Cultivating in Different Professions

Chapter 148: Chapter 114: Blood Exchange Technique

East City Government Office, rear courtyard.

Su Mu was practicing his saber under the moonlight.

His movements were slow, each stance and strike filled with a profound weight. Every chop seemed as if it could split a giant boulder.

SWISH!

A flash of saber light zipped past. With a CRACK, the rockery in the courtyard split in two, scattering rubble across the ground.

’The martial arts of the Gen Mountain Lineage are powerful and heavy, lacking in technique but abundant in weight. They can compensate for the shortcomings of my Kan Water Realm and Xun Wind Realm.’

Su Mu, quite satisfied, put away his Autumn Water Saber. He picked up a towel from the stone table to wipe the sweat from his hands, then sat down.

With a thought, he summoned his system panel.

[Name: Su Mu]

[Status: Ghostwriter / Taiping Bureau White Clothes / East City Bureau Captain (Seventh Rank)]

[Points: 180]

[Realm: Body Tempering Extreme Realm]

[Divine Techniques: Indestructible Golden Body]

[Cultivation Techniques: Iron Bull Bone Tempering Method (Perfection), Raccoon Dog Bone Tempering Skill (Perfection)...]

[Martial Arts: Mountain-Opening Saber Technique (Perfection), Kan Water Realm (Minor Accomplishment), Xun Wind Realm (Minor Accomplishment), Archery (Novice/+)]

Many days had passed since he last cracked the case of the robbed merchant caravan.

The day he brought the forty bandits’ corpses back to the East City District, it caused a massive uproar.

Ever since that day, all the factions in the East City District had become exceptionally well-behaved.

Shen Yizhi, for his part, was deeply grateful to Su Mu, and had served him with unwavering loyalty ever since.

Amid this peaceful atmosphere, Su Mu had little to do each day besides practicing his martial arts.

He had already cultivated his Body Tempering Technique to its limit. Now, the only thing he could train was his martial arts.

Thus, it was only natural that he cultivated the Mountain-Opening Saber Technique to the Perfection Realm.

His saber practice had been so diligent that the number of Points needed to advance the Mountain-Opening Saber Technique had been significantly reduced—a pleasant surprise.

’Even though I’ve grasped the Mountain-Opening Saber Momentum, if I want to comprehend the Gen Mountain Realm, I probably need to master two or even three more arts from the Gen Mountain Lineage.’

Staring at the system panel, Su Mu’s face grew pensive.

’Even with the system panel’s help, this is no easy task.’

Su Mu had a feeling that the martial arts of the Gen Mountain Lineage conflicted with the Kan Water Realm and Xun Wind Realm he had mastered. Cultivating them yielded half the results for twice the effort.

He previously had the Xunfeng Realm Map, which was why he had comprehended the Xun Wind Realm after cultivating just two or three martial arts from the Xunfeng Lineage.

As for the Kan Water Lineage’s martial arts, those were the very first ones he cultivated. He was a blank slate back then, so there was no possibility of conflicting realms.

Now that he had mastered the Kan Water and Xun Wind Realms, the downside was that comprehending the Gen Mountain Realm would be exponentially more difficult.

This was one of the reasons why even powerful Martial Artists rarely mastered multiple types of realms.

Comprehending a realm was difficult enough on its own, and some realms were fundamentally in conflict. For someone who had comprehended the Kan Water Realm, it was almost impossible to then comprehend the Li Fire Realm.

Although the conflict between the Gen Mountain Realm and the Kan Water and Xun Wind Realms wasn’t as absolute, it was still extremely difficult to reconcile weightiness and gentleness.

Su Mu felt that if he wanted to comprehend the Gen Mountain Realm, he would have to master four, or even five, different arts from the Gen Mountain Lineage.

At that rate, even if he spent all his Points on cultivating martial arts, it would still take him more than half a year to achieve.

’Mastering a third realm would actually offer a limited boost to my strength—not nearly as much as cultivating one realm to Major Accomplishment. But reaching Major Accomplishment in a realm requires ten thousand Points.’

Su Mu calculated inwardly. ’At my current rate of earning Points, that would take about two months...’

Not using any Points for two months meant his strength would stagnate.

Having grown accustomed to constant improvement, Su Mu found it hard to accept the prospect of no progress for two months.

But spending Points to cultivate the Gen Mountain Lineage’s martial arts seemed like a bit of a waste.

’If only I could find a Blood Exchange Technique.’

Su Mu sighed, thinking to himself.

He had been trying to find a Blood Exchange Technique for days.

A Body Tempering Technique could still be purchased on the market if one had enough silver, but a Blood Exchange Technique was not something silver could buy.

Any single Blood Exchange Technique could form the foundation of a family’s power; it would absolutely never be allowed to circulate freely.

Su Mu had searched every Pawnshop in the Outer and Inner Cities, but even when he offered exorbitant prices, he couldn’t acquire a single Blood Exchange Technique.

However, there was another way for Su Mu to obtain a Blood Exchange Technique.

The Taiping Bureau.

He had, of course, gone to the Taiping Bureau. But his irresponsible superior, Lin Qi Huan, seemed to have forgotten all about him. Despite visiting the Taiping Bureau so many times, he hadn’t managed to see the man even once.

Su Mu had also made his own inquiries. To redeem a Blood Exchange Technique from the Taiping Bureau, one had to rely on the merit earned from slaying fiends.

Su Mu did have some merit, which he had earned back when he cracked the No-Life Sect case and turned over the fiend they had imprisoned to the Taiping Bureau.

Back then, Luo Anning had looked out for him, giving him all the credit.

But even so, Su Mu’s merit points were still not enough to exchange for a Blood Exchange Technique.

According to a Taiping Bureau constable, a Taiping Bureau White Clothes needed the merit equivalent of slaying three First-Order fiends to redeem a Blood Exchange Technique.

The No-Life Sect’s fiend counted as one. The Half-Demon Fiends he had killed—those infected by fiend blood—only added up to half of one.

He still needed to slay another one and a half First-Order fiends.

According to the Da Xuan Dynasty’s classification of fiends, a First-Order fiend’s strength was roughly equivalent to the Blood Transformation Realm.

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