Sword Among Us c1-1268

by Black Swordsman Online

  The explosive strength of Stormy Shadowless Kick was really high, but it was not enough for him to kill multiple Blessed Realm players with body fortification techniques in a short amount of time. Flowering Knights' Song's damage was high, but Happy could only attack when his enemies were caught off guard, or else his attacks had a low chance to be effective. If he'd had faster sword or saber techniques, there would have been very few people from Perpetual Joy Sect and Fallen Feathers Sect who could have escaped that day.

  Besides, it had been many days since the battle in Fox Cave.

  Soon, high-tier qi cultivation techniques, high-tier lightness skills, and high-tier body fortification techniques would fill the world, and the era in which players could move about freely in the game would soon arrive.

  If Happy continued being complacent, it would only be a matter of time before he was no longer first on the Famous People Rank!

  Happy thought about it for a while, then sat down cross-legged under Little North's gaze and began breathing using the circulation route of Constellation Breathing Technique. His qi began circulating in his eight extra meridians to quickly restore the qi he had used up just then.

  However, in Little North's eyes, his boss had become very different when he circulated his qi. The area around him had become darker since the air had began to gather around him in a mad rush! Little North could vaguely see a few dark spots beside Happy. They looked like a few specks of starlight sparkling in the dark sky.

  "Is this a Mystical Realm Qi Cultivation Technique?" Little North was incredibly shocked. "It's really incredible."

  In less than five minutes, Happy completed one full-body circulation. Not only did he manage to restore his body to its peak condition and become full of energy, his qi cultivation technique had also leveled up.

  This was how different were Mystical Realm high-tier qi cultivation techniques. At level 1, they already had much better recovery effects than high-tier qi cultivation techniques from the middle stage of Blessed Realm.

  For Happy, who had just stepped into Mystical Realm, the recovery speed was simply astonishing. In half a minute, he managed to recover to his peak. What he did just then was really just to fill up his meridian system and strengthen his qi.

  The recovery effects proved that the technique was pretty good.

  Happy picked up the Silver Wolf Emperor Breaker Sword he had placed over his knees and focused on a White Tiger that was chasing a zombie. He switched to his Yellow Dragon Archer Gear while he spoke to Little North, who was next to him.

  "Mystical Realm high-tier martial arts are more difficult to train. It will take a longer time to push them to Grandmaster Realm. If you're bored, you can go wander around the area and search for Hoof Shadows, or you can go back to your clans and receive quests from your masters. I will most likely be entering isolated training here for a month."

  Little North stared at Happy so shocked that his jaw fell slack.

  "One month?! So long?!"

  Since Little North had Illusory Spirit Body and his two zombies had also reached Mystical Realm, he had also reached Mystical Realm. He longed to wander around the lands since a long time ago, so when he heard Happy's words, he nearly tripped in surprise.

  With Little North's personality, it would be incredibly hard for him to stay around for a month without doing anything.

  Happy smiled faintly and did not explain himself.

  They were currently in a period of time when quests that rewarded high-tier martial arts came raining down like a thunderstorm. If they did not increase their strength properly during it, they might soon end up being normal players. It had to be known that Happy had trained madly without ever stopping for the whole three years he played the game in his previous life. It was the reason why he could gradually surpass most players, but he was not the only one like that!

  If he let his guard down and believed himself to be invincible, he would be surpassed and eliminated from the competition.

  Chapter 234 - Storm on the Famous People Rank!

  After practicing hard for three years, not only did Happy possess experience and skills that most people did not have, he came to gain patience that normal people did not have. He was like an ascetic monk who stayed in White Tiger Forest for half a month!

  During that period of time, Happy had little contact with reality. Even the Three Lonely Wolves seldom had time to talk to him. Most of the time, they communicated with each other via messages they left for each other in the dorm or sent each other messenger pigeons in the game.

  However, during that period of time, something major happened in the game!

  The first incident was in Fox Cave.

