Chapter 424: Speculation! Special Ability Spirit Body Summon!

After Senior Song Daoyuan's birthday banquet ended, Xu Jingming returned to the Song family villa to focus on studying combat techniques.

Meanwhile, Song Qiuyun, carrying her own Fangtian Huaji, trained on her own.

While studying the "Thunder Dragon Art" combat technique manual,

pausing occasionally to admire Song Qiuyun's graceful figure was quite a different flavor, and could slightly relax the mind.

Of course,

he couldn't resist trying it out himself along the way.

By evening, Song Qiuyun still hadn't left.

She even declared that she had begun practicing body-tempering arts, and told Xu Jingming to watch closely.

But in the end, she couldn't even last two hours......

Early the next morning, Xu Jingming left the Song family.

He took a fighter jet from the airport, arrived in Gui Province, and returned to the Lei Ting Martial Arts Hall headquarters.

"Lin Hui, I'm back. Have you found everyone?"

The moment he stepped into the martial arts hall headquarters, Xu Jingming called Lin Hui.

"Don't worry, boss, everything's been arranged. Also, Xia Lan seems to have found a decent teammate too."

Lin Hui's voice came through the other end of the phone.

A single 'boss' was enough to show his respect for Xu Jingming.

"Oh? Xia Lan found someone too?"

Xu Jingming was a little surprised. "Then let her know—we'll meet up at the Xiye Café. I'll head over first and wait for you guys."

"Got it, we're on our way."

After hanging up, Xu Jingming headed straight for the Xiye Café.

It was just around noon, and there weren't many people in the café.

After going in, Xu Jingming casually ordered a cup of coffee and found a seat.

Then his mind stirred, and he opened his system panel.

【Name】: Xu Jingming

【Level】: Fifth-Tier Lower

【Ability】: Doushen Shenlei (SS)

【Physique】: 9352 Qi-Blood (+)

【Spirit】: 9834 Hz (+)

【Skills】: Spear Art (Master), Fist Art (Master), Lei Shen Jiang Shi (SSS-rank, Beginner), Heart Web (SS-rank, Beginner), Thunder-Piercing Demon-Slaying Spear (S+ rank, Beginner+), Lei Shen Zhi (S+ rank, Beginner+)......

【Body Tempering】: Indestructible Thunder Body (S-rank, Sixth Layer)

【Spirit Refining】: Shenhe Visualization Method (SS-rank, Second Layer)

【Ability Points】:

"The 'Thunder Dragon Art' combat technique will probably take another day or two to initially understand. I'll use the system to allocate points.

These 30,000 ability points should be enough to allocate points to this SS+ rank combat technique......"

Xu Jingming murmured to himself.

As the number of combat techniques he mastered grew, the proficiency he needed to allocate points to also increased.

Yet his ability points were always in a state of being nowhere near enough.

"The ability points harvested from this trip to Myanmar were partly used to raise my level.

The rest went to body-tempering arts and spirit-refining arts—combat techniques that boost the two main attributes.

But there's a better SSS-rank spirit-refining art in Civilization Ruins No. 3, so there's no rush to allocate points there.

As for body-tempering arts......"

Xu Jingming's eyes flickered.

Judging from the body-tempering manuals he'd been reading these past few days, creating an SS-rank body-tempering art was indeed far more difficult than he'd imagined.

But he wasn't reading body-tempering manuals solely to create his own combat technique.

He was testing—testing whether the Deep Blue System could, based on his current knowledge of body-tempering arts,

directly deduce and allocate points to produce an SS-rank body-tempering art on the foundation of the Indestructible Thunder Body!

This speculation wasn't entirely baseless—after all, the system panel could change accordingly based on his understanding of combat technique ranks.

It could also allocate points to combat technique proficiency and raise ability levels.

Deducing an SS-rank combat technique didn't seem impossible either.

"But I've only read up to D-rank body-tempering manuals so far. I'm still a long way from having a sufficient knowledge reserve of body-tempering arts.

To even attempt a deduction, I'd probably need to initially understand that SS-rank body-tempering art first.

Also, I need to prepare more ability points.

Otherwise, if I meet the deduction conditions but no plus sign appears because I don't have enough ability points, that would be troublesome."

Xu Jingming silently planned in his mind.

The Deep Blue System was great in every way, but the lack of a user manual was rather frustrating......

"But all of this can wait until I go to Myanmar, kill enough fierce beasts, and have plenty of ability points.

For now, I'll just diligently study combat techniques.

Shaking his head, Xu Jingming casually took out a D-rank body-tempering manual from his spatial ring and began reading.

The "Thunder Dragon Art" was an SS+ rank combat technique, and one personally created by the founder of Lei Ting Martial Arts Hall.

In public, he didn't want to attract attention by reading it out in the open.

"Boss Xu, we're here."

More than twenty minutes later, Lin Hui and Xia Lan also arrived at the Xiye Café.

Only there were two extra people beside them.

Standing beside Lin Hui was a man who looked slightly older.

The man was tall and broad, with a square face, his features stern and unsmiling like rock.

Standing beside Xia Lan was a young woman, who looked like she was not yet twenty-five.

The girl had shoulder-length short hair, and clipped to her soft hair was a cartoon strawberry hairpin.

Combined with her baby-doll face, she looked just like a middle-school student, very cute.

Seeing Lin Hui speak up, the two called out in unison: "Hello, Boss Xu!"

One voice was ringing and forceful, full of vigor; the other was somewhat timid and shy, seeming very afraid of strangers.

The two utterly different tones nearly made Xu Jingming laugh:

"With you two shouting like that, anyone who didn't know would think we were some kind of shady gang."

"Doesn't it just make us look more like a squad? If you don't like it, then we'll just call you Captain instead."

Lin Hui grinned and led the others to sit down on the sofa.

"Mm, 'Captain' does sound more natural."

Xu Jingming gave a slight nod and put the combat technique manual back into his spatial ring.

"As the Captain commands." Lin Hui chuckled, then promptly introduced the square-faced man beside him:

"Captain, this is the helper I found, Li Xiang. He has a Psychic-type A-rank ability, at the lower tier of sixth rank.

He used to work at the Public Security Bureau in his early years and has rich interrogation skills; he only joined our Prodigy Training Camp later.

With him looking for clues, we should have it much easier."

"Hello, Captain Xu." Li Xiang hurriedly called out respectfully.

"A veteran from the Public Security Bureau — not bad."

Xu Jingming nodded, then turned to look at the other cute girl wearing the cartoon hairpin: "And this one?"

He could sense that this girl's strength was not very strong, and she seemed a little shy around strangers.

For a squad, that was undoubtedly a burden-like presence.

But since Xia Lan had brought her in, there must be something special about her.

"Her name is Du Wan, a first-year trainee just like us."

Xia Lan hurriedly introduced her. "She's at the upper tier of fourth rank, with a Special-type A-rank ability called 'Spirit Summoning.'

She can summon the souls of corpses that have been dead for no more than one day, and communicate with them to ask questions.

I think she might be of some help to us in searching for mission clues."

"Human souls?!"

Xu Jingming's eyes went wide, and he nearly spat out the coffee he had just sipped:

"There's actually an ability that can summon something like this?"