Cultivating in Different Professions

Chapter 196: Chapter 137: Reinforcements

A straight saber was stuck in the demon’s corpse.

The world’s eleventh-ranked Divine Weapon, the Renowned Saber Thunder Shock!

Having just cheated death, Liu Yang stared at the saber in joyful surprise.

”Senior Brother Ding, Senior Brother Liu.”

A voice like a broken gong echoed across the riverbank. ”Fear not! Cong Yuanlong is here! Die, you demons!”

Cong Yuanlong brandished his large saber and charged into the horde of demons.

Ding Shiyun and Liu Yang were too stunned to make a snarky comment. It wasn’t that they were scared.

They just stared, wide-eyed, as four figures advanced in a line, plowing through the demons like a bulldozer.

Demons either collapsed to the ground or were sent flying into the air.

Their pace never faltered for even a moment.

In just a few moments, they had carved a path to the two men.

”See that? A true master is someone who can turn the tide of battle.”

Cong Yuanlong extended a hand to Liu Yang, pulled him to his feet, and said smugly.

”And clearly, I’m one of those masters.”

SWISH!

But Liu Yang’s and Ding Shiyun’s attention was completely captivated by someone else on the battlefield.

Su Mu’s expression was serene, his handling of the Soft Sword nothing short of divine. Each casual strike pierced a demon’s throat or heart.

Everywhere he went, blood sprayed into the air.

In the blink of an eye, Su Mu was in front of the Thunder Shocking Saber. He reached out and pulled it free.

With the Thunder Shocking Saber in hand, Su Mu instantly became a human meat grinder.

He wielded the saber in his left hand and the sword in his right. Channeling the Kan Water Realm with one and the Xun Wind Realm with the other, he weaved through the battlefield, and demon after demon fell before him.

In an incredibly short time, the once-dense horde of demons was thinned out, and the pressure on Zhang Chenchen, Luo Anning, and Cong Yuanlong instantly plummeted.

Zhong Guizheng, who had been trying to escape, saw this. A look of wild joy crossed his face as he turned and charged back into the fray.

With him rejoining the battle, the demons began to fall even faster.

As Zhong Guizheng fought, he glanced toward Su Mu in astonishment.

’Even after fighting for so long, Su Mu’s stamina shows no sign of waning.’

’Even an eight-times Blood Transformation shouldn’t grant someone such deep reserves of stamina.’

’Could it be because he reached the Body Tempering Limit and has a Physical Divine Technique?’ Zhong Guizheng wondered.

As soon as Ding Shiyun and Liu Yang recovered some of their strength, they immediately rejoined the fight.

However, they quickly discovered that it made little difference whether they participated or not.

Out of two or three hundred demons, only twenty or thirty were left.

The battlefield had become Su Mu’s personal showcase.

The two of them felt almost numb with shock.

They knew this rookie Junior Brother was strong, but they never imagined he was *this* strong.

Now they understood why Luo Anning had praised Su Mu so effusively before.

He absolutely deserved it!

If it were them, they would have praised him even more extravagantly!

The Body Tempering Limit, a Physical Divine Technique.

Two different Realms: Kan Water and Xun Wind.

An eight-times Blood Transformation.

When all of these attributes were combined in a single person, they couldn’t even begin to feel jealous.

Looking at Su Mu now, they felt as if his entire body was glowing.

”Old Ding, you weren’t wrong. This is definitely a ’greatly auspicious’ day.”

Liu Yang muttered under his breath.

”See? I told you! I, Ding Shiyun, can read the secrets of heaven!”

Ding Shiyun declared with a smug expression.

The difference in their power was on full, vivid display.

They were all in the Blood Transformation Realm, yet even Zhong Guizheng, who was at the Perfection stage, had nearly been overwhelmed and killed.

But Su Mu, who had mastered two Realms and possessed a Physical Divine Technique, slaughtered hundreds of Tier One Demons as easily as butchering chickens—and this was despite his Blood Transformation progress lagging behind Zhong Guizheng’s.

’Even with the Body Tempering Limit and a Physical Divine Technique, Junior Brother Su must be at least fifty percent through his Blood Transformation. Otherwise, he couldn’t possibly possess such strength,’ Zhong Guizheng mused.

’Su Mu’s strength is no less than mine, and his technique is leagues beyond. What’s more, his physique is tougher, and his stamina is far deeper.’

’That’s the only way he could have accomplished all this.’

