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Chapter 6 Hiding the Corpse
Geng Xuan first checked his physical condition, and then concentrated his mind and calmed his breath, focusing all his thoughts on improving his skills with Hongyun.

A piece of information quietly emerged in my mind.

【Lucky: 8
Iron Sheet Kung Fu (Great)

Iron Sand Palm (Beginner+)

Circumcision (minor success +)】

This time, only the Iron Sand Palm and Dissection Technique skills can be upgraded, but not the Iron Skin Skill.

"According to the rules of the previous two times, if you want to make further progress in Iron Skin Kung Fu, you have to consume 16 points of luck each time."

Thinking this in his mind, Geng Xuan's thoughts were already focused on the upgrade symbol point behind the Iron Sand Palm.

In an instant, Iron Sand Palm (Entry Level) turned into Iron Sand Palm (Minor Accomplishment).

A burning sensation suddenly spread between the ten fingers of both palms, and the palms felt as if they were immersed in half-boiling hot water. This feeling was even stronger than when the Iron Skin Kung Fu was promoted from the entry level to the minor success level.

Except for a pair of palms, other parts of the body had no feeling.

Geng Xuan thought that Iron Skin Kung Fu was an all-round improvement, while Iron Sand Palm was a targeted growth, which was probably the reason why the feelings between the two were so different.

After the burning sensation between his palms and fingers disappeared, Geng Xuan moved around a bit and could clearly feel that the strength of his palms and fingers had increased a lot.

Not only does the skin become tougher, but the strength of muscles and bones is also significantly improved.

Geng Xuan pressed his fingers casually, making a clicking sound, and his eyes swept around the room, passing through the table legs, bed legs, chair legs, and finally landing on Wu Youren's legs on the ground.

"I don't want to bother two people with one thing. I think you won't mind."

While thinking randomly in his mind, Geng Xuan had come to Wu Youren again, and with his five fingers together like a knife, he chopped down at Wu Youren's calf.

"Click——"

With a crisp sound of bones, Wu Youren's shin bone broke.

Geng Xuan only felt a slight recoil and did not feel any pain.

Feeling unsatisfied, he chopped several more times with his palm knife. "Crack", "Crack", "Crack", Wu Youren's left and right calves and thighs were all broken.

He originally wanted to try out the grasping power of his five fingers, but when he thought about the possibility of his palms being covered in blood, he gave up.

Anyway, after this attempt, he now has a rough idea of the power of the Iron Sand Palm after it has achieved minor success.

Geng Xuan could be said to be very satisfied with his performance.

What surprised him was that the consumption of red luck this time was only two points, which was half less than the amount required to advance from entry level to minor level in Iron Skin Kung Fu, leaving six points of red luck left out of the eight points.

After improving his Iron Sand Palm to minor success, Geng Xuan looked through the introductory training content of "The Earthly Chapter" until he had memorized all the key points clearly.

There is a very important basic concept in the practice of the Earth-Walking Chapter, that is, the earth is not a complete whole, but an aggregate composed of countless fine grains that are so tiny that they are difficult to distinguish with the naked eye. This results in the strange and varied structures and properties of the earth.

Some lands are as soft and fluffy as flour;
Some of them look extremely hard, but in fact they have countless cracks inside. If you can find the right point, you can make them shatter with a light poke of your finger.
Due to different ages and soil types, the seemingly integrated land has complex stratification. As long as the ability to "identify soil" is strong enough, this stratification can continue, dividing a small piece of land into thousands of layers.

Each layer can be easily "separated" by clever means.

For people in this world, these contents actually present many difficulties in understanding.

But for Geng Xuan, it was easy to grasp the core of it.

From now on, from physical to cognition, from hardware to software, all the prerequisites are met, and all that remains is to get started and practice.

Geng Xuan looked down. The ground, which originally looked intact, gradually became sparse and dense, hard and soft. Some of it looked very hard but was actually covered with dark patterns. Some of it looked easy to hold but was actually the most stable...

Geng Xuan was a little surprised that he had mastered the skill of identifying soil in a short time.

“To be able to identify soil at this level, one needs to practice the Earth Movement Chapter to a very high level before one can master it.

I haven’t really gotten started yet, so it shouldn’t be this fast.”

As he was thinking about it, Geng Xuan suddenly thought of the ability of the Eye of True Vision.

Apart from seeing red names on people's heads and having better eyesight than ordinary people, there seems to be no other special performance.

But now, perhaps it was a miraculous reaction with the "Earth-Walking" ability, which allowed him to master the ability to distinguish soil at a glance in advance, which originally required practicing the earth-walking art to an extremely high level to achieve.

At this moment, a message emerged in Geng Xuan's mind.

[The host has mastered all the entry requirements for the 'Earth Walking Technique' and can consume three points of luck to quickly get started. ]

【whether? 】

"Yes."

Geng Xuan made his choice immediately without any hesitation.

【Earth Walking Technique (Beginner)】

In an instant, Geng Xuan suddenly had many more techniques for using strength in his mind.

Most of these skills are concentrated on the ten fingers of the palms, and a very small part is reflected in the control of the skin and subcutaneous muscles of the body.

Geng Xuan digested the information silently for a while, then suddenly stretched out his right hand, formed his five fingers into claws, and reached out to grab a "weak" area on the ground.

The moment the fingers touched the ground, they did not encounter much resistance, and the surrounding ground shattered.

The strength of the five fingers was either inhaling or exhaling, and the entire palm sank into the ground.

Soon, he dug a large piece of soil out of the ground.

With a little more force, the soil in his palm turned into fine powder and flowed away from his fingers.

A smile appeared on Geng Xuan's face.