  Ever since Fallen Feathers Sect and Perpetual Joy Sect suffered a setback there, the place was dominated by Chivalry Sect. Even though many sects could still enter Fox Cave, Chivalry Sect had sent two of its vice sect masters—Red Dust and Lin Xiao—and many of its elites to occupy one tunnel for themselves, and they were in control of Dead She-wolf. Only a small portion of resources were made public to the others.

  With the steady stream of resources coming to them from Fox Cave, Chivalry Sect soon became strong! Not only did they manage to force Fallen Feathers Sect and Perpetual Joy Sect out of Wuhu, they also began to show signs that they were about to stand above Class One Hall and Towering Palace.

  But a pity for Xiao Shan, who had been popular for a period of time, he did not manage to get any high-tier martial arts that were suitable for him. On the second day since Happy had entered isolated training, he was surrounded and killed by a group of nameless nobodies on a road leading to a forest. His abilities plunged down the drain, and he was rapidly demoted from third place on the Famous People Rank.

  North Placating Duke, who was also known as Soul Severing Guest, had returned to the desert, and no news was heard of him. As more outstanding players rose to fame after him, his rank also gradually fell, and he was quickly taken out of the Famous People Rank.

  The most prominent of the outstanding people who rose to fame after the two legends were Lu Mingyue, who was the successor of Dongfang Bubai, the Swordsman Thief All-powerful Medicinal Stone, and a female gamer known as Red Coral.

  Lu Mingyue killed hundreds of good players while they were all participating in an operation to search for treasure in a cave in Tiantai Mountain. He made the summit, which was known by countless people of the later generation as the holy land of Buddhists, flow with rivers of blood. It looked like hell on earth, and while his brutal as well as merciless slaughter made him the subject of cursing and criticism of countless people, he took up the first place on the Famous People Rank in an incredibly domineering manner.

  Red Coral's fame had also come at the price of countless people's lives, but no one cursed her. Instead, she was known by many people as a heroine who had both courage and wisdom.

  In the mountain behind Complete Reality School was the tomb of the Living Dead, and its fame shook the entire land of martial artists!

  Once Yang Guo and Xiao Longnu vanished, only the Red Serpent Deity Li Mochou remained there. With her Murderous Wasp, which she had since birth, she guarded the entrance, and there had been plenty of players who died there over the course of the few months since she started guarding the place.

  However, the more dangerous and difficult it was, the more people were certain that the Tomb of the Living Dead contained the ultimate techniques that were left behind by Yang Guo and Xiao Longnu, such as the Nine Yin Manual and the Melancholic Sad Palms, as well as divine weapons such as the Recondite Steel Sword, Ganjiang Sword, and Moye Sword.

  The people from Black Rose Clan were also attracted to that place by coincidence.

  Red Coral had bought an instrument that could chase away Murderous Wasps, and for the first time ever, she allowed the players to enter the Tomb of the Living Dead without getting struck down. Within it, they saw Li Mochou.

  However, Ice Silver Needles were not toys.

  Right then, there were
practically no one who could withstand high-tier hidden weapons. The players died one after another in the tunnel like harvested wheat.

  But Red Coral had swiftly put down the Dragon Breaker Stone with the help of her sisters from the Black Rose Clan. She blocked Li Mochou and a large group of players outside the cave to enter the tomb. Then, she successfully found the high-tier martial art manual Sword of V.i.r.g.i.ns and high-tier hidden weapons manual Ice Silver Needle under the Ten Thousand Year Iced Bed.

  But there were even more people who believed that Red Coral had taken the initiative to reveal that she had obtained Sword of V.i.r.g.i.ns and Ice Silver Needle because she wanted to avoid trouble. If everyone were to guess that she had become a successor of an ultimate technique, she would become a target for no reason.

