Beginning with the Ubume Bird - Chapter 43

Chapter 43: Account Settlement

Variegated spots of light which looked like dancing flames scattered in front of Li Yan.

Cha Cai, Kido Minami, He Andong…

Their shadows flashed by one by one.

Li Yan also saw the dark, crowded Walled City, the rats in the disgusting sewer, the busy Kowloon rings, the barefoot girl looking up at him under a gray sky obscured by messy wires…

Li Yan then saw the bloodied weapons he had used, the gunshots that caused the flashing fire, and men’s anger and laughter. He locked his sights on the giant serpent and its sharp teeth.

Li Yan was shocked to observe that his wounds were cured, and he was much more active than usual.

Just then, Li Yan heard a voice and had no more time to look around.

It was hard to distinguish whether the voice belonged to a male or female. Li Yan didn’t find it familiar at all.

“The Walker is able to be healed without using any points.”

The summary of the account is stated below.

General grade: Great

Final Yanfu points: 500 (including 150% increase from the 200 basic points)

Purchasing Limit: 195% (personal activity 76% + completion of all Yanfu cases 30% + three “Probe into Ancient Novels” transcript fragments 30% + killing the hunter 59%)

“You can choose to sell your last transcript fragment to increase your purchasing limit.”

It was referring to the one that Li Yan obtained from Li Jiangyu’s apartment after killing him. There was a shark drawn on the paper.

“There is a witch living in the pond of reeds. She is able to change her appearanceevery five days to an elegant lady, a man, and many more.”

“You have sold your remaining Yanfu pieces and reached the purchasing limit of 200%. 500 Yanfu points have been rewarded.”

“You have exchanged some gold. Your current Yanfu points are a total of 3204.”

“Special rewards: Since this Yanfu case is about the Ubume bird, you will randomly obtain an item about it. This is including, but not limited to, consumables, skills, foreign objects, and inheritance.”

“Since this is the Walker’s first time completing a Yanfu case, the reward is set to be an inheritance, which is not tradable.”

Li Yan suddenly felt his chest scorching. The vivid drawing of Ubume bird was burning, and by the time Li Yan realized what was happening, it had already become ashes. Li Yan unbuttoned his top to reveal a burn mark on his chest. Strings of flames entered into his chest but he couldn’t even touch them. The flames disappeared soon after.

“What…”

[Inheritance]: The spirit of Ubume Bird – The Hooked Star

The Progress of Awakening Ubume Bird: 9%/100% (The inheritance is linked closely with the Walker. By improving the progress, the Walker’s will be extended with improved well-being. A completion in the awakening process means the Walker’s life will be doubled.)

The Owner’s Permanent Procession: The Hooked Star

[The Hooked Star]: Improves the possessor’s attack and speed 90%. (This skill is only initiated when provoked.)

[Dipped in Blood]: Use your own blood to trigger this skill and lock on a particular enemy to attack. The processor determines when this skill will be used. The same amount of accumulated damage will be imposed on your enemy.

(The skill of Dipped in Blood even deals damage to devils, gods, ghosts and demons!)

“When the skill of Dipped in Blood is activated, the Hooked Star will disappear. The duration will be determined by how much damage has been caused.”

“Dipped in Blood cannot be activated if the status of Hooked Star is not maintained.”

Li Yan jumped up and down, “It seems like nothing out of the ordinary.”

However, he wasn’t disappointed at all, because he never expected to extend his life. He only wanted to live healthily.

Li Yan looked around carefully.

He was standing on some black bricks. There was only a bed in the room. In front of him were two doors. One was half closed and the other was locked up with chains.

The half-closed door seemed familiar to Li Yan.

It could lead him back to where he came from.

“I would like to check on items that can be purchased.”

Li Yan lowered his voice as if he was talking to himself. His tone was so serious that he sounded like he was talking to a bank officer.

“Items are listed below. Please note that you can only purchase them in this room.”

Li Yan took a glance around and was surprised to see so many of them. For example:

Cold Weapons:

“[Anonymous Han Sword]: The words carved into the handle say this sword has the spirit of a dragon. It is definitely a cruel, sharp killer, and easy to carry around. This sword costs 10 Yanfu points, but please note that it does not have any magical effects.”

When Li Yan returned, he kept thinking about this sword. Although he had used more expensive weapons, Li Yan preferred this Han Sword much more. He regretted not bringing the sword along with him back then.

“This is totally worth a hundred grand.”

