Lifespan Soars!

Chu Feng decapitated him with a single saber strike, too lazy to waste words. Since they came to hunt him, they had to accept the risk of being killed.

Being cut in half at the waist was one of the ten great tortures of feudal dynasties, precisely because death was not immediate.

A healthy person could remain conscious for the time it takes to brew half a cup of tea, during which they would experience the extreme agony of their torso being separated.

Martial artists had stronger physiques and could remain conscious for a full cup of tea's worth of time, doubling the pain.

So when Chu Feng looked over, Chen Yuan was still struggling and roaring in agony. The word "miserable" couldn't even begin to describe it!

Chu Feng found it too noisy and gave him a quick end with his saber.

"Thank you..." Chen Yuan's pupils turned ashen gray as he died peacefully.

"You're welcome, Steward Chen..." Chu Feng said expressionlessly.

The other party was just a minor steward of the Fang Family; he wasn't worth Chu Feng venting his anger on such a small fry.

Although killing could rapidly increase his strength, Chu Feng didn't want to become a monster who enjoyed slaughtering.

[Killed a Late Skin Polishing Realm Martial Artist, plundered 3 years of Lifespan.]

[Killed an Early Muscle Tempering Realm Martial Artist, plundered 5 years of Lifespan, plundered the Savage Ox Muscle Tempering Art.]

"The plunder rate for things other than Lifespan is so low, but having Lifespan to deduce cultivation methods is already the strongest cheat. One can't be too greedy," Chu Feng mused inwardly.

Cultivation methods were divided into training methods and combat methods. As the names suggested, training methods primarily nourished Blood Essence and strengthened the physique, while combat methods were purely for killing, meant only for killing enemies!

The Savage Ox Muscle Tempering Art plundered was clearly a training method for the Muscle Tempering Realm.

"Faster..."

"Steward Chen has found the whereabouts of that brat Chu Feng..."

"Kill him, and we won't have to be monkeys in this forest anymore..."

Sounds of chatter grew from distant to near.

It was the other guards from the Fang Mansion who heard the Heaven Shaking Thunder and had all come over.

Along with the sounds came over a dozen Fang Family guards and several wolfhounds.

The Fang Family guards saw Chu Feng from afar, and excitement appeared on their faces. After all, this was fifty taels of silver walking around.

Most of these Fang Family guards were only at the Mid Skin Polishing Realm, with only three being at the Late Skin Polishing Realm.

"Charge!"

A group of them rushed towards Chu Feng with a clamor.

As they got closer, they realized something was wrong. Why were there three corpses on the ground? And one of them was even Steward Chen Yuan of the Fang Family guards!

But their greed still prevailed. They had numbers; why would they fear a mere brat?

"Good timing!" Chu Feng grinned, revealing his chilling white teeth.

Facing over a dozen people alone, he was fearless. Without dodging or evading, he charged straight forward.

For a moment, saber light crisscrossed, and blood rained down...

As soon as they clashed, the two fastest were pierced through by Chu Feng's saber!

Then began his exclusive slaughtering performance.

Both were at the Skin Polishing Realm, but Chu Feng's perfected Breaking Edge Saber Technique made killing them like slicing vegetables. In a short while, the guards had lost more than half their numbers.

Only then did they wake up like a dream, each one wishing their parents had given them two more legs, and they fled swiftly.

"Trying to leave now? Don't you think it's a bit late?"

Chu Feng sneered coldly and pursued, turning into Death reaping lives mercilessly.

The myriad aspects of life were displayed during this time: some knelt and begged for mercy, some gritted their teeth and threatened, and some promised great riches, even offering to give their sister to him as a slave girl.

Testing a martial artist with such meager offerings?

Chu Feng remained expressionless, his only response to them being the cold edge of his saber.

[Killed an Early Skin Polishing Realm Martial Artist, plundered 2 years of Lifespan.]

[Killed a wolfhound, plundered 1 year of Lifespan.]

[Killed a Late Skin Polishing Realm Martial Artist, plundered 3 years of Lifespan.]

After killing all those who tried to flee, Chu Feng glanced into the distance. A stray fish had escaped.

It was probably because that guy had arrived too late to support them, thus allowing the escapee to live.

Chu Feng didn't care. He was already irreconcilably at odds with the Fang Family; whether someone reported him or not was irrelevant.

[Name: Chu Feng.] [Cultivation: Peak Skin Polishing Realm.] [Cultivation Methods: Dark Gold Marrow Polishing Technique, Breaking Edge Saber Technique (Minor Accomplishment), Savage Ox Muscle Tempering Art (Not Yet Mastered).] [Plundered Lifespan: 25 years]

Chu Feng took off his tattered clothes and looked at his unharmed body, his heart filled with soaring ambition.

