Chapter 320: Qi Yuan Is Working Hard, but the Cultivation Method Is Unwilling

Chapter 320: Qi Yuan Works Hard, but the Technique Refuses

“What are you standing there for? Hurry up and bury my beloved white moonlight.”

Seeing the two unmoving, Qi Yuan thought they were trying to slack off and reminded them again.

An Qiao spoke with difficulty: “Demon… you killed?”

The man in black also looked at Qi Yuan, his expression shocked.

“Of course. Don’t loaf around, bury it quickly!” Qi Yuan said calmly.

“This…” An Qiao stared at the corpse on the ground, her shock beyond words.

She simply couldn’t understand—wasn’t Qi Yuan a newcomer?

How had he wiped the place clean?

She wanted to say something, but the man in black gave her a look, and she dared not speak further.

Clearly, this Qi Yuan was no ordinary man, and he was a god of slaughter.

What if he killed them too?

So they followed Qi Yuan’s orders, burning the demon corpses and burying them.

Qi Yuan stood aside, directing the two like a fountain commander.

“Who was that madman just now?” Qi Yuan asked.

He was quite curious about that lunatic at the Jade Blood realm.

“We don’t know,” An Qiao shook her head. “We found him while investigating the Chen family.

We suspected he was connected to the Chen family massacre and followed him.

But he was too strong; we dared not get too close, only trailing him from afar with tools.”

“Related to the mission?” Mentioning this, Qi Yuan fell silent. “Sigh, it’s been so long, and still no clues. This mission is too hard. I don’t want to do it. I wish I could cheat.”

Qi Yuan had worked hard for most of the day, only learning about the Spirit Blood Child.

As for the massacres of the Luo and Chen families, there were no leads at all.

Indeed, this mystery-solving game wasn’t for him.

He was better suited for monster-slaying games—just mark the big boss, like Boss Kun, and go kill it. So simple.

Qi Yuan was starting to lose interest in completing the game mission.

“What happens if I don’t finish the mission?” Qi Yuan asked, thinking of something.

“You won’t get the reward,” An Qiao replied.

“Ah? No punishment? So I can just skip the mission?” Qi Yuan was delighted.

In that case, he could assign himself a mission: destroy Boss Kun.

“If you don’t finish the mission, you can’t return.

Staying too long in these mission worlds will corrupt our Blood Martial Qi, and eventually… we’ll go mad and die,” An Qiao said gravely.

Once, during a mission, a companion of hers fell in love with a scholar and refused to leave, wanting to stay with him forever.

So that companion stopped participating in missions.

In the end… she went mad and died.

That incident left a deep impression on An Qiao.

“What kind of bullshit setting is this?” Qi Yuan shrugged.

It seemed his idea of skipping the mission was doomed.

“Any new clues now?” Qi Yuan asked.

“No. That madman might know something,” An Qiao answered honestly.

When they saw the madman, he was wailing outside the Chen family gate, so he might know some inside story.

But the madman was too powerful—a Jade Blood realm martial artist.

They dared not get too close.

Otherwise, if they died here without finishing the mission, it would be a tragedy.

Hearing this, Qi Yuan continued: “In Cloud Mist County, who has the best information?”

Since playing the clueless newbie yielded no mission hints, he’d find the best-informed person in Cloud Mist County.

“Boss Kun of the Water Tribe,” An Qiao said, fear flashing in her eyes.

Boss Kun was a great demon at the Jade Blood realm.

Of the four from the Demon Suppression Bureau sent on this mission, if they encountered Boss Kun, few would survive.

So, even though they suspected the Water Tribe was involved, they dared not approach Boss Kun directly, instead starting from other angles.

“Where is Boss Kun?” Qi Yuan asked.

During this white moonlight meeting, he had endured humiliation and restraint, yet never got Boss Kun’s address from Old Man Huang.

That saddened him greatly.

“I don’t know,” An Qiao shook her head. Then, recalling something, she warned, “Boss Kun is a Jade Blood realm great demon. You must be careful.

I’ve heard this demon is most hostile to humans. If anyone enters its territory, they’ll be devoured alive!”

“Oh, such an evil demon must be the big boss. I now suspect it was behind the Luo and Chen family massacres!” Qi Yuan said seriously.

An Qiao: “…”

The man in black gave an awkward smile: “If it did it, that’s a tough nut to crack.”

He wanted to say, shouldn’t they be more careful? Accusing a demon without any evidence?

“Too bad there’s no internet here, or I’d definitely write a hit piece about it,” Qi Yuan mused.

The power of a hit piece was formidable.

His destruction of the Bright Palace owed much to that hit piece.

“Alright, I’m off to play the game. Folks… bye.”

With that, Qi Yuan’s form vanished.

In Cloud Mist County, there were three major powers: the weasels, the snakes, and the Water Tribe.

The weasels were already wiped out.

