《Dominating the Pugilistic World With My Detective Skills》 Chapter 1 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations ¡°I want to leave the clan!¡± In Bian Liang City, which was on the west of the Capital City, a furious and miserable scream filled with helplessness, sorrow, discontent, and anger shot right into the air. This was the heartfelt complaint a player, who completed a series of extremely difficult missions, had for the hidden clan, Divine Constable Bureau, who cheated him. Was complaining useful? Don¡¯t forget what the other party would do! This was Zhan Zhao¡¯s reply to Ye Weiming¡¯s application for resignation. ¡°You can resign, but since you joined the Divine Constable Bureau before, you¡¯re already labelled as a claw of the imperial court by the people from the pugilistic world. Almost none of the clans in the pugilistic world will be willing to accept you.¡± Ye Weiming: ¡­ ¡°Even if you¡¯re lucky and get accepted by a clan, all the NPCs will suspect you. Everyone will have a negative first impression of you. In the future, no matter what quests you do, the speed of the increase your NPC favorability towards you will slow down by half.¡± Ye Weiming: ¡­ ¡°Of course, before that, you have to ensure that you¡¯re able to get quests from these NPCs who have a negative impression of you.¡± Ye Weiming: ¡­ Zhan Zhao blinked and smiled like a lucky cat that was waving its right arm. ¡°Are you sure you want to leave the Divine Constable Bureau?¡± Ye Weiming: ¡°¡­ Not sure.¡± What a sin! If this was another game, the hot-tempered Ye Weiming would have definitely deleted his account and stopped playing this game, no matter how outstanding it was. If he couldn¡¯t do anything about it, he could hide from it, right? But, ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯ was a special kind of game. Which part of it was special? In the real world, human society had just started to enter the universe era. China was starting to move the first batch of youths between the age of 18 to 25 years old to outer space. These youths all applied voluntarily to be part of the pioneers for development of the universe era. 10 fleets of the most advanced space carriers took off at the same time. The first batch of migrants was estimated to be around one million people! To lessen the energy consumption during the space journey that would last many years, as well as to decrease the amount of waste discharge, all the migrants had to enter preservation cabins. They would all be in semi-dormant mode and would spend their long journey in the game. Why did they have to play the game? This was to keep the minds of the passengers active and prevent them from becoming brain dead or a vegetable after many years of hibernation. If that happened, the purpose of this migration would be lost. Thus, no one could leave this game and the account couldn¡¯t be deleted! One couldn¡¯t do anything to the game, not even hide from it. Before the people boarded the ship, the company was very secretive about the game. Nothing was released until they logged into the game. Before they started, there was finally a brief synopsis of the background of the game given to them. That was when Ye Weiming knew that this was an online game based in a pugilistic world. The Wuxia culture raged through the entire country in the past so Ye Weiming had heard about it before. But, he only heard of it before. In the Novice Village, Ye Weiming completed a series of difficult quests given by an NPC called ¡®Soymilk Little White¡¯. He looked for clues, guessed who the culprit was, and solved puzzles. He thought that he would be lavished with rewards but besides the fixed amount of EXP, cultivation, and money, he was only given a token of authority to enter a hidden clan. Ye Weiming didn¡¯t understand the Wuxia culture deeply, so he could only predict which choice was good or bad based on his past game experience. Based on his judgement, secret roles were better than normal roles! Unexpectedly¡­ This rubbish hidden clan didn¡¯t have any martial arts scriptures of their own! None at all! The people who entered famous righteous clans would start from the basic level of martial arts and then move all the way to the high levels. As long as they were willing to pay and contribute to their clan, they would be able to learn the martial arts scriptures. Ye Weiming made a friend in the Novice Village who later entered the Shaolin Temple. He revealed to Ye Weiming that the Shaolin Temple had 72 Ultimate Techniques! In the face of Ye Weiming¡¯s questionings, NPC Zhan Zhao, who was in charge of organizing the new players, just laughed and asked him back, ¡°Those martial arts clans are like martial arts schools. If you want to learn their martial arts, you need to pay money. As for the Divine Constable Bureau, we¡¯re the law-enforcing department of the imperial court. We can collect our salary each month. Have you seen any company taking care of the education of their employees?¡± Without comparison, there wouldn¡¯t be any harm caused¡­ Now, Ye Weiming just felt his life turning grey and dark. He couldn¡¯t see any hope in his future. Zhan Zhao noticed that Ye Weiming had already submitted to his fate. He was giving a helpless look, so Zhan Zhao started persuading him patiently and sincerely, ¡°You don¡¯t have to be so depressed. Actually, there are many ways of learning martial arts. Learning them from the clans is just the most convenient way. Also, this route won¡¯t let you rise to the peak directly. Let¡¯s take the Shaolin Temple you mentioned as an example. The ¡®Yi Jin Manual¡¯ is more powerful than the 72 Ultimate Techniques. But, it isn¡¯t classified as one of their clan¡¯s martial arts, right?¡± Zhan Zhao changed the topic and continued, ¡°In our Divine Constable Bureau, you might not be able to learn a clan¡¯s martial arts, but you can learn things that the other clan disciples can¡¯t.¡± Ye Weiming raised his eyelids and asked casually without looking up. ¡°For instance?¡± Zhan Zhao took out four tokens from somewhere. There was a word written in gold on each of the tokens respectively: Sky, Earth, Human, and Ghost. ¡°Places like ours are not in charge of educating employees, but we still have necessary training for our employees before they start their jobs.¡± Zhan Zhao laughed and said, ¡°Each of these four tokens represent a unique skill of the Divine Constable Bureau. I need to congratulate you because as the first player to become a constable, you have the right to choose first.¡± There¡¯s a unique skill I can learn? Ye Weiming gathered his strength and asked hurriedly, ¡°Can you tell me what unique technique each token represents?¡± Zhan Zhao replied tactfully, ¡°No.¡± ¡°Tsk!¡± Ye Weiming glared in contempt at the fellow who looked like a loyal and good person. Then, he decisively took the ¡®Sky¡¯ token. Why did he choose this? Because the word ¡®Sky¡¯ sounded coolest! Ding! Congratulations, you have the chance to learn a unique skill of the Divine Constable Bureau. Please proceed to the autopsy room and look for Mr. Song to learn this skill. The autopsy room? Isn¡¯t that the place where corpses are kept? By right, the skill that was associated with this place should have been on the ¡®Ghost¡¯ token, right? Ye Weiming saw that Zhan Zhao had already kept the other three tokens, so it was obvious that he didn¡¯t have the chance to change his decision. Zhan Zhao showed no intention of explaining anything to him either. Ye Weiming didn¡¯t want to waste his breath, so he took the token and rushed to the autopsy room. ¡­ The autopsy room was in a corner of the Divine Constable Bureau. Before he got close to the autopsy room, Ye Weiming could already faintly smell the odor of the corpses that made people uncomfortable. But, in order to learn the technique, he bore with his discomfort and walked in. The moment he entered the main door of the autopsy room, he heard an old voice singing softly, ¡°Flies wept blood and laughed at the sky. Ships get locked up by white chains.¡± (The title song of drama on Song Ci, the famous post-mortem examiner during the Southern Song Dynasty. This phrase was a lament of the political power at that time, when powerful officials covered up for each other and righteous officials had no way of fighting against them because there were too few of them.) Ye Weiming looked over. He saw a skinny middle-aged man. His skin was slightly white and he looked unhealthy. When Ye Weiming noticed the man, the middle-aged noticed him too. The middle-aged man put down the book in his hand and asked, ¡°Are you the new constable player from the Divine Constable Bureau?¡± ¡°That¡¯s right!¡± Ye Weiming gathered his senses. ¡°Are you Mr. Song?¡± The middle-aged man nodded lightly. ¡°Yes, I¡¯m Song Ci.¡± Song Ci! Ye Weiming didn¡¯t know who Zhan Zhao was, but he knew about Song Ci. He just didn¡¯t know if this Song Ci was the same one as the one in history, the pioneer of the forensic world. ¡°Pleased to meet you, Mr. Song. I¡¯m Ye Weiming.¡± Although Ye Weiming was very unhappy, he still had his respect for this historical figure, who was one of the national pride of China¡¯s history. As he spoke, he took out the ¡®Sky¡¯ token and passed it to the middle-aged man. ¡°I came to learn the skill.¡± Song Ci looked at the token. Then, he sized up Ye Weiming. After some time, he said, ¡°If you want to learn my skills, you need to complete my assessment first.¡± That meant that he needed to do a quest. Ye Weiming was already mentally prepared, so he nodded instantly. ¡°Tell me about it.¡± The moment he finished speaking, Song Ci took out a test paper full of words and said sternly, ¡°There¡¯s 10 questions here. If you can get more than six questions correct, you¡¯ll pass the test.¡± Ye Weiming: (¡Ñ_¡Ñ)? I have to take a test before I learn a skill?! Chapter 2 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations As a youth who had participated in eight years of compulsory education, Ye Weiming was naturally not afraid of tests. But, the questions on this test paper were a little too weird. First question: Two constables had a 100-metre race. When Constable no. 1 reached the finishing line, Constable no. 2 was still ten metres away from the finishing line. If we restart the race and move Constable no. 1 ten metres behind the starting point, will they be able to reach the finishing line at the same time? Second question: Two people spend one hour counting the number of people who walked past them. One of them sat in front of his house while the other one walked back and forth on the streets. Who will have a higher count? Third question: Chickens and rabbits are kept in the same cage¡­ ¡­ All 10 questions were logical questions. Some were difficult while others were easy. Ye Weiming moved his pen quickly and completed the first nine questions in less than 10 minutes. When he reached the last question, he finally frowned. A victim committed suicide. During the post mortem, no signs of poisoning were found. However, many scratches were found on his body and his body was badly mangled. There were remnants of flesh and blood in the nails of the victim. He had a relieved look on his face. Please explain what he experienced before his death. ¡± Is all the information written down already?¡± ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± ¡°Are there any more clues?¡± ¡°No. The windows and doors were all locked tight at that time. But, many objects in the room were overturned. I think that the victim must have been in terrible pain before his death. But, this is just my guess.¡± ¡­ Five minutes, 10 minutes, 20 minutes¡­ ¡­ Even when the one hour time limit was up, Ye Weiming couldn¡¯t come up with an answer. Song Ci took the test paper away and nodded as he looked at it. His mouth moved continuously as he said, ¡°The answer to the first question is no. Constable no. 1 will still reach the ending before Constable no. 2. You got it right, which means that you have clear logic and thinking.¡± ¡°As for the second question, the number of people they counted will be the same. There¡¯s nothing special about this question, but after most people answer the first question, they will naturally think that there are small tricks in the second question too. It¡¯s good that you¡¯re able to ignore such distractions and make the correct judgement. Not bad.¡± ¡°The third question¡­¡± ¡­ Song Ci talked at a natural speed. Every time he revealed the correct answer, he would explain the aim and main points relating to the question. He only put down the test paper after he finished reading the ninth question. Then, he took out a book and passed it to Ye Weiming. ¡°Your performance is not bad. You have the right to inherit my legacy. This is the reward for your quest.¡± Record Of Redressing Mishandled Cases: A famous medical manual written in ancient China. After using this, you will learn the skills associated with it. Do you want to use it now? By now, Ye Weiming could confirm that this Song Ci in front of him is the Song Ci in history, the pioneer of the forensics world. Yes! Ding! You¡¯ve learned your vocational skill ¡®investigation¡¯. You can find more details in the survival skills section. It¡¯s really a vocational skill¡­ With the help of the hints given by the system, Ye Weiming found ¡®investigation¡¯ under the survival skills section. There were two skills under ¡®investigation¡¯ that he had already learned. Post mortem: Passive skill. Finding clues through post mortem and field investigation to break a case. Collecting corpse: Everything is gone after death. Whether the victims were good or bad in the past, their corpse shouldn¡¯t be thrown into the wilderness. There¡¯s a possibility that you might find some hidden items on the victim while you¡¯re inspecting the corpse you collected. Note: Items will be depleted after each use. What an amazing skill! When he saw the collecting corpse¡¯ skill, Ye Weiming couldn¡¯t help but become energetic. There was a chance that he might find hidden items on the corpses. If he killed a boss and no good items popped out, did this mean that he could use the collecting corpse skill to find an item? Or rather, this was a chance for him to feel the corpse again! Ye Weiming calmed himself down before he cupped his hands together sincerely at Song Ci. ¡°Thank Mr. Song for your guidance. However, there¡¯s still one question I want to ask. Mr. Song, can you tell me the answer for the tenth question, so that I can satisfy my curiosity?¡± Song Ci smiled. ¡°Do you want to know?¡± Yes! Song Ci: ¡°I want to know too.¡± Ye Weiming: ¡­ Song Ci continued, ¡°The tenth question is a strange victim I met a few days ago. I used all kinds of methods but I¡¯m still unable to find the answer. Since you¡¯re interested in this question, you can look for the answer yourself.¡± Ding! Received the hidden mission ¡®the answer to the tenth question¡¯. Reward for the mission: An unknown secret martial arts scripture. Ye Weiming was stunned when he heard this. ¡°The Divine Constable Bureau don¡¯t have their own martial arts, right? ¡°This isn¡¯t a clan¡¯s martial arts scripture. It¡¯s a hidden mission.¡± Song Ci replied calmly, ¡°A clan¡¯s martial arts is the joint asset of the clan. All the players are able to learn it by spending clan contribution and money once they reach the requirements. The Divine Constable Bureau doesn¡¯t have such martial arts to teach it¡¯s players. However, in the past, I received a scripture left behind from the former dynasty. It¡¯s my personal asset. If you complete this quest, I don¡¯t mind giving it to you as your reward.¡± So the Divine Constable Bureau had martial arts to learn too. But, he needed to use another method to get them. Ye Weiming nodded and said seriously, ¡°Thank you, Mr. Song.¡± Song Ci was very satisfied with Ye Weiming¡¯s performance too. ¡°Do you still have other questions?¡± ¡°There¡¯s one last question.¡± Ye Weiming asked decisively, ¡°Since the ¡®Record Of Redressing Mishandled Cases¡¯ is about the inspection of corpse, no matter how you look at it, it seems more relatable to the ¡®Ghost¡¯ token. Why is it defined by the ¡®Sky¡¯ token?¡± ¡°Good question!¡± Song Ci became excited when he heard this question. A righteous aura suddenly exuded from his thin and frail body. Instantly, Ye Weiming felt a deep respect for this person. ¡°As a law enforcer, you must always remember this sentence. A human life is more important than the sky!¡± ¡­ The Divine Constable Bureau didn¡¯t have its own martial arts, but there was no need to worry about not having quests to do. When Zhan Zhao knew that Ye Weiming came to get quests, Zhan Zhao immediately gave him a huge book full of wanted criminals. There were at least more than 100 arrest quests listed in the book for him to choose from. After choosing, Ye Weiming decided to take two quests at one go. Old Man Li who commited suicide. Quest level: Three stars A carpenter from Dukang Village, Old Man Li, hangs himself at home. However, there are many doubtful points at the scene of the crime. The constables in the village had already cordoned off the area. Please go there immediately and investigate the truth. Quest reward: 1,000 EXP, 100 Cultivation, 50 Silver. Catching Chou Ba Quest level: Three stars Chou Ba¡¯s nickname is Single-eyed Vulture. He¡¯s an infamous bandit who has done all kinds of evil things. More than 10 people have died in his hands. Based on evidence, this evil bandit has come to Dukang Village recently. Please catch this bandit, dead or alive! Quest reward: 1,000 EXP, 80 Cultivation, 1 Gold. The difficulty of three-star quests was neither high, nor low. It was just within Ye Weiming¡¯s acceptance range. Most importantly, the location for these two missions was the same. They could be completed together and it would raise his productiveness. When Ye Weiming reached the main entrance of the Divine Constable Bureau, he met another player walking in. When the player saw Ye Weiming, he took the initiative and greeted him. ¡°Senior brother, nice to meet you. I¡¯m Fei Yu. I came to join the clan. We¡¯ll be senior and junior from now on. Please take care of me in the future.¡± Ye Weiming might have been influenced by Song Ci¡¯s righteous aura, so when he saw this innocent youngster who was going to enter the pit of hell, he reminded the young man, ¡°My name is Ye Weiming. But, you don¡¯t have to call me ¡®senior brother¡¯, yet. This Divine Constable Bureau is not a good place. I promise that after you give them your token of authority, you will definitely regret it.¡± Unexpectedly, when Ye Weiming said this, a look of contempt flashed passed the player¡¯s eyes. But, the player called Fei Yu still remained polite as he said, ¡°Thank you for your reminder. However, I still feel that hidden clans should be more powerful.¡± It looks like this young fellow thinks that I want to be the only person to have the advantage of entering this hidden clan. Is he thinking that I¡¯m purposely lying to him, so that he will leave? My kindness went down the drain. Ye Weiming felt frustrated. But, as a good person, as a pure person, as someone who had thrown away his bad taste, he still continued speaking righteously, ¡°I¡¯m saying the truth. This clan is a cheater!¡± At this moment, if Ye Weiming gave a frustrated look and didn¡¯t want to worry about Fei Yu anymore, Fei Yu might have hesitated. But, the more enthusiastic he was, the more the other party thought that he was up to no good. ¡°Okay, I understand.¡± Fei Yu nodded indifferently. Then, he walked into the Divine Constable Bureau. As he looked at Fei Yu¡¯s disappearing back view, the corners of Ye Weiming¡¯s lips lifted up slowly and he gave an evil smile. He didn¡¯t rush to do his quests. Instead, he waited at the entrance of the Divine Constable Bureau. Three minutes later, a furious and miserable scream filled with helplessness, sorrow, discontent, and anger echoed through the entire Divine Constable Bureau. ¡°I want to leave the clan!¡± When the scream entered his ears, Ye Weiming felt extremely comfortable. He didn¡¯t stay at the entrance anymore and walked quickly in the direction of the resting station at the city gate where he could find a horse. He sat in his horse carriage and went to do his quests. He was in a good mood¡­ Chapter 3 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations The Dukang Village was named after Du Kang. The village was known for making liquor and selling liquor. The moment he got off the horse carriage, Ye Weiming smelled the faint fragrance of liquor in the air. All kinds of taverns and stalls selling liquors could be seen everywhere. This created a unique liquor culture in the village. If you were someone who loved liquor, you would definitely be deeply attracted by the environment over here. You would look for your friends and drink until you were drunk. Ye Weiming didn¡¯t like to drink. He was the kind of person who would never drink if he was alone. Even if there was a gathering, he wouldn¡¯t be able to differentiate the good liquor from the bad. His mouth was only able to differentiate beer, white liquor, and wine. He didn¡¯t have any interest in liquor and he came for his quests, so he didn¡¯t have the heart to admire the liquor culture here. Instead, he went directly to the venue of his quest, which was Old Man Li¡¯s house. Why did he know the way? The answer was simple. Dukang Village was the novice village where Ye Weiming was born. He arrived at the main entrance of Old Man Li¡¯s house. He heard two voices arguing inside the house. ¡°Old Man Li might be old but he¡¯s very optimistic. A few days ago, he even asked me to find a piece of high-quality wood to make an exquisite chessboard for Ah Ren. Yesterday afternoon, I heard the neighbor, blacksmith Uncle Zhao saying that Old Man Li was collecting books on mathematics because he wanted to upgrade his skills.¡± The person speaking was a delicate and pretty young lady player. She raised her fingers and counted the pieces of news involving Old Man Li that happened during these few days. Then, she asked loudly, ¡°Why would an optimistic person who is full of hope and motivation for his future commit suicide suddenly?¡± ¡°You¡¯re just a little girl who only recently entered the pugilistic world. What do you know?¡± An NPC dressed like a head constable scorned the female player¡¯s questioning. ¡°To solve a case, you need evidence. There are no signs of a brawl at the scene. No signs of burglary were found either. The victim was hanged on the beam. If he didn¡¯t commit suicide, what else could it be? Someone murdered him?¡± This person was Head Constable Liu from Luoyang City. He received an order to catch Single-eyed Vulture, Chou Ba. When Ye Weiming was still living in the novice village, Head Constable Liu came to find him and asked him for clues before. There were two constables standing behind him. These two constables stood obediently at the entrance and didn¡¯t say anything. Ye Weiming¡¯s gaze landed on Old Man Li¡¯s corpse. A series of hints given by the system suddenly appeared: Ding! Passive skill ¡®Post mortem¡¯ is activated. You notice three clear finger marks on Old Man Li¡¯s neck. Ding! Passive skill ¡®Post mortem¡¯ is activated. You notice that¡­ ¡­ You can do this!? With this skill, it seemed that he didn¡¯t need to search for clues himself. Solving a crime was so simple! Ye Weiming finished reading all the hints given by the system. On the other side, the young lady and Head Constable Liu were still arguing over the cause of Old Man Li¡¯s death. When Ye Weiming saw this, he knew that it was time for him to perform¡­ Cough, cough, it¡¯s time to show you my real skill! He took a step forward and opened his mouth voluntarily, ¡°Commit suicide? I don¡¯t think so!¡± ¡°Who is talking¡­¡± When he heard someone helping the female player, Head Constable Liu turned his body angrily. However, when he saw the attire Ye Weiming was wearing, his furious expression disappeared immediately. He wore a fake smile on his face and asked, ¡°Little brother, I remember that we¡¯ve met each other before. Looking at your attire now, could it be that¡­¡± After a player entered a clan, they could use their clan contribution and money to exchange for their clan¡¯s outfits. The quality of these outfits was much better than the items they could get in the market based on their current level. It could be predicted that in the future, for a long period of time, one would be able to identify which clan someone belonged to with just one look. The Divine Constable Bureau was different from the various clans. As a law enforcement department of the imperial court, the outfits for a constable would be given directly the moment they entered the Divine Constable Bureau. Everything was free too. There were four outfits. They were the Flying Fish Suit, the Twined Palm Hat, the Long Official Boots, and the Green Blade Sword. All of them were blue-colored outfits. At this stage when most players couldn¡¯t even get a complete set of whiteboard items, his outfits were considered extremely extravagant. Of course, a full set of premium outfits wouldn¡¯t make an NPC treat you differently. However, the attire Ye Weiming was wearing represented the Divine Constable Bureau! Based on what the NPC Zhan Zhao said, the Divine Constable Bureau was formed after the imperial court combined the original Brocade-clad Guard and the Department Six. It was led personally by Head Supremacy Huang and it was in charge of reorganizing the order of the pugilistic world. When they were investigating a crime, the local authorities had to cooperate with the Divine Constable Bureau unconditionally. Ye Weiming took out his token of authority and cleared Head Constable Liu¡¯s suspicion directly. At the same time, he said, ¡°I came to investigate Old Man Li¡¯s cause of death too.¡± ¡°Young swordsman, I see that you¡¯ve already become a constable of the Divine Constable Bureau. Please excuse me for not recognizing you.¡± Head Constable Liu apologized but his gaze was filled with hostility as he looked at Ye Weiling. ¡°Based on what I heard just now, you think that Old Man Li didn¡¯t commit suicide too?¡± Ye Weiming nodded. ¡°That¡¯s right!¡± ¡°Hmph¡­¡± Head Constable Liu unconsciously revealed a scornful cold smile. ¡°Since you are from the Divine Constable Bureau, you should know that evidence is needed to solve a crime. Hence, I don¡¯t think that you will be like that young lady, who just concluded that Old Man Li was murdered because of her subjective perception, right?¡± Ye Weiming walked to the center of the room calmly when he heard this. Old Man Li¡¯s corpse was hanged from the beam. He raised his hand and pointed at the bruise on Old Man Li¡¯s neck that wasn¡¯t covered by the rope. He said, ¡°There are obvious finger marks on Old Man Li¡¯s neck. The angle of his head is different from the direction normal victims faced when they hanged themselves. There¡¯s a high chance that his neck was twisted and broken by a martial arts master before he was hanged.¡± ¡°But¡­¡± ¡°Don¡¯t be anxious. I¡¯m not done yet,¡± Ye Weiming continued. ¡°The window at the back of this house is opened. There¡¯s a clear footprint on the edge of the window. Do you think that this is a piece of evidence left behind by the culprit when he escaped?¡± ¡°This¡­¡± Every time Ye Weiming revealed a piece of evidence, the female player¡¯s eyes would light up. She controlled her urge to cheer. At the same time, Head Constable Liu¡¯s expression turned more and more sinister. His face was so black it seemed as though ink was going to seep out of his skin. Before he could argue about anything, Ye Weiming picked up the stool on the ground and placed it below Old Man Li¡¯s feet. There was still some distance between the stool and Old Man Li¡¯s feet, which were hanging in mid-air. Thus, there was no question that Old Man Li was murdered. Someone who wanted to commit suicide wouldn¡¯t tie the string above his head! Head Constable Liu finally gave an enlightened look. Then, he said, ¡°Just like you said, Old Man Li must have been murdered by someone. The culprit is most probably a martial arts master. I¡¯ll return to the Magistrate Court immediately and report this to the magistrate. I¡¯ll ask him for more helpers to assist you in catching the culprit!¡± This sly old fox! Ye Weiming scolded the head constable in his heart secretly. Then, he waved his hand impatiently. ¡°This case involves people from the pugilistic world. Thus, the Divine Constable Bureau will naturally take over this case. You don¡¯t have any business here anymore.¡± Head Constable Liu was elated when he heard this. He changed his arrogant attitude and bowed respectfully to Ye Weiming. ¡°I¡¯ll obey your wishes! Sir, if you still have any more orders, you can come and look for me. I¡¯ll definitely cooperate with you fully to catch the real culprit.¡± Ye Weiming nodded. He didn¡¯t pretend to be polite and replied, ¡°In that case, go and help me find a grass mat.¡± ¡°Yes, sir!¡± Head Constable Liu left with his two constables. The young lady came forward instantly. ¡°Brother, nice to meet you. My name is March. I received the quest to investigate Old Man Li¡¯s death too. Since our quest is the same, can you team up with me and lead me in completing this quest?¡± As she spoke, she had already sent Ye Weiming a friend request. ¡°My name is Ye Weiming.¡± After revealing his game ID, Ye Weiming accepted the young lady¡¯s friend request and then sent her a request to form a team. March entered his team. Ye Weiming asked casually, ¡°What opinions do you have regarding this quest?¡± March replied angrily, ¡°I strongly suspect that Head Constable Liu. He should at least be an accomplice. If not, there is no way to explain his unreasonable actions.¡± Chapter 4 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations Ye Weiming realized that March was showing the signs of thinking too much so he quickly interrupted her bold assumption and said, ¡°Before we have any evidence, we shouldn¡¯t make a judgment based on our subjective perception.¡± The young lady wasn¡¯t convinced. ¡°How do you explain his strange actions then?¡± ¡°Do you really think his actions are strange?¡± Ye Weiming shook his head. ¡°I feel that his actions are normal.¡± ¡°There are so many suspicious points in this case but he chose to ignore them.¡± Ye Weiming shrugged. ¡°It¡¯s human nature to avoid harm. If something is not beneficial to him, it¡¯s only natural that he would choose to ignore it.¡± Ye Weiming explained it more directly when he saw that March still didn¡¯t understand his meaning. ¡°If Old Man Li committed suicide, he can close the case now. If he was murdered, as the head constable, he will need to find the real culprit. If he can¡¯t find the culprit, he will be reprimanded for failing at his job.¡± ¡°But, after you appeared, he was disrespectful towards you even though you¡¯re his superior. Is that normal too?¡± ¡°He¡¯s just being uncooperative.¡± Ye Weiming shook his head slightly. ¡°He might get lectured for being disrespectful towards his superior but as a constable of the Divine Constable Bureau, I don¡¯t have the right to take his life. Instead, a cruel and powerful bandit can kill him.¡± ¡°But, in the end, he pretended to be enlightened and decided to cooperate with you¡­¡± ¡°That¡¯s because I said that the Divine Constable Bureau will take over this case. Since his safety was reassured, he was willing to patch up his relationship with his superior. I believe that if I ask him for help, he will agree to help me readily. But, it didn¡¯t include him risking his life to help me catch a bandit.¡± ¡°That¡¯s still not right.¡± The young lady shook her head and said, ¡°Before we entered the game, in the introduction given by the game, they said that the higher the level of NPC, the higher their intelligence. Head Constable Liu doesn¡¯t look like a high-level NPC no matter how I look at him¡­¡± ¡°Your concept is wrong.¡± Ye Weiming raised one finger up and shook it lightly as he replied, ¡°High intelligence and fearing death is not the same concept.¡± ¡°Speaking of it, the creators of games aren¡¯t kind people. Most of them liked to tease their players. I dare to say that if I use my identity of force Head Constable Liu and his men to help me, they will have the guts to make some noise while we¡¯re catching the culprit so that we will fail our mission. But, if you analyze the situation carefully, their actions are completely reasonable. You won¡¯t be able to find anything wrong with them. This is the most impressive part of these game creators.¡± March remained silent for a few seconds. ¡°I suddenly find this game very difficult to play¡­¡± Ye Weiming didn¡¯t want to waste time on this unnecessary topic, so he quickly changed the topic. ¡°Let¡¯s talk about your mission first.¡± When she was asked about her mission, the young lady¡¯s expression became prideful. ¡°Actually, I have already completed all the missions that can be taken without meeting specific requirements in this Novice Village. My last mission is to help Physician Hu send a bottle of wound medicine that Old Man Li pre-ordered. But, after I came here, I found out that Old Man Li was dead. Hence, my mission changed from sending medicine to finding out his cause of death.¡± Finished all the normal missions in Dukang Village? Ye Weiming asked, ¡°What¡¯s your level?¡± ¡°Level 13. But, I haven¡¯t gone to find a master yet. I¡¯m planning to find one after completing all the missions here.¡± ¡°As expected, her level is higher than mine.¡± Ye Weiming rubbed his nose and changed the topic immediately. ¡°Since you¡¯ve completed all the missions, you should be well-versed with Dukang Village. Do you know who Old Man Li is close to? Someone that might understand him better.¡± ¡°His neighbor Wang Dalong!¡± March replied without thinking. ¡°He¡¯s Old Man Li¡¯s drinking buddy. The two of them always drink together. They talked about anything and everything. However, recently, Old Man Li had been acting a little weird. He didn¡¯t find Wang Dalong for drinks. When I was completing my other missions, Wang Dalong chatted with me about this before.¡± ¡°Let¡¯s go!¡± Ye Weiming acted decisively. ¡°Let¡¯s look for him and ask him about some things.¡± ¡­ 10 minutes later, Ye Weiming came out of Wang Dalong¡¯s house with a bitter smile. March hurriedly went forward and asked him what happened. Ye Weiming shook his head and said, ¡°That fellow was so frightened when he saw me. He kept saying that he didn¡¯t know anything. He was afraid that I would think that he¡¯s the culprit. Everything he said can be summarized into one sentence.¡± ¡°What sentence?¡± ¡°He didn¡¯t have anything to do with the pugilistic world, he didn¡¯t understand the terminology of the pugilistic world, and he never interacted with anyone from the pugilistic world before. All in all, he had nothing to do with them!¡± ¡°Haha¡­¡± March laughed heartily. She only stopped laughing after a while. She asked, ¡°Do you think that he knows something?¡± ¡°The more he emphasized that he doesn¡¯t know anything, the more it meant that he knows something.¡± Ye Weiming forced a smile on his face. ¡°But, the problem is, he looks like a law-abiding citizen. He¡¯s just a little timid and afraid that he will say something wrong. I can¡¯t torture him to extract information from him, right?¡± March suggested, ¡°Shall I give it a try? I¡¯ve done two missions related to Wang Dalong before so I¡¯m closer to him. Also, I¡¯m not wearing a constable uniform. He won¡¯t be guarding against me as much.¡± ¡°Alright.¡± Ye Weiming nodded. ¡°You¡¯ll be in charge of asking around for information. You can also ask the other people in this village and see if there¡¯s other information available. I¡¯ll look at the crime scene again and see if there are other pieces of evidence left behind.¡± ¡°Also, if it¡¯s convenient for you, please help me to look for an NPC called ¡®Soymilk Little White¡¯.¡± This was the unlucky NPC that fooled him into entering the Divine Constable Bureau. But, that fellow wasn¡¯t a villager from Dukang Village. He was just a temporary NPC that appeared to fool other players. If he had a chance, Ye Weiming wanted to find this fellow and let him know the consequences of teasing him! ¡°No problem!¡± March said as she walked into Wang Dalong¡¯s house. By this time, Head Constable Liu was already running back obediently. He came to give Ye Weiming the grass mat he asked for. He had more than 10 grass mats with him. He completed the mission with flying colors. They brought the grass mats back to Old Man Li¡¯s house and tidied Old Man Li¡¯s corpse. Ye Weiming found ¡®The Study Of Sword Skills¡¯. Old Man Li was indeed a member of the pugilistic world! Ye Weiming looked at the scripture in his hand. He started to trust his judgment more. But, when he saw the stats of the scripture in his hand, he couldn¡¯t help but gasp. The Study Of Sword Skills: The sword skill diary of Jade Xiaozi from Mount Tai. It will affect specific sword skills. When one uses it, one can obtain 5,000 proficiency. It¡¯s a good thing that could help to increase his proficiency! Ye Weiming had already played ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯ for a period of time. He stayed for five full days at the Novice Village. Of course, for a game that the players had to play for many years, five days didn¡¯t mean anything. Compared to leveling, the proficiency of their martial arts skills was harder to level up. The biggest take back he got from the Novice Village was that it was easy to level up but harder to master martial arts skills! Let¡¯s take Ye Weiming¡¯s stats as an example: Ye Weiming Level: 12 ¡­ Blood: 620/620 Internal energy: 420/420 Physique: 59 Arm strength: 59 Movement: 64 Reaction: 59 Intelligence: 25 Enlightenment: 28 expiration exercise (unpopular) level: 5 Proficiency: 132/1600 There was nothing special about the most fundamental expiration exercise in the pugilistic world but one would never overexert oneself. Blood +250, Internal energy +250 Physique +25, Arm strength +25, Movement +25, Reaction +25 ¡­ Sword of the Yue Maiden (unpopular) A sword skill passed down from the Chunqiu Dynasty. Not very powerful. Level: 3 Proficiency: 86/400 Power +30%, Accuracy +30% ¡­ Equipment Flying Fish Suit: The attire of the Divine Constable Bureau. Physical defense +30, Internal energy defense +30, Blood limit +100 ¡­ Twined Palm Hat: The attire of the Divine Constable Bureau. Physical defense +10, Internal energy defense +10, Blood limit +50 ¡­ Long Official Boots: The attire of the Divine Constable Bureau. Defense +5, Movement +5. ¡­ Dragon Spring Sword: Item from the Divine Constable Bureau. Attack +50, Internal energy damage increases by 10%. ¡­ These two unpopular martial arts were the current status of Ye Weiming¡¯s martial arts. Even if they were unpopular martial arts skills, their levels were pathetically low. The internal energy ¡®expiration technique¡¯ was only at level 5. This was the result after he completed a whole series of hidden missions! As for the Sword of the Yue Maiden, he started practicing it at a later time, so his level was slightly lower. But, ¡®The Study Of Sword Skills¡¯ was able to increase the proficiency by 5,000. It was obvious how precious this item was. He remembered the NPC called Han Xiaoying. Ye Weiming only found a few herbs for her, but she gave him the sword scripture. As for Soymilk Little White, she completed a series of hidden missions for him, but he only gave him a token of authority that made him enter the Divine Constable Bureau. Why was the difference between each human so great? Chapter 5 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations He had no other choice, so Ye Weiming used ¡®The Study Of Sword Skills¡¯ on the ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯. He instantly increased the sword technique, a lackluster one, by three levels. The stats became¡­ Sword of the Yue Maiden (Lackluster) A sword skill passed down from the Chunqiu Dynasty. Not very powerful. Level: 6 Proficiency: 2286/3200 Power +60%, Accuracy +60% ¡­ As the level of the sword skill increased, it didn¡¯t just impact the stats of Ye Weiming. Compared to his stats, Ye Weiming felt that he had a deeper and clearer understanding of his sword skill. This wasn¡¯t the first time this feeling had appeared. However, it was the strongest he had ever felt. It was as if there was a resonance in the depth of his soul. It wasn¡¯t a feeling that could be described with words. Was this because he had never jumped four levels at once before? There was no point in thinking too much. Ye Weiming shook his head. He started looking for clues in the room. The ¡®post mortem¡¯ technique wasn¡¯t just useful for corpses. At the same time, he could use it to give him hints at the crime scene. Ye Weiming just needed to inspect all the items in the room and the system would automatically give him important hints. For instance, there were two bloodstained bandages below the bed. There were also two sets of cutleries on the hearth in the kitchen. The toolkit of carpenter Old Man Li was very messy. There was evidence that someone had looked through it and didn¡¯t pack up after that. At this moment, March had already come back. She brought a few important clues along with her. First clue: Wang Dalong said that once when Old Man Li was drunk, he said that he was a disciple of the Mount Tai Sect. His monastic name was Jade Xiaozi and his status in the sect wasn¡¯t low either. Based on what he said, he was a generation higher than the current sect leader of the Mount Tai Sect. But, he left the pugilistic world and returned to live a normal life. It was rumored that he had a sword skill scripture that was powerful enough to let someone rule over the pugilistic world! Second clue: Wang Dalong also said that Old Man Li was very good friends with Single-eyed Vulture, Chou Ba. After Chou Ba¡¯s entire family was killed, his personality changed entirely. He started befriending bandits and started killing innocent people. Old Man Li felt pity for his friend. Third clue: Old Man Li had been acting strangely these few days. He would secretly visit the mine behind the mountain every night. He said that he was looking for wood. Fourth clue: She didn¡¯t hear anything about ¡®Soymilk Little White¡¯. ¡°Combining the information we have, I made a conclusion.¡± Ye Weiming analyzed the situation carefully. ¡°Chou Ba has recently come to the Dukang Village. He was injured so he came to look for his friend, Old Man Li. Old Man Li didn¡¯t dare to keep him in his house, so he hid Chou Ba in the mine behind the mountain. He would send him food and wound medicine every day.¡± ¡°Maybe Old Man Li revealed that he had the sword skill scripture and unknowingly ignited Chou Ba¡¯s greed and killing intent. Thus, he secretly came back to the village and killed Old Man Li. This would explain why there weren¡¯t any signs of fighting in Old Man Li¡¯s house even though he was a martial arts master. He didn¡¯t guard against his good friend at all!¡± After listening to Ye Weiming¡¯s analysis, March immediately asked, ¡°How confident are you?¡± ¡°80%.¡± Ye Weiming shrugged. ¡°However, it¡¯s easy to confirm my guess. As long as we go to the mine behind the mountain, we can find the things we need. But, we need to be prepared to fight.¡± ¡°What do we need to prepare?¡± Ye Weiming¡¯s smile turned evil when he heard this. ¡°Move your ears closer.¡± ¡­ The mine near Dukang Village wasn¡¯t huge. After changing into his novice attire, Ye Weiming managed to walk around the mine in less than five minutes. The sky was turning dark so there weren¡¯t any other players or NPC here. There was only a hole that was around 10 feet above the ground in the mine. A novice wouldn¡¯t be able to get up. Ye Weiming wondered how the hole was made, to begin with. But, this wasn¡¯t the main point. The important thing was, there were signs of someone having climbed on the wall below the hole. The marks weren¡¯t obvious, so it was easy to ignore them. Everything was going according to his prediction! Ye Weiming found the deepest spot in the mine and took out the match, hay, and dry firewood he prepared beforehand. He started making a campfire. After the flames ignited, he threw a huge bag of fried chili and a huge bag of fresh red chili into the campfire. Thick smoke started rising. Done! After he finished his trick, Ye Weiming ran out of the mine. He saw March standing at the entrance of the mine and staring at him intently. He waved his hand and said, ¡°Don¡¯t be anxious. it¡¯s me. However, Chou Ba will be forced to come out soon. Prepare for battle!¡± As he spoke, Ye Weiming was already starting to change his clothes. What? Did you just say that it¡¯s indecent to change your clothes in front of a lady? That is impossible! This is a pure novel. Eternal Justice is a pure game too. The novice clothes had an interesting setting. They couldn¡¯t be changed. When one was changing into different outfits, the outfits would automatically cover the novice outfit. When one took the other outfits off, the novice outfit would be revealed again. Hence, there wouldn¡¯t be any situations in which a player would be naked. After Ye Weiming changed into his Flying Fish Suit, his Twined Palm Hat, and his Long Official Boots, a rough voice sounded from the inside of the mine. The person was cursing, ¡°F**k! Which mean person¡­ cough! Cough! Cough!¡± The thick smoke had already spread throughout the entire mine. The unique smell of the chili stimulated a person¡¯s sense of smell and taste. Chou Ba only managed to start his sentence and wasn¡¯t able to finish it. The words at the end of the sentence were replaced by furious coughing. March, who was standing outside the mine, felt a chill down her spine. She looked at Ye Weiming as though she was looking at a monster. Although she was prepared for this, when the plan became a reality, the young lady still felt a little uncomfortable. This is too vicious! This is ruthless! You can even think of such a cruel and mean method like this. Are you a devil? However, when the haphazard footsteps started coming closer to them, March realized that she still didn¡¯t have a good understanding of this person¡¯s evilness. ¡°Kacha!¡± ¡°Ah!¡± After a scream of agony was heard, she heard someone coughing even more furiously. The Green Blade Sword was in his hand. Ye Weiming¡¯s eyes were shining with excitement. ¡°Success!¡± March: ¡°What success?¡± Ye Weiming: ¡°The animal trap is successful.¡± March: ¡­ An animal trap, just like the name suggested, was a trap used by hunters to catch wild animals. Such a huge trap seemed too obvious to be used against normal humans. Who would think of using them to deal with martial arts masters? Ye Weiming would! He didn¡¯t just dare to think about it. He even did it! Imagine a cave tunnel that was filled with smoke. It was able to block people¡¯s vision but to a martial arts master, it wasn¡¯t enough to cover their vision entirely. However, the stimulus from the chili was enough to make someone tear and sniff. In such a situation, it would be strange if Chou Ba managed to see the animal trap on the ground. How did he manage to think of this method? For a moment, March was in a trance. ¡°Be careful! He¡¯s here!¡± After Ye Weiming¡¯s reminder, the two of them saw a bald and chubby hunk with a single eye staggering out of the mine. There was an animal trap hanging on his right leg. He didn¡¯t have the time to take it off yet. Blood was dripping down from the claws. It was a frightening sight! Chou Ba (In a weak state) Level: 25 Blood: 5600/7000 ¡­ Chapter 6 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations It was indeed him! After confirming their target, Ye Weiming immediately opened his mouth to remind March, ¡°There¡¯s a wound below his left rib. When attacking, remember to focus on that area!¡± March looked over when she heard what Ye Weiming said. She noticed that the area below Chou Ba¡¯s left rib was bandaged. At this moment, Ye Weiming had already started his attack. He aimed his sword right at Chou Ba¡¯s forehead. ¡°Sinister brat, go and die!¡± Chou Ba pushed his palm out as he shouted furiously. Even from a distance away, Ye Weiming was able to feel the wind from his palm. It bore down on him until he wasn¡¯t able to breath properly. He was injured but a casual attack from him was still so powerful! A level 25 master was actually so frightening! Chou Ba¡¯s palm attack was filled with internal energy, so Ye Weiming didn¡¯t dare to receive it directly. But, as the level of his sword skill increased, the agility and speed of reaction of his body increased exponentially too. He turned the Green Blade Sword in his hand and performed a move from ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯, Lamb Chewing Peony. The shadows of the sword intertwined in the air. Chou Ba didn¡¯t dare to chase after Ye Weiming recklessly. Ye Weiming pushed his toes against the ground and bent his body down while moving back. He easily dodged the frightening palm attack by Chou Ba. While he was moving back, Ye Weiming remembered to remind March, who was planning to rush forward, to fight with Chou Ba directly. ¡°We mustn¡¯t fight with him using strength. Use concealed weapons!¡± After he finished speaking, he raised his hand and a flying dagger flew furiously towards Chou Ba. Woosh! The moment the flying dagger left his hand, it turned into a ray of cold light. To increase the power of the dagger, Ye Weiming added a tinge of internal energy in his attack. This caused an ear-piercing shrill sound to form when the blade flew through the air. Then, this flying dagger flew past Chou Ba¡¯s left shoulder, missing him by around half an inch. It flew directly to the back and stabbed into the walls of the mine. It sunk all the way into the wall, leaving only the handle of the dagger out in the open air. The accuracy of the concealed weapons were quite unsatisfactory because he hadn¡¯t learned any concealed weapon techniques yet. Ye Weiming¡¯s concealed weapon technique wasn¡¯t satisfactory but March¡¯s performance was much better than his. The young lady raised her hand and a piece of cobble shot towards the wound below Chou Ba¡¯s rib. It was extremely accurate. Even a man like Ye Weiming felt ashamed when he saw her attack. March¡¯s concealed weapon technique was much better than Ye Weiming¡¯s, but it was still nothing to a level 25 master. Chou Ba waved his hand casually and the cobble flew away due to the wind from his palm before it could even touch his body. ¡°Continue!¡± Ye Weiming gave an order again and then threw a flying dagger out once more. He cooperated with March¡¯s cobble and started dealing long-range attacks at Chou Ba continuously. His accuracy wasn¡¯t good but with his ¡®every dog has his day¡¯ spirit and the short distance between them, he managed to hit Chou Ba once or twice out of 10 throws. Chou Ba had to wave his hands to block the daggers. The two of them took the chance when Chou Ba¡¯s movement was restricted to attack him fearlessly. However, after five minutes, they only managed to deplete 300 points of blood from him. He blocked most of their attacks with his agile hands. If there wasn¡¯t the animal trap restricting his movement, Ye Weiming and March would most likely have been sent back to the revival point by now. ¡°Damn it, why is this fellow so powerful?¡± March couldn¡¯t help but complain as she threw her concealed weapons out without stopping. ¡°The mission I took was just a three-star mission. Why do I have to fight with such a strong boss? This is too much!¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry. The system won¡¯t give us a mission that we can¡¯t complete. Since it gave this mission to us, that means that this fellow still has some weakness. We can win.¡± As he spoke, Ye Weiming raised his hand and threw another flying dagger out. The dagger flew half an inch above Chou Ba¡¯s head. Chou Ba might have realized that his opponents¡¯ attacks weren¡¯t powerful or he might have noticed that he was depleting too much of his internal energy. Hence, after fighting for a while, he stopped using his internal energy to block the concealed weapons. Even so, the two people¡¯s low-skilled attacks still couldn¡¯t pose much of a threat to him. After realizing this, Chou Ba gritted his teeth and ignored his two opponents¡¯ concealed weapons attacks because he felt that his blood was thick enough. Instead, he bent down and grabbed the two sides of the animal trap with his hands. He started prying the animal trap open. This is bad! Ye Weiming knew that once Chou Ba pried opened the animal trap, even if he couldn¡¯t regain his ability to move entirely, the two of them wouldn¡¯t be able to attack him as easily as they were currently. Based on their ability, Chou Ba would kill them within a second if they fought with him directly! So, he had to stop Chou Ba! As thoughts flashed across his mind, Ye Weiming kept his concealed weapons and took out his Green Blade Sword. He aimed his sword at the acupoint, Baihui, which was right in the center of Chou Ba¡¯s bald head. The acupoint Baihui was a vital acupoint of the human body. Ye Weiming¡¯s ability might have been lower than Chou Ba¡¯s but the latter still didn¡¯t dare to ignore Ye Weiming¡¯s attack. After all, Ye Weiming¡¯s Green Blade Sword wasn¡¯t a normal sword and Chou Ba didn¡¯t practice the Iron Head Skill before. This was an emergency, so Chou Ba couldn¡¯t care about the animal trap anymore. He hurriedly gathered his internal energy and stuck his palm out to force Ye Weiming back. But, when he released his hands, the half-opened animal trap was closed tightly again. Clang! ¡°Ah!¡± This one attack caused Chou Ba to drop 500 points of blood. The effect was even more obvious than the combined efforts of Ye Weiming and March after they attacked Chou Ba for such a long time. After the release and tightening of the animal trap, Chou Ba had lost feeling in his leg entirely. Even if he opened the animal trap now, he wouldn¡¯t be able to move freely in a short period of time. At the same time, March had already gotten close to him. While Chou Ba was using his palm to force Ye Weiming back, the animal trap dealt a second round of damage to his body, causing him to see stars because of the pain. March raised her hand and slapped his left temple. ¡°Slap!¡± It was a solid blow. With the help of her internal energy, it was quite a powerful strike. It managed to cause a 300-point drop of blood for Chou Ba and he fell to the ground. However, at this time, Chou Ba finally revealed his fierce and tough side as a bandit. Although he received several huge blows, he still managed to use his free leg to kick March when he was falling down, directly striking March¡¯s chest. Bang! The powerful and direct kick in her chest sent March flying back directly. After she landed on the ground, she rolled a few rounds before finally stopping. If Chou Ba only had March as his opponent, he might be able to turn the tides around using this opportunity. But, there was still another more frightening opponent, Ye Weiming! While Chou Ba and March both suffered heavy injuries, Ye Weiming was on the move with his sword again. The Green Blade Sword gave off a frightening killing intent. It moved as quickly as lightning as it stabbed right at Chou Ba¡¯s heart. The move he used was the fatal attack of ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯, Beauty Of A Sick Lady. Chou Ba was just struck by March, so he was feeling very dizzy now. Also, the counterattack caused him his entire vital spirit. He had no energy left in his body now. He didn¡¯t have enough time to recover his vital spirit, so he couldn¡¯t resist Ye Weiming¡¯s lethal blow. Thus, he rolled on the ground in a flurry to evade his fatal spot. But, his right arm was still cut by the sword. The wound was so deep that his bones were visible. Instantly, Chou Ba couldn¡¯t feel his right arm anymore. Two of his four limbs were crippled but Chou Ba had a strong vigor of life, so he still stood up from the ground once again. A boss was indeed hard to kill! March had climbed up from the ground too. She popped a pill, used for restoring blood, into her mouth. She still had some lingering fears as she said, ¡°This fellow¡¯s attack is really powerful. I just managed to hit him but he made me lose two thirds of my blood. If I¡¯m hit again, I will be killed immediately.¡± Ye Weiming nodded. ¡°The outcome has been decided. Continue kiting!¡± The two of them started a new round of concealed weapons attack. Flying daggers, cobbles¡­ there was a paper bag thrown alongside all these things. When the paper bag was broken by Chou Ba¡¯s palm, small white particles flew into the air. Chou Ba closed his eyes when he saw this. However, when the white particles landed on his wounds, it was so painful that he started screaming in agony once again. March continued hurling cobbles at him while she asked, ¡°What did you use as your concealed weapon?¡± ¡°It¡¯s salt.¡± Chapter 7 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations ¡°It¡¯s salt!¡± As he answered March¡¯s question, Ye Weiming took the chance when Chou Ba closed his eyes to prevent them from getting hurt by the salt and threw out another paper bag. Since Chou Ba¡¯s eyes were closed, he could only listen to the sound of the wind. When he broke the paper bag with his palm, red powder went everywhere. Without waiting for March¡¯s question, Ye Weiming had already opened his mouth to explain, ¡°This time, it¡¯s chili flakes.¡± Chou Ba didn¡¯t dare to open his eyes when there was salt in the air, so all the more he wouldn¡¯t open his eyes now. March copied Ye Weiming and threw out a paper bag too. When it was destroyed, greyish-back particles danced in the air. It landed on Chou Ba¡¯s wound but it didn¡¯t cause him any real damage. Ye Weiming was curious when he saw this. ¡°What is in that paper bag?¡± March stuck her tongue out. ¡°It¡¯s cumin¡­¡± Young lady, do you want to eat lamb skewers? His left leg and right arm were crippled. He could only use his left arm to block attacks, but the wound below his rib affected his agility. In this situation, Chou Ba didn¡¯t have the ability to block his opponents¡¯ concealed weapons anymore. Cobble and flying daggers landed on his body. The HP bar above his head was dropping at a very fast rate too. When Chou Ba was only left with less than 100 points of blood, Ye Weiming suddenly waved his hand and stopped March from continuing her attacks. He opened his mouth and asked Chou Ba, ¡°Did you kill Old Man Li?¡± ¡°So, Old Man Li¡¯s death is the reason why my location is exposed?¡± Chou Ba knew that he would die, so he gave a sorrowful smile. ¡°The bad will always be punished without fail!¡± He didn¡¯t wait for Ye Weiming to ask further and continued explaining on his own. ¡°I used to be a chivalrous swordsman from the pugilistic world. However, there are too many evil people in this world. My entire family was brutally killed by a bunch of mountain bandits. After finding them after a long time, I finally knew that the culprit, who killed my entire family, is the chief of the Lotus Clan, Eight Directions Quake, Lin Zhipei. His internal energy is very strong and his sword skills are exceptional. I knew that I was no match for him, so I chose to become an outlaw and entered the Lotus Mountain to find a chance to take vengeance.¡± ¡°Fortunately, Lin Zhipei did many evil things in his life, so he couldn¡¯t remember who he had killed. After I joined his clan, he wasn¡¯t suspicious of me at all. I submitted my oath to the Lotus Clan, killed many innocent people, and did many evil deeds. Finally, I managed to become the third leader of the clan.¡± ¡°Once, during a banquet, I thought that my chance had arrived. Hence, I decided to sneak an attack on Lin Zhipei. But, that evil bandit is too powerful. I had an advantage because of my unexpected attack but I¡¯m still no match for him.¡± ¡°Luckily, he was injured so I managed to fight my way out. After running away from the mountain, I found my old friend, Elder Jade Xiaozi. He is the Old Man Li you mentioned. I went to seek his help. Elder Jade Xiaozi treated me very well. Not only did he help me to find medicine for my wound, but he even looked for a hiding spot for me and sent me food every day.¡± ¡°But, when I knew that he had a sword scripture that was powerful enough for someone to rule over the pugilistic world, I got greedy! I knew that this was my only hope of taking vengeance, so I snuck into Dukang Village secretly and lied that my injury had worsened. When Elder Jade Xiaozi was using his internal energy to treat my injury, I attacked him and killed him. Then, I disguised the scene and made it looked as if he committed suicide.¡± Ding! You have found the real cause of Old Man Li¡¯s death. You¡¯ve completed the mission ¡®Old Man Li who committed suicide¡¯. Rewards received: EXP 1,000, Cultivation 100, 50 Silver. After receiving the notification from the system, Ye Weiming secretly used the team channel to ask March, ¡°Have you completed your mission?¡± ¡°Yes. You¡¯re amazing!¡± Ye Weiming smiled slightly. He heard Chou Ba continuing, ¡°An ungrateful person like me deserves to be in this state. I just hate the thought that the evil bandit Lin Zhipei is still¡­ pfft!¡± Before Chou Ba could finish speaking, the Green Blade Sword in Ye Weiming¡¯s hand had already stabbed through his throat. Ding! Successfully killed level 25 boss, Chou Ba. You received 3,000 EXP and 300 Cultivation. Ding! You¡¯ve successfully killed the evil bandit, Chou Ba. You¡¯ve completed the mission ¡®Catching Chou Ba¡¯ with flying colors. Rewards received: EXP 5,000, Cultivation 400, 50 Silver. System Announcement: Player Ye Weiming from the Divine Constable Bureau and novice player March killed a level 25 boss, Chou Ba. They¡¯ve achieved first blood. Rewards for first blood: Reputation in pugilistic world 400, Clan contribution 400. System Announcement: Player Ye Weiming from the Divine Constable Bureau¡­ ¡­ The system announcement appeared three times. Young lady March was so excited when she heard it. She finally appeared on television! Compared to appearing on television, Ye Weiming was more concerned about the changes in his abilities. He instantly received 9,000 EXP, allowing him to reach level 13. He also noticed that his abilities seemed to have gotten stronger. If one over-fulfilled the quota of one¡¯s mission, one would be given even more rewards. These rewards were really much more than normal. However, why were the other rewards doubled but the amount of money received halved? After some time, he didn¡¯t care about it anymore. Besides the Divine Constable Bureau, Chou Ba¡¯s warrant was posted in many other places too. Any player could take the warrant and accept the mission. In this case, when two people killed Chou Ba together, the reward would have to be split evenly. Not everyone would get 1 gold. The system was very stingy. It wouldn¡¯t give the players any chances to find a loophole. After the excitement of being on television was over, March suddenly thought of something. She asked Ye Weiming with a slightly vexed tone, ¡°Speaking about it, why did you kill him so hurriedly just now? I was quite interested in the story he was saying.¡± Ye Weiming smiled calmly when he heard this. ¡°Since he had already admitted to his crimes, what he said after that isn¡¯t important anymore. It¡¯s better to kill him quickly in case changes happened.¡± ¡°He¡¯s right about this.¡± Suddenly, a hoarse and unpleasant voice was heard. The two of them felt a figure flashing past their eyes and a man in black had appeared in front of them. This person was wearing a black Flying Fish Suit. However, from the workmanship of his Flying Fish Suit, it was obviously a higher grade than the one Ye Weiming was wearing. He wore a cape, covering his head and wore a mask on his face. He was giving off a unique sinister aura, like an evil spirit that crawled out from hell. He made people frightened just by looking at him! Ye Weiming vigilantly looked at the man with an iron mask. He asked, ¡°You are?¡± ¡°Former commander of the Brocade-clad Guard, current vice-commander of the Divine Constable Bureau, You Jin.¡± Ye Weiming¡¯s eyes lit up. He hurriedly replied enthusiastically, ¡°It¡¯s Sir You. Did you come specifically because I performed too well in this mission? Did you come to give me some special rewards?¡± You Jin scoffed, ¡°What a glib tongue. Weren¡¯t your rewards doubled already?¡± Ye Weiming smiled and kept quiet after that. You Jin opened his mouth again and said, ¡°By right, based on Chou Ba¡¯s ability, you won¡¯t be able to handle him. I hurried to Dukang Village so that I could personally catch this culprit. I didn¡¯t expect you to be able to complete this seemingly impossible mission using such weird methods. Not bad, our Divine Constable Bureau needs a talent like you.¡± So, the right way of completing the mission was to find Chou Ba and question him face to face so that he would explain how he killed Old Man Li? Then, they just needed to close the door and release You Jin? If that was the case, it was reasonable that these two missions were both three-star. You Jin turned and looked at March. ¡°Young lady, I was observing from the side this whole time and I noticed that although you aren¡¯t as powerful as Ye Weiming, you¡¯re not bad either. This is the extra reward for completing your mission. If you¡¯re interested, you can go to the Divine Constable Bureau at Bian Liang City to report to us.¡± As he spoke, he had already placed a token of authority from the Divine Constable Bureau in March¡¯s hand. Chapter 8 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations Brother, you¡¯re trying to fool someone! Since she had completed this mission with him, Ye Weiming couldn¡¯t bear to see March jumping into the same hell as him. Just as he was about to open his mouth and say something, You Jin spoke first. ¡°Our Divine Constable Bureau might not have our own martial arts skills, but we make it up with other special skills. I¡¯m sure Ye Weiming is very clear about this, right?¡± Ye Weiming smiled awkwardly. Post mortem and collecting corpses were both amazing skills. He couldn¡¯t deny it. Was this considered cracking a few eggs to make an omelet? ¡°As a hidden clan, the Divine Constable Bureau had to be different from the other clans in the pugilistic world. The chance is laid before you. Young lady, you must make good use of it. I will take my leave now!¡± After he finished speaking, the two players saw a flash of black shadow and You Jin disappeared with a whoosh. You Jin only appeared for a short moment but he had already performed his amazing movement skill when he came and left without a trace. The two players couldn¡¯t help but feel fascinated. It was so handsome! When would they be able to be so powerful? ¡°It¡¯s time to test my luck!¡± March was still holding the token of authority of the Divine Constable Bureau and looking at the spot where You Jin disappeared from, in a daze. Ye Weiming regained his senses first. He rubbed his hands and said, ¡°Are you going to touch it or should I touch it?¡± March was stunned for a moment. She asked instantly, ¡°Touch what?