Chapter 76: One Quarter

  "In the ancient demon cave, there is a kind of viscount-level undead creature called Lei Yao. Although Lei Yao itself is not very powerful among the viscount-level undead creatures, it is extremely troublesome because of its large numbers and gathering in such a small space." Feng Xian said.

  "How many Thunder Beasts are in the cave?"

  "It's unclear, but there should be over a hundred of them. In the past, the Four Knights would bring the elite of the Knight Order to sweep through the Ancient Demon Cave, but now that the Four Knights are gone, who knows how many Thunder Demons have gathered inside?"

  "We should be able to cope if we're careful, and if we're lucky, we might even get the dazzling set, which is no less impressive than the Hellfire Set." Feng Xuan lived up to his merchant nature, thinking first about what benefits he could gain from the ancient demon cave.

  "Seventh Uncle, what you think is good, but unfortunately the probability of getting a Thunder Beast's Dazzling Set is frighteningly low. Even if we kill all the Thunder Beasts in the Ancient Monster Cave, it's not guaranteed that we'll get one piece. Let's not dream about something unrealistic and focus on finding Eight-Eyed Heaven King instead." Feng Xian said with a pout.

  "Is the Radiant Set more precious than the Hellfire Duke's set?" Bai Cangdong was somewhat skeptical, as the Hellfire Duke was an extremely powerful Viscount-level undead, and there was only one of them in existence. The Hellfire Duke's set that had been left behind couldn't be compared to the sets left behind by ordinary Viscount-level undead that existed in large numbers.

  Noticing Bai Cangdong's confusion, Feng Xian explained: "All suits are essentially better than ordinary equipment, and even among the same level of suits, there are good and bad ones. As for how to judge them, there are many different standards. For example, let's take the Hellfire Master and Eight-Eyed Heaven King suits. If two viscounts with similar strength use these suits separately, then the one using the Eight-Eyed Heaven King suit will definitely be stronger because it has stealth and detection abilities, which is a very terrifying ability. However, if they were to face a fire-elemental earl-level undead, then the viscount using the Hellfire Master suit would have a higher chance of survival. This is because the Hellfire Master suit can resist some fire-elemental privileges, although the probability of resistance isn't high. Which suit is more valuable depends on what the user needs."

  "The Dazzling Set is somewhat similar to the Hellfire Set, and can exempt some of the light system privileges, so its value is not under the Hellfire Set." Feng Xian said.

  Three people entered the ancient demon cave together. Bai Cang saw a large area of cyan lightning flashing in the distance, but couldn't see any signs of the undead tribe.

  "Be careful, the Thunder Beast's core is only as big as a pigeon egg, but it can emit terrifying thunderbolts of undying light. You must shatter the core to truly kill it, like this." Feng Xuan said, drawing out an unfamiliar knife and slashing fiercely at a bolt of lightning that was approaching, the blade shattered something, and the lightning suddenly burst open before quickly disappearing without a trace.

  "Good skill." Bai Cangdong praised, Feng Xuan's move was clean and efficient, without any dragging or hesitation, hitting the vital point accurately, making it a pleasure to watch.

  "It's a pity that the dazzling suit wasn't left behind. Let's make an agreement first, whoever kills the Thunder Demon and gets the dazzling suit will own it, so as to avoid any discord among us." Feng Xuan said with a smack of his lips.

  "Alright." Bai Cangdong was also eager to try, summoning that messy set of armor and the Baron-level sword, charging towards a burst of thunder and lightning.

  "Ah!" Bai Cangdong flew back, his hair standing on end, and a faint blue electric current still jumping on his body.

  "Haha, lightning can spread, didn't you see me directly throwing out the stranger's knife to shatter the thunder core? You actually dare to charge up with a knife in hand, really bold." Feng Xuanle's stomach hurts.

  "Why didn't you say so earlier?" Bai Cangdong said with a scowl.

  "Some things are better experienced by yourself, the impression will be deeper." Feng Xuan sized up Bai Cangdong: "I remember now, you're that kid who bought armor in my store. The entire set of armor on your body was purchased from my store."

  "Your memory is really good, you finally remembered." Bai Cangdong said sarcastically.

  Feng Xuan stopped smiling and tossed another strange knife to Bai Cangdong: "Your skills are not bad, but your equipment is a bit poor. Use this one first."

  Three people rushed into the ancient demon cave, with Feng Xuan as the main force to clear the encountered Lei Yao. Feng Xuan's strength was indeed powerful, and Bai Cangdong was extremely impressed in his heart.

  Feng Xuan is not only a master of the divine light, but his martial skills are also extremely formidable. Bai Cangdong had never seen anyone with footwork and swordsmanship more exquisite than his own before.

  Unlike Bai Cangdong's eerie body method, Feng Xuan's body method does not have the unimaginable borrowing of power in the air, but has a kind of inexplicable sense of disorder.

  Sometimes you clearly see him dodge to the left, but when you attack to the left, you find that he has dodged to the right, giving people a very strange feeling.

  After a long time of silent observation, Bai Cang finally discovered that when Feng Xuan seemed to be dodging to the left, his feet hadn't moved at all. It was just the movement of his body that gave the opponent such a feeling and illusion. Only when the opponent made a move to the left did he discover that Feng Xuan had actually dodged to the right.

