Leng Mei knew very well that Noble Son Ling Xiao was in the limelight now. Someone would definitely come provoke him, which would definitely interfere with his cultivation.
Sure enough, on the fourth day, trouble came.
A genius at Initial Rank Six Martial Vein came to look for Ling Xiao.
Although he knew that he was not Ling Xiao’s opponent, he stilled dared to challenge him, meaning he had come simply to irritate Ling Xiao.
However, before he had time to open his mouth, he was sent flying by Leng Mei’s palm.
Leng Mei would not let anyone disturb Ling Xiao now.
On the fifth day, someone else came to make trouble.
This time, he was relatively stronger, a martial artist who had just broken through to Peak Rank Six Martial Vein.
Leng Mei’s face was overcast, and she used <Shadow Kill Technique> for the first time in battle.
If it were not for killing or severely crippling opponents being banned within the Hidden Dragon Battalion, Leng Mei was confident about killing this fellow.
On the sixth day, the four clones returned to the main body in the room behind her.
Four streams of pure true essence flowed into his body, completely filling all six of his martial veins.
At the same time, he attacked the seventh martial vein.
This attack was a lot more difficult compared to the initial six, but he was confident.
The true essence added by the four clones was not only of good quality, but the quantity was also sufficient. Even though the difficulty of breaking through in his seventh vein was much greater than the previous six veins combined, he would still succeed.
True essence flowed through his veins, emitting the sound of a flowing river. With every impact, the seventh martial vein loosened.
Moreover, its strengthened, each impact increasing in force.
Boom!
After seven times seven, the forty-ninth cycle, true essence crackedthe seventh martial vein and entered without any obstruction.
After eight times eight, the sixty-fourth cycle, this crack widened into a path, and the seventh martial vein completely opened up like the other six martial veins.
True essence circulated through his seventh martial vein.
After nine times nine, the eighty-first cycle, the final bits of gang qi within his body converted into true essence.
Initial Rank Seven Martial Vein!
He had finally broken through!
Ling Xiao opened his eyes and exhaled. The silverish-white true essence in his hand was clearly more condensed than gang qi, approaching a liquid in density.
Compared to true qi and gang qi, it was as different as sky and earth.
No wonder Martial Masters could burn true essence as they pleased: it would just change from liquid to gas without being consumed. Therefore, for Martial Masters, it was a common practice without any side effects.
Without becoming a Martial Master, you would never know how powerful a Martial Master was.
His current strength had improved qualitatively.
At Peak Rank Six Martial Vein, although he had a similar amount of energy, facing an Initial Rank Seven Martial Vein Martial Master, he had less than a 50% chance of victory.
If he faced an Initial Rank Seven Martial Vein Martial Master now, he would easily win.
This was the change from quantity to quality.
Not only that, but his <Nine Transformation Golden Body Art> had also broken through to the eighth transformation.
In fact, at Peak Rank Six Martial Vein, he had already used up all the gold he had obtained from the Black Scarf Thieves to improve <Nine Transformation Golden Body Art>.
Merely, he hadn’t made a breakthrough.
Now, he understood.
It was impossible to breakthrough to the eighth transformation of <Nine Transformation Golden Body Art> without entering the Seventh Martial Vein Realm. He could only continuously accumulate potential that would only be released when he entered the Martial Master realm.
When <Nine Transformation Golden Body Art> was used after cultivating it to the seventh transformation, the body became golden with a thin layer of membrane on the skin that could rebound attacks.
The eighth transformation was even more powerful. Similar level martial artists could hardly cause any damage. Meanwhile, the attacks of higher level martial artists would be reduced by half. As for the attacks of two level higher martial artists, they would be reduced by 30%!
Now that Ling Xiao had reached this level, he was practically invincible against similar realm martial artists. Unless the other party had a divine weapon or some special martial art, they were helpless against him.
Even those who were one level higher, like Mid Rank Seven Martial Vein martial artists, could only cause some ordinary damage.
Even Late Rank Seven Martial Vein Martial Masters’ attacks would only be 70% effective!
Under these circumstances, one could well imagine his advantage in battle.
But he was even more impatient to reach the ninth transformation now!
The ninth transformation, known as Nine Transformation Golden Body, would allow him to regrow severed limbs as long as he had enough gold!
Gold!
He needed a lot of gold!
Just when he was consolidating his cultivation before finding General Ninth Month to receive his special reward, a powerful aura came from outside.
“Murong Shao actually broke through?”
Ling Xiao frowned but relaxed immediately afterward. “After getting a Quasi-Transcendent Martial Art, a True Essence Pill, and other pills exchanged with military merit points, if he still failed to breakthrough, could Murong Shao still be counted as a genius?”
It was good that Murong Shao had made a breakthrough; he could use Murong Shao as his first target.
Now, he wanted to know his combat power after breaking through to Initial Rank Seven Martial Vein.
Naturally, many people also knew that Murong Shao made a breakthrough.
After all, this fellow was different from Ling Xiao.
When Ling Xiao broke through, it created no movements.
When Murong Shao broke through, as if fearing that other people wouldn’t know, he crazily released his true essence, which darkened the complexions of the other captain-level martial artists.
Ling Xiao was just a bit surprised before concentrating on consolidating his cultivation base.
As for Murong Shao, he immediately emerged from seclusion without consolidating his cultivation base.
Other than Dai Yuling, Shi Lei, Ling Yixue and Yin Ran, all the Hidden Dragon Battalion’s disciples went to congratulate him.
“Hahaha, congratulations, Captain Murong! A 16-year-old Martial Master, it’s truly admirable! Hereafter, our Hidden Dragon Battalion has another Martial Master.”
“That’s right! Captain Murong is now ready to challenge for the leader seats.”
After Murong Shao came out of seclusion, he immediately thought of Ling Xiao.
This could be regarded as an ill-fated relationship.
Ignoring everybody congratulating him, he directly arrived outside Ling Xiao’s house.
As soon as he got there, he saw Leng Mei defeat a Peak Rank Six Martial Vein martial artist.
Murong Shao was surprised but quickly recovered his calm. He smiled and said: “Your name is Leng Mei, right? Follow this captain from here onward.”
“Replying to Captain Murong: this servant only takes orders from Captain Ling.”
Leng Mei said neither familiar nor distant.
“Since I’m letting you follow me, follow me! Why are you speaking so much nonsense? It is your blessing that this captain took a fancy on you. Talk nonsense again and believe it or not, this captain will make you die on the spot.”
Murong Shao dared to do this because Leng Mei was just a servant, not a disciple of the Hidden Dragon Battalion.
Leng Mei shook her head without speaking, revealing her firm will. Her attitude was already very clear.
