Pieces and Teachings

On August 15, 2056, Bai Yang split off from his five subordinates and returned to school alone.

They would go to the HR Alliance to sell their spoils, then purchase some essential supplies like generators and freezers, before rushing back to Kunshan to regroup with the others.

After that, those subordinates would continuously gather various monster flesh and genes for him, and he would just need to go collect them periodically.

Bai Yang only needed to remotely control them through his mental power, without having to handle these trivial matters himself.

Luo Feng and Yang Wu had wanted to come find him ever since they obtained their official martial artist status.

He had been stuck in the Wilderness Zone at the time, so naturally he couldn't get away, but today they could finally meet.

Calculating the time, Luo Feng at this point hadn't yet been to the Wilderness Zone and was still training alone at home, studying the Nine-Layer Thunder Blade by himself.

Bai Yang had notified them on his way back, and the two immediately said they would come visit the next day.

Besides expressing their gratitude, their main purpose for visiting was of course to get some guidance.

Bai Yang simply took them directly to East District Building 3, where it was convenient to do anything.

Seeing that there was no one around, although the two didn't speak, their hesitant expressions said it all.

Bai Yang chuckled and took out the Mount Hua Sword, showing it to them.

He had already planned to teach them properly and increase Earth's side's leverage, so revealing some things was naturally no issue.

As for concerns about Universe Masters rewinding time and space to spy on his secrets—

Bai Yang had always had doubts about this. Which major force didn't have a Universe Master?

Then why were the Machine Race's technology and the Zerg Race's biochemical techniques universally acknowledged as far ahead?

And how could spies be sent between races, killing each other's geniuses?

How did Kedi, the super genius disciple of the Chaos City Leader, die at the hands of the Zerg Race, completely unable to be revived?

Thinking too much about this kind of thing would only make one overly cautious, and it was ultimately meaningless.

Luo Feng and Yang Wu stared at the magnificent Mount Hua Sword, speechless with amazement.

Such a treasured sword was truly something the youth of this era had never experienced before.

Bai Yang took the sword and performed the Mist Sword, leaving them utterly dumbfounded.

Luo Feng finally couldn't help asking, "Brother Bai Yang, what's your current force multiplier?"

Bai Yang smiled. "I haven't tested it yet. Probably around six."

Yang Wu was shocked. "They say only Hong and Thor have managed to train both ultimate techniques to their highest levels, achieving a sevenfold force multiplier.

Brother Bai, you've only been training for less than half a month, and you're already at sixfold!?"

Luo Feng, who had trained in the Nine-Layer Thunder Blade, knew all too well the difficulty of that blade art, and his shock was even greater.

Both knew Bai Yang wouldn't casually joke about something like this—it had to be true.

Bai Yang laughed. "Actually, once you grasp the trick, it's not that hard. And this Mount Hua Sword helped me quite a bit."

Without being cryptic, he told them the two key points that the original Luo Feng had summarized himself.

Yang Wu's purchased manual was far inferior, and he barely understood what he heard, but he knew memorizing it was definitely the right move.

Luo Feng understood much more; some things he had vaguely sensed but never thought through so clearly.

This alone would save him at least several months of time.

Just getting these two tips made their trip well worth it.

Having spent a long time in the Wilderness Zone, Bai Yang also wanted to relax a bit.

Luo Feng wanted to train his movement techniques, while Yang Wu, lacking talent, was still progressing very slowly in gene energy cultivation.

Bai Yang decided to solve both problems at once and told them, "Luo Feng, you should have some money by now, right? Go buy some Go pieces—the more the better.

Yang Wu, show me your current Guidance Technique."

Both were startled. Though they didn't know what Bai Yang had in mind, they simply did as told.

Luo Feng went out to buy the pieces, while Yang Wu began writing down his Guidance Technique from memory.

This violated the rule that a manual could only be read by one person, but Yang Wu didn't believe Bai Yang would covet his things, let alone practice such a low-grade technique.

He could now access the Limit Home's internal network, but since he had very little income, the Guidance Technique he bought was the cheapest and most common kind.

It was barely over a hundred words long. Bai Yang glanced at it and felt both amused and exasperated.

Although he generally looked down on various Guidance Techniques, a technique this crude was something new even for him.

"Stop practicing this from now on. I'll teach you a Guidance Technique. With your aptitude, reaching intermediate warlord level shouldn't be a problem," Bai Yang said after thinking for a moment.

"But everyone's Guidance Technique is forbidden from being passed on. Won't this cause trouble for you, brother?" Yang Wu asked, grateful but concerned.

Bai Yang smiled and replied, "It's fine. I have that authority. Brother Yang, just rest assured."

Only then did Yang Wu relax. Bai Yang had him sit down and began teaching him a brand-new Guidance Technique, which was worlds apart from what he had learned before.

Just then, Luo Feng returned and happened to catch the two in the middle of the lesson.

Seeing that Luo Feng was carrying three whole sacks of Go pieces, Bai Yang couldn't help but laugh.

Although he had said "the more the better," Luo Feng hadn't actually gone and emptied out an entire shop's inventory, had he?

He cleared his throat lightly, signaling Luo Feng to stand farther back, then casually picked up a chess piece and flicked it toward him.

He said to him, "If you can make me turn around, that counts as success."

The chess piece whistled through the air with ferocious force, heading straight for Luo Feng's vital chest point!

At this moment, Luo Feng's physical constitution was only that of a high-level warrior. As soon as he heard the sound of the chess piece, he knew something was wrong.

If it hit him, he would be in for serious trouble, so he hurriedly activated his movement technique to dodge.

The result was another three soft pat sounds—a total of four chess pieces were flicked out by Bai Yang's fingers.

They completely sealed off all his possible directions of evasion.

Luo Feng struggled to dodge, but it was utterly useless, and he ended up taking a solid hit from one of them.

It struck him with pain that pierced to the marrow, nearly injuring his bones.

Luo Feng gritted his teeth and barely suppressed the agony, about to speak.

Then he suddenly noticed that Bai Yang on the opposite side had already turned his back to him, no longer watching, and was instead explaining the Guidance Technique to Yang Wu.

At this moment, his hands were clasped behind his back, a few chess pieces held in his fingers, as if he had eyes in the back of his head.

The moment he sensed that Luo Feng had recovered, another three chess pieces came flying, giving him no chance to catch his breath!

Luo Feng was shocked in his heart and hurriedly tried to calculate the trajectories of the chess pieces, but before he could even see them clearly, pain flared again in his shoulder and lower abdomen.

This time, he was hit by two at once!

By now, Luo Feng understood that facing these chess pieces, he simply had no time to "think about it."

He had to "not think at all," making dodging an instinct, if he wanted to come out unscathed.

Training his movement technique like this—how could he not grow stronger?

He immediately stopped speaking and charged fiercely toward Bai Yang, while staying on guard for the next wave of incoming chess pieces.

But before he could cover even two meters, he was forced back again by the chess pieces that followed one after another.

Bai Yang explained the techniques with his mouth while continuously flicking chess pieces from behind his back, managing both at once.

The strength of both Yang Wu and Luo Feng was improving at an astonishing speed.