Martial Arts: I Have Diligence Reward System

Su Yue didn’t eat the Short-snout Pig, but not because he was soft-hearted. He had no seasonings. He didn’t have a fire source, either. Eating raw meat and drinking blood was out of the question; it would lead to all sorts of diseases.

Even before killing the Short-snout Pig, Su Yue could already smell a thick, foul stench. The taste of this pig would definitely be terrible. Even if he had a fire source, without scallions, ginger, or cooking wine to remove the gamey smell, he most likely wouldn’t be able to swallow a single bite of its meat.

”Stupid pig, I’m asking you. Do you or do you not know which Seven-rhombus Bamboo can mutate?”

SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK!

Su Yue forcibly suppressed his anger, asking in the monster pig’s language. It was a very terrible experience.

”Bah! What kind of thing are you? You’re not worthy of speaking to this pig! You have absolutely no right to try and kill me.”

Unexpectedly, the Short-snout Pig was a tough nut to crack. It wasn’t afraid of death at all.

SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK!

SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK!

Su Yue was dumbfounded. If he hadn’t understood the monster language, he might have been fooled. The Short-snout Pig’s cries sounded so miserable that any pig-lover would surely condemn him. But who could have imagined that even at a time like this, the pig was still mocking him?

He thought indignantly, ”I’m not even worthy of speaking to a fucking pig?”

SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK!

SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK!

SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK!

In the distance, countless Short-snout Pigs were encircling Su Yue from afar.

”Wuwen Race, release our leader immediately, and I can spare your life!”

”We’ve eaten ten Wuwen Race members before! We will definitely make you regret this!”

”The Wuwen Race is the most damnable, cunning race.”

”Release our leader right now!”

SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK!

SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK!

The Short-snout Pigs’ screams rose and fell in an endless wave.

”Wuwen Race, release me right now, and I can give you a chance to run for your life!” Hearing its herd supporting it, the Short-snout Pig leader grew even more arrogant.

”My friend, you probably haven’t figured it out at all. Right now, you are a captive. You’re just a piece of pork on the chopping block.

”In all my life, this is the first time I, Su Yue, have seen a pig as arrogant as you.

”Perhaps you have a bit too much protein.”

SWISH!

Su Yue drew the long saber from his waist. This was the blade Su Qingfeng had left for Su Yue before his departure, which could double as an everyday utility tool!

”Stupid human.

”This pig has also never seen a Wuwen Race member as ignorant of the situation as you.

”If you have the guts, chop my head off.”

SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK!

It was incredibly arrogant. After seeing Su Yue draw his saber, the Short-snout Pig somehow became even more arrogant than before.

”So it’s a pig that isn’t afraid of death.”

CLANG!

Su Yue cursed in anger, casually raising his hand and bringing the blade down onto the Short-snout Pig’s neck. A pig this arrogant had no right to live in this world.

Unfortunately, Su Yue had miscalculated. The long saber instantly shattered into pieces. It felt as though Su Yue had hacked into a solid block of pig iron. Sparks flew everywhere, and the recoil left his arm slightly numb.

Huh? Su Yue frowned. Things seemed to be getting interesting.

SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK!

The piercing, mocking squeaks rang out once more.

”Everyone, come look! The stupid Wuwen Race member wants to kill our leader!”

”With the weapons of your Wuwen Race? What a joke!”

”As expected, the Wuwen Race is stupid.”

The Short-snout Pigs, surrounding him three layers deep, all laughed at Su Yue.

”This Short-snout Pig’s Defense Power is astonishing, but it actually isn’t in an invincible state!” Su Yue studied it for a moment. In reality, the Short-snout Pig was just bluffing. There was a very deep indent on its neck; it just couldn’t be seen clearly because its skin was too thick and its bristles were too messy. The reason his strike hadn’t drawn blood was simply that his saber was too inferior.

”Wuwen Race, keep chopping! If you can’t chop me to death today, you’re a piece of shit.” The Short-snout Pig squeaked continuously at Su Yue. It even sprayed a face full of pig spit at him, which was incredibly disgusting.

”I never thought I would actually have to use a Dragon-slaying Saber to slaughter a pig.

”Today, I, Su Yue, am the most handsome pig-slaughtering man in the world. A man as dazzling as me is like a firefly in the pitch-black night.”

CRACK!

An ear-piercing clap of thunder crashed down, and the dim bamboo forest was instantly illuminated by a blindingly bright light. Lightning flashed in the palm of Su Yue’s hand as he hoisted a giant axe into the air.

”Because you guys taste mediocre, I genuinely had no plans to slaughter pigs. But you are just asking for it!”

SWISH!

Blood splattered, and the pig’s head fell. The entire bamboo forest fell into a dead silence.

Squeak... squeak...

Even though the Short-snout Pig’s head was separated from its body, it still stubbornly let out two more cries: Grandpa of the Wuwen Race, spare my life. That was the last mournful cry Su Yue heard.

THUD!

Su Yue tossed the pig’s carcass onto the ground. So, their fearless courage in the face of death had all been an act.

”Which pig knows how to determine if a Seven-rhombus Bamboo has mutated?

”Otherwise, I will keep on killing.” Su Yue raised his battle axe, glaring at the countless Short-snout Pigs before him.

”The mad pig-slaughtering demon is here! Run away quickly!”

SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK!

Amidst a flurry of chaotic screams, all the Short-snout Pigs scattered in every direction, disappearing into the depths of the bamboo forest in mere moments.

”Starting today, I, the pig-slaughtering man, will be stationed in this bamboo forest.

”Listen up, you stupid pigs! You better not run into me, or else I’ll kill every single one of you I see.

”If any pig figures things out, you can take the initiative to come find me. My original intention wasn’t to slaughter pigs, but to find mutated Seven-rhombus Bamboo!”

