I can increase my power through breathing.

Chapter 11 Your knife is too slow
"gone!"

Zhou Qing walked out of the black market.

His senses were sharper than before, and he could feel that the gaze watching him from behind had not disappeared and followed him all the way out of the black market.

However, Zhou Qing was already prepared before arriving at the black market.

The black market is a mixed bag, and it's common to be targeted. He didn't show any panic, but calmly continued on his way.

He used all his Dao Source Points to enhance his Hundred Refinements Golden Body Technique, breaking through to the fifth level of the Acquired Realm, and his strength had undergone a qualitative leap.

With his advanced level 5 in the Acquired Realm, coupled with his perfected Wuhen Sword Technique and the Swallow Skimming Water Lightness Skill, he had nothing to fear as long as he didn't encounter a top-tier martial artist.

Top-tier martial artists at the seventh level of the Acquired Realm are considered important figures even in the prefectural city. If they want silver, there are plenty of landlords and wealthy merchants who will come to them willingly. They would never do something as degrading as robbing people and goods in the black market.

Outside the black market lies a desolate wilderness.

As soon as Zhou Qing left the black market, he quickened his pace, traversing the rugged mountain path. However, the dozen or so figures following behind him assumed that Zhou Qing was afraid and wanted to run away.

"Keep up with them immediately, don't let this fat sheep get away."

Immediately, three figures activated their inner strength, used their lightness skills to unleash terrifying speed, and followed closely behind.

"So fast."

"This level of lightness skill is at least at the proficient level."

"The lightness skill that person used was the Swallow Skimming Three Times Over the Water, which is only suitable for short bursts of speed and cannot be sustained for long."

"Let's go, follow them and see, maybe we can find something good."

A total of more than a dozen figures followed behind Zhou Qing.

Swallows skimming the water three times, flying over grass, and the art of leaping across land are all third-rate light-body skills, basically belonging to the category of common light-body skills.

Ordinary martial artists basically practice these few lightness skills.

Zhou Qing crossed several hills and gradually reduced his speed, allowing the three figures behind him to catch up quickly.

"That's it!"

Seeing that they were already several miles away from the black market, Zhou Qing stopped.

Turning around, he stared at the three people who were only a few feet away from him and said expressionlessly, "Gentlemen, what brings you following me?"

The three men stood in three different directions, subtly forming a circle around Zhou Qing. One of them, a man wearing a bronze mask, spoke up: "Naturally, we see you have a lot of silver on you and want to borrow some."

"Borrow some money to spend? That sounds nice," Zhou Qing said calmly. "However, I'm afraid you don't have the ability to do so."

"Kid, don't be stubborn and ask for trouble. If you know what's good for you, hand over the money obediently, or don't blame us for being impolite."

"Another man holding a long sword said coldly."

"You're welcome?" Zhou Qing's lips curled into a cold smile. "I'd like to see how you'll be impolite."

Before he finished speaking, Zhou Qing flashed forward, this time unleashing the Swallow Three Skimming Water technique, which he had mastered to perfection.

Zhou Qing's cultivation level has reached the fifth level of the Acquired Realm, so even though it's the same Swallow Skimming the Water Three Times, the speed he unleashed at this moment is faster than when he was in Black Stone County.

The distance of a few feet was covered in an instant.

"what!"

The man with the sword's expression changed drastically.

He never expected Zhou Qing to be so fast.

The speed Zhou Qing displayed when using the "Swallow Skimming Three Times" lightness skill was at the proficiency level, but the speed he displayed now was clearly at the perfection level.

His eyes widened in terror. Although he was on guard against Zhou Qing's movements, his body was too slow to react. Zhou Qing's long sword slashed out silently, drawing a strange arc in the air before flashing past the man's neck.

Bang.

The swordsman collapsed to the ground, his eyes instantly becoming vacant, and blood gushed from the wound on his neck, staining the ground red.

"impossible!"

Seeing the sword-wielding man killed instantly by Zhou Qing, the bronze-masked man and the other man wearing a monkey mask changed their expressions drastically.

The man wielding the sword was a martial artist who had reached the third level of the Acquired Realm. He had been practicing the Chasing Wind Swift Sword for more than ten years and had already reached the Great Perfection Realm.

The sword moves like the wind, thirteen sword strikes in a row, speed is the only way to break through.

However, when facing Zhou Qing, the swordsman who had mastered the Swift Wind Sword technique didn't even have a chance to draw his sword.

This proves that Zhou Qing's knife was faster than the sword of the man wielding the sword.

"kill!"

While the two were distracted, Zhou Qing moved swiftly, shooting out like an arrow and closing in on the man in the bronze mask.

"Fight to the death on all sides!"

The bronze-masked man's swordsmanship was powerful and sweeping, slashing towards Zhou Qing with the force of a thousand armies.

"Your knife is too slow!"

Zhou Qing's voice rang in the ear of the man in the bronze mask.

He easily dodged the opponent's attack.

Immediately afterwards, the bronze-masked man stood frozen in place, his eyes becoming empty and lifeless, and then his body went limp and he collapsed to the ground with a thud.

He had been stabbed at some point, without anyone noticing.

Zhou Qing's knife was too fast, too unpredictable, and silent, leaving no trace. The man in the bronze mask didn't even know when he was stabbed.

"The sky is filled with flowers and rain!"

Another man in a monkey mask immediately raised his hand and threw out dozens of hidden weapons.

There are darts, bone-piercing nails, iron stones, poisoned silver needles, and so on.

The monkey-masked man's hidden weapon techniques were cunning and ruthless, with dozens of hidden weapons aimed at Zhou Qing's vital points.

Dangdang Dangdang!
Zhou Qing swung his sword to defend himself.

He blocked most of the hidden weapons. Even when a few hit his body, they only tore his clothes before being knocked away by the recoil from the Hundred Refinements Golden Body Technique.

These hidden weapons landed on him, but they didn't even break his skin or leave a mark.

Once the Hundred Refinements Golden Body Technique reaches the fifth level, ordinary swords and blades will be difficult to injure one.

Unless a weapon is imbued with internal energy, it is impossible to break through his defenses, but even that would be considered a high level of skill among second-rate martial artists.

Second-rate martial artists can unleash their internal energy outside their bodies to injure enemies from a distance, but they cannot enhance their weapons to amplify their power.

Without special techniques, internal force can directly shatter the weapon in one's hand.

Therefore, second-rate martial artists at the fourth level of the Acquired Realm or above need to cultivate corresponding second-rate martial arts skills in order to activate their internal energy to enhance their weapons, and they must at least reach the level of mastery in these skills.

According to Zhou Qing's perception, the internal energy emanating from these three individuals was at the third level of the Acquired Realm, belonging to the peak of the third-rate martial artists.

Therefore, even if Zhou Qing did not block all the hidden weapons, these hidden weapons, without the support of internal energy, could not possibly break through his defense.

(End of this chapter)