Free Web NovelChapter 268: Chapter 265: Bibo Fish Dragon Skill Perfection
On the Black Water River, aboard the Jiang Family’s treasure ship.
SPLASH!
The water’s surface broke, and Qin Yu’s figure leaped out.
She hadn’t gone far. Instead, she had been holding her breath, hiding behind a distant reef.
Although reason told her that a Muscle Forging Realm expert was undefeatable, a sliver of unrealistic hope lingered in her heart.
’A prodigy like Senior Brother Su might actually have a way to defeat the enemy.’
Then the red firework exploded in mid-air.
Her mind buzzed.
’Did Senior Brother Su really win? Where did the Muscle Forging Realm enemy go? What on earth happened?’
Filled with shock and doubt, she cautiously approached the treasure ship.
It wasn’t until she saw Su Yu standing calmly on the bow from a distance that she breathed a sigh of relief, a joyful expression immediately gracing her face.
Without bothering to circulate her Qi and Blood to dry her clothes, she tapped her toes on the water’s surface and soared onto the treasure ship’s deck like a fiery red swallow.
"Senior Brother Su!"
"It’s over. Get ready to head back to the city," Su Yu said with a smile.
Even though she had been mentally prepared, hearing him confirm it himself still made Qin Yu gasp.
’He really won?’
’Hello? That was a Muscle Forging Realm expert!’
She couldn’t wrap her head around it and looked around.
In the center of the deck was a shocking, massive hole, clearly the aftermath of the battle. Off to the side, the ship’s captain was leading his crew in patching the sails, preparing to set off again.
In a distant corner, an enemy’s corpse lay in a pool of blood like a dead dog. It was the elderly man who had attacked earlier.
"What about the muscular man at the Muscle Forging Realm, Senior Brother?" Qin Yu couldn’t help but ask.
Su Yu had already figured out what to say. He smiled and replied, "I injured him with a one-time-use trump card, and he already fled."
He had no intention of revealing his true strength. After all, keeping a trump card up his sleeve could be useful at a critical moment.
’Besides, if I actually told my junior sister I killed a Muscle Forging Realm expert, she’d probably think I was the reincarnation of some monster... ’
’In any case, it’s too much trouble to explain. Better to keep it hidden.’
’And I’ll be able to break through to the Muscle Forging Realm soon anyway. Then I can openly display the strength of that realm.’
Hearing this, Qin Yu had a moment of realization.
’No wonder Senior Brother was confident enough to face a Muscle Forging Realm master. He has an ancient treasure.’
She had heard her father talk about such treasures. Although she had never seen one, she knew that ancient immortal artifacts were astonishing.
’But even so, Senior Brother Su is still a monster! And his luck is so strong, to be able to obtain a trump card like that!’
Then she thought of the storage ring on his hand and immediately guessed, ’Senior Brother must have discovered an Ancient Cave Mansion!’
"Junior Sister, you should dry your clothes first," Su Yu suddenly reminded her.
Qin Yu was currently soaked to the bone. The river water had saturated her fiery red martial attire, causing the fabric to cling tightly to her body, outlining her curvaceous figure in exquisite detail. A water stain spread across her chest, faintly revealing the silhouette of a pink bodice, a tantalizing glimpse of her charms.
Not far away, a few sailors were craning their necks, their gazes darting furtively in her direction.
Su Yu, however, didn’t look. Junior Sister Qin Yu wasn’t his type. He preferred the suffocating pressure his senior sister exuded.
Qin Yu also noticed her own appearance and the peeping crewmen, and her pretty face flushed with anger.
"What are you looking at?! You dogs, keep looking and I’ll gouge out your eyes!"
Her willow-like eyebrows shot up as the Qi and Blood of her Flesh Refining Realm cultivation erupted with a murderous aura.
The sailors’ legs went soft with fear, and they quickly averted their eyes.
