Chapter 144: Spatial Ability?

Of course, all of this was merely a conjecture Lu Yu made based on what he currently saw and felt; what the true situation was would only be known once he stepped into the next major Realm.

Lu Yu took a slow, deep breath and refocused his gaze on the Skill bar.

He decided to continue increasing his Skill levels; this time, he consumed 20 points of Experience Value without hesitation.

Soon, that familiar feeling surged into his heart once again.

【Grass-Flying: Great Success, Traits: Light Body Level 4, Swift-Footed Level 2】

Regrettably, no new trait was unlocked. However, Lu Yu was somewhat mentally prepared for this.

"Only the final proficiency level remains; I truly hope to unlock one more trait."

He pondered to himself, then immediately invested another 30 points of Experience Value.

Finally, 【Grass-Flying】 reached the Consummation Realm.

【Grass-Flying: Consummation, Traits: Light Body Level 5, Swift-Footed Level 3, Grass-Flying Level 1】

【Grass-Flying: Active Skill, after activation, continuously consumes a certain amount of internal energy, increases base Agility attribute by 50%; when walking on grass, internal energy consumption is reduced by 50%; for every level increased, the effect increases by an additional 50%】

Seeing this trait, Lu Yu's eyes immediately lit up; he realized that this was the most core trait of this martial art.

Increasing the Agility attribute by 50% could play a huge role whether in long-distance raids or short-distance skirmishes.

Of course, as a price, the consumption of internal energy would be relatively higher.

But if it were on grass, the internal energy consumption could be reduced by half, which was undoubtedly the most suitable for the current wilderness environment.

"Quite good, and the total Experience Value consumed is less than 70 points; with over 80 points left, it should be enough to max out the 【Water-Pointing Swimming Dragon Skill】."

As Lu Yu thought this, his gaze fell upon the 【Water-Pointing Swimming Dragon Skill】, and he decisively added points.

However, the situation this time surprised him quite a bit; it only took two points of Experience Value.

At first, he thought the 【Water-Pointing Swimming Dragon Skill】 martial art was inferior to 【Grass-Flying】.

But when he glanced at the 【Basic Movement Technique】, he realized the latter had increased from the previous Level 9 to Level 11, and it had also unlocked a brand-new trait.

【Basic Movement Technique: lv11, Light-Agile Level 11, Evasive Level 8, Opening-Closing Level 5, Swift Movement Level 1】

【Swift Movement: For every level increased, travel speed increases by 30%; in combat state, it cannot function】

This was a travel trait, and like 【Swift-Footed】, it could not take effect in a combat state.

"Not bad." Lu Yu evaluated silently in his heart.

Compared to 【Swift-Footed】, this 【Swift Movement】 was a passive skill and required no internal energy consumption.

Subsequently, his gaze returned to the 【Water-Pointing Swimming Dragon Skill】.

Similar to the previous 【Grass-Flying】, the 【Water-Pointing Swimming Dragon Skill】 also unlocked, and only unlocked, one trait—Light Body.

"Continue." Lu Yu said, and invested another 4 points of Experience Value. That familiar feeling struck again.

【Water-Pointing Swimming Dragon Skill: Minor Accomplishment, Traits: Light Body Level 2】

Unfortunately, still no new trait unlocked. Lu Yu did not lose heart and continued adding points.

But to his disappointment, when it reached the Entering the Hall realm, the unlocked trait was actually 【Swift-Footed】 again, repeating the previous one.

Lu Yu could not help but be speechless and could only console himself that these two martial arts could be used in superposition; although the internal energy consumption would double, if he encountered an emergency in the future, it might come in very handy.

"I estimate that by the Great Success realm, no new traits will be unlocked either; perhaps there is still hope at the Consummation realm."

He thought in his heart, while also feeling a bit worried; would the trait unlocked at the Consummation realm be the same? It shouldn't be that bad.

As the proficiency level finally reached Consummation, Lu Yu looked at the Skill bar.

【Water-Pointing Swimming Dragon Skill: Consummation, Traits: Light Body Level 5, Swift-Footed Level 3, Dragonfly-Touching-Water Level 1】

【Dragonfly-Touching-Water: Active Skill, after activation, consumes a certain amount of internal energy, base Agility attribute increases by 50%; when walking on water, internal energy consumption is reduced by 50%; for every level increased, the effect increases by an additional 50%】

"..."

Lu Yu looked helpless; it looked different, but in essence, it was the same, except one was applicable to grass and the other to water.

However, this was not entirely useless; if both skills were used together, the Agility attribute could be increased by 100%, which could become the key factor in deciding victory or defeat in battle.

Of course, the price was that the internal energy consumption would double.

Lu Yu glanced at the remaining Experience Value and found that less than 20 or 30 points were left.

He yawned; after one night, his Agility attribute had increased by 50 points, and if the increase from the 【Basic Movement Technique】 was included, it was even more; overall, the harvest was quite good.

He stood up and walked toward the bedroom upstairs. He had thrown the previous bedding into the basement and replaced it with a brand-new set.

Lu Yu lay on the bed, and just as he was about to fall asleep, his gaze inadvertently fell on a small booklet on the nightstand.

"Isn't this the diary of that horse bandit leader?"

Ever since he wiped out the horse bandits last time, he had been carrying this diary with him, intending to find time to read it, but it had been delayed until now.

"Should I take a look now?" He muttered softly and flipped open the diary to browse through it.

After reading a few pages, he roughly understood the past of this horse bandit.

This horse bandit was named Liu Dong, and like most people, he drifted and wandered in this apocalypse, finally settling down outside Yongan City with his family two or three years ago.