  Bai Cangdong tried to use Feng Xian's method, but found it extremely difficult. Either he was really bad at pretending or the Lei Yao were just too hard to deceive, which made Bai Cangdong very depressed and also got him electrocuted several times.

  "You stinky little brat, if my 'Half-Step' movement technique was so easy to learn just by taking a glance, it wouldn't be the unique skill of our old family's tradition." Seeing Bai Cangdong trying to imitate his movement, Feng Xuan said with a smile.

  Bai Cangdong didn't bother with him and continued to try to imitate Feng Xuan's movements, but every time he went down, it was a miserable failure, unable to deceive the Thunder Beast at all, and his bones were charred from being electrocuted.

  "You little stinker, wanting to learn my skills isn't difficult. Just casually hand over a hundred and eighty years of life span, and I'll consider giving you some pointers. If you want to learn the entire skill set, considering our friendship with Little Xian'er, I'll give you a 50% discount - just pay me five hundred years of life span, and it's guaranteed that you'll master it or your money back." Feng Xuan's merchant nature was on full display.

  Bai Cangdong naturally couldn't give him a lifespan of five hundred years; he didn't even have fifty years of lifespan now.

  "What's wrong with it?" Bai Cangdong tried a few more times, but still couldn't mimic the essence of Er Fen Yi's movement, and couldn't create that illusion at all.

  He calmed down and observed the Wind String, after a long time, Bai Xiangdong's face suddenly showed an epiphanic expression, and he secretly thought: "The 'Half' body technique is a Viscount-level body technique, which must involve the special application of the innate divine light. I just imitated the surface, naturally there was no effect."

  Bai Cangdong began to notice the flow and changes of Benming Shenguang on Feng Xuan's body, although he couldn't see how Benming Shenguang operated inside his body, but the changes in those external Benming Shenguang also gave Bai Cangdong a great deal of inspiration.

  "Who would have thought that one's innate divine light could be used in such a way!" Bai Cangdong silently praised, then began to try changing the way he utilized his own innate divine light.

  "It seems that you've discovered the fundamental mystery of the 'Half-Step' technique, but to think that you can imitate the operation of the Divine Light just by watching is a bit too naive." Feng Xuan sneered in his heart.

  Bai Cang tried to change the way his innate divine light operated, but it was very difficult at first. He hadn't actually seen how Feng Xuan's innate divine light worked, and had only made some educated guesses based on appearances. As a result, there were huge errors, and he couldn't possibly achieve the same effect as Feng Xuan.

  After trying several times, Bai Cangdong found that his movements were even worse than when he first imitated them, it was like the story of "learning to walk in Handan", the more he learned, the less it looked like it, which made Feng Xuan burst out laughing and mock him nonstop, and strongly suggested that Bai Cangdong pay tuition fees to learn from him.

  "I, an old man, am a super genius who is rarely seen in five hundred years past or future. You want to imitate me? Not even one-tenth of my abilities can be imitated, so quickly offer up your life's time and let me personally teach you, guaranteeing that you'll learn three-tenths of it. Although it's only three-tenths, it's enough for you to dominate the Viscount level." Feng Xuan blew his flute, and a cow also turned red with excitement, in one breath blowing the cow up to the ninth heaven.

  His words fell into Bai Cangdong's ears, but it was like a thunderbolt that shocked him awake. He thought to himself: "I don't even know how his divine light works, so speculating about it is just going to lead to errors. It's better to give up on imitating him and focus on using my own divine light to improve my movement skills."

  After Bai Cangdong tried it once, it indeed had some effect. At least he was no longer as awkward as when he purely imitated Feng Xian earlier.

  Feng Xuan continued to boast about his skills, saying how good he was and how difficult it was to cultivate them, that without his guidance, others would never be able to master them. But as he spoke, his voice gradually faded away, and eventually, he just stared at Bai Cangdong with a strange expression.

  Bai Cangdong indeed failed to imitate the body technique of "Half", with many differences in both the body technique and the operation method of Benming Shenguang. However, Bai Cangdong did manage to deceive Lei Yao using his body technique, which means that he has also successfully imitated the body technique of "Half" in this aspect.

  Of course, the technique that Bai Cangdong came up with is still in its infancy, and in terms of power, effect, and practicality, it can't compare to Feng Xuan's "Half-Step" technique. However, as long as he continues to improve it, who can guarantee that this imitated technique won't surpass Feng Xuan's "Half-Step" technique in the future?

  "Cough, cough, you little brat, what kind of nonsense are you spouting? It's utterly tarnishing the reputation of my 'Half-Step' technique. Quickly forget all this nonsense and hand over some life force points, I'll personally teach you the true 'Half-Step' technique." Feng Xuan smiled somewhat awkwardly.

  Bai Cangdong was very satisfied with the movement technique he had created, and smiled as he said: "Although this movement technique is still not very powerful now, it's not even comparable to the lowest-level Viscount-level martial skill, but at least it's a Viscount-level martial skill that utilizes my innate divine light. Since it's derived from your 'Half' movement technique, I'll call this one 'Quarter' movement technique."

  [PS: Thanks for the rewards from Zijin Yulin, Shuiguo Guozhi and Huang Amu.]