Of course, it’s better than nothing, at least better than having to go through four times just to increase his skill level by two points now.
Over the days of sparring with Cao Jingde, Lu Ren had already figured out a rough understanding of the martial path system in this world.
If you don’t count the Qi Blood Power, he’s stronger than he imagined. In this world, power only truly changes dramatically after condensing Qi Blood True Mastery.
Skilfully searching the four bodies, he obtained nearly a hundred taels of silver. After much deliberation, he ultimately dismissed the idea of dissection, dragging the corpses to the riverbank and throwing them all in.
After all, they were people from the Demon Extermination Bureau, hot potatoes. If discovered, he would have no place to stand in this world. Despite having three days left, he wanted to cover up as long as he could and avoid unnecessary trouble.
As he clapped his hands and was about to turn and leave, Lu Ren suddenly felt every hair on his body stand on end, his back went cold, and a chill seeped from his tailbone to his celestial spirit.
Out of the corner of his eye, he clearly saw two ghastly pale horrifying faces emerging from the dark river under the moonlight, staring right at him.
One old, one young. The old man’s eye sockets were dark, his face bizarrely long like a shoehorn. His eyeballs were pitch black without any whites, and dark brown blood oozed from the corners of his eyes. His open mouth seemed like a bottomless black hole, with no teeth or tongue visible.
The child’s head looked as if it had been run over by a train, squashed, with blood all over the face. A greenish-black tongue hung down to his chin, swinging left and right, dripping black saliva, staring intently at Lu Ren with a malevolent look, emitting a strange chuckling sound.
Even with Lu Ren’s current state of mind, seeing this scene made his heart twitch, and he was utterly creeped out.
What the hell, are there really ghosts?!
"Ding, you’ve been subjected to a spirit attack from a Yin Demon. Attack assessment: your spirit value is resilient enough to ignore the opponent’s illusion attack."
With his head slightly dazed and then quickly clearing, Lu Ren saw the system notification and couldn’t help but step back several paces.
How the hell do you fight this?
The opponent doesn’t seem to use physical attacks!
In a flash of thought, Lu Ren quickly envisioned the Heartless Sword, and then in an imagined manner, stabbed the envisioned Wooden Sword towards the ghost child!
Suddenly, a high-pitched, world-class shriek came from the ghost child’s mouth, with a trace of pain on its face. At the same time, Lu Ren’s head felt like it exploded, the sensation of countless needles piercing him making him feel worse than death.
"Ding, you inflicted damage on the Yin Demon using the Heartless Sword in a reckless manner, your Heartless Sword skill level +5, and your spirit suffered some trauma."
Lu Ren cursed internally, and watched these two ghostly faces drift up eerily before turning into two shadows and lunging at him fiercely.
Are they trying to possess him?!
Lu Ren shivered all over, immediately adopting the Phoenix Falcon Fist stance and rapidly mobilizing his body skills, wildly striking at the two shadows lunging towards him with the Phoenix Beak.
Under the rapid mobilization of his body, his blood surged quickly, muscles contracting vigorously, generating waves of heat that pushed the two shadows back.
Lu Ren widened his eyes. Though shaken, his expression remained ice-cold, without change. He abruptly withdrew his hands, turned around, and sprinted away in large steps.
Screw this! If he can’t hit them, better run than to stay and die!
Kicking off, Lu Ren leapt onto a three-meter-high courtyard wall, glancing sideways and nearly losing his heartbeat.
Merely three inches from him, a gaunt white old face with a twisted grimace elongated, a long neck stretching just inches apart, two dark hollow eyes staring fixedly at him.
In turning his head, Lu Ren nearly kissed it.
Then, in his widened eyes, the ghost’s head suddenly tilted, with a crisp cracking sound of bones breaking, even spinning a circle at the chest in an extremely grotesque manner, tying the long neck in a knot before Lu Ren’s eyes.
"Damn you... Flapping Wings!!"
For once, Lu Ren’s face changed drastically, roaring out as his muscles suddenly bulged, tendons knotting, veins protruding, the motion of his muscles making it appear as if little mice were scurrying all over him.
The Phoenix Falcon Flapping Wings, a technique of Phoenix Falcon Fist at proficient level!
In this instant, his heart beat with increased pressure, like a car engine suddenly revved up, wildly pumping massive amounts of blood that circulated throughout his body.
As if some limit in his body was suddenly shattered by soaring internal hormones, unimaginable power surged from the depths of his being, his muscles becoming even more toned, flush with blood, veins coiled around him like snakes!
His bones made creaking sounds under the strain.
The moisture in his body was turned to rising steam by his drastically increased internal heat, and as Lu Ren spread his arms, the swirling steam seemed to form vague wings along with the air currents.
Lu Ren’s fists came together, akin to a Phoenix Falcon flapping, the air echoing like muffled thunder. The air around him was stirred into a fierce gust by his arms, as the surging heat from his body hurled at the ghostly old man.
The ghostly old man let out a strange cry, his twisted face seemingly split in half under Lu Ren’s fiery Qi and blood, transforming into a wisp of green smoke that quickly vanished without a trace.
"Ding, you’ve severely wounded the Yin Demon using the secret Phoenix Falcon Flapping Wings technique of Phoenix Falcon Fist, your Phoenix Falcon Fist skill level increased by +15."
Lu Ren jumped down from the cracked, shattered courtyard wall. At this moment, his arms were extremely reddish, with countless tiny blood openings, even spurting blood with each rapid heartbeat.
Lu Ren promptly steadied himself, breathing evenly, inhaling large amounts of oxygen to balance his blood and oxygen molecules.
Thirty seconds later, as his body’s hormone levels stabilized, looking at his blood-soaked arms, Lu Ren couldn’t help but emit a bitter laugh.
His physique was still lacking. Using the big move Phoenix Falcon Flapping Wings caused his arm muscles to tear, with many capillaries bursting.
It’ll take time to heal.
Beside him, like a bumpkin with a bewildered gaze watching a superhuman, was Landlord Chen, who roared in his heart.
"This is completely a monster!! How can a human reach such a level? It makes no sense at all!"