Lu Sheng followed his memory and walked towards the wing that he had been to before.
He entered the hall and went up the wooden stairs on the left.
When he reached the door of the wing, Lu Sheng looked at the red lanterns above and felt his hair stand on end.
"Whoosh …"
Suddenly, a gust of cold wind blew past. Lu Sheng turned around abruptly. In that instant, he felt something float past his back.
"Since the Mortal-Sweeping Manor has been destroyed, logically speaking, there shouldn't be any ghosts looking for me. Maybe I'm just being too sensitive. "Lu Sheng calmed down a little when he did not see anything. He turned around again and reached out to push the door of the wing in front of him.
"Click."
The door opened slowly. The inside was bright red and there were also two large red lanterns hanging.
"Is anyone there?" Lu Sheng called out again and walked in slowly.
"Yes …"
Suddenly, a wizened voice came from behind Lu Sheng.
He spun around and saw an old woman with a white lantern standing at the door with her eyes wide open.
The wrinkles on the old woman's face were like old tree bark, layered upon one another. Holding the lantern, her murky eyes stared at Lu Sheng.
"Little brother, you shouldn't have boarded the ship at this time."
"I dropped something here. It's a waist pouch, so I came back to look for it." Lu Sheng squeezed out a smile.
"Is that so … then go ahead and look for it. Look carefully." The old woman was expressionless. She turned around and carried the lantern, walking silently towards the other rooms.
Lu Sheng watched her until the old woman disappeared through the door. Only then did he close the door.
He turned around and looked at the furnishings in the wing.
There were two large red lanterns that were not there before. They were hanging on one of the walls of the room. The bright red light dyed the entire room a bright red.
Lu Sheng carefully felt around where he had been sitting. Indeed, he found the waist pouch in the gap of the cushion.
He opened the waist pouch. In the dark brown leather pouch, there were gold notes, silver notes, notes, and the powdered paper bag left behind by the Demonic Ghost.
Putting away the waist pouch, Lu Sheng hung it on his waist again. He straightened his body and looked into the room again. The light from the lantern seemed to have grown redder.
An inexplicable feeling quietly welled up from the bottom of his heart.
"I have to go." Lu Sheng quickly walked to the door and reached out to pull it open.
The door did not budge at all!
Lu Sheng's heart skipped a beat. He exerted force in his hand. The door, which could have been opened with a light stretch of his hand, now seemed to be blocked by a very heavy object. Even with Lu Sheng's current strength, he could barely open a small gap.
"Something's wrong!" Lu Sheng was alarmed. Under the operation of Internal Qi, he exerted force.
Bang!
The door was violently pulled open, and the solid wooden handle was torn apart. Lu Sheng dashed out like an arrow, ran down the corridor, and then dashed out from the intestines.
Pu.
He pushed off with the tip of his foot, and using the coils of hemp ropes that pierced through the pleasure boat, he sprinted and landed on the riverbank.
Although he had never practiced Qinggong, he had basic footwork for Black Tiger Saber and Swallows Pursuing the Wind Blade. His speed was much faster than the average person.
Alighting from the boat, Lu Sheng turned back to look at the pleasure boat.
The pleasure boat was still the same, and there was no one on it. However, the alarm in Lu Sheng's heart had died down. He clearly did not feel threatened anymore.
He gave the pleasure boat a deep look, then turned and ran into the city.
Reaching home in one go, Lu Sheng pushed open the door and locked it. The dark room was cold and devoid of life.
He slowly walked to the study table, took out a flint, and struck out sparks to light the candle.
The dim candlelight illuminated the lower half of his face, making it hard to tell whether it was clear or bright.
"This pleasure boat might have something to do with ghosts. I didn't expect to encounter a red pleasure boat after a Mortal-Sweeping Manor. Originally, I wanted to rest for a couple of days before starting to cultivate my new inner force skill. Now, it looks like there's no need to wait any longer. I'll make all the necessary preparations first. "
Lu Sheng left the study table and came to the bed in the bedroom. He pulled out a heavy iron box from under the bed. The box was fastened to the floor by a chute, making it difficult for ordinary people to carry it away.
He carefully took out a small key from his waist pouch and inserted it into the box. With a twist, it opened with a click.
Inside the box were two small books made of brownish yellow cloth.
Lu Sheng took out one of the books and held it in his hand. Then, he closed the box and locked it.
"Green Pine One-Thought Formula."
Five large, flamboyant characters were clearly written on the book.
Lu Sheng gently flipped to the first page. After the general outline that he had read previously was the picture of a green pine cliff.
He looked at the picture carefully for a while, then closed it gently. Sitting cross-legged on the bed, he began to observe the emptiness of the void.
He had been cultivating this life-force skill on and off for so long. Perhaps it was due to the conflict with the inner force he had been cultivating previously, but every time he felt that he was about to condense and release Qi, it would be instantly swallowed up by Jade Crane Skill.
This time was no exception. Very quickly, Jade Crane Skill began to circulate at high speed, swiftly destroying the artistic conception of Green Pine One-Thought Formula. A Red-Crowned Crane, ready to take flight, seemed to cry out loudly within his body.
"Sigh …" Lu Sheng opened his eyes. "Inner force conflicts. Am I really going to be stuck here until I die? Can't I make any further progress? "
In his frustration, his hand unconsciously grabbed his waist pouch and squeezed it lightly. When his fingers touched the paper bag containing the powder, he suddenly froze.
