"Did a ghost just come by and escape just in time to be blown up by the palm thunder I tested?"
Zhou Heng's brow furrowed slightly.
He hadn't noticed any ghostly aura approaching just now, but he had actually repelled a ghostly creature.
This meant that either the ghost was so strong that it could completely blind his Insight +1 perception, or the ghost itself was very good at hiding.
And judging from the rating of "invincible", I'm afraid that the strength level of this ghost called 'Feng You' should be at least at the seventh grade, maybe even the peak of the seventh grade.
If it wasn't for the fact that the Palm Lightning had the effect of restraining the ghost and catching it by surprise, I might not have been able to repel the ghost.
"Judging from these features, perhaps this 'Feng You' just now is the true murderer that killed Zhao Yuan? It might also be the culprit for infesting the crane with ghost energy."
Zhou Heng pondered and made some guesses, but then he was a little confused, secretly saying, "But if this Feng You is the real culprit just now, then being arrested What about the money manager?"
Are they two ghosts?
Or has the moneylender already escaped?
"Whether it's one or two, the ghosts seem to appear to me." Zhou Heng squeezed his temples, then took out an apricot yellow talisman from his bosom.
This was a talisman made by Cheng Jiangjian earlier to hide his supreme Yang Spirit Physique, saying that it could lock his Yang Qi from leaking out and prevent him from attracting ghosts due to the power of Yin and Yang Convergence.
But now, it seemed that the effect wasn't very obvious.
"If this ghost creature was really attracted to me, then that means that my yang energy has not been completely blocked."
Zhou Heng pondered in his heart, "Either there is something wrong with the effect of the seal itself, or the attribute of special attack on yin spirits is not the The so-called supreme sun divine soul."
In fact, back when Cheng Jiangjian explained the Supreme Yang Divine Soul, he had doubted whether he really was the Supreme Yang Divine Soul.
After all, the Supreme Yang Divine Soul was actually a special kind of divine soul in nature, but the "Special Attack on Yin Spirits" was a basic attribute that was directly added to the body.
Therefore, at that time, Zhou Heng guessed that the two might indeed be similar, but there might also be certain differences, or perhaps not completely equal.
"I'll ask about it again when I have the chance to see Cheng Jiangjian." Zhou Heng shook his head, temporarily putting this doubt behind him.
He couldn't even think of such things himself.
He still knew too little about ghosts and spirits.
It would be nice if there was an organization or institution that specialized in explaining this type of knowledge.
"That ghost called Feng You just now, will it go back to making trouble after escaping?" Zhou Heng suddenly thought of this, and he began to consider in his heart whether or not he should go to the courthouse now.
Since House Master Wu Zongshan had cooperated with Cheng Jiangjian to find ghosts and evil objects, that meant that he most likely knew about the existence of ghosts himself, and could go to him to explain about the presence of ghosts.
"However, the matter of the Dao Method still has to be hidden, and for the time being, it is not possible to let people know that I know the Dao Method, and that it is still a Dao Method that can kill ghosts and evil objects."
Zhou Heng was very clear inside and did not get lost in the power brought by the Dao Law.
According to the former Cheng Jiangjian, the Dao Laws inherited in the world were extremely rare, and most of them were high quality Dao Laws, with only a handful of middle three quality ones, and even fewer lower three quality ones.
Among these existing Dao Laws, there were only a handful of those with special effects to kill ghosts.
This meant that the Palm Thunder, an eight-grade Dao method that could kill ghosts, was definitely a rare occurrence in the world.
As long as it was known, it would definitely attract the attention of powerful people.
How much attention would be paid and what kind of people would pay attention to it when the time came was not something Zhou Heng could predict.
A small rookie with no background and no backstage.
Yet he held such a rare Dao method in his hands.
If no one would hit on him, Zhou Heng himself wouldn't believe it.
As for how a just ninth grade rookie fought off ghosts this, Zhou Heng already wanted how to explain it.
The palm thunder had to be cultivated to great success before it had the characteristic of killing ghosts.
Now that he was still just a beginner, although it was a bit more powerful in killing ghosts, it wasn't too special and could be completely stonewalled with the special nature of the Supreme Yang Spirit restraining ghosts.
"Tsk, it's still because there's no backstage ah, otherwise where would there be a need to be so careful." Zhou Heng shook his head and shifted his attention to the three silver good fortune bags.
He planned to go to the government office to find Wu Zongshan after opening the three silver good fortune bags.
