Qin Ming left the scene with the bronze ancient sword, he wasn’t in a hurry to go back to the eagle like mountain, instead he continued to search for Spiritual herbs in the forest, and also find some Spirit monsters to spar.
There was still ten days of time left till they need to gather, this was a rare chance where he could come out, so he didn’t want to waste it.
After resolving the threat from Zhao Ming, he had nothing to worry about.
After a few days, his loot was not bad, being able to find four low grade Spiritual herbs, three low grade Spiritual fruits, and also fought with some Spirit monsters, Qin Ming was working hard to stabilize his position in Spirit Martial realm grade four, and try to have more room for improvement.
On the way he had met a lot of other exploration team, he would always move away from them without meeting them at all.
But today, Qin Ming stayed behind a team and followed them, instead he was slowly walking forward.
By the side of a stream, a group of mercenaries just killed a Tin Bull, they were excitedly skinning the bull and taking the horns, it was all precious treasures, that could fetch a good price in the city.
All of them had belts on them, that is full and bulging, looks like their harvest was not bad.
Qin Ming was taking note of one of the middle aged man, his whole body was covered in lightning arcs, the strong light, shined on his sharp face, giving others a sense of oppression. His right arm actually has lightning snakes around it, it wasn’t a real Spirit monster, it was entirely made out of lightning, it was very life like, as it's snake head hung up high, as if it is roaring at the sky.
This scene, so gorgeous and shocking, it also amazed Qin Ming, causing a thirst to bloom in his heart.
It was this man who pushed back the Tin Bull with one hit, at that moment, his body was covered in eye-piercing lightning, the lightning snake even jumped out from his arms, as it latched onto the bull's body, with a thunder it exploded forming a lightning storm.
"Purple lightning violent snake, expected of being a high grade Martial skill, its power is strong enough, worthy of me spending tens of thousands of gold." the man raised his arm and aimed towards the sky, the lightning scattered everywhere, and the electric snake gave out a passionate hiss. He had already use it a lot of time, but one move is all he need to overpower the enemy, its effect was shocking.
"These kind of tyrant martial skill is only suitable for big brother!" a very hot girl laughed while she praised.
A man who was currently cleaning the bull's horn by the stream, laughed: "our harvest is pretty good, we can exchange it for gold, and then get big brother a set of weapon."
The middle aged man dispersed the electric snake: "no need for weapons, it’s better to get a suitable martial skills for you guys. The stronger your martial skill, the more strong you are, then will we be able to go further. Let’s aim to get every brother to cultivate high grade martial skill in three years."
"We'll listen to big brother." the other mercenaries smiled.
"Who's there! Come out!" the man's eyes suddenly turned cold, as he looked at the area Qin Ming had hid himself.
There’s someone? The other mercenaries immediately picked up their weapons, their expression cold, as they waited for further instruction.
Qin Ming came out from the forest: "I don't have any evil intention, I only came here when i heard some commotion."
"Everyone minds their own business, please!"
"Slow down. I have a pretty decent treasure sword, and I hope to exchange it for your Purple lightning violent snake Martial skill!"
It was a High grade Martial skill, and it's also a lightning type, it was very suitable for Qin Ming.
Azure Cloud Sect does not allow him to cultivate Martial skill, at least it will be like this situation for a very long time.
You wont give? I’ll exchange it myself!
He just happen to have Qiao Chen's bronze ancient sword.
"Treasure sword? Bring it out for to see." the middle aged man silently signaled his brothers to perk up, and pay attention to the surrounding forest, to check if there are other people lying in ambush.
Qin Ming stopped for awhile, and he put on a mask made from tree bark, as he walked out the forest, raising the bronze sword.
The bronze sword trembles slightly, as it give out a ear piercing sound, it's surface was shining brightly and the inscription patterns was very eye catching, from one look, one could tell that it was not ordinary.
The eyes of these mercenaries glowed, good sword!
"Bring it over first." the women's weapon just happen to be a sword, so when she saw the bronze sword, she couldn’t take her gaze off.
Qin Ming stepped back into the forest : "Let's change the location to further front."
"Big brother, could it be a trap?" the other mercenaries warned.
"Split up everyone, we will go have a look." the middle aged man solemnly followed.
Qin Ming walked to a nearby cliff, below it was a raging river, if there was any danger, he would immediately jump own. He still had his concerns about these mercenaries, so he don’t dare to fully trust them.
The middle aged man and woman walked out the forest, and onto the cliff, the others were left in forest staying vigilant.
"Where did this sword come from? Why do you want to trade it away."