"This paper bag … contains a trace of powder left behind by that Demonic Ghost, right?"
He gently opened the paper bag. Inside was a pile of black powder, but he seemed to remember that the powder had not been this color before.
"In the beginning, I was able to activate my supernatural ability because of that stone left behind by the water ghost and that cobblestone. From the looks of it, could it be that I …" Lu Sheng stared at the powder, a strange thought forming in his mind.
"Deep Blue!"
He suddenly called out silently.
"Swish!"
Instantly, a blue frame appeared before his eyes.
Lu Sheng looked at the Modifier's frame. There was still no option for Green Pine One-Thought Formula. He hesitated for a moment, then looked at the powder again.
He stretched out his hand, tilted the paper bag, and poured the powder completely into his palm.
From the moment he obtained this powder, he had been careful not to let it come into contact with his skin, in case it was some corrosive or poisonous substance. But now that he was at his wit's end, there was no harm in giving it a try. At worst, he could just get rid of it quickly if something happened.
Then, he bit down hard on the index finger of his other hand. Biting his fingertip, he squeezed out a drop of blood and dripped it onto the powder.
"Hiss …!"
As expected, the moment the drop of blood came into contact with the powder, it suddenly emitted wisps of white smoke. Very quickly, the black powder turned into white powder, as if its color had faded.
Lu Sheng felt wisps of cold, sinister aura beginning to seep into his body from his palm.
"Do you want to proceed with martial arts extrapolation?"
Almost at the same time, the sinister aura was absorbed by something in his body in the blink of an eye, and an inquiry box immediately appeared on the Deep Blue Modifier.
"As expected!" Lu Sheng was delighted. This function had indeed appeared.
Previously, when he discovered that the fourth level of the Black Tiger Saber Technique had appeared, he had some doubts. Perhaps this Modifier was using the knowledge stored in his mind to further extrapolate the technique. Thus, the fourth level of the Black Tiger Saber Technique was produced.
But after that, no matter what technique he learned, the same situation with the Black Tiger Saber Technique did not occur again.
Now, it seemed that perhaps it was because he lacked the remnants of ghosts that he had been unable to extrapolate the higher levels of his martial arts.
"Back then, I used the cobblestone found when the Xu family was annihilated to activate the Modifier. This time, I used the powder left behind after the Demonic Ghost's death. Looks like my supernatural ability is really inseparable from ghosts. "Lu Sheng laughed bitterly in his heart.
Looking at the inquiry box that appeared in front of him, Lu Sheng composed himself.
"Do you want to proceed with martial arts extrapolation?"
"Yes."
After confirming his choice, Lu Sheng quickly had a strange feeling. It was as if all the martial arts he had learned in the Modifier could all be extrapolated and integrated.
These martial arts were all knowledge that he had mastered himself. He felt as if he was reorganizing the knowledge in his mind and systematizing it, then choosing different centers to reconstruct the martial arts.
Just like building a house with building blocks, he could choose from many different room types.
On the Modifier, a few selectable buttons also appeared behind the Martial Arts.
Which ones could be extrapolated and which ones could not, were all clear.
Lu Sheng looked carefully from top to bottom.
'If I can use Black Fury Skill as the base and absorb other systems, that would be the best … I can also use Jade Crane Skill as the main framework, or Black Tiger Saber … Heart-Shattering Palm isn't bad either.' Lu Sheng was a little hesitant. But then he felt a little helpless. 'It's a pity that the amount of powder is too little. There are only these few I can choose from.'
He looked at the Modifier. There were only two selectable buttons for Jade Crane Skill and Black Tiger Saber.
'So I can only choose these two …'
With a thought, he pressed the button at the back of Jade Crane Skill.
'Inner force is the most important foundation.'
After making his choice, all the buttons disappeared and the entire Modifier began to blur. Lu Sheng felt the large amount of knowledge and understanding of Jade Crane Skill in his mind begin to come alive on their own. Combined with the contents of the ancient records in his memory, they began to collide continuously, generating countless new inspirations in the blink of an eye.
In the short span of ten breaths.
Lu Sheng closed his eyes, then slowly opened them again. A new, piercingly cold aura emanated from his body.
Jade Crane Skill and Black Tiger Saber's method of exerting force were perfectly fused together. This was the higher-level extrapolation of Jade Crane Skill that the Modifier had made use of Lu Sheng's knowledge reserves. It fused Black Tiger Saber's exerting force technique into it, forming an explosive inner force that was even stronger than the original Jade Crane Skill.
This new inner force skill retained the original effects of strong endurance and recovery, but it also had explosive power that was quite lethal.
'This new inner force draws on Black Tiger Saber's exerting force technique, and actually extrapolates the life-force inner force into a combative inner force with a destructive nature … this extrapolation is indeed impressive!' Lu Sheng sighed in his heart. 'If there were more powder, or more pebbles like the one left behind by the water ghost, perhaps I could extrapolate other higher level inner force skills like Black Fury Skill.'
He felt the new inner force. It seemed that along with the increase in explosive force, Jade Crane Skill's original self-healing ability was also slightly strengthened.
'This is no longer considered Jade Crane Skill. Since it's fused with Black Tiger Saber Technique's force technique, I'll just call it Black Tiger Jade Crane Skill from now on.'
As he thought this, the name of Jade Crane Skill displayed on the Modifier slowly changed to 'Black Tiger Jade Crane Skill'.
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