Chapter 52: Chapter 52 Dual Cultivation of Magic and Martial Arts
Dual cultivation of magic and martial arts leads to conflicts at later stages, making it difficult to break through to higher realms in both paths. Therefore, many choose to pursue only one path of cultivation.
However, dual cultivation of magic and martial arts does have its advantages in the early stages—it can basically overpower the majority of cultivators of the same rank!
Old He and Xiao Wang were the experts in dual cultivation of magic and martial arts that Zhao Yu had created by concentrating the entire resources of the Calming Sect.
At this moment, Old He threw a piece of talisman paper at Li Fei, while chanting a spell.
The talisman paper was the material, and the chant could activate the symbols left on it. As a martial artist in the Body Breaking Stage, you could only cast magic if both the material and the symbols were satisfied.
The thrown talisman paper ignited without flame, turning into a tuft of dispersing smoke; then Old He moved swiftly, leaping to Li Fei’s left side and aiming a high kick at Li Fei’s temple.
The magic he used was called “Gaze,” which subconsciously made people focus their attention on the smoke from the burning talisman paper.
Even half a second of distraction can be fatal in a fight!
The air cracked as Old He’s high kick struck right on Li Fei’s temple.
If it had been a martial artist without a defensive implant, they would have been killed instantly!
But Li Fei just slightly tilted his head, and his knife plunged viciously forward.
He wasn’t distracted at all!
This time, Li Fei paid special attention to the angle of his attack, avoiding the flame patterns on Old He’s leg, and stabbing at a blank spot where there were no patterns.
The knife smoothly entered, getting stuck in the opponent’s shinbone.
Old He grunted and quickly withdrew his leg.
On the other side, Xiao Wang had already arrived. Seeing Old He injured, he hurriedly threw a talisman paper and cast a spell.
He applied the “Calming Technique” to Li Fei, hoping that even if he couldn’t put Li Fei to sleep directly, he would at least be able to halt Li Fei’s offensive momentum to buy Old He some time.
However, Li Fei didn’t even blink as he continued to thrust his knife, chasing after Old He!
Old He lifted his less injured right leg, pulling his knee up to his chest as if the leg were a shield, and leaned his body backward.
Li Fei’s knife hit Old He’s right knee. Since there was a flame pattern there, the wound wasn’t deep.
As he leaned back, Old He lashed out with his right leg, kicking Li Fei’s right arm, which was holding the knife.
The strength of the kick still activated the ‘Flame Pattern’ implant, producing an explosive force strong enough to bend a solid steel pipe!
Yet, Li Fei was unfazed, quickly moving forward a step, with his knife sliding down along the knee cap, and then thrusting down into Old He’s abdomen.
There was an explosion, but it turned out to be Xiao Wang, who had rushed to Li Fei’s side and launched a kick.
Xiao Wang used the same ‘Flame Pattern’ implant, and after his first kick hit Li Fei, he immediately unleashed a second, a third… a flurry of kicks.
In an instant, dozens of leg shadows enveloped Li Fei’s upper body!
Within the blink of an eye, Li Fei had taken several hits, but he ‘calmly’ pulled out his knife, not forgetting to twist it deeply into Old He’s abdomen before doing so.
Drawing the knife back, turning around, thrusting forward.
Bearing Xiao Wang’s attacks, Li Fei executed a move known as the Rolling Thunder Style.
Xiao Wang’s ability to respond was clearly inferior to Old He’s. He failed to kick away Li Fei’s blade in time and received a deep cut across his chest.
Xiao Wang screamed, panicking and stumbling back, only for his calf to be suddenly hooked by something, causing him to lose his balance.
The martial arts he practiced focused on lower-body strength, so he almost instinctively tried to regain his center of gravity.
But Li Fei didn’t give him that chance. Advancing half a step, he jabbed a knife into Xiao Wang’s chest.
Xiao Wang’s eyes widened with horror as he stared at Li Fei.
Li Fei decisively pulled out the knife, turned around, and rushed towards Old He, who was still casting spells on the ground.
Old He tried to use another Calming Technique, but to no avail.
Li Fei plunged the knife into his chest.
Only after dealing with both of them did Li Fei take a breather and check his Myriad Blood Pearl within his body.
Blood Souls: 16 + 16%]
Two days ago, after the battle in the village, some of the Blood Souls in the Myriad Blood Pearl had been depleted, but over the past two days, more than 5 had recovered. In the recent battle, he had toughed out three magic attacks and taken several heavy blows from two people, and with the two uses of Blood Rage, he had lost more than 9 Blood Souls in total.
“Just two people and so many Blood Souls are gone. If a few more such opponents come, I’ll be in danger today,”
Li Fei thought to himself.
Seeing that he was just 2% away from leveling up, he simply took out another pill bottle and consumed another Nourishing Embryo Pill.
Soon, the energy provided by the elixir had satisfied the requirements for leveling up the Myriad Blood Pearl:
Blood Soul Skill: Blood Rage]
This level up had added 10 Blood Souls, with a recovery rate now at 4 Blood Souls every 24 hours.
“Finally, I feel a bit safer,”
Li Fei nodded to himself, then began to search the bodies of Lao He and Xiao Wang.
In the end, he found a dozen Talisman Papers, several bottles of elixirs, and a coverless book on the two of them.
He first flipped through the book and discovered, to his surprise, that it was a novel…
“Really, who carries a secret manual on them?”
“Would it even be a secret manual if they carried it on them?”
Li Fei shook his head, packed all the items he had found, and continued to make his escape.
He did not become complacent from turning the tables and killing two experts skilled in Dual Cultivation of Magic and Martial Arts; what if the Calming Sect had several more such experts?
So, he’d better keep running.
After running for over ten minutes, just as Li Fei was climbing a hill, he noticed movement in the jungle ahead, clearly someone was there.
“Could it be the Inspection Bureau and Zhi Ge Court people have found me?”
His heart leapt with joy, but out of caution, he quickly found a dense thicket to hide in.
In the jungle, a young man dressed in a deep blue robe, evidently a mage from the Righteous Court, was being carried on the back of a middle-aged man in a black robe embroidered with fish patterns, a martial master from the Zhi Ge Court.
Because they had found the marks left by Li Fei along the way and wanted to save time, the team leader from Zhi Ge Court, a martial master in the regular registry, proposed that they carry a few mages from the Righteous Court ahead of the rest.
For this operation, Zhi Ge Court sent out four regular registry martial masters, plus ten martial masters at the Innate Qi Change Early Stage and more than thirty martial artists at the Body Breaking Stage.
Together with five mages from the Righteous Court, if such a lineup couldn’t deal with the Calming Sect, then Xing City would have no choice but to request the army’s intervention.
“There are people ahead,”
said the young Righteous Court mage being carried, suddenly.
His eyes were closed, and between his eyebrows, there was a green line that looked like an eye had been painted there.
asked one of the regular registry martial masters beside him.
The young mage lifted his arm and pointed toward a hill in front of them.
The inquiring martial master accelerated, leaving an afterimage behind and spanning over ten meters in an instant.
Another figure followed with a speed not inferior to his.
The two quickly rushed up the hill, one’s ear twitching and the other taking a sudden sniff before they almost simultaneously focused on the thicket where Li Fei was hiding:
Li Fei stood up from the thicket with a look of surprise on his face.
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