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18 Chapter 13: Jade Marrow Pill_1

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[Thunderbolt Sword Skill +10]!

[Thunderbolt Sword Skill +10]!

[Thunderbolt Sword Skill +10]!

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[Thunderbolt Sword Skill Proficient; 0/200]!

“Damn it!”

A sense of brutal hunger came from within. Xu Mu swallowed a whole bottle of Fasting Pill to alleviate the sensation.

“This swordsmanship consumes too much energy! Luckily, this is the cultivation world. If it was the real world, I wouldn’t even have time to eat!”

Xu Mu was still in shock.

If he hadn’t replenished his energy in time, he suspected that the system would directly absorb his life force.

Luckily, the rewards were substantial, equal to his tremendous efforts.

His muscles were now well-defined and full, clearly outlined. When he moved slightly, his power emerged continuously, an eruption waiting to happen.

He took out his Dark Iron Sword.

The previously heavy Dark Iron Sword now felt as light as a wooden sword in his hand.

Undoubtedly, his strength had increased considerably.

Xu Mu held the sword with one hand and started practicing the Thunderbolt Sword Skill in his room. Each move he made stirred up a wind, with shadows of his sword flickering everywhere, and its frosty glint lurking threateningly.

“Not bad!”

After fully digesting and absorbing his boost, Xu Mu retired to his room to rest.

In the following days, Xu Mu was immersed in alchemy and enhancing his strength. He had meant to spend some time bonding with his wife, but he never found the opportunity.

In a blink of an eye, two months had passed. Amid the storms outside, Xu Mu sat quietly in his little nest, as solid as a rock.

In these two months, after depleting a considerable amount of Luck Value, he had improved in various aspects to his limits.

Of course, he had also increased a small amount through practice apart from using the Luck Value!

His current attributes were:

[Name: Xu Mu]

[Lifespan: 62/104]

[Realm: Qi Cultivation, Tier 3; 399/400]

[Martial Method: Spirit Flame Jue, Perfection; 9/800]

[Skills:]

Alchemy:

Fasting Pill, Proficient; 312/400, Qi Gathering Pill, Master; 21/1600

Magic:

Fire-controlling Skill, Grandmaster; 3051/3200, Fireball Skill, Proficient; 10/400, Wind Blade Skill, Proficient; 108/200, Light Body Skill, Master; 0/1600, Invisibility Technique, Perfection; 0/800…

Swordsmanship:

Thunderbolt Sword Skill, Proficient; 247/800

Divine Skills: None

[Achievements:]

Delighted to Have a Daughter: Increases Luck Value by 10 every day!

[Luck Value: 955]

His Fire-controlling Skill was on the verge of breaking into the Grandmaster level, and the Thunderbolt Sword Skill that he had been focusing on improving had reached the Proficient level.

Only his cultivation was at the very edge of breaking through, and it hadn’t changed for days.

But Xu Mu could tell – if he continued to grind like this, he would break through within a month.

This rate of progress was dozens of times his previous one.

But the cost was also substantial.

He felt as though his pocket was being stretched thin.

The Fasting Pills were already consumed, and so the Thunderbolt Sword skill had been stalled at the Proficient level.

The Qi Gathering Pills that he created through alchemy were mostly consumed by him and Ye Yingying, leaving just over a hundred left as a backup.

Not to mention the Spirit Rice and meat.

The speed at which he was spending Spirit Stones was, undoubtedly, dozens of times what he was used to as well.

“But, as long as it enhances my strength, it’s worth it!”

Xu Mu felt that his power had increased several times compared to two months ago.

Being Proficient in the Thunderbolt Sword skill, he had a robust physique. His muscles, bones, and skin had all been honed to the extreme, and he could casually exert a force of four to five hundred pounds. Without using any spiritual power, he could easily lift up a woman of Ye Yingying’s weight with a single hand.

However, the most impressive bit was that as his physique improved, the power of the Light Body Skill was finally showing.

With the support of the Light Body Skill, he could easily cut through steel and half an inch-thick stone with a single swing of his sword.

But without anyone to test his ability, he was unsure about the extent of his physical power.

Xu Mu was considering going to Baihe Forest to test his skill against a monster beast after his cultivation broke through to the fourth tier, which would also give him the opportunity to obtain some monster meat.

Due to his lack of strength, he had only visited the wilderness a few times in all these years after crossing into this world, and he had never strayed from the outer fringes.

While his swordsmanship had improved considerably, his Fire-controlling Skill had improved even more.

The explosive fireball that originally required some time to compress could now be condensed in an instant.

The weapons that he created using the concentrated flames had reached the toughness of standard weapons. Even if Xu Mu released his control, they could still maintain their form for a while.

Along with it, the impact and binding power of the Fire Bird and Fire Snake had also improved with the rise of the tide.

But an issue had also become prominent!

He was running low on spiritual power!

That’s why Xu Mu has been holding back from breaking through to the transcendent realm.

While his Fire-controlling Skill was improving rapidly, he noticed something interesting.

The Fireball Skill, along with his Fire-controlling Skill, had unknowingly also been improved to the Proficient level.

Xu Mu suspected that this was likely what people referred to as learning by indirect exposure.

After all, both of them belonged to the Fire-type skills!

Xu Mu believed that in the future, any Fire-type skill that he practiced would likely receive significant boosts in cultivation.

He was already considering cultivating the Tier Two Fire-controlling Skill once his cultivation broke through to Tier Four, reaching mid Qi-Cultivation, and his Tier One Fire-controlling Skill reached transcendence.

Over these two months of seclusion, apart from the consumption of Spirit Stones, he also had to face another problem.

His Luck Value was running low!