You Smell So Good

Cat Master, who had been planning to continue dozing, suddenly twitched his nose as if he smelled something.

He stood up, first stretching and yawning, then slowly walked towards the crowd.

His movements were more agile than a tiger's, and more imposing. Especially his two large eyes, which scanned the onlookers with great majesty.

The crowd of onlookers was startled and retreated, looking as if they thought Cat Master was going to eat people!

Shi Feizhe also retreated a few steps. Such a large cat could swallow a normal person's head in one bite. He wondered if this cat ate people?

Cat Master lightly leaped and came to Shi Feizhe's side, circled him once, and then sniffed Shi Feizhe with his nose.

...What's going on!

The cat's whiskers brushed Shi Feizhe's face, making Shi Feizhe feel awkward. Could this big cat have taken a fancy to the hundred or so pounds of flesh on him?

"Little one, you smell so good!" A slightly aged voice suddenly appeared in Shi Feizhe's head.

Little one? Who is the little one?

"You... who are you?" Shi Feizhe couldn't help but ask. He saw the big cat stop in front of him, and he heard a voice!

"This master is Cat Master!"

"You can talk!" Shi Feizhe said in surprise.

"This master is a great demon after all, what's so strange about being able to transmit thoughts!" Cat Master leaned closer to Shi Feizhe, sniffed his face, and transmitted his voice.

The others were also amazed to see Shi Feizhe talking to Cat Master.

"Are there still demons in this world?" Shi Feizhe asked again.

Damn it, isn't this a martial arts world?

"Little one, you're so ignorant! The world is vast!" Cat Master mocked Shi Feizhe, then said, "Little one, you smell so good! Sell me your two legs! Let me have a snack!"

"...Can I say no?" Facing the big cat that stood as tall as him, Shi Feizhe's forehead was sweating profusely as he gritted his teeth and said.

"Then little one, sell me an arm to satisfy my craving! I'll give you fifty taels!" Cat Master said again.

"...Not selling either!"

"Do you have any enemies, or anyone you want to kill? After I kill them for you, your life will belong to me?" Cat Master pondered for a moment and said.

Your cat business is quite extensive!

"No! I am kind to others, I have no enemies!" Shi Feizhe shook his head repeatedly and said.

"Then do you have any sons or daughters? Sell them to me. How about I teach you a martial arts secret manual?" Cat Master offered another bargaining chip!

"None either!" Shi Feizhe refused again.

Let alone not having any, even if he did, he wouldn't trade!

Trading a son for a secret manual, that's too beastly!

"You little one, you're too boring!" Cat Master shook his huge head and expressed dissatisfaction with Shi Feizhe's repeated refusals.

He leaped up and returned to where he was lying, leaving behind a sentence: "You can come and trade anytime you want!"

What's boring? If I were interesting, I'd be missing an arm and a leg!

And how did you smell "so good" from my body which smells of sweat!

Shi Feizhe complained in his heart!

But this big cat didn't force a sale. Will he sneak attack me tonight and carry me away?

Shi Feizhe secretly glanced at the big cat and found that it was squinting in the sun, not looking at him at all.

Good! Good! Shi Feizhe breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the big cat wasn't paying attention to him! He quickly went to look at the martial arts secret manuals on the stone tablet.

It wasn't that he was timid, who would have thought that a cat would actually want to buy an arm with silver!

Jianghu is indeed unimaginable.

Even more unimaginable is that the martial arts secret manuals on the stone tablet have everything.

From the introductory Blood Qi Barrier's Twelve Form Intent to the Spirit Barrier's Immovable Wisdom King Contemplation Method.

From the Escaping Mundane Realm "Qi Sea"'s Boundless Sea Skill to the Escaping Mundane Realm "Circulatory Heaven"'s Great Heavenly River Circulatory Secret.

There's even a True Person Realm technique, Rotten Axe Stargazing!

Roughly counting, Shi Feizhe found that there were actually dozens of secret manuals! They were just carved on the stone tablet for people in Jianghu to view!

The people of Three Talents Manor shared dozens of books they couldn't understand, gaining fame and profit on one hand, and turning Three Talents Manor into Three Talents Town on the other.

Gaining both fame and profit, it can be said to be killing multiple birds with one stone!

What great ambition, and what a great plan!

Each martial arts secret manual has a separate stone tablet, which states where the manual came from, what realm it can be cultivated in, or what realm it can be cultivated to.

It was through these stone tablet inscriptions that Shi Feizhe learned that the Escaping Mundane Realm only has two stages.

One is Qi Sea, and the other is Circulatory Heaven.

He scratched his head, preparing to take a quick look first. Then he would focus on finding one that he could understand, copy it down, and then study it carefully.

Now he wasn't worried about secret manuals, the only problem was whether he could understand them!

This was indeed a big problem. The words on those stone tablets were often confusing.

There were also dialects that had to be guessed, like "Strength comes from the hook" and "When the two meet, it's like gnawing on a skull."

As for the secret manuals about the Spirit Barrier, like "The day the gods awaken is the day I am reborn" and "In the dark lake, someone is watching you," they were just nonsensical, leaving people utterly bewildered.

Shi Feizhe walked around and found that most people were gathered around the secret manuals related to the Spirit Barrier and the Seeing Truth Barrier. What they had always pursued was breaking through the three barriers of the Escaping Mundane Realm and becoming a True Qi master!

As for the stone tablet secret manuals above the Escaping Mundane Realm, almost no one looked at them.

Thinking about it, if they were already True Qi masters, they naturally had connections or had joined a faction or sect, so they naturally didn't need these secret manuals from unknown stone tablets.

Shi Feizhe, on the other hand, needed secret manuals for the Blood Qi Barrier to start cultivating martial arts from scratch.

Although the True Origin Sword Finger Technique allowed him to cultivate True Qi and reach a realm that many people couldn't achieve in their lifetime, the amount of True Qi produced daily was too little. He estimated that it would take about ten years for his cultivation method to barely reach the introductory level. It would take about thirty years to achieve minor success.

It would take about fifty to sixty years for True Qi to flow continuously, sword energy to crisscross, and reach the realm of great success!

The realm of great success was the True Person Realm!

It was simply too slow!

If he followed what Hua Xiaomei said and cultivated normally, he could cultivate True Qi in about seven years. At that time, with the addition of True Qi, perhaps the True Origin Sword Finger Technique could reach great success earlier.

Otherwise, what was the point of showing off when he was already seventy or eighty years old?

Thinking about this, Shi Feizhe began to look at the martial arts secret manuals about the Blood Qi Barrier on the stone forest. The secret manuals for the Blood Qi Barrier were all very simple, focusing on tempering muscles and bones, strengthening muscles, and improving physical fitness. Even if he didn't understand some words, he could guess their meaning.

Shi Feizhe was reading with great interest when suddenly, he smelled smoke.

This familiar smell of secondhand smoke made Shi Feizhe pause.

He followed the smell of smoke and saw a monk in a yellow robe, about twenty or thirty years old, holding a gold-inlaid jade dry pipe. He was puffing smoke as he walked, allowing Shi Feizhe to easily see the several gold-inlaid gem rings he wore on his hand.

Cat Master: You smell so good, I really want to take a bite!