Chapter 38: Mastery

That’s right.

Wei Lun was killed by Chen Mu.

Including the guards and servants in that courtyard, all died at his hands.

It has been five months since Chen Yue went to the Inner City to practice martial arts. It seems like a long time, but in reality, it hasn’t been longer than the time he spent cultivating the Wild Wind Blade Technique from Great Accomplishment to Perfection.

However, during this period, his strength has improved by leaps and bounds, climbing steadily.

His current System Panel is also quite comprehensive.

[Martial Arts: Wild Wind Blade Technique (Perfection), Fierce Wind Blade Technique (Perfection), Spiritual Wind Sword Technique (Great Accomplishment)]

[Experience: 1125 points]

Both the Wild Wind and Fierce Wind Blade Techniques are at Perfection. Now, he can simultaneously execute the ‘Wild’ and ‘Fierce’ blade momentums with a single blade. Because the Wild Wind and Fierce Wind are similar in nature, the two blade momentums are quite compatible, and executing them is not awkward.

As for the Spiritual Wind Sword Technique, it is another martial art from the ‘Xun Wind’ lineage that he found later. Although it is a sword technique, firstly, swords and blades are from the same family, and secondly, he has the System Panel, so he doesn’t have the problem of unfamiliarity with different weapons.

Moreover.

Compared to the Wild Wind Blade and Fierce Wind Blade, the Spiritual Wind Sword Technique is his very secret method. For example, when he killed Wei Lun and the guards, he used the Spiritual Wind Sword Technique, and no one could associate it with him.

After Min Baoyi personally examined the injuries, he concluded that it was done by a powerful swordsman. His sword technique has not reached the momentum stage yet, but his physique is very strong, at least at the Perfection of Flesh Training. People with this kind of physique, which is stronger than their skill, usually have a strong background.

After all, physique can be improved by training as long as you have the money. As long as you can come up with several thousand taels of silver, even those with average talent can achieve the Perfection of Flesh Training. It’s just that small and humble families don’t have the financial resources for this.

But it was because of this,

Min Baoyi’s judgment was almost spot-on but completely off the mark.

[Raging Bull Flesh Training Method (Great Accomplishment)]

[Experience: 243 points]

Chen Mu’s current Flesh Training Method has only reached the level of ‘Great Accomplishment’, and there is still a distance from Perfection.

However, because he has also mastered three Skin Grinding Methods at the level of Perfection, his copper steel skin is a great advantage in the Flesh Training realm. Even with only the Great Accomplishment of Flesh Training, his full strength is comparable to the average Perfection of Flesh Training!

This was the essence of Min Baoyi’s misjudgment.

In fact, with Chen Mu’s current Kung Fu and skills, even if he were to fight against someone like Min Baoyi, he wouldn’t be at a disadvantage. Once he uses ‘Double Momentum’, winning the fight would not be difficult.

It was with this strength and confidence that Chen Mu gradually became active. Because practicing Flesh Training and Skin Grinding consumed too much silver, he was a bit short of money, so he directly embarked on the path of murder and robbery.

In this world now.

What’s the fastest way to make money?

Of course, it’s robbery.

Moreover, this kind of incident is happening frequently, almost every day. It’s impossible to distinguish them all. The City Guard receives similar reports every day, but they are generally too lazy to investigate. Unless it’s a wealthy and powerful family that has been robbed, they use their connections to put some pressure on the City Guard, then they will investigate seriously.

As a Yamen Head of the City Guard, Chen Mu is not only very familiar with the situation in Nine Strip Li, but knows it like the back of his hand. It’s very easy to find a suitable target. Someone like Wei Lun was his target.

It’s not entirely because the other party was a villain with countless crimes.

Chen Mu has never liked hypocrisy and is too lazy to find a guise of punishing evil and promoting good for his murder and robbery. Killing is killing. The reason he targeted Wei Lun was because this person had no other complicated background or connections. Once he died, that would be the end of it.

Min Baoyi’s subsequent reaction to the incident was basically consistent with his judgment.

As for the young girl who was unfortunate but also fortunate last night, he didn’t have too many thoughts about it. After all, his place is not a refuge, and he has no interest in bringing people home casually. An old servant and a maid are enough.

It was enough to kill Wei Lun and all his guards and servants. He didn’t untie the ropes on her body, also to prevent her from running around. As long as she stayed in the house, the City Guard would naturally find her the next day. He heard from Liu Song and Li Tie that she had already returned home. Chen Mu didn’t have too many thoughts about it. He didn’t need the girl to know him and repay his kindness in the future.

That’s just how it is in the Outer City.

The families of common people are struggling to survive.

Wealthy families are also trembling with fear, hiring many guarding martial artists, worrying about thugs breaking in to kill and rob them.

It can be said that only in the Inner City can one find a peaceful place. The Inner City not only has the City Lord’s guards patrolling day and night, but the guards of various large families also patrol their respective streets daily, in addition to the numerous martial arts gyms and martial artists.

Once something happens, you can say that the people will immediately be found.

Just like Tang Quan.

A person who was at the Perfection of Flesh Training, who had mastered momentum and was not at all inferior to Min Baoyi. He even escaped to the Outer City after committing crimes but was eventually forcefully apprehended.

Even if he hadn’t encountered Chen Mu that day, and had the luck to live a little longer, he would still have been unable to escape in the end.

“Hmm…”

Chen Mu thought for a moment, then took out twenty gold leaves from the pile of silver, put them in a small pouch, and then buried the other gold leaves and nearly two hundred taels of silver under the floor tiles again.

Then he pressed the floor tiles down with a box, and placed about thirty or forty taels of loose silver ingots and silver lumps in the box.

Silver is very heavy.

So generally wealthy people don’t carry silver with them. They usually carry gold leaves like these, where one piece is worth about ten taels of silver. Twenty pieces is two hundred taels. At most they let their servants carry a dozen or so taels for spending money.

Chen Yue is now in the Inner City, learning martial arts at the Yu Family Martial Arts Gym. Although she got in through Xu Hongyu’s connections, her daily necessities and medicinal powders are provided by the Yu Family Martial Arts Gym, but she still needs some silver with her for emergencies. For example, if she accidentally sprains her tendons and bones during practice, she would need to buy some good tendons and bones injury medicine.

Chen Mu had asked someone to send dozens of taels of silver to Chen Yue earlier.

He was still relatively poor at that time, but now he is a little more well-off, and he plans to go to the Inner City in person to give these twenty gold leaves to Chen Yue, so that she won’t be in a very difficult situation.

Two hundred taels of silver seems like a lot, but in reality, it’s nothing to Chen Yue. After all, those who can enter the Yu Family Martial Arts Gym are either direct descendants or relatives of the Yu family, or an influential figure like Min Baoyi, or a rich person with a lot of wealth. Several hundred taels of silver is nothing more than pocket change for them.

So there is no need to worry that this little bit of money will cause any trouble for Chen Yue.

After a simple clean-up.

Chen Mu changed into casual wear, but the Yamen Saber was still hanging by his side. Then he took the gold leaves and went out the door, heading towards the Inner City.

It was also the first time in nearly five months that he was going to the Inner City to see her. After such a long time, he estimated that the little girl’s resentment towards him was already like a torrential river, flowing endlessly.