Chapter 158: Special-Grade Defensive Cultivation Art: Three-Character Dao-Pattern Seal!
The two of them did not return to the Military District until six o’clock in the evening.
After an entire afternoon of devouring, the two dogs’ bodies had already reached more than three meters even when they were not in a Berserk State.
Their cultivation had risen to Eighth Grade!
They were even one grade higher than Wang Yinhuan herself.
However, the one that had improved the most was actually the Silver-Ring Snake.
It had eaten the most monster corpses. Those two foolish dogs still chewed their food.
This one did not even chew. It swallowed directly and could even spray venom to claim food—like a friend spitting on your cake.
It was precisely because of this that Wang Yinhuan named it.
She called it Tantan.
Li Mu gave it the nickname Greedy Snake.
Greedy Snake alone had eaten nearly half of the monster corpses.
In a single afternoon, its cultivation had soared to Fifth Grade.
Rising two grades in one afternoon was the most exaggerated improvement speed Li Mu had ever seen.
Most importantly, it had even undergone one species ascension!
Its body had reached an exaggerated twelve meters!
It was as thick as a barrel, and Wang Yinhuan could even sit on its head.
It had evolved from a “snake” into a “python.”
Of course, Li Mu had decided this species name himself.
The only basis Wang Yinhuan used to determine that it had ascended was that Tantan had undergone a qualitative change and developed an ability, and its appearance had clearly changed as well. From this, she judged that it had ascended.
The previous Tantan had possessed extremely outstanding speed and agility, as well as deadly venom.
Now, it had gained an ability called “Tail Needle.”
Its venom could instantly harden from its tail into a venomous needle, which it could launch out with True Essence to unexpectedly pierce through an opponent.
Of course, after pythonification, Tantan’s strength had also increased tremendously compared to before.
Its danger level could be said to have risen in a straight line.
With this method of improvement, if Wang Yinhuan came to the Abyss for several hours every day...
In one or two weeks, it would be able to catch up to the strength of the two dogs.
After all, once one reached Seventh or Eighth Grade, breaking through further also became geometrically more difficult.
This was also the reason Li Mu had Wang Yinhuan contract a snake.
In terms of evolutionary routes, he did not know what those two dogs would ultimately evolve into.
A three-headed hellhound?
However, according to a snake’s evolutionary path...
A snake at its extreme transformed into a python, a python at its extreme transformed into a boa, a boa at its extreme transformed into a jiao, a jiao at its extreme transformed into a chi, a chi at its extreme transformed into a qiu, and a qiu at its extreme transformed into a ying...
The “ying” of Yinglong.
Of course, this was only Li Mu’s speculation according to legends.
In legends, each of these evolutions required five hundred years. However, Wang Yinhuan’s Summoned Beasts only needed to continuously devour monsters to evolve.
They would not necessarily develop according to this route.
But they should also be developing in the direction of dragons.
When the two of them returned above ground, it was already nearly dusk.
Wang Yinhuan was completely like a young girl who had fallen into passionate love, holding Li Mu’s hand and refusing to let go.
One had to say, after falling in love, the issue where she extremely rejected contact with men had mostly improved.
In truth, from beginning to end, Li Mu had been afraid of touching the depths of her heart, so he had never asked what exactly had happened.
But Wang Yinhuan herself knew that she had a problem.
It could be considered a psychological illness left over from childhood.
When Wang Yinhuan was very young, her great-grandfather was still alive, and the family was flourishing.
During New Year and holidays, everyone would gather at the Wang Family mansion.
One year, little Wang Yinhuan had eaten something bad and had a stomachache, so she ran out in the middle of the night to find the bathroom.
In the end, she heard movement coming from the room of one of her older male cousins.
Out of curiosity, she ran over to look and discovered that the door was not locked.
She pushed it open a crack. As a result, she saw her cousin and a “buddy” who had come to see him during the day playing cards!!
That was right!
Her cousin and his buddy!
Two men.
Wang Yinhuan was frightened into tears at the time, and this incident left an enormous shadow in her heart.
From then on, that shadow followed her everywhere and could not be dispelled.
It caused her to inexplicably blush whenever she saw men she was not familiar with, and she rejected them abnormally strongly.
If this story were told aloud, anyone who heard it would probably burst out laughing, because it really was funny.
But no one understood that for a little girl, it had been an absolute disaster.
The two of them ate together, strolled through the streets, and looked at the sea view.
It was not until close to nine o’clock that Li Mu sent Wang Yinhuan back to the student dormitory of Beihai University.
Li Mu himself returned to the Military District.
Li Mu’s original plan today had been to explore the Abyss by himself for a few hours first.
Then he would go out and find a house to rent somewhere on the mountainside facing the sea.
After that, he would come back and find Wang Yinhuan to go out and have fun.
He had not expected love to arrive so suddenly. The two of them could be considered to have simply confirmed their relationship as lovers, and they had spent the entire afternoon being clingy.
