Enlightenment: Beginning as a Disposable Warrior

Closing the fist technique secret manual in his hand, Su Mu simultaneously shut his eyes. The tens of thousands of words in the manual vividly floated in his mind without missing a single letter.

Su Mu split his focus, now dedicating part of his mind to inferring and comprehending the fist technique, while the efficiency of inferring the "Three-Turn Dragon Elephant Skill" remained far superior to before when he was fully focused. This was one of the many benefits brought by enhanced spiritual power.

Merely comprehending and slightly digesting it once, his mind began to show faint glimmers of spiritual light.

After three to five times, the dragon of spiritual power at his brow burned intensely, shadows flickering in his eyes as he continuously unleashed the fist technique. Su Mu began to enter a mystical realm, as if his entire being was in a battlefield of tens of thousands of people.

The wind arose, clouds soared, with tens of thousands of troops charging and the rolling Qi blood shaking the heavens three times over!

On the seventh comprehension, a furious roar suddenly echoed in his head.

"Fight! Come fight!"

In that battlefield, a colossal black figure akin to a humanoid demon fiend charged through the battle, laughing wildly with abandon, repeatedly unleashing punch after punch. Each punch shattered both rider and horse, even among the elite cavalry clad in heavy grade-entering iron armor, leaving a trail of bloody craters swept by the raging sands.

At the crow of the rooster, the world turned bright, and the next morning arrived.

Clang!

As Su Mu’s whole body trembled, the baleful aura in his mind surged, having been immersed in the battlefield for a long time, causing a slight unrest in his mind.

But just as this trace of unrest was born, a black and white radiance appeared faintly at his chest, allowing Su Mu to escape immediately, with a warm current bursting forth from his fists.

Hundred Battles Fist (Entry Level 1%)

Comprehension: 153 (Dragon-and-Phoenix Level)

"The battlefield is indeed perilous... Thankfully, there’s the ’heart’ to guard me. If there’s an opportunity, I must truly go to a battlefield someday!"

Su Mu lightly exhaled, then immediately devoted himself entirely to nurturing Vast Qi. The seventy-nine strands of Vast Qi still greedily devoured the warm flow of comprehension, and soon the eightieth strand was formed.

The eighty-fifth strand.

The ninety-first strand.

The hundredth strand.

Within mere moments, the Vast Qi inside Su Mu rapidly expanded, swiftly breaking the hundred barrier and finally stopping at one hundred and three strands of Vast Qi.

Buzz!

At the same moment the Vast Qi broke the hundred barrier, Su Mu faintly felt an intangible bottleneck shatter, effortlessly stepping into a new realm.

The ten clusters of shimmering white light surrounding Su Mu subtly transformed, slowly condensing into form, becoming ten bright lamps.

In the blink of an eye, the room was illuminated brightly, fullness of Vast Qi filling the room.

"Whew—!"

Su Mu slowly exhaled, awakening with a gentle return. After an entire night of wholeheartedly comprehending the fist technique and simultaneously inferring and correcting martial arts, he did not feel exhausted; instead, he felt refreshed.

With a thought, Vast Qi erupted from his fingertips, condensing into a flying sword, now more refined than before when it was just a crude form.

"One hundred and three strands of Vast Qi, now I’m considered an Eighth Grade Confucian Cultivator!"

Having advanced a grade in less than two months, Su Mu had only a vague understanding of Confucian cultivation and did not know whether this speed was slow or fast.

"Why bother thinking more when I’m not a Confucian disciple?"

Before daylight completely broke, Su Mu also took a final inventory of the Grade-Entering Blade Soldiers in his Sumeru Ring; besides the Crimson Flame Spear and the Eighth-Grade Long Saber seized from Gao Feng, there were eight items left.

Among them, there were three of Seventh Grade, three of Eighth Grade, and two of Ninth Grade.

Su Mu planned to continue using the Crimson Flame Spear and keep the saber seized from Gao Feng forged by three master craftsmen. As for the remaining weapons, Su Mu retained a long saber and a long sword from the Seventh-Grade items, which were precisely from the Wang Family’s storeroom.

The rest, Su Mu did not find appealing, planning to sell them later on the journey or melt them down to forge necessary weapons anew.

After thoroughly taking stock of his current assets, before daylight completely brightened, Su Mu hadn’t checked his current comprehension panel for a long time, so he retrieved it for a look.

