Chapter Thirty: Han Zhukun

  Li Xiangfei arrived at the martial arts arena early as usual, waiting for Bai Cao Dong to appear and preparing to defeat him. Today's Li Xiangfei was full of confidence, she had every assurance that she could defeat Bai Cao Dong, although in the previous fifteen days, she had also come with full confidence, only to leave with a body full of bruises.

  "How come he hasn't arrived yet, must be slacking off again." Li Xiangfei looked up at the sky, the sun was already high up, but she didn't see Bai Cangdong's figure, and muttered to herself in annoyance.

  "My little Xiang Fei, you don't have to wait anymore. Your martial arts training here has come to an end. Your sparring partner has left the Earl's Manor and won't be coming back." Lady Hong Lian walked in with a gentle smile.

  "Has he left?" Li Xiangfei's eyes widened slightly, as if she felt a sudden emptiness: "How can he just leave like that? I haven't defeated him yet!"

  "My little treasure, as long as his divine light is sealed, you won't be able to defeat him." Hong Lian's wife pulled Li Xiangfei down to sit on a stone chair beside her.

  "Who would have thought that by yesterday afternoon, I was already evenly matched with him. In the afternoon, I even asked the Silver Armor Knight for more techniques and I had confidence that I could defeat him today. Who knew that bastard actually ran away." Li Xiangfei said with some resentment.

  "Your ability to fight him to a draw is only because you are the daughter of the Earl, he didn't dare to really hurt you. If it were a real life-or-death battle, you would not be his match, and could even be said to be unable to withstand a single blow."

  "Aunt, you're underestimating me too much. I'm already very capable now and not as incompetent as you said. Besides, he's just a small baron, how could he be as formidable as you said?" Li Xiangfei pouted.

  "The Masked Baron is also a baron, and his prowess you're not unfamiliar with."

  Li Xiangfei immediately pouted and said, "How can they be compared? The Masked Baron is the one who shattered the Eternal Crystal, while Bai Cangdong is a coward who fears death. The Masked Baron is thousands of times stronger than Bai Cangdong."

  "Alright, alright, I know your family's Viscount Mask is formidable." Lady Honglian said with a smile.

  "Auntie, you're teasing me again." Li Xiangfei went to tickle Honglian, making her giggle uncontrollably, her chest heaving with laughter.

  "With your current skills, continuing to practice with Bai Cangdong would be pointless. To improve, you need to engage in a real battle with the Undead Clan. Are you brave enough to go?" Red Lotus Madam said seriously to Li Xiangfei.

  "Why be afraid? I must become more powerful than Bai Cangdong, and I must truly defeat him without using my divine light." Li Xiangfei said loudly.

  "Alright, then follow me." Hong Lian led Li Xiangfei out of the courtyard.

  Bai Cangdong returned to the Blade Society, and his life didn't change much. He still had to go to work at the Lecturer's Pavilion. The current president would only leave in three or four months, and that was when he would be appointed by the Duke of Blade as the new president. Before then, he was just an ordinary martial artist. No one else in the Blade Society knew about President Ximen's plan to leave except for Bai Cangdong.

  The lecturer's pavilion was still so leisurely, and Bai Cangdong was looking through the materials given to him by Hong Lian Furen, which recorded many methods of promotion to viscount and detailed information. After reading a lot, Bai Cangdong felt that the most likely method was still the two methods told by Hong Lian Furen.

  One is to rely on armed forces to break the undead light, and the other is to consume all the undead light of the undead tribe before killing them.

  "The most likely armament to obtain should be the Black Death Knife that Hong Lian said, just need to hunt down the black-eyed mantis to get it, although the probability is a bit small, but can try. Bai Cangdong flipped through all the information about armaments and found that every piece of equipment that could help the baron upgrade to viscount was extremely precious and difficult to obtain, the Black Death Knife was one of the easiest to get."

  Bai Cangdong was thinking, after the task of the lecturer's pavilion is over, he will go to the area of Hei Yan Mantis and try his luck by killing Hei Yan Mantis.

  Bai Cang Dong had always been puzzled, what kind of martial arts equipment could be absorbed by the sword sheath to evolve into martial skills. The painful dagger was the most ordinary equipment, and the skull-splitting axe was only a baron-level one. Both of these were welcomed by the sword sheath without hesitation, but the pure white knight's double-handed greatsword, which was also a baron-level, did not interest the sword sheath at all. Even the viscount-level silk sword did not stir any reaction from the sword sheath.

  During this time, Bai Cangdong also found many other armed forces to try, but the result was the same, and the sword box did not respond at all.

  "Must it be the armed forces obtained by personally killing the undead, in order to be absorbed by the sword sheath?" Bai Cangdong thought carefully, and the painful dagger and cleaving axe were both armed forces he had obtained by personally killing the undead. Only this explanation made sense.

  "How did you end up here?" Bai Cangdong was flipping through documents when a tall and slender woman walked in, looking surprised to see him.

  "Why can't I be here?" Bai Cangdong took a closer look at the woman, feeling somewhat familiar, but couldn't recall where he had seen her before.

  "A greedy ghost like you, would you even dare to take out your life's measuring stick to ask a martial artist for guidance?" The woman said with some disdain.

