Willow Ditch Village Incident Resolved, the Preciousness of Movement Techniques!

To find Lu Xuan, they had been running themselves ragged for most of the night.

After hearing Liang Cheng's words, the people of Willow Ditch Village dragged their exhausted bodies back to the village.

East Courtyard!

Liang Cheng had arrived at Lu Xuan's room early. He had many questions he wanted to ask Lu Xuan.

"Xuan-ge, did you really see that kind of Filthy Thing?"

"Do those Filthy Things really exist?"

Filled with unease, Liang Cheng could hardly believe it as he questioned Lu Xuan before him.

Lu Xuan glanced at the utterly nervous Liang Cheng and said faintly, "Whether they exist or not, hadn't you already known the answer in your heart?"

So it was real. There really were such terrifying, Eerie Filthy Things.

Lu Xuan's answer filled Liang Cheng's face with terror. He had never expected the strange tales he had heard before to actually be true.

His senses had not been wrong. Willow Ditch Village really harbored such a bizarre existence. No wonder the place had given him such an ominous feeling.

No wonder those dead people could move—and even attack them.

"Then, Xuan-ge, you ran into that thing. Did you..."

Liang Cheng made a gesture, asking whether Lu Xuan had taken care of it.

If even his cousin could not deal with it, Liang Cheng had decided that as soon as dawn broke, he would run for his life with his men.

Damn it, I'm a County Yamen Constable earning one tael of silver a month. You expect me to risk my life for the court?

At worst, he would go back, immediately take off this County Yamen Constable uniform, and go home to muddle through life waiting for death.

Whoever wanted the job could have it. The moment Liang Cheng thought about how that Ghostly Thing had appeared tonight, separated from him by nothing more than a door—

His back went cold, and cold sweat streamed down without end.

Liang Cheng's question made Lu Xuan knit his brows tightly, unsure how to answer.

Lu Xuan had actually sensed it already. He suspected that thing had not died at all, but he could not find any convincing proof now.

Thinking of this, Lu Xuan felt somewhat rueful.

It seems my knowledge is still far too limited.

He had originally thought this was merely an ordinary martial world. Who would have expected such bizarre and supernatural things to exist as well?

It was not only Liang Cheng who was shocked; even Lu Xuan found it hard to accept.

In that case, Lu Xuan's strategy of lying low and quietly developing in a small County Town had to change.

It was time to visit a larger place and broaden his horizons. Perhaps the Prefecture would have detailed records of these things.

"The thing in Willow Ditch Village has more or less been dealt with. There probably won't be such problems again in the future."

Faced with Liang Cheng's question, Lu Xuan still answered him.

By Lu Xuan's estimation, even if it had not died, it likely would not be able to come out and harm anyone for a long time.

He could not be certain either. Perhaps only after he went to the Prefecture and learned more would he understand the details of these things.

If it truly was as Lu Xuan suspected, and that bizarre thing was not dead, then perhaps he would return to Willow Ditch Village someday.

"More or less? Probably?"

"Xuan-ge, what do you mean?"

"Will this sort of thing happen in Willow Ditch Village again?"

Lu Xuan's words left Liang Cheng confused. Resolved meant resolved.

Why did it sound as though his cousin's words carried some uncertainty?

Yet after Liang Cheng asked, Lu Xuan merely gave him a reassuring look and did not answer any more of his questions.

Liang Cheng could only leave Lu Xuan's room. Since his cousin had said it was more or less resolved, that proved Willow Ditch Village did not have much of a problem.

What came next depended on him. As a Yamen Runner of the County Town, he still had to soothe all the villagers of Willow Ditch Village.

Not long after Liang Cheng left, Lu Xuan checked the System Panel in his mind.

Host: Lu Xuan

Realm: Blood Refinement Realm (Complete)

Cultivation Technique: Crimson Flame Blade Art 1/9 (Can Be Derived)

Points: 50

Please confirm, Host: consume 30 points to derive the Crimson Flame Blade Art?

Lu Xuan suppressed his eagerness. Now was not the best time to derive the Crimson Flame Blade Art.

The last time he had derived the Blazing Fire Blade Art, he had needed to prepare expensive Blood Ginseng.

He could only derive it after returning to the Lu Family and preparing everything properly.

He could feel that after deriving the Crimson Flame Blade Art this time, his strength would undergo a complete, earth-shaking transformation.

Lu Xuan's Blood Refinement Realm cultivation had already reached completion, and he had vaguely touched upon an unseen bottleneck that restricted his strength from advancing any further.

The Inner Qi Realm?

That legendary realm recorded in books, where one tempered the body's five viscera and six bowels, flesh, blood, and marrow to perfection.

Then, through comprehending heaven and earth, a strand of mysterious and wondrous aura would emerge from the flesh-and-blood body that had surpassed ordinary people. It was called Inner Qi.

It possessed unimaginable power, allowing a martial artist who possessed Inner Qi to unleash the greatest power of the martial Cultivation Techniques they practiced.

Because Lu Xuan had smashed the room's door, Liang Cheng and the others found a wooden board in the middle of the night.

The few of them quickly fashioned the board into a simple wooden door and installed it in place. It was barely usable.

Lu Xuan did not sleep. Instead, he sat cross-legged on the wooden bed. A candle on the wooden table beside him burned with a thin flame, its dim light falling over Lu Xuan's face.

After a night of fierce pursuit and unrestrainedly releasing his Qi and Blood, Lu Xuan could clearly feel some fatigue in his body.

Along with it came a wave of hunger. Lu Xuan rose and went to sit by the wooden table.

Then Lu Xuan took out a large amount of dried meat from the bundle on the table. This was food he had told Li San to buy in advance at the Drunken Immortal Inn in Ten Mile Town.

Lu Xuan picked up the dried meat with one hand and swallowed it in huge mouthfuls as if nothing were amiss, at an unbelievable speed.

That bizarre thing had truly been troublesome. It was astonishingly fast and could even fly. Lu Xuan had nearly let it escape.

In the end, Lu Xuan had no choice but to erupt with all his strength regardless of the cost, wantonly squandering every bit of power in his body just to barely catch up to that bizarre thing.

Lu Xuan continuously chewed and swallowed dried meat, his thoughts in turmoil. It seemed it was time for him to find a Movement Technique.

Relying on a single Blade Technique was still somewhat troublesome against the bizarre things that had appeared now.

If he knew a Movement Technique, Lu Xuan could guarantee that this Ghost Shadow would not have escaped even the East Courtyard.

If Lu Xuan had easily gotten close to it, the powerful Qi and Blood erupting from his entire body would likely have ground that bizarre thing into nothing.

A Movement Technique!

Where could he find a Movement Technique? Some good martial manuals in the martial world were already exceedingly precious, let alone a good Movement Technique.

Lu Xuan silently pondered. Once he returned to the County Town, he would have to make many inquiries.

It would be best if he could buy one with money, but if he could not, Lu Xuan could only resort to another method.