[Name: Su Mu (18 years old)]

[Lifespan: 562 years]

[Skills: Seven Dominating Spear Forms (Perfection), Blazing Fire Saber Technique (Perfection), Qingfeng Swordsmanship (Perfection), Gale Triple Arrows (Perfection), Blood Transformation Technique (Perfection), Tiger Subduing Fist (Perfection), Torrential Rain Spear Technique (Perfection), Small Faceless Transformation Technique (Great Success 99%), Thunder Shock Fist (Great Success 93%), Calligraphy (Great Success 79%), Nurturing Vast Qi (Great Success 29%), Gu Technique (Great Success 27%), Molten Fire Golden Body (Small Success 93%), Five Elements Technique (Small Success 35%), Artifact Refining (Small Success 25%), Qingfeng Crossing Cicada (Small Success 25%), Profound Demon Five Transformations (Small Success 9%), Life-Attracting Technique (Entry Level 85%), Alchemy Skill (Entry Level 1%), Hundred Battles Fist (Entry Level 1%)]

[Comprehension: 153 (Dragon-and-Phoenix Level)]

"Lifespan has broken the five hundred barrier... the problem of short lifespan as a martial artist, mentioned by the Sun Family Ancestor, doesn’t apply to me!"

Looking around, many old martial arts have already disappeared from the comprehension panel, yet the number of martial arts shown on the panel has not decreased; instead, there seem to be more, providing a reassuring feeling.

...

The Wang Family mansion is vast, the fire raged high throughout the night until morning.

Once the news of the attack on the Wang mansion spread, Qifeng Town was in an uproar, where all forces had different thoughts. After a simple probing, another chaos ensued, and the Wang mansion became history in the turmoil lasting several days.

No one noticed the pair of traveling physicians had quietly left Qifeng Town before the chaos began.

The two left the town and headed east.

Not long after.

The originally clear sky suddenly turned gloomy, and over Crescent Lake’s Lake Heart Island, a mass of black clouds several zhang appeared out of nowhere. Torrential rain poured down, yet it only raged within the confines of Lake Heart Island, coming abruptly and leaving just as swiftly.

As the storm cleared, the Three Flood Dragon Alchemy Furnace slowly opened, a ghostly blue pill light flowing within, ten elixirs floating inside. Ten pills became five, and on each refined pill, there were conspicuous four distinct pill patterns.

"Four pill patterns, truly a batch of Sixth Grade Elixir!"

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The Wang Family mansion is vast, the fire raged high throughout the night until morning.

Once the news of the attack on the Wang mansion spread, Qifeng Town was in an uproar, where all forces had different thoughts. After a simple probing, another chaos ensued, and the Wang mansion became history in the turmoil lasting several days.

No one noticed the pair of traveling physicians had quietly left Qifeng Town before the chaos began.

The two left the town and headed east.

Not long after.

The originally clear sky suddenly turned gloomy, and over Crescent Lake’s Lake Heart Island, a mass of black clouds several zhang appeared out of nowhere. Torrential rain poured down, yet it only raged within the confines of Lake Heart Island, coming abruptly and leaving just as swiftly.

As the storm cleared, the Three Flood Dragon Alchemy Furnace slowly opened, a ghostly blue pill light flowing within, ten elixirs floating inside. Ten pills became five, and on each refined pill, there were conspicuous four distinct pill patterns.

"Indeed a batch of Sixth Grade Elixir!"

The Wang Family mansion is vast, the fire raged high throughout the night until morning.

Once the news of the attack on the Wang mansion spread, Qifeng Town was in an uproar, where all forces had different thoughts. After a simple probing, another chaos ensued, and the Wang mansion became history in the turmoil lasting several days.

No one noticed the pair of traveling physicians had quietly left Qifeng Town before the chaos began.

The two left the town and headed east.

Not long after.

The originally clear sky suddenly turned gloomy, and over Crescent Lake’s Lake Heart Island, a mass of black clouds several zhang appeared out of nowhere. Torrential rain poured down, yet it only raged within the confines of Lake Heart Island, coming abruptly and leaving just as swiftly.

As the storm cleared, the Three Flood Dragon Alchemy Furnace slowly opened, a ghostly blue pill light flowing within, ten elixirs floating inside. Ten pills became five, and on each refined pill, there were conspicuous four distinct pill patterns.

"Indeed a batch of Sixth Grade Elixir!"

As the storm cleared, the Three Flood Dragon Alchemy Furnace slowly opened, a ghostly blue pill light flowing within, ten elixirs floating inside. Ten pills became five, and on each refined pill, there were conspicuous four distinct pill patterns.

"Indeed a batch of Sixth Grade Elixir!"