Chapter 629: Chapter 629

629: Chapter 609: A Thousand Paths 629: Chapter 609: A Thousand Paths If the dead could complain, they’d probably be unrivaled in doing so.

After all, they’ve died, often in the prime of their lives, and everyone has a tale to tell about their own passing.

“We come from a world with six suns.

Due to the chaotic nature of the light sources, most of our native creatures didn’t evolve with eyes.

We can sense everything with our sense of smell…well, you beings relying on your eyes might have trouble understanding, but we can also reconstruct the external environment within our brains.

Though we no longer have brains now…”

The Warrior’s Realm was the Rust Knight’s Earthly Divine Kingdom, and a part of its own divine kingdom, containing many foreign guests who arrived on this planet with it.

As far as Lu Ping’an could tell, the otherworldly warriors he encountered came from at least four or five different worlds.

Rust Knight might have been an interstellar wanderer once.

However, for Lu Ping’an now, this was rather interesting…

“…You guys rely too much on your eyes.

Look, my swords are not straight because there’s no need for them to be.

I can always sense their position.

If they were straight, it would make it easier for my opponents with eyes to predict my moves…”

An unnamed blind swordsman explained his fighting skills as he cut Lu Ping’an to shreds.

Although Lu Ping’an possessed an overwhelming advantage in terms of raw strength, he was utterly helpless against this blind swordsman whose power barely exceeded the brass tier.

Their body structure was extremely slender and sensitive, covered in sensors for a “spatial sense of smell”.

They could sense any attack, even the air displacement caused by a sword’s edge.

No matter how powerful the strike, it would be easily evaded by their slender, multi-jointed bodies, which could contort and transform to avoid attacks and counter in the blink of an eye.

This race, known as “Blind Sword Saints” by others, was quite rare in the Land of Warriors.

Though they had the ability to fight against higher-ranking opponents, their main weakness was their lack of hydration and relatively weak and fragile physical strength.

While their offensive power was low, they still maintained a dominant advantage against Lu Ping’an during their clashes.

This opponent was just a glimpse of the strangest “warriors” Lu Ping’an had seen in the past few days.

What counted as strange?

Beings with no eyes at all?

Lu Ping’an also encountered beings with only one eye, capable of constructing metal armies with their minds.

Among them were those with many arms, one arm, no arms; carbon-based, silicon-based, soft-bodied beings with indiscernible compositions…

Rust Knight had collected a myriad of deceased warrior souls, making it hard for Lu Ping’an to comprehend their workings.

But one thing was certain: Struggle was the instinct of all beings, and “fighting skills,” or using their bodies to attack opponents, were practically an essential part of the evolutionary path for various species.

Even wild animals had to train their hunting skills from a young age.

All these bizarre fighting skills broadened Lu Ping’an’s horizon extensively.

The attacks he witnessed shattered any notion that full armor coverage was tantamount to safety.

As long as they could be used to attack, they were all viable options.

Lu Ping’an even saw creatures with more than a dozen arms, slapping their targets relentlessly like a comedic scene from an anime.

However, the force behind their strikes was enough to shatter mountains—no magical girl could withstand such an onslaught.

What struck Lu Ping’an the most was that each type of “fighting skill” was suited to a specific group or environment.

“…Mastering battles in the sea and against waves is said to be able to cut open the sea at the pinnacle of cultivation…”

With the original interpretation in the hands of these inheritors, the skills had real meaning now.

This set of martial arts was designed for both land and sea combat; the continuous circular dance was the most optimal method for underwater attacks.

Underwater, where the power of collisions and strikes were diminished, the “resonance” caused by this technique acted like a powerful underwater bomb.

Sometimes, “vibrations” were more effective than any bladed weapon underwater.

This wasn’t to say that these techniques were only suitable for underwater combat.

On the contrary, due to the coastal location of the kingdom that created them, the majority of the inhabitants were land-dwelling creatures, making this martial art even more potent on land.

Vibrations were the core of these techniques, and the inheritors demonstrated their own tips and tricks for Lu Ping’an to learn.

Some used bows and arrows to utilize these techniques, making each shot shake the earth itself.

Others were hand-to-hand fighters, their metal gloves able to tear through any armor with a mere touch.

There were also those who wielded whips, their strikes as fierce and destructive as hurricanes.