But she didn’t seem to mind Su Yu at all. Instead, she stepped closer and said with a smile, "Senior Brother, do you have any clothes in your storage ring? Lend me a set."
Su Yu’s divine sense stirred, and a set of red, form-fitting women’s martial arts attire materialized in his hand.
"This is the only one. I picked it up from the treasury on Ghost Mist Island."
Qin Yu took the attire and, while deftly draping it over herself, teased, "Senior Brother, I can understand you looting gold, silver, and precious herbs, but you’re even secretly stuffing women’s clothing into your ring?"
"The material is top-grade Ice Silk, and it’s brand new. Naturally, I couldn’t pass it up," Su Yu said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. "See? Didn’t it solve your urgent problem?"
Qin Yu gathered her damp hair behind her head and glanced at him. "Senior Brother, I feel like you’re different from everyone else. All those other geniuses are arrogant, with their noses in the air, but you? You don’t turn your nose up at any little thing."
Su Yu just smiled noncommittally.
Having lived two lives and clawed his way up from the bottom, his mindset was already uninhibited and natural. He didn’t care what others thought.
"My lord, the main sail is patched. Shall we weigh anchor?" the ship’s captain asked, bowing and trembling as he came forward for instructions.
"Set sail."
With the long, drawn-out sound of a horn, the treasure ship began to cut through the waves once more.
The distant mountains on both banks drifted by, and a vast river mist flowed over the water’s surface.
Su Yu stood facing the wind, his heart feeling much lighter.
On this trip, after two major battles, not only had his strength increased significantly, but his gains were also substantial.
’But I can’t slack off. I have to keep training hard.’
’After all, in these chaotic times, a new danger could appear at any moment. If I’m too weak then, I could be the one who dies.’
At this thought, Su Yu took out the Azure Spirit Yuan-Transformation Gourd and drank a mouthful of Spirit Wine.
[Breakthrough Point Skill Level +2%]
As the wine entered his stomach, a cool, clear, and sweet sensation rushed straight to his Mud Ball Palace.
Su Yu felt a sudden jolt in his spiritual altar, as if an invisible barrier in his mind had been instantly pierced. The abstruse and difficult key points of Martial Arts, which were usually incomprehensible, were now as clear and distinct as the lines on his palm.
His thought processes accelerated several times over, and countless inspirations regarding muscle exertion and the circulation of Qi and Blood burst forth like a spring. He entered a profound and mysterious state of clarity.
’This Spirit Wine can trigger an epiphany?’
Su Yu was instantly overjoyed.
Seizing the opportunity from this epiphany, he immediately stripped off his outer clothes, leaving only his under-shorts, and leaped into the turbulent Black Water River.
’My Fish Dragon Skill is just shy of Perfection. There’s still almost a full day on the journey back, which is the perfect time to train and break through.’
On deck, Qin Yu couldn’t help but marvel again when she saw this.
’Senior Brother has such incredible talent, yet he still trains so diligently. No wonder he’s such a monster!’
...
Beneath the surface, the undercurrents were raging, but Su Yu was like a fish in water.
Following the continuous wellspring of Martial Arts inspiration in his mind, he connected each vertebra of his great spinal dragon, brought his legs together, and abruptly twitched his major tendons.
"Swimming Fish Tail."
Using the explosive power from his spine, his legs swung violently like a fish’s tail. His body instantly tore through the water, shooting forward several zhang with complete freedom of movement.
Next, he twisted his waist and hips, executing "Parting the Water Swim." His body was like a sharp shuttle, weaving through dense reefs and aquatic plants with incredible speed and exceptionally nimble movements.
As he swam, a small Ghost-faced Crab suddenly darted out from the mud ahead, brandishing its massive, barbed pincers at his thigh.
Su Yu didn’t dodge. His Qi and Blood surged in his right arm as he formed a blade with his fingers, unleashing the killing move "Wave-Piercing Stab." The tip of his finger created a sharp ripple in the water and, with a CRACK, precisely pierced the Ghost-faced Crab’s hard carapace.