"Found it! I saw a group of mercenaries chasing some people a few days ago, I think it was because of this sword, but they were unlucky to meet a group of Red-eyed Spiders, so I was lucky to get it afterwards." Qin Ming wasn’t afraid that people will investigate it, then he would just say that he found it, it’s not like he knew that it was Qiao Chen's. Qiao Chen died because of the group of mercenaries, he had nothing to do with it.
"Let me have a look" the middle aged man could feel that this young man aura, that he is not strong, the reason he picked here was because of safety, thus he slowly let his guard down.
Qin Ming randomly threw up a stone, and slashed with hiss bronze sword, slicing through it easily, the cuts were clear. "Trade it at the same time."
The women's eyes could not cover her thirst, as she silently nudged the man. "Big brother, since you have already studied the Purple lightning violent snake thoroughly already, why not…."
The man hesitated, although he had thoroughly studied Purple lightning violent snake, but I can fetch a good price if I were to auction it away. "My martial skill is high grade realm, what makes you think that your sword is fit to trade with mine?"
"Change or not, suit you, whether its worth or not, your choice." Qin MIng stepped back, standing at the edge of the cliff.
"You went into Yun Luo forest by yourself?"
"This has nothing to do with you."
"What are you called?"
"This has also nothing to do with you, I am here to make a trade with you."
The middle aged man once again hesitated, as he asked the woman: "you really like it?"
"I like it!"
The middle age man took out the Purple lightning violent snake, it was a worn out sheepskin, and threw it a Qin Ming
Qin Ming picked it up and flipped through it, as he at the same time threw the bronze sword.
The woman caught it while it was at mid air, and excitedly played around with it, then her face showed smiles.
"This bronze sword has a very special background, I warn you guys to use it carefully, and not get targeted by others. Good bye then, everyone." Qin Ming directly jumped off the cliff, head first down the thirty plus meter long fall and into the water, causing a loud bang, and spraying water into the sky.
"This brat is quite alert." the woman stood and looked out on the edge of the cliff, she actually had the notion to snatch the Martial skills back.
Late at night!
Qin Ming hid in a covert cave, as he ignited a fire, and read the Martial skill.
Lightning type Martial skills are already very rare, a high grade one is even rarer, he never would have thought that he had a chance to get it.
Except for the Overflowing Sword manual, this was Qin Ming's first time studying a Martial skill.
Compared to the mysterious Overflowing Sword manual, the Purple lightning violent snake is more suitable for Qin Ming at his current stage.
Looking at it, he felt that something was wrong, Purple lightning violent snake had seven moves, each of it looks decent. But taking a closer look, from stage one to five and then to six, it was just about the techniques on guiding, changing the shape, gathering and releasing lightning, there was no type of killing move.
"Did i get scammed?"
Qin Ming frowned, as he studied it thoroughly. There’s no mistake, the first six stages is about how to guide the flow of lightning, and not attacking, it had zero killing power.
"Stage seven, Lightning snake's roar."
Qin Ming quickly flipped to the last page, and studied it, looking with his utmost attention. After a while, Qin Ming steadied his heart, as he breath out a long breath, he had finally understand it, although this Martial skill looks like it had a lot off moves, it actually only has one stage, the seventh stage.
The essence of Purple lightning violent snake is concentrated in this stage.
The previous six stages was about the usage of of lightning, it was also the steps to use the at stage seven.
In order to use 'Lightning snake roar', you need to understand the previous six stage thoroughly, and smoothly does it, and doing it together to form 'Lightning snake', once lightning snake is formed, it will produce a domineering power.
Normally speaking, a high grade Martial skills every stage has decent killing power, and each stage is stronger than the other, every stage would also have its own unique characteristic, while Purple lightning violent snake Martial skill is a violent Martial skill, just like the 'violent' in its name, it seeks to suppress itself until the last moment to release it all out.
After knowing the situation, Qin Ming smiled. As expected, it didn’t let him down.
Three days straight, Qin Ming hid himself in the cave, to study the Purple lightning violent snake, the first six stages looks simple, but to gain enlightenment and familiarity when using, it was quite difficult, especially the last stage of forming 'lightning snake', you must be able to use the first six stage's move with familiarity and quickly too, otherwise the lightning snake won’t form.
The more complicated, the more challenging it is.
Qin Ming was looking forward to the day where he successfully cultivated it, and even more to the power of 'lightning snake's roar'
The fourth day, he packed his Martial skill, carrying the Overflowing ancient sword, he made his way to the 'Eagle mountain' to gather, and wait for other Medicine Mountain to come back.