Chapter 36: Three Months in a Flash, Breakthrough to Fighter Nine Stars
Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, Xiao Se had been in the Warcraft Mountains for three months.
During these three months, Xiao Se first spent half a month practicing the advanced Xuan-level fighting skill, Roar of the Mad Lion and then looked for some first-level monsters in the Monster Mountain Range to challenge. While honing his combat skills, he also collected the medicinal herbs he needed.
Occasionally he would encounter second-level monsters. Relying on his fighting skills and strategic advantages, he was always able to deal with them with ease. He even killed a few second-level monsters by crossing levels.
Xiao Se still did not use the power of the magic sword to fight but simply used it as an ordinary long sword.
He came here to hone his fighting skills, not to rely on external objects to bully others.
In this bloody and cruel training environment, Xiao Se not only successfully consolidated his previously skyrocketing two-star strength, but also broke through one star in the middle of the second month of training, reaching the strength of an eight-star fighter.
Similarly, he never gave up on the path of alchemy. With the soul forging of "Guiyuan Soul Art", he is now adept at refining second-grade pills. Even for third-grade pills, he can occasionally succeed once or twice out of ten times.
He believed that once he officially broke through to the Fighting Master level, refining third-grade elixirs would no longer be a problem.
In addition to cultivation, we have to mention the three system changes during this period.
Ever since he exchanged for Dai Mubai's tenth-level soul power, his luck didn't seem to be very good. He failed to exchange in the first month, and only got a pair of shoes in the second one. It was only in the third month, yesterday, that he exchanged for the "Zongheng Sword Art" collected by Guiguzi in the "Qin's Moon" world. With the synchronization of the system, the secret book was directly transformed from martial arts to fighting skills.
Xiao Se took a quick look. Although the power was not very great, even the strongest Hundred-Step Flying Sword and Across All Directions were only equivalent to the middle level of the Profound Realm, but its advantage was its clever moves.
This is equivalent to further enhancing Xiao Se's melee combat ability.
It can be considered a kind of psychological comfort.
However, if one could use the Hundred-Step Flying Sword Across All Directions at the same time, perhaps one could gain power that surpasses the Xuan-level advanced fighting skills.
"Huh" On a cliff covered by big trees on the inner edge of the Monster Mountain Range, Xiao Se was slowly recovering the fighting spirit that had been depleted in his body.
Not long ago, he had a fierce battle with a blood ring snake, a magical beast that was about to enter the third level, to pick blood lotus fruits, one of the main missing medicinal ingredients for refining the blood lotus pill. It must be said that this magical beast, whose basic strength is no less than that of a peak fighting master, is very powerful. At least, Xiao Se is far from being its opponent.
But both sides want the blood lotus fruit that is about to mature.
The former wanted to use it to break through to the third level, while the latter wanted to use the blood lotus fruit to refine the blood lotus pill and devour the strange fire.
Neither side is willing to give up easily.
Facing a peak-level second-level monster that far surpassed him in both speed and strength, Xiao Se had the most frustrating fight. Relying on the snake's sharp speed, Xiao Se's Red Flame Sword attack was unable to hit it at all.
If it weren't for his advanced Xuan-level body skills that he had cultivated to perfection, as well as his keen soul perception, Xiao Se would probably not have been able to last even three rounds.
However, precisely because of this, Xiao Se adopted a roundabout tactic, continuously throwing out beast fire to enrage it, and then leading it all the way to a nearby valley, luring it into a deep pit trap that had been set up in advance, and releasing the Red Flame Sword. Po Ji, aiming at its most vulnerable oral area, severely injuring it and killing it.
"Brother, how is your injury?" Long Kui's concerned voice suddenly sounded in his mind.
Xiao Se smiled in his heart and responded, "Don't worry. Before the battle, I took the Meridian Protection Pill and the Bone Growth Pill. Although I was indirectly attacked by the blood ring snake several times, my meridians were not seriously damaged. The injuries on my body were just superficial. I will be able to fully recover after one or two hours of recuperation."
Both the Vein Protecting Pill and the Bone Growing Pill are second-grade medicinal pills. The former can protect the veins from damage, while the latter has a stronger healing effect than the Injury Pill.
Hearing that Xiao Se was fine, Long Kui finally relaxed her heart. She asked in confusion, "Brother, it was so dangerous just now, why didn't you use the power of the magic sword? If you had used it, it would have been easy to kill the blood ring snake."
Xiao Se smiled and said, "Although the magic sword is powerful, I still haven't been honed enough. If I rely on external objects blindly and ignore myself, it won't last long. If I can still deal with it, I'd better not use it. This can also be regarded as one of the items of this training."
Long Kui suddenly realized, "Then brother, you should recover quickly, I will protect you."
Xiao Se said, "Well, by the way, help me check the blood lotus tree below. The only blood lotus fruit on the tree is not yet ripe, so I didn't pick it. But I poured some stimulating spiritual liquid on it. I think it will be ripe in a few hours."
The so-called life-inducing spiritual liquid is naturally the Palm of Heaven Bottle. As early as when he was in the back mountain of the Xiao family, Xiao Se had already stored a full jar of green liquid, and then diluted it and put it into jade bottles respectively. This way of using it can also prevent others from discovering the secret of the Palm of Heaven Bottle.
The medicinal materials needed for the elixirs he is using for his cultivation now are all refined after the green liquid condensed in the Palm of Heaven Bottle is brought to its extreme.
Of course, in most cases, Xiao Se would naturally transplant some medicinal herbs to the place where he practiced. Only in very rare cases like now when they could not be transplanted and the herbs were relatively precious would they be kept.
The time spent in cultivation passes very quickly.
Two hours passed in a flash, and before I knew it, it was already afternoon.
On the cliff, Xiao Se's tightly closed eyes suddenly opened, he slowly exhaled, and said in surprise: "It's about to break through."
He immediately took out a bottle of nourishing spiritual liquid and swallowed it. After a long silence, a faint flow of energy suddenly surged out from Xiao Se's body, and then madly poured into his body.
As energy continued to flow in, Xiao Se's body emanated a faint bluish-white light, and his skin, which had already been nourished by soul power, suddenly became as smooth as warm jade.
After a moment, Xiao Se's eyes suddenly opened, and his dark pupils emitted a sharp light as if it were real.
Feeling the great increase in fighting spirit in his body, Xiao Se's handsome face showed a brilliant smile, "Finally I have made a breakthrough. It seems that the previous battle with the blood ring snake gave me the opportunity to make a breakthrough."
There seems to be only one star between the eight-star fighter and the nine-star fighter, but the speed and strength increases brought by the realms are incomparable.
Relying on several Xuan-level fighting skills in his hands, as well as the Red Flame Sword. Breaking the Extreme, a killer move comparable to a low-level earth-level fighting skill, Xiao Se was confident that, at least in the entire Qingshan Town, no one could threaten him.
"Brother, congratulations on your breakthrough." Long Kui's ethereal laughter suddenly rang out from within the magic sword.
"Well. It's time to pick blood lotus fruits." Xiao Se nodded slightly.
Just as he was about to go down to pick the blood lotus fruit, several faint sounds slowly came from the distance under the cliff.