Chapter 31: Star Rating of Condensed Form and Expanded Seal

  Mu En seemed to be randomly and carelessly throwing out the feathered arrows, but they were as if they had eyes, and the cries of agony rose and fell in succession. The bandits' archers on both sides of the mountain slope didn't have a single one who could escape, all of them were pierced through the throat and fell to the ground. To know that from the two mountain slopes overlooking their side, there was at least a distance of about fifty paces, Mu En had only relied on his hand-thrown arrows to hit more than twenty targets, what kind of difficulty was this?

  This was the first time Zhou Weiqing saw his teacher take action, and he couldn't help but admit that he was shocked.

  With a thud, Zhou Weiqing's buttocks were kicked, and Mu En said in an ill-tempered tone: "What are you standing there for? Are you looking to die?! Hurry up and gather the ones in front! If one escapes, you'll be the one who's done for. No using bows and arrows allowed!" As he spoke, Zhou Weiqing's Black Dragon 5 had somehow ended up in Mu En's hand from his own just a moment before.

  Until this moment, the robbers opposite finally woke up. Even if they were stupid, they understood that the horse-drawn carriage in front of them was not easy to rob. The leader of the robbers didn't care about his ear pain and shouted "Wind is tight, let's go!" He turned around and ran towards the mountain. These robbers were obviously not running away for the first time. As soon as they started running, none of them ran in the same direction.

  Zhou Weiqing was reminded by Mu En, his right foot suddenly kicked the ground, and he had already shot out. He understood that Mu En didn't let him use arrows, obviously to test his actual combat ability. Losing face himself was nothing, but he couldn't lose face for his old man! As soon as he thought of this, Zhou Weiqing's blood began to boil.

  As he pushed off the ground with his right foot, a loud "thud" sound suddenly came from the ground, and even Muren was startled. Xizhou Weiqing's body had already shot out like an arrow, and the speed was so fast that it couldn't help but reveal a hint of surprise on Muren's face.

  In the blink of an eye, Zhou Weiqing had caught up to the two robbers from behind. These robbers were at most on par with ordinary soldiers, what chance did they stand against a Heaven's Jewel Master? With each hand grabbing the neck of one robber and pulling them together, the two robbers' heads collided, instantly knocking them out cold. At the same time, Zhou Weiqing flipped his body, swung his left hand, and a black awl shot out like lightning, flying straight towards the dense group of robbers. Next, he flashed again, relying on the explosive power of his right leg to knock out robber after robber, sending them flying back one by one. Meanwhile, in another area where the robbers were more concentrated, twelve robbers were instantly swept up by the Dark Devouring Seat, pulled together into a heap. Only the leader of the robbers was extremely fast, clearly having some skill, and had already climbed up the mountain slope.

  Zhou Weiqing certainly couldn't let him get away, and with two bursts of energy, he had already caught up. He reached out to grab the leader of the bandits.

  The bandit leader seemed to have seven eyes in the back of his head, and as he was running wildly, he suddenly stomped his right foot on a rock in front of him, spun his body around, and swung his large chopping knife at Zhou Weiqing with a horizontal sweep. The wind howled, clearly containing heavenly power within it. He himself had cultivated two layers of heavenly power, but unfortunately, he hadn't awakened his innate pearl, which was why he could become one of the leaders of this group of bandits. Unfortunately for him, however, he encountered a Heavenly Jewel Master.

  The big knife was only swung halfway, and in the flash of green light, the bandit leader found that his body couldn't move. Immediately afterwards, Zhou Weiqing's hand grasped his front lapel, and with a burst of heavenly power, this bandit who weighed over 200 jin including his armor was flung out by him, flying twenty meters before rolling down the mountain path. Don't forget, Zhou Weiqing is a pure Strength Body Jewel Master.

  From the moment Wu Wei Qing rose up, to all the robbers being subdued and lying in the middle of the road, it was only a matter of ten or so breaths. Neither Mu En nor the people inside the carriage who lifted the curtains to watch could have imagined that he would resolve the battle so quickly.

  A flash of light in his eyes, and a thoughtful expression appeared on his face.

  Zhou Weiqing returned to Mu En's side, "Teacher, you guys are too bad, actually using the horse carriage to lure bandits into robbery, and then having them turn on each other."

  Mu En was standing in front of the bandit leader, stomping his feet one by one. The guy's mouth was still shouting "Let you call me old, let you call me old..." Zhou Wei Qing looked at him from the side and thought to himself, "This is really cruel!"

  "Spare my life, spare my life..." The bandit leader wailed repeatedly, wanting to resist but unable to muster the strength, as Zhou Weiqing's Wind Restriction was not something that a non-Imperial Jewel Master like him could resolve quickly.

  "Hey, you little brat, your first Dark Skill won't be 'Dark Shackles', will it?" Mu En said with a glance at the twelve robbers trapped not far away.

  "Teacher, you really are knowledgeable and insightful."