¡± The second she said this, she immediately realized that she seemed to have asked an extremely stupid question. Thus, she hurriedly tried to salvage the situation, ¡°Actually, I have never met a boss before, so I don¡¯t know if my luck is high or low. However, when I was playing other games in the past, my luck was alright.¡± Ye Weiming knew from her words that she wanted to touch the corpse and try her luck. Thus, he agreed generously, ¡°Ladies first.¡± He didn¡¯t expect his unintentional action to cause March¡¯s impression of him to rise exponentially again; magnanimous, forthright, and generous. March attached all these phrases to Ye Weiming in an instant. Mind you, the two of them only knew each other for less than a day, but he already trusted her so much. He wasn¡¯t the least worried that she would steal all the things that the boss dropped. Was he someone with keen eyesight such that he knew that she had a good character or¡­ March had complicated emotions as she stretched her hand out and felt Chou Ba¡¯s corpse. Was Ye Weiming afraid that March would take all the items the boss dropped? Of course not! This was because before he formed the team with March to fight this boss, he had already changed the setting for the allocation of items dropped by the boss. Only the leader was able to allocate the items to his team members¡­ When March¡¯s hand touched Chou Ba¡¯s corpse, the list of items immediately jumped out in front of the two players. Thunderbolt Palm (intermediate palm skill): As powerful as thunder and as fast as lightning. The power of this palm skill is frightening. Cultivation requirements: Arm strength 60, Movement 80. Eight Step Chasing Toad (beginner lightness kungfu): A lightness kungfu that is widely known in the pugilistic world. If you practice it until a high level, you will understand the wonder behind it. Cultivation requirements: Potential 30, Martial arts world 50. Steel Knuckle: A knuckle with a cold aura. Attack +60, Cold Attribute Damage +1. A weird block of wood: A weird square block of wood. It¡¯s made from 54 smaller pieces of square-shaped wood. Every small piece of wood has a strange drawing on it. Money: 1 Gold 34 Silver. ¡­ Chou Ba gave two martial arts scriptures at once. One of them was even an intermediate palm kungfu. Based on the items that appeared, March¡¯s luck seemed to be not bad. The young lady was straightforward too. After touching the corpse, she turned her head directly and said to Ye Weiming, ¡°This time, whether it¡¯s looking for the real culprit that killed Old Man Li or killing Chou Ba, you contributed more than me. You can choose the items first.¡± Ye Weiming said, ¡°Let¡¯s follow the rules and choose an item each.¡± As he spoke, he had already selected the block of wood and kept it in his bag. He didn¡¯t know what the block of wood was used for, but based on the information he gained in his previous missions; he felt that this block of wood might have been the most valuable item out of all the items Chou Ba dropped. March obviously didn¡¯t expect Ye Weiming to be interested in the block of wood. However, she didn¡¯t probe further and just directly chose the intermediate palm kungfu, Thunderbolt Palm. After that, Ye Weiming took the ¡®Eight Step Chasing Toad¡¯ scripture and the young lady took the Steel Knuckle. It was a full set along with the Thunderbolt Palm. The rest of the money was split evenly into two and everyone was happy. After dividing the spoils, Ye Weiming immediately took out a grass mat and rolled up Chou Ba¡¯s corpse with it. Then, he kept it in his bag. It was illogical to be able to keep such a huge copse in a bag but this was a game. The corpse was able to fit into the bag and it only took up one bag space. March was so curious that she asked him why he did it. Naturally, Ye Weiming wouldn¡¯t reveal the secret of his burying corpse skill. This was a skill that was amazing enough to cause jealousy. Instead, he said casually, ¡°This is one of the skills that I learned from the Divine Constable Bureau. I can collect corpses and make sure that the corpse is, as much as possible, undamaged, and complete. This will make it more convenient when I¡¯m using it as evidence.¡± Ye Weiming didn¡¯t lie. What he said was one of the main functions of the corpse-collecting skill. March: ¡°Is there any value in examining Chou Ba¡¯s corpse again?¡± Ye Weiming: ¡°Skills require practicing. I will bury the corpse later.¡± March was enlightened. At this moment, Ye Weiming secretly kept ¡®The Study of Internal Energy¡¯ into his bag. The Study of Internal Energy: The internal energy cultivation diary of Single-eyed Vulture, Chou Ba. It can be used for specific internal energy skills. Using it can cause the proficiency of the skill to increase by 1,500 points! ¡°Let me help.¡± March looked around. ¡°Let me go and buy a shovel first. Wait for me.¡± ¡°I will go with you. I need to buy one too.¡± Ye Weiming accepted March¡¯s help without any hesitation. After this, he regretted it. Based on the price at the general store, one shovel cost 30 copper. Two cost one 1 silver. Our young lady, March, bargained with the blacksmith for half an hour. In the end, she successfully closed the deal at 40 copper for each shovel. That meant that Ye Weiming waited like an idiot for half an hour but he only managed to save 10 copper! 10 copper was only enough to buy two steamed buns. If he used this half an hour to kill some monsters, the benefits he gained would be at least 10 times more than this! As he dug a hole at the mountain behind Dukang Village, Ye Weiming swore to himself silently. He would never shop with this young lady again. ¡°Ah Ming, can you tell me the effects of the Divine Constable Bureau¡¯s special skills?¡± This was what March wanted to ask. Since it was a unique skill of the clan, the effects were probably a secret too. However, she urgently needed to know if the effects of the skills were worth it for her to give up on the martial arts skills from the other clans. Thus, she thought of helping Ye Weiming to bury the body. Since she was so kind-hearted and helped him with his work, he should be kind enough to give her some opinions, right? After pondering carefully, Ye Weiming opened his mouth and said, ¡°My technique is quite useful. In my view, it can make up for the regret of not having any clan kungfu. After entering the Divine Constable Bureau, there will be four skills you can choose from: Sky, Earth, Human, and Ghost. I chose the ¡®Sky¡¯ skill.¡± Ye Weiming didn¡¯t perform the skill for the other party. However, he had already explained the pros and cons of the skills. It was up to the young lady to make her decision. March expressed that she was very satisfied with this answer. Thus, she smiled brightly and said, ¡°It¡¯s so boring if we just dig like this. Why don¡¯t I sing a song to lighten up our mood?¡± ¡°That would be great.¡± ¡°The sun came out, the sky was broad, below the green mountain the spring bent around. Bent and bent for 18 rounds¡­¡± Chapter 9 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations Ye Weiming rode the horse carriage with March and went back to Bian Liang City. Along the way, he brought the Four Treasures of the Study, a bottle of starch paste, and a pair of scissors. After sending March into the Divine Constable Bureau, he went back to his own room. Actually, the treatment at the Divine Constable Bureau was not bad. Besides the fact that their working attire was free, they even gave him an apartment. The room wasn¡¯t big. It could only fit one table, one chair, and one bed. However, it was an individual room. When he felt tired after completing his missions, he could come back anytime to take a rest. He entered his room and opened the windows. Then, he took out ¡®The Study of Internal Energy¡¯ that Chou Ba dropped and used it. His expiration exercise increased by one level. After that, Ye Weiming took out the beginner lightness kungfu, ¡®Eight Step Chasing Toad. After using it, the scripture disappeared in a flash of white light. A new skill was added to Ye Weiming¡¯s skills section. Eight Step Chasing Toad (Beginner) Level: 1 Proficiency: 0/250 This is a widely known lightness kungfu of the Earth Hall Lightness Scripture. It can increase a player¡¯s speed exponentially. Movement +20 Without any hesitation, Ye Weiming used the cultivation he was rewarded with after killing Chou Ba and raised the level of his ¡®Eight Step Chasing Toad¡¯ to level 3. Cultivation was a good thing. It was able to change into the proficiency of any martial arts. It was like a universal proficiency. The only flaw was that it was hard to obtain. Ye Weiming over-fulfilled the quota in his past mission and killed a level 25 boss, but he only managed to get 800 proficiency. After a series of actions, Ye Weiming¡¯s stats went through a huge change. Ye Weiming Level: 13 ¡­ Blood: 680/680 Internal energy: 530/530 Physique: 66 Arm strength: 66 Movement: 131 Reaction: 66 Intelligence: 25 Enlightenment: 28 Expiration exercise (lacking) Level: 6 Proficiency: 32/3200 ¡­ Blood +300, Internal energy +300 Physique +30, Arm strength +30, Movement +30, Reaction +30 ¡­ Sword of the Yue Maiden (lacking) Level: 6 ¡­ Eight Step Chasing Toad (Beginner) Level: 3 ¡­ Proficiency: 0/1000 Movement +60 ¡­ A beginner level kungfu was really awesome. Now, Ye Weiming finally had an attribute that went above 100. After converting his rewards for the day into his stats, Ye Weiming took out his biggest reward, the weird block of wood. No matter how he looked at it, the structure of this thing looked like a Rubik¡¯s cube. But, the Rubik¡¯s cube had different colors for each side of the cube. As for this weird piece of wood, there were no colors on it at all. It only had some carved drawings that no one could understand. But, this wasn¡¯t enough to beat Ye Weiming. He took out the Four Treasures of the Study he bought and copied all the drawings on the six sides of the Rubik¡¯s cube. Then, he cut every drawing out individually and pieced them together on a single piece of paper as if he was playing with a puzzle. This was when he realized that the carvings on the block of wood were actually the drawings of five sceneries and the writings of a poem. The five sceneries carved on the block were: The four wonders of Mount Tai which included the dawn of Mount Tai, the sea of clouds, the sunset glow, and the golden yellow sea. The last drawing was the landscape of the Eighteen Bends. The last surface was carved with a poem written by the poet sage Du Fu. It was called ¡®Gazing on the Peak¡¯: And what then is Daizong like? Over Qi and Lu, green unending. Creation compacted spirit splendors here, Dark and Light, riving dusk and dawn. Exhilarating the breast, it produces layers of cloud; splitting eye-pupils, it has homing birds entering. Someday may I climb up to its highest summit, with one sweeping view see how small all other mountains are. From the drawings and the poem, it wasn¡¯t hard to guess that the secret of this Rubik¡¯s cube must have been related to Mount Tai. Ye Weiming continued working hard and labeled the 54 small squares based on the poems and the drawings he pieced together. All this preparation work took him an entire hour. Looking at the result of his one hour of hard work, Ye Weiming finally revealed a satisfactory smile on his face. Then, he casually observed the construction of the Rubik¡¯s cube with the labels he made and started turning the Rubik¡¯s cube furiously. When Ye Weiming was still studying, there would always be interesting things that were popular for a period of time. Besides learning useless skills like turning pencils and books, he also played intellectual games like the Rubik¡¯s cube and the nine ring puzzle. Click, click, click¡­ After a series of clear and crisp sounds, the six faces of the Rubik¡¯s cube started coming together. Approximately 30 seconds later¡­ Clang! As Ye Weiming turned the last section of the Rubik¡¯s cube and the six faces were all in position, the Rubik¡¯s cube immediately gave off a different sound. Following that, the side of the cube where the poem was carved sprung out, revealing the extremely small hidden compartment inside the cube. A small paper ball the size of a pearl rolled out. If this person used such a method to hide an item, would other people be able to get it if they smashed the Rubik¡¯s cube? Ye Weiming shook his head. He felt that this thought was dangerous. Since Old Man Li dared to use the cube to hide his secret, there must have been something behind it. If he really smashed the Rubik¡¯s cube, the ball of paper would most likely be destroyed along with the cube. He picked up the piece of paper from the table and opened it carefully. There were a few lines of small words written in cursive script. Old Man Li was indeed a martial arts master and an elder of the pugilistic world. His words were beautiful but Ye Weiming could only recognize a few words. The words were too cursive! Just as Ye Weiming was considering whether he should have looked for Zhan Zhao to help him translate, a notification suddenly popped up on the system section. Ding! You have solved the secret of the ¡®Weird Block of Wood¡¯. You have received a hint for a treasure: I received the most powerful sword skill of the Mount Tai Sect but after practicing it diligently for 10 years, there were still no results. After living in seclusion, I couldn¡¯t bear to give the sword skill up, so I hid it in the underground palace below the Leifeng Pagoda. The details of the location of the treasure and the points to take note is as follows: ¡­ Ye Weiming turned the paper over. There was a simple map at the back. The exact location of the sword skill scripture was marked. Leifeng Pagoda? So Old Man Li entered the Mount Tai Sect and learned his martial arts there. Then, he lived a secluded life in Dukang Village and continued practicing the sword skill. When he didn¡¯t succeed, he went to Hangzhou and hid the sword skill scripture. As expected from a person who practiced martial arts. He really knew how to make things difficult for other people! Ye Weiming looked down on Old Man Li¡¯s way of doing things but under the temptation of the martial arts scripture, Ye Weiming still decided to make a journey there. However, before this, he needed to visit Zhan Zhao to take a few missions near Hangzhou. Unexpectedly, Zhan Zhao wasn¡¯t on shift today. The NPC distributing missions changed into the iron mask man, You Jin. ¡°If you want to go to Hangzhou, I do have a mission to recommend to you.¡± After understanding Ye Weiming¡¯s intention, You Jin voluntarily recommended him a mission. Dragon Gate Escort Mission level: Five-star The Dragon Gate Express at Hangzhou is in danger of getting annihilated. As a legal agency of the pugilistic world that pays taxes to the imperial court, the Divine Constable Bureau has the responsibility to protect it. Head to the Dragon Gate Escort to investigate the truth and report your findings to the Divine Constable Bureau using pigeons. Protect the people in the Dragon Gate Express. Mission rewards: EXP 5,000, Cultivation 500, 100 Gold. After looking at the mission, Ye Weiming expressed tactfully, ¡°I will not take it!¡± You Jin remained silent for a few moments. No one was able to see the change in his expression under the iron mask. A few seconds later, he asked, ¡°Why not?¡± ¡°My ability is not strong enough. I¡¯m worried that I might delay the official business. Sir You, please find someone else.¡± Ye Weiming explained that he rejected the mission because his ability wasn¡¯t strong enough but the real reason was¡­ The rewards for the mission were disappointing! Chapter 10 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations The levels of the missions in ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯ weren¡¯t anyhow given. Based on Ye Weiming¡¯s observation, one-star missions were delivery missions that didn¡¯t have any difficulty. Two-star missions required one to fight small monsters. Three-star missions would require one to solve some simple puzzles or kill some elite monsters. Ye Weiming had never handled the higher stars mission, so he couldn¡¯t form any conclusion about them yet. However, based on this pattern, there would most probably be someone as powerful as Chou Ba appear during a five-star mission. Ye Weiming did kill Chou Ba but he knew how he managed to finish this magnificent feat. His abilities had increased compared to the past, but if he was to fight with Chou Ba face to face now, Chou Ba would still press him to the ground. The only difference was that he would be able to take five blows instead of three. In other words, there was no difference. Of course, compared to the difficulty of the mission, the most important reason was that the rewards for this mission were just disappointing! 5,000 EXP and 500 Cultivation were just slightly higher than the rewards for a four-star mission. Only the monetary reward was better. It was higher than the monetary reward for the other five-star missions. 100 gold could be considered a huge sum of money at this stage of the game. But, the problem was, at the starting stage of a game, the crucial thing was to solidify one¡¯s foundation. There was no need for such a huge sum of money. The basic life skills of the players weren¡¯t even properly trained yet. Hence, even if one had the money, one couldn¡¯t buy any good things. Once a player¡¯s level increased, 100 gold was still a good sum of money but the things one could buy with it would decrease in amount. Also, missions that involved protecting someone were the most troublesome missions. Thus, no matter how Ye Weiming looked at it, this mission wasn¡¯t worth it. You Jin looked at Ye Weiming with his deep gaze for a long time. In the end, he opened his mouth and said, ¡°If you¡¯re not very interested in money, I can replace the monetary reward with an intermediate sword skill.¡± Ding! Changes made to the mission: Dragon Gate Express Mission level: Five-star ¡­ Mission reward: 5,000 EXP, 500 Cultivation, one intermediate sword skill. Punishment for the failure of mission: Three months of salary will be taken from you. During these three months, you will not be able to enjoy any welfare of the clan besides your personal apartment. What the f**k, do they have to be so ruthless? One intermediate sword skill is not, bad but why do you have to add a punishment? Is this a military pledge? Not having three months of salary wasn¡¯t totally bad. Ye Weiming was just a ninth-grade constable, so his salary was only 10 gold. He would be able to earn it back by completing a few missions. However, the fact that he wasn¡¯t able to enjoy the welfare given by the clan was a little too much. The welfare of a clan referred to the preferential policies a clan provided for its players. Players could use their money as well as their clan contribution, or for the Divine Constable Bureau, it was called merits, to exchange for this welfare. The prices of these items were much lower than the market rates. For instance, one could get medicine that wasn¡¯t available in the market, equipment, as well as time spent in practice rooms that could double the effect of your cultivation when one used them. If he wasn¡¯t able to use this welfare for three months, it would be detrimental to the improvement of his abilities. It was just an intermediate sword skill. Was it worth the risk? Ye Weiming pouted unhappily. Then¡­ Ding! You¡¯ve successfully accepted the mission ¡®Dragon Gate Escort¡¯. Please head to Dragon Gate Escort in Hangzhou as soon as possible to understand the situation. When he saw Ye Weiming accepting the mission silently, You Jin nodded in approval. Then, he took out a letter from his clothes and passed it to Ye Weiming. ¡°This is the help letter sent by the chief of Dragon Gate Escort, Du Dajin. There might be some clues inside that can help you with solving the case.¡± Ding! You received the item ¡®Help letter from Dragon Gate Escort¡¯. ¡°Thank you, Commander You.¡± The letter of the Dragon Gate Escort: Content of the letter ¡®On the third day of the last month, the Dragon Gate Escort received a weird¡­¡¯ It seemed that the system was still very thoughtful. They were worried that their players couldn¡¯t understand traditional Chinese characters, especially cursive script, so if the content of something was written in such characters, the system would directly translate it for them. Ye Weiming scanned through the letter quickly. Basically, it said that the Dragon Gate Escort received a job to escort a human. The person who gave them this job, Master Yin, gave them 1,000 gold. They had no reason to reject him. The only requirement he had was to personally send this human, who couldn¡¯t move, to the leader of the Wudang Sect, Zhang Sanfeng. The entire trip was still relatively smooth. However, when they reached the bottom of Mount Wudang, they met the fake seven swordsmen of Wudang. The joints of the unlucky fellow were shattered by these bad guys. The skill they used was the Strong Golden Fingers from Shaolin Temple. The person whom they were escorting was the third direct disciple of the founder of Wudang Sect, Yu Daiyan. This made the situation complicated. Master Yin, the person who gave them the job, threatened them that if they made a mistake during this escorting, he would annihilate the entire Dragon Gate Escort. Also, the seven disciples of Zhang Sanfeng were as close as brothers. The small Dragon Gate Escort couldn¡¯t afford to provoke any one of them. Now, they had offended two batches of powerful people. Dragon Gate Escort was extremely frightened. This was why he hurriedly wrote a letter to seek help from the officials. You Jin noticed that Ye Weiming had finished reading the letter so he said casually, ¡°Du Dajin is a disciple of the Shaolin Temple. Since he sought help from us, he should have asked for help from his clan too. Maybe he was just looking for additional protection when he sent this letter to us. You might be able to complete this mission without doing anything.¡± Hmph¡­ If he could complete the mission so easily, why would it be five-star? Is there a problem with your intelligence or do you think that I¡¯m stupid? But, Ye Weiming didn¡¯t care about this matter too much. He had already accepted the mission, so he would just handle whatever that came along. He kept the letter and directly boarded a horse carriage and hurried his way to Hangzhou. When Ye Weiming reached Hangzhou, it was already close to sunset. He got some snacks on the streets to fill up his stomach and bought two sets of grass mats again. One set contained 99 grass mats. He also bought some bottles of realgar wine to protect himself. He would use this in the Leifeng Pagoda. The sky started turning dark. Ye Weiming finally moved his body and rushed towards the Dragon Gate Escort. He used his Eight Step Chasing Toad skill and his running speed almost doubled. However, Hangzhou was a huge city so even with his speed, when he reached the Dragon Gate Escort, the sky had already turned entirely dark. The moment he stepped onto the street outside the Dragon Gate Escort, he heard the sound of weapons crashing into one another and shoutings. So fast? His heart scrunched up. Ye Weiming hurriedly transferred his internal energy into his legs and his speed accelerated even more. In an instant, he reached the main gate of the Dragon Gate Escort. He looked in through the door and his heart turned cold. In the huge courtyard, a bunch of players dressed as monks and a bunch of players dressed as priests were fighting each other. On the other side, around seven NPC monks were fighting with a young man that had a metal hook in one hand and a judge pen in the other. The floor was filled with corpses. Fresh blood almost splashed on every single inch of the Dragon Gate Escort. Ding! The Dragon Gate Escort has already been annihilated. There are no survivors at all. Your mission has changed. Massacre of the Dragon Gate Escort Mission level: Five-star Investigate the cause of the annihilation of the Dragon Gate Escort. This case is related to the two big clans, Shaolin Temple and Wudang Sect, so please be careful! Mission reward: 5,000 EXP, 500 Cultivation, one intermediate sword skill. Punishment for the failure of mission: Three months of salary will be taken from you. During these three months, you will not be able to enjoy any welfare of the clan besides your personal apartment. Shaoling, Wudang¡­ This is the true face of the five-star mission, right? Ye Weiming took this mission a little more seriously. He didn¡¯t recklessly join in the duel between the two bunches of people. Instead, he stepped forward and walked inside the courtyard. He quickly scanned the corpses that were laid on the ground. Just as Ye Weiming was trying his best to look for clues as fast as he could, he saw two Shaolin disciples blocking his way. ¡°Mister, we¡¯re completing a mission. Please make way for us.¡± Chapter 11 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations These two Shaolin players looked like they wanted to clear the area! Clearing the area meant that when the players were killing a boss or completing some mission, in order to prevent other players from disturbing them, they would circle an area and politely ¡®persuade¡¯ any other players who came close to the area to leave. If being gentle didn¡¯t work, they might have had to use force. This always happened in online games. It wasn¡¯t new anymore. If this was outdoors and they were fighting with a boss, Ye Weiming was too lazy to argue with them. However, this was a mission that could earn him an intermediate sword skill scripture and there was even an unbearable punishment if he failed. Hence, how could he give the area to them? He shook his head slowly and shrugged. ¡°I¡¯m sorry. I have a mission too.¡± ¡°We are sorry then.¡± One of the Shaolin players had already started twirling his staff. He smashed it down on Ye Weiming¡¯s head. The moment this Shaolin player moved, the other Shaolin player beside him started attacking too. He took a step forward and punched Ye Weiming¡¯s chest. These two players cooperated very well with each other. Indeed, they used brute force the moment being polite failed. They were extremely decisive. As a person¡¯s level of martial arts increased, he would gain a deeper understanding of his realm. Thus, the moment these two people launched their attacks, Ye Weiming knew that he was no match for these two bald men. Even though he was attacked by two people, Ye Weiming wasn¡¯t afraid at all. He pulled his Dragon Spring Sword out of its shield and lifted his hand up. The distance was just right and his sword collided with the monk¡¯s staff. Dang! A clear sound was heard. The internal energy of the Shaolin monks was weaker than Ye Weiming, so they staggered a few steps back due to the force. The Shaolin player, who used his fist, didn¡¯t expect Ye Weiming¡¯s attack to come so quickly, so it was too late for him to dodge. A cut immediately appeared on his left arm. It was so deep that his bones were visible. The monk retracted his fist instinctively and took a small step back. This was a humanized setting of the ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯ game. To protect the players, the sense of pain in this game was set to a minimum. It was so minimal it was almost unnoticeable. However, when you were attacked, the natural reaction of your body couldn¡¯t be prevented. If not, all the players would start attacking each other as though they had armor. That would be too different from the real pugilistic world. Of course, if you wanted to put on armor, you could do it too. You just needed to increase the pain setting to 100%. If you could start attacking people recklessly while withstanding the pain that was extremely real, the system would respect you too. The Shaolin player here wasn¡¯t this kind of real iron man. His pain setting was closed to zero, so his body just retreated back according to its natural reaction. At the same time, he lost the energy in his right hand. He couldn¡¯t use any martial arts skill temporarily. By this time, the Shaolin disciple wielding the staff had already adjusted his condition. Instead of stabbing, he raised the staff up and slashed it towards Ye Weiming¡¯s chest. Seeing this, Ye Weiming calmly turned his sword and pressed it down. The sword landed on the body of the staff and the staff was pressed down along with it. Then, Ye Weiming pushed his sword forward, and with the skill ¡®Push The Boat With The Current¡¯, he swung his sword at the pair of hands that were holding the staff. If the monk¡¯s hand was really cut by his sword, both of his hands would be chopped. When that happened, the Shaolin monk could basically start considering whether or not to commit suicide so that he could revive with full blood. In this game, death wasn¡¯t frightening. However, when you were doing a mission, death meant that your mission had failed. The monk holding the staff obviously didn¡¯t want to suffer this consequence, so he let go of his staff immediately and moved his body back. Ye Weiming displayed the light and quick characteristics of the Sword of the Yue Maiden to its fullest. He only used two skills but one player¡¯s arm was injured and the other put down his weapon. The monk wielding the staff mainly practiced staff skills. Ye Weiming didn¡¯t know if fist and leg kungfu was good but if these two people were his only opponents, he just needed to step forward and with ¡®Beauty Of A Sick Lady¡¯, this monk would be half-dead. However, these two people weren¡¯t his only opponents. After he defeated the two Shaolin players, four other Shaolin disciples came towards him. If he continued attacking, he would be surrounded by these four people. 1V4. Ye Weiming didn¡¯t have the confidence that he would win. Also, if there was someone more powerful than him among these four people, he might be in danger. In an instant, he realized the crucial point. Ye Weiming kept his sword and started retreating without any hesitation. He executed the Eight Step Chasing Toad. Whoosh! Whoosh! After two gusts of wind, the distance between him and his opponents widened. He stopped when he was around five metres away from the Wudang players. Now, the situation was, there were more monks than priests, whether it was the NPCs or the players. The situation on the NPC side was still alright. The youngsters activated the Akimbo mode and were extremely ferocious. Even when they were dealing with seven enemies each, they weren¡¯t disadvantaged at all. However, the players couldn¡¯t do that. Everyone were newbies who had just entered clans. The difference between everyone¡¯s capabilities was barely noticeable. Thus, the side that had more people would be at an advantage. The number of people on each side was 7 versus 13! Because of this, when Ye Weiming appeared, the people who came to invite him to leave were Shaolin players. Similarly, it was easier for him to form an alliance with the side that was on the losing end, which was the Wudang players. After a series of rapid actions, Ye Weiming¡¯s performance astounded everyone. For a moment, the players from Shaolin Temple and Wudang Sect landed their gaze on this young man, who was wearing a constable uniform. They even stopped fighting with one another temporarily. ¡°Brother.¡± The person who spoke first looked like the leader of the Wudang disciples. He cupped his hands together and bowed to Ye Weiming. Then, he said, ¡°I¡¯m Yin Bukui from Wudang. I heard you talking to the two monks just now. Are you here to investigate the truth too?¡± The Wudang disciple Yin Bukui looked very clean and white. He had a smiley face, so naturally, he felt very amiable. Also, he was very skilled at talking. He added a ¡®too¡¯ to his sentence. That way, he pulled this skillful swordsman who came abruptly to his side. ¡°Brother Weiming!¡± At this moment, a monk with a square face suddenly walked out of the team of Shaolin monks. He had a smile on his face as he took the initiative to greet Ye Weiming. It appeared as if he didn¡¯t seem to mind the fact that Ye Weiming had defeated two monks. ¡°I didn¡¯t expect us to meet each other again so soon. I didn¡¯t expect your ability to improve so quickly too.¡± ¡°When I saw the system announcement saying that you¡¯d made the first kill of a level 25 boss, I almost thought that I was wrong. It seems as if you¡¯re not telling the truth when you kept complaining about how foolish it was for you to enter a hidden clan.¡± When Yin Bukui heard Ye Weiming was the first person to kill a level 25 boss, his eyes lit up. But, soon after that, he started to worry. As someone who was able to kill a level 25 boss, no matter how many people he teamed up with, he was definitely a powerful person. The only thing he was worried about was Ye Weiming¡¯s attitude. From the way the monk called him¡­ Ye Weiming might have been on television because he killed Chou Ba, but actually, there were one million players online at the same time in ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯. There were many other people who had the ability to be on television too. From the moment the game started, such announcements had appeared at least a few hundred times. Who would have the time to remember all the names that had appeared before? The Shaolin player remembered Ye Weiming¡¯s name because he knew Ye Weiming. Although this person recognized Ye Weiming, Ye Weiming couldn¡¯t remember who he was at first glance. He looked at the person¡¯s features carefully before getting enlightened. ¡°Are you Strained Noodles Steamed Bun?¡± This Steamed Bun was a player Ye Weiming got to know at the Novice Village. They formed a team before to kill monsters. Strained Noodles Steamed Bun was the leader at that time. He gave Ye Weiming the impression that he was good at talking. There were five people in the team at that time. Ye Weiming didn¡¯t have any impression of the other people, but he did remember this Strained Noodles Steamed Bun, who added him as his friend voluntarily. He was the one who told Ye Weiming that the Shaolin Temple had 72 Ultimate Techniques after he entered the clan. He didn¡¯t expect to meet him during this mission, not long after they graduated from the Novice Village. But, their positions were a little awkward¡­ Chapter 12 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations Strained Noodles Steamed Bun seemed to have a high authority among the players from Shaolin. After he came forward, the rest of them instinctively took a step backward. They were giving him the right to make the final decision. Strained Noodles Steamed Bun kept quiet and maintained his amiable smile on his face. However, from the ever-changing expressions on the other Shaolin players, it was obvious that they were discussing something in their team or clan channel. After quite some time, Strained Noodles Steamed Bun finally opened his mouth again. ¡°Brother Weiming, from your words just now, you are here to investigate the truth of the Dragon Gate Escort massacre too. The evil and ruthless culprit is him!¡± As he was speaking, Strained Noodles Steamed Bun pointed to the young man who was fighting with seven opponents at one go. ¡°This person is ¡®Vigorous Touch and Fine Strokes¡¯, Zhang Cuishan, of the seven swordsmen of Wudang. He had a grudge against the Dragon Gate Escort because they failed to protect Yu Daiyan, causing all of his limbs to be crippled by the bad guys. He had an ample killing motive.¡± ¡°Also, this person can fight with three of Shaolin¡¯s eminent monks with the surname Yuan. He had the ability to massacre the entire Dragon Gate Escort. When he was committing the crime, he admitted his identity to Uncle-Master Yuan Yin¡­ Thus, Brother Weiming, let me apologize to you for our reckless actions before this. However, we are on the same side. What do you say?¡± Following Strained Noodles Steamed Bun¡¯s words, the Wudang players, who were led by Yin Bukui, started looking at Ye Weiming vigilantly. Just like what was said before, at this moment, all the players had only just entered their clans, so the difference in everyone¡¯s ability wasn¡¯t so vast yet. Hence, the number of people was the factor that decided which side would be at an advantage. However, Ye Weiming¡¯s condition was a little special. First, he finished his mission outstandingly and managed to gain items from burying the corpse. This allowed him to increase his level of expiration exercise and Sword of the Yue Maiden to level 6. As for the other players that just entered their sects, they could only practice the most fundamental martial arts technique of their clans. The grade of their martial arts might have been higher than Ye Weiming¡¯s by a rank, but their levels weren¡¯t high. Most of them were at level 2 or level 3. As for the martial arts that they learned in the Novice Village? In ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯, the power of different styles of martial arts wouldn¡¯t add on to one another. Thus, Ye Weiming, who had been using special sword techniques all this while, had an advantage over the other people. His ability might not have been the strongest among everyone, but he was definitely one of the strongest. He could fight with three to four normal players alone. In addition, the lightness kungfu he displayed a moment ago was above everyone else¡¯s level. In the hearts of all the players, although he didn¡¯t have the capability to become a third party all by himself, his attitude would definitely affect the chances of each side winning. ¡°Brother Weiming.¡± Yin Bukui learned from Strained Noodles Steamed Bun and changed the way he addressed Ye Weiming. At the same time, he said, ¡°All of us came to Dragon Gate Escort along with Uncle-Master Five. When we arrived, the people at this Escort Agency were already dead. We can prove that Uncle-Master Five isn¡¯t the culprit.¡± ¡°Hmph!¡± When facing Ye Weiming, Strained Noodles Steamed Bun wasn¡¯t as polite as he was when he was talking to Ye Weiming. He scoffed in contempt and said, ¡°You¡¯ve already called him Uncle-Master Five. It¡¯s normal that you will help him.¡± ¡°Bullshit!¡± ¡°Are you getting angry because you¡¯re embarrassed?¡± ¡­ Strained Noodles Steamed Bun and Yin Bukui had already started arguing with each other. Ye Weiming didn¡¯t care about their argument. Instead, he turned and looked at Zhang Cuishan, who was fighting with seven opponents all alone. He shouted, ¡°Swordsman Zhang Five, did you kill everyone from Dragon Gate Escort?¡± The moment he said this, everyone looked at him as though he was an idiot. Was it too much of child¡¯s play to ask this question so directly? As for Zhang Cuishan, he opened his mouth and shouted, ¡°I didn¡¯t kill anyone!¡± ¡°Okay, I understand!¡± As he was speaking, Ye Weiming had already taken out the token of authority that represented his identity. He rushed between the people who were fighting and said, ¡°I¡¯m Ye Weiming from the Dragon Gate Escort. I came on orders to investigate the Dragon Gate Escort massacre. Everyone, please stop for a moment and listen to what I have to say.¡± Zhang Cuishan heard this and waved his judge pen multiple times. He left the Chinese word ¡®Dragon¡¯ in the air. It could be seen clearly. The powerful and swift energy within the strokes forced the seven swordsmen from Shaolin to move backward. Zhang Cuishan opened his mouth and said, ¡°Eminent monks, why don¡¯t we listen to what this official in front of us has to say?¡± The seven Shaolin NPCs couldn¡¯t take down Zhang Cuishan within a short period of time, so the leader among them signaled for the others to stop their attacks even though their expressions weren¡¯t pleasant. Both parties stopped fighting temporarily. The leader of the Shaolin team, the NPC that was holding a khakkhara turned towards Ye Weiming and asked, ¡°May I know what opinions you have?¡± When he spoke, he didn¡¯t bow to Ye Weiming. The tone of his voice wasn¡¯t polite either. He didn¡¯t even introduce himself to Ye Weiming. Hence, we could see that when Zhan Zhao said that the people from the pugilistic world didn¡¯t like imperial court officials, he wasn¡¯t exaggerating! Ye Weiming didn¡¯t express any unhappiness because of the other person¡¯s attitude. Instead, he replied casually, ¡± Swordsman Zhang Five said that he didn¡¯t kill the people from Dragon Gate Escort. Hence, I feel that Shaolin Temple is a little assertive when you claim that Swordsman Zhang Five is the culprit.¡± The monk holding the khakkhara was furious at the reply. ¡°Did you just believe whatever he said? Is this how the officials from the imperial court investigate a case?¡± The smile on Ye Weiming¡¯s face didn¡¯t change. He asked the monk back, ¡°Didn¡¯t you think that Swordsman Zhang Five is the culprit just because he admitted his identity?¡± The monk with the khakkhara paused for a moment. But, soon, he started speaking again. ¡°Coincidentally, when Du Dajin¡¯s entire family was killed, Zhang Cuishan was here. How do you explain that? Also, Hui Feng saw him killing these people personally. How do you explain that too?¡± ¡°I didn¡¯t say that Swordsman Zhang Five has no suspicion at all. I¡¯m just saying that there¡¯s not enough evidence to prove that he¡¯s the culprit.¡± Ye Weiming moved beside a corpse while speaking and pointed to the concealed weapons on the corpse¡¯s neck. He said, ¡°This escort died because of concealed weapons¡­¡± Then, he pointed to another corpse. ¡°This escort¡¯s neck was broken by a hand. This escort¡­¡± For 10 whole minutes, Ye Weiming commented on the injuries of all the victims from Dragon Gate Escort. In the end, he concluded, ¡°There are 67 people from Dragon Gate Escort. The escorts who practiced martial arts were mostly killed by concealed weapons. A small portion of them were killed by the force of a palm. As for the weak, the old, the ladies, the children, and the escorts who couldn¡¯t fight, they died from a claw technique.¡± Everyone nodded in agreement. Based on the ways these people were killed, it didn¡¯t seem to tally with Zhang Cuishan¡¯s martial arts techniques. On the other hand, the monk holding the khakkhara said, ¡°Every clan has their own concealed weapons techniques. Wudang isn¡¯t an exception. As for the claw technique, the Tiger Claw Ending Hand of Swordsman Yu Two from Wudang makes everyone tremble in fear. Even if Swordsman Zhang Five never practiced this technique before, we can¡¯t deny the fact that there might be a disciple of Swordsman Yu Two among these people here.¡± What he meant was that Zhang Cuishan still fulfilled the requirements to commit this crime. Ye Weiming replied calmly, ¡°First, Swordsman Zhang Five didn¡¯t admit that he¡¯s the culprit. Hence, his confession in the past doesn¡¯t count. Second, the ways these people died don¡¯t match with Swordsman Zhang Five¡¯s martial arts techniques. Of course, these two points aren¡¯t enough to clear Swordsman Zhang Five¡¯s suspicion. There¡¯s not enough evidence to prove that he is or isn¡¯t the culprit.¡± The monk with the khakkhara opened his mouth at this moment. ¡°That¡¯s why we want to capture Zhang Cuishan to ask him what exactly happened.¡± ¡°The crux of the problem is this.¡± Ye Weiming shrugged as he said, ¡°Can you capture him?¡± The monk holding the khakkhara snorted and stopped speaking. If they were able to capture Zhang Cuishan, they would have done it a long time ago. Why would they have to listen to a small constable who talked so much? Ye Weiming smiled. This was why he had the confidence to ask both parties to stop. ¡°Since no one is able to defeat the other party, why don¡¯t we sit down and discuss this calmly? Everyone can be reasonable and we might find some clues that we didn¡¯t notice before this.¡± ¡°Who¡¯s there!?¡± At this moment, Zhang Cuishan suddenly shouted. He lifted his toes up off the ground and his body suddenly flew up. His figure turned into a lingering shadow as he disappeared from the courtyard of the Dragon Gate Escort. Zhang Cuishan actually flew away! Ye Weiming almost stomped his feet and cursed in anger. I am helping you to get out of trouble but you just flew away. We don¡¯t normally betray our teammates like this. Ye Weiming wasn¡¯t the only one who was stunned. The other players from Wudang were flabbergasted too. Disappointment from being abandoned could be seen on everyone¡¯s faces. It felt as though they had all given their hearts to the other party, but in the end, they met a man who didn¡¯t want to be responsible for them. Chapter 13 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations ¡°Chase him!¡± The moment Zhang Cuishan ran away, the monk with the khakkhara gave his order. The seven Shaolin NPCs immediately chased after Zhang Cuishan. The negotiation setting Ye Weiming carefully created was immediately disrupted. Everyone had left; only one of the 21 players were left in the courtyard of the Escort Agency. For a period of time, the situation became very awkward. At this moment, a skinny monk behind Strained Noodles Steamed Bun suddenly said, ¡°Big Brother Bun, why don¡¯t we clean these people up to prevent them from disrupting our mission in the future?¡± Strained Noodles Steamed Bun turned around and looked at the person for a while. Then, he turned back and said to Ye Weiming, ¡°Brother Weiming, I have a beginner level ¡®Return Wind Sword Technique¡¯. I¡¯m willing to give it to you in exchange for you giving up this mission. What do you think?¡± In actual fact, based on Ye Weiming¡¯s analysis, most of them believed that the culprit most probably wasn¡¯t Zhang Cuishan. However, that had nothing to do with them. They only needed to help the NPCs from the Shaolin Temple capture Zhang Cuishan and they would be able to obtain their mission reward. Thus, the truth wasn¡¯t important to them. They wanted to clean up the Wudang disciples at the scene because they wanted to clear their opponents who had different missions from them. That way, they would have the chance to catch Zhang Cuishan along with the NPCs. As for the difference in ability between the two parties, that was even less of a problem. This was because in ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯, NPCs had two modes. One was their normal mode and the other was the mission mode. During mission mode, the level and various attributes of the NPCs wouldn¡¯t be much higher than the players. However, after they died, they would revive. The items they dropped would be similar to the ones dropped by same level bosses. It was much better than the items of a normal player but they weren¡¯t exceptional. For instance, in normal mode, Zhang Cuishan would definitely be a level 90 ultimate boss. But today, during this mission, his level was suppressed around level 20. He was more powerful than Chou Ba but if more than 10 players cooperated with other NPCs and attacked him, they might have had a chance. Of course, Ye Weiming wouldn¡¯t allow them to get rid of all the Wudang disciples. Without these people restricting the Shaolin players, he didn¡¯t think that they would continue to talk to him calmly and reasonably. Ye Weiming smiled gently and waved his hand. ¡°The truth still needs to be investigated. Most importantly, the punishment for failing this mission is very serious. I think that it¡¯s better for everyone to find the truth.¡± Strained Noodles Steamed Bun frowned slightly at his words. But, soon after, he laughed heartily and said, ¡°Since Brother Weiming insists on investigating, you can continue with it. Remember to inform me if you have any clues. We can all find the truth together.¡± After he finished speaking, he left with the other Shaolin players. Without Ye Weiming, they might have been able to get rid of the Wudang players just by paying a small price. But, with him around, the situation changed. Both sides were equal in strength. If they fought till life-or-death, half of their men would definitely be sacrificed. When a player died during a mission, it meant that he failed his mission. No one wanted to bear the risk, so everyone could only take a step back and continue investigating the truth just as Ye Weiming said. After Strained Noodles Steamed Bun and the rest of the Shaolin monks left, Yin Bukui sent a friend request to Ye Weiming. He told Ye Weiming that they should find time to chat properly before instantly bringing the rest of the Wudang disciples out of Dragon Gate Escort. Rather than saying that the mission for the players from Wudang and Shaolin was to kill their enemy, it was more appropriate to say that they had to protect the NPC on their side. Now that their NPCs were gone, naturally, they wouldn¡¯t want to stay here any longer. In an instant, only Ye Weiming was left in this huge Dragon Gate Escort¡­ as well as a ground full of corpses! He scanned all the corpses on the ground around him. Immediately, excitement appeared on his face. There was nothing to say. All he had to do was take out the grass mats and collect the corpses! You have received ¡®The Study of Fist Skills¡¯ ¡Á 1. You have received one Seven Star Thorn ¡Á 1. You have received ¡®The Study of Internal Energy¡¯ ¡Á 1. You have received Mosquito Feeler Needle ¡Á 1 You have received ¡®The Study of Cookery¡¯¡­ ¡­ Today was indeed a day of gains! Ye Weiming rolled up all the corpses with grass mats and kept them in his bag. The various kinds of secret scriptures that he received gave him ample motivation. He only had to stop after he continuously collected 23 corpses. He wanted to continue but his bag was full. The setting of the bags in ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯ was like the space ring in fantasy novels. When one threw things inside, the weight of the bag wouldn¡¯t be affected. The difference was the fact that the space in the bag wasn¡¯t based on an object¡¯s weight. It was based on the number of cubicles left. Items with similar attributes, for instance, the same pills, could be kept in the same cubicle. As for equipment and outfits, every single one of them required a box. Using the grass mats Ye Weiming used to collect corpses as an example, the maximum number of mats a cubicle could hold was 999. However, the corpses that he collected, as well as the secret scriptures he found on them, required one cubicle each. There were only 64 cubicles in Ye Weiming¡¯s bag. Putting aside the essential items he bought in the past, there were around 50 empty cubicles left. But, with each corpse he collected, he would need to use three cubicles. These cubicles were for the corpse, the secret scripture, as well as a small number of concealed weapons. It was understandable that he would find concealed weapons. After all, they were stuck on the corpses. They could be used as evidence in the court too. However, why were the hidden items on the corpses all similar secret scriptures? Were the hidden items all secret scriptures called the study of something? Ye Weiming counted the number of items in his bag even though he was feeling puzzled. He had a total of 21 books related to the study of something. The drop rate was quite high. In detail, they were: 6 ¡®The Study of Internal Energy¡¯, 2 ¡®The Study of Sword Skills¡¯, 3 ¡®The Study of Knife Skills¡¯, 4 ¡®The Study of Fist Skill¡¯, 2 ¡®The Study of Lightness Kungfu¡¯, 2 The Study of Staff Skills¡¯, 1 ¡®The Study of Cookery¡¯, and 1 ¡®The Study of Medical Skills¡¯. The first few books were all similar to the ones he found on Old Man Li and Chou Ba¡¯s corpses. The only difference was the smaller number of proficiency it could add on. The attributes of the last two books were: The Study of Cookery: Chief of Dragon Gate Escort, Du Dajin¡¯s wife¡¯s cookery diary. After using it, your cooking proficiency will increase by 400 points. The Study of Medical Skills: The diary of Fan Jian, an escort of Dragon Gate Escort. After using it, your medical skills proficiency will increase by 86 points. Are you able to use these two items directly? There¡¯s nothing much to say then. Ye Weiming pressed the ¡®use¡¯ button and immediately, two notifications were heard. Ding! Your cooking proficiency has increased by 400 points. Your cooking skill is now level 2. Ding! Your medical skills have increased by 86 points. Ye Weiming flipped to the character attributes page and realized that all of a player¡¯s living skills were lit up naturally. There were medical skills, mining, forging, planting, and many more skills. But, all of them were at level 0. He was a layman in all these areas. From the looks of it, he didn¡¯t need to learn the living skills. He just needed to use the proficiency points to increase their levels. Ye Weiming stopped thinking about the living skills. He went to look at the 6 ¡®The Study of Internal Energy¡¯, 2 ¡®The Study of Lightness Kungfu¡¯, and the 2 books of ¡®The Study of Sword Skills¡¯ and used them on his expiration exercise, ¡®Eight Step Chasing Toad¡¯, and ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯ respectively. The proficiency of these three types of kungfu increased but it was not enough for him to rise a level. Then, Ye Weiming took out ¡®The Study of Knife Skills¡¯. This was the highest quality book out of all the books he received. The Study of Knife Skills: The chief of Dragon Gate Escort, Du Dajin¡¯s knife diary. It can be used on specific knife skills and can increase the proficiency of the skill by 1,600 points! Based on the proficiency points, Du Dajin was probably more powerful than Chou Ba. Unfortunately, this book was useless to him¡­ Wait! He thought of the two books he received, ¡®The Study of Cookery¡¯ and ¡®The Study of Medical Skills¡¯. A bold thought started brewing in his mind. Chapter 14 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations Since he was able to increase the proficiency of his cooking skill and medical skill using these books even when he hadn¡¯t learned them before, would he be able to use ¡®The Study of Knife Skills¡¯ on a skill that required the use of knives? Why not try instead of just thinking about it? Ye Weiming immediately put his thoughts into action and used ¡®The Study of Knife Skills¡¯ the same way he did with ¡®The Study of Cookery¡¯. Ding! You have not learned any knife skills yet. Are you sure you want to use ¡®The Study of Knife Skills¡¯? Yes/No It was indeed possible! Ye Weiming immediately chose ¡®No¡¯. Although it was possible, the system didn¡¯t explain what implications there would be. Based on Ye Weiming¡¯s analysis, the most serious consequence was losing this diary. There wouldn¡¯t be any harmful impact on his own body. But, since he wanted to do an experiment, it was better not to risk his best item. He put away Du Dajin¡¯s knife scripture and took out another ¡®The Study of Knife Skills¡¯ he got from another escort. This book would only increase his proficiency by 200 points. He used it directly without much thought. Then¡­ Ding! After studying ¡®The Study of Knife Skills¡¯, you managed to learn through analogy and the proficiency of your cooking skill increased by 50 points! Learn through analogy? You can play like this too! He managed to use this book to increase the proficiency of his cooking skill, but the proficiency shrunk to a quarter of its original value. However, this also provided him with a brand new route to increase his levels. Ye Weiming stopped hesitating. He immediately used the 2 ¡®The Study of Knife Skills¡¯, 4 ¡®The Study of Fist Skills¡¯, and 2 ¡®The Study of Staff Skills¡¯ in the same way. Ding! After studying ¡®The Study of Knife Skills¡¯, you learn through analogy and manage to increase the proficiency of ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯ by 400 points! Ding! ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯ has increased to level 7. Ding! After studying¡­ After using a few scriptures, besides his ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯ increasing to level 7, the proficiency of his other two skills rose a little too. They didn¡¯t increase in level but he was a step closer now. Based on this, Ye Weiming could tell that the effects of the ¡®learning through analogy¡¯ was still biased although it was random. All in all, most of the proficiency would be added to kungfu skills. However, ¡®The Study of Staff Skills¡¯ allowed him to gain 40 points in the proficiency of forging. Ye Weiming didn¡¯t know whether to laugh or cry. After using all his scriptures, the proficiency of Ye Weiming¡¯s kungfu became¡­ Breathing exercise (unpopular) Level: 6 ¡­ Proficiency: 1,654/3,200 ¡­ Sword of the Yue Maiden (unpopular) ¡­ Level: 7 Proficiency: 50/6,400 Power +70%, Accuracy +70% ¡­ Eight Step Chasing Toad (Beginner) ¡­ Level: 3 Proficiency: 818/1,000 Movement +60 The increase in the level of his sword skill caused Ye Weiming to subconsciously feel enlightened again. Even without mentioning the increase in his attributes, he was still confident that under the same situation, the current him would definitely do better than his past self. As for his other techniques, he was a step closer to upgrading his level. At the same time, there were 21 empty cubicles in his bag. Ye Weiming immediately continued working to collect corpses. All the escorts¡¯ corpses, including Du Dajin, had already been taken care of by Ye Weiming, so when he started collecting corpses again, the gains weren¡¯t as pleasing. He only managed to gain one scripture on average for every three corpses he collected. Most of them were living skills. Even if he occasionally got some martial arts scriptures from low-level escorts, the amount of proficiency they gave was pathetic. Some corpses didn¡¯t even give him concealed weapons. That was because these weak escorts, the old, the young, and the women, were all killed using a claw skill! Ye Weiming collected his corpses and looked through the scriptures he received at the same time. He didn¡¯t frown upon those secret scriptures that weren¡¯t of great use. He just continued collecting the corpses and putting them in his bag. Slowly, he came to the inner part of the courtyard. This was probably where the families of the escorts lived. However, there were no ladies here anymore. There were only female corpses. Ding! You have gotten ¡®The Study of Sewing¡¯ ¡Á 1. Ding! The proficiency of your sewing skill has increased by 135 points. ¡­ Ye Weiming kept all the female corpses in one room and used up all the scriptures he received smoothly and quickly. Then, he scanned the entire room with his eyes. When he realized that there were no more corpses, he wanted to leave. At this moment, the sound of a notification suddenly popped out. Ding! The passive technique, ¡®post mortem¡¯, has been activated. You have realized that the cloth at the side of the bed is moving even though there¡¯s no wind in the room. There seemed to be someone breathing behind the cloth. This notification caused Ye Weiming to frown slightly. But, he didn¡¯t stop walking. He pretended that nothing happened and he turned to walk out of the door. After taking two steps out, he suddenly pulled his sword out of its sheath. The Dragon Spring Sword turned into a silver ray of light in the dark night sky. It stabbed straight towards the curtain not far behind him. The blade of the sword created a shrill sound as it rubbed against the air. ¡°Clang!¡± Almost simultaneously, when Ye Weiming turned around and raised his sword, the curtain was torn into half by someone. Then, Ye Weiming saw a black figure jumping into the air to avoid his sword. At the same time, the figure pushed his claws out and slashed at Ye Weiming¡¯s throat and his wrist, which he was using to hold the sword. The skill he used was swift, fierce, and vicious. Ye Weiming knew that he had met a powerful martial arts master. He instantly turned the direction of his sword and raised it up towards his opponent¡¯s throat instead. His actions were smooth and skilled as he changed his move. It didn¡¯t seem abrupt at all. It was as if this was how the move was supposed to be. In actual fact, that was the truth. The move that Ye Weiming used was called ¡®Seeking The Snake¡¯. It was a fake move from the ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯. It looked swift and vicious but the momentum of the move wasn¡¯t strong. It was easy to change the move halfway through. The system only told him that there was someone behind the curtain but based on his ability now, he currently wasn¡¯t able to get more information. What if the person hiding behind was a survivor of this escort agency? The other party went through torment and bore responsibility and blame to survive, but in the end, Ye Weiming stabbed him to death. Based on the script of a martial arts novel, people who went through such a situation were normally the main lead! Ye Weiming didn¡¯t want to kill a promising young man of the pugilistic world because of his recklessness. It was fortunate that he did this; it allowed him to make the best decision at the crucial moment. His opponent could be a powerful person but he didn¡¯t land himself in a disadvantageous position. The man in black couldn¡¯t help but exclaim in surprise when he saw Ye Weiming changing his move so ingeniously. Then, he exerted force on his waist and suddenly twisted his body in mid-air. He barely managed to dodge Ye Weiming¡¯s move. At the same time, he kicked at Ye Weiming¡¯s chest with full force. ¡°I bought a watch last year!¡± The man in black changed his move so quickly that when Ye Weiming wanted to retract his sword, it was already too late. He only had the time to curse before he quickly gathered his strength in his left shoulder and raised his fist to block his opponent¡¯s foot. ¡°Slap!¡± The fist and the feet collided. Ye Weiming changed his move abruptly so his Qi was still lacking. After forcefully receiving his opponent¡¯s kick, he took three steps back. As for the man in black, he twirled his body using the residual force and smashed into a window at the back of the room. The window shattered into pieces. He left Ye Weiming with a ¡°What watch?¡± before running away. ¡°Where do you think you¡¯re going?!¡± Ye Weiming wouldn¡¯t allow him to escape so easily. He quickly executed his ¡®Eight Step Chasing Toad¡¯ and chased after the person. However, what astounded him was the fact that his opponent wasn¡¯t just powerful in his offensive attacks, but even his movement skills were comparable to his. Although Ye Weiming had moved his internal energy to his legs and executed the Eight Step Chasing Toad to its fullest potential, he wasn¡¯t able to catch up with the man in black within a short period of time. Fortunately, the distance between the two of them became shorter and shorter. The other person seemed to be in a fluster because of him, so he actually ran towards the wall at the back of the courtyard. With the help of the moonlight, Ye Weiming saw a black thing that looked like a wooden door frame in the middle of the wall. But, that was definitely not the back door. If the other party thought that it was a broken small wooden door and slammed his head into it¡­ Ye Weiming gave an evil smile when he thought of this possibility. However, the smile was only on his face for less than a second. The other party didn¡¯t have any intention of breaking the door down. Instead, when he was some distance away from the wall, he suddenly jumped into the air. The jump caused him to fly 10 feet up. Then, he formed a claw with his right hand and grabbed the brick on the wall. He threw his body over the wall using the residual force. Ye Weiming followed closely behind him and jumped, just like his opponent did. However, he only managed to fly half the distance into the air. Just as he was about to slam into the wall with his face, he quickly stretched his left hand out and pressed forcefully against the wall. Then, he landed stably in the courtyard. It couldn¡¯t be helped. Eight Step Chasing Toad allowed him to increase his speed, so his movement was almost on par with people who practiced an intermediate lightness kungfu. But, as a beginner lightness kungfu, having an outstanding advantage meant that there was an obvious disadvantage too. As a lightness kungfu that was suitable for running on the ground, its biggest flaw was the fact that he couldn¡¯t jump high! Chapter 15 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations ¡°Flap, flap, flap¡­¡± Just as Ye Weiming thought that he had lost his criminal suspect and was feeling frustrated, a white pigeon flapped its wings and landed on his shoulder. This kind of white pigeon was a unique form of communication in the game. It was known as pigeon mail. The moment the white pigeon landed on his shoulder, it instantly disappeared. It was replaced with a message blinking in his message column. Zhang Cuishan didn¡¯t run away. He detected someone escaping from a hidden corner of the escort agency, so he went to chase after the person. He didn¡¯t have the time to inform anyone about it. He had the highest cultivation level among everyone at the escort agency, so only he detected the person¡¯s movement. Although we didn¡¯t manage to catch the person, we have successfully found him. We will continue searching for information within the Hangzhou city. If you would like to work with us, please meet us at the Broken Bridge on West Lake tomorrow between 5pm to 7pm. ¡ª¡ªYin Bukui After exchanging blows with the man in black, Ye Weiming was more than 90% certain that the massacre of Dragon Gate Escort wasn¡¯t committed by Zhang Cuishan or the Wudang disciples. Since both of them had the same goal of seeking the truth about the Dragon Gate Escort massacre, working together with Wudang was quite a good decision. After understanding this crucial factor, Ye Weiming immediately replied to Yin Bukui¡¯s message. He only replied with three words, ¡°See you there!