29: Chapter 29 Tenderness

Barely dodging a frantic flurry of claws from the Dry Corpse, Ling Yao heard Su Yi reciting poetry in a low voice and couldn't help but curse him wildly:

"Are you crazy? We're about to die, and you're reciting damn poetry?!"

What does this little girl know? How can one become an honored figure without reciting poetry?

After finishing his poem, Su Yi immediately shouted with high spirits, "Move aside, it's my turn to show off!"

Ling Yao retreated immediately upon hearing this, while the Dry Corpse followed closely, lunging at her to bite.

"Whoosh!" A Water Arrow Technique flew over with a piercing sound, slamming hard into the Dry Corpse.

The Water Arrow Technique, which previously couldn't even break the Dry Corpse's defense, sent it flying and pinned it firmly against the stone slab!

Ling Yao, who was rapidly retreating, stared in astonishment at the Dry Corpse pinned to the stone slab and stopped in her tracks.

She looked at Su Yi in disbelief. What terrified her even more was that she couldn't even discern Su Yi's current Realm!

How is this possible? In such a short time, he already had a Breakthrough? On what grounds? Could it be because of the poem he just recited?

But that poem sounded like total garbage; how could it possibly help him break through his Realm?

"What are you looking at? If you keep staring, I'm going to charge you!" Su Yi sauntered over to Ling Yao and placed his hand on her fluffy head.

"You, you, you..." Ling Yao still looked at Su Yi in disbelief, stuttering 'you' several times, but unable to continue her sentence.

Su Yi smiled proudly and whispered to the stunned Ling Yao, "I originally wanted to get along with you as an ordinary person, but I didn't expect to be exposed. I'll show my hand: this Genius is actually a..."

But the Dry Corpse, pinned to the stone slab by the Water Arrow Technique, let out a roar, interrupting Su Yi's moment of showing off!

"Hmph! You evil beast!" Su Yi turned his head and snorted coldly at the Dry Corpse as it shattered the water arrow.

Su Yi's heart stirred, and he coldly ordered, "System, upgrade my Water Arrow Technique!"

"Ding! Water Arrow Technique upgraded to Beginner!"

"Ding! Water Arrow Technique upgraded to Proficient!"

"Ding! Water Arrow Technique upgraded to Mastered!"

"Ding! Water Arrow Technique upgrade to Grandmaster failed due to insufficient experience! Upgraded to Mastered (19,000 / 200,000)!"

Su Yi, who was enjoying his moment of showing off, saw his face instantly fall, and he felt as if he couldn't breathe.

"Damn, damn, damn! Wrong, wrong, I upgraded too much! Give my experience back!"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I won't show off anymore, please, give my experience back!"

Su Yi looked at his formerly wealthy self, now with his experience points bottomed out, and felt like crying without tears.

Who the hell would upgrade the most basic Water Arrow Technique to Grandmaster for no reason?

Thinking about the vague command he gave the System earlier just to show off.

He just wanted to slap himself twice, secretly hating himself for showing off to the System when he didn't need to, and not even finishing his sentence!

Ling Yao watched as Su Yi's inscrutable expression suddenly changed to one of misery, as if he had eaten excrement, and she assumed there were side effects to him forcibly raising his Realm.

The Dry Corpse was now inches away from Su Yi, and she couldn't help but scream, subconsciously covering her eyes.

"Petty tricks, and you dare to show them off in front of an expert?"

"Take this, take this, take this!"

After shouting in his heart for half a day to get his experience back to no avail, Su Yi vented his overflowing rage on the Dry Corpse before him.

The Mastered-level Water Arrow Technique had now undergone a qualitative change.

Not only was there no cooldown time, allowing for continuous firing, but it also consumed less True Qi, and its power was even several levels higher!

Su Yi made sword fingers with both hands, waving them frantically at the Dry Corpse, his face twisted as he tried to vent all his rage over the lost experience onto the creature.

The Mastered-level Water Arrow Technique now fired like long spears, instantly turning the Dry Corpse into a sieve.

