Outside the Black Market
Three men armed with weapons slowly closed in on Su Xian.
The man in the lead wore a broad smile as he sized up Su Xian before him, his intentions anything but good.
He had seen everything clearly just now in the Black Market.
This man had actually spent two hundred taels of silver just to view four martial techniques once. He was unbelievably rich!
It seemed they were going to strike it rich today!
Su Xian furrowed his brows. He had still been targeted after all.
"Young brother, don't be nervous. I only want you to lend us brothers a little money to spend."
The leading man spoke with a sly smile as he slowly approached Su Xian.
"As long as you obediently give us some silver, we'll let you leave. How about it?" the leader continued.
"And don't even think about running, young brother. There are three of us here," the man added.
The other two men also grinned in unison, their malicious gazes fixed on Su Xian as the three slowly closed in around him!
"Oh? Easy enough, easy enough. It's only silver, right? I'll give you some!"
Su Xian smiled calmly, then drew the long saber at his waist with lightning speed.
Blazing Fire Demon Subduing Saber Technique!
He slashed the saber toward the leading man's neck!
Flames erupted from the blade, illuminating the darkness around them!
They also illuminated the terror-stricken face of the leader!
"Pfft!"
In the next instant, the saber light crashed down, and Su Xian's early Tendon Refining Realm cultivation erupted!
The leading man's body did not react in the slightest. Su Xian's burst of speed had been far too fast for him to respond!
With a single slash, the leader's head flew completely free, spinning through the air. After it landed, it spat out five words:
"How is this possible?"
"Wind's tight—time to pull out! Run!"
The sudden scene shocked the other two men. One of them reacted quickly, shouted, then turned and fled.
His big brother had been at Perfection of Marrow Forging Realm!
Yet he had been killed with a single slash, without even having time to react!
That meant they had kicked an iron plate tonight!
If they did not run now, they would probably end up just like their big brother!
In an instant, that underling had run several meters away!
But the other underling was not so lucky.
The sight of the head flying through the air had stunned him. He seemed unable to believe it, his body frozen in place.
Only when he heard the other underling's shout did he snap back to reality and try to flee—but it was already too late!
Su Xian raised his saber and slashed again, splitting the underling's entire chest and abdomen open. His organs spilled across the ground!
A series of charred, savory scents drifted from the wound!
After killing this underling, only a second had passed.
Watching the other underling flee in the distance, Su Xian shook his head slightly.
Then he stamped his right foot heavily against the ground!
The earth shook and gravel exploded as Su Xian charged after the fleeing underling at even greater speed!
In just one second, he caught up with him!
"Wait! Don't kill me! I have silver! Please spare my life!"
The underling sensed Su Xian approaching and immediately turned his head to shout.
His face was pale, and his heart trembled!
In the darkness of night, blood light ignited along the long saber in Su Xian's hand, illuminating his mask and making him look like the god of death!
No matter how the underling begged for mercy, the only answer he received was a slash from Su Xian!
Under that single slash, the underling felt a wave of excruciating pain, followed by overwhelming drowsiness and a world spinning around him.
His head flew completely free and landed in the distance.
The headless corpse still retained the inertia it had possessed in life. It ran two more steps before collapsing to the ground.
Su Xian sheathed his saber and calmly watched the scene before him.
He quickly searched the three corpses, then left without looking back.
Taking advantage of the night, Su Xian returned home.
He changed back into his usual clothes, removed his mask and hid it away, restoring his original appearance.
Su Xian counted the items he had taken from the three men who had blocked his path, then shook his head inwardly.
These three were exceedingly poor. Combined, they had scraped together less than five hundred taels of silver.
"Forget it!" Su Xian shrugged. It was an unexpected windfall, after all.
Su Xian then looked at the first page of Demon Strategy, a smile appearing on his face.
The greatest harvest from this trip to the Black Market had been the four martial techniques recorded in Demon Strategy!
They were all third-grade Tendon Refining Realm martial techniques, and each one could sell for more than five hundred taels in the Black Market!
"Which martial technique should I prioritize?"
Su Xian began to ponder. He had only forty-three years of Demon Lifespan remaining.
With those forty-three years, breaking through to the mid-stage of the Tendon Refining Realm should be impossible. Su Xian had confidence in his cultivation talent.
Rather than waste those forty-three years on cultivation, he might as well use them all to improve his martial techniques.
At least his talent for cultivating martial techniques was pretty good.
"Tomorrow I have to kill the Cat Demons. The most important things will be Nine Revolutions Spirit Fox, which can let me weave through the dense forest, and an offensive martial technique!" Su Xian thought to himself.
"Then I'll try Nine Revolutions Spirit Fox first!"
With a thought from Su Xian, he began investing Demon Lifespan into Nine Revolutions Spirit Fox.
As Su Xian envisioned it, Nine Revolutions Spirit Fox, which allowed its user to weave through the dense forest, was extremely crucial.
It was his guarantee of successfully killing those two Cat Demons at Second Grade Perfection!
[First year, you begin cultivating Nine Revolutions Spirit Fox, but although you recognize some of the characters within, you do not understand their meanings and can only cultivate it with difficulty.] [Fifth year, you cultivate Nine Revolutions Spirit Fox to the entry level and gradually figure out the meanings of those characters.] [Eighth year, after understanding the meanings of those characters, your cultivation of Nine Revolutions Spirit Fox grows increasingly smooth. You cultivate Nine Revolutions Spirit Fox to the mastery level!] [Thirteenth year, you continue cultivating Nine Revolutions Spirit Fox without giving up! At last! You successfully cultivate Nine Revolutions Spirit Fox to perfection!]
Su Xian stopped. In an instant, Nine Revolutions Spirit Fox had already reached perfection.
Su Xian moved his body, weaving through the house. Even a tiny protrusion could become a foothold, allowing him to borrow its force and change direction through the air.
"Hmm!" Seeing the effect of Nine Revolutions Spirit Fox at the perfection level, Su Xian nodded in satisfaction.
With this, he would no longer be constrained in the dense forest. Instead, it would become his home ground.
"Thirteen years, and I cultivated the third-grade martial technique Nine Revolutions Spirit Fox to perfection?"
"Could it be that I'm truly a genius when it comes to cultivating martial techniques?" Su Xian thought.
According to the information Su Xian had recently learned,
an ordinary Tendon Refining Realm martial artist would need to spend thirty or forty years, almost without exception, to cultivate a third-grade martial technique to perfection.
Yet he had cultivated a third-grade martial technique to perfection in just thirteen years!
His speed was nearly three or four times faster!
In terms of cultivating martial techniques, he should count as a minor genius, right?
At this thought, a smile unconsciously spread across Su Xian's face.
Although his cultivation talent was utterly terrible, he was still quite gifted in martial techniques!
"Next is Wind and Cloud Six Slashes!"
Su Xian looked at Wind and Cloud Six Slashes within Demon Strategy and invested ten years of Demon Lifespan into it.
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