Mountain Splitting Palm · Major Completion

In Wu Tan City, almost every household could produce one or two Dou Zhe. Unless their talent was truly lacking, they could eventually reach that level simply by grinding through the years.

Thus, mercenary groups were quite common, and many people ate magical beast meat. There was not much demand for slaughter shops.

Three slaughter shops were already enough to basically saturate Wu Tan City.

Therefore, Feng Wu's workload was not particularly heavy.

Every morning before dawn, he made a round trip through Wu Tan City and slaughtered more than thirty head of livestock, sometimes with chickens and ducks mixed in. He could earn over ten experience points a day. To the current Feng Wu, that was simply an enormous amount!

Two days later, while Feng Wu was killing a cow at Butcher Wang's home, the Dou Qi fluctuations around him shifted slightly before suddenly surging.

The circulation speed of Dou Qi throughout Feng Wu's body increased by a huge margin!

"I'm at Dou Qi Level Seven now. My cultivation has caught up to a genius at Xiao Mei's level.

"If I hadn't spent the past few days strengthening and selling a few bottles of Rejuvenation Pills, I would have reached Level Seven yesterday."

After bringing down the cow in his hands, Feng Wu tried circulating the Absorption Palm. A sheep suddenly stumbled uncontrollably toward him.

Then came a Mountain Splitting Palm! The sheep did not even have time to cry out before Feng Wu's blow snapped its neck!

"At Dou Qi Level Seven, and after becoming more familiar with it these past few days, the Absorption Palm should no longer just kick up some dust. It can pull enemies now!"

Feng Wu tried again. He could even slowly drag a pig beside him, but it had almost no effect on the sturdy bull in the distance.

"It seems that if I want the Absorption Palm to play a greater role in actual combat:

"Either I improve my cultivation, or, like Xiao Yan, find a Soul Technique that complements the Absorption Palm—something similar to the Fire Blowing Palm, with a reverse force. Otherwise, I can only stockpile experience to level up the Absorption Palm or improve its proficiency."

Feng Wu shook his head. The Absorption Palm was somewhat useful now, but compared to its Mysterious Rank Low Grade classification, it was still rather underwhelming.

"But first, I should raise my Mountain Splitting Palm to the Major Completion Realm. Today really brings double joy!"

With a hint of anticipation, Feng Wu brought down his Mountain Splitting Palm and killed another sheep with a single strike.

System Prompt: Killed one sheep. Gained 0.4 experience.

System Prompt: Killed one domestic sheep using the Mountain Splitting Palm Dou Technique. Mountain Splitting Palm proficiency increased by 0.2.

Congratulations! The proficiency level of the Yellow Rank High Grade Dou Technique, Mountain Splitting Palm, has increased. Realm reached: Major Completion!

With that final sliver of experience filled by casually killing a sheep, Feng Wu's proficiency with the Mountain Splitting Palm instantly rose sharply.

It was as though he had been practicing the Mountain Splitting Palm for ten or twenty years.

If, at the Minor Completion Realm, Feng Wu's grasp of the Mountain Splitting Palm meant knowing many small tricks that could increase the Dou Technique's power—

Then after reaching the Major Completion Realm, there was only one phrase to describe his mastery of the Mountain Splitting Palm—effortless command!

"Let's test its power!" This time, Feng Wu chose a sturdy pig!

Mountain Splitting Palm!

Feng Wu's palm blade descended. Before the sow could even react, her limbs spread outward as she was smashed flat onto the ground by his strike!

Judging from the bruise on her neck, she was probably already dead!

The most obvious increase in power was that Feng Wu had previously needed two strikes to kill a pig. This time, he only needed one!

"Not bad. The power of the Major Completion Mountain Splitting Palm has increased by another thirty percent compared to the Minor Completion Realm!

"Judging by the strength of this strike, even if others used Dou Techniques as well, I should still be a notch stronger than someone at Dou Qi Level Eight!

"In terms of pure strength alone, I might even surpass an unarmed Dou Qi Level Nine."

