Sword Among Us c1-1268

by Black Swordsman Online

  When he thought that he actually had the chance to practice the martial art that even Emei Sect disciples might not be able to practice, his expression instantly turned strange.

  "Martial aunt, are you perhaps talking about Emei Divine Yang Skill, the skill we have been verbally passing down to our disciples through generations?" Jing Neng suddenly asked.

  Chapter 433 - Sect Prison

  Emei Sect's Divine Yang Skill was not written in paper form and passed down through the generations, but was instead verbally shared from master to student.

  Happy could be considered to have lucked out. After all, since he had Mistress Annihilation's jade ring, he obtained Leader Hui Xin's acknowledgement. On top of that, his Comprehension was high enough for Leader Hui Xin to verbally teach him Emei Sect's Divine Yang Skill.

  "Learned Emei Sect's Divine Yang Skill!"

  [Emei Sect's Divine Yang Skill.

  [One part of Nine Yang Divine Skill. It is a qi cultivation technique that provides qi of the highest purity and greatest degree. However, the incomplete Nine Yang Skill will only increase qi recovery speed as well as your resistance toward soft palm strikes.

  [If you obtain the incantations of the second page of Nine Yang Skill, you can increase the effects of Nine Yang Skill! Wudang Sect's Nine Yang Skill and Shaolin Temple's Nine Yang Skill can increase qi recovery speed by a large degree. They will also increase your resistance to soft qi as well as freezing qi.

  [If you gather all three pages of the incantations for Nine Yang Skill, you will be able to understand the full Nine Yang Divine Skill!

  [On the day you master this divine skill, your qi will be endless, and you'll have no need to be afraid of soft qi that has freezing attributes. At the same time, your innate attributes will increase by a lot. Your defense will also increase exponentially. You will improve much faster when you practice martial arts, and you will also need a lot less effort to master them.]

  The notification from the system appeared when Happy learned the martial art, and he stood stunned for a long time before recovering. He s.u.c.k.e.d in a deep breath, then respectfully bowed to Hui Xin.

  "Thank you for your generous act of giving me this martial art, Mistress Hui Xin!"

  "This is what you deserve." Leader Hui Xin regarded him with a gentle look. "Nine Yang Skill is a martial art that only the best disciples from Emei Sect can practice. Even though we've never passed it to outsiders before, I believe that our sect teacher will agree with my actions."

  "I will definitely not let you down, mistress. I will do my absolute best to save the heroes of the six sects."

  Happy suddenly felt that all of the hesitation and uneasiness that had been acc.u.mulating in his heart disappeared.

  Nine Yang Divine Skill was an amazing skill that brought Shaolin Temple, Wudang Sect, and Emei Sect to the height of their prosperity. That was enough to show just how outstanding it was. Once anyone finished practicing Nine Yang Divine Skill, they could stand at the top of the world of martial artists and become a supreme martial artist like Zhang Wuji.

  It was much stronger than Shifting Stars!

  Mistress Hui Xin was very pleased with Happy's reaction and called out the name of Buddha in relief.

  "With you saying that, I feel at ease. If you have any questions, you can ask me. I do have some understanding in regards to Nine Yang Skill."

  Once she finished speaking, she picked up the water bucket again and walked steadily into a small temple not too far away.

  Happy followed behind her and stepped into Intelligent Heart Temple without turning back.

  No one would have thought that the top-ranked player on the Famous People Rank, Happy, would stay for more than half a month in a nameless temple after he was swept into the quest provided by the six great sects.

  *****

  It has to be said that Happy missed many exciting events during that half a month!

  Once the quest for the final battle at Light Summit ended, more story-related quests appeared. During the battle in which Shaolin Temple was surrounded and slaughtered, the players received the quest to save the eminent monks of Shaolin Temple.

  Because of it, Shaolin Temple, which had not attracted public attention during the early stages of World of Martial Arts, finally gained the chance to make a name for itself. Vajra Prajñā Palm, Flower-pinching Finger, One Reed to Cross the River, and other ultimate techniques from Shaolin Temple were used by countless Shaolin Temple disciples at the moment Shaolin Temple was in danger.

