Chapter 100 - 96: NanYi City_1

Spring had gone, and autumn had come, another year has passed in the blink of an eye.

Calculating the time, he has been in this world for seven years now.

He was already twenty-one years old, his childishness had faded, replaced with persistence. His angular facial features and a robust physique gave him an authoritative presence.

He had assumed it would take at least two years to reach his Qi-blood overflow state of five times limit breaking.

But, much to his surprise, he underestimated the cultivation speed at the Integration level of top-tier martial arts, and overpowered his Qi-blood level in just one year.

It’s astounding, considering that his total Qi-blood volume is six times that of an average person, that he managed to reach its overflow state that quickly. Such cultivation speed is absolutely extraordinary.

But if you think about it, it’s normal for disciples of the Feudal Lords, even the ones with high talents, to achieve only Mastery in the first-rate martial arts at their fifth limit break.

Very few can cultivate a top-tier martial art to the Reaching the Peak of Perfection stage at the fifth limit break.

Just like Li Canglin and Li Cangqing, who are known as the double young masters of the Li family.

The sub-veins opened in the process of Reaching the Peak of Perfection are much less than at the Integration stage, so the speed of accumulating Qi-blood cannot be compared.

Furthermore, Lu Yan found that even though his total Qi-blood volume had increased dramatically, he was still able to control it effortlessly, like what Shen Yinuo said, having the taste of both rigidity and flexibility.

"Once ordinary people reach the Qi-blood overflow state at their fifth limit break, they must spend time polishing their Qi-blood to achieve a state of both strength and softness, and only then can they allow the Qi-blood into the bones and strike at the Maritime Marquis state. Can I skip this step?"

Lu Yan was thrilled.

He speculated that it might be related to his multiple achievements in the Acquired Martial Body, which earned him a gift from heaven and earth, and might be related to the Integration of martial arts, which indirectly helped polish the Qi-blood, allowing him to control it freely.

In this case, he was only two types of Martial Food away from reaching the Martial Marquis.

One was the Mutated Nine-section Heart Meat, and the other was Beast King Bone-Protecting Soup.

It was easy to handle the Mutated Nine-section Heart Meat. There was still a Mutated Blood Armor Lizard in the Blood Land Vein. All he had to do was kill it, get its meat, and ask a master Martial Chef to help cook it.

If he could not invite a master Martial Chef, having a few high-ranked Martial Chefs working together would have a chance of success, wasting a few sets of ingredients at most.

However, it was not easy to make the Beast King Bone-Protecting Soup.

But there was a lead.

As early as six months ago, Lu Yan had asked Li Quan to investigate the whereabouts of the Beast King Bone-Protecting Soup.

With enough people under Li Quan, he developed an intelligence department over the past year that specialized in gathering information and was doing quite well.

Of course, this required an investment. Over the year, the amount of Silver Coin invested reached thousands.

But Lu Yan was fully aware of the importance of intelligence, making the investment absolutely worth it.

Two months ago, a piece of information about Beast King Bone-Protecting Soup was delivered to him.

The most difficult part about making Beast King Bone-Protecting Soup was obtaining the main ingredient, the Alien Beast Jade Bone Tiger.

In the Lingdong six provinces, only the Gao family of Nanyi County city had Jade Bone Tigers in captivity.

The Gao Family was a famous Master Level Feudal Lord whose overall strength was even stronger than that of the Li Family in Baicao City.

In Nanyi County, there were three Master Level Feudal Lords, and the Gao Family was considered the first among them.

In the six provinces of Lingdong, Li’an County had the smallest area and was the weakest. The Wei Family was the only Master Level Feudal Lord there.

It bordered the sea to the west, and it was adjacent to a bigger county to the south, north, and east.

It was said that Jade Bone Tigers were hard to rear. They needed a special method for feeding which was only known to the Gao Family, and outsiders were not privy to that information.

Moreover, it took thirty years for a Jade Bone Tiger to fully mature. Only fully grown Jade Bone Tigers’ bones can be used to make soup which helped protect the bones during the breakthrough to Warrior Marquis, thus enhancing the success rate.

Therefore, their production was very scarce.

Given that the Gao Family needed them for their own use, the ones sold were even scarcer.

Just a few sales were hosted over the course of several years, and the quantities were always no more than one or two.

Recently, the Gao family announced that the next time they were going to sell was three months later.

"I must get the Jade Bone Tiger," Lu Yan pondered.

He urged Li Quan to focus on the news from the Gao Family and the Jade Bone Tiger during this period and to ignore other matters.

In the practice room, Lu Yan wielded the Red Blood Blade, and the room was filled with bloody moonlight that etched a series of blade marks on a 2-meter high marble slab.

This was the technique of the Reflecting Moon Blade.

