Supreme Martial Venerable: Starting with the White Ape Cloak Hammer skill point allocation

Chapter 97 Military Strategist (Please Subscribe)

"How could Commander Tong have gotten into trouble?"

Dong Hailou arrived in a hurry with Constable Zhu Yiwei and a group of constables, his face filled with grief.

"Commander Tong is the pillar of Gaoshan County. What will happen to Gaoshan County if something happens to him?"

Dong Hailou spoke loudly, but could not hide the joy in his eyes.

If there hadn't been other people around, he probably would have burst out laughing with joy.

Good riddance, a wonderful death.

The man surnamed Tong, relying on the Divine Weapon Valley, flaunted his power in Gaoshan County, not even putting himself, the county magistrate, in his eyes. If it weren't for my still-healing injuries—

Dong Hailou looked at Zhou Yuan with a smile, and said in an extremely sorrowful tone, "How could such an accident happen? What exactly happened? Is Commander Tong really dead?"

"Commander Tong suspected that this cave was Pang Yunlong's treasure trove, so he led me into it to explore. As a result, we accidentally stepped into a hole in the ground, which triggered a fire eruption. I managed to escape, but Commander Tong was trapped inside."

We've gone in to search several times, but haven't found any trace of Commander Tong.

Zhou Yuan said weakly.

Half of his body was burned beyond recognition, and he now needs help to stand. He was already sweating profusely from the pain after only saying a few words.

Dong Hailou grabbed Zhou Yuan's arm and checked his injuries.

"Even if the burns heal, it will likely affect my ability to practice martial arts in the future."

His brow relaxed.

Zhou Yuan's injuries were real and extremely serious, indicating that they had indeed encountered great danger.

"Officer Zhu, take the men and keep searching! We must find Commander Tong no matter what!"

Dong Hailou was full of vigor and high spirits.

With Tong Jin dead and Zhou Yuan crippled, Gaoshan County will now belong to Dong Hailou.

"We must find him alive or dead! If Commander Tong is found to be alive, we must protect him at all costs!"

Dong Hailou emphasized his words.

Zhu Yiwei understood perfectly. Regardless of whether Tong Jin was alive or dead, the only thing they could do was to prevent him from leaving the cave alive.

He glanced at Zhou Yuan with some sympathy.

If he passes the test four times without getting injured, he might have a chance to pass the martial arts examination in the future.

But now, with his bones and tendons burned, even if he recovers, his cultivation will be greatly affected.

He was already of poor aptitude, and now he's in this state; he's completely ruined.

Without speaking to Zhou Yuan, Zhu Yiwei led a group of constables into the cave.

"My lord, I am in great pain and I am afraid I cannot continue to serve you. Please allow me to take my leave and go back to heal my wounds."

Zhou Yuan said weakly, as if he knew he was finished, and even his way of addressing people became more obsequious than before.

Dong Hailou noticed the change in Zhou Yuan's attitude and became increasingly smug.

In his eyes, weren't all the people in this county petty people?

"Go."

Dong Hailou waved his hand magnanimously.

Zhuo Changyu is at home packing his last belongings.

Suddenly a horse-drawn carriage stopped in front of the house.

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Gao Da and Zhou Shun helped Zhou Yuan in, one on each side.

Zhuo Changyu immediately spotted Zhou Yuan, who was covered in bandages and had a bloodless face.

She swayed and almost fell, but after regaining her senses, she ran forward in a panic, took Zhou Yuan from Zhou Shun's hands, and supported Zhou Yuan with her slender body.

"How could this happen? It was fine when I left yesterday, what happened?"

Her eyes were red and her voice trembled.

"fine."

Zhou Yuan smiled and comforted him, "You just got burned by accident, it'll be fine in a while."

Gao Da sighed. Given his cheerful personality, he rarely sighed.

He patted Zhou Yuan's unharmed shoulder and said, "Go to the prefectural capital. There are better doctors there, and perhaps there's still hope."

After saying that, he pulled Zhou Shun away with him.

He knew that Zhou Yuan definitely needed to calm down at this time.

Having finally cultivated to the Blood Exchange Realm, which has broken through four stages, suddenly having one's bones and muscles burned and one's future ruined is something no one could accept.

