I Can Merge Techniques-Chapter 84 - 83: Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step, Extreme Night Cold Prison Hand
Fortunately, no one saw him being carried off by a woman as he fled for his life.
Chu Fan let out a sigh of relief at the thought.
Hold on—
Someone *had* seen him after all.
Chu Fan turned his head and met the gaze of the young constable staring right at him.
Chu Fan immediately narrowed his eyes.
"..."
The young constable was taken aback.
’This man clearly helped me when I was in mortal danger. Why the sudden hostility?’
Wait...
Chu Fan suddenly came back to his senses.
’I’m wearing a mask. Neither Second Miss Fang nor the young constable knows what I look like.’
’In that case, it’s not so embarrassing after all.’
...
Carrying the two men, Fang Qingqing executed her Qinggong and darted into a dark alley.
After winding through the streets for the time it takes an incense stick to burn, she ducked into a courtyard.
"He didn’t follow us."
She set Chu Fan and the constable down, wiping a bead of sweat from her brow.
"You two..."
She trailed off before she could finish.
She had seen Chu Fan draw his Long Saber and place the blade against the young constable’s neck!
Both Fang Qingqing and the young constable were shocked.
’His actions are so bizarre. Is he a friend or a foe?’
Chu Fan spoke. "I saved you, and I killed the man in white. Correct?"
"Y-yes." The young constable couldn’t figure out what Chu Fan was thinking.
Chu Fan continued, "In that case, his gloves are my spoils of war. What right do you have to take my spoils?"
"..." The young constable suddenly understood, looking down at the gloves clutched tightly in his right hand.
After the man in white died, he had taken them from his hands.
He had been a constable for many years and had just fought a fierce battle with the man in white.
He naturally knew the gloves were valuable, so he had taken them before they fled.
"Here..."
It clearly pained him, but he handed the gloves to Chu Fan.
Chu Fan didn’t withdraw his Long Saber. "Say thank you."
The young constable’s mouth twitched. "Th-thank you!"
Chu Fan withdrew his Long Saber but didn’t turn around, only backing away slowly.
Once he had put some distance between them, he turned and broke into a sprint.
Fang Qingqing was just about to speak, but Chu Fan had already disappeared into the night.
"The Sword Technique he used... it must have been the Blood Saber Sect’s Nine Blood Soul Blades..."
Fang Qingqing stared in the direction Chu Fan left, lost in a daze.
’The Blood Saber Sect and the Fang Family are mortal enemies. Why...?’
...
THUD!
Chu Fan vaulted through the window into his room, clutching his chest. He washed his bloodstained left hand in a basin, then poured the water into the latrine.
His chest still ached, and his Qi Blood Power churned like the tide.
But it was a minor injury, nothing a few days of rest wouldn’t fix.
[Skill: Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step (Uninitiated) Progress: (0/100) (Trait: None)] 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦
[Skill: Extreme Night Cold Prison Hand (Uninitiated) Progress: (0/10) (Trait: None)]
Chu Fan glanced at the panel, grinned, tossed the gloves under the bed, and slowly lay down.
According to the prompt during Refinement, these gloves were called the "Black Gold Silk Gloves."
They were pitch-black, flecked with fine golden specks, and could not be damaged by a blade. They were clearly no ordinary item.
By refining these gloves, he obtained two Martial Arts—
Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step and Extreme Night Cold Prison Hand!
The Extreme Night Cold Prison Hand was one thing.
Although it was a Martial Art that combined Grapple Hand and Palm Technique, it didn’t particularly excite him.
What Chu Fan liked most was this Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step!
He had personally witnessed the white-robed man’s Ghostly Body Technique and naturally knew how terrifying it was.
This Body Technique was not only incredibly fast but could also conjure several illusions, making it impossible to distinguish the True Body from the fake. If timed well, one could even instantly kill an expert with a higher Cultivation!
His previously cultivated Twelve Forms Fist and Ninefold Thunder Shock Saber had only required 10 Experience Points to reach Entry-Level.
But this Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step actually required 100 points!
From this point alone, its grade was already far superior to Lower Grade Martial Arts like the Twelve Forms Fist.
Chu Fan closed his eyes and began to absorb the information gained from the Refinement of the gloves.
’Bone Marrow Forging Realm...’
He didn’t open his eyes, but the corner of one twitched violently!
