Chapter 72: Gu Chao's Two Preparations

  Gu Chao faced the three-headed sand snake at the ninth level of the Post-Heaven Realm.

  Gu Chao smiled slightly, carrying his long knife: "I'm saying, Sand Snake, you're also a cunning and intelligent creature, otherwise you wouldn't have pretended to lose, then used the Dance of Sand and Venom Spitting techniques, injuring Master Zhuang Feihe and three others. Such an intelligent creature, doesn't it look at its own feet?"

  Underfoot?

  What did Gu Chao say?

  The old man tapped his foot impatiently.

  The three-headed sand snake seems to have vaguely heard a bit of human language and understood some human meaning, so it also looked down at the ground.

  At the same time, Zhuang Feihe, Hong Qian, Lin Yi, and Murong Ying also looked down at the ground.

  The ground was already soaked with water at some unknown time.

  Not long ago, there was a heavy rain, which is the time when Gu Chao practiced his sword. The spring rainstorm was sudden and intense, and although several days of sunshine came out afterwards, some water had not yet evaporated. After all, the sandy ground here is not a real desert, but rather sand that has been washed away by snakes, with an absorption capacity that is not so strong.

  The terrain here is low-lying.

  Gu Chao had long observed the terrain here and discovered that the reason why there was no accumulation of water was simple, because several inlets around were blocked. So when Miao Yuanyang was fighting with the three-headed sand snake just now, Gu Chao ran over and removed the stones blocking the flow of water, destroying the mud blocks, so the water flowed down to here.

  What effect does water flowing into sandy areas have?

  To put it simply, it's actually quite simple.

  The three-headed sand snake dances in the sand, using its tail to raise the dust, which is one of its special moves.

  Raising sand and dust can naturally block the line of sight, putting the three-headed sand snake in a favorable position and others at a disadvantage. But what about raising mud blocks? That doesn't have any effect on blocking the line of sight. The water flowing over the sandy ground, which was originally just recently sandified, naturally became somewhat like mud blocks, meaning that the three-headed sand snake's ultimate move, Raising Sand, is useless.

  This is Gu Chao's first preparation.

  At this moment, see Gu Chao's move.

  The people at the Ninth Mountain Villa, such as Zhuang Feihe, Lin Yi, and Hong Qian, all had their eyes lit up. This should be a simple trick, but at that time, they didn't think of it themselves. However, thinking about it again, sometimes things are just like this - if you don't point it out, you won't know, but once you do, it seems quite simple. To still keep your wits about you in such a battle and come up with a solution is indeed impressive.

  This tenth mountain villa belongs to Gu Chao's junior brother, who is indeed very clever.

  Murong Ying was also taken aback, and in fact, she had been paying attention to Gu Chao, especially after he ranked second in the Wooden Man Alley's year-end exam. Murong Ying couldn't understand how Gu Chao, who was only at the Second Layer of the Acquired Realm at the time, had passed the Wooden Man Alley back then. Now that she saw Gu Chao's methods, she felt a sense of clarity, and suspected that Gu Chao might be exceptionally clever, having thought of some clever trick to get ahead.

  That's Gu Chao's characteristic, clever.

  Because of this small detail, Zhuang Feihong and Murong Ying felt Gu Chao's cleverness at the same time.

  But they didn't believe that Gu Chao could handle the three-headed sand snake.

  After all, Gu Chao used this trick to rush into the sandy ground with water flow, and indeed prevented the three-headed sand snake's sand-lifting ultimate move. However, the three-headed sand snake's own strength was not to be underestimated, while Gu Chao was only a seventh-level internal force in the acquired realm, and the difference between them was huge. To kill the three-headed sand snake still requires hard power.

  In fact, apart from the water flowing into the sandy land, Gu Chao also made another preparation.

  Gu Chao just removed the sandbag from his leg when he was next to him.

  Gu Chao had two sandbags on his legs, one weighing ten kilograms and the other twenty kilograms. Now that he took them off, he felt a sudden lightness in his legs. Just now, Gu Chao also tried it out and found that his Gale Step had already reached the level of minor completion.

  Gǔ chāo zhī qián liàn zhè tào bù fǎ liàn le xǔ jiǔ, hòu mian yòu gāng shā dài shuì jiào shí bù qǔ hěn jiǔ, zhōng yú bǎ zhè yī tào bù fǎ liàn dào xiǎo chéng de jì diǎn.

