Chapter 36 - 34 The Linkage between Martial Cultivators and Cultivators

Chapter 36: Chapter 34 The Linkage between Martial Cultivators and Cultivators

“In this battle, Yang Shi, with his eighth layer of body refining, shone brilliantly using the Flowing Water Sword, personally slaying two cultivators at the Fetal Breathing Stage.

Second only to the MVP, the Iron-spined Grey Wolf.

After all, being a spirit beast in the Qi Refinement Realm, it first reduced the enemy’s numbers and then occupied the strongest, Miao Renfeng, giving Yang Shi the chance to kill Miao Er, who was at the seventh layer of Fetal Breathing.

‘This mid-grade magic artifact, the Flowing Water Sword, is really something good… It fits my Traceless Sword Technique perfectly.’

Yang Shi, fondling the Flowing Water Sword, liked it very much.

The inherent phantom effect and the water blade’s lethality greatly enhanced his strength.

Without this sword, he could never have killed Miao Er, at the most he could have restrained him.

Jiang Xiaobai, touching the now completely spiritless Moonlight Mirror, had a pained expression on his face.

‘It will take half a year before I can use it…’

‘Still better than letting him escape; otherwise, we wouldn’t be able to sleep peacefully.’

They brought the three corpses back to the tea house, and Jiang Xiaobai, heartbroken, went to clean up the now chaotic tea house.

Hu Zi expertly searched the bodies.

‘Hey! Bro Shi, these three thieves really had some good stuff on them!’

Hu Zi laid out the spoils in a row on the ground.

A small pile of low-grade spirit stones, totaling thirty-eight pieces.

A packet of various hidden weapons.

Two broken turtle shells.

A jade scroll of the ‘Five Elements Transfer Skill.’

Four Spirit Revitalizing Pills.

A bronze dagger, tough in texture and flickering with spirit light, a low-grade magic artifact.

Yang Genshuo could see the attributes of this dagger through the attribute card.

[Breaking Spell Knife]

[Quality: Low-grade Magic Artifact]

[Extremely sharp, especially effective against protective magic artifacts and talismans.]

‘No wonder I always felt that the dagger used by this second brother wasn’t powerful… Yang Shi had no defensive artifacts, and his attack couldn’t trigger the three defense talismans given by Murong Ziyuan.’

The reason Yang Shi dared to risk himself and actively engage one person was due to the courage provided by these three defense talismans, which could block the attacks of a Qi Refinement Realm cultivator!

Unfolding one, the combined efforts of these three couldn’t break through its defense.

Looking at these spoils, what amused Yang Genshuo was… the person who was knocked unconscious by the grey wolf carried a large number of hidden weapons, which seemed to have quite strong lethality, probably no less than pepper spray and stun guns, yet he didn’t get to use any of them and just died.

Among them, the items carried by Miao Renfeng were the most valuable.

Spirit Revitalizing Pills, a first-grade elixir, were used for rapid recovery of spiritual power. During battles between cultivators, a single pill could change the outcome.

The reason Miao Renfeng could, with his nine layers of Fetal Breathing, suppress the wolf at the first layer of Qi Cultivation, was due to continuous spiritual power after consuming this elixir.

If sold in the market, it would be worth at least five low-grade spirit stones per pill.

Jiang Xiaobai has too little ability at the moment; consuming such a good elixir would be a waste, so Yang Shi decided to keep it for now.

Besides, the most valuable was the jade scroll of the cultivation technique.

Jiang Xiaobai held it in his hand and explored it with his spiritual power before reading the contents.

‘Five Elements Transfer Skill, a Qi Cultivation Skill designed specifically for cultivators with Five Spirit Roots, can be cultivated up to the Foundation Establishment Stage…’

‘Since ancient times, Five Spirit Roots have been called waste roots, making it hard to ascend the path of immortal cultivation, with most cultivators reaching a bottleneck at the Qi Cultivation Realm and depleting their lifespan without breaking through to Foundation Establishment.’

‘However, a cultivator with outstanding talent and Five Spirit Roots in the Foundation Establishment Stage believed that Five Spirit Roots were not utterly useless; rather, because the spirit roots possessed all five elements, they could form a cycle of Five Elements Spiritual Power, thus creating this cultivation technique.’

