The three deafening gunshots awakened all the inner court disciples, who came rushing over one after another.
“Junior Brother Ye is buried!”
“Quick, quick, dig him out!”
The disciples worked together with one mind—some moved bricks, others carried beams. In a short while, they pulled out the ash-covered Ye Xingchen.
Fortunately, he had undergone muscle sculpting machine training during this period; otherwise, he would have already passed out.
“Senior Brother!”
Suddenly, Su Xiaomo cried out in alarm: “It’s the Sect Master!”
“What?”
Li Qingyang hurriedly jumped onto the ruins and saw one of the Sect Master’s legs sticking out, his entire body buried within.
“Dig! Dig!”
Everyone continued moving bricks, and soon they also pulled out the ash-covered Jun Changxiao, who was grimacing: “My waist… waist… gently!”
What happened here?
What else could have happened? He pulled the Type 88 sniper rifle’s trigger, firing three consecutive shots outside. Although he killed the three assassins one by one and completed the side quest, the tremendous recoil nearly shook him into internal injuries.
This was with the bipod supporting it. If he had fired while holding it up, he would have probably bounced from the disciples’ quarters straight to the mountain cliff behind.
Damn… that’s really powerful!
Jun Changxiao secretly felt fortunate. Good thing he had sufficient strength. If he had been at the Meridian Opening stage, after firing one shot, the recoil would have definitely sent him to his end with flowers scattered.
Although he was shaken until his whole body was weak, the consolation was that completing the side quest rewarded him with 100 contribution points all at once.
Now the sect’s contribution points were at 180. The contribution points spent on buying the Type 88 sniper rifle were earned back, with only three bullets and 5 contribution points wasted.
Uh…
And one disciples’ quarters room!
……
The Type 88 sniper rifle’s recoil was indeed tremendous.
However, after being sculpted by the muscle sculpting machine, Jun Changxiao only needed to rest one night before his stiff body relaxed.
He swung his arms and walked out of the sect, arriving at that forest area.
The three gold-medal assassins who attacked last night—one had his head blown off, the other two had their chests pierced through.
The reason he didn’t blow off all their heads was because after blowing off the first one’s head, Jun Changxiao found it too bloody and cruel, so he changed the eight-times scope to auto-lock on chests.
Leaving aside the first assassin with his head blown off.
The other two assassins had wounds penetrating through them as large as fists.
Jun Changxiao followed the shooting trajectory backward and saw the distant boulder shattered to pieces. His mouth twitched: “I wasn’t firing a sniper rifle, I was firing cannonballs!”
*Swish!*
He crouched down and after a search, found three spatial rings on the three assassins’ bodies, then incinerated the corpses completely with Exquisite Fire.
……
In the three assassins’ spatial rings, there was only one movement technique called ‘Ghost Vertical Step,’ with less than a hundred taels of silver. Jun Changxiao kept them and gave the rings to Li Qingyang, Su Xiaomo, and Xiao Zuiji.
“Thank you, Sect Master!”
The three put on the rings and cupped their fists.
“Qingyang.”
Jun Changxiao said: “Summon the disciples. This seat has matters to announce.”
“Yes!”
Before long, all hundred disciples gathered, arranged neatly in the training grounds.
Jun Changxiao walked out and after an impassioned speech, began having them receive four types of pills in order, ensuring each person got one of each kind.
“This Healing Pill’s function is that no matter how serious the injury, as long as you take it, you’ll immediately recover.”
“As for the Initial Grade Body Tempering Pill, after taking it, your body’s strength will…”
Jun Changxiao introduced the effects of each pill one by one. The disciples holding the four types of pills all widened their eyes.
“This miraculous?”
Ye Xingchen was also extremely surprised.
In his previous life, although he didn’t understand the pill dao, he had consumed many high-quality pills. A Healing Pill that could instantly restore injuries was absolutely unprecedented.
As for strengthening the body and increasing cultivation speed, he had seen those before.
However, those were all high-grade goods. Could a ninth-rate sect produce them? And provide one for each person?
Ye Xingchen felt doubtful, but seeing the disciples swallow the Body Tempering Pills, he also half-believingly opened his mouth and tossed the pill inside. When the medicinal effects took hold and he felt the transformation occurring in his blood and meridians, his facial expression changed again and again.
