What even more crazier was that I felt somehow connected with that pill bottle, connection as if I can literally order it to do whatever that I wanted it to, sensing this weird connection, I couldn't help but try it .
The second I wanted the bottle to be unsealed and it actually did adhere to my request, the sealing of the bottle was now open, I still not satisfied with only this experiment, thinking that the seal might have loosened already .
Even though the bottle was literally still hovering in front of me, I wanted to become more certain, so I wanted the bottle to empty 3 Azure Wood Pills into my mouth and almost instantly, three pills flew out of the bottle and appeared in my throat .
Their movements were so fast that I merely blinked and the feeling of something falling into my throat appeared, but then I began to feel a strong and painful headache, it was as if my head was being split apart .
I couldn't help but clutch my head in try of soothing the pain even slightly but to no avail and luckily there was no need to give it anymore thought, the pain came and gone in quite the fleeting manner, it was difficult to explain what was going currently just like everything else .
Was this the gift that Tian Long told me about, could the feeling just now because I'm not strong enough to wield it or maybe I might have overtaxed myself after using it, no matter what had happened to me, now was not the time to dwell much on it, let's deal with that furious guy first .
I stood up and found that my body was much lighter than before, I couldn't help but hurry and inspect my body, before I felt like I was on the verge of breaking through, could I have already succeeded .
Huh ?!, that was my honest reaction after inspecting my body, first I now was at the 5th Layer Of Flesh Tempering, I shouldn't be able to tell, but now I was actually able to do so, this was the second surprise I found .
Just as I wanted to inspect my body, I felt some cold air sweeping through my body and then similar to intuition, I was able to tell that I was now in the 5th Layer Flesh Tempering, this was without using any of my secret skills and techniques .
As for how was I able to do it, the only logical explanation that I currently had, was that it must have something to do with the gift Tian Long gave me, what exactly was that gift and why it allowed me to directly breakthrough two layers like eating or sleeping .
Whatever was that gift, I'm very pleased with its effects so far, I heard the notifications sounds of the Panel telling me that I had completely absorbed the Medicinal Energy inside the 3 pills, I felt rejuvenated all over .
No in fact I felt more refreshed than ever before, my mind was quite clear and my vision was more clear and bright even without using my enhanced senses, which brought me yet another big surprise .
My thirst for battle was also quite intense, I felt my whole body itching to beat someone and to be beaten back as well, I felt like I was possessed, yet I find myself enjoying this weird state .
Where did you hid my damn Elixir ? .
Completely making me come back to my senses with him roaring angrily like that, I hearing that he still thinking that I have hid it somewhere, I looked at him with a pitiful look then burst into laughter which angered him even more as he directly tried to detain me again, but this time he would be quite disappointed .
Just as he extended his hand and was about to reach me, I scanned the area around me and actually found my Blood Sucking Sword a bit far in the distance from me, urging my Dragon-Tiger Transformation and my aura instantly rose to the 8th layer of Flesh Tempering .
There was still a gap between me and him in term of strength, but now that gap had become much easy to cross using Martial Skills, urging Gliding Swallow I directly moved passed the incoming attack of the enemy and appeared a distance behind him close to my Blood Sucking Sword .
No you don't ... .
He seemed to have finally realized my intention, but sadly it was too late, I was still a little short of reaching the sword, but even this short distance felt like uncrossable .
Yet, when I found myself in the direst need to reach that sword that wasn't even budging before unless I used a secret technique, I found that the sword that wasn't budging before flew directly into my hand as if it was being summoned .
Grabbing the hilt of the sword now gave me a completely different feeling compared to before, I didn't know whether was it just my imagination or something really might have changed .
You, what kind of sorcery are you using, never mind, I don't believe that you will still be so stubborn when I cut you to pieces, hiya .
Netherworld Palm Of Death .
He commented this after witnessing the abnormal scene that happened just now, I was able to understand that since his reaction was this big that he had never witnessed something like this before .
But even though he wasn't clear about what was going on with my strange method, he still dashed towards me while attacking with his palm that now had some sinister air to it, but nevertheless I had already understood that he is that determined to get that Elixir today .
I readied myself for his attack and enhanced my senses to the maximum and saw that my eyes not only can be able to track him now, but my vision become even stronger than before to the point that I was able to see an invisible line linking his palm to his body .
