The City of Terror

Chapter 485: Chapter 485 – Sacrifice! Bajiquan! Unrivaled!

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Given that to be the case, the difference between improving [Military Boxing] to Unfathomable and improving his attributes wasn’t too large. Of course, it was more cost-effective to improve his strength attribute alone.

However, if these 2600 points were invested in [Bajiquan], it would have been much more powerful than just increasing his strength attributes.

Of course, both attributes and skills were an important component of Wei Xiao Bei’s might.

At this moment, he truly felt his heart ache.

However, in the end, he grit his teeth and decided to sacrifice [Military Boxing].

If Wei Xiao Bei didn’t have [Bajiquan] and [Three Emperor Cannon Fist], he would have kept [Military Boxing]. As it stands, the skill was simply too useless.

“Sacrifice!”

Wei Xiao Bei placed his attention on [Military Boxing] for ten whole seconds before finally activating the [Sacrifice] feature.

Suddenly, the words [Military Boxing] started burning and Wei Xiao Bei felt a part of his mind become empty as if many things were vanishing into thin air.

Wei Xiao Bei knew that [Sacrifice] had taken effect. All of his knowledge and experience related to [Military Boxing] was being burnt away. He didn’t dare to tally any longer. He immediately turned his attention to [Bajiquan].

Wei Xiao Bei initially intended to choose [Electrical Work] to be improved. However, after some thought, he realized that [Bajiquan] was probably a better target. After all, [Military Boxing] was somewhat derived from [Bajiquan]. The success rate of this [Sacrifice] might be higher with [Bajiquan] as the target.

Wei Xiao Bei shifted his attention to [Bajiquan]. Traces of purple rushed out of the burning [Military Boxing] and dove into the words [Bajiquan]. This caused [Bajiquan] to start burning as well.

At the same time, Wei Xiao Bei felt his mind starting to ache intensely.

There was no doubt about it. This sacrificing of abilities wasn’t that simple.

At the very least, it should be some sort of adjustment to the soul.

Wei Xiao Bei didn’t know much about the soul, but after reading so many novels, he understood that anything happening to the soul was no small matter. Any careless mistake could result in terrifying consequences.

Just think about. Wei Xiao Bei’s [Enlightenment] only required him to look at someone and he would be able to make them feel a terrible sensation, let alone a feature that sacrificed skills.

From a certain aspect, the pain in his mind was normal and expected. It would be odd instead if his mind didn’t hurt.

The time taken for the sacrifice wasn’t short either. It had been over twenty minutes and [Military Boxing] was still burning away and had yet to fade.

In contrast, [Bajiquan] was starting to look extremely purple. Wei Xiao Bei felt like his attention was almost about to be sucked into the words as he focused on them.

As time slowly passed by, minute by minute, Wei Xiao Bei felt as if he was almost about to pass out from the pain. Fortunately, the pain he had experienced before this and the [Indomitable Spirit] skill allowed him to endure.

It had been over an hour already and the majority of the [Military Boxing] words had burnt away.

Wei Xiao Bei discovered that the rate at which the words were burning away was accelerating. The [Bajiquan] words almost seemed as if it had its own suction force that was continuing to extract purple aura from the [Military Boxing] words.

The [Bajiquan] words were now a bright purple, a speck of purple light appearing at their center.

Finally, the words [Military Boxing] faded completely and the last traces of purple aura flew into [Bajiquan] like swallows returning to their nests.

Wei Xiao Bei felt as if a nuke had gone off in his mind. He heard a loud explosion, so loud that his consciousness was almost blown away.

The purple light in the center of the [Bajiquan] words started to slowly fade away.

This process of fading away took a long time. Even Wei Xiao Bei didn’t know how long he waited for. The purple light was finally extinguished as a spot of black appeared in the same instance, spreading throughout the words. In the blink of an eye, the words [Bajiquan] had been stained completely black.

It was then that Wei Xiao Bei felt the pain in his mind fade away.

However, Wei Xiao Bei was now shocked to find that he couldn’t remember anything about [Military Boxing]. He had even completely forgotten the starting stance of [Military Boxing]. Even the circumstances when he first learned military boxing became somewhat vague and faint. He only remembered the squad leader of the recruits slowly teaching them military boxing, but he could not recall what he had taught at all.

This [Sacrifice] ability was truly powerful!

To think it could erase all memories by which he could recall the moves of [Military Boxing]!

Wei Xiao Bei couldn’t help but activate [Deductive Reasoning] at the thought of this and started a comprehensive examination of his memory and body.

He finally let out a breath of relief after ten minutes of careful examination. No problems had occurred to his body or his memories. Only the memories related to [Military Boxing] had been completely erased.

Wei Xiao Bei then picked up his phone and looked at the time. He was surprised to find that it had been three days and two nights since he first started sacrificing [Military Boxing]!

There were several missed calls on his phone. It was a good thing he had turned on silent mode. Otherwise, the phone would probably have run out of battery.

