Chapter 10: Breakthrough, Post-Heaven Second Realm!

New card!

This cultivation card, as the name suggests, can be used to cultivate martial techniques.

Note, it's for cultivating martial techniques.

You can use it on "Drilling Heart Sword," "Meteor Needle," or "Gecko Skill."

"Evergreen Art," which breaks through a realm and generates internal force, is an internal cultivation scripture—using it is ineffective!

Even so, it's still a surprise.

Skill cards for martial techniques, when picked up, already carry a certain level of mastery.

Slight Proficiency, Entered the Hall, Mastered Fully, Perfected to Purity, Reached the Apex…

Using the card instantly propels you to the corresponding level.

Now, with cultivation cards, that level can be raised again.

The cultivation card picked up has a two-year duration.

Once used, it instantly completes two years of cultivation for a specific martial technique.

For example, with "Drilling Heart Sword," two years of cultivation—even if you can't break through to Reached the Apex—will bring you very close.

Cultivation cards replace cultivation.

Awesome!

But honestly, Chen Mu's three current martial techniques feel sufficient for now.

"Drilling Heart Sword," of course, is already at Perfected to Purity.

"Meteor Needle" is a hidden weapon, but there's currently no target to kill.

"Gecko Skill" is at Mastered Fully—more than enough within the city.

Most importantly, using the card grants instant improvement.

So, it can be stored for now; use it only if an emergency arises.

Chen Mu plans to use the cultivation card on an offensive or defensive martial technique.

But he currently lacks such techniques—so isn't it best to hold onto it?

…

The Green Snake Gang and Blood Wolf Gang frequently fight on the streets.

Including the Big Knife Gang, gang battles occur from time to time.

Chen Mu didn't take it to heart.

But when he returned home at night, Huang Feiyang pulled him into a corner and whispered, "The Green Snake Gang and Blood Wolf Gang have declared gang war! For the next two days, don't go outside—stay home or go to the outpost."

Gang war?

Chen Mu raised his eyebrows and asked curiously, "Why out of nowhere are they declaring gang war?"

Occasional friction and minor skirmishes between gangs cause minimal casualties.

Gang war is different.

It's a large-scale battle, involving at least a thousand fighters!

Either side will inevitably lose lives; it won't stop until dozens—or even hundreds—die.

"I don't know the reason."

Huang Feiyang shook his head. "Before I came back, I went to Brother Xie. Brother Xie said the boss has decided: as soon as the timing is right, we'll strike and tear off a piece of flesh from the Blood Wolf Gang!"

At the end, Huang Feiyang clenched his fist and swung it hard, his eyes blazing with excitement.

He had been waiting for the chance to seize Chang Le Street.

Now, the chance has come!

The Green Snake Gang and Blood Wolf Gang are locked in gang war, the Big Knife Gang watches from afar, waiting to strike and reap the benefits!

Huang Feiyang was thrilled; Chen Mu smiled faintly.

Gang war means many deaths?

Perfect—exactly what he wanted!

The more who die in battle, the more cards he can pick up.

Of course, he'd prefer if several high-ranking leaders died.

Cards picked up from ordinary gang members are almost always Strength Cards or Energy Cards; Power Cards are extremely rare.

…

As soon as the gang war began, the East District plunged into minor chaos.

During the day, things were calm, but at night, members of the Green Snake Gang and Blood Wolf Gang fought relentlessly in alleys and streets.

The Big Knife Gang sat still, waiting for the right moment.

This battle lasted two days and two nights; each side lost dozens before finally stopping.

"They had to stop—the Green Snake and Blood Wolf Gangs both lost high-ranking leaders in the fighting!"

Huang Feiyang sighed, a flicker of bewilderment in his eyes, then it hardened into resolve.

In any gang, high-ranking leaders are all martial artists.

But compared to other major forces, these martial artists are merely low-tier—rarely beyond Foundation Establishment, at most reaching Second Realm of the Post-Heaven Realm.

Dying in battle, they leave no ripple, just like ordinary gang members.

Huang Feiyang sighed, yet his resolve to grow stronger grew firmer.

Chen Mu heard this—and felt joy.

High-ranking leaders have died?

Good news!

That afternoon, Chen Mu left the city and hurried to the burial sites of the gang members who had died in the two gangs' battle.

Several dozen had died in one go, and since they had died for their gangs, the bodies naturally hadn't been casually tossed onto a common burial mound.

Each of the two gangs had found a patch of wasteland, dug pits, and buried them.

Chen Mu activated "Celestial Wolf Sniffs the Moon," followed the scent, and arrived at the two locations.

Then…

【Corpse discovered. Pick up?】

"Yes!"

【Corpse discovered. Pick up?】

"Yes!"

……

One function card after another fell into his pouch.

Energy cards and stamina cards were the most numerous.

Over a dozen strength cards.

The internal force cards Chen Mu wanted most—he obtained three.

Containing two and a half months, one month, and less than two months of internal force respectively.

There was also one skill card, recording a martial art called "Spirit Serpent Step," at the Achieved Realm.

Unlike "Wall Gecko Art," which was all about climbing high and leaping far, "Spirit Serpent Step" was a light-foot movement art of dodging, weaving, and shifting, usable in combat!

Chen Mu was overjoyed.

He decisively used this skill card and obtained "Spirit Serpent Step" at the Achieved Realm.

Striking while the iron was hot, Chen Mu used the stored cultivation card, targeting "Spirit Serpent Step," instantly cultivating for two years, directly elevating this light-foot movement art from the Achieved Realm to Complete Mastery!

"Spirit Serpent Step" at this realm let Chen Mu weave up, down, left, right, front, and back through dense jungle with incredible agility.

Paired with "Wall Gecko Art," even if he couldn't win, he could escape with ease.

Of course, light-foot movement arts were external skills; the Martial Dao Realm was the foundation.

So.

After resting a while, Chen Mu used the internal force cards to reverse-drive "Eternal Spring Art," tempering his body and advancing his realm.

If one internal force card wasn't enough, then two.

Two weren't enough, so he used the third as well.

Finally, driven by nearly five months of internal force, "Eternal Spring Art" successfully broke through to the second layer.

Hoo~

Chen Mu clenched his fist and smashed it violently into a tree ahead.

"Boom!"

The trunk of a tree as thick as an adult man's waist shook violently; as leaves fluttered down, Chen Mu's fist punched straight through the trunk.

One punch, shattered wood!

Swoosh~

Retracting his arm, Chen Mu twisted his waist and lashed out a side kick.

Boom—

Crack!

More leaves fluttered and danced through the air; accompanied by a clear sound of snapping, the tree trunk broke clean in two at the point of the kick.

The upper half of the trunk swayed and toppled to the ground with a dull thud, kicking up a great cloud of dust.

Whoosh~

His figure flashed; under a sprint, Chen Mu arrived beside a half-man-tall boulder.

Swoosh!

His body settled; force rose from the soles of his feet, channeled to his waist, and then, with the mobilization of internal force, amid the sound of splitting wind—"Boom!"—a detonation rang out, the boulder split apart, the upper half carrying a mass of small debris scattering in all directions.

Fist force shatters wood, leg force splits stone.

Second Stage of Heaven!