Chapter 36: Dugu's Nine Swords

  "Seven thousand!"

  His opponent drew out the long sword in his hand, his tone indifferent, and at the same time threw a stack of gold tickets to the ground. "My name is Wei Yun, if you can defeat me, these gold tickets are yours."

  "Make your move!" Hu Gao said calmly.

  Wei Yun's body shape burst out in an instant, and a long sword shot out a fierce sword energy from the middle, shooting towards Hu Gao's chest.

  As he saw himself successfully executing this sword, a cold smile was drawn on the corner of Wei Yun's mouth. This move may not have changed much, but its power and attack speed were terrifying, and he didn't think Hu Gao could withstand it.

  If Hu Gao was injured by this move, then he would have a greater chance of thoroughly defeating Hu Gao afterwards.

  "Dude, this move of yours is really weak, the follow-up is too lame!"

  However, just as he thought Hu Gao couldn't withstand his sword, the latter's body was like a ghost, miraculously dodging his sword energy attack with ease, and in the blink of an eye, he appeared in front of him, and the sharp breaking wind sound also rang in his ears.

  "How is it possible?"

  Wei Yun's face changed slightly, he indeed didn't have any follow-up attacks, but this was a secret, only a few people knew, just like Guo Tao's secret, but now it was unexpectedly seen through by Hu Gao at a glance.

  As Hu Gao said, he indeed didn't have any powerful follow-up moves, so when Hu Gao appeared beside him, he could only randomly stab out with his sword, hoping to withstand the latter's attack and give himself enough time.

  Pong!

  However, soon he felt a severe pain in his chest, accompanied by the sound of cracking bones, and he was definitely injured.

  "What's going on?!"

  Sharp pain made Wei Yun faint quickly, before closing his eyes, he was still trying to think about why Hu Gao could see through his weakness.

  "Another 7,000, haha." Hu Gao chuckled and picked up the golden ticket beside him, then flew towards another martial arts stage.

  "How many gold coins have you prepared?" Hu Gao asked directly.

  "Eight thousand!"

  The opponent's answer fell, and Hu Gao didn't say much more. His figure burst out with a strong attack, and his gaze swept across, revealing the opponent's flaws in an instant.

  "Get out of here!"

  Hú Gāo approached his opponent, and with a palm containing boundless power, he struck the opponent's body. He quickly retrieved the Golden Ticket from his bosom and with another exertion of force, sent the latter flying off the Martial Arts Platform.

  Putting the golden ticket into his bosom, Hu Gao didn't even give this person a glance and landed on the last Wu Tai.

  "It's just you now..."

  Hu Gao's lips curled up with a hint of a smile, "I wonder how many gold coins you have?"

  "Ten thousand!"

  That man's mouth twitched twice as he replied, and after finishing his reply, seeing Hu Gao's eager figure, he hastily shouted: "Stop, I admit defeat..."

  "Hmm... quite interesting. " Hu Gao was stunned for a moment, then grinned and walked towards the person, stretching out his hand, the meaning was very clear, since he had admitted defeat, then bring the gold coins over.

  "This is gold coins." Handing a stack of gold tickets to Hu Gao, the man said: "I have a question, how did you suddenly become so powerful today? Much more powerful than yesterday, and I think this isn't even your full strength. Did you hide your true power yesterday?"

  "You're not even qualified to know this!" As for such a character who doesn't know his own strength and still dares to lead the team, Hu Gao didn't want to say another half sentence.

  After arranging all the gold coins, Hu Gao jumped down from the martial arts stage with a carefree expression, ignoring the shouting crowd and heading straight towards the library.

  Hú Gāo's memory is now super good, he has only been here once and easily found the hidden book pavilion. In these two days, he earned a total of nearly 50,000 gold coins, after thinking about it, he simply took out all of them and handed them over to the administrator.

  The result was informed by the other party that because of their own total recharge amount reached the upgrade point, the original ordinary gold card was upgraded to a first-class gold card, and later yuan jue can be played at a discount of 9, which is an unexpected surprise.

  Hu Gao continued to step onto the Body Refining shelf, last time he spent 500 gold coins here and didn't even finish scanning the first floor, this time he was prepared to scan all five floors, anyway, he had enough gold coins.

  Although he hasn't actually practiced a single Yuan Jue yet, his understanding of Yuan Jue itself has greatly improved. There are countless Yuan Jues in this world, and it's likely that no warrior has ever thought of creating their own Yuan Jue using this method. Most importantly, through studying Yuan Jue, Hu can also capture the opponent's moves with his sharp senses, equivalent to having an extra pair of invisible " Sharingan" eyes, which is absolutely a BUG-level existence.

  It wasn't until the whole morning had passed that Hu Gao finally finished flipping through all the suitable cultivation techniques on the bookshelf.

  He didn't even bother to go eat lunch, but instead sat cross-legged under the bookshelf, seriously starting to digest those yuan jue.

  To be honest, after seeing many of these low-level yuan jue, he felt that they had a great deal in common with the fist and foot techniques described in the wuxia novels of his past life. They were all relatively basic, and even if he really learned several sets of yuan jue now, their effect would not be particularly impressive.

