Chapter 64

Adaptability? Mysterious Grade martial arts?

No, five hundred points?! Deducting the Red Tiger Fist actually requires five hundred potential points?!

His gaze stayed on the prompt, and a stream of information poured into his mind.

A moment later, he digested the information and understood that the gap between Mortal Grade martial arts and Mysterious Grade martial arts was huge.

This difference came from something called an Origin Atlas; if there was a reference, improving it wouldn't be troublesome.

But if there wasn't, forcibly deducing a suitable Origin Atlas based on Mortal Grade martial arts would require consuming a large number of potential points.

In other words, if he possessed a Mysterious Grade martial art at this time, there would be no need to deduce an Origin Atlas.

It could be completely like Mortal Grade martial arts, requiring only a small amount of potential points to improve.

But if he didn't have one, he could only deduce it based on Mortal Grade martial arts, just like the Red Tiger Fist now, which required consuming a large number of potential points.

However, this also had an advantage, which was that the deduced martial art would have a very high adaptability with himself.

Looking at the panel,

【Current Martial Arts】

Longevity Five Qi Technique (Perfected) 【69%】 Iron Arm Fist (Perfected) 【53%】 Earth Dragon Body (Perfected) 【88%】 Red Tiger Fist (Perfected) 【67%】 【Potential Points: 115】

The last part was the so-called adaptability; to put it plainly, it was the degree of fit between him and this martial art.

Only martial arts with adaptability above 50% had the potential to allow him to perfectly master all his own power.

It was just that he looked at the adaptability behind the Earth Dragon Body, which far exceeded the other martial arts.

Is it really that suitable?

Impossible, absolutely impossible.

Shaking his head, he threw the distracting thoughts out of his mind and pondered what to do next.

Wait until tomorrow to ask the Gang Leader about Mysterious Grade martial arts; if he couldn't get one, he would have to deduce the Red Tiger Fist.

Potential points were temporarily insufficient, so he would just increase the intensity of the looting.

Although five hundred points was a lot, he thought the entire Black Mountain City could still gather them.

He had a premonition that when his Red Tiger Fist advanced to a Mysterious Grade martial art, it would produce some kind of qualitative change!

A super qualitative change far exceeding the time when the Five Animal Frolics advanced to the Longevity Five Qi Technique! Whoosh~ he slowly exhaled a breath and sat back on the stone stool.

It seemed he had to wait a while; originally, he had planned to come back and find Song Xiaoan after deducing the Red Tiger Fist to a higher level.

And now, he didn't yet have the strength to silently resolve a martial artist approaching the peak of Divine Intent.

Although the current imperial court was weak, killing a County Magistrate openly would definitely lead to people being sent to handle it.

Picking a grape from the stone table and putting it into his mouth, his fingertips tapped the tabletop unconsciously.

No rush. No rush. They can't run anyway.

The next day, Red Tiger Gang headquarters, "Martial arts above Advanced True Martial? Yes, but Black Mountain City doesn't have them."

Lu Xuanwu picked up his teacup and took a light sip, a hint of memory appearing in his expression.

"Above Advanced True Martial are Secret Martial Arts; so-called Secret Martial Arts are martial arts that are kept secret and not passed on. They are the core items of major sects and cannot be taught to non-core members."

"Secret Martial Arts..."

Qin Jiang whispered lightly, "And what is the difference between this Secret Martial Art and True Martial?"

He knew that Secret Martial Arts involved the so-called Origin Atlas, but he didn't know if these sects also called it an Origin Atlas.

"What's the difference? I'm actually just repeating hearsay. My aptitude back then wasn't considered good, so I was demoted to this Black Mountain City. Over these decades, I went from a Deacon to slowly becoming the Gang Leader, but that's where it stopped."

He set down the teacup, "Back when I was an Outer Disciple of the Copper Bell Sect, I once heard a Deacon say that the Copper Bell Sect's secret-transmitted Green Fire Copper Furnace Art requires going to the core of the sect to contemplate a copper furnace before it can be mastered.

I speculate that the reason the gap between Secret Martial Artists and True Martial Artists is like a chasm is related to that copper furnace; it might contain some kind of special power.

I don't know what that is, but newly promoted True Transmission Disciples in the Copper Bell Sect will wear a special material clothing until they take it off after half a year.

I guess that this half-year period might be them learning to master the special power obtained from the copper furnace. And that clothing is perhaps prepared to prevent them from being unable to control the power and causing some accidental damage."