Cheng Jiuhe was once quite famous, but after his bones were broken, he never recovered and has now disappeared without a trace.

I heard that Zhou Yuan and Cheng Jiuhe had a good relationship, but now they've ended up in the same situation.

"What a pity."

Once outside, Gao Da sighed again, "I've already started to consider him a rival."

He shook his head.

Zhou Shun looked annoyed. "It's all my fault. If I hadn't come to see the magistrate, that Tong fellow wouldn't have targeted him, and this wouldn't have happened."

He pounded his head hard.

"It has nothing to do with you. The man surnamed Tong came with ill intentions from the start. He would have targeted Zhou Yuan even without you."

It's all fate. He died in the subterranean fire, and Zhou Yuan was crippled too.

"Gundam shook his head and said."

In the courtyard, Zhuo Changyu's tears fell in a steady stream onto Zhou Yuan's hand.

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"Yuan-ge'er, it's alright. Even if you can't practice martial arts anymore, many ordinary people still live their lives the same way. I'll take care of you."

Zhuo Changyu wiped away her tears and said, "I can embroider, I can read and write, and we still have savings."

"Who told you I can't practice martial arts?"

Zhou Yuan said with a smile. Although he was still pale, the pain he had felt earlier was gone, replaced by a sense of relief and ease.

"I heard what Gao Da and Zhou Shun said. Although I have never practiced martial arts, I know that once the bones and muscles are damaged, it is almost impossible to recover."

Zhuo Changyu looked up and said, tears still clinging to her small face.

Zhou Yuan raised his hand to wipe away her tears and said, "That's someone else. I know my own injuries."

Don't worry, I'm fine.

Now is the perfect time; we can take the opportunity of checking on our injuries to leave Gaoshan County.

Things are about to get very dangerous here.

He raised his head and looked in the direction of Aozi Mountain.

Tong Jin was different from the others; he was a disciple of the Divine Weapon Valley.

He died in Gaoshan County, and Shenbing Valley will certainly not let this go.

However, with Dong Hailou blocking the way, and the Beast Taming Sect and Divine Weapon Valley vying for the legendary divine weapon, no one should notice this "useless person".

Killing Tong Jin was actually quite risky, but he was forced into it.

"Let these people fight to the death for the legendary weapon. I'm going to participate in my martial arts examination."

Zhou Yuan thought to himself that he would have Zhuo Changyu tell the car dealership to set off early tomorrow morning.

He then closed the doors and windows and took out the things he had hidden close to his body.

He was certain that Dong Hailou would not search him, and that Nazishan would soon become a den of dragons and tigers, so he carefully hid his spoils on his person and brought them down the mountain.

As he expected, Dong Hailou only checked his injuries and did not search his body.

"Tong Jin is, after all, a disciple of the Divine Weapon Valley, and he came here with a heavy responsibility. Who knows how many good things he might have on him—"

With these thoughts in mind, Zhou Yuan spread out his spoils on the table.

A large silver note, a handful of loose silver, a few gold leaves, and a secret manual wrapped in silk!

"really!"

Zhou Yuan was delighted. "Big shot" is indeed "big shot," much fatter than the likes of Liu Jin.

"A thousand taels of silver notes, a dozen taels of loose silver, and these gold leaves are worth at least several hundred taels of silver."

The silver alone amounts to nearly two thousand taels!

Carrying two thousand taels of silver with you, what kind of family must that be from?

But now all of this is my savings.

Zhou Yuan first put away the cash, and then looked at the manual, feeling slightly excited.

Tong Jin was entrusted with an important task by the Divine Weapon Valley with his Blood Exchange Realm strength, so it is conceivable that he must not be an ordinary disciple of the Divine Weapon Valley, but most likely a scion of a noble family.

How could someone like that possibly carry common goods with them?

Zhou Yuan carefully opened the silk, revealing the martial arts manual inside.

"The Fiery Blazing Army Technique! It's actually the Fiery Blazing Army Technique!"

Zhou Yuan saw the text on the cover of the manual and couldn't help but read it aloud with delight.

