Chapter 52: Breakthrough, Acquired Eighth Stage!

Red Willow Villa was located in Ning County, one of the nine counties under Nanyun Prefecture.

It was about a hundred miles from Nanyun Prefecture city.

Chen Mu changed his clothes, wore his human-skin mask, and rode his horse hard, arriving at Willow Town near the villa by noon.

After asking around in the town, he found out the location of the villa.

Then, he used the light martial art "Grass-Skipping" to take the mountain road and rushed over.

When he arrived at the villa, the constables of Ning County had already collected the corpses one by one.

The entrance to the villa was filled with nearby villagers.

Dozens of people were peeking in with fear and curiosity, looking at the corpses lying on the ground of the villa’s square.

"Too miserable."

"Indeed, I wonder who did this."

"Old Madam was such a good person, yet she was killed too."

"The murderer is simply worse than a beast, not even sparing the young villa master’s five-year-old daughter!"

"Sigh~"

"……"

The crowd discussed in low voices.

Chen Mu stood at the back and listened for a while, then circled to the side and approached the gate.

Instantly—

[Corpse found, do you want to loot?]

"Yes!"

[Corpse found, do you want to loot?]

"Yes!"

……

Card after card was obtained.

Chen Mu didn't enter the villa gate, just circled the courtyard wall and walked for a while, looting 137 cards.

He didn't stay long.

Chen Mu left the villa and returned to Willow Town.

On the way, he checked the cards.

Among them, six Powerful Cards, twenty-eight Internal Energy Cards, two Experience Cards, five Cultivation Cards, and one Martial Arts Performance Card!

One Memory Card!

Two Equipment Cards!

Three Skill Cards!

The rest were either Energy Cards or Stamina Cards.

The five Cultivation Cards had time limits of one year, two years, two and a half years, three years, and one year.

Chen Mu looked around to make sure no one was there, used these five Cultivation Cards in turn to practice the "Cloud-Swinging Sword Art," and finally raised this sword technique to the realm of perfection.

It was also at this moment that Chen Mu understood why the last sword of the "Cloud-Swinging Sword Art," the tenth sword, was so difficult to cultivate.

Because the "Tenth Cloud-Swinging Sword" touched the level of Sword Intent!

Sword Intent, Blade Intent, Spear Intent belonged to the power of spirit and artistic conception; below the Innate realm, very few people could give birth to them.

The tenth sword of the "Cloud-Swinging Sword Art" only touched upon it simply.

In other words, Chen Mu had forcibly touched this power through the Cultivation Cards.

Although it was only an initial contact, it was an extra trump card!

……

The two Experience Cards were still combat experience, but one of them was combat experience for one-on-many.

Chen Mu used them one after another to strengthen his combat-oriented experience.

Of the two Equipment Cards, one sealed a pill recipe, and the other sealed a willow leaf.

Chen Mu didn't unseal them and put them away for now.

The three Skill Cards recorded three martial arts, one of which was the martial skill "Dragon-Shattering Palm," at the realm of mastery.

This palm technique was hard and fierce, attacking without defending, and could be called domineering.

The second was also a martial skill, "Dragon-Capturing Hand," for capturing and binding others, and could also grab from a distance, at the realm of entry.

The third was an internal cultivation method, "Earth Dragon Strength," recording seven levels, which could be practiced to the Acquired Seventh Stage.

Chen Mu didn't need it for now and put this card away.

"Dragon-Capturing Hand" and "Dragon-Shattering Palm" were used one after another, and within a few breaths, he learned two martial arts.

The twenty-eight Internal Energy Cards, the one with the least internal energy cultivation, also had half a month.

The one with the most cultivation was four and a half months!

Although it was a bit unkind, this harvest could be said to be Chen Mu’s biggest one yet.

Twenty-eight Internal Energy Cards, the accumulated internal energy cultivation exceeded three years.

He could impact the Acquired Eighth Stage!

……

Returning to Willow Town, he retrieved his stored horse and rode hard, rushing back to Nanyun Prefecture city.

Returning home, he went straight into his room, closed the door, sat cross-legged on the bed, took out all the accumulated Internal Energy Cards, and used them one by one.

Wave after wave of energy immediately pushed the "Cloud-Rolling Technique" to run, increasing his cultivation and impacting the Acquired Eighth Stage.

This impact lasted for more than half an hour.

When only three cards were left, his whole body suddenly shook, and the pores that had opened suddenly closed, then opened again.

In his dantian, internal energy swirled, alternating back and forth, wandering through the meridians of his whole body, circulating with each other.

Bang~ bang~ bang~

His heartbeat was like thunder, resounding in his ears.

The mist rising above his head, accompanied by the sound of his heartbeat, slowly formed a vortex like the internal energy in his body.

Internal and external circulation, power enough to carry a tripod.

Acquired Eighth Stage!

Breakthrough!

"Phew~~"

Taking a deep breath, calming his boiling Qi and blood, Chen Mu opened his eyes and spat out an arrow of air, which shot out seven or eight meters away.

Acquired Eighth Stage, his body and internal energy had all doubled on the basis of the Acquired Seventh Stage.

The body that Chen Mu had transformed using the Body Strengthening Card earlier was now further strengthened.

His pure strength already exceeded ten thousand jin.

You know, this is the power of the Acquired Perfection.

Chen Mu was only at the Acquired Eighth Stage at this moment.

And the defensive power of his physique...

Chen Mu took out his long sword and used the sharp blade to scratch his arm.

"……"

Not a drop of blood came out, the skin wasn't even broken, only a shallow white mark remained.

Under Chen Mu’s gaze, this white mark disappeared within three breaths.

"Hard-training, Tripod Body?"

Hard-training martial artists have a clear level division, using the tripod as a unit.

A Tripod Body can be impervious to swords and spears, water and fire!

Sharp weapons made of fine steel cannot break the defense.

Ten thousand jin of power, hard-resisting the Innate!

That’s right.

Hard-training martial artists, as long as they practice to the Tripod Body, can hard-resist the Innate realm.

Chen Mu used a lot of Powerful Cards, one Body Strengthening Card, and combined with the breakthrough of his realm, he actually achieved it.

"Unexpected joy."

Chen Mu exhaled, calming his heart and mind.

After resting for a while, he took out the Martial Arts Performance Card, used it, and deduced the follow-up of the "Cloud-Rolling Technique."

Hum hum~

Everything about the "Cloud-Rolling Technique" in his mind was repeatedly presented, connected back and forth, and continuously deduced until it was perfected.

When it stopped, the ninth level of the "Cloud-Rolling Technique" was successfully obtained.

From then on, the path before the Innate realm was stable.

"Phew~"

Taking a deep breath, he slowly withdrew his power.

Chen Mu took out the Memory Card and silently used it.

The next moment, a large amount of memory from a man named Yu San flooded into his mind.

Yu San, a guard in Red Willow Villa, whose father and son were both guards for two generations.

Red Willow Villa was the number one force in Ning County, and looking at Nanyun Prefecture, its fame was not small.

The villa master had the cultivation of the Acquired Perfection, had many friends, and had relationships with all major forces in Nanyun Prefecture.

With such a background, guards like Yu San lived very comfortably.

Until yesterday, people from the Guo family entered the villa!

For some reason, the Guo family suddenly attacked, attacking the villa from inside and outside, and even had Innate martial artists strike.

It only took a quarter of an hour to slaughter everyone in the villa!

The last image before Yu San died was the young master of the Guo family, Guo Jinquan, cutting off the head of the little miss.

"Guo family……"

Chen Mu exhaled.

The murderer who slaughtered more than a hundred people in Red Willow Villa was actually the Guo family!