Chapter 4

4 Pros and Cons

Su Mo could not wait to begin cultivating as soon as he returned to his room .
Clouds Skill had five realms, and the higher the realm, the purer the genuine Qi it cultivated .
Also, a higher realm of cultivation skill meant stronger attack and faster cultivating .
Su Mo continued to cultivate over the next couple of days .
His dark vortex of a Martial Soul was rotating in the room, and plumes of Spiritual Qi twined around Su Mo . His cultivation was slowly increasing .
While Su Mo was cultivating, the news that he awakened a Rank 1 Human Class Martial Soul spread all throughout Sunnywood City .
The young master and the first genius of the Sus unexpectedly had a crappy Martial Soul!
This caused a stir in Sunnywood City, and many people treated him like a joke .
. . .
Five days later, Su Mo stopped cultivating .
"The level of my Martial Soul is so low that it's slowing down my cultivating!" Su Mo sighed .
After five days of hard work, his cultivation had only increased marginally .
At this rate, it would take at least six months to enter Lv 2 Qi Cultivation Realm .
Luckily, he had cultivated Clouds Skill to the second level and purified and condensed a good amount of genuine Qi in five days .
"Time to cultivate my martial skill!"
Su Mo took out Ninefold Ocean Wave Fist and carefully read it .
After he fully understood all of the details, he closed the scroll and walked into the yard .
"The purpose of Ninefold Ocean Wave Fist is to regard the body as a raging sea and the fists as waves, each one stronger than the one before . . . "
With the key to this fistplay in mind, he practiced every gesture and motion according to the manual .
"Ho! Ho! Ho!"
He punched very slowly at first, but gradually moved faster and faster . In the end, his fists exploded like bombs and stirred up endless gusts of wind .
Another five days passed by .
The wind from his fist power was screaming, and the air was endlessly stirred .
"Ho!" Su Mo lifted up a shout and landed a punch on the stone bench ahead .
Bang!
The stone bench exploded with a rumbling sound, and its fragments flew everywhere .
"Hu!"
Su Mo took a deep breath and stood with his fists clenched .
"Not bad! I've achieved Minor Completion!" Su Mo could not stop smiling .
He was now able to punch with a fivefold fist force, but after reaching Completion Realm, his fist force would be ninefold .
Almost no one in Sunnywood City could reach the Minor Completion Realm of a Medium Lv 1 Martial Skill in only five days . Su Mo was able to do so because living two lives had given him very strong comprehension .
"Now, it's time to enter Breezewind Mountain to try my luck . "
Su Mo whispered . Then, he packed up and set out .
Breezewind Mountain lay in a mountain range that covered about 49,000 square kilometers, and it was 15 kilometers away from Sunnywood City . It was lofty and densely covered in forests .

Since there were a lot of Spiritual Herbs there, many martial artists in Sunnywood City always went into the mountains to collect them .
However, opportunity always came with danger . Lots of martial artists were killed and eaten by the large number of demonic beasts that lived in the mountains .


In spite of the dangers, Su Mo had to take a chance . It was too hard for him to cultivate with his low-grade Martial Soul .
Su Mo was walking down a tree-lined path when he suddenly heard a burst of a giggles .
He turned around and was stunned by what he saw .
A boy and a girl were cuddling happily with each other under a pavilion beside a pond .
The girl was a true beauty . Tall and slim, she wore a purple dress over her fair skin, and her loose black hair was draped over her shoulders .
She was Liu Yushan, Su Mo's childhood sweetheart and cousin .
Liu Yushan was the eldest daughter of the Liu clan, which was a small clan in Sunnywood City that depended upon the Sus .
Su Mo and Liu Yushan grew up together, so they were very close .
Their parents had wanted them to get engaged at the beginning of next year .

The young man with Liu Yushan was no other than Su Yu, the martial artist who replaced Su Mo as first genius of the Sus .
. . .
Su Mo made eye contact with them .
"Yushan, why are you two together?" Su Mo asked with a frown, walking toward them .
Liu Yushan turned her head away with an inexplicable glint in her eyes and said nothing .
Su Yu glanced at Su Mo and coldly smiled . "Su Mo, from now on, Yushan is mine . Leave her alone, or you will have to answer to me . "
"Yushan!" Su Mo ignored Su Yu and stared at Liu Yushan .
"Su Mo, did you hear what I said?" Su Yu's eyes were cold, and he said, "A piece of trash like you doesn't deserve her . Only I, a genius, am the best fit for Yushan . "
Liu Yushan nodded and said, "He's right . "
"Why? Because of my Martial Soul?"


Although Su Mo was upset, he did not let himself get enraged and remained calm . He was a mercenary king during his past life and had gotten his fair share of women . If a girl did not like him, it did not bother him .
"Cousin, we don't belong to the same kind of people anymore," Liu Yushan nodded and said .
"Don't belong to the same type of people anymore?" Su Mo muttered and smiled bitterly, thinking, 
"Three days ago, I awakened a Rank 4 Human Class Martial Soul . We will only grow further apart as time goes on . " Liu Yushan said pridefully, "Su Yu, the genius of the Sus, is my ideal spouse . As for you, my cousin, you're a good-for-nothing . The difference between you and him is extremely apparent . "
"Rank 4 Human Class Martial Soul?"
Su Mo was not surprised by her Martial Soul, because Liu Yushan was very talented .
"I see!" Su Mo nodded and said calmly . Everyone was entitled to a choice . Since she had chosen to abandon him, he would not try to change her mind .
Liu Yushan frowned at Su Mo's placid face .
She had thought that he would be devastated and would beg desperately for her,
So his cool demeanor bothered her .
"Yushan, remember what you said today . I hope that you won't regret it in the future!"
Su Mo took a deep breath as he said those words and left .
"Regret? How is that possible?" Liu Yushan laughed and shook her head .
. . .
After leaving the Sus, Su Mo sprinted straight toward Breezewind Mountain .
An hour later, he arrived at the foot of Breezewind Mountain .
Breezewind Mountain looked like a huge monster creeping on the ground, giving off a cold and ruthless aura .
Without hesitation, Su Mo sprang into the mountains .
Before long, Su Mo had run five kilometers into the forest, where the trees towered over him with thick trunks and completely blocked out all the sunlight .


"Howl!"
Then, a giant black wolf sprang out into Su Mo's path .
"Evilwind Wolf, Class 1 Lv 1 Demonic Beast!"
Su Mo recognized it . A demonic beast at this level was as powerful as martial artists at Lv 1 Qi Cultivation Realm .
"Well, I'll practice with you!"
Su Mo flew forward like a flying arrow and hit the Evilwind Wolf with his fist, which was covered with strong genuine Qi .
"Ninefold Ocean Wave Fist!"
"Howl!"
The Evilwind Wolf was enraged by Su Mo's attack, roared, and pounced on him . Its sharp wolf claws split toward his head .
Bang!
The claws and fist clashed with a muffled sound .
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Su Mo was stumbled back three steps, but the Evilwind Wolf was blown 10 meters away .
The Evilwind Wolf was quite powerful, but its rough force was no match for Su Mo's martial arts .
"Haha! Let's go again . "
As Su Mo moved forward and continually punched, the Evilwind Wolf retreated one step after another .
Soon, the flesh of the wolf was split into shreds, and several of its bones were broken .
The Evilwind Wolf would have been dead if it were not so tough .
"Howl!"
The seriously injured Evilwind Wolf roared and slunk away instead of attacking again .