319 Smooth Sailing 2 (1/2)

Seven or eight days passed in the blink of an eye. After the Lin Family incident at Sleeping Moon County, the news of Moon Shadow Sect's Fourth Elder's defeat in the hands of Lu Sheng hadn't spread yet. Only the fact that he had single-handedly defeated the entire Lin Family was well known.

And he finally understood what a Node was.

”Dinggg!”

Holding a knife in one hand, Lu Sheng turned and struck out repeatedly. His knife blade drew circles reminiscent of full moon, continuously shining with a bright light in mid-air.

Compared to before he came to this sect, the power and speed he displayed here showed at least a ten percent increase.

The white full moon appeared and disappeared continuously, one after another, until all of them finally dissipated. Lu Sheng stood up with his body slightly bowed and ended the show.

”Node…. So this is the how classes are determined in the Great Yin,” said Lu Sheng, staring at the streaks of golden wire above him.

Normal people couldn't see these wires. Only some other monster like him that also had eyes that could see energy would be able to clearly observe the problem here.

”Basically, Nodes are the points where all of the Spring Sun Sect's great Essence Qi gets concentrated into a formation.

”They are the places where the Essence Qi overlaps each other and has the highest concentration.” Lu Sheng sighed. ”That means that every disciple of the Spring Sun Sect is providing Essence Qi to the few disciples at the Nodes.

”With the advantage of using the Node, the difference between us and the lower class is as wide as the sky.”

Even when he wasn't practicing his knife forms, he could still feel the wild, continuous rush of Essence Qi perfusing into him.

This was the formation that Feikong Zi was talking about.

What drew even more of Lu Sheng's attention was the fact that the Essence Qi delivered by the golden wires was strangely pure. Compared to the Essence Qi he absorbed normally, he didn't even need to refine it before absorbing it.

”Boom!”

Suddenly, a ball of white light exploded above the courtyard next door like a sort of firework.

With his thoughts interrupted, Lu Sheng hurriedly left, and looked at the courtyard next door.

The door of the courtyard to the left slowly opened, while many instructors and even one manager started to arrive.

Everyone was whispering quietly in front of the door, waiting for the occupant of the courtyard to come out.

Soon, the occupant slowly walked out—he was a young man with a brooding face. Looking at his face, it was obvious that it was Wang Yunlong, whom Lu Sheng used to live with.

Lu Sheng vaguely heard from the people around him that there had been a breakthrough. At this stage, they were all cultivating the Four Squares Origin, which made guessing what Wang Yunlong had broken through very easy.

”Body of Connected Veins? Interesting.” Lu Sheng narrowed his eyes. After glancing at him a couple more times, Lu Sheng left for his own courtyard.

”Deep blue.” He summoned the Cheating Device quietly.

His raw talent shouldn't be comparable to Wang Yunlong's Body of Connected Veins, but who else had a Cheating Device?

Lu Sheng scrolled down the list on the Cheating Device, and soon found the window of Four Squares Origin. This technique was separated into three tiers, specifically for the purpose of refining Essence Qi, absorbing it, and improving one's Life Force.

In the Great Yin, Life Force was the way that physique, regenerative ability, stamina, power, etc. were measured.

Life Force and True Qi referred to the body and Inner Qi, respectively.

”Simply in terms of True Qi, my Four Squares Origin is about to break through to a new tier. However, it's only the second tier, with still a way to go to the Connected Veins Wang Yunlong's third tier,” Lu Sheng calculated. ”Might as well improve it using Aquarius Qi.”

He concentrated and pressed on the evolve button lightly.

”Whoosh.”

The Cheating Device vibrated and blurred for a second before becoming clear again.

”Four Squares Origin… evolve to the third tier.” Lu Sheng concentrated, and pressed the button on the window.

The Four Squares Origin was the standard foundational technique of the Spring Sun Sect. After this technique was cultivated to full completion, he could start to come in contact with the core layer of the Great Yin system.

The window blurred again. Lu Sheng closed his eyes, sensing that the rate at which the golden wires above his head delivered Essence Qi rapidly increased. Vast amounts of Essence Qi continuously surged into his body, forming an invisible whirlpool at his lower abdomen.

The whirlpool spun faster and more rapidly, then finally formed a ball of gray current at the center with a puff.

Lu Sheng immediately felt like his body had been slightly nourished and strengthened. This improvement seemed to have happened at a cellular level.

It was very slow and soft, unlike when Devil Qi and Liquid Qi strengthened the structure of his body. Instead, it was more akin to Devil Essence, making modifications at the fundamental level of his life.

”How….” Lu Sheng was surprised. The strength of his body was already that of a standard Devil Master, which was quite obvious from the blows that he exchanged with the giant skeleton hand back then. What he lacked were mental fortitude and other forms of energy.

He planned to check the system of Great Yin, and then leave.

But, a random Four Squares Origin somehow improved his body, which shocked him to no end.

His body had already been strengthened to a terrifying level. The Ultimate Eight-Headed Devil could be improved even more if he didn't lack pure Devil Essence.

But a body like that was somehow strengthened again by an ordinary technique that wasn't even Bind level.

As weak as the improvement might have been, it was observable.

”This means the Four Squares Origin belongs to a whole different system.” Lu Sheng was pleasantly surprised.

He carefully controlled the energy within him.

The liquid and Devil Essence slowly separated, and a new current of True Qi appeared in his body. Devil Essence was concentrated in his chest, while the liquid was inside of his heart.

This way, his whole body had been emptied, then charged full of True Qi.

The body that had been strengthened to its limit was once again filled with True Qi like an empty kettle being filled.