  Hu Gao once read a book called "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer", which had a set of sword techniques called "Dugu Nine Swords". The principles behind this set of sword techniques inspired him greatly. This set of sword techniques really only has nine moves: Breaking Sword Style, Breaking Sabre Style, Breaking Spear Style, Breaking Whip Style, Breaking Rope Style, Breaking Palm Style, Breaking Arrow Style and Breaking Air Style.

  Just by looking at the names of these nine forms, you can tell that this solitary nine swords can defeat all the martial arts in the world with just these nine moves. In fact, this is no longer a sword technique, but a set of martial arts theories. This theory can be summed up in four words: "料敌机先".

  By breaking down all the movements that a person can make, through analysis of the opponent's current posture, what moves can he make? Which part of the opponent's body, which muscle has movement signs, infer what his next move might be. This achieves the purpose of destroying all the martial arts in the world.

  Hú Gāo's current approach actually has some commonalities with this theory. He can achieve the goal of analyzing his opponent's yuan jue through the method of digesting the Tian Xia Yuan Jue, and ultimately use a universal yuan jue to defeat them.

  Thinking of this, Hu Gao couldn't help but feel excited. With a theoretical foundation, practice can be twice as effective. After fully digesting the Fist and Footwork-type Yuan Decisions, he continued to flip through all the Weapon-type Yuan Decisions, and nearly another afternoon passed by. Not to mention Hu Gao, even Xiao Wu started to cry out in hunger.

  "Wait, Xiao Wu. Let me choose another high-level Yuan Decree first. Currently, all the Yuan Decrees I've learned are physical cultivation types, and when I encounter some enemies that aren't good at close combat, it's a bit difficult to deal with them."

  Hu Gao walked to the bookshelf of skills, took a look, and there were only a few books on Renyuan's decision. He quickly browsed through them and found that one of the fire-type Renyuan decisions had an 80% compatibility with him.

  It's all up to you! Hu Gao swiped his gold card at the bookshelf and found that there was only a little over 10,000 gold coins left inside. He really did spend money like water.

  【Fire Dragon Technique】, when cultivated to the entry level, a fire dragon can be launched from the ground at a specified location, rushing straight into the sky for three seconds. When cultivated to the small success realm, the fire dragon can be manipulated to move within a very small range. When cultivated to the great success realm, two fire dragons can be manipulated simultaneously to move within a larger range.

  It's no wonder that the top-grade Yuan Jue has such a powerful fire dragon technique. Although its entry-level effect is limited, it's probably only useful when roasting, after all, the enemy won't stand still and let you burn them. But once cultivated to perfection, it's simply a top-notch killing move!

  Hu Gao smiled and first put away the Yuan Decisiveness, planning to slowly cultivate it after returning.

  "It's getting dark, I should go back and get some rest." Hu Gao felt like his entire head was going to explode, it was stuffed with too many things and he felt extremely uncomfortable. He thought for a moment and decided that he wouldn't come to the War Academy for the next two days, instead staying at home to slowly digest the mnemonic devices he had memorized today. If anyone from the War Academy asked, he would just say he went to see the Transmission Elder, it didn't matter.

  As soon as I walked out of the martial arts school's gate, I saw a guy with distinctive silver hair and a mouthful of something that looked like a reed pipe, leaning against the wall by the gate. He would occasionally whistle at passing female students, what a complete little hoodlum!

  According to Hu Gao's inference, this guy should be waiting for him on purpose, so he quickly turned his head and walked in another direction.

  "Hu Gao, you little scamp, you've finally come out. Didn't you spend the whole day in the library today?" Although Extreme Joy's eyes seemed to be on his fellow female disciple, in reality he had been keeping an eye on the entrance. As soon as Hu Gao came out, he immediately ran over.

  "This guy from the Northern Branch seems quite familiar, Hu Gao had no choice but to stop and nod his head, saying: "What's up? Looking for me with something?"

  "No big deal, I knew you'd be loaded with gold coins today and would be waiting for me to treat you." Ji Le said with a sly smile.

  "Oh, sorry about that, I'm now penniless......" Hu Gao spread his hands, he wasn't lying, the money he won today had all been spent at Cangshu Pavilion.

  Extreme joy was speechless, "You can't be serious? Tens of thousands of gold coins were spent? Did you go to the Book Pavilion or the Golden Cave today? You little scoundrel, did you actually learn a high-quality Yuan Jue?"

  Hu Gao nodded slightly. With his extremely high IQ, he absolutely didn't think that what he mainly learned were the most basic Yuan Decisions, but he was also too lazy to explain.

  "Alright, you win this time, go ahead and leave, I'll take the loss for today, but next time you'd better invite me back!"

  Hu Gao was speechless for a moment, thinking that if he followed Ji Le to eat, what would happen to Xiao Wu?

  "Don't worry, master. I can go hunting at night by myself. Mid-tier demonic beasts are no threat to me at all now, and I can even bring back some demon cores for you."

  "Can you still bring back the demon pill?"

  "That's right, don't look at my small head, but inside my body there is another layer of space, which can hold many things."

  "Hey, Hu Gao, I'm the one treating you to dinner, why are you standing there with a reluctant look on your face?" Ji Le said strangely from the side.

  "Alright then, you lead the way..."