  Even though Red Coral's achievements were mediocre, but during the process, she had shown her intellect and determination, and her actions later gave her the title of Female Zhuge Liang. Once the onlookers linked her title to her achievements during the Emperor's Birthday Quest, she managed to get up to the second place on the Famous People Rank.

  After more than half a month of silence, Happy's position on the ranking board fell again, and he was forced out of his position as the highest ranked player on the Famous People Rank by Dongfang Bubai, and later on, by Red Coral, but that was not all. Even All-powerful Medicinal Stone had performed a few feats that shook the entire game.

  Five Venoms, who had been ridiculed by countless players for half a month and did not dare to perform any counterattacks even after their reputation was completely ruined, locked their gazes on All-powerful Medicinal Stone on one dark night.

  Dozens of Five Venoms sect members had suddenly launched a lethal attack on him while he was completely unaware of the situation. He was poisoned and injured. The attacks from Five Venoms were so vicious that it was obvious that they were determined to kill him… However, All-powerful Medicinal Stone was in possession of Phantasm Body Movement Skill, so there was no way that he would die easily.

  With his heavily injured body, he escaped and survived, and in less than two minutes, he detoxified himself and healed his injuries. Then, with his longsword, he turned around and fought back.

  Thirty or so Five Venoms players instantly lost their will to fight after All-powerful Medicinal Stone killed a few of them. They fled dozens of miles away, but they could not run far. They were all slaughtered one after another!

  The sect members of Five Venoms and Fallen Feathers Sect as well as people of Class One Hall tried to stop him, but they were helpless before his ability to move around freely. Their defenses were broken, and more than one hundred of them died.

  Countless other players had witnessed All-powerful Medicinal Stone going berserk.

  Because of the battle replay that showed him chasing those people for half a day and his abilities that allowed him to move around freely, he stunned the world of martial artists, and he also pushed above Happy into third place on the Famous People Rank.

  For this, Happy only sent a congratulatory letter via a messenger pigeon.

  All-powerful Medicinal Stone's reply was very interesting.

  [Thank goodness you told me about it, or else I would have definitely fallen for their schemes. These bastards! They're actually Class One Hall's lapdogs?! And here I was puzzled by why they had been wandering around me!]

  Once All-powerful Medicinal Stone heard that Class One Hall was involved, he knew that the situation was bad. He did not dare to be negligent of the issue, and not only did he prepare a few antidotes, he also bought a few Dew Pills as backup.

  As expected, once he got out of the city, the people from Five Venoms attacked. They attacked ruthlessly with the force of lightning, and All-powerful Medicinal Stone was nearly unable to withstand the attacks. He barely managed to take an antidote and drag his heavily injured body away before it was too late. Then, he took Dew Pills and turned around to fight back with anger burning in his soul.

  Once he was done with the slaughter that shook the world of martial artists, All-powerful Medicinal Stone was once again enraged by Class One Hall's assassination attempt.

  [How long are you going to train? I found another target for revenge!]

  Happy frowned. Even though he had achieved some degree of success with his Phantasm Body Movement Skill, his Seven Stars Sword was still in the eighth realm, and he would need another half a month to reach Grandmaster Realm.

  [Location and target?]

  [Still Fox Cave. Class One Hall's hall master, Dream Clouds, has returned from the desert. She has an ultimate technique with her now. You should know that, right?]

  [Of course.]

  Happy nodded. She was the top player on the Phoenix Rank, so it was practically impossible for her to not have found an ultimate technique. Besides, Dream Clouds had walked down the same path she did in Happy's previous life. When she inherited West Region Demon's Divine Flames Art once more, it was natural that she would not give up on the chance to expand wantonly.

  It was also not strange for Chivalry Sect to become Class One Hall's target right then.

  Chapter 235 - Appearance of a Woman, and Heart of a Man

  According to All-powerful Medicinal Stone's information, due to the setback Fallen Feathers Sect suffered last time and the battle replay Chivalry Sect uploaded online about them running into Yao Hua once they entered the third level of Fox Cave, Class One Hall became even firmer in their plans to attack Fox Cave. When the time came, not only would Dream Clouds, whose abilities had increased by leaps and bounds, personally lead the attack, her two vice hall masters, who were powerhouses and had climbed up the top of the Dragon Rank, would also join her in the attack!

