Professional Technique!

Professional Technique!

"A Great Fighter without Dou Qi Armor is worse than a dog."

Chao Bafang fell into deep thought.

Yang Shan's words sounded arrogant, but on closer thought, they made sense.

Unless one had a special Constitution or cultivated a rare body-tempering Dou Technique, a Great Fighter's strongest defensive measure was not defensive equipment, but Dou Qi Armor.

Without Dou Qi Armor, if one's defensive equipment failed to protect every weak point, there would be openings to exploit.

Just like Yang Shan earlier.

A Great Fighter going all out was terrifying.

But a Great Fighter clutching his crotch, rolling on the ground, and screaming could only be fish on the chopping block.

Players generally believed that NPCs were harder to kill than magical beasts.

But to Yang Shan, NPCs were much easier to kill than magical beasts.

Magical beasts were thick-skinned and tough. Even if their weak points were hit, they might not die quickly.

NPCs were different.

At the same level, a human's Constitution was very difficult to compare with that of a magical beast.

In terms of stats, that meant less health and lower defense!

Just like earlier. Cai Yan had failed to defend in time, and Yang Shan killed him in a single slash.

If it had been a third-tier elite magical beast, even if it stretched out its neck and let Yang Shan chop at it, it would still take several slashes.

In that time, the magical beast would have counterattacked who knew how many times!

"As expected of a Great God. You're only a Fighter, yet you're already saying Great Fighters are worse than dogs. When will I ever get to be this cocky?"

Of course, Chao Bafang had no idea that Yang Shan had been a Dou Emperor in his previous life! He could slap more than a dozen Great Fighters to death with one hand!

Unlike Chao Bafang, who had never experienced it himself and thus still held a "reverence" for Great Fighters he had never encountered.

Chao Bafang was still mulling over Yang Shan's words.

Meanwhile, Yang Shan was happily picking up the drops!

Cai Yan had contributed over two hundred Spirit Stones to Yang Shan, along with a pair of gauntlets.

Essence Gauntlets

Quality: Fine (Green)

Attack: 20 Durability: 60/60

Description: A Fine Weapon that the Old Master at the blacksmith shop could only forge one of each day!

Yang Shan said, "Oh, not bad luck."

With 7 points of Good Fortune and a level-surpassing kill, getting an item drop was nothing strange.

Equipment was certainly worth far less than cultivation techniques.

Still, it was decent enough.

The Essence Gauntlets had better stats than standard Blue Word Seal equipment. Taking them to the Mitier Auction House would mean selling them as junk.

But if he set up a stall, a huge crowd of Players would definitely scramble to buy them!

Seeing Chao Bafang still standing off to the side, Yang Shan said unhappily:

"I'm the boss here. I'm picking up drops while you stand around striking poses?"

Chao Bafang said awkwardly, "Great God, I... I'm embarrassed to pick them up."

In Chao Bafang's view, Yang Shan had basically dealt with the entire patrol squad by himself. He had merely helped Yang Shan finish one of them off.

Getting some experience was already good enough. Taking the drops too would really be inappropriate.

"During this leveling session, any kills you manage to steal from me, the drops are yours. Consider it company benefits."

Chao Bafang asked, "Does our guild have this many benefits?"

Yang Shan said, "The more Spirit Stones you keep on hand, the better. Do you know how I got my Thunder Spirit Flash?"

Chao Bafang's interest was immediately piqued.

Yang Shan had no need to hide things from a Player he had personally signed on, so he had shown Chao Bafang the stats for Thunder Spirit Flash once.

It had nearly blinded Chao Bafang.

Chao Bafang had originally been quite pleased with himself for obtaining a Purple Word Seal Yellow-Rank Intermediate Dou Technique.

But compared to Thunder Spirit Flash...

That was fucking dog shit! Yang Shan said, "I got this Thunder Spirit Flash as a gift of thanks from Ya Fei after working with her. Of course, it wasn't free. I bought it at a low price."

Chao Bafang asked, "How many Spirit Stones?"

