Chapter 20: Is My Opening Method Wrong?

The terrifying, fierce Slash attack, at this moment, raged wildly, continuously compressing the air before it, emitting crackling sounds like firecrackers, as if a heavy cannon had fired!

The entire training arena seemed to tremble!

At that instant, stone shattered the heavens!

The black‑red blade aura burst from the edge of the sword, instantly slashing toward the puppet ahead!

It left a wound on the puppet's chest deep enough to see the bone!

If anyone were watching now, their jaw would be so shocked they'd drop it to the ground!

Li Mu had only just broken through the Six Grade Lian Qi Realm, yet the attack he unleashed was not inferior to that of a Ten Grade Lian Qi Realm cultivator!

But this is only a beginning!

'Second Slash!'

After waiting quietly for four minutes, Li Mu slashed again!

When Li Mu did not end the Break Pot and Sink Ship state, each subsequent Slash dealt twice the damage of the previous one!

This moment!

Li Mu was like a war god!

As he slashed the second time, Li Mu felt his meridians and organs burning painfully, as if his whole body were about to be completely ignited!

But Li Mu could not worry about that; he focused all his attention on the Slash he was about to deliver.

'Boom!'

The deafening boom, accompanied by the terrifying wind pressure from the supreme Slash, instantly raised a gale within the training arena.

And the puppet ahead, claimed to withstand attacks from a Ten Grade Lian Qi Realm cultivator!

At this moment, Li Mu's Slash tore it apart into pieces, scattering fragments across the ground!

But the Slash did not cease!

Instead it continued to spread forward, pounding the arena walls with a 'Bang!' that rang loudly.

Behold.

The once elegant, meticulously arranged arena was now ravaged into a mess.

After looking around, Li Mu couldn't help but gasp sharply.

The highest level of the Seven-Absolute Sword Technique, Seven-Absolute, can unleash power nearly five times one's own!

If, on this basis, Li Mu also employed the Revenge Blade skill: Break Pot and Sink Ship!

Then the ensuing attack would be ten times his own strength!

The second Slash would unleash twenty times his strength, but a single strike could shatter a puppet that only a Concentration Realm cultivator could destroy into fragments!

That is to say!

Putting aside other factors, purely in terms of attack and destructive power,

Li Mu, with his Six Grade Lian Qi Realm cultivation, already possesses a level comparable to a Concentration Realm cultivator!

This actually spans four minor realms and one major realm!

'Hahaha…'

'Awesome!'

'This feeling of sweeping everything away is truly awesome!'

'If it weren't for the massive consumption of blood, Qi, and true Qi by Break Pot and Sink Ship, which only suffices to support two Slashes.'

'Then wouldn't I be invincible?'

Li Mu clenched his fists excitedly, his expression exhilarated.

After taking several deep breaths in succession, he calmed his mood.

'Huh…'

'This combination of the Seven-Absolute Sword Technique with the Revenge Blade is strong upon strong, but the consumption of one's own true Qi is indeed huge!'

'Also…'

With a thought, Li Mu began to look inward.

He discovered his organ meridians were entirely crimson, constantly radiating scorching heat!

'Sss…'

'I only just swung two Slashes, yet they caused such terrifying backlash to my organ meridians!'

'Fortunately, the one bearing all this is not me!'

'If it were me, then even if I didn't die I'd still lose half my life.'

Just as Li Mu was secretly rejoicing,

The burning sensation in his organ meridians quickly faded, followed by waves of comfort.

Li Mu could clearly feel that after ending the Break Pot and Sink Ship state, a huge potential within him was re‑ignited!

It seemed as if that burning feeling had never existed.

Obviously, the misfortunes that were detrimental to him were transferred by the Heavenly Dao Treasure Scroll onto Qin Siwu.

This is equivalent to his organ meridians, damaged by the backlash of Break Pot and Sink Ship, being instantly healed, imperceptibly giving Li Mu's organ meridians a tempering!

In other words.

Others who employ Break Pot and Sink Ship do so with a resolve to die, but for Li Mu it becomes the sole method to temper his organ meridians!

Moreover.

Li Mu could also clearly feel that the new blood replenished after the burning was markedly more vigorous and refined than before!

If it weren't for Qin Siwu, the current scapegoat, Li Mu would truly want to activate Break Pot and Sink Ship even while sleeping.

Nothing else!

Consider it as speeding up my body's metabolism!

"All right!"

"It's time to choose a body‑movement technique that suits me!"

"Just raise my movement speed, then combine it with the Seven-Absolute Sword Technique and the Break Pot and Sink Ship state!"

"Then I don't really need a mental method for recovery; I'll just rush straight to the opponent and strike with a single slash!"

"Who comes!"

"Who dies!"

After marveling at the Heaven's Pride Girl's power combined with the Revenge Blade, Li Mu hurriedly changed his clothes and prepared to go to Gong Fa Dian to select a body‑movement martial skill first.

However, Li Mu had just opened the courtyard gate.

He immediately saw a black‑haired, waist‑length hair, with watery peach‑blossom eyes, a cold‑white‑skinned beautiful girl standing before him.

Her moist cherry lips pursed unnaturally, and her gaze, slightly complicated, turned toward Li Mu.

