Chapter 63: Stormy Decision

  "Thank you, Duke Rosaline." Lin Wu responded with a perfunctory phrase. To be honest, he didn't have a good impression of Duke Rosaline, who was too self-interested and had an attitude that varied greatly depending on the situation. If it weren't for his sudden arrival to help, Lin Wu might have been driven out by him.

  "Work hard and if you can become a great swordsman, then you can choose either Eirina or Alice." Suddenly, Duke Roselia said.

  Upon hearing this, Lin Wu felt even more disdain for Duke Caiwei, who was actually using his own daughter as a bargaining chip.

  "Little one, aren't you very angry?" The old man said with a smile after the Duke of Rosabelle left.

  Lin Wu nodded without concealing anything.

  "Haha, this is the sorrow of being born in a big family. The Rose family has no male heir, only two daughters, so for the sake of the Rose family, the great elder must find a young and powerful talent to continue the family line." The old man said with a light sigh.

  "Alright, I'm going back too, remember to bring me some crystal blocks tomorrow." The old man said as he floated away.

  Lin Wu sat quietly alone in the courtyard, and to be honest, Duke Rosalia's words had also touched Lin Wu's heart. The seeds buried deep within his heart seemed to have begun sprouting due to Duke Rosalia's words.

  "Heh~~" With a deep sigh, Lin Wu returned to his own little hut, lost in thought.

  Lin Wu closed the doors and windows of his house, then took out a scroll, which was the mid-grade lower-level attribute technique that Ailina had given him earlier - Storm Break.

  Storm Strike, a mid-to-low level wind attribute technique that allows the practitioner to acquire Storm Fighting Qi, granting them immense attacking power.

  Looking at the introduction of this Storm Chaser, Lin Wu understood that this Storm Chaser was also an extreme skill, and it was another type among them. The wind attribute skill itself was not good at attacking, but this skill pursued the ultimate attack power. This Storm Chaser was divided into three layers: Gale Wind, Whirlwind, and Storm. When cultivated to the highest level, each attack was like a storm passing by, with powerful attack power comparable to any intermediate fire attribute skill.

  Lin Wu carefully observed the cultivation method of Storm Slash, and found that the cultivation path of Storm Slash was dozens of times more complicated than Gale Slash. Seeing this, Lin Wu couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine, "The difference between the primary lower level and middle lower level techniques is already so great, I wonder what kind of situation the higher levels and super levels are in."

  He looked at the cultivation method repeatedly, until he memorized it in his mind. Lin Wu then began his first cultivation, following the cultivation path of the Storm Breaking Technique, and started to manipulate the internal Qi in his body.

  Unexpectedly smooth, Lin Wu's body was transformed into a wind element body after consuming the origin of the wind, so cultivating the wind attribute skill was twice as effective. The first time Lin Wu cultivated the Gale Decision, he had already operated the cultivation path of the first layer of strong wind in a familiar way, although this was only one-third of the entire path, but the difficulty of the middle-grade skill was indeed very great.

  Suddenly, Lin Wu realized that the cultivation path of Storm Surge's first layer actually covered more than 90% of the cultivation method path of Gale Force, with only a few meridians being different.

  "I wonder if I can combine these two techniques, so that I'll not only have the attacking power of Bursting Wind Slash, but also the speed of Gale Slash." Lin Wu thought to himself, and his heart couldn't help but feel excited. Although he knew this was a risky move, Lin Wu decided to give it a try. If successful, his strength would definitely surge, and with the Life-Saving Potion to protect him, he dared to attempt it; otherwise, he wouldn't have had the confidence.

  Lin Wu thought about it and after running through the first layer of Storm Chasing Fist several times, he began to connect those few paths that belonged to Gale Fist.

  "Pffft!!" Just as he was breaking through those few paths of cultivation belonging to the Gale Blade Technique, a mouthful of fresh blood suddenly sprayed out from Lin Wu's mouth.

  He hastily gulped down a bottle of life medicine, recovering from his injuries. Lin Wu gritted his teeth and continued to try, because he could already feel that after increasing these few cultivation paths, the speed of the Dou Qi had become even faster. However, the two extreme wind attribute techniques, one for attack and one for speed, when combined and bursting forth, caused too much damage to the meridians. If not for the life medicine, Lin Wu wouldn't have dared to try this even if he knew it would succeed.

  In fact, Lin Wu did not know that these high-level martial arts were created in this way. The creators of the martial arts were all powerful super-strong men who used their great wisdom and perseverance to continuously improve a primary martial art based on their own experiences, and after decades or even hundreds of years of exploration, they finally became high-level martial arts.

  Those people aren't like Lin Wu, who has medicine that can instantly recover from injuries. Instead, they rely on their own formidable strength. Therefore, if you find a higher-level cultivation method than what you're currently practicing, you can completely switch to it, because those advanced methods are precisely the result of continuous improvement from basic methods, and there's no conflict between them.

  Little by little, he broke through and merged, suffering injuries one after another, swallowing bottle after bottle of medicine. After going through these difficulties time and again, Lin Wu was finally able to smoothly break through and merge those few cultivation paths without getting injured anymore. Lin Wu knew that he had succeeded.

  At this point, Lin Wu completely calmed down and repeatedly operated the new technique. Countless wind-attributed energies swarmed towards Lin Wu, constantly transforming into his Dou Qi.

  ……

  At this time, in a remote and uninhabited place in the city of Zi Jing, a black-clad figure was constantly spitting out fresh blood from his mouth, with a listless expression on his face, and behind him were several deep wounds that could be seen to the bone.

  "Has the mission failed?" Suddenly, a young man with red lips and white teeth and a pair of peach blossom eyes walked out of the darkness, looking at the black-clad person coldly.

  "Hmph, you actually dare to lie about the situation. There's a Purple Lightning Leopard in the Rose family? Do you think the Assassin's Guild is easy to fool?" The man in black angrily said.

  "A 4th-level high-ranking magical beast, the Purple Lightning Leopard?" The young man's heart skipped a beat upon hearing this.

  "If you don't give a satisfactory explanation, then prepare to face the wrath of the Assassin's Guild." The black-clad man had not only suffered heavy injuries from this mission but also used up his secret technique and fell below the Great Swordsman, and from now on might never be able to advance again. Thinking about it, one could imagine the anger in the black-clad man's heart.

  "Hmph, since your Assassin's Guild has accepted the task, can't you even investigate it yourself? Do you have to rely on the task publisher all the time? It's truly curious that your Assassin's Guild can still exist," the young man said with a cold smile.

  "So, you will pay the price for your irresponsible actions." The man in black clenched his fists tightly. In fact, before executing the task, he had not investigated at all, and the previous 100% completion rate of the myth had made him gradually lose the caution that an assassin should have, so this reckless action made him pay a painful price.

  So he directed all his anger at the task publisher, hoping to get huge compensation.

  "Hmm, a great swordsman's spirit would be quite nice, wouldn't it?" The young man muttered suddenly.

  "You, you are..." The man in black suddenly widened his eyes and stared at the young man in front of him, gradually losing his vitality.

  After dealing with the man in black, the young man muttered: "Lin Wu, you're lucky this time, but soon I'll send you on your way, hahaha."