Martial Arts Genius with Proficiency System

"Xi.."

"Stop, stop, stop!!! Don't say any cheesy stuff, I hate hearing those the most. As if this thing could come between our brotherhood, it doesn't know how strong my mental strength is!"

"As the saying goes, my heart is like iron, indestructible!!"

Chen Xi interrupted Su Tu, and then threw out an old joke.

"Messing with jokes too much will mess up your brain," Su Tu retorted instantly.

"Hmph, and don't overthink it. I also extracted quite a few benefits from it this time."

Chen Xi gave Su Tu a mysterious smile.

"What benefits?"

"Hehe, let me show you!"

Then he raised his hand, using all his strength, his expression turning a bit grimacing.

Under Su Tu's expectant gaze, he squeezed out a pea-sized ball of light.

"No, I was expecting something big, and you give me this??"

Su Tu was left speechless.

"Don't underestimate this thing!" Chen Xi said.

"This is my superpower, this tiny thing can heal any of your injuries... well, of course, the degree of healing correlates with the size of the light ball..."

"So, this size light ball can heal what level of injury?"

A healing ability, it's the first time Su Tu has seen it so far.

"Er... probably can heal a mosquito bite..." Chen Xi said a bit sheepishly.

"6!"

Su Tu commented.

This power is beyond useless, it's almost too useless.

Su Tu also checked Chen Xi's body and found that the Kammon Race indeed only gave Chen Xi this ability.

"If you get hurt, don't ask me to save you!"

Chen Xi protested defiantly.

"Bro's a perpetual motion machine, you know that? Let's put it like this, after a fight, there's not a drop of my own blood in my health bar."

That statement was not an exaggeration at all.

With the combination of Eternal Life and plundering abilities, if there were real danger and severe injuries, it would be more effective for Su Tu to just punch Chen Xi a few times to recover rather than relying on the tiny light ball's negligible healing power.

"Tsk!! Don't underestimate a healer, okay! When the day comes, if I save you, you better come up with one of your classic quotes."

"Guaranteed win!"

Chen Xi fantasized happily.

The two chatted a bit longer, and Chen Xi noticed that Su Tu seemed a bit absent-minded, so he got up to leave, allowing Su Tu to focus on his own matters.

Indeed, Su Tu was thinking deeply; he wanted to know if his guess was correct, whether the Kammon Race was related to his teacher's heart knot.

He planned to head to the martial arts hall and ask Brother Hu about the Kammon Race, as to why not ask Old Zhou directly.

Haha... Old Zhou is the most stubborn person Su Tu has ever met in his life; it's said that even at death's door, his mouth would still be sharp, passing down tales for generations. If he asked Old Zhou, he would definitely see the old man casually reply,

"Just focus on your cultivation, don't worry about anything else."

Su Tu decided to change clothes and go out.

Downstairs, Chen Xi was humming and walking step by step. As he passed by the Laogong Restaurant, Uncle Gong happened to be basking in the sun outside.

"Yo, young man, you're in a good mood today."

"Did you just come down from Xiao Tu's place?"

Uncle Gong smiled as he greeted Chen Xi.

Chen Xi also chuckled; having that matter resolved truly lightened his load. Although he hadn't been bewitched, having a voice nagging in his ear every day was enough to drive anyone crazy.

"Yeah, just came down, heading home now."

"Since I ran into you, I have something to ask," Uncle Gong was adjusting a large wooden stake at the entrance, looking quite heavy.

"What's up, ask away," Chen Xi replied straightforwardly.

"I want to know if Xiao Tu likes pets?"

"He's alright with them, we fed stray cats together when we were young."

"Why? Are you planning to give him a pet?" Chen Xi asked curiously.

"Yup," Uncle Gong replied.

"What kind of pet? Show me, show me," Chen Xi was very interested.

"A cow, haven't caught it yet, but in a couple of days, heh heh," the old man replied with a smiling face.

"Huh?? A pet... cow??"

Seriously, who keeps a cow as a pet?

Can that really be a pet?

Thinking of Su Tu leading a cow around, maybe even riding it, Chen Xi couldn't help but chuckle.

But he didn't take it seriously, just thought the old man was joking, laughed it off and walked away.

After Chen Xi left, Uncle Gong straightened the wooden stake and took out a circle-like object, not quite copper, not quite iron, and started playing with it repeatedly.

Uncle Gong glanced meaningfully upstairs and then at Chen Xi's departing figure.

"To make a perfect dish, you need eggplant, potatoes, and green peppers. The chef searched for years and lucked out finding a rare potato, but the green pepper was a bit rotten,

so I thought I could do without it, just using potato and eggplant would do. But how did this green pepper manage to flop out on its own."

The old man muttered. After being kicked by a Martial Artist last time, a scar was left across his forehead, itchy now.

....

"Are you saying the Kammon Race left the North Sea and now has come back!"

In the martial arts hall, Li Hu and Xiao looked at Su Tu seriously.

With personalities like theirs turning serious, it shows how wide-reaching the Kammon Race's connections are.

Su Tu nodded and told them everything he had just learned.

"I've searched for it so long, and yet the Three Deceits Cult had banished it."

"After running so long, the score must be settled." Xiao adjusted the red sunglasses on his nose, the red light flashing with a hint of murderous intent.

Li Hu frowned as well.

"So, is it targeting you?"

"Did you find us now wanting to use yourself to lure it out?"

Su Tu nodded at those words; that thing remembered his scent and came specifically for him this time, making it the ideal prey.

"Not bad for my junior brother, got guts!" Xiao remarked with a smile.

"No way!!" But Li Hu resolutely refused.

In an instant, the two men's gazes clashed fiercely.

"I can't let him use my junior brother as bait!"

"I didn't say to use him as bait, but if that thing is targeting him, should he hide? Don't you know, a Martial Artist cannot retreat; retreat once and you'll retreat twice and thrice. The fighting spirit inside fades away, and your path for life is cut off!"

Xiao stood firm without yielding.

Usually timid before Xiao, Li Hu was unprecedentedly steadfast now.

"Fighting between equals might count as dodging, but how is the Kammon Race equal? If this weren't Ancestor Star with the martial spirit suppressed, even a Celestial Being Venerable wouldn't lean to provoke that thing without a group!"

"Little junior brother, must not go!"

"If anything happens, I will fall before the junior brother. Since entering the Martial Arts Dao, he hasn't lost. A great momentum is about to form; if he retreats this time, the momentum might disperse!"

Xiao stood up, his voice turning colder, "A Martial Artist cannot retreat, and if the old man's heart knot is untied earlier, then the Life Fire could stabilize sooner, gaining more time to revive the Dao Lineage."

"Xiao, normally I fear you, respect you, even yield a step to call you senior sister, but do not forget what you should call me?"

Li Hu also stood, his aura terrifying, with two ancient and fragmented words flashing on his arms, seemingly falling leaves, but inexplicably, Source-Seeing Realm's Xiao seemed somewhat delicate compared to him.

This usually honest and straightforward Li Hu seemed extremely unfamiliar now, even Xiao's face turned pale.

"You've lost it. The shackles can't be broken!" Xiao's voice had its first hint of panic.

"Then junior brother can't be bait!"

"I've said it already, that's not bait!"

While they argued, Su Tu weakly raised a hand and said,

"How about telling me what the teacher's heart knot is, and then let me decide for myself?"

.... It's the end of the month, asking for some monthly votes, love you all.