The Terrifying Spirit Reader

Looking back carefully, there had been signs all along.

When Yang Yu had evolved the Xingyi Five Elements Fist into a blade technique, traces of Thunder Intent had appeared, consciously or unconsciously.

Being able to derive a blade technique with thunder attributes from a fist technique representing the Five Elements—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—had puzzled Yang Yu at the time.

Now, it seemed there truly had been a reason for it.

A person's spiritual force attribute was most likely the Origin Law with which a Martial Artist had the greatest affinity.

Having figured this out, Yang Yu gained a general plan for his future development.

The Xingyi Five Elements Fist had already reached the Master Realm, yet he had long been unable to break through to Grandmaster.

Perhaps that was also because his affinity was not with the Five Elements.

Now that he had found the Origin Law with which he had the greatest affinity, he should use it as his entry point, absorb the essence of the Five Element Fist, and incorporate it into the Thunder Blade Technique.

Then, in turn, use the Thunder Blade Technique to drive the Five Element Fist into the Grandmaster Realm!

That was the realm of "Unity of Heaven and Man."

Only upon reaching this step would it be possible to touch upon a domain and, in turn, comprehend an Origin Law.

Of course, he could also directly use the Thunder Blade Technique to comprehend a domain or even an Origin Law.

But Yang Yu currently had neither an inheritance nor the requisite realm.

The best approach was to use the connection between the Thunder Blade Technique and the Five Element Fist. With the Five Element Fist and his profound Martial Way Insight as stepping stones, he would first reach the Martial Way Grandmaster Realm, then gradually comprehend a domain before considering the matter of understanding laws.

After all, no matter how great one's cultivation talent was, one could not create something from nothing. There had to be a process.

In this way, the Martial Way Foundation Yang Yu had painstakingly built in his early days was beginning to show its value.

Sure enough, as long as one put in the effort, there would be rewards.

And one never knew when or in what way fate would bestow its gifts.

All one could do was work twice as hard and never give up any opportunity.

Having understood his path forward, Yang Yu was in an excellent mood.

His Physical Fitness alone had now reached the Intermediate War General level, while his spiritual force could unleash the strength of a Junior War God.

Most importantly, his spiritual force was also at the highest level of Solid Form.

That meant there would be no bottlenecks in Yang Yu's Physical Fitness or spiritual force all the way until the War God Limit!

This entire period would be one of rapidly increasing strength.

Hong and Thor reached the War God Limit in less than a year, then spent around three more years breaking through to the Planetary Level. How long will it take me?

Yang Yu rose and opened the window.

The night was nearly over, and the starlight had faded.

Yet the morning sun had not appeared.

Cool, crisp air flowed in through the window.

He took a deep breath of fresh air.

Yang Yu's gaze was like lightning.

He silently watched the Steel Forest in the distance.

"Everything is ready now. All that remains is to await the Grand Nirvana!"

Once the rising sun had thoroughly dispelled the endless darkness,

Yang Yu washed up briefly and headed to the park, where Wang Lin had already been waiting to begin their morning training.

It was still the San Ti Shi.

Still Xingyiquan.

Although Yang Yu's strength had increased more than tenfold overnight,

he still could not abandon the most basic foundations of Xingyiquan.

The more he practiced the San Ti Shi and Xingyiquan,

the more Yang Yu marveled at the wisdom of the ancient people from his previous life.

These crystallizations of the Martial Way, containing the insights of countless geniuses, gave him different realizations every time he practiced them.

"Xingyiquan truly has unique benefits for health and one's state of mind," Yang Yu sighed sincerely after finishing his morning fist practice.

The expansion of physical strength could easily breed arrogance and conceit in a Martial Artist.

If one's state of mind could not keep up, it was actually very dangerous.

After all, no matter how strong one was, someone stronger always existed.

If one only continued to inflate one's ego, then the day of one's destruction would not be far off.

This was also an invisible benefit of being an Earthling. Earth had been modified by Zuoshanke, and anyone born here would possess an unusual soul.

