Chapter 73

Xu Yang let out a heavy breath, seeing the person's eyes wide open, seemingly containing a trace of astonishment and unwillingness.

As he withdrew his fist, the corpse fell down.

"He must have mistaken me for an ordinary person…"

This person had long been seriously injured and was at the end of his rope; he must have fainted here, and when he appeared unexpectedly, he was likely mistaken for an ordinary person and they wanted to subdue him, not wanting to realize he was also a martial artist, which was why he had shouted "misunderstanding" earlier.

Xu Yang didn't know if his guess was right or not, but the person had already been beaten to death, so he couldn't verify it.

However, he must have been an expert, at the very least of Qi Gathering Major Success. If it weren't for the fact that the opponent's true qi was exhausted and they were injured, he would have been the one to fall.

Of course, if this person hadn't been injured, they probably wouldn't have fought.

Squatting down, Xu Yang began to search the corpse. First, he found a money bag, which was full of broken silver, looking like eleven or twelve taels.

Not much, but not little; it was equivalent to two months' stipend from the Liu residence.

In a situation where expenses exceeded income, this bit of silver was very important to him; he could continue to maintain the progress of his martial arts and wouldn't have to cultivate while scrimping and saving.

Continuing to search, he soon felt something hard in the trouser leg, sewn into the fabric, feeling somewhat like a book.

"Could it be a secret manual?"

Xu Yang tore it with force, and after a "rip" sound, a book with a blue cover appeared before his eyes, with the three vigorous and powerful characters "Diamond Body Technique" written on it.

"It really is a secret manual!"

His heart pounded wildly, and his gaze scanned the surroundings vigilantly.

This person was carrying such a thing and was seriously injured; perhaps it was because of this secret manual that they were being hunted down and seriously injured to this point.

He quickly tucked the secret manual into his bosom, then picked up the corpse on the ground and ran quickly toward the mountains not far away.

"I'm back!"

Pushing open the door, the little girl Xu Qing was still writing under the oil lamp.

"Brother, why are you back so late today?" Xu Qing looked up.

"The main family had something to do today, so I was delayed."

As he spoke, he leaned over, wanting to see what Xu Qing was writing.

"Don't look!" The little girl hurriedly used her hand to block the things on the table.

"Your handwriting is so ugly, hiding it is the right thing to do."

Xu Yang laughed, and the little girl's face turned red; it was indeed because her handwriting was ugly that she wouldn't let Xu Yang see it.

After chatting with Xu Qing for a few more words, he returned to his room, closed the door, and by the light of the oil lamp, took out the Diamond Body Technique and began to read.

"After an ordinary person gathers Qi, their true qi does not have any characteristics; whether it is for attack or tempering the body, the effect is very average.

The Diamond Body Technique is a cultivation method for practicing Diamond True Qi, which can convert ordinary true qi into Diamond True Qi. Once the Diamond True Qi is cultivated, the purity of the true qi increases greatly; not only is the attack peerless and difficult to expel once it enters an opponent's body, but the effect of tempering the body will also change greatly.

If one tempers the body with Diamond True Qi year after year, the body can even become as hard as a diamond."

This was actually a body-protecting cultivation method for practicing Diamond True Qi.

No wonder he had just felt that the person's body was abnormally hard; he feared that they had also cultivated this Diamond Body Technique.

【Diamond Body Technique · Not Yet Entered (0/100)】

After finishing the first read, a faint light flickered before his eyes, and the panel popped out.

Xu Yang was somewhat moved; the proficiency for the Mountain-Shaking Xiong Quan to enter was only 10, and this was directly ten times that of the Mountain-Shaking Xiong Quan.

"But it's normal!"

He recalled the description in the book, which said that the cultivation of this kind of body-protecting technique had little to do with talent; it was mainly a matter of grinding, requiring years of unremitting persistence.

Whether one's talent was good or bad had little effect on the progress of the technique.

"The first step in cultivating the Diamond Body Technique is to cultivate the Diamond True Qi…"

Anyway, he had been patrolling all day and hadn't cultivated much, so his energy was still very abundant.

After hiding the Diamond Body Technique secret manual, Xu Yang closed his eyes and began his first cultivation of the Diamond Body Technique. ===== CHAPTER 74 =====