"Lucky Bag [Silver]*3: It is all-encompassing and has everything in it, and after opening it, you can get a surprising reward."
"Open!"
"Congratulations! Obtain Assignable Martial Arts Proficiency [Eight Pieces] +3."
"Congratulations! Gaining Basic Attribute: vigorous +2."
"Congratulations! Get 3 taels of gold."
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When Zhou Heng saw these three rewards, his head buzzed with anger on the spot, if he wasn't outside and didn't have a table next to him, he would have just taken the table off!
Not that the rewards are bad.
Except for the third hilariously negligible gold 3 or 2.
The other two magnitudes: eight-grade martial arts proficiency +3 and vigor +2 were actually good.
But Zhou Heng still felt very sorry.
There was no "luck exploded" reminder!
Not again!
It hasn't been!!!
He's never had a bonus on his silver bag. They're all normal rewards!
"It doesn't seem to be of much use to the current situation to be faced." Zhou Heng sighed lightly, realizing that he might not have the great luck of the Ou Huang.
Subsequently, he allocated 1 point of eight martial skill proficiency and added it to the "Broken Qi Style" that he had yet to learn.
After a round of phantom explanations and drills....
"Congratulations! The proficiency of the martial art "Lone Nine Sword's Breaking Qi Style" [Eight Pieces] is 1, officially learn this martial art!"
"Congratulations! Since you have practiced the martial art "Quanzhen Nei Gong Xinfa" [Eight Pins], you have quite an understanding of the internal qi movement, so you are able to understand the martial art The proficiency of the 'Solitary Nine Swords of Breaking Qi Style' [Eight Pieces] is +200."
"Congratulations! Because you have learned the martial art "The Eight Pieces" of the "Nine Swords of the Solitude", you have deepened your understanding of the principles of the Solitude Sword. The proficiency of the martial art, "Solitary Nine Swords of the Broken Sword Style" [Eight Pieces], +300."
This series of prompts were not a direct addition of proficiency, but rather caused Zhou Heng to appear in an independent time and space, where he practiced his proficiency up.
However, since there was no flow of outside time relative to this independent time and space, it seemed that from this aspect, it was not impossible to interpret this as directly adding up the proficiency.
In addition, Zhou Heng's proficiency in the "Broken Sword Style" had already reached the intermediate level, and he would practice it diligently every day, whether at the martial arts school or at home, and his proficiency was already close to the intermediate limit of "2000".
So, after gaining the 300 proficiency, his proficiency in "Broken Sword Style" directly reached "2000", successfully surpassing the intermediate level.
[8Pin] Dokkaku Ninth Sword Breaking Style: Advanced (1/3000)
"Congratulations! As your proficiency in the martial art "The Nine Swords of Solitude - Breaking the Sword Style" [Grade 8] has reached a high level, it will automatically improve the martial art that belongs to the Solitude Sword Theory. Proficiency, Martial Art "Lone Nine Sword's Breaking Qi Style" [Eight Pieces] + 1000."
So, Zhou Heng once again went through some "instant" practice.
[Eight Pins] Dokkaku Ninth Sword's Breaking Qi Style: Intermediate (300/2000)
"That's really a chain reaction, it's a blood gain!" Zhou Heng was overjoyed, he hadn't expected that he had generated so much feedback just by adding a proficiency!
That was awesome!
Compared to a few breaths ago, his strength had improved tremendously.
Among Ninth Grade martial artists, as long as they used swords, it was almost impossible for them to be his opponent, and even if an Eighth Grade martial artist used swords, Zhou Heng was extremely confident that he would win the battle.
As for the Seventh Grade, there still wasn't much chance of victory, as long as it was a human, Zhou Heng still couldn't beat it, and even if it was with a sword, it would barely be a few moves at most.
After all, the seventh grade was known to be "transformed", and there would be a huge leap in strength.
But if it was a ghost, with the special attribute to the Yin Spirit Special Attack, he felt that he still had room for a fight, and if he added the Thunder Method, he could even hope to single-handedly kill a seventh-grade ghost that used a sword.
"It's time to go to the courthouse yamen, so as not to have that ghost creature making trouble everywhere." Zhou Heng went home and picked up his steel sword, and headed for the government city's courthouse.
.....
Under the night sky, the silver moon was bright.
Huang Tong's residence's courthouse was very dutiful, and it was open all twelve hours of the day.
When Zhou Heng arrived here, it was still brightly lit inside and out.
It was obvious that there were still quite a few officials and officers dealing with business.
However, before he could even go inside, he met an acquaintance.