  Mu En said with a bad tone: "You're so experienced, no wonder your dad sent you to Tian Gong Camp. Do you know that the eighth bead of your dad's Zhuo Tou Yin is this skill? He probably didn't have the face to teach you, haha, Old Zhou has his day too, haha. Now you can officially become a member of our Pervert Paradise, you're originally a little pervert." Mu En grabbed the leader of the bandits on the ground "Where's your old nest? Take us there."

  About half a time later, more than a dozen robbers with gray heads and dirty faces carried bags of gold coins under the supervision of Mu En and Zhou Wei Qing, and put the gold coins in the hidden compartment on the lower layer of the carriage. When they were about to leave, Mu En patted the face of the leader of the robbers and said, "Remember! Next time you accumulate enough money underground, continue to rob us." A fierce arrow was shot out from Mu En's hand, and all the robbers died without exception. "Teacher, we've taken all the money, why do we still have to kill them?" Zhou Wei Qing was still young after all, and seeing Mu En killing people without blinking an eye, he couldn't help but feel a little frightened.

  Mu hummed, "Do you understand? Are these robbers only going to rob us once? Use your pig brain to think about it. If we can't even beat them, what will happen in the end? Those guys deserve to be killed ten times over." The two got back on the car, and Luo Ke had already come over, "Old scoundrel, how much did you get?"

  Mu En said in a bad mood: "This group of poor devils, together they don't even have ten million gold coins. Without a master jeweler to preside over them, how strong can these bandits be? Hopefully the luck will be better later on and we'll encounter more people."

  Hua Feng said: "Don't be too greedy, three seven points, remember I have three tenths."

  Mu En snorted and said: "You vampire."

  A faint, elegant smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. "Without my carriage, with your appearance, even robbers wouldn't dare to rob you. Xiao Wei, the first skill of your Dark Attribute Titled Profound Martial Skill is Dark Touch, so are you planning on taking the strong control route in the future?" Zhou Weiqing was taken aback for a moment, "What's strong control?"

  He asked this, Mu En couldn't help but cover his eyes and lean back in his chair. Han Mo's eyebrows furrowed slightly, while Gao Sheng's eyes widened in surprise. Luo Ke said, "Impossible, Xiao Wei! As the son of General Zhou Da, you don't even know what a strong control is? Who taught you about Tianzhu knowledge?"

  Shangguan Bing'er's face turned red with pride: "I taught him. General Zhou only found out later that he had awakened to his Benming Pearl, but we didn't have time to teach him before we came to Tian Gong Camp."

  "To put it simply, every cultivator of the Jade Pearl chooses a direction that suits their attributes when they cultivate. For example, fire-attribute Jade Pearl cultivators usually choose to cover attacks, while wind-attribute Jade Pearl cultivators choose agile attacks, which is what we commonly call 'agile offense'. And what I mean by 'strong control' refers to cultivating with the goal of controlling the enemy's actions and attacks on the battlefield as much as possible. The skill you currently possess, Black Touch, is a typical control-type skill, and it also has additional effects such as enhanced senses. Although I don't know how you managed to imprint it successfully, I have to say that we've never seen anyone who can imprint their first skill to such an extreme degree."

  "Captain, I've never quite understood this," said Zhou Weiqing. "How do these Titled Skills and the Condensed Bead differ? Don't they all evolve with the growth of the Master Beads?"

  "The difference lies in the degree of evolution, my friend. Every skill can evolve, and so can the equipment obtained through Condensation. However, the extent of evolution varies greatly. The more Soul Pearls you have, the greater the evolution degree will be. For example, when you imprint a Heavenly Beast at the Master level, its evolution degree is 1, while that of an Emperor-level Heavenly Beast is 2, and a Sect-level one is even 4. That's why there's a service in the Imprinting Palace called Condensation and Imprinting Star Evaluation. It evaluates the strength or weakness of your Condensation and Imprinting abilities, with more stars indicating better skills. The lowest rating is one star, while the highest is twelve stars."

  "For example, your Dark Touch is a typical 8-star skill in the evaluation of the Tuo Yin Palace. Generally speaking, a Tian Shou-level beast can only bring out 1-3 star skills, a Zun-level beast can bring out 4-6 star skills, and a Zong-level beast can bring out 7-9 star skills. As for skills above 9 stars, only Tian Zhu masters have the possibility of touching them. Therefore, a Yu Zhu master with several beads of cultivation must at least be able to imprint several-star abilities, otherwise they will not be able to exert their own cultivation. Someone like you, who is only a one-bead cultivator but has imprinted an 8-star skill, and it's even a control-type 8-star skill, we've never seen before."

  "Generally speaking, when evaluating skills, all control-type skills will be upgraded by one star on the original basis. Therefore, Dark Touch is rated as an eight-star skill, but it can rival nine-star skills. Similarly, for equipment with inlaid sockets that can be inlaid with intent pearls, they will also be added one star to the original evaluation. It can be said that the star rating is an important standard for measuring the future growth potential of a Yu Zhu Shi or Tian Zhu Shi."

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