Duanmu Wan stretched out her hand and curled up a few strands of her hair. She looked out the window at the scenery downstairs and suddenly smiled. "You guys are the best. You don't know anything and don't need to know. You just need to accept the results."
"Perhaps." Lu Sheng smiled and shook his head slightly.
"Sometimes, knowing too much will only make one more tired and fearful." Duanmu Wan softened her voice.
"Even so, I'd rather know more. At least I can see the hope of controlling my own fate," Lu Sheng said lightly.
"Perhaps." This time, it was Duanmu Wan's turn to sigh.
Actually, it was a coincidence that the two of them met.
But when she saw Lu Sheng, Duanmu Wan couldn't help but think of that person again. The person she had always admired but never had the chance to get close to.
From his appearance, blossoming, ascending to the peak, then falling. From beginning to end, she could only look at him from afar. She didn't even have the courage to express her feelings.
When she saw Lu Sheng, she couldn't help but see that person's shadow in him again. So she agreed to drink tea with him.
Looking at Lu Sheng opposite her, Duanmu Wan smiled bitterly in her heart. If those people found out that she was leisurely drinking tea with an ordinary person in a teahouse at such a critical time, who knew what kind of mockery and mockery would arise.
But so what?
She was Princess Qing Qiu! A vicious beauty that ordinary people feared like snakes and scorpions! So what if they mocked and mocked her? She didn't care.
She could do whatever she wanted. No one could tell her what to do.
"Let me remind you, if you see someone from a noble family, try to avoid them, especially a direct descendant. Alright, let's not talk about this anymore. Drink. "Duanmu Wan picked up her teacup and downed it like she was drinking wine. Then, she didn't care about her image anymore and reached for some pastries.
Lu Sheng didn't say anything and just accompanied her. He could see that Duanmu Wan was in a bad mood.
He didn't understand her world. That world was too far away from him now. But this didn't stop him from seeing what Duanmu Wan needed now.
All she needed was someone to accompany her to rest for a while.
Hence, although he had a stomach full of questions and questions that he wanted to ask, he did not say a single word from the beginning to the end and only accompanied Duanmu Wan in drinking tea.
Duanmu Wan only got up and left when it was nighttime, when the streets outside began to be filled with barbecue stalls.
She had come and gone as quickly as she had appeared, mysterious and unfathomable.
Lu Sheng walked out of the teahouse. The streets outside were filled with the aroma of barbecued meat skewers. Oil lamps and banners were hung on wooden poles, with the names of all kinds of vendors written on them. A large number of people flowed through the stalls. They walked and stopped, talking and laughing.
Lu Sheng didn't know how far he was from Duanmu Wan's world, but he didn't care. He just wanted to have the power to control his own destiny in this chaotic world. That was all.
On the second day after his meeting with Duanmu Wan, Lu Sheng once again returned to the small ravine where he usually cultivated.
It was early in the morning. It had just rained in the forest, and there were still many water droplets on the grass and leaves.
Lu Sheng hung up his coat and stood in the clearing, calming his body. Once again, he activated Black Fury Skill and Black Tiger Jade Crane Skill, channeling inner Qi into both his hands simultaneously.
As expected, the same immense strength as that night began to surge and tremble in his arms.
Lu Sheng spent a great deal of effort before he managed to control the explosive impulse of this strength.
He carefully examined the skin on both his arms and saw that it was covered in black and red lines, as though they were bloodstains entangled by some kind of ribbon. The lines circled from his wrists to his forearms.
He stood on the spot and controlled his inner Qi for a while. It was about twenty percent. Any more and it would cause his body to change. This was a special state that slowly developed after Black Fury Skill had broken through to Level Three. Under full force, his body would swell up with blood, and he would quickly transform into a muscular, strong man.
After stabilizing his control over his inner Qi, Lu Sheng swung it forward.
"BAM!"
The air in front of him was instantly filled with a cloud of white Qi. Although it was only a flash, it signified that the instantaneous speed and explosive power had reached an extremely formidable level.
'This move is extremely powerful, but my body can't handle it for more than a few times,' Lu Sheng felt his arms go limp and weak. He made a rough estimation in his mind.
'At most, I can use it three times consecutively within a short period of time. After that, I must rest. Otherwise, my muscles and bones will be damaged.'
For the second time, Lu Sheng switched his grip to the straight saber and activated Black Fury Skill and Black Tiger Jade Crane Skill simultaneously.
"SWISH!!"
Amidst the roar of a tiger and the cry of a crane, a large tree used for testing was abruptly chopped in half by the saber.
'Ten percent of strength. Tsk tsk. Compared to Black Fury Skill alone, the explosive power, strength, and speed have all increased by quite a bit.' He hesitated for a moment, then decided to give this move a better name.
'Let's call it Tiger Roar, Crane Bludgeon Saber. Treat it as a trump card and ultimate move. Instantly increasing its power by a large margin, it'll definitely catch the enemy off guard and seal the victory. But this thing can only be used for a short period of time. After three sabers, my body won't be able to take it, and my inner Qi will have been mostly depleted. 'Lu Sheng sensed that the inner Qi in his body had actually been depleted by about sixty percent. It was evident that this move was extremely powerful.
After testing out the power and consumption of Tiger Roar and Crane Jade Crane Saber, Lu Sheng began to study the jade hairpin he had obtained from the pleasure boat Red Decks.
He took the jade hairpin out of his waist pouch and held it in his hand. Immediately, Lu Sheng felt strands of hidden Yin Qi emanating from it.
