Episode 2: Bullet Chapter 4: Killer Bullet (Part 2)

ps: Many assassins' guns aren't standard issue; they're modified. Quite a few of these modified guns use Iron Marbles as bullets. Li Yang using Iron Marbles is meant to be misleading, making people think he's using firearms. As for using bullets? After all, when it comes to hand strength, regular-shaped marbles are easier to imbue with greater force, making them more powerful when fired.

Another point: this book is about Flying Daggers, that's for sure. It's just that having the protagonist use marbles now is unavoidable. After all, Little Li Flying Dagger's uniqueness is too strong; it would be too easy to reveal the protagonist's identity. How to cultivate with flying daggers? You'll all find out soon. I can only tell you that truly entering the Dao with flying daggers involves internal cultivation and doesn't necessarily mean being attached to flying daggers in hand. A true flying dagger master can easily end an opponent's life even without a weapon in hand.

Days turned into weeks, and Li Yang spent his days training with marbles in the villa, applying the same perseverance he used when practicing Little Li Flying Dagger...

Li Yang's eyes were fixed on the steel plate in front of him, unblinking. Suddenly, his right hand moved, becoming a blur. "Whoosh!" A low whistling sound cut through the air and then vanished, followed by a "bang!" The marble was completely embedded in the steel plate.

"Li Yang, you brat, you failed again. That one penetrated over ten centimeters into the steel plate," Overlord Xiang Yu announced with schadenfreude, declaring Li Yang's latest failure.

Hearing Overlord Xiang Yu's words, Li Yang couldn't help but frown slightly. He thought to himself, 'There's still an issue with the force. It penetrated over ten centimeters into the steel plate?' Li Yang's goal was for the Iron Marble to embed exactly ten centimeters into the steel plate, no more, no less.

At Li Yang's current level, the force used when shooting a marble had to be in its most perfect state. Not a bit more, not a bit less. Li Yang's marble shots weren't considered successful, but when Li Yang shot his flying daggers, he could clearly feel the wonderful sensation of releasing them, especially that profound, exquisite feeling that could be intoxicating. That same feeling also indicated the perfection of the flying dagger.

"I refuse to believe my skill with marbles can't reach the level of my flying daggers!" Li Yang's pride flared up. He continued to train relentlessly, shooting marbles into the steel plate. His left hand also joined in, and an Iron Marble shot out like an arrow, piercing the steel plate.

Suddenly, Li Yang's hands moved like a machine gun, continuously firing Iron Marbles. The speed was so great that all one could see were streaks of afterimages left by Li Yang's rapidly moving hands.

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"...

It was as if he were throwing pebbles into mud; the marbles easily embedded themselves into the twenty-centimeter-thick steel plate, each penetrating about ten centimeters. Suddenly, Li Yang's eyes lit up. His mind instantly entered the Joyful Spirit Realm, and the trajectories of two marbles fired simultaneously from his left hand changed. They followed Li Yang's precise control and struck specific targets.

Li Yang rejoiced, "Fortunately, the most important thing is that the control techniques from the three major realms, which were originally for flying daggers, have completely changed and can be directly applied to marbles!"

Night. Li Yang was in his bedroom.

Li Yang sat cross-legged on the bed. No, upon closer inspection, one could see that Li Yang's crossed legs were hovering a few centimeters above the bed surface.

Faint streams of greenish-blue energy flowed continuously into Li Yang's body. All parts of his body were absorbing these streams of greenish-blue energy. Anyone practicing internal energy cultivation would be shocked, because this greenish-blue energy was incredibly dense Heaven and Earth spiritual energy. Normally, the Heaven and Earth spiritual energy absorbed by those cultivating internal energy was very sparse; it would never appear colored.

"Whoosh!"

Like a great whale drawing water, the Heaven and Earth spiritual energy rapidly surged into Li Yang's body. He continuously absorbed and refined it, integrating it into the nebula in his Dantian. Finally, that Heaven and Earth spiritual energy formed wisps of Innate True Qi, deepening Li Yang's cultivation by another level.

A night passed, and the sky was just beginning to lighten. Li Yang got up and walked onto the balcony, breathing in the fresh morning air.

"Given the time that has passed, my cultivation of the fourth layer of the Demon Yang Canon should be at Great Accomplishment?" Li Yang thought to himself. He had reached the fourth layer within six months at the research institute base, and after another six months of cultivation, he was already close to Great Accomplishment. Now, Li Yang had cultivated for some more time. With Li Yang's terrifying speed of absorbing Heaven and Earth spiritual energy and Overlord Xiang Yu's help, Great Accomplishment was indeed near.

"En, kid, your Innate True Qi energy should be around 9000 crystals now. Haha, keep working hard, kid, and break through to the fifth layer. This Hegemon will give you a surprise!" Xiang Yu said cheerfully.

During this period, Li Yang cultivated internal energy every night. During the day, besides practicing with Iron Marbles, he would go to Taibai Restaurant for drinks. His relationship with Ge Pu, the owner of Taibai Restaurant, had become much better over time.

"Mu Yi, you're here! Come, come, old brother will accompany you for a couple of drinks!" Ge Pu said cheerfully as he walked over with several bottles of wine upon seeing Li Yang. Li Yang glanced at Tian Gang, who was drinking alone in a corner on the first floor. Li Yang had seen Tian Gang almost every time he visited Taibai Restaurant during this period.

Li Yang didn't think much of it. He and Ge Pu then went up to the second floor and casually entered a private room.

"Old brother, I haven't asked you yet, but is it just you and sister-in-law? Don't you have any children?" Li Yang asked with a smile.

"Yes, of course, we do. My wife and I have a daughter, Ge Xin. Xin Xin is currently studying at New York University and comes back once a week. You didn't get to see her last time she was back, which is a shame, hehe. Mu Yi, my daughter is a beauty. Don't you get any bad ideas, you brat!" Li Yang could feel Ge Pu's deep paternal love when he mentioned his daughter. It seemed Ge Pu truly adored his daughter.

"You don't know how capable my daughter is. This year, she won the annual first-class scholarship at New York University!" Ge Pu boasted to Li Yang, clearly proud of his daughter.

That evening, Li Yang returned to the villa. When he was in Shanghai, Li Yang lived alone, and he still lived alone now. He preferred tranquility and disliked noise.

"After training for so long, the power of the marbles has finally reached my expectations. Let's see if there are any good missions to take on!" Li Yang walked into his bedroom and opened his computer, logging into a specific website for the assassin world. As soon as the website opened, it displayed a trashy adult website page. Li Yang ignored it and entered his assassin account and password on the member login page. The page immediately changed, becoming identical to the page he had seen at the assassin intermediary.

"Oh, the highest assassin missions are only fifty million? That's a bit disappointing." Li Yang clearly wasn't concerned about fifty million. Just as Li Yang was muttering to himself, the page suddenly refreshed, and a mission with red font appeared.

"One billion US dollars! How is that possible? Am I seeing things?" Li Yang stared blankly at the mission in front of him. The highest mission reward in the history of the assassin world was usually around one hundred million US dollars. Now, a one-billion-dollar mission had appeared. Could the client really be a money printer?