On the surface, it seemed stable, but in reality, they still lived in endless suffering.

At night, people were occasionally ambushed by Fierce Beasts, and the public security in the residential area was extremely poor, with accidents occurring frequently.

Every time he went out hunting, Liu Dong would instruct his wife and daughter to lock the door tight, and no matter who called, they were not to open it unless it was him.

He was truly fed up with such days, so he swore that one day he would let his family live inside Yongan City.

Lu Yu frowned slightly; looking at it this way, this guy seemed to be a good man who cared for his family?

Then how did he end up becoming a cold-blooded horse bandit leader?

With this question, Lu Yu continued to read on.

As he read, his eyes widened, filled with shock, and he immediately flipped through several pages.

Gradually, Lu Yu's eyes narrowed. No wonder that guy surnamed Wang wanted to destroy the Lu Family Stockade; it turned out that he had ruined his plans.

From the diary, it was known that Liu Dong was scouted by a man named Wang Dezhi, and from then on, he became a robber who lived by looting and handed over all the stolen money to Wang Dezhi.

Wang Dezhi promised that as long as they worked hard, they could obtain a quota to enter Yongan City in one year at the earliest.

Liu Dong was immediately filled with motivation; he understood in his heart that being a bandit was nothing glorious, but the speed at which money came in was truly too fast, and he could also use it to vent the negative emotions in his heart.

However, as time passed, he gradually discovered that Wang Dezhi did not keep his promise at all.

Every time he went to ask when he could obtain the qualification to enter the city, Wang Dezhi would always say, "Soon, soon."

Just like that, one year passed, two years passed; many of his former companions had lost their lives, yet he had survived.

Relying on the money he had accumulated from robbery, his life and his family's life outside Yongan City had also improved greatly, and at this time, he gradually began to have thoughts of retiring.

But soon he discovered that he was already deeply trapped and unable to extricate himself, because Wang Dezhi would not allow it.

Wang Dezhi secretly used words to threaten him, saying that if he dared to quit, his family's lives would not be guaranteed.

With no other choice, Liu Dong could only continue to work his life away for Wang Dezhi, and eventually even formed a band of horse bandits to plunder everywhere, finally following Wang Dezhi to Zhou Family Fort.

Throughout the entire diary, between the lines it was filled with Liu Dong's remorse, pain, and curses against Wang Dezhi.

Lu Yu shook his head while reading; this guy had ultimately become the kind of person he once detested. In fact, from the moment he agreed to do these evil deeds, he should have expected such an ending.

Of course, this Wang Dezhi was even more rotten to the core; perhaps he was the mastermind behind this series of events, and who knows how many people had lost their lives at his hands.

Lu Yu flipped back a few more pages; the subsequent content was mostly trivial matters, and apart from that, it was a large amount of abuse from Liu Dong toward Wang Dezhi.

While reading, he felt a bit bored and was just about to close the diary when a passage suddenly caught his eye.

"I didn't expect that this guy actually has a Space Item that can store things. Damn it, it must have been given to him by that Awakened one in his family."

Lu Yu was startled; a Space Item that can store things?

Isn't this something that only appears in xianxia stories? In reality, such a thing actually exists?

He pondered carefully for a while; if there were Awakened who had awakened a Space Ability, it seemed not entirely impossible for them to use their own abilities to create a Space Item.

Lu Yu was suddenly interested; he happened to see the end of the diary and hurriedly flipped to the back, still worried in his heart that the diary would end there.

Fortunately, it was just a false alarm; the records were still continuing.

"I also discovered it by accident; that time I went to deliver money to him, there were twenty or thirty thousand.

He was in a good mood and opened a cigarette case. It was clearly empty inside, but I saw him pull a cigarette out of it and hand it to me, then pull out another one to stuff into his own mouth, and then he closed the cigarette case.

At that time, I widened my eyes; I simply couldn't believe it.

He proudly boasted that this was a Space Item that could store things, and only he knew how to use it; even if I got my hands on it, I wouldn't be able to.

Seeing that I didn't believe him, he even specifically demonstrated it several times.

I watched with my own eyes as he put the money on the table into the cigarette case. The cigarette case clearly looked like it had nothing in it, and he even handed it to me, telling me to try all I wanted, and if I could figure it out, he would give this thing to me.

I tried hard to follow his movements, but this cigarette case was just a common, ordinary trinket in my hands.

Damn it, just thinking about that bastard's smug look makes my teeth itch with anger now; he was just showing off in front of me on purpose!

At the time, I really wanted to snatch this good thing and force him to tell me the method of use, but I didn't dare. Sigh, if only I could also have a thing like this, how good that would be."

After finishing this description, Lu Yu was deeply shocked.

Judging from Liu Dong's account, this matter was highly likely to be true; that Wang Dezhi probably really did have a Space Item.

But to use it, it seemed that a specific method was required; otherwise, it would be no different from an ordinary object.

Lu Yu continued to read down; in the next few pages of descriptions, this cigarette case appeared a few more times, though it did not take up much space.

By the last page, the diary came to an abrupt end; clearly, Liu Dong was unable to continue recording that day.

Lu Yu took a deep breath and slowly closed the diary.

He didn't expect that flipping through this diary would actually yield some unexpected gains.

First, Wang Dezhi should not let others know about his possession of a Space Item; after all, he had a guilty conscience himself.

Second, this guy had a peculiar cigarette case on him that contained a storage space; if he hadn't known this information beforehand, even if he had obtained the cigarette case, he would have most likely thrown it away as junk.

Of course, if he wanted to use this Space Item, he would have to pry the method of use out of Wang Dezhi's mouth.