The reason he could kill these more than ten Fang Family guards of the same realm was his own formidable defensive power.

It was hard to imagine the despair those guards felt when their swords and blades couldn't break his defense.

"This skin membrane limit is indeed powerful. If it were another martial artist, even with a perfect saber technique, they might not be able to kill so many martial artists of the same level without a scratch."

Chu Feng casually stripped a fitting set of clothes from a corpse, found some dry rations and silver, and headed deeper into the jungle.

These Marrow Polishing Realm guards were at the bottom of the Fang Family's martial power hierarchy, equivalent to the security guards of a company in his previous life. Although they had some combat ability, it was only enough to bully ordinary people.

The real high-end martial force were the Fang Family's retainers. They were at least martial artists above the Muscle Tempering Realm, far from comparable to these household guards.

The Fang Family would never have imagined that a mere household slave could be so troublesome, but now that so many guards were dead, they would definitely take it seriously.

Now that he had a Muscle Tempering cultivation technique, he needed to advance to the Muscle Tempering Realm as quickly as possible to deal with the upcoming crisis.

Chu Feng sprinted for more than ten miles in one go and found a lush tree in the forest, leaping onto it.

"Lifespan, deduce for me!"

Chu Feng leaned against the tree trunk and said in a deep voice.

[After five years of arduous cultivation, Savage Ox Muscle Tempering Art has reached the introductory level, tempering 126 muscles, reaching the Early Muscle Tempering Realm, capable of erupting with a thousand jin of strength.]

Chu Feng didn't expect that after five years, the cultivation technique had only reached minor completion. This was too difficult!

He guessed that the introductory level of the Savage Ox Muscle Tempering Art required a large amount of energy. Although he could use Lifespan to deduce it, without sufficient nourishing medicinal herbs, it could only be a slow process.

It was true that poverty led to hardship in study, while wealth led to prosperity in martial arts. No wonder few of the Fang Family guards had broken through to the Muscle Tempering Realm. With their financial resources, they simply couldn't afford it and could only rely on slow, painstaking effort.

Where could Chu Feng find nourishing medicinal herbs now? He could only eat all the dry rations he had scavenged and continue deducing.

Strength was the ultimate principle. Lifespan could be acquired again.

Now that he was being hunted by the Fang Family, he wouldn't be foolish enough to hoard it and wait until he had nourishing medicinal herbs to deduce.

If a super strong martial artist came and killed him, any amount of Lifespan would be in vain.

Chu Feng gritted his teeth. He didn't care about the consequences and just went for it!

[Year 10, your Savage Ox Muscle Tempering Art reached minor completion, tempering 133 muscles, capable of erupting with a thousand jin of strength.]

[Year 20, Savage Ox Strength Refining Art reached perfection, tempering 360 muscles, capable of erupting with three thousand jin of strength.]

[Year 25, you spent five years without increasing your strength, but instead greatly improved your control over the already tempered muscles, allowing you to change their shape at will.]

Chu Feng lamented and regretted that his Lifespan was completely depleted.

The results of this deduction were far from expected, and this was not only due to the lack of medicinal herbs for nourishment.

The human body has a total of 639 large and small muscles, and now only 360 have been tempered, less than half.

The Savage Ox Strength Refining Art's level was too low, only able to temper 360 muscles. Burdened by the cultivation technique, too much Lifespan was wasted.

Tempering 360 muscles would break through to the weakest form of Easy Muscle Martial Artist, and it would be difficult to make up for it later.

He had Lifespan deduction, while others needed to cultivate for countless years, he only needed an instant.

With such excellent conditions, he naturally had to become the strongest. Not a single one of the 639 muscles could be missed. As a modern person, Chu Feng was very clear about the importance of the foundation.

He wondered how many muscles the Fang Family's ancestral Tiger Demon Body Tempering Art could temper. He imagined it must be much stronger than his Savage Ox Muscle Tempering Art.

If he could obtain it and then use Lifespan deduction to comprehend it, he might be able to achieve mastery and temper more muscles.

The Tiger Demon Body Tempering Art was impossible to obtain for now, but there was a top-grade Muscle Tempering technique that Chu Feng actually knew where to get.

However, he would need to return to Yong'an City to obtain it.

His current strength was not enough to contend with the Fang Family, so he had to act cautiously.

"It's already very good. My strength has been greatly improved, much better than before when I practiced diligently in the Fang Mansion with slow progress."

Chu Feng calmed his emotions and took a deep breath.

At times like these, more than ever, he needed to avoid arrogance and impatience and act steadily.