Is This What You Call Safe?

Sure enough, true knowledge came from real combat.

He had not expected that a fight with this bald Guardian would bring such an unexpected gain.

He had buried his head in research for nearly a month, only to remain stuck in place. Yet after one real battle, he had somehow gained an enhancement secret art that he could cultivate from scratch.

Su Xinghe tried to sense it.

His physical base strength had not changed; it was still just over five thousand jin. He stimulated another thread of Internal Force, and his strength immediately doubled to over ten thousand jin.

The "Head-Cleaving Technique" secret art activated, and the power of Qi-Blood within him surged wildly...

Ten thousand jin...

Twenty thousand jin...

Thirty thousand jin...

An unprecedented, powerful force roiled within him. The enhancement of his exertion secret art had actually risen directly from two and a half times to three times.

Just as expected.

His enhancement secret art had been right all along; he simply had not found the right direction before. The consumption of Qi-Blood power had increased accordingly as well.

Previously, he could sustain the boiling output of two-and-a-half-times exertion for twenty breaths. Now, he estimated that even maintaining triple exertion for ten breaths would be difficult.

Fortunately, his Water-Tight fate could rapidly absorb medicinal effects, while Unyielding ignored pill toxins.

He could fight continuously while popping pills.

"Xinghe!"

A familiar voice rang out.

"Headmaster?"

Su Xinghe hurriedly came back to his senses.

"Are you all right?"

Zhou Yingjun and the other man came running over, long blades in hand, panting heavily.

A slight warmth rose in his heart.

"I'm fine."

After greeting them, he returned to his old trade and began looting the corpse. That was when he spotted the long sword in the bald man's hand, already