"It seems the rank of a Dou Technique truly cannot represent everything. Proficiency realm is also an important factor in increasing its power.

"Right now, the Mysterious Rank Low Grade Absorption Palm is not even as powerful as the Mountain Splitting Palm."

Feng Wu swiftly continued harvesting the remaining livestock one by one while evaluating his own strength.

However, the joy on Feng Wu's face soon turned into a bitter smile.

Not only had the experience needed to rise from Dou Qi Level Seven to Dou Qi Level Eight doubled to thirty points—

The experience needed to raise the Mountain Splitting Palm's proficiency by another level was even more outrageous. It had quadrupled.

It jumped directly from twelve experience points to forty-eight!

No wonder people often talked about how powerful a Dou Technique would become after being cultivated to the Major Completion Realm, yet few ever mentioned the Entering the Hall realm.

With this level of difficulty, if it took someone twenty years to cultivate a Dou Technique to the Major Completion Realm—

Then, based on the system's fourfold increase in experience requirements, going from Major Completion to Entering the Hall would be a lifelong undertaking!

As for the Returning to Simplicity realm beyond that, it was no different from a fantasy. He had never even heard of it!

The huge increase in experience requirements from Dou Qi Level Seven to Level Eight was understandable, though.

If, in the Dou Qi stage, breaking from Dou Qi Level Three to Level Four and from Level Six to Level Seven were major thresholds—

Then after Level Seven, Level Eight, Level Nine, and even condensing a Qi Cyclone to advance into a Dou Zhe were steps and hurdles one after another.

Feng Wu had long been mentally prepared.

It seemed that making another breakthrough in either the Mountain Splitting Palm or his cultivation would be difficult in the short term.

Feng Wu planned to think of a way to make something happen with the Absorption Palm.

After quickly taking down all the remaining cattle and sheep, Feng Wu left the slaughter shop, bought another five bottles of Rejuvenation Pills at the market, strengthened them, and sold them to the Mittel Auction House.

Over the past two days, Feng Wu had been making small, frequent sales and had earned more than fifty thousand Gold Coins. Including the previous eleven thousand, he now had sixty-six thousand Gold Coins.

That should be enough to buy one bottle when Xiao Yan auctioned off the Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid.

"Let's go to the Dou Technique Hall!" With nothing to do after returning to the Xiao Clan, Feng Wu thought it over and decided to try his luck at the Xiao Clan's Dou Technique Hall.

Maybe he could find a Dou Technique that complemented the Absorption Palm?

As for cultivation, Feng Wu had realized something—cultivation, my ass. The experience gained from cultivating for an entire day was not as much as he could get by finding a way to kill a chicken.

He would never cultivate again for the rest of his life!

Even Feng Wu's plan to buy Xiao Yan's Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid had changed from using it himself to becoming a middleman and auctioning it off at a higher price.

Feng Wu's way of thinking changed along with his strength.

Upon arriving at the Dou Technique Pavilion, Feng Wu's goal was clear: to see whether there was a Dou Technique that complemented the Absorption Palm and worked on principles similar to the Fire Blowing Palm.

He did not choose any other Dou Techniques. Trying to swallow too much would only choke him. His current means of gaining experience were limited, and he could only afford to support two or three Dou Techniques.

Unfortunately, after spending an entire morning practically tearing through the Xiao Clan's Dou Technique Pavilion, Feng Wu did not find a single Dou Technique similar to the Fire Blowing Palm.

After all, even the Mysterious Rank Fire Blowing Palm was only so-so without the Absorption Palm to complement it.

If it were Yellow Rank, it would probably be even more pitiful. It might not even be good enough for starting a cooking fire.

No one would be bored enough to invent such a trash Dou Technique.

Feng Wu had flipped through all several hundred Dou Techniques of the Xiao Clan and was somewhat disappointed. Yet he did not notice that his actions of merely flipping through them without reading or learning had drawn someone's attention.

"I see you're looking for a Dou Technique that suits you. Why not tell me what kind of Dou Technique you want?"