Although he had wasted a lot of time studying the "Earth-Walking Chapter", he was now more confident about dealing with Wu Youren's body. He was confident that he could clear up all suspicious traces in the house before dawn.

Previously, it had been decided to bury Wu Youren's body.

But how to implement it specifically is still a headache.

The first question is, where to bury it? It was raining heavily outside, and there was the sound of running water everywhere, and many low-lying places had become small ponds.

Not to mention whether digging a hole outside to bury a person would be seen by others, the rain alone would cause him great trouble.

Then we can only dig a hole inside the house.

Don’t worry about the possibility of people creeping in, the floor of the house has been specially rammed and its hardness is incomparable to that outside.

Without professional tools, how much could he accomplish on his own?

You can't just build a high mound of grave on the ground in the house, can you?
Therefore, in order to put the idea of "burying the bodies" into practice, there are actually many practical difficulties that need to be solved.

Now that he had mastered the Earth Walking Technique, even if it was only the entry-level one, all the difficulties that had originally given him a headache had suddenly disappeared.

Geng Xuan first wrapped Wu Youren's body tightly with a bed sheet and placed it in a corner of the room.

Then he walked around the room with an oil lamp and selected a piece of ground with the most "flaws" and the "weakest" part.

With his ten fingers spread out, he used all his strength to dig out a large piece of hard soil completely.

Geng Xuan carefully put it aside, and then dug out several large pieces of hard soil in succession. After creating a space for him to work with, he sometimes spread his fingers like claws, and sometimes put them together like a shovel, and began to dig quickly in the area under his feet.

The soil quickly piled up around Geng Xuan, and although Geng Xuan seemed to be standing still, he was slowly "sinking" at a speed visible to the naked eye.

About a quarter of an hour later, he was completely submerged in the hole he had dug with his own hands.

When he crawled out covered in dust, he looked at his slightly trembling palms and felt a burning pain.

The effects were not noticeable after one or two times of digging, but after a while, Geng Xuan could still feel the burden on the ten fingers of both hands.

"The level of Iron Sand Palm is still a little low. It would be great if it could be improved a little bit."

It’s a pity that Geng Xuan is not lucky enough and can only think about it in his heart.

【Lucky: 3
Iron Sheet Kung Fu (Great)

Iron Sand Palm (Minor)

Earthwalking (beginner)

Circumcision (minor success +)】

With only three points of luck left, apart from being able to further improve the dissection technique, it is powerless to do anything with the other three skills.

Geng Xuan casually sat on the ground and rested for a while. When his fingers had recovered a little, he took off all his clothes, leaving only his shorts on, and then slid into the cave like a dry land loach.

This was a tunnel sloping downwards. Every time Geng Xuan dug forward one or two meters, he would come out to rest for a while.

When he came out of the cave for the fifth time, he felt that his hands were no longer his own and his arms were so sore that he almost lost consciousness.

In order to reduce the amount of digging, the hole was just big enough for his body to pass through. His hands were busy, so he could only move forward like a snake by contracting the muscles in his chest, abdomen, and other parts of his body. He had to endure the pressure of the earth all the time, and his body condition was only slightly better than that of his arms and palms.

After some consideration, Geng Xuan "extravagantly" consumed a little red juice to restore his physical condition.

The effect is very good.

But it didn't restore his body to its full strength, it just left him with enough energy to continue moving.

Coming out of the cave again, Geng Xuan looked at the sky outside.

At this moment, the heavy rain has gradually stopped, and there are only one or two hours left until dawn.

"That's it for now."

Looking at the hole next to him that was inserted into the ground like a straw, nearly ten meters deep and nearly twenty meters long, Geng Xuan felt a great sense of accomplishment.

As I stood up, a familiar feeling of emptiness came over me.

Geng Xuan understood that due to the high-intensity exercise, his body was once again on the verge of overdraft.

He quickly drank two taels of tiger bone and deer ginseng wine, and as the warmth spread throughout his body, his condition recovered somewhat.

Then, Geng Xuan stuffed Wu Youren's tightly wrapped body into the cave and pushed it to the end of the cave.

Because the hole was originally inclined downward, and Geng Xuan didn't need to worry about whether it would cause harm to his body, although the hole was a little narrow, it did not prevent him from pushing it to the bottom.

After the body is placed, it is natural to fill the ground with soil.

However, what Geng Xuan filled the cave with was not the original soil. Instead, he returned to the ground again and walked around the house carefully with an oil lamp, and put all the blood-stained items, including the blood-soaked soil, into the deepest part of the cave.

After doing all this, Geng Xuan began to fill the soil and restore the area.

This is much more efficient than digging a hole.

When he crawled out of the cave again, there was no cave at all, but just a shallow pit less than one meter deep.

When he pieced together the ground that had been dug out at the beginning, it fit perfectly, and everything returned to its original appearance in the home.

Well, it can't be said to be exactly the same, because he scraped off all the bloody ground and the surrounding soil that might have been soaked in blood, and the height of the ground inside the house after restoration was slightly different from before.

However, how can outsiders see such details?
"Whoosh-"

The night wind blew in through Geng Xuan's wide-open doors and windows, and the bloody smell in the house quickly disappeared before dawn.

……

"Um--"

Geng Xuan was lying on the bed, and was awakened from his doze by the first ray of sunlight shining in through the window.

Smelling the fresh air, Geng Xuan opened his eyes and looked out the window.

The first thing that caught my eye was the white banner hanging under the eaves, which had become wet after a night of rain.

Geng Xuan was stunned for a moment, then he remembered that the seventh day after his predecessor's father's death had just passed.

(End of this chapter)