Chapter 454 A Sixth-Rank Cultivation Method, and the Tower Shudders

The Beggar Sect’s actions in Shenyu Commandery deeply shocked Su Wangchuan and also served as a warning.

In the face of those terrifying Beggar Sect experts, the hall he had built up might not be as impregnable as he had imagined.

Fortunately, he had already distributed a large number of martial arts manuals in the early stages.

Now, the Sanhe Commandery Hall had more than three hundred first-rank martial artists, more than one hundred second-rank martial artists, and the number of third-rank martial artists had already risen to twenty-seven.

Wang Yuehui had specifically contacted all sides to learn how everyone’s cultivation was progressing, and discovered that Bai Yuhui had already broken through to the Fourth Rank with the help of a Lesser Rejuvenation Pill.

Lin Jiahe had also broken through to the Fourth Rank.

Wang Yuehui, Hong Kaibao, Chen Ergou, Zhao Heiniu, Yang Feiyue, and Ye Baiyi were all within ten attribute points of the Fourth Rank. In less than a week, they would likely break through one after another.

Bai Jingtang had now returned to Sanhe Commandery and was stationed at the hall. She studied one niche cultivation method each day, stacking her attributes at high speed. In less than half a month, she should be able to charge into the Fifth Rank.

Su Wangchuan temporarily changed his plan and began focusing on the sixth-rank 《Thirteen Overlapping Waves Spear》, intending to raise his Strength first so that if anything went wrong, he could immediately break through to the Sixth Rank.

In short!

Safety came first!!

He wanted to raise the hall’s overall strength by another level in the shortest time possible!

When that time came, even if the Beggar Sect sent a sixth-rank expert into Sanhe Commandery and forced a hall assault, he would at least not collapse and die on the spot.

Su Wangchuan specifically informed Bai Jingtang of this matter.

After thinking it over, Bai Jingtang suggested that Ye Baiyi bring people with her on a trip into the mountains, to the ruins of the Five Poisons Sect sub-branch.

Su Wangchuan immediately understood what she meant and agreed.

After Bai Jingtang left with her people, he buried himself in offline training and continued cultivating 《Thirteen Overlapping Waves Spear》.

As a sixth-rank strength-type spear technique, its destructive power was astonishing!

With internal force infused into it, every move could carry four points of internal energy. Once internal force flooded the weapon, its explosive force became terrifying. When it was swung and lashed about in the water, it produced sharp, piercing sonic booms, and even the spray became capable of cutting and injuring.

《Thirteen Overlapping Waves Spear》 had to be practiced in water to simulate real combat. One had to use the resistance and tension of the water to guide the explosive force out!

Standing in the swimming pool, Su Wangchuan wielded the refined iron spear in his hands like an enraged dragon bursting out of the sea. It whipped up crashing sprays, rose with a howl, then smashed back down with explosive force.

BOOM!!!

The tremendous impact made the surface of the pool churn like a storm-tossed sea, surging wildly and spilling over the edges again and again.

Su Wangchuan’s movements were agile and powerful, and the spear shot out like a dragon!

The violent internal force easily tore through sheets of water. Move after move, it pulled the spray around him from all directions, forming layer after layer of waves, like a transparent cage. It was an astonishingly beautiful sight.

But only a martial artist could sense the danger hidden within it!

Those seemingly beautiful waves each contained terrifying destructive force. Two of the security robots originally stationed nearby had already been smashed apart, and the rest had all retreated to a distance.

Each security robot cost one million.

If one broke, he would just buy another.

It did not affect Su Wangchuan’s training in the slightest.

Amid the raging waters of the pool, Su Wangchuan unleashed 《Thirteen Overlapping Waves Spear》. After completing all thirteen moves, he immediately began again!

Ten full rounds increased the experience value by 1 point.

And consumed 520 points of internal energy...

A sixth-rank cultivation method!

At this level, it already required an enormous amount of internal energy just to gain a single point of experience.

Standing in the water, Su Wangchuan circulated 《Xuanwu Art》. After several full circulation cycles, his internal energy returned to its peak state, and then he resumed training...

He gained roughly 1 point of experience every twenty minutes.

After about a day and a half—

“Ding!”

System prompt:

“《Thirteen Overlapping Waves Spear》 has risen to ‘Minor Mastery.’ Reward: +1 Strength.”

