Chapter 38: Have You Learned It?

About five minutes have passed, a ray of sword light streaked across the gradually darkened night sky.

Dai Hong arrived on his magic sword.

He looked around at Li Jing and Chen Yuran, who were waiting on the spot. His gaze finally fell on the old man enjoying the sea breeze in the neighboring yard.

"Captain Dai."

Chen Yuran stepped forward.

"It’s indeed an illusion array, it’s not high level. It reenacts a specific moment. It’s mostly a basic first-level array, with limited variables."

Dai Hong turned his head back, shortly sighing.

"Let me try if I could break this array."

In the process, he gave Li Jing a glance.

"Learn something."

???

Li Jing.

Dai Hong’s comment left him confused.

What does Dai Hong want him to learn?

Breaking arrays?

Isn’t Dai Hong about to forcefully break the array with his cultivation level?

Is that something he can learn?

Before he could figure it out, Dai Hong pointed his finger at the sky.

"Swoosh!"

A sharp white light shot out of his fingertip, condensed into a flying sword suspended above the three of them.

Li Jing was slightly taken aback seeing it.

"This is..."

"Spiritual Strike of Great Perfection."

Chen Yuran commented.

???

Li Jing.

Spiritual strike?

The flying sword, condensed from white light, is a spiritual strike?

This...

How is it done?

His spiritual strike is also at the Great Perfection.

But he can only compress spiritual power into needle-like shape.

But Dai Hong shaped it into a flying sword.

Whether it’s cool or not is a secondary matter.

At this moment, Li Jing could clearly feel that the suspended spiritual strike flying sword contained a large amount of highly compressed dense Spiritual Qi, which gave off an irreversible sharpness.

Just feeling it made his scalp numb.

It’s hard to imagine what would happen if it struck a human body.

Isn’t this the spiritual strike that is known for its effective range but lower power effectiveness?

Li Jing was a bit confused.

He just learned Spiritual Strike, yes.

He had only used it once, yes.

But he knew very well that the spiritual strike has big limits.

In one strike, only so much power can be concentrated.

Exceeding the limit, the magic spell of the spiritual strike would explode on the spot.

To enhance the power of the spiritual strike, the only way is to enhance the quality of Spiritual Qi.

Dai Hong is at Four Realm, and there is no doubt that the quality of his Spiritual Qi is much higher than him, who is currently only at Second Realm.

But no matter how high the quality of Spiritual Qi.

The fact that the Spiritual Strike is a Second Realm Magic is unchangeable.

Even if it’s in the hands of the Four Realm cultivator, the Second Realm Magic is still the Second Realm Magic.

Even if the magic is trained to the Great Perfection level, its power effectiveness would only break through one realm at most, reaching the level of the Three Realm.

A Three Realm spiritual strike, supported by Four Realm level of cultivation, could reach this level?

While in thought, Dai Hong muttered.

"Splits Light Into Shadows."

With a "swoosh" sound, the suspended Spiritual Strike flying sword trembled lightly and split into a hundred strands, forming a hundred spiritual strike flying swords which dispersed and surrounded the residential area.

???

Li Jing was shocked.

What is this principle?

Can spiritual strike be split?

Before he could figure it out, Dai Hong slightly waved his sword.

The next second, the hundred spiritual strike flying swords turned into streaks of light, piercing into the ground.

"Burst."

Dai Hong casually uttered a word and snapped his fingers.

The next moment, the hundred spiritual strike flying swords embedded in the ground simultaneously exploded.

"Boom Boom Boom!"

A series of loud noises, the ground trembled.

The exploded spiritual strike flying swords scattered into extremely concentrated spiritual power, sweeping the surroundings.

Spiritual Qi surged in a sweeping torrent.

A slight crisp sound, akin to something shattering, resounded. Under the night curtain, the residential area appeared as a shattered canvas, the scene in front presenting like a melting snow.

Upon seeing this, Chen Yuran’s eyes lit up.

"The illusion array is broken."

Dai Hong, however, turned his head to look at Li Jing.

"Did you master it?"

"..."

Li Jing.

Mastery?

He was more likely to ruin it!

He was incapable of even manifesting a flying sword form from the spiritual strike in Dai Hong’s hand.