Yang Shan grinned. "Three hundred thousand."

"WTF!"

Chao Bafang's face darkened. "You could sell me and still not scrape together three hundred thousand Spirit Stones."

Yang Shan said, "That's why you should always keep a stash of Spirit Stones in your bag. You never know when you might get a chance to trade with an NPC. But there's a downside: when Players die, they might drop some of their Spirit Stones."

Chao Bafang said, "Got it, Great God. Then I won't hold back!"

Yang Shan said, "For now, it's best if we only ambush targets around the outskirts. If we go too deep and run into a group of Great Fighters, we'll both get a free trip back to town. Be careful in everything you do."

Yang Shan deliberately wanted to speed up Chao Bafang's growth, to make him an expert capable of standing on his own as soon as possible.

That way, he could play a sufficiently important role in the major event storylines of later versions.

Since the Azure Cloud Association could not yet emerge into the open, the branch bases of the Northeast Five Cities had all been established within the Magical Beast Mountain Range.

Every day, they had to send out a large number of people to patrol around the branch bases, lest they be attacked by magical beasts.

Yang Shan's leveling plan was to ambush these patrol squads! One-Star Great Fighters with Green Word Seals were not particularly powerful, but they gave quite a lot of experience.

With the Level-Surpassing Bonus, each one gave 1,200 points! Add in the other Fighter-level lackeys.

Wiping out three squads would be enough for Yang Shan to rise one star!

Yang Shan and Chao Bafang soon encountered their second unlucky patrol squad.

This time, the captain leading them was a Two-Star Great Fighter.

And unlike Cai Yan earlier, he was not taking off his pants to play with his water gun.

So Yang Shan's Boiling Itch Powder only made the Two-Star Great Fighter itch all over, without robbing him of his combat ability.

This time, Yang Shan did not use Thunder Spirit Flash during the ambush.

Because the enemy had already been on guard beforehand, with Dou Qi Armor covering his body.

Chao Bafang finally had a chance to show what he could do.

While still hiding, he had already been charging up his Dou Technique.

The moment he revealed himself, Chao Bafang unleashed the powerful Dou Technique he had obtained not long ago.

"Mountain Piercing Spear Art!"

Though the name was lame, it was indeed a genuine Yellow-Rank Intermediate Dou Technique.

The strongest Dou Technique Players could normally obtain at this stage!

The Two-Star Great Fighter captain had been affected by the Boiling Itch Powder after all, and he failed to react in time.

The spear struck the Dou Qi Armor solidly.

Obvious cracks immediately appeared across the armor.

After all, he was only a Green Word Seal NPC, nowhere near as terrifying as the King of Beasts. Though the level suppression existed, his combat strength was not outrageously high.

The instant Chao Bafang struck the patrol captain, Yang Shan circled behind him.

First came a Thunder Cleaving Slash!

Then three more chopping strikes.

Chao Bafang followed up with two more thrusts.

The patrol captain's Dou Qi Armor actually failed to withstand even one round of attacks from the two of them before shattering.

The top-tier Player Chao Bafang had begun to reveal his edge.

If Yang Shan had faced him alone, he would probably have needed several more slashes to deplete the captain's Vitality Shield.

And those extra few slashes would have been the captain's best opportunity to counterattack.

But with Chao Bafang joining in, the captain naturally had no chance to fight back.

Having someone to cooperate with really saved effort!

With his Dou Qi Armor shattered, the captain chose to retreat for the moment.

But Yang Shan immediately took out a packet of Lime Powder from his Storage Ring and tossed it into the captain's face.

The peerless divine skill, Great Lime Scattering Technique! This was a common tactic of sinister villains in many classic wuxia novels.

Its effects were so powerful that even many martial arts masters, even protagonist-level figures, could fall to this move.

Watching Yang Shan scatter the Lime Powder with such smooth, practiced movements, Chao Bafang was deeply puzzled:

"WTF! That technique was way too professional. Could it be that Great God used to be an extra who specialized in playing villains at a film studio?"