Chapter 16: Another Special Skill Card!

With a systematic martial art, having already mastered two, learning others became effortless, with almost no pause at all.

Rolling Cloud Art, Residual Cloud Palm, Dispersing Cloud Technique, Sweeping Cloud Sword.

Chen Mu already knew Rolling Cloud Art and Dispersing Cloud Technique from the Falling Cloud Martial Arts Hall's four arts.

At this moment, learning Residual Cloud Palm, he mastered the basics in less than fifteen minutes.

Huang Feiyang stared wide-eyed, exclaiming, "A genius is truly a genius!"

He himself had taken over half a month just to master Residual Cloud Palm.

Chen Mu? He didn't even use fifteen minutes.

Genius!

Only a genius could explain this.

Only now did Huang Feiyang truly understand the gap between an ordinary person and a genius.

They were two entirely different kinds of beings!

……

Having mastered the basics of Residual Cloud Palm, Chen Mu did not delve deeper.

Training cards could resolve this in a breath; there was no need to waste hours in grueling practice.

Better to spend that time walking around the city.

As he wandered, Chen Mu discovered that after breaking through to the Third Stage of Heaven, his pickup range had expanded again.

From the previous four meters, it had extended to eight meters!

At the Second Stage of Heaven, pickup range was four meters.

At the Third Stage of Heaven, pickup range was eight meters.

What about the Fourth Stage of Heaven?

Chen Mu looked forward to it.

……

Walking again through all four districts of the outer city, Chen Mu picked up four cards.

Two Strength cards, one Energy card, one Power card.

Using the Power card stimulated physical strength and generated power.

Though he had not tested again, Chen Mu estimated that continuous use of the Power card had increased his physical strength beyond four thousand jin.

That is, even counting only bodily strength, it still exceeded his realm.

At the Third Stage of Heaven, strength reached three thousand jin.

The Power card's effect was still good; with enough quantity, power became limitless!

……

The sun slanted westward.

Chen Mu returned to the East District, walking home through the evening glow toward Changping Alley.

Suddenly, he quickened his pace and darted into an alley.

He activated Spirit Snake Step, swiftly weaving through, leaping over walls, and vanishing.

"Where did he go?"

Wei Qi, who had chased into the abandoned alley, froze, his expression turning cold as he scanned the surroundings.

The two large men behind him also looked grim, faces dark.

"Little bastard—he spotted us?"

"Chen's not a fool, is he? How could he…"

Shiiii! Shiiii! Shiiii!

A strange sound, without even a whisper of wind, suddenly erupted.

Before the two large men behind Wei Qi could sense danger, five flying needles appeared on each of their faces.

And all five needles pierced deep into their skulls!

Thud~

Thud~!

Two dull thuds—the two men collapsed without a single cry.

"Impossible!"

Wei Qi's pupils dilated; as he saw the two men fall, his spine chilled. Without hesitation, he turned and ran—

Shiiii-shiiii-shiiii!

Ten flying needles shot toward him, piercing both his legs.

Whoosh!

Chen Mu's form flickered, following close behind, swaying left and right, leaving afterimages as he leapt from the wall and lunged before the stumbling Wei Qi.

"Spare me!"

Wei Qi cried out.

Bam!

Bam!

Chen Mu raised his hands and struck twice—on Wei Qi's left and right shoulder blades. Crack! Crack! The bones shattered, and the force sent Wei Qi flying backward.

Huu~

A gust of wind surged.

Screaming, Wei Qi flew backward over ten meters and slammed into the wall with a crash, cracking it with deep fissures.

"Pfft~!"

Wei Qi, in agony, opened his mouth and spat out a large clump of dark blood, his body pitching forward.

Whoosh~

Chen Mu swayed his body, dodging the spray of dark blood, reached out his right hand, clamped Wei Qi's neck, and with a little force, lifted the man off the ground.

Wei Qi immediately found it hard to breathe, his pale face turning even paler.

With both shoulder blades broken, he had no strength at all to raise his hands and fight back; his legs had been pierced by flying needles and were completely numb, as if severed.