Finally, as the sun dipped below the horizon and its afterglow painted the sky red...

...the last demon fell to Su Mu’s saber.

The riverbank was littered with demon corpses, and the waters of the Jade River were stained crimson.

Su Mu alone had killed more than a hundred of these demons.

The vast majority of the rest were killed by Zhong Guizheng and his two companions.

A small portion could be credited to Zhang Chenchen, Luo Anning, and Cong Yuanlong.

After fighting two battles back-to-back, Su Mu felt a wave of exhaustion, and his face was a little pale.

His Blood Transformation progress had not, in fact, reached the fifty percent Zhong Guizheng had imagined.

The reason his strength was a match for Zhong Guizheng, who was at Blood Transformation Perfection, wasn’t just due to the enhancement from his Physical Divine Technique. The more crucial factor was that he hadn’t undergone an eight-times Blood Transformation, but a *ten-times* one!

A ten-times Blood Transformation might seem only two stages higher than an eight-times one, but in truth, the power it granted was far more than a simple twenty percent increase.

”Junior Brother Su, did you really just break through to the Blood Transformation Realm a short while ago? Why do I feel like you’re not any weaker than Senior Brother Zhong, and he’s at Blood Transformation Perfection?”

Liu Yang plopped down unceremoniously on the rocky shore, letting out a sigh of relief as he spoke.

”That’s an insult to me.”

Zhong Guizheng said with a stony face, ”I am no match for Junior Brother Su.”

”You’re too modest, Senior Brother Zhong. I was just lucky enough to grasp a Realm. In terms of cultivation, I’m still far behind you.”

Su Mu said humbly.

”Junior Brother Su, being overly humble is just annoying,” Ding Shiyun said. ”We’re not blind, you know. If you ask me, you must be at least fifty percent through your Blood Transformation, right?

”It’s one thing to have heaven-defying enlightenment, but for your cultivation aptitude to be this good too... How are us normal people supposed to get by?

”It’s like the heavens opened a door for you, and then opened a window, too.”

”You’re the normal one. I’m a minor genius.”

Cong Yuanlong cut in, ”Just a slightly lesser genius than Junior Brother Su, that’s all.”

Everyone rolled their eyes at him.

”It’s good for us that Junior Brother Su is so strong, but this isn’t the time to be discussing it.”

Zhang Chenchen said, ”The Captain still isn’t here. I’m afraid he’s run into trouble. Shouldn’t we go take a look?”

”We can’t.”

Zhong Guizheng said steadily, ”The Captain is in the Rebirth Realm. If he’s facing something he can’t handle, we’ll be of no use.”

”What we need to do now is immediately report this to the Governor and have him send reinforcements for the Captain.”

”I suppose that’s our only option.”

Zhang Chenchen said with a worried expression, ”We encountered a remnant of the Hu Family back at Kema Cliff. Did you see anyone like that here?”

”We ran into someone when we first got here, too,” Zhong Guizheng said. ”We don’t know for sure if they were a Hu Family remnant, but it’s highly likely.”

”But that person was very powerful. We couldn’t stop him. He used Chaotic God Grass powder to lure all these demons and then escaped in the confusion.”

”We walked into a trap. I suspect the same thing happened to the Captain’s group.”

”The Hu Family remnants probably haven’t gone far,” Su Mu mused. ”Should we try to find a way to lure them out and finish them off?”

Zhong Guizheng and Zhang Chenchen couldn’t help but give Su Mu a strange look.

’Is this the difference between them and a top-tier genius?’

They also suspected that Hu Family remnants were still nearby, but their first instinct was to hurry back and request aid from the Si Li, lest they get surrounded again.

Su Mu, on the other hand, was thinking about luring them out and killing them.

Their eyes flickered to Luo Anning, who had an eager, ready-for-action expression on her face.

’Do all people who can grasp a Realm think so differently from normal people?’

Once considered geniuses themselves, Zhong Guizheng and Zhang Chenchen were now mired in profound self-doubt.

They began to wonder: was it because they weren’t aggressive enough that they still hadn’t grasped a Realm?

”Junior Brother Su,” Ding Shiyun said gravely, ”I’ve done a quick divination, and today is not a good day for fishing.”

”To be on the safe side, let’s retreat, call for backup, and then go to the Captain’s aid.”

”I don’t need a divination to know we can’t get that lucky twice in a row,” Liu Yang said. ”If we run into another wave of demons, my own hide will be on the line.”