Dominating the Pugilistic World With My Detective Skills - Chapter 17

Chapter 17: Daizhong Way

Translator: Henyee Translations

Editor: Henyee Translations

This lady with the scar was a clear-headed person.

Ye Weiming and her were the only two people in the underground palace now. Based on her current state, she wouldn’t be able to escape if Ye Weiming really wanted to kill her.

Rather than wasting her energy to worry about something she couldn’t control, it was better for her to make use of the time to treat her poison.

Otherwise, with the poison still inside her body, she wouldn’t even be able to defeat the pirates who were wandering around the underground palace.

Ye Weiming shook his head and took out a bottle of realgar wine. He flung the bottle and the wine smashed into the wall behind the lady with the scar on her face. The wine bottle broke and the wine splashed everywhere, drenching the lady.

The lady with the scar opened her eyes again. There was a hint of anger in her gaze as she stared at Ye Weiming. “What are you doing?”

You can kill me but you shouldn’t humiliate me!

If you want to take everything in the underground palace, you can kill me to clear the area. I’m sitting right here, all 50 kilograms of me. Come and fight with me if you dare. If I frown slightly, I’m not a hero!

But, you’re a little overboard when you humiliate me like this.

Where is your character and your bottomline?

Ye Weiming’s gaze landed on the swollen wound between her thumb and index finger on her right hand. The two teeth marks with black blood seeping out looked extremely hideous. “You should know how you were poisoned. There are many poisonous snakes in the underground palace. This realgar wine can prevent those snakes from getting close to you.”

After he finished speaking, he didn’t worry about the lady anymore. He turned his body and waved his sword as he rushed towards the road on the right. With the help of his powerful level 7 Sword of the Yue Maiden, he cleared all the pirates in his path as though he was cutting melons and cabbages. Very soon, he reached the end of the tunnel.

This looked like a deadend but there was a secret path hidden here.

Ye Weiming followed the method Old Man Li wrote down and felt for a hole in the wall under the lamp that was filled with charcoal. It was an inconspicuous hole. He stucked two of his fingers inside and immediately felt a ring. He hooked the ring with the tip of his fingers and pulled it down forcefully.

Crack!

After the trap was activated, the wall at the edge of the tunnel opened with a loud sound, revealing the spacious stone room behind it. There was no light in the stone room. With the help of the lights from the tunnel, he could see three different paths moving out of the squarish stone room.

But, besides those three paths, there was still a huge number of poisonous snakes slithering around the stone room. The room was densely populated with snakes. There must have been at least a few hundred of them. There were snakes on the floor, on the walls, on the stone pillars, on the beams… they were everywhere. After the stone door was opened, the snakes all turned their gaze towards the intruder, Ye Weiming. Ye Weiming felt goosebumps on the back of his neck.

Fortunately, Ye Weiming predicted that this might happen, so he drank some realgar wine before coming in. Those poisonous snakes were afraid of the smell of realgar wine, so they didn’t dare to get close to him so recklessly.

Just to be safe, Ye Weiming took out another bottle of realgar wine. He opened the cap and poured the wine on his body. In an instant, the strong smell of wine spread through the entire secret tunnel.

As the fragrant smell of wine spread, the poisonous snakes quickly retreated far away. Ye Weiming gathered his courage and walked into the stone room when he saw this. Then, he took out a torch that he had prepared beforehand and felt around to test the other switch inside the stone room. The stone door that he entered from closed.

At this moment, Ye Weiming’s path of retreat was blocked. He was sharing a room with those snakes that made him very uncomfortable just by looking at them.

He turned his head back. Using the light from the torch, Ye Weiming started carefully observing the wall on his left. This was the part of the wall that was blocked by the stone door a moment ago.

Ding! The passive technique ‘post mortem’ is activated. You have realized that the 13th stone tile on the bottom left-hand side of the stone wall seems very loose. It looks as if someone had dislodged it before.

After receiving the hint from the system, Ye Weiming couldn’t help but curse the designers of this game for being too mean.

When the stone door was opened, the players wouldn’t be able to see the spot where Old Man Li hid his treasure. If they wanted to discover the secret, they had to first close the stone door. However, the stone room was filled with colorful, poisonous snakes while there was a spacious and bright tunnel behind them. It would require much courage for someone to shut down their only path of retreat.

In addition, based on the structure of the stone room, the paths ahead and the empty platform in the middle of the stone room seemed even more mysterious and enticing. Compared to them, this corner behind the stone door was undoubtedly an area that would be easily disregarded.

Without Old Man Li’s map as guidance, even Ye Weiming, a professional who had the post mortem technique, might miss the treasure, much less the other players.

