Tiger Bone

Thinking of improving his strength, Lu Chuan first thought of his Collection System.

He returned to his room again and called up his status panel.

[Name: Lu Chuan]

[Age: 16 years old]

[Realm: First Qi and Blood · Minor Success]

[Martial Arts: Basic Archery · Perfection (Able to draw a stone bow, never missing a target within a hundred steps)

Mountain Splitting Saber · Minor Success (81/500)]

[Talent: Eagle Eye]

[Available Weapons for Collection: 3]

Seeing that the column for his [Available Weapons for Collection] had returned to a count of three, Lu Chuan finally let out a sigh of relief in his heart.

Originally, he was still worried that he could only collect those three weapons, but now it was good, he could find an opportunity to cheat again.

Minor Success in the Mountain Splitting Saber is already somewhat insufficient for body tempering speed recently, so it looks like I have to start from martial arts.

This revealed the drawback of his insufficient bone root.

Originally, he thought that with his own aptitude, he could practice his saber technique to major success within a year, but reality told him that he was wishing for the impossible.

On the proficiency panel, the improvement speeds in the beginning and at the back were completely different.

Nowadays, several days of bitter practice might not even increase his proficiency by a single point.

No wonder Senior Disciple Brother Zhou said that major success in saber technique depends on talent and luck, he wasn't hiding it from me.

It looks like I can only cheat. The kind of weapon that can make my Mountain Splitting Saber reach major success must at least be something I figure out a way to get from the hands of a few formal disciples.

Among outer disciples, people who could practice the Mountain Splitting Saber to the minor success realm were few and far between.

Formal disciples all had around the level of major success, but weapons that condensed their martial arts insights were not very easy to obtain.

Like those sabers on the training ground, basically none of them had been touched by formal disciples.

Because formal disciples basically looked down on those piece-of-junk items, and even Zhou Ming Chuan, whose family background was ordinary, used a hundred refinements steel saber worth ten taels of silver.

After pondering for a long time, he still didn't have a good method to obtain his senior disciple brothers' weapons.

A good precious saber was like a second life to a martial artist, so how could there be any talk of easily giving it away?

I'll go ask Senior Disciple Brother Zhou in a few days.

At the Mountain Splitting Saber Hall,

after breaking through the blood pass, Lu Chuan, through several days of hard effort, was finally able to restrain his floating qi and blood.

Only then did he dare to come to the martial arts hall.

The matter of him breaking through the blood pass naturally had to be kept hidden.

Even though this martial arts hall was in Qinghe County, who's to say there weren't Black Tiger Gang informants nearby?

Coming up beside Senior Disciple Brother Zhou, Lu Chuan watched his fierce and vigorous saber technique, feeling somewhat envious in his heart.

This was the major success Mountain Splitting Saber technique. Not only was its body tempering speed several times faster than his own, but its power in combat was also much greater.

Zhou Ming Chuan finished a complete set of saber techniques and noticed him:

"You brat finally came to the martial arts hall. What, have you saved up enough silver for a Qi and Blood Pill?"

"Pretty much. I came here mainly to watch you practice your saber, Senior Brother."

"Heh! You've got an eye for it. I've practiced this major success Mountain Splitting Saber for a full five years, otherwise Master Zheng wouldn't have taken me on as a formal disciple!", Zhou Ming Chuan wiped his personal saber, a proud look in his eyes.

"Five years, no wonder it's so formidable...", Lu Chuan looked at the precious saber in his hand, his eyes filled with yearning.

"That's right, Senior Brother, can you lend me this precious saber to fool around with?"

"You want to play with it? Go ahead... be careful, don't bump or break it...", Zhou Ming Chuan generously lent it out.

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Previously, Lu Chuan had also seen Senior Disciple Brother Zhou's personal saber, but this was still the first time touching it.

[Weapon: Hundred Refinements Steel Saber]

[Quality: Mortal Grade High-rank]

[Description: This is a precious saber stained with sweat. Although its master lacks talent, year after year of bitter practice ultimately allowed the ordinary blade to condense its own sharp edge.]

