Eternal Life Starts as a Hunter-Chapter 122 - 92: The Newly Promoted Elder Arrives at Winter, Wields the Dragon Spear and Soars Like Flying Grass
After speaking, he looked at the stall owner and said, "Boss, how much?"
This was a Seventh Grade Lone Skill in the beast taming category, quite difficult to sell.
The stall owner hadn’t expected it to sell so quickly and became enthusiastic. After chatting with Li Yuan, he discovered that the buyer intended to burn this Seventh Grade Skill so that his deceased brother could cultivate it in the underworld. His brother had always dreamed of becoming a great Beast Tamer but had failed during his lifetime.
The stall owner was "touched" by the story.
Li Yuan bargained fiercely.
Eventually, they settled on 50 taels of gold, a very cheap price considering that Seventh Grade Skills usually averaged a thousand taels of silver.
The reasons were simple: firstly, no one practiced this, and secondly, the copy was much inferior to the original, making it challenging to achieve even minor success.
...
Li Yuan returned to the Inner City, having moved from his original residence at number 38 to number 9.
Residence 9 was more luxurious and closer to the Demon Breeding Pavilion, Puppet Room, and Blood Fury Hall.
Additionally, it came equipped with a secluded cultivation chamber.
This chamber was spacious and soundproof, so even if someone swung a large hammer around inside, no noise could be heard outside.
At this time, Li Yuan entered the chamber.
The skylight in the chamber cast golden beams down.
The light shone upon two Cultivation Skill books.
One was a spear skill called "Chaotic Heaven Spear Skill," although the original name had been scribbled out, and "Chaotic Heaven Spear Skill" was later added, indicating that this spear... was not originally called Chaotic Heaven Spear Skill.
"Since Master Li vouched for this black market, it should be relatively reliable. Claimed to range from Ninth Grade to Seventh Grade, at least one can achieve entry-level mastery..."
The other was a beast taming dharma gate called "Essentials of Large Bird Taming Skill," a fascinating name that had a different focus compared to "Wilderness Demon Taming Skill."
"Since I can’t find the Life Atlas for now, I’ll continue to cultivate my skills laterally..."
Li Yuan let out a long breath, raising his hand to grab the spear beside him.
Hoo!
The spear’s tip trembled, and the blood-red tassel exploded mid-air.
The young man held the spear, his expression firm.
The Spring and Autumn Three Forms melded into one, creating "City Destruction," giving him confidence.
He also began to gradually understand the relationship between "Skills" and "Cultivation Skills."
Cultivation Skills provide the foundational power.
Take ordinary people, for example; their blood is Mortal Blood, so each move is driven by Mortal Blood, resulting only in muscle momentum and familiarity.
However, Martial Artists have Shadow Blood, and the cultivation of skills is not about muscle momentum and familiarity but about a kind of inertia in Shadow Blood.
The propulsion of Shadow Blood is relatively challenging. Without cultivating skills, one can only perform simple operations like having Shadow Blood surface to form a "Blood Shirt."
When cultivating skills, Shadow Blood circulates within the body in a unique trajectory when the skill is activated.
In other words, all the "Skills" activated through Shadow Blood are hidden within this trajectory.
However, ordinary Martial Artists find it extremely difficult to sense this trajectory inversely — unless someone like Li Yuan has perfected all three moves and created "City Destruction," reaching the pinnacle of the Seventh Grade to recognize the terrain of the mountain at one glance.
In fact, even for Li Yuan, he can currently only clearly sense the trajectory formed by the "Blade" within his body.
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The young man practiced the spear and tamed beasts.
Day by night... 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺
Time quickly passed by again.
In a blink of an eye, over two months had gone by.
On this day, in the chamber, Li Yuan suddenly opened his eyes and patted the half-arm-long black weapon in his hand.
As his palm moved, the weapon shot out with a "whoosh," extending segment by segment, reaching more than ten feet in an instant, its blade tip shimmering with a cold radiance.
This was a weapon Li Yuan recently acquired from the black market, selling for as much as 150 taels of gold. This price was set because the weapon was quite peculiar and the seller lacked confidence.
Unexpectedly, the day after the price was set, it was bought when the market opened.
The seller was completely stupefied... thinking of raising the price, but the buyer had already disappeared without a trace.
This weapon was called the Dragon Blade Spear.
It had a spear tip, but both sides were slightly curved blades, capable of both stabbing and slicing, functioning as both a blade and a spear.
More importantly, this was a weapon crafted by a Puppet Master.
When released, the weapon could extend ten feet long, but retracted, it could be concealed in a sleeve, making it very convenient.
Furthermore, its material was not ordinary metal but an alloy that Li Yuan could not fathom but found impressive.
This weapon was on par with the Horse-Cutting Blade Master Li had given him earlier, but it was stealthier to carry.
In two months,
Li Yuan cultivated this spear skill to perfection.
The Beast Taming Skill was also perfected.
He glanced at the changes in his personal information:
[Name: Li Yuan]
[Add Points: 767 points]
[Skills: Yin Handle Linked Spear Ninth Grade, Eighth Grade, Seventh Grade (160/160)
Essentials of Large Bird Taming Skill (160/160)]
"As expected, it wasn’t the Chaotic Heaven Spear Skill, but this Yin Handle Linked Spear..."
"It must have some fame, so the transcribers renamed it before selling.
Actually, the recorded content in the book isn’t complete, but... I only need to cultivate it to entry level."
"Although the Yin Handle Linked Spear wasn’t completely copied accurately, its beginning and end sections were copied well.
The spear reaches great success by unleashing in a chain, fierce and unparalleled, yet silent, even capable of decapitating ten flies in a row...
Since it’s winter and there are no flies, I’ll use these hundreds of fallen leaves instead."
Li Yuan glanced at the leaves he had prepared in the chamber in advance and blew them with a single breath, turning them into a cold wind that instantly lifted hundreds of dried leaves.
The young man immediately launched his spear.
The spear struck noiselessly, like a venomous snake slithering through the cold darkness.
