Chapter 12: New Card, Memory Card!

"Sun Kui is dead!!"

One after another, members of the Great Blade Gang shouted at the top of their lungs.

In less than three breaths, the entire long street was roaring, the resonant voices shaking the heart.

The Blood Wolf Gang members, already on the defensive and with middling morale, were terrified and turned tail to flee one after another.

Sun Kui was already dead — what was the point of fighting?!

Staying alive was what mattered.

"We won~"

"We've won!"

"..."

The Great Blade Gang's members cheered in high spirits.

The purpose of this fight was to seize territory and take Changle Street, not a full-on gang war!

The Blood Wolf Gang people fleeing in rout was fine — taking Changle Street was the real objective.

"Haha..."

In his excitement, Old Zhou raised his fist high and shouted, "Boss Hu is mighty!"

"Boss Hu is mighty!!"

The others joined in the shouting, faces flushed with exhilaration, looking at Huang Feiyang with worship, reverence, or envy...

Xing Yong had been the head, fighting Sun Kui for years without ever gaining the upper hand.

The moment Huang Feiyang took over, his very first move lopped off Sun Kui's head!

Who could disagree with such an achievement?

"Boss Hu is mighty!"

"Boss Hu is mighty!"

"..."

The unified shouts rang out across the long street.

Huang Feiyang, drenched in sweat and gasping for breath, his chest heaving, also had a glint of excitement in his eyes.

Only, one knows one's own limits best.

His ability to kill Sun Kui was mainly thanks to Chen Mu's excellent coordination.

Without Chen Mu's help, he alone could never have won.

Thinking of this, Huang Feiyang turned his head to look at Chen Mu.

"Boss Hu is mighty!" Chen Mu said with a face full of smiles, shouting along with the rest.

Huang Feiyang: "..."

After the uproar died down, the group cleaned up the battlefield.

On the Great Blade Gang's side, no one had died, but five were seriously wounded and over a dozen lightly injured.

On the Blood Wolf Gang's side, including Sun Kui, six were dead.

Correspondingly, Chen Mu had picked up six cards.

They were three Stamina Cards, two Vitality Cards, and one Power Card.

The haul was ordinary, but it didn't matter — the manpower the Great Blade Gang had dispatched this time was far more than just their group; members from other market districts were also seizing the chance to grab territory.

Casualties were unavoidable.

Sure enough.

When Chen Mu hurried from one fight site to the next, the battles were all over, and bodies were basically left at every scene.

【Body detected. Pick up?】

"Yes!"

【Body detected. Pick up?】

"Yes!"

Whether hidden or behind walls, he kept picking up bodies. After walking a big loop, Chen Mu had obtained thirty-one cards.

Most of these cards were Stamina Cards and Vitality Cards.

He got three Power Cards, and one Cultivation Card with a duration of a year and a half.

The most delightful surprise was a new card — a Memory Card!

As the name implied, this Memory Card recorded the deceased's memories from life, though only the last three years — yet it still made Chen Mu overjoyed.

Because the dead man, a Blood Wolf Gang minor leader named Ji Gang, had unexpectedly obtained a martial technique two years ago!

"Shattered Gold Palm"

An offensive combat martial technique — Chen Mu had finally gotten one.

Even though it didn't come through a Skill Card and couldn't be copied directly, it still delighted him.

Because with the Cultivation Card in hand, cultivating a martial technique was just as effortless for Chen Mu!

Before dawn.

Darkness still shrouded the earth.

In a quiet, secluded alley, Chen Mu moved with swift steps, skimming along the ground like a swimming snake.

Swish, swish~

Swish!

Borrowing the moonlight, Chen Mu stepped on the walls, vaulted over one wall after another, and entered a small, uninhabited courtyard.

"Creak~"

Gently pushing open the unlocked room door, Chen Mu stepped into the dim room.

Click~

The fire stick lit up.

