Chapter 10: Defensive Martial Arts, Seeking Collection at the Fourth Watch

  It's 4 o'clock in the morning, don't you guys want to show some response too? Hahaha

  "Hiss...” The light yellow small snake suddenly had a fierce glint in its eyes, its forked tongue darting in and out as if it was about to bite the old servant Nan Shu. Its body was shrouded in a strange aura with a faint golden glow.

  "It's quite fierce indeed." Old servant Nan Shu smiled faintly, and with a flash of light in his hand, a small snake appeared to have a drop of bright red blood on its forehead, now in the old servant Nan Shu's hand.

  As Nan Shu's handprint changed, Lu Shaoyou was shocked to see that the entire room had appeared a mysterious light.

  "Heh heh..."

  Lu Shao saw that the light in his own brow merged with the blood and the pale yellow snake's blood, then transformed into two lights. One was struck by Nan Shu into his own brow, while the other was struck by Nan Shu into the pale yellow snake's brow.

  "Huh?"

  Lu Shao suddenly felt a strange feeling, as if there was an invisible connection between him and the light yellow small snake, like brothers, or even a blood relationship. This feeling was mysterious and indescribable.

  "Nan Shu, what kind of trick is this? It's quite amazing." Lu Shaoyou asked in surprise.

  "This is amazing, from now on, you have to learn more." Nan Shu smiled slightly and said with some pride: "Alright, you and it have already formed a blood contract, this is a kind of equal contract between the spiritual master and the spiritual beast. You and it can only form an equal contract, otherwise, if one day, the spiritual beasts in its clan discover that you are enslaving it, they will definitely not let you off, and you will die a terrible death."

  After that, Old Servant Nan took out another drop of fresh blood from the light yellow snake's hand and immediately put the light yellow snake back into Lu Shaoyou's hand. At this time, the little snake in Lu Shaoyou's hand became much more docile and affectionate towards him.

  "Take good care of it, and later on it will be able to help you a lot. You should feed it meat, if possible, best is to feed it the flesh of demonic beasts or spiritual beasts, this way it will grow fast." Old servant Nan Shu said.

  "The flesh of yao beasts and ling beasts..." Lu Shaoyou sighed inwardly, this was another expensive item.

  "This is a defensive martial skill, called Qingling Armor. I'll use the blood of the Linghuang Beast as a guide for you. You'll understand its effect on you later." Old servant Nan Shu said to Lu Shaoyou, and immediately a jade slip appeared in his hand. Nan Shu dripped a drop of the Linghuang Beast's fresh blood onto it and handed it over to Lu Shaoyou.

  "There's also this star-level martial skill, called 'Opening Mountain Palm', its power is quite good. You should cultivate it first, it can be used for self-defense too. As for this other skill, I don't know what level it is, but you're lucky to have gotten it, hopefully you'll understand it." Old servant Nan Shu handed two jade slips to Lu Shaoyou once again.

  "Nan Shu, when are you going to ask me to refine the elixir and weapons?" Lu Shaoyou asked as he took over the jade slip. Having cultivated the Yin Yang Spiritual Martial Arts, this was a technique that burned money, and as a poor young master, he had no source of income at all.

  "You're really greedy, it's almost dawn, come back tomorrow, remember to hold back, it's not time to reveal your martial artist and spiritual identity yet. The Yin-Yang Spiritual Martial Arts you've been cultivating, the Lu family shouldn't be able to see any changes in you either. The two spiritual elixirs inside you should still not have fully refined, enough for you to cultivate up to the 9th rank of Spiritual Disciple. As for whether or not you can break through to the Spiritual Master level, it depends on your luck. And as for your martial arts true energy, it must rely on swallowing the demon elixir, otherwise, even if your spiritual energy is strong, but your true energy can't keep up, you won't be able to break through." Old servant Nan Shu smiled and said.

  "Ah..." Lu Shaoyou let out a soft sigh, it seemed that from now on he would have to make more money, otherwise, he wouldn't be able to continue cultivating the Yin Yang Spirit Fist.