  The bloodshed surrounding Dragon Saber rose in the gaming community.

  Yuan Dynasty soldiers began to appear everywhere in the game and attacked sects of various sizes. That resulted in clan and sect quests starting to gush out from everywhere.

  However, those were just some of the rather major events in the game.

  After lying dormant for a period of time, Towering Palace finally began to build branches in regions that were close to the sea. With Shangguan Lian, Hai Dongqing, and other elites as their vanguard, they swiftly took up a rather large territory by setting up more than twenty branches.

  They finished setting up within a short period of time and obtained new members, equipment, and resource points in one go. They even did so at a faster, smoother, and more comprehensive manner than Class One Hall.

  Chivalry Sect's actions were even grander!

  Ever since they obtained Shennongjia as a stable and rich resource point, they came to understand the importance of using resources with the refinement system, and they came to place a lot more value in resource points.

  They seized the chance of the battle at Light Summit to set their sights on places further away instead of sending any of their elites to the quest. They built more than thirty branches in the cities to the south, which spread them out everywhere. Those branches swiftly worked together to gain a stable footing and showed signs that they were about to become the leader of Jiangnan!

  In comparison, Cold Moon Palace's Lu Mingyue acted with a much lower profile.

  Perhaps it was because he knew that there were not many great players to guard Cold Moon Palace, he did build more branches. Instead, right under the people's eyes, he spent millions of taels of silver and shifted his headquarters from the city to an island in Changjiang. He also bought more than one hundred sh.i.p.s and used the many pirate nests in the area as well as the high-level map Raging Aquatic Dragon Island as training spots. He thus began to develop Cold Moon Palace by isolating himself in a corner because the situation forced him to do so.

  More powerful players appeared in a continuous stream within the game.

  Orochimaru's name gradually grew more infamous. He managed to gain the inheritance of Xuanming Elders from somewhere, and he practiced Profound Abyss Divine Palm, which was a sinister and ruthless martial art of the western region. He secured his place as the top evil player, and not even Lu Mingyue could shake his position.

  However, Mu Clan also rose to fame during this period of time.

  It had a forbidden area, which was a huge fenced area whose bars were made of refined steel that was as thick as a baby's forearm. The prison was made of two orderly rows, and they isolated two rows of prisoners. Each prisoner was detained in their own cell, and they could not communicate with each other.

  The cells contained powerful and angry NPCs, and some of them were filled with strong gusts of wind. The light from swords there was very glaring since people were fighting in there.

  Ever since the prison was built, some of the higher ups of Mu Clan never left Baokang to train. Every day, it would be someone's turn to enter the prison and fight against the NPCs in the headquarters.

  At the end of the cell row was a man in torn rags that signaled him being a Beggar's Sect disciple. He was fighting furiously against Thunderous Battle. The Beggar's Sect disciple used his palms to block Thunderous Battle's sword techniques, which gained him the upper hand.

  However, Thunderous Battle had third-echelon Golden Armo
r Set along with a Mystical Realm high-tier body fortification technique. His defense was astonishing, and with the endless supply of Dew Pills to replenish his stamina and energy, he fought to his heart's content for two hours. Due to it, the increase of his martial arts was much faster than when he trained outside.

  "Haha… It feels good!"

  Those prisons had different prisoners of different strengths and variety that were captured to be brought to justice. The players who were part of the imperial court could challenge prisoners of different power levels as long as they had enough experience and contribution to the imperial court. There was an ample supply of prisoners at any moment they liked.

  The clan prison was not like that.

  There was no way for the clan prison to generate their own prisoners, which was why they could only "capture" heavily injured martial artists from outside, and those martial artists could not be players.

  On the way to the clan prison, the prisoners had to be in a state where they could not fight back, but they could not be allowed to be killed by other players. That was why Mu Clan had to use the fabled Sweat-concealing Sleeping Drug or use ingenious Acupointer attacks.

