Sword Among Us
Sword Among Us - Chapter 172: Lu Xiaofeng

Happy found himself speechless. He stood stunned near the city wall for a long time before he turned his head around and looked toward the commission shop. He shook his head, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. This time, he had made a huge mistake. He did not think that he would actually be able to buy a Wind Spirit Spin, which was a support skill manual only for grandmasters while he was trying to buy high-tier martial art manuals.

Wind Spirit Spin was a support skill that all people in Blessed Realm could learn, but it was only suited for martial arts in Grandmaster Realm, which meant that it was a high-tier support skill that could only be successfully activated with max level martial arts. Its function was to widen the area of effect of the user’s main martial art. It could help them deal the same amount of damage to the enemies to the sides of where he attacked, and as the level of the skill increased, its damage would also increase. In other words, this meant that the user’s damage would spread to other people besides the main target.

Happy could use that skill with all Level 99.99 attack-based high-tier martial arts. All of them were qualified for it.

However, all the high-tier martial arts that had not reached Level 99.99, such as his Level 95.37 Flowering Knights’ Song, would not be able to activate Wind Spirit Spin.

Since it was a support-based high-tier martial art, Wind Spirit Spin’s price was much cheaper than normal high-tier martial arts. Many of the sects and clans would provide a side quest which would reward Wind Spirit Spin manual once their disciple mastered a high-tier martial art. Most people obtain the manual like that, so there would be very few people who would need Wind Spirit Spin in the market.

There was a very low need for it. In fact, the number of people who needed it could be overlooked.

Happy remembered that the highest price ever offered for that manual was about a few tens of thousands of silver crumbs!

When he noticed that the situation was bad for him, Happy quickly returned to the commision shop.

The three men and one woman had long since vanished without a trace!

Happy naturally did not know that the person who sold him the manual came from Luoyang. Right then, he only wanted to cancel the offer so that there would be no more bastards who would sell Wind Spirit Spin to him. If that happened, he would definitely be really depressed.

Once Happy added a [Will not buy Wind Spirit Spins] to the requirements of the trade, he had the commission shop register his request again.

However, he could not return what he had bought.

Yet even as Happy held the gray-covered manual in his hand, he did not feel too dejected or depressed, because getting the Wind Spirit Spin unexpectedly might not necessarily be a bad thing.

After all, Wind Spirit Spin was an additional support skill. It was naturally a good thing to him right then, since his abilities would increase! Of course, the prerequisite was that Happy had to have a high-tier martial art in Grandmaster Realm.

Based on his itinerary, Happy had wanted to return to Gusu City after the storyline quest ended and go back to Murong Mansion once to receive this quest.

But the journey from Luoyang to Gusu was long, and he would need many days to reach it. He would waste a lot of time on the road, traveling back and forth, when he could use it to make even more money.

Wind Spirit Spin might have been sold to him at a rather expensive rate, but if he looked at it from another angle, it helped him earn more time and opportunities.

So he had actually benefited from the situation!

If he did not need to return to Gusu City, he would have more time to level up Flowering Knights’ Song and Stormy Shadowless Kick. After that, even if he ran into the hall master of Class One Hall, Dream Clouds, or any other powerful player who had many high-tier martial arts and possessed great power, Happy would still have some confidence to win. He would also not need to be worried if he had to fight against large groups of people.

Wind Spirit Spin’s existence could increase his ability to fight against groups!

When he thought about it, a faint smile appeared on Happy’s face. He quietly put away Wind Spirit Spin and headed to the city wall.

The notice at the city wall was actually a bounty!

Thirty years ago, an extremely talented teenage martial artist had appeared in Luoyang. With outstanding fist techniques, he ruled over Luoyang, and once he entered Shaolin Temple, he created a fist technique that was on par with Shaolin Temple’s Seventy-two Ultimate Techniques—Blood Palm Print!

It could gather up the blood and qi in the entire body and cause the enemy’s true qi to run rampant. The blood and qi in the enemy’s body would flow in reverse, and in the end, a blood red palm print would appear on their chest. Once someone was injured by that technique, they would surely die! It was an incredibly vicious technique.

Once Blood Palm Print was created, the teenager had already become a middle-aged man. With this vicious martial art, he descended the mountain and wandered the land of martial artists. He was brutal and ruthless, and he killed dozens of famous martial artists, gaining an infamous name for himself. In the end, an order to arrest him was made, and countless martial artists surrounded him. Then, he plunged down the Head Breaker Cliff that was near Luoyang, but his corpse could not be found.

However, twenty years after the incident, Blood Palm Print appeared in the world of martial arts again!

The bodies of a few famous martial artists were cast out in the wild near Luoyang, and there was an unpleasant, blood-red palm print on their chests. Its dark red color correlated with the way the demon had done things when he mastered his skill.

The martial artist who stood at the city wall was one of the famous swordsmen in the hearts of the martial artists who walked down the path of justice—Lu Xiaofeng!

The small event soon riled up all of Luoyang. Countless players gathered under the city wall, but they did not do so for Blood Palm Print. Instead, they surrounded Lu Xiaofeng and spoke to him because they wanted to try and trigger his storyline quest and learn Lu Xiaofeng’s ultimate technique—Perception Finger[1].

But they did not remember that ultimate techniques were not easy to learn.

Those who were smart shifted their gazes to the contents of the notice on the city wall.

If they captured Blood Palm Print and brought him to justice, perhaps they would be able to gain Lu Xiaofeng’s recognition. If they could catch Lu Xiaofeng’s fancy just by talking to him, then wouldn’t this Greatest Swordsman Detective not quite live up to his name?

Happy walked to the city wall and read the notice for a while before he frowned slightly.

He had actually never heard of this quest before.

Perhaps it was a storyline quest that was strictly limited to Luoyang.

Even though Lu Xiaofeng was incredibly famous, there were plenty of famous martial artists in the world of martial artists, and even after the game had been launched for three years, there were still plenty of powerful players who were not known to others.

Happy did not have the ability to learn about everyone’s information either.

However, based on the contents of the notice, Lu Xiaofeng had traveled thousands of miles from Beijing to Luoyang to capture the demonic Blood Palm Print, who had committed multiple crimes.

Who was Lu Xiaofeng? He was an extremely powerful fighter above Moksha Realm.

How could anyone who was personally wanted by him and upon whom he had set his eyes be easy to handle?

At the very least, he had to be in Life and Death Realm, right?

But Happy had heard of Blood Palm Print before. Someone from his previous life had learned it, and he had ruled over the game for a period of time. The damage of that skill was incredible, and it seemed to be an ultimate technique as well.

However, while ultimate techniques were strong, there were plenty of limitations set on them, which meant that the user was definitely bound to suffer times when they would not be very powerful. There were plenty of people who had learned ultimate techniques but died during dangerous quests, and there were also plenty of them who fell into dejectedness during the later stages of the game. If this had not happened, it would have been very difficult for Happy to move his way to the top ranks after accumulating a lot of experience.

When he thought of this, Happy shook his head in silence.

The notice might be calling out to all righteous martial artists and telling them that they should get ready to search for the whereabouts of the demonic Blood Palm Print on the surface, but in secret, it was reminding them that they were to absolutely not run into this person.

That demon was not an ordinary NPC!

He had to be someone whom Happy could not meet at his level.

He turned around and left, exiting the city without any reluctance.

Since he already had Wind Spirit Spin, he could stay in Luoyang for the foreseeable future. It was quiet in the mass grave, and it was a suitable place for him to practice his martial arts. He could also farm high-tier martial art manuals to provide help for Beautiful Robes Faction to become stronger at a steady pace.