According to the "Collection of Military Skills", the strongest martial art of Shenbing Valley is the "Heaven-Turning and Earth-Splitting Great Sumeru Hammer", but in addition to this martial art, Shenbing Valley also has a martial art that is famous throughout the world.

This is the "Blazing Fire Soldier's Essence Technique".

The path of martial arts begins with foundation building. After breaking through the four barriers of skin, flesh, bone, and marrow, one's physique becomes strong and one's blood and energy become vigorous.

Further up, blood and qi transform into true essence.

The transformation of blood and qi into essence is essentially when a martial artist's blood and qi become vigorous to a certain degree. At this point, they absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into their body, and the two merge, transforming the blood and qi into true essence.

Normal martial arts cultivation produces true essence, but the cultivation of "Blazing Fire Soldier Essence Technique" produces soldier essence!

Compared to ordinary true essence, military essence is more condensed and more destructive.

There are even rumors that the "Blazing Fire Soldier's Yuan Technique" is the strongest True Yuan Realm cultivation technique in the world.

Even within the Divine Weapon Valley, only inner disciples have the opportunity to cultivate the "Blazing Fire Soldier Essence Technique."

"Ordinary True Essence Realm martial arts only absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the body, but the 'Blazing Fire Soldier Essence Technique' must be cultivated in a place called Burial Valley in Divine Weapon Valley. At the beginning, it absorbs the residual evil energy in the weapons."

If one's physique is not strong enough, forcibly practicing this martial art will result in serious injury at best, and death on the spot from shattered meridians at worst.

As Zhou Yuan flipped through the manual, he pondered, "Although Tong Jin possesses this martial art, he has clearly not yet mastered it."

Otherwise, he wouldn't have died at my hands.

The weapon essence of Shenbing Valley is just right to counter the Beast King's Golden Body.

If one masters the "Blazing Fire Soldier Essence Technique," even without divine weapons, one can condense soldier essence into an "invisible weapon edge" to specifically counter hard skills.

"If I had already mastered the 'Blazing Fire Soldier Technique' before, Wang Linglong would have been dead even with her inner armor protecting her."

Zhou Yuan pondered to himself.

Oh, that person isn't the real Wang Linglong.

"Good stuff, it was worth the great risk I took to kill Tong Jin."

However, this martial art cannot be performed in the open. Before I pass the martial arts exam and officially join the Divine Weapon Valley, I must never use this martial art in front of others.

If it must be carried out, then it must be done to ensure that the perpetrators are killed to silence them.

Otherwise, facing the pursuit of the Divine Weapon Valley, I would have absolutely no chance of survival.

Zhou Yuan read the manual several times until the words "Blazing Fire Soldier's Essence Technique" appeared on the system panel. Only then did he throw the manual, along with the silk wrapping it and the money bag, into the forging furnace.

Having a forge at home has this advantage: destroying evidence is a breeze.

Zhou Yuan finally breathed a long sigh of relief as he watched them turn to ashes in the flames, leaving no trace.

"My Beast King Golden Body has been cultivated to the fourth level. This burn injury would cause endless trouble for others, but for me, it will heal in no time."

The Xuan Turtle Realm inherently enhances the body's regenerative abilities.

Zhou Yuan pondered that if he used the skill to increase his stats, his injuries would heal even faster.

However, there's no need to rush to recover from the injury right now.

It's not too late to recover from the injuries after leaving Gaoshan County and arriving in the prefectural capital.

"After Wang Linglong disappeared, Senior Brother Cheng also left Gaoshan County and his whereabouts are unknown. Originally, Wang Linglong said she could help Senior Brother Cheng recover."

Zhou Yuan thought of something and sighed inwardly. He could recover on his own, but he was not a doctor and could not save others.

"Once my cultivation level is higher, I might be able to obtain a precious medicine to repair my bones and muscles. I'll try to give it to Senior Brother Cheng then."

Zhou Yuan shook his head, stopped thinking about it, and calmly continued to comprehend the "Blazing Fire Soldier's Essence Technique".

[The Fiery Blazing Army Technique is still in its infancy (0/3000)]

You need 3,000 free points to get started, but if you put in the effort, a month should be enough.

Zhou Yuan looked forward to the future, his heart filled with hope.

The feeling of getting stronger step by step is really great.