52: Chapter 52 Choosing a Path! Immortal Cultivation and Martial Cultivation!

Amidst the ruins of the Baiyun Martial Arts Hall.

Covered in blood, Qin Muyuan stood in front of Yushui's corpse.

With a flick of his wrist, the blood on the pure nail was shaken off, splashing onto the surrounding ruins like poured water.

"Nobody's going to disturb me looking at the quest panel now..."

Qin Muyuan let out a cold snort and opened the quest panel.

Soon, a silver-gray quest panel materialized before him, and Qin Muyuan's gaze swept across it——

The next second, a dark shadow suddenly rose from Yushui's corpse and shot rapidly toward Qin Muyuan.

"Again?!"

Qin Muyuan's heart trembled, but fortunately, having learned from his past experiences, opening the quest panel this time was just a feint, and his eyes were still paying attention to his surroundings.

Just like players playing CS5 would always pretend to move their aim away and then quickly snap back to prevent the opponent from catching the timing.

Qin Muyuan quickly closed the quest panel while moving his mind, causing his entire skin to rapidly turn the color of stone:

"Stone!"

Swoosh!

The moment Qin Muyuan activated the stone skill to defend, the dark shadow had already rushed right in front of him.

However, the situation was completely different from what Qin Muyuan had imagined.

That extremely fast dark shadow neither broke his defense nor knocked him away while he was in the hardened state.

Nor was it blocked by the petrification defense.

Instead, like an illusion, it dashed straight into Qin Muyuan's body, as if the [Stone] skill he cast didn't exist at all.

Qin Muyuan frowned as he sensed a strange "creature" inject itself into his body, hiding within his liver.

A stream of light also flashed across the panel.

[You have been locked onto by the Echo Sound Worm]

[Echo Sound Worm: This worm is the offspring produced by the Echo Sound Worm mother, capable of lurking inside the host in a semi-illusory, semi-real form. When it approaches the Echo Sound Worm mother, it will emit a secret sound echo. Immortal Cultivators who excel at worm-taming can use this echo to track the target.]

[You have obtained a Quest Seed, and you can use this Quest Seed to search for the target and trigger a hidden quest]

"Echo Sound Worm? Quest Seed?"

Qin Muyuan sensed the rather restless Echo Sound Worm hidden inside his body, and his brow furrowed once more.

After a moment of research, he figured it out.

The so-called [Echo Sound Worm] could be treated as a tracker.

When he approached that mother worm, the Immortal Cultivator who possessed it would be able to sense him and track his location.

And the so-called [Quest Seed] referred to the Echo Sound Worm itself.

Relying on this Echo Sound Worm, he could find the mother worm and then open a hidden quest.

"This Echo Sound Worm was always planted inside Yushui's body. Now that Yushui has been slaughtered by me, it directly transferred into my body..."

Using his strong physique and perception, Qin Muyuan constantly locked onto the position of that Echo Sound Worm.

After burrowing into his body, it was initially located in the liver, and then successively changed positions, moving from the liver to the kidneys, appendix, abdominal cavity, and other places.

If it weren't for the fact that after leveling up, Qin Muyuan's Physical Body perception power was extremely strong, and he had also witnessed the Echo Sound Worm burrowing into his body face-to-face.

Otherwise, for anyone else, it would probably be very difficult to perceive that the Echo Sound Worm had quietly lurked within their body, let alone know that their location could be perceived by others at all times.

Qin Muyuan opened the game mall interface, rummaged through it, and bought a bottle named [Small Green Bottle] from the game mall.

According to the description, this bottle possessed special effects and could Seal some illusory things.

Qin Muyuan flicked open the cap of the Small Green Bottle and used [Killing Intent Application] to condense a blood-colored light at his fingertips.

Immediately after.

His fingertips violently pierced into his chest cavity, and Qin Muyuan directly dug into his own heart and lungs to find that scurrying Echo Sound Worm.

"Get in!"

He shoved the Echo Sound Worm into the [Small Green Bottle] and quickly closed the bottle cap.

Shaking the Small Green Bottle to make sure the Echo Sound Worm was inside, Qin Muyuan nodded slightly.

Although he was quite interested in this so-called hidden quest.

But... he certainly didn't like having some random thing suddenly enter his body and go in and out of it...

"Fortunately, the pain sensation is turned down to the lowest, otherwise doing this to myself would have knocked me out from the pain..."

Qin Muyuan looked at his chest cavity, which was identical to that of a certain foreign politician, and used his tyrannical muscle strength to lock his blood and close it up.

Having done all this, he turned his eyes to look at Yushui's corpse.

He was pondering a question in his heart:

Did this woman know that there was an Echo Sound Worm inside her body?

"Forget it!"

Thinking for two seconds, Qin Muyuan directly decided to give up.

Whatever!

What if she knew, and what if she didn't?

No matter who planted the Echo Sound Worm inside Yushui, right now—Qin Muyuan had noted down this grudge!

This Echo Sound Worm had forced him to tear open his chest and dig out his lungs just to catch it.

No matter what, Qin Muyuan had to take revenge on the person who planted the worm for this grudge!

In addition to the prompt about the Echo Sound Worm, Qin Muyuan received a new panel prompt.

[You have come into contact with power at the level of an Immortal Cultivator, and you can make a Dao path choice]

Beneath this sentence, two options appeared.

[Immortal Cultivator Path: Comprehend the spiritual mechanism of heaven and earth, transforming it into spiritual power circulating within the body, thereby casting profound Spells and intricate Dharma gates. Those who Cultivate to advanced realms can move mountains and fill seas with a flip of their hands, changing the meteorological phenomena of heaven and earth with a single thought...]

[Martial Cultivator Path: Take Qi and blood as the Foundation, constantly temper the Physical Body, and condense one's inner strength. Without borrowing external objects, achieve a leap in life hierarchy with the Physical Body. Relying on a thousand-times-tempered martial arts proficiency, it is enough to break all kinds of Spells and Dao Foundations...]

[Note: You can only choose one Dao path. Once the choice is made, it cannot be undone]

"Choose between an Immortal Cultivator and a Martial Cultivator..."

Qin Muyuan pondered slightly.

The difference between an Immortal Cultivator and a Martial Cultivator was that one used Spells and spiritual power for long-range attacks, while the other poured themselves into close combat, relying on Qi and blood to kill enemies at close range.

"In that case, I choose the Martial Cultivator."

Without hesitating for long, Qin Muyuan quickly made his decision.

Compared to casting Spells, he still preferred battles where fists hit flesh and an enemy's head was severed with a single sword slash.

Hiding in the back and casting Spells or whatever was simply too boring.

Moreover, Yushui, this Immortal Cultivator, left an impression on him of being utterly trashy.

Possessing a full body of cultivation yet fighting so weakly.

If Grand Master Lin Jiuye were swapped with Yushui and possessed Yushui's cultivation, he would definitely have to engage in a bitter battle for a period of time before defeating Grand Master Lin Jiuye.

Only then would it be satisfying.

As for Yushui... she was too weak, completely unable to satisfy him!

As for the so-called inability to regret once the choice was made, Qin Muyuan didn't care at all.

At worst, after clearing the completion process, he would just start a second playthrough and choose to be an Immortal Cultivator in the second playthrough.

[You have chosen the Martial Cultivator path]

[You have obtained the colorless Cultivation Technique, Furnace All-Things Technique]

[Based on your two golden talents: I Love Killing (Gold), Essential Master (Gold)]

[You have obtained two martial arts—Green Martial Art·Sea of Blood, Green Martial Art·Consecutive Kills]