  Taking advantage of the night, Lu Shaoyou returned to the courtyard gate once again. At this time, the sky was also about to brighten up. Returning to his room, Lu Shaoyou smiled slightly. No matter what, he had finally become a martial artist and an extremely rare Spirit Holder. Although the Yin Yang Spirit Fist was a money-burning technique, once he had enough capital, he would be able to cultivate it much faster than others.

  "Lucky kid, you've got both spiritual and martial arts skills, not to mention the Spiritual Beast. From now on, it's all up to you." The old servant, Nan Shu, muttered to himself in the darkness.

  "Shaoyou, you're doing well these days, aren't you? Is there something exciting happening?" Early in the morning, Lu Shaoyou arrived directly at the courtyard without sleeping. Lu Shaoyou's mother, Luo Lan, said that these days, every time she saw Lu Shaoyou, his face was flushed with joy, and his mood seemed to be extremely good too. She hadn't seen her son like this in a long time.

  "Mother, we won't have to do this for much longer. My son will take good care of you in the future." Lu Shaoyou said, looking at his mother who had to go to the laundry room to work early in the morning, and he also felt a unspeakable sadness in his heart.

  Nan Shu also said that when he was not yet openly a martial artist, his original wife, the great madam, had made moves on Lu Shao's body, precisely because she did not want him to become a martial artist. If she were to find out now that he had indeed become one, it would likely be the end of him.

  So, one must have the ability to protect oneself before making all this public, otherwise it will only bring a death curse upon oneself. Now, I must work hard to cultivate myself and earn money.

  "As long as you have a good heart, you can live a peaceful life, and that's all I want for you," said Mrs. Roland, and then she went to the laundry room.

  "Making money, cultivating, gold coins......" Lu Shaoyou muttered to himself as he gazed up at the sky above the courtyard.

  "Master, why are you up so early?" Lu Xiaobai said as he entered the courtyard.

  "What's going on today?" Lu Shaoyou asked.

  "There's nothing much to do today, I heard that there are important guests coming, those stewards have already gone to the front hall to busy themselves," said Lu Xiaobai.

  "What guest is so important?" Lu Shaoyou asked casually.

  "I heard that the guest from the Dugu family is coming, and Master will personally go to welcome him." said Lu Xiaobai.

  "Dugu Family..." Lu Shaoyou suddenly knew the origin of the Dugu family in his mind, and this Dugu family seemed to have a great background. In Qingyun Town, one business was even bigger than the Lu family's business.

  "I heard that the Dugu family will have a Miss Dugu coming, I heard from the people in the front yard that Miss Dugu of the Dugu family is beautiful and charming, do you want to go take a look?" Lu Xiaobai whispered.

  "Whatever, since I have nothing to do today, I'll just continue sleeping." Lu Shaoyou said, what's with the Dugu Miss, and has nothing to do with himself now. Just right, today he can cultivate that martial skill.

  "Alright, I'll sneak a peek and come back to tell you." Lu Xiaobai said, and immediately left the courtyard.

  Back in his room, this courtyard was usually deserted. Lu Shaoyou was preparing to cultivate martial skills. Without martial skills, even with the strength of a martial artist's cultivation, he would still be just a brute.

  Lu Shao brought out a jade slip from his hand, which was the star-level martial skill "Kai Shan Zhang". A hand seal was formed in his hand, and a faint stream of air flowed into it. Immediately, a light burst out from the jade slip and drilled into Lu Shao's brow.

  This ray of light instantly transformed into a stream of information that entered Lu Shaoyou's mind.

  Lu Shao-yu calmed his mind and focused his energy, recalling the opening mountain palm technique in his mind. He began to draw patterns with his hands in front of him, and between his palms, a formless flow of air started to appear and disappear, but this flow of air seemed not to be entirely under Lu Shao-yu's control, sometimes present and sometimes absent.

  "It's still not right, this martial skill is really difficult to learn." Lu Shaoyou was practicing in this room, two hours had passed, but he still hadn't succeeded.

  Kai Shan Zhang, a star-level martial skill, although not as profound as Di Ji or Xuan Ji, but for Lu Shaoyou who has just come into contact with martial skills, it is also somewhat abstruse.

  Lu Shao's body was constantly transforming in the room, surrounded by a faint aura, and occasionally, a stream of airflow palm prints appeared in his hand, but they quickly disappeared.