"Constable Meng?" Zhou Heng saw the visitor and gave a greeting.
Meng Xing was sad and looked like he was in some kind of trouble, and kept his head down as he walked, only raising his head when he heard Zhou Heng's voice. Startled, "Mr. Zhou, what are you doing here?"
"I have some things I need to find the lord of the house." Zhou Heng said truthfully.
"It just so happens that I also have something to report to your lordship." Meng Xing seemed rather anxious and said, "Let's go together."
"Good." Zhou Heng nodded and was about to enter the door with Meng Xing when he suddenly gazed and glanced to the north, wondering, "Why is there a patch of Red light?"
As soon as the words...
Boom!
The deafening bang came out of nowhere, causing Zhou Heng and Meng Xing to both shudder and look over incredulously.
Where was that red light!
It was clearly a fire that rose up into the sky, raging like a fiery red bird soaring into the air, illuminating half of the northern part of the city!
"In that direction, it's the Yuelai Inn!?"
Zhou Heng's pupils suddenly shrank, and with a hint of a not-so-good premonition in his heart, he immediately transported his lightness kung fu and rushed over to the north.
The basic attribute of Agility +1 was completely brought into play by him at this moment!
It's going fast!
Soon he disappeared into the night.
Meng Xing was first stunned at the sight, then his face became even darker as he gritted his teeth and said, "Qian Budo, did you do this too!?"
Immediately, he also followed Zhou Heng and rushed over to the northern part of the city.
.....
Running as fast as he could, uninterruptedly running the Light Body Technique, made Zhou Heng feel as if the blood in his body was boiling.
The tips of increased proficiency kept coming.
But he no longer had time to pay attention.
Now Zhou Heng only wanted to hurry over as quickly as possible, hoping that nothing would happen to Yu He's family.
Yu He was his best friend of the same age after he crossed into this world.
It was someone who could be called a brother.
"Too slow!"
"It's too slow!!!"
Zhou Heng was so anxious that he could not wait to instantly move over.
But limited by the grade and proficiency of the light body kung fu, even with a base attribute of Agility +1, he was unable to reach the northern part of the city in a short period of time.
It was at this time that he felt his dantian suddenly become blazing hot.
The All True Internal Heart Technique was actually functioning on its own, pouring his modest amount of internal energy into his feet and legs, suddenly making his speed increase again!
This Daoist Xuan Gong was originally an internal power that could operate on its own, and could theoretically be cultivated for twelve hours of the day without interruption, only that Zhou Heng had yet to cultivate it, and had not had this divine effect before.
But now, through this purity to a point of faith, as well as the nearly boiling blood and surging strength, it actually pushed this internal gong to advance, allowing it to start functioning on its own.
In this way, Zhou Heng's stamina rose greatly, and with his legs receiving the inner qi, his speed naturally became even faster!
Meng Xing, who was just about to catch up, suddenly noticed that Zhou Heng in front of him had actually sped up, and soon he was out of sight, leaving him far behind once again.
"Is this, is this really an uninitiated item?" Meng Xing almost wondered if he was hallucinating, if he was seeing things wrong!
At least you're a seventh grade!
Even if he didn't run as hard as he could, but how could an uninitiated kid be faster than himself!
It's unbelievable!
Zhou Heng didn't even notice Meng Xing who was following behind him, he was still running at a fast pace and could see the fire ahead getting closer and closer.
At this very moment!
A dark shadow suddenly swam up against Zhou Heng, it was extremely fast, literally like an arrow off a string!
Since Zhou Heng was also extremely fast now, the dark shadows rushed in front of him almost instantly!
The two of them look at each other!
A pitch-black spike suddenly rushed out from this mass of shadows on the ground, piercing through the air like a pitch-black sword and stabbing Zhou Heng in the throat with a hiss!
"What a coincidence, what a Godsend! Go to hell! Little things! Let your yang energy be my nourishment!!!"
However, Zhou Heng's demeanor remained unchanged, his gaze was cold, without the slightest hint of panic, facing this unexpected "sword", his heart was calm to the extreme.
In his eyes, the attack of the shadow was no threat at all.
So, his right hand on the hilt of the sword pulled outwards!
Clank!!!
The blade is unsheathed, clear and bright!
Under the moonlight it was as if a silvery white streak flew out from the sheath and was held in Zhou Heng's palm.
But this blade, he did not cut out with his saber technique.
Instead, he stabbed forward!
Right to the weak point of the Shadow's attack!
A sword instead of a sword!
Broken Sword Style!