Cross-Discipline Comprehension (Please Favorite, Please Recommend)

Cross-Discipline Comprehension (Please Favorite, Please Recommend)

Since those who had never learned culinary arts or medicine could use insight manuals to raise their levels, could he, who had never learned blade techniques, use "Blade Technique Insights" to learn some saber skills out of thin air?

Actions spoke louder than thoughts. Ye Weiming immediately put the idea into practice, opening the "Blade Technique Insights" the same way he had used "Culinary Arts Insights."

Ding! You have not learned any blade techniques. Are you sure you wish to use "Blade Technique Insights"?

Yes/No

So it worked!

Ye Weiming immediately chose No. It was feasible, but the system prompt had not stated what consequences this would bring. Based on his own analysis, the worst-case scenario was probably wasting an insight manual. It should not cause him any harm. Still, since this was an experiment, he naturally could not risk his best one.

He put away Du Dajin's blade technique manual, then took out another "Blade Technique Insights" he had obtained from an escort—one that added 200 Proficiency.

There was nothing more to say. He used it directly, and then...

Ding! By studying "Blade Technique Insights," you gained 50 Culinary Arts Proficiency through Cross-Discipline Comprehension!

Cross-Discipline Comprehension?

It could be used like that too?!

Though this test item had transferred its insights to culinary arts, and the Proficiency had been reduced to a quarter of its original amount, it had undoubtedly opened up an entirely new path for leveling up.

Ye Weiming no longer hesitated. He immediately used Cross-Discipline Comprehension on his remaining two "Blade Technique Insights," four "Boxing Insights," and two "Staff Technique Insights."

Ding! By studying "Blade Technique Insights," you gained 400 "Moon Maiden Swordplay" Proficiency through Cross-Discipline Comprehension!

Ding! Moon Maiden Swordplay has risen to Level 7!

Ding! By studying...

After several consecutive rounds of Cross-Discipline Comprehension, aside from Moon Maiden Swordplay rising to Level 7, his other two Kung Fu skills also received modest Proficiency boosts. Though neither leveled up, both had drawn another step closer.

It seemed that while Cross-Discipline Comprehension randomly added experience to one skill, it still had certain tendencies. Overall, it was more likely to be added to martial arts skills. Of course, one "Staff Technique Insights" had given him 40 Forging Proficiency, leaving Ye Weiming unsure whether to laugh or cry.

After using up all the insight manuals, Ye Weiming's martial arts Proficiency had become...

Breathing Technique (Low-grade)

Level: 6

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Proficiency: 1654/3200

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Moon Maiden Swordplay (Low-grade)

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Level: 7

Proficiency: 50/6400

Power +70%, Accuracy +70%

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Eight-Step Toad Leap (Beginner)

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Level: 3

Proficiency: 818/1000

Agility +60

The increase in his swordsmanship level once again gave Ye Weiming an indescribable flash of insight. Even setting aside the attribute bonuses, he was confident that if faced with the same situation now, he could definitely handle it better than before.

His other skills had also drawn closer to leveling up.

At the same time, twenty-one more inventory slots had been freed up. Ye Weiming pressed on without pause and continued collecting corpses.

However, since he had prioritized dealing with the corpses of the escorts, including Du Dajin himself, the gains from collecting more bodies were far less satisfying. On average, he could only obtain one insight manual for every three corpses he collected, and most were for life skills. Even when he occasionally got a martial arts manual from an escort hand, the Proficiency it provided was pitifully low.

There were not even any hidden weapons left.

Because the low-skilled escort hands, along with the elderly, weak, women, and children who knew no martial arts, had all been killed by claw techniques!

As Ye Weiming collected corpses and used manuals, he did not disdain those insight manuals of little practical use. He continued happily stuffing bodies into his inventory. Collecting and using as he went, he eventually followed the corpses into the rear hall. This should have been where the escort agency's families lived, but there were no living women here now—only female corpses.

Ding! Obtained "Tailoring Insights" manual ×1.

Ding! Your Tailoring Proficiency increased by 135.

...

After collecting the female corpse in one room and skillfully using the insight manual he had obtained, Ye Weiming swept his gaze around the room. Seeing no other corpses, he was about to leave when a system prompt suddenly appeared.

Ding! Passive skill "Autopsy Method" activated. You discover that the cloth curtain by the bed is trembling slightly despite the absence of wind, as though someone behind it is breathing.

