Chapter 67

He focused his mind on the button at the end of Jade Crane Skill's stats.

"Inner body Qi cultivation method is something of essential importance."

After his selection, all the buttons were gone. The window became ever blurrier. Le Xaan felt that his pieces of knowledge and understandings of Jade Crane Skill became lively, constantly colliding with one another while an abundance of inspirations sprang up in his mind.

Le Xaan's eyes closed but soon flew open once more.

Within dozens of heartbeats, a brand new, magnificent air emanated from him.

His understanding and knowledge of Jade Crane Skill and Black Tiger Blade Style perfectly blended into one now. The cheat tool seemed to have devised an entirely new eruptive inner body Qi cultivation method by banking on Le Xaan's pool of knowledge, preserving the framework of Jade Crane Skill while borrowing heavily from the Black Tiger Blade Style.

This new inner body Qi cultivation method still provided for strong stamina and curative effects but boasted considerable explosive damage effects as well.

"It draws lessons from Black Tiger Blade Style, adding destructive power to the originally body-maintenance-oriented Qi cultivation method... This deduction function was indeed terrific!" Le Xaan commented with a sigh.

"If I have more powder or pebbles that ghost's type of entities left behind, I might be able to deduct on other martial arts."

This new Qi cultivation method's curative effects was strengthened, and it would also boost its practitioner's eruptive power.

"This is a totally new inner body Qi cultivation method compared to Jade Crane Skill. Since it draws from Black Tiger Blade Style, I will call it the Black Tiger Jade Crane Skill from now on."

As he thought this, the name of Jade Crane Skill instantly changed into Black Tiger Jade Crane Skill on the virtual interface.

This new Qi cultivation method gave Le Xaan a stronger body build. Black Tiger Jade Crane Skill and Dark Shadow didn't clash with one another. With the enhancement of the former, Le Xaan now felt that his bodily energy was inexhaustible, making his vigorous beyond compare.

He abruptly rose to his feet and executed Tiger Anger with his hand serving as a blade.

"Ssshhh!"

"Roar!"

A faint tiger growl echoed throughout the room as the air all around grew hotter.

It's important to know that Le Xaan only exerted one-fourth of his full strength. Before the improvement of Jade Crane Skill, he had to use half of his full strength to deal a blow of the same power.

"The inner body Qi makes my strike twice as powerful as before." Le Xaan felt elated. Now, he recalled what Elder Zaner told him about the Realms of martial arts experts.

"Legends states that Strength Flow experts could only be counted as slightly above average in Central Land. The Realm above Strength Flow and Intelligence Flow is Spirit Condensation. The top experts in Central Land are mostly at the Realm of Spirit Condensation. Spirit Condensation demands the deep proficiency in both inner body Qi cultivation method and outer body martial arts. A Spirit Condensation expert's spirits were so condensed that every moves of his is underpinned by the essential principles of martial arts. His inner body Qi would be inexhaustible, granting him a combat capability far stronger than one at Intelligence Flow. I wonder what Realms I'm at now."

Le Xaan thought for a while before coming to a conclusion.

"I had reached Intelligence Flow when I was still in Gourian City. Black Tiger Blade Style is the martial arts that elevates me to that Realm. I am not sure whether I have reached the Realm of Spirit Condensation by now. But my inner body Qi's concentration exceeds those of most of the martial arts experts at Intelligence Flow. If I am to engage with a Spirit Condensation master in a battle, I don't think I am necessarily to be defeated. So, I can be reckoned as an expert at that Realm now. "

Now, he felt confident enough in himself since he had reached the ultimate pinnacle in both Black Tiger Jade Crane Skill and Dark Shadow. For another practitioner, it might have cost him over forty or fifty years to do so. And this was under the premise that he had enough tonics to improve his constitution and an adequately exceptional talent.

"I am only nineteen years old now, yet I have already possessed such grounded strength. If there are no spirit's type of entities in this world, I'd have had few threats that could endanger my life here. Unfortunately..."

While thinking about the ghost's type of entities he had come across, Le Xaan released a sigh.

Just at the moment, a roster's crow sounded out from outside the window.

Le Xaan cast a glance out of the window, finding the sky dimly lit up. He seemed oblivious to the passage of a night.

He got out of bed, went fetch water for freshen-up, and then dressed him neatly before walking out of the door.

He went to a restaurant nearby to have breakfast. As usual, he ordered some steamed meat buns and millet porridge along with a dish of stir-fried greens. These were all ordinary food, but the amount of them would be staggering to anyone.

Le Xaan swallowed up a palm-sized steamed bun with each bite. And the blistering temperature of steamed buns seemed nothing to him. After he cultivated in Dark Shadow, his resistance to high temperatures was greatly enhanced. He had once placed his hand above the flame of a candle and found he could withstand its heat for around a dozen heartbeats.

Le Xaan gobbled up five trays of six steamed meat buns, a total of thirty ones. To help him relieve the greasiness, he ordered the dish of greens. He brought the plate to his lips and emptied it into his mouth, chewing and then swallowing.

The millet porridge filled a basin-sized bowl, enough to feed five or six people. Le Xaan held the basin up with his hands and poured its contents into his mouth, much like a thirsty person drinking water.

When he put the bowl down on the table, it was already empty.

"Wow!"

The customers around wore stupefied expressions. They rarely saw someone who had such a staggering appetite. This was a novelty that would fuel their conversations with their friends for several days.

Le Xaan was unperturbed and nonchalant. After finishing his meal, he gracefully wiped the corners of his mouth with a silk napkin, then rose to his feet and left. The stark contrast between his dining manners and his current gracefulness stunned the patrons and waiters around him.

Inner body Qi was generated from the food the practitioner digested.

He possessed two sets of inner body Qi cultivation methods. Dark Shadow, one of the two, had a mysterious origin and enabled its practitioners to cause damage to even ghost's type of entities, despite the fact that it was an incomplete one. As for Black Tiger Jade Crane Skill, it was a masterpiece of Deep Blue's deduction, providing for curative effects and inexhaustible vigor.

With his cultivation in both of the two, it was hardly surprising Le Xaan's appetite was so enlarged.

Soon, Le Xaan waved down a horse carriage and headed for East Hill School. The wagon sped along the way. When it reached the School, the bell chimed, a sign for the start of the first class today.

Le Xaan hastily alighted from the vehicle, rushed into the gate of the School, and then headed for the classroom.

East Hill School sprawled across the area at the base of a mountain range on the eastern outskirts of Mountainside City, East Hill, that is. While the School was near the city, it was not under the control of the city's government. The education institution even had its own troops. The School Head, designated by the royal court, was a high-ranking official who possessed absolute power over the administration of it.