, and his strength would be increased. The power of the skill would also be stronger.
However, using the Burning Blood Secret Skill required reversing one’s own qi-blood, and it would cause great pressure on the body.
In a short period of time, it would cause the blood to burn. Due to the intense collision of qi-blood, the blood in the body would evaporate and decrease.
In a long period of time, it would cause the internal organs to fail, and the qi-blood would flow backward, causing a permanent loss of qi-blood.
If one could not control the qi-blood flowing backward, it might even cause the qi-blood to flow to the brain, damaging the brain or dying.
However, it would be fine for using the Burning Blood Secret Skill in a short period of time. After using it, he could recover his strength after a few days of rest.
It was easy to reverse the flow of qi-blood, but it was very difficult to correct it. In other words, there was a possibility that he might be forced to use the Burning Blood Secret Skill for a long time.
Therefore, cultivating the secret skill was very dangerous and very difficult.
However, this was not a problem for Lu Yu. Because to him, the Burning Blood Secret Skill was more like a buff that could be turned on and off.
[Burning Blood Secret Skill (beginner) — reverse 20% of qi-blood, increase the speed of qi-blood circulation by 50%, increase the power of qi-blood burst by 50%]
The increase in the speed of qi-blood circulation could increase the speed of skill casting, increase the power of qi-blood burst, and increase the power of skills.
With the Burning Blood Secret Skill and Heaven’s Fall, Lu Yu felt that he was walking further and further down the path of one-blade technique.
In order to upgrade the Burning Blood Secret Skill to ‘slightly skilled’, he needed 10,000 experience points. Lu Yu did not consider it for the time being. Moreover, his body might not be strong enough to upgraded Burning Blood Secret Skill.
He looked at the experience points he had. It was a total of 7,321 experience points. This was the remaining experience from the last upgrade of Eight Steps Chasing Cicada.
After careful consideration, Lu Yu made a decision. He would use 2,000 experience points to level up his realm, and then upgrade the Edgeless Blade Art. This way, he would be able to use the least amount of experience points to increase his cultivation.
His current disadvantage was that his realm level was too low, and the level of the martial skills he had mastered far exceeded his current realm. He could not fully display the power of the martial arts.
Just the ‘perfected’ Fierce Tiger Fist Style was enough to support a seventh level body refining realm martial art cultivator to unleash his full strength.
There was no need to say more about the Heaven’s Fall.
The Fierce Tiger Sect chief, who was at qi cultivating realm, had also faced serious consequences after using the Burning Blood Secret Skill. With Lu Yu’s current realm, he estimated that he would not be able to last more than a few seconds after using the secret skill.
[After painstaking cultivation, your realm has broken through to the fifth level of the body refining realm. Qi-blood + 9]
Seeing that it required 5,000 experience points to break through from the fifth level of the body refining realm to the sixth level, Lu Yu smiled smugly. He had saved 3,000 experience points, and he could also level up Heaven’s Fall and the Eight Steps Chasing Cicada.
When he clicked to level up the Edgeless Blade Technique, he suddenly realized that the Edgeless Blade Technique, which originally required 2,000 experience points to level up from the second level to the third level, now required 5,000 experience points.
The smug look on Lu Yu’s face instantly disappeared. He could only sigh that this game did not leave any loopholes for him.
Thinking back to when he had upgraded the Fierce Tiger Fist Style to raise his realm, it usually took more experience points to upgrade the cultivation technique than the realm. There had never been a cultivation technique that was cheaper than raising the realm.
Although the experience points required to upgrade the Edgeless Blade Art had increased, Lu Yu still chose to upgrade the Edgeless Blade Art.
[After painstaking cultivation, you have comprehended the third level of the Edgeless Blade Art, qi-blood + 13]
[Your realm has been upgraded to the sixth level of the body refining realm, qi-blood + 10]
Lu Yu checked his details.
[Name: Lu Yu]
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[Realm: Body refining realm sixth level]
[Qi-blood: 124]
[Cultivation Technique: Fierce Tiger Fist Style (fourth level), Edgeless Blade Art (third level)]
[Skill: Fierce Tiger Fist Style (perfected), Eight Steps Chasing Cicada (highly skilled), Edgeless Blade Technique- Heaven’s Fall (beginner), Burning Blood Secret Skill (beginner)]
[Experience Points: 321]