Chapter 398 Source Four

Acting decisively, Li Cheng颐 released his grip on the golden sword, reforming it in a flash of lightning and sending another strike towards his opponent.

This time, he channeled his Zhen Qi (true energy).

His speed instantly exploded.

This second strike was truly unleashed without holding back, a full-force eruption.

Supple energy circulated, and the Dragon煞 (Dragon Force) was brought forth.

Over three thousand tons of force, amplified by the augmentation of Zhen Qi.

He wanted to truly test if he could handle these monsters barehanded without relying on his Flowery Speech.

Boom!!!

The golden sword ignited with blinding light, mixed with a milky-white Zhen Qi, crashing into the old woman's hand like a giant warship.

Ah!!!

She shrieked, unleashing a wild roar.

The red light all over her body seemed to sense a fatal threat, rapidly condensing in front of her into a tiny ball to meet the incoming golden sword.

Seven times the speed of sound, a three-thousand-ton cleave!

Boom!!!

In the blink of an eye, the tall body of the red-clothed old woman was blasted apart on the spot.

Countless pieces of flesh sprayed backward, painting a blood waterfall on the black earth.

Li Cheng頤 stood there, watching the monster, completely shattered and torn into mincemeat by the shockwave.

Although he had won, he felt no joy.

It was just a monster in the Red-Eye stage, yet it had such strong resistance.

What about the stronger monsters?

Unimaginable...

He discarded the golden sword, suddenly feeling an itch on his arm.

He raised his hand to see a smear of blood on his forearm.

The blood was like a worm, frantically devouring the invisible flowery scale armor material covering his body.

And it was rapidly swelling and growing larger.

Li Cheng頤 touched it gently with his other hand, and a milky-white Songwen Qi (Pine Pattern Energy) quickly surrounded it.

The moment they made contact, it was like water and fire, emitting a piercing hiss.

With a large amount of Songwen Qi constantly being consumed, the bloodstain was finally annihilated, faded, and deactivated after half a minute, turning into a black blood mark.

Li Cheng頤 flicked it away and looked again at the blood and flesh on the black earth. He stomped and kicked with his right foot.

The force immediately stirred up a large amount of soil, covering and burying all the flesh and blood.

After doing all this, he quickly returned towards Xinmeng Town.

'As expected, Zhen Qi can counteract the polluted flesh left behind by the monster. No wonder martial artists can join the government as auxiliary forces. It seems there's a reason for it.'

Li Cheng頤 pondered in his mind.

His feet didn't stop either, and he quickly returned to the road and headed straight for the town's Garrison.

To go to the Shenwu Si (Godly Martial Division), he must be recommended by the Garrison to go to the county town, and then he is qualified to join after passing the examination in the county town.

Moreover, joining at the beginning is only the county-level Shenwu Si. To go up step by step, you must constantly demonstrate strength and perform meritorious service.

Xinmeng Town Garrison.

Garrison Commander Wu Xinhao had agreed with Wang Yifeng to specifically come and see his third son, Wang Yichen, today.

As a colleague, Wang Yifeng asked him to write a recommendation letter for his third son to enter the Shenwu Si.

He naturally had to see how strong Wang Yichen really was, otherwise, if he sent a good-for-nothing, wouldn't he lose face?

He also came from the Shenwu Si. If it spread to his former colleagues, he would lose a lot of face.

So, although he was accommodating, if Wang Yichen was really useless, he wouldn't write this recommendation letter.

As for genius? Wang Yifeng's own child, boasting about himself, the credibility was too low, and it was completely not considered.

At this time, in the side courtyard of the Yamen (government office), Wu Xinhao and Wang Yifeng were both present. Beside them was the Yamen's clerk, responsible for recording Wang Yichen's specific performance and the entire assessment process.

This report card, plus Wu Xinhao's comments and recommendations as Garrison Commander, was the so-called recommendation letter.

Li Cheng頤 was soon led in by a yamen runner and came to the courtyard.

Wu Xinhao was not tall himself, so he had a good impression of many tall people.

Seeing Li Cheng颐 enter, with his strong and powerful physique, his hair tied high, full of energy, and wearing a clean and tidy gray silk short jacket, he immediately had a good impression.

"Wang Yichen, since you want to enter the Shenwu Si, you should be clear about the dangers that the Shenwu Si faces all year round. Therefore, martial force is the most important part of the assessment."