¡± Then, he went back to the escort agency and continued collecting the corpses. After he filled up his bag, he searched the entire escort agency carefully once again to confirm that there weren¡¯t any more clues. Then, he executed his Eight Step Chasing Toad and ran out of the Hangzhou city. He dug a grave and buried the corpses. Then, he went back to the escort agency and continued collecting the corpse. After that, he went out of the city to bury them again¡­ The entire process took half of his night. When Ye Weiming finished burying the last corpse, the sky was already starting to light up. The small humps on the ground where he buried the corpses had been flattened into grass patches because the system refreshed itself. Maybe it was fated that for small characters like Du Dajin, no one would remember his name in the future. There wouldn¡¯t even be a trace of his existence left in this world. Ye Weiming took in a deep breath of the refreshing morning air. He didn¡¯t return to Hangzhou city. Instead, he executed his Eight Step Chasing Toad and ran in the direction of Xi Zhao Mountain. He didn¡¯t find any clues in Dragon Gate Escort, so Ye Weiming was too lazy to stay inside Hangzhou city and waste time searching for useless information. Instead, he would rather look at the secret scripture Old Man Li left behind before he met up with Yin Bukui. He could use this time to strengthen his ability as much as possible. He had a feeling that the mission wouldn¡¯t be just as simple as investigating a case. The path from the outskirts of Hangzhou to the Xi Zhao Mountain was very simple; he just needed to walk along the banks of West Lake in the South direction. Along the way, there were a bunch of humans known as the West Lake pirates. They would attack you spontaneously and their levels were between 10 to 12. They were just normal monsters, so there was nothing much to say about their abilities. One could say that they were just slightly vicious, normal people. With Ye Weiming¡¯s ability now, killing them was extremely simple. Compared to their unbearable abilities, their drop rate was still acceptable. On average, for every pirate you killed, they would drop some bronze coins. They didn¡¯t drop that many, but if you killed many monsters, you would still earn quite a decent amount of money. It should be known that when you killed animal monsters, no money would be dropped. They would drop realgar wine too. Almost every pirate would drop a bottle of realgar wine when they were killed. When a player drank the wine, their attack would +5 for the next hour. There was a chance that they would enter the drunk stage too. In that case, movement -5 and reaction -5 too. (The probability of getting drunk was based on the alcohol tolerance of individual players.) Its effects were quite useless but they could be exchanged for money at shops in the cities and towns. That was a sizable amount of income too. Ye Weiming experimented with his collecting corpse technique on the bodies of these pirates. However, the results weren¡¯t ideal. He collected 10 corpses but he only received one ¡®The Study of Knife Skills¡¯. The Study of Knife Skills: The diary of a pirate on West Lake. It can be used on specific knife skills and can increase the proficiency of the skill by 5 points! He clapped his hands and the secret scripture disappeared. After using ¡®learning through analogy¡¯, his sword skill proficiency increased by 1 point! He collected 10 corpses, but in the end, he only got 1 point of proficiency. No matter how he looked at it, Ye Weiming felt that he was making a loss. Just calculating the amount of time he needed to collect the corpses and bury them, excluding the amount of money he spent to buy the grass mats, he would gain more things if he used the time to kill other monsters or cultivate! Ye Weiming confirmed that it wasn¡¯t worth the effort to collect the corpses of these small monsters. He didn¡¯t want to waste his energy anymore, so he picked up his pace and charged towards his goal in a straight line. When he met pirates who attacked him on the way, he would kill them. If the monsters didn¡¯t attack him, he wouldn¡¯t offend them either. After all, his motive today was to look for treasure, not to kill monsters for experience points. The closer he got to his destination, the more and more West Lake pirates there were. They became denser in numbers too. By the time he reached Xi Zhao Mountain, he realized that the entire mountain was filled with these kinds of pirates. There were a huge number of monsters with ordinary abilities but good drop rates. Adding these factors together, this place fulfilled all the criteria of an exceptional cultivation location. Thus, many groups of players could be seen teaming up and killing monsters over here. It was a lively place. Ye Weiming killed his way to the Leifeng Pagoda. Within his vision, he saw three teams of players killing the monsters. There was a female player among them. Her back was facing the pagoda and she was using a crossbow to shoot the pirates. When the pirates got near her, she would calmly kick them away and then continue shooting them. She was having fun killing them. Ye Weiming felt his head hurting when he saw this scene. He was here to look for treasure. If there were so many players around when he activated the underground palace, he wouldn¡¯t need to search for treasures anymore. He would have a hard time trying to get rid of the players chasing behind him. ¡°Cock-a-doodle-doo!¡­¡± Suddenly, the sound of a rooster was heard from afar. The pirates seemed to have received some sort of order and quickly rushed towards the secret paths to escape. The pirates that were near the pagoda charged towards the main gate and then disappeared the moment they stepped inside. Within a few seconds, besides the pirates who were still fighting with the players, the others had disappeared without a trace. After the remaining pirates were killed by the players, there were no more monsters present at the originally lively cultivation spot. Only a bunch of players were left awkwardly staring at each other. ¡°The West Lake pirates will only appear at night. After the rooster¡¯s call, they will vanish and only appear again once the sun sets. Everyone, you can leave now.¡± The person who spoke was a player wearing the uniform of the Mount Hua Sect and he was brandishing a sword. However, his uniform wasn¡¯t complete; he was only wearing a long gown. This was very different from the full set of clothes they received when the clans came to look for people in the Novice Village. Maybe the sword was part of the gift for entering the sect? However, this was a piece of good news for Ye Weiming. Without these monsters, the players wouldn¡¯t stay here anymore. Once everyone left, he could search for his treasure in peace. After the man in Mount Hua Sect uniform informed the other players, he left with his team without looking back. The other teams of players left after him too. As for Ye Weiming, he sat down on the spot and started regaining his internal energy. This was very common for the players to do, so it didn¡¯t arouse anyone¡¯s suspicion. Around 10 minutes later, Ye Weiming had regained all his internal energy. He opened his eyes and saw the beautiful lady, who was shooting the monsters outside Leifeng Pagoda a moment ago, sitting down cross-legged in front of the entrance of the pagoda. From her posture, she seemed to be regaining her internal energy too. If Ye Weiming wanted to enter the pagoda, he would most likely alert this lady. Unconsciously, his gaze landed on the lady who was blocking the entrance. She was wearing a sexy black costume and her figure was amazing. Her even short hair, along with her exquisite features, gave her a smart and businesslike aura. The most conspicuous thing was the thin and long scar on the right side of her face. It was like a crack that appeared on a beautiful porcelain vase. People couldn¡¯t help but feel pity when they saw it. Suddenly, the lady opened her eyes. Her gaze collided with Ye Weiming¡¯s gaze. They stared at each other. Ye Weiming could sense unhappiness, disdain, provocation, and indifference in her gaze. In conclusion, her feelings could be summarised in five words: What are you looking at? Chapter 16 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations As a man, it was impolite of him to stare at the flaws of a woman. Ye Weiming knew that he was in the wrong, so he wouldn¡¯t reply to her with a ¡®why can¡¯t I look at you¡¯ gaze. Instead, he obediently retracted his gaze and stopped looking at her. He was frightened. He was just being a gentleman! The lady didn¡¯t seem to have the intention of pursuing Ye Weiming¡¯s unreasonable actions. She directly got up from the ground and walked towards the forest, not far away from Leifeng Pagoda. However, before Ye Weiming could heave a sigh of relief, he saw the lady coming back after walking around the edge of the forest. There were a bunch of dried branches and leaves in her hands. After that, the lady started building a fire on the ground outside the entrance of Leifeng Pagoda while Ye Weiming looked at her from the corner of his eyes. Then, she took out a white chicken that had been stripped of its feathers and stuck a wooden stick through it. Looking at her actions, she seemed to be planning to barbecue outdoors and would only leave after she finished eating! Ye Weiming felt frustrated when he saw the lady¡¯s actions. He had been working for the entire night and was extremely hungry too. Hence, he decided that he wouldn¡¯t wait for her anymore. I can¡¯t provoke you, but I can hide from you, right? He got up from the ground and rushed to West Lake using his Eight Step Chasing Toad. He used the lake water to wash his face first. Instantly, he felt more refreshed. Then, he took out the steamed buns from his bag and ate three of them in one go. He also gulped a bottle of realgar wine down. Why did he have to wash his hands before eating his steamed buns? Don¡¯t forget that he had been dealing with corpses the entire night. Although there weren¡¯t any bacteria or viruses in the game, he still felt it would be a bit weird if he ate the steamed buns without washing his hands. After using the simplest food to fill up his stomach, Ye Weiming took out his shovel and started digging by the side of the river. This was the biggest side effect of his collecting corpse technique. He only had two ways to deal with the corpses he collected. The first way was to pass it to the autopsy room. However, the autopsy room wouldn¡¯t keep all kinds of corpses. It would only take a corpse that was a piece of evidence or could provide evidence for a crime before the case was solved. Otherwise, he would have to bury the corpse. If he threw it on the street, his chivalrous points would be deducted! After close to an hour, Ye Weiming finally buried all the corpses successfully. When he felt that the lady had probably already finished her food and left, he went back to Leifeng Pagoda. He saw a bonfire that had already been extinguished. That lady was indeed gone. To prevent unnecessary trouble, Ye Weiming walked around the Leifeng Pagoda once. He didn¡¯t see any other players in this area. Finally, he stepped into the pagoda. He followed what Old Man Li said and twisted the semicircle-shaped dragon stone carving on the left side of the wall. A soft tap was heard. The two tiles on the floor in the middle of the pagoda popped out, revealing a straight iron chain stairway heading downwards. After going down the stairway into the underground palace, he realized that the tunnel within the underground palace was still quite spacious; it was able to fit two people walking side by side. There were piles of coal burning on the walls around him. The coal brightly lit up the underground world. Ye Weiming twisted a dragon stone carving that looked exactly like the one above on his right-hand side. The tiles on the floor moved back down and the hole was closed. He moved forward through the tunnel. After turning a corner, he discovered two corpses lying on the ground. They were the West Lake pirates who were roaming around outside a moment ago. There were West Lake pirates entrenched in the underground palace of Leifeng Pagoda? Old Man Li didn¡¯t mention this in the letter he left behind. Although he was puzzled, Ye Weiming still unconsciously hastened his pace. He saw the dead West Lake pirates and their bodies were still warm. Thus, it wasn¡¯t hard to reach this conclusion. He wasn¡¯t the first player to enter this place. There was already another player who had been in this underground palace before him! Could it be that the clue in her hand wasn¡¯t the only clue left behind by Old Man Li? Ye Weiming passed through two forked roads as he was deep in thought. He noticed that there were increasingly more pirate corpses. What made him more worried was the fact that the fellow who came before him seemed to understand the underground palace very well. The path the person took was the one that went straight into the depth of the palace. There were also other pirates wandering in the other forked roads, but there were no signs of fighting. For a moment, Ye Weiming felt extremely anxious when he saw someone ahead of him in his treasure hunt. He unknowingly started executing his Eight Step Chasing Toad, and in an instant, his speed increased exponentially. When he passed through two more forked roads, Ye Weiming finally heaved a sigh of relief. In front of him were three different paths. On the map Old Man Li drew, he had to take the road on the right to find the treasure. Yet, the pirates on the road on the left had all turned into corpses. Did this mean that from this forked road onwards, the person moving in front of him was taking a different path? That was a good thing! That person can do his own thing while I find my treasure. No one will disturb each other. How harmonious can this be? Ye Weiming pulled out his long sword and was just about clear his path by killing the pirates on the road on the right. Suddenly, he heard hurried and messy footsteps coming from the left side. The sound was extremely shrill in this enclosed tunnel. Soon after, he saw a lady wearing a black, sexy outfit with short hair cut till her cheeks retreating while fighting. It was the lady with the scar who he met outside the pagoda a while ago. Before this, Ye Weiming was still curious why the lady had stayed in this area and didn¡¯t want to leave even after the pirates had left. Now, he knew that her destination was also the underground palace. However, the color of the lady¡¯s face wasn¡¯t good. She was a little green. It was obvious that she had been poisoned. Behind her, more than 10 pirates were waving their swords and chasing after her. By right, those players who had learned movement skills before would have an easy time escaping these ordinary small monsters. Players like the scar-face lady, who were well-versed with concealed weapons, could keep the pirates at a range so that they wouldn¡¯t be able to attack her. But, maybe it was because she was poisoned, the lady¡¯s footsteps seemed a little light. Her speed was slowed down until she was almost the same speed as the pirates who were chasing her. She couldn¡¯t get rid of her pursuers. When she saw Ye Weiming¡¯s figure appear in front of her, the lady with the scar was stunned. However, she didn¡¯t have the mind to worry about this now. She ran past Ye Weiming without stopping. As for the pirates who were chasing closely behind her, they arrived in front of Ye Weiming. When he saw the pirates blatantly revealing their weakness, Ye Weiming waved his sword without thinking and stabbed the throat of the first pirate who appeared. -286! A huge critical hit number popped out on top of the pirate¡¯s head. Instant kill! The moment Ye Weiming started fighting, he was like a stone that was thrown into the lake. Ripples were formed immediately. Very soon, the pirates¡¯ hatred was shifted to him because of that sword attack. They waved their knives and swords and started rushing towards him simultaneously. Ye Weiming didn¡¯t care about these reckless hunks who had almost zero attacking power. Especially in this narrow space, the advantage of having a greater number was restrained. In addition, these pursuers had been chasing the lady with the scar for half a day. Their blood was already depleted, so under Ye Weiming¡¯s vicious attacks, he very quickly turned all of them into his experience points. He picked up the items that the pirates dropped. He realized that the pirates in the underground palace had higher experience points and drop rates than their counterparts outside. This was a good place for cultivation. Ye Weiming turned his head and discovered that the lady with the scar hadn¡¯t gone far. She had sat down some distance behind him. After throwing a pill into her mouth, she crossed her legs and sat down on the ground. Then, she started meditating on the spot. ¡°Erm¡­¡± Ye Weiming asked in a joking manner, ¡°The underground palace is a secretive place. Aren¡¯t you afraid that I will take this chance to take your life so that I can get what¡¯s inside the underground palace alone?¡± The lady with the scar calmly glanced at Ye Weiming. She spoke four words softly, ¡°Do what you want.¡± Then, she closed her eyes and stopped looking at him. She was boldly letting him decide her fate. Chapter 17 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations This lady with the scar was a clear-headed person. Ye Weiming and her were the only two people in the underground palace now. Based on her current state, she wouldn¡¯t be able to escape if Ye Weiming really wanted to kill her. Rather than wasting her energy to worry about something she couldn¡¯t control, it was better for her to make use of the time to treat her poison. Otherwise, with the poison still inside her body, she wouldn¡¯t even be able to defeat the pirates who were wandering around the underground palace. Ye Weiming shook his head and took out a bottle of realgar wine. He flung the bottle and the wine smashed into the wall behind the lady with the scar on her face. The wine bottle broke and the wine splashed everywhere, drenching the lady. The lady with the scar opened her eyes again. There was a hint of anger in her gaze as she stared at Ye Weiming. ¡°What are you doing?¡± You can kill me but you shouldn¡¯t humiliate me! If you want to take everything in the underground palace, you can kill me to clear the area. I¡¯m sitting right here, all 50 kilograms of me. Come and fight with me if you dare. If I frown slightly, I¡¯m not a hero! But, you¡¯re a little overboard when you humiliate me like this. Where is your character and your bottomline? Ye Weiming¡¯s gaze landed on the swollen wound between her thumb and index finger on her right hand. The two teeth marks with black blood seeping out looked extremely hideous. ¡°You should know how you were poisoned. There are many poisonous snakes in the underground palace. This realgar wine can prevent those snakes from getting close to you.¡± After he finished speaking, he didn¡¯t worry about the lady anymore. He turned his body and waved his sword as he rushed towards the road on the right. With the help of his powerful level 7 Sword of the Yue Maiden, he cleared all the pirates in his path as though he was cutting melons and cabbages. Very soon, he reached the end of the tunnel. This looked like a deadend but there was a secret path hidden here. Ye Weiming followed the method Old Man Li wrote down and felt for a hole in the wall under the lamp that was filled with charcoal. It was an inconspicuous hole. He stucked two of his fingers inside and immediately felt a ring. He hooked the ring with the tip of his fingers and pulled it down forcefully. Crack! After the trap was activated, the wall at the edge of the tunnel opened with a loud sound, revealing the spacious stone room behind it. There was no light in the stone room. With the help of the lights from the tunnel, he could see three different paths moving out of the squarish stone room. But, besides those three paths, there was still a huge number of poisonous snakes slithering around the stone room. The room was densely populated with snakes. There must have been at least a few hundred of them. There were snakes on the floor, on the walls, on the stone pillars, on the beams¡­ they were everywhere. After the stone door was opened, the snakes all turned their gaze towards the intruder, Ye Weiming. Ye Weiming felt goosebumps on the back of his neck. Fortunately, Ye Weiming predicted that this might happen, so he drank some realgar wine before coming in. Those poisonous snakes were afraid of the smell of realgar wine, so they didn¡¯t dare to get close to him so recklessly. Just to be safe, Ye Weiming took out another bottle of realgar wine. He opened the cap and poured the wine on his body. In an instant, the strong smell of wine spread through the entire secret tunnel. As the fragrant smell of wine spread, the poisonous snakes quickly retreated far away. Ye Weiming gathered his courage and walked into the stone room when he saw this. Then, he took out a torch that he had prepared beforehand and felt around to test the other switch inside the stone room. The stone door that he entered from closed. At this moment, Ye Weiming¡¯s path of retreat was blocked. He was sharing a room with those snakes that made him very uncomfortable just by looking at them. He turned his head back. Using the light from the torch, Ye Weiming started carefully observing the wall on his left. This was the part of the wall that was blocked by the stone door a moment ago. Ding! The passive technique ¡®post mortem¡¯ is activated. You have realized that the 13th stone tile on the bottom left-hand side of the stone wall seems very loose. It looks as if someone had dislodged it before. After receiving the hint from the system, Ye Weiming couldn¡¯t help but curse the designers of this game for being too mean. When the stone door was opened, the players wouldn¡¯t be able to see the spot where Old Man Li hid his treasure. If they wanted to discover the secret, they had to first close the stone door. However, the stone room was filled with colorful, poisonous snakes while there was a spacious and bright tunnel behind them. It would require much courage for someone to shut down their only path of retreat. In addition, based on the structure of the stone room, the paths ahead and the empty platform in the middle of the stone room seemed even more mysterious and enticing. Compared to them, this corner behind the stone door was undoubtedly an area that would be easily disregarded. Without Old Man Li¡¯s map as guidance, even Ye Weiming, a professional who had the post mortem technique, might miss the treasure, much less the other players. Ye Weiming stretched his hand out and dislodged the stone tile that had been taken out of the wall before. He found an oilcloth behind the stone tile. There was something wrapped in it. After taking it out, he immediately opened it. You have received ¡®Daizhong Way¡¯ secret scripture ?¡ª1. Daizhong Way (Ultimate): The most powerful sutra of Mount Tai Sect. It allows you to gain exceptional mental arithmetic skill so you¡¯re able to predict your opponent¡¯s movement and break their stance in a single move! Cultivation requirements: None. Ultimate sutra! It was actually an ultimate martial arts scripture! And it was a sutra too! Before this, the highest level martial arts scripture Ye Weiming had was the beginner level lightness kungfu that Chou Ba contributed, Eight Step Chasing Toad. He didn¡¯t expect to be able to get an ultimate martial arts secret scripture this time! In ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯, the martial arts skills were segregated into different categories based on their power. There were six levels of martial arts: lackluster martial arts, beginner martial arts, intermediate martial arts, advanced martial arts, ultimate, and invincible. Based on their type, they were distributed into three categories: internal energy, moves, and cultivation formulation. Among these three, cultivation formulation was the more special one. Most of the time, advanced martial arts had their own cultivation formulations. Since a cultivation formulation could only be used along with a martial arts skill, the level of the cultivation formulation wasn¡¯t high. Thus, a powerful sutra that could be practiced individually was extremely precious. . Mind you, there was a limit to the number of martial arts skills a player could learn. They couldn¡¯t just learn as much as they wanted. In the players¡¯ skills page, there were only 13 internal energy columns and 13 moves columns. If they wanted to learn a new skill after all the columns were filled, they needed to forget one of the martial arts they had learned. In that case, the additional attributes acquired through the cultivation of the martial arts would be cleared entirely as well. But, cultivation formulation was a bit special. There was no limit to the number of sutras you could practice. But, there was only one column for cultivation formulation. That meant that no matter how many sutras you practiced, you could only enjoy the attributes given by the sutra you placed in the cultivation formulation column. After all, sutras cultivated the heart and mind. Which sutra you chose depended on your mental state during a fight. It was better to focus on one single sutra. Here, we need to look at the cultivation requirements of ¡®Daizhong Way¡¯ again. There were no cultivation requirements! Did this mean that he could practice it now? Ye Weiming slapped the sutra without any hesitation. The sutra turned into a flash of white light and disappeared in front of him. At the same time, the system notification appeared just as he expected. Ding! You have learned ¡®Daizhong Way¡¯. Daizhong Way (Ultimate) The most powerful sutra of Mount Tai Sect. It allows you to gain exceptional mental arithmetic skills so you¡¯re able to predict your opponent¡¯s movement and break their stance in a single move! Level: 1 Proficiency: 0/1,000 Damage +10%, Critical Hit +10%, Critical Damage +10% During a battle, you can activate the sutra so that it runs automatically. You will be able to calculate your opponent¡¯s move and break their moves! As expected of an advanced sutra, it actually increased the damage and critical damage based on percentage. This meant that as he advanced in the game, the power of this sutra would increase. It would be able to increase the limit of his damage. What¡¯s more, this sutra was just at level 1 now. As its level increased, its effects would increase too! These numbers were only for normal circumstances. What would the situation be like if he activated the effects cultivation formulation? Just thinking about it made him excited! Ye Weiming calmed his emotions down before opening the stone door again. He left the frightening snake pit. He turned a corner and saw the lady with the scar standing at the forked road where they had parted. Her hands were crossed in front of her chest and she was leaning against the stone wall. The toes of her foot were on the ground while the back of her foot was on the stone wall. She was smiling ambiguously at him. Ye Weiming had already gotten the sutra, so he didn¡¯t guard against the lady as much as he did before. He walked over casually and said in a teasing tone, ¡°I saw that your injury was quite bad just now. Did you manage to recover fully in such a short time?¡± ¡°Of course.¡± The lady with the scar said proudly, ¡°Besides using concealed weapons, our Tang Clan specialize in poison too. Whether it¡¯s our antidotes or our internal energy, they have powerful inhibiting effects on poisons. The snake poison was strong but given enough time, I¡¯m able to get rid of it without much difficulty.¡± ¡°Congratulations. I hope that you will have many gains today.¡± As he spoke, he had already walked past the lady and was heading back in the direction he came from. Ye Weiming was extremely excited now. He wanted to find a small monster to test the effects of ¡®Daizhong Way¡¯. ¡°Wait.¡± The lady with the scar stopped Ye Weiming when she noticed that he wanted to leave. ¡°Are you interested in fighting a boss together? Since you helped me just now, I will only take the items I need for my clan mission. You can take the rest of them.¡± Chapter 18 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations Fight a boss? Ye Weiming thought of something and asked immediately, ¡°Do you mean the leader of the West Lake pirates, Chen Ming?¡± The Divine Constable Bureau did issue the mission of exterminating West Lake pirate Chen Ming. The difficulty of this mission was four-star. In the description, it didn¡¯t say whether Chen Ming was a boss or an elite monster. It just mentioned that this person was hard to find and that no one knew the exact location of his hideout. The local authorities couldn¡¯t do anything about him either. At first, Ye Weiming wanted to take this mission. But, in the end, You Jin introduced the five-star Dragon Gate Escort mission to him that had an intermediate martial arts skill as a reward. However, there was also a punishment if he failed. To prevent making mistakes due to distractions, he could only give up this mission that had a normal reward in comparison. After entering the underground palace and realizing that there were a huge number of West Lake pirates congregated here, Ye Weiming guessed that this could be Chen Ming¡¯s hideout. Now, when he heard that the lady with the scar was going to fight with a boss, he confirmed his hypothesis. The lady with the scar was slightly surprised. ¡°Didn¡¯t you come for him?¡± Ye Weiming just smiled and didn¡¯t reply to her when she asked him about his motive. The lady with the scar instantly understood the situation. ¡°I was too rude. So, what do you think? Are you interested in working together?¡± ¡°We can work together.¡± Ye Weiming thought for a moment before answering, ¡°If you can wait for me to go back and accept a mission first.¡± ¡°There¡¯s no need for such trouble. We can form a team first and I will share the mission with you.¡± The lady with the scar was still as straightforward as before. Before Ye Weiming could say anything, she had already sent him an invitation to form a team. Ding! Player Youyou has sent you a team request. Ye Weiming couldn¡¯t tell that this lady was so open-minded while her name was as delicate and elegant as her looks. Ye Weiming accepted the request and asked casually, ¡°Isn¡¯t this your clan¡¯s mission? You can share your clan¡¯s mission with others?¡± ¡°No!¡± Youyou replied without hiding anything, ¡°Since I¡¯ve already thought of killing this boss, I will definitely accept all the missions related to him. The authority¡¯s reward mission is one of them.¡± It was indeed true that anyone could accept the reward missions given by the authorities. However, this was only applicable for missions lower than five-stars. For missions like the Dragon Gate Escort, other players couldn¡¯t accept them except for clans that were related to this mission like Wudang and Shaolin. Exterminating West Lake Pirates Mission level: four-star A huge number of pirates have appeared at West Lake, Hangzhou. They have been committing crimes and stealing from merchants. Their leader, Chen Ming, is an evil and ruthless criminal. However, his whereabouts are extremely secretive, so the local authorities can¡¯t catch him. Please catch him or kill him. Mission rewards: 4,000 EXP, 400 Cultivation, 5 Gold. The mission the lady shared seemed exactly the same as the one he saw in the Divine Constable Bureau. Ye Weiming looked at the method of reward distribution. It was to be distributed by the leader. Hmph¡­ Biting his tongue wasn¡¯t Ye Weiming¡¯s style. However, before he could voice his objection, another notification popped out. Ding! Player Youyou has transferred the leader role to you. You are the leader of the team now. What the hell! This lady is really open-minded! It looked like she really only wanted to get the item from her mission. After taking over the role as the leader, Ye Weiming immediately changed the allocation mode to equal distribution. ¡°Since we are doing this mission, we should do it completely. Let¡¯s clear all the paths one by one and try our best not to miss any pirates. We will fight the boss right at the end.¡± Youyou smiled when she heard this. ¡°Are you planning to upgrade your level along the way? You can do it, I don¡¯t mind.¡± ¡°Not only that!¡± Since Youyou was so generous, Ye Weiming didn¡¯t plan to hide his intentions either. ¡°Based on my experience from my previous mission, besides the fixed rewards, there is also another hidden mission. I feel that since this mission is called ¡®Exterminating West Lake Pirates¡¯, if we kill all the pirates in this underground palace, the rewards we get might be even higher than from killing one boss.¡± Ye Weiming wasn¡¯t making a groundless statement. Let¡¯s use Chou Ba¡¯s mission as an example. Based on the mission, as long as he found Chou Ba and held him back for a while, naturally You Jin would come and reinforce him after some time. But, if that happened, he wouldn¡¯t be able to get the items the boss dropped and he would only get the fixed rewards stated for the mission. Yet, Ye Weiming and his partner killed Chou Ba. Thus, the rewards they received were more than two times higher than the fixed reward. In actual fact, Ye Weiming had realized this point when he was still in the Novice Village. At that time, the blacksmith in the village asked the players to collect 10 portions of chicken meat for his pregnant wife for nourishment. At that time, the Novice Village was full of players. The lowest level chicken would be mutilated by the players around it the moment it appeared in the game. The other players would impatiently complete their mission the moment they collected 10 portions of chicken meat. Then, they would receive a steel sword and happily go off to complete higher level missions and kill higher level monsters. Only Ye Weiming continued killing chickens. When he collected the meat dropped by 10 hens, he went to complete his mission. In the end, he received a better quality fine steel sword and even received a mission to send a verbal message to Soymilk Little White. Then¡­ he became a member of the Divine Constable Bureau. Ye Weiming even guessed that there was such a setting because the game wanted to tell the players, in an obscure manner, that the rewards for working diligently and just dealing with the assignment were different in most circumstances. Ye Weiming didn¡¯t think as thoroughly as Ye Weiming. She didn¡¯t even ask him for a reason. When Ye Weiming said that he wanted to kill all the pirates, she just started loading her crossbow. They continued moving forward. After making their first turn. They discovered seven West Lake pirates occupying the middle of the tunnel. There was a huge distance between them and the pirates, so Ye Weiming excitely activated the active effects of ¡®Daizhong Way¡¯. The tips of the fingers on his left hand touched each other as though he was calculating something. ¡®Daizhong Way¡¯, activated! 555¡Á13= After activating the sutra, to Ye Weiming¡¯s surprise, a math question appeared in front of him. What was happening? Did he have to correctly answer this math question if he wanted to activate the active effects of ¡®Daizhong Way¡¯? What kind of weird martial arts is this!? When ¡®Daizhong Way¡¯ was activated, a West Lake pirate shouted angrily. He raised his huge knife and charged towards them. Fortunately, Ye Weiming wasn¡¯t fighting alone. Youyou, who was beside him, shot an arrow out and accurately hit her target. She took 56 drops of blood away from the pirate. Even though her attack hit the pirate, she didn¡¯t successfully shift the hatred of the pirate away from Ye Weiming. The West Lake pirate continued charging towards Ye Weiming with bloodshot eyes. ¡°Whiz! Whiz! Whiz!¡± Youyou shot another five arrows when she noticed that she failed in shifting the pirate¡¯s hatred. This instantly took away half of the pirate¡¯s blood. As for Ye Weiming, he was still nervously calculating. Youyou had no choice but to take a step forward and fight with the pirate. While she evaded her opponent¡¯s attack directed at her head, she grabbed the pirate¡¯s wrist and kicked him in the crotch. Then, she threw him over her shoulders and pinned him down. She aimed her crossbow at the pirate¡¯s forehead. At this moment, Ye Weiming finally got the answer to the math question. 7,215! However, immediately after that, another math question appeared in front of him. 111¡Á15= ??? Are you done? Ye Weiming felt helpless as he started calculating again. By this time, Youyou had pulled the trigger once again. Poof! Poof! Poof! There was another series of shots. Ye Weiming, who was still in the midst of calculating, received a notification from the system that his target was dead. He had failed to activate the active effects of ¡®Daizhong Way¡¯! Chapter 19 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations ¡°What happened just now?¡± ¡°You didn¡¯t do anything, so why did the pirate lay his eyes on you? Even when I was about to kill him, you were still his main target. He only attacked me when I blocked his path to attack you.¡± Youyou bent down and touched the corpses of the pirate. The items dropped were automatically distributed evenly between them. After that, she couldn¡¯t suppress her curiosity anymore. Ye Weiming gave a bitter smile and shook his head. He said in a helpless tone, ¡°I just learned a powerful sword skill. However, it¡¯s quite difficult to activate it. From the looks of it now, it has an amazing mocking ability.¡± Youyou immediately understood. ¡°Are you trying to test the power of that skill?¡± Ye Weiming nodded in embarrassment. After all, he was wasting both of their time when he tested his own martial arts. Yet, unexpectedly, Youyou didn¡¯t mind. She waved her hand directly and said, ¡°You can continue your experiment. I will be in charge of protecting your safety. This time, I won¡¯t use my crossbow. I will slowly play with them using my hands and legs.¡± You¡¯re a loyal brother! Ye Weiming was eager to try out the active effects of ¡®Daizhong Way¡¯, so he didn¡¯t act polite with her. He started calculating with his fingers again. The pirate that got locked in by him immediately exploded in anger like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. He screamed furiously and rushed over. This time, with Youyou¡¯s help, Ye Weiming didn¡¯t have to worry about his own safety. He just had to focus on calculating the math problems that popped out on the system page. First question, second question, third question¡­ fifth question¡­ The West Lake pirates were beaten to death by Youyou when Ye Weiming got to the seventh math question. Mind you, Youyou was a disciple of the Tang Clan. Her main skills were concealed weapons skills. There wasn¡¯t much power in her fists and kicks. To decrease her attack power, she didn¡¯t even wear any boxing items. Yet, Ye Weiming still didn¡¯t successfully activate the active effects of Daizhong Way. From this, Ye Weiming could tell that this sutra wasn¡¯t practical at all! However, through this experiment, Ye Weiming still realized something exceptional. He noticed that Youyou¡¯s combat skills were actually not bad. She didn¡¯t lie when she said that she had never learned any close combat skills in the past because the techniques she used weren¡¯t the ones found in the game. She was using the combat skills used in real life. There were no additional attributes for these techniques but they were swift and fierce. Her opponent wasn¡¯t able to put up any resistance at all even though he had a weapon in his hand. ¡°Again!¡± Before Ye Weiming could apologize, Youyou had already excitedly started dealing with the next monster for Ye Weiming. The third pirate was punched to death by Youyou when Ye Weiming reached the eighth math question. The fourth was killed at the 9th question¡­ The fifth was killed at the 10th question¡­ The sixth was also killed at the 10th question¡­ Finally, when the last pirate in the tunnel had only 100 points of blood left after Youyou punched it continuously, Ye Weiming moved. His body moved along with his sword and the Dragon Spring Sword in his hand turned into a flash of light. It stabbed directly into the heart of the West Lake pirate. Beauty Of A Sick Lady! Instant kill! Ye Weiming retrieved his sword and silently comprehended the feeling he had before he made that move. Was the effect of ¡®Daizhong Way¡¯ so amazing? A moment ago, when he completed all the 10 math questions, his mind suddenly became cleared as he felt luck coming on his side. It was as if everything around him was within his calculation. He felt that his opponents would never be able to block or evade his attacks. Then, as he wielded his sword, the movement of every single muscle in his body and every bit of internal energy was perfect. The coordination between his internal energy and muscles had reached a level beyond expression. At that instant, he felt that he had thoroughly grasped the life and death of his opponent! What an impressive sutra! However, its activation requirements were too irritating! Youyou saw Ye Weiming standing on the same spot with his sword in his hand, revealing an intoxicated expression. She couldn¡¯t help but give him a questioning look. Then, she said, ¡°I realized that your new sword skill isn¡¯t very practical.¡± Ye Weiming nodded helplessly. ¡°I realized that too.¡± He took a look at his proficiency. Proficiency: 1/1000 The active effects of this sutra weren¡¯t just hard to activate, but its level up criteria were very strict too! After spending so much effort and time, all you can give me is 1 point of proficiency? It looked like the sutra shouldn¡¯t have been cultivated like this. Its level should have been increased, mainly using cultivation points. Ye Weiming remembered something and added, ¡°Based on what I see, the only advantage of this skill is its special mocking effects. If you put this skill in a normal online game, it will definitely be an ultimate skill of a tank. You don¡¯t have to worry about OT at all. I just don¡¯t know if this effect will still appear if my target is another player.¡± ¡°Why don¡¯t you try it?¡± Youyou was a doer. She immediately took a few steps back and said, ¡°You can treat me as your target to try the effects.¡± Ye Weiming nodded slightly and fixed his gaze on Youyou. His left hand started calculating. Suddenly, Youyou widened her eyes and she immediately took a few steps back without hesitation. Ye Weiming immediately stopped calculating. He opened his mouth and asked, ¡°How did you feel just now?¡± Youyou looked at Ye Weiming with lingering fear. ¡°Very frightened. When you activated your skill, I felt as if something extremely scary was eyeing me. It felt like¡­ someone pointing a gun at my head? It might have felt more terrible than that!¡± She said that she felt as if someone was pointing a gun at her head. Ye Weiming silently remembered her description. Then, he waved his hand and said, ¡°Since this skill isn¡¯t practical, I will not practice it anymore. Let¡¯s quickly finish this map. That is more important.¡± Ye Weiming didn¡¯t really care about the irritating activation criteria for ¡®Daizhong Way¡¯. Without the active effects, its passive attributes were already powerful enough. Humans needed to know when to be content. As the saying went: ¡®When you have a partner of the opposite sex, work seems so much easier¡¯. One of them was a long-range fighter while the other was a close combat specialist. This combination tallied with their fighting strategies. Ye Weiming¡¯s sword skills were agile and fierce. With him standing at the front, they could push through the map without getting injured. As for Youyou, she stood behind him and kept firing her crossbow. She didn¡¯t need to worry about her movements at all. She could just fire boldly. The two of them took less than two hours to clean up the entire huge underground palace. The only monster left was the boss, Chen Ming, who was at the center of the main hall of the underground palace. From afar, Ye Weiming could see one boss roaming around the main hall of the underground palace. He couldn¡¯t help but laugh. ¡°The mission of this underground palace map is too easy. There isn¡¯t even one bodyguard beside the boss. In normal circumstances, there would be at least two to three elite monsters protecting the boss. There should also be more than 10 small monsters circling the boss. This is what the boss should look like.¡± Youyou, who was following closely behind him, said seriously, ¡°This is not an ordinary boss. Look carefully at his level.¡± Hearing this, Ye Weiming fixed his gaze on the body of the boss who was lingering in the hall. Chen Ming Level: 30 Blood: 6,500/6,500 ¡­ The moment he saw this, Ye Weiming frowned. ¡°Level 30! What kind of a joke is this? Why would a boss of this level appear in this underground palace?¡± Youyou couldn¡¯t blame Ye Weiming for being astounded. Most of the time, the designers of online games would try to balance the levels of the small monsters and the big boss in a mission. For instance, the pirates inside the underground palace had higher levels than those pirates outside. They were between level 11 and 13. Hence, the boss in this map should have been around level 15. The maximum wouldn¡¯t be level 20 or higher. Otherwise, that would mean that there was a problem with the design of the map. Players with low levels wouldn¡¯t have any chances of challenging the boss. As for players with high levels, they didn¡¯t have experience with fighting such low level monsters. So, what kind of player was this map designed for? If Chen Ming was a hidden boss, it would make more sense. After all, most of the hidden bosses weren¡¯t prepared for players who entered this map to level up. However, Chen Ming was the leader of those small monsters. No matter how one looked at him, he didn¡¯t seem like a hidden boss! By right, a game like ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯, which was acknowledged by the government as the designated entertainment for the intergalactics migrants, shouldn¡¯t have had such low-level mistakes. But, such mistakes really occurred. Could one believe it? ¡°That¡¯s because the boss has a weapon.¡± At this moment, Youyou opened her mouth and helped to answer Ye Weiming¡¯s question. ¡°Do you see the crossbow he¡¯s holding in his hand? That is the Zhuge Celestial Bow. It¡¯s one of the top 10 concealed weapons of Tang Clan. It¡¯s a treasured weapon. When I took this mission, my master told me that with the crossbow, Chen Ming¡¯s ability can rise 15 levels. He asked me to be extremely careful when dealing with him.¡± Chapter 20 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations Speaking of treasured weapons, we must talk about the different grades of the items in ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯. In ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯, there were six grades for items. They were: white, blue, gold, green. treasured, and divine. For the first few grades, the attributes of the items were similar to the other online games. White meant whiteboard items. They had the lowest attributes. Blue items were superior items. Gold items were supreme items. Green items were a full set of outfits. Besides the four grades, there were still treasured weapons and divine weapons. Starting from treasured weapons, all the items had their own special names and they were all unique and one of a kind! For instance, in the entire game, there was only one Zhuge Celestial Bow. It was the one in front of them. There were no other duplicates! After listening to Youyou¡¯s explanation, Ye Weiming analyzed the situation seriously. ¡°Chen Ming¡¯s level is now at 30. That means that his actual level is only 15. In the game, the boss¡¯ level is normally calculated based on their aggregate data. This way, it will be easier for the players to measure the difference in their abilities.¡± ¡°Hence, the boss in front of us should be one that has a powerful offense but his other skills are just at level 15. The most frustrating thing is, he is a long-range boss.¡± When he was saying this, Ye Weiming couldn¡¯t help but give a bitter smile. ¡°It¡¯s fortunate that he doesn¡¯t have any small monsters around him. If not, those small monsters will definitely be at the frontline while he fires his weapon from the back. In that case, we won¡¯t have to discuss how to fight this boss anymore. But, even if that was the case¡­ speaking about this, why is the mission only four-star when the boss is at this level?¡± ¡°My clan mission is five-star.¡± Youyou felt a little embarrassed when she said this. ¡°If I wasn¡¯t in the team, Chen Ming in front of us would only be at level 15. Then, just like what you mentioned, he would have a bunch of elite monsters and small monsters protecting him.¡± ¡°But, don¡¯t worry. Before I came, I was already prepared to fight with him alone. My master told me that Chen Ming doesn¡¯t know how to use concealed weapons. I should be able to handle him. Now, with your help, I¡¯m more certain that we can succeed!¡± While she was speaking, Youyou had already raised her crossbow. She continued with a serious expression, ¡°Later, wait for me to attract his attention first. Then, you can find a chance to sneak an attack on him. As long as we don¡¯t give him the chance to close the distance between us, we can probably force him to give up the Zhuge Celestial Bow and use his long knife instead. That way, it will be easier when we start fighting with him again.¡± ¡°He is at level 30 and he is a long-range boss with a powerful offense. Do you think you can block him?¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry, I¡¯m a professional!¡± Youyou threw this sentence at Ye Weiming confidently.. Then, her expression became extremely serious. Even the way she held the crossbow was different from before. She tightly held the crossbow with her right hand and steadied her right wrist with her left hand. Her arms were bent slightly as she raised the crossbow to her head level. She leaned closely against the wall and slowly walked towards the main hall of the underground palace step by step. Ye Weiming felt a sense of familiarity when he saw her posture. He felt as though he had seen it somewhere before. Youyou slowly moved closer to the main hall. However, Chen Ming didn¡¯t notice her at all. The level 30 boss only landed his gaze on the young lady when one of her feet was already inside the hall. He shouted loudly, ¡°You¡¯re a disciple of the Tang Clan. Did you come to look for death?¡± Youyou fully displayed her silent and vicious personality by dashing forward the moment she noticed that the boss had discovered her. She immediately shortened the distance between them so that it was within the effective shooting range of her crossbow. The moment her feet landed on the ground, her arm was already straightened. Her right hand was still holding the crossbow and her left hand was holding her right wrist. She fired six consecutive shots at Chen Ming. ¡°Poof! Poof! Poof! ¡­¡± -36 -34 -88 -29 ¡­ All the six shots hit Chen Ming. Six red numbers floated up from Chen Ming¡¯s head. They represented the number of blood points he lost. Among them, there were two shots that inflicted critical damage and took away close to 300 points of blood from him. Because of the continuous attack, Chen Ming was frozen temporarily. He wasn¡¯t able to retaliate at all. If Youyou¡¯s crossbow was able to fire continuously and endlessly, she could have been able to control the boss until his death. Unfortunately, her crossbow could only fire six arrows for each interval. After that, she needed to reload her crossbow. The reloading time was as long as three seconds! After she fired all her six arrows, Youyou didn¡¯t wait for Chen Ming¡¯s reaction. She quickly rolled her body to the left. This allowed her to evade the three arrows that Chen Ming fired after he regained his ability to move. Then, she got up and started running in a simple S shape. She dodged another three arrows from her opponent. After that, she raised her crossbow again and fired another six arrows. Once again, all her arrows hit Chen Ming. The most amazing thing was, after her series of movements, she was less than one meter away from one of the six stone pillars that were situated around the main hall. After firing her last arrow, she took a huge step and hid her body behind that stone pillar. She rested there for a few seconds. Chen Ming regained his ability to move again. He fired seven arrows towards the stone pillar where Youyou was hiding. Under the powerful destructive power of the Zhuge Celestial Bow, a part of the stone pillar was broken and pieces of stones flew everywhere. But, he wasn¡¯t able to hurt Youyou. Youyou quickly moved out from the stone pillar and fired six arrows once again. She might have felt that this stone pillar was already badly damaged, so when she was reloading her crossbow, she used the few seconds to roll towards the direction of another pillar. After evading three arrows from Chen Ming, she changed her direction unexpectedly and rolled back. Ye Weiming, who was watching her closely, couldn¡¯t help but compliment her in his heart! However, at this moment, something happened. Chen Ming seemed to have predicted her actions. While Youyou was rolling back, among the three arrows that Chen Ming fired, one of them hit the side of Youyou¡¯s abdomen while she was on the move. Because of the power of the Zhuge Celestial Bow, the arrow pierced through her body and took away 521 points of her blood! The young lady, who had full health a moment ago, was only left with a small number of life points. She was almost killed instantly. However, even if she wasn¡¯t killed instantly, there wasn¡¯t much of a difference. Remember that using her normal crossbow, Youyou was able to freeze the boss for a short period of time after she hit him with her arrows. Thus, when she got hit by the Zhuge Celestial Bow, the situation would only be worse. One arrow took away more than 90% of Youyou¡¯s life. Not only that, but she was thrown back by the force of the arrow and fell back on the ground. Chen Ming laughed loudly when he saw this. ¡°Little fellow, go and die!¡± He rushed forward and raised the treasured crossbow again. He aimed it at Youyou who was lying on the ground. Suddenly, a figure shot out diagonally behind him. The person grabbed Youyou¡¯s right leg and dragged her behind the pillar. He hid her behind it properly. There was no need to ask who this person was; the person who flew out was Ye Weiming. He just managed to reach the main hall. He released Youyou¡¯s calf and smiled casually. He said confidently, ¡°Your performance is not bad. Now, you can leave the rest to.. What the f**k!¡± At first, Ye Weiming was planning to hide behind the pillar and wait for his opponent. Once his opponent came, he would attack him furiously and force him to change to a close-combat weapon. But, when that bastard saw Youyou being saved, he didn¡¯t get greedy and act recklessly. Instead, he went back to the middle of the main hall. Chapter 21 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations The boss didn¡¯t act normally! How was he supposed to fight with it? Youyou sprinkled a packet of wound medicine on her injury and said helplessly, ¡°I¡¯m sorry. There¡¯s an error in the information I had. Didn¡¯t my master say that Chen Ming doesn¡¯t know how to use concealed weapons? His concealed weapon skills are extremely high-level¡­ He could even predict my movement¡­ ouch!¡± As she was speaking, Youyou¡¯s face had already turned extremely pale. Huge drops of sweat dripped down her forehead. However, she gritted her teeth and forced herself to not make any sound. Ye Weiming exclaimed in surprise when he saw this, ¡°Young lady, did you activate the pain sensor system?¡± ¡°If you activate 100% of the pain sensor, you can use your will power to immunize a portion of the freezing time after you¡¯ve been hit¡­ Also¡­ yes, the speed of cultivation for the technique you used during a battle will increase by 20%¡­ There¡¯s no reason for me¡­ not to activate it!¡± She made so much sense that Ye Weiming actually felt speechless. ¡°But, you¡¯re in so much pain that you can¡¯t move normally. Hurry up and turn off the system!¡± To protect the players, the pain sensor system in this game could be turned off anytime after it was activated. However, every time after it was turned off, the system had to cool down for 24 hours before it could be activated again. When one activated the system again, one had to be in a non-battle situation. Youyou nodded slightly. She immediately went to the system backend and chose to turn off the pain sensor system. The excruciating pain that almost caused her to turn crazy immediately subsided like the waves of the sea. Finally, Youyou felt her nerves relaxing. She felt so comfortable she heaved a sigh of relief. Although she turned off the pain sensor, Youyou was still in a heavily injured state. Her various attributes dropped by half of their normal value, so she could only rest on the spot. Because she was in battle mode, she couldn¡¯t accelerate the recovery of her blood through meditating. At this moment, the system suddenly notified them that they had left the battle mode. Ye Weiming didn¡¯t feel any hint of happiness when he received this notification. Instead, he couldn¡¯t control his emotions and scolded, ¡°This irritating bastard. At first, I wanted to rush out and fight with him one on one after he finished firing the seven arrows on his crossbow. At this distance, I have full confidence that I will be able to catch up with him within the three seconds of reloading time.¡± By this time, Youyou had already sat down cross-legged on the ground. She started meditating so that her injury would heal faster. However, this didn¡¯t prevent her from interacting with Ye Weiming on the team channel. ¡°The capacity of the Zhuge Celestial Bow is 13 arrows, not 7. I didn¡¯t give him the chance to finish all his arrows in one go, so you only saw him firing 7 arrows at once.¡± Then, she started sharing information about the Zhuge Celestial Bow with Ye Weiming. She appeared a little ashamed as she said, ¡°I¡¯m sorry that I dragged you in this. Actually, they suggested that I should form a team to complete this mission, but I don¡¯t trust the other people in my clan. I have no other friends in the game too¡­ Let¡¯s not talk about this. Now, the moment we pop out head out from behind the pillar, we will get into battle mode again. We won¡¯t be able to fight against his arrow skills and we can¡¯t outrun him either. What a dilemma!¡± ¡°Arrow skills? Him?¡± Ye Weiming laughed uncontrollably. ¡°Don¡¯t make me laugh. From the battle just now, I could tell that that fellow doesn¡¯t know how to use concealed weapons just like what you said. He wasn¡¯t aiming at all. All he did was randomly shoot!¡± Youyou widened her eyes when she heard this. ¡°Then, his prediction just now¡­¡± ¡°He was just lucky.¡± Ye Weiming shrugged. ¡°You have been fighting with him for quite a while. During this time, he shot almost 20 arrows at you. It¡¯s not hard for one arrow to hit you, right?¡± Youyou¡¯s eyes lit up. ¡°That means that¡­¡± ¡°That means that the effects of your amazing movement technique will be heavily discounted in front of him.¡± Ye Weiming mercilessly struck down the young lady¡¯s unrealistic illusion. ¡°He might not even know where his next arrow will land, so how are you supposed to predict where they will land?¡± ¡°If it was a normal crossbow like the one you have in your hand, I could try to predict its landing based on the path of the arrow and its speed. In that case, I would be able to use my sword to flick the arrow away. However, the speed of the arrow shot using the Zhuge Celestial Bow is too fast. I can¡¯t do it at all.¡± Youyou sighed. ¡°You can even analyze these things so clearly. It looks like you¡¯re the real master of the game.¡± Ye Weiming chose to smile and not reply to her. Was he supposed to tell her that his concealed weapon skill was on par with Chen Ming¡¯s? When he was fighting with Chou Ba in the past, he relied on his luck. Youyou remained silent for a few moments before asking in the team channel again, ¡°What should we do now?¡± ¡°Besides the crossbow, do you know how to use other concealed weapons? The kind that you can throw with your hands.¡± Youyou replied directly, ¡°No.¡± Ye Weiming couldn¡¯t help but tease her. ¡°Really? You¡¯re a disciple of the Tang Clan but you don¡¯t know how to throw concealed weapons?¡± Youyou replied, ¡°Do you know how to use guns? I mean handguns.¡± Ye Weiming answered, ¡°No. Why?¡± Youyou continued, ¡°You¡¯re an official but you don¡¯t know how to use a gun. As a disciple of the Tang Clan, what¡¯s wrong with me not knowing how to throw concealed weapons?¡± ¡°Nothing is wrong. You can heal your injury first.¡± ¡­ Youyou sat for more than 10 minutes while Ye Weiming protected her at the side. At the same time, he was in charge of watching over the boss¡¯s movement in case that despicable fellow took this chance when they let down their guards to circle around them and fire some arrows at them. Based on Ye Weiming¡¯s observation, this boss was more obedient. Or rather, he might have been more cunning and had more endurance. From the moment the two of them hid behind the pillar, he had been holding his crossbow and standing in the middle of the main hall without moving at all. Not even talking about moving around the pillar and attacking them, he didn¡¯t even attempt to use his crossbow to damage the pillar that was concealing their figures. This allowed Youyou to be able to regain full health smoothly, but at the same time, Ye Weiming couldn¡¯t find a chance to get near the boss using his tactics. He tried to activate the active effects of ¡®Daizhong Way¡¯ to attract the boss over, but he received a notification from the system telling him that the distance was too great. He didn¡¯t fulfill the requirements for activating the skill, so he had to give up on this thought. Half an hour later, Youyou regained full health. She stood up and the situation of the two sides went back to the starting point. The only change was that they had moved from outside the main hall to behind the pillar. They were slightly closer to the boss now. She moved her head out swiftly to take a look at the boss that was still standing in the middle of the hall. Then, she quickly pulled her head back and said to Ye Weiming, ¡°What should we do now? You have a better understanding of the game compared to me and you¡¯re the team leader too. I¡¯ll listen to your command for the battle later.¡± Ye Weiming rolled his eyes when he heard this. ¡°Didn¡¯t you say that you were a professional a moment ago? Why is your understanding of the game not as clear as a normal player like me?¡± ¡°I¡¯m a professional special force soldier. Is there a problem?¡± ¡°No problem at all!¡± After hearing her reply, Ye Weiming finally understood why he found the way she held the crossbow and the way she moved so familiar. These were the actions done by the characters in action films, war films, spy films, and sometimes, some superhero films. However, instead of a gun, she held a crossbow and the costume was an ancient costume, so he didn¡¯t see the connection immediately. He stopped thinking about the lady¡¯s profession and said, ¡°Someone with a background like yours is always the main character in the early part of a novel. I don¡¯t have to say much about your understanding of timing and opportunity. Later, I will go out and distract him. You will act accordingly and create chances for me to get close to him.¡± After he finished speaking, he shifted his internal energy to his feet and executed the ¡®Eight Step Chasing Toad¡¯. He left the cover of the pillar. ¡°Hey bad guy, your grandfather is here!¡± Chapter 22 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations ¡°Hey bad guy, your grandfather is here!¡± The system wasn¡¯t able to acknowledge Ye Weiming¡¯s personal mocking skill and give the relevant reaction but he did successfully attract the attention of the boss. The boss raised his crossbow and shot at him without a second word. However, Ye Weiming¡¯s movement technique was much more powerful than the other normal players at this current stage of the game. After shifting his internal energy to his feet, his speed reached an astonishing limit. When Chen Ming fired two arrows, Ye Weiming had already covered a few meters. He hid behind another stone pillar. Taking this chance when Chen Ming¡¯s attention was all on Ye Weiming, Youyou stepped out from the stone pillar. The moment Chen Ming wanted to turn the direction of his crossbow, Ye Weiming came out from behind his stone pillar once again. He executed the ¡®Eight Step Chasing Toad¡¯ to its fullest potential and charged towards where Chen Ming was. Two targets appeared at the same time. However, Chen Ming was still able to almost instantly predict that Ye Weiming, who was attempting to get near him, was the greater threat. Thus, he changed the direction of his crossbow again. But, before he could fire his arrows, Youyou¡¯s arrows had already landed on his body. ¡°Poof! Poof! Poof! ¡­¡± All six arrows managed to hit Chen Ming once again. With the help of her past experience, Youyou purposely slowed down the tempo of her attack this time. She made use of the 0.2 seconds the boss needed to use to aim, earning more time for Ye Weiming. At the same time, she took 324 points of Chen Ming¡¯s blood. His life value was now 6,176/6,500. What happened to the blood that she took away from the boss a while ago? She was seriously injured and managed to return to full blood now. Do you think that the recovery speed of the boss would be slower than a player¡¯s? Of course, the amount of blood the boss lost because of Youyou¡¯s six arrows wasn¡¯t the main point. The main thing was that she managed to help Ye Weiming earn close to five seconds of moving time! Five seconds was enough to let Ye Weiming move from the edge of the main hall to the front of the boss. He managed to immediately take over Youyou¡¯s attack. After getting attacked continuously by two players, even the boss found it hard to handle. In order to protect himself, he instinctively raised the Zhuge Celestial Bow to block Ye Weiming¡¯s attack the moment he broke free from his freeze. Based on Youyou¡¯s description, this Zhuge Celestial Bow was created using the Zhuge quick-firing crossbow as its foundation. The ancestors of the Tang Clan collected all the refined gold they could find on earth and spent 10 entire years building this crossbow. They were not only able to bring out the full potential of the functions of the crossbow, but after strengthening the crossbow, knives and axes weren¡¯t able to damage it either. Ye Weiming predicted that his opponent would use this method to block his attack, so he twirled his wrist and changed his stab into a sweep. He exerted internal energy on the blades of his sword and swept his sword across Chen Ming¡¯s wrist at the speed of lightning. He aimed at the hand that was holding the crossbow. ¡°Ouch!¡± Chen Ming screamed in pain. The Zhuge Celestial Bow landed on the ground. At the same time, he moved back furiously and tried to widen the distance between Ye Weiming and him. As for Ye Weiming, he didn¡¯t show any mercy. Using this chance when his opponent dropped his weapon, he brought his sword forward and used the most lethal skill of the ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯, Beauty Of A Sick Lady to attack Chen Ming¡¯s heart. -326! It was a critical hit too but the amount of damage Ye Weiming caused was twice the value of Youyou¡¯s critical damage shot! The moment he achieved success, Ye Weiming continued attacking mercilessly. He continued stabbing Chen Ming as he shouted his moves. ¡°Beauty holding the throat!¡± ¡°Beauty holding the eye!¡± ¡°Beauty holding the temples!¡± ¡°Beauty holding the kidney!¡± ¡­ He kept using the most powerful skill, ¡®Beauty Of A Sick Lady¡¯, over and over again. All he did was change the position he was attacking. After a series of attacks, he managed to achieve critical hits every time. There were seven attacks in total. It took away more than 2,000 points of blood from the boss. He was able to achieve such results not because his ¡®Beauty Of A Sick Lady¡¯ was a bug in the game. Actually, this move was very simple and direct. It wasn¡¯t hard to block this move. Yet, he dared to use it because the boss didn¡¯t have any weapons on him. Also, the boss wasn¡¯t well-versed with close combat skills. After the seven attacks, the boss finally managed to take out the beheading knife behind his back. He waved his knife towards Ye Weiming¡¯s sword blade. ¡°Clang!