Ignoring Han Yaozu's inquiry, Yang Xiu jumped off the cliff in pursuit of the cultivation technique. After being surrounded, the black wolf immediately leapt off the cliff.
"Chase!" Han Yaozu was the first to jump off the cliff, using protrusions and trees for support as he pursued Yang Xiu and the black wolf.
The others followed closely, leaving only Steward Zhang and Han Yu at the mountain top, along with Third Master Han, who lay uncertainly on the mountainside.
Yang Xiu watched as the cultivation technique fell into the forest. Upon reaching the spot where it had landed, he found nothing.
"Where's the cultivation technique? Where is it?" Yang Xiu frantically searched the surroundings.
The black wolf suddenly appeared, shouting, "The technique is over there!"
He then disappeared from sight, just in time for Han Yaozu and his followers to arrive in pursuit. Yang Xiu dashed in the direction the black wolf had indicated.
Upon seeing Yang Xiu's figure, Han Yaozu divided his forces, with one group chasing the black wolf and the other pursuing Yang Xiu.
Fighting as they ran, Yang Xiu relied on the spiritual armor he wore, blocking numerous mortal wounds. After running several miles, he realized he had been tricked by the black wolf.
He took a long detour and returned to the spot where he had encountered the black wolf, by which time his spiritual armor was already damaged. If he couldn't get the cultivation technique, he really had to flee.
Chasing in the direction the black wolf had fled, the expression on Han Yaozu's face turned grim as he kept pursuing Yang Xiu, whose turtle shell-like armor seemed to ignore their attacks.
After a long chase, Han Yaozu still hadn't managed to break Yang Xiu's turtle shell armor.
Shortly after running in the direction the black wolf had fled, Yang Xiu saw the bloodied black wolf rushing towards him with the cultivation technique in hand.
The black wolf was frustrated to the point of coughing up blood; he was just about to escape the chase when he spotted the flying cultivation technique midway.
It was the cultivation technique that even Yang Xiu wanted to possess. Without hesitation, the black wolf chased it down, only to be caught by several followers.
Weaponless, the black wolf couldn't fully display his strength and fought his way through the crowd, unexpectedly running into the returning Yang Xiu.
Seeing the cultivation technique in the black wolf's hand, Yang Xiu narrowed his eyes and shouted, "Give it to me!"
Noticing the pursuers behind Yang Xiu, the black wolf gritted his teeth and tossed the technique toward Yang Xiu, who surprising did not catch it, but instead imprinted a palm on the black wolf's chest.
Ssss~ The fire-attributed spiritual qi from the Blazing Palm burned black wolf's flesh and blood.
Spraying a mouthful of blood, black wolf couldn't believe Yang Xiu attacked him, gravely injuring him instantly. With blood dripping from his mouth and a scorched scent emanating from his chest, black wolf looked at Yang Xiu and asked, "Why kill me?"
There was no sound. Yang Xiu read the question from his lip movements.
Yang Xiu sneered, "No reason, just because you tricked me earlier."
Suddenly, Yang Xiu sensed extreme danger. The black wolf emitted a large puff of yellow smoke. He quickly retreated, but the smoke spread too quickly, and Yang Xiu inhaled a small amount.
Yang Xiu saw the sneer on the black wolf's lips in the yellow smoke, as if mocking him.
"Cough cough~" Yang Xiu spat out several bloody phlegms, "Damn, he wants to mess with me even in death!"
He walked towards where the cultivation technique had fallen, only to find that it had disappeared again, driving him to the brink of collapse.
More crucially, he couldn't even sense the technique's aura, driving him insane.
Beneath the fallen leaves, Lu Yu peeked at the cultivation technique in his backpack.
The cultivation technique had already been stashed in his backpack, meaning Yang Xiu couldn't find or sense anything.
Previously, when the black wolf saw the technique suddenly flying, Lu Yu had intentionally thrown it when he saw him trying to escape pursuit.
Lu Yu obtained the cultivation technique by chance. When Han Yaozu and the others appeared at the mountain top, Lu Yu had run down the cliff to search for Little Tail's body.
He didn't find the body, but nearly had his head smashed by the technique instead.
After searching around, Yang Xiu failed to sense the unique spiritual qi fluctuation from the technique. Helpless, he fled in one direction before being encircled.
Watching Yang Xiu flee, Lu Yu fought the urge to throw the cultivation technique out to divert his attention, although he suppressed this impulse.
Because the yellow smoke released after the black wolf's death prevented Han Yaozu and the followers from passing, there was only Lu Yu and Yang Xiu left here.
If Lu Yu dared to show himself, he would surely die.
Quietly lying beneath the fallen leaves, Lu Yu released a faint Tiger's Might to repel the poisonous insects among the leaves, a wondrous use he discovered after mastering the Fierce Tiger Fist to perfection.
Common venomous insects wouldn't dare linger nearby when Lu Yu simulated the Tiger's Might of the demon tiger.
Suddenly, Yang Xiu, who had left, reappeared, taking a look around but finding nothing unusual, showing a disappointed expression.
The yellow smoke would soon dissipate, and he truly had no choice but to escape.
"Cough, cough~" Yang Xiu coughed several times, then suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. His body swayed a few times and collapsed onto the ground.
