Sword Among Us

Panda Novel

After falling behind everyone else for one and a half years, what was the thing Happy lacked the most?

Time?

No!

It was qi and the levels for his martial arts.

No matter what, Life and Death Realm martial arts were weaker than Moksha Realm martial arts. That was why Happy would focus so much on practicing Moksha Realm martial arts so that he could increase his overall abilities. This way, he could ensure that he had the strength to fight against Dream Clouds and Blood Robes.

Dream Clouds and Blood Robes were actually not among the top-class elites.

At least, in the other world, those two could not bring out the full power and profound secrets within their ultimate techniques, and they could not even win against Silver Wolf.

If they were at the exact same level, Happy was confident that he could subjugate Silver Wolf, but he was confident that he could defeat subjugate Blood Robes and Dream Clouds while he was just slightly weaker than they were!

Hence, as long as his Moksha Realm martial arts, body fortification, and lightness skill went up, Happy was even confident that he could go and attack the branches for Blood Alliance and Class One Hall!

Unfortunately, the higher the realm for a martial art was, the more time was required to train it. This was the place that limited Happy’s development the most.

Fortunately, before he left Mount Song, he obtained Ten True Dragon Styles, which did not need to be leveled up, and Tendon Changing Classic, a supreme treasure that could strengthen a body’s recovery abilities and which could largely strengthen his attributes and widen his meridian system. Before long, he entered Moksha Realm.

But to Happy, this was not enough.

This was different from his situation in the other world. Right now, he was alone against the giants that were Blood Alliance and Class One Hall.

The two top-class sects could bring him a fatal threat at any moment!

This was also why he had not wanted to use the Illusion Life and Death Pill in his hands to recover from his injuries, because he was prepared for the worst case scenario to happen to him at any moment.

Once Blood Alliance and Class One Hall started attacking him with everything they had, he would have very little time remaining to fight, and the number of times he would die would just increase.

Hence, once he obtained a possible shortcut from Demonic Venomous Larva, Happy chose to look for the second Demonic Venomous Larva without hesitation.

“Ghost Scorpions’ weaknesses are in their mouths. Pay attention to that.” Once he said that, Happy quickly charged out of the small valley.

“Mouth?”

“Let’s try it.”

“Aim accurately!”

“Stop hitting its mouth. Fire only when it opens its mouth!”

“I got it! It really works!”

“Haha! Awesome! The shell of a Ghost Scorpion is a pretty good material, and we can sell two hundred thousand for it! From now on, I’ll use hidden weapons to fight against them! You just concentrate on grinding.”

Hunter Clan swiftly divided their tasks.

The group of trap masters truly managed to withstand the attacks from all eight monsters in the valley with Happy’s guidance, and that was without Happy around them.

*****

Based on what Mu Qi said, Demonic Venomous Larvae only appeared at night, and there were not many of them.

But Happy was clearly lucky.

When he came out of the valley Hunter Clan occupied, he was just in time to run into a group of players running out of their valley in an incredibly pathetic fashion. A few of them cursed up a storm gloomily.

“Darn it all! We ran into another Demonic Venomous Larva!”

“Hurry up and get those two unlucky sods out of here! We’ll have to find another place to train.”

“This is the second time!”

“What the heck?!”

Happy had a thought appear in his head, and he arrived in front of the group. “My friends, if I might ask you something? You mentioned that you ran into a Demonic Venomous Larvae just now. Where are they?”

“Bro, you have Demonic Venomous Larva’s scent on you as well. Don’t touch that thing.”

“Ghost’s Domain is never peaceful when it’s night time. I didn’t think that there’s someone who’s just as unlucky as us. Hey, remember this well. There’s one over there, and if you go sixth-tenths of a mile forward, there’s another one in a valley without any torches not far away to the left. Don’t enter that place.”

This group of people were pretty good. They took the initiative to point Happy to where the places were, and once they gave a warning to Happy, they left.

Happy thanked them repeatedly, and once they left into the distance, he quietly entered the valley. At the same time, he put on some torches outside. This way, even if there were no traps outside the valley, no one would enter.

Once the torches were lit, he quickly heard the unique wails from Demonic Venomous Larva, and it was just as piercing as ever.

Two scorpions, a cluster of spiders, along with Demonic Venomous Larva entered Happy’s sight.

Clang!

He drew his longsword, and Happy looked at that Demonic Venomous Larva with a firm gaze.

‘I’ll use you to verify my hypothesis…’

*****

Approximately forty minutes later, that Demonic Venomous Larva and a group of monsters all died around Happy.

This time, just as Happy expected, he heard a continuous stream of system notifications.

‘I didn’t think that it would be truly effective, though…’

Happy looked at his own hands, and there was shock and delight on his face.

Sixth realm!

Since Illusory Cave Step was a lightness skill at Moksha Realm, even if he ran nonstop for a whole day, he might not be able to push it to even one or two realms higher. However, once he killed one Demonic Venomous Larva, he managed to enter the sixth realm straight away, and he was now one whole realm higher than before.

Also, his Great Demonic World Destruction Art was another five levels higher, and it had now reached the peak of the sixth realm. It was now about to hit the seventh realm. Even if he had only attacked for only around forty minutes, he still managed to level it up by two levels.

It had to be known that after he pushed his Great Demonic World Destruction Art to the middle stage, he leveled up slower, and he would need around one day before he could push it to another realm.