¡± The sound of metal clashing into each other echoed through the secret tunnel. Ye Weiming was forced to take three steps back because of the boss¡¯ attacking power. His combo was discontinued! After his combo was stopped, Ye Weiming quickly turned his head and looked towards the spot where Chen Ming dropped the Zhuge Celestial Bow. Youyou had already picked up the treasured weapon. Ye Weiming heaved a sigh of relief. He raised the long sword in his hand and rushed towards Chen Ming again. The boss was holding a knife now, so Ye Weiming didn¡¯t dare to keep using ¡®Beauty of a Sick Lady¡¯ anymore. Instead, he concentrated on executing the ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯ slowly to drag the time. Around 10 seconds passed. Youyou¡¯s reinforcement still didn¡¯t come. But, Ye Weiming didn¡¯t mind. With the help of his high-level sword skill, he managed to stab the boss two times within a short period of time. He didn¡¯t cause any critical damage but he managed to take away close to 200 points of blood. Based on this tempo, Ye Weiming felt that he could attempt to fight with this boss one on one. However, his plan to fight with the boss alone failed. Just as he was prepared to fight for a long time with the boss, Youyou¡¯s reinforcement finally arrived. ¡°Whiz! Whiz! Whiz! ¡­¡± The shrill sound of arrows breaking through the air was heard. A series of red numbers instantly appeared above the boss¡¯s head. -734! -721! -1,465! ¡­ Seven continuous arrows. Every time the arrow hit him, Chen Ming would be forced back. At the same time, a frightening number would float up above his head. Two of them were critical hits. The critical damage inflicted was close to 1,500 points. It was scary. Although seven arrows were fired, the boss¡¯s health bar was already empty by the time the sixth arrow hit him. Strictly speaking, the last arrow hit a corpse. Also, it directly stuck the corpse of the boss on the stone pillar behind him. Ding! You¡¯ve successfully killed a level 30 boss, Chen Ming. You¡¯ve received 4,000 EXP and 400 cultivation. Ding! Your level is now level 14. Ding! You¡¯ve successfully killed the leader of the West Lake pirates, Chen Ming. You¡¯ve completed the mission ¡®Exterminating West Lake Pirates¡¯ perfectly. Rewards received: EXP 6,000, Cultivation 600, 2 Gold, 50 Silver. Compared to the rewards that were stated for this mission, they received way more reward after killing all the pirates! System Announcement: Player Ye Weiming from the Divine Constable Bureau and Player Youyou from the Tang Clan killed the leader of the pirates, level 15 boss Chen Ming, in his hideout at the Leifeng Pagoda. They have completed the first blood. Rewards for first blood: Reputation in pugilistic world 100, Clan contribution 100. System Announcement: Player Ye Weiming from the Divine Constable Bureau¡­ ¡­ The system announcement blinked three times. However, Ye Weiming was more concerned about something else. ¡°The treasured weapon is the same, but why was your damage so much higher than the boss¡¯ damage when he was using it?¡± ¡°Because the boss doesn¡¯t know how to use it,¡± Youyou replied naturally. ¡°He couldn¡¯t even ensure the accuracy of his attacks when he was using this crossbow. Thus, he was unable to enjoy the additional attributes given by other kung fu skills. The ¡®Jing Yu Sutra¡¯ I cultivated is specifically for crossbows.¡± Ye Weiming remembered that his ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯ was able to increase his sword skill damage by 70%. He felt enlightened. He was too astounded when he saw her killing the boss in the blink of an eye, so he didn¡¯t remember this. He shook his head. Then, he suddenly said, ¡°Can you send me the attributes?¡± Youyou was holding the Zhuge Celestial Bow but it didn¡¯t belong to her. She needed to bring it back to the Tang Clan and hand it over to complete her mission. Thus, there was no need for her to hide the attributes of the weapon. She immediately sent Ye Weiming a screenshot of it. Chapter 23 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations Zhuge Celestial Bow (Treasured weapon): The ancestors of the Tang Clan collected all the refined gold they could find on earth and spent 10 years creating this celestial bow using the Zhuge quick-firing crossbow as its foundation. Capacity: 13. Reloading time: 2.5 seconds. Effective shooting range: 100 meters. Attack +500. Special effect: Repulse! The attributes of this crossbow were almost perfect! The capacity was huge and it had a fast reloading speed. It was a long-range weapon and its damage was high. Every single attribute was simple but useful. As for the special effect, repulse, that was even more amazing. What were long-range professions most afraid of? They were afraid of close combat professions getting too close to them! With this repulse effect, they would be able to force their enemies back when they got too close to them. This was an outstanding weapon that could allow one to continue kiting one¡¯s opponent to death! Ye Weiming enviously complimented the weapon. Suddenly, he changed the topic and asked, ¡°How long did the system give you to return this crossbow?¡± Youyou was stunned when she heard this. ¡°How do you know that there¡¯s a time limit?¡± ¡°Isn¡¯t it obvious?¡± Ye Weiming shrugged. ¡°With the Zhuge Celestial Bow, you were able to kill a level 15 boss within 7 arrows. His blood might not have been full at that point in time, but he still had half of it left. If he was in full health, one round of firing would¡¯ve probably been enough to take care of him. You don¡¯t even need to reload your crossbow. In that case, if you meet a level 20 boss, you will be able to get rid of him with two rounds of arrows. If the boss is level 25¡­¡± Ye Weiming didn¡¯t continue. However, his intention was clear. ¡°If you don¡¯t hand over the Zhuge Celestial Bow immediately after you receive it and continue using it for missions outside or to kill bosses, you will be able to accumulate a lot of EXP, cultivation, items, kung fu scriptures, money, and many other things in less than half a month. It will be too easy for you to run ahead of all the other players.¡± ¡°However, based on the way our game system acts, do you think it will allow a player to gain such a huge bug?¡± Suddenly, he thought of something and said in a luring tone, ¡°Or, you can choose to betray and leave your clan.¡± ¡°Why would I do that?¡± Youyou¡¯s attitude was firm. She would definitely not consider this option. She changed the topic directly and said, ¡°You¡¯re right. I must return this crossbow to my clan within six hours. If not, I will be marked as a traitor and will be chased by the NPCs from the Tang Clan as well as the players inside. Well, although I was given six hours, they did give a disclaimer that it¡¯s better to return it as soon as possible.¡± ¡°You should return it as soon as possible then.¡± This disclaimer must have had something to do with the final reward for clearing this mission. Anyway, six hours wasn¡¯t enough for her to kill some bosses and rush back to the clan. ¡°Let¡¯s split our loot now.¡± ¡°No need.¡± Youyou was resolute. ¡°I¡¯ve already said that I just want my mission item.¡± ¡°Don¡¯t reject the offer so quickly. There are still many good things in the hall. Why don¡¯t I search for the items first and then we can discuss how to split them.¡± ¡°You can do what you like. I don¡¯t want them anyway.¡± Ye Weiming stopped talking nonsense. He reached out with his hand and felt Chen Ming¡¯s corpse that was pinned on the stone pillar. Mount Splitting Blade (Lackluster): A popular blade skill in the pugilistic world. The moves are vicious. Cultivation requirements: Arm strength 23, Enlightenment 10. Beheading Blade: A knife tainted with blood. Attack +42, Defense +7. Bamboo Hat (Blue): A hat made from bamboo. Helps to block the rain and wind. Defense +10. Cow Leather Boots (Blue): Boots made using tanned cow skin. It¡¯s light and durable. Physical defense +5, Movement +5. Realgar Wine Recipe: Records the way of making realgar wine. Realgar Wine: ¡­ 1 Gold, 21 Silver. Why was March able to get an intermediate palm skill scripture and a beginner lightness kung fu scripture when she touched the corpse of the boss the other time? Why was it that on his turn, all he managed to get were these useless items? Mind you, Chen Ming might have been easier to defeat, but he was still a level 30 boss! Was it because he was unlucky or was it because of the Zhuge Celestial Bow? Since killing Chen Ming would give them the Zhuge Celestial Bow, the other items he dropped might have had weaker attributes. Ye Weiming played with the items he found for a while before he kept them in his bag. At the same time, he secretly observed Youyou¡¯s reaction. When he was playing with the cow leather boots, he noticed that the lady¡¯s eyes lit up for a moment. However, she quickly hid her reaction. As expected, she was interested in this pair of boots. Ye Weiming immediately clicked on the boots and opened the trading page. ¡°The attributes for this pair of boots are not bad. As a long-range vocation, you need some movement attributes too. You can take this. I will take the realgar wine recipe. As for the rest, I will sell them away and we can split the money after that.¡± ¡°But¡­¡± ¡°No buts. Without you, I won¡¯t be able to kill the boss alone. Also, since we¡¯re a team, I can¡¯t be the only one getting all the rewards. If not, how are we supposed to work together again in the future?¡± Honestly speaking, the two items that Chen Ming dropped were not bad in terms of attributes. However, the benefits given by the Divine Constable Bureau were too good. Players were given a full set of blue items the moment they entered the bureau. The attributes of those items were quite good too. This was why Ye Weiming said that the items Chen Ming dropped were all rubbish. As for the other clans, they didn¡¯t have such good treatment. Every single item needed to be exchanged using clan contribution points and money. Let¡¯s take Youyou as an example. Movement was important to her, but it wasn¡¯t as important as her attacking attribute. Thus, when she had enough clan contribution, she would first consider changing her crossbow and not her shoes. Now, after seeing Youyou¡¯s skills, Ye Weiming wanted to befriend her too. Thus, he couldn¡¯t take all the rewards during their first collaboration. This was to make things easier if they were to work together in the future. Ye Weiming wasn¡¯t sordid. The interaction between adults normally started out of interest. There was no friendship between them. That was something that could only be found in school. Or rather, it might not have even been found in school. When he saw Youyou still hesitating, Ye Weiming urged her. ¡°Hurry up and take it. Don¡¯t waste time. I still need to look for other treasures!¡± Youyou finally took the boots. As for Ye Weiming, after collecting Chen Ming¡¯s corpse, he walked towards a set of ancient-looking furniture in a corner of the hall. You received ¡®The Study of Knife Skills¡¯ ¡Á1. The Study of Knife Skills: The diary of the leader of the West Lake pirates, Chen Ming. It can be used on specific knife skills and can increase the proficiency of the skill by 800 points! Ye Weiming used ¡®The Study of Knife Skills¡¯ and the realgar wine recipe. Ding! After studying ¡®The Study of Knife Skills¡¯, you¡¯ve managed to learn through analogy and the proficiency of ¡®Daizhong Way¡¯ has increased by 200 points! Ding! You have learned how to make realgar wine. The proficiency of your cooking skill has increased by 100 points. The hall wasn¡¯t just an empty room. There were many pieces of furniture inside. For instance, there were Buddha figures, enchanted armaments, and many other objects. Most of them were Buddhist armaments that were useless to the players. One could consider them antiques too. Just now, when Youyou was recuperating, Ye Weiming observed his surroundings and unexpectedly received a few notifications from the system. As expected, after walking one round, he found many good items. The items he found were much better than the rewards he received from killing the boss! Chapter 24 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations The Diamond Sutra: A Buddhist sutra. After using, you will gain 1 point of Enlightenment (can only be used once). Relic: The relic left behind by an eminent monk after he passed away. After using it, your cultivation will increase by 5,000 points. A sutra that could increase his enlightenment and a relic that could increase his cultivation. Both of them were exceptional items that couldn¡¯t be bought with money! ¡°These two items should be worth the same. The only difference is that one is for your long-term development while the other can instantly increase your combat ability. Let¡¯s go 50-50. Ladies first. You can take your pick.¡± ¡°How is that possible?¡± Youyou shook her head firmly. ¡°You were the one who found these items. I didn¡¯t help at all. I can¡¯t take the relic!¡± Ye Weiming sighed helplessly and silently used both the items. Actually, he was just being polite just now. He was just testing the lady¡¯s character. Such things could only be done once. If not, the lady might really have been touched by his sincerity. In that case, he would make a huge loss! Ding! You have used the relic. You¡¯ve received 5,000 points of cultivation. Ding! You have read ¡®The Diamond Sutra¡¯. Enlightenment +1. His cultivation immediately reached a new high. Ye Weiming immediately opened his skills page and started leveling up his ¡®Daizhong Way¡¯. Ding! ¡®Daizhong Way¡¯ is a special sutra. You¡¯re unable to use cultivation points to level up. What? He couldn¡¯t use his cultivation points to level up ¡®Daizhong Way¡¯! He remembered the irritating activation criteria for this sutra. It seemed like if this sutra was cultivated in the normal way, no one would be able to complete the mission. Every time he successfully activated the sutra, he would only be able to increase 1 point of proficiency. However, in order to activate it, he had to answer 10 math questions! That meant that if he wanted to gain 1,000 proficiency, he needed to do 10,000 math questions! This would only allow him to jump from level 1 to level 2. What happened if he wanted to move to a higher level? He wasn¡¯t playing a game. He felt like he was studying for his university entrance exam! The most important thing was, this increase of 1 proficiency was calculated based on the best-case scenario. In reality, during a battle, there were many unexpected situations that could arise. If he put all his focus on doing the math questions, it was the same as seeking death. Fortunately, he was still able to increase the proficiency of this sutra through analogy. Otherwise, it would be too inhuman! He went back the same way as he came. Along the way, Ye Weiming used the cultivation points to increase his expiration exercise and ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯ by one level. After that, the cultivation he just accumulated was only left with a single digit. Ye Weiming Level: 14 ¡­ Blood: 760/760 Internal energy: 550/550 Physique: 73 Arm strength: 73 Movement: 138 Reaction: 73 Intelligence: 25 Enlightenment: 29 Expiration exercise (lackluster) level: 7 Proficiency: 0/6,400 There was nothing special about the most fundamental breathing exercise in the pugilistic world, but one would never overexert onself. Blood +350, Internal energy +350 Physique +35, Arm strength, +35, Movement +35, Reaction +35 ¡­ Sword of the Yue Maiden (unpopular) A sword skill passed down from the Chunqiu Dynasty. Not very powerful. Level: 8 Proficiency: 0/12,800 Power +80%, Accuracy +80% ¡­ Eight Step Chasing Toad (Beginner) Level: 3 Proficiency: 912/1,000 This is a widely known lightness kungfu of the Earth Hall Lightness Scripture. It can exponentially increase a player¡¯s speed. Movement +60 ¡­ How Is Mount Tai (Ultimate) ¡­ Level: 1 Proficiency 201/1,000 Damage +10%, Critical Hit +10%, Critical Damage +10% During a battle, you can activate the sutra so that it runs automatically. You will be able to calculate your opponent¡¯s move and break their moves! ¡­ Equipment (Not listing out everything) ¡­ Based on Ye Weiming¡¯s current attributes, he would be able to survive one arrow from the Zhuge Celestial Bow in Youyou¡¯s hand without instantly getting killed. Well, probably¡­ They came to the entrance of the underground palace. Ye Weiming turned the lever and the secret passage was opened. Then, he followed the chain steps and climbed up. Every step he took caused the chains to clang loudly. However, halfway through, arrows started plummeting down on him furiously. They landed violently on Ye Weiming¡¯s body. ¨C 42 ¨C 39 ¨C 95 ¡­ Among the numbers, there was even a critical hit. These arrows instantly took away a sizable amount of Ye Weiming¡¯s blood. ¡°What the f**k!¡± Ye Weiming was astounded. He hurriedly released the chain and his body landed in the underground palace. Then, he immediately shifted to the side and moved away from the range of vision from the entrance of the secret path. Then, he finally heaved a sigh of relief. He hurriedly took out a pill from his bag and swallowed it. His expression became gloomy. Without even asking, he knew that the two of them were being ambushed by other players. They were stuck in this underground palace that only had one entrance! At this moment, Youyou took out the Zhuge Celestial Bow and rushed to the bottom of the entrance. She aimed her crossbow at the top before waving her hands at Ye Weiming. She was telling him that she couldn¡¯t see any enemies at this angle. Coincidentally, they heard the voice of a lady coming from outside the underground palace. ¡°That little girl¡¯s reaction was really fast. I just started attacking, but she had already jumped down. I didn¡¯t manage to kill her; she escaped!¡± From what the person was saying, they had mistaken Ye Weiming for Youyou. ¡°It¡¯s alright!¡± Another voice was heard. This was a lady¡¯s too. The lady who spoke later comforted the first lady and asked her to keep calm. Then, she raised her voice and shouted to the people below, ¡°Youyou, we don¡¯t have any evil intentions.¡± They tried to kill them with their ambush but now, she was saying that they had no evil intentions? Ye Weiming glanced at Youyou. This young lady is really funny. On the other hand, Youyou¡¯s expression was extremely dark. She said in a low voice, ¡°You¡¯re Poached Spicy Pork Slice! ¡°Oh! Youyou, you make it sound so distant. I still remember that a while ago, you were calling me Senior Sister Pork Slice, right?¡± The lady outside laughed sweetly. Then, she suggested, ¡°However, I don¡¯t care how you address me. I just want to make a deal with you. We will give 50 Gold to you for that Zhuge Celestial Bow in your hands. Junior Sister Youyou, what do you think?¡± Youyou gritted her teeth furiously. ¡°50 Gold for the Zhuge Celestial Bow! Why don¡¯t you be a bandit?¡± Poached Spicy Pork Slice laughed when she heard this. She said arrogantly, ¡°Look at what you¡¯re saying. Am I being a bandit now?¡± ¡°In your dreams!¡± ¡°Junior Sister Youyou, don¡¯t get agitated. You can consider my offer slowly. I¡¯m not in a rush.¡± Poached Spicy Pork Slice appeared very confident as she continued, ¡°However, I think that there must be a time limit for you to return the Zhuge Celestial Bow, right? I suggest that you consider my offer carefully. If you wait until your mission is over and you fail the mission, you will be exiled from the clan. At that time, all the powerful NPCs will chase you and you will have nothing to gain.¡± Youyou¡¯s face was extremely black. Ye Weiming asked in the team channel, ¡°What happened?¡± ¡°I got tricked!¡± Since they were both trapped in this place, Youyou didn¡¯t hide the truth from Ye Weiming. She replied, ¡°Actually, if I¡¯m not sure where Chen Ming¡¯s hideout is, I will not take this five-star mission. I managed to find out that he was hiding in the Leifeng Pagoda through another mission. That was the mission that Poached Spicy Pork Slice ¡®unconsciously¡¯ revealed to me when we were having a casual chat!¡± After hearing her explanation, Ye Weiming briefly understood what happened. ¡°How is she so sure that she will get the Zhuge Celestial Bow if she kills you?¡± ¡°There is a 100% possibility of getting the Zhuge Celestial Bow during the mission. Hence, the real danger begins after I get the Zhuge Celestial Bow. Before I take it, I will only lose my rewards if I fail the mission. I will also lose the right to take this mission again. However, after I take the Zhuge Celestial Bow, I will be viewed as a traitor if I don¡¯t return it to my clan within the allocated time or if I drop it!¡± Chapter 25 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations Ye Weiming scoffed when he heard Youyou¡¯s words. ¡°She found hints about this mission, but she didn¡¯t choose to do it personally. Instead, she revealed the hints to you on purpose and let you complete the mission. Then, she will ambush you and snatch the Zhuge Celestial Bow away from you, right?¡± Youyou nodded helplessly at Ye Weiming¡¯s analysis. ¡°This is the only way to get the Zhuge Celestial Bow without being kicked out of the Tang Clan.¡± Ye Weiming nodded slightly to show that he understood. The Zhuge Celestial Bow was powerful but if it landed in the hands of a normal player, it would just be an unsuitable weapon that one could flaunt during the starting stage of the game. Without a compatible skill, the player wouldn¡¯t be able to release the full power of the Zhuge Celestial Bow. For the time being, only the skills from the Tang Clan were able to bring out the full power of the Zhuge Celestial Bow. If the person holding the Zhuge Celestial Bow left the Tang Clan, not considering the fact that he would be chased by the NPCs and players from the clan, he would also be unable to learn the follow-up skills of the Tang Clan anymore. Without the support of these follow-up skills in the future, the Zhuge Celestial Bow would only be able to give him an advantage at the start. After that, he would need to change his kung fu based on what he learned outside. The effects of the Zhuge Celestial Bow would be greatly reduced at that time. Compared to this route, the plan that Poached Spicy Pork Slice came up with was more thorough. How sinister! She was definitely pushing Youyou to her death for her own interest. This kind of lady was really evil! Youyou added, ¡°Poached Spicy Pork Slice isn¡¯t alone. She has a few friends who entered the game together with her. Their relationships are very good. They are Niagara Grape, Heart Meat, Jelly Pudding, and Popping Candy, There are five ladies in total and they are all disciples of the Tang Clan. I think that they¡¯re all ambushing us outside.¡± Ye Weiming nodded. He glanced up before saying, ¡°That means that there are at least five crossbows waiting for us on top?¡± Youyou shook her head. ¡°Besides crossbows, there¡¯s ordinary concealed weapons too, the kind that is thrown by hand just like what you mentioned in the past. Unfortunately, we¡¯re stuck in this place. Otherwise, with the Zhuge Celestial Bow in my hand, why would I be afraid of them?¡± ¡°I do have a way to send you up and can even attract their firepower. Prepare yourself. We will act immediately. ¡°You¡¯re not planning to wait for your blood to fill up?¡± ¡°We can only take them by surprise if we act now.¡± Ye Weiming didn¡¯t say much anymore. He took out Chen Ming¡¯s corpse which he wrapped in a grass mat from his back. Then, he exerted strength in his arms and threw the corpse up the hole. The instant he threw the corpse up, he moved his body and leaned against the chain below the entrance of the underground palace. He bent his legs slightly and got into a horse stance. He crossed his fingers and placed them slightly below his abdomen. This was the stance the military used in films when two people were cooperating to jump over a wall. Youyou was a special forces soldier, so the moment she saw this stance, she immediately understood what Ye Weiming wanted to do. She ran forward without hesitation and jumped. The sole of her foot stepped on Ye Weiming¡¯s crossed palms. Then, Ye Weiming pushed his hands up forcefully and Youyou made use of the force to leap upwards. Her body followed Chen Ming¡¯s corpse closely and shot into the air. The underground palace was only two meters below the ground level. At this height, based on Ye Weiming and Youyou¡¯s skills, it was impossible for them to jump up straight from the ground. However, if he was to throw things up, whether it was Chen Ming¡¯s corpse or Youyou, Ye Weiming expressed that he didn¡¯t feel pressured at all. Outside the underground palace, at the ground level of the Leifeng Pagoda, the five players from the Tang Clan were surrounding the stone entrance of the underground palace. Poached Spicy Pork Slice was their leader. They stood three to four meters away from the entrance and each of them was in a different direction. Besides the first round of sneak attack, they didn¡¯t dare to stand right at the edge of the entrance to stop Youyou. They had lost their advantage of an ambush, so they didn¡¯t have the confidence that they would be able to instantly kill Youyou if she popped her head out from below. However, with the Zhuge Celestial Bow in her hand, Youyou would have an easy time killing them. Hence, they stood a distance away from the entrance so that they would be able to congregate their firepower. If Youyou came up, they would attack her together and kill her immediately. At this moment, the five ladies suddenly saw a white thing flying up from the entrance of the underground palace. Based on the length and size of this thing, there seemed to be someone hiding inside. Without any hesitation, the five of them attacked simultaneously. They threw all their arrows and concealed weapons at the white thing. They didn¡¯t dare to take the risk. If Youyou managed to land on the ground successfully, with the help of the frighteningly powerful Zhuge Celestial Bow, they didn¡¯t have a high chance of winning even though there were five of them. However, after a series of attacks, they didn¡¯t see any red numbers appearing on the top of the bamboo mat to show that there was a loss of blood. Just as they realized that they had been fooled, Youyou¡¯s figure had already leaped out of the underground palace. Before they could change their strategy, she had already started attacking them with the Zhuge Celestial Bow in her hand. The Zhuge Celestial Bow fired numerous shots of powerful and vicious arrows. Whenever an arrow was fired, one of them would turn into a ball of white light! ¨C 741! Instant kill! ¨C 736! Instant kill! ¨C 750! Instant kill! ¡­ Ye Weiming¡¯s expiration exercise was a lackluster one but he had reached level 7. Thus, his blood bar was slightly higher than normal players. However, he only had 760 points of blood. When his blood was full, he felt that he was able to sustain one of Youyou¡¯s non-critical arrow hits without dying. These players from the Tang Clan were practicing beginner sutras, but how high could their levels have been? Whatever their level was, when they were hit by the Zhuge Celestial Bow, their health and defense were almost negligible. Either way, they would die the moment they were hit! Youyou was still in the air when she killed three enemies. She was also hit by two flying daggers and one cobble too, but these ordinary attacks weren¡¯t able to kill her instantly. When she landed on the ground, she rolled and evaded two concealed weapons. After that, she fired another two arrows. ¨C 735! ¨C 1,580! One was a normal attack while the other was a critical hit. She managed to get two instant kills again! This was how domineering the power of a treasured weapon was! By this time, Ye Weiming just climbed up using the metal chain. System Announcement: A new map has been activated in Hangzhou, ¡®Underground palace of Leifeng Pagoda¡¯. The level of this map is between 10 to 20. Players can enter the map through the Leifeng Pagoda on the Xi Zhao Mountain.¡± System Announcement: A new map has been activated in Hangzhou¡­ ¡­ This underground palace turned into a new map for players? Ye Weiming wasn¡¯t really concerned about this piece of news. If he had the time, he could come here and see if he could find another Buddhist scripture or another relic. He silently remembered this piece of news. Then, he looked up and scanned his surroundings. He realized that only Youyou and Chen Ming¡¯s corpses could be seen on the ground floor of the pagoda. He couldn¡¯t help but sigh. ¡°You¡¯ve taken care of all of them?¡± ¡°Yes, they¡¯re all dead.¡± Youyou nodded with a despondent look. It wasn¡¯t a good feeling to get betrayed by your friends. Even though she killed them successfully, it didn¡¯t make her feel happy. Ye Weiming picked up ¡®Chen Ming¡¯s corpse¡¯ and patted her shoulder. He said, ¡°Let¡¯s go.¡± Youyou looked at Ye Weiming curiously. ¡°Why are you carrying this corpse? You threw it away and now, you¡¯re taking it back.¡± Ye Weiming shrugged. ¡°It¡¯s a technique of the Divine Constable Bureau. I need to keep the corpse as evidence. However, once I keep any corpses, I will have to hand them over to the Divine Constable Bureau or bury them. When I used this corpse as a bait, I lost two chivalrous points. However, if I take it back and sell it, I can get 1 chivalrous point back.¡± ¡°This technique suits the style of the Divine Constable Bureau.¡± As she spoke, Youyou¡¯s expression suddenly froze. A cold aura appeared on her body. Ye Weiming was stunned when he saw this. ¡°What happened? Did my bureau¡¯s technique offend you?¡± ¡°It has nothing to do with you.¡± Youyou gritted her teeth and said, ¡°Just now, Youyou shouted in my clan¡¯s channel. She told all the players from my clan that I have the Zhuge Celestial Bow and that I¡¯m rushing back to finish my mission!¡± Chapter 26 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations Shouting in the clan channel required money! 10 Gold wasn¡¯t a small amount of money for the players currently. Since Ye Weiming entered the game, he never had any huge expenses but he only managed to save up 20 Gold. Poached Spicy Pork Slice had four other friends, so the money they had saved should be more than what Ye Weiming had. However, it was impossible for them to spend their money anyhow. Mind you, all the players in ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯ started at the same starting point. There was no place for them to top up money. If she spent 10 Gold on buying items, it was nothing to be astounded about. However, she used 10 Gold to shout in the clan channel. This was too luxurious of a way to use money. At least until now, Ye Weiming hadn¡¯t seen anyone spending their money so wantonly before. But, Poached Spicy Pork Slice did it. She spent 10 Gold to tell the entire clan that Youyou had the Zhuge Celestial Bow. This altercation wasn¡¯t on the level of harming others to benefit herself anymore. It had escalated to a whole new level of harming herself to harm others! But, Youyou had never done anything to incur such actions. Instead, they were the ones who harmed her in the first place. But, they still played such an act. It was basically announcing that they wouldn¡¯t let her go until the very end. It was no wonder Youyou was so furious. Ye Weiming calculated the time and frowned unconsciously. ¡°There¡¯s no use in being angry now. We will be facing a large number of disciples from the Tang Clan riding their horse carriages over to Hangzhou in order to surround and capture you. Even when you reach the Tang Clan¡­¡± ¡°There won¡¯t be any problem once I¡¯m inside the Tang Clan.¡± Youyou shook her head. ¡°As long as I step inside my clan, the elite NPCs from my clan will come and welcome me naturally. If someone attacked me there, the punishment for them will be as serious as the punishment for me losing the Zhuge Celestial Bow. Ye Weiming, this has nothing to do with you¡­¡± Ye Weiming waved his hand and interrupted her directly, ¡°If you feel that we¡¯re friends, stop being so stubborn. Listen to me. We will first do this¡­¡± ¡­ After parting with Youyou, Ye Weiming executed the ¡®Eight Step Chasing Toad¡¯, quickly returning to Hangzhou city. Along the way, he met many disciples from the Tang Clan. However, those players knew that Youyou was a female player so they didn¡¯t stop Ye Weiming. He maintained his high speed and circled around the city. Then, Ye Weiming went back using the same route while carrying the items he bought inside the city. He secretly dashed into a small forest not far away from the West Gate of the city. ¡°Will your plan really work?¡± Youyou still felt a little worried when she saw Ye Weiming coming back. Just now, she followed Ye Weiming¡¯s instructions and went to circle around the four gates of Hangzhou. She attracted a few hundred players from the Tang Clan and they quickly started surrounding her and chasing her. Fortunately, she ran away fast enough. She had learned how to make use of the surroundings to get rid of her enemies when she was training to be a special forces soldier. The training did really help her to escape from her opponent¡¯s blockage. If she didn¡¯t undergo the training, she might have already been dead by now. ¡°I have seen your movement techniques before. You shouldn¡¯t have a problem getting rid of the pursuers.¡± Ye Weiming smiled. He passed a set of light green clothing he had bought at the tailor shop and the beheading blade that Chen Ming dropped to Youyou. In return, Youyou gave the crossbow from the Tang Clan, which she had been using all these while, to Ye Weiming. Then, the two of them started changing their attire. Youyou changed into light green clothing. She looked like a female swordsman when she wore it. It was very different from the tight dark-colored clothes she was wearing before. Now, she looked like a beautiful female swordsman while carrying a beheading blade. The image was a little strange. As for Ye Weiming, he changed into a set of clothing that looked similar to the black sexy attire Youyou was wearing before this. Of course, this set was for males. In the game, you couldn¡¯t dress up as a female even if you wanted to. The system wouldn¡¯t allow it. After changing into the tight black attire, Ye Weiming carried the crossbow in his hand and placed a bamboo hat on his head. From the exterior, he looked like a disciple of the Tang Clan. However¡­ Youyou raised her head and inspected Ye Weiming from head to toe. Looking at the whole getup, She couldn¡¯t help but laugh. ¡°You still look like a man.¡± ¡°It¡¯s alright. I have these.¡± As he spoke, Ye Weiming took out two white steamed buns and stuffed them under his clothes at his chest area, one on each side. With the buns in, he looked much more voluptuous. Youyou: ¦²(¤Ã¡ã§¥¡ã;)¤Ã¡­ You can play like this? ¡°Haha, if they look at me closely, they will definitely notice something is wrong. But don¡¯t worry, I don¡¯t plan to give them a chance to get near me.¡± Ye Weiming said confidently, ¡°Time is tight. Your mission now is to go to Lung Ching Village at your fastest speed using the route I gave you. When you arrive, take one of the horse carriages there and go back to your Tang Clan.¡± Before Youyou could reply, he had already started rushing towards the West Gate of the Hangzhou City. Youyou¡¯s voice sounded behind him. ¡°Ye Weiming, no matter what happened today, I will remember your help!¡± ¡­ Before Ye Weiming could go near the city gate, a few hundred players gushed out of the city and started rushing towards him. What? Did you say that they would have a higher rate of success if they laid an ambush inside the city? However, don¡¯t forget that there was only one Zhuge Celestial Bow. If they collaborated with one another, who would take the Zhuge Celestial Bow when it dropped? Thus, it was natural for the situation to turn out like this. Every player had to rely on their own skills, and the strongest would get the reward. The moment he saw the players in the city gushing out, Ye Weiming quickly turned around and ran away. The fellows behind him got even more excited when they saw him escaping. If that person wasn¡¯t guilty, why would he run away? ¡°Take note to flank her and surround her from the sides. Don¡¯t let her get away!¡± ¡°Hmph, the Zhuge Celestial Bow is fated to be mine!¡± ¡­ Suddenly, someone among the crowd noticed that there was something amiss. ¡°Why do I feel that that fellow¡¯s appearance seems a little weird?¡± Another person replied immediately, ¡°She¡¯s just trying to disguise herself, hoping to slip past our eyes.¡± ¡°That¡¯s right!¡± Someone agreed with the person and continued,¡± Don¡¯t think that just because you¡¯re wearing a bamboo hat, I can¡¯t recognize you. Brothers, the person with the strongest ability will take the Zhuge Celestial Bow!¡± Why did he say brothers and not brothers and sisters? That was because in ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯, many players didn¡¯t have their IDs displayed above their heads. If you wanted to know the real name of a player, you could only do so by inviting them into your team or adding them as your friend. The other way was to see the face. However, there were many players in the Tang Clan. How many of them really knew Youyou¡¯s appearance? Thus, more than 90% of the players chasing Youyou were males. Their goal of the hunt was to kill any female Tang Clan disciples they saw. The first bunch of unlucky female players included Poached Spicy Pork Slice and her four friends, who released the news of Youyou to them. They were just waiting outside the city to watch a good show, but¡­ Let¡¯s mourn for them for three seconds¡­ After half a day of searching and killing, no female Tang Clan disciples dared to come to Hangzhou anymore. Ye Weiming didn¡¯t have the professional combat skills of Youyou. When he was chased by the hundred people, he could only run helplessly. Nevertheless, he still had his own advantage; his speed was a notch higher than a normal player. It was still the starting stage of the game so the cultivation a player could have after entering their clan was limited. Most players would choose to increase their internal energy and kung fu skills first. These two combat skills could increase their combat ability directly. Who would bear to spend a few hundred cultivation points on lightness kung fu? Ye Weiming had the same thought too. When he decided to increase his ¡®Eight Step Chasing Toad¡¯ to level three, it was because the levels of his internal energy and sword skill were high enough. The 800 cultivation points couldn¡¯t raise the level of these two sections anymore. Ye Weiming ran away! A huge bunch of Tang Clan players chased after him! ¡­ At first, Ye Weiming was still able to suppress his speed until it was on par with his pursuers. However, because of the path he took, his pursuers were slowly starting to surround him. Thus, he had no choice but to speed up. At first, he was afraid that someone would notice something was odd. However, after listening to the loud discussions of the players behind him, the worries in his heart disappeared. ¡°Why is she able to run so fast? Did we make a mistake?¡± ¡°No way! Don¡¯t forget that she just completed the first blood for killing Chen Ming. Chen Ming wasn¡¯t just the person we had to find for our clan¡¯s mission. He was wanted by the local authorities too. She should have around 700 cultivation points after gaining the reward for killing the boss and completing the wanted mission. That 700 points is enough for her to increase her lightness kung fu level by two levels!¡± Ye Weiming couldn¡¯t help but give this brother a thumbs up when he heard the conversation. He was a professional at coming up with stories! At this moment, Youyou was rushing towards Lung Ching Village. Chapter 27 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations Ye Weiming executed the ¡®Eight Step Chasing Toad¡¯ to its fullest potential, so the bunch of disciples from the Tang Clan could only follow behind him and eat dust. When Ye Weiming passed through a small forest, they didn¡¯t even have the right to eat dust anymore. They had lost him! At this moment, some smarter players suggested to the others that they should go back to block the city gate. Thinking that it was a good suggestion, the bunch of disciples ran back to the West Gate once again. Twenty minutes later, Ye Weiming appeared outside the North Gate. He was once again chased by a bunch of Tang Clan disciples¡­ At this moment, Youyou was still on the way to the Lung Ching Village. Ye Weiming¡¯s plan was to visit all the four gates of Hangzhou City, reminding the disciples that ¡®Youyou¡¯ was still hovering outside Hangzhou City, trying to find a way to sneak into the city so that she could take a horse carriage back to the Tang Clan. Hence, there would definitely be a huge number of Tang Clan disciples waiting for him at all the four gates. Ye Weiming was happy to play with them for a while too. But, this time, he finally met a difficult character. There were a million players online in the game. Hence, Ye Weiming couldn¡¯t be the only person who had the fate to become a master. His speed might have exceeded 99% of the players but there would still be a small number of people who were able to catch up with him. Outside the North Gate of Hangzhou City, he met such a master. Ye Weiming used his level three ¡®Eight Step Chasing Toad¡¯ and ran furiously for three kilometers. Yet, there was still a Tang Clan disciple following behind him. The distance between them didn¡¯t get wider. Instead, it got shorter! From this, we could see that the speed of this Tang Clan disciple was faster than Ye Weiming! ¡°Haha¡­¡± The Tang Clan disciple that was chasing Ye Weiming laughed excitedly when he saw that his prey was only a hundred meters away from him. ¡°Junior Sister Youyou, I, Tang Sancai, am different from the others. You might be able to get rid of them but you¡¯re not going to get rid of me! Why don¡¯t we have a discussion? You can give me the Zhuge Celestial Bow and I will promise to help you three times, whether it¡¯s for a mission, to kill a boss, or for a PK. Junior Sister, what do you think?¡± Ye Weiming sent a pigeon mail to Youyou: Who is Tang Sancai? Reply: I have never seen him personally before, but I heard Poached Spicy Pork Slice and her friends mentioning him before. This person has always been a top-class player in every game he played. Now, he is starting to show his exceptional gaming skills in ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯. Poached Spicy Pork Slice said that he might most probably be the top player among all the Tang Clan disciples. Did you meet him?¡± Ye Weiming sent her a pigeon mail once again: Since I have the time to send you a mail, it means that I¡¯m fine. I¡¯m just asking casually. Reply: Oh. The top player in the Tang Clan? That is quite interesting! After reading Youyou¡¯s reply, Ye Weiming abruptly stopped in his tracks. He turned his body a hundred and eighty degrees around and started calculating with his left hand. Then he aimed the crossbow in his right hand at Tang Sancai. Active effects of Daizhong Way activated! Due to the effects of ¡®Daizhong Way¡¯, Tang Sancai felt a chill rising from the bottom of his toes all the way up to the top of his skull! He felt that he seemed to have forgotten a very important problem when he got too engrossed in chasing Youyou¡­ He immediately stopped and turned to run away! What the hell was he thinking? She was holding the Zhuge Celestial Bow! The Zhuge Celestial Bow wasn¡¯t something a normal player could handle! Why did I chase her so furiously?! Ye Weiming smiled slightly and went towards the East Gate of Hangzhou City. His speed was actually faster than before. That was because in the process of running away, his ¡®Eight Step Chasing Toad¡¯ levelled up once again. It was now at level 4. But, he remembered that the person chasing him was a master in the game. As a master, it was easy for him to calculate that with the number of cultivation points received for a boss mission and a wanted warrant, with that amount of cultivation points, Youyou shouldn¡¯t be able to increase her lightness kung fu level to anything higher than level 3. Hence, he didn¡¯t accelerate instantly when he levelled up. Instead, he used the resounding reputation of the Zhuge Celestial Bow to scare Tang Sancai away. At this moment, Youyou was still on the way to Lung Ching Village. Twenty minutes later, Ye Weiming finally arrived at the small forest outside the East Gate. Just as he was about to attract another wave of hatred, he received Youyou¡¯s pigeon mail. Mission completed. If you need me in the future, I will come instantly. ¡ª¡ªYouyou It was a very simple sentence but Ye Weiming felt as if he could see Youyou¡¯s stern and beautiful face. He didn¡¯t send a reply. Instead, he changed into his constable attire immediately and slowly walked into Hangzhou City from the East Gate. The players from the Tang Clan came and went away quickly. The moment Youyou stepped down from her horse carriage at the resting station of the Tang Clan, some players saw her. When they saw a high-level NPC coming to look for her personally to take the crossbow from her, they knew what the result of this chase was. Thus, the players who didn¡¯t participate in this chase started sending pigeon mails to their friends. The news spread and very soon, everyone knew that they had no fate with the Zhuge Celestial Bow anymore, so they started leaving. After all, everyone was quite busy, right? ¡­ Under the rays of the setting sun, the scenery at the banks of West Lake was beautiful. As one of the ten views of West Lake, the Broken Bridge had a beautiful legend of the white snake associated with it. It was also a prime location for couples to date in the game. Along the way, Ye Weiming could see many couples laughing and chatting with one another. Occasionally, he could hear female voices singing, ¡°The female ghost in front¡±. The couples were displaying their love without any restraint. Didn¡¯t they say that this starting stage was crucial in increasing your personal ability and widening the distance between you and other players? To many people at this age, even if the sky falls, it wasn¡¯t as important as dating! Ye Weiming didn¡¯t plan to date in the game. However, when he saw the couples around him, he still felt uncomfortable. This uncomfortable feeling wasn¡¯t because they were displaying their love in front of him. It was because¡­ At this prime location for a date, he came all the way to this golden dating spot to meet an old priest. How could he not feel frustrated? The worse thing was, the priest he was meeting was a male! ¡°Brother Ye, you¡¯re here.¡± From afar, Ye Weiming saw Yin Bukui waving at him and greeting him. The sight instantly attracted odd gazes from the couples around them. Ye Weiming walked over with a dark face. He couldn¡¯t help but complain, ¡°Look at the place you¡¯ve chosen!¡± ¡°I have no other choices.¡± Yin Bukui gave him a helpless expression. ¡°Whether it¡¯s in real life or in the game, this is my first time coming to Hangzhou. There are not many places I know of. I only know West Lake, Broken Bridge, Leifeng Pagoda, and Lingyin Temple. The West Lake is very big and the Leifeng Pagoda is a practicing ground for players. As for the Lingyin Temple¡­ I guess they don¡¯t welcome priests.¡± The practice ground has many people but are there fewer people here? Ye Weiming felt prickles down his neck when he noticed the weird gazes on them. ¡°Let¡¯s change locations. I feel that the way they¡¯re looking at me is like how Naruto calls Sasuke.¡± ¡°Sure. I feel it too.¡± The two of them activated their movement techniques and ran away from Broken Bridge as if they were escaping. They moved away from the vicinity of this couple-friendly area. Ye Weiming said, ¡°Our mission is the same. There¡¯s enough reason for us to work together. However, my understanding of this mission is too low. You came all the way from Mount Wudang so you should know more than me, right? Yin Bukui: ¡°What do you want to know?¡± ¡°It¡¯s best if you can explain from the beginning.¡± Yin Bukui replied, ¡°If I¡¯m to explain from the beginning, I will have to talk about the Dragon Slaying Sabre.¡± ¡°Dragon Slaying Sabre?¡± ¡°Brother Ye, you¡¯ve heard of the Dragon Slaying Sabre before?¡± ¡°Of course.¡± Ye Weiming said, ¡°I still remember that there¡¯s a jingle about the Dragon Slaying Sabre. What is it¡­ Oh right!¡± Ye Weiming slapped his thigh. ¡°Click and you¡¯ll be given the Dragon Slaying Sabre!¡± Chapter 28 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations The Dragon Slaying Sabre Yin Bukui mentioned was, of course, not those kinds of items that could be obtained easily. Instead, it was a divine weapon. It was a weapon that was one level higher than the Zhuge Celestial Bow! What was most important was, the Dragon Slaying Sabre wasn¡¯t just a divine weapon. It was a weapon filled with mystery and secrets. There was a saying in the pugilistic world: Honored by the Wulin (pugilistic world), the precious sabre slays the dragon; It commands the world, who dares to disobey? If the Heaven Reliant does not appear, who can challenge it? The sabre here referred to the Dragon Slaying Sabre. As for Heaven Reliant, it was referring to the Heavenly Sword which belonged to the Emei Sect, although it wasn¡¯t in their hands now. Not long ago, it was the birthday of the leader of the Wudang Sect, Zhang Sanfeng. The Dragon Gate Escort fell in the hands of Yu Daiyan due to a series of coincidences when he was on his way back to visit his master. But, because of this, he got ambushed by some unknown assailants and got poisoned by the deadly poison on the Mosquito Feeler Needle and the Seven Star Thorn. When he woke up from his unconscious state, he realized that the Dragon Gate Escort was gone. Not only that, but he got sent to the Dragon Gate Escort with a numb body. Du Dajin was asked to send him back to the Wudang Sect. As for what happened after that, it was similar to the words that Du Dajin wrote in his letter for help. However, when Yin Bukui explained to him, he was speaking from the point of view of the Wudang Sect. By the time Yin Bukui finished explaining everything, the two of them had reached the West Gate of Hangzhou City. In the olden days, to prevent bandits from disturbing the civilians, the gates of a city would be closed at night. During troubled times or during wars, there was a curfew too. Civilians were not allowed to step out of their houses at all. However, in the game, there weren¡¯t so many rules. Everything was set so that it was more convenient for the players. Ye Weiming listened to the other party and compared the information Yin Bukui mentioned to the information he knew. He only raised his right hand and opened it after Yin Bukui finished speaking. There were two concealed weapons on his palm. ¡°Are these the Mosquito Feeler Needle and the Seven Star Thorn you mentioned?¡± Yin Bukui immediately took the concealed weapons over to take a look. Mosquito Feeler Needle: A concealed weapon stained with lethal poison. However. since it had already been used once, only one-fifth of the lethal poison was left. Seven Star Thorn: A concealed weapon stained with lethal poison. However. since it had already been used once, only one-fifth of the lethal poison was left. There were no symbols on the concealed weapons to show which clan they were from. However, it was undeniably an important piece of evidence for their mission. Yin Bukui hurriedly asked, ¡°Brother Ye, where did you find these two concealed weapons?¡± Ye Weiming didn¡¯t hide what he knew and replied directly, ¡°They were found on the bodies of Du Dajin and the escorts from the Dragon Gate Escort.¡± ¡°That means that¡­¡± Yin Bukui¡¯s eyes lit up. ¡°The person who ambushed and injured Yu Dai¡­ Third Uncle-Master and the person who annihilated the Dragon Gate Escort is the same person?¡± This wasn¡¯t hard to guess. However, it was different when you have evidence to prove your guess. Ye Weiming remembered that fellow he met at the Dragon Gate Escort yesterday night who used claw skills to attack him. He added, ¡°To be more precise, it should be the same bunch of people. Firstly, Yu Third Swordsman and the masters from the Dragon Gate Escort were all injured by the same concealed weapons. Next, the person who requested the escort mission said that if something happened, he would annihilate the entire Dragon Gate Escort. Even if it was a different bunch of people, they must be connected.¡± Yin Bukui nodded continuously when he heard this. ¡°But, how are we supposed to ascertain the other party¡¯s identity, and where do we find those people?¡± Ye Weiming shook his head and sighed. ¡°The only piece of evidence left is the Dragon Slaying Sabre. Where are you bringing me?¡± ¡°To see Zhang Cuishan. Oh wait, I should call him Fifth Uncle-Master.¡± He winked at Ye Weiming as he spoke. He was telling Ye Weiming that after they met Zhang Cuishan, he wouldn¡¯t be able to call him by his full name. He needed to be well-mannered. The Fengbo Pavilion was a pavilion inside the central judicial office, the Dali Temple, during the Southern Song dynasty. This place was well-known because the national hero, Yue Fei, died from injustice here. The background of ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯ was set in a non-existent dynasty similar to the Northern Song. Only Bian Liang City had a central judicial office. As for Fengbo Pavilion, it became a normal pavilion situated outside. Any players were able to take a rest here. It was a public facility. Even from a long distance away, Ye Weiming could see six Wudang players dressed like priests sitting on the grass in the pavilion and chatting with one another. Outside the pavilion, an elegant and refined-looking young man was standing there with his hands behind his back. He was looking at the scenery of the West Lake far away. He was a stark contrast to the players in the pavilion who looked as though they were from the pugilistic world. If it wasn¡¯t for the judge pen and Tiger Head hook behind his back, Ye Weiming would have thought that he was a weak and feeble scholar. Who would believe that this weak-looking scholar was the same person who faced seven masters from Shaolin Temple alone on equal footing? ¡°Fifth Uncle-Master!¡± Yin Bukui immediately cupped his hands together and greeted Zhang Cuishan respectfully when he brought Ye Weiming over. It really felt like the martial arts scene in ancient dramas. Zhang Cuishan retracted his gaze and turned around. He nodded at Yin Bukui first before greeting Ye Weiming with cupped fists. ¡°I¡¯m Zhang Cuishan from Wudang. Thank you for speaking in defense of me yesterday. I left in a hurry yesterday because I heard some noises at the back of the courtyard. I was afraid that the culprit would run away so I went to chase after him without explaining. However, the other party still managed to escape.¡± As someone of such a high status, he was still willing to take the initiative to explain this to Ye Weiming. This showed that he viewed this Divine Constable Bureau player as his equal. He didn¡¯t have the arrogance of a senior in the pugilistic world and didn¡¯t have the resistance most swordsmen had against imperial court officials. Ye Weiming politely cupped his fists and greeted him back. He went directly into the main topic, ¡°I¡¯ve discussed the summary of the case with Brother Yin on the way here. There¡¯s no need to talk about the details. These are the concealed weapons I found on the bodies of Du Dajin and the escorts from Dragon Gate Escort. Swordsman Zhang Five, please take a look at them.¡± As he spoke, he opened his mouth and another Seven Star Thorn and a Mosquito Feeler Needle appeared on his palm. Yin Bukui: ??? No wonder this fellow gave me the important pieces of evidence so straightforwardly. He had more than one set of concealed weapons. Wait! Didn¡¯t he say that the escorts from the escort agency were all killed by concealed weapons? Did that mean that he had a huge number of these concealed weapons? Zhang Cuishan frowned when he saw the two concealed weapons. He quickly took them over and inspected them carefully. Then he said in a low voice, ¡°This is the Mosquito Feeler Needle and the Seven Star Thorn! My third brother was injured using these concealed weapons. It looks like the people who injured my third brother were the same people who requested for the escort mission and then annihilated the entire Dragon Gate Escort! Ye Weiming nodded slightly. Zhang Cuishan¡¯s conclusion was the same as his. He immediately suggested, ¡°Now, the people from the Shaolin Temple are searching for the truth of Du Dajin¡¯s murder. Since we are able to prove that the same bunch of people harmed Swordsman Yu Three and annihilated the Dragon Gate Escort, Swordsman Zhang Five, will you consider working with the Shaolin Temple to investigate the case? I know one of the Shaolin disciples so I can help to contact them.¡± Strained Noodles Steamed Bun was a good person. Since they found a way they could cooperate, Ye Weiming felt that it was better to bring them along. That way, he wouldn¡¯t feel sorry for his friend and he could also combine the forces from Shaolin and Wudang. It would help with the completion of the mission. Zhang Cuishan hesitated for a moment before nodding. ¡°I¡¯ll have to trouble you then, Brother Weiming. Ye Weiming smiled lightly and sent a pigeon mail to Strained Noodles Steamed Bun. The content was as follow: The same bunch of people ambushed Yu Daiyan and annihilated the Dragon Gate Escort. I have evidence to prove this point. Only one sentence is needed for you. Are you interested in working together? ¡ª¡ªYe Weiming The pigeon flew away but it didn¡¯t disappear from his gaze. Instead, it landed directly on a player wearing a bamboo hat who was killing some West Lake pirates. After the player received the mail, he quickly took care of the pirate in front of him and immediately took off his bamboo hat. Then, he changed into his Shaolin attire. Pigeon mail reply: Thank you, Brother Weiming, for still remembering me. However, there¡¯s a change in our mission so¡­ I¡¯m sorry, brother! Within a second, more than ten players who were killing pirates along the shore had changed into Shaolin attire. They rushed simultaneously towards Ye Weiming¡¯s direction. Change in their mission Sorry? Ye Weiming was stunned for a moment. Then, he instantly shouted loudly,¡± This is bad! It¡¯s an ambush!¡± Chapter 29 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations The Wudang disciples were all shocked when they heard Ye Weiming¡¯s shouts. They quickly grabbed their weapons and stood up from the ground. However, when they noticed that the Shaolin disciples surrounding them were the same ones as before, they still felt slightly surprised. The same situation occurred at the Dragon Gate Escort yesterday. At that time, there were more players from Shaolin but they weren¡¯t able to gain an advantage over Wudang. Why were they still doing the same thing? On the other hand, Zhang Cuishan frowned when he saw the Shaolin disciples closing in on them. ¡°Proper business is more important. We shouldn¡¯t complicate matters. Let¡¯s leave first.¡± ¡°Swordsman Zhang Five, don¡¯t you think that it¡¯s a little too late to leave now?¡± A loud bang was heard and the seven Shaolin NPCs who fought with Zhang Cuishan yesterday appeared. They closed in from the other side and surrounded the Wudang players in the middle. Zhang Cuishan saw that the masters from the other side were all present so he took a step forward and came in front of the Shaolin monks. He said in a low voice, ¡°Monk Yuan Yin, we have already found some pieces of evidence. Is the Shaolin Temple really going to make things difficult for us again? Are you really going to make the enemy happy and hurt your friends?¡± Yuan Yin placed his palms together and replied, ¡°Since Swordsman Zhang Five has found evidence, that is the best. May I invite Swordsman Zhang Five to come to the Shaolin with me so you can explain the situation to our abbot?¡± Shaolin¡¯s motive never changed from the start! They still wanted to bring Zhang Cuishan back to Shaolin! Ye Weiming couldn¡¯t help but frown. Why did they do this? Was it because they wanted to find the real culprit of the Dragon Gate Escort massacre or did they want to use this conflict to step on Wudang? Or maybe they did this because of¡­ The Dragon Slaying Sabre! As Ye Weiming was making guesses, Zhang Cuishan had already taken out his judge pen and silver hook from behind him. ¡°What if I don¡¯t want to?¡± ¡°Amitabha!¡± Suddenly, a sound rang in the air. It revolved around everyone¡¯s ear. It took a long time before it subsided. Along with the chant, an old man with a white beard wearing a kasaya walked towards them from afar. His steps seemed slow but he covered a hundred meters within just a few breaths. His speed was faster than the speed of a hundred-meter dash world champion! Zhang Cuishan frowned when he saw the monk. Finally, he wasn¡¯t able to maintain his composure anymore. ¡°Great Monk Kong Xing!¡± Ye Weiming stood at the side and watched silently. He wondered to himself, ¡®It looks like this Great Monk Kong Xing is their biggest support today. But, who on earth is he?¡¯ Yin Bukui seemed to notice Ye Weiming¡¯s confusion so he explained, ¡°Kong Xing is one of the three ¡®Kong¡¯ great monks in Shaolin. His kung fu has reached a very high level. His Shaolin Dragon Claw is perfect. It has already exceeded the level of the deceased Great Monk Kong Jian.¡± Ye Weiming was astounded when he heard this. ¡°How did you know this?¡± ¡°Haha¡­¡± Yin Bukui smiled proudly. ¡°My master likes to tell me about the pugilistic world. I like to listen to him too so I remembered most of it.¡± Just as Ye Weiming was about to ask him who his master was, one of the Wudang players holding a blade said unhappily, ¡°Why are you talking so much with this brat? I have serious doubts that he is the one who lured all these Shaolin monks over.¡± ¡°That¡¯s impossible!¡± Yin Bukui was a careful person. ¡°It¡¯s obvious that the other party has been lying in ambush for a while. I just brought Brother Ye over. He has nothing to do with this.¡± At this moment, Strained Noodles Steamed Bun took a step forward and smiled at Yin Bukui. ¡°You¡¯re still quite smart. If our missions didn¡¯t contradict each other, I¡¯m very willing to make friends with you.¡± Then he turned and said to the disciple who suspected Ye Weiming, ¡°Since the situation is already like this, I¡¯m not afraid to tell you the truth. Actually, when the six of you walk together, you¡¯re more conspicuous than you thought.¡± After listening to Strained Noodles Steamed Bun, the expressions on the Wudang players were very exciting to watch. At first, they were still suspecting that Ye Weiming had revealed their location. But, in fact, they were the ones who got followed. This slap in the face. Was fast and painful¡­ While the players were talking, the NPCs from the two clans were in a discussion too. However, the monks from the Shaolin Temple claimed that they must bring Zhang Cuishan back today. In the face of such an unreasonable request which would humiliate the Wudang Sect, Zhang Cuishan of course wouldn¡¯t agree to it. In the end, they started fighting after a few sentences. At the same time, the players from the three sides received a notification from the system. The notification that the Wudang players received was: The Great Monk from Shaolin, Kong Xing, is fighting with Zhang Cuishan. After a few rounds, Zhang Cuishan realized that he isn¡¯t the monk¡¯s match. However, he is unwilling to leave because he¡¯s worried about his juniors from his clan. He¡¯s now in a difficult position. Please break out of the encirclement so that Zhang Cuishan won¡¯t have any worries! The notification that the Shaolin players received was: Keep all the Wudang players here. Before Great Monk Kong Xing defeats Zhang Cuishan, don¡¯t let the enemy escape. At least keep one disciple alive. Yet, the notification Ye Weiming received was: The disciples from Shaolin and Wudang are having a conflict. Please choose to¡­ 1. Help Shaolin. 2. Help Wudang. 3. Be a bystander. ¡°Brothers, attack!¡± The moment the notification appeared, Strained Noodles Steamed Bun had already given his order. He took the lead and started attacking the Wudang disciples. The Wudang were well-prepared too so they used their skills and tried to break out of the encirclement. Ye Weiming immediately chose the second option without much hesitation. The Dragon Spring Sword came out of its sheath and blocked Strained Noodles Steamed Bun, who was the first in line. ¡°Brother Weiming, are you really planning to help Wudang all the way?¡± ¡°This is just my mission.¡± ¡°Okay!¡± After saying this, Brother Bun didn¡¯t act polite anymore. He executed the Luohan Fist and started attacking Ye Weiming. Ye Weiming knew that he had good items and his sword skills level was high so he stopped four Shaolin disciples at once, including Strained Noodles Steamed Bun. Ye Weiming¡¯s ability had increased by a huge bit compared to yesterday. Even though he was facing four people, they were unable to take him down in a short time. Now, he had the same idea as Zhang Cuishan. As long as he was able to cover for the other escaping Wudang disciples, he knew that he could run away anytime easily. His level 4 ¡®Eight Step Chasing Toad¡¯ meant that his movement had reached a frightening high point of 158. If he really wanted to leave, almost no one at the same level would be able to catch him. Also, from what he saw, none of the Shaolin disciples were well-versed in movement techniques. Ye Weiming was strong but the Wudang disciples weren¡¯t weak either. However, there were more Shaolin disciples present so it wasn¡¯t an easy task for them to break out of the encirclement. In addition, the seven NPCs that fought with Zhang Cuishan yesterday were standing at the side and watching the fight. They might join in anytime. Ye Weiming knew that the system would never give the players an impossible mission. But after thinking for a long while, he still couldn¡¯t find a way to get out of this predicament. Could it be that once a mission involved a confrontation between the players, there wouldn¡¯t be any fairness? As Ye Weiming was trying to think of a solution, Yin Bukui suddenly shouted loudly, ¡°Brothers, persevere on! We will win if we persevere!