Lu Yu set sight on a task that requires visiting Beifeng City to complete.

Yellow List Task – Exterminate Huang Feng Bandit Group Thieves

Task Description: A year ago, the Huang Feng Bandit Group attacked Divine Weapon Pavilion's Cyan Mountain Town branch, killed an outer sect steward of the Divine Weapon Pavilion, several members, and looted many properties of the Divine Weapon Pavilion. Eleven months ago, Divine Weapon Pavilion's Qi Cultivation realm disciples exterminated the Huang Feng Bandit Group, killed the group's leader and many bandits. Of Huang Feng Bandit Group's third leader Huang Feng disappeared in the chaotic battle, appeared in Beifeng City the next month, and then disappeared again.

Task Requirement: Kill Huang Feng of the Huang Feng Bandit Group.

Task Reward: 20 Contribution Points

Hint: A year ago, Huang Feng's strength reached the second level of Qi Cultivation realm; his strength may have improved during hiding. It is recommended that disciples of Qi Cultivation realm level two or above form a team to complete the task.

The difficulty of this task lies in locating Huang Feng, considering Beifeng City is so large, even the Divine Weapon Pavilion finds it tough to find someone.

The fact is Huang Feng is not worth the Divine Weapon Pavilion expending such effort to find him, which is why he can remain hidden in Beifeng City for so long.

Lu Yu took the task, thinking it seemed relatively simple.

He has witnessed Beifeng City players' information-gathering prowess. Essentially, in Beifeng City's chat area, requests for purchasing information typically receive private messages offering such information within an hour.

Upon accepting the task, Lu Yu unexpectedly received a system notification, gaining a task whose content was akin to the Yellow List's task, except the reward was experience points.

[Received Task – Remnants of the Huang Feng Bandit Group, task content... Task Reward: 2000 experience points]

Viewing the task on his attribute panel, Lu Yu showed a hint of surprise. Since leaving the Han residence, it's been long since he received a task; being able to trigger one was a pleasant surprise.

He glanced at other tasks on the Yellow List, most of which were long-term with low rewards; other tasks offering slightly more rewards surpassed his capacity.

Exceeding capacity doesn't refer to strength, but most high-reward tasks on the Yellow List involve Artifact Refining, Arrays, or Talismans, which he cannot undertake, thus unable to complete the tasks.

After leaving Southern Heaven Hall, Lu Yu proceeded to the Transmission Pavilion, entering only the first two floors. In a corner of the first floor, Lu Yu incidentally discovered the lower half of the Bladeless Swordsmanship, artifact sealed thereby preventing direct learning, only able to view parts of the cultivation technique content.

Having no choice, Lu Yu spent 700 Contribution Points to exchange for a copy of the lower half of the Bladeless Swordsmanship's cultivation technique.

After mastering the complete Bladeless Swordsmanship, Lu Yu's uncontrollable fire spiritual qi finally found a purpose.

Bladeless Swordsmanship can utilize qi blood to drive spiritual power, thereby concentrating all strength to one point for the supreme attack.

Commonly known as One-Sword Style.

Currently, Lu Yu cannot unleash the full force of his body at once, only able to release a third, yet even that is beyond an ordinary martial cultivator's resistance.

After exchanging for the Bladeless Swordsmanship, Lu Yu left the Transmission Pavilion, returning to the bamboo forest cottage behind the mountain.

After visiting Southern Heaven Hall and the Transmission Pavilion, the time reached eleven at night. Returning to Beifeng City still unsure if he could continue staying in the alpha-class room, Lu Yu opted to overnight here instead.

Today was quite fruitful, notably in terms of experience points, with the fire spirit's kill offering Lu Yu significant experience points.

He examined his attribute panel.