  Bai Cang suddenly realized that this woman was the one who had taken 10,000 life points from him that day and told him not to give up his position to Zheng Hao. No wonder she looked somewhat familiar.

  "I don't need to take my life's measurements to ask Master Wu questions." Bai Cangdong smiled.

  "It turned out that you came in through connections, I said you're a greedy ghost who can't even bear to take out your life's measurements, where is Master Wu?" Han Zhukun looked around the lecture hall and found that except for Bai Cangdong, there was no one else.

  "A living person is standing right in front of you, can't you see?" Bai Cangdong sighed helplessly.

  "Are you a martial artist?" Han Zhukun's eyes widened: "Don't deceive people, there is no overflowing of your innate divine light on your body, it's clearly just a baron title, how could you possibly be a martial artist."

  "This is my martial arts token, take a good look and ask your questions quickly. If you have no questions, it's getting late and I will close the pavilion." White Can Dong was not being doubted about his identity as a martial artist for the first time.

  "Are you really a martial artist?" Han Zhujun looked at Bai Cangdong's token and confirmed that it was real, but still asked with some disbelief.

  "If you don't ask again, I'm really going to close up."

  "Whatever, even if you're a martial artist, you must have gotten in through connections. A baron like you can't possibly answer my questions. Even if I'm unlucky and wasted 10,000 life points, I'll just come back next month when the lecturer's rotation changes to another martial artist." Han Zhujun said as he walked out.

  "Zhu Jun, how are you here?" Zheng Hao walked into the lecture hall and was surprised to see Han Zhu Jun.

  "What brings you here?" Han Zhujun countered with a question instead of answering.

  "I've come to ask Master Bai Wu about some questions I have regarding martial arts." Zheng Hao replied.

  "Do you know who the martial artist inside is?" Han Zhujun asked with a strange expression.

  "Of course I know, it's not my first time here. You also know Bai Wu Shifu, right? He was the one at the Martial Arts Great Hall that day."

  "Since you know who he is, why waste your life span coming here to ask for help with doubts?" Han Zhujun exclaimed in surprise.

  Zheng Hao smiled and said: "Although Bai Wu is only a baron, his attainments in martial arts far surpass ours. It's normal to ask him for guidance on difficult problems in martial arts."

  Han Zhujun looked at Zheng Hao as if she didn't recognize him, sizing him up. From her understanding of Zheng Hao, she had never thought that he would hold someone who was also a baron in such high esteem, and almost suspected that the Zheng Hao in front of her was an imposter.

  "I'm going to see what you're up to." Seeing Zheng Hao walking towards Bai Cangdong, Han Zhujun dispelled the idea of leaving immediately and followed him back.

  "Bai Wushi, I've encountered some problems again while practicing the 'Returning Wind Palm'. Can you give me some more guidance?" Zheng Hao asked with a flattering smile.

  After Bai Cangdong demonstrated the Back Wind Palm last time, Zheng Hao finally broke through the bottleneck and practiced to the realm of silent palm emission. However, that was only the most basic part of the "Back Wind Palm", the real killing move of the "Back Wind Palm" he had not yet mastered.

  In fact, the killing move of "Hui Feng Zhang" was something that only a few barons in the entire Daluo City could master, but for some reason, Zheng Hao felt that as long as Bai Cangdong was willing to guide him, he would definitely be able to master it.

  "What's the problem you've encountered? Tell me first," said Bai Cangdong.

  "It's actually like this......" Zheng Hao recited the killing move incantation of "Hui Feng Zhang", then asked very politely how to practice it.

  Han Zhujun didn't practice the "Returning Wind Palm" himself, but he knew of its existence as a martial skill. When he heard Zheng Hao asking Bai Cangdong how to master the killing move of the "Returning Wind Palm", with an expectant look on his face, as if Bai Cangdong was sure to teach him, Han Zhujun's astonishment grew even more intense.

  "Zheng Hao wouldn't have been knocked out, would he? The finishing move of 'Hui Feng Zhang' is something that only a handful of barons in the entire city of Dao Lun can master, and yet he thinks a baron can teach him how to master it!" Han Zhujun couldn't help but take another close look at Zheng Hao, confirming that it was indeed the Zheng Hao she knew, not someone else.

  Bai Cang Dong carefully savored the incantation of the "Returning Wind Palm" killing move, then opened his mouth and said: "Actually, this isn't that difficult. You've already reached the realm where your palm strikes without making a sound. All you need to do is reverse it, and you'll be able to master what's known as the 'Reversing Wind Kill'."

  Bai Cangdong slapped a palm towards Zheng Hao, and Zheng Hao only felt that after being hit by the palm, he was not knocked back like an ordinary palm technique, but instead was sucked in by Bai Cangdong's palm.

  "It's like this, it's like that, White Brother, quickly teach me how to reverse the Silent Boundary Realm..." Seeing Bai Cangdong easily use the killing move of "Returning Wind Palm", Zheng Hao excitedly changed his address from "White Martial Uncle" to "White Brother".

  "You already know how to take advantage of the wind, next is to control it, using air pressure to complete a counter-wind kill..." Bai Cangdong explained in detail.