¡± Persevere? What was happening? At a time like this, shouldn¡¯t he be asking his comrades to fight and clear a path of escape? Chapter 30 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations It was understandable that the seven NPCs would watch at the side. Using a ¡®Kong¡¯ generation elder to fight with Zhang Cuishan was already an act of bullying. If another bunch of ¡®Yuan¡¯ and ¡®Hui¡¯ generations of monks attacked him together, it wasn¡¯t just a problem of bullying the young. It was being shameless! As the leader of the righteous clans, Shaolin couldn¡¯t afford to humiliate themselves! As for the PK of the players, they had to follow the rules of the system. For this mission, the system¡¯s allocation was players vs players and NPC vs NPC. This was to protect the game experience for the players and the fairness of the missions. Thus, the NPCs wouldn¡¯t help the players with their fight. Thus, the seven NPCs became the audience. The battle quickly became heated. On the NPCs side, Zhang Cuishan knew a set of kung fu that suited his style perfectly but his overall skills were still a level lower than Kong Xing. As time went by, Kong Xing started to gain the upper hand. If their fight continued, Zhang Cuishan would definitely lose. It was just a matter of time. On the players¡¯ side, the health of the players on both sides started decreasing. Ye Weiming had already lost half his health now. But, the four players that were fighting him were in a worse state. The player that was using a blade only had a quarter of his health left. This was because Ye Weiming was more conservative. Casualties had already appeared on the other side. Two of the seven Wudang players were dead while three Shaolin players were killed. In terms of numbers, Shaolin still had the upper hand. Normally, in this kind of situation, Ye Weiming would fight more ferociously and kill the player that had the least health so that he could gain more advantage. But, when he remembered what Yin Bukui shouted a moment ago, he suppressed his thought. At this moment, the sky had turned completely dark. Suddenly! A black figure shot out sideways from the bottom. The figure waved his arms several times and the seven audiences from Shaolin suddenly shuddered uncontrollably. Almost immediately, someone shouted, ¡°Oh no! They are concealed weapons! It¡¯s poisonous!¡± After the shout, the seven people started inspecting their injuries. As for the black figure, he leaped up and fired multiple concealed weapons at the players on the battlefields. Concealed weapons rained down on them. Ye Weiming was already on his guard the moment the black figure appeared. When he noticed that the figure wanted to attack him, he stepped on the ground with his toes and immediately executed his ¡®Eight Step Chasing Toad¡¯ to its fullest potential. He instantly escaped from the effective range of the concealed weapons. Ye Weiming evaded beautifully but the others didn¡¯t have his skills. Besides a few players, people from both sides were all injured by the black figure¡¯s concealed weapons. Wudang¡¯s side suffered the most losses. When this black figure appeared, he attacked the seven NPCs from Shaolin first, giving the impression that he was on their side. They didn¡¯t expect the black figure to attack them so you could imagine what the result was. Among the five Wudang players that were left, three turned into a flash of white light immediately. Only Yin Bukui and another player holding the same model of judge pen as Zhang Cuishan managed to survive. The Shaolin players weren¡¯t faring any better. They were on their guards the moment the black figure appeared but the way this person attacked them was different from the way he attacked the Wudang disciples. When he was attacking the Wudang disciples, the man in black used a more obvious concealed weapon. It was more powerful so the players with only a tiny amount of health left were killed instantly. However, when he was attacking the Shaolin players, he used a smaller concealed weapon that was harder to evade. Its power behind the weapons was lower but it was stained with lethal poison. At this moment, more than half of the Shaolin players had turned green. Their health kept dropping. ¡°Stop it!¡± Kong Xing shouted angrily. He had already given up on Zhang Cuishan and was rushing towards the black figure. The black figure calmly waved his arms and more than ten concealed weapons flew towards Kong Xing furiously. Kong Xing scoffed. ¡°Party tricks.¡± Then he waved his sleeve to shoot down all the concealed weapons. However, the black figure used the chance when Kong Xing was dealing with concealed weapons to escape. The black figure came and left quickly. But, his appearance messed up the battle entirely. Wudang suffered heavy losses and the Shaolin players were all poisoned. Only Kong Xing was left. He wouldn¡¯t dare to leave his juniors behind and chase after the enemy. He didn¡¯t even have the time to care about Zhang Cuishan now. Zhang Cuishan finally managed to escape from danger. He moved his body and grabbed the arms of the two Wudang disciples. Then he said, ¡°Brother Weiming, follow me.¡± He executed his ¡®Cloud Ascending Ladder¡¯ lightness kung fu and ran far away. So this black figure was the one who could change the situation! Did Yin Bukui remind everyone to persevere because he knew that the black figure would appear? Ding! Congratulations on completing the last minute mission ¡®Helping the disciples of Wudang¡¯. You received: EXP 5000, Cultivation 500, Reputation in pugilistic world 10. Ye Weiming¡¯s thoughts were broken by the notification from the system. Thereafter, his eyes lit up. High risk gives high rewards. This was just a simple PK but he received the same rewards as a four-star mission! Not bad, not bad¡­ Zhang Cuishan and the black figure escaped in different directions. When Kong Xing saw this, he gave up his thought of chasing after them entirely. Instead, he turned and moved quickly among the Shaolin NPCs and players. He tapped the bodies with his fingers to block their meridians in order to prevent the poison from spreading through their bodies. As Kong Xing was treating the Shaolin disciples, Ye Weiming didn¡¯t follow Zhang Cuishan immediately. He rushed back towards the direction where the Shaolin disciples were at. The badly injured Shaolin players were so frightened they kept retreating. However, Ye Weiming just bent down and picked up the few pieces of concealed weapons Kong Xing shot down a while ago. After making sure none were left behind, he executed his ¡®Eight Step Chasing Toad¡¯ and chased after Zhang Cuishan. ¡°Uncle-Grandmaster Kong Xing!¡± One of the Shaolin players noticed that Ye Weiming had actually picked up something before he left so he said, ¡°Are you going to allow him to leave so arrogantly?¡± ¡°Amitabha!¡± Kong Xing just chanted and ignored the Shaolin player. He continued using his internal energy to help Yuan Yin force the Mosquito Feeler Needle out of his body. The moment the poisonous needle left his body, Yuan Yin felt much more awake. After gaining his bearings, he slapped the head of the Shaolin player who protested just now. ¡°What do you know!¡± ¡°That arrogant brat is an official of the imperial court!¡± ¡°If it¡¯s just a PK between players, it¡¯s fine. However, if Uncle-Master Kong Xing attacked someone from the Divine Constable Bureau voluntarily, they might say that he is using violence to defy the law and even attacked an innocent law enforcement official. This is the less serious scenario. If they wanted to make it worse¡­ All in all, it will just bring Shaolin trouble!¡± ¡­ Ye Weiming¡¯s lightness kung fu was outstanding among the current players. However, it was still almost impossible for him to catch up with Zhang Cuishan. But, Ye Weiming wasn¡¯t anxious at all because¡­ Ding! Wudang Sect¡¯s Zhang Cuishan has invited you to the port at Qiantang to investigate the massacre of the Dragon Gate Escort together. The coordinates are¡­ Based on the coordinates, Ye Weiming found Zhang Cuishan and the rest of the people. Ye Weiming took out the two concealed weapons again without the other party asking and said, ¡°I picked these up at the Fengbo Pavilion.¡± ¡°It¡¯s the Mosquito Feeler Needle and the Seven Star Thorn again!¡± Zhang Cuishan¡¯s eyes shimmered. He wanted to say something but in the end, he just gave a long sigh. Then, he continued, ¡°Actually, we have already found some hints regarding the Dragon Slaying Sabre. Today, when Bukui was investigating the Seasand Clan, he received the news that the Flying Eagle Cult is organizing a blade appreciation event on Mount Wangpan. I would like to invite Brother Weiming to come along with us. What do you say?¡± It seems like Mount Wangpan is the last segment of this five-star mission? Ye Weiming was elated. He immediately cupped his hands and replied, ¡°I¡¯ll be delighted to!¡± Chapter 31 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations As they went downstream, the Qiantang River got wider. Ye Weiming walked out of Zhang Cuishan¡¯s cabin and saw Yin Bukui and the other Wudang disciple sitting at the ship¡¯s bow with the wind blowing against them. He smiled. Then he walked over and took the initiative to greet them. Yin Bukui asked, ¡°Brother Ye, how¡¯s your chat with Fifth Uncle-Master?¡± Ye Weiming nodded slightly. ¡°Swordsman Zhang Five doesn¡¯t know much about the truth either. I couldn¡¯t get much information from him. How do I address this brother?¡± Only these two Wudang disciples were left. Ye Weiming felt that he needed to make friends with this comrade. The Wudang disciple who used the same weapon as Zhang Cuishan gave a strange expression when Ye Weiming asked for his name. On the other hand, Yin Bukui laughed loudly and helped him to answer. ¡°Oh him? He is very famous in ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯. Brother Ye, have you heard of Xuan Small Pen?¡± When he heard Xuan Small Pen¡¯s name, Ye Weiming¡¯s eyes turned wide. He looked at the handsome youth in front of him and exclaimed in surprise, ¡°You¡¯re Weak¡­¡± Halfway through his sentence, he stopped himself. It was a little disrespectful to say the other person¡¯s nickname so blatantly. When Xuan Small Pen saw Ye Weiming¡¯s reaction, he waved his hands casually. ¡°I am Weak Chicken Swordsman. That¡¯s right, it¡¯s me. Please take care of me in the future.¡± There were a million concurrent players online in ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯. Sometimes, a player would appear on television when he completed the first blood of a mob. Most of the players were used to such an act. However, the way this brother appeared was a little different. That was why Ye Weiming had such a deep impression of him. He was the first player in the game to get killed by roosters. This was where his nickname came from! When he noticed that the other party didn¡¯t mind, Ye Weiming finally asked the question that he had always been curious about. ¡°Everyone says that there are more humans than chickens in the Novice Village. How did you manage to die to it?¡± ¡°That is only true for the first two hours of the game.¡± Xuan Small Pen shook his head and said, ¡°After entering the game, the first mission I received was a writing mission. It lasted for two hours. However, the reward for the mission was not bad. I managed to get 3 points of Enlightenment for it. When I went to complete the chicken mission, there were already very few people in the village.¡± So you got pecked to death? Ye Weiming felt that this wasn¡¯t a solid excuse. After all, a chicken was just a chicken. How could it be fiercer than a human? Xuan Small Pen continued, ¡°Halfway through my mission, I noticed a bastard teasing a female player. I couldn¡¯t bear seeing his actions so I went to scold him. But, that brat actually started fighting with me. I managed to defeat him in the end but my health was almost empty after the PK. It was still at the start of the game so I still didn¡¯t know that I had to be aware of my health. Due to my carelessness, I killed a hen, and three roosters came out immediately to attack me. After that, I got the nickname ¡®Weak Chicken Swordsman¡¯ and a girlfriend.¡± What the f**k! He saved a beauty and managed to escape singlehood? What a good plan! After introducing Xuan Small Pen, Yin Bukui changed the topic and asked, ¡°Brother Ye, what do you think of Shaolin¡¯s ambush?¡± ¡°Brother Yin, are you trying to test me?¡± Yin Bukui quickly replied that it wasn¡¯t his intention. Then he explained, ¡°We are on the same boat and our target is the same. Communicating our thoughts with each other will help us to complete the mission faster and easier, don¡¯t you think so?¡± Ye Weiming smiled calmly when he heard this. He replied, ¡°Based on the storyline, what happened is reasonable. Since we¡¯re able to find evidence regarding the Dragon Slaying Sabre, Shaolin disciples will also be able to find evidence on the Dragon Slaying Sabre. Even if we don¡¯t talk about the mysterious Flying Eagle Cult, Yu Daiyan is still the last person who came into contact with the Dragon Slaying Sabre. The Shaolin Temple has enough reasons to believe that Wudang has information about the Dragon Slaying Sabre.¡± Yin Bukui nodded seriously. ¡°You¡¯re right. Even if Yu Daiyan didn¡¯t reveal any information when he was being interrogated and tortured, outsiders might not believe that the Wudang Sect doesn¡¯t know where the Dragon Slaying Sabre is. My thoughts were too extreme in the past. I actually didn¡¯t think about this.¡± Ye Weiming shrugged and continued, ¡°Actually, the storyline is just a way to explain the situation. I feel that the system doesn¡¯t actually want the players to complete the mission easily so they increased the difficulty of the mission. They let the disciples from Shaolin and Wudang fight first before letting the black figure appear so that the winner can proceed to the next round.¡± At this moment, Xuan Small Pen suddenly opened his mouth, ¡°I don¡¯t understand which side the black figure is on. He decided to interfere with the situation but he chose to attack both sides. No matter how I look at it, it¡¯s conflicting.¡± ¡°Maybe the person just wants to save Zhang Cuishan. If the Shaolin disciples get injured, the Shaolin NPCs will be held back. If the Wudang disciples died, Zhang Cuishan would not have to care about them anymore. Remember what happened just now? Zhang Cuishan lifted the two of you, each in one hand, and ran away. If all seven of you were alive, he wouldn¡¯t be able to carry all of you, right?¡± He waved his hand and continued, ¡°I¡¯m just making wild guesses. After all, we don¡¯t know anything about the black figure. Who knows what the truth might be?¡± ¡°Actually, to tell you the truth, the missions for the seven of us are linked. As long as one person manages to complete the mission alive, all of us will be able to get the rewards. The only difference is that the person with the highest contribution will get more rewards.¡± After sharing his mission honestly, Ye Weiming and Yin Bukui started chatting with each other. Ye Weiming finally knew that Yin Bukui¡¯s master was the sixth swordsman of the seven swordsmen of Wudang, Yin Liting. He seemed to be a talkative person and always liked to tell Yin Bukui the interesting things that happened in the pugilistic world. For instance, he told Yin Bukui that the sect master of the Flying Eagle Cult is Yin Tianzheng. He was originally one of the four guardians of the Ming Cult. Then, Yin Bukui started talking about another one of the four guardians, Golden Lion Xie Xun. They said that Xie Xun was a famous murderer in the pugilistic world. He had some grudges with his master, Hunyuan Thunderbolt Hand Chen Kun. He would go around killing people and after that, he would leave behind the message ¡®The murderer is Hunyuan Thunderbolt Hand Chen Kun¡¯ written in blood¡­ The three of them talked for more than an hour before Ye Weiming left in satisfaction. Xuan Small Pen couldn¡¯t help but ask Yin Bukui, ¡°Why were you so talkative today? You¡¯re not like this usually.¡± ¡°Actually, what I told him is old news in the pugilistic world. They¡¯re not secrets.¡± Yin Bukui explained, ¡°Plus, ultimately, the storyline is to service the game. They will never allow the players who knew that the ¡®Nine Yang Manual¡¯ is in the ¡®Lankavatara Sutra¡¯ to find it there. They also won¡¯t let the players find the lost sword skills from the Five Mountain Sword Sects Alliance just by breaking open the stone walls of the Reflection Cliff.¡± ¡°Actually, from the moment we came down the mountain, the main plot didn¡¯t change, but many of the details are entirely different. In the real storyline, players like us don¡¯t exist. Zhang Cuishan took Yin Susu¡¯s boat to Mount Wangpan right after the massacre of the Dragon Gate Escort too.¡± ¡°Now, Ye Weiming¡¯s and our target are the same. By revealing some necessary information to him, we will be able to gain some benefits too, right?¡± Xuan Small Pen still felt a little frustrated as he said, ¡°But that way, he would get more benefits than us.¡± ¡°So what?¡± Yin Bukui shook his head lightly. ¡°Even if he¡¯s able to get 10 more points of benefits from what I told him and we only get 5 points each, we still profit.¡± ¡°You need to have a wider perspective. The ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯ is a game with a million concurrent players online. If our skills can increase by one point, we will be able to gain more advantages. If other people got more benefits than us, it wouldn¡¯t matter.¡± Chapter 32 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations Although Mount Wangpan was called a mountain, it was actually an island in the middle of the sea. It stood alone among the vast sea, creating a unique scenery. After the boat docked, Zhang Cuishan led Ye Weiming and the other two Wudang disciples to the empty piece of land below the cliff of the peak. The three players following the NPC had already formed a team. Ye Weiming spoke to Yin Bukui and Xuan Small Pen on the team channel. ¡°I¡¯ve been thinking about this. Since we have to be screened before coming to Mount Wangpan, I feel that there must be something different about this last hurdle. Just like what you said, since there isn¡¯t much difference in the rewards for the mission, I feel that there might be other benefits we can get on Mount Wangpan.¡± Yin Bukui glanced at Xuan Small Pen when he heard this. What he wanted to say was, ¡®Look, I¡¯ve said that even with the same information, this man will have a different outlook.¡¯ Xuan Small Pen directly asked Ye Weiming in curiosity, ¡°Brother Ye, what do you think these benefits might be? Can it be the Dragon Slaying Sabre?¡± ¡°How is that possible?¡± Ye Weiming shook his head and said, ¡°I can¡¯t guess what the specific rewards will be but it should at least be the chance to trigger a hidden mission or something. If not, they won¡¯t have to screen the players.¡± The mountain was filled with craggy rocks. No one lived there so there were no mountain paths they could walk on. Fortunately, the four of them were all swordsmen so this wasn¡¯t a problem for them. As they got closer to the hillock, Yin Bukui glanced at Xuan Small Pen who was beside him. The latter understood her intention and immediately asked Zhang Cuishan, ¡°Master, we only have four people in our group. There are not many of us. Should we find a spot to spy on the situation before deciding our next step?¡± Zhang Cuishan replied casually, ¡°Since the other party decided to organize the event on Mount Wangpan, they will definitely have people watching over the surroundings. They might have already discovered us even before we got down the boat.¡± As they were speaking, they had already leaped onto the hillock. They saw a relatively vast piece of empty land in front of them. There was a wooden platform built on the land. It was around half a meter in height and it¡¯s only use was to make something conspicuous. There were many people congregated below the platform. From their standing positions, their attires, and the weapons they were holding, one could predict that they came from three different clans. ¡°The people standing below the platform are from the Seasand Clan, the Giant Whale Clan, and the Divine Fist Sect. The two people sitting alone on the left, looking at their attire, I think that they¡¯re Kunlun disciples.¡± Zhang Cuishan explained the situation to the three other people as he walked. At this time, Yin Bukui¡¯s gaze landed on the wooden table right at the center of the wooden platform. ¡°The item placed on the wooden table is so black. I can¡¯t see what it is clearly. Is that the legendary Dragon Slaying Sabre?¡± ¡°Actually, I have never seen the Dragon Slaying Sabre before either. But, I think that you are right.¡± Zhang Cuishan analyzed the situation first before continuing, ¡°If you can¡¯t see the item clearly, you can try to shift your internal energy to your eyes. This will help improve your eyesight.¡± The three people immediately followed his instructions. The faint and blurred little black dot instantly became clearer. This effect was like using your binoculars to look at a small blade of grass on the ground from your dormitory. They were not able to see every single detail but the outline of the Dragon Slaying Sabre was clear. The three of them were elated that they were able to grasp another way of using their internal energy. With this, the Dragon Slaying Sabre that they had no fate with didn¡¯t seem as important now. They continued moving forward. Ye Weiming realized that besides the NPCs from the three clans, there were actually many players here already. However, compared to the NPCs who seemed well-prepared for battle, the players looked more relaxed. Ye Weiming could hear their voices even from far away. It sounded as if he was in a wet market. ¡°A pair of aces!¡± ¡°Pass¡­¡± ¡°Pass¡­¡± ¡­ ¡°What the f**k, checkmate!¡± ¡°What the f**k, you ate my rook!¡± ¡°Haha¡­ rook is gone, your rook is gone¡­¡± ¡­ ¡°Come and take a look. Steamed meat buns fresh out of the steamer. If you want to eat it, come quickly¡­¡± ¡­ ¡°I¡¯m only selling one precious sword. It¡¯s a blue item. Attack +30, arm strength +2. We can discuss the price face to face¡­¡± ¡­ On the field below the wooden platform, some players were playing chess while others were playing fighting the landlord. Others set up a stall and sold items. It was really like a small and lively market. While the NPCs were preparing to snatch the Dragon Slaying Sabre, the atmosphere among the players seemed strange compared to the tense atmosphere among the NPCs. But, this was a game after all. The players just wanted to have fun. They came here for their missions. They knew that they wouldn¡¯t have a chance to get the Dragon Slaying Sabre anyway. Xuan Small Pen sighed when he saw the lively atmosphere on Mount Wangpan. He complained in the team channel, ¡°We went through so many barriers and difficulties in order to come to Mount Wangpan. Look at them. Suddenly, I feel that there¡¯s no fairness in this game at all! It¡¯s so hard to play!¡± ¡°Stop complaining.¡± Yin Bukui replied, ¡°Do you really think that they will get a good opportunity by coming here? Do you think that they¡¯re the same as us?¡± Xuan Small Pen answered, ¡°At least, for now, I can¡¯t see any difference.¡± ¡°Hey, brothers!¡± At this moment, a slightly plump player from the Mount Hua Sect walked over and smiled as he said, ¡°The blade appreciation event will only start in two hours. Brothers, would you like to buy a deck of poker cards and play fight the landlord to pass the time? If you¡¯re not interested in poker cards, I have Chinese chess, Weiqi, Chinese checkers, Gomoku, mahjong, dice¡­ the prices are reasonable. I¡¯m honest.¡± As he spoke, he took out a price list and displayed it in front of Ye Weiming and his friends. Xuan Small Pen looked at the price list carefully. Then he exclaimed in surprise, ¡°F**k! One set of poker cards cost 10 Silver. How is this reasonable? These cards only cost 1 silver at the shops in other cities.¡± ¡°But this is Mount Wangpan.¡± The fatty from the Mount Hua Sect shrugged. ¡°There isn¡¯t even a place for us to fight monsters here. Before the mission starts, everyone can only wait. Moreover, it isn¡¯t easy for me to carry all these items here. You have to let me earn some money, right?¡± Yin Bukui opened his mouth and interrupted their conversation. ¡°I¡¯m sorry. We are not interested in playing games. Small Pen, hurry and catch up¡­¡± Xuan Small Pen stopped chatting with the man and hurriedly caught up with the rest of his group. As for the plump player from Mount Hua Sect, he shouted loudly behind them, ¡°My name is Jiao Wolf. If you change your mind, remember to come back and find me. The price won¡¯t change.¡± The players were having fun at the back while the NPCs in front were full of complicated emotions. The three of them followed Zhang Cuishan and arrived at the bottom of the wooden platform. The moment they reached, they saw an NPC standing on the left of the Dragon Slaying Sabre opening his mouth and saying, ¡°Swordsman Zhang Five, nice to meet you. I¡¯m the head of the Xuanwu Section of the Flying Eagle Cult, Bai Guishou. Miss Yin Susu has been waiting for all of you in the tent for a long time. Please follow me.¡± Bai Guishou led the way voluntarily while the four of them followed behind him. In the team channel, Yin Bukui said proudly, ¡°Look, I said that our treatment is different from the other players on the island.¡± Before they could walk further, they suddenly heard the sound of fighting behind them. When the three players turned their heads, they saw a few players being attacked before turning into a flash of white light. These players saw Bai Guishou leaving and wanted to use this opportunity to snatch the Dragon Slaying Sabre. Ye Weiming and the two players turned their heads back again, and Bai Guishou was still leading the way for them calmly. He didn¡¯t even glance at the platform. It could be seen that the Flying Eagle Cult was extremely confident in the event today. But when Ye Weiming saw this, his heart dropped. Based on the confident stance of the Flying Eagle Cult, it wouldn¡¯t be easy to complete their mission today! Chapter 33 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations Bai Guishou brought the group of them to a white-colored tent below the cliff. When they reached the entrance, he cupped his hands and said to Zhang Cuishan, ¡°Miss Yin Susu is inside the tent. I still have to host the event so I will not accompany you in.¡± Then he turned to the tent and said, ¡°Swordsman Zhang Five is here.¡± After that, he walked back to the wooden platform. At this moment, they heard the gentle voice of a lady coming from within the tent. ¡°You have come a long way. Please come into the tent for a chat.¡± Zhang Cuishan reached his hand out and pulled aside the curtain. He led the way into the tent. The three players followed him. A young lady in purple was sitting properly on the host¡¯s seat. When she saw the four of them, her eyes got brighter. A smile crept onto her face unconsciously. It was a smile that refreshed anyone who saw it. She should be Miss Yin Susu who Bai Guishou was referring to. As the only NPC in the team, Zhang Cuishan greeted the lady politely with cupped fists and said, ¡°Nice to meet you. I¡¯m Zhang Cuishan from Wudang. Actually, I came here today because there are a few things I would like to inquire about.¡± Yin Susu smiled. ¡°Swordsman Zhang Five, please go ahead and speak your mind. I promise that I will tell you everything I know.¡± ¡°Miss Yin!¡± Ye Weiming took over the main role and stepped forward. He stood behind the table in front of Miss Yin and took out a Seven Star Thorn and a Mosquito Feeler Needle. He placed them on the table and asked, ¡°I wonder if you recognize these two concealed weapons?¡± Yin Susu nodded lightly and answered directly, ¡°These belong to me. Of course I recognize them.¡± The other party replied so honestly, Ye Weiming felt a little speechless. He remained stunned for a moment before continuing, ¡°Do you have anything to do with the massacre of the Dragon Gate Escort?¡± Yin Susu answered calmly, ¡°Du Dajin from the Dragon Gate Escort didn¡¯t fulfil his mission and caused Swordsman Yu Three to be crippled. Don¡¯t they deserve to die? Moreover, when I requested for the job, I told them that if something happened to Swordsman Yu Three, I will destroy their entire escort agency.¡± ¡°As a human, we need to be true to our words, right?¡± Ding! You¡¯ve already found the truth behind the massacre of the Dragon Gate Escort. You¡¯ve completed the mission ¡®Dragon Gate Escort¡¯. Please return to the Divine Constable Bureau and find You Jin to collect your mission rewards. The mission is completed just like this? Ye Weiming couldn¡¯t believe his ears. As a murderer, you¡¯re admitting to your crimes a little too easily. The moment I asked, you admitted. Does that mean that all the interesting inferences, which includes the testimonies of witnesses, pieces of evidence, and the comparisons of the testimonies I prepared were all just a waste of time? Ye Weiming felt a little unwilling. He continued asking, ¡°Then Swordsman Yu Three from Wudang¡­¡± Before Ye Weiming could finish speaking, Yin Susu interrupted him directly, ¡°You didn¡¯t take any missions that have direct links to Swordsman Yu Three. Why is this any of your business?¡± Ye Weiming: ¡­ You make so much sense that I actually have nothing to say. He turned and looked at Yin Bukui and Xuan Small Pen. At the same time, he sent a message in the team channel: You guys can go ahead! If you have anything you don¡¯t understand, I will give you ideas. Since they formed a team to do this mission, they needed to help each other. Plus, Yin Bukui gave him many pieces of insider news so he couldn¡¯t leave just because he finished his mission, right? That would be too unloyal! If you act like this, you won¡¯t have any friends! Also, in order to confront the murderer, he spent much effort and time preparing evidence. This evidence would go to waste if he didn¡¯t use them. In that case, why don¡¯t he use it to repay them? You help me once and I will help you once. Relationships between adults came about like this. However, Yin Susu seemed fixed that she wouldn¡¯t give Ye Weiming the chance to show off his skills. Before the two Wudang players could open their mouths, she already started speaking, ¡°It is a long story. I would like the three swordsmen to go out and take a walk. You can admire the scenery of Mount Wangpan. As for Swordsman Yu Three, I will explain to Swordsman Zhang Five alone.¡± Yin Susu put up the stance that she wasn¡¯t going to say anything if they didn¡¯t leave. Thus, Ye Weiming and the other two people could only turn and leave the tent obediently. After walking out for a certain distance, Ye Weiming noticed that Yin Bukui and Xuan Small Pen seemed very calm. He couldn¡¯t help but ask, ¡°Aren¡¯t you worried that someone would sneak an attack on Zhang Cuishan after you leave him alone in the tent?¡± ¡°No.¡± Yin Bukui didn¡¯t bother explaining. He directly sent Ye Weiming a screenshot. You¡¯ve already helped Zhang Cuishan to find the truth behind Yu Daiyan¡¯s injury. You¡¯ve completed your clan mission ¡®Seeking the Truth¡¯. Please return to Mount Wudang to collect your mission rewards! Their mission was also already completed? Ye Weiming was puzzled. ¡°That means that your mission is just to let Zhang Cuishan understand the truth. Whether you know it or not doesn¡¯t matter.¡± ¡°The truth of the matter isn¡¯t important now. The only thing I can confirm is¡­¡± As he was speaking, Yin Bukui looked towards the tent Zhang Cuishan and Yin Susu were in. His smile became vulgar. ¡°The man who picks his toes will be online soon.¡± ¡°Ha! Ha! Ha!¡­¡± Suddenly, a wave of crazy laughter enveloped the entire Mount Wangpan. The vibration caused the trees to sway slowly and the birds to fly off in fright! After which, they saw a bulky man with golden hair jumping onto the wooden platform. Within a few moves, he managed to defeat the two guards that were guarding the Dragon Slaying Sabre. By the time the four of them rushed over, this person was already holding the Dragon Slaying Sabre in his hand. ¡°The Dragon Slaying Sabre is in my hands now! I, Xie Xun, will give all of you a chance to live. As long as someone is able to gain an advantage over me in a fight, he can leave this place alive. You can use weapons or just your fist. The rest will all have to die!¡± Ding! You¡¯ve triggered the hidden mission ¡®Challenge Xie Xun¡¯. Winner lives and losers die! As expected, in a martial arts game, kung fu was the ultimate solution to solving a problem. Ye Weiming prepared many ways to solve the case but Yin Susu confessed everything. It caused all his preparations to go to waste. Before this, he was still wondering why the last segment was so simple. Now, he finally understood that this was what was waiting for them! They had already received the notification that they completed their mission but they still needed to hand over their mission. Before the handover was completed, their mission was still ongoing. In other words, if they were killed by Xie Xun, they would fail their mission. All the efforts they put in before this would go to waste! Ye Weiming¡¯s gaze landed on Xie Xun. However, all the information he got was¡­ Xie Xun Known to the pugilistic world as Golden Lion. His abilities are unfathomable. Level: ??? Health: ???/??? Internal energy: ???/??? Kung fu: ??? Ye Weiming felt frustrated when he saw all the question marks in front of him. He turned his head helplessly and asked Yin Bukui, ¡°Is this the man who picks his toes you were referring to?¡± Yin Bukui was flabbergasted as he looked at Xie Xun, who was holding the Dragon Slaying Sabre and standing on the wooden platform. Although he knew how the storyline would progress, he didn¡¯t expect the mission of challenging Xie Xun to fall on all the players who were present. He swallowed his saliva and explained weakly, ¡°The man who picks his toes I¡¯m referring to is different from the one you¡¯re looking at!¡± Chapter 34 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations At this moment, an impatient player had already dashed up the wooden platform. The instant he stepped onto the arena, everyone saw him disappearing from their eyes. Ye Weiming said in a low voice when he saw this, ¡°This is an instance.¡± Yin Bukui nodded lightly. ¡°There are at least 80 players here. If every single one of us challenges Xie Xun, it will take a long time. It¡¯s better to put it as an instance.¡± As they were speaking, Xuan Small Pen, who was standing beside them, had already stepped onto the arena. As his team members, Ye Weiming and Yin Bukui got pulled into the instance following his actions. When he received the notification that he had entered the instance, Yin Bukui couldn¡¯t help but complain, ¡°Small Pen, you¡¯re too impulsive.¡± Xuan Small Pen didn¡¯t feel that he did anything wrong. ¡°We will have to challenge him anyway. The faster we finish it, the better.¡± Yin Bukui was speechless. ¡°Even if you want to challenge him, you should at least observe the situation first.¡± Xuan Small Pen refuted in a righteous tone, ¡°Didn¡¯t you say that this is an instance? Who are we supposed to observe?¡± Yin Bukui felt tired and frustrated when he heard Xuan Small Pen¡¯s reply. After arguing for some time, the three of them started observing the instance. The environment inside the instance wasn¡¯t any different from the outside world. The only difference was that they were the only ones in the instance. Besides them, they could only see Xie Xun, who was standing in the middle of the wooden platform and holding the Dragon Slaying Sabre in his hand. There was no sign of the other players or NPCs. ¡°Have you finished talking?¡± Xie Xun spoke to the three of them in an arrogant tone. ¡°If you¡¯re done, I can tell you the rules for challenging me. I will only say it once. Listen carefully¡­¡± As Xie Xun went on with his explanation, the three players roughly understood the rules of this instance. First, Xie Xun said that he wouldn¡¯t take advantage of the players so the players could decide the topic for the battle. As for him, he would suppress his attributes and level so that it would be on par with the players before accepting the challenge. But, the topic for the battle must be related to kung fu. Next, Xie Xun said that he hated evil people. Thus, the disciples from Seasand Clan, Giant Whale Clan, and Divine Fist Sect, as well as the players who followed them over, would only get some EXP and cultivation points as their reward. But, Ye Weiming and his team members never did any evil so if they won, Xie Xun would give them a secret scripture. In the team channel¡­ Xuan Small Pen: What the f**k, he is giving out welfare! ©d(¨R¨Œ¨Q*)o Ye Weiming: It¡¯s only welfare if we win. ¨r(¨s¨Œ¨t)¨q After they finished speaking, Ye Weiming took a step forward and cupped his hands. He asked Xie Xun, ¡°Senior Xie Xun, you said that you will suppress your level and attributes. What about your kung fu cultivation¡­¡± ¡°Haha¡­ young man, you¡¯re quite smart.¡± Xie Xun laughed loudly when he heard this. ¡°I will only suppress my level and attributes. As for the details of the challenge, you can slowly analyze it.¡± The three of them immediately cursed Xie Xun for being so shameless in their team channel when they heard this. It appeared as if the players had some hope in winning Xie Xun after he suppressed his level and attributes. However, in reality, the difference between them was still very wide! Ye Weiming was able to become one of the more powerful players because he managed to achieve a high level for the lackluster kung fu, ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯. But, what about Xie Xun? Based on a conservative estimate, he should at least have reached the maximum level for two intermediate martial arts skills, right? Even if they had the same attributes, Xie Xun would be able to beat everyone just based on his techniques alone! ¡°Let¡¯s be more open-minded.¡± Ye Weiming shook his head lightly. ¡°There is a chance of survival because he suppressed his level and attributes. If not, we wouldn¡¯t have any chances at all. Who wants to go first?¡± ¡°Me!¡± Xuan Small Pen took a step forward as he spoke. He took out his judge pen and said, ¡°I want to challenge you with my writing skills.¡± Before Xie Xun could reply to him, Xuan Small Pen activated his internal energy and started writing on the wooden boards below him. Honored by the wulin, the precious sabre slays the dragon; it commands the world, who dares to disobey? If the Heaven Reliant does not appear, who can challenge it? His strokes were filled with vigor and gracefulness. They were fine and beautiful. No wonder Zhang Cuishan laid his eyes on him and took him in as his disciple. Ye Weiming didn¡¯t know much about calligraphy but he still complimented in a soft tone, ¡°Small Pen¡¯s words are really not bad.¡± ¡°Of course.¡± Yin Bukui explained, ¡°Before Small Pen migrated, he was the champion of the youth calligraphy competition in his province. After entering the game, with the help of the additional calligraphy skills given to him, his skills might have reached the level of great masters in the real world.¡± After he finished writing, Xuan Small Pen raised his head and smiled at Xie Xun, ¡°I still need much practice. Senior, please do your appraisal.¡± Xie Xun nodded and praised him sincerely, ¡°Your words are good. You¡¯re young but your words already have the stance of a grandmaster. This is really rare!¡± After he finished speaking, Xie Xun directly slapped Xuan Small Pen, turning him into a flash of white light. Ding! Your teammate, Xuan Small Pen, has died and left the team. While Ye Weiming and Yin Bukui were feeling flabbergasted, Xie Xun said in disdain, ¡°I said that the topic you choose must be related to kung fu. What does your calligraphy skills have to do with kung fu?¡± However, it was obvious that Xuan Small Pen wouldn¡¯t be able to hear this explanation. Xie Xun raised his head again and looked at the two other people. ¡°Who is the second person?¡± ¡°Me!¡± Yin Bukui opened his mouth and said, ¡°I don¡¯t know any close combat skills. I¡¯ve only learned sword skills before. If I¡¯m fortunate enough to cut off a corner of your clothes¡­¡± ¡°You will win!¡± Ye Weiming¡¯s eyes lit up instantly when he heard their conversation. This was how you could negotiate the terms! Yin Bukui had already pulled out his sword and stabbed it towards Xie Xun. However, the sword skill he was using was just an ordinary fundamental Wudang sword skill. Even if he managed to reach the maximum level for this sword skill, it wouldn¡¯t pose any threat to Xie Xun at all. Just a single encounter and Xie Xun was able to grasp his loophole. He twisted his hand and grabbed Yin Bukui¡¯s throat. ¡°Brat, are you really planning to damage my clothes with those lousy skills of yours? What the f**k!¡± Just as Xie Xun was about to strangle Yin Bukui to death after proudly announcing his win, Yin Bukui raised his long sword in his hand and stabbed it furiously through his abdomen. Xie Xun realized what Yin Bukui wanted to do, but because of the suppression in his level and attribute, his reaction was slower by half a beat. A thin and almost unnoticeable cut on his clothes were formed by Yin Bukui¡¯s blade after it pierced through Yin Bukui¡¯s body. ¡°Pfft!¡± After he drew the sword out, the health bar above Yin Bukui¡¯s head dropped by more than 50%. But, he didn¡¯t activate the pain sensor so he wasn¡¯t bothered by the wound at all. He turned around and said to Xie Xun in a slightly proud tone, ¡°Thank you, senior.¡± ¡°Not bad, you¡¯re ruthless!¡± Xie Xun was straightforward too. ¡°Your move really scared me for a moment. Can you tell me what this move is?¡± Yin Bukui cupped his hands respectfully and said, ¡°A few days ago when my Third Uncle-Master got all his limbs crippled by his enemies, I told my master that if I can¡¯t defeat my opponent, I would rather die with him than to fall into his hands. My master agreed with me after knowing my intention so he created this move ¡®Live with Heaven and Earth¡¯ and taught me. This is my first time using it. Thank you for showing mercy.¡± ¡°What a good name! ¡®Live with Heaven and Earth¡¯!¡± Xie Xun complimented. He asked again, ¡°What kung fu do you want to learn?¡± A glimmer of light flashed past Yin Bukui¡¯s eyes. However, he said, ¡°There¡¯s no rush to give me my reward. Why don¡¯t we wait for Brother Ye to finish challenging you? We can get our rewards together.¡± Xie Xun¡¯s gaze landed on Ye Weiming. ¡°Young man, what do you want to challenge me with?¡± Was it finally his turn? Ye Weiming took a step forward and stared directly into Xie Xun¡¯s eyes. It was filled with killing intent. ¡°You¡¯re really busy so I don¡¯t dare to take up too much of your time. Shall we decide the winner with just a single move?¡± Chapter 35 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations ¡°Decide the winner with a single move?¡± At first, Xie Xun was stunned when he heard Ye Weiming¡¯s suggestion. Then he frowned and asked, ¡°What do you mean by that?¡± Ye Weiming took his sword out of his sheath as he said in a calm tone, ¡°I will only make one move. Senior, if you can receive the move without evading it, I will lose. You can do anything to me after that and I will not furrow my brows at all.¡± ¡°You want to defeat me with just one move?¡± Xie Xun couldn¡¯t help but size up Ye Weiming when he heard this. ¡°What an arrogant young fellow! Even if that old priest Zhang Sanfeng comes personally, I will be able to receive a single blow by him! I will give you one more chance. You should change your method.¡± ¡°No!¡± Ye Weiming shook his head with resolution. ¡°Just one move! However, I need some time to prepare my move. Elder, you can¡¯t interrupt me during my preparation.¡± ¡°Okay!¡± Xie Xun laughed heartily, ¡°Whether you win or lose today, I will remember you. If you can use one move to force me to dodge or take even half a step back, I will raise your reward by a level!¡± ¡°Thank you for your kindness.¡± As he spoke, Ye Weiming retracted his smile and started moving his internal energy into the longsword in his hand. Under the stimulation of his internal energy, the Dragon Spring Sword gave off a clear and pleasant sound. At the same time, Ye Weiming started calculating with his left hand. Daizhong Way, activate! The moment Ye Weiming entered his calculative state, Xie Xun felt a sense of fear creeping up on him. It had been a while since he had this feeling. His instinct told him that this young fellow¡¯s next move wasn¡¯t a move to be trifled with. The best way to avert this crisis was to kill him with a single palm before he attacked! But, they had already agreed on the rules before this so Xie Xun couldn¡¯t do something so shameless. He had no choice but to suppress his desire to attack and increased his vigilance simultaneously to prepare for the challenge ahead. On the other side, Yin Bukui¡¯s eyes widened when he saw Ye Weiming¡¯s movement. He exclaimed in astonishment, ¡°Daizhong Way!¡± This fellow was really a fan of the original novel! When they were on the boat, Ye Weiming already had his suspicion. Before speaking to Yin Bukui, Ye Weiming asked Zhang Cuishan about the origins of the Flying Eagle Cult. Zhang Cuishan knew nothing about it. He didn¡¯t even know who the leader of the Flying Eagle Cult was. However, the moment Ye Weiming stepped out, Yin Bukui started telling him about the Flying Eagle Cult, the four guardians of the Ming Cult, and even specially told him the background information of Golden Lion Xie Xun. Now, this fellow recognized Daizhong Way with just a single look! Who would believe that he wasn¡¯t a fan of the original novel? However, the background of ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯ was Wuxia and not Naruto. Getting distracted during a battle was equivalent to asking for death. Thus, Ye Weiming blocked all his other thoughts and focused on calculating math questions! The difficulty of the math questions didn¡¯t change when he used the Daizhong Way on Xie Xun. At first, Ye Weiming was worried that the system would give him ten calculus questions but it didn¡¯t happen. However, there seemed to be an increase in the number of questions they gave. In the past, he was able to activate Daizhong Way with just ten questions. Now, after completing the 13th question, it still wasn¡¯t activated yet. But, Ye Weiming was anxious at all. Xie Xun wouldn¡¯t attack him voluntarily and there was no time limit for him to activate Daizhong Way. So, he could just slowly calculate. To ensure the accuracy of his calculation, Ye Weiming double-checked after each calculation. He would only hand over the answer after confirming that it was right. He was extremely careful. Time passed slowly. Besides Xie Xun, even Yin Bukui was starting to get a little impatient. If the activation time for this sutra was so long every single time, the Daizhong Way, which was said to be even more powerful that ¡®Nine Swords of Dugu¡¯, was really of little value, right? The truth was, it was really something quite useless! Five minutes later, Ye Weiming finished his 24th question. Seven minutes later, Ye Weiming finished his 32nd question. Nine minutes later, Xie Xun was already very impatient. ¡°Young fellow, are you going to make your move or not?¡± Ye Weiming ignored him and continued calculating his 41st question. He felt a little irritated at Xie Xun¡¯s questioning so he frowned and started calculating out loud, ¡°3¡Á7=21, 8¡Á8=64, 7¡Á9=¡­¡± After changing from mental calculation to verbal calculation, his efficiency seemed to have increased a little? Twelve minutes later, Xie Xun finally couldn¡¯t take it anymore. ¡°Brat, didn¡¯t you say that you don¡¯t want to waste my time? However, the preparation time you take for this move is enough for me to fight ten other people!¡± Ye Weiming: ¡°¡­9¡Á9=81, 1+7=8, 8-6=¡­¡± Just as Xie Xun¡¯s patience reached its limit, Ye Weiming finally completed the 49th math question! The active effects of Daizhong Way were finally activated successfully! ¡°It¡¯s done!¡± The moment he said this, Ye Weiming stabbed his sword forward. He was still using the most vicious move of the ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯, ¡®Beauty Of A Sick Lady¡¯. But, this time, the power of this move was not at a level a lackluster sword skill should have. When he made his move, his energy, Qi, and focus were all congregated at the tip of his sword. He seemed to have merged with his sword. The foundation of Daizhong Way was calculation. It wasn¡¯t just about calculating your enemy. You had to calculate the environment around you as well as the angle, position, every inch of your muscle, every part of your meridians, every piece of bone, and every string of internal energy when you made your move! This was the only way to make sure that when your sword stabbed out, your move was perfect. It was able to convert one part of strength into ten parts of power! This was the kind of attack that could defeat your opponent in a single blow by targeting their weakness! Xie Xun¡¯s eyes widened when he saw Ye Weiming¡¯s seemingly simple yet almost perfect move. In an instant, more than ten ways of retaliation appeared in his mind, But, he rejected all of them within a split second. Looking through all the kung fu he learned before, Xie Xun realized in fear that there was not one move he could use to resist his opponent¡¯s ordinary-looking attack! Don¡¯t even talk about resisting it. He couldn¡¯t even evade it! What should he do? Xie Xun was still Xie Xun. At the crucial moment, he roared in anger. A strong energy surged out of his body instantly. Then, he raised his fist and received Ye Weiming¡¯s blade directly without evading. Before the blade reached him, the surging energy had already gushed over along with the wind from the fist. It smashed into the sharpest point of the Dragon Spring Sword. ¡°Crack!¡± Due to the strong and oppressive energy, the Dragon Spring Sword shattered into pieces. This blue item was actually unable to resist Xie Xun¡¯s fist. It broke into seven pieces. After it cracked, the seven pieces started flying everywhere at an extremely high speed. Some shot into the air while others sunk into the ground below the wooden platform. One of the pieces pierced through Yin Bukui¡¯s ribs coincidentally. He just returned to full health but he lost health again. The person who received the most damage was Ye Weiming. He felt as though his body was struck by lightning. He was directly flung off the arena because of the fist. When he landed on the ground, he couldn¡¯t help but vomit a mouthful of blood. A bright red number floated above his head. -567! This fist reduced Ye Weiming¡¯s health to such a low state! He shook his head and climbed up from the ground. Ye Weiming gave a bitter smile and said, ¡°Senior, your skill is really invincible. I have lost.¡± ¡°No!¡± There was only astonishment in Xie Xun¡¯s gaze. He shook his head lightly and continued, ¡°I should be the loser. Take a look at my attributes and you will understand.¡± Ye Weiming raised his head and saw the information above Xie Xun¡¯s head¡­ Xie Xun Known to the pugilistic world as Golden Lion. His abilities are unfathomable. Level: ??? Health: ???/??? Internal energy: ???/??? Kung fu: ??? ¡°Just now, your move was indeed very powerful. I couldn¡¯t receive it and I couldn¡¯t even evade it. To protect myself, I could only release the suppression on my level and attributes. I have broken the rules so you¡¯re the winner!¡± ¡°I have killed many people in my life. I have snatched many martial arts scriptures from people too. What do you want to learn? You can tell me!¡± ¡°I have to remind you that your reward is limited to an intermediate martial arts scripture.¡± After saying that, he pointed at Yin Bukui on the other side. ¡°His reward is limited to a beginner martial arts scripture.¡± ¡°If you give any unreasonable demands, I have the right to cancel your rewards. You can speak now.¡± Chapter 36 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations After Xie Xun finished speaking, Ye Weiming received a message from Yin Bukui: Brother Ye, it¡¯s up to you. As expected, this fellow didn¡¯t reveal the secret scripture he wanted directly just now because he was planning to see if Ye Weiming had a way of increasing their rewards after he passed the test. Ye Weiming didn¡¯t disappoint him. He smiled and said to Xie Xun directly, ¡°Senior Xie, you¡¯re in charge of the rewards for the mission. Thus, you can decide what scriptures you want to give us as long as it¡¯s a choice that benefits you the most.¡± ¡°Interesting.¡± If an ordinary player said the same thing, Xie Xun would only feel that he was talking bullshit. But the amazing sword skill that Ye Weiming displayed just now left a deep impression in his mind. Thus, he asked Ye Weiming, ¡°Tell me what kind of secret scriptures should I choose so that it will benefit me the most?¡± ¡°That includes many things.¡± Ye Weiming replied calmly, ¡°For instance, do you have any formidable skills that you want to pass down? Skills you are comfortable passing down to us, or skills that can make your enemies extremely uncomfortable¡­¡± At first, Xie Xun gave Ye Weiming a ¡®you¡¯re as shameless as how I was when I was young¡¯ look. But when he heard the last sentence, his eyes lit up. Xie Xun¡¯s smile turned evil. ¡°In that case, I can consider raising your rewards¡¯ level by another tier. I just wonder if you dare to learn the skills that I will pass down to you?¡± ¡°Of course!¡± Ye Weiming smiled and replied, ¡°What kung fu do you plan to give us?¡± ¡°Take it!¡± Xie Xun waved his hand and two scriptures flew towards Ye Weiming and Yin Bukui. The two of them raised their hands simultaneously and caught it. The notification sound from the system came unexpectedly too. Ding! Congratulations on completing ¡®The Challenge of the Golden Lion¡¯. You received: EXP 10000, Cultivation 1000, Reputation in the pugilistic world 100, advanced sutra ¡®Hunyuan Scripture¡¯ ¡Á1! Hunyuan Scripture (advanced): The famous sutra of Hunyuan Thunderbolt Hand Chen Kun. Cultivation requirements: Intelligence 30, Enlightenment 30, Foundation expiration exercise level 10. This Hunyuan Scripture was actually the level up cultivation technique for the expiration exercise! A level up cultivation technique refers to the plus version of a certain cultivation technique after removing the bad and keeping only the good parts. In normal circumstances, it required a player to reach a certain level of cultivation for their fundamental cultivation technique. This kind of cultivation technique normally existed as clan kung fu. They required gradual progression and compared to other similar level kungfu, they were less powerful. However, their requirements for cultivation weren¡¯t as strict. For instance, Ye Weiming hadn¡¯t reached the Intelligence and Enlightenment criteria to practice the ¡®Hunyuan Scripture¡¯ but in comparison to other cultivation techniques, 30 points wasn¡¯t an atrocious requirement. If he worked harder, there was a possibility that he could satisfy the requirements to practice this sutra. In the team channel. Yin Bukui: You¡¯re really amazing. You thought of using Xie Xun and Chen Kun¡¯s grudge to raise the level of our reward. ¡®Lion¡¯s Roar¡¯. That¡¯s the reward for my mission. It¡¯s an intermediate kung fu. What did you get? Ye Weiming tapped on the attributes of Lion¡¯s Roar to take a look. Lion¡¯s Roar (intermediate): The special skill Xie Xun learned from Hunyuan Thunderbolt Hand Chen Kun. It¡¯s a kung fu that allows you to harm a group of people using soundwaves. Cultivation requirements: The limit of your internal energy must be 2000. Ye Weiming nodded and replied: It looks not bad. All the best in increasing your internal energy limit. ¡®Hunyuan Scripture¡¯. Yin Bukui: F**k, it¡¯s an advanced sutra! You are really¡­ but, this sutra requires you to reach level 10 for your expiration exercise. That is a little too much. After all, that is the lousiest sutra. It will be thrown away in the future so the cultivation points you piled into it will just go to waste. Ye Weiming didn¡¯t really mind even after Yin Bukui reminded him. The Divine Constable Bureau didn¡¯t have any clan kung fu. Compared to other players, he lacked the easy way of gaining martial arts scriptures. Thus, there weren¡¯t many kung fu for him to choose from. By the time he learned so many kung fu that he needed to forget one of them in order to clear some space, the cultivation points he invested in the expiration exercise wouldn¡¯t be that huge of a number to him anymore, right? ¡°Now, the rewards have all been given out. You can get out of here.¡± Xie Xun waved his hands and continued, ¡°Let me remind you that this is not the end. Before you return to your clans and hand over your mission, this mission isn¡¯t completed yet.¡± ¡°If you died before you hand over your mission, the secret scriptures you got a while ago will 100% drop.¡± Xie Xun waved his hand and Ye Weiming and Yin Bukui were sent out of the instance. Their bodies appeared below the wooden platform once again. In front of them, Xie Xun was holding the Dragon Slaying Sabre and killing people on the wooden platform. Ye Weiming glanced at his health bar and quickly swallowed a pill to replenish his health. After that, he could finally watch how Xie Xun fought all the heroes single-handedly at ease. Ding! You watched the battle between martial arts masters. Your knowledge increased. EXP +10. Ding! You watched the battle¡­ Every minute, a notification would appear from the system. The increase in EXP wasn¡¯t much but it was better than nothing. More than ten minutes had passed before the couple, Zhang Cuishan and Yin Susu, came. After that, there was a whole series of interesting storyline progression. During this period of time, the EXP gained every minute increased from 10 points to 1000 points. It was as fast as fighting monsters. The storyline went like this. Zhang Cuishan couldn¡¯t bear to see the people from the pugilistic world getting killed by Xie Xun so he went forward and challenged Xie Xun. He left 24 words on the cliff. Honored by the wulin, the precious sabre slays the dragon; it commands the world, who dares to disobey? If the Heaven Reliant does not appear, who can challenge it? The words he wrote were the same as what Xuan Small Pen wrote. However, when Zhang Cuishan wrote the words, every single word was a depiction of a profound kung fu theory. Even Xie Xun bowed down to him when he saw it. But even then, Xie Xun was still unwilling to let go of the people who came. Zhang Cuishan won but he only managed to rescue Yin Susu and himself. Xie Xun performed the ¡®Lion¡¯s Roar¡¯ and all the NPCs fell and rolled around on the ground. There were some people who died directly from the vibration. Some players turned into white light immediately while the NPCs became dead bodies. As for Ye Weiming and Yin Bukui¡­ Ding! You passed Xie Xun¡¯s challenge so you¡¯re immune to the damage of the Lion¡¯s Roar. From this system notification, they could tell that those who got killed by the Lion¡¯s Roar were the players who didn¡¯t enter the instance and tried to get by this mission. After clearing the field with his loud voice, Xie Xun seized Zhang Cuishan and Yin Susu and left Mount Wangpan. As for the other boats, they were already destroyed by Xie Xun before he started fighting with the players. Now, Mount Wangpan turned into an abandoned island! Just as the players that survived were feeling dumbstruck, a regional announcement sounded beside the ears of all the players. Regional announcement: Special reminder to all the players on Mount Wangpan. The dock of the island will resume in one hour. During this time, all the players please protect yourself. ¡°Tsk!¡± One of the surviving players scoffed when he heard the regional announcement. ¡°Xie Xun has already left. Mount Wangpan is in ruins now. How can there be other dangers? Why do we need to protect ourselves? You¡¯re really wasting our precious¡­ pfft!¡± Before the player could finish speaking, a steel fork stabbed into a certain indescribable part of his body from behind. -256 Critical hit! The player turned his head in shock. He saw a disciple of the Giant Whale Clan attacking him crazily while bleeding from his face. The crazy disciples from the Giant Whale Clan Level: 20 Health: 1200/1200 Internal energy: 400/400 Kung fu: Poop needle Chapter 37 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations ¡°The minds of all the NPCs here have all been injured by ¡®Lion¡¯s Roar¡¯. Now, they¡¯re starting to attack the players like maniacs.¡± Yin Bukui executed his Wudang sword skills as he fought with a crazy disciple from the Divine Fist Sect. He analyzed. ¡°They are all level 20 monsters. They attack based on their instinct. The only troublesome matter is that they have high health. They¡¯re not easy to deal with. But this is a good chance to increase our EXP.¡± When he noticed that Ye Weiming was only watching at the side, Yin Bukui laughed and said, ¡°Brother Ye, why aren¡¯t you attacking them? Are you planning on gaining EXP by doing nothing?¡± Ye Weiming was too lazy to bother about him. He turned and shouted at everyone, ¡°Offering a high price for swords! If anyone has extra swords, please contact me!¡± Yin Bukui was enlightened. This fellow forced Xie Xun to use his true power just now which caused his sword to be broken by Xie Xun¡¯s fist. He had no weapons now so he couldn¡¯t kill the monsters. He remembered what he said and realized that his previous words seemed to be mocking Ye Weiming. Realizing his blunder, Yin Bukui decided to shut his mouth and focused on fighting the human monster in front of him. If you looked at his current expression, he was even more serious then when he accepted Xie Xun¡¯s challenge. ¡°Hey, brother. We meet again.¡± Followed by a crisp laughter, the fat player wearing the Mount Hua Sect uniform could be seen walking towards Ye Weiming. He was the man who promoted his entertainment items to them when they had just arrived on the island. The fat player evaded a few small monsters in front of him and came in front of Ye Weiming. He sent Ye Weiming a friend request. After Ye Weiming accepted it, he immediately placed a sword in the trading column. He seemed very familiar with this action. Steel sword: A sword made from steel. More powerful than a normal iron sword. Attack +20. Ye Weiming looked at the attributes. The difference between this and his Dragon Spring Sword was huge. But, he could still use it. ¡°How much does this cost?¡± ¡°An honest price. 1 Gold.¡± ¡°1 Gold!¡± Ye Weiming was furious. ¡°This kind of cheap product only costs 20 silver in the weapons stall in the city. You raised the price by five times!¡± Jiao Wolf smiled. ¡°I¡¯ve already explained myself a while ago. This is Mount Wangpan. You will not be able to find any such stalls here. 1 Gold for your precious one hour to gain EXP. You can earn it back in that one hour, right?¡± ¡°You¡¯re so unscrupulous!¡± ¡°That¡¯s right!¡± Following the voice, a man donning in full black clothing came over from the other side. ¡°I received a good sword for a mission I had just completed. We can look at the item first before discussing the price.¡± Ding! Player Bury Moon requests to be your friend. Ye Weiming accepted the player¡¯s friend request without much thought. Then the player sent a personal message as well as a link for an item. Green Bamboo Sword (Gold): Created using the poison mystic techniques of the Miao boundary. Attack +150, Movement +5, Poison attribute damage +5. This was actually a gold weapon! It was a poisonous sword that had additional poison attributes too! Mind you, in ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯, there were no restrictions on the level of items a player could carry. For instance, the Zhuge Celestial Bow. If you were able to get it, you could use the treasure item to protect yourself even if you¡¯re just a newbie. Because of this, good weapons were extremely hard to get. Ye Weiming killed two big bosses, Chou Ba and Chen Ming, but the best items they dropped were just blue items. The items were quite ordinary too. Their quality couldn¡¯t be compared to the Dragon Spring Sword the Divine Constable Bureau gave him for free. Based on the attributes of this Green Bamboo Sword, Ye Weiming believed that it would be a worthwhile item for quite a period of time. But he didn¡¯t know how much exactly it was worth. Ye Weiming was really enticed by the attributes of this sword. ¡°How much are you selling this for?¡± ¡°50 Gold.¡± 50 Gold was a reasonable price. It wasn¡¯t expensive but it wasn¡¯t cheap either. If you threw it into the auction prepared by the system, the final bidding price should be around 50 Gold too. It would be higher or lower depending on your luck. There was no way to deposit money into the game so there were no stupid yet wealthy people in this game. The price was fine but the problem was, Ye Weiming couldn¡¯t afford it. ¡°Can I use items to exchange for it?¡± Bury Moon smiled calmly. ¡°That will depend on what you have.¡± ¡°Wait for a moment.¡± As he spoke, Ye Weiming looked through his bag to see if there was anything worth the price of the sword. However, he was greatly disappointed. ¡®Hunyuan Scripture¡¯ was definitely enough to exchange for the sword. Its worth probably exceeded the Green Bamboo Sword, but Ye Weiming couldn¡¯t possibly use it to exchange for an item. As for the other items he had, they weren¡¯t worth much. His items, scriptures, and concealed weapons only add up to around 10 Gold in total. Including all the money he had, he could barely get half of the 50 Gold the player asked for. He shook his head in regret. Just as he wanted to tell the other player that he had no fate with the sword, he felt his throat tightening. Bury Moon took the chance when he was inspecting his bag to move behind Ye Weiming. He curled his fingers into a claw and grabbed Ye Weiming¡¯s right shoulder and throat. Ye Weiming was shocked. ¡°What are you doing?¡± ¡°I¡¯m trying to kill you so that you will drop items.¡± Bury Moon smiled. Then he lowered his voice and whispered into Ye Weiming¡¯s ear, ¡°You have passed Xie Xun¡¯s challenge and got his reward, right? Now your reward is mine.