At that point, Bai Jingtang’s group also returned.

When he saw her, Su Wangchuan noticed at once that her aura had changed completely. Dressed in white and carrying a white sword, her gaze was clear and bright, her spirit full, and her presence had become even more ethereal and refined. She felt like a fine sword that had just barely left its sheath.

“Captain Bai, you broke through?”

Su Wangchuan’s eyes lit up.

Bai Jingtang nodded.

“The Five Poisons Sect’s 《Snake Control Art》 really was useful. There weren’t many snakes left in the snake den, but it was still enough to push all five of my niche cultivation methods to Entry-Level Mastery and let me break through to the Fifth Rank.”

“Congratulations, Captain Bai!”

Su Wangchuan was overjoyed and immediately offered his congratulations.

The hall now had one more fifth-rank martial artist! Its safety had gained yet another layer of assurance.

“I’m preparing to make a trip back to the Qingcheng Sect and learn a sixth-rank cultivation method. I’ll be back within three days at most.”

Bai Jingtang knew that Sanhe Commandery Hall only had third-rank techniques available, so she intended to first learn a sixth-rank cultivation method from the Qingcheng Sect to firmly establish her strength as a fifth-rank martial artist.

“Good!”

Su Wangchuan nodded forcefully.

“Go early and return early, Captain Bai.”

“I will.”

Bai Jingtang knew that the Caobang was currently under threat from the Beggar Sect and could be attacked at any time, so she did not dare slack off in the slightest. After all, she now belonged to the Caobang as well, and the entire studio was making its living under Su Wangchuan. Naturally, she had to shoulder that risk together with him.

As the news spread that the Caobang was being targeted by the Beggar Sect, the people in Sanjiang Studio, the Warring States Building, and Red Moon Mall, along with the Caobang NPC disciples, all became noticeably more serious in their training.

The training grounds in the hall were packed to capacity!

Even the front courtyard and the smaller side courtyards had additional iron dummy stakes installed for practice.

Almost every day, people came to report that someone had advanced or broken through.

The good news was that the strength of the hall’s brothers was steadily increasing.

The bad news...

As everyone’s rank rose, their salaries rose with it. Very soon, the monthly wage expense had already surpassed two thousand taels of gold.

Fortunately, Su Wangchuan had money, so he remained calm.

Right now, the most important thing was keeping the hall safe!

Money was a minor matter.

He buried his head and continued cultivating 《Thirteen Overlapping Waves Spear》!

As 《Thirteen Overlapping Waves Spear》 reached Minor Mastery, the spear art’s explosive force became even fiercer.

When he trained, the surface of the ten-by-twenty-meter swimming pool was completely thrown into violent upheaval. The water slammed again and again into the edges at high speed, giving people the feeling that the entire building was shaking.

Standing inside the pool felt like standing in the middle of an earthquake.

As Su Wangchuan unleashed a full chain of spear moves, the surging sheets of water rose high like transparent bolts of silk, growing denser and sharper, their cutting force interwoven, a cage hidden within the waves, murder concealed within beauty!

The sixth-rank spear art radiated frightening might!

Su Wangchuan no longer dared imagine how the fifth-rank 《Raging Tide Sword Art》 could possibly withstand 《Thirteen Overlapping Waves Spear》 if both were at the same realm.

The experience value continued to grow, 1 point at a time, at a painfully slow pace.

But at the same time, the situation in Shenyu Commandery was also collapsing little by little.

They had successively lost four Hall Masters.

Four elders had been wounded.

The Beggar Sect kept pressing the attack. Constable Captain Yu of the Six Gates and Divine Physician Shen of Medicine King Valley sent over news from time to time, updating him on the situation in Shenyu Commandery.

In only a few short days, more than twenty subordinate branch factions and dock halls under the Shenyu Commandery Hall had successively gone dark, completely severing contact with the Caobang.

Either the faction leaders had been killed, or the branch faction chiefs had defected to the Beggar Sect with all their people.

The pressure was now bearing down directly on the few remaining branch helms of Shenyu Commandery!

Those branch helms no longer dared send out shipping fleets, afraid that they would lose both the wife and the army, suffering disastrous losses on every side.

Shenyu Commandery’s shipping business had come to a complete halt.