Too Lazy to Improve the Flying Knife Art

"God! After breaking through to the Spirit Release Realm First Level, could the Flying Knife Art become this powerful?"

"Terrifying! The initial speed of the Thorn Fruit actually reached 1,100 meters per second. Before energy laser devices were invented, not even the most advanced firearms had bullets this fast."

"No wonder he came after the Green Leopard. After breaking through to the Spirit Release Realm First Level, the qualitative transformation of Spiritual Power brought a tremendous boost to the power of his techniques."

"I'm dying of envy. I want to learn the Flying Knife Art so badly. Why didn't he copy down the cultivation formula for the Flying Knife Art?"

"Idiot, the improved Chaos Art formula is what matters most. Without the improved Chaos Art formula, once we break through to the Spirit Release Realm First Level, we won't be able to advance to the second or third level!"

"I wonder how the major research institutions are doing now. When will they develop a cultivation technique better than the improved Chaos Art?"

"They've only just begun preparing, but once preparations get underway, things will move quickly."

"After all, this project is being heavily funded by major conglomerates and top tycoons. By my estimate, preparations for personnel, equipment, and facilities will be complete within a few days."

"As for developing a cultivation technique better than the improved Chaos Art, wouldn't that be as easy as turning over one's hand?"

"You have to know, Yi Chen only spent around three days improving the Chaos Art."

"With the massive manpower, material resources, financial resources, and cutting-edge research equipment of the major research institutions, plus all those geniuses putting their heads together, they might produce a cultivation technique better than the improved Chaos Art in just a few hours."

"By that calculation, a technique better than the improved Chaos Art will definitely be released within five days."

"That's great!"

"Come to think of it, these conglomerates and top tycoons have really been throwing money around. Especially when it comes to recruiting cultivation geniuses—they're practically snatching people up."

"It was all started by Billion Medicines Group. At first, they offered an annual salary of three hundred thousand. Just an hour later, they changed it to one million a year."

"Then the other conglomerates and top tycoons joined the war for talent. Two million, three million, four million... they were all desperately driving up the price. In another half day, there might even be recruitment ads offering annual salaries of ten million."

"Many ordinary people who had originally earned just over a hundred thousand a year leaped straight into the middle class. You have to know, the contracts offered by these conglomerates all had very long terms."

"What a pity. Why am I not a cultivation genius? I missed this chance to leap through the dragon gate and rise from the bottom for nothing."

"When you really think about it, Yi Chen's appearance has created millions upon millions of middle-class people."

While the viewers in the Live Stream Room were astonished by the explosive rise in strength after breaking through to the Spirit Release Realm, they also marveled at the changes and impact Yi Chen's sudden emergence had brought to all humanity.

Naturally, they also looked forward to and dreamed of those research institutions, armed with vast sums of money and aided by cultivation geniuses, quickly introducing even better cultivation techniques.

In the forest, Yi Chen was still slowly wearing down the teetering Green Leopard.

It was not until more than ten minutes later, when at least dozens of Thorn Fruits had been embedded in the Green Leopard's eyes, brow, throat, and other places, that it finally crashed to the ground.

The earth shook, and dead leaves flew into the air.

"Finally dealt with it!"

Yi Chen could not help letting out a breath of Turbid Qi.

Although he had won this battle easily, it had also shown him many shortcomings.

"It seems the Flying Knife Art needs some improvement. Otherwise, the sonic booms created at high speed make it far too easy to draw the opponent's attention."

"And its power isn't all that great either. It needs a major boost."

This battle had actually been a little harder than Yi Chen had expected.

He had expected to finish off the Green Leopard within two or three minutes.

Instead, he had spent nearly twenty minutes on it.

The main reason was that the Flying Knife Art had too many flaws.

The first was the issue of sonic booms.

Although Thorn Fruits were not large, once they exceeded the speed of sound, they still produced sonic booms.

Those sonic booms made it easy for opponents to pinpoint his location.

Even from outside an opponent's field of vision, they could not achieve the effect of catching it off guard.

If he encountered a Ferocious Beast with faster reactions than the Green Leopard, it would be difficult to repeatedly strike its vital points.

Another flaw was that its power was not all that great.

Against a colossal creature like the Green Leopard, Thorn Fruits could pierce through it, but because they were too small, even piercing a vital point required an unceasing barrage of attacks.

Take the Green Leopard's basketball-sized eyes, for example.

Only after three or four Thorn Fruits struck in succession could one eye be shot blind.

To solve these two major problems, he would undoubtedly need to improve the Flying Knife Art.

"Forget it. The Flying Knife Art is only a transitional method and will soon be obsolete. There's no need to waste time improving it."

After weighing it briefly, Yi Chen quickly abandoned the idea.

Concealed-weapon attacks were merely one means of attack for him at this stage, when he had no weapons.

Their killing power was far inferior to weapons like swords and sabers.

Even for ranged attack, he would still have to rely on swordsmanship and saber techniques in the future.

After breaking through to the Spirit Release Realm, one could release Spiritual Energy externally and produce Sword Qi and saber qi.

As one's realm rose, Sword Qi and saber qi would only reach farther.

One might even wield a sword with qi and take an enemy's head from a thousand miles away—it was not merely a fantasy.

The Flying Knife Art would be obsolete sooner or later, so there was no need to waste time and effort improving it.

"What's going on?"

"He's actually looking down on the Flying Knife Art?"

"With the Flying Knife Art in hand, even a small stone can kill a Ferocious Beast, yet he actually wants to discard the Flying Knife Art and cannot even be bothered to spend time improving it?"

"Good grief. While we're stunned by the formidable power of the Flying Knife Art, Yi Chen is thinking about discarding this technique?"

Yi Chen's few casual words left the viewers in the Live Stream Room speechless.

No one had expected that such a powerful technique was, in Yi Chen's eyes, merely a technique on the verge of being discarded, one he was unwilling to spend time upgrading.

One had to know that the current power of the Flying Knife Art already surpassed that of firearms before energy laser devices were invented.

Relying on the Flying Knife Art, Yi Chen had taken only a little over two months to kill a Level 10 Ferocious Beast that only Gene Warriors could contend with.

They truly could not understand what kind of cultivation technique could possibly be stronger than the Flying Knife Art.

In the forest, after confirming that the Green Leopard had completely lost all signs of life, Yi Chen returned along the original route to The Valley where the Flame Mountain Tribe was located.

Although, after breaking through to the Spirit Release Realm First Level, his Spiritual Power had undergone a qualitative transformation, and channeling it throughout his body could increase his strength to a terrifying degree,

it was still wishful thinking to drag a Green Leopard weighing several hundred tons back to the Flame Mountain Tribe by himself.

So he had to return and find people to help transport it.