¡± As he was speaking, he exerted strength on his right hand which was grabbing Ye Weiming¡¯s throat. The critical hit directly took away 231 points of health from Ye Weiming. As for his left hand which was on Ye Weiming¡¯s right shoulder, he maintained the strength there. That way, whether he was causing any damage or not, he would still be able to control Ye Weiming¡¯s body. This was the advantage of claw techniques like the Eagle Claw. At this moment, Ye Weiming wasn¡¯t able to feel his arm at all. He had only practiced ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯ before, so 70% of his combat ability depended on his right arm. He couldn¡¯t retaliate at all. Bury Moon succeeded in his first attack and raised his right hand to attack Ye Weiming¡¯s throat again. However, there was nothing Ye Weiming could do. He could only watch as the Bury Moon¡¯s hand got closer and closer to his throat. Suddenly, Bury Moon felt an unprecedented sense of danger coming from Ye Weiming¡¯s body. A chill went down his spine. He was frightened which caused him to instinctively release his left hand that was grabbing Ye Weiming¡¯s right shoulder. He retreated a few meters back! However, this sense of fear came and left quickly. The moment he landed on the ground, it disappeared. Ye Weiming tapped his toes on the ground and moved back too. The distance he retreated was much further than the distance Bury Moon moved. This was because Ye Weiming¡¯s movement technique was more powerful than Bury Moon¡¯s! As the distance between them increased, Ye Weiming hurriedly threw a pill into his mouth to replenish his health. However, he didn¡¯t run away. That was because¡­ ¡°Bastard! How dare you attack my friend!¡± Yin Bukui raised his sword and started attacking Bury Moon as he shouted angrily. Ye Weiming was slightly touched when he saw this scene. Yin Bukui had a good character. It seemed he was worth making friends with. However, character and ability weren¡¯t the same thing. Although he was a fan of the original novel, Yin Bukui wasn¡¯t able to turn his knowledge into his ability. The moment they started fighting, he was suppressed by his opponent almost immediately. Within ten moves, he got scratched by his opponent¡¯s claw three times and his health dropped by one-third. As for his sword, it didn¡¯t even manage to nick the corners of Bury Moon¡¯s clothes. Yin Bukui felt his head hurting when he was starting to lose ground. Maybe he shouldn¡¯t have stepped out to be a hero. After all, Brother Ye¡¯s lightness kung fu was powerful enough to save himself. Just as he was thinking of a way out, he felt a weight being lifted off his body. Ye Weiming had rushed over from behind and hugged his legs. He carried Yin Bukui on his shoulder and ran away without turning back. ¡®Don¡¯t be afraid, fight face on¡¯. This saying was bullshit. The only offensive skill Ye Weiming knew currently was sword skill. Without a sword, how was he supposed to fight?! Chapter 38 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations With the help from the attributes of his level 4 ¡®Eight Step Chasing Toad¡¯, his speed was indeed faster than Bury Moon. However, that was if he wasn¡¯t carrying anything. Now, he had one person on his shoulder so his speed was obviously slower. The depletion of his internal energy was faster too. Under such circumstances, it was already hard for him to protect himself, much less getting rid of his opponent! It wasn¡¯t long before Bury Moon was less than three meters behind them. At this moment, Yin Bukui showed how useful he was. He was being carried by Ye Weiming but he was facing the back so he saw Bury Moon chasing after them. When he saw Bury Moon coming closer, he raised his sword and stabbed at his eyes. This move was only useful when both parties maintained the same speed. Bury Moon just had to slow down slightly and Yin Bukui would miss. But, because of this, Yin Bukui managed to slow Bury Moon down. At the same time, Ye Weiming coincidentally passed by a group of NPCs from the Seasand Clan who were fighting the players. He started calculating with his left hand and immediately managed to attract the hatred from the people of the Seasand Clan. The people of the Seasand Clan felt the threat and turned around to sprinkle the poisonous salt. However, they were too late by half a second so it didn¡¯t affect Ye Weiming at all. Instead, Bury Moon, who was following closely behind, almost got hit in the face by the salt. Bury Moon quickly turned his body to dodge the poisonous salt. This movement attracted the hatred from the disciple of the Giant Whale Clan who was on the other side. The latter waved his steel fork and using the familiar poop needle, he almost caused this mysterious kung fu master to get hurt in that part of his body. Bury Moon raised his leg and kicked the disciple from the Giant Whale Clan away. The distance between Ye Weiming and him increased again. Thus, just like this, Bury Moon chased and Ye Weiming ran¡­ Fortunately, Mount Wangpan was filled with crazy NPCs and players who were killing the monsters. The entire place was in a mess. The messier it was, the harder a long term pursuit was. Around ten minutes later, Ye Weiming finally managed to shake Bury Moon off. He hid behind the tent where Yin Susu invited them in. He placed Yin Bukui down and peeked out from behind the tent. He noticed that Bury Moon was still walking among the crowd looking for them. He heaved a sigh of relief. Yin Bukui¡¯s voice appeared behind him. ¡°Why did that player attack you? Why do you have to bring me along when you¡¯re running away? I¡¯m not that person¡¯s match so I¡¯m afraid I can¡¯t be of much help.¡± ¡°His motive is to kill us so that we¡¯ll drop our scriptures!¡± Yin Bukui immediately remembered the words Xie Xun said after he handed the scriptures over to them. Their mission hadn¡¯t ended yet. Before they returned to their clan safely and handed over their mission, the scriptures would 100% drop if they died. After understanding the crux of the issue, Yin Bukui was flabbergasted. ¡°Do you mean that everyone knows we have a scripture that will drop at any moment?¡± ¡°Not everyone. However, that fellow is an exception.¡± Ye Weiming explained, ¡°Before this, Xie Xun said that those players who followed the Seasand Clan, Giant Whale Clan, and Divine Fist Sect over won¡¯t have any rewards. Thus, there was no need for him to remind these players if they passed Xie Xun¡¯s challenge. But, besides the three clans that I mentioned, don¡¯t forget that there is another clan that has some relationship with Xie Xun among the various factions present on this island.¡± ¡°The Flying Eagle Cult!¡± Ye Weiming nodded lightly. ¡°At the Flying Eagle Cult, I had a fight with a player from the Flying Eagle Cult. The person¡¯s skills were amazing and he was using the Eagle Claw at that time. From the looks of it, that person was Bury Moon.¡± Yin Bukui: ¡°How do you know that he¡¯s a player and not an NPC?¡± In ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯, it was still quite easy for a player to hide his identity. Unless he chose to expose it voluntarily, his name wouldn¡¯t be shown above his head. Even in a PK, the system would only tell you that you got attacked by someone. It wouldn¡¯t tell you who that person was. Normal NPCs in the storyline looked exactly like a player, unless they were supposed to be monsters or bosses. The official explanation was that this was to make the game more realistic. But to Ye Weiming, he felt that this was to make their lives more difficult. The explanation he had for Ye Weiming¡¯s question was, ¡°Actually, there¡¯s still a difference between players and NPCs. It¡¯s just like the difference between people in the modern world and ancient world. It isn¡¯t just about the clothes. I knew that the person was a player because when I said ¡®I bought a watch last year¡¯ he replied with ¡®What watch¡¯.¡± He hesitated for a while before continuing, ¡°Why don¡¯t you lend me your sword? I will go and kill that fellow. If you¡¯re worried, I can pay a deposit.¡± Since Bury Moon knew that they would definitely drop something after they died, did that mean that he would also drop something when he died. For instance, the Green Bamboo Sword? This sword was probably given to him during Xie Xun¡¯s challenge. Ye Weiming couldn¡¯t think of another reason why the other party would bring a high-class item that he couldn¡¯t use along with him for such a dangerous mission. Now that he lacked a weapon, if the Green Bamboo Sword really dropped, that would be perfect! ¡°It isn¡¯t about the deposit. I really can¡¯t lend you.¡± Yin Bukui gave a bitter smile and rejected Ye Weiming¡¯s request to borrow the sword. He also sent an item link over. Pine Vein Sword: The sword used by Wudang disciples. Attack +50, Internal energy increases by 10%. No transaction of any kind! Fine. Ye Weiming felt helpless in such a situation. ¡°Flap, flap, flap¡­¡± As they were speaking, a pigeon suddenly landed on Ye Weiming¡¯s shoulder. Yin Bukui asked, ¡°Who¡¯s looking for you?¡± Ye Weiming sent him a screenshot. ¡°Bury Moon: 1¡± Yin Bukui was confused. ¡°What does the ¡®1¡¯ mean?¡± Ye Weiming replied to him by carrying him on his shoulder once again and running off without any hesitation. By this time, Bury Moon had already appeared some distance behind them. A pigeon mail cost 1 Silver. At first, this was just a convenient way to let friends communicate with each other. However, to make everything realistic, after the pigeon mail was sent, the pigeon would fly for a certain distance before disappearing. Then it would appear some distance away from the receiver before landing on the receiver¡¯s shoulder. This setting allowed the two parties to understand which direction their friends were at. But, sometimes, it would have unexpected results. For instance, Ye Weiming discovered Strained Noodles Steamed Bun¡¯s ambush using the pigeon mail. Another instance would be the current situation. Ye Weiming put Bury Moon on his blacklist along the way and the two of them started playing cat and mouse once again. The number of monsters on the island was decreasing because all the players were killing them. These monsters couldn¡¯t refresh. Thus, they used double the amount of time to shake their chaser off this time. It took them almost half an hour. Ye Weiming¡¯s internal energy had been entirely depleted because of this chase. They hid in a secluded spot and Ye Weiming swallowed a pill to replenish his internal energy. Then he started meditating. Yin Bukui was in charge of observing the surroundings. After close to ten minutes, Yin Bukui said happily, ¡°They refreshed the dock. There are boats there now!¡± Ye Weiming: ¡°Let¡¯s wait for a while.¡± Another three minutes passed. Yin Bukui: ¡°The other players have already left.¡± ¡°Let¡¯s wait for a few more minutes.¡± Another three minutes had passed. Yin Bukui: ¡°There¡¯s really no one.¡± ¡°Okay. I will go out to check the situation. Once there¡¯s no danger, I will call you.¡± ¡°You¡¯re really careful. We¡¯ll do as you say.¡± Ye Weiming silently walked out of their hiding place. He sneaked around before walking towards the dock. Just as he was about to smile and greet the boatman that just got refreshed, he felt a gust of wind behind him. There¡¯s really an ambush! Ye Weiming was well-prepared. He immediately lowered his body and evaded the claw aiming at the back of his neck. Then he raised his legs and ran away. When I was carrying someone, I couldn¡¯t lose you. Do you still think that I can¡¯t lose you now? He ran for a short distance and suddenly noticed a fat player wearing the Mount Hua Sect uniform walking out from a hidden part of the hill. Then the player set up a stall on the ground with the title: Steel sword, 1 Gold 50 Silver. Hurry up and buy it if you want! Chapter 39 Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations Who else could this person be? Besides the greedy Jiao Wolf who was a good businessman, there was no one who could be so unscrupulous. When he saw Ye Weiming running towards him, Jiao Wolf smiled and said, ¡°I wasted close to ten minutes of my precious time to secure this deal. It isn¡¯t too much to collect 50 more silver from you, right?¡± Ye Weiming didn¡¯t have the time to bullshit with him. He immediately clicked on the stall and confirmed that there was nothing wrong with the price of the item as well as the item. Then he instantly bought the sword. 1 Gold and 50 Silver were taken away from him immediately. A long steel sword appeared in Ye Weiming¡¯s hand. It was still a piece of rubbish that could only increase his attack by 20. But no matter how rubbish it was, it was still a sword! To a swordsman, having a sword and not having a sword were two different concepts. Bury Moon was about to catch up with him again. Ye Weiming quickly waved his hand and welcomed him with ¡®Lamb Chewing Peony¡¯. As for Businessman Jiao Wolf, he had already retreated far away. This fellow was clear-headed enough to understand what he did. He sold a sword to Ye Weiming so that meant that he disrupted Bury Moon¡¯s plan. At the same time, he slaughtered Ye Weiming furiously during the process of this transaction. Thus, he knew that Ye Weiming wouldn¡¯t thank him for his help. After the battle ended, no matter who the survivor was, he wouldn¡¯t have a good ending. However, he didn¡¯t care. Seeking nothing but profits was a noble trait of an outstanding businessman. As he watched the two players fighting furiously, he didn¡¯t stay behind to get a cheap deal. The position he gave himself in this game was a businessman, not a scavenger. Thus, he decided to run away! However, before he left, he didn¡¯t forget to shout at the two players who were fighting, ¡°Both of you are masters in the game. If you need to sell any items that you won¡¯t use in the future, you can come to the Blue Fatty Items Shop at Luoyang. The price of white items starts from 10 Silver and blue items start from 1 Gold. The final price depends on the attributes of the item. I have professional appraisers in my shop. I believe that you will be satisfied with the quoted price.¡± After he finished his advertisement, he dashed towards the direction of the dock without waiting for the reply. However, before he could reach the dock, he was stabbed in the throat by a long sword that shot out from behind a tree. This surprise attack caused critical damage! Yin Bukui¡¯s figure dashed out from behind the tree. Before Jiao Wolf could react, he waved his sword multiple times, instantly turning this immoral businessman into a flash of white light. Ye Weiming was still fighting with Bury Moon halfway up the mountain when he saw this scene. He couldn¡¯t help but shake his head and sigh. People like Jiao Wolf who raised the price on the spot were irritating but without this steel sword, he wouldn¡¯t be able to find a way out of his plight so easily. Thus, he couldn¡¯t hate Jiao Wolf either. On the other hand, all he wanted to say to Yin Bukui when he directly PKed Jiao Wolf without any warning¡­ You did a great job! Reality proved that Ye Weiming wasn¡¯t the only martial arts master in the game. This Bury Moon was not to be underestimated either. They had fought for more than 30 rounds and although both of them dropped some health in the process, no one was able to gain any advantage. Bury Moon evaded Ye Weiming¡¯s sweep towards his throat. This time, he opened his mouth voluntarily, ¡°You have a lousy sword. It won¡¯t be easy to beat me. Why don¡¯t we call it a day?¡± Ye Weiming didn¡¯t stop attacking him. At the same time, he said in contempt, ¡°Do you really think that the outcome will be internecine?¡± Bury Moon asked him back calmly, ¡°Isn¡¯t that the truth?¡± What a poor kid. Because of their standing positions, he couldn¡¯t see Yin Bukui¡¯s sneak attack on Jiao Wolf. He also couldn¡¯t see Yin Bukui charging towards them after he killed Jiao Wolf. Yin Bukui stood behind Bury Moon and helped Ye Weiming to reply to Bury Moon. ¡°Of course not. Do you think that I¡¯m invisible?¡± Yin Bukui raised his sword and stabbed at Bury Moon. He started attacking Bury Moon together with Ye Weiming! So what if my weapon wasn¡¯t good enough? I have a teammate! When there was only Ye Weiming around, Bury Moon was still able to maintain the balance between them with some effort. After Yin Bukui entered the picture, he started to feel anxious. Bury Moon knew that he wasn¡¯t their match but he couldn¡¯t escape because Ye Weiming¡¯s movement technique was at a higher level. He had no choice but to open his mouth again and said, ¡°Fellows, killing is easy but you might unconsciously bring misfortune to others. Let¡¯s not get too overboard. If I die here, I will fail my mission. My efforts for the past two days will be wasted. Do you want to become mortal enemies with me?¡± Ye Weiming didn¡¯t care about him at all. ¡°Oh, you know this? So what were you thinking when you chased us just now?¡± Ye Weiming and Yin Bukui didn¡¯t stop attacking when he was speaking. Instead, their attacks got more violent. One minute later, Bury Moon¡¯s health was almost gone. In the end, Ye Weiming used the ¡®Beauty Of A Sick Lady¡¯ to turn him into a flash of white light. The items he dropped were a long sword, a jade pendant, and¡­ a box of steamed bun? Ye Weiming quickly picked up the items and put them into his bag. Then he sent Yin Bukui the links of the items. He didn¡¯t do this because he wanted to keep all the items for himself. It should be known that the items a player dropped were different from the items dropped by a boss. There was no such thing as touching the corpse and waiting for the system to distribute the items for you. You have to pick up the items to see their attributes. Green Bamboo Sword (Gold): Created using the poison mystic techniques of the Miao boundary. Attack +150, Movement +5, Poison attribute damage +5. Nephrite Jade Pendant (blue): A pendant made from nephrite jade. It¡¯s able to nourish your Qi and health. Health limit +100, Internal energy limit +50. Meat Vegetable Bun: The famous meat vegetable bun from Yangzhou city. It¡¯s delicious. Hunger -20. ¡°F**k, this is absurd! Even disciples from righteous clans like me have to eat plain steamed buns. Yet, this immoral fellow is eating meat buns!?¡± This was what Yin Bukui cared about when he saw the attributes of the three items? Yin Bukui didn¡¯t mention anything about the distribution of the items but Ye Weiming couldn¡¯t act blur. He went directly to the topic at hand and said, ¡°The price of this Green Bamboo Sword is around 50 Gold. The Nephrite Jade Pendant is a blue item but such accessories are rare in the game so it should cost around 20 Gold. Let¡¯s distribute the items based on this price. The person who takes the sword will compensate the other party with money. Which one do you want?¡± When he heard Ye Weiming¡¯s suggestion, Yin Bukui replied firmly, ¡°I want the pendant.¡± It was the expected answer. Ye Weiming immediately sent Yin Bukui a trading request. He placed the pendant and 15 Gold on the trading platform. Based on his estimation, the total value of these two items was 70 Gold. Everyone would get 35 Gold worth of items. If Ye Weiming took the Green Bamboo Sword, he would naturally have to give the other party 15 Gold. But when Yin Bukui saw the content of the transaction, he canceled the deal directly. ¡°This is just the beginning of the game. I think that 15 Gold must be the entire wealth for a martial arts master like you, right? I don¡¯t want your gold. I just want the meat buns as well as a promise that when I meet any troubles during my mission in the future, you will help me once.¡± Ye Weiming shook his head. ¡°We¡¯re friends. If you need me, you just have to call me. I will not refuse you. Financial matters should be settled clearly between friends. You have to take the money.¡± Ye Weiming persisted so Yin Bukui had to keep the pendant and the money. Of course, he was more concerned about the meat buns. After everything was settled, he took out one meat bun without hesitation and ate it happily. He said in a muffled voice while eating, ¡°After I entered the game, I can¡¯t bear to spend any money so I haven¡¯t eaten meat for days. I finally ate a meat bun today. What a tough life!¡± ¡°Brother Ye, would you like one?¡± Ye Weiming looked at Yin Bukui as he enjoyed his meat bun. A gentle smile appeared on his face. He said sincerely, ¡°Thank you.¡± ¡°Why are you thanking me?¡± Ye Weiming smiled and didn¡¯t reply to him. He just raised his finger and pointed at the spot where Jiao Wolf was killed. Then he said, ¡°You know what I¡¯m referring to. As a constable, there are some things that I can¡¯t do.¡± ¡°You¡¯re so hypocritical!¡± Yin Bukui laughed as he scolded Ye Weiming. After that, he bid farewell to Ye Weiming with cupped fists and rode on the boat back to Mount Wudang to complete his mission. As for Ye Weiming, he turned his body and looked at the mountain full of corpses. Excitement shot out of his eyes. It was another harvest season! Chapter 40 Corpses filled up the lands of Mount Wangpan. Whether it was the quantity or quality, these corpses were far better than the ones at the Dragon Gate Escort. This was because all the NPCs that died in this battle were from the pugilistic world. All of them knew kung fu. Even the lowest leveled disciples from the three clans were able to provide Ye Weiming with around 20 points of proficiency. Five of them were boss corpses. Each of them gave Ye Weiming more than 2000 points of proficiency. They were the leader of the Seasand Clan, Yuan Guangpo, the leader of the Giant Whale Clan, Mai Jing, the leader of the Divine Fist Sect, Guo Sanquan, and the two disciples from the Kunlun Sect, Gao Zecheng and Jiang Tao. The ¡®The Study of Internal Energy¡¯ contributed by Yuan Guangpo was used in the expiration exercise. He also received ¡®The Study of Long Weapons¡¯ contributed by Mai Jing, There were not many players who used long weapons. Ye Weiming had no intention of learning a skill related to this kind of weapon so he used it directly, and learning through analogy, he managed to use it on Eight Step Chasing Toad. Ye Weiming¡¯s lightness kung fu, which was already at a high level, increased by another level. Guo Sanquan provided ¡®The Study of Fist Skills¡¯. Similarly, Ye Weiming had no intention of learning fist skills so he learned through analogy but the results weren¡¯t satisfactory this time. The book was being used on Sword of the Yue Maiden. Although Ye Weiming had been using ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯ as his offensive skill all these while, he knew that after the completion of this mission, he would receive an intermediate sword skill scripture. At that time, the Sword of the Yue Maiden would have to be discarded. Adding proficiency to the Sword of the Yue Maiden was a waste. With this thought in mind, he didn¡¯t use the two ¡®The Study of Sword Skills ¡® he got from the two Kunlun disciples. Instead, he would use them on the new sword skill he received after returning to Divine Constable Bureau. After half a day of collecting corpses, burying corpses, and learning through analogy, Ye Weiming attributes became¡­ Ye Weiming Level: 14 ¡­ Health: 760/760 Internal energy: 550/550 Physique: 73 Arm strength:73 Movement: 178 Reaction: 73 Intelligence: 25 Enlightenment: 29 Expiration exercise (lackluster) level: 7 Proficiency: 3608/6400 ¡­ Health +350, Internal energy +350 Physique +35, Arm strength, +35, Movement +35, Reaction +35 ¡­ Sword of the Yue Maiden (unpopular) ¡­ Level: 8 Proficiency:1036/12800 Power +80%, Accuracy +80% ¡­ Eight Step Chasing Toad (Beginner) Level: 5 ¡­ Proficiency: 886/4000 Movement +100 ¡­ How Is Mount Tai (Ultimate) ¡­ Level: 1 Proficiency: 512/1000 Damage +10%, Critical Hit +10%, Critical Damage +10% During a battle, you can activate the sutra so that it runs automatically. You will be able to calculate your opponent¡¯s move and subsequently break their moves! ¡­ Equipment Flying Fish Suit: The attire of the Divine Constable Bureau. Physical defense +30, Internal energy defense +30, Health limit +100 ¡­ Twined Palm Hat: The attire of the Divine Constable Bureau. Physical defense +10, Internal energy defense +10, Health limit +50 ¡­ Long Official Boots: The attire of the Divine Constable Bureau. Defense +5, Movement +5. ¡­ Green Bamboo Sword: Created using the poison mystic techniques of the Miao boundary. Attack +150, Movement +5, Poison attribute damage +5. ¡­ To prevent any unexpected troubles from happening, Ye Weiming buried all the corpses, including Chen Ming¡¯s corpse that he had been carrying all these while, and hurried back to the mainland immediately. Back on the mainland, he found a horse carriage and returned to Bian Liang City. He looked for You Jin and handed over his mission. He finally heaved a sigh of relief when he received the notification that his mission was a success. Ding! You have found the truth of the massacre of the Dragon Gate Escort and successfully capture one of the culprits, Bury Moon, a disciple of the Flying Eagle Cult. You¡¯ve completed the mission ¡®Dragon Gate Escort¡¯ with flying colors. Rewards received: EXP 7000, Cultivation 700, 20 Gold, sword skills scripture ¡®Dragon-Phoenix Sword¡¯. He completed more than what was asked of him again? But what did they mean by capturing Bury Moon? Ye Weiming immediately carried forward the traditional virtue of asking shamelessly what you don¡¯t know and got the answer from You Jin. ¡°Due to the special traits of a player, it¡¯s almost impossible to capture a player alive. To make things easier for the Divine Constable Bureau, you just need to kill any players that were involved with the case and they will be revived in the jail of the Divine Constable Bureau. Based on the severity of their crime, they would be locked up for some time ranging from an hour to 24 hours. They might even be exiled.¡± ¡°At the same time, if the players from our Divine Constable Bureau were attacked by other players during their mission, they could kill the attacker and these players would revive in our jail. They will be locked up for one to three hours for interfering with the agent.¡± This rule is good! Ye Weiming was very excited. Just as he was about to look at the scripture call ¡®Dragon-Phoenix Sword¡¯ to see how amazing an intermediate sword skill was, he heard You Jin speaking suddenly, ¡°Weiming, the weapon that you¡¯re currently using, is it the Green Bamboo Sword from the Miao boundary?¡± Weiming? Are we that close? Ye Weiming complained about You Jin being overly familiar with him internally but on the surface, he still pretended to be a good student and replied obediently, ¡°Commander You, you¡¯re right. The Dragon Spring Sword was shattered in my battle with Xie Xun. Fortunately, I was able to find this Green Bamboo Sword. If not, I won¡¯t have a sword to use. Is there something wrong with this sword?¡± ¡°Of course!¡± You Jin continued in his extremely unpleasant voice, ¡°Firstly, this sword doesn¡¯t give any increase to your internal energy. This is an attribute that most blue or higher items have. Of course, its sharpness can cover up this weakness. The real problem with this sword is its poison attribute!¡± There¡¯s something wrong with the poison attribute? Will I hurt myself with it? Ye Weiming was confused. You Jin continued his explanation, ¡°In the pugilistic world, there¡¯s a taboo with using poisonous weapons. If you¡¯re a disciple from the Tang Clan or an evil clan, it doesn¡¯t matter. But, if you¡¯re a disciple of a righteous clan or a neutral clan like us, you will lose chivalrous points when you use poisonous weapons. The more you use them, the more chivalrous points are deducted.¡± Ye Weiming was shocked. ¡°We have this rule?¡± Chivalrous points were a special kind of attribute in ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯. It affected a player greatly. For instance, a player like Yin Bukui who belonged to a righteous clan would be kicked out of his sect if his chivalrous points fell below a certain value. Even in a neutral clan like the Divine Constable Bureau, it would also affect the way NPCs treated you. When he heard that the Green Bamboo Sword had such negative effects, Ye Weiming started getting serious. He asked quickly, ¡°Is the deduction amount very big?¡± You Jin looked at Ye Weiming with an interested gaze. He replied calmly, ¡°If you use it to kill monsters to get EXP or if your target is a normal monster that brings harm to the pugilistic world, based on your current ability, your chivalrous points will probably remain the same.¡± A player would get a certain amount of chivalrous points when he completed a mission or killed a monster. The accumulation of chivalrous points would be slower when killing monsters. With Ye Weiming¡¯s current level, if he killed monsters for an entire day, he might only get 2 to 3 chivalrous points. According to what You Jin said, if he used the Green Bamboo Sword for a day, his chivalrous points would drop by 2 to 3 points! Ye Weiming frowned slightly. Suddenly, he had a bold thought. This might be a chance for him to clear some troubles. ¡°Thank you for your reminder. I will take note of it.¡± He expressed his sincere gratitude to You Jin and took out the intermediate sword skill to take a look. When he saw the attribute, whatever good feelings he finally managed to have towards this poker face disappeared instantly. ¡°Commander You, can you change the scripture?¡± Chapter 41 Dragon-Phoenix Sword (intermediate): An extremely recondite sword skill of the pugilistic world. The moves seemed fierce and vicious but it is actually a skill based on defense and protection. Even if you¡¯re facing an opponent that is much more powerful than you, you will be able to protect yourself from any danger. Cultivation requirements: Intelligence 25, Enlightenment 25, Physique 70, Arm strength 60. There didn¡¯t seem to be any problems with this sword skill on the surface. But, based on Ye Weiming¡¯s many years of gaming experience, he knew that all techniques had their flaws. Most of the time, when the description emphasized solely on a single advantage, it was to hide the flaws in the other areas. The description of this ¡®Dragon-Phoenix Sword¡¯ kept praising its self-defense ability as if you would become impenetrable once you practiced it. Ye Weiming believed that it did have a strong self-defense ability but its offensive ability must be negligible. If it didn¡¯t have such an obvious flaw, the system wouldn¡¯t have recognized it as an intermediate sword skill. If there was no such flaw, it should at least be an advanced sword skill! Ye Weiming always believed that the strongest would win the battle. Thus, he wasn¡¯t interested in this kind of self-defense sword skill. The reply You Jin gave to Ye Weiming¡¯s reasonable appeal was, ¡°Once the rewards for a mission have been given out, you can¡¯t change it for whatever reasons.¡± As if I will believe you, you sneaky fellow who always hides half the truth! You¡¯re so evil! Ye Weiming patted his hands and learned the ¡®Dragon-Phoenix Sword¡¯. Then he rushed out of the Divine Constable Bureau without bidding a single farewell. He only left a handsome back view of his head for You Jin. A real man will never turn back to look at a pervert! After leaving the Divine Constable Bureau, Ye Weiming directly went to the Military Weapon Armoury that wasn¡¯t far away. The Military Weapon Armoury belonged to the imperial court directly. It was in charge of crafting weapons for the country¡¯s army. There were many skilled craftsmen inside. The assistant officer, Tie Zhi, was the best craftsman among them. He was the man Ye Weiming wanted to find. When he came to the entrance of the Military Weapon Armoury, Ye Weiming showed the NPC his token of authority. The NPC guarding the door went in to inform his superiors of his arrival. Ye Weiming was then invited into a room so that he could wait there. After some time, a man wearing the uniform of the Emei Sect walked into the room. When he saw Ye Weiming, he immediately smiled and went forward. ¡°Are you Ye Weiming from the Divine Constable Bureau?¡± Ye Weiming nodded and looked at the fellow in front of him who was dressed weirdly. He frowned and asked, ¡°Who are you?¡± ¡°Swordsman Wind Lightning from the Emei Sect.¡± The moment Ye Weiming heard his name, he knew that this was a player. However, were there male disciples in the Emei Sect? Ye Weiming expressed that he had never seen any male disciples there before. Swordsman Wind Lightning seemed to notice the astonishment on Ye Weiming¡¯s face. He explained helplessly, ¡°Many people think that the Emei Sect only takes in female disciples but they have male disciples too. However, the founder of the Emei Sect is a female so the kung fu she passed down is more suitable for females to master. Under normal circumstances, male players won¡¯t enter the Emei Sect. The sect isn¡¯t a good choice for them.¡± ¡°Then you¡­¡± ¡°I came for the miscellaneous skills.¡± Swordsman Wind Lightning smiled lightly and continued, ¡°In the Emei Sect, the male disciples are in charge of all the miscellaneous works. Thus, many teachers can teach us. Your clan doesn¡¯t have homework? March: ¡­ Youyou: ¡­ Yin Bukui: ¡­ Xuan Small Pen¡­ Bury Moon: I XXX, You XXX¡­ Ye Weiming placed Bury Moon on his blacklist again when he cursed at him. Then, he summarized all the information his friends gave. If you want to increase your Intelligence, you need to study. You want to increase your Intelligence? I¡¯m sorry, I want to increase my Intelligence too! Ye Weiming arrived at the private school of Bian Liang City. He realized that all the books here had a price tagged to them. Book of Family Names: 100 Gold! Standards for Being a Good Student: 300 Gold! Three-Character Classic: 300 Gold! Li Went Rhyme: 400 Gold! ¡­ ¡­ Thousand-Character Classic: 1000 Gold! The Great Learning: 2000 Gold! The Doctrine of the Mean: 3000 Gold! The Analects of Confucius: 4000 Gold! Mencius: 5000 Gold! The classic of Poetry¡­ ¡­ When he saw the price of these classics, Ye Weiming looked at the pitiful 20 Gold he had in his bag. He felt that his mood was turning for the worst. The Book of Family Names was 100 Gold and the Thousand-Character Classic was 1000 Gold. Did this mean that their books here were priced using the number of words? That means that each word was 1 Gold! Who said that the poor study while the rich learn martial arts? Who? Come forward! I promise that I won¡¯t beat you to death! Chapter 42 Ye Weiming was still 1 point of Enlightenment, 5 points of Intelligence, and 3 levels of expiration exercise away from the basic requirement of learning ¡®Hunyuan Scripture¡¯. He hadn¡¯t found a good way to increase his Intelligence yet. As for the expiration exercise, he just needed to practice it more, kill more monsters, collect more corpses, and bury more people. As for the Enlightenment, he was only 1 point away. Based on the price list in the private school, after reading the Book of Family Names, he would be able to increase Enlightenment by 1 point. This would allow him to reach the requirement to practice ¡®Hunyuan Scripture¡¯. Compared to the classics that required thousands of Gold, 100 Gold was slightly more acceptable to him. However, it being slightly more acceptable didn¡¯t mean that he could learn it immediately. Before that, he needed to save money while increasing the level of his expiration exercise! Now that he had a goal, Ye Weiming started to show an unprecedented enthusiasm towards leveling. For a certain amount of time, he started furiously accepting all kinds of warrant missions. He would calculate his route before he started on his journey while accepting a few more warrant missions on the way. Then he would complete them together. ¡­ ¡°Pfft!¡± Ye Weiming pulled the bloodstained Green Bamboo Sword out of the chest of a level 20 boss, Liu Xueqiao. He shook his wrist and the fresh blood on the blade splattered onto the ground. Ding! You have killed the notorious bandit who always snatched ladies, Live Monkey Liu Xueqiao. Rewards received: 2000 EXP, 200 Cultivation, 50 Silver. By the time the notification sound from the system reached his ears, Ye Weiming had already started feeling up the corpses. Just like what he expected, the boss called Liu Xueqiao didn¡¯t contribute any martial arts scriptures to his repertoire. However, he did drop a few blue items. Although none of them were comparable to the Divine Constable Bureau uniform he was wearing, they were still worth some money in the market. When he reached Luoyang, he would go to Jiao Wolf¡¯s Blue Fatty Items Shop and sell the items. That immoral businessman was irritating but his shop was convenient to use. More than ten days ago, Ye Weiming received a whole series of annihilating bandits missions from Zhan Zhao, who finally came back. His enemies could be found from the capital city to Luoyang. You could draw a straight line through them. Using this straight line as his route, he killed bandits all the way from the capital city to Luoyang. He had annihilated three mountain fortresses and slaughtered 12 criminals. It had been a while since the game started, so naturally he couldn¡¯t get all the first kill. Fortunately, these wanted criminals would refresh after they were killed so he didn¡¯t have to worry about not completing his mission. Among the three mountain fortresses that he annihilated, two of them had already been conquered before. Thus, the items the bosses dropped decreased in quality and quantity greatly but luckily, the rewards for the mission didn¡¯t decrease. After all the fighting, Ye Weiming¡¯s ability had increased. Now, his level and attributes had changed to¡­ Ye Weiming Level: 18 ¡­ Health: 970/970 Internal energy: 760/760 Physique: 81 Arm strength: 81 Movement: 206 Reaction: 81 Intelligence: 25 Enlightenment: 29 Expiration exercise (lackluster) level: 8 Proficiency: 11208/12800 ¡­ Health +400, Internal energy +400 Physique +40, Arm strength +40, Movement +40, Reaction +40 ¡­ Sword of the Yue Maiden (unpopular) ¡­ Level: 8 Proficiency: 8636/12800 Power +80%, Accuracy +80% ¡­ Dragon-Phoenix Sword (intermediate) ¡­ Level: 4 Proficiency: 3578/4000 Defense +80%, Accuracy +80%, Dodge +40% Special effects: Force removal (through the contact of weapons, you can remove the strength of your opponent¡¯s attack and remain undefeatable) ¡­ Eight Step Chasing Toad (Beginner) ¡­ Level: 6 Proficiency: 1314/8000 Movement +120 ¡­ How Is Mount Tai (Ultimate) ¡­ Level: 2 Proficiency: 1211/2000 Attack damage +20%, Critical Hit +20%, Critical Damage +20% During a battle, you can activate the sutra so that it runs automatically. You will be able to calculate your opponent¡¯s move and break their moves! ¡­ Equipment (Not listing out everything) ¡­ Money: 74 Gold, 60 Silver, 27 Bronze ¡­ Whenever Ye Weiming saw the intermediate sword skill ¡®Dragon-Phoenix Sword¡¯ that Commander You gave him as his mission reward, he felt like complaining furiously. It was a sword skill but look at what additional attributes it had? Defense, Accuracy, Dodge, Force removal¡­ It didn¡¯t add any effects to his attack at all. But if you just look at the defensive ability of this sword skill, he had nothing to complain about. Based on Ye Weiming¡¯s current attributes, he felt that he would be able to defend himself with this sword skill even if he met a level 30 boss. As for its offensive ability¡­ this wasn¡¯t about whether its offensive power was strong or weak. When he used this sword skill, there was no such thing as offensive power at all! His intermediate sword skill wasn¡¯t powerful enough for him, so for this period Ye Weiming still used his lackluster sword skill ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯ when he was killing monsters. This allowed the proficiency of ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯ to shoot up furiously. He was getting closer and closer to the level 9 requirements. He wondered when would he be able to get an advanced sword skill that wouldn¡¯t cheat his feelings? It didn¡¯t even have to be an advanced sword skill. Even if it was just an intermediate sword skill or a beginner sword skill, he would still accept it! He took out the grass mat and wrapped Liu Xueqiao¡¯s corpses up. He received ¡®The Study of Lightness Kung Fu¡¯ ¡Á1. He used the book, and the proficiency of his ¡®Eight Step Chasing Toad¡¯ increased by 1200 points. At this moment, it was already dusk. Ye Weiming confirmed the direction and immediately executed his ¡®Eight Step Chasing Toad¡¯. He rushed towards the direction of Luoyang City. He had completed all the missions he had accepted earlier so there was a huge pile of items on his back. If he threw them all into Jiao Wolf¡¯s shop, he would be able to gather the 100 Gold needed for the Book of Family Names. Along his journey, the sky turned dark. Ye Weiming suddenly felt very hungry. That was when he realized that his hunger had reached the 70% alarm mark. He wanted to eat some steamed buns to fill up his stomach, but he realized that all the steamed buns he bought when he left Bian Liang City had been eaten by him during lunch. With his current speed, would he be able to reach Luoyang City before he died of hunger? This was a good question! Ye Weiming took out his map and did some simple calculations. He realized that this was indeed a concerning problem. If he didn¡¯t solve his hunger issue quickly, there was a 50% chance that he would die of hunger before he reached Luoyang City. Miscalculation! ¡°Howl¡­¡± Just as Ye Weiming was feeling frustrated, the wolf¡¯s howl not far away caused his eyes to light up. He flipped through his bag and changed his weapon into a blue fine steel sword. Then he charged towards the direction where the howl came from. Why did he need to change his sword? Remember that the Green Bamboo Sword was poisonous. The prey that it killed would be poisoned, meaning that their meat would become inedible. Night wolves were normally around level 17. Ye Weiming had no trouble killing it with his current ability. Ten minutes later, Ye Weiming had already built a campfire and was calmly barbecuing wolf meat. Another 20 minutes passed¡­ Half-raw half-charred barbecued wolf meat: Quality: Failed. Eating it will decrease 50 points of hunger. You will drop 1 point of health every minute for the next hour. This meat was still poisonous! Ye Weiming used his sword to cut off the charred part of the meat. The attributes of the meat changed again¡­ Half-cooked meat: Quality: 0. Eating it will decrease 20 points of hunger. Although more than half of the meat was gone, he wouldn¡¯t need to worry about getting food poisoning. Ye Weiming stared at his ugly piece of work in his hand. Just as he was about to start eating, he suddenly noticed a young boy with ragged clothes who appeared from nowhere. He was looking at the barbecued meat in his hand while swallowing his saliva. Why was there a little boy in the middle of nowhere? The only thing he knew was that this child was an NPC. There was no such child at this age among the migrants. He waved at the young boy. Ye Weiming smiled and asked, ¡°Where are your parents?¡± ¡°Mom is gone. Ah Huang is gone too. I¡¯m looking for them,¡± the young boy continued staring intently at the barbecued wolf meat in Ye Weiming¡¯s hand as he replied. Ye Weiming smiled. ¡°Do you want to eat it?¡± The young boy nodded. ¡°Go ahead.¡± The young boy took the barbecued wolf meat and started devouring it. This was a piece of meat that Ye Weiming had a hard time convincing himself to eat. However, the young boy was eating it deliciously. Looking at how happy the young boy was enjoying the food, Ye Weiming felt a sudden sense of achievement. He opened his mouth and asked unconsciously, ¡°Is it delicious?¡± ¡°No,¡± the young boy replied in a muffled voice and continued eating. Ye Weiming: ¡­ This child was really honest. However, he couldn¡¯t blame him. After all, even he didn¡¯t have the face to say that this meat he barbecued was up to standard either. But for his ego, Ye Weiming still tried to explain himself shamelessly, ¡°We are in the wilderness so there¡¯s no seasoning¡­¡± But before Ye Weiming could finish his sentence, the young boy interrupted him. He had already finished the barbecued wolf meat. ¡°It¡¯s not about the seasoning. You didn¡¯t get the duration and degree of heating right. When you¡¯re barbecuing meat, you mustn¡¯t put the meat directly over the burning fire. You must wait for the coal to turn red. Then¡­¡± Ding! You received advice from a master chef. Your cooking skill increased by 1000EXP. Your cooking skill level has risen to level 4. This young boy was a master chef? ¡°Young man, how do I address you?¡± Chapter 43 ¡°Young man, how do I address you?¡± The young boy shook his head. ¡°I¡¯m not called young man.¡± Ye Weiming continued probing, ¡°What is your name?¡± ¡°Son of a bitch.¡± As expected, there would only be bears in the wilderness. How could there be a child? Even if there was, it would be a child that was as naughty as a bear! An ungrateful naughty child that only knew how to eat meat and curse people! Ye Weiming was furious. ¡°Naughty child, why are you scolding me?¡± The young boy felt wronged. ¡°I¡¯m not called naughty child. My name is son of a bitch. You were the one who asked me for my name. I¡¯m not scolding you.¡± Ye Weiming¡¯s anger subsided. He gave the young boy a thumbs up and said, ¡°Your name has personality. However, a refined person like me can¡¯t say those words. Why don¡¯t we simplify it? I will call you Ah Son and you will call me big brother. How about that?¡± The boy¡¯s name was this but Ye Weiming was a refined man. He couldn¡¯t bear to say those four words out. In his subconscious, he felt that if he said these four words, he would get filtered out. ¡°Okay.¡± Ah Son¡¯s reply was simple and straightforward. ¡°Ah Son.¡± After confirming his name, Ye Weiming immediately took out the many pieces of wolf meat he had collected some time ago and laid a piece of paper on the floor. Then he dumped all the wolf meat on the paper and suggested, ¡°From what you said, the food you can barbecue must be more delicious than mine. How about this? I will provide the ingredients and you will provide your skills. We will share the food equally.¡± ¡°There¡¯s no need to share the food equally. I can¡¯t eat much.¡± As he spoke, Ah Son took a dried branch and pierced it into a piece of wolf meat. ¡°If you want to cook all this meat, we will need more wood. I need to collect some dry firewood back first.¡± ¡°I¡¯ll do it.¡± Ye Weiming smiled and replied, ¡°I said just now that I will provide the ingredients.¡± Collecting dry firewood was a little troublesome. It wasn¡¯t just about chopping branches off trees. Those were wet wood. You needed some patience to look for dry firewood. However, it was hard to find a chef. For the sake of his food, Ye Weiming took close to an hour to collect a huge pile of dry firewood. At first, he wanted to collect even more but as the enticing fragrance of the meat floated over, he couldn¡¯t resist the protest from his stomach anymore. He ran over obediently to the campfire. At this moment, the wolf meat had already been barbecued till crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. It was golden brown. The young boy passed half of the portion of meat to Ye Weiming just like how they agreed and smiled. ¡°The meat is done. You can eat it now.¡± Ye Weiming took the meat and looked at it. He almost dropped it on the ground. Barbecued wolf meat: Quality: 65. Eating it will decrease 50 points of hunger. Arm strength will increase by 97 points for the next one hour. Was this food? No! It was a buff! It was a buff that could double his combat ability in an instant! The tempting fragrance of barbecued meat wafted into his nose. It stimulated his sense of smell. He almost couldn¡¯t stop his saliva from dripping down the corners of his lips. If it wasn¡¯t for the fact that he didn¡¯t have anything else to eat, Ye Weiming really wanted to keep this portion of wolf meat and use it before he engaged in a fight to increase his combat ability. However, now, he was constantly feeling the protest from his stomach. Ye Weiming couldn¡¯t resist it anymore and lift the meat to his mouth. He took a bite of it. The moment he took a bite of the barbecued meat, Ye Weiming immediately felt the fats from the meat melting in his mouth. The strong fragrance triggered his taste buds. As a poor constable who had never tasted any meat ever since he entered the game, he got so excited that he almost swore. This was so good! It was too delicious! How fragrant! There was no seasoning added but Ah Son was able to release the natural fragrance of the meat in its entirety. He almost wanted to swallow his tongue when he was eating the meat. Ah Son was very hardworking. He kept his promise and barbecued the rest of the wolf meat. Then he passed all of them to Ye Weiming. ¡°I¡¯m not a player. I don¡¯t have a system bag that can keep the food fresh. If I take them with me, they will spoil within a day. I¡¯m sleepy. I will sleep and rest first.¡± Ye Weiming felt like crying. What a good child! ¡°Ah Son, what plans do you have after this?¡± ¡°Zzz¡­¡± Ah Son meant what he said. He had already fallen asleep¡­ Based on the system introduction he saw before entering the game, Ye Weiming knew that the higher the NPC¡¯s level, the higher his intelligence. The young boy in front of him knew the difference between an NPC and a player. He even knew that players had bags that could keep food fresh forever. In that case, his intelligence must be close to a high-level NPC, right? His cooking skills managed to increase by a level just because this young boy enlightened him with a few sentences. Thus, it wasn¡¯t wrong to say that he was a high-level NPC. But¡­ What high-level NPC had such an awful name? In certain aspects, the production of this game was really casual¡­ Ye Weiming hesitated for a moment but he didn¡¯t eat the second piece of meat. His hunger level was enough for him to survive till Luoyang. Limited resources should be used where they were needed the most. It was a silent night. The next day, bright and early in the morning, the young boy woke up from his sleep. He realized that Ye Weiming was still sitting at the side and throwing a dry wood fire into the campfire casually out of boredom. Ah Son¡¯s eyes widened. ¡°You didn¡¯t leave for the entire night?¡± He didn¡¯t ask Ye Weiming why he didn¡¯t sleep. When the players entered the game, they were in semi-dormant mode. They didn¡¯t need to sleep in the game. There wouldn¡¯t be any problem even if they didn¡¯t sleep for 24 hours. ¡°You¡¯re awake.¡± Ye Weiming smiled. ¡°We are in the wilderness. I was afraid that the wild beasts in the area might harm you while you¡¯re sleeping. Also, you won¡¯t get a cold if there¡¯s a fire beside you, right?¡± Ah Son didn¡¯t thank Ye Weiming. However, from his eyes, Ye Weiming could see that his liking for him had increased. The young boy remained silent for two seconds. Then he suddenly opened his mouth and said, ¡°Actually, you don¡¯t have to protect me. Those wild beasts won¡¯t attack me. Even if I was killed by a player, I will get refreshed. I will be able to keep all my memories except for who killed me.¡± This child was extremely smart. He seemed to understand the settings of the game more than a player like Ye Weiming. Ah Son patted the dust on his body and stood up. ¡°Big brother, I need to continue looking for my mother and Ah Huang. Goodbye.¡± ¡°Wait for a moment.¡± Ye Weiming stopped Ah Son. He took out the fire starter he used to light up the campfire. ¡°Take this fire starter. With this, you won¡¯t have to go hungry again since you have such good cooking skills.¡± Ah Son grabbed the fire starter from his hands. He didn¡¯t thank Ye Weiming again but he passed him a book. ¡®Recipe for Beggar¡¯s Chicken¡¯: Records the recipe for ¡®Beggar¡¯s Chicken¡¯. Ye Weiming clapped his hands and the book turned into a flash of white light. Ding! Congratulations, you have learned how to make Beggar¡¯s Chicken. ¡°Big brother, it¡¯s a waste if you use skill books directly like that. If you¡¯re patient enough to read through the book word by word, you will be able to get additional cooking skills proficiency as well.¡± ¡°Really?¡± Ye Weiming was slightly surprised. He continued, ¡°I don¡¯t know who your mother and Ah Huang are but I will help you by keeping my eyes open.¡± Ah Son looked at Ye Weiming excitedly. He nodded his head furiously before running away. Ding! You received a hidden mission ¡®Finding Mom¡¯. Finding Mom Mission level: Unknown Help Ah Son to find his mother. Mission rewards: Unknown ¡­ Ding! You received a hidden mission ¡®Finding Ah Huang¡¯. Mission level: Unknown Help Ah Son to find Ah Huang. Mission rewards: Unknown ¡­ Chapter 44 Ah Son gave me two hidden missions at once. Furthermore, both missions had unknown levels and rewards. This Ah Son was really incredible! But, if you need me to help you, can¡¯t you be a bit more proactive? As long as you say it, I will help you. We are close enough for that. Even if we¡¯re not, just based on these two words ¡®hidden mission¡¯, many players would snatch the chance to help you. Ye Weiming didn¡¯t know that in ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯, every high-level NPC had their own unique storyline and personality. Ah Son¡¯s special trait was that he would never beg someone even if he was beaten to death! The players had to be proactive to be given his missions. If you didn¡¯t, you wouldn¡¯t be able to get them even if his affinity for you reached to the skies. Ye Weiming looked at Ah Son as he disappeared within a few breaths. Then he rubbed his face and woke himself up a little. He moved his body and once again started on his journey towards Luoyang City. It was a silent journey. He came to the Blue Fatty Items Shop in Luoyang City. The unscrupulous boss of the shop was irritating but the shop did provide much convenience to the players. The unscrupulous businessman wasn¡¯t lying when he said that the selling price of the items in his shop was extremely reasonable. Although there was still a difference between the purchasing price and the retail price of the product, the players were able to save the time needed to set up a stall and sell their items. Ye Weiming directly sold away all the useless items he received during his missions. Finally, his total wealth became 103 Gold, 56 Silver, and 20 Bronze. He managed to save enough money for the Book of Family Names. Ye Weiming heaved a sigh of relief. Now, all he lacked was 5 points of Intelligence and the tenth level of his expiration exercise. He silently calculated the progress of his mission and analyzed how much time he needed to increase his level for his expiration exercise. Ye Weiming lifted his feet and walked towards the resting station. Before he could walk far, he got attracted by someone¡¯s shouts. ¡°Ladies and gentlemen, I, Dog Hades, am opening my stall today again! High-grade fresh steamed meat buns are going for 50 Silver per bowl. It¡¯s not or never!¡± Ye Weiming looked towards the direction where the voice was coming from. It was a temporary stall situated at a corner of the street. There were two big pots set up against the wall. The water in one of the pots was already boiling. Steam congregated in the air above the pot and lingered there for a long time. The fire under the other pot was slightly smaller. There wasn¡¯t much steam but the fragrance of meat wafted over from the pot. It was really tempting. Many customers had already sat down on the seats in front of the stall and enjoyed the huge bowls of fatty and delicious dog meat. You could tell from their satisfied expressions that this bowl of meat was definitely more fragrant than the doner kebab from New York. Due to the strong stimulation of the meat fragrance, Ye Weiming unconsciously walked towards the stall and sat on an empty seat under the enthusiastic welcome of the boss. The civilians in Luoyang were experienced people so when Dog Hades saw Ye Weiming¡¯s constable uniform, he wasn¡¯t afraid at all. Instead, he opened his mouth excitedly and asked, ¡°Sir, would you like to have some meat I made this morning, or would you like to wait for the next batch of fresh meat?¡± ¡°Oh?¡± Ye Weiming asked curiously after hearing the boss¡¯s introduction, ¡°Is there a difference between these two?¡± Dog Hades¡¯ eyes turned wide as he explained enthusiastically, ¡°There is a vast difference. I specialize in cooking fresh dog meat! The dog meat that was cooked this morning tastes different compared to when it is freshly made. Hence, one bowl of the former only costs 20 Silver. On the other hand, fresh dog meat is not only tasty but it can help increase a player¡¯s attributes temporarily. Naturally, it is more expensive too. It cost 50 Silver per bowl.¡± Another dish that can increase my attribute? Ye Weiming¡¯s interest perked up. But at this moment, he saw Dog Hades raising his finger and pointing at a yellow dog tied to the corner of the wall. ¡°I will be killing that yellow dog in a while later. I will release its blood and scrape its fur. Then I will cook it immediately. This is the only way to lock the freshness of the meat and ensure that any flavour won¡¯t get lost. My rule is that I will kill the dog once there are ten reservations for its meat. Now, nine customers have already reserved its meat. Sir, will you like to have a bowl?¡± Ye Weiming followed Dog Hades¡¯s finger and glanced at the yellow dog tied to the wall. Then he retracted his gaze. Just as he was about to open his mouth, the notification from the system suddenly sounded beside his ear. Ding! Passive skill ¡®Post mortem¡¯ is activated. You notice that there¡¯s something different about the yellow dog tied to the wall. The sudden notification from the system caused Ye Weiming to turn his head instinctively. When his gaze landed on the yellow dog once again, he realized to his surprise that this yellow dog had a name. Ah Huang: The only Ah Huang in the world. This yellow dog was called Ah Huang, and it was the only Ah Huang in the world! If the system wasn¡¯t lying when it said that the dog was the only Ah Huang in the world, did this mean that that was the Ah Huang he was supposed to be looking for? Was that the dog for Ah Son¡¯s mission? After thinking about this possibility, Ye Weiming hurriedly shook his head and said to Dog Hades righteously, ¡°Dogs are so cute. How can you eat dogs!?¡± Dog Hades¡¯ face turned dark immediately when he heard what Ye Weiming said. ¡°Sir, I¡¯m just doing a small business. I bought this dog from a hunter this morning. If you want to snatch this dog from me, I will report to the Magistrate Court! I may be a small figure but I will ask the magistrate to give me an answer for this!¡± When he saw Dog Hades getting worked up, Ye Weiming felt helpless. However, he was still very interested in this hidden mission from Ah Son. He might not be able to get any martial arts scriptures from this young boy who didn¡¯t know any kung fu but his incredible cooking skill was enough to waver Ye Weiming¡¯s heart. Thus, Ye Weiming quickly surrendered to Dog Hades even though he was being unreasonable. He shrugged and asked, ¡°How much is this dog? I will buy it.¡± Dog Hades immediately smiled as he tried to fawn Ye Weiming. ¡°100 Gold. An honest price!¡± ¡°What!¡± Ye Weiming almost jumped up from his seat when he heard the price. ¡°That is such a skinny yellow dog. Even if you cooked it, you will only be able to make less than 20 bowls of dog meat, right? It will only earn you 10 Gold but you¡¯re selling it to me for 100 Gold. Are you trying to blackmail me?¡± Dog Hades hurriedly shook his head, expressing that he would never. At the same time, he continued maintaining the expression of an unscrupulous merchant and said, ¡°Sir, we don¡¯t calculate things this way. Today when I decided to open my shop, I only prepared one dog. If I sell it to you, I have to close my shop earlier than I intended. The customers that pre ordered their dog meat will not be able to enjoy it. This will ruin my reputation. That isn¡¯t something that can be weighed using money.¡± ¡°So¡­¡± The smile on Dog Hades¡¯ face got brighter. ¡°Compared to the 100 Gold, I prefer to kill the dog and continue doing my business.¡± What the f**k¡­ Ye Weiming glanced at the pitiful 100 Gold savings in his bag. A sense of sorrow immediately engulfed him. He started wailing. ¡°Ah Huang! How did you land in such a plight? Ah Huang!¡± Ye Weiming¡¯s scream shook the sky and the ground. It also astounded everyone at the stall. Dog Hades was so flabbergasted he looked stunned. He said quickly, ¡°Erm¡­ Sir we can discuss the price.¡± ¡°Ah Huang!¡± Ye Weiming had already bent down and hugged the yellow dog called Ah Huang in his arms. ¡°When I entered the Divine Constable Bureau, Head Supremacy Huang handed you over to me. You are the only one who went through thick and thin with me. You even accompanied me when I solved many mysterious cases¡­¡± When the customers heard that this ordinary-looking yellow dog had such a huge background, they put down their chopsticks and started discussing among themselves. Dog Hades wasn¡¯t the only one who was shocked. Dog Hades hurriedly said, ¡°Why don¡¯t I give you a discount? How about 50 Gold?¡± Ye Weiming: Ah Huang! You fought tigers and battled wolves along with me. Even Commander You from the Brocade-clad Guard said that you¡¯re a smart dog¡­¡± Dog Hades: ¡°10 Gold!¡± Ye Weiming: ¡°Ah Huang, the mountain bandits from the Lotus Clan and the West Lake pirates didn¡¯t manage to kill you but today, you will die in this Luoyang City which you once used your life to protect. You will be killed and eaten!¡± Dog Hades: ¡°5 Gold! This is the price I paid to buy it. I can¡¯t go any lower.¡± Ye Weiming: ¡°My God! Pray the lord!¡­¡± Dog Hades: ¡°I really can¡¯t go any lower. I have a feeling that if I go below this price, I will get struck by lightning!¡± Was this the system¡¯s bottom line? Ye Weiming stopped before he went too far. His sorrowful expression disappeared immediately and he regained his calmness. He immediately took out 5 Gold and placed them on the table. He said calmly, ¡°This is 5 Gold. Take it.¡± Dog Hades: ??? Ye Weiming didn¡¯t have the time to bother about Dog Hades¡¯ feelings. He got up and released the rope that tied Ah Huang to the wall. ¡°Woof! Woof!¡­¡± Ah Huang seemed very intelligent. After it was released, it barked at Ye Weiming a few times before turning around and running away. Was Ah Huang going to look for its master, Ah Son? A smile appeared at the corners of Ye Weiming¡¯s lips. Just as he was about to chase after Ah Huang, he realized that the dog came back. It bit his pants and pulled it. Then it ran off again. Is it asking me to follow it? Ye Weiming shook his head and lifted his legs to catch up with the dog. After some time, he reached an abandoned house beside the White Horse Temple. He saw Ah Huang crawling under a dusty bed. Then it came out again with an old and battered book between its teeth. It placed the book beside Ye Weiming¡¯s feet. Chapter 45 Zhoubi Suanjing: One of the ten computational canons. Enlightenment +1. It was a book that would increase his Enlightenment! Ye Weiming saved money so that he could study at the private school to get one more point of Enlightenment. This was a requirement he needed to fulfill to learn the Hunyuan Scripture. Today was a really good day. Not only did he manage to find the target of an important mission, Ah Huang, he also managed to save 100 Gold with its help! This was a good instance of the saying: Life is like a play. Everything depends on your acting! He did this because the Divine Constable Bureau had a strict rule that officials like them mustn¡¯t bully the civilians using violence or authority. If that wasn¡¯t the case, he wouldn¡¯t need to act in front of Dog Hades who raised the price on the spot. Ye Weiming felt excited as he opened the book instinctively. Ding! Do you want to use ¡®Zhoubi Suanjing¡¯? When the reminder from the system entered his ears, Ye Weiming suddenly remembered what Ah Son told him a while ago. ¡°Big brother, it¡¯s a waste if you use skill books directly like that. If you¡¯re patient enough to read through the book word by word, you will be able to get additional cooking skills proficiency as well.