Watching the Dry Corpse's head explode from a water arrow before it collapsed to the ground, Su Yi finally stopped, breathing heavily.

The central chamber of the tomb was now a mess, with bowl-sized craters everywhere from the Water Arrow Technique.

"Bang!" The steaming spring eye in the middle of the central chamber was also inexplicably hit by three water arrows.

The powerful Water Arrow Technique altered the internal structure of the spring, causing the spring, which was originally only ankle-deep, to instantly erupt into a fountain!

"Are... are you okay?" Looking at Su Yi, whose eyes were bloodshot and who was breathing heavily, Ling Yao couldn't help but step back, terrified that he might shoot her through with a water arrow!

Su Yi turned his head indifferently to look at Ling Yao, a flash of inspiration hitting his mind, and he instantly clutched his chest and knelt on the ground.

Ling Yao screamed and hurriedly stepped forward to support Su Yi, but Su Yi said weakly, "I overdrawn too much of my potential, and my body's True Qi is severely depleted, cough, cough, cough..."

"What should we do?" Worried that she wouldn't get to eat her pork knuckle that night, Ling Yao was so anxious she sounded like she was about to cry, failing to notice Su Yi's eyes rolling around mischievously.

Su Yi said weakly and intermittently, "I probably need 69 Low-Grade Spirit Stones, cough, cough, cough, to... to recover!"

Ling Yao instantly stopped her crying, looked indifferently at Su Yi who was coughing his lungs out, let go of him, and said calmly, "Oh, then you can go die."

Damn it, I was too greedy, I just shouted a number based on the Spirit Stones I had just shared with Ling Yao.

Su Yi's eyes darted around, and he said weakly, "It doesn't have to be that many, 50 Spirit Stones will do!"

"10!"

Watching Ling Yao turn to leave, Su Yi became anxious: "Hey, I at least overdrawn my Origin and forcibly raised my Realm to save you, can't you at least give me some compensation for emotional distress?"

"Whoosh!" A Low-Grade Spirit Stone landed at Su Yi's feet, as if she were shooing away a beggar.

Su Yi, who was now a great Cultivator at the 8th Level of Qi Refining, was instantly furious. One? Is she treating me like a beggar?

I'm a great Cultivator at the 8th Level of Qi Refining now, for heaven's sake! One?!!

One is still worth 1,000 experience points!

Seeing Ling Yao wanting to pick the Low-Grade Spirit Stone back up, Su Yi was quick-eyed and nimble-handed, snatching the Spirit Stone back into his Storage Pouch.

Just as the two were preparing to return to the surface, a book glowing with purple light fell from the fountain to Ling Yao's feet.

"Holy crap! A skill book dropped?!"

I didn't expect that right before leaving, my luck would still be so strong that I could actually find a skill book!

Looking at the purple-glowing book, Su Yi swallowed his saliva, thinking that since they met, shouldn't they split it fifty-fifty?

Ling Yao, however, threw the skill book directly to Su Yi. She said indifferently, "Consider it compensation for you forcibly raising your Realm! It's yours!"

"I'll go through fire and water for you, Sister Yao!"

Su Yi caught the skill book and was immediately pleasantly surprised by the abundant water vapor emanating from it.

Seeing the title page, it was written by the crafty Dry Corpse: "This skill is what I realized after exhausting my life's blood; it cannot be understood by anyone other than a water-attribute Prodigy!"

Oh my, I didn't expect it to be a water-attribute skill! Isn't that talking about me?

This old Senior really is a prophet who can predict the future! It's a pity he didn't foresee that hundreds of years after his death, someone would shoot his corpse into a sieve?

Su Yi saw three vigorous characters written on the purple-glowing book.

The System prompt sounded at the same time: "Softness Around the Fingers!"

Quality: Purple. Requirement: Purple-grade water-attribute talent or higher.

Effect 1: Transform into flowing water to evade attacks! Effect 2: Transform into flowing water to entangle and strangle the opponent!

Evaluation: No matter how much it's tempered into steel, it's hard to resist the Softness Around the Fingers!

Ding! Insufficient experience, cannot learn!