……
*BOOM!*
“Li Fei, Meridian Opening Seventh Stage, strength 1,100 catties!”
*BOOM!*
“Zhang Wei, Meridian Opening Sixth Stage, strength 930 catties!”
*BOOM!*
After taking the Initial Grade Body Tempering Pills, the Tiegu Sect disciples tested their strength one by one under Second Senior Brother’s witness.
Standing on the side, Ye Xingchen’s mouth began twitching.
These youths had ordinary aptitude, yet each struck out with strength greater than their stage should allow—simply incredible!
Normally speaking, each stage increased by 100 catties.
At Meridian Opening Fifth Stage, being able to strike out 700 catties of force would already count as heaven-born divine strength.
After taking the Body Tempering Pills, the Tiegu Sect disciples, following the tests, generally had strength 150 to 300 catties higher than their original realm—equivalent to heaven-born divine strength.
If this were a group with superior-grade spiritual roots, it would still be understandable.
In reality, only a small portion had medium-grade spiritual roots; most had inferior-grade spiritual roots!
This also indicated that the Initial Grade Body Tempering Pills could ignore spiritual root grades and forcibly increase the initial strength values of Tiegu Sect disciples.
“Not bad, not bad.” After obtaining the test data, Jun Changxiao nodded with satisfaction and said: “Qingyang, tell them not to slack off. Continue cultivating and strive to step into Meridian Opening Twelfth Stage as soon as possible.”
“Yes.”
……
In the morning there was divine music for accompaniment, Liu Wanshi’s top-tier cuisine, plus spiritual energy arrays and sculpting rooms—the Tiegu Sect disciples were very happy and also cultivated very diligently.
They knew they could grow stronger day by day entirely because of the Sect Master’s cultivation. To give back in return, they could only continuously break through themselves!
One after another, disciples successfully opened meridians with the help of the spiritual energy arrays and sculpting rooms.
Calculating the time, they had been at Tiegu Sect for almost two months now. How was their martial dao progress?
From an average cultivation level of only two or three stages at the beginning, it had risen to Meridian Opening Seventh Stage—opening one meridian approximately every few days.
Jun Changxiao sat on the thousand-year nanmu chair in the great hall, murmuring: “In less than a month, the disciples should all be able to step into Meridian Opening Twelfth Stage.”
“Sect Master!”
Su Xiaomo ran in excitedly, unable to hide her excitement: “This disciple has broken through to Martial Disciple!”
Successfully condensing a qi spiral in her dantian and breaking through to the Martial Disciple level was also due to taking the Qi Spiral Pill.
Before long, Tian Qi also came to share the good news: “Sect Master, this disciple has broken through to Martial Disciple!”
Jun Changxiao said: “Not bad, not bad.”
Including him, Tiegu Sect now had five Martial Disciples—this was rare among ninth-rate sects!
After cultivating for two hours, Jun Changxiao opened the attribute panel again to view the shop that had refreshed the sniper rifle last time. He quickly saw a martial technique called ‘My Slash.’
Opening the details—
Item: My Slash.
Introduction: Originally only half a technique, later modified by a mysterious mighty being to become a complete technique.
Function: Gather spiritual energy in the palm, forming a crescent moon-like flowing light slash.
Advantages: After modification by the mysterious mighty being, easy to learn and understand, powerful with relatively low spiritual energy consumption, suitable for long-distance combat.
Drawbacks: Can only be cultivated at the Martial Disciple level.
Price: 10 contribution points.
Grade: Medium Grade Initial Tier.
“Only Medium Grade Initial Tier?”
Jun Changxiao immediately lost interest, after all, the Muscle-Tendon Transformation Scripture that refreshed before was Divine Grade Initial Tier level.
The system said: “Anyone who can be called a mysterious mighty being must be a super powerful existence reaching heaven and penetrating earth. A martial technique personally modified by them, though low in grade, must surely have infinite wonderful uses. This system recommends purchase with five stars!”
“Is that so?”
Jun Changxiao clicked on purchase—after all, it was only 10 points and not expensive.
“Ding! Host consumed 10 contribution points, obtained My Slash ×1, already transmitted to spatial ring.”
“Ding! Sect contribution points: 177/500.”
“Ding! Detected that host purchased spiritual energy-type martial technique from shop, automatically matching it as sect cultivation method.”