Boss Kun of the Water Tribe was missing.

Now, Qi Yuan was naturally going after the snakes.

After all, these snakes were all substitute white moons.

Though they couldn’t give him experience, they could give him blood.

Watching Qi Yuan’s retreating figure, An Qiao and the man in black took a deep breath.

"He's just a newcomer, how could he be this strong? At the very least, he must have reached the Great Perfection of Qi and Blood?"

"Could it be that he's truly a genius?"

In this world, there are indeed martial arts prodigies.

Their team wasn't particularly strong; the only one with a hint of genius was Chen Fan.

But above Chen Fan, there were many even more talented individuals, like Qi Yuan.

Before even completing the mission, he had already reached the Great Perfection of Qi and Blood.

"Oh no, I shouldn't have given him the *Startling Heaven Art*—it's an incomplete manual. He'll probably have to switch techniques before he can step into the Jade Blood Realm..."

...

Three hours passed.

Qi Yuan was drenched in blood, looking like a serial killer.

He patted his clothes, a playful expression on his face: "It's already dawn?

This harvest... is quite good."

Indeed, after slaughtering the weasels, Qi Yuan had traveled through the night to the snake demon's stronghold.

After all, Qi Yuan was too powerful; the weasel demons couldn't satisfy him. He needed to find a new substitute, a new white moonlight.

Now, the snake demons had also been annihilated by him.

On his person, he now had over two hundred drops of demonic essence blood, plus the fifty he had left before, totaling two hundred and sixty drops.

"With this much demonic essence blood, it should be enough for me to ascend to the Jade Blood Realm, right?"

Qi Yuan wanted to grow stronger quickly; otherwise, he felt insecure.

It wasn't just women who lacked security—men did too.

For Qi Yuan, improving his strength brought a strong sense of reward.

Moreover, with his innate seed, nearly all his power gains in this world would be reflected back to his body in the Canglan Realm.

Every bit counted.

"Add points... break through."

Qi Yuan shouted aloud, then provided his own sound effects.

"Thrifty as always, you use three drops of demonic essence blood, attempting to break into the Jade Blood Realm.

But the *Startling Heaven Art* says no to you, claiming it is incomplete."

"Gritting your teeth, you consume fifty drops of demonic essence blood to deduce the *Startling Heaven Art*.

With your extraordinary eyes, you fail the deduction."

"Gritting your teeth again, you consume another fifty drops of demonic essence blood, and finally, in the depths of obscurity, you deduce the *Startling Heaven Art* to the Jade Blood Realm.

A flash of insight strikes, and your martial cultivation breaks through to the Jade Blood Realm at this very moment."

A flash of white light passed through Qi Yuan's eyes.

He felt his cultivation had surged significantly in that instant.

If he encountered Old Man Huang or the snake demon again, he could easily handle them without fusing with Xiao Jia.

"Still... compared to that madman, I seem far weaker." Qi Yuan mused.

He had no martial techniques.

He relied entirely on his own blood-qi power.

Having witnessed the power of Jade Blood Realm techniques, Qi Yuan naturally wouldn't underestimate the NPCs in the game.

"I need to get my hands on a martial technique; otherwise, it's too much of a loss. But here... everything is old martial arts."

Qi Yuan was troubled.

Old martial arts couldn't be cultivated; otherwise, misfortune would follow.

So, for now, he didn't want to learn any of the old techniques here.

"Huh, my innate martial technique... should be new martial arts, right?"

Qi Yuan recalled the question he had asked when reaching out to An Qiao.

The martial arts in the real world were also new martial arts.

"So, I do have a martial technique after all.

It's just that my technique's level is a bit low."

The Explosive Bird-Slaying Fist was indeed too ordinary.

It wasn't even a Qi and Blood level technique, let alone Jade Blood.

"You've earned it. I'll consume the blood of my beloved white moonlight to upgrade you."

Now, the demonic essence blood he had left couldn't be used to further deduce the *Startling Heaven Art*; he needed more techniques to continue.

His martial cultivation had stalled.

Only martial techniques could improve him.

Now, the only big bosses left here were Boss Kun and the Blood Spirit Child.

Qi Yuan had to quickly boost his strength.

"Add points!"

Qi Yuan began providing his own sound effects again.

This time, he spent a considerable amount of demonic essence blood to upgrade his martial technique.

In the end, the innate technique Explosive Bird-Slaying Fist underwent a magnificent transformation, becoming... Jade Blood Grade·Explosive Bird-Slaying Fist.

"This punch is nearly supersonic, with enhanced lethality against birds."

Qi Yuan felt a bit more secure, but it still wasn't enough.

"Sigh, all this voice-acting has dried out my throat. When will I capture a system to do the voice-acting for me?

If not, at least install a system in my body that speaks whatever I'm thinking."

Qi Yuan let his imagination run wild.