Just as he dispatched the crab, he caught sight of a Gold-Thread Treasure Fish hiding behind a reef. Startled, the fish was about to flee with a flick of its tail.
His body boneless and pliable, Su Yu spun with the current and used the underwater grappling move "Black Eel Coil." His legs wrapped around the treasure fish’s slippery body like giant pythons, using the flow of the water to completely lock down its movements.
The treasure fish struggled desperately, its immense strength whipping up a vortex underwater.
Su Yu’s eyes narrowed. The Qi and Blood in his skin membrane erupted as he executed the defensive move "Fish Scale Shock." A high-frequency hydraulic shockwave rippled nimbly across his skin, not only neutralizing the force of the fish’s struggle but also stunning it so badly its eyes rolled back, knocking it unconscious on the spot.
’This epiphany state is so powerful. My previous execution of the Bibo Fish Dragon Skill was a bit crude.’
Holding the Ghost-faced Crab in one hand and the treasure fish in the other, Su Yu swam toward the surface.
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The water broke, and with a flick of his arms, Su Yu precisely tossed the Ghost-faced Crab and the Gold-Thread Treasure Fish onto the deck of the treasure ship.
At the same time, he leaped onto the deck himself.
"Someone, have the cook stew these!"
The ship’s captain hurried forward. Seeing the treasure fish and crab, his eyes filled with envy. This lord was truly amazing; he’d only been in the water for a moment and had already caught so many fine things.
’Tsk tsk, this treasure fish must be worth at least a hundred liang of silver. I’m so envious.’
After dropping off the treasure fish and the Ghost-faced Crab, Su Yu’s figure once again leaped into the water to continue practicing the Bibo Fish Dragon Skill.
[Bibo Fish Dragon Skill Experience +60]
[Bibo Fish Dragon Skill has broken through to the Perfection Realm]
[Martial Arts]: Bibo Fish Dragon Skill (First Layer) (Perfection)
’Another Cultivation Technique has reached Perfection!’
Su Yu was thrilled and eagerly began to test the changes in the Cultivation Technique after it reached Perfection.
When he used "Parting the Water Swim" again, the water around him now seemed to have a life of its own, actively parting to either side. His underwater speed had increased by a full thirty percent compared to the Great Accomplishment stage.
Not only that, but his oxygen consumption while holding his breath was also greatly reduced. His pores could even faintly absorb water vapor as they opened and closed. Where he could previously only swim submerged for one hour, he could now stay underwater for three or four hours without any problem.
He tried circulating his Qi and Blood. Instead of a dull roar, his blood now surged through his vessels with a RUSHING sound like the tides, creating a strange resonance with the waters of the Black Water River outside.
BANG!
Su Yu kicked off the riverbed, using only the explosive power of his physical body to charge forward at high speed. A massive boulder ahead, comparable in size to a fast boat, was struck head-on by him and instantly shattered. With such terrifying underwater ramming power, if he were to hit an enemy’s fast boat, he could definitely smash it to pieces in an instant.
’Is this the Perfection Realm of the Bibo Fish Dragon Skill?’
Su Yu hovered at the bottom of the river, looking at the azure water membrane on his skin, which now had a faint, dark-gold ripple flowing across it.
’This aquatic Cultivation Technique is truly formidable. With my current underwater explosive power and speed, I really have the imposing might of a Fish Dragon, the overlord of the water!’
...
Aboard the treasure ship, Su Yu ate the treasure fish and the Ghost-faced Crab, and his Breakthrough Point rose by another 1%.
In the distance, the docks of Black River Crossing were already visible.
"We’ve finally reached Black Stone City!"
Su Yu’s mood lightened considerably. Although the trip to the Ten Islands Region had only been a few days, he had been through so much that it felt like a long time had passed. He was starting to feel like going home to the Su Mansion.
