Sword Among Us

Chapter 431: Life and Death Realm Sword Technique

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Once Happy spoke with Thunderous Battle, he sent a letter to Momo to contact Thunderous Battle. They soon settled the matter. Momo and Ancient Wind would stay in Shennongjia, which had an ample amount of resources, and just as everyone expected, they joined Mu Clan.

Once Momo and Ancient Wind joined the clan, Happy became a lot more at ease.

Silver Wolf’s speed of practicing Freezing Force was much faster than what Thunderous Battle expected. Within a few days, he started to challenge people who were stronger than him in terms of qi realm nonstop. His Freezing Force increased realm by realm. Before long, he reached Grandmaster Realm. At that time, his ability increased by more than one fold.

With Momo and Silver Wolf serving as garrison, as well as Little North, Ancient Wind, One Circle, Thunderous Battle, the thirteen staff-using monks, and other first class fighters there, even if they did not have Chivalry Sect and the three local sects to support them, Mu Clan would still have the ability to fight against Class One Hall!

Mu Clan should be fine for the time being.

Happy relaxed a little.

But when he thought back on the mess he had before him, the emotions he had just calmed down surged up once more!

‘Six great sects... Oh well!’

After all, he still had to wait for Zhang Wuji and his group to return before he could go on with the quest. If he did nothing, he would just be wasting time. It would be better if he left the city to take a look at whether there was a place for him to practice his martial arts.

Once he reached Life and Death Realm, Happy had still not been able to practice even one Life and Death Realm martial art, and that was not good. When the others also reached Life and Death Realm, his advantage brought by the attributes of a fourth-echelon Nation Protecting Divine Sword would be completely gone.

That was something Happy did not want to see.

However, he did not have a Life and Death Realm manual just yet. While there were a few Life and Death Realm martial art manuals in the clan storage, most of them were not sword techniques, and the remaining two were something Happy regarded in disdain. They were rather inferior.

“I can only buy it.”

Happy checked his savings in the bank. At the very least, he had some capital. Once he left the inn, he entered the nearest commission shop.

He searched for Life and Death sword technique manuals that were being sold in the commission shop right then.

‘Why are they so expensive?!’

When he saw that the Life and Death sword technique manuals were as high as fifty million taels of silver, even the “landlord Happy” who had billions of taels of silver could not help but curse those people for being scammers!

But that was to be expected.

Right then, Life and Death manuals could not be obtained through simple sect quests. They could also not be obtained by killing one or two Moksha Realm NPCs. Happy had killed many Ninja Kings in the past, but none of them had given him a Life and Death Realm fist technique. All of them were Stormy Shadowless Kick manuals. From this alone, it was enough to know just how rare were Life and Death martial art manuals.

Besides, even after two years after the game was launched in his previous life, which was the later stages of the game, everyone was still focused on Life and Death martial arts to fight!

Hence, buying expensive sword art manuals right then was the same as buying a divine vessel.

Happy browsed through the selection, but he was soon disappointed.

Even though there were around ten sword technique manuals in the commission shop and the lowest priced one was set at fifty million taels of silver, there were not many good manuals. In fact, two of them could not even compare to the ones in Mu Clan’s storage.

Even though Life and Death sword techniques had absolute advantage over the sword techniques at lower qi realms, Happy did not have the intention to practice low-class sword techniques. Life and Death Realm sword techniques were very difficult to train, so he would need a lot of time to master one. If he met one that was even better while he was halfway through mastering one, he would just be wasting his time and money.

There was no benefit in practicing them at all.

Happy would rather practice low-tier martial arts and get closer to his goal of learning Shifting Stars than spend his time practicing a substandard martial art.

He swept his gaze over the seller’s name for some of the sword technique manuals, and then a contemplative expression appeared on his face.

Kind Tycoon.

He was stunned speechless.

[Haha, Brother Happy, you would never come to me without a purpose. How would you like to take care of my business this time?] Kind Tycoon did not feel guilty at all for trying to poach Happy’s people. Once he received the letter from Happy, he quickly sent an enthusiastic reply.

