The Martial Saint begins by collecting corpses.

Everyone returned to the courtyard with furrowed brows.

Lu Ming sat alone in the room, feeling a sense of unease.

The third round of assessment, I don't know what it is.

If he's still completely baffled like in the second round, then he'll be in some danger.

The main problem is that there are six people, six top talents, competing for one spot, which is indeed extremely difficult.

Unless there are fewer people.

However, even if it is difficult, who would be willing to give up easily?

Lu Ming didn't sleep well that night. He was woken up the next day by Shen Mo knocking on the door.

"What were you doing last night?" Shen Mo stood in front of his door, his face extremely serious. "You didn't go out, did you?"

"Didn't you do anything?" Lu Ming was taken aback, and looking at Shen Mo's stern expression, he suddenly realized something.

He quickly asked, "What happened?"

Shen Mo said with a somewhat grim expression, "One of the examinees has died."

"What?!" Lu Ming's pupils contracted slightly. Had someone really made a move?

Last night, he had considered one possibility, but he himself was unwilling to kill someone like that, but he never expected...

He frowned slightly, followed Shen Mo out the door, and came to the open space in the middle of several small courtyards.

The person who died was none other than the Taoist priest, a strong contender for the last spot.

He was the first person to achieve enlightenment by reading the True Meaning of the Moon, but unfortunately, the spot was taken by the bearded giant. Unexpectedly, he died just one night later.

He was placed on a stretcher, his eyes closed, his face calm and his expression peaceful, as if he had died naturally in his sleep, even though he was only in his thirties.

The rest of the examinees had arrived, including Qin Xiaoyi. He looked at the dead Taoist priest, his brows furrowed, and he fell into deep thought.

The others exchanged bewildered glances, then became wary and sized up the others.

[Gain martial arts experience.]

[Acquired cultivation technique: Rejuvenation Technique.]

[Acquired martial arts skills: Thirty-Six Styles of Grappling Techniques, Whisk Strike.]

[Obtained partial root bone.]

While the others remained silent, a beam of white light flew from the Taoist's corpse, and a large amount of martial arts experience flooded into Lu Ming's mind.

Lu Ming remained outwardly calm, but inwardly he was quite surprised.

Judging from his martial arts experience, this Taoist priest was actually a practitioner of tendon-strengthening martial arts. However, the Yang-restoring skill he practiced was a virgin skill, and he had excellent control over his own power, so he did not reveal any of it.

To Lu Ming's surprise, the martial arts experience of a tendon-training martial artist included his insights into breaking through realms, such as the breakthrough from the Great Perfection of Skin Training to the Muscle Training realm.

This gave him a sudden insight, and he even gained some completely new understanding of Canglang stance training.

He had a feeling that he might break through soon.

This is the effect of martial arts experience! It's equivalent to him personally experiencing a breakthrough, so there's naturally no bottleneck for him at this level.

What surprised him even more was that the root bone he obtained this time was only a "part" of the root bone.

Generally speaking, he only obtains incomplete bone fragments. The last time he obtained partial bone fragments was from Sun Dazhi of the Blackwater Gang.

However, Sun Dazhi's physical constitution was theoretically inferior to that of his brother Sun Ji, and when Sun Ji died, he was only given a fragmented physical constitution.

According to Lu Ming's speculation, whether something is incomplete or partial is likely not absolute, but relative.

When he killed Sun Dazhi, he was only of inferior aptitude. The reason he harvested some of Sun Dazhi's aptitude from his corpse was probably because Sun Dazhi's aptitude was higher than his at the time.

Later, after he was promoted to the lower-middle rank, the people who collected corpses all had similar or lower physical attributes than him, so they all had incomplete physical attributes.

This time, the Taoist priest, being a martial arts practitioner in his thirties, must have had a higher aptitude than the average or below average, so what he gained was a portion of his aptitude.

The direct effect of this was that he felt his body was heavier, but he also felt more relaxed.

This feeling was somewhat strange; he vaguely sensed that he was not far from the next improvement in his physical constitution.

"Qin Xiaoyi, what were you doing last night?" Shen Mo suddenly asked Qin Xiaoyi in a deep voice.

"I'm sleeping in my room," Qin Xiaoyi said calmly, her face expressionless.

"I'm sorry, I have to take you to another secret room. After all, you are a descendant of the Ghost Deception lineage, and you are the prime suspect last night," Shen Mo said seriously.

Qin Xiaoyi said, "Whatever you say."

Then, a stiff smile appeared on his lips, an expression that was both a smile and a cry. It was unclear what he meant, but he quickly followed Shen Mo away.

The others also returned to their courtyards.

However, Lu Ming vaguely sensed that several experts had arrived near these courtyards and were secretly watching them.

"The competition is fierce; some people even resort to murder to reduce their competitors."

Lu Ming sighed inwardly, which also showed that the identity of the Night Patrolman of the Town Night Division was really very attractive.

However, he had some doubts.

How could he evade the surveillance of the Night Watchmen after committing such a murder? How could he clear his name of suspicion?

After all, this is the Night Watch Division, whose specialty is investigating such strange events.

"Is this going to become the third round of assessment?" Lu Ming muttered to himself, feeling somewhat helpless.

He has an invincible way to deal with ghosts and monsters, but the Night Guard has not looked at this in the past few assessments. Isn't this putting the cart before the horse?

Fortunately, the Taoist's corpse gave him a great gain today. If he can successfully break through to the Body Refining stage in the next few days, then he will be capable enough to deal with Uncle Li.

Thinking of this, he hurriedly went out and asked Shen Mo to buy a few packets of Qi-boosting powder. He brewed one packet, drank it all in one gulp, and continued to practice Canglang stance training under the fiery medicinal power.

He had previously obtained the Mountain-Opening Stance Technique from Sun Ji. The Taoist priest also possessed the Rejuvenation Technique.

However, he felt that the Mountain Opening Stance Technique was no stronger than the Canglang Stance Technique. The Rejuvenating Yang Technique was also a virgin's skill, which had too many limitations.

So after thinking it over, he felt that practicing the Canglang stance training was the best option.

Today, having gained martial arts experience from the Taoist priest, his horizons broadened and he gained some insights. He then practiced for a whole day, drinking two packets of Qi-boosting powder.

It wasn't until evening that I realized it wasn't good to continue practicing, so I stopped and rested.

That night, he was exhausted and went to bed early, intending to conserve his energy for more rigorous training the next day.

Unexpectedly, in the middle of the night, he suddenly felt a chill, which made his back go cold.

He suddenly opened his eyes and saw that the window of the room had been opened silently at some point.

A woman dressed in white with disheveled hair stood there quietly, slowly raised her head, revealing a pale face, and smiled at him.

The more she laughed, the bigger her mouth got, until suddenly her whole face turned into a huge, empty mouth.

"Are you laughing at your mother?!" A violent glint appeared in Lu Ming's eyes. He suddenly sprang up from the bed and rushed towards the female ghost.