Golden Light

"Wedding Robe Divine Art, that widely circulated Devil Cultivation Method?"

Xu Fan's pupils contracted, and he backed away warily.

"Lin Chu is the devil who killed the Clearwater Sect disciple?"

"No, that can't be right. His strength and the timing don't match."

From what the people at the tavern had said, the devil being hunted by the Northern Pacification Office and the Jade Sea Gate was clearly terrifyingly strong.

Lin Chu, on the other hand, should only have become a martial master recently.

"Who dares cause trouble in the fish market?!"

An angry shout rang out, and two figures came flying over.

One was Zhao He, the supervisor. The other, a burly man, was clearly the fish market's manager, the Blood Exchange martial master.

"Lin Chu?"

Zhao He's expression changed when he saw Lin Chu. Looking at the dried corpse on the ground, he was so frightened that his voice turned shrill:

"Wedding Robe Divine Art?!"

As an evil martial art that was widely circulated and extremely well known, it was hard not to recognize it.

It was a terrifying martial art dedicated to devouring Qi and Blood and other people's cultivation!

Not only did it advance at astonishing speed, it was no weaker than the legendary peerless martial arts, allowing one to cultivate to the realm of an Innate grandmaster and even beyond!

It was a true Devil Cultivation Method, and it was truly powerful!

"So it's the Wedding Robe Divine Art?"

The manager, Li Tieyi, began breathing faster, his eyes filled with nothing but desire.

This was a martial art of at least the Higher Vehicle level.

Never mind Wuling County-even in the whole of Qingzhou, there were only a few.

Only with a Higher Vehicle martial art could one undergo Blood Exchange seven times or more and have a chance at reaching the Innate realm!

His Iron Sand Palm, however, was only Lower Vehicle, and three Blood Exchanges were its limit.

But he was already nearly forty.

Even a third Blood Exchange would be difficult in this lifetime, let alone obtaining a better martial art and reaching a higher realm.

But the Wedding Robe Divine Art was different!

Cultivating this martial art, one could easily break through as long as one devoured enough Qi and Blood and cultivation. Only becoming an Innate grandmaster posed some difficulty.

That was why, although everyone knew the Wedding Robe Divine Art was exceedingly evil, people kept cultivating it.

"Sure enough, birds of a feather flock together."

That greedy gaze only strengthened Lin Chu's resolve.

With that,

he leaped up, Qi and Blood swirling around him, and smashed a fist straight down!

"I've undergone Blood Exchange twice. How could you possibly be my match?"

Li Tieyi grinned savagely. His muscles bulged, his body grew several inches taller, and he met the blow with a punch of his own!

Bang!

Their fists collided, and Lin Chu's body shot backward. He redirected the force, turned, and used the momentum in midair to attack Zhao He on the other side!

"Save me!"

Zhao He's eyes widened, terror spreading across his face.

How could a Qi and Blood martial artist compare to a Blood Exchange martial master?

Squelch!

Lin Chu's right hand pierced Zhao He's chest, and Zhao He's body rapidly shriveled.

At the same time, Lin Chu's presence changed once more!

"Now I'm a martial master who's undergone Blood Exchange twice too."

Flung the dried corpse from his hand, Lin Chu fixed his gaze on Li Tieyi as if looking at a dead man.

"I've been at the Blood Exchange stage for years. You little brat, you think that's enough to beat me?"

"Take this punch!"

Li Tieyi roared and leaped up.

Lin Chu's expression grew grave as he considered how to counter him and devour his Qi and Blood and cultivation.

To his surprise, Li Tieyi turned around and fled.

Caught off guard, Lin Chu let him open up a considerable distance.

"Impressive."

"Old ginger really is spicier."

Xu Fan applauded inwardly, marveling at the fish market manager's decisiveness in running as soon as things looked bad.

"Hmph!"

Lin Chu watched Li Tieyi disappear, snorted, and quickly left as well.

Now that his cultivation of the Wedding Robe Divine Art had been exposed, he would surely be hunted.

Fortunately, killing those two bastards, Qian Jiao and Zhao He, counted as collecting a little interest.

One day, he would see the Canal Gang destroyed!

Seeing this, the other two fishermen hurriedly took their silver and left.