But now, in just two hours, he pushed it to another realm, and the speed was so fast it would shock anyone who heard it.

‘I’ll continue like this!’

He picked up that Demonic Venomous Larva’s poison sac and wings. Then, Happy quickly put them in his Universe Bag. He rushed out of the valley without stopping and headed to the other location where that person just now mentioned had another Demonic Venomous Larva.

With the level up rewards from fighting against a Demonic Venomous Larva alone, he did not need to grind based on a normal method anymore. Even though the normal method could make people become more familiar with each martial art, Happy was already practicing another Moksha Realm sword technique at the other side, and he even had five years of the game to serve as his foundation. He could learn and master any skill he wanted easily.

When Happy found the third Demonic Venomous Larva and killed it with his full strength, he finally noticed something strange.

While the damage in Great Demonic World Destruction Art was great, once it entered the seventh realm, the black flames could leave his body by more than a foot, and it burned as if it was sentient. The speed when it cut outward through the air became faster, and its damage also became greater. Even the figures were already greater than his Universe’s Lightning Destruction Style at Grandmaster Realm. It was now already at thirteen thousand points! With a fourth-echelon masterpiece and the additional damage provided by Moksha Realm, its power could shoot up to more than twenty-four thousand points. It now had two thousand to three thousand points more damage compared to its previous realm.

But this time, Happy still had to use around forty minutes to crush Demonic Venomous Larva’s protective barrier.

‘How can that be?’

Happy was a little puzzled.

‘I can’t speed up? If I have to retain the speed of killing one once every forty-five minutes, I won’t have the time to continue searching for the fourth Demonic Venomous Larva. The sky will be bright by then…’

The torches continued burning in a faint, blue light in the valley, but the miasma in the area had already returned to a slightly grayish-black color. Faint light appeared in the sky.

With endless bafflement, Happy packed up his things before quickly leaving the valley, and he returned to the place where Hunter Clan trained.

“How are your rewards?”

Right when he entered the valley, he was discovered by Mu Qi and the others. They shouted at him loudly.

“Pretty good.” Happy was a little distracted.

“What’s wrong? Were you not very successful because we weren’t around? Or is it…?” Mu Qi saw that Happy was rather absent-minded, and he jumped out of his battlefield to go over and comfort him.

“No…” Happy cast him a puzzled glance. “I’m just curious. My level has increased from fifty-two to sixty-seven. Why did the time I take to kill Demonic Venomous Larva not decrease?”

“Of course. It’s just at sixty-seven… Huh? Wait! How many levels did you say your sword technique has increased?” Mu Qi seemed to have snapped out of his daze and was in disbelief.

“Level 67. It’s the seventh realm, and before long, it’ll enter the eighth realm.”

When he killed the third Demonic Venomous Larva, he only leveled it up by four levels, and later on, the speed in which he could level it up based on him killing Demonic Venomous Larva would slowly decrease as well.

“You weren’t joking?”

“I’m not joking,” Happy spoke in a serious tone.

Mu Qi sucked in a sharp breath and gulped with a lot of force. Then, he demanded with a hoarse voice. “Then, how’s our Illusory Cave Steps? Did it level up?”

“It’s also at the seventh realm.”

When Mu Qi heard Happy’s answer, he swayed, and he took a long time before he could snap out of his daze.

“Boss, don’t toy with me. I practiced my Moksha Realm martial art on and off for almost two months in the past, and I took nearly ten days before I could push it to the seventh realm.”

Mu Qi looked dejected. He did not know whether he should be happy or be in anguish.

“I got myself Class S battle danger assessments.” Happy earnestly comforted Mu Qi. “Besides, you mustn’t let more people know about this. Tell our friends not to spread it out.”

When he heard Happy’s serious order, Mu Qi quickly understood what he meant. As of current, there were very few people who knew how to quickly train like this.

Not that there were many Moksha Realm players in the Chinese server who could fight against a Demonic Venomous Larva alone, anyway. But still, to Happy, this was a fortuitous event.

He used just around one day and two nights to quickly catch up and become a real Moksha Realm player as well as a top-class elite in the Chinese server.

But if this news leaked, Blood Alliance and Class One Hall will definitely surge over like sharks who smelled blood and kill Happy straight away instead of making preparations leisurely while choosing their manpower to fight against Class One Hall.

“Boss Happy, don’t worry. I understand. I promise you that no one will know,” Mu Qi answered with a stern expression.

“Very good!” A confident smile appeared on Happy’s face. “Now that I have this secret. Once night falls, I’ll search for Demonic Venomous Larva and quickly increase my lightness skill as well as Great Demonic World Destruction Art. The long Blood Alliance and Class One Hall stalls their fight against me, the more beneficial it is for me. At that time, I’ll give them a major surprise!”

“By the way, Boss Happy, how much is your qi now?”

“Over the night, it has increased by more than thirty points. It’s pretty good. I’ve already pushed it up to seven hundred points.”

“If Blood Alliance and Class One Hall ignores you, could you level up to Inaction Realm within a short moment?” Mu Qi lowered his voice and whispered in excitement, “At that time, it’ll be fun. When you activate your qi realm, you’ll scare them all off! Haha!”

“I don’t think so. Blood Robes and Dream Clouds won’t give me that chance. They’ll attack the latest in three days! From now on, I have to seize every moment I have to train!”

Happy’s eyes shone with a determined gaze.