’So the man in white really was at the Bone Marrow Forging Realm...’
Just because he possessed the Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step, the man in white could easily slay other Bone Marrow Forging experts!
If Second Miss Fang hadn’t crippled one of his arms earlier, the young constable probably would have been killed on the spot without being able to block a single move!
’Tonight was well worth the trouble!’
...
「The next morning, Chu Fan returned to the Seven Stars Gang.」
Stepping into the courtyard, the strange bird on the crabapple tree silently watched him.
Chu Fan walked to Zhao Tianxing’s door and peeked inside.
The room was empty.
’The kid must have gone out to train.’
He walked into his own room and patted his chest.
THUMP!
THUMP!
He even used a fair bit of force.
But he felt no pain, nothing out of the ordinary.
Strange—
’When I got hurt last night, I thought I’d need to rest for at least a few days.’
’But I woke up without a hint of discomfort!’
It had to be the residual medicinal power of Tianxing’s half a wild mountain ginseng at work.
’Tianxing really found a treasure...’
At this thought, a trace of guilt rose in Chu Fan’s heart.
That wild mountain ginseng was ten times more potent than the great medicine Master Cao had brought. He had swallowed half of it, taking full advantage.
But to this day, Tianxing hadn’t even had a taste of that ginseng.
All because he had told him not to consume it, but to save it for a life-threatening emergency!
Although he covered the cost of Tianxing’s Blood Refining medicinal baths and treated him to roast chicken every day...
...now it seemed that all those things combined might not even be worth one percent of the value of that half a ginseng root.
Chu Fan sighed, planning to take some time in the next few days to use the silver he’d looted from the Huang Family to buy some Treasure Plants for Zhao Tianxing’s cultivation.
He closed the courtyard gate, stood in the center of the yard, and closed his eyes.
In his mind, memory fragments of the white-robed man practicing the Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step began to replay endlessly.
Those experiences, which did not originally belong to him, were now as clear as if he had lived them himself.
The Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step was a bizarre Body Technique, its core principle being to "blur the line between illusion and reality with swift, unpredictable movements."
This Body Technique didn’t focus on raw speed or being Light as a Feather. Instead, it emphasized bizarre, short-range changes in direction, shifts between the real and the illusory, and creating visual deceptions.
Its Step Technique wasn’t based on straight lines or conventional arcs. Instead, it mimicked the movement patterns of some bizarre creature.
It involved a great number of irregular zig-zags, abrupt stops, spins, and side-steps...
It even included reverse push-offs that went against a person’s natural way of generating force.
As the memory of the white-robed man’s Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step flashed through his mind, Chu Fan’s feet suddenly moved...
He didn’t charge forward in a straight line, but began with a side-step that defied common sense.
Leaning slightly forward, after tapping the ground with the tip of his right foot, he suddenly pushed off in reverse!
WHOOSH—
A faint, almost inaudible sound of tearing air rang out.
Chu Fan’s figure suddenly blurred, and in an instant, he had slid a distance of three zhang.
He was moving far faster than ever before!
Just as he was about to crash into the trunk of the crabapple tree ahead, his body twisted bizarrely, turning to the left at an almost impossible angle!
The fallen leaves under his feet were blown about by the wind he stirred up.
[Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step Experience Points +1]
Chu Fan stopped, panting slightly.
Just those few simple movements made his Qi Blood Power churn and the meridians in his legs ache.
Besides the churning and difficult-to-control Qi Blood Power, another force was rampaging through his meridians, giving him an extremely dangerous feeling!
It was... Primordial Qi!
Because he had eaten the half root of wild mountain ginseng from Zhao Tianxing and taken the "great medicine" from Master Cao, a few wisps of uncontrollable Primordial Qi had been stored in his body!
According to Master Cao, a Martial Artist could only truly control Primordial Qi after breaking through the five stages of Foundation Establishment and undergoing Mortal Transformation.
And the uniqueness of the Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step he was currently practicing lay in the fact that this Martial Art not only mobilized Qi Blood Power but also involved the exquisite manipulation of Primordial Qi!
To cultivate the Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step to its peak, one must possess powerful Primordial Qi.
Qi Blood Power was merely an auxiliary.
The grade of the Ghost Shadow Illusionary Body Step was Upper Third Tier!
Any higher, and it would be in the realm of legendary Divine Skill...