  However, with Mu Clan's strength, it was incredibly easy for them to capture prisoners and lock them up in the clan prison while they were in Baokang. They were not affected by other players at all.

  The great fighters they caught were all Moksha Realm fighters or fighters at the peak of Life and Death Realm, which Thunderous Battle had gathered by using all sorts of methods. His goal was to have a way for the higher-ups of Mu Clan to train in the headquarters and still be able to improve at an extraordinary speed.

  It was proof that his idea of seeking out Happy's opinion in the beginning was correct. They could use the shops in the market to put their Medicine Creation Hall, Refinement Hall, and other such halls into operation, but the clan prison was the real tool that could allow them to improve by leaps and bounds!

  "Clan master!"

  At that moment, a Mu Clan disciple charged in. Something seemed to have happened.

  The Beggar's Sect disciple stopped as well, but he seemed to be reluctant to do so. The disciples were not trapped inside until their deaths. Instead, they had an agreement with Mu Clan. They only needed to be detained for a period of time, for which Mu Clan paid them ten thousand taels of silver or even a few ten thousand taels of silver every day.

  "Did someone come to challenge us again?"

  Thunderous Battle opened the cell and walked outside.

  Chapter 434 - Third-echelon Demon Vessel

  "Did someone come to challenge us again?"

  Thunderous Battle noticed that the person who came to him was very young. When he looked carefully, he found that the person on shift duty was a member of Beautiful Robes Hall, and he was Happy's university mate. "What's your name?"

  When Thunderous Battle asked for his name, the member of Beautiful Robes Hall was overwhelmed by catching the clan master's eye unexpectedly.

  "My name's Bloody Flying Dragon," he answered quickly

  He was once a former higher up in Beautiful Robes Faction, and he was in Life and Death Realm right then. His strength was among the top-ranked players in Mu Clan, but he was still slightly nervous in front of Thunderous Battle.

  That was not because of his age, however. Thunderous Battle kept Mu Clan in good order. Not only was his relationship with the local sects good, he was also a very fair person when it came to rewards and punishments, as well as generous. There was no one in Mu Clan who did not acknowledge his leadership.

  Besides, Thunderous Battle was always focused on the development of Mu Clan, and he was personally involved in many things, which was why he won the hearts of all.

  It was fortunate that the clan prison had been built, or Thunderous Battle's strength might have dropped out of the ranks of the top-ranked players!

  Besides, what touched Bloody Flying Dragon the most was that Thunderous Battle never assumed airs when he faced the youngsters in Beautiful Robes Hall. He was incredibly attentive to them, and that was why Beautiful Robes Hall had been able to recover and develop very quickly.

  "Ah yes, Flying Dragon, I remember you. Happy mentioned you when you were still in Beautiful Robes Faction."

  "Really?"

  Rampaging Flying Dragon was very excited. It had to be known that he was a very introverted boy in reality, and he had always regarded Happy with respect and fear. When he heard Thunderous Battle say those words, his emotions surged up.

  Thunderous Battle smiled. "Of course, he mentioned you, Bum, Puffy, Tea Words, and everyone among the higher ups of Beautiful Robes Hall. Happy pays a lot of attention to all of you, and he asks after you every day. Also, you can call me Big Brother Thunder. Don't call me clan master, it makes me sound old."

  Bloody Rampaging Dragon instantly smiled, nodded, and agreed to it. "Alright, Big Brother Thunder. It's just a pity that we don't know where Boss Happy is right now.

  "By the way, Big Brother Thunder, the person who came this time is Feng Zhi, a great player ranked at the seventeenth place on the Dragon Rank. He said that he has heard of Boss Happy's fame for a long time, and he came deliberately to witness his skills."

