The Blade-Wielding Legend
Chapter 533 - 306: Catching Monsters in the City

Chapter 533: Chapter 306: Catching Monsters in the City

The sky was not yet bright when Li Yan awoke.

Rustle, rustle, rustle!

The outside had started to drizzle at an unknown time. Upon pushing open the window, he saw a misty rain enveloping the heaven and earth, the courtyard wrapped in silence.

Li Yan didn’t mind. After a simple wash, he assumed the horse stance and started to move his arms and legs in his room.

He first went through the ten foundational exercises of Red Fist and then swung his arms practicing the Splitting and Hanging Palm with the raining dragon twist.

Confucius said, "Learn as if you could not reach your object and were always fearing lest you should lose it."

Although Li Yan was now walking a new path, he never neglected his basic skills and now even placed greater emphasis on them.

Practicing these fundamentals daily, he always gained new insights.

After doing these exercises, he stepped into the Astral Step and with his left and right hands making different signs, his body darting and swaying left and right, his fists and palms changing between Yin and Yang Thunder, with a lightning crackle enveloping his body.

The conversation he had with the Martial Artist Qu Yesterday, based on his experience, pointed out the shortcomings in his martial arts technique.

The most important one,

was that the Thunder Techniques had not yet been completely integrated!

The strength of martial arts lies in the speed of close-quarters combat, capable of overwhelming martial artists of the same level, and of quickly defeating magicians.

As we know, magicians’ magic methods are also varied and strange.

If you give opponents the time to cast their spells, the outcomes could be completely different, and if they are far enough away and have already set up a magic platform, you’d most likely be at a disadvantage.

Therefore, the execution of martial arts must be swift.

When casting spells with finger signs during combat, let alone magicians, even highly skilled martial artists can speed up to the point where you simply have no time to use your Thunder Techniques.

Li Yan’s main goal now was to reduce this process.

Of course, even those with high Dao need to make hand signs when casting Thunder Techniques, but Martial Artist Qu also made a suggestion: to perfect the finger technique to the point where he could do it within a second.

And hide it within martial arts moves.

In this way, even if the enemy knows the flaw, there’s nothing they can do.

Only when he becomes completely proficient, transitioning without any gaps, can his martial art technique truly be said to have a foundation.

What is left is to continuously increase its power.

Li Yan’s speed kept accelerating in the room, changing his Astral Step within a confined space, making hand signs as he attacked.

Gradually, he began to see some patterns.

For instance, by incorporating Heavenly Thunder Demon Suppressing Hammer into the continuous strikes of the Splitting and Hanging Palm, he could use power to suppress his opponents.

Even if a single strike didn’t kill them, it could break through their defenses.

And the North Emperor Yin Thunder Palm could be completely integrated into the tricky moves of Red Fist, affecting the opponent’s Divine Soul so that they were unable to resist.

Yin Thunder attacks the Divine Soul, while Yang Thunder is supremely firm and positive.

When integrated into various techniques, they can compensate for deficiencies and exponentially increase killing power.

That’s the essence of martial art techniques.

Of course, besides martial art techniques, the path of Martial Arts is also key!

Li Yan was engrossed, constantly modifying and pondering over his moves, and when he came to his senses, daylight had already brightened the outside.

The people from the Tian Family had finished breakfast. These days, as they hid here, although safe, they felt very stifled, standing under the eaves to enjoy the rain.

Upon seeing Li Yan stepping out, they greeted him one after another.

After all, this young man was the key to their safely weathering the crisis.

As for Lv San, he was sound asleep in his room.

These past few days had worn him out. After Li Yan returned, they divided the tasks: Lv San would keep watch at night, practicing on the side, and then sleep during the day to replenish his vitality.

As for Li Yan, after finishing these tasks, he had no desire to leave the house, besides eating, he would just stay inside to cultivate.

Of course, he also didn’t forget to inquire about news from several monks.

Those demons had not yet revealed their whereabouts.

At the Barbarian King’s tomb, however, several ruffians from the River Delta attempted to sneakily leave but were caught by the experts stationed outside by Baotong Zen Temple, some committing suicide on the spot, others incapable of enduring torture, confessed some intelligence.

But those who came out scouting were all bottom-level, simply carried away by others’ incitement and went along with the rebellion in the heat of the moment.

To put it plainly, these weren’t good people.

Unwilling to bear the hard life in the Miao Village, and finding the kiln work too slow to make money, living in the prosperous three cities of Wuchang, naturally they harbored resentment.

After being instigated by the Tusi sent by the rebels, they began to gather mobs and revolt, proclaiming the restoration of the "River Delta ruffians’" glory.

In fact, not many knew what these River Delta ruffians were about...

The only thing they did know was that the Priests within the Barbarian King’s tomb kept performing blood rituals continuously, the wild beasts on the mountain were all captured, and their own people started disappearing more and more.

They set out with orders to capture nearby villagers for live sacrifices.

Those Priests only told them that a Barbarian King had become a god and once he came down from the mountain, he could restore their glory, leading them to occupy the three cities of Wuchang and from then on, they would live in wealth and luxury...

Of course, Li Yan received even more crucial news.

"That concubine, named Lady Liu?"

Listening to the monk, Li Yan’s face grew solemn.

When the Wu family mansion fell into trouble and Wu Jiucheng was silenced, he was up on the mountain, being pummeled by Zhang Xiaoshan to the brink of death and life.

He was aware of the incident but was entirely clueless to the particulars.

After coming down the mountain and being in a rush for several days, only now was he aware of the full story.

"Young Hero Li knows this person?"

Seeing his expression, the monks immediately sensed something was amiss.

This Lady Liu was too mysterious, and in searching the records, they couldn’t find any information on her.

Li Yan nodded gravely, "Is Master Cheng Jue available? I need to see him!"

...

"Ghost Sect Leader Zhao Changsheng?"

Master Cheng Jue’s face was exceedingly serious.

"That’s right."

Li Yan confirmed, "During the Great Song, he was the Ghost Sect Leader Zhang Huaisu. Years ago, he returned to life, seized the body of a Taixuan Orthodox Sect Daoist, infiltrated the Maitreya Sect, and became its Vice Sect Hierarch."

"After the Maitreya Sect’s uprising failed, he disappeared without a trace, wandering around Divine State, awakening all manner of demons and ghosts, scheming in the shadows..."

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