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Chapter 16: The Little Girl In The Teht eyes stared at the jade pendant Even though Qin Mu was only eleven or twelve years old, he already understood s

Another time that Qin Mu ith Granny Si to help deliver a baby, unlike the other tragic outco family warmed his heart

This led Qin Mu to ask how he’d been born and where his parents were However, Granny Si wasn’t able to answer him She could only tell him that she had found him in the river and that the jade pendant had been bundled up with him

This was the reason why Qin Mu treasured this jade pendant He hoped that he could one day find his parents with it and ask them why they abandoned him

After some time, Qin Mu put the jade pendant back around his neck where he usually wore it His expression became peaceful as he stored this bizarre incident deep in his heart along with the mystery of the pendant Granny Si, who had kept her distance behind him until that point, returned to their house just before he did

The next day, Old Ma, Blind, Cripple, and Mute continued hunting beasts to refine the blood of the four spirits for Qin Mu These four dangerous e clean, a radius of several hundred miles to be precise, so they had to travel further to capture the spirit beasts that provided blood for refine around on his own, Apothecary frequently had to go out to gather herbs, Butcher was always bitter and went crazy froraphy and paintings

Therefore, Granny Si was the only person who could keep Qin Mu company while he cultivated

However, Granny Si wasn’t always in the village either As a tailor and a es often requested clothes from her or asked her to help deliver a baby

Early this ather herbs Butcher and Deaf carried Village Chief over to the village’s entrance and placed him there Then they both went their separate ways, one sharpening his knives and the other painting

Overcome with boredom, Qin Mu went to the riverbank Ever since his cow had turned into a wootten herself stabbed to death by Cripple, his chores had di by the river, he took a deep breath, his chest swelling with air He then circulated his vital qi and his chest slowly returned to normal size

He had yet to exhale Instead, he used his vital qi to nourish his lungs, h Then he co it to shrink by ten times

Qin Mu continued to breathe in and his chest still didn’t expand The moment he reached his li forth like an arrow shot from a bow!

Qin Mu sprinted across the river like a hurricane, splitting the water into taves that erupted outward in his wake

Then, all of a sudden, gleaSlaughtering Knife as he ran It shih the air

This was Butcher’s Pig Slaughtering knife skill! Like its creator, this knife skill felt bitter and possessed a wild, do aura that refused to bow to the heavens and the earth The knife shone as it swung back and forth, capable of crushing everything in its path

Without warning, the glihtering Knife to its usual place in the sheath on his back

Transitioning to Old Ma’s fist skill, he directed his vital qi to his aran to reseh the sky, and gushing into the sea like a never-ending torrent of water

Thunderclap Eight Strikes First For punch after punch, a scene of a raging river flowing into the thunderous waves of an enormous sea appeared inside of Qin Mu’s mind An essence similar to that took shape in his fist skill as well

However, the ers and pal uncontrollably The air in front of his pal the surface of the river and sending water all around hiht as he ran "I still can’t achieve thunder in palhed upon Qin Mu The lowest level of Old Ma’s Thunderclap Eight Strikes required the practitioner to achieve thunder in pal thunder that possessed astonishing power and could seize a person’s soul

It would then becohest level where one could control thunder and lightning with their hands, a level that Qin Mu was nowhere near reaching

As Qin Mu continued sprinting, he grabbed a ba the area around hi an ordinary staff skill The skill that Blind taught hireat spear that churned the water of the river like a raging dragon Every swirl, every poke, every flick, and every thrust would be accompanied by a burst of water

Once he was satisfied, Qin Mu traded his ba the latter’s position on his back with the former Then he performed a series of strikes as a display of the haht him This hammer skill was simple and crude, but it possessed several tons of power Each strike was extre, e and practicing each of his skills for a considerable ainning to run low His body started to feel exhausted, his strength nearly depleted Looking at his surroundings, he discovered that he had gone dozens of miles downstreae

"I actually ran this far without realizing it?" he thought