Chapter 294: Chapter 128: A Greater Storm Is Coming, Chu Fan Trains Desperately, "Nine Nether Yellow Springs Finger" Breaking Limit

Li Qingxue pursed her lips in a smile and bowed to the Cyan Snake. "And Sister Bai, if you hadn’t risked your life to tie down that Divine Power Realm expert in the black robe, I’m afraid none of us would have escaped. Qingxue will never forget this kindness."

Cyan Snake Xiaobai was blunt, waving her hand. "No need for so many thanks. If you’re really sincere, some practical benefits would be better."

Her words didn’t make Li Qingxue feel awkward. Instead, they brought another trace of a smile to her eyes.

Chu Fan chimed in, "Of course there are benefits. Master Cao already had someone send over the items from yesterday’s Corpse Handling. They’re piled up in my room right now. I was just so focused on cultivating all night that I haven’t had a chance to sort through them yet."

"Follow me."

Upon hearing this, the eyes of all four lit up, and they immediately rose and entered the room.

Inside the room, at the foot of the bed, was a pile of spoils looted from the black-robed man, Lin Luoxue, Pan Heng, and the others.

Aside from the two long, dark swords that emanated a chilling Cold Qi, there were also more than ten jade vials of various sizes and several Jade Boxes containing Treasure Plants.

The knowledgeable Li Qingxue and Cyan Snake Xiaobai stepped forward, opening each item one by one to inspect them, identifying the names and effects of the Elixirs...

"This is a Replenishing Essence Pill. It can quickly restore consumed Primordial Qi..."

"Mm, Vitality Powder. It has miraculous healing effects... Why didn’t you give it to me last night? I was seriously injured!"

"A Barrier-Breaking Pill! Although it’s only first-grade, it’s helpful for breaking through minor bottlenecks in the Spirit Awakening Realm..."

"This is a Blood Lingzhi. It’s quite old. It can strengthen one’s vital energy and blood..."

"And this... an Ice Heart Vein Protection Pill. It’s exceptionally effective when cultivating a Cold Attribute Technique or resisting fire poison..."

Chu Fan and Zhao Tianxing quickly found paper and a brush, writing down the names and effects of the Elixirs as the two women identified them, and also labeling the corresponding vials and Jade Boxes.

Although not everyone who goes out to kill brings their entire fortune with them, the combined spoils still made everyone present overjoyed.

Even Li Qingxue, who was usually cool and detached, couldn’t hide the excitement in her beautiful eyes as she looked at the bottles of Elixirs beneficial for cultivation.

After taking stock of the items, Chu Fan roughly divided them into four shares.

He pushed the largest share, which contained most of the Elixirs and the Blood Lingzhi, toward Li Qingxue. "Senior Sister Qingxue, please take these items to Master Cao and Senior Brother Cao Yan. You all need them more to recover and improve."

Looking at the pile of items, Li Qingxue was deeply moved.

’Forget this whole pile; even a single bottle of Elixirs could cause siblings in a family to fight to the death! Yet Chu Fan had given them so much...’

But Li Qingxue didn’t know that at this moment, Chu Fan’s heart was also filled with guilt.

’So many of these things happened because of me. If I hadn’t acted in secret, Master Cao, the Cao and Li Families, and the Seven Stars Gang wouldn’t have fallen into such a desperate state. These things are, more than anything, a form of compensation.’

Chu Fan then divided the remainder into three shares, taking only one for himself and pushing the other two toward Xiaobai and Tianxing.

Giving so much to Xiaobai was to win her over, and also to show his gratitude for everything she did last night.

Even when being hunted by a Divine Power Realm expert, the Snake Demon hadn’t abandoned them and fled. On the contrary, when the black-robed man was chasing Chu Fan, she had followed them all the way and coordinated with Chu Fan from behind to deliver the fatal blow.

’In this world, humans are worse than demons. They talk about Demon Fiends causing trouble, but in reality, it’s all man-made disaster!’

Chu Fan placed all the items into Xiaobai’s hands.

Xiaobai’s eyes widened as she stared at the items in her hands, finding it somewhat hard to believe.

’I remember back in the Mist Marsh, when I was heavily injured and asked Chu Fan for a Treasure Plant, that guy couldn’t even be bothered to acknowledge me. A few days ago, when I asked Chu Fan for an Elixir, the kid was too stingy to even give me one extra. I never expected... this kid’s actually pretty nice!’

SLURP. Xiaobai sucked back the drool that was about to fall.

Zhao Tianxing, however, insisted on pushing most of his share back, keeping only a few Treasure Plants suitable for tempering his muscles and bones and strengthening his vital energy and blood. "These Qi Gathering Pills and Replenishing Essence Pills are completely useless to me right now. It’d be a waste for me to keep them."

"You keep them for now. When I achieve Mortal Transformation in the future, you can give me the good stuff then!"

Looking at Zhao Tianxing’s sincere and open expression, and then at Chu Fan’s indisputable distribution of the spoils, Li Qingxue’s heart stirred, and a warm current flowed through her entire body.

She then recalled Chu Fan’s thin and frail appearance when he first came to the Seven Stars Gang.

...

「Time flew, and in a flash, the sun was setting.」

In the courtyard, a residual image had yet to fade before a new gust of finger-wind had already formed.

Chu Fan’s figure was like a phantom, flickering unstably within a tiny space as he pushed the Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step to its absolute limit.

He held two fingers together, their tips wreathed in a faint, grayish-black stream of air. It carried an aura of cold, deathly stillness as he continuously jabbed at the air, producing faint HISSING sounds.

He was cultivating two Martial Arts at the same time—

one was the Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step, which was already near Perfection;

the other was the Nine Nether Yellow Springs Finger, which he had picked up again and was about to hit a bottleneck with.

[Skill: Nine Nether Yellow Springs Finger (Perfection), Progress: (2435/2500), Trait: None]

This finger technique came from Huayang, a Hall Master of the Blood Saber Sect. In his time, it was the very skill that allowed Huayang to look down on his peers.

Back when the Moon Worship Sect threw Xiaobai’s little sister into the Blood Saber Sect, Huayang had relied on this finger technique to injure the rampaging White Snake.

Later, Chu Fan joined forces with Fang Qingqing to kill Huayang in the Medicinal Herb Valley. Through the Refinement of his scimitar, he obtained the Nine Nether Yellow Springs Finger.

But although Chu Fan had obtained this finger technique long ago, in the past, he had been focused on honing his Twelve Forms Fist and Extreme Night Cold Prison Hand. He hadn’t spent much time on this finger art, only practicing it occasionally.

As a result, after all this time, his other Martial Arts had already gone through Breaking Limit multiple times and possessed astonishing power, yet this finger art was still stuck at the initial stage of Perfection, never having shown its edge in actual combat.