As he said this, a shining sword landed on his hands.

Li Yan held the handle tightly and swung the sword forward. The sound made was as clear and light as a drop of spring water hitting a stone.

It’s hard to describe what a good sword means to a swordsman.

The Li’s of Hejian were well-known for their talents with the sword and spear. Li Yan had been practicing with swords for ten years and spears for fifteen years. He was confident in fighting with both of them.

“Carrying the spirit of a dragon, I name this sword ‘The Ring of Dragon’.”

Li Yan slowly touched the back of the sword before flipping it.

The Ring of Dragon was the perfect name for his Han Sword.

There were also other cold weapons like the Ziwu deerhorn knives that Li Yan had used before, but Li Yan was no longer interested in those.

Li Yan continued to look at the list.

Thermal Weapons:

“[Colt’s m1911] With a capacity of 7+1 bullets at a travelling speed of 253 m/s and shooting speed of 50 shots/min, this handgun is perfect for short distance fights.”

It is worth mentioning that this was one of the most popular handguns in the entire world, and was actually designed by Samuel Colt’s opponent, John Browning.

It is also worth mentioning that although handguns are indeed remarkable, they were not always trust-worthy in the Yanfu world.

“You can purchase it with 15 Yanfu points, along with two complementary bullet clips. Five bullets cost 1 Yanfu point and you have no buying limit.”

[82-1 Plastic handle-less grenade]: Includes 62g of TNT explosives, with a killing radius of six to ten meters.

It’s worth 8 Yanfu points, and you are allowed to buy 20 of them at most.

[RPG-18 Fire rocket gun]: Includes 10 rocket bullets.

It was worth 200 Yanfu points.

“Please note that it does not have any magical effects.”

“Please note that only the thermal weapons purchased by Yanfu points are allowed in the game. The rest will be demolished upon entering.”

There were all sorts of thermal weapons including large, physically demanding weapons like the rifles with a wide diameter.

Li Yan didn’t plan on buying any of those, at least not right now, because they were difficult to hide. Unlike the cold weapons, carrying a huge rocket gun into a studio would be way too eye-catching.

Li Yan still preferred to deal with issues using his fists and a cold weapon. But the things that might happen in the future could be a lot more complicated than what he had already been through.

Li Yan was more excited about the items offered at the end of the list.

Consumable Supplements:

Fighting essence!

[Grade 1 Muay Thai essence]: Increase close range fighting skills by 3%. Only applicable to total skills below 60%.

Each essence container costs 10 Yanfu points.

[Grade 1 Karate essence], [Grade 1 freestyle boxing essence]…

Li Yan scrolled through quickly.

[Grade 2 Krav Maga essence]: Increase close range fighting skills by 5% and thermal weapons by 3%. Only applicable to total skills below 70%.

Each essence container cost 50 Yanfu points.

[Grade 2 ancient Wushu essence (Leg skills)]: Increase close range fighting skills by 6%. The rest of the description is the same as above.

[Grade 2 ancient Wushu essence (Wing Chun)]: The description is the same as above.

All of them were useless to him…

Li Yan’s ancient Wushu skills had reached 83%. These essences were only suitable to low-skill fighters.

[Grade 5 (max) ancient Wushu essence (Eight Trigram Palm)]: Increase close range fighting skills by 10%. The only restriction is that the essence cannot be used to break threshholds of 70%, 80% and 90%.

Each essence container costs 10 Yanfu points, and you could only purchase one of them.

This one…

Li Yan understood that what he had encountered in previous Yanfu cases would become the items purchasable here. This also applied to his opponents.

After spending 200 Yanfu points on the essence, Li Yan purchased four more [Grade 2 thermal weapon essence] to improve his shooting.

One small and four large lights gathered and entered Li Yan’s body.

“You have unlocked thermal weapon skills.”

Current thermal weapon’s skill level: 38%

Current ancient Wushu’s skill level: 89%+4% (The additional part is not able to break the threshhold of 90%, and is thus not shown.)

Li Yan suddenly thought of Zhang Mingyuan. His ancient Wushu skill was stuck at 69%. It seemed that he also couldn’t break the threshhold of 70%.

Li Yan also traded for the Colt’s handgun and some bullets. He tried to shoot at the doors.

Two bullets came out immediately and, though nothing exciting happened, Li Yan indeed felt more skillful.

Such familiarity must be trained for years.

Li Yan clenched his fists and found that his experience was becoming more unbelievable.

He also purchased an armor tattoo!