There was no need to look for a house either.
That was because Li Mu had thought of a better place to go.
The Quartermaster Department.
Li Mu went straight to the cultivation art section of the Quartermaster Department.
After fighting for the entire afternoon, added to the Triumph Points Li Mu originally had before, he now had 12,470 Triumph Points.
So Li Mu directly threw 12,000 points into Listen Close.
[Consumed 12,000 Triumph Points. Strengthening “Listen Close” successful.]
[Listen Close: Hide the divine weapon in the Xumi Space inside your ear canal, constantly gaining enlightenment and cultivating at 500% of the normal cultivation speed. You can hear the ill wind of an enemy’s attack and instantly activate your current strongest defensive cultivation art unconsciously and without cooldown. Its effectiveness is 130%.]
130% effectiveness.
In other words, the defensive cultivation art instantly activated by Listen Close was now even stronger than when Li Mu activated it himself!
Thinking about it now, Li Mu did not lack offensive cultivation arts.
That was because he could no longer even make much use of them.
He had the [Mastery of All Arts] from Fiery Eyes and Golden Gaze, allowing him to continuously blend martial techniques.
When observing an opponent’s battle, combining that with Fiery Eyes and Golden Gaze to investigate the flow of the opponent’s True Qi allowed him to grasp seventy to eighty percent of the essence.
The last time he had watched Qin Zhanye’s Wind-Subduing Saber, Li Mu had already blended part of it into his Flowing Cloud Cudgel Art.
Li Mu could now casually unleash several sets of extremely powerful offensive cultivation arts.
On the other hand, when it came to defensive cultivation arts...
He had seen relatively few of them. Moreover, most defensive cultivation arts relied on the circulation of True Qi inside the body, and Li Mu was too lazy to slowly collect them.
It would be better to directly search whether Wanren Military District had any good defensive cultivation arts.
When he arrived at the Military District’s Quartermaster Department, there were actually quite a lot of people at this hour.
The soldiers coming and going all found Li Mu unfamiliar and did not quite dare recognize him.
However, there were still people who saluted in pleasant surprise and quietly greeted him. “Tiger Marquis Li!”
Quite a few people began discussing him.
“Is that... Tiger Marquis Li from Pearl Military District?”
“He looks like him! I did not dare recognize him! Why would he appear in our Military District? Has he been transferred over?”
“Maybe he came to help Tiger Roar Camp recruit soldiers? Did we not transfer a lot of people to Tiger Roar Camp?”
“To be fair, his pressure is too strong, and he is handsome too.”
“That is true. Our Military District has quite a few heavenly prodigies, but compared to him, they really do not count for much.”
Along the way, most people were surprised and doubtful. Most of them had not recognized Li Mu and did not dare greet him.
But among those who knew that he was Li Mu, very few were unconvinced.
Li Mu went straight into the depths of the cultivation art section.
He had now saved up 127,000 Contribution Points.
Almost 130,000 Contribution Points.
Together with his 3,900 Merit Points, there were far too many things he could buy.
He had not replaced his equipment in a very long time.
Weapons, Spirit Treasures, cultivation arts—Li Mu had not really changed any of them before.
Now that he had arrived at Wanren Military District, it was time to splurge.
First was the cultivation art section.
Li Mu arrived at the Premium Cultivation Art Section.
Pearl Military District’s Premium Cultivation Arts had been pitifully few.
But Wanren Military District had quite a few. There were even Special-Grade Cultivation Arts and several Rare-Grade Cultivation Arts!
Those few Rare-Grade Cultivation Arts did not include defensive cultivation arts. They were all offensive killing arts.
Li Mu glanced at the prices. Even the cheapest started at one hundred thousand.
Li Mu felt that they were not worth it.
Li Mu directly skipped over the Premium Cultivation Arts and looked for Special-Grade ones.
He really did find one defensive cultivation art among the Special-Grade Cultivation Arts.
[Three-Character Dao-Pattern Seal]
It required 32,000 Contribution Points.
One had to have more than 2,000 Merit Points to be allowed to purchase it.
The price was indeed not low.
But for Li Mu, it was not a problem. Contribution Points existed to be spent.
He looked over the description.
[A defensive cultivation art inherited from the same lineage as Daoist secret arts. The three-character defensive seals each have their own marvelous uses.]
[The Lin-Character Seal is unmoving as a mountain and can block all arts.]
[The Dou-Character Seal causes true power to surge wildly and can seek an opportunity to counterattack.]
[The Zhen-Character Seal seals the True Spirit and can be used for control.]
[When any one character’s Dao-pattern blocks an attack, it can instantly convert into a second character’s Dao-pattern. In actual combat, its transformations are unpredictable, and its defensive power and functionality are extremely strong!]
After reading the description, Li Mu did not hesitate in the slightest.
He bought it!