Chapter 235: Yiqi Technique

He walked to the corpse nearest to him, and just as he reached his hand into the pocket, he felt two bottles of pills.

"True Qi Pill?" Lu Yu looked at the three clear characters on the bottle, unable to hide his pleasant surprise.

He suddenly realized that at the very least, when these few people discovered him, they had all stuffed a pill into their mouths, after which their strength increased significantly; presumably, it was because they had consumed these True Qi Pills to replenish the True Qi in their bodies.

"They just took them, so they definitely aren't poisonous," Lu Yu said, pouring one out from the bottle.

He saw that this True Qi Pill was similar in size to a High Grade Blood Qi Pill, appearing a golden-yellow color, crystal clear, and looking quite extraordinary.

He put it into his mouth without hesitation and swallowed it.

Unlike the Blood Qi Pill, after the True Qi Pill entered his stomach, Lu Yu only felt a cool sensation spreading through his body, and his originally exhausted True Qi also faintly showed signs of recovery.

However, in the very next second, all signs of recovery suddenly vanished without a trace.

【Consumed Low-Grade True Qi Pill, Potential Point increased by 100,000 points】

A piece of information suddenly appeared in his mind.

"100,000 Potential Points?" Lu Yu breathed a slight sigh of relief.

The price of a Top Grade Blood Qi Pill is 100,000 each, and the price of a Low-Grade True Qi Pill is also 100,000; the former provides 80,000 Potential Points, while the latter provides 100,000—a difference of 20,000, which is still acceptable.

Of course, if it were a Mid-Grade True Qi Pill, the gap would certainly be much larger, at least three times higher.

He carefully put the two bottles of True Qi Pills into his pocket and began to search the corpses again; after a round of searching, he found some miscellaneous items and a Secret Manual.

【Hunyuan Technique】

"An internal energy manual?" Lu Yu was immediately overjoyed.

After all, the only ways currently known to increase the True Qi in one's body are to open the Extraordinary Meridians or to practice an Internal Energy cultivation method.

He was already practicing one Internal Energy cultivation method and was just thinking about verifying whether the bonus to a Martial Artist's True Qi could stack if one practiced different Internal Energy cultivation methods.

Now that he had this "Hunyuan Technique," he could conduct the experiment when he returned.

If they couldn't stack, then there was nothing to be done.

But if they could stack... Lu Yu couldn't help but lick his lips; by then, the True Qi in his body might grow to an extremely terrifying level.

He carefully put away this Cultivation Method and continued to search for a while; after confirming there were no omissions, he walked toward the second corpse.

Soon, he fished out a bottle of True Qi Pills and two more Secret Manuals from this corpse!

Lu Yu was extremely excited and couldn't wait to look at the first one.

He discovered it was a Lightness Skill manual named 【Swift Wind Steps】.

Lu Yu nodded with satisfaction; he had just upgraded his movement technique quite a bit yesterday, and this Lightness Skill would come in handy.

"Saved another sum of Contribution Points."

Next, he looked at the other Secret Manual.

"This is?" A look of surprise appeared on his face.

Because this was not a Martial Arts Manual, but an Alchemy Prescription—a Blood Qi Pill Prescription.

"I already have this one." Lu Yu frowned slightly, but out of curiosity, he opened it and took a look.

"It seems... a bit different from the one I've mastered?"

Lu Yu flipped back a few more pages; indeed, this prescription had commonalities with the one he had mastered, but there were also quite a few differences.

He looked at his Skill bar, and unexpectedly, a new skill had appeared: the very Blood Qi Pill Alchemy he held in his hand.

"Perhaps, I can try to learn it?" Lu Yu pondered to himself; perhaps, after these two Alchemy techniques were cultivated to Consummation, they could be merged just like explosive-type martial arts?

If such a possibility really existed, then the probability of producing a Top Grade Blood Qi Pill should increase significantly.

One must know that refining a Top Grade Blood Qi Pill in an alchemy furnace is worth five or six High Grade Blood Qi Pills.

There were still two days left before the people from the headquarters arrived for the assessment; if he could refine more Top Grade Blood Qi Pills during this period, he would make a fortune.

After carefully putting away the two Secret Manuals, Lu Yu paced over to the next corpse.

He reached out to search the corpse, first finding a bottle of True Qi Pills, and immediately after, he found another bottle... it was actually a Blood Qi Pill?

This was indeed a bit beyond his expectations.

However, Blood Qi Pills were beneficial to Martial Artists of all Realms, just to varying degrees.

He gently pulled out the cork, leaned in to sniff, and was pleasantly surprised to find it was a bottle of High Grade Blood Qi Pills.

"After I go back, I'll give this bottle of High Grade Blood Qi Pills to Wang Shu," Lu Yu pondered to himself, a trace of guilt welling up in his heart.

After all, he had long planned to give Wang Shu a few bottles of High Grade Blood Qi Pills; for him, let alone High Grade Blood Qi Pills, even Top Grade Blood Qi Pills were not difficult to obtain, but in the end, he had eaten all those pills himself.

Lu Yu continued forward, walking toward the next target.

"Eh, another Internal Energy cultivation method?"

Lu Yu looked at the three characters 【Yiqi Technique】 on the cover of the manual and muttered to himself, "I don't know if the True Qi ratio of this cultivation method can stack with the one I practiced before; if it can't stack, that would be a huge loss."

Having said that, he put this manual and the two bottles of True Qi Pills he had found earlier into his Space Item.

It seemed his good luck had come to an end; on the next few corpses he searched, let alone Martial Arts Manuals, even True Qi Pills were nowhere to be found—there were only scattered, trivial little items.

"This is normal, though."

Lu Yu thought to himself; after all, the matter of Meridian Opening consumed a great deal of True Qi. If it were him, he would definitely consume all the True Qi Pills he obtained immediately; opening one more acupoint would increase his strength by one point.

Of course, for an average Pulse Refining Martial Artist, True Qi disorder would likely occur after taking a True Qi Pill, and they would often need to rest for several hours or even a whole day to recover.

It was precisely because of this that he had the opportunity to pick up these things.

"These corpses..."

Lu Yu pondered for a moment and finally decided to take them all away, place them together with the corpses of those people at the entrance of the Lu Family Stockade, and then burn them with a fire.

Of course, Wang Deye's corpse had to be kept for now; in case he found a Space Item, he might need fingerprint unlocking or facial recognition or something similar.

He picked up and organized the arrows scattered around, tied the corpses securely with rope, and after confirming there was no one around, he quickly headed toward the Lu Family Stockade.

Not long after, he arrived in front of the Lu Family Stockade, which had already become broken walls and ruins, and saw that the raging flames were still burning.

Lu Yu sighed slightly, piled the corpses on the ground one by one, then took some gasoline from the military vehicle and threw a burning piece of wood on top.

With a loud "Boom—", the flames instantly surged several meters high.

After finishing this, Lu Yu took Wang Deye's corpse and turned to walk in the direction of Lu Family Fort.

He did not choose to take the main entrance; after all, the fewer people who knew about this matter, the better.

Lu Yu found an unoccupied empty room, properly settled Wang Deye's corpse, and then walked toward the direction of the martial arts practice field.

Before he had even approached the martial arts practice field.

The sounds of exhaling and exerting force with "Hah!" and "Ha!", as well as the sounds of weapons clashing against each other, drifted over.

The moment Lu Yu appeared in everyone's line of sight, everyone stopped the actions they were performing, and expressions of mixed surprise and joy instantly appeared on their faces.