Flaw

Shi Kang erupted with his life force, deflecting Lu Hao's blade directly and even seizing the opportunity to launch a counterattack.

However, seeing his first strike deflected, Lu Hao immediately utilized the Stance Technique of the Void-Standing Realm to dodge backward, yet he was still struck in the leg by Shi Kang's fist.

A powerful burst of life force erupted, instantly inflicting significant injury on Lu Hao. A wave of intense pain washed over him, causing Lu Hao to frown; fortunately, he had suffered plenty of injuries in the Duel Arena before, so he could endure this level of pain.

Lu Hao did not continue to retreat, but instead slashed out with his blade. This strike once again reached the level of a trump card.

The Shi Kang opposite him did not notice.

Consequently, he did not gather much life force in his arms for defense, instead focusing the majority of his life force into his legs, preparing to continue his assault after this strike.

Bang, crash.

This strike caught Shi Kang off guard. The life force cut through his arm and reached his chest, tearing a massive wound open and sending him flying backward.

Lu Hao hurried to press the attack, landing several kicks on Shi Kang's chest. Only when he saw Shi Kang's life force dissipating wildly did Lu Hao stop.

Until his death, Shi Kang never knew how Lu Hao was able to unleash a trump card again, nor did he understand why Lu Hao possessed so much life force.

[Enemy killed, Slaughter Point +237]

Seeing that Shi Kang was dead, Lu Hao finally took a Healing Pill from his Storage Space and swallowed it, followed by a bottle of Healing Water, only then feeling the wound on his leg begin to recover.

That was truly dangerous. If not for Lu Hao's habit of keeping a reserve of Slaughter Points, he likely would have ended up perishing alongside Shi Kang.

Taking a breath, Lu Hao notified his subordinates to come up and clean up the scene; the entire room had been wrecked by Lu Hao and Shi Kang.

After walking out of the room and giving a statement to the police, Lu Hao went straight home in Viper's car.

As for the wound on his leg, thanks to the effect of the Healing Pill, it was no longer bleeding, and it would recover significantly by tomorrow—at the very least, it wouldn't affect Lu Hao's normal movement.

Upon returning home, his mother hadn't gone to sleep and had been waiting for Lu Hao on the sofa. Although she knew Lu Hao's safety could be guaranteed, what mother could truly be at ease?

As soon as Lu Hao entered the house, Bai Qiuyao noticed the injury on his leg. Fortunately, after Lu Hao's explanation, Bai Qiuyao didn't force a Life Recovery Pill down his throat.

Returning to the Martial Arts Training Room, because of the injury to his left leg, Lu Hao didn't practice combat techniques, but instead began bone tempering.

With a thought:

[Slaughter Point System]

[Host: Lu Hao]

[Life Force: 57/286 cal]

[Spirit: 176/299 he+]

[Storage Space: 10 cubic meters]

[Slaughter Points: 307]

His life force had reached 286. Over the past two days, he had tempered a total of eight bones, bringing his total tempered count to 45. He was only 17 bones away from reaching the peak of the First Grade.

As for his Slaughter Points, he had consumed 10 points to restore his life force while killing Shi Kang today. Including the gains from killing Shi Kang, he had a total of 307 points.

Leaving 57 points aside, the remaining points were just enough to temper five bones, reaching his limit for the day.

While tempering his bones, Lu Hao began to reflect on himself. He was currently too reliant on the Blood Battle Mad Blade. This meant that if Lu Hao wanted to unleash a trump card, he had to slash once to build momentum, and only the second strike could reach the level of a trump card.

For those at a similar level to Lu Hao, this was naturally not a problem.

But when dealing with enemies stronger than himself, this was a fatal flaw.

Currently, his control over his life force had not reached the level of a true trump card; his trump card relied on the augmentation of his combat technique.

Only when his life force control reached the point where every strike could erupt with one-fifth of his total life force would he truly have mastered a trump card.

He had previously thought that he could reach the level of a trump card, or even a finishing move, by relying on the Blood Battle Mad Blade. Now, it seemed he had to master a real trump card.

Otherwise, there would always be a weakness. In the eyes of those inferior to Lu Hao, this naturally didn't matter, but in the eyes of those evenly matched with him, this could be the key point used to defeat him.

It seemed he needed to train his life force control. From now on, when he returned at night, he would first use basic blade techniques, practicing for two hours to improve his life force control until he mastered a true trump card.

The next day, Lu Hao checked his leg and found it had mostly recovered. It had to be said that in this high-martial world, medical conditions were excellent.

As long as it didn't involve the fundamentals, for an injury like this, one pill down, and he was jumping around the next day.

Consequently, he contacted Viper to continue taking on missions and, incidentally, headed to the Detective Bureau to submit his previous mission.

On April 26th, Lu Hao chose another peak First Grade mission and began the search for this mission.

He searched for an entire day, but found no clues at all. Lu Hao even doubted whether this person was still in the Beiding District; how could there be absolutely no traces of their life?

However, the Detective Bureau told him that since the suspect escaped, there had been surveillance at bus stations, train stations, and airports, so the person must still be in the Beiding District.

But the entire Beiding District was too large, and Lu Hao could only begin his investigation slowly. As for giving up on this mission, Lu Hao had no such intention. It wasn't because of the small penalty fee, but because he had already checked when filtering missions; other missions were much the same, and none of them could find the person quickly. Therefore, for the sake of Slaughter Points, Lu Hao could only bury his head and search.

On April 27th, he searched for a person all day and found nothing. Lu Hao expressed that days without Slaughter Points were hard to endure; he had already grown accustomed to the speed of improvement brought by Slaughter Points.

Lu Hao almost couldn't calm his mind down to temper his body himself, but fortunately, he nipped this impulse in the bud the moment it emerged.

After all, he was the master of the panel; if he let the Slaughter Point manipulate him and became distracted by the pursuit of points, he would end up a slave to the system.

If things continued this way, he would turn into someone who would stop at nothing for the sake of Slaughter Point, and perhaps he would even start targeting innocent martial artists just to gain more.

In that case, what difference would there be between him and the martial artists he had been hunting down over the past two days?

Thinking of this, Lu Hao broke out in a cold sweat. He was no longer anxious and began to temper his body with patience, realizing that he could still improve even without Slaughter Point.

April 28th. He still hadn't found anyone today, but Lu Hao wasn't in a rush. If he couldn't find anyone, he would practice his Basic Blade Technique and improve his control over his blood energy.

That night, he successfully tempered another bone, bringing his total number of tempered bones to 51.

...April 29th. He searched for another full day with no results. Lu Hao was about to give up, but when he returned to the Detective Bureau and checked, the same few missions remained, with no leads on the targets' locations.

There was no other way; Lu Hao didn't abandon the missions but instead instructed the police to keep searching, while he went home to practice his blade technique and master his blood energy.

Lu Hao had originally intended to continue improving in this manner, but a sudden piece of news arrived, forcing him to interrupt his plans.