Copper furnace? Green Fire Copper Furnace Art?

"Are these Secret Martial Artists so strong? That they actually need external objects to control the power in their bodies?" Qin Jiang asked.

He found it hard to imagine just how powerful one would have to be to need to do this.

Lu Xuanwu nodded, "I haven't witnessed the strength of Secret Martial Artists firsthand. However, there is a saying that is widely spread within the sect, and that is that Secret Martial Artists are known as the 'Origin of the Non-Human'."

"Origin of the Non-Human? Non-human, non-human..."

Qin Jiang silently recited these two words; was it saying that Secret Martial Artists already possessed some non-human characteristics, or was it simply that their power had become so strong that it was no longer human? A moment later, he asked, "And what is the relationship between this Copper Bell Sect and our Red Tiger Gang?"

"You don't know? That shouldn't be? Leader-level already has the qualifications to know; could it be you haven't flipped through the gang rule manual distributed within the gang?"

Lu Xuanwu asked with some surprise; he had originally thought Qin Jiang knew about the Copper Bell Sect.

"Uh..."

Qin Jiang's face changed slightly; he remembered that there did seem to be such a thing. As for where it was put... Lu Xuanwu couldn't help but smile, "You should know that our Great Xia is governed by sects and the imperial family together. Except for Xia Prefecture, where the Imperial City is located, the other few prefectures are basically controlled by sects.

In a sense, it can even be considered a country within a country; the orders of the sects are, most of the time, more useful than the orders of the imperial court.

And the sect that controls Yuan Prefecture is called the Longevity Sect; the Copper Bell Sect is one of its affiliated sects, powerful and in charge of the entire Ning'an County. Our Red Tiger Gang is an affiliated gang under its rule."

"So that's how it is. Then is there any way to obtain Secret Martial Arts?" Qin Jiang asked; this was what he cared about.

Lu Xuanwu shook his head, "I don't have any way, but our Red Tiger Gang has a recommendation quota every three years. I have already reported the one for the last three years; it's your sister. You probably have to wait another three years."

Speaking of this, he seemed to have thought of something else, "I heard you and County Lieutenant Long have a good private relationship?"

Qin Jiang nodded slightly, "It's alright."

"Then that's easy to handle. County Lieutenant Long's background is not simple; he is a person from the Long family, one of the three great noble families of the County City, and has a close relationship with the Copper Bell Sect. You can go find him and ask," Lu Xuanwu said.

"Oh? County Lieutenant Long has such a background?"

Qin Jiang nodded; he would have to find a time to go to the Long Mansion.

After leaving the Red Tiger Gang headquarters, Qin Jiang sent someone to the Long Mansion to deliver a visiting card first, while he himself went to prepare some gifts.

But not long after, the person returned and informed him that County Lieutenant Long had left the city, seemingly in a great hurry.

Seeing this, he wasn't in a hurry and went directly to the Brocade Pavilion in the West City.

Walking into the Brocade Pavilion, a unique fragrance of cloth rushed into his nostrils.

"Guest, what would you like?" a young girl wearing slightly red cloth clothes walked over and asked.

"I heard you have a kind of fabric here that can stretch freely, and I want to make a set of clothes," Qin Jiang said; he didn't want his clothes to explode every time he fought someone.

Although it was quite cool, it still affected his image somewhat.

"You mean Cloud Brocade? Hmm... it's very expensive. If you make one according to your figure, it will cost about fifty taels of silver," the red-clothed girl said, her eyes showing some difficulty.

The person before her didn't look like someone who could take out fifty taels no matter how she looked at it.

Qin Jiang smiled; sure enough, people rely on clothes. Today, he wasn't wearing the Red Tiger Gang's fox fur cloak, just wearing a simple black cloth garment.

Taking out a silver note with a face value of one hundred taels from his bosom, "Is this enough?"

The red-clothed girl's eyes lit up, "Enough, enough! I'll go invite the owner right away! Guest, please wait a moment!"

She ran directly to the second floor, and not long after, she walked down with someone.

"Are you... Xiao Jiang?"

A voice with a bit of surprise rang in Qin Jiang's ears. He put down a piece of black cloth in his hand and looked at the source of the voice.

A gentle young married woman who looked to be in her twenties, wearing a blue dress, her hair slightly loose, her face carrying a bit of surprise.

"Sister Su?"

(End of chapter)