“No need. I have already memorised everything,” Lanling said.
Dina had originally assumed a posture and was about to start explaining the first move of the Gale Blade Technique. But upon hearing Lanling’s words, her movements instantly froze, and she revealed a look of complete disbelief.
Although this Gale Blade Technique was simple and direct, without any fancy flourishes, the angle of every strike, including the angle of the blade edge and the angle of the blade tip, was still extremely precise.
Dina had previously said that spending ten days to completely memorise the entire blade technique was already a very, very high estimate of his talent.
However, she had not expected that Lanling would say he had already memorised it.
After quite a while, Dina murmured, “How is this possible?”
Lanling said, “When a person’s mental talent is extremely, extremely high, they can achieve absolute photographic memory.”
Dina said, “Then I still need to demonstrate and explain. Even if you have memorised the angles, the force of the strike is still quite particular, including how each part of the body generates power, and so on.”
In fact, Lanling had not only memorised the angles, but also the force.
This sounded incredible. Force is invisible and intangible, so how could it be memorised?
It was indeed possible. By observing the speed of the blade and the sound of it cutting through the wind, one could calculate the force.
As for how each part of the body generated power, that was even simpler. One only needed to look at Dina’s body posture. Many minute details could reveal which part of her body was exerting force.
Lanling had originally wanted to say there was no need, that he had already mastered it.
But this would create a sense of distance and dampen enthusiasm, so he nodded and said, “Alright.”
Then, Dina began to explain and demonstrate move by move. Although Lanling said he had already memorised all the angles, she still explained every angle clearly.
After finishing the angles of the strikes, she then explained the force of the strikes and which parts of the body generated power.
Every move took a full three minutes to explain.
After all one hundred moves were explained, five hours had already passed.
Although she felt Lanling would not lie, Dina still could not believe that Lanling had mastered the entire Gale Blade Technique in just one go. After the explanation was finished, she handed the lighter deadwood blade to Lanling and said, “How about you try it once.”
Lanling nodded, took the deadwood blade, and stood before the wooden post.
He took a deep breath, then suddenly struck out with the blade.
“First blade, second blade, third blade…”
Lanling’s blade technique was like a whirlwind sweeping away clouds, rapidly hacking at the wooden post dummy before him.
Then, Dina beside him was completely stunned!
Because every one of Lanling’s moves was correct. Not only were the angles correct, the force was correct, and the body parts generating power were absolutely correct.
Moreover, the marks left on the wooden post from the hacking were also absolutely correct.
At this moment, truly no words could express the shock in her heart.
She was already a genius. In such a difficult martial arts training environment, she had broken through to the Demon Warrior realm at only seventeen years old, and was now an Eight Star Demon Warrior.
But before Lanling, she finally understood what a true genius was.
A true genius was someone who brought shock to the entire body and mind, with only one thought in the heart: how is this possible?
Of course, due to the gap in cultivation.
Dina could complete all one hundred moves at her fastest speed in only twenty seconds, while Lanling needed a full three minutes or so.
Three minutes later, Lanling had finished performing the entire Gale Blade Technique.
Dina could hardly conceal her shock, and said, “Truly… breathtaking!”
Lanling said, “What next?”
Dina’s original plan was to spend ten days allowing Lanling to master the entire blade technique. As a result, Lanling had mastered it in less than half a day.
Therefore, all the trials had to be moved up.
Dina said, “Next, we cultivate strength and speed.”
Then, she came before the wooden post and said, “These two types of practice are different. You just saw me complete three thousand six hundred strikes in one hour, performing the Gale Blade Technique thirty-six times. This was practising force, not pursuing speed, but every strike had to be hacked with extreme force, bringing out all the power in the body.”
Lanling nodded.
Dina continued, “Next, I will practise speed. Watch carefully.”
She spread her legs, slightly bent, gripped the blade with both hands, took a deep breath, then suddenly struck out with the blade.
Extremely fast. The blade in her hand completely became a blur of black shadow, transforming from the Gale Blade Technique into the Ink Splash Blade Technique.
Incomparably, incomparably fast.
“Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…”
Lanling beside her also felt a burst of fierce wind wildly dancing.
