I Can Transfer the Side Effects of Evil Skills

Chapter 97: Chapter 95: The Ultimate Shaking Flower Hand

After chatting for a while longer, Zou Feng left first, using the excuse that he needed to go back and quietly consolidate his new realm.

Back in his pharmacy, Zou Feng habitually began his cultivation of the Great Compassion Hand.

Over the past month, although his promotion to the Eighth Grade was just an act, the progress Zou Feng had made was very real.

The Five Poison Skill and the Karmic Fire Red Lotus Palm had already been successfully fused.

”Five Poison Fire Lotus Skill (Refined Skill) Progress: 30%”.

Originally, the progress of his Five Poison Skill was only at 20%.

After the successful fusion, even though it formed a new Cultivation Skill, the cultivation progress had increased significantly, just as Zou Feng had expected.

A ten percent increase was no small amount.

After a Cultivation Skill reached the Realm of Refining Fire, increasing its progress through sheer hard practice was no longer very effective. It required other clever tricks.

Moreover, this progress was just the beginning after the successful fusion. In the time to come, as his understanding of the Fusion Skill deepened, the progress would most likely increase even more.

As for fusing the Great Compassion Hand...

”Great Compassion Hand (Integration and Mastery), Progress: 2%”

That’s right. He had only practiced this Cultivation Skill for a month, and it had already reached Integration and Mastery.

This progress should not be underestimated. Although the Great Compassion Hand was an Evil Skill, it was definitely a High Grade Skill—the kind that would even help in cultivating to the Gang Qi Realm.

Therefore, in theory, it should have been impossible to reach the Realm of Synthesis and Mastery in just one month of practice.

It was only possible because Zou Feng’s cultivation had no side effects, and because he could be considered a genius in Poison Skills.

But again, the further he practiced this Cultivation Skill, the more sinister it became.

After reaching the Realm of Synthesis and Mastery, his cultivation progress had already started to stagnate.

The reason was clearly written in the manual.

After cultivating the Great Compassion Hand to Integration and Mastery, one needed to perform Visualization on a higher quality Ten Directions Divine King Dharma Aspect.

Yes, relying on just the drawings in the manual and the small statues confiscated from the remnants of the Ten Directions Sect was no longer enough for the Visualization.

He needed a Dharma Image with more Divine Charm to continue cultivating this Skill.

To put it bluntly, HD quality was no longer enough; he needed 4K.

This gave Zou Feng a headache. ’Where am I supposed to find a Dharma Image with more Divine Charm, or a more exquisite statue?’

The two items required for the next stage of practice could probably be considered Magical Artifacts.

’I can only try my best to look for them. If I really can’t find them, then I’ll just practice blindly, modify the Great Compassion Hand, and try to fuse it into the Five Poison Skill.’

Besides this progress, his sparring sessions with Bian Yixia had not been in vain.

”Tribulation-Indestructible Body (Integration and Mastery), Progress: 58%”

Because it was equivalent to real combat, Zou Feng was becoming more and more experienced in how to better mobilize the ”Tribulation-Indestructible Body” for localized defense.

He could make any part of his body harden to maximize its defense in an instant.

There was no need for any wind-up time.

And after his ”official” promotion to the Eighth Grade, he could even request that they no longer rely solely on physical strength during their sparring, but progressively use their Inner Qi to increase the intensity of the training.

At this rate, if he continued sparring with Bian Yixia at this increased intensity for a while longer, it probably wouldn’t be a problem for his Tribulation-Indestructible Body to soar to the level of ”Refined Skill”.

”Drunken Immortal Moon Gazing Step (Integration and Mastery) Progress: 33%”.

Without the aid of any particularly high-quality Spirit Wine, this Cultivation Skill really couldn’t be practiced quickly, but it was still increasing, however slightly.

”Black Tortoise Sea-Suppressing Force (Integration and Mastery), Progress: 72%”

There wasn’t much to say about this Cultivation Skill’s progress; he still had the Evil Pills gifted by the remnants of the Ten Directions Sect to thank for it.

The only skill whose progress had barely budged was the Chaos Finger.

”Chaos Finger (Refined Skill), Progress: 17%”

Before Zou Feng’s promotion to the Eighth Grade, the Chaos Finger’s progress was already at 15%.

Now, after so long, it had only increased by two points.

But it couldn’t be helped. The Celestial Immortal Joy Powder was no longer effective in aiding the cultivation of this skill.

