Chapter 33 - 31: Burning Ants, Killing Saber Technique Reaches Perfection!

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After Yu Wenjing left, Chen Ling showed up with the constables, dragging away the corpses of Zhong Ling and the others, cleaning up the battlefield, and quite knowingly chalked it all up to a bloody vendetta in the martial world!

When he saw Lin Chang’sheng, he was extremely respectful.

"Chen Ling has done all kinds of evil. The city should have received the account books by now."

Lin Chang’sheng watched Chen Ling and his crew depart, holding a flint in his hand, carrying the Dawn Blade and Iron Embryo Bow on his back, locked the door, and headed for Lonely Wolf Mountain.

After simplifying Six Kills, all I have to do is take out living things to gain experience.

Bugs in the mountains, birds in the sky, fish in the water—do they count as living things?

"What’s this..."

Suddenly, Lin Chang’sheng looked up at the sky, his face stunned.

High above.

A giant flying boat, more than five zhang long, split the clouds and soared toward Min Nan City!

Cloaked in white and riding on six pale blue flying swords, figures trailed behind the flying boat like meteors, vanishing in the blink of an eye!

"Why are there so many cultivators heading for Min Nan City?"

Lin Chang’sheng watched the flying boat and six sword cultivators fade into the horizon, a puzzled look in his eyes.

"Once I get a bit stronger, I’ll head for Min Nan City too!"

Lin Chang’sheng said to himself deep down.

Right now, there are still a few martial arts I haven’t maxed out yet. After I hit perfection across the board, I can finally leave Mu City. He knew very well: if you want to become a cultivator—riding a sword to the ends of the world, singing with a cup in hand—you’ve got to get out and see what the world really looks like!

Grass Step EXP +1!

Grass Step EXP +1!

+1!

"If I keep walking on the grass like this until afternoon, Grass Step might hit perfection."

Lin Chang’sheng glanced at his system panel, wearing a satisfied expression.

He deliberately moved along the grass, noticing that every step he took on it gave him 3~4 experience points—this growth speed wasn’t bad at all!

Meanwhile—

Because he was carrying the Dawn Blade, his Wind and Thunder Saber Technique had already reached perfection!

"Huh, ants?"

Suddenly, Lin Chang’sheng spotted a line of pitch-black ants marching across the lawn ahead, like they were hauling some kind of prey.

"These ants are living things too. If I find their nest and set it on fire, can I farm experience points?"

At that thought, Lin Chang’sheng’s eyes lit up. He immediately followed the ants’ trail and found they were hauling the body of a dead frog.

About five zhang away from the dead frog, Lin Chang’sheng found an ant nest the size of a washbasin, absolutely swarming with black ants, bustling in and out of the mound.

"These black ants are a menace. May as well give it a shot!"

As that crossed his mind, Lin Chang’sheng fetched some dry branches and pine needles, piled them over the ant nest, then took out his flint and lit it up.

Crackling—

Crackling—

.......

Moments later, fierce flames roared to life, swallowing the giant nest. The poisonous black ants didn’t stand a chance—most didn’t even make it out before they were roasted.

Six Kills EXP +1!

Six Kills EXP +1!

Six Kills EXP +1!

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In an instant, Lin Chang’sheng noticed a bunch of red system alerts popping up on the panel.

[Six Kills (Perfection) Achieved!]

In less than half a quarter hour, the red alerts stopped, finally announcing that Six Kills had reached Perfection!

"That was too easy—torched the nest and my Six Kills saber art maxed out! Feels damn good!"

Staring at the glowing red alert on the system panel, Lin Chang’sheng was very pleased.

At the same time—

A torrent of information rushed into Lin Chang’sheng’s mind, forming an image of a white-robed figure holding a long saber, endlessly practicing moves in his head.

It was the true technique and insights of Six Kills. These insights instantly fused with Lin Chang’sheng’s consciousness.

