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Chapter 61: Proficient

Chapter 61: Chapter 61: Proficient

Perhaps it can indeed be achieved through the system, but then again, neither the Phoenix Falcon Fist nor the Heartless Sword falls short of this world’s Qi and Blood Transport in terms of body extraction, and in some respects, a Great Perfectionist of Fist Technique can reach an astonishing level of control over their body.

Control every part of the body, manage one’s organs, every inch of muscle, and bone.

If spirit continues to delve deeper, could it be possible to manipulate the existence at the cellular level?

Though lacking Qi, the rapid contraction of the heart and resulting blood circulation, as well as the internal and external breath exchange, and the explosive power that erupts are indeed not weak.

This is indeed a line of thought!

Lu Ren had a sudden realization, although he couldn’t cultivate, he could still draw on these aspects to strengthen his foundation.

Moreover, this martial arts secret manual.

Lu Ren put it in his backpack. After all, Hua Country has a Martial Arts Research Institute dedicated to studying human body science. Taking it there could possibly really let them develop an art of Qi and Blood Transport, then apply it to oneself.

This is the power of having a team behind you, not to mention that standing behind Lu Ren is an entire country.

This encounter immediately dispelled Lu Ren’s idea of going to see the Nanshan Boxing Club. Seeing one can reveal the whole picture; rather than wasting time and effort seeking martial arts secret manuals of this world here and there, it’s better to steadily practice fist technique and swordsmanship.

"What a pity..."

Lu Ren felt a bit regretful about discarding the bodies of the two malevolent men and women. If he had spent time dissecting and inspecting them, perhaps he could have found some clues.

Even though he hadn’t studied modern dissection sciences, every level of advancement in the Phoenix Falcon Fist path allowed an innate deep understanding of it in his mind, comparable to that of the founder of Phoenix Falcon Fist.

So in terms of a profound understanding of his body, Lu Ren was not weak.

"Ding, as you continually practiced Basic Swordsmanship, you suddenly had an epiphany. Your Basic Swordsmanship advanced to Proficient (1/15748)."

"Ding, as you improved your Basic Swordsmanship, your Constitution, Power, and Agility attributes increased by 1."

Hearing the system notification sound in his mind, Lu Ren suddenly felt the longsword in his hand as if it became an extension of his arm, a sense of naturalness emerged spontaneously.

Lu Ren’s gaze shifted, the longsword in his hand swept like a rising tide, and a leaf from a decades-old tree in the courtyard split, one into two, two into four, four into eight, eight into sixteen...

In just a second, Lu Ren managed to slash and stab forty-eight times.

As Lu Ren halted his movement, the longsword was emitting wisps of smoke due to the rapid friction with the air, and the blade was extremely hot.

Incredible! It was more than a notch stronger than before, one could even say it was at a completely different level.

Proficient.

Only through absolute familiarity, after countless sword-swinging practices, perhaps even twenty years of continuous Basic Swordsmanship practice can one reach this step.

And the bonus to the three-dimensional attributes of the body was also strong, directly increased by a chunk.

Just like Yan Zhenghua said, the basics of Swordsmanship like the Horizontal Slash and Stab, all advanced swordsmanship is derived from this. Tall buildings rise from the ground; practice the basics of swordsmanship well, and future cultivation of higher sword techniques will yield twice the result with half the effort.

And Intention Sword, Heartless Sword, though Yan Zhenghua said non-geniuses of Sword Dao cannot cultivate successfully, with the bonus of proficiency, it still steadily improves.

It’s just that the difficulty of increasing proficiency varies, as Basic Swordsmanship, up to now, practicing once or twice could increase proficiency, whereas Heartless Intention Sword requires repeated visualizations three times to improve.

This shows the difficulty of it all.

However, for Lu Ren, according to the system’s proficiency judgment, it was just a matter of spending a few more minutes.

Sometimes, in the mind, visualization of Intention Sword was even easier than practicing fist or sword techniques.

Lying in bed, the technique grows in the heart.

The level-up of Heartless Intention Sword also added a point to the Spirit attribute, which was within Lu Ren’s expectations.

"Surname: Lu Ren

Spirit: 11 (Proficiency 672/3070)

Constitution: 11 (Proficiency 1762/3070)

Power: 11 (Proficiency 1430/3070)

Agility: 13 (Proficiency 1112/4060)

Skills: Basic Swordsmanship (Proficient 1/15748), Phoenix Falcon Fist (Slightly Accomplished 1332/8520) Attribute bonus: [Rapid Attack], Heartless Sword (Initial Glimpse 111/3932), Basic Dagger Technique (Initial Glimpse 190/3932)

Free Attribute Points: 0

Skill Points: 0"

Looking at his attribute panel, Lu Ren expressed satisfaction at the moment. At least with the current attributes and skills, beating the previous two would be no problem, perhaps even with ease and comfort.

The increase in attributes and skills led to Lu Ren’s power increase not being as simple as 1+1=2.

It was a growth of the upper limit by an exponential factor.

With physical attributes more than twice that of ordinary people, it was enough to surpass most people, in nerve reaction, muscle power, body flexibility, balance, and agility was beyond ordinary imagination.

Moreover, once physical attributes exceeded ten points, the increase in attribute points led to a considerable enhancement in physical fitness.

A truly great martial artist, when striking, surely makes history-shattering moves.

Yan Zhenghua’s pretentious tone naturally emerged in Lu Ren’s mind at this moment.

Three days had passed since dealing with the malevolent men and women, life was calm without any ups and downs, and as Lu Ren stayed home, there were no disastrous events occurring out of the blue.

It left Lu Ren’s hope of someone trying to steal and his idea of counter-killing and dissecting unmet, somewhat regretful.

This notion he had before, it was only because the operations were too perverse that he hadn’t executed it.

As experience grew, one indeed became increasingly perverse...

That day, after finishing practicing Heartless Intention Sword and then the Phoenix Falcon Fist under the midmoon, he was drenched in sweat.

The moon was particularly bright today, large and round, the scenery was very nice.

As usual, he fetched a bucket of well water ready to pour over himself.

"What?"

Lu Ren paused, taking a look into the wooden bucket, he found there was a lot of hair.

Scooping it out, under the moonlight, the black hair was long and somewhat like aquatic plants.

Women’s hair!

What is this nonsense?

Lu Ren squinted his eyes to look into the pitch-black well, it wasn’t deep, with an underground river below, just ten meters high; under the moonlight, the water surface could be faintly seen.

Could it be...

Lu Ren bent his neck for a better look into the well.

Whoosh!

In a moment, countless long black hairs grew in the well, like an inverted black waterfall rushing towards his head.

This terrifying scene caused Lu Ren’s pupils to shrink suddenly, and all the hairs on his body stood up.

But he was not overly flustered. As expected, he drew the heavy Yan-style Sword immediately.

Clang!

The deep yet bright sword sound resonated because of the weight, and under the moonlight, the swiftly drawn sword became a horizontal white streak slicing through.

The waterfall-like black hair was severed on contact.

Lu Ren didn’t even feel much resistance, relying on the sharpness of the sword, these long hairs indeed severed on contact.