"Are you still buying my Scarlet Blood Perch?"

Xu Fan's eyes shifted. He went over to the attendant and raised a hand to snap his neck.

The attendant was one of Qian Jiao's trusted men, so Xu Fan felt no guilt about killing him.

Even if he hadn't been, it wouldn't have stopped Xu Fan from doing it.

In this godforsaken world, either you ate people or people ate you.

Eating bitterness wouldn't make you a man above men; eating people would.

"Only thirty-some taels?"

He took the silver from the cash drawer, curled his lip, and stuffed it all into his pocket anyway.

He also put down the bamboo basket. It was too conspicuous, and he would surely be noticed if he carried it away.

He had barely left the fish market when he saw several minor officials hurrying over.

Amid the confusion, Xu Fan went to a jade shop and bought a small jade vial, then bought two catties of government salt, half a sack of white rice, and five strips of cured meat.

Everyone's attention would surely be drawn to Lin Chu now, so he wasn't afraid of anyone going out of their way to cause him trouble on the lake.

Even if a few came looking for death, he wouldn't mind doing a good deed and sending their souls on their way.

Distant mountains, endless ripples; dusk clouds and the spring moon shone over Xiaoxiang.

A drunken soul should follow dreams skimming the waves, entrusting the warm yellow flowers to the east wind.

"The lake is where I belong right now."

Gazing at the sky filled with rosy light, where water and sky blended into one, Xu Fan sat comfortably at the bow. He set down the bowl in his hand and looked into the water.

With a flick of his finger, a streak of golden light entered the water, and a patch of blood instantly welled up.

He reached into the water, Law Power flowing around his hand, and brought up the Red-Backed Cutlassfish whose head the Golden Light Technique had pierced.

"The Golden Light Technique can be used however I please. It's quite handy-now this is more like a cultivator."

A month had passed since his last trip to the fish market. He had mastered the Golden Light Technique and collected thirty strands of Moonlight Yin Qi.

"Now, with one or two treasure fish a day, I can form the Circulation Wheel in half a month at most."

"With the Golden Light Technique for both offense and defense, martial masters who've undergone Blood Exchange two or three times are no longer my match."

As for the Taiji Dao Evolution Diagram, it had finished charging, but he hadn't gone over again.

He had already obtained the method for gathering Moonlight Yin Qi and had also learned a little from Miscellaneous Records of the Land of Wu.

With the recent turmoil at the fish market, he needed to save his chance to enter the Land of Wu. Otherwise, if something went wrong, he wouldn't even be able to escape.

"The Land of Wu is controlled by three sects and four gates. All thirty-six commanderies have Purple Mansion Immortal Clans, and Linhai Commandery's leading clan is the Luo Clan."

"That shopkeeper could actually get an audience with a Purple Mansion Immortal Clan?"

According to Miscellaneous Records of the Land of Wu, those at Foundation Establishment were called Aristocratic Clans, while those at Purple Mansion were Immortal Clans and the leading clans of their commanderies.

Purple Mansion cultivators lived for eight hundred years, and every one of them possessed vast Divine Abilities.

"There's something strange about that place. I'd better not go back just yet."

"Over there, I'm only a low-level cultivator. Here, it's a different story."

Xu Fan snorted inwardly. Beating up weaklings and lying low while growing stronger was what he ought to do now. Why go over there and put up with mistreatment?

He wasn't a masochist.

Once he became a great Qi Refinement cultivator, he would go back and mingle with those low-level Fetal Breathing cultivators.

"I still need to find a chance to ask about Emperor Flow Serum. Since Moonlight Yin Qi can be gathered in this world, Emperor Flow Serum should appear here too, right?"

Emperor Flow Serum, which appeared once every sixty years, was not only the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi needed to cultivate the Plain Luminary Supreme Yin Wondrous Instruction, but also had many wondrous uses.

It could help cultivators break through, awaken the intelligence of Demon Beasts, and turn ordinary things into spirits.

After thinking it over, he got up, put away the pot and bowls, and poled the black-canopied boat leisurely toward the fish market dock.

"Before that, I need to find a chance to change my lowborn status so I can enter the city to ask around and make purchases."

"I can sell this Red-Backed Cutlassfish while I'm at it and see how things are at the fish market."