‘By spending five times the time of a cultivator of the same level, one can form a vortex of Five Elements Spiritual Power within their body, making them invincible among peers and even capable of overcoming higher realms…’

Yang Genshuo was originally listening with great interest, but he couldn’t hold back at the last sentence.

“What a silly Cultivation Technique!”

“Only requires five times the time?”

“Wow, others with Five Spirit Roots take 20 years for Qi Cultivation, and you plan to reach Perfect Fetal Breathing in 100 years and then level up? Death is always a step ahead of your cultivation?”

“That’s too absurd.”

Yang Genshuo could also see the description of the technique himself.

Aside from what Jiang Xiaobai read, this technique also had its merits.

“If you do not pursue the cycle of Five Elements Spiritual Power Vortex, it is not too different from ordinary techniques, coming with one spell of each of the five series: Golden Sword Skill, Divine Movement Technique, Fire Spraying Skill, Spiritual Rain Skill, and Entangling Skill.”

These were exactly the spells the Miao Family’s three brothers had used in their recent contest of magic.

“No Refraction Technique or Empty-handed Mischief… It seems those are their family heirlooms.”

These two skills were clearly useful for thieves.

As for the Miao Family… Yang Shi had heard Liu Wuheng mention them once as a parasitic family in the Danai Dynasty, notorious thieves with a terrible reputation, but no one has ever found the Miao Family’s residence, or surely cultivators would have teamed up to retaliate.

After collecting the spoils of battle, the group went to rest.

Yang Genshuo was staring at Yang Shi’s character card.

“His talent… has upgraded again.”

After the last event in the Workshop, Yang Genshuo had gone to sleep, leaving them to develop freely for a few months. At that time, after Yang Shi advanced to the seventh layer of Body Refining and took a Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill, he immediately moved up to the eighth layer.

The Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill, essential for all cultivators, could enhance some talent attributes.

With its efficacy, Yang Shi forced a breakthrough and even improved his talent.

[Life Span: 22/77]

[Comprehension: 30]

[Talent: Fun-seeker (Mortal Level), Bittersweet++ (Mortal Level)]

[Bittersweet++ (Mortal Level): Efficiency fluctuates significantly based on mood, pleasure +30%, sorrow -30% (affected by “Mingxin Technique”)]

“Life Span increased by 5 years, Comprehension increased by 10 points, and the talent has upgraded again.”

He checked the event record system from yesterday.

“The Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill increased his Life Span and Comprehension, and as he broke through realms, the ‘Mingxin Technique’ once again enhanced his talent…”

“This Inner Breath Heart Method is quite interesting.”

Yang Genshuo was even thinking of practicing it himself.

But after a bit of thought… he seemed to have no talent at all!

“Right, what if Xiaobai also practiced ‘Mingxin Technique’? Could her Earth Level Talent, ‘Wood Element Affinity’, evolve?”

“There’s nothing in this world that says a cultivator can’t practice Inner Power…”

“Using Inner Power to strengthen talent, using talent to enhance cultivation speed and spell power.”

Yang Genshuo felt he might have found a linkage between Martial Cultivators and Immortal Cultivators.

At the same time, Yang Genshuo thought the Bone Marrow Cleansing Pill was a good thing. He planned to buy two more at next year’s Workshop, one for himself and one for Xiaobai.

He pressed the Time Acceleration button.

[4 years 2 days, three headless cultivator corpses were thrown outside Yang’s Tabletop Game Tea House, shocking the few Loose Cultivators staying in Qingshi County, Iron-spined Grey Wolves squat daily outside the tea house, deterring those with impure intentions.]

[Jiang Xiaobai starts practicing the “Mingxin Technique”…]

[Hu Zi breaks through to the sixth layer of Body Refining, enters the Domineering Technique, new talent “Overlord (Mortal Level)”.]

[4 years 46 days, Spirit Beast Little Fire consumes a Magma Fruit, its aura surges, advancing to the Fetal Breathing fourth layer.]

[4 years 87 days, Yang Shi has an epiphany while sparring with Liu Wuheng, proficiency in Traceless Sword Technique greatly increases, reaching “Refining Fire”.]

[4 years 97 days, Jiang Xiaobai turns 18…]

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