Li Mu wondered if his eyes were playing tricks on him.

Yao Mengzhen…

How did she come to his courtyard?

Could it be that he opened it the wrong way?

He thought that.

Li Mu closed the door, then opened it again.

Yao Mengzhen: "???"

Li Mu shut the door again, then opened it once more.

Yao Mengzhen: "..."

Just as Li Mu was about to try again,

Yao Mengzhen blocked the closing courtyard gate directly with the hilt of her sword.

"Junior brother, you didn't see wrong!"

"It's me, Yao Mengzhen!"

Yao Mengzhen said calmly, her cool white‑skinned pretty face showing no emotional change.

Li Mu's eyebrows twitched slightly!

The moment he pushed the door open, he had imagined many people would come to find him!

But he never thought Yao Mengzhen would come!

Could it be that she was dissatisfied with the previous battle's result and wanted a second fight with him?

Thinking this, Li Mu's handsome face lifted the corner of his mouth slightly.

In his dark eyes, battle spirit surged!

From Li Mu's perspective, the girl before him was not a cold‑white‑skinned beauty who came looking for trouble!

She was a considerate, gentle, sensible living Bodhisattva who, knowing he had just obtained a new weapon, voluntarily came to give him experience.

You should know!

Last time, Li Mu had taken advantage of that 'living Bodhisattva' and got a great haul!

That living Bodhisattva had freely given him a Break Yuan Pill to break through the Six Grade Lian Qi Realm, and later helped his Seven Killing Sword Technique reach Great Perfection!

What surprised Li Mu was that Yao Mengzhen had come knocking so quickly.

It seems that a Heaven's Pride Girl like Yao Mengzhen still differs from the riffraff he previously met.

At least in recovery and adjustment abilities, she is far beyond those riffraff.

His thoughts swirling, Li Mu calmly said, "Direct strike, or follow the procedure?"

He finished speaking.

Li Mu's aura rose step by step, his whole body brimming with battle spirit!

Even though his true Qi hadn't fully recovered to its peak due to the earlier strength test.

But under the dual boost of the Seven Killing Sword Technique and Break Pot and Sink Ship, as long as that tiger girl still dares to face him head‑on!

Li Mu still trusted he could make that tiger girl enter smiling and leave crying!

"Li Mu!"

"You've misunderstood; I'm not here to fight you this time."

"I'm here to deliver medicine to you!"

Seeing Li Mu's eager, fists‑clenched stance, Yao Mengzhen calmly spread her palm and handed a Jade Bottle to him.

"This is a Second Grade Golden Wound Medicine, highly effective for external injuries!"

"Oh…"

Li Mu's smile faded, and he reluctantly took the Jade Bottle.

"Also, Elder Sun of Outer Peak has decided to accept Xuan Yue Feng's Martial Conference invitation."

"Although their four‑year Personal Disciples won't attend, Xuan Yue Feng, as the top of the Ziyang Four Peaks, is still not to be underestimated."

"I hope you, junior brother, prepare well!"

Yao Mengzhen spoke as always crisp and straightforward, without any dithering.

"I see…"

Hearing this, Li Mu couldn't help feeling a bit disappointed.

He had thought Yao Mengzhen came to cause trouble for him.

But he still hadn't completely given up, and calmly said, "You really only came to tell me this?"

"Is there nothing else you want to ask me?"

Seeing the hopeful expression on Li Mu's face as he looked at him, Yao Mengzhen's cold features showed a hint of surprise: "Could it be that you already know?"

"Of course, then let's start now!"

Clang!

Li Mu impatiently drew the brand‑new Revenge Blade from his waist, eager to try it out.

"Li Mu!"

"I came to you this time mainly to ask you about blade technique…"

"No time!"

Before Yao Mengzhen could finish speaking, Li Mu's face hardened and he refused without a second thought.

Damn!

So this woman isn't here to fight me!

She made me wait for nothing!

Li Mu isn't interested in that so‑called martial conference!

He's even less interested in teaching Yao Mengzhen!

I'm broke to death right now!

I still have to save up to buy body techniques and mind methods, I have no spare time to deal with Yao Mengzhen.

"Besides…"

"I'm also just a newbie, I'd better ask someone more skilled."

Saying that.

Li Mu then walked straight past Yao Mengzhen, intending to go directly to the Gong Fa Dian.

Seeing this, Yao Mengzhen hurriedly said, "Don't worry, I won't let your teaching be in vain!"

"Afterwards, I'll cover all the pills you need to break through the Concentration Realm!"

"Gah…"

Li Mu, just as he was about to step forward, suddenly froze.

After a short while, Li Mu slowly turned around, asking in a confirming tone.

"Are you sure you covered all the pills I need to break through the Concentration Realm?"

If I remember correctly.

The pill needed to break through the Concentration Realm should be the Gathering Spirit Pill!

That Gathering Spirit Pill is a genuine third‑grade pill!

Even if you exchange it with contribution points at the sect, it costs at least a hundred thousand points!

In the outside world, it's even pricier with no market; you can only obtain it through auctions!

The value of the Concentration Pill is far beyond that of the Breaking Yuan Pill!

But now!

Yao Mengzhen actually didn't even blink before promising it to me?