To show his gratitude for Lu Yan’s help in reaching the Unity of Man and Martial Arts, Wang Dao gave Lu Yan his family’s ancestral technique of the Reflecting Moon Blade.

Lu Yan naturally accepted it graciously.

The blade technique was his next key point of cultivation.

According to his speculation, as long as he could cultivate the nine secondary Blade Techniques to the Unity of Man and Martial Arts, he could combine them into one top-tier Blade Technique.

He didn’t want to learn too many weapon techniques; just specialize in one - essentially, Blade Technique.

Of course, if he could find Archery Martial Arts, he wouldn’t mind learning one more technique.

"With the Reflecting Moon Blade, I’m not far from achieving the Unity of Man and Martial Arts. In half a month’s time, I should be able to reach this. I should buy some knife techniques to practice."

Lu Yan thought to himself.

In the past year, he not only cultivated the Shape-shifting Technique to the state of Unity of Man and Martial Arts, but also the Sky Eagle Eye to the same level.

After cultivating the Shape-shifting Technique to the Unity of Man and Martial Art, his disguise became more effortless, with stronger control over facial muscles and bones.

Of course, it was still difficult to disguise himself as others.

Everyone’s bone structure is different, the size and thickness of facial bones vary. Assuming someone else’s likeness would require precise control over facial bones, being able to change the size and thickness of one’s own facial bones at will, which is obviously impossible.

Even if one tries to imitate, they can easily be seen through.

Changing their own appearance only requires moving the position of facial bones and changing the shape and size of muscles; this is much easier.

The Unity of Man and Martial Arts with the Sky Eagle Eye improved Lu Yan’s vision several times. Even in the darkness of the night, if there is nothing obstructing his view, he could still see a small bird flying a kilometer away.

"With my current vision, if I also had the Archery Martial Arts, it would be like adding wings to a tiger. I should ask Li Quan to find some Archery Martial Arts."

Lu Yan thought to himself.

He then left the practice room.

In the yard, more than two hundred martial arts students were concentrating on their practice.

"Hall Master."

"Good day, Hall Master."

Some students, seeing Lu Yan, immediately stopped practicing and greeted him respectfully.

Lu Yan nodded, indicating for everyone to continue practicing. As he looked around, his gaze lingered a little longer on a young man.

His name was Wen Yuan.

It had to be said, Wen Yuan’s martial arts talent was extremely high.

He was practicing the Broken Sky Blade.

In one year, he went from knowing nothing about martial arts to mastering the Broken Sky Blade to the level of Integration.

Second-rate martial arts are much harder to master than third-rate ones. It usually takes a normal person three months to get started and five years to achieve Integration.

Being able to master it in one year, this talent is truly astonishing.

Even Lu Yan could not confidently win against him.

His cultivation level was also not low, two months ago, he had already broken a Sealed Door, becoming a Limit Breaking Warrior.

Comparatively, other students were still accumulating Qi-blood, not even touching what the Sealed Door was.

Lu Yan asked Li Quan to investigate Wen Yuan’s background, and it turned out to be somewhat similar to his own background. His family had been hunters for three generations, living by hunting, and it took them three generations to save enough Silver Coin to practice martial arts.

In his hometown, Wen Yuan also had a good reputation for being honest and filial to his parents.

Good morals, high talent, momentarily, Lu Yan had an impulse to accept him as a disciple, but restrained himself in the end.

He did not plan to accept disciples right now.

Becoming a disciple requires a lot of dedication, once accepted, responsibility and bonds are formed.

In the words of his previous life, this would be generating karma.

He did not want to be bound by responsibilities, at least not now.

Having bonds to Lu Qingshan and Wang Cui was unavoidable; these were bonds formed right when he crossed over to this world.

After inspecting everyone, Lu Yan left the Sanjue Martial Arts Hall and headed to the Baicao Commerce Association, where he purchased two second-rate knife techniques.

The Bloodshadow Knife and the Shock Thunder Knife.

The Bloodshadow Knife was tricky, while the Shock Thunder Knife was domineering.

In a blink of an eye, two months passed.

His Qi-blood finally reached a state of overflowing.

Now, as long as he has the Beast King Bone-Protecting Soup and Mutated Nine-section Heart Meat, he can immediately make a breakthrough to the Martial Marquis realm.

He, along with Li Quan and Cao Hu, rushed to Nanyi City.

Even though there was still a month before the Gao Family would sell the Jade Bone Tiger, but for safety’s sake, they decided to arrive early in case of any changes.

Li Quan had already sent several spies to infiltrate Nanyi City.

There was a distance of over a thousand miles between Baicao City and Nanyi City. Traveling day and night, it took three days for them to arrive.

Upon arrival at Nanyi City, they checked into an inn. Li Quan immediately met the spies to gather information.

Soon, a more detailed report was delivered to Lu Yan.

After reading it, Lu Yan sank into thought.