Leaving the Pass, Skies Change

This deduction consumed far more Potential Points than Lin Xiao had anticipated.

When fifty Potential Points were invested, his expression remained unchanged.

When one hundred Potential Points were invested, his expression shifted.

When one hundred and fifty Potential Points flowed into this bottomless pit, his hands began to tremble, his vision blurred, and he felt as though even the air conditioning in a rich woman's villa couldn't steady his slightly weak, shaking legs.

When... when two hundred Potential Points vanished, Lin Xiao felt the urge to stop the deduction.

But he ultimately held back, because he sensed the deduction was close to succeeding.

Finally, after consuming a total of 225 Potential Points, the vortex that merged all the martial arts took shape. The thousands of phantoms in his mind also merged into one, transforming into a new, unknown technique, classified as Two-Star High-Grade.

"This is unbelievable!"

Lin Xiao was speechless. The Potential Points consumed in this deduction were double that of the Primordial Chaos Divine Art. He had thought it would be a Two-Star Peerless Grade divine art, but it turned out to be only Two-Star High-Grade. This didn't match the deduction cost.

However, as he carefully experienced the newly deduced technique, his eyes lit up. He felt the cost might have been worth it.

Because the newly deduced technique was not only a scattered-hand style as he had imagined, but its power also far exceeded his expectations.

Before the deduction, he had used Eagle Claw Hand and Golden Jade Fist as the core, integrating other martial arts. After the deduction, it automatically took the concept of Golden Jade Fist as its core. The concept of the Golden Jade Fist martial art was to cultivate one's fists until they became as hard as gold and jade. At the peak of Golden Jade Fist, the fists would turn a golden-stone color, like Golden Eagle Envoy Wang Zhen, becoming exceptionally hard.

In other words, Golden Jade Fist was actually an external martial art.

The newly deduced scattered-hand style, with Golden Jade Fist as its core and incorporating the advantages of various martial arts, not only had more exquisite moves but its external martial methods were also more powerful. According to the technique's description, when he fully channeled his inner force to activate the new technique, both his arms would turn as hard as metal, making them almost impervious to blades and spears.

This gave Lin Xiao a bold idea: if he used this new technique as a foundation and integrated more external martial arts, fist techniques, and claw techniques into it, could he continuously strengthen his arms, making their hardness even greater?

Or, by continuously integrating other techniques, such as external hardening arts, could he expand the range of blade and spear immunity? For example, extending the immunity from his arms to his shoulders, then to his torso, and finally to his entire body?

Wouldn't that allow him to achieve an Indestructible Vajra Body in a different way, similar to the Indestructible Vajra Divine Art?

Well, he probably couldn't achieve the Indestructible Vajra Body in this world. One had to consider that even the lowest level of the Indestructible Vajra Body—Bronze Casting Iron Bones—was called Bronze Skin Iron Bones, which was already invincible at the third tier. This far exceeded the power level of this world. Unless he used Destiny Points to break through the limitations, it would be impossible to achieve the Indestructible Vajra Body.

However, even if he couldn't achieve the Indestructible Vajra Body, he could achieve a pseudo-Indestructible Vajra Body. For example, being impervious to blades and spears, which could be considered a level of body refinement.

Although it lacked the Indestructible Vajra Body's immunity to all poisons and resistance to fire and water, its defense alone would be enough to resist most blades and swords, allowing him to roam the world undefeated.

Lin Xiao named the newly deduced technique Adamantine Hand. This technique still had great potential to be explored and could even be useful in other worlds.

As of now, the martial arts he possessed were:

Two-Star High-Grade Primordial Chaos Divine Art, Two-Star Low-Grade Flying Heaven Steps, Two-Star Mid-Grade Swift Saber, Two-Star High-Grade Adamantine Hand, two hundred and fifty years of inner force, and 215 remaining Potential Points.

"I can go down the mountain now!"

Standing at the cave entrance, he glanced back at the stone cave where he had lived for more than half a year. He raised his hand and struck the stone wall at the cave entrance with a palm. A rumbling sound echoed as a large section of rocks shattered, burying the entrance. He turned and leaped off the cliff, disappearing into the mountains.

Eight days later, Lin Xiao appeared on a small hill less than three miles from Shanhaiguan Pass. Looking at the hundreds of cavalry and thousands of prisoners being escorted on the road not far away, his brows furrowed into a deep '川' shape.

He recognized these cavalry; they were the foreign troops he had seen before, appearing extremely barbaric. But what made him frown was not their presence here, but... the thousand Han civilians being escorted by them.

He looked up into the distance. The dragon flag of the Great Kang Dynasty, which had been flying over the Shanhaiguan Pass city wall, had been replaced by another foreign eagle flag. It was clear that during his half-year of secluded cultivation, Shanhaiguan Pass had already been captured by the foreign tribes. These were all civilians who had been plundered.

"Slap!"

A cavalryman wearing a brown leather robe whipped a leather whip fiercely. Two civilians, their hands bound, were whipped to the ground, their backs instantly showing two bloody whip marks. Another cavalryman then charged forward on his horse, directly trampling over them. Even from over two hundred meters away, Lin Xiao could hear the crisp sound of bones breaking.

Behind the cavalry, several large men, presumably foreign leaders, were each holding a Han woman and engaging in indecent acts. The cries of the women only seemed to excite them more, causing them to laugh heartily.

Watching his two kin struggling and spitting blood, the women crying, Lin Xiao's eyes involuntarily turned cold. He let out a cold snort that sounded like a thunderclap in the ears of the cavalry below the hillside. Countless warhorses were startled and reared up.

When they stabilized their horses and looked around, they saw Lin Xiao charging down. A seemingly leader-like foreigner drew his curved saber and shouted at him:

"It's a Han! Kill him!"

Twenty to thirty cavalrymen drew their curved sabers and charged at him, splitting into two teams.

The hillside was not steep, and the warhorses could charge up.

Lin Xiao didn't use any particularly exquisite lightness skills. He simply strode forward, each step covering more than ten meters. In a few strides, he came into contact with the foreign cavalry. As they met, he could still see the ferocious and brutal expressions on their ugly faces.

Without hesitation, he brought his palm down. A large wave of air expanded and surged out, directly sending the foreign warrior, his horse and all, flying over twenty meters away. He landed with a dull thud, and looking at him, he was no longer human. The bones of his entire body, along with his horse, were crushed by Lin Xiao's palm, delivered in anger.

There was no other reason than anger—the anger of a keyboard warrior's soul from Earth.

Although this was just an unknown Wuxia world, the foreign tribes invading the Central Plains from the south bore such a striking resemblance to the history of China on Earth. Before his transmigration, he always felt uncomfortable whenever he saw such historical accounts online. Now, witnessing it firsthand, the new and old grievances merged into his angry palm.

This terrifying palm strike did not intimidate the barbarians. Instead, they charged even more ferociously on their horses.

Lin Xiao snorted coldly, raising both arms. His sleeves burst open, revealing his strong muscles. The skin on his arms turned a bronze color at a visible speed, with a hint of metallic luster. Instead of retreating, he advanced, crashing into a cavalryman with all his might.

After the crisp sound of a curved saber being snapped by sheer force, followed by a heavy impact, the sounds of men and horses falling in succession.

In less than a minute, nearly thirty Haigher Khan cavalrymen were brutally killed by him using the most violent methods.