  Of course, with Chivalry Sect's abilities, they could go up against those three monsters.

  After all, Chivalry Sect's sect master was Wind Void, a heroine among women. She had been switching with Dream Clouds on Phoenix Rank in the first place. Right then, even though Dream Clouds was ahead of her, her abilities were still outstanding, and she would have no problem holding Dream Clouds back.

  Red Dust had also become the successor of Shaolin Temple's Sweeper Monk, and they had Chivalry Duke Lin Xiao as well. They were more than enough to take care of Class One Hall's high-ranking members.

  The only dangerous thing was that the teamwork between the elites of Class One Hall was definitely not something Chivalry Sect could compare to, since they were a non-professional player sect that had been built recently.

  It would be very difficult for Chivalry Sect to fight against Class One Hall head on.

  Happy had thought that since they had heavily damaged Fallen Feathers Sect last time, they would not be able to oppress Chivalry Sect again. Once Chivalry Sect obtained room for development, the event of Chivalry Union dissolving in the future would not happen or at least be delayed. However, someone in the dark seemed to have pushed everything back to the original tracks.

  That was not all, though. When the battle between Chivalry Sect and Class One Hall erupted, Chivalry Sect would not be able to win if Empress Clouds used the methods she had at her disposal in Happy's previous life. They would make quick work of Chivalry Sect, and Chivalry Union would not be seen ever again.

  When Happy thought of it, his heart was instantly in a conflict.

  In the eyes of the other people, it was Class One Hall declaring war over the divine weapons of Yao Hua and his wife, but he knew that even if Class One Hall used up all their manpower, they would still not be able to win against the two NPCs. They were just searching for an excuse to fight against Chivalry Sect.

  Class One Hall had already developed around ten sects, and among them were Fallen Feathers Sect and Five Venoms. They had quite a great influence, and if all those sects joined in, Chivalry Sect would definitely be damaged greatly. They would then drop out of the ranks of the three great sects. Class One Hall had to have certainty that Chivalry Sect would not easily give up on Yao Hua and his wife, then seize that w
eakness and deal them a fatal blow!

  If Chivalry Sect received such an attack, they would definitely lose.

  But if they ran, their reputation would be destroyed. If the gamers saw that Chivalry Sect immediately retreated when Class One Hall arrived at Fox Cave, they would be able to tell what happened with just one glance.

  That was why the fight between Chivalry Sect and Class One Hall could not be avoided!

  He had been successful against Class One Hall when he was on Punishment Mount and in Fox Cave, but he had only faced Class One Hall's secondary powers who belonged to the sects that were subordinate to them. Most of their real elites were gathered in Class One Hall's headquarters. After the latest period of development, Happy he would not be surprised if a group of Mystical Realm players showed up there.

  If they really went up against each other, even Happy would not have an easy time. There was even a possibility that he would die!

  [So, what's your plan?]

  All-powerful Medicinal Stone only had some information and did not know the real situation in Class One Hall. However, when he saw that Class One Hall was prepared to fight against Chivalry Sect, he could not suppress his urge to fight against them again!

  Happy stared at the letter in his hand, then s.u.c.k.e.d in a deep breath and wrote, [Let me think.]

  White Tiger Forest was not far away from Wuhu and very close to Immortal Fox Village. When a situation arose, he could quickly rush over. Because of that, he was not in a hurry to give an answer.

  A few minutes later, the messenger pigeon returned with All-powerful Medicinal Stone's reply.

  [Alright, give me an answer latest by tomorrow! Right now, there are plenty of Fallen Feathers Sect and Five Venoms sect members gathered around Wuhu. Class One Hall might take action in the next few days!]