Hannah showed Lu Ping’an how to use her armor to perform the technique of “Resonance”; as long as she kept getting hit, she could infuse “Silver Charms” into the opponent’s weapon and eventually cause them to explode.

This kind of technique that involves getting hit to make the opponent explode is the ultimate dream of defensive warriors.

Isn’t this an axe technique?

Indeed, it’s not, because they are not the inheritors of Lu Ping’an’s axe technique lineage; they are the last guardians of that lost kingdom.

They are all professional warriors of that “kingdom”, and their resonance battle techniques with the “Silver Charms” as the core is their cultural heritage.

This is not an exception.

Knight collected the souls of warriors from various civilizations, which carried the martial skills passed down by countless warriors.

In a sense, he also collected the final legacy and combat system of various civilizations.

Lu Ping’an’s time was limited; most of what he could do was to experience, observe, and understand.

“Just coming here once brings in immeasurable gains…”

Even without considering the progress he made during these few days, merely exchanging blows with these strange and uniquely skilled opponents brought Lu Ping’an many benefits.

His understanding of martial arts was completely reshuffled.

What standing and fighting is the main road?

As long as the opponent is killed, even if the head is down and the feet are up, it is possible.

The only regret is that his investing ability is completely ineffective on these soul-like creatures resembling living beings.

Despite this, he still felt that there were gains every day, and his worldview was often reshaped dramatically.

The levels of these warriors were not high, and the Warrior Secret Realm of Changping State was not Rust Knight’s most important Earthly Divine Kingdom, but the fighting styles and combat skills demonstrated by these warriors allowed Lu Ping’an’s “Long-Handled Specialist”, “All Weapon Specialization”, and “Fighting Techniques” to grow rapidly.

Every day, countless new contents could be added to Lu Ping’an’s “My Way”.

Are you really a living person?

You don’t seem to get tired or need sleep.”

What even the local soul-like creatures could not understand was Lu Ping’an’s extraordinary spiritual and physical energy.

With the help of drugs and installment payment abilities, in just seven days, Lu Ping’an could easily do several times more than ordinary people.

“Of course, I am only sixteen and can live…

um, many more years, I suppose.”

“Indeed, if not a living person, your progress wouldn’t be this obvious.”

Lu Ping’an’s All Weapon Specialization, his ability to comprehensively use all combat skills and martial arts on chaotic battlefields, was growing astonishingly.

Such a growth rate and visible “strength increase” made many dead spirit warriors sigh in admiration.

Lu Ping’an also noticed that although they appeared like living people in this Secret Realm and had senses and taste to drink, they were not living beings, they had no physical bodies of their own.

Maintaining the purity of the soul without a body was too difficult; how could they carry more pollution and become stronger?

“…If the dead become stronger…

No, even just changing is the worst development, and it will most likely become a catastrophe for mortals.”

Big Cat casually said a sentence, but Lu Ping’an thought about it for a long time.

He was reminded of the Silent Mountain Range World, but Big Cat told him it was different; the true disaster of the dead was far more severe than the Silent Mountain Range World.

In any case, at this time, the one who provided the most guidance for Lu Ping’an was Big Cat.

As all the undead warriors were promoting their own “Martial Arts”, Lu Ping’an lacked the ability to discern.

Many martial arts and techniques were not bad, but not suitable for Lu Ping’an.

In just a few days, it was difficult to even get started, and going the wrong way was basically a waste.

Even if he swallowed everything, he had to choose the valuable ones.

Only Big Cat, who had once stood at the pinnacle of existence, could choose for Lu Ping’an.

After all, when she used Lu Ping’an’s body before, merely having a different body structure and way of exerting force caused him a heavy injury.

Nonetheless, she was still able to use Lu Ping’an’s body to unleash astonishing power, revealing the depth of her foundation.

Hannah, who had paid a considerable price to exchange a ticket for Lu Ping’an, didn’t expect him to learn much.

However, just being exposed to various unorthodox “Martial Arts” in the early stages expanded his horizons, brought tremendous help to a warrior, and directly touched the root of his growth.

Hannah was surprised to find that Lu Ping’an not only saw and thought more but also learned a lot more…

“Already able to integrate some people’s martial arts into his own martial arts?

no, this vision, this growth’s wild intuition, perhaps, is why he became the must-kill target of the Evil Gods.”