Lu Yu lowered his head, counting the fallen leaves in front of him, without looking at Yang Xiu.
After a while, Yang Xiu suddenly stood up, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, feeling quite helpless. Where did the cultivation technique go?
He regretted a bit; if he had gone to retrieve the cultivation technique instead of killing the black wolf, he would have obtained it by now.
"Quick, the poison smoke has dispersed, chase him quickly," Han Yaozu's voice emerged.
Yang Xiu glanced at this forest that left a deep impression on him and left without looking back. Han Yaozu and his men chased after his disappearing figure.
After everyone had left for a long time, Lu Yu crawled out from the soil, casually brushed off the dirt and fallen leaves on his body, and found the black wolf.
The black wolf's corpse had already vanished, leaving only some clothing behind. He was ruthless to others and to himself, not even leaving his own corpse behind.
Looking at the clothes left by the black wolf, Lu Yu went back down the cliff to search again for Little Tail, even climbed up the cliff, thoroughly searching inside and out, yet still couldn't find Little Tail's corpse.
Lu Yu felt somewhat frustrated, how could the corpse just vanish into thin air? Could it have been dragged away by wild beasts?
No choice but to return to Windmill Town, holding Little Tail's oil paper hat and the small ceramic ring he gave her, he found a quite scenic hill to make her a symbolic grave.
Sitting beside Little Tail's symbolic grave, Lu Yu took out the cultivation technique, looking at this red-and-blue divided disk, unsure how to use it.
In the past, as long as he held the cultivation technique, the system would immediately prompt him to start learning; now there's no movement for a long time.
"Blood drop?" Lu Yu cut his finger with a knife, squeezed out a drop of blood, and smeared it on the disk, but there was no reaction.
"What to do next? Should I return it to the Han family?" Lu Yu suspected this thing needed Spiritual Qi to activate, could it be he must wait until reaching Qi Cultivation realm to learn it?
"Perhaps I should ask someone." Lu Yu opened the system store and clicked to purchase a Communication Talisman.
[System notice: First-time purchase of Communication Talisman is at a discounted system price, future purchases will revert to original price]
Lu Yu: "?," Is there a trick like this?
After clicking to purchase, the Communication Talisman, originally costing 100 Points each, turned into 1000 Points each.
Not caring about the price change of the Communication Talisman, Lu Yu listed all his questions in the chat box with Su Peng, even numbered them first, second, and third, to prevent confusion.
After triple-checking that no questions were omitted, Lu Yu clicked to send the message, successfully sending it out, and the Communication Talisman in his backpack vanished.
Before long, Lu Yu received a reply from Su Peng.
Su Peng: Paste the cultivation inheritance item on your forehead to start learning. Other questions, I can't explain them clearly for now; we'll discuss it when we meet.
Receiving his reply so quickly, Lu Yu knew he wouldn't get the answers he wanted.
Following Su Peng's advice, Lu Yu pasted the red-blue divided jade disc onto his forehead, immediately feeling the Qi Blood rushing to his head, the jade disc on the forehead continuously absorbed his Qi Blood.
Mystical information from the jade disc surged into Lu Yu's mind, the volume extremely vast, covering the pathways of body meridians, distribution of acupoints, flow of Spiritual Qi, body refining knowledge... a big portion of which Lu Yu couldn't comprehend, forcibly stuffed into his mind by the jade disc. If he couldn't understand or grasp within a certain time, the entire information would vanish.
[Detecting player learning cultivation technique — Ice and Fire Seven Heavens, cultivation technique template generating 1%... 2%...]
This was the longest Lu Yu ever spent loading a cultivation technique progress bar, the whole time he was in a daze, feeling his brain bloated and confused.
In the blur, he heard the system loading completion prompt, Lu Yu fell onto the ground, the cultivation technique slipping to the side.
Shortly after, Lu Yu supported his head with one hand to sit up, put the cultivation inheritance item fallen to the side into his backpack, still having the full cultivation information flooding his mind.
Rubbing his temples, feeling much better, Lu Yu began to review the mind-held information, gradually understanding this cultivation technique.
Now he understood why Yang Xiu wanted Ice and Fire Seven Heavens so badly.
Ice and Fire Seven Heavens is a Ninth Grade Spiritual cultivation technique, and a rare Body Refining technique,
After training, it can absorb the extreme ice and fire from the world, enhancing the body's strength continuously amid the convergence, collision, merging, and explosion of two extreme energies.
The complete Ice and Fire Seven Heavens technique allows seven sublimations, each greatly boosting the body's strength.
Currently, Lu Yu obtained the first three layers of Ice and Fire Seven Heavens, enabling three sublimations. Completing one sublimation, Lu Yu can directly break through Body Refinement realm, becoming a Qi Cultivation Martial Cultivator.
Knowing the technique's great power now, Lu Yu couldn't wait to start cultivating.
[System notice: Current conditions do not meet cultivation requirements, cannot cultivate]
After reviewing the mind-held information carefully, discovering that cultivating Ice and Fire Seven Heavens requires extremely hot or cold environments, finding the intersection of extreme heat and cold can significantly accelerate the cultivation speed.
Lu Yu stood up, glanced at Little Tail's symbolic grave, turned and headed towards Han's mansion. He's leaving Windmill Town, perhaps never returning.