The Limit of External Training (Please Keep Reading)

Chapter 27: The Limit of External Training (Please Keep Reading)

Three Yuan Return to One, White Rainbow Splits the Void Palm, Three Moon Condensing Evil Finger, Early Sun Art, Demon Slaying Saber, Thirteen Taibao!

The Lu Family truly intended to develop into a Martial Arts Family. Hu Qing had actually stuffed six secret manuals into his hands.

Wei Fan did not touch Three Moon Condensing Evil Finger. Without even opening it, he shattered the Demonic Cultivation Art with his true qi. Early Sun Art was a true qi cultivation method; after flipping through two pages, he did not bother reading further.

"Trash. It does not even have a cultivation method for the Acupoint Splitting Realm, yet you still want to develop into a Martial Arts Family."

Tossing aside Early Sun Art, Wei Fan turned to the other martial arts.

White Rainbow Splits the Void Palm was a martial skill that launched true qi beyond the body, precisely the sort of method he had yet to master. Demon Slaying Saber was also a fine saber technique. Now that he had comprehended saber intent, what he lacked were different saber techniques to perfect it.

Thirteen Taibao was an external training martial art!

Naturally, what interested Wei Fan most was Three Yuan Return to One.

This was a special cultivation method—not one for cultivating true qi, but one for refining true qi.

Whether one's true qi was pure was equally important to a martial artist. The purer the true qi, the greater its power in battle, and the easier it was to control.

"My Golden Bell Shield has gained over a hundred years of cultivation. My true qi has long since become incomparably pure. I wonder whether Three Yuan Return to One can refine it even further."

Whether it could or not, he had to give it a try.

Half an hour later, the martial arts he was interested in appeared on the panel:

Three Yuan Return to One (Not Initiated)

Thirteen Taibao (Not Initiated)

Demon Slaying Saber (Not Initiated)

White Rainbow Splits the Void Palm (Not Initiated)

Current cultivation: 127 years

After putting away the secret manuals, Wei Fan began adding cultivation to the martial arts he had just acquired. The first one he enhanced was Thirteen Taibao, the external training martial art. Drawing on his past experience, he directly added ten years of cultivation.

Ten years of cultivation deducted

You have already brought three external training martial arts to perfection. With only one year of cultivation, Thirteen Taibao broke through to the fifth level. Your body underwent little change.

Two years of cultivation: Thirteen Taibao broke through to the seventh level.

Three years of cultivation: Your Thirteen Taibao reached the eighth level.

Five years of cultivation: Your Thirteen Taibao was still unable to reach perfection. Your strength seemed to have reached the limit of external training, but you did not give up and continued cultivating Thirteen Taibao.

Ten years of cultivation: Your Thirteen Taibao finally broke through to the ninth level. Single-arm strength: twenty thousand jin.

Thirteen Taibao (Ninth Level)

Current cultivation: 117 years

Feeling the strength growing within his body, Wei Fan's furrowed brow relaxed. At least those ten years of cultivation had not been wasted; his single-arm strength had risen to twenty thousand jin.

However, this should be the greatest strength attainable in the external training realm. Even if he continued cultivating external training martial arts, his strength would not increase further.

With the effects of multiple external training martial arts combined, his body had reached a point in this realm where there was no further path forward. If he wanted to improve again, he could only break through into the Body Tempering Realm.

After resting for a while, Wei Fan continued adding cultivation to the other martial arts.

Late at night, at Clerk Wei Qingyuan's residence!

"Master, you must seek justice for my elder brother's family! Chop off the heads of those people who harmed them! Those damned bastards were far too vicious..."

The moment Wei Qingyuan returned, Madam Wei Lu burst into tears and poured out her grievances.

"Your elder brother's entire family had it coming!"

Wei Qingyuan snapped.

He had returned so late because he had been dealing with the Lu Family's affairs. The Lu Family might have been wiped out completely, but the trouble they had caused him was far from over. He did not even know whether he could keep his position as clerk.

Madam Wei Lu froze at his words, and her tears stopped at once. "You heartless man! If my elder brother had not spent money to pull strings for you, would you have the status you do today? They were murdered, yet you can say such heartless things..."