The prompt made Ye Weiming frown slightly, but his movements did not pause. He turned toward the door as if nothing had happened. After taking two steps, he abruptly drew his sword. The Dragon Spring Sword became a silver streak in the darkness of night, thrusting straight toward the curtain behind him. Its blade cut through the air with a shrill ring!

"Rip!"

Almost at the same instant Ye Weiming turned and struck, someone tore the curtain in half. A black figure then leaped into the air, dodging Ye Weiming's sword aimed at his chest while lashing out with both claws at Ye Weiming's throat and sword-wielding wrist. The attack was swift, ruthless, and exceedingly dangerous.

Knowing he had encountered a formidable opponent, Ye Weiming immediately turned his blade, changing his thrust into an upward slash aimed directly at the other man's throat. The transition flowed as smoothly as moving clouds and running water, without the slightest hint of abruptness, as though the move had always been meant to change in just this way.

And that was indeed the case. The move Ye Weiming had used was called Parting Grass to Find Snake. It was originally a feint in Moon Maiden Swordplay. Though it appeared swift and fierce, its force remained held in reserve, allowing him to change moves midway at any time, advancing and withdrawing at will. After all, the system prompt had only told him that someone was behind the curtain. With Ye Weiming's current strength, he could not discern any more detailed information.

What if the person hiding there was a surviving orphan from the escort agency? If they had endured humiliation and hidden through the massacre, only for Ye Weiming to stab them to death with one sword, that would be terrible.

And according to the usual martial arts story formula, someone who went through this kind of ordeal was usually the protagonist!

Ye Weiming had no desire to destroy a rising talent of the martial world through a moment of recklessness.

Fortunately, that was why he was able to make the best possible adjustment at the critical moment. Even against a powerful opponent, he still did not fall even slightly behind in terms of moves.

Seeing how deftly Ye Weiming changed his move, the Man in Black gave a soft "Eh?" Then he twisted at the waist and sharply arched backward in midair. He narrowly avoided Ye Weiming's throat-seeking sword, while a kick infused with all his inner power slammed toward Ye Weiming's chest.

"I bought a damn watch last year!" The Man in Black's change had come far too quickly. Ye Weiming had no time to withdraw his sword. He could only curse in anger, hurriedly channeling his inner power into his left arm as he raised a fist to meet the man's foot.

"Bang!"

Their fist and foot collided. Since Ye Weiming had hastily changed moves and his redirected true qi was insufficient, he was forced back three steps by the kick. Meanwhile, the Man in Black used the momentum to spin around and smash straight through the rear window, leaving behind the words, "What watch?" before fleeing swiftly into the distance.

"Where do you think you're going?!" Ye Weiming would not let him escape so easily. He immediately unleashed the movement technique of Eight-Step Toad Leap and gave chase.

Yet what astonished Ye Weiming was that not only was his opponent formidable in hand-to-hand combat, his movement technique was also not much weaker than Ye Weiming's. Even after Ye Weiming channeled his inner power into both feet and pushed Eight-Step Toad Leap to its limit, he could not catch the man quickly. Fortunately, the distance between them steadily shrank, while his opponent seemed to be fleeing in panic and without direction, actually running toward a corner of the escort agency's rear courtyard wall.

By the moonlight, Ye Weiming could see something black standing there, shaped like a door panel. But it was definitely not a back gate. If his opponent really mistook that panel for a dilapidated little wooden door and charged headlong into it...

At the thought, a gloating smile curled across Ye Weiming's lips.

However, the smile remained on his face for less than a second. His opponent had no intention of breaking through any door. While still some distance from the wall, he suddenly sprang upward, leaping more than ten feet high. His right hand formed a claw and seized the blue bricks atop the wall, and he used the momentum to flip out of the courtyard.

Ye Weiming pursued closely behind and jumped with all his strength as well, but he only rose about five feet. Seeing that he was about to smash face-first into the wall, he quickly extended his left hand, pressed it against the wall, and shoved hard, landing steadily back inside the courtyard.

There was no helping it. Eight-Step Toad Leap was indeed quite good in terms of speed; the agility it added nearly rivaled some intermediate movement techniques. But as a beginner movement technique, such an outstanding advantage naturally meant equally obvious shortcomings.

As a Ground Movement Technique, its greatest weakness was that it was unsuitable for high jumps!