[Of course it’s something good. I want to ask whether you have other Life and Death sword technique manuals.]

[Other? Brother Happy, this means that you’re not quite satisfied with the manuals I put in the commission shop, hmm?] Kind Tycoon even cackled.

Happy did not attempt to hide it and went straight to the point. [I lean toward speed-oriented offensive sword techniques. These techniques that focus on defense and damage aren’t my cup of tea. Since we’ve already performed a few transactions between us, I thought to hear from you about whether you have anything that I want. If you don’t, then I’ll offer a high price for one in the commission shop.]

[I have!]

Kind Tycoon might be a competitor to Mu Clan when it came to refinement, but he was still very welcoming toward Happy coming to him to buy his things.

[I’ll put some in the commission shop for you. Take a look.]

Once Kind Tycoon replied, new items quickly appeared on sale in the commission shop.

There were three silver sword technique manuals.

[Flying Dragon Sword Technique]

[Life and Death Dual Rites Sword Technique]

[Bodhidharma Sword Technique]

Anyone could tell that those sword technique manuals were unusual just by their names alone.

Once Kind Tycoon put those three martial art manuals on sale in the commission shop, the eyes of the employee behind him went wide..

“Master, we finally obtained these three treasures after much effort, and you said that you wanted to auction them off in Beijing Royal Mansion so that the elites in Beijing would fight over them. Why did you put them all in the commission shop in one go?”

“What would you know?” Kind Tycoon smiled and set a price for the sword techniques. “These three manuals might be worth cities, but these two... Life and Death Dual Rites Sword Technique and Bodhidharma Sword Technique have a bigger background attached to them.

“One of them is from Kunlun Sect, and the other is from Shaolin Temple. Even I can’t tell just how much they are worth, but it just happens that Happy is a master in sword techniques. I’ll have him take a look and tell me how much they’re worth. At that time, I’ll know just how high of a price I should set for them during the auction.”

“Are you saying that you intend to sell Flying Dragon Sword Technique?”

“Heh...” Kind Tycoon smiled mysteriously before he shook his head slowly. “Who said I must sell it?”

When Happy saw the three new silver sword technique manuals in the commission shop, his eyes lit up.

Flying Dragon Sword Technique had pretty good attributes, and it was the type of sword technique that he needed.

But when Happy saw Life and Death Dual Rites Sword, which was placed right behind Flying Dragon Sword Technique, he was stunned for a moment, then a faint, nostalgic look appeared in his eyes.

‘This sword technique seems like a high-tier sword technique from Kunlun Sect. Its profound and incredibly powerful. During the battle at Light Summit, He Taichong and his junior used this Sword Control Art. If Zhang Wuji had not used Heaven and Earth Great Shift, he would not have been able to fight back at all.

‘It’s a pity that there is a flaw in this sword technique—it requires two people to form a sword formation which will bring out the profound secret within it that is as great as an ultimate technique!

The last book was Bodhidharma Sword Technique.

But it was incomplete.

The requirements to practice it were as such:

Practice any one high-tier Mystical Realm sword technique from Shaolin Temple. AST: 70, AFF: 80, CPH: 75, BMM: 75. Qi Realm: Life and Death Realm.

Once Happy finished going through the three sword manuals, he sighed faintly.

The background of the last two was pretty great.

But it was a pity that one of them was a combination sword technique, and the other had the word “incomplete” attached to it, so it was an inferior version of Bodhidharma Sword Technique. By the looks of it, the most normal one of them all—Flying Dragon Sword Technique—was the one that he could practice.

He sent a messenger pigeon over, and the receiver instantly found himself dumbfounded.

[I want Flying Dragon Sword Technique. Set a price.]

Kind Tycoon was stunned for a long time. He did not expect that Happy would actually answer so readily, and his answer was also very much against his expectations. He sucked in a deep breath before he replied.

[Brother Happy, I have a question. It’s about your fourth-echelon Nation Protecting Divine Sword. How did you manage to deceive the Divine Weapon Rank? If you tell me the secret, I’ll give you this martial art manual for free.]