With a wave of Su Yue’s hand, the Divine Soldier Battle Axe vanished. It really consumed too much Qi Blood.

”Huh? What did I just see?” Suddenly, a stalk of Seven-rhombus Bamboo beside Su Yue seemed to flash with a green light. It vanished in a flash, making Su Yue feel a bit dazed. He frowned. That particular stalk of Seven-rhombus Bamboo that had flashed with green light happened to be in the exact spot where the Short-snout Pig had died.

Moreover, Su Yue discovered a peculiar situation. The pig’s blood on the ground had actually been completely absorbed by this stalk of Seven-rhombus Bamboo. Because the soil in the Wet Realm was special, an ordinary person wouldn’t have noticed something this subtle.

Waiting patiently, Su Yue squatted beside the pig’s head and carefully sensed his surroundings once more. Sure enough, the Spiritual Qi within the Short-snout Pig’s corpse was indeed being quietly devoured by the Seven-rhombus Bamboo. And there was only this single stalk of Seven-rhombus Bamboo devouring the pig’s blood.

Su Yue’s heart pounded. Watching the Short-snout Pig’s blood about to run dry, he suddenly had a bold idea.

CRACKLE!

The Divine Soldier Battle Axe that had just disappeared returned once again.

CRACK!

CRACK!

The Seven-rhombus Bamboo was truly something that could even stump his dad; even while using the Divine Soldier Battle Axe, Su Yue still couldn’t chop through it with a single strike. It took two hysterical swings of the axe before the Seven-rhombus Bamboo completely snapped in half.

Su Yue estimated that he would have to take a mandatory rest after chopping down two stalks of Seven-rhombus Bamboo. He had no other choice; the Divine Soldier Battle Axe consumed far too much Qi Blood. However, his efforts were not without reward. Immediately after, Su Yue witnessed a miraculous scene unfold.

This was the first stalk of Seven-rhombus Bamboo Su Yue had chopped down, and it actually successfully condensed into a jade-green bamboo segment the length of a forearm. Jade-rhombus Bamboo. This was exactly what his dad needed.

Was it luck? No! It wasn’t luck. It was intellect that surpassed ordinary people, coupled with agile thinking. He thought to himself, ”I’m a fucking genius.”

Su Yue felt that he had discovered an earth-shattering secret. It was highly likely that the root cause of the Seven-rhombus Bamboo’s mutation was these arrogant and domineering Short-snout Pigs. The energy source for the Seven-rhombus Bamboo’s mutation was their blood.

CRACK!

CRACK!

After resting for a while, Su Yue used the Divine Soldier Battle Axe to chop open another stalk of Seven-rhombus Bamboo, which he had picked at random. As expected, there were no signs of mutation whatsoever.

He first placed the previous Jade-rhombus Bamboo into his Sumeru Space, then directly activated Invisibility. Su Yue could sense that quite a few Short-snout Pigs were observing him from a distance. They likely wanted to come and check on their leader’s corpse.

Sure enough! Two minutes later, after confirming it was safe, a Short-snout Pig cautiously walked over. It continuously rooted through the mud with its snout, trying to catch Su Yue’s scent. Unfortunately, Su Yue’s Invisibility was different from others’; it was entirely untraceable.

SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK!

”Spare me! Wuwen Race, spare my life!”

Just like that, the Short-snout Pig unknowingly fell into Su Yue’s trap once again.

”Spare you? That would be a disservice to my Diligence Points!”

CRACKLE!

With a swing of his axe, the second Short-snout Pig lost its life. This time, Su Yue observed very closely. Sure enough, the familiar green light flashed and vanished.

After waiting for a moment, Su Yue chopped open the Seven-rhombus Bamboo with two strikes of his axe. It had successfully mutated!

Now, Su Yue could definitively confirm his hypothesis. It turned out that the mutation of the Seven-rhombus Bamboo didn’t rely on luck or probability at all; it was something that could be artificially induced. As for the Short-snout Pigs that died naturally, they resulted in the random stalks of Jade-rhombus Bamboo his dad had mentioned. Although there were quite a few Short-snout Pigs, the Seven-rhombus Bamboo were as numerous as the stars in the sky—an absolute sea of them. Once distributed evenly across the vast forest, finding a mutated Jade-rhombus Bamboo naturally became extremely difficult.

”No wonder these Short-snout Pigs wouldn’t tell me about the Jade-rhombus Bamboo. Either they didn’t know, or they were deliberately withholding the information.

”Or perhaps, they simply didn’t dare to speak of it,” Su Yue remarked with a sigh.

Why did someone as smart as him exist in this world? Embodying both handsomeness and wisdom, Su Yue even felt a bit jealous of himself.

It was actually quite normal that his dad and the others hadn’t figured out the pattern. The air in the Wet Realm was damp, which already caused corpses to decay very quickly. Coupled with the fact that this was a bamboo forest where leaves constantly fell, a body would soon decompose into the soil, leaving truly no traces to be found. Moreover, the difficulty of catching these Short-snout Pigs was exceptionally high. An ordinary person simply wouldn’t have such favorable conditions for experimentation.

”Dad, I hope you won’t be too surprised the next time you come to the bamboo forest!”

SWISH!

Su Yue stomped his foot on the ground, leaping up to stand on the tip of a bamboo stalk and overlooking the distance. He felt a sense of loneliness. Perhaps outstanding people were destined to be lonely.

The key to finding the Jade-rhombus Bamboo was to kill the Short-snout Pigs. The Hunter’s hunting time had officially begun. Catching pigs, chopping bamboo, and collecting Jade-rhombus Bamboo. At the same time, he could also refine the Spiritual Qi within his own body. Just like that, Su Yue entered a very harmonious state of cultivation.