[Name: Lu Yu]

[Realm: Ninth Stage of Body Refinement (Peak)]

[Qi Blood: 284]

[Spiritual Qi: 121]

[Cultivation Technique: Seven Heavens of Fire and Ice (Fire Spirit Body), Bladeless Blade Technique (Third Layer)]

[Skills: Fire Spiritual Qi (Fire attribute skill power +30%), Fire Demon Eye (Not mastered), Fierce Tiger Fist (Mastery), Eight Steps to Catch Cicadas (Mastery), Bladeless Swordsmanship - Celestial Collapse (Slightly mastering), Blood Burning Secret Technique (Consumes 20% of qi blood, attack speed +50%, skill power +50%) (Novice)]

[Experience Points: 36012]

Over 30,000 experience points may seem ample, but it's actually inadequate, as advancing from Ninth Stage of Body Refinement to Qi Cultivation realm requires 50,000 experience points.

Yet Lu Yu plans not to use experience points for realm advancement, since his Seven Heavens of Fire and Ice cultivation technique remains uninitiated; he has only converted the fire spirit body, not the ice spirit body.

If rashly advancing to Qi Cultivation realm, he cannot conduct the ice spirit body conversion, not to mention the subsequent dual polar ice and fire body cultivation. Without cultivating the dual polar ice and fire body, the Seven Heavens of Fire and Ice cultivation technique cannot be pursued further.

This explains why no genius capable of cultivating the Seven Heavens of Fire and Ice cultivation technique emerged in Han residence over the last hundred years; simply the time and resources consumed at Body Refinement realm far exceeded Qi Cultivation realm martial cultivators by countless margins—declined Han family couldn't bear such vast consumption.

Regarding ice spirit body cultivation, Lu Yu devised a strategy. Fire Spirit Fruit greatly facilitates fire spirit body cultivation; he merely needs to procure some ice attribute natural treasures to cultivate the ice spirit body.

Apart from the realm, experience points can also be expended on Fierce Tiger Fist, Eight Steps to Catch Cicadas, Bladeless Swordsmanship, and Blood Burning Secret Technique.

Qi Blood and Spiritual Qi currently cannot utilize experience points for enhancement; clicking prompts system notification of insufficient realm.

Due to the inability to proceed with Heart Method strength enhancement for Fierce Tiger Fist, it vanished from the cultivation technique list, leaving only fist technique moves on the skills list.

Considering a potentially prolonged stay at Body Refinement realm's peak, possessing abundant spiritual qi yet unable to utilize spiritual-level martial skills, Fierce Tiger Fist and Eight Steps to Catch Cicadas have become his most frequent moves, as Lu Yu ponders allocating some experience points to these two martial skills.

However, this will occur post-enhancement of Celestial Collapse and Blood Burning Secret Technique, provided surplus experience points remain.

Blood Burning Secret Technique upgrade requires 10,000 experience points, Celestial Collapse upgrade requires 4,000 experience points.

Lu Yu first tried to perform the Blood Burning Secret Technique. After discovering his increased strength, he realized that the previously debilitating Blood Burning Secret Technique could now be easily sustained for longer periods. Without hesitation, he invested 10,000 experience points to enhance the Blood Burning Secret Technique.

[Skill Upgrade! Blood Burning Secret Technique (Novice) → Blood Burning Secret Technique (Substantial Development)]

After upgrading the Blood Burning Secret Technique, the consumption increased to 30%, the attack speed and martial arts power amplification reached 70%, further upgrades require 50,000 experience points.

Lu Yu still had 26,012 experience points left, so he turned his attention towards Bladeless Swordsmanship - Celestial Collapse.

Upgrading Celestial Collapse consumes 4,000 experience points.

[Skill Upgrade! Bladeless Swordsmanship - Celestial Collapse (Substantial Development) → Bladeless Swordsmanship - Celestial Collapse (Proficient)]

Further upgrades for Celestial Collapse require spending 10,000 experience points, Lu Yu continued to upgrade.

[Skill Upgrade! Bladeless Swordsmanship - Celestial Collapse (Proficient) → Bladeless Swordsmanship - Celestial Collapse (Mastery)]

The remaining experience points were insufficient to continue raising the level of Celestial Collapse.

Lu Yu had no plans to save experience points; tomorrow he would face a vicious thief at the second level of Qi Cultivation, not one constrained by the Qi Cultivation martial cultivator within the secret realm of Fire Rain Mountain. He needed to make comprehensive preparations.

