On a somewhat rugged Mountain Path, two young men were chatting idly, walking towards a Distant Place.
"Your Physique is simply born for cultivation, an Innate Spirit Body. Anything that comes to you can be quickly absorbed. Tsk, tsk…" Xiao Yan, despite his steadfast nature, couldn't help but be envious.
"I'm just an ordinary Battle Practitioner, but you've already become a Battle Master. I'm afraid you could kill me with a single slap!" Fang Bie said with a smile as he walked beside him.
"As long as you draw your Sword, three strikes are enough to kill a Great Dou Shi, and you still have the nerve to say that about me!" Xiao Yan retorted. "Master has no idea where he's run off to study those Things you gave him. Just the two of us going to seek revenge together, what if we get surrounded and made into dumplings?"
"Run away then!" Fang Bie said casually. "Don't you also possess Abilities like mine now? Although fighting isn't really our strong suit, no one can catch us if we use Earth Tunneling to escape!"
"Running away when we can't win, isn't that a bit embarrassing? And still digging holes to run…" Xiao Yan rubbed his chin. "We'll easily be called rats in a Gutter!"
"Then I'll run by myself, you stay behind and get beaten?" Fang Bie said, glancing at him lightly.
"No way, I still think escaping is a better option." Xiao Yan immediately changed his mind. "So boring, isn't there any Magical Beast for me to chop down?"
"Speaking of that, how many enemies have you slain?" Fang Bie raised his Sword, faint traces on it etched with the number 12.
"Only 15. This Sword is really strange, you must slay Magical Beasts to gain kill counts. Ordinary Animals simply don't count. When on Earth will I gather 1000 Slaughter Points?" Xiao Yan complained.
"Only after 1000 Slaughter Points can it continue to upgrade, becoming a Ketsugekito Tsukumo. Only then can its True Form truly manifest. I've been drooling over a Demon Sword for ages!" Xiao Yan's eyes lit up with excitement.
"Why didn't you think of directly making the Great Tachi into a Demon Sword? It's actually only a little bit away." Fang Bie said, casually slashing his Sword towards the Grass, severing a snake's head.
"Of course, if we're going to do it, we'll do it right!" Xiao Yan said without turning his head. "Next time we go to your World, I'm definitely forging the best Sword. Wait until I'm a Battle Master, and I'll defy a Battle Emperor!"
"Then countless crazed organizations will drag you out and whip your corpse, until they figure out how you can challenge a Battle Emperor across so many ranks." Fang Bie mercilessly poured cold water on his dreams.
"Isn't Master still backing me up? If it really comes down to it, I'll move my whole family to Tony's World. It's practically no different from my old Earth. With my Strength, getting some ID should be a piece of cake, right?"
Xiao Yan had already started letting his thoughts run wild, even planning his escape route after causing trouble.
"Your Master is only a Dou Zun Stage. What if two Battle Saints show up and you're stuck? And you still want to go to Tony's World? You don't know, but I know for a fact that there are even real Divine Spirits in his World. You'd bring your whole family there just to deliver them food?" Fang Bie relentlessly slapped him down.
"Just shut your mouth already! If you're so capable, how come the Young Woman ran away?" Xiao Yan didn't hesitate to hit him where it hurt.
"You…" Fang Bie's face suddenly flushed red, seemingly speechless. "Let's drop this, we can still have a decent conversation."
"If you weren't constantly slapping my face, we could have a decent conversation too." Xiao Yan fully embraced the essence of shamelessness, rendering Fang Bie utterly speechless.
"Alright, alright, I won't argue with you!" Fang Bie waved his hand dismissively. "Looking at the sky, it's almost dark. You said we were going back for revenge, but why haven't we even seen a shadow yet?"
"Who knows where I flew off to in all that running? You can't even fly yet, and I can't just fly straight there. Wandering around randomly in these Mountains, we might even get lost, you know?" Xiao Yan leaped and flew straight to the top of a Tree, peering into the distance.
"Let me see where we are now, or maybe we can spot some people and ask for directions!"
"Being a Battle Master is really something. When will I be able to casually leap onto a Tree like that?" Fang Bie sighed, standing beneath the Tree. Before he could continue speaking, he saw the grinning teenager on the Tree, his face suddenly turning serious.
"Don't speak, someone's coming!"
After Xiao Yan said this, he immediately leaped down from the Tree. The black Heavy Xuan Ruler naturally appeared in his hand.
Fang Bie also casually drew an Iron Sword. The Drawing Sword Technique's effect was heaven-defying, but it offered no help for his own growth. Fang Bie would be going on Adventures in these Worlds in the future, he couldn't rely on Items forever. After all, Items are unreliable.
Even though he still mainly relied on Items, his own Strength was also important. He didn't need to be very strong, but he had to be strong enough to protect himself.
The Iron Sword also had 6 points of Attack Power. If Fang Bie hadn't been in such a rush, he could have gone back to gather materials for a few days and made an Enchanting Table. Once enchanted with Sharpness, Strength, Knockback, or Flame, this Iron Sword would be no less impressive than the mythical weapons in martial arts Novels.
People on the Battle Qi Continent, especially before reaching the Great Dou Shi stage, might not even have Combat Power much stronger than characters in martial arts Novels.
No matter how strong they become, they haven't transcended the human realm. So Fang Bie felt his idea should have market appeal.
The two continued walking forward, talking as if they were alone in the world.
"How's your Combat Skill cultivation going?" Xiao Yan asked. Faint Battle Qi was already gathering around his Body, as if he could enter a battle State at any moment.
"Just reached the 6-Star Battle Practitioner realm yesterday. My Eight Extremes Collapse is coming along nicely. I just learned the Suction Palm, and I reckon it'll only be useful as support. Yun Yun's Exploding Step, though, is already quite refined. What's up?" Fang Bie casually reported his cultivation progress, asking with some puzzlement.
"I just learned it, and you've already mastered it? I really want to pull out a Gun and shoot you dead!" Xiao Yan took a deep breath, suppressing the rage in his heart, desperately trying to calm himself down.
[This guy isn't from around here. He'll leave sooner or later. Calm down, calm down!]
"Ha!" Fang Bie chuckled. "Don't get worked up. Didn't you say you saw people earlier? Where are they?"
"On the Hilltop ahead, a Campfire is lit. It should be some Mercenaries who've entered the Mountains to hunt Magical Beasts." Xiao Yan pointed weakly ahead, saying listlessly. As dusk approached, the faint smoke could only cast a shallow Shadow in the setting sun.
"That's still early, but this is good news. We've finally left the Deep Mountains!" Fang Bie analyzed their current Situation.
With no Enemies nearby, the two relaxed their nerves again, continuing their previous conversation.
"Exploding Step is such an awful Name. Why don't we change it?" Fang Bie suggested.
"Now that you mention it, yeah, it really is. Explosive steps… Tsk, tsk. People in this World really have no taste when it comes to Names!" Xiao Yan shook his head and scoffed. "Unlike us, with Lingbo Micro-steps, Heavenly Cloud Ascent, Eight Steps to Chase the Cicada… Just hearing them gives off a high-class vibe, they sound like Heaven-Rank Combat Skills!"
"Even Grass-Treading Flight sounds better than that Name!" Fang Bie chimed in, also complaining. But as soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly whipped his head around. A sharp Arrow grazed his cheek!
"Someone's there!"
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