¡± Maybe he should try the method Ah Son recommended? He quickly selected ¡®No¡¯ and closed the book. Then he brought Ah Huang out of the abandoned house. Because of Ah Huang¡¯s matter, Ye Weiming¡¯s lunch was interrupted. Now, his stomach was starting to protest again. He needed to find some food. He couldn¡¯t bear to eat the wolf meat, which was able to increase his arm strength, that Ah Son made for him. Fortunately, in a large city like Luoyang, there was no problem with finding food if you had money on you. He walked for some distance and found a stall selling meat buns along the street. Steamed meat buns: Steamed buns made using fresh pork. Decrease hunger by 20%. Physique +1 for the first hour. This food was able to increase his attribute but it wasn¡¯t on the same level as Ah Son¡¯s cooking. The price of the steamed meat bun was 10 Bronze per bun. One set had ten buns and cost 1 Silver. It was very cheap. Ye Weiming bought two sets directly. He ate one and threw a bun casually to Ah Huang. After which, he noticed the auntie selling the steamed bun staring at him with an unfriendly gaze. Fine, he fed the lady¡¯s bun to a dog right in front of the lady¡¯s stall. It was a little mean of him. What would the other customers who wanted to buy the meat buns think? Ye Weiming gave an awkward smile and immediately ran off with Ah Huang. They came to a secluded corner of the street. Ye Weiming ate the steamed buns and continued feeding Ah Huang. At the same time, he took out the Zhoubi Suanjing again and started reading it carefully word by word. Ye Weiming was a little curious about this mathematics book that was written using literature. How would it be? Reality proved that textbooks weren¡¯t interesting to read. After Ye Weiming finished reading the first page and satisfied his curiosity, he lost interest in the rest of the content. But because of the hint Ah Son gave him, he maintained his patience and flipped to the second page. He wanted to give Ah Son¡¯s method a try. There wasn¡¯t much content in the book but Ye Weiming¡¯s reading speed was very slow. He took this as a way to pass time and slowly read each sentence of the entire book. By the time he finished reading, 40 minutes had passed. Ding! After studying Zhoubi Suanjing carefully, you have gained knowledge. You have gotten a new training skill ¡®calculation¡¯. Enlightenment +1! Following the unexpected notification from the system, the Zhoubi Suanjing in Ye Weiming¡¯s hand turned into a flash of white light and disappeared without a trace. Huh? There¡¯s an additional reward!? Didn¡¯t the system say that it would just increase his Enlightenment by one point? What was this additional training skill? After playing the game for some time, Ye Weiming already had a certain amount of understanding of this game. Thus, he had a faint idea of what a training skill was. It was different from internal energy, kung fu moves, and sutras. These could all be considered kung fu. It was different from survival skills that could bring direct monetary benefits too. Training skills were a special presence. These skills might seem useless during normal times but once they reached a certain level, they could help you to increase the impression certain NPCs had of you. It could also increase the attributes of certain kung fu. For instance, the most common Buddhism, Dharmic Dao, and linguistics were all considered training skills. But this was the first time Ye Weiming saw the calculation training skill. He wondered what its effects were. He opened the skills tab. Calculation The ability of deduction and mathematical calculation. Level: 1 Proficiency: 0/1000 All kung fu moves will have Attack +5%, Defense +5%, Accuracy +5% There are supporting effects for special techniques ¡­ This skill seemed not bad. However, what were the special techniques mentioned in the introduction? Ye Weiming guessed that these special techniques were probably skills like forming arrays or something to do with the five elements theory. However, he still kept some hope as he opened his skills column to look through all the skills he had. The introduction of his internal energy remained the same. His two sword skills remained the same too. So was his lightness kung fu. As for his sutra¡­ wait! How Is Mount Tai (Ultimate) The most powerful sutra of Mount Tai Sect. It allows you to gain exceptional mental arithmetic skill so you¡¯re able to predict your opponent¡¯s movement and break their stance in a single move! Level: 2 Proficiency: 1211/2000 Attack damage +20%, Critical Hit +20%, Critical Damage +20% During a battle, you can activate the sutra so that it runs automatically. You will be able to calculate your opponent¡¯s move and break their moves! (Due to the support from ¡®Calculation¡¯, the difficulty of the activation for this sutra will decrease by 5%.) Decrease in the difficulty level? How would it decrease? Would they give one less digit in the problems or would the number of questions he had to solve decreased by one? This was hard to say. Based on his past experiments, Ye Weiming realized that when he activated the active effects of Daizhong Way, there was no fixed difficulty or a fixed number of questions given. Facing Xie Xun and facing the West Lake pirates were two different concepts. This meant that even if he wanted to test what this 5% decrease was, he didn¡¯t have any grounds for comparison. But the additional attributes the calculation skill provided was still very good. Ye Weiming felt very satisfied. Now, he had achieved the 30 points of Enlightenment needed, he only lacked 5 points of Intelligence and the tenth level of his expiration exercise. Everything was moving in a good direction. As expected, the effects of reading a scripture carefully and directly using it were entirely different¡­ Wait! If one Zhoubi Suanjing could give him such a useful skill, then the Eight Step Chasing Toad, Dragon-Phoenix Sword, Daizhong Way, and all the other kinds of scriptures he slapped into a flash of white light¡­ as well as the Record Of Redressing Mishandled Cases! Oh my god! How many good things did I miss! For some reason, Ye Weiming felt his heart aching. Just as he was feeling the pain in his heart, someone that made his heart ached even more walked towards his direction! This person was wearing coarse clothes and had a square face. He gave off the aura of a country bumpkin, making him seem like a very ordinary person. This was the NPC that Ye Weiming hated deeply once¡ª¡ªSoymilk Little White! At this moment, Soymilk Little White was carrying a pole with loads on it and walking towards the bustling north city. He seemed to be in a hurry so he didn¡¯t notice Ye Weiming looking at him with an evil gaze secretly. Chapter 46 So this bastard lived in Luoyang City. He spent so much effort to find him but now, he found him unexpectedly. Ye Weiming gave an evil smile. He called for Ah Huang and followed Soymilk Little White silently. He was fooled by this fellow into entering the Divine Constable Bureau. Although he realized later that the benefits of this wolf¡¯s den were not bad and he managed to learn some skills from the Divine Constable Bureau which allowed him to have a smooth journey in the game. But this wouldn¡¯t let him put down his grudge against Soymilk Little White. Brat, are you going to sell soymilk? I don¡¯t believe that the soymilk a brat like you sell has no problems at all! I am an official of the imperial court now. You better make sure that I don¡¯t get any pieces of evidence of your crime. If not, I will check the hygiene standard of your food stall today. Snicker¡­ Ye Weiming thought to himself happily as he followed Soymilk Little White out of the city gate. He realized that Soymilk Little White turned to a small path after walking out for a certain distance. Ye Weiming took a look at the map. It was the path to Peony Village. Ye Weiming remembered that the Peony Village was similar to Dukang Village. It was also one of the novice villages near Luoyang. Was this bastard planning to sell his low quality milk to unsuspecting newbies or was he going to fool other innocent players into entering the Divine Constable Bureau? It had been some time since the game had started. Were there still naive newbies that hadn¡¯t entered a clan? At this moment, Soymilk Little White had turned to a small path heading into the forest. Ye Weiming hastened his pace but when he entered the forest, that bastard was nowhere in sight. Ye Weiming frowned as he looked at the empty forest. That bastard ran away really quickly! Just as Ye Weiming was considering if he should go to Peony Village directly to wait for that bastard. Suddenly! He felt a sense of danger. Ye Weiming felt danger looming so he pushed his feet against the ground furiously and in an instant, his body had slid a few meters back. ¡°Whiz! Whiz! Whiz! ¡­¡± While Ye Weiming was moving back, multiple concealed weapons had started raining down on him. One of them barely scraped past his body. He almost died on the spot. After regaining his balance, Ye Weiming hurriedly took out his sword and raised his head to look at the direction where the concealed weapons came from. All he saw were numerous cold flashes of lights attacking all the vital acupoints on his body. These concealed weapons came furiously at an extremely fast speed. Their angles were extremely tricky too. They couldn¡¯t be compared with the Zhuge Celestial Bow but this skill wasn¡¯t something a normal pugilist like Youyou could achieve either! Ye Weiming didn¡¯t dare to be careless. He waved his Green Bamboo Sword around his body. His moves seemed vicious and violent but in reality, they were protecting his body. The Green Bamboo Sword was jade green in color so when Ye Weiming waved it, it looked like a bamboo basket was enveloping his entire body and protecting him. No matter how crafty the angle of the concealed weapon was, they were knocked away by his sword blade. None of the concealed weapons were able to get past his Green Bamboo Sword. ¡°Clang! Clang! Clang!¡­¡± All kinds of concealed weapons flew towards Ye Weiming. However, because of the defense of the Dragon-Phoenix Sword, none of them was able to get close to him. Ye Weiming used the defensive ability of Dragon-Phoenix Sword to protect himself as he rushed to the small tree where his opponent was hiding. Then using the chance when the tree branches blocked the angle of his opponent¡¯s attack, he changed his defense into offense and slashed his Green Bamboo Sword. He cut the small tree that was as thick as a small bowl right in half from the middle. But his opponent seemed to have predicted his movement. The instant he slashed his long sword, a black shadow flashed past the top of the tree. His opponent had already jumped onto the crown of another tree. Then concealed weapons started raining down on Ye Weiming furiously again. What an amazing lightness kung fu! How impressive his concealed weapons skill was! After fighting for so long, Ye Weiming didn¡¯t even see the face of his opponent. This was enough to prove that it was a difficult enemy. However, Ye Weiming didn¡¯t know that his opponent¡¯s astonishment was even greater than him! The person who sneaked an attack on Ye Weiming thought that he was one of the masters in the game too. He didn¡¯t admit personally that he was the most powerful person in Tang Clan but in his heart, that was what he felt. Recently, there was a lady called Youyou who was on the rise but he felt that she just completed a hidden mission using luck. She was definitely not on par with him in terms of ability. However, with his excellent concealed weapons skills, he hadn¡¯t managed to break through the defense of this fellow¡¯s sword even after attacking for such a long while. Who on earth was this fellow? What was the sword skill he was using? You could say that he was the natural enemy of players from the Tang Clan with his impenetrable defensive sword skill! It looks like I will have to be extremely careful with this battle today! As he was thinking, the person who sneaked attacked Ye Weiming had switched to multiple different concealed weapons skills. However, all of them were blocked by Ye Weiming. Ye Weiming blocked all the concealed weapons and came beside the small tree where his opponent was hiding. But before he could slash his sword at the tree, the black figure had once again executed his lightness kung fu and jumped onto another tree. Ye Weiming predicted his movement so he didn¡¯t slash his sword down. Instead, he exerted strength on his feet and leaped at the same time as his opponent. Using his ¡®Eight Step Chasing Toad¡¯ and the advantage of moving on flat land, he managed to reach the other small tree which his opponent was planning to hide before him. He waved his Green Bamboo Sword and cut the tree into half. His opponent didn¡¯t expect Ye Weiming to anticipate his movement and attack him first. If he was a real martial arts master, he might be able to jump somewhere else. However, this was something the players couldn¡¯t do at their current level. Even Ye Weiming was unable to do this, much less him. Ye Weiming¡¯s opponent staggered and fell from the tree directly. Ye Weiming was well-prepared so he moved his wrist and aimed at his opponent¡¯s heart. The move he used was the most vicious and lethal move of ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯¡ª¡ªBeauty Of A Sick Lady! However, his opponent wasn¡¯t an easy fellow. At the crucial moment, he pushed his hands out and ten concealed weapons flew towards Ye Weiming. Two of them were aimed at his forehead and his throat. Now, Ye Weiming was faced with a dilemma. If he continued his sword attack, he would be able to injure his opponent heavily. The combined attributes of his Green Bamboo Sword, Sword of the Yue Maiden, Daizhong Way, and Calculation skill would definitely deal critical damage to his opponent. In return, he would be hit by his opponent¡¯s concealed weapons, including the two that were aimed at his lethal spots. Should he retract his sword or go for the internecine outcome? This was a good question! At this life-or-death moment, Ye Weiming didn¡¯t hesitate. The Green Bamboo Sword in his hand was still aimed at his opponent¡¯s heart without any changes. If the outcome had to be internecine, let it be. Ye Weiming was confident in his offensive power. If both of them were to get hurt, he wouldn¡¯t be the one that would die! Chapter 47 Ye Weiming was determined to kill his opponent. However, he just couldn¡¯t hit his opponent. Ye Weiming didn¡¯t have a complete advantage over his opponent, but he got a hold of the initiative for this battle. If he wanted to fight, he could fight. If he didn¡¯t, he could drag the battle. The other party had to follow his tempo. There was nothing else he could do. Just when it seemed an internecine outcome was inevitable, a shout came from the forest. ¡°Stop! We¡¯re on the same side. Don¡¯t harm each other.¡± The fight was in a heated state so it wouldn¡¯t stop just because of someone¡¯s shouts. However, the moment that shout entered their ears, a white figure rushed between the two of them. The person was holding a slightly yellowish towel in his right hand. He waved the sword at Ye Weiming¡¯s Green Bamboo Sword. With the help of his internal energy, the soft towel seemed to have turned into a soft whip. It slashed at the blade of the Green Bamboo Sword. ¡°Clang!¡± The collision between the sword and the towel gave off a high-pitched sound. Ye Weiming felt a certain weight on his heart and took three huge steps back uncontrollably. At the same time, the newcomer¡¯s left sleeve was puffed up due to his internal energy. As he waved his arm, the ten concealed weapons got thrown back into the air. After they landed, the three people stabilized themselves and stood on each side. Ye Weiming finally started observing the faces of the other two people. The person who interfered with his fight and prevented the internecine outcome was none other than Ye Weiming¡¯s target, Soymilk Little White! He didn¡¯t expect this ordinary-looking soymilk seller to possess such a powerful ability. As for that fellow who ambushed him, he should be a disciple from the Tang Clan. The only difference from Youyou was that this was a male. Of course, gender wasn¡¯t the main point. The main thing was, this person had a tidy appearance. He had an entire set of clan uniforms on. He looked quite similar to the NPCs who came to look for disciples at the novice village. It wasn¡¯t easy to gather clan contribution points. It had been more than ten days since he last met Youyou, but for a non-constable player to be able to gather the full set of his clan¡¯s uniform, he must be a master in the game. Who is this? The three of them sized up one another for some time. As the middleman, Soymilk Little White opened his mouth first and broke the silence, ¡°Brother Ye Weiming, it has been half a month since we parted at Dukang Village. Were you following me just now because you wanted to catch up with me?¡± ¡°Haha, Brother Little White, your guess is right!¡± After witnessing Soymilk Little White¡¯s amazing ability, Ye Weiming shamelessly lifted his thumb and gave Soymilk Little White a thumbs up. Then he changed the topic and brought the disciple from the Tang Clan into the conversation. ¡°Brother Little White, your life seems to be getting better. You have a bodyguard when you¡¯re delivering soymilk.¡± If Soymilk Little White wanted to explain, he must tell Ye Weiming the background of this disciple from Tang Clan. Hmph, this was Ye Weiming¡¯s motive. You know who I am but I don¡¯t know who you are. That¡¯s unfair! When he saw Ye Weiming bringing him up, the disciple from the Tang Clan gave a knowing smile. He said immediately, ¡°My name is Tang Sancai. I¡¯m protecting Brother Little White because I have a mission. Brother Ye, if you don¡¯t have a mission, please stop following us. Your actions are putting me in a dilemma.¡± ¡°Oh?¡± Ye Weiming raised his eyebrows. ¡°Why are you in a dilemma?¡± Tang Sancai shrugged. ¡°Because I can¡¯t beat you.¡± He was conceding a large amount when he said this. From their duel, he knew that if Ye Weiming decided to fight with him till the end, he would have to pay a huge price for a chance to win the fight. This might even be a long seesawing battle. In this situation, as one of the top players from the Tang Clan, Tang Sancai lowered his head and gave Ye Weiming the platform to step down with his pride intact. If Ye Weiming didn¡¯t want to be irritating and to continue pestering Tang Sancai, this would be a good chance for him to leave. From this simple sentence, one could tell that Tang Sancai was a sensible person although he was already quite famous. Or, this mission might be very important to him, more important than his dignity. Actually, after seeing how powerful Soymilk Little White was, Ye Weiming immediately decided to give up the thought of inspecting the health standard of his food. Since Tang Sancai was so sensible, Ye Weiming decided to let things go. Unexpectedly, the middleman Soymilk Little White suddenly opened his mouth and suggested, ¡°Brother Ye Weiming, your skills have improved tremendously compared to the past. It¡¯s fate that we meet today. Why don¡¯t you join our mission?¡± Without waiting for Ye Weiming¡¯s reply, a familiar voice rang in Ye Weiming¡¯s head. Ding! You¡¯ve triggered the hidden mission ¡®Protect Little White¡¯. Do you want to accept it? Yes/No Protect Little White Mission level: Five-star Based on the clues Tang Sancai gathered, someone had set a trap, attempting to ambush the honest Soymilk Little White. As a constable from the Divine Constable Bureau, you should protect the safety of a taxpayer. Mission reward: 10000 EXP, 1000 Cultivation, Chance to increase one of your kung fu by one level! The rewards for this mission were amazing! The amount of experience and cultivation points were adequate. Based on Ye Weiming¡¯s current level of kung fu, 1000 points of cultivation weren¡¯t a big deal. However, the chance to increase one of his kung fu by one level was too good to pass up. No matter which kung fu he chose, this was equivalent to a few thousand points of cultivation! Ye Weiming was excited as he accepted the mission. Then he shrugged and smiled at Tang Sancai as he said, ¡°Now we are on the same boat, shouldn¡¯t you tell me more about this mission?¡± Tang Sancai¡¯s expression was extremely interesting. He completed many preceding tasks before he triggered this hidden mission. But this Ye Weiming managed to share his mission so easily. He didn¡¯t even need to gain the approval of the person who first triggered the mission¡ªhim. How could he not feel frustrated? He wasn¡¯t worried about rewards! He just felt that it wasn¡¯t fair! He knew that Ye Weiming¡¯s participation wouldn¡¯t decrease his rewards. Even without considering that, he would welcome another martial arts master helping him to smoothen the process. Even then, Tang Sancai still felt uncomfortable. Nevertheless, he was able to let it go after feeling frustrated for some time. After all, he was someone who managed to be a top player of the game. He immediately welcomed Ye Weiming insincerely. By this time, Little White had already taken his pole back. Ah Huang, who was hidden by Ye Weiming earlier, followed behind them obediently too. The group of them continued walking towards Dukang Village. Tang Sancai started introducing the mission to Ye Weiming, ¡°I went through a few preceding tasks, and found out that someone wanted to ambush Brother Little White. Supposedly, it is one of his past enemies. This person knows that Brother Little White is selling soymilk in Luoyang City so he came up with an evil plan to lure him out of the city before ambushing him.¡± ¡°Councillor Zhao from Peony Village just got a grandson in his household so he wanted to organize a banquet to celebrate this occasion. I¡¯m not sure what method the other party used but he managed to get Councillor Zhao to specially appoint Brother Little White to send him soymilk. When I found Brother Little White, he had already accepted the down payment. Now, he has to go even if he doesn¡¯t want to¡­¡± Ye Weiming nodded slightly when he heard this. ¡°Simply speaking, Councillor Zhao is very wealthy and recently got a grandson¡­ wait!¡± Halfway through his sentence, Ye Weiming¡¯s expression suddenly turned serious. He said in a low voice, ¡°There are obvious signs that the road in front of us has been tampered with. The tree branches on the side of the road are bent unnaturally. If you observe carefully, you will notice the strings between the leaves. Three inches above the ground, there is a steel wire.¡± ¡°Brother Sancai, I¡¯m afraid the trap you mentioned is right in front of us!¡± Chapter 48 What? When he heard Ye Weiming¡¯s words, Tang Sancai was flabbergasted. As the most powerful player in the Tang Clan, Tang Sancai naturally knew that his clan had trap creation skills. But he had only entered the game for a short amount of time so his clan contribution points, money, and cultivation points were limited. It wasn¡¯t enough for him to learn all the basic skills his clan provided. Tang Sancai might be the top player in his clan but he still couldn¡¯t learn everything. He didn¡¯t learn the clan¡¯s trap creation skills before, but he had seen his junior brothers and sisters using it before. With this in mind, he felt that his understanding of traps was better than most of the players in the game. Yet, Ye Weiming understood it better than him! Not only was his sword skill powerful, but he also managed to discover the trap earlier than him. He even explained the trap in detail. It was hard for Tang Sancai not to be stunned. This fellow was indeed hard to deal with! Even though he was dumbfounded, Tang Sancai still remembered to move. He flipped his right hand and a cobble appeared at the tip of his fingers. As he flicked his hand, the cobble turned into a ray of black light, hitting the steel wire hidden among the grasses accurately. ¡°Clang!¡± The steel wire broke due to the collision. Then¡­ ¡°Whiz! Whiz! Whiz! ¡­¡± Multiple arrows shot out from their hiding spots. Some of them were bamboo arrows that had been sharpened. Within a short moment, the area around the steel wire was covered completely with all kinds of concealed weapons. The concealed weapons fired for 10 entire seconds. The lush green forest turned into a mess. When they saw this scene, Ye Weiming and Tang Sancai felt chills down their spine. They were imagining the outcome if they hadn¡¯t noticed the traps. Even Ye Weiming felt that his Dragon-Phoenix Sword wouldn¡¯t be able to block all the concealed weapons. As for Tang Sancai¡­ let¡¯s not mention him! If they wanted to deal with this kind of trap, they needed to have Zhang Cuishan¡¯s ability at the very least, right? Isn¡¯t it a little too much to set up such a huge trap to ambush a soymilk-selling Little White? This is too overboard! What on earth is the system doing? While internally complaining and feeling shocked, Ye Weiming still remembered to send a team invitation to Tang Sancai. Tang Sancai accepted the request and immediately looked at the reward distribution method. Distribution by contribution? Tang Sancai was slightly astounded, but he smiled in the end. He didn¡¯t say much but it was obvious that he was extremely satisfied with this distribution method. In ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯, there were many reward distribution options in a team. Distribution by contribution was most suitable for teams with unfamiliar players. The items that their enemies dropped would be distributed to the team members based on their contribution in the fight. This contribution didn¡¯t just refer to the damage one caused to their enemies. It would also calculate the damage one endured and various other components. The calculation method for contribution points was slightly complicated. For instance, in terms of damage endured, as long as the enemy¡¯s target was you, you would get points for it whether you received the attack or dodged it. This would ensure the fairness of the distribution and prevent some team members from lazing around. The only thing it couldn¡¯t ensure was that every player would get what they needed. There was a possibility that a player wielding a sword might get a punching glove or a player who learned close-combat skills might get a treasured sword. Thus, this kind of distribution method wasn¡¯t useful for teams where all the players were close to one another. It was only suitable for people like Ye Weiming and Tang Sancai who didn¡¯t have any relationship foundation for them to trust each other. ¡°Hmph! I didn¡¯t expect the once formidable Great Eagle to rely on two brats to protect him! What a sorrowful scene! How funny!¡± A voice filled with contempt was heard. Then three figures shot out from the forest, one at the front and two behind. They surrounded the three people. The person who spoke was the man with a dark face. This person had a black mole on one side of his cheeks and was emitting strong killing intent from his gaze. He was carrying a sword with a satisfied smile on his face. His gaze landed on Soymilk Little White as he said, ¡°I remembered how you annihilated my team when I just managed to get everything started. I was even chased by you for a thousand miles. I was almost killed because of you back then.¡± ¡°Time has changed. I, Lin Zhipei, am back again!¡± When he heard the other person¡¯s aggressive introduction, Tang Sancai looked at Soymilk Little White with a weird gaze. ¡°You? Great Eagle?¡± Soymilk Little White ignored Tang Sancai. He looked back at Lin Zhipei with a serious gaze. ¡°I have never thought of taking your life. I just wanted to arrest you.¡± ¡°Bullshit!¡± Lin Zhipei said furiously, ¡°I¡¯ve killed more than ten people. Once I landed in the hands of the authorities, how can I stay alive?¡± Soymilk Little White laughed coldly. ¡°So you know that your crimes are unforgivable?¡± As he spoke, he shifted his gaze to the two people behind Lin Zhipei. ¡°Flower Picking Bee Ji Laiye, Maniac Gambler Ge Angshou, and Eight Directions Quake Lin Zhipei. Besides Chou Ba who has already been killed, the four bandit leaders of the Lotus Clan are all gathered here. This is Luoyang¡¯s misfortune.¡± As Soymilk Little White called out the names of his three enemies, their attributes appeared on top of their heads. Lin Zhipei Known in the pugilistic world as Eight Directions Quake. A martial arts master who did many evils. The big leader of the Lotus Clan. Level: 35 Health: 16500/16500 Internal energy: 8000/8000 ¡­ Ji Laiye A famous lecher known in the pugilistic world as Flower Picking Bee. The second leader of the Lotus Clan. Level: 23 Health: 9600/9600 Internal energy: 4300/4300 ¡­ Ge Angshou A compulsive gambler, who is also a mass murderer. The fourth leader of the Lotus Clan. Level: 23 Health: 5900/5900 Internal energy: 3100/3100 ¡­ The attributes of the three bosses were all displayed. This meant that both parties had formally entered the battle mode. Ye Weiming even noticed that Soymilk Little White, who was on his side, had similar attributes data floating up from his head. Bai Zhanji (Injured) Originally a constable from Department Six. Known as Great Eagle in the pugilistic world. After he was injured, he retired from the pugilistic world and started selling soymilk for a living. Level: 30 Health: 23400/23400 Internal energy: 15900/15900 ¡­ This soymilk-selling man was so powerful? Ye Weiming finally understood why his enemies needed to ambush him while still laying such a frightening trap for him. This fellow was definitely worth the trouble! Even then, this trap might not be able to cause any substantial damage to this powerful boss. Tang Sancai frowned when he looked at the attributes of the two sides. He asked, ¡°Brother Little White, your attributes are really amazing. Why are you only at level 30?¡± Soymilk Little White¡­ oh wait, it should be Great Eagle Bai Zhanji now. Bai Zhanji gave a bitter smile but he still patiently explained to the two players, ¡°In the pugilistic world, the most direct way of gauging a person¡¯s strength is based on their levels. The level is a direct representation of a person¡¯s comprehensive strength. If someone is very powerful in a certain aspect, at the same level, it means that he has a major weakness. Only the level can represent a martial artist¡¯s comprehensive strength.¡± He paused for a moment and added, ¡°Of course, the standard I mentioned doesn¡¯t include players like you.¡± After he finished speaking, Brother Ye moved his body and charged towards Lin Zhipei. At the same time, he raised his voice and reminded the two players, ¡°Swordsman Tang Sancai, Brother Ye Weiming, I can hold Lin Zhipei back for a moment. You need to get rid of the other two enemies as soon as possible and reinforce me.¡± Ye Weiming and Tang Sancai felt speechless when they heard his plan. Our level is less than 20 and yet, you want us to fight with two bosses above level 20 and even ask us to take care of them as soon as possible? Why don¡¯t you jump straight to heaven? While they were complaining, Bai Zhanji had already exerted strength on his feet and leaped into the air. He turned in the air so that his head was facing the earth. Then from high above, he raised his palm and pushed it towards Lin Zhipei¡¯s Bai Hui. Chapter 49 After Bai Zhanji made his move, the battle between the good and evil officially started. Normally, it was hard to differentiate what¡¯s good and what¡¯s evil. It was a complicated and blurred line. But in this instant, everything was simple. Ye Weiming¡¯s team was definitely the good side and their enemies were all evil and unforgivable villains. This was because he was a righteous character. He was the main lead! The system reminded the two players, who represented the good side, that they had officially entered the battle mode. However, other than Lin Zhipei who had already started fighting with Bai Zhanji, the other two bosses just stared at the two players with an unfriendly gaze. They didn¡¯t attack immediately. You could tell that even the shameless and evil game designers felt bad for letting two players handle bosses that were many levels above them. Luckily, the game designers didn¡¯t crank up the shamelessness of the bosses to a ten. They were eventually going to fight, but they gave the two players some room to think. For instance, they could choose an opponent that was more suitable for them. Tang Sancai glanced at the two bosses. Then he opened his mouth and said in a serious tone, ¡°I hate lechers. I¡¯ll handle Ji Laiye.¡± ¡°What a coincidence!¡± Ye Weiming shook the Green Bamboo Sword in his hand and said calmly, ¡°I hate lechers too. Don¡¯t argue with me. I will handle this Ji Laiye and you can take care of the other one.¡± Tang Sancai¡¯s expression changed slightly when he heard this. He moved his hand and a concealed weapon shot out. ¡°Woosh!¡± ¡°Clang!¡± The concealed weapon was thrown back by Ji Laiye¡¯s agile fingers. Tang Sancai successfully attracted Ji Laiye¡¯s hatred so when Tang Sancai suddenly moved away from Ye Weiming, Ji Laiye chased after Tang Sancai. Ye Weiming gave a knowing smile. He didn¡¯t chase after the two of them. No matter what kind of online game it was, long-range players were most afraid of meeting long-range bosses. When all their attributes were lower than their enemy, long-range players could still deplete the boss¡¯s health slowly using their tactics and the advantages of long-range attacks. But if they met similar long-range bosses, they wouldn¡¯t have any possibility of winning. Besides unique individuals like Youyou, no long-range players would be interested in long-range bosses. Looking at Ge Angshou who was playing with the dice in his hand, it was obvious that Ge Angshou was a long-range concealed weapon martial arts master. Tang Sancai chose Ji Laiye as his opponent because he was afraid of getting suppressed entirely by this long-range boss. Ye Weiming was only joking when he said that he wanted to choose Ji Laiye. He wouldn¡¯t make things difficult for his teammate at a time like this. Ji Laiye and Tang Sancai started playing cat and mouse in the forest. Ge Angshou finally stared at Ye Weiming and said, ¡°Brat, are you ready to die?¡± Ye Weiming smiled. He took out a huge piece of barbecued meat from his bag and took a bite of it. The fragrant and smooth barbecued meat entered his mouth. Instantly, Ye Weiming felt the strong meat fragrance exploding in his mouth. It was as if every single cell in his body was cheering in excitement. Once again, he exclaimed in amazement at how real this game was and how amazing Ah Son¡¯s cooking skill was. Ding! You ate barbecued wolf meat. Fulfillment +1. Arm strength +97 for the first hour! Ye Weiming listened to notification from the system and suppressed the desire to eat another mouthful of wolf meat. Then he walked casually towards Ge Angshou and attempted to pass him a piece of barbecued meat. ¡°Would you like to have a taste?¡± There were two aspects of the additional attributes granted by the wolf meat. Fulfillment would increase when you ate more of the food. The total fulfillment for the barbecued wolf meat was 50 points. You had to eat the entire piece of meat to gain the full 50 points. However, the additional attributes were like a devil fruit. Only the first bite would give you the additional arm strength. Ye Weiming felt the huge increase in his arm strength. He was prepared to have a good fight. When he smelled the fragrance of the meat, Ge Angshou couldn¡¯t help but swallow his saliva. When he heard Ye Weiming offering a bite to him, his eyes lit up. At this moment, Ye Weiming had secretly closed the distance between them to around 30 feet. The smile on his face got brighter as he watched his opponent¡¯s reaction. He continued moving towards Ge Angshou slowly and naturally. Suddenly! The greediness on Ge Angshou¡¯s face disappeared instantly. He waved his hands simultaneously and two dice shot out. After they left his hand, the dice turned into two flashes of white light, flying towards Ye Weiming¡¯s eyes. If Ye Weiming was hit, it would be two critical hits, which would blind him instantly! In reality, Ge Angshou was never blinded by Ye Weiming¡¯s delicious food. We always said that eating, drinking, gambling, and frivolous pastimes were the four evils in life, but Ge Angshou was a devoted boss who was only enchanted by gambling. There was nothing else that could catch his attention. He only put on a greedy expression because he wanted to act along with Ye Weiming. Ye Weiming didn¡¯t manage to fool his opponent. Thus, Ge Angshou¡¯s acting¡­ Didn¡¯t have any effect on Ye Weiming either! When Ye Weiming was using the barbequed wolf meat to close the distance between him and his opponent, he still remained vigilant in case his opponent suddenly attacked him. Thus, when Ge Angshou suddenly dealt a lethal blow, besides lamenting at the failure of his plan, he didn¡¯t have any other emotions. The Green Bamboo Sword in his hand slashed forward and turned the two dice into powder. Then he kept the barbecued meat back into his bag and executed his ¡®Eight Step Chasing Toad¡¯ to its fullest potential as he dashed towards Ge Angshou. The players from the Tang Clan viewed lightness kung fu as the second most important kung fu after their concealed weapons skills. Similarly, as a long-range boss, Ge Angshou¡¯s lightness kung fu was top-notch. His speed was amazing. He might not be as fast as Ye Weiming but the difference wasn¡¯t huge. Most importantly, this fellow didn¡¯t have the fearlessness and pride one would expect from a boss. He didn¡¯t have any intention of fighting face to face with Ye Weiming. Instead, he learned from Tang Sancai and started escaping shamelessly. As he ran away, he continued throwing dice at Ye Weiming. He was a boss but he started kiting a player! Fortunately, Ye Weiming¡¯s ¡®Dragon-Phoenix Sword¡¯ was powerful enough. Once the sword web was formed, his opponent¡¯s dice weren¡¯t able to get close to him at all. It didn¡¯t even hinder his speed of chasing his opponent. ¡°Whiz! Whiz! Whiz! ¡­¡± ¡°Slap! Slap! Slap! ¡­¡± Amidst the sound of the collision between the sword and the dice, the distance between the two of them became shorter and shorter. However, at this moment, Ge Angshou suddenly shouted, ¡°Shooting Star Throw!¡± He waved his hands furiously and in an instant, he threw more than ten dice towards Ye Weiming. Once the dice left his hands, they turned into rays of light. Along with the shrill sound of the wind, the dice shot towards Ye Weiming¡¯s entire body. They were really like a meteor chasing the moon. No one could stop them! ¡®Dragon-Phoenix Sword¡¯ would never be able to block this attack! The moment he saw his opponent throwing the dice, Ye Weiming made his decision. He immediately took one step to the side and evaded the concealed weapons that were aimed at his vital spots. Then he continued using his ¡®Dragon-Phoenix Sword¡¯ to block the three dice that were still a threat to him. But because of this, his speed slowed down and the distance between the two of them got widened instead. Ye Weiming continued chasing and Ge Angshou continued running. When he finally managed to close the distance to around ten feet, his opponent would use the ¡®Shooting Star Throw¡¯ again and everything went back to the starting point. It seemed to go in an endless cycle. However, Ye Weiming continued this endless cycle of chasing to prevent him from interfering with his other two teammates. After some time, Ye Weiming¡¯s eyes lit up. The opportunity had arrived! He noticed that his dog, Ah Huang, had silently laid himself in the path of Ge Angshou¡¯s escape route when the two of them weren¡¯t watching it. When Ge Angshou turned his body and executed ¡®Shooting Star Throw¡¯ at Ye Weiming again, Ah Huang leaped out from behind him and bit the calf of Ge Angshou¡¯s left leg. ¡°Ouch!¡± Ge Angshou screamed in pain. This was Ah Huang¡¯s moment! Ah Huang contributed! At this moment, it was possessed by the spirits of Laifu, Wangcai, and Howling Celestial Dog! It wasn¡¯t fighting a one-man battle! It wasn¡¯t even a man! Chapter 50 Ah Huang succeeded in its ambush. Although it didn¡¯t cause much damage to Ge Angshou, it successfully held him back. Ye Weiming was good at grabbing opportunities. Hence, he wouldn¡¯t give up this chance that Ah Huang risked its life to create for him. He shifted his internal energy to his legs and let his body move along with the sword. His entire body turned into an arrow that just got released from its bow. His target was Ge Angshou¡¯s heart. This was the most powerful move of Sword of the Yue Maiden, Beauty Of A Sick Lady! Ge Angshou was shocked and immediately moved to the side. But with Ah Huang biting his leg forcefully, his movement was restricted, making him reveal a huge weakness even though he managed to dodge the ¡®Beauty Of A Sick Lady¡¯ successfully. Ye Weiming turned his sword around and slashed it horizontally. Ge Angshou wanted to dodge the move but he didn¡¯t have the time. The Green Bamboo Sword slashed across his neck viciously. Fresh blood spurted in the air! The sharp blade cut the throat. In real life, this would have been a fatal move. But they were in a game. If it was so easy to deal a fatal blow, the health bar above the boss¡¯s head would lose its purpose. Thus, Ye Weiming¡¯s move only managed to deal the damage caused by his attributes + the additional arm strength the barbecued meat provided + the sharpness of the gold item Green Bamboo Sword + the additional damage of his level 9 Sword of the Yue Maiden + the additional damage of Daizhong Way + the additional damage from a critical hit + the additional damage for a critical hit Daizhong Way gave. -1530! This move not only took away a quarter of Ge Angshou¡¯s health, but it also caused him to be poisoned! This was the highest possible damage Ye Weiming could ever deal if he released all his potential at this current state! Ge Angshou was a high-level boss but such a powerful attack would still make him uncomfortable. He was infuriated. He kicked his leg out and Ah Huang, which was hanging on his leg, flew out and slammed heavily onto a huge tree. It gave a weak whimper. Ye Weiming got agitated when he saw Ah Huang getting hurt. However, he didn¡¯t have the time to care about anything other than himself right now. If he got distracted now, he would waste the opportunity that Ah Huang used its life to create for him! He twirled the sword in his hand and aimed it at Ge Angshou¡¯s heart once again. As a level 23 boss, Ge Angshou had some close-combat skills. But compared to his concealed weapons skills, they were noticeably weaker. He wasn¡¯t Ye Weiming¡¯s match. After five rounds, he was slashed by Ye Weiming¡¯s sword twice. One was at his abdomen and the other was on his right leg. This triggered the ligament tear effect! Ligament tears had a negative effect. It mainly affects the limbs of a player or a boss. Once it was triggered, the limb that was injured would be paralyzed for a certain time. At this moment, Ge Angshou¡¯s right leg was under the influence of the ligament tear effect. He couldn¡¯t use his powerful lightness kung fu anymore. Now, he was like a fist on a chopping board. He was at Ye Weiming¡¯s mercy! Ye Weiming didn¡¯t waste any time. He executed the Sword of the Yue Maiden and started to deplete his opponent¡¯s health. One minute later, all the health had been depleted. Ding! You have successfully killed the level 23 boss, Ge Angshou. You received 2500 EXP and 250 Cultivation. Then, the system repeated the announcement for his first blood three times. Ge Angshou¡¯s level wasn¡¯t high but his defense was high. The most important thing was his identity. He was the fourth leader of the Lotus Clan. He had two older brothers protecting him so currently, no players were able to charge into the Lotus Clan and kill him. This allowed Ye Weiming to get the first blood. However, Ye Weiming didn¡¯t have the effort to care about the first blood. He didn¡¯t even have the interest to touch the corpse. After killing Ge Angshou, he executed the ¡®Eight Step Chasing Toad¡¯ to its fastest speed and instantly rushed to Ah Huang. He quickly took out a pill for replenishing blood and placed it beside its mouth. This was an important dog that was linked to a hidden mission. It also contributed to the battle just now so it would be a huge loss if it died just like this. Ah Huang was an intelligent dog. When it saw Ye Weiming¡¯s action, it opened its mouth and swallowed the pill. As an NPC with a function, Ah Huang wasn¡¯t able to enjoy the same recovery speed as the players. If not, Yu Daiyan from Wudang would have recovered fully and continued being his chivalrous swordsman. Ye Weiming¡¯s medicine and pill barely managed to keep Ah Huang alive. They could only prevent it from dying immediately. If he wanted to save it, he had to look for other methods. He stretched his hands out and carried Ah Huang. Then he hid it carefully behind a secluded tree branch before turning around to touch Ge Angshou¡¯s corpse. Based on the distribution by contribution method, all the items that Ge Angshou dropped went into Ye Weiming¡¯s bag because he killed Ge Angshou all by himself. As for Tang Sancai who was playing a catching game with the other boss, he didn¡¯t even have the right to take a glance at these items. Ye Weiming scanned the items. The items that Ge Angshou dropped were as follows: Universe Pendant (Gold): Carved using a special jade. There¡¯s an abundance of the Qi of JiaMu in this pendant. It can improve one¡¯s health. Health limit +1000. Health replenishing speed +10, Poison resistance +20%. Shooting Star Throw (beginner): Used to be one of Tang Clan¡¯s skills. It¡¯s only a single move but its power is formidable. Cultivation requirements: Movement 60, Reaction 60. Dark Blue Wrist Guards (Blue): A pair of dark blue wrist guards with exquisite workmanship. Defense +30, Movement +10, Long-range weapon attacking speed +1%. Lock of Longevity: The lock of longevity Councillor Zhao made for his grandson. It¡¯s made using pure gold but unfortunately, there¡¯s only half of it. 3 Gold. There were four items and 3 Gold. Ye Weiming directly accepted all the items and wore the Universe Pendant around his necklace. Instantly, his health more than doubled. As expected of a gold item! He raised his head and observed the other two battles. He noticed that Bai Zhanji and Lin Zhipei¡¯s condition was balanced. It was a heated battle. As for Tang Sancai¡¯s opponent, Ji Laiye, he had forsaken his opponent, Tang Sancai, and was rushing towards the tree where Ah Huang was hiding. When Tang Sancai threw concealed weapons at him, he would just listen to the sound and dodge the incoming weapons. Even if he was hit a few times, he didn¡¯t mind. He looked as though he must kill Ah Huang. Ye Weiming was shocked when he saw this. Instinctively, he opened his mouth and shouted, ¡°No!¡± ¡°Hehehe¡­¡± Ji Laiye laughed loudly in satisfaction. ¡°When a woman says no, she means yes!¡± Who is a woman? You¡¯re the one who¡¯s a woman! Ye Weiming saw how obstinate he was so he raised his sword and said in a cold voice, ¡°Come back!¡± On the side, Tang Sancai found it a little funny when he saw Ye Weiming trying to stop Ji Laiye by calling him back. Did Brother Ye become muddle-headed due to anxiousness? Your opponent is a boss. Why would he listen to you? However, the next moment, he realized to his astonishment that Ji Laiye really gave up on Ah Huang and turned around when Ye Weiming called him coldly. His eyes were bloodshot as he charged towards Ye Weiming¡¯s direction with a do it or die aura. Tang Sancai¡¯s eyeballs almost popped out of his socket when he saw this strange scene. The boss went over when you asked him to? So obedient! What the hell¡­ is happening!? Chapter 51 Based on his knowledge, Ye Weiming knew that there was only one skill in the entire ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯ that could forcefully attract the hatred of a boss immediately. That was his Daizhong Way! But this time, Ye Weiming didn¡¯t start calculating with his left hand. Moving his left hand was just an important segment in the activation of Daizhong Way. It wasn¡¯t a necessary step. That meant that Daizhong Way could still be activated even if he didn¡¯t move his fingers. Calculating with his fingers could simplify the calculation process to a certain extent. How much could it simplify? For instance, when he moved his fingers, the math question might be a multiple of a three-digit and a two-digit number. If he didn¡¯t move his fingers, it would be a multiplication question of two three-digit numbers. The difficulty of the questions would increase exponentially. This would increase the possibility of making a mistake since the number was very big. Thus, under normal circumstances, Ye Weiming would move his left fingers when he wanted to activate the Daizhong Way, as this would give him more confidence. However, this time, Ye Weiming didn¡¯t plan to activate the active effects of Daizhong Way. He just wanted to use this skill as a powerful mocking technique. Thus, naturally, he didn¡¯t care about the difficulty of the questions. He mentally solved the math question that appeared in front of his eyes to maintain the mocking effects of Daizhong Way. At the same time, he continued observing the distance between Ji Laiye and him. Ji Laiye was already within ten feet away from him. In a moment, the two of them would be within each other¡¯s attacking range. This was when Ye Weiming gave up his mental calculation and twirled the Green Bamboo Sword in his hand. The green sword shadow had already engulfed his opponent. Ye Weiming¡¯s sword skill was vicious but Ji Laiye wasn¡¯t an easy opponent either. Not only that, but he was also a level 23 boss who specialized in close-combat skills. The moment a professional showed his hand, he would know how good he was. When the two of them started fighting, Ye Weiming felt that his opponent¡¯s finger movement was very weird. Most of the time, he would get suppressed by his opponent¡¯s fingers the instant he started his move. Thus, he had no choice but to change his move halfway through. He was being pulled by the nose. In this situation, after just three moves, Ye Weiming¡¯s advantage of attacking first was destroyed by his opponent. If he continued fighting, he would just get beaten up by his opponent. His ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯ was at level 8 but in the face of a boss specialized in close combat skills, there was nothing he could do! Fortunately, he wasn¡¯t fighting alone. Ye Weiming didn¡¯t have any advantage in terms of his moves but his health was still full. On the other hand, the health bar above boss Ji Laiye¡¯s head kept dropping. Ji Laiye had to focus on fighting with Ye Weiming so he wasn¡¯t able to guard against Tang Sancai. This big brother of the Tang Clan was able to continue dealing damage comfortably. While Ji Laiye was handling Ye Weiming¡¯s sword skills, he wasn¡¯t able to effectively dodge or block Tang Sancai¡¯s concealed weapons. Thus, the one dropping health was him. It was impossible for Ji Laiye to get away from Ye Weiming now. The only way he was able to turn the tide was to shoulder Tang Sancai¡¯s attack and take advantage of his large health bar to kill this irritating brat before he was killed. However, just as he was about to release his full strength and stabbed Ye Weiming to death, he realized to his astonishment that this fellow had changed his move. That¡¯s right! Since using the ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯ wouldn¡¯t give him any advantage, Ye Weiming decided to give up on dealing damage and obediently executed the ¡®Dragon-Phoenix Sword¡¯. He started focusing on defense. The sudden change in his moves caused Ji Laiye to feel that his opponent seemed to have changed entirely. Before this, Ye Weiming felt like a porcupine. If you weren¡¯t careful enough, you would get pricked by him. Now, he was more like a huge tortoise. He wasn¡¯t as threatening as before but Ji Laiye didn¡¯t know where he could lay his hands on. No matter how he twirled his sword, he couldn¡¯t break the wall of defense this fellow had. It was like a tortoiseshell. The biggest strength of ¡®Dragon-Phoenix Sword¡¯ was that its defense was powerful. However, that was its only strength. It didn¡¯t have any offensive ability and thus he couldn¡¯t keep his opponent from leaving. This was a loophole. Realizing he was going nowhere, Ji Laiye immediately turned his body and rushed towards Tang Sancai, who was standing behind him and dealing damage. Then¡­ ¡°Come back!¡± Ye Weiming mocked Ji Laiye again and successfully shifted all his hatred over. He continued using his ¡®Dragon-Phoenix Sword¡¯ to fight with Ji Laiye. Ye Weiming played defense comfortably while Tang Sancai continued dealing damage without moving. Ye Weiming realized that this defensive sword skill was extremely good to use when combined with the mocking effects of Daizhong Way! Ji Laiye couldn¡¯t break through Ye Weiming¡¯s defense. If he turned to fight with Tang Sancai, he would get frightened by the Daizhong Way. Thus, Ji Laiye had to think of a new method. He continued fighting with Ye Weiming but he decreased the tempo of his attacks greatly. He placed his main focus on defending against Tang Sancai¡¯s long-range attacks. Because of this, Tang Sancai found it hard to break through Ji Laiye¡¯s defense when he used to be able to get a 60% hit rate with his concealed weapons. Ji Laiye heaved a sigh of relief. He could only hope for his eldest brother to be able to take care of Bai Zhanji quickly and reinforce him. Then¡­ ¡°Pfft!¡± -1511! Poisoned! This critical hit by Ye Weiming was powerful enough to deal the same amount of damage Tang Sancai had dealt in the past one minute. The health bar above Ji Laiye¡¯s head dropped by a huge chunk. It was a noticeable difference. The color turned from fresh red to dark green! This explosive damage not only caused Ji Laiye to scream in pain, but it also caused Tang Sancai to jump in fright. He stopped throwing his concealed weapons instinctively. This fellow¡¯s attack was so strong? He recalled his battle with Ye Weiming and secretly wiped his cold sweat. If that sword landed on his body, he would be killed instantly. There was no need for a second swipe of the sword! ¡°Stop daydreaming. Continue attacking!¡± Tang Sancai regained his senses after hearing Ye Weiming¡¯s reminder. He continued shooting his concealed weapons at the boss. After trying all sorts of tactics, Ji Laiye still wasn¡¯t able to find a way to break through his situation. Furthermore, most of his attributes were lowered because he was poisoned so under the combined attacks of the two players. Soon, he went onto Ge Angshou¡¯s path and died. The move that killed him was Ye Weiming¡¯s ¡®Beauty Holding The Liver¡¯. Ding! You have successfully killed the level 23 boss, Ji Laiye. You received 300 EXP and 300 Cultivation. System Announcement: Player Ye Weiming from the Divine Constable Bureau and player Tang Sancai from the Tang Clan¡­ The first blood announcement sounded three times, Ye Weiming bent down and touched Ji Laiye¡¯s corpse. The items he dropped were automatically placed in their bags based on their contribution. Looking at Tang Sancai¡¯s happy expression, Ye Weiming knew that his rewards should be quite good. He looked at his rewards¡­ Frog Skin Wrist Guards (green): An item left behind by a ninja master from Japan. It¡¯s durable and long-lasting. Attack +50, Defense +50, Internal energy +15%. A Painful Bag Of Rice: Every single grain is covered with soil. A bag of rice that can¡¯t be cleaned. Its taste¡­ spicy, pungent, sweet, salty! Cannot be thrown away or destroyed. 1 Gold 60 Silver. Chapter 52 The attributes of the Frog Skin Wrist Guards were not bad. As a green item, if he was able to gather the full set of it, its attributes would be even better. Unfortunately, although its name was wrist guards, it was a weapon for fist-focused users. Ye Weiming had never learned any fist skills so it was useless to him. He could only sell it for money. As for the ¡®A Painful Bag Of Rice¡¯. What the f**k! What the hell is this? He can¡¯t discard or destroy this bag of spoilt rice! Did they plan to let it take up a space in a player¡¯s bag so that the player would feel miserable all the time? ¡°Ouch! ¡­¡± While Ye Weiming was in a dilemma about what he should do with the bag of rice, a scream suddenly came from the battlefield on the other side. Ye Weiming turned his head. Bai Zhanji had been fighting with Lin Zhipei for a long time. After keeping the situation balanced for so long, he finally got slashed in his left ribs by his opponent. A deep wound was formed. His bones could be seen inside the wound. In ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯, there were two forms of battle mode among the NPCs. Normally, when players were participating in the battle, the mode of the battle would be similar to the mode when the players were fighting with bosses. The fight was still vicious but the images the players saw would be filtered first. The wounds still hurt but they healed quickly. The only impact it made was a drop in their health. It wouldn¡¯t have any huge influence on the battle. If it was a battle between NPCs, it would be a real battle. Once they got hurt, they wouldn¡¯t be able to recover quickly and the wound would be very painful. It would also affect the combat ability of the injured NPC to a certain extent. How much could the influence be? It depended on the seriousness of the injury and the willpower of the injured. Ye Weiming seriously suspected that the design of the mission was like this: As long as the players didn¡¯t end their fight, the fight between the NPCs would remain balanced. Once the players stopped fighting, Little White would get injured so the players would feel anxious and the difficulty of the mission would rise. He had to admit that the designers of this game were really evil! After Bai Zhanji was injured, he was at a huge disadvantage. Ye Weiming didn¡¯t have the time to continue complaining so he immediately turned around with his sword in his hand. He used his diaphragm and shouted at Lin Zhipei, who was attempting to kill Bai Zhanji, as he pointed at him with his left finger, ¡°You, come over!¡± Tang Sancai felt speechless when he saw this. It¡¯s starting again¡­ As expected, after Ye Weiming¡¯s shout, Lin Zhipei abandoned Bai Zhanji whom he could have killed immediately and started charging towards Ye Weiming with bloodshot eyes. Then they engaged in close combat. The moment they exchanged blows, Ye Weiming felt unprecedented pressure. This level 35 Lin Zhipei was much more powerful than the other two bosses. This person suppressed Ye Weiming entirely in terms of internal energy, lightness kung fu, and sword skills. Even with the absolute defensive ability of the ¡®Dragon-Phoenix Sword¡¯, Ye Weiming still found it strenuous to fight with him. This was after he ate barbequed that could increase his attribute before the battle! His arm strength had increased by 97 points! If that wasn¡¯t the case, based on Ye Weiming¡¯s current ability, he might not be able to handle more than three rounds of attacks from his opponent! If it was one versus one, Ye Weiming would die today. If Lin Zhipei wanted to kill him, it was only a matter of time. However, this wasn¡¯t a one versus one battle. It was a three versus one. After Ye Weiming voluntarily bore Lin Zhipei¡¯s attacks, Tang Sancai immediately started reinforcing him with his long-range attacks. But Lin Zhipei wasn¡¯t Ji Laiye. He wasn¡¯t afraid of their one defending and one attacking tactic at all. The long sword in his hand danced up and down in the air. While giving Ye Weiming enough pressure, he was still able to block all the concealed weapons that Tang Sancai shot over. When facing him, Ye Weiming didn¡¯t even dare to change his skill to the ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯ to help with his attacks. Ye Weiming understood where his ability was at. If he dared to change to the offensive ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯ now, the weakness of the sword skill would be revealed immediately, which was the lack of defensive power. This was equivalent to allowing his opponent to kill him. Hence, even though it felt very frustrating, Ye Weiming could only execute the ¡®Dragon-Phoenix Sword¡¯ and defend against his opponent¡¯s attack. Fortunately, this scenario didn¡¯t last for a long time. Bai Zhanji knew that the two players weren¡¯t Lin Zhipei¡¯s match at their current level so after bandaging his wound, he entered the battle. The situation on the battlefield changed instantly the second Bai Zhanji entered. He might not be as powerful as he was in the past when he chased Lin Zhipei until the ends of the earth, but his current combat ability was enough to have a duel with Lin Zhipei. It was reasonable to say that Bai Zhanji and Lin Zhipei were equal in strength. No matter how powerful he was, due to the advantage in numbers, Lin Zhipei kept getting hit. However, since Ye Weiming didn¡¯t dare to attack him and most of Bai Zhanji¡¯s attack was blocked by Lin Zhipei, only Tang Sancai¡¯s concealed weapons were able to hit his body. Every single hit only caused a two-digit drop in his health and it wasn¡¯t a 100% accuracy rate. In this heated battle, they were lucky if three out of ten concealed weapons managed to hit their opponent. Lin Zhipei either evaded the rest of the concealed weapons or blocked them. Sometimes, they were thrown back by his internal energy too. Rather than saying Lin Zhipei couldn¡¯t dodge all the concealed weapons, it was more accurate to say that he decided to sacrifice some of his health to save his internal energy. In actual fact, the rate of his health dropping was around the same as his health replenishing rate. Bai Zhanji fought with all his might. Amidst his fight, he took a chance to explain to the two players, ¡°Lin Zhipei used to be a disciple of the Quanzhen Sect. He betrayed his sect and formed the Lotus Clan. During that period, he killed a swordmaster from the Huashan Sect and received the master¡¯s ¡®Swift Gale Sword¡¯. Because of this scripture, his kung fu increased tremendously. You must be careful when fighting with him.¡± Actually, he didn¡¯t need to remind them. Ye Weiming and Tang Sancai could tell that Lin Zhipei¡¯s sword was as swift as lightning. Because of his speed, the three of them weren¡¯t able to bring out the advantage of having more people on their side. Bai Zhanji might be able to continue dawdling with Lin Zhipei because of his high attributes, but Ye Weiming and Tang Sancai¡¯s internal energy would get depleted soon. At that time, the situation would be even more precarious for them. They mustn¡¯t continue like this! Ye Weiming made a decision instantly and opened his mouth, ¡°Brother Little White, are you able to hold him back for ten counts?¡± ¡°For ten counts?¡± Bai Zhanji was stunned for a moment before nodding. He replied, ¡°No problem.¡± ¡°Thank you, Brother Little White!¡± After he finished speaking, Ye Weiming moved to the side and exited the battlefield. He rushed towards Tang Sancai who was furiously shooting his concealed weapons at Lin Zhipei. Lin Zhipei wanted to stop Ye Weiming but Bai Zhanji was well-prepared. He blocked all of Lin Zhipei¡¯s attacks. The effective range of concealed weapons had a limit so when Ye Weiming executed his movement technique, he arrived in front of Tang Sancai within a blink of an eye. Before Tang Sancai could ask anything, an exchange request had already been sent out. Tang Sancai was stunned. Then he quickly accepted the request. Yu Daiyan placed a Mosquito Feeler Needle and a Seven Star Thorn on the trading column. He said in the team channel, ¡°In the storyline, even Yu Daiyan wasn¡¯t able to withstand the combined effects of the poisons in these two concealed weapons. Its effects might be decreased in battle mode but I think that Lin Zhipei cannot be compared with Yu Daiyan. Once he gets hit, he will be affected. However, you only have two chances. It¡¯s up to you now!¡± Poisonous concealed weapons! Tang Sancai¡¯s eyes lit up when he saw the two concealed weapons. As a disciple of the Tang Clan, he knew how powerful poison could be. Unfortunately, it hadn¡¯t been long since they entered this game. He might be the ¡®eldest senior brother¡¯ of the Tang Clan but he only had some achievements in terms of concealed weapons skills. He hadn¡¯t learned how to make poisons. He didn¡¯t know how to make poisonous concealed weapons but he knew how to use poisonous concealed weapons. ¡°Don¡¯t worry. I know what to do.¡± After getting Tang Sancai¡¯s confirmation, Ye Weiming suddenly noticed that the area he was standing in was quite spacious. He decided not to go back. He raised his hand once again and pointed at Lin Zhipei. ¡°You, come over!¡± Chapter 53 The battlefield changed. Ye Weiming was too lazy to run back so he pulled the boss over to fight. Bai Zhanji had no choice but to come over too. As for Tang Sancai, he ran beside a huge tree that he could use to hide anytime he wanted and continued throwing concealed weapons at Lin Zhipei. Speaking of which, this Brother Sancai was indeed one of the top players among the disciples of the Tang Clan. His grasp of timing was extremely accurate. After receiving the poisonous weapons, he didn¡¯t throw it out in haste to see its effects. Instead, he maintained his original tempo and continued throwing ordinary concealed weapons out at a steady pace. After all, Lin Zhipei wasn¡¯t an idiot. Ye Weiming¡¯s trade was done right under his eyes. He might not know the details of their trade but he would have guessed that something was going on. At the start, Lin Zhipei blocked all of Tang Sancai¡¯s concealed weapons. No matter how astonishing and amazing this eldest senior brother of the Tang Clan threw his concealed weapons, none of it was able to break through Lin Zhipei¡¯s Qi wall. However, in that case, the depletion of his internal energy increased greatly. If he continued depleting it at this rate, he would run out of internal energy before Ye Weiming and Tang Sancai. At that time, he would not be their match. That was why he decided to give up some of his health and not block all the concealed weapons. When both parties had a great difference in capabilities, your ability was your tactic. When both parties had equal capabilities, your tactic was your ability! After enduring for some time, Lin Zhipei finally realized that he couldn¡¯t continue like this. He had no choice but to give up using his internal energy to block all the concealed weapons. Once again, he started to give up some of his health. Right at this moment, Tang Sancai decisively mingled the Mosquito Feeler Needle among his other concealed weapons and aimed it at Lin Zhipei¡¯s heart. He wanted to give him a huge blow. Tang Sancai performed this move with great technique. He didn¡¯t use his internal energy to increase the power of his throw. He also didn¡¯t let his opponent feel any great sense of danger. The place he aimed at was a vital point at his back. Lin Zhipei was able to evade it easily by moving his body slightly. But he didn¡¯t. Lin Zhipei got poisoned. The amazing part about poisonous concealed weapons was that it didn¡¯t need to hit a vital spot and didn¡¯t need any additional increase in attributes. It just needed to hit its target. Once it hit its target, the target would be poisoned! In battle mode, the poison resistance of a boss was very strong. The lethal poison that made Yu Daiyan suffer only depleted 10% of Lin Zhipei¡¯s combat ability. But when both parties were in a balanced state and one side dropped by 10% in combat ability, it wasn¡¯t hard to imagine the outcome. Naturally, Lin Zhipei was immediately suppressed by Ye Weiming and his team. After some time, Tang Sancai acted again. When Lin Zhipei was too busy to care about him, he threw the Seven Star Thorn out, and it hit Lin Zhipei¡¯s shoulder. In an instant, Lin Zhipei¡¯s combat ability dropped to 70% of his prime state. This didn¡¯t mean that the poison on the Seven Star Thorn was two times more lethal than the one on the Mosquito Feeler Needle. It was because the combination of the two poison caused a huge effect such that one plus one was greater than two. After two rounds of weakening, Lin Zhipei, who could handle three opponents at the start, finally started to tire out under the influence of the poison. His combat ability was crippled by 30% so he couldn¡¯t suppress Ye Weiming entirely like how he did a few moments ago. The pressure on Ye Weiming decreased tremendously. He started changing his sword skill and used the ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯ to increase the attacking power of his team. After Ye Weiming managed to stab Lin Zhipei and the poison on the Green Bamboo Sword entered the body of this level 35 boss, Lin Zhipei¡¯s combat ability decreased once again. Then it was a happy moment of harvesting. Three minutes later, Lin Zhipei¡¯s health bar was almost empty. The moment he was left with only a fraction of his blood, this ambitious man who had reached a dead-end finally released all his potential! He roared furiously and the surging internal energy in his body exploded within a split second. Then the long sword in his hand turned into lingering shadows. Not only did his combat ability return to his prime state, but his speed also reached a frightening level too. Bai Zhanji and Ye Weiming were powerful but they had to change their offense into defense and evade his attacks for the time being. However, everyone knew that this was his last burst of desperateness. After his explosive power ended, his life would come to an end. Who would get to kill the boss would depend on how fast the players were. In the contribution distribution mode, the person who managed to get the last hit would have additional contribution points when the system was calculating their rewards. That meant that whoever got the final hot would have a higher chance of getting good items! Reality proved that the person who would manage to get the final hit wasn¡¯t the one who had the fastest hand. It was the one with the longest arm! Ye Weiming¡¯s movement was fast but it wasn¡¯t as fast as Tang Sancai¡¯s flying daggers! After Lin Zhipei finished a wave of sword slashes, Ye Weiming prepared to execute his ¡®Eight Step Chasing Toad¡¯ to go back and snatch the kill. However, at this moment, Tang Sancai¡¯s flying dagger was already less than three inches away from Lin Zhipei¡¯s body. Lin Zhipei knew that he would die so he didn¡¯t try to evade or defend himself. Instead, he roared in anger and shifted all his internal energy into the long sword in his hand. The long sword turned into a long rainbow and shot towards Tang Sancai furiously like a thunderbolt. At this stage of the battle, Lin Zhipei¡¯s hatred had shifted from Bai Zhanji to the two players. The person he wanted to kill before his death was Ye Weiming. However, after witnessing the sadistic defensive ability of the ¡®Dragon-Phoenix Sword¡¯, he knew that pulling Ye Weiming to hell with him was impossible. That was why he aimed his ¡®Flying Dragon¡¯ move at Tang Sancai instead. ¡°Pfft.