He would need a new, more potent Exotic Poison to have any chance of continuing to cultivate this Evil Skill.

’Or... I could try fusing it into the Five Poison Skill as well...’

Overall, however, Zou Feng was quite satisfied with the progress he had made this past month.

Even if the progress of all his cultivated skills were to stagnate, his current combat power was still very impressive.

He wouldn’t dare say he could go toe-to-toe with a Seventh Grade, but exchanging a few moves at ease and then making a strategic retreat should not be a problem.

Next, he just needed to continue accumulating power and raising the quality of his Inner Qi, and he would naturally be able to advance to the Seventh Grade!

’Then again, if I could get my hands on a few more Nine Yang Profound Qi Pills during this accumulation process, that would be absolutely incredible...’

「The next day at noon.」

Zou Feng held a banquet at the Jiayue Restaurant to entertain the many gang brothers who had sent congratulatory gifts after the news of his promotion to the Eighth Grade spread.

It wasn’t that Zou Feng enjoyed this sort of thing, but he had to do it.

After all, it was like an unspoken rule in the gang: whenever someone was promoted, they were expected to host a banquet for friends and family.

Besides, some of the gifts were quite valuable, and he really should treat the givers properly.

The ones who had given the most valuable gifts were, of course, Bian Yixia, Chen Jingsheng, and Wang Xingjian.

What surprised Zou Feng somewhat was that the Hall Master named Zhang Chi, whom he had once treated, had also sent a considerable gift.

This made Zou Feng start to wonder, ’Could it be that this Master Zhang has something to ask of me?’

Before the banquet even began, Bian Yixia stood up and announced a decision that had already been approved by Xiang Kang.

That was to promote Zou Feng to the position of Hall Master of the Black Flood Dragon Gang.

No one present was surprised by this decision; they had clearly heard rumors about it already.

For Zou Feng, a promotion within the Black Flood Dragon Gang was not particularly useful at this stage, but it was better than nothing and still a good thing.

Thus, Zou Feng experienced a double blessing, and he was once again met with a round of enthusiastic congratulations.

He had to admit, these gang members who lived by the code of the Jianghu were truly skilled at flattery.

They were praising Zou Feng so much he sounded like the God of War descended to the mortal realm.

But Zou Feng, of course, wouldn’t let all this praise go to his head.

’After all, how could this be considered glorious? Any random Seventh Grade Elite Disciple from the Celestial Essence Sword Sect would be more than enough to give me a thrashing.’

’But give me a little more time to develop, and that might not be the case.’

Bian Yixia didn’t stay for long. She ate a little and was the first to leave.

Once she was gone, the remaining gang members loosened up even more, and many of them ended up getting completely drunk.

Zou Feng, however, was not drunk, as he had taken the opportunity to practice his Drunken Immortal Moon Gazing Step for a while.

The cultivation method was simple. Because there were many people, many of whom were drunk, he needed some fancy footwork just to weave through them and toast his intended targets.

So, Zou Feng silently activated his Heart Skill, pretended to be drunk himself, and just swayed and staggered through the crowd.

The Spirit Wine on the table cost a hundred taels of silver a bottle. Zou Feng normally couldn’t afford to drink it whenever he pleased; he simply didn’t have the financial means.

Therefore, he was the one who felt the cost of the wine most keenly, and since he was drinking it, he absolutely couldn’t let it go to waste.

’Even if it only increases my cultivation progress by a few tenths of a percent, it’s still better than nothing.’

Wang Xingjian, worried he was getting too drunk, leaned in and whispered in his ear, ”Worthy brother, Guangfa Gambling House tonight. We’ll talk business!”

The matter Chen Jingsheng had refused to discuss until after he was promoted to Eighth Grade was finally about to be revealed.

But now, Zou Feng no longer felt his previous anxiety. After all, his strength had increased by another large margin, giving him enough confidence.

’If I can really help, then I will. After all, Chen Jingsheng has treated me quite well.’

’But if I know it’s an impossible task, I’ll have to refuse decisively.’

’Chen Jingsheng has been good to me, but not so good that I’d sell my life for him.’

At that moment, Zou Feng was unaware that in another private room not far from the Jiayue Restaurant, another banquet was also underway, though it was of a slightly lower class.

On Zou Feng’s side, not only was the wine more expensive and the ingredients finer, but when Bian Yixia arrived, she even specially brought a Spirit Fish that the Fishing Team had caught just last night to give Zou Feng face.