On Canxing, this was actually achievable.

Canxing had such electronic devices that could vocalize what a person was thinking.

A screenwriter had used one to write scripts, finding it incredibly fast.

"Time to go home and sleep." Qi Yuan looked at the dim morning light.

After a busy day, it was time to go home and get some rest.

...

Qi Yuan was woken up by the noise of children.

When he awoke, the sun was blazing bright.

He guessed the time—around three in the afternoon.

“What do you want, banging on my door at this ungodly hour?”

Qi Yuan stared at the little boy outside, his tone far from pleasant.

Just moments ago, in his dream, he’d had a beautiful dream—he’d won a colossal lottery, ten thousand trillion, finally buying the Gong Star and becoming the ultimate victor in life.

He was just about to head to Wuyun Pavilion, to tell that secretary from back then, “The Gong Star is all mine,”

when he was rudely awakened.

He was a bit irritated.

Still, he was magnanimous, always broad-minded, never one to hold a grudge.

So he didn’t chop the kid’s head off.

“You… you’re Qi Er?” The little boy’s face was sallow, looking somewhat malnourished.

“Huh? What’s going on?” Qi Yuan pondered, suspecting he might have triggered a hidden storyline.

So sleeping could trigger hidden storylines.

“It was Sister Xiaomei who told me to find you!” the little boy said nervously. “Last night, Xiaomei came to our village and stayed overnight at my house.

But in the middle of the night, villagers from the next village kidnapped her.”

“Oh, so they fancied her?” Qi Yuan’s expression was calm.

“It’s the Sea God who fancies her. The people from neighboring Haishi Village want to marry her off to the Sea God!” the little boy said anxiously.

Marrying the Sea God was no good thing.

The people of Haishi Village had always believed in the Sea God; they would capture young women, dress them in bright red wedding gowns, and sacrifice them to the Sea God.

That way, the Sea God would bless them with bountiful fishing and no storms.

Hearing this, Qi Yuan looked surprised: “Xiaomei really is born with the sacred constitution for easy marriage.”

He hadn’t been in this game long, and Xiaomei was about to get married for the second time.

Unbelievable.

The game’s setting was still somewhat interesting, with some funny characters thrown in.

In Qi Yuan’s eyes, Xiaomei was the comic relief.

“This Sea God… is it a demon?” Qi Yuan asked the question that concerned him.

Right now, he was desperately short of demon blood essence.

But aside from the aquatic clan led by Boss Kun, he had already slaughtered most of the other monsters.

Boss Kun’s whereabouts were unknown, and now a Water God had appeared here.

Qi Yuan suddenly felt motivated.

“Take me there. I’ll go reason with that Water God, tell him not to marry Xiaomei, but to marry me instead!” Qi Yuan said recklessly.

The little boy was stunned, staring at Qi Yuan in terror.

…

A few hours later, under the guidance of the little boy and his older brother, Qi Yuan arrived at Haishi Village.

The little boy pointed at the village ahead, his face pale with fear: “That’s Haishi Village ahead. We dare not go in.”

Ever since the people of Haishi Village began worshipping the Sea God, they had earned a notorious reputation.

They caught more fish, made more money, and had even colluded with the yamen officials.

Whenever the harvest was poor, they would find a wife for the Sea God.

Where did the young brides come from?

There weren’t enough in their own village.

So… they targeted passing travelers who sought lodging.

But as word spread, no young woman dared to pass through Haishi Village anymore.

The villagers of Haishi then turned their eyes to other villages.

The little boy’s own village, Mujia Village, had once clashed with Haishi Village over this matter.

But Haishi Village had enlisted the help of the yamen, and Mujia Village lost that fight.

So the little boy was terrified of Haishi Village.

“Such a wide official road, and no one comes this way—it seems Haishi Village truly has a fearsome reputation.”

Qi Yuan remarked simply.

To reach Yunyan County Town, one had to take the official road, which passed through Haishi Village.

On the way here, Qi Yuan had seen many carriages and merchants on the official road.

But on the stretch near Haishi Village, there were none.

Clearly, those merchants would rather take a detour than go through Haishi Village.

As Qi Yuan approached the entrance of Haishi Village, two men with unfriendly expressions eyed him suspiciously.

“Who are you, and what do you want?”

Qi Yuan put on a genial smile: “I am Qi Yuan, about to get married and take a wife.

The first… oh no, the second time—I have no experience.

I heard that your Sea God takes a wife, so I’ve come specially to observe the ceremony and learn a thing or two.”

Hearing this, the two men exchanged odd looks.

Observing the ceremony was one thing, but learning from it was a first.

Still, a glint of a smile flickered in their eyes, and they became enthusiastic: “Since you’re here to observe, honored guest, please come in.”

The smile in their eyes seemed to hide a hint of mockery, and also pity.

Happy New Year!

(This chapter ends)