  Gale Step, is also a second-order martial skill.

  Once small success is achieved, the bonus for action speed is quite considerable.

  Gu Chao had already tried it out earlier, and with a slight movement of his own, the speed at which he moved his feet increased by about 20% compared to before. With his current acquired Seventh Layer internal power, Second-Order Martial Skill Gale Step Technique was small success, Second-Order Martial Skill Gale Blade Technique was great success, these three points combined should be about right.

  Gu Chaozheng had made thorough preparations and was fully prepared for everything before he dared to stand in front of the three-headed sand snake.

  The three-headed sand snake also saw the water flowing on the ground, which made the sandy ground somewhat muddy. This made the three-headed sand snake very angry. Not only was it unable to use its sand-spreading ultimate move, but the three-headed sand snake was naturally averse to water, and these water flows made it feel very uncomfortable. The sand snake tribe had always disliked water and rainy days, and now Gu Chao's presence gave it a feeling like that of a rainy day.

  So the three-headed sand snake was very angry, and it suddenly rushed towards Gu Chao. Its sliding speed under its feet was extremely fast, and it charged straight at Gu Chao. The three snake heads attacked Gu Chao simultaneously.

  Gu Chao's reaction was also swift, his long knife flashed out of its scabbard, parrying the attacks of the three snake heads, and with one slash, he sealed off the three snake heads.

  At this moment, a sinister smile appeared on the head of the three-headed sand snake, spitting out toxic venom at close range. This was one of its two ultimate moves, and Gu Chao was done for.

  Only three mouths of black venom were sprayed from its snake mouth, rapidly spraying towards Gu Chao. Gu Chao's long knife was blocking the heads of the three sand snakes, but his counterattack was not in time. Gu Chao was about to be hit and poisoned! But just as it seemed too late, Gu Chao suddenly moved, and the three mouths of venom sprayed at close range all landed on the sandy ground, causing a section of the sand to melt.

  But Gu Chao's body was in another place.

  The three-headed sand snake was taken aback, and at such a close distance, it hadn't spat its venom at Gu Chao. It regained its composure and spat out more venom again.

  The three-headed sand snake kept spitting out venom.

  Gu Chao dodged continuously without stopping.

  Poison is fast, but Gu Chao's figure flashed even faster.

  Very fast three-headed sand snake.

  Faster than Kuga

  One man and one snake were fighting ceaselessly.

  ……

  "So fast." Lin Yi, who was ranked fourth in the Ninth Mountain Villa, muttered involuntarily.

  "Very good." The ninth-ranked Hong Qian of Mountain Villa also nodded in agreement.

  They both felt the speed of Gu Chao's footwork at the same time.

  In the Tai Shan Sect, there are many sets of second-level knife techniques for outer sect disciples to practice, but there is only one set of footwork, which is the Rapid Wind Footwork. Everyone practices the Rapid Wind Footwork.

  Of course, Lin Yi and Hong Qian are the backbone of the Overbearing Sect, so their training in the Gust Step is not very good. However, even if they don't train well, they can still feel the speed of Gu Chao's Gust Step.

  Hong Qian asked: "Zhuang Shixiong, is your Gale Step technique the fastest?"

  Zhuang Feihe shook his head: "My Gust Step is not as fast as his." Zhuang Feihe was a root bone of the agile system, and his Gust Step was the best among many people. However, he also acknowledged that his Gust Step was not as fast as Gu Chao's now. Zhuang Feihe's face turned solemn: "In my estimation, this junior brother named Gu Chao has already practiced his Gust Step to a small success."

  Success!

  It usually takes about two years for a general person to make some progress in second-order martial skills.

  Of course, Gale Step is a relatively weak second-order technique, and it's estimated that it will take about a year and a half to master.

  And the junior brother of the tenth mountain villa has only been in the door for eight months, and at the same time, he has been in contact with this set of second-order step method, Difu Step Method, for a shorter period of time, at most four or five months. He actually practiced Difu Step Method to a small success, which is really hard to believe, how did he do it?

  Murong Ying was even more shocked in his heart. He naturally knew that Gu Chao had obtained the Wind Step Technique for only about two months, and yet he had already achieved small success.

  That's amazing!

  As proud as Murong Ying is, she can't help but admit that Gu Chao is formidable.

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