High Martial: I Can Copy All Root Bones!

As soon as Sikong Jue finished speaking, Xuansha, who was standing to the side, flicked his finger, sending the Hundred Solutions Pill flying with precision.

Sikong Jue reached out and caught it. Without a second glance, he tilted his head back and swallowed the Hundred Solutions Pill.

Sikong Jue closed his eyes for a moment before opening them to look at Lu Changfeng. "It worked. The poison has been neutralized."

Lu Changfeng let out a slight sigh of relief.

With that, Sikong Jue’s problems were finally taken care of.

Out of the corner of his eye, Lu Changfeng noticed a counter inside the temple. It was covered with small items like Buddhist Beads, little gifts for the worshipers.

Lu Changfeng walked over, picked up a sandalwood mask, and turned to hand it to Sikong Jue.

"It’s not a good idea for you to show your face right now. Wear this."

Sikong Jue nodded and put on the mask. With that, he officially became the Cyan Dragon Guardian, serving under the Saint Master of the Saint Demon Sect.

Xuansha, watching from the side, smiled faintly. Having orchestrated this outcome, he was extremely satisfied.

’Sikong Jue’s potential is plain to see. He’ll definitely be a great help to the Saint Master in the future!’

Lu Changfeng spoke up. "As for your revenge, I will find an opportunity to help you get it. Of course, you can also choose to seek vengeance yourself one day, when you are strong enough. The choice is yours."

Sikong Jue thought for a moment before replying, "I haven’t decided yet. I ask the Saint Master to please wait until I have made my choice."

Lu Changfeng nodded slightly.

After curing Sikong Jue’s poison, Lu Changfeng and Sikong Jue bid farewell to Xuansha, left the Killing Temple, and returned to the Martial Arts Hall.

Lu Changfeng arranged a room for Sikong Jue within the Martial Arts Hall. Thus, the Changle Martial Arts Hall gained a new, mysterious, masked guest who called himself "Kong."

Ten days later, once his injuries had healed, Sikong Jue immediately began to condense his Inner Strength within the Martial Arts Hall. He advanced to the Tendon Transformation Realm, becoming a Low-Grade Martial Artist.

Using the Taizhen Profound Skill to condense his Inner Strength, Sikong Jue opened thirty-six meridians from the start.

Furthermore, since he had advanced from the peak of the Inner Strength Seventh Layer, his Inner Strength was far greater than that of an ordinary person.

With his Inner Strength now bolstering him, Sikong Jue was already able to hold his own when he sparred privately with Lu Changfeng.

During this time, Lu Changfeng also had Teng Xiaofan secretly look into the Sikong Family.

As expected, the Sikong Family hadn’t paid much attention to the disappearance of Sikong Jue, the "cripple."

After a few days of a token search, they simply listed Sikong Jue as a missing person.

However, over at the Taizhen Martial Arts Hall, Sikong Jue’s master, Yuan Zhen, had taken a group of disciples to demand an explanation from the family.

It ended with a Sikong Family clan elder stepping in. The two fought, and Yuan Zhen was forced to leave, injured.

Sikong Jue suppressed the urge to go visit Yuan Zhen. He silently committed everything to memory. ’There will be plenty of time for that later.’ he thought.

...

「A month passed in the blink of an eye.」

Lu Changfeng had a relatively peaceful month.

Aside from teaching his disciples and taking the occasional trip into Jiangzhou Prefecture City with Chunzhu, he trained diligently every single day.

In that month, Lu Changfeng mastered two new swordsmanship techniques, and his [Longevity Sword Dao] improved to (Lifespan +3.5 years, Combat Power +0.8%).

The improvement still wasn’t very significant, but this was a Talent that grew slowly over time.

Lu Changfeng’s main focus in his training was the [Fengtian Forging Body Saber Skill].

During that time, Xuansha had Zhisha deliver two more Buddha Heart Pills to Lu Changfeng.

With the help of such a Divine Medicine, his progress toward the Blood Forging Eighth Layer was advancing steadily.

「Early one morning.」

After a frantic training session, Lu Changfeng was in the backyard drinking tea, bare-chested.

The masked Sikong Jue sat cross-legged to one side, cultivating his Inner Strength.

Cultivation in the Tendon Transformation Realm was primarily about breakthroughs in Inner Strength. The first step was to refine Inner Strength into Internal Energy.

When one’s Internal Energy could extend three inches from a weapon, they were considered a Middle-Grade Martial Artist.

When it could extend a foot from a weapon, they had reached the level of a High-Grade Martial Artist.

And to form Internal Energy into techniques that could be projected from the body was the mark of the Grand Martial Artist Realm.

’The copy cooldown is still over ten days away.’

’This time, should I copy a Root Bone, Sikong Jue’s Bloodline Talent, or Teng Xiaofan’s Transformation Talent?’

After some consideration, Lu Changfeng decided to copy Teng Xiaofan’s Transformation Talent first.

The Talent was simply too useful. Paired with Disguise Martial Arts, it was the perfect tool for an assassin.

As for an Upper A-Class Root Bone, Lu Changfeng had plenty of potential targets to copy from, so he wasn’t in a rush.

As for Sikong Jue’s Bloodline Talent, his Bloodline Energy had only recovered to 0.15% over the past month. It wasn’t worth copying yet.

He could wait until it recovered to 0.5% before copying it from Sikong Jue. There was still plenty of time to break through to the Demon Fiend Bloodline.

Just as he finished his tea, Teng Xiaofan came in with a steamed bun in his mouth, carrying the day’s newspaper for Lu Changfeng.

Teng Xiaofan wasn’t surprised to see the masked Sikong Jue; he already knew his true identity.

"Big news, Hall Master!"

"There’s huge news today!"

"Something huge has happened in the three western prefectures!"

Teng Xiaofan exclaimed as he entered, handing the newspaper to Lu Changfeng.

Lu Changfeng took the newspaper and glanced at it.

It was indeed big news.

The Western Domain was comprised of three prefectures: Desert North Prefecture, Western Capital Prefecture, and Ji’an Prefecture.

First was Ji’an Prefecture, which was proving to be neither auspicious nor peaceful. Just a few days ago, it had been completely carved up by the three great Demonic Sects from Cyan Mountain Prefecture.

The territory of Ji’an Prefecture was shattered, and the name "Ji’an Prefecture" was no more.

At the same time, after a long period of conflict, Desert North Prefecture had finally been brought under the complete control of a Desert North Martial Arts Family, the Celestial Mountain Dragon Family. They announced the prefecture’s secession from the Imperial Court, establishing the "Desert North Dragon Country."

A few days after the founding of the Desert North Dragon Country...