The jade hairpin was purplish-black in color and appeared translucent. One end was carved with an exquisite plum blossom, while the other end was sharp and completely transparent.
'This jade hairpin … it's of good workmanship. It's a pity that the Yin Qi is too strong. Otherwise, it'd be a good gift. Purple jade hairpins are usually extremely expensive.' Holding the jade hairpin, Lu Sheng bit the index finger of his other hand and squeezed out a drop of blood, dripping it onto the surface of the hairpin.
"Szzz …"
The instant the blood came into contact with the hairpin, a layer of misty white smoke rose.
Lu Sheng held the hairpin a little further away and blew away the white smoke. He felt a thick, cold Qi continuously flow into his palm from the hairpin, then along his arm and into his body. In the instant it entered his torso, it disappeared in the blink of an eye.
'Deep Blue!' Lu Sheng quickly called out the Modifier.
Instantly, a blue frame appeared before his eyes.
A dialog box had already popped up on the Modifier: 'Proceed with martial arts extrapolation?'
'Yes,' Lu Sheng chose.
Then, the entire frame flashed. This time, behind all the martial arts, buttons for Modifier actually appeared.
'As expected! This time, the amount of Yin Qi is sufficient. It can be used to extrapolate all the martial arts! 'Lu Sheng was overjoyed. He quickly looked at Black Fury Skill.
'Most of my strength relies on Black Fury Skill. I must first improve and perfect Black Fury Skill. Also, that side effect that affects my mind must be removed as well.'
His gaze fell directly on the Black Fury Skill column.
'I wonder if I can extrapolate the subsequent parts of Black Fury Skill with my current accumulated knowledge.'
He controlled his thoughts and was about to press the extrapolate button behind Black Fury Skill when he suddenly thought of something. He stopped abruptly and looked carefully at the status above.
'Black Fury Skill: Level Three. Special Effect: Fire Poison. '
'There's an additional special effect description … Also, I can't rush it. I can't rush to upgrade Black Fury Skill yet. The last time I upgraded it to Level Three, it took me half a year to recuperate. This means that my current body can no longer withstand the massive accumulation required to upgrade Black Fury Skill. In an instant, to directly raise a realm that others would need dozens of years to reach, it would require a massive accumulation to satisfy the minimum requirement. I can't rush it yet … '
Lu Sheng calculated in his mind. With a thought, he turned off the Deep Blue Modifier.
Standing on the empty ground, he recalled the two inner force skills he had memorized — Yin Yang Attraction and Green Pine One Thought Formula.
'Green Pine One Thought Formula seems to be in conflict with the inner force and Qi in my body. I can't cultivate Qi sense and can't even enter the rudiments. I can try Yin Yang Attraction, though. '
On a whim, he sat down cross-legged and began to follow the Yin Yang Attraction incantation. He focused his mind and calmed his Qi, beginning to guide his thoughts to condense Qi in his body.
Yin Yang Attraction referred to guiding the original Yin and Yang Qi in the body, regulating Yin and Yang, balancing the inner body, achieving a state of immunity from all diseases and prolonging life. From the words recorded in the booklet, the creator should have been a physician.
Rather than calling this inner force skill an inner Qi skill, it would be more accurate to call it a skill to guide one's health. This was because the inner Qi it produced was not the foundation. Inner Qi was merely the natural accumulation of strength and vitality after regulating Yin and Yang in the body. This was not the main purpose of this inner force skill.
The difficulty of this skill lay in the fact that it required one's thoughts to simultaneously guide two cycles to control the Yin and Yang Qi respectively.
Lu Sheng had never practiced this before. Now that he had the experience of Black Fury Skill and Black Tiger Jade Crane Skill bursting forth at the same time, he quickly sank into a shallow meditative state the moment he sat down.
The so-called Yin and Yang Qi in the body could not actually be sensed with one's thoughts. This was merely a description, a way of saying. Yin and Yang Qi represented two opposing yet interdependent trends of change.
The human body continuously produced Yin Qi on one side and Yang Qi on the other. The two counteracted and resisted each other, maintaining a balance.
Lu Sheng carefully recalled the theories in the booklet. Slowly, he entered a deeper meditative state from a shallow meditative state.
He sat cross-legged on the empty ground. Occasionally, rabbits and squirrels would pass by, but none of them dared to come within ten meters of him. It was as if some venomous snake or ferocious beast was entrenched here.
Ever since Lu Sheng had broken through to Level Three of Black Fury Skill, such a phenomenon had occurred frequently. He could more and more see the extraordinariness of Black Fury Skill.
After sitting cross-legged on the grass for an indeterminate amount of time, a faint trace of Qi gradually pulsed faintly from Lu Sheng's abdomen. Then, it slowly flowed along the heart and kidney meridians in his body.
'I've got it!' Lu Sheng's heart skipped a beat. He knew that this was probably a wisp of inner Qi that had appeared temporarily and could disappear at any time. He immediately called out in his mind.
'Deep Blue!'
The Modifier interface appeared. It was still in the same state after absorbing the Yin Qi. Behind every skill was a button that could be extrapolated.
Lu Sheng skipped over the other martial arts, his gaze falling straight on Black Tiger Jade Crane Skill.
'Black Tiger Jade Crane Skill: Level Three Peak. Special Effect: Rapid Hemostasis. '
Below it was the newly appeared Yin Yang Attraction.
'Yin Yang Attraction: Uninitiated.'
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