Wu Xinhao said in a deep voice.

"For your father's sake, I'll give you a separate assessment opportunity. I won't do many miscellaneous items. As long as you can support ten moves in my hands, I'll write your recommendation letter."

"Thank you, Garrison Commander!" Li Cheng颐 said respectfully.

This was his first step here.

He just didn't know how strong this Garrison Commander was.

In case of accidents, he only intended to use the power of Zhen Qi, without using his physical fitness and Flowery Speech.

And the total amount of Zhen Qi he had was now slightly stronger than his predecessor's, Wang Yifeng, which was fully capable of meeting the conditions for going to the Shenwu Si.

After confirming this, he immediately took a few steps forward, clasped his fists and saluted.

Wu Xinhao also stood up and returned the salute.

The two, one in gray and one in green official uniform, stood facing each other.

"I apologize for any offense, sir!" Li Cheng頤 put down his hands, covering his body with a layer of milky-white Zhen Qi glow.

The Songluo Blade Technique had a whole set of offensive and defensive moves, a total of more than a dozen moves, all simple and straightforward.

Li Cheng颐 raised his hand and used a move called Wind Sweeping Pines, smashing it towards the opponent's head.

The name sounded nice, but the external manifestation was raising his hand and channeling enough Zhen Qi to slap the other party's face.

Twenty Songwen (Pine Pattern) faintly appeared on the milky-white Songwen Qi.

Seeing these Songwen, Wu Xinhao's eyes stagnated, and he didn't react.

When he came back to his senses, Li Cheng頤's palm was less than an inch away from his face.

He immediately gave a low shout, and his right palm preemptively rose up, flashing the same white light, and heavily struck Li Cheng颐's wrist from bottom to top.

Puff.

A turbid sound like wood colliding was heard.

After deflecting the move, Wu Xinhao took advantage of the situation to unleash a set of Black Eagle Iron Claw Technique.

The hand claws, blessed by Zhen Qi, were extremely fast. Although they couldn't reach the speed of sound, they were still extremely fast, far exceeding ordinary people.

Seeing this, Li Cheng颐 also followed the opponent's lead and disassembled the moves.

With his combat experience, he had seen similar opponents during the competition. Even if he only used Zhen Qi and the speed and movement of ordinary people, he could fight vividly.

Wu Xinhao obviously didn't use his full strength, but neither did he use his full strength.

In the blink of an eye, thirty moves had passed, far exceeding the originally agreed ten moves.

Wu Xinhao retreated and looked at the twenty pine patterns on Li Cheng頤's Songwen Qi,啧啧 (ze ze) in admiration.

"Indeed... I said before that Wang Yichen was able to survive the attack outside the city. Now it seems that he secretly hid his strength to make the other party misjudge, so he was rescued... Wang Yifeng, you old boy, is not honest at all."

He pointed to Wang Yifeng, who also had a shocked expression on his face.

"With such a good seedling, you have been hiding him at home. If it weren't for the need to assess the Shenwu Si this time, would you not release him?"

Wang Yifeng was speechless.

He clearly remembered that only a month ago, there were only six Songwen, how could there be twenty now!??

Moreover, he was born with divine power, and his physique only contained nineteen Songwen of Zhen Qi, but his youngest son was able to contain twenty Songwen of Zhen Qi so quickly. He really couldn't guess how much the upper limit would be in the future.

No wonder he could fight with the Garrison Commander without losing ground.

Although the Garrison Commander didn't use his full strength, the grades of martial arts were different!

The grade of the Black Eagle Iron Claw Technique was one level stronger than the Songluo Blade Technique.

This meant that the intensity of the Zhen Qi cultivated was also one level stronger.

For the same level of a unit of Zhen Qi, the Black Eagle Iron Claw Technique would suppress the Songluo Blade Technique.

And the total amount of Zhen Qi that could be contained was limited. After all, the human body was so big. Even if there were gifted people, the difference would not be too much.

Therefore, you must work hard on the quality of Zhen Qi.

"Okay, I'll write the recommendation letter. As expected of a genius! And a genius who came out of my Xinmeng Town, I must write it in a big way! If Yichen can reach a higher position in the future, he will also bring glory to our Xinmeng Town!"

Wu Xinhao said happily.

"Then when is it better to go to the county?" Wang Yifeng suppressed the shock in his heart. Only he and his family knew that his youngest son's talent was much stronger than Wu Xinhao imagined.