At that moment,

Lin Chang’sheng felt as if he had practiced Six Kills for decades.

[Detected two saber arts—Six Kills and Wind and Thunder Saber Technique—both at Perfection. You can spend 30 taels of silver to fuse them into a new saber art. Proceed?]

Right then, Lin Chang’sheng saw another alert appear on the panel.

"You can fuse them for 30 taels?"

Lin Chang’sheng narrowed his eyes and immediately hit the Confirm button.

[Six Kills, Wind and Thunder Saber Technique fusing... Fusion successful! Gained Thunder Shock Slash!]

Not even 60 seconds after hitting Confirm, Lin Chang’sheng saw the red alert flash again.

"Thunder Shock Slash!"

He grinned at the prompt, eyes beaming.

This Thunder Shock Slash—just the name sounds pretty badass.

At the same moment—

Another stream of information poured into Lin Chang’sheng’s mind—it was the training method for Thunder Shock Slash.

Lin Chang’sheng checked his system panel:

[Great Dao is Simple: Level 1]

[Lin Chang’sheng: 17/55]

[Cultivation: First-class (10945/12500)]

[Techniques: Sun and Moon Breathing Technique (Perfection), Golden Bell Shield — Broken Fifth Level (Perfection)]

[Martial Arts: Nine-Star Linked Beads (Archery/Hidden) (Mastery 2346/2500), Iron Sand Palm (Perfection), Flying Eaves and Light Body Skill (Perfection), Cyan Snake Sword Technique (Perfection), Thunder Shock Slash (Entry Level 0/1000), Grass Step (Mastery 1253/2500)]

[Alchemy: Qi Replenishing Pill (Perfection)]

[Spend silver to simplify techniques, martial arts, etc.]

[Status: Yin Qi Invasion (Weakened)]

"Discovered saber art Thunder Shock Slash. Spend 30 taels to simplify Thunder Shock Slash?"

At that moment, a red prompt popped up on the panel.

"Simplify!"

Lin Chang’sheng instantly hit Confirm.

He’d figured he’d need silver for simplifying techniques, so he’d packed over a hundred taels. Sure enough, as soon as he clicked Confirm, 30 taels vanished from his pouch!

[Dao Simplification: Thunder Shock Slash simplifying... Simplification successful, Thunder Shock Slash ==> Drumming!]

After hitting Confirm and waiting about ten breaths, the panel flashed another red alert!

"Thunder Shock Slash simplified into Drumming?"

Seeing the prompt, Lin Chang’sheng blinked and muttered, "Drum of Thunder Shock? Huh, that kind of makes sense? Guess I’d better go buy a drum and start whacking it?"

But honestly, if he started drumming out of nowhere, what would people think?

Too noisy, and he’d piss people off.

Unless—

Joined one of those wedding or funeral bands?

"Eh, who cares. I’ll just buy a drum for now!"

Lin Chang’sheng thought to himself.

If worse comes to worst, he’d just take the drum into Lonely Wolf Mountain and bang out some experience for Thunder Shock Slash.

"I’ll buy the drum later. For now, I’ll go to the Grand Canal and waste some money skipping stones!"

Lin Chang’sheng made up his mind.

Skipping stones could boost his Nine-Star Linked Beads experience, and with the grassy riverbank, he’d gain experience for Grass Step too—two birds with one stone.

Now that Sun and Moon Breathing Technique was maxed, he didn’t even need moonlight baths at night.

He planned to use his silver to buy more Qi Blood Points, increase his cultivation experience, and maybe try leveling up to Martial Arts Grandmaster.

As far as he knew—

Above First-class Experts was Martial Arts Grandmaster.

Lin Chang’sheng knew very well: if he wanted to become a cultivator, he had to push his cultivation as high as it would go. Advancing to Martial Arts Grandmaster Realm would be ideal.

After all, heading to Liuyun Immortal Sect was a long way; the stronger he was, the safer the trip!