  "Happy is not around…" Thunderous Battle scowled and sighed. "Oh well. Those people from Class One Hall just won't stop. They want to strike a blow at Mu Clan, but they're also afraid that Happy is guarding Baokang… Ah, forget it. Flying Dragon, get some random person to send him off…"

  "Urk." Bloody Flying Dragon had a gloomy look on his face.

  "Those from the past were easier to deal with. They were all nameless challengers. But this time, the person who came has some degree of skill. I heard that he defeated more than ten powerful players before he came here. This time, he intentionally came for Boss Happy. I'm afraid that we won't be able to send him away with any random person."

  "Then ask for Little North or the others." Thunderous Battle pointed at the other figures who were fighting furiously in the other cells within the clan prison.

  Bloody Flying Dragon nodded in understanding.

  They could actually increase their leveling speed very quickly when they trained in the headquarters.

  There were ten prisons, and five people were challenging them. Once the prisoner who sparred with them could no longer hold on, the players could give them medicinal pills to recover their strength and injuries while they challenged another one.

  Moksha Realm NPCs were practicing with them, so they could level up even faster than they did outside.

  Only people like Silver Wolf, who needed high battle danger assessments and who attacked ruthlessly searched for different targets and went to the royal mausoleum every day.

  "They want to challenge the boss?" Little North asked while leaving the cell.

  While he walked to the area beyond the prison with a sour look, he said with a tone that meant that he was taking p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e in Feng Zhi's eventual suffering, "Then let him go to our boss. Seriously, why does Big Brother Thunder always give me these difficult problems? I haven't even reached the ninth realm in Bone-corroding Palm. I really can't bring it to the table just yet."

  Bloody Flying Dragon was the same age as Little North, and the two of them were rather close, so he talked to him in a more casual tone. "Your Life and Death Realm martial art has already reached the eighth realm, you know? What else do you want? I've been practicing for ten days, and I've only reached the fifth realm."

  "You're the one who went to practice spear techniques. If the leveling speed for spear techniques could catch up to palm techniques, who would use palm techniques to fight against you spear users? We're not lunatics, you know?"

  Little North cast a Bloody Flying Dragon a glance to show him just how speechless he was because of his words. "What's the background of the person who came this time?"

  "Feng Zhi, seventeenth place on the Dragon Rank."

  Bloody Flying Dragon's words left Little North taken aback for a m
oment and he stopped moving.

  "Feng Zhi?" Little North instantly frowned. "The guy's ID sure sounds weird."

  "He's pretty good. He challenged more than ten Dragon Rank and Famous People Rank players before he came here. He stated that he wants to challenge Boss Happy.

  "I heard that this Feng Zhi practices saber techniques, and his Arm Strength is insane. He has never been at a disadvantage in a contest of strength. He has also shattered a few people's weapons in the past."

  'Shattered?'

  Little North shuddered and pulled his hands closer to his body.

  "Stupid challenge system."

  Little North turned his head and looked in the other direction. "Milady, help me hold the fort, will you?"

  Milady was naturally Hall Chief Momo, who was the chief of Mu Clan's Divine Martial Hall.

  It was a duelling hall whose selection of members was held repeatedly. It was a hall that Thunderous Battle had specially set up with the requirement of Life and Death Realm. The qi needed for that was 320 points while Moksha Realm was 640 points. Hence, he made an assumption that Life and Death Realm would be the standard for at least half a year. No one will be able to gain a huge advantage over the others in their qi realm any time soon.

  Once the clan people entered Life and Death Realm and surpassed life and death, they became core members of Mu Clan.

  Under the stimulation of Divine Martial Clan, Mu Clan had more than five hundred Divine Martial Hall members, and the strongest among them was Momo.

  Momo had relied on the two ultimate techniques to secure her spot as the strongest in Mu Clan in one fell swoop. The Moksha Realm prisoners in the clan prison were all captured by her!

  Since they had run into a troublesome case, Little North was eager to fight against the enemy, but he was also worried that he would let down Mu Clan's name, which was why he called Momo in hopes that milady would protect him so that he would not be distracted by anything else.