"S-spare... spare my life..."

Wei Qi forced out the words with great difficulty.

"Who are you people? Why were you following me? And what was the purpose of following me?" Chen Mu's expression was calm as the hand gripping Wei Qi's neck loosened slightly.

"Huff... huff..."

Wei Qi gasped for air, his eyes rolling back. "We are... people from the Blood Wolf Gang... following you... was for revenge... Boss Wu wants to take revenge on Xie Hong... you're Huang Feiyang's cousin... killing you can provoke Huang Feiyang... and at the same time... at the same time throw the corpse onto the Green Snake Gang's turf... spark a full-scale war between the two gangs..."

Wei Qi finished speaking in broken sentences and begged for mercy again. "Everything I said... is true! I can be your... inside man!"

"Crack~!"

Chen Mu exerted force with his hand and crushed the bones of Wei Qi's neck.

Wei Qi, who had been rolling his eyes, struggling to breathe, and desperately clinging to life, instantly lost the light in his eyes; his head drooped, and he died on the spot.

【Corpse discovered. Pick up?】

"Yes!"

Chen Mu replied at the same time, released his hand, and let Wei Qi's corpse slide down and lie on the ground.

"The big boss of the Blood Wolf Gang, Wu Sihai?"

The Great Blade Gang took advantage of the losses suffered by the Blood Wolf and Green Snake Gangs after their battle to launch a surprise attack and seize territory.

The Blood Wolf Gang retaliating was within expectations.

The problem was that the target of the revenge had actually been chosen to be him, a low-ranking small-time gang member!

The only reason was that Huang Feiyang was his "cousin."

Huang Feiyang had just become a boss these past few days, riding high on his momentum; killing Huang Feiyang would cause no small amount of trouble, but killing Chen Mu was a different story.

It could serve to vent their anger, disgust Xie Hong, and even drive a wedge between Huang Feiyang and Xie Hong's relationship.

Ruthless enough!

"If I really were a hot-headed nobody, an ordinary low-ranking gang member, this scheme might have actually worked."

"Unfortunately..."

Chen Mu exhaled, forcing himself to calm down.

Then, he picked up Wei Qi's corpse, walked over to the other two big men's corpses, took off their belts, tied them together, and bound the two corpses.

Holding Wei Qi in one hand and the two big men in the other, Chen Mu leaped into the air, flipped over the wall, and left the alley.

Following a route from a memory in Ji Gang's memory card, he avoided the nearby residents, swiftly darted along, entered an abandoned small courtyard, and stopped beside a dry well.

He set down the three corpses, frisked each one, and found a few taels of broken silver.

Just now, he pushed aside a large square boulder covering the dry well, and a rotten stench immediately drifted up from the bottom of the well.

Chen Mu had prepared in advance; holding his breath, he picked up the three corpses, threw them into the well one by one, then moved the boulder back and covered the dry well again.

This dry well had been accidentally discovered by Ji Gang over two years ago and was an extremely suitable place for dumping corpses.

The small courtyard had been abandoned for several decades, the ground covered in weeds; corpses thrown into the dry well would be very hard for anyone to discover.

Especially with Wei Qi and the other two — when Chen Mu killed them, he had not created any external wounds that would let fresh blood drip out.

Wu Sihai had chosen him as the target, Wei Qi was the executor, and now that Wei Qi was dead, Wu Sihai naturally could not be an exception!

The big boss of the Blood Wolf Gang was also a martial artist.

However, Chen Mu had long ago inquired about the Martial Dao Realm of each of the big bosses of these three gangs: the Blood Wolf Gang, the Great Blade Gang, and the Green Snake Gang.

Wu Sihai was only at the Second Stage of Heaven!

The Second Stage of Heaven — Chen Mu was fully capable of dealing with him.

But he had to wait until nightfall!

He left the small courtyard where the corpses had been dumped.

On the way home, Chen Mu reached into his pocket and checked the three new cards he had obtained.

Energy Card!

Strength Card!

Skill Card (Special)!

Hmm?

Another special skill card?