Not to mention the subsequent light splitting into shadows...

However, he understood the final explosion.

Dai Hong must have compressed excessive Spiritual Qi into the spiritual strike using some technique.

As he released the method of forced compression, the spell formula of the spiritual strike burst due to overstrain, exploding into Spiritual Qi for a shockwave.

"Magic skills are dead, people are alive, power limitations, realm restrictions are nothing but excuses made by worldly people."

Dai Hong opened his mouth with a half-smiling expression.

"Not just the spiritual strike, no matter what magic skill it is, if you delve into the technique behind it, you will discover an infinite world."

Facing Dai Hong’s words, Li Jing remained silent.

If someone else had said these things, he definitely wouldn’t believe them.

After all, magic skills in this world have a clear hierarchy, and their usage has cultivation level restrictions.

However, having witnessed Dai Hong’s "practical teaching", he felt that he needed to change his understanding of magic skills.

The status bar and skill points allowed him to easily learn the desired magic skills and maximize his proficiency.

Even so, there was still room for his magic skills to improve.

The key lay in whether he understood the technique.

With a proper posture, Li Jing nodded.

"I’ve learned."

Seeing him earnestly learning, Dai Hong smiled slightly.

Just as he was about to say something else, Chen Yuran spoke up.

"Captain Dai, the illusion array has broken, shouldn’t we first see if this place is another corpse hiding place?"

"..."

Dai Hong.

The three words "corpse hiding place" touched his nerve.

He quickly walked towards the residence belonging to the seafood store couple without bothering to continue "lecturing" Li Jing.

As Chen Yuran followed, she whispered to Li Jing via a telepathic message.

"Everyone has their own path to follow. The difference lies in how to follow it. The path Captain Dai follows may not be suitable for you. By the way, Captain Dai himself is a fanatical fan of spiritual strike. Although he is a Four Realm practitioner, he hasn’t seriously learned many Four Realm magic skills, and he hasn’t even learned any other Three Realm attack and defense skills except for Object Control."

Upon receiving the message, Li Jing stumbled slightly and furrowed his brows in confusion.

Chen Yuran’s words fully explained Dai Hong’s enthusiasm for spiritual strike.

He had barely learned any Four Realm magic skills.

Beyond Object Control, he hadn’t even learned any Three Realm attack and defense skills.

How much time and effort had he put into spiritual strikes?

No wonder the spiritual strike in his hand was so exaggerated...

How could his spiritual strike be the same as an ordinary person’s if he had put all his life’s effort into it?

Looking at Dai Hong’s back, Li Jing secretly smirked.

Knowing that Dai Hong was an ardent fan of spiritual strikes, he had also confirmed his previous guess.

The reason why Dai Hong valued him was because of his spiritual strike, and nothing else!

...

The illusion array was destroyed.

The real sight hidden behind it emerged.

The old man basking in the sea breeze in the neighboring yard disappeared with the destruction of the illusion array.

The lights that lit up in every household in the residential area were all extinguished, plunging the area into total silence.

Dai Hong was the first to reach the front door of the seafood store couple’s house, straight away sending the door flying with a palm strike. He followed it up by flicking a stream of Spiritual Qi that lodged into the chandelier inside the house.

The chandelier lit up upon absorbing the Spiritual Qi, illuminating the first floor of the house.

Consequently, two dried-up corpses lying in the living room came into view of the three people.

Upon seeing the dried corpses, Dai Hong stopped in his tracks, exhaling a stale breath.

"Has Chief Yang finished up at the seafood market?"

"She was wrapping up when I left. She should have returned to the department by now."

Chen Yuran responded. After looking at the two dried-up corpses in the house, she said

"I’ll contact her and ask her to come over."

After saying this, she turned to look at Li Jing.

Just as she was about to speak, a mouse suddenly scampered out of the kitchen door.

Having previous encounter with the rat demon in the market, Li Jing and the others were extremely sensitive to mice.

Upon seeing the mouse, all three of them focused their attention.

While Dai Hong and Chen Yuran saw nothing unusual, Li Jing saw a health bar over the mouse’s head.

The health bar was short.

The marked number was only 27.