Wei Qingyuan's face was full of impatience. He rubbed his head in frustration and said, "I am heartless? Was your elder brother any better? Do you know what they did? They brought demons into the city to eat people.

"That little beast Lu Mingjie—I told him not to cause trouble in the eastern district, not to provoke Wei Fan.

"But what did he do? On the very first day, he brought people to beat up the constables under Wei Fan.

"Who is Wei Fan? Even the tiger demon behind the Fierce Tiger Gang died because of him. He had no ability, yet he was arrogant. If he had not died, I would have wanted to kill him myself.

"All you know is how to cry. Do you know how much trouble they caused? I do not even know whether I can keep my position as clerk. How am I supposed to help them?"

Madam Wei Lu was frightened stiff. She had not expected even Wei Qingyuan to be in trouble.

Wei Qingyuan ignored his wife. He rose and went to the study to write a letter. Before long, he had finished one.

He left the study, tied the letter to a pigeon's leg, and then released the carrier pigeon.

Cloud Dream Inn!

"Here you go!"

Su Xuerong handed the copied martial arts manual to Wei Fan.

"Many thanks, Miss Su. I shall remember your kindness in gifting me this technique!"

Wei Fan accepted it and saw the elegant words "Mirror Lake Technique" written across it, along with a faint, lingering feminine fragrance.

He was in no hurry to read it, instead putting the manual away first.

"Brother Wei, my injuries have mostly recovered. Xuerong and I will be returning to Su City. When you come to Su City someday, we'll drink to our hearts' content again."

As he spoke, Ning Xuan rose and began packing his things.

"Brother Ning, you were injured before, so I didn't wish to disturb you. You and Miss Su should stay another day and let me fulfill my duties as host."

Wei Fan stood to urge them to stay. After their several encounters, he had formed a very favorable impression of Su Xuerong and Ning Xuan and already considered them friends.

Ning Xuan shook his head. "I understand Brother Wei's intentions, but Xuerong and I came for an assessment. It would not do to delay too long. Now that the Tiger King has been killed by you, our assessment has failed. We must return as soon as possible to find our guide and have him arrange another assessment task for us."

"Take care, both of you. I hope that when we meet again, you will already be members of the Demon Suppressing Division."

Wei Fan did not press them further. He personally saw them out of the city before returning to the government office barracks.

Many of those who had not gone out on patrol were in the barracks. The East District government office had shown its strength, consecutively wiping out the Fierce Tiger Gang and the E Shen Gang. Now, no one dared cause trouble at all.

"There's a result regarding the E Shen Gang matter!"

Wei Fan was just about to take out Su Xuerong's Mirror Lake Technique to study it when Luo Wen appeared, his expression unpleasant.

Wei Fan looked up at Luo Wen. "How did the City Lord handle it?"

He did not actually care much about the matter. He had enforced the law impartially, without violating any rules, and all the Lu Family's men were dead. The remaining women and children could not stir up any waves.

As for Clerk Wei Qingyuan, he was not worried about retaliation at all. Before absolute force, any power or influence was nothing but a joke.

Luo Wen found a nearby stool and sat down. "The Lu Family colluded with demons and brought demons into the city. The evidence was conclusive. All their property has been confiscated, and the women have all been sent to the pleasure quarter.

"All government runners from the East District who took part will be credited with one merit and rewarded with one tael of silver.

"The two of us get a little more—five taels each!"

Wei Fan's face darkened. He had destroyed the Tiger King's entire household and slain the demons that entered the city. With his merits and cultivation, he was qualified to be a constable captain.

At the very least, he could be made chief constable.

Even if there were currently no vacancies for such positions and it was inconvenient to arrange one for him, giving him more rewards would still show the City Lord's regard for him.

Five taels of silver? Was he being fobbed off like a beggar?

Given the Lu Family's wealth, the confiscation would bring in at least ten thousand taels of silver. Giving him five taels was clearly meant to disgust him.

Though he had no ambitions here, it was obvious that the City Lord was deliberately suppressing him.

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