Ye Weiming stretched his hand out and dislodged the stone tile that had been taken out of the wall before. He found an oilcloth behind the stone tile. There was something wrapped in it. After taking it out, he immediately opened it. You have received ‘Daizhong Way’ secret scripture ×1.

Daizhong Way (Ultimate): The most powerful sutra of Mount Tai Sect. It allows you to gain exceptional mental arithmetic skill so you’re able to predict your opponent’s movement and break their stance in a single move! Cultivation requirements: None.

Ultimate sutra!

It was actually an ultimate martial arts scripture! And it was a sutra too!

Before this, the highest level martial arts scripture Ye Weiming had was the beginner level lightness kungfu that Chou Ba contributed, Eight Step Chasing Toad. He didn’t expect to be able to get an ultimate martial arts secret scripture this time!

In ‘Eternal Justice’, the martial arts skills were segregated into different categories based on their power. There were six levels of martial arts: lackluster martial arts, beginner martial arts, intermediate martial arts, advanced martial arts, ultimate, and invincible. Based on their type, they were distributed into three categories: internal energy, moves, and cultivation formulation.

Among these three, cultivation formulation was the more special one. Most of the time, advanced martial arts had their own cultivation formulations. Since a cultivation formulation could only be used along with a martial arts skill, the level of the cultivation formulation wasn’t high. Thus, a powerful sutra that could be practiced individually was extremely precious.

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Mind you, there was a limit to the number of martial arts skills a player could learn. They couldn’t just learn as much as they wanted.

In the players’ skills page, there were only 13 internal energy columns and 13 moves columns. If they wanted to learn a new skill after all the columns were filled, they needed to forget one of the martial arts they had learned. In that case, the additional attributes acquired through the cultivation of the martial arts would be cleared entirely as well.

But, cultivation formulation was a bit special. There was no limit to the number of sutras you could practice. But, there was only one column for cultivation formulation. That meant that no matter how many sutras you practiced, you could only enjoy the attributes given by the sutra you placed in the cultivation formulation column.

After all, sutras cultivated the heart and mind. Which sutra you chose depended on your mental state during a fight. It was better to focus on one single sutra.

Here, we need to look at the cultivation requirements of ‘Daizhong Way’ again. There were no cultivation requirements!

Did this mean that he could practice it now?

Ye Weiming slapped the sutra without any hesitation. The sutra turned into a flash of white light and disappeared in front of him. At the same time, the system notification appeared just as he expected.

Ding! You have learned ‘Daizhong Way’.

Daizhong Way (Ultimate)

The most powerful sutra of Mount Tai Sect. It allows you to gain exceptional mental arithmetic skills so you’re able to predict your opponent’s movement and break their stance in a single move!

Level: 1

Proficiency: 0/1,000

Damage +10%, Critical Hit +10%, Critical Damage +10%

During a battle, you can activate the sutra so that it runs automatically. You will be able to calculate your opponent’s move and break their moves!

As expected of an advanced sutra, it actually increased the damage and critical damage based on percentage. This meant that as he advanced in the game, the power of this sutra would increase. It would be able to increase the limit of his damage. What’s more, this sutra was just at level 1 now. As its level increased, its effects would increase too!

These numbers were only for normal circumstances. What would the situation be like if he activated the effects cultivation formulation?

Just thinking about it made him excited!

Ye Weiming calmed his emotions down before opening the stone door again. He left the frightening snake pit.

He turned a corner and saw the lady with the scar standing at the forked road where they had parted. Her hands were crossed in front of her chest and she was leaning against the stone wall. The toes of her foot were on the ground while the back of her foot was on the stone wall. She was smiling ambiguously at him.

Ye Weiming had already gotten the sutra, so he didn’t guard against the lady as much as he did before. He walked over casually and said in a teasing tone, “I saw that your injury was quite bad just now. Did you manage to recover fully in such a short time?”

“Of course.” The lady with the scar said proudly, “Besides using concealed weapons, our Tang Clan specialize in poison too. Whether it’s our antidotes or our internal energy, they have powerful inhibiting effects on poisons. The snake poison was strong but given enough time, I’m able to get rid of it without much difficulty.”

“Congratulations. I hope that you will have many gains today.” As he spoke, he had already walked past the lady and was heading back in the direction he came from.

Ye Weiming was extremely excited now. He wanted to find a small monster to test the effects of ‘Daizhong Way’.

“Wait.” The lady with the scar stopped Ye Weiming when she noticed that he wanted to leave. “Are you interested in fighting a boss together? Since you helped me just now, I will only take the items I need for my clan mission. You can take the rest of them.”