Martial Dao Realm! Basic Saber Technique!

"Are there many martial artists in your Black Wind Stockade? What realms are they at?" Su Mo pressed on.

"I'm a minor leader of Black Wind Stockade. Above me are several major leaders who are martial artists, all in the Body Tempering Realm. Beyond that, the four leaders are also all in the Body Tempering Realm. The Great Leader's strength seems to have surpassed the Body Tempering Realm and reached the Meridian Opening Realm. Across all of Qingliang Mountain, our Black Wind Stockade is the biggest force..."

Though the Bearded Man was terrified, he spoke of their stockade's strength with considerable confidence, as if trying to intimidate Su Mo. He even claimed that Black Wind Stockade had ties to some major gang in a nearby town.

But his answer was met with a hunting knife. Su Mo flipped the blade, light flashed, and the Bearded Man was cut down, blood spattering everywhere.

"The martial artist realms are divided into Body Tempering, Meridian Opening, Bone Forging, Sinew Changing, Blood Exchange... So this is what that man knew of the Martial Dao Realm."

"Black Wind Stockade not only has Body Tempering Realm martial artists but also a Meridian Opening Realm one sitting in command. No wonder they dare throw their weight around on Qingliang Mountain. To wipe out Black Wind Stockade, the road ahead is long and hard!"

Su Mo sighed inwardly. This scourge of Black Wind Stockade—if he had the chance one day, he would have to eliminate it. Otherwise, the villages around Qingliang Mountain would never know peace, living forever in the fear cast by Black Wind Stockade's shadow.

According to what the Bearded Man had said, to become a martial artist, one had to temper the skin and flesh, polish the body, wash out impurities within, gain strength and speed far beyond ordinary men, make common fists and kicks barely harmful, tighten the muscles until the sound of blood and qi flowing could be heard—this was the Body Tempering Realm.

Clenching his fists, feeling the surging Great Strength throughout his body and the dense solidity of his flesh, Su Mo felt he couldn't be far from the Body Tempering Realm.

"Basic Saber Technique?"

After killing the Bearded Man, Su Mo found an old, worn-out manual on his body. On its cover were four bold characters: Basic Saber Technique. It was by relying on this technique that the Bearded Man had barely managed to block one of his arrows.

Su Mo remembered this well.

The other men from Black Wind Stockade had nothing valuable or useful on them. After tidying up the corpses a bit and wiping away the traces around the scene, Su Mo hoisted the wild boar and green wolf carcasses and left Qingliang Mountain.

Before long, the bodies of these men would be devoured by the wild beasts and Fierce Beasts in the mountains.

Back in the village, Su Mo stored the Wild Boar Meat and Green Wolf Meat. With this much meat, it would be enough to last through the harsh winter.

In the following days, because of the deaths of the Bearded Man and his crew, Black Wind Stockade seemed furious. They sent out many gang members and stockade men to roam and sweep through Qingliang Mountain, trying to find who had killed their people.

This made everyone on Qingliang Mountain uneasy. Many dared not go into the mountains to hunt, afraid of running into Black Wind Stockade.

During this time, Su Mo did not go hunting either. He focused on honing himself, fusing and mastering the innate traits he had gained from the beasts, and frantically training his archery. In a short span, his archery broke through from the Minor Accomplishment Realm to the Proficient Realm.

At the Proficient Realm of archery, within fifty meters, one arrow loosed and no living thing could escape—truly a hundred paces through a willow leaf. But this required extremely strong physical strength and endurance.

This level of archery was something even an ordinary hunter who had hunted for thirty years could hardly achieve. It demanded a very high level of physical fitness.

Of course, there was another reason: Su Mo's talent for comprehension was simply terrifying. Otherwise, relying solely on physical strength, he could never have reached the Proficient Realm of archery.

The Basic Saber Technique he had obtained from the Bearded Man was also being trained during this time. Since he happened to have this ancestral hunting knife at home, which was very handy, Su Mo didn't bother switching to another blade when practicing the saber technique.

In Su Mo's courtyard, saber shadows flew everywhere, icy cold blade light flickered as if it could shatter anything. One slash sent a wooden training post flying into pieces, wood chips scattering.

If the Bearded Man were still alive and saw this scene, he would be utterly stunned—because this was clearly the Great Accomplishment Realm of Basic Saber Technique.

Su Mo had only taken a few days to train it to the Great Accomplishment Realm.

This was a saber realm the Bearded Man could never reach in his entire life.

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