Unfortunately...

Because of the principle of one-to-one correspondence in Zhen Qi cultivation, once you cultivate a kind of Zhen Qi, you can't change to another.

Because the True Imprint Essence can only accept one kind. After the fit, if you want to contact the second kind, you will be rejected by the True Imprint Spirit of the second kind.

If his youngest son was born in a martial arts family and learned superior martial arts from the beginning, maybe...

Wang Yifeng didn't think any more. The regret had already been cast, and there was no possibility of turning back.

The cost of changing other martial arts was too great. Just look at his eldest son, and he hasn't learned the so-called Mad Blood Skill until now.

"It's better to do it sooner rather than later. I'll write a letter immediately. The recruitment time for the Shenwu Si in the county is on the third of next month. From here, it will take at most half an hour for Yichen to get there on foot." Wu Xinhao smiled.

"Thank you, Garrison Commander, for your help!" Wang Yichen, that is, Li Cheng頤, clasped his fists and thanked him.

"What are you thanking me for? Now I'm the Garrison Commander, and maybe my virtuous nephew will be able to take my place in the future. The feng shui turns, and maybe we'll help each other in the future." Wu Xinhao's attitude was obviously much more enthusiastic than before.

Wang Yichen showed his talent. At such a young age, he surpassed his father Wang Yifeng with his talent. This meant that the other party was likely to perform meritorious service in the Shenwu Si.

As long as he performed meritorious service, he might receive a reward for Grade Martial Arts. At that time, the next generation of the Wang family would cultivate Grade Martial Arts, and it was very likely that they would reach the same level as him.

This was the root cause of his attitude change.

Soon, the clerk next to him recorded the specific assessment process and handed it over to Wu Xinhao for follow-up comments.

Li Cheng頤 said goodbye to Wang Yifeng and left the Yamen.

The arrangement to go to the county on the third of next month was preliminarily finalized.

Although the future development was determined, the strength of the Red-Eye stage mad woman he encountered on the road before still made him worried.

He didn't know what level the woman's strength was here.

And the information about the town was too little, and he didn't have an official status, so he got too little information.

Only after entering the Shenwu Si would he have access to this information.

This feeling of blackness and bewilderment in the information made him miss the days when he had Rainbow Candy.

At that time, he only needed to find the enemy and solve the battle, and he didn't need to worry about anything else.

But now...

Town General's Mansion.

"Lusheng is dead."

Dongfang Ling was still dressed as a refined scholar,飘然而至 (piao ran er zhi - drifting gracefully), appearing outside the study of the mansion.

His brows were tightly furrowed as he looked at the Town General Song Ju Dao in the room.

"Was it you who did it?"

"A mere Red-Eye stage. As long as she doesn't affect the nearby civilians, I don't have time to care about her." Song Ju Dao pushed open the study door and slowly walked out.

The so-called Blood Seed and Blood Body were actually the same system, but the former was controlled by his own sanity, and the latter had times of losing control every day.

The former was more rational, and the latter was more manic.

Therefore, Song Ju Dao in the Blood Body stage could easily kill the red-clothed Lusheng.

"But in the entire Xinmeng Town area, apart from you, no one else has the strength to kill Lusheng so quickly." Dongfang Ling said in a deep voice.

"I still need you to help me with the aftercare of the transaction materials. Wouldn't killing her be asking for trouble?" Song Ju Dao retorted.

"Then it may be a passing master..." Dongfang Ling said helplessly.

He believed the other party's words because no matter how he thought about it, Song Ju Dao had no reason to kill Lusheng.

If he wanted to kill her, he would have done it long ago.

"When are you leaving?" Dongfang Ling asked again.

"...You guessed it?" Song Ju Dao smiled.

"If I still can't guess it after you've made so many preparations, wouldn't I be too stupid?" Dongfang Ling said.

"Next month... I may still need you to help arrange the route." Song Ju Dao said.

"Then what about this town?"

"Whatever you want." Song Ju Dao smiled. "It's okay to slaughter them all, but don't move when I'm here. Do whatever you want after I leave."

It just so happened that a genius had appeared in the town and was going to be sent to the county for further development.

He naturally wouldn't let go of the meat that had reached his mouth, so he also planned to start now and eat the local masters one by one as blood energy reserves to suppress the side effects of using the Blood Body.

Dongfang Ling stared at him.

"Okay!"