The first thought that came to my mind after seeing this, was that this must be Blood Qi, I'm actually able to see something like this due to the use of my current enhanced to the extreme eyes, I wondered about what might happen if I were to try and dissect that invisible line will the Martial Skill he is using lose its effect .
Thinking of this, I was eager to give it a try but too many things at risk here, so I didn't dare to be that willful, I just increased the output of the Life-Severing Sword Secret Technique and the Blood Qi of mine was being sucked by the Blood Sucking Sword .
The blade had turned deep red and I was able to feel that it was actually much stronger than before, the feeling was clear to me so this shouldn't be wrong, I focused on where his attack trajectory be and was ready to strike him down .
Just as he was almost upon me, I though that his momentum actually slowed down before he completely stop and spit blood and hurriedly retreating backwards with sweat soaking his forehead, I looked at him with a bit of annoyance wondering why did he stop attacking .
His Blood Qi seemed to have been forced to stop circulating which ended up in injuring him as a result, I was able to see that his Blood Qi seem to be in Chaos, not wasting this chance I directly used Gliding Swallow the best footwork skill that I currently have and directly appeared before him and slashed him diagonally .
My attack landed successfully but it landed on empty air, at the last second he was actually able to use his own footwork to escape, it seemed that even though Gliding Swallow can indeed increase my movement speed, its current level of mastery can't help me much against this guy .
Crouching Tiger was also insufficient before, so I don't think that this had changed much, the footwork he used seemed to be far beyond what I'm capable to deal with, just as I was thinking like this, I suddenly sensed a sense of danger from my backside, not delaying even slightly I used Crouching Tiger to leap in the distance away .
You forced me to use my twin blades, you can be already proud ant, any one who witnessed those two blades of mine is dead, last chance where's my Elixir .
Hearing him say this, I looked at him from the corner of my eyes as I was still leaping and sure enough he didn't lie, in the place where I was before, there was two exquisite green daggers with curved blades and there seemed to be some smelly substance applied to the daggers as well .
They were currently thrusted forward in the position where I was before, if I were to have not moved the moment I sensed danger, I'm afraid that I would have been already injured if not directly killed by those two daggers, they are giving me quite the threatening feeling, I need to be more guarded from now on not to get injured by those blades .
Seeing that it would be troublesome if this was to continue for any longer, after all the agreed time between me and Li Fu was quickly approaching, if he didn't wait for me before leaving the Secret Doors, I would be in quite the difficult situation, I won't be able to enter the city for the night, I will also be forced to camp outside .
Not to mention being on the run for my life for the test of the night, the woods outside the city wasn't safe in the slightest, thinking like this, I decided that since I'm not able to land a hit on him with his weird footwork, I thought that it would be better if I gave him enough shock to make him make show an opening, so I directly said :
" You keep asking about that Elixir of yours, well since you asked nicely I will till you, but let me clear one thing first, before you said that your Master praised you for your vision, but let me tell you my humble opinion regarding this, I believe that you and your Master are both Blind .
" You asked about the Elixir like as if your life depend on it, if that was the case, then you can hand over your life to me already, that Elixir of yours was destroyed by me, I didn't want to have anything to do with such a cursed thing, who knows how much resentment it contained, so yeah, I spilled it all over the room where I found it, you can try to slurp it of the ground if you wanted it .
Huh, you destroyed it, you destroyed my Elixir .
The guy completely lost his sanity, he didn't even cared about what I said about his master and only continued to mention the Elixir, but with how absent-minded he currently is, I saw a chance for me to attack and directly took it .
I once again urged the sword in my hand and using Gliding Swallow I directly reached close enough to cleave his head in one strike, at least that was what I thought .
Even with all these preparations, I was still unable to even touch him, it seem that this guy had some fighting experience as well this experience was what saved him this time .
After he moved away from his original place and appeared once again behind me, this time his whole body was burning red and his killing intent was almost materializing, I began to hear the cries of ghosts coming from behind him, it seemed that there were quite heavy feelings of resentment following that guy, I wonder how many people did he killed .
You, you destroyed my Elixir, played me like a fool, had me dealt with ants like you on equal terms, I want you to die a thousand deaths, Blood-Sucking Wheels .