And the sound of the blade hitting the deadwood post was almost completely connected together, sounding like one long continuous noise.
And Lanling saw very clearly that even at such extreme speed, every one of Dina’s strikes landed on the fixed marks without the slightest error.
One minute later.
The gale ink splash abruptly stopped.
Dina sheathed her blade and stood still.
In one minute, six hundred and ninety strikes!
That was more than eleven strikes per second.
Truly incomparably fast.
Dina let out a long breath and said, “When practising speed, you can start with a light blade, then gradually make it heavier. I have a complete set of wooden blades here, from light to heavy, all made by my foster father for me. I can give them all to you.”
“That is lend to me,” Lanling said.
Dina said, “There are only two hours until dawn. Are you going to sleep for a while, or continue practising?”
Lanling said, “Your ten thousand strikes are not yet finished. I will meditate beside you.”
Dina nodded and said, “Today I will go make a wooden post dummy for you to practise your blade technique on.”
“Alright,” Lanling said.
Then, Dina continued to practise her blade technique.
And Lanling sat cross-legged beside her!
Of course, after entering meditation, apart from meditating, he knew nothing else.
Things like qi cultivation, bloodline cultivation, he knew none of it.
Over the past three years, he had been overwhelmed with countless affairs every single day, with absolutely no time to practise martial arts.
But after sitting still, Lanling’s entire mind and spirit completely calmed down.
The pores all over his body naturally opened.
Deep within his body, it was as if an energy void had appeared.
Then, countless strands of energy drilled into his body.
This was a type of energy leaning towards the yin attribute, and it seemed… to come from moonlight.
Lanling was completely stunned!
The martial dao of this world completely came from bloodlines.
The lifelong cultivation of everyone was entirely about stimulating bloodline energy, then transforming it into power for their own bodies.
As for how to enhance bloodline power?
There were medicinal baths, blood baths, and so on. In short, it was about extracting energy from the outside world and supplementing it into the bloodline. Of course, there was also a portion that came from food, such as the flesh and blood of demon beasts.
But these were only supplementary. The key was still stimulating the innate potential of one’s own bloodline.
Relying on supplementary methods like medicinal baths and blood baths could allow one to become a decent powerhouse.
But to become a top expert, without exception, it was due to talent, due to the innate bloodline power of the body.
This sounded somewhat disheartening. They say diligence can make up for lack of talent, and man’s will can conquer heaven!
But in this world, what determined one’s ultimate achievement was actually bloodline talent, something one was born with!
Of course, it was the same in the Earth world. Even if a person’s innate intelligence was not very high, they could still get into a key university or even a prestigious university through hard work. But… those who could become top scientists were without exception geniuses!
Wanting to win a Nobel Prize through hard work? That was completely a pipe dream.
So in this world, one could only desperately stimulate a person’s bloodline power, then transform it into their own strength.
And where did bloodline power come from?
Innate. After it was exhausted, one simply waited for it to gradually recover.
How did bloodline power improve? Through continuous cultivation, continuously stimulating the potential within the bloodline.
However, now Lanling seemed to have completely broken this law.
After he sat down, he could actually absorb the energy of moonlight.
No wonder when the sun came out during the day, he felt very comfortable, and even had a feeling of energy replenishment.
So it turned out he was actually absorbing the energy of sunlight, transforming it into bloodline power.
This… this was truly heaven-defying!
Lanling closed his eyes and began to sense the source of the energy pouring into his body.
Immediately after, he made an even more shocking discovery. It was not just moonlight.
There was also the energy of certain specific magnetic fields in the surrounding ground. In short, at night, all yin-attribute energy poured into his body.
This was truly terrifying.
It was truly terrifying the more one thought about it!
Lanling had a feeling that it was not that the Demon Star had disappeared, but rather… his own body had become an energy black hole.
Time flew by swiftly.
Two hours later, dawn had broken.
Lanling opened his eyes again. Dina had already finished bathing and changing clothes.
He noticed that Dina had changed into a new set of clothes today, appearing relatively new, accentuating her explosive figure even more sexily. The curves of her entire body were almost maddening.
Truly shocking breasts and furious buttocks.
