Mystic Jade Palm

The mouthful of blood coughed by Yang Guang surprises the stall owner beside Uncle Mang's. Looking at the patch of coagulating blood that turned black, it scares his spirit out from his frail body.

"Uncle..." as that thick lump of phlegm was forced out from his throat, Yang Guang felt his breathing is smoother than before. After taking in a few breaths of air, Yang Guang turned around to face Uncle Mang.

"Ai-Ya! Young lad, you're so weak that an old man like me able to make you cough out some blood with a slap?" Uncle Mang stares at Yang Guang and shakes his head from left to right repeatedly.

"I feel better after coughing out that phlegm. Thank you for giving me that slap earlier." Yang Guang smiled as he thanks Uncle Mang for giving him a light slap on his back.

"Uncle not going to slap you next time. If each time you cough a mouthful of blood whenever I pat your back, my stall is going to be contaminated by that blood everywhere!" Uncle Mang slapped his hand on the top of his stall as he speaks.

"Uncle, it won't happen again. Please excuse this little nephew for now." Yang Guang excused himself after everything is done. Since there are a few more hours before the afternoon, he wished to pay a visit to Black Jade Street before going home.

"Ah! Wait!" Uncle Mang suddenly remembered something and went to rummage the basket he often carried on his back as he pulled his item cart. As his back is facing Yang Guang, the young lad failed to see whatever happened inside the basket.

An engraving in the Jade Bracelet Uncle Mang wore flashed inside the basket. A book then appeared in his grip as Uncle Mang returned to Yang Guang's side.

"Youth like you should learn and be a little literate. Who knows if you got posted into the Tianyu City's Market Street and had to manage all our tax records? If you mess it up, it will ruin my great name as well!" Uncle Mang acts as if he's annoyed and forced Yang Guang to bring that book home to read.

...

Sneaking along the street without buying anything, Yang Guang robbed four Azure Soul Pills worth of essence from the vendors again. If he knows that Yuan Xie from Ten Thousand Pills Sect is looking for the cause of this matter, he would immediately stop visiting Black Jade Street during this life.

Five days have passed without him taking note of it.

There are only five more days to go before his next harvest and another day for the second harvest. He's somewhat expecting if the Jade Container is capable of refining the Blood Fruit into something like Blood Coagulating Powder.

Remembered that Uncle Mang passed him a book earlier, Yang Guang took the book out to check its content. And surprisingly, he actually understands each and every word written in the book.

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Art of Mystic Jade Palm

Uses: By putting one-quarter of body strength into defense, Mystic Jade Palm allows the practitioner of this art to deflect any incoming attack with one or both palm. This art is usable twice on each target. Further uses will gain no increment in defense.

Achievement:

10% bonus in defense (small success stage)

20% bonus in defense (large success stage)

30% bonus in defense (Perfection Stage)

Limitation is removed (Ancestor Stage)

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"It's a martial art manual. Do uncle Mang know about this?" Yang Guang is confused. Why would Uncle Mang told him to be illiterate, but gave him a book of some Martial Art and not some comprehension record by the appointed scholars?

"Anyway, the martial art in this book might help when I'm fighting against the Scarlet Eye Boar next time. Since there are only sixteen-pages in total, it should be easy for me to learn it!"

Without wasting his precious time, Yang Guang begins. Although there was nothing so special about this Mystic Jade Palm, it is still a fighting technique that allows him to adjust a portion of his to body strength to defense.

Plus, there's a limit on how many times this skill can be used on one target. Based on Yang Guang's current ability, using this Mystic Jade Palm will allow him to transfer 105jin worth of body strength into defense. Added with his original strength of 300jin in defensive power, Yang Guang can execute the defensive ability of a 4th Layer Jade Forming Realm twice to protect himself.

And since martial art like this grows up along with the practitioner, the Mystic Jade Palm will only get stronger with time.

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Another six days went through smoothly.

Unfortunate for Yang Guang, the Jade container seems to be uninterested with the twenty blood-red fruits. As for the 45 stalks of Azure Jade Grass, they were refined by the Jade Container into six Azure Soul Pills.

After going through a process of refining the Azure Jade Grass, the jade container turned from an ugly jade bottle into somewhat more precious looking. The word on its exterior is yet to appear, but the color of this jade bottle turned to a more beautiful looking Azure Jade.

"Six pills equal to 30 Soul Jades if sold. Including today, Uncle Mang has given me 18 Soul Jades for supplying him with six heads of Scarlet Eye Boar. The total would be 48 Soul Jades altogether. This means I have more than enough for entering the sect now."

"Should I make something for sister Yun? Although I promise to come to her every day, I did not keep it... Let me made something Uncle Mang taught me and made her a proper Blood Braised Pork Belly!"

Same day afternoon.

"Yang Guang!!!" Yun Xue Li's face turned into something more ferocious than the demon. The feeling of getting stood up for six days was hard to bear to a beautiful lady like her.

"How dare you run from paying for six days!" A sword appeared in her hand without a sign as she slashed it at Yang Guang.

"Sister Yun, wait! I made you Blood Braised Pork Belly!" that container in his hand is lifted up as he begs for his life.

"Blood Braised Pork Belly? The one that always sold out an hour after the stall is open? How did you manage to get that?" Yun Xue Li's expression changed from an avenger to a foodie. Even the sword was thrown aside to make way for her hand to hold the bamboo container.