Just as I was about to ridicule the need to die a thousand times, I instantly felt a dangerous aura rising in the two curved daggers of his and instantly focused solemnly on what he was about to do .
He suddenly disappeared from my vision and the next second, I felt a dangerous aura appear beside me, without even giving me a time to blink he slashed me with his left dagger, that dagger was revolving in his hand and was indeed like a bloody sharp wheel .
I wasn't able to react this time, it seemed that this Martial Skills together his footwork complement each other greatly and helped him increase his movements speed even more, looking at the nearing end of me that I can already foresee if this attack were to hit me, I suddenly felt like my mind seem to be struggling in finding a solution .
My thoughts were turbulent a bit before, but at this crucial time, I found that they began to be more organized, just as the daggers were inches away from me, even though I was still able to see his movements now due to my highlighted vision, my body was not able to react to the incoming attack .
But just then I recalled how I was able to get the sword before and as if all kinds of usless thoughts were dispersed instantly, I found that in mind I no longer need to organize my thoughts, there was only one brilliant thought currently in mind .
~CLANk~ .
That was the sound of blades clashing, his and mine, the dagger attack was stopped by by me using the gift given to me to move the sword, remembering how fast did the pills moved in my experiment before together with how I was able to move the blood Sucking Sword as a catalyst, I was able to think of doing something like this .
I urged my sword to move in coordination with my mind and the sword actually did, I didn't even know when did it happen, but the attack on me was stopped by my arm swinging the sword to block .
A shockwave erupted after we clashed and I retreated backwards a few steps, but the onslaught on me hadn't stopped, my opponent managed to vanish from my sight again, then the alarming bells in my mind screamed at me again, indicating danger .
From behind came the voice of my opponent saying :
Double Blood Wheels .
Then I saw two blood red streks of the cold and sharp daggers sweeping towards my torso, he was using his two daggers to attack me from left and right, seeing that there was no way to evade, I held the back of my sword hilt and decided to take the offense for once .
Urging the strange power in me to once again force my sword to move and infusing a great amount of Blood Qi in the sword together with using Life-Severing Sword, I was currently urging all my strength and trump cards for this one absolute finishing move .
Not even turning my back, the sword in my hand flew to meet not the attack of my enemy, not the two blades, no it directly tore through air and from my own hands as well and struck my enemy in the chest and was implanted in his body as he flew away .
Only stopping after stumbling into a big rock, that seemed to be more like a small hill, steady and unmoving, the enemy was hanged up on the rock by the sword in his chest, with deep horror in his eyes, his evil grin from before turned into a mouth gaping expression from pure shock and horror .
( Overuse of Mental Strength And Energy, Resulting In Coma, Lose Of Senses, Internal Bleeding, Lose Of Vitality, Damaging The Mind, Weakening The Heart, Shortening Lifespan .
Negative Effects detected, Negative Effects Removed ) .
Hearing the buzzing notifications in my already close to break mind, I hurriedly read through all the notifications and finally understand what this new giftwas, the gift was the appearance of Mental Energy, now I understood what Tian Long actually was saying back then about Mental Strength having a breakthrough, so that what he meant .
Cough, cough .
Just as I wanted to dwell on this for some time, I heard the voice of the guy that was currently being hanged up on the rock not too far away from me, but he still flew quite the distance, before I only heard a ~Squish~ sound and heard the sound of Blood Sucking piercing his flesh, then the sound of something cutting through air .
Now that I looked at him, I saw that my attack just now did quite the number on him, yet he is still alive, Martial Arts Practitioners in this world are quite tenacious, after collecting my things, one item in particular I found missing, My Disciple Token .
I looked at the guy hanged on the rock and instantly understood that he already had what he needed to track me down, even if I were to have escaped before, the Token fell on the ground beneath him after he was implemented into the big rock, so there was no need to look for it, luckily .
Collecting my things, I began walking towards him, turning off Dragon-Tiger Transformation Secret Martial Skill and swallowing the least bits of the Beast meat on my hand, I began strolling in a carefree manner towards him .
Well it looked carefree enough, but in fact I was forced to do so, the fight had consumed my Blood Qi, but I still have quite the reserve, the problem lay in the fact that my mental strength and energy was consumed and my head currently felt quite heavy, unlike before, this time I really was beginning to feel as if I was sleepy .
Cough, Cough, you, cough, WHAT ARE YOU ? .