Spent 4,000 experience points upgrading Fierce Tiger Fist Technique.

[Skill Upgrade! Fierce Tiger Fist Technique (Peak) → Fierce Tiger Fist Technique (Legendary)]

After the upgrade, Lu Yu's mind filled with memories of refining fist techniques and the image of a demonic tiger.

A person practicing boxing and a fierce demonic tiger appeared in Lu Yu's mind, they continually approached each other then merged into one.

Battles between man and man, man and beast, tiger and man, tiger and beast…layer upon layer of combat scenes appeared in Lu Yu's mind.

He felt as if he was the battle-hardened person of his memories, the hunting fierce tiger, all the scenes finally converged into one picture.

The person gradually finished the move, but the tiger behind him grew ever clearer.

Lu Yu delivered a punch, the bones in his body crackled loudly, like tiger and leopard thunder, showcasing the ultimate in skill.

"Hoo~" He let out a long, turbid breath.

Previously, he had wondered if upgrading Fierce Tiger Fist Technique, a mundane martial art, was a waste of experience points. But now it seems he underestimated the potential of mundane martial arts.

He had a premonition that once Fierce Tiger Fist Technique advanced by another level, its power would certainly not be inferior to common low-level spiritual martial arts. Even now, spiritual martial arts that have not reached the proficient realm cannot match the legendary realm of Fierce Tiger Fist Technique.

Further upgrading Fierce Tiger Fist Technique requires 10,000 experience points, he only had 8,012 experience points left, unable to upgrade.

Lu Yu felt a bit regretful, he really wanted to see the breakthrough limit of Fierce Tiger Fist Technique.

Although eager to upgrade Fierce Tiger Fist Technique to the next realm, Lu Yu did not plan to save up experience points to accumulate to ten thousand.

Spent 2,000 experience points to upgrade Eight Steps Catch Cicada.

[Skill Upgrade! Eight Steps Catch Cicada (Peak) → Eight Steps Catch Cicada (Legendary)]

A vast amount of experience from practicing Eight Steps Catch Cicada surged in his mind, Lu Yu watching the figure chase cicadas from summer to autumn, from autumn to winter, from winter to spring, circling back to summer, he was chasing not cicadas, but time.

But ultimately, he couldn't catch up with time, couldn't reach the figure behind the cicada, everything was beyond return…

Eight Steps Catch Cicada reached the legendary realm, when Lu Yu performed Eight Steps Catch Cicada, he was no longer confined by environmental, directional, or obstacle factors, able to swiftly shift eight times in any direction.

Before when performing Eight Steps Catch Cicada, Lu Yu had to ensure there were no obstacles ahead and could only move forward.

Now Lu Yu could directly cross obstacles and could execute Eight Steps Catch Cicada to the left, right, up, down, or even backward, greatly enhancing flexibility.

Glanced at Eight Steps Catch Cicada; further upgrades require 6,000 experience points, with 6,012 experience points left, Lu Yu unhesitatingly invested in the Eight Steps Catch Cicada experience bar; he eagerly anticipated the wonders of the next legendary realm.

Zz~ Boom!

For the first time, Lu Yu heard sound effects upon skill upgrade; usually, the system prompt just sounded with a ding, but this upgrade included a sound effect, and the upgrade time was also longer.

[Skill Upgrade!!! Eight Steps Catch Cicada (Legendary) → Eight Steps Catch Cicada (Peerless)]

[Congratulations to the player for reaching the first skill of Peerless realm, achievement accomplished – Martial Arts Grandmaster, Reward: Martial Arts Grandmaster title and 5,000 experience points]

Skill upgrade completed, unlike the upgrade to legendary realm, Lu Yu's mind did not flood with regulatory experience, images, and such items.

He merely felt mental tranquility, heart as calm as still water, epitomizing his current mindset.

Naturally, Lu Yu executed Eight Steps Catch Cicada, gently stepping on a bamboo leaf and drifting out twenty to thirty meters, feeling like a feather swaying in the wind, devoid of weight.

Stepping lightly on the bamboo tip, the bamboo slightly bowed, Lu Yu had already drifted thirty meters away.

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