By the hazy glow, Chen Mu went straight to a corner of a desk, moved aside a cabinet, crouched down, fumbled around in the corner of the wall, and took out a loose stone brick.

The brick was set aside, he reached into the wall hole, and pulled out a small bundle from inside.

Opening the bundle, the first thing to meet his eyes was five silver ingots, then over a dozen silver notes, and at the very bottom was a secret manual.

Three large characters were written on the cover…

*Crushing Gold Palm*!

"…" With the manual in hand, the corner of Chen Mu's mouth couldn't help but curve upward.

This was an offensive Wu Gong; from Ji Gang's memories, *Crushing Gold Palm* seemed to be extremely powerful.

If one said that the internal cultivation method for Breakthrough Realm was the core of a faction,

then combat-oriented Wu Gong was the blade and sword of every major faction.

Having internal force alone, without knowing Wu Gong, could at most keep one from being defeated.

To stand firm and intimidate others, one must possess Wu Gong.

*Crushing Gold Palm* was exactly that kind of Wu Gong!

Ji Gang had hidden it mainly because *Crushing Gold Palm* was the ultimate technique of the Blood Wolf Gang's gang leader; within the Blood Wolf Gang, only three people knew this palm technique.

If Ji Gang had learned it, he simply couldn't explain where it came from.

Stealing and learning Wu Gong was a major taboo in any faction.

……

Tying up the bundle, he put the removed stone brick back in its original place, and moved the cabinet back as well.

Chen Mu, carrying the bundle, retreated from the room, closed the door properly, and left the small courtyard.

Returning home.

The first ray of light on the horizon was just squeezing out of the sea of clouds.

Chen Mu used an Energy Card, and with his spirit invigorated, counted the silver notes; apart from the five silver ingots, the silver notes totaled three thousand five hundred taels of silver.

A windfall picked up for free!

"With this money, I can buy a decent sword," Chen Mu murmured.

The "rapier" ground from an iron rod had its limits after all.

Of this money, Chen Mu planned to give Huang Feiyang one thousand taels, so that he could learn *Coiling Cloud Art* sooner.

The remainder, apart from buying a sword, would be hidden away.

He then opened the manual and began cultivating *Crushing Gold Palm*.

After browsing through the contents once, he found that the threshold for this palm technique was not small.

To cultivate it, one either had to buy the relevant secret medicine, soak the palms day and night in the medicinal liquid to stimulate the tendons, bones, and skin membrane, completing the "Palm Washing."

This process required quite a bit of money, because one set of secret medicine cost three hundred taels of silver!

Or one had to already be a martial artist, possessing internal force, and use internal force to complete the "Palm Washing."

Compared to the first method, using internal force for the "Palm Washing" not only caused less pain, but also took less time.

Ji Gang was only a minor underling; he had never cultivated an internal cultivation method, was not a martial artist, and naturally couldn't perform the "Palm Washing" with internal force.

The three thousand five hundred taels of silver in the bundle was clearly what he had prepared for his cultivation.

In the end, it all went to Chen Mu.

……

"Qi moves with force, force moves with bone, bone moves with tremor…"

In the room, Chen Mu silently recited the contents of *Crushing Gold Palm*, channeling his internal force to roam between his hands, covering the tendons, bones, flesh and skin inch by inch.

Using a Cultivation Card required entry-level mastery of the Wu Gong.

Entry-level began with "Palm Washing."

Chen Mu completed the "Palm Washing" through internal force, starting from morning, through nightfall, and into the pre-dawn hours.

Without resting.

Using an Energy Card, Chen Mu followed the descriptions in the manual, paired with the illustrations, and executed the palm technique move by move in the spacious room.

Whoosh~ whoosh~

Palm winds gusted.

Again and again, again and again.

When the first ray of daylight pierced through the darkness…

Hum~

Chen Mu's body trembled, and under the drive of internal force, both his palms turned pitch-black.

His hands were like ink, unbreakable by a blade.

*Crushing Gold Palm* — entry-level achieved!