Their state of mind was easier to improve, and their comprehension would be stronger in the later stages.

Yang Yu, whose soul had fused with the local one, had inherited this benefit as well.

After bidding Wang Lin farewell, Yang Yu no longer intended to go to the martial arts hall from today onward. Instead, he would focus on understanding how to use his spiritual force and improving his fist and blade techniques.

Wang Lin was not surprised by this. The gap between them in the Martial Way was simply too vast, so it was only natural for their training methods to differ.

Arriving at the weapon shop he had visited before, Yang Yu ordered a steel shield that could be fitted over his left arm, along with specially made metal inner armor.

Now that his spiritual force had awakened,

Yang Yu could easily use the shield and metal inner armor to fly!

This method would be the strongest means of preserving his life after the Grand Nirvana arrived.

After clearly explaining his requirements to the weapon shop, Yang Yu turned and ran toward Nanshan.

After arriving at Nanshan,

Yang Yu returned to the place where he had practiced martial arts before. Since it was relatively secluded, he could safely test his spiritual force here even during the day.

He took out the Nine Flying Daggers and attached his powerful spiritual force to them.

Yang Yu now felt as if his hands and feet had extended onto those nine flying daggers.

With a thought,

the nine flying daggers immediately began darting in every direction at speeds far exceeding Yang Yu's limit of Movement Speed.

Their flight speed was even so fast that, once they exceeded the Speed of Sound, they triggered Sonic Booms!

Yang Yu's Physical Fitness was now at the Intermediate War General level, and the spiritual force he could draw upon was at the Junior War God level.

The minimum Movement Speed of a Junior War God was 340 meters per second, which was the Speed of Sound. Those even slightly stronger could exceed that speed, and simply moving at full speed could create a Sonic Boom!

As Spiritual Weapons far faster than a Martial Artist's bodily movement, the speed at which Yang Yu controlled his flying daggers had long surpassed the Speed of Sound.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

After testing them for a while, Yang Yu discovered that if he wrapped the flying daggers with spiritual force in a special manner, then even when their flight speed far exceeded the Speed of Sound, he could prevent them from producing Sonic Booms.

Watching the nine flying daggers turn into afterimages,

Yang Yu controlled one of them and sent it hurtling toward a massive boulder more than three meters tall nearby.

Ssh!

The seemingly hard boulder was as fragile as tofu before the flying dagger forged from refined steel.

Yang Yu effortlessly controlled the dagger as it pierced through the boulder, then continued directing it to stab back and forth.

After several hundred strikes,

Boom!

The massive boulder exploded into pieces, turning into small rocks that rolled down the cliffside.

Meanwhile, the flying dagger had only curled slightly.

Looking at the flying dagger, whose power surpassed that of the Barrett Sniper Rifle from his previous life,

Yang Yu smiled in satisfaction.

Next, Yang Yu controlled the remaining eight flying daggers and swept them toward the surrounding boulders and shrubs.

In only a few dozen seconds,

the net formed by the nine flying daggers had thoroughly cleared the small flat area at mid-mountain, which had originally been filled with wild grass and scattered stones.

He controlled the flying daggers back to his side, where they slowly revolved around his body.

After merely a preliminary test, Yang Yu had deeply fallen in love with the feeling of controlling blades from afar.

Of course, Yang Yu still could not use the Multi-tasking Technique. All nine flying daggers moved together; he could not divide his attention nine ways and make each flying dagger act according to its own will.

But Yang Yu was not in a hurry.

He could slowly train the more advanced techniques.

There were still three months until the Grand Nirvana arrived, more than enough time for Yang Yu to master the basic art of using flying daggers against enemies.

Controlling blades to kill enemies was merely the simplest long-range attack method available to a Spirit Reader.

Spirit Readers also possessed one advantage that placed them above ordinary Martial Artists—Object Flight!

Retracting the flying daggers, Yang Yu used his spiritual force to control a stone slab into floating in the air. He leaped onto it, and with a thought,

his entire body began flying at Extreme Speed along with the stone slab!