Moreover, her skin seemed a bit whiter today.
Seeing Lanling’s slightly surprised gaze, Dina said, “What is it?”
“You seem a bit whiter today,” Lanling said.
Dina said in astonishment, “You can even tell that?”
This was truly incredible. Compared to yesterday, Dina’s skin tone differed by at most about one percent. Such a minute difference was something even Dina herself could not see, yet she had not expected Lanling to distinguish it at a single glance.
Lanling nodded.
Dina said, “I didn’t take my medicine today, so I became a bit whiter.”
“Medicine?” Lanling asked in confusion.
“My original skin tone was the same as humans, with no difference from humans except for a tail,” Dina said. “But you know, in the Savage Wilderness world, looking too much like humans is an original sin. So my foster father brewed a type of medicine. After I took it, my skin tone would darken, making me not look like a Near Human. He did this to protect me.”
Lanling said, “Then why aren’t you taking it today?”
“I don’t want to take it anymore,” Dina said. “Alright, let’s not talk about this. Let’s go find my foster father. We will go demand your daughter back.”
Then, she led Lanling to Suomo’s cave.
Suomo had already gotten up and was practising his sword!
Seeing his sword, Lanling was genuinely startled.
This was not a sword at all, it was practically a giant stone stele, over three metres long, with the hilt being several inches thick.
Immediately after, Lanling felt a wave of heartache. Uncle Suomo, as the great chieftain of the Foreign Race Army, did not even have a suitable heavy sword for his practice, and had to carve a stone sword out of a giant rock.
Dina had also mentioned that apart from hunting missions, the Foreign Race Army also had mining missions.
“You’re here. Did you sleep well last night?” Suomo smiled, sheathed the giant stone sword, placed it to the side, took a towel and casually wiped himself, and said, “Let’s have breakfast together.”
The so-called breakfast was three bowls of porridge, one bowl each!
After coming to this world, although Lanling had initially lived very miserably, like a stray dog.
However, fine clothes and delicious food had never been interrupted. The clothes he wore had never cost less than ten gold coins, and every meal he ate cost more than two gold coins.
A single meal consumed the savings of most families for several years.
It was not that he deliberately lived luxuriously, but rather he simply could not be bothered with such matters. If it was made, he ate it.
But now he had to eat such coarse food, and he could not even eat his fill.
However, he only slightly furrowed his brow, then drank it all in one breath.
Suomo immediately looked at him with deep apology.
After finishing breakfast, Suomo said, “Let’s go. We will go to the chieftain’s castle at the mountaintop.”
Lanling said, “Aren’t we going directly to find that little monster shaman priest?”
“He is a freak, completely unreasonable,” Dina said. “My foster father saved his life, and he also stayed with the Foreign Race Army. But in the end, he is the most ungrateful, constantly making things difficult for our Foreign Race Army everywhere.”
This information gave Lanling a start. He had not expected that this little monster shaman was actually saved by Suomo, and had once been a member of the Foreign Race Army.
Suomo waved his hand and said, “Alright, enough talk. Let’s go.”
The three of them left the military camp and headed towards the front of the mountain.
Along the way, everyone who saw Suomo, no matter what they were doing, stopped completely and stood straight to the side.
“Great Chieftain!”
“Big Brother!”
“Boss!”
The gazes with which everyone looked at Suomo were no longer merely worship, but complete fanaticism.
Unlike what Lanling had imagined, Suomo did not wave in greeting, nor did he nod in response. His face was expressionless.
At most, when he encountered wounded soldiers, he would nod slightly.
And those whom he nodded to instantly became so excited their faces turned red, at a complete loss.
He was a stern and unsmiling commander like his father Suolong, not warm or friendly.
But he could make all soldiers trust, admire, and rely on him.
Their life creed should be the same: everything depends on action, not on acting.
Instantly, Lanling could not help but say, “Father also led troops this way.”
Upon hearing this, Suomo’s face trembled slightly.
They wound their way up the mountain. The houses on both sides of the road grew larger and taller, and the clothes on the pedestrians became increasingly luxurious.
In the Chimera Tribe, the higher one’s status, the higher they lived.
