Longevity Martial Arts: Starting from Inner Core Skill

Chapter 61: Chapter 61 New Abilities of Plum Flower Step and “Beast Taming

Plum Flower Step’s breakthrough was successful.

Without hesitating, Wang Sheng directly employed the Plum Flower Step.

After using it, he felt as though he had emptied everything in an instant; it seemed as if all things in view slowed down, and with a light stride, he transported to a different location.

This sensation wasn’t too direct, so—

“Mountain Lord, come here!”

Having Mountain Lord around made testing things quite convenient, but of course, it was only a preliminary test; after all, its strength wasn’t on par with Wang Sheng’s.

Mountain Lord rose from the ground and approached Wang Sheng.

“Roar~”

It understood what Wang Sheng wanted it to do—that is, to strike with full force, and at the fastest speed!

There was no hesitation; it lifted its tiger paw and slapped down with the swiftest speed. @@novelbin@@

Over these days, it had performed this so many times, becoming highly familiar with it. Since it never hit the target, and if Mountain Lord didn’t know that Wang Sheng was practicing something, it would have suspected Wang Sheng was simply messing around with it daily.

Whew!

Wang Sheng had said to use full force, and Mountain Lord was a straightforward tiger—it never cut corners and indeed used its full strength.

With its massive power, the tiger paw tore through the air, causing it to screech!

However, just as Mountain Lord had anticipated, Wang Sheng easily dodged it.

But—

After delivering the first strike, Mountain Lord wanted to rub its eyes; could it be that it had not been active recently, and its vision had problems? Why did it see two Wang Shengs?

It blinked instinctively, only to find that the other Wang Sheng had disappeared, leaving only one who had also ceased his slapping motion.

Seeing him stop, Wang Sheng felt curious and said, “Why did you stop?”

He had confirmed that the sensation of the world slowing down wasn’t an illusion but a reality.

From his perspective, he could clearly feel each trajectory of Mountain Lord’s strikes—avoiding such attacks was now far easier than before.

He had intended to experience this further, but Mountain Lord had stopped its attack, so he had no choice but to halt as well.

“Roar~”

Mountain Lord wanted to express what it had just seen to Wang Sheng.

But the most Wang Sheng could do was understand some simple thoughts of Mountain Lord; he was still completely unable to comprehend such complex communication.

“Forget it, just keep attacking!”

Yes, Wang Sheng decided to put aside trying to understand and continue testing—he might just grasp it during the test!

Mountain Lord also wanted to confirm whether it had seen incorrectly, so it resumed its attack.

About a minute later, Mountain Lord’s attack stopped again, but this time it was Wang Sheng who actively halted.

Wang Sheng frowned and asked, “What’s going on, you clearly didn’t aim at me several times just now, did you?”

Although Mountain Lord’s strikes did not hit even once, they wouldn’t go awry to such an extent.

Due to the characteristics of the Plum Flower Step, the margin of error was usually within one meter.

But Mountain Lord’s attacks had landed two or three meters off.

“Roar~”

Mountain Lord felt somewhat helpless.

It wasn’t intentional, but faced with “several” Wang Shengs, it truly didn’t know which one to strike.

Seeing Mountain Lord looking this way, Wang Sheng also sensed something was amiss.

So—

“You wait here; I’ll find someone!”

Mountain Lord’s behavior informed him that after the breakthrough of the Plum Flower Step, there was clearly additional functionality. Since Mountain Lord couldn’t describe it clearly, he had to find another martial artist.

The person Wang Sheng sought was Li Yongfeng.

After finding him, he briefly explained his purpose, which was to test the Plum Flower Step.

Several minutes later, he finally understood why Mountain Lord’s strikes were off.

“Did an afterimage of me appear when I moved just now?”

“Yes!” Li Yongfeng nodded, “Yun Sheng, you really are formidable. The Plum Flower Step can be cultivated to this extent? It seems we haven’t trained enough!”

Plum Flower Step had always belonged to Li Yongfeng’s family, so naturally, he had cultivated it as well.

Of course, even now he was only at the beginner’s level.

Wang Sheng casually laughed it off and moved past the subject.

Now he had confirmed the abilities of the Plum Flower Step after the Breakthrough.

One was that ability which made it seem as if the world had slowed down, allowing him to dodge attacks more easily, and the other was the afterimage.

But he couldn’t see this afterimage himself…

He thought back to the explanation of afterimages in his previous life, which was simply that the human eye couldn’t keep up with the speed of the object, believing the object was still in its original position, hence the phenomenon of afterimages.

“Has the Plum Flower Step become so terrifyingly fast after the Breakthrough?”

Both Mountain Lord and the martial artist Li Yongfeng saw afterimages in their eyes, frighteningly fast.

He himself couldn’t see them, but could explain; his eye reaction speed could keep up, or rather, it would be a joke if it couldn’t. If he couldn’t even keep up, then the Plum Flower Step would be useless.

After bidding farewell to Li Yongfeng, he returned to his room and patted Mountain Lord on the head.

“I misunderstood you!”

Saying so, he took out a Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pill and gave it to him.

“Roar!”

Mountain Lord was thrilled—was such good fortune really happening?

It happily ate the Ten-Complete Great Replenishing Pill, though it didn’t actually feel much.

Sure enough, it had been right to stay; it wouldn’t leave now, not for anything.

With protection stronger than itself and daily pills to enhance its strength, where would it find such good things after leaving?

At most, it would just help out with some small things, no big deal!

“Roar~”

Thinking all this, Mountain Lord stretched its body like a cat and found a comfortable position to lie down.

Meanwhile, just as Wang Sheng was about to try the Plum Flower Step again, a progress bar appeared in front of him.

“Beast Taming: 1 (1%)”

“???”

He was a bit baffled.

How did this progress bar suddenly appear?

He soon thought of something and looked at Mountain Lord lying on the ground, seemingly in deep sleep.

“Has Mountain Lord become devoted?”

He had always wanted to coax Mountain Lord into becoming a Guardian Divine Beast; putting it plainly, he wanted to keep a “big cat,” so he had been gradually, slowly “corrupting” Mountain Lord’s heart.

He hadn’t expected to achieve this on the same day as the breakthrough of the Plum Flower Step; it was truly a double blessing.

The “big cat” raising plan was a success.

However, the appearance of the “Beast Taming” skill was unexpected.

“Is this skill something supernatural like the Plum Flower Step, or is it ordinary Beast Taming?”

If it were Dharma Taming, he would consider it a supernatural skill even at level 1, but the ordinary “Beast Taming” could be achieved by regular people, so he needed to explore on his own.

“Another skill to grind for!”

With each new skill, Wang Sheng was in pain but also delighted; now, he had to carve out more time from somewhere else.

However, the novelty of this unknown skill made Wang Sheng feel entertaining to dive into; he preferred more joy, but how exactly could he improve “Beast Taming”?

Wang Sheng glanced at Mountain Lord and then walked over to him.

“Mountain Lord!”

Mountain Lord opened its eyes, looking bewildered.

“Shake hands!”

Wang Sheng extended his palm in front of Mountain Lord, who instinctively stretched out its paw and placed it on Wang Sheng’s hand.

Feeling the comfortable touch of Mountain Lord’s paw pads, and watching the “Beast Taming” progress bar rise, Wang Sheng couldn’t help smiling.

He could increase it just by petting the “cat,” and he liked that!