Harvest

"Riiip!"

A sound like cloth being torn rang out as Gu Han felt around the face of Black Fiend, the "Old Boatman."

A moment later, he exerted a slight force with his hand and directly tore off a lifelike Human Skin Mask from the man's face, revealing beneath it the face of an ordinary middle-aged man, filled with terror, his eyes still wide open in death.

"The Shadow Poison Sect's Disguise Technique truly is unmatched under heaven. Such an exquisite Human Skin Mask— even I could not see the slightest flaw. It is simply unbelievable."

Looking at the unfamiliar face beneath the mask, Gu Han was slightly startled.

With his current eyesight, let alone a face right before him, he could clearly see ants fighting ten zhang away.

Yet just now, if Black Fiend, the "Old Boatman," had not exposed himself, Gu Han would not have noticed anything wrong with him at all. Even when he threw back his head in laughter or made subtle expressions, Gu Han had seen no flaw whatsoever.

Such a terrifying technique was truly inconceivable. Forget ancient times—even the advanced technology of Gu Han's first life could never have achieved this. Its wonder was plain to see!

"I wonder who created this Disguise Technique. To be able to confuse even me as to what is real and false—he truly was an extraordinary figure."

Seeing how miraculous the Black and White Fiends' Disguise Technique was, Gu Han gave a soft sigh of amazement, then grew even more eager as he continued searching Black Fiend's body.

"Ten Fragrance Soft Bone Powder, Three-Day Gut-Wrenching Pills, Life-Extending Eight Pills, Heavenly Fragrance Powder, Human Skin Masks..."

Packet after packet of medicinal powder, bottle after bottle and jar after jar were found on Black Fiend's body. Yet no matter how Gu Han searched, he could not find the slightest trace of a Disguise Technique manual or the Ten Fragrance Soft Bone Powder Crafting Method.

"Strange, why is it not here? Could it be that the Shadow Poison Sect's manuals were not on Black Fiend, but carried by White Fiend, or hidden somewhere else by the two of them?"

Gu Han was puzzled.

Although most martial artists liked to carry important belongings with them when traveling the martial world, as doing so gave them a peculiar sense of security, those experts like the Black and White Fiends—whose threat and ability to preserve their own lives were no less than those of great evil-path masters who had reached Great Accomplishment of Internal Qi—were often even more confident in themselves.

But while that was generally true, there were exceptions. Perhaps the Black and White Fiends simply were not the sort to carry important things on them. That was not impossible.

"Forget it. I'll first fish up White Fiend and search her body. If I truly cannot obtain them, then so be it."

Still unwilling to give up, Gu Han was just about to row the small boat toward the corpse of White Fiend, the "delicate young maiden," and retrieve it from the water.

But suddenly, he felt something unnatural on Black Fiend's back.

"Riiip! Riiip!"

Two more sounds like tearing cloth rang out. On the small boat, Gu Han first turned over the corpse of Black Fiend, the "Old Boatman," and tore open the clothes on his back. After searching again, he finally detected something unusual. With a movement of his hand, a piece of human skin the size of a washbasin, densely covered in writing, appeared in his grasp the next moment.

"Ten Fragrance Soft Bone Powder Crafting Method, Disguise Technique Mastery!"

At the bow of the boat, Gu Han looked at the dense tiny writing on the human skin, and a smile immediately appeared on his face.

Though these two skills belonged to the unorthodox paths, their actual usefulness might be far greater than the three supreme martial arts created by Patriarch Bodhidharma.

After all, no matter how powerful Patriarch Bodhidharma had been, he was constrained by the limits of this world and was merely a Second-rate Master. The martial arts he created might be precious to Gu Han now, but once Gu Han advanced to the second-rate in the future, they might amount to no more than that.

But the Ten Fragrance Soft Bone Powder Crafting Method and Disguise Technique Mastery were different.

There was no need to say much about the Ten Fragrance Soft Bone Powder Crafting Method.

It was a medicine specifically meant to dissolve Inner Qi. It might be unable to do anything to Gu Han, but that was because his body had already undergone transformation and attained a physique immune to all poisons.

But if this substance were used against other martial artists, then even masters of Inner Qi—even Second-rate Masters in the Yue Kingdom of the main world who could use True Qi Projection—might have their Inner Qi dissolved if they consumed a sufficient dose, leaving them as helpless as fish on a chopping board.

And compared to the Ten Fragrance Soft Bone Powder Crafting Method, this Disguise Technique Mastery might be even more terrifying.

Though Disguise Technique was a renowned art in the martial world for concealing one's identity, nearly every figure who traveled the jianghu knew at least a little of it.

But knowing it was one thing; mastering it was exceedingly difficult. The Shadow Poison Sect was an expert in this field. One only needed to look at the Black and White Fiends to understand that much.

Their Disguise Technique had fooled even Gu Han's naked eye, let alone the Second-rate Masters and First-rate Masters of the main world, whose physical bodies were inferior to his.

It could be said that if Gu Han thoroughly mastered this Disguise Technique Mastery, then using it in the real world or other simulation worlds in the future would be like learning the Monkey King's Seventy-Two Transformations from legend. Out of thin air, he could create countless identities. It was truly an essential method for murder and robbery, for framing others and shifting blame!

Delighted, Gu Han carefully put away the human-skin manual and placed it inside the golden box in his robes.

Finally, from among the Human Skin Masks he had found, he selected one depicting a young man with a long, thin scar running diagonally across his face and a particularly cold expression. He slowly laid it over his own face.

"Pop!"

The instant the Human Skin Mask touched the skin of Gu Han's face, he felt as though a suction cup had met a smooth wall. In the blink of an eye, it clung tightly to his face, instantly transforming him from a handsome, masculine youth into an ordinary-looking young man with a scar on his face.

"Good stuff!"

Feeling the Human Skin Mask securely fitted to his face, Gu Han lowered his head and looked at the unfamiliar face reflected in the clear river water. He could not help but praise it aloud. Then he returned to the cabin, found a long saber around four chi in length, strapped it to his back, and rowed toward the distant large ship that was faintly visible ahead.

For according to what Black Fiend had said earlier, that place might hold the beginning of his next chapter, as well as the stepping stone he needed to achieve the final purpose for which he had come to this world!

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