[Collection Effect: Can obtain Martial Arts · Mountain Splitting Saber Major Success, Talent · Heaven Rewards Diligence]

[Heaven Rewards Diligence: A point of cultivation, a point of harvest, effort will definitely have a return]

Lu Chuan blankly looked at the illusory text before his eyes, and immediately a wave of excitement rushed to the top of his head.

Heaven Rewards Diligence, effort will definitely have a return!

Without the system explaining it, he also understood that this talent could solve the problem of his martial arts talent.

If he obtained this talent, whenever he encountered a martial arts bottleneck in the future, even without a weapon to collect, he would still be able to push through relying on "perseverance"!

"Senior Brother, are you selling this saber?", Lu Chuan's spirits were high and vigorous.

"What are you talking about? This is an old saber. Isn't it better for you to use that money to buy a new one?", Zhou Ming Chuan only took Lu Chuan to be joking.

Only when he saw Lu Chuan's obviously disappointed expression did he unconsciously scratch his head.

"What's so rare about this saber of mine..."

Lu Chuan knew that he couldn't force it for the time being, so he returned the saber to his senior brother:

"It's nothing, just treat it as me making a joke."

Although Zhou Ming Chuan had some doubts, he ultimately didn't speak up.

"That's right, Junior Disciple Lu, you run around in the mountains all year round and have broad horizons... I wonder if at home, or if you have any connections, you can manage to get some tiger bone?", after a moment, Zhou Ming Chuan asked.

"Tiger bone?", Lu Chuan's heart grew stern, "There doesn't seem to be any in my home, I don't know what Senior Brother wants that thing for?"

Tigers were the kings of the mountain forests. Even in this Qinghe County where exotic beasts existed, they were fierce beasts with a reputation, and ordinary martial artists might not even be able to fight and defeat one.

Zhou Ming Chuan sighed, a somewhat bitter smile appearing on his face:

"To not hide it from you, Junior Disciple, it's for this elder brother myself to use. I've been stuck at First Qi and Blood Complete for a whole year."

"Previously I tried once to charge at Second Qi and Blood... Unfortunately, my preparation was insufficient, and I failed, and even injured my meridians."

"Now my injuries are finally without hindrance, and I want to try one more time. Tiger bone has a fierce nature and heavy substance, and its qi and blood are abundant. It is precisely a key medicinal ingredient to help boost the momentum of breaking through the pass, only it's truly rare on the market..."

Lu Chuan also understood, but he truly didn't know the whereabouts of this thing:

"I really don't know, but I can go back and ask my dad, and other old hunters in the village. It seems they hunted one in the past."

Zhou Ming Chuan immediately chimed in: "If Junior Disciple can help inquire about it, whether it works out or not, this elder brother will owe you a favor!"

Returning home, Lu Chuan immediately got busy.

Zhou Ming Chuan treated him sincerely, being one of the few people in the Mountain Splitting Saber Hall who was truly sincere to him.

Now that his senior brother had encountered a difficult situation and made a request, he couldn't afford not to take it to heart.

Thus, Lu Chuan brought this matter up with Lu Danian.

Yet this time, even his dad, who had dealings with exotic beasts, uncommonly began to fret.

"My child, why did you suddenly think of trying to get this thing? Tiger bone that kind of thing... is not easy to get..."

"It's not that I want it, a senior disciple in the martial arts hall who treats me quite well urgently needs it. He wants to use it to charge at a realm."

Lu Chuan explained, "Dad, do you really not have any connections at all? Or have you heard where there might be some?"

Lu Danian was silent for a moment, and only then spoke leisurely:

"It's not that there's no way. The traces of ordinary tigers have become increasingly scarce these years, and I'm not certain either, but..."

"There is one Mountain Lord, and I happen to know roughly which territory it patrols."

"A Mountain Lord?" Lu Chuan's heart grew stern.