The missed calls were all from Zhu Xin Yi, Huang Kun, and the others. Surprisingly, two of them were from Zhou Xing Yuan.

Hmm?

Wei Xiao Bei had barely used Zhou Xing Yuan’s connection ever since he became acquainted with Shan Bing. As such, they slowly became more distant from each other.

This was the first time in two months that Zhou Xing Yuan had actively called Wei Xiao Bei.

Wei Xiao Bei started to return the calls. He had Zhu Xin Yi properly manage the things in the dojo and informed her that he was going into seclusion, warning her not to call any more. Xin Yi also mentioned that Zhou Xing Yuan had been visiting repeatedly to look for him.

It seemed like Zhou Xing Yuan had run into an urgent matter. Thus, Wei Xiao Bei returned his call.

When the line connected, Zhou Xing Yuan’s voice rang through from the other end, “Boss! You finally picked up my call!”

Wei Xiao Bei couldn’t help but start laughing. It seemed like Zhou Xing Yuan had been waiting for his call for a while, afraid of making too many calls himself and making him angry.

“I have been in seclusion for the past few days. Tell me what’s wrong.”

Wei Xiao Bei spoke, but his attention shifted to the status panel. His face filled with delight and consequently, his tone became much friendlier.

[Bajiquan] had improved from Unfathomable to Unrivaled!

Moreover, there was a description of the skill after its improvement.

Bajiquan (Unrivaled): The host’s mastery of [Bajiquan] is now unrivaled! As [Bajiquan] has been improved to Unrivaled, the host may spend 2000 evolution points to impart [Bajiquan (Perfection)] to disciples.

In truth, when his skills first reached the Unfathomable level, Wei Xiao Bei had gotten a similar message. When his skill reached the Unfathomable level, he could spend 2000 evolution points to allow his disciples to obtain the skill at peak Expert level.

Wei Xiao Bei felt like this imparting ability wasn’t worth it then.

How many points did he need to spend to raise a skill to Expert level?

350 at the very most!

Yet, imparting the skill required 2000 evolution points! That was nearly 6 times its actual cost!

Of course, if he had enough evolution points to spend, it would be worth it as well. Wasting some points to create some experts was not a bad idea. However, someone who knew a skill at the Expert level could hardly be considered a true expert.

It was a different matter now.

At the same 2000 points, he could impart the skill at the Perfection level!

Increasing the skill to Perfection cost 1150 points and was still double what it should normally cost.

However, think slightly and you would realize that this was much more than cost-effective.

After all, apart from Wei Xiao Bei, who had the status panel, it was incredibly difficult for anyone else to obtain a skill. Moreover, honing this skill to Perfection required training in the Dust World, and even if you were a genius, it would take a minimum of five months to even adjust!

Even Xin Yi and Huang Kun needed Wei Xiao Bei to babysit them for a long time to reach their current level.

An ordinary person would require at least twenty years to achieve this strength, and a genius five years!

Being able to raise the skill by so much with just 2000 points was more than worth it. It simply saved so much time.

Unrivaled!

Images of [Bajiquan] filled Wei Xiao Bei’s mind. He even discovered many of the style’s flaws and weaknesses. However, these weaknesses could be compensated for in his mind. He only needed to spend some time to improve the techniques.

“Boos, I need to ask you for your help on some things ”

Zhou Xing Yuan’s voice came through the phone. Wei Xiao Bei wanted to try the might of his [Bajiquan] and didn’t want to speak to Zhou Xing Yuan any longer. Thus, he replied, “I will be back in a bit. Wait for me at the dojo.”

“Iron Mountain Lean!”

Wei Xiao Bei hung up and tossed the phone to the side. He then limited his speed and strength to an ordinary human’s level and shouted as he charged forward and pressed his shoulder lightly against a three-meter boulder by the pool.

The boulder trembled slightly after his tackle. It then erupted in a loud explosion, turning into countless pebbles that scattered outward in the direction that Wei Xiao Bei had applied force towards.

Just as he expected!

[Bajiquan] at this level, had already exceeded ordinary inner martial arts. To think that Wei Xiao Bei could shatter a boulder so large with the attributes of the average person!

In truth, Unrivaled [Bajiquan] had allowed Wei Xiao Bei’s martial attainment to reach an even higher level.

Due to the lack of secret scriptures he could use as a reference, Wei Xiao Bei could only be sure that he had reached the upper levels or peak of cosmic jing. He might be even infinitely close to the rumored dan jing.

At any rate, Wei Xiao Bei could inexplicably feel the rhythm of the boulder.

Simply put, he could feel the breath of the boulder.

From a more scientific perspective, that would be the vibration frequency and magnetic field of the boulder.

Just like science titan, Nikola Tesla had once said, “Give me a kilotonne of explosives and I can split the Earth in half.” (TN: Not a real quote.)

The basis of this quote was the Tesla Effect that Tesla had discovered. (TN: Not a legitimate scientific effect.)