Chapter 293 - 263 Hidden Danger
"Inner Strength! The Nine Yin True Scripture! My god, does that stuff really exist?"
Jack paced excitedly around the dorm, gesticulating nonstop with his hands and feet.
He had previously studied the Myriad Streams Five Elements and the Breathing Technique, combined with the abilities of a Chosen One, his progress was visibly fast.
He knew that if he could get his hands on Inner Strength, he would be able to improve as well.
"You don’t know, little Xian and Glasses are complete monsters. They have such a huge innate advantage, innate extraordinary skills, and they improve so quickly. When I first developed my strength, I surpassed little Xian once, but now he’s started learning too."
Jack aired his helpless complaints on this side.
"You, outperforming little Xian with your strength? I don’t believe it, he must have let you win."
Little Xian and Glasses were both innately demonized, so even before they started absorbing Yuan Force, they weren’t weak. With only strength in defense, which has weaknesses, it’s very difficult to defeat them.
"So you really don’t trust me?"
Jack first grumbled a complaint, but then he continued,
"He wasn’t in his demonized state when we fought."
This made Tao Yu roll his eyes. Oh boy, you’re using strength to fight someone who isn’t even in their demonized state?
After all, once demonized, they’re already restricted and affected; if not transformed, they’re at most just a bit stronger physically. If you can’t win under those circumstances, you might as well throw in the towel.
"Alright, enough with the impatience; otherwise, it’s very difficult even to get started. It took me a long time to learn back then. I’m just giving you a leg up. If you haven’t got it in half a month, wait for the coach to come back..."
When Tao Yu rode over on Sun Shiyu’s bike, he also passed by Little Black’s territory and those Shaolin monks’ convoy.
But since he was busy, he didn’t bother to take another look.
But he should be arriving soon.
"Haha, did you forget how quickly I picked up the Stance Skill? I’m a martial arts prodigy, mastering Inner Strength is a piece of cake!"
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"Buddy, teach me one more time, just one more time!"
Jack kept clutching his own hair, looking anxiously distressed.
What the hell, there’s some vague and highfalutin stuff, totally incomprehensible.
"You should practice the Muscle Changing and Bone Forging Scripture first; once your aptitude improves, start with the Shaolin Breathing Technique, and then we’ll move on to the Muscle Changing Scripture. Forget the Nine Yin True Scripture."
In the end, Tao Yu made Jack choose the path of his own family.
Changing aptitude with the Muscle Changing and Bone Forging Scripture, using the Shaolin Breathing Technique as a prerequisite, and then seamlessly connecting to the Muscle Changing Scripture made the steps much simpler.
But even so, Tao Yu couldn’t help but throw in a sarcastic comment,
"Heh, a martial arts genius..."
Tao Yu’s words sent Jack into a spiral of self-doubt; he regretted boasting...
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While Tao Yu was teaching Jack the basics of Inner Strength, their exchange in the stall area was noticed by some people, who then treated the information as intelligence to be compiled and circulated amongst different places.
"Hmm? Jack, oh, that lucky kid from the outer city."
"A major shareholder of Dada Company is back?"
"Interesting, seems like things are heating up again."
"Bru and those guys ended up being bought by Dada; wonder how much they had to bleed for that."
"Maybe we could collaborate."
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The newly developed Development Zone was fraught with many powerhouses and chaotic scenes, with different individuals having starkly different attitudes.
But the vast majority chose to wait and see for the time being.
Although the major shareholder of Dada Company had been missing for over half a year, current rumors that he’d caught the eye of the Suns’ siblings weren’t unfounded. Dada Company was still maintaining a neutral stance, an extremely rare occurrence.
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The specific extent was unknown, but for most Inner City Pioneers, they certainly wouldn’t rashly do anything to offend.
Even those who wanted to test the waters would prefer to let others try first.
As it stood, the first batch who went to probe, Bru’s team, had turned coat and colluded with the enemy.
This team, initially targeting the Forest 02 world fragment, had come back empty-handed, barely even getting a taste of the pie.
At that time, Dada Company’s territory was the most desirable, and they easily persuaded them to go and make a move.
If Dada Company showed any sign of weakness, they might even have to cede more territory.
But who would’ve thought the outcome would be the absorption of Bru and his team!
A little over a month ago, they abruptly announced they were taking over the protection of Dada Company’s territory.
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In fact, Dada Company was not weak; Panda, the son of a high-level partner, had done quite well to build up such a big plate and unite so many sides.
Now, with the addition of Bru and his team, even the territory they currently occupied was completely defendable.
Those who had a good relationship also inquired with Bru’s team to find out how much they were paid and the extent of their collaboration.
But all they got in return were Bru and his team’s looks of deep resentment, not revealing anything, tight-lipped.
This made other parties a bit perplexed.
Among these Inner City forces gathering information, while most chose to watch from the sidelines, there were others who absolutely couldn’t sit still...
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In Las Vegas, within an Alien farm, a black wild boar man holding a walkie-talkie listened to its contents, his pig face growing more ferocious, drooling at the mouth under his boar tusks.
"He’s back? How could he be back, how?!"
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His frantic and urgent expression caused a white wild boar man lying lazily on a spacious sun chair soaking up the sun to speak indolently,
"Prickle, what’s gotten into you?"
Wearing only a pair of shorts and adorned with a necklace and sunglasses, the white boar man looked very laid-back.
"Big Bro, it’s that kid I mentioned before. The guys in the shed are all down, no trace of them alive or dead. It’s just that he also hasn’t come back for more than half a year. Maybe he’s hiding due to the fear of the murder being exposed," the black wild boar hurriedly explained to his brother.
He knew of the other’s Taming Technique and that he might have caught the eye of some bigshot.
Still, he dared to act with such impunity because he had his own confidence.
His family was a ’Beast Taming Noble House’!
In his view, he was just a kid who got lucky with a rare skill. After all, who could blame him for someone disappearing in the wild?
He even had an alibi for the time.
As long as everything was done cleanly, there would be no problems, no troubles that couldn’t be taken care of!
The bigshots of Float City couldn’t possibly be omniscient, there were too many ways to deceive them.
It would have been best to extract the source of the Taming Technique or learn it; even if he didn’t succeed, it didn’t matter!
Eliminating a potential competitive threat was a no-lose situation either way.
Today, the best Aliens tamed in the Development Zone were all thanks to their family’s secret Beast Taming methods.
Unfortunately, though their family’s Beast Taming secrets were effective, they still paled in comparison to the Taming Technique of that country bumpkin from the Outer City.
His Alien Queen had remained quite docile and cooperative even after half a year, which was unimaginable for their professional Beast Tamer family.
"Heh, so it’s him. If he’s related to the Suns, then there’s definitely trouble. You weren’t thorough enough in your work. How could you use the method you’d use for hunting ordinary Inner City Pioneers? If he had just died, there was no need to worry about having an alibi. Even the bigshots of the Floating City wouldn’t avenge a dead man.
If you had followed him yourself, wouldn’t that have solved all the problems..."
The white wild boar man, now slightly more serious, sat up from his sun chair...
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