However, the contemptuous gazes Lanling’s trio received also grew more and more numerous.
“Ptooey, despicable foreigners.”
“Dirty foreigners, not staying in your pigsty, what are you running up here for?”
Some women even exaggeratedly covered their noses and mouths, as if Suomo’s trio were polluting their air.
“Ever since these foreigners arrived, the feng shui of the tribe has been getting worse and worse. The spring water on the mountain has already become dirty.”
“I heard that the son born to the neighbour Ah San next door actually has three legs. It must be a disaster brought by this group of dirty foreigners.”
“A pot from my house has gone missing. It must have been stolen by this group of foreign mongrels.”
“The chieftain should burn all these foreign mongrels to death. He should not have shown mercy and kept them.”
Hearing these words, Suomo’s face remained expressionless.
While Dina was so angry her lungs were about to explode, her eyes rimmed with red.
All the food and clothing of these people were exchanged with the lives of the Foreign Race Army.
Every hunt, the Foreign Race Army would lose several people. Over ninety percent of the food obtained was handed over.
They risked their lives and worked themselves to the bone, allowing the people of the Chimera Tribe to live a life of fine clothes and meat, while they themselves lived in caves and ate food that was almost spoiled.
But these people not only showed no gratitude, but instead hurled all kinds of sarcasm and hostility.
The feeling of living under someone else’s roof was truly too unbearable.
And although Lanling could not understand what these people were saying, he knew what they were saying from their tone and their gazes.
Moreover, along the entire way up, people kept spitting exaggeratedly beside the trio.
“Ptooey!”
Extreme humiliation. One truly did not know how Suomo had endured all these years.
Arriving at the great gate of the castle.
Suddenly, a gorgeously dressed middle-aged man rushed up. Judging from his appearance, his status in the Chimera Tribe was not low.
“Ptooey…” He directly spat a mouthful of saliva at Suomo’s face, speaking in the human language, “Despicable Near Humans, get out of our tribe.”
Then, he directly swaggered away.
And Suomo expressionlessly wiped the saliva from his face.
After spitting, that man returned to his wife and daughter to show off, making the two graceful demon women burst into waves of delicate laughter.
And his flirtatious daughter even secretly threw a flirtatious glance at Lanling.
Dina beside him had already been unable to resist making a move just now, but was tightly held back by Suomo. Her nails had already pierced her palm, drawing blood.
“Foster father, sometimes I would truly rather die than endure such humiliation,” Dina said hoarsely.
Suomo said, “We are not just living for ourselves. We have over a thousand people behind us. We must endure for their sake.”
The three of them arrived before the massive castle. Suomo said, “You wait here. I will go request an audience with the chieftain.”
After Suomo left, Dina’s eyes were red, almost about to shed tears.
“Lanling, that is why I truly do not want to come to the castle, and even do not want to set foot in the Chimera people’s tribe for a single step,” Dina said through gritted teeth. “Sometimes, I truly wish I could just punch them.”
Then, she looked at Lanling with deep displeasure and said, “Just now that man spat at my uncle, why didn’t you have any reaction at all?”
“What reaction?” Lanling said. “Rush up and beat him up?”
Dina said, “We came to the castle to see the chieftain to demand your daughter back. My foster father endured this humiliation for you.”
Lanling said, “Yes, so what reaction do you want from me?”
Dina said in disappointment, “You are truly too heartless. You should at least be angry.”
“What use is anger? What we need is revenge,” Lanling said.
“Revenge?” Dina said. “How to revenge?”
Lanling said, “Seduce his wife and daughter, then sleep with them, cuckolding him. Tell me the movement patterns of his wife and daughter, and I will make my move within these two days.”
Dina was instantly completely stunned, and said, “You, are you serious?”
“Of course,” Lanling said. “The moment he spat, I decided to ruin his wife and daughter, then use medicine to make his **** rot, unable to sleep with a woman for his entire life, while his wife cuckolds him for a lifetime.”
Dina was already speechless, staring blankly at Lanling.
At this moment, Suomo walked over and said, “Let’s go. We will enter the castle, pay our respects to the chieftain, and demand your daughter back.”