Chapter 111 – Breakthrough (2/2)

The higher the ‘star’ rating of a martial skill, the powerful it is supposed to be, so naturally, acquiring these skills is very crucial for any martial artist.

“Young one, you are too perceptive. I really have nothing more left to teach you.” Yang Feng was quite excited.

In the past, when Yang Feng had learned these techniques, Ling Xin Ya had personally trained him, and it had taken him over a year to learn these forms properly.

But Bi Fan had learnt the second, and third, form of the ‘floating sword’ technique in only a few days, and had even become quite skilled with their usage.

“Big Brother, the credit goes to your teaching ability; otherwise I would never have been able to learn these skills so quickly.” Bi Fan smiled.

The ‘Floating Sword’ technique even has a fourth form, but for the time-being, Bi Fan wasn’t capable of practicing the form, but regardless, Bi Fan felt quite satisfied with his progress.

In the evenings, Bi Fan would dedicate his time to practicing the methods which were described in the battered jade book, and his physical strength was also seeing steady progress.

Bi Fan’s schedule was jam-packed with training, and he barely had any time for sleep.

In a blink of an eye, a month passed by, and he finally reached that critical stage for making the breakthrough.

The leap from the peak of the ‘Spiritual Intelligence’ layer, to the ‘Enormous strength’ layer, was a very painful one, but Bi Fan didn’t mind the process.

Bi Fan was only concerned about his progress, and had already deleted the word ‘pain’ from his dictionary a long time ago.

Once he had accumulated enough energy, he prepared to make the breakthrough, and was able to achieve his goal without facing any hiccups.

Now that he had successfully reached the ‘Enormous Strength’ layer, Bi Fan could sense the increase in his energy, and even his physical strength had increased to twelve Yun Shi.

If he applied his entire strength, then Bi Fan could notch a force of twenty-two Yun Shi, which was equivalent to the force achieved by an ‘Emerging from the Womb’ layer practitioner, at a stable state.

However, ‘Emerging from the Womb’ layer martial artists, are backed by their body’s Aura, which is why their fighting ability would easily exceed Bi Fan’s.

Once he had made the breakthrough, Bi Fan continued to practice in order to stabilize the state.

After making the breakthrough, Bi Fan started practicing the entire range of his skill set, as he wished to explore his new abilities.

Bi Fan had no time to sit idly; he was busy, ever moment of every day.

Another month passed by, and Bi Fan had learnt a lot of new thing about his skills, and had even managed to stabilize his new state, as he continued to prepare for the approaching Jiu Yu Hidden Dragon tournament.

Whatever time remained in his daily schedule, Bi Fan would usually spend it studying the book of Seals, which he had purchased from the Ting Feng valley. (A seal is basically like a charm, or a rune.)

The book which had purchased, only contained the most basic information, and only spoke about the most basic runes.

But Bi Fan had always felt that a book with a golden cover, like his, must have something special about it.

Bi Fan had gone over the contents of the Book several times, but hadn’t found anything useful, yet.

But Bi Fan wasn’t the kind to give up easily, and continued to study the book over and over again, hoping that he might have missed something out.

At present, Bi Fan had studied the book more times than he could remember, but still hadn’t found anything useful.

“What a completely useless book, I’ll tear this to pieces.” Bi Fan was quite angry. He opened the book again, and started removing its binding, out of anger.

His anger had gotten his better of his patience, as he started ripping out the book’s binding.

Suddenly, something fell to the ground, and Bi Fan bent over to pick it up.

“Hey, this seems like a Charm, why was it hidden inside the cover?” Bi Fan couldn’t help but wonder.

He guessed that the Rune must be something of value, or else it wouldn’t have been concealed inside the book’s cover.

Bi Fan looked at the rune again and again, but was unable to identify it. He couldn’t see anything special about the rune; in fact, it seemed quite ordinary to him.

“Damn it! I thought this might be something good after all. But no, this book is still completely useless, ah!” Bi Fan tried several times, but was simply unable to identify the Rune’s use.

He tried using the Rune by employing the various methods which were descried in the book, but to no avail.

“That’s it!” Bi Fan threw the Rune on the floor, along with the book.

It seemed that he was out of luck this time. The object which had ignited his passion, since he thought that it was a treasure, was now the reason for his disappointment.

A While later, after Bi Fan had calmed down, he started reorganizing the Book again. He could always sell the book back; after all, it did have a golden cover.