¡± Tang Sancai¡¯s flying dagger stabbed straight into Lin Zhipei¡¯s body. The dark green blood bar above Lin Zhipei¡¯s head emptied. ¡°Pfft!¡± Lin Zhipei¡¯s long sword pierced through Tang Sancai¡¯s body, directly turning him from full health into a flash of white light. Instant kill! Ye Weiming felt a little helpless when he saw his teammate perishing together with the boss. The notification from the system came late at this moment. Ding! You¡¯ve successfully killed the level 35 boss Lin Zhipei. You received 10000 EXP and 1000 Cultivation! Ding! Congratulations on completing the mission ¡®Protecting Little White¡¯. You managed to protect the honest Soymilk Little White and even killed three evil and cruel scums of the pugilistic world, Lin Zhipei, Ji Laiye, and Ge Angshou. You¡¯ve completed the mission perfectly. Mission rewards: 20000 EXP, 2000 Cultivation, and an increase of one level for any single kung fu! Ding! Your ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯ had increased by one level. It¡¯s level 9 now. System Announcement: Player Ye Weiming from the Divine Constable Bureau and Player Tang Sancai from the Tang Clan killed level 35 boss Lin Zhipei. They¡¯ve completed the first blood. Rewards for first blood: Reputation in pugilistic world 1000, Clan contribution 1000. System Announcement: Player¡­ As per normal, the system repeated the first blood announcement thrice. However, Ye Weiming just pouted his lips helplessly. The rewards for the mission were not bad but he wasn¡¯t satisfied with the immediate effect of the last reward. He wanted to raise the level of his expiration exercise first. The second most important kungfu he wanted to raise was ¡®Daizhong Way¡¯. After that, it would be the ¡®Eight Step Chasing Toad¡¯. Even raising the level of ¡®Dragon-Phoenix Sword¡¯ was better than raising the level of ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯. But the system decided to oppose him and raise the level for the kung fu he least wanted. He shook his head and opened his attributes tab. He gasped in surprise when he saw his attributes! Chapter 54 Sword of the Yue Maiden (unpopular) A sword skill passed down from the Chunqiu Dynasty. Not very powerful. Level: 9 Proficiency: 6365/300000 Power +90%, Accuracy +90% The level of his sword skill did increase by one. Its attributes also increased by 10% each just like what he expected. Looking at his proficiency, his original proficiency wasn¡¯t wasted as it seemed to have brought over to his current level. However, even then, the difference between the proficiency points of level 9 and level 10 was a little too outrageous. Normally, the proficiency points needed to reach the next level were double the points of the previous level. Based on this calculation, if you needed 12800 proficiency points to rise from level 8 to level 9, then from level 9 to level 10, you should need 25600 proficiency points. Why did it suddenly jump to 300000? This wasn¡¯t twice the previous level¡¯s proficiency points! It was more than twenty times the previous points!? Was it always so difficult to cultivate a kung fu till its highest level, even if it was a lackluster kung fu? Or was the Sword of the Yue Maiden a special kung fu? Of course, this wasn¡¯t the main point! The main point was if his expiration exercise followed the same pattern, when would he be able to learn the ¡®Hunyuan Scripture¡¯? With this uncertainty in mind, Ye Weiming kicked Lin Zhipei¡¯s corpse and finished touching his body. Quanzhen Sword Techniques (Intermediate): The basic sword skill of the Quanzhen Sect. It¡¯s simple and unsophisticated. It¡¯s most suitable for solidifying your foundation. Cultivation requirements: Arm strength 85, Potential 85, Enlightenment 30. Golden Anser Skill (Intermediate): The basic lightness kung fu of the Quanzhen Sect. It¡¯s extremely helpful for the cultivation of your internal energy. Cultivation requirements: Movement 85, Reaction 85, Intelligence 30. Iron Substrate Bow (Gold): A powerful bow. You will only be able to use it if you have strong arms. Attack +200, bow and arrow damage +10%. Item requirement: Arm strength 100! Money: 16 Gold. Ye Weiming had to admit that Lin Zhipei was really a level 35 boss. The items he dropped were amazing! Although he only dropped three items, every single one of them was a priceless item at this stage of the game. There was nothing much to explain for the two intermediate kung fu. The Iron Substrate Bow alone was already heaven-defying enough. Even compared to the Green Bamboo Sword in his hands, it was more powerful! If this bow landed in the hands of an ordinary player who was learning bow and arrow skills, it would catapult the player into a master of the game at this stage. If that player knew how to grab this chance to create a snowball effect¡­ Unfortunately, Ye Weiming never learned any forms of bow and arrow skills. Also, based on the kung fu background of the Divine Constable Bureau, he would have to rely on his luck if he wished to learn such skills. He silently kept the three items. Ye Weiming wasn¡¯t satisfied with the items that Lin Zhipei dropped. First, there wasn¡¯t a treasured sword, an item that Ye Weiming needed. Next, the ¡®Swift Gale Sword¡¯ that Lin Zhipei executed during the battle wasn¡¯t dropped either. Based on Bai Zhanji¡¯s introduction just now, Lin Zhipei had learned the ¡®Quanzhen Sword Techniques¡¯, but he still wanted to get the ¡®Swift Gale Sword¡¯. Even during the battle, what he used was the modified version of the Mount Hua Sect sword skill. This proved that the ¡®Swift Gale Sword¡¯ was Lin Zhipei¡¯s most powerful attack! Multiple thoughts flashed past Ye Weiming¡¯s mind. Then he started looking for Ah Huang hurriedly. He realized that this poor little dog still had blood dripping from the side of its mouth. It looked half-dead and was moving towards Schrodinger¡¯s state. Ye Weiming couldn¡¯t bear to see Ah Huang like this. At this moment, he suddenly heard a notification from the system. Ding! Player Tang Sancai requested to be your friend. Ye Weiming casually accepted the request. Immediately, he saw a pigeon flapping its wings and landing on his shoulder. Then it disappeared. At the same time, Tang Sancai¡¯s icon started jumping furiously in his notification column. Tang Sancai: Brother Weiming, what did Lin Zhipei drop? From this simple and direct sentence, Ye Weiming could almost see the other party¡¯s interestingly anxious expression. This person died along with the boss but from the notification from the system a while ago, it could be seen that the system determined that he had killed Lin Zhipei successfully because Lin Zhipei died 0.1 seconds before him. Thus, he had completed the mission that would give him amazing rewards. He should have already gotten the rewards from the mission but he didn¡¯t have a share of the items Lin Zhipei dropped, based on the decision of the system. Under the contribution distribution mode, there were no strict rules for the allocation of items dropped. But you still needed to be on the map. When Ye Weiming was touching the corpses, Tang Sancai was reviving at the revival point. Thus, he didn¡¯t have a share of the dropped items. Should he be considered lucky or unlucky in such a circumstance? Because of his professional conduct, Ye Weiming didn¡¯t plan to keep all the items. He immediately sent the links of the three items over and then added on: There¡¯s also 16 Gold. After sending out the message, Ye Weiming thought that the other party would say some nice words to curry favor before changing the topic to discuss the splitting of the loots. However, Tang Sancai¡¯s reaction caught him by surprise. The other party didn¡¯t say anything. He just calmly sent Ye Weiming a link of an item. Silver Pet Bracelet (Blue): Special item. You can capture non-human monsters or animals to keep as your pet. The pets can help their master during a battle. They can regain their lives, internal energy, and be released from abnormal status quickly through medication. Number of pets currently 0/3. There was such a thing in this game? After Ye Weiming saw the attributes of the bracelet, his eyes lit up. He instantly sent a message over: Wait for me at the Peony Village. We will talk when we meet! He wrapped the corpses of the three bosses in grass mats and carried Ah Huang up. Then he walked towards the direction of the Peony Village along with Bai Zhanji who had picked up his carrying pole. None of them spoke throughout the journey. When they reached Peony Village, Ye Weiming watched Bai Zhanji as he entered the Zhao residence. After that, he excitedly went to the location where he was supposed to meet Tang Sancai. It was a pavilion outside of the village. The peonies around the pavilion were in full bloom. The scenery was so beautiful that one simply couldn¡¯t take them all in. When Ye Weiming arrived, Tang Sancai had already been waiting for some time. Before the other party could open his mouth, Ye Weiming, who was hugging the dog, said voluntarily, ¡°Both of us were important in the process of killing Lin Zhipei. However, I contributed more because I endured his attacks.¡± The corners of Tang Sancai¡¯s lips lifted slightly when he heard this. He thought of something and replied, ¡°But what settled the outcome was my two amazing strikes with the concealed weapons.¡± Ye Weiming already sat down in the pavilion. ¡°However, I provided you with the Seven Star Thorn and the Mosquito Feeler Needle.¡± Tang Sancai nodded to show that he agreed. Ye Weiming directly said the distribution plan he had in his mind, ¡°These three items are all priceless at this current stage of the game. It¡¯s hard to say which one is better. My idea is that you can choose one of the items among the three of them. And we will split the 16 gold.¡± Tang Sancai was slightly surprised. ¡°Are you not planning to exchange the bracelet?¡± ¡°This is this, that is that. We will split the items first before talking about the bracelet.¡± ¡°Brother Weiming, you¡¯re straightforward!¡± Tang Sancai complimented Ye Weiming and said immediately, ¡°I want the ¡®Golden Anser Skill¡¯.¡± Ye Weiming didn¡¯t waste any time and immediately sent the item over. Tang Sancai placed the Silver Pet Bracelet on the trading platform simultaneously. ¡°You need this item urgently so use it to save your dog first. We can talk about the price later.¡± ¡°Okay!¡± The Silver Pet Bracelet was named as a bracelet but it was more like a wrist guard. It was similar to the ones Wonder Woman wore in her movie. However, the prints on this Silver Pet Bracelet were more oriental. Ye Weiming equipped the bracelet and immediately made Ah Huang his pet. Then he fed Ah Huang with a pill to regenerate his health. Signs of life slowly started showing up at Ah Huang¡¯s face at visible speed. The effect is not bad! Ye Weiming finally heaved a sigh of relief. He turned and smiled at Tang Sancai. ¡°Tell me how much you want to sell your Silver Pet Bracelet for. Or are you eyeing one of the other two items?¡± ¡°I¡¯m not in a rush now.¡± Tang Sancai sat down. A breeze blew towards them at this moment. Tang Sancai took a deep breath and enjoyed the fragrance of the flowers that came along with the wind. After a few seconds, he opened his mouth and continued, ¡°If I¡¯m not wrong, you should have half a piece of the Lock of Longevity that one of the three bosses dropped, right?¡± Ye Weiming took out the Lock of Longevity that Ge Angshou dropped and placed it on the stone table between the two of them. ¡°Are you referring to this?¡± Tang Sancai nodded but he didn¡¯t take the Lock of Longevity. Instead, he started talking about another topic that seemed unrelated. ¡°I¡¯ve been doing a chained mission recently. Protecting Bai Zhanji was just one of the side missions. I¡¯m currently unable to complete the main mission alone. At first, I just thought that I would just complete the mission to whatever stage I can. However, after meeting you, I feel that I can challenge myself.¡± ¡°What do you think?¡± Tang Sancai asked, ¡°Are you interested in joining me to complete the mission together?¡± Ye Weiming was about to reply but the sound of wings flapping was heard. He turned his head and saw a pigeon landing on his shoulder. He opened his message column. His calm face suddenly turned serious. ¡°I¡¯m sorry. An urgent matter suddenly came up. I have no choice but to reject your offer.¡± Chapter 55 A large-scale clan mission is about to start. Come back as soon as possible! ¡ª¡ªYou Jin It was a short sentence but Ye Weiming viewed it with high importance. For a normal player, large-scale missions normally meant huge rewards. Although the Divine Constable Bureau was different from other clans, the rewards for its mission wouldn¡¯t be too different. Even if it didn¡¯t have clan kung fu, the other rewards it offered were worth the effort. What was different was that the large-scale missions of the Divine Constable Bureau were more like an order. If Ye Weiming didn¡¯t participate in them, there would be punishments waiting for him. With these two reasons in mind, Ye Weiming decisively rejected Tang Sancai¡¯s offer and decided to complete his clan mission. To express his apology, Ye Weiming gave Tang Sancai five Seven Star Thorn and Mosquito Feeler Needle each in addition to the Lock of Longevity. However, these concealed weapons were all used before so the poison in them had decreased greatly. Ye Weiming was so generous that Tang Sancai gave a plum in return for a peach. He immediately agreed to use the Silver Pet Bracelet to exchange for the Lock of Longevity and the concealed weapons. In the end, both parties were satisfied and happy. Ye Weiming kept the now full health Ah Huang into the pet¡¯s space that came along with the bracelet. Then he bid farewell to Tang Sancai and walked towards the resting station of the Peony Village along with him. As they walked, Ye Weiming finally started to organize his loot. He wanted to increase his ability before returning to his clan. He started with the cultivation rewards first. Adding up the rewards from the three bosses as well as the final mission, he received a total of 2550 cultivation points! Besides that, he also received one ¡®The Study of Lightness Kung Fu¡¯, one ¡®The Study of Finger Skills¡¯, and one ¡®The Study Of Sword Skills¡¯. They were obtained when he collected the bodies of Ge Angshou, Ji Laiye, and Lin Zhipei respectively. These books were of good quality. The Study of Lightness Kung Fu: The diary of the bandit Ge Angshou. It can be used on specific lightness kung fu to increase the proficiency of the selected skill by 1500 points! The Study of Finger Skills: The diary of the bandit Ji Laiye. It can be used on specific finger skills to increase the proficiency of the selected skill by 2000 points! The Study Of Sword Skills: The diary of the bandit Lin Zhipei. It can be used on specific sword skills to increase the proficiency of the selected skill by 3000 points! Because of what Ah Son said before, Ye Weiming didn¡¯t use the three books hurriedly in case he missed any unexpected gains. He kept them in his bag first, preparing to read them carefully when he had the time. After sorting out the books, he looked at the items the three bosses dropped. The items that Ge Angshou dropped were surprisingly of good quality. The additional attributes of the Universe Pendant turned him from a fragile assassin into a tanky assassin. It was a great item even among all the gold items. Now, even if Youyou had the Zhuge Celestial Bow with her, she wouldn¡¯t be able to kill him with a single blow. Well, probably¡­ About the beginner level concealed weapons skill ¡®Shooting Star Throw¡¯, Ye Weiming hadn¡¯t decided if he should learn this skill. He planned to ask You Jin about this after returning to the Divine Constable Bureau. And finally the Dark Blue Wrist Guards had good attributes but Ye Weiming felt that the wrist guards were more suitable for a concealed weapons player. If he used it, it would just be a waste. Most importantly, the wrist guards came in a pair. If he wanted to equip it, he had to wear both of them. The Silver Pet Bracelet that Ye Weiming needed clashed with this requirement. Hence, these wrist guards with not-so-bad attributes became a piece of trash to him. Maybe he could sell it away or give it to someone to build relationships. Either way, he wouldn¡¯t be using it. Ye Weiming moved to the items Ji Laiye dropped. This guy had the worst items. The Frog Skin Wrist Guards were just punching gloves. Ye Weiming had never learned any fist skills so he couldn¡¯t use it. As for the ¡®A Painful Bag Of Rice¡¯, he didn¡¯t even want to talk about it! Maybe this fellow dropped more items but Tang Sancai picked them up instead? Ye Weiming shook his head and shifted his gaze to look at the highlights of his day, which were the two items that Lin Zhipei dropped. He couldn¡¯t pull the bow yet with his flimsy arms and he hadn¡¯t learned any shooting skills so you could guess how accurate he was with it. Most importantly, as one of the top-tier players, if he couldn¡¯t pull the bow, it was definitely impossible for other players too. Maybe after some time, the bow could fetch a good price, but now wasn¡¯t the time. As for the ¡®Quanzhen Sword Techniques¡¯, Ye Weiming didn¡¯t use it hurriedly. The reason was the same as the other three diaries. He would find some other time to look through them carefully. But Ye Weiming¡¯s attributes were still lacking to practice the ¡®Quanzhen Sword Techniques¡¯. Thus, he used the cultivation points he just received to increase his expiration exercise to level nine so that his arm strength and his potential reached the requirements. He noticed that his ¡®Dragon-Phoenix Sword¡¯ was nearing the next level so he added cultivation points to it too. After a series of actions, Ye Weiming¡¯s attributes became¡­ Ye Weiming Level: 18 ¡­ Health: 2070/2070 Internal energy: 810/810 Physique: 85 Arm strength: 85 Movement: 191 Reaction: 85 Intelligence: 25 Enlightenment: 30 ¡­ Breathing exercise (unpopular) ¡­ Level: 9 Proficiency: 0/25600 Health +450, Internal energy +450 Physique +45, Arm strength +45, Movement +45, Reaction +45 ¡­ Sword of the Yue Maiden (unpopular) ¡­ Level: 9 Proficiency: 6365/300000 Power +90%, Accuracy +90% ¡­ Dragon-Phoenix Sword (intermediate) ¡­ Level: 5 Proficiency: 0/10000 Defense +100%, Accuracy +100%, Dodge +50% Special effects: Force removal ¡­ Eight Step Chasing Toad (Beginner) ¡­ Level: 6 Proficiency: 2660/8000 Movement +120 ¡­ How Is Mount Tai (Ultimate) ¡­ Level: 2 Proficiency: 1211/2000 Attack damage +20%, Critical Hit +20%, Critical Damage +20% During a battle, you can activate the sutra so that it runs automatically. You will be able to calculate your opponent¡¯s move and break their moves! ¡­ Equipment (Not listing out everything) ¡­ Ye Weiming was relieved about his expiration exercise, he only needed 25600 proficiency points to reach level 10. This was twice the points of level 9. It didn¡¯t jump more than 20 times like the Sword of the Yue Maiden. He felt hopeful that he was able to reach level 10 for this beginner exercise within a short period. As for the ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯, Ye Weiming had already decided not to waste any of his precious cultivation points and diaries on it anymore. ¡­ Ye Weiming returned to Bian Liang City using the horse carriage from the resting station. Then he executed his movement technique and rushed back to the Divine Constable Bureau. The moment he stepped through the main door, he saw March, whom he hadn¡¯t seen in a long time, meditating on a futon. The young lady was wearing light yellow outerwear with two pigtails on her head. Her skin was fair and delicate. She looked quite beautiful. When she saw Ye Weiming, March immediately kept the futon and stood up. She smiled as she came forward. ¡°Ah Ming, it hasn¡¯t been long since you received the news. Your ability must have improved a lot!¡± ¡°Not really¡­¡± Ye Weiming humbly shook his head. ¡°There¡¯s a slight improvement but I just barely manage to catch up with the other players.¡± March gave a naughty smile when she heard this. Then she silently sent a screenshot to Ye Weiming. Ding! The passive technique ¡®reading people¡¯ is activated. You realize that when the other party is speaking, he is in high spirits. His words seem humble but he¡¯s actually feeling proud in his heart. He has the arrogant thought of ¡®I¡¯m invincible in this world¡¯! What the f**k! Ye Weiming could only think of one place where this bugged technique could come from. Hence, he frowned and asked, ¡°You didn¡¯t choose the ¡®Heaven¡¯ technique when you entered the bureau?¡± March shrugged helplessly and replied, ¡°By the time I entered the bureau, the Heaven and Earth techniques had been chosen. There¡¯s only ¡®Human¡¯ and ¡®Ghost¡¯ left. I¡¯m afraid of ghosts so I chose the ¡®Human¡¯ technique.¡± There was no need to ask. This ability that was like a human lie detector must be the ¡®Human¡¯ technique she chose. Ye Weiming wondered if there were other uses of this technique. Ye Weiming nodded and reminded her, ¡°Don¡¯t let other people know about this.¡± ¡°Of course I know that. However, you brought me into the Divine Constable Bureau so we¡¯re not strangers, right?¡± March paused for a moment before she continued, ¡°You Jin said that the clan mission will only be released after all three constable players are back. Let¡¯s wait here for a moment.¡± Ye Weiming shook his head lightly. ¡°I have some questions to ask You Jin.¡± He went all the way to the back courtyard. Just like what he expected, he saw You Jin holding his sword with both hands and standing upright in the courtyard. When he saw Ye Weiming, he opened his mouth and asked, ¡°Weiming, you¡¯re back?¡± Hmph, look at how close you appear to be with me. Aren¡¯t you supposed to be cold and haughty? You Jin ignored what Ye Weiming was thinking in his mind and continued speaking, ¡°The mission will be released by Head Supremacy Huang personally after all three of you are back. You can wait at the side.¡± He paused for a moment and added, ¡°I didn¡¯t expect you to reach level 5 for the ¡®Dragon-Phoenix Sword¡¯ so quickly. Not bad!¡± Ye Weiming smiled and took out two scriptures from his bag. He said, ¡°Commander You, I received these two kung fu scriptures during my missions. However, just based on the description, I don¡¯t know much about them. Please help me to take a look and see if they¡¯re suitable for me to cultivate.¡± Chapter 56 The two scriptures that Ye Weiming took out were the ¡®Shooting Star Throw¡¯ and the ¡®Quanzhen Sword Techniques¡¯. After the previous interactions with this NPC, Ye Weiming realized that although You Jin looked frightening, he was not a bad person. Thus, he had the thought of asking You Jin for advice. No matter what the outcome was, it was always good to listen to different opinions. He asked You Jin to look at two scriptures, but his real aim was to listen to his opinions on the ¡®Shooting Star Throw¡¯. As for the ¡®Quanzhen Sword Techniques¡¯, he had already decided to practice it. But since he was planning on asking You Jin, asking for more opinions wasn¡¯t harmful at all. You Jin took the two scriptures from Ye Weiming silently and flipped through them. After scanning the books, he returned the scriptures to Ye Weiming. ¡°¡®Shooting Star Throw¡¯ is not suitable for you.¡± ¡°Why?¡± It was an odd day if You Jin was helpful. He patiently explained to Ye Weiming, ¡°The ¡®Shooting Star Throw¡¯ is just a special concealed weapons move. It allows you to shoot multiple concealed weapons at once so that you could block all of your opponent¡¯s path of retreat. However, it¡¯s unable to improve your accuracy. If someone who specialized in concealed weapons practice this move, it will become a powerful attacking move for him. But for you¡­¡± ¡°Okay, I understand.¡± Ye Weiming knew how horrible the accuracy of his concealed weapons was. Thus, he moved away from the topic and asked, ¡°What about the ¡®Quanzhen Sword Techniques¡¯.¡± ¡°Good stuff!¡± You Jin continued, ¡°Little White has already told me about what happened through a letter. You performed well.¡± Ye Weiming was dumbfounded. He just parted with Bai Zhanji recently. How did his letter arrive faster than him? Also, I¡¯m asking you about ¡®Quanzhen Sword Techniques¡¯. What did it have to do with Bai Zhanji? He heard You Jin continuing, ¡°Actually, this ¡®Quanzhen Sword Techniques¡¯ is really precious. It¡¯s as valuable as the advanced sword skill Lin Zhipei had, the ¡®Swift Gale Sword¡¯. No, it might even be more valuable than that!¡± Ye Weiming probed further curiously, ¡°If the ¡®Quanzhen Sword Techniques¡¯ is so powerful, why did Lin Zhipei spend so much effort to snatch the ¡®Swift Gale Sword¡¯ scripture? He even willingly changed his sword skills.¡± ¡°This involved the unique features of a kung fu.¡± You Jin was probably bored so he started analyzing for Ye Weiming, ¡°We can¡¯t simply use ¡®good or bad¡¯, or ¡®powerful or not powerful¡¯ to describe a kung fu. That¡¯s because every single kung fu has its unique features. When you¡¯re choosing your kung fu, you should especially take note of this point.¡± He paused for a moment before continueing using his awful voice, which sounded as though he had suffered terrible torture, to say, ¡°Let¡¯s take this ¡®Quanzhen Sword Techniques¡¯ you¡¯re holding as an exmaple. It might be an intermediate sword skill but it is even more precious than many other intermediate sword skills. That¡¯s because it can strengthen your foundation.¡± ¡°To put it simply, practicing this sword skill can increase your foundational attributes. The increase isn¡¯t much but the combination of the attribute can affect every single kung fu you have learned. This is a special ability that only internal energy has currently!¡± ¡°If you look at its power, it¡¯s not as powerful as those advanced or ultimate sword skills but it¡¯s not weak among its counterparts. If we have to find a weakness, the weakness is that it¡¯s an authentic Taoist kung fu. It requires an orderly progression so it will be hard to gain success in a short time.¡± ¡°Lin Zhipei gave up the ¡®Quanzhen Sword Techniques¡¯ and chose the ¡®Swift Gale Sword¡¯ because he wanted to increase his ability in a short time. He might be restricting his future potential but from his point of view, this was a good decision.¡± ¡°However, your condition is different. I feel that this ¡®Quanzhen Sword Techniques¡¯ might be more suitable for you.¡± Ye Weiming knew that You Jin was referring to the ¡®Heaven¡¯ technique he had, ¡®collecting corpses¡¯. This technique allowed him to collect proficiency points more efficiently than the other players, so the greatest weakness of this kung fu wasn¡¯t unacceptable for him. At this moment, a player who was wearing the same Flying Fish Suit as Ye Weiming rushed in furiously. After he saw Ye Weiming, he was stunned for a moment. Then he shouted angrily, ¡°Ye Weiming, you fooled me!¡± This was none other than Fei Yu, the second person who shouted ¡®I want to leave the clan¡¯ after Ye Weiming. The second constable of the Divine Constable Bureau. When he saw the other party¡¯s furious expression and his urge to fight with him, Ye Weiming asked him back, ¡°How did I fool you?¡± ¡°I¡­¡± Fei Yu felt speechless for a moment. He didn¡¯t know how to answer Ye Weiming. From the very beginning, Ye Weiming did remind him that this Divine Constable Bureau was not a good clan. He was the one that didn¡¯t believe in Ye Weiming and looked at him with disdain. However, as a good youth with good moral values, Ye Weiming didn¡¯t give up the thought of saving this youngster from danger even though he was being mocked. He continued persuading the young man. But this fellow didn¡¯t listen to him! Who could he blame? Naturally, Fei Yu understood this logic but every time he recalled that scene, he felt that Ye Weiming did everything on purpose. He must have done it on purpose! This fellow didn¡¯t just fool him. He even made him swallow his bitterness so that he couldn¡¯t complain about his sufferings to other people. He was so evil! March, who was waiting at the front yard, came in as well. When she saw the two people arguing, she wanted to open her mouth and help Ye Weiming. She wanted Fei Yu to understand what was cursing without naming names! However, before she could showcase her talent, You Jin opened his mouth and said, ¡°Okay, stop fighting. Since everyone is here, follow me. I¡¯ll bring you to see Head Supremacy Huang.¡± ¡°Everyone is here?¡± Ye Weiming was stunned. ¡°Our clan only has three players? The game has started for quite a while but you haven¡¯t even filled up the four slots in your clan?¡± You Jin laughed. ¡°How did you know that the standard configuration for the Divine Constable Bureau is four players?¡± ¡°Isn¡¯t it obvious?¡± Ye Weiming shrugged. ¡°The clan only has four special techniques, ¡®Heaven¡¯, ¡®Earth¡¯, ¡°Human¡¯, and ¡®Ghost¡¯. They can¡¯t be learned repeatedly so if you take in a fifth player, what is he supposed to learn?¡± You Jin didn¡¯t disagree with what he said. He just walked towards the hall right at the back of the huge courtyard. ¡°Follow me.¡± ¡­ The furnishing of this hall was very simple. It looked like a small-scale meeting room. There were no plaques at the front of the hall. There were more than ten mahogany chairs on each side of the room. Between every chair, there was a coffee table. Right in the middle of the room, there was a study table. An elderly around 50 years old was sitting upright behind the table and reading a book carefully. The scholarly aura around him was very strong. From the position this person was sitting, it wasn¡¯t hard to guess that he was the Head Supremacy Huang who Zhan Zhao and You Jin talked about. However, as the highest leader of the Divine Constable Bureau, this Head Supremacy Huang looked like he didn¡¯t know kung fu. Head Supremacy Huang noticed that people had entered the hall but he still finished reading the page he was on before closing and placing it on the table. He raised his head and said, ¡°Have a seat.¡± You Jin immediately greeted Head Supremacy Huang with cupped fists. Then he said to the three players behind him, ¡°You don¡¯t have to restrain yourself too much in front of Head Supremacy Huang. Find a seat for yourself.¡± All the players came from the modern world and entered this world as players. Hence, they didn¡¯t have any fear towards high-ranking officials. You Jin sat down on the first seat on the left. The three players chose their own seat and sat down too. Ye Weiming sat beside You Jin while Fei Yu sat on the first seat on the right without any fear. His seat was the opposite to You Jin¡¯s. As for March, she didn¡¯t care about being proportionate and sat down beside Ye Weiming. Her attitude was obvious. The moment they sat down, March sent Ye Weiming a private message: Why does Head Supremacy Huang look so gentle and refined? He seems like a normal civil servant. How is he able to manage all these highly skilled kung fu masters in the Divine Constable Bureau? Ye Weiming replied: The background of this game is in a non-existent dynasty similar to the Northern Song. Northern Song is an extreme example of a dynasty that emphasized heavily on studies. Thus, it is normal that a government official is in charge of all these kung fu masters. It¡¯s nothing surprising. March: = ?¦Ø?= At this moment, Head Supremacy Huang, who was sitting in the host¡¯s seat, finally opened his mouth and said, ¡°Recently, multiple murders have occurred at the Fuwei Escort Agency in Fuzhou City. The culprit is brutal and is extremely arrogant. He even used his blood as ink to write down threats towards the citizens. The citizens are now scared to even go out of their houses. I order the three of you to investigate this case together. The reward mission will be an intermediate sutra that I had created in my early years.¡± He paused for a moment. Just as the three players were feeling shocked that this refined-looking Head Supremacy Huang had the ability to create his own sutra, he continued in a calm tone, ¡°You will get additional Intelligence too.¡± Chapter 57 Ding! You have received your large-scale clan mission ¡®Fuwei Escort Agency¡¯. Fuwei Escort Agency Mission level: Six-star Multiple murders have occurred in the Fuwei Escort Agency in Fuzhou City. The culprit was arrogant enough to use his blood as ink. He dared to even threaten the daily life of the citizens. He wrote ¡®Anyone who takes ten steps out will die¡¯ in blood. In broad daylight, the culprit executed his murder right in the middle of the busy streets. The odious nature of this matter is extremely appalling! Thus, the Divine Constable Bureau decided to activate all its members to investigate the matter thoroughly and return peace to the civilians. Mission rewards: 20000 EXP, 5000 Cultivation, 100 Gold, Intermediate sutra ¡®Bones and Tendons Changing Chapter¡¯. A six-star mission! Also, the rewards for this mission were amazing! For Ye Weiming, he had absolutely no reason to reject it. He had reached the minimum for his Enlightenment and his expiration exercise had reached level 9 too. He was only 5 points of Intelligence away from being able to practice the ¡®Hunyuan Scripture¡¯. It looked like he needed to complete this mission to the best of his ability! The mission made everything sound so grand when it said that the Divine Constable Bureau activated all its members to investigate this case but in fact, it was just the three players here. Ye Weiming had done two five-star missions so he knew how scary these high-level missions were. He did complete the two missions in the end, but the dangers he went through were still fresh in his memory whenever he recalled them. This mission elevated the difficulty by another star so one could imagine how dangerous it was going to be. If there were only these three players from the Divine Constable Bureau¡­ Just as Ye Weiming was getting worried about the lack of manpower, he heard Head Supremacy Huang continuing his speech, ¡°This mission will be dangerous so each of you can choose a helper to participate in this mission along with you to help solve this case.¡± After he finished speaking, he took the three sheets of paper full of words he had prepared beside him and threw them out casually. The papers flew towards the three players respectively. The light and soft paper became a sharp concealed weapon in the hands of Head Supremacy Huang. It gave off a shrill sound as it cut through the air. Before the three players could react, the pieces of paper had already reached them. As it reached their vicinity, the papers suddenly lost their energy and turned back into ordinary sheets of paper. They floated lightly down and landed on the coffee table beside each of the players. The papers landed in the same position on all the coffee tables. The distance from the edge of the paper to the sides, top, and bottom of the coffee table were all one inch. No more, no less, no crookedness, no lopsidedness! Mind you, the distance between the three players and Head Supremacy Huang were all different. It was already astonishing that even though he threw the papers casually, they managed to turn them into sharp weapons before turning them back to soft sheets of paper. Under such circumstances, he managed to control his strength so accurately that when they landed, even someone with the obsessive-compulsive disorder would feel satisfied. This was totally beyond expectations! What kind of master was Head Supremacy Huang, for him to execute such astonishing moves so casually? It was amazing! Among the three players, Ye Weiming was the one who regained his senses first. He picked up the sheet of paper and noticed that the words on top were written in standard regular script. The red seal of the Divine Constable Bureau could be seen at the corner of the paper. Reward Order: Anyone who receive this reward order will be able to participate in the six-star mission ¡®Fuwei Escort Agency¡¯ and help the Divine Constable Bureau to solve this case together. Fuwei Escort Agency Mission level: Six-star ¡­ Mission reward: 20000 EXP, 5000 Cultivation, 100 Gold, a gold item tailor-made for you by the Military Weapon Armoury. The mission could be shared easily, and the rewards were amazing to boot. This way, you wouldn¡¯t have to owe anyone a favor when you looked for them for help. ¡°This will be a dangerous journey. You have to make ample preparations.¡± Head Supremacy Huang noticed that the three players had all kept the rewarding order so he gave the last part of his speech for this pre-mission conference. ¡°We will give you one night to prepare. Tomorrow, you must reach Fuzhou before 7 am.¡± ¡°You can leave now.¡± After leaving the conference room, Ye Weiming started pondering over the mission. Fei Yu, who walked out before Ye Weiming, said first, ¡°I feel that everyone needs to work together to complete this mission. I suggest that we will gather our helpers and then meet one another at the Yuelai Inn in Fuzhou City before 7 am tomorrow. Anyone disagree with my suggestion?¡± ¡°Hey!¡± March couldn¡¯t control herself and asked, ¡°Why are you speaking like that?¡± Fei Yu gave a serious expression and replied, ¡°I¡¯ve already made my suggestion. If anyone has differing opinions, we can have a friendly internal clan exchange to reach a consensus.¡± Ye Weiming shrugged to express his indifference. ¡°Your suggestion is not bad. We will do what you suggest.¡± March wanted to argue with Fei Yu but since Ye Weiming stated his opinion already, she just snorted and gave a silent consent. A satisfied smile appeared on Fei Yu¡¯s face. After bidding farewell to the other two players, he walked towards the main gate. As she watched his back disappear from her sight, March started complaining to Ye Weiming in an unwilling tone, ¡°Why did you allow him to get away with that? Look at the way he spoke. He seems to think that he¡¯s the eldest senior brother of our Divine Constable Bureau.¡± ¡°The problem is, I have no other suggestions.¡± Ye Weiming continued being indifferent. ¡°We need to prepare now so it¡¯s a good idea to gather in Fuzhou City tomorrow.¡± March still felt frustrated. ¡°Even if it is a good idea, you should be the one giving the suggestion. After all, you were the first player to enter the Divine Constable Bureau. Taking a step back, even if he wants to say this, he should use a respectful tone of speech, but just now he spoke as though he was giving us an order. From what I saw, he wants to use this opportunity to establish his prestige.¡± At this moment, Ye Weiming gave a stern expression that rarely appeared on his face. ¡°Actually, if we want to complete this mission properly, we all need to have the same voice. I can suppress him with your support but that won¡¯t be of any help. After all, we are not the only three players in this mission.¡± ¡°I don¡¯t want to continue arguing about nothing. How tiring is that? This meaningless arguing will lower our status too.¡± ¡°We will wait until we meet everyone tomorrow.¡± March finally smiled in satisfaction and said, ¡°Okay, I need to prepare too. See you tomorrow.¡± ¡°See you tomorrow.¡± ¡­ After bidding farewell, March walked towards the practice room of the Divine Constable Bureau. As for Ye Weiming, he walked towards the main gate directly. He opened his friends¡¯ list and scrolled until he saw Yin Bukui¡¯s name. Then he sent Yin Bukui a pigeon mail. ¡®Reward Order¡¯ ¡ª¡ªYe Weiming ¡­ He pasted the link of an item and wrote his name at the bottom. This was how simple the content of his message was. Ten seconds later, a pigeon flew back. F**k! F**k! F**k! Six-star mission and the reward is a tailor-made gold item! Oh my god! Brother Ye, you¡¯re indeed awesome! You thought of me the moment you got such a good deal. ¡ª¡ªYin Bukui ¡­ Ye Weiming sent another pigeon mail: Stop talking nonsense. Yuelai Inn in Fuzhou City before 7 am tomorrow. Are you coming? Yin Bukui: There¡¯s a time limit? That¡¯s unfortunate. I have an important clan mission on my side too. I¡¯m afraid I will have to disappoint your good intention. Ye Weiming: What mission? Is the reward better than mine? Yin Bukui: It¡¯s not about the rewards. It¡¯s¡­ kind of¡­ very important¡­ Nevermind, I shall just tell you the truth. My master got cuckolded! Chapter 58 F**k! The third disciple got beaten into a crippled and the fifth disciple got kidnapped by Xie Xun with no one knowing what had happened to him. Now, the sixth disciple, Yin Liting, got cuckolded! What happened to the Wudang Sect? Was this an unlucky year for them? Just as Ye Weiming was feeling puzzled, Yin Bukui sent him another pigeon mail. He briefly described the background of his current clan mission. Ji Xiaofu, a disciple from the Emei Sect who was engaged to the sixth disciple of the Wudang Sect, Yin Liting (Yin Bukui¡¯s master), got abducted by Bright Left Messenger of the Ming Cult, Yang Xiao, and they did unspeakable things¡­ Based on what Ye Weiming read, Yin Bukui¡¯s mission seemed extremely frightening. He needed to save Ji Xiaofu from the boss, Yang Xiao, whom he didn¡¯t know the level of. However, Yin Bukui said that this mission was only five-star. It was dangerous but it wasn¡¯t impossible like what they imagined. Also, this might not be a bad thing for the Wudang Sect or Yin Liting. This was Yin Bukui¡¯s original words: Yang Xiao might be on cloud nine right now but my master won¡¯t take any losses! Ye Weiming told Yin Bukui that after he completed his mission, he would help Yin Bukui with his mission if he still hadn¡¯t finished it yet. Yin Bukui also expressed that if he needed Ye Weiming¡¯s help, he would definitely ask for it. Then he sent a document over. It was titled ¡®Lin Yuantu¡¯s era is over. The Fuwei Escort Agency was implicated by its treasure. After receiving the document, Ye Weiming started reading it as he walked. He read the content of the document in detail three times. A sinister smile slowly appeared on the edge of his lips uncontrollably. Then he muttered to himself in a voice only he could hear, ¡°Yu Canghai, leader of the Green City Clan?¡± ¡°This is good. Life is only interesting if it is challenging!¡± Since Yin Bukui was busy, Ye Weiming had to look for another strong teammate. His gaze landed on the two prime figures of the Tang Clan. In the end, he sent a pigeon mail to Youyou. The latter¡¯s reply was simpler: See you! After finishing all these, Ye Weiming came out of the city and buried the corpses of the three leaders of the Lotus Clan. After that, he returned to the Divine Constable Bureau. He went back to his room and lit the lamp. He took out the ¡®Quanzhen Sword Techniques¡¯ and started reading it carefully. The path begins with the cultivation of the nine orifices of the body. When the nine orifices are connected, your soul will get ignited. It moves up from Quan Yong. After breaking through Quan Yong¡­ Approximately half an hour later¡­ Ding! After studying the ¡®Quanzhen Sword Techniques¡¯ carefully, you¡¯ve successfully understood the ¡®Quanzhen Sword Techniques¡¯ and received 1000 points of proficiency. Quanzhen Sword Techniques (Intermediate) The basic sword skill of the Quanzhen Sect. It¡¯s simple and unsophisticated. It¡¯s most suitable for solidifying your foundation. Level: 1 Proficiency: 1000/2000 Attack +20%, Accuracy +20%, Accuracy +20, Potential +20, Health limit +200. As expected, reading the book word by word brought about more benefits. He managed to get half of the proficiency he needed to go from level 1 to level 2. Furthermore, the additional attributes ¡®Quanzhen Sword Techniques¡¯ gave were extremely satisfactory. Arm strength +20, Potential +20, Health limit +200! These were much higher than the additional attributes given by his expiration exercise! Although the expiration exercise added on to everything including his health and internal energy, if you just talked about the overall effect, the ¡®Quanzhen Sword Techniques¡¯ was double that of his expiration exercise! Mind you, this was a sword skill, not a sutra that was supposed to increase his attributes! This addition of attributes was perfect! Such awesome additions were only ¡®not much¡¯ to You Jin? You Jin, you are really humble! However, the proficiency points this sword skill needed was really a little high. ¡®Dragon-Phoenix Sword¡¯ was an intermediate sword skill but the proficiency points it needed was half that of the ¡®Quanzhen Sword Techniques¡¯! Fortunately, Ye Weiming got this sword skill. Ordinary players might not have the confidence to reach the maximum level of this sword skill, but Ye Weiming did. Ye Weiming was really excited. He immediately took out ¡®The Study Of Sword Skills¡¯ and started reading it carefully. The Study Of Sword Skills: The diary of the bandit Lin Zhipei. It can be used on specific sword skills and can increase the proficiency of the skill by 3000 points! Another half an hour passed¡­ Ding! After studying ¡®The Study of Sword Skills¡¯, you received enlightenment and received 4500 proficiency points! Please choose the sword skill you want to use it on. Quanzhen Sword Techniques! Thus¡­ Quanzhen Sword Techniques (Intermediate) ¡­ Level: 3 Proficiency: 4000/10000 Attack +60%, Accuracy +60%, Arm strength +60, Potential +60, Health limit +600 ¡­ Wait! Ye Weiming remembered that the proficiency points needed to increase the ¡®Quanzhen Sword Techniques¡¯ from level 1 to level 2 was 2000. Based on the doubling rule of the proficiency points, 4000 points of proficiency should be needed to raise it to level 3. For level 4, 8000 points of proficiency should be needed. Yet, 10000 points of proficiency was needed to increase from level 3 to level 4. Of course, this wasn¡¯t the main point. What really caught Ye Weiming¡¯s attention was the fact that 4500 points of proficiency were able to increase this sword skill from 1000/2000 for level 1 to 4000/10000 for level 3. Was this something that 4500 points of proficiency could do? Using the previous doubling rule he concluded, he needed 9000 points to have this effect, right? This was double the number of points he had! Could it be that Lin Zhipei had a good understanding of the ¡®Quanzhen Sword Techniques¡¯ so the compatibility of his ¡®The Study Of Sword Skills¡¯ was higher with the ¡®Quanzhen Sword Techniques¡¯? He pondered for a moment, and this seemed to be the only explanation. Since he discovered this hidden setting, in the future, when he used all these diaries, he would have to take extra notice. Thinking back, ever since he started playing this game, he didn¡¯t manage to release the full potential of certain items because he didn¡¯t know these hidden settings. Every time he remembered this, Ye Weiming felt his heart aching! The game designers are evil! They are unscrupulous! While silently cursing the game developers to be raped by three men and hung up to be inseminated, he took out the other two diaries he got from the corpses of the other two bosses and read them in detail. His harvest was great. ¡®The Study of Lightness Kung fu¡¯ from Ge Angshou was supposed to give him 1500 points of lightness kung fu proficiency but after studying it, it became 2250 points. Ye Weiming used it on his ¡®Eight Step Chasing Toad¡¯. He had no other choices anyway. ¡®The Study of Finger Skills¡¯ from Ji Laiye was supposed to give him 2000 points of proficiency for finger skills but after studying it, it became 3000 points. After that, Ye Weiming was stunned because he realized that he didn¡¯t have a place to put these 3000 points of proficiency. He tried to tap on a skill but it was ineffective. He felt even more dumbfounded. Ten seconds later¡­ Ding! After studying ¡®The Study of Finger Skills¡¯, you learned through analogy and managed to increase the proficiency of the ¡®Sword of the Yue Maiden¡¯ by 750 points. So it required some time before it could trigger the learning through analogy effect¡­ After a series of actions that took two hours of Ye Weiming¡¯s time, he experienced a great rise in his strength. Ye Weiming Level: 18 ¡­ Health: 3270/3270 Internal energy: 810/810 Physique: 145 Arm strength:145 Movement: 206 Reaction: 85 Intelligence: 25 Enlightenment: 30 ¡­ Kung fu: (Not listing out everything) ¡­ Items: (Not listing out everything) ¡­ After organizing the items he received, Ye Weiming replenished some of his medicine supply before going to the practice room of his clan. He paid to enter so that he could cultivate his internal energy. There were no special requirements to cultivate internal energy. You could do it anywhere. However, it was easy to get disturbed in the process. Normally, you would need to find a quiet place to do it to receive the best results. Ye Weiming¡¯s room was a good place. Normal players liked to cultivate their internal energy when they were taking a break from killing monsters. They could recover and cultivate at the same time. But if you wanted to have the best effect, you would need to go to the practice room in your clan. If you cultivated there, your results would double! Since the effects were so amazing, there was naturally a price to pay. Every hour of using the practice room in the Divine Constable Bureau required 1 Gold and 1 Merit. Although it seemed expensive, it was cheaper than the other clans. Ye Weiming calculated the time. He stayed in the practice room for 8 hours and gained 1600 points of proficiency for his expiration exercise. When he walked out of the practice room, it was already 5 am. There were 2 hours left before the designated meeting time. He didn¡¯t plan to stay here anymore so he decided to leave early. He took a horse carriage and went directly to Fuzhou. When he reached Yuelai Inn, he realized that Youyou was already there. She was sitting at a table in the main lobby and waving at him. Chapter 59 Youyou was wearing the purple color clothing set for Tang Clan disciples. With her cheek-length short hair and her unique bold and valiant aura, she naturally gave off a female swordsman image just by sitting there. This aura was enough to make many proud men feel inferior! There was a freshly steamed basket of buns placed on the table in front of her. There were also two bowls of millet congee, a few hard-boiled eggs, and two sets of cutleries. It was obvious that the food hadn¡¯t been touched. Honestly, the uniform of the Tang Clan wasn¡¯t pretty when worn on a person. If you just talked about its looks, it wasn¡¯t even as pretty as the light green shaw robe Ye Weiming bought for a few silvers at the tailor shop in Hangzhou. ¡®Eternal Justice¡¯ was an extremely real game. Many females emphasized heavily on the appearance rather than the attributes of their clothing. These females felt that the attributes of the item were just temporary, but being beautiful was eternal! But Youyou was definitely not among this bunch of females. Ye Weiming sat down in the seat opposite of Youyou and looked at the chopstick and bowl on the table. ¡°Did you prepare this for me?¡± Youyou looked at the excited Ye Weiming and replied calmly, ¡°In the past, when we formed a team, I noticed that you only ate plain buns whenever you got hungry. I imagine you are someone who doesn¡¯t care about the trifling matters in your life. There¡¯s an important mission today so I¡¯m afraid you won¡¯t eat breakfast. I had nothing to do before this so I came here early and got some food. These will help you feel full for the day.¡± ¡°I didn¡¯t know you¡¯re so thoughtful.¡± Ye Weiming picked up the chopsticks as he spoke and grabbed a steamed bun. He took a huge bite of it. The steamed buns of this inn were actually not bad. The fragrance of the vegetables and the meat combined perfectly with the fragrance of the bun. It couldn¡¯t be compared with Ah Son¡¯s barbecued meat but it was tasty in its own way. He devoured the second bun and ate a mouthful of salted vegetables. Then he drank the millet porridge, and immediately felt his body turning warm. He felt full of energy. He put down the chopsticks and picked up an egg. After knocking it against the table, he peeled off the shell. At this moment, he realized that Youyou hadn¡¯t moved at all. She just placed a hand below her chin and looked at him with interest. Ye Weiming was shameless, but even he felt uncomfortable when someone stared at him so intently while he was eating. His face turned red and he said, ¡°Do I look ugly when I eat?¡± Youyou shook her head and said indifferently, ¡°When I was in the military, everyone around me ate like you, whether they are female or male. I¡¯m not afraid to tell you that my table manners is as bad or maybe even worse than yours.¡± Ye Weiming felt more at ease after hearing this. He continued peeling the eggshell and asked, ¡°Did my table manners remind you of your past?¡± Youyou nodded slightly. Then she grabbed a steamed bun with her hand and replied, ¡°I¡¯m not going to care about my image today. Let me show you my table manners too. Don¡¯t get frightened by me! After she finished speaking, she started devouring the bun. Her table manners were definitely not bad. Her back was straight when she was eating and her hands revealed the good etiquettes she had. The only odd thing was that she ate really quickly. Just like what she said, she ate faster than Ye Weiming! The man and the woman started a silent speed eating competition. They finished the food on the table so quickly it was as if a whirlwind flew past them. They simultaneously put down their chopsticks and smiled at each other. Ye Weiming commented, ¡°Thinking about it, I haven¡¯t had a proper meal ever since I entered the game. Besides eating buns, I would occasionally make some barbecued meat or buy some steamed meat buns along the streets to satisfy my craving. Now, I realize that besides killing monsters, doing missions, and moving up in levels, occasionally taking a break to enjoy life is not a bad game experience either.¡± After he finished speaking, his gaze naturally landed on Youyou¡¯s face. He thought that she would continue the topic but the other party was furrowing her brows and staring at the entrance of the lobby. Ye Weiming followed her gaze and noticed that two other people had entered the lobby of Yuelai Inn. They threw a few taels of silver at the attendant before walking in together. Ye Weiming recognized these two people. One of them had a satisfied expression on his face as if he wanted to use this chance to prove that he could suppress Ye Weiming. In the entire game, there was only one person that liked to compete with him. That was the ¡®Earth¡¯ technique inheritor of the Divine Constable Bureau, Fei Yu. The person who came with him was another person he knew. It was someone he just did a mission with¡­ ¡°Tang Sancai?¡± Youyou dropped her jaw and called out the other person¡¯s name. She asked in a curious tone, ¡°You came too?¡± ¡°It¡¯s Brother Ye and Junior Sister Youyou. What a coincidence.¡± Tang Sancai greeted them before voluntarily introducing his junior sister to Fei Yu, ¡°This Junior Sister Youyou is one of the top masters in the Tang Clan. I don¡¯t even dare to say that I¡¯m her match. Speaking of which, Junior Sister Youyou, I have to thank you for showing mercy on me outside Hangzhou City in the past.¡± The world was really small sometimes. The reinforcement that Feiyu found was Tang Sancai! Tang Sancai¡¯s words dumbfounded Youyou. She was rushing to Lung Ching Village at that time, so naturally she didn¡¯t know what Tang Sancai was talking about. However, her mind was fast. When she heard ¡®outside the Hangzhou City¡¯, she immediately remembered that Ye Weiming asked her about Tang Sancai after he helped her to attract her pursuing troops¡¯ attention. Some time ago, when she heard the announcement that Ye Weiming and Tang Sancai achieved the first kill for three bosses together, she thought that their relationship started when they met outside Hangzhou City. They formed a bond through fighting and worked together to overcome the obstacles that no other players could handle. This was the storyline she formed in her mind. But from what Tang Sancai said, the truth might not be what she imagined. Moreover, Tang Sancai still thought that the person he met outside Hangzhou City was the real Youyou. Fortunately, Ye Weiming didn¡¯t plan to make things difficult for her brain cells that were just starting to get active. He smiled at Tang Sancai and started to calculate with his left hand that was hidden under the table. In an instant, Tang Sancai felt a chilly sense of danger enveloping his entire body. He took a step back instinctively. When he looked at Ye Weiming again, his gaze was filled with astonishment. ¡°You¡­ the person outside the Hangzhou City that day was you!¡± Ye Weiming stopped the activation of the ¡®Daizhong Way¡¯ and smiled. It was a silent acknowledgement. After knowing this astounding piece of news, Tang Sancai immediately found the answer to a question he was puzzled about. No wonder Youyou, who was unable to enter Hangzhou City, suddenly appeared in their clan and completed her mission. If Ye Weiming was the Youyou he had seen, then everything could be explained. The conversation between the three people confused Fei Yu. He immediately sent Tang Sancai a message: Brother Tang, do you know these two people? How are their abilities? Compared to us, which side is stronger? Tang Sancai: I have never exchanged blows with Junior Sister Youyou so I¡¯m not sure about her ability. But I feel that Brother Ye won¡¯t have a problem fighting the two of us alone¡­ Not long ago, the frightening damage Ye Weiming dealt to the boss, which was a move that depleted a quarter of a boss¡¯s health, left a lasting impression in the eldest senior brother of the Tang Clan¡¯s mind. ¡°Wow! I thought that we were early but both of you are even earlier.¡± A familiar voice broke the awkward atmosphere. Everyone turned their head and looked over. It was March. However, the three males at the scene instinctively shifted their gaze to the young lady in white who came along with March. Chapter 60 The instant March¡¯s female companion appeared, she attracted the gazes of the three males. This wasn¡¯t because the young lady was extremely beautiful. After all, every player had the chance to alter their figures and appearance slightly before they entered the game. The percentage of alteration couldn¡¯t exceed 30%. So, although it wasn¡¯t enough to change an auntie into a young woman, it was able to allow a normal-looking player to turn into a pretty lady or a handsome man. Under this condition, there were no ugly ladies in the game. Those slightly prettier ladies were able to turn themselves in goddesses, lolitas, sexy queens, cute and innocent¡­ and many more. If this young lady was just pretty, it wasn¡¯t enough to move the hearts of these three men who had been in the game for a while. What attracted them was the special pure and clean aura the lady was exuding. With the help of this aura, this young lady, who was already beautiful, looked like a goddess that came down from heaven. One could only look at her from afar but couldn¡¯t touch her. Yet, because of this, the damage she caused was even greater. March looked at funny expressions of her three male friends who couldn¡¯t shift their gaze away from her friend but were trying their best to prevent their true intentions from getting exposed for the sake of their ego. She immediately understood what they were thinking and rolled her eyes at Ye Weiming. She coughed and the three men got startled simultaneously. She opened her mouth and introduced, ¡°This is a good sister of mine, Transparent Sky Bridge. Don¡¯t just think that she¡¯s pretty. She¡¯s very powerful too. Well, at least she¡¯s stronger than me.¡± March said that Transparent Sky Bridge was stronger than her but the group didn¡¯t put much importance to that. Among all the people here, the person she interacted the most with was Ye Weiming. They had worked together once when they were still in the novice village. At that time, he felt that her capability was just alright. It had been some time since they met so no one knew how powerful she was now. Since she didn¡¯t even have a clear idea of her own ability, it was hard to predict how much stronger she meant when she said that the other lady was stronger than her. But beautiful ladies had certain privileges, especially when no prices needed to be paid. Everyone gave some face and complimented the lady. Then Ye Weiming and Fei Yu introduced Tang Sancai and Youyou to the other two ladies. ¡°The eldest senior brother and the eldest senior sister of the Tang Clan!¡± After hearing the introduction, March¡¯s eyes lit up. She looked at the two people in admiration and said, ¡°I didn¡¯t expect both of you to join your clan so early. In that case, Little Bridge is the eldest senior sister of the Ancient Tomb Sect too!¡± Huh? Did she think that the eldest senior brother and the eldest senior sister was ranked based on the time of entering the clan? Fei Yu had been looking for an opportunity to create trouble so he grabbed this chance and explained, ¡°Junior Sister March, what you said isn¡¯t right. Brother Sancai and Lady Youyou aren¡¯t among the first batch of students to enter the Tang Clan. The players from Tang Clan are willing to admit their status because they are the strongest. This is the pugilistic world. Your status is decided by your ability.¡± Then he looked at Ye Weiming provokingly. Anyone could understand his intention without it being spoken. Ye Weiming found it a little funny that this fellow was so persistent over the status of the eldest senior brother. However, on the surface, he just nodded at the other party. Fei Yu felt a little puzzled by Ye Weiming¡¯s reaction. Come on! I¡¯m challenging your status, brother! Why are you nodding at me with a kind smile? Do you agree with what I say? Wait! Fei Yu remembered Tang Sancai¡¯s opinion of Ye Weiming¡¯s ability so he changed his initial plan. ¡°Actually, ability doesn¡¯t purely mean who is better at fighting. We have to see who has a better ability to handle affairs.¡± Then he continued in a slightly proud tone, ¡°Let¡¯s use this mission as an instance. Before I came, I had already gone to the Fuwei Escort Agency to do some investigation, and I have received some first-hand information.¡± This fellow asked everyone to meet at the inn but he went to do an investigation on his own instead. His actions didn¡¯t match with what he said but no one could say he did the wrong thing. After all, everyone agreed to make preparations alone and no one said that they couldn¡¯t do investigation during the preparation. However, this was enough to prove how determined he was to get the leader position of this mission! Ye Weiming didn¡¯t care about titles like the eldest senior brother. What he was really concerned about was the rewards for the mission. He wanted to get as many rewards as possible, but he believed in himself more than other people. Hence, he wouldn¡¯t give up the leader role of this mission so easily. He asked everyone to sit down before raising his hand to signal to Fei Yu. ¡°Please explain.¡± Everyone sat down. Fei Yu looked at the food remains on the table and felt unhappy. However, he didn¡¯t complain. He went directly to the main topic. ¡°Now, many players have gathered around the Fuwei Escort Agency. All of them received a mission from a mysterious person to kill anyone that comes out from the Fuwei Escort Agency. For every person they kill, they will get 5 Gold. The EXP and the cultivation points are calculated later!¡± Tang Sancai added, ¡°The NPC that gave this mission wore black clothes and covered his face. There¡¯s no way to identify him. I tried to use the Tang Clan¡¯s mystic technique to check his level, and found out that he is a level 25 NPC. The name that was displayed was Man In Black.¡± ¡°That means that¡­¡± Fei Yu took over the conversation and analyzed, ¡°The enemy we are facing has a huge number of players in his hands. We don¡¯t know how powerful these players are either. At the same time, he¡¯s at least a level 25 NPC. However, I feel that this is just the tip of the iceberg. Since this mission is a six-star mission, it won¡¯t be as easy as it looks.¡± Ye Weiming nodded lightly and continued for Fei Yu, ¡°Speaking of it, I have gathered some information on this mission too. I hope all of you won¡¯t be frightened when I say it.¡± Fei Yu scoffed and said with disdain, ¡°We are all masters among the players. We won¡¯t be frightened.¡± Yu Canghai nodded and continued immediately, ¡°Based on the information I have, the mastermind behind the murders at the Fuwei Escort Agency is Yu Canghai!¡± Tang Sancai asked curiously, ¡°Yu Canghai? Who is he?¡± ¡°Yu Canghai is the leader of the Green City Clan. His capability is not much weaker than the leader of the Mount Hua Sect, Yue Buqun. He is a famous character in the pugilistic world.¡± This time, Ye Weiming didn¡¯t keep people guessing. He repeated the information he received from Yin Bukui after deleting some background information that had nothing to do with this mission. Basically, the Fuwei Escort Agency had an ultimate kung fu called ¡®Bixie Swordplay¡¯. Normally, having an ultimate manual was a good thing. But the problem was, no one in the Fuwei Escort Agency managed to master this ultimate kung fu. The entire escort agency was filled with the sons of XXX and XXXa€¡±a€¡±Cai Bi (which means weaklings in Chinese). In the pugilistic world, this was like a young child holding a gold ingot. It was understandable how the Fuwei Escort Agency became the prey of some ambitious people. Among all the ambitious people, Yu Canghai was just the early bird who was the first to act and create trouble. However, to the players, at this current stage, this early bird was a scary presence that they couldn¡¯t defeat. After hearing Ye Weiming¡¯s information, Fei Yu frowned and asked, ¡°Are you a fan of the original novel?¡± For an instant, everyone¡¯s gaze landed on Ye Weiming¡¯s face. They had the same thought. Ye Weiming just gave an ambiguous smile and changed the topic directly, ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter where the source of my information is from. What we need to discuss is how to complete this mission.¡± ¡°Sun Tze once said: If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.¡± ¡°Let¡¯s not talk about our understanding of our enemy. All of us met for the first time so we don¡¯t even know about ourselves.¡± ¡°Hence, I suggest that we find a place to exchange blows so that we can have a clear understanding of each other¡¯s ability. This will allow us to easily come up with tactics, right?¡±