Chapter 503: Chapter 17 Misfortune Origin 9 Changes Chapter 503: Chapter 17 Misfortune Origin 9 Changes Li Yan ultimately didn’t move back, and no one knew the reason except for the parties involved.
One day, Cha Xiaodao asked Li Yan with a mysterious air whether he had ever slept with Lady Dan? Li Yan dodged the question with vague answers.
Li Yan didn’t ntion to Cha Xiaodao when he would move back, and used the excuse of helping out at the restaurant to continually occupy the second-floor attic of Cha Xiaodao’s restaurant. However, after moving in, he didn’t even touch the nu. He’d go out for walks every morning and would reliably show up at al tis, robustly asking what was for today’s al?
This kind of life lasted for about half a month, until one day when Cha Xiaodao was about to close for the night, she noticed Li Yan chatting rrily with an Australian neighbor in her forties. After they hugged each other goodbye, Li Yan crossed the street and entered the house under Cha Xiaodao’s almost terrified gaze.
Cha Xiaodao quickly followed and asked in a low voice, “What’s going on?”
Li Yan pulled out a bottle of beer from a crate before asking, “Do you know that the place across from us, they’re opening a bar?”
“I know, I heard the Australian lady is planning to return to her country and has been looking for soone to take over the shop lately.”
Li Yan pointed to himself, “I took it over.”
Cha Xiaodao was sowhat surprised at first, but upon reflection, she realized there was nothing particularly surprising, and finally asked dryly, “What made you think of doing this?”
“You don’t want mooching off your als all the ti, do you? These past few days, Zhou has been giving increasingly strange looks.”
Li Yan sat down on the sofa.
“You’re opening a bar?”
Li Yan nodded, “Yes, I call it foresight.”
Cha Xiaodao laughed, “Foresight?”
Li Yan shook his head, “You’ll know in ti.”
“What about staff?”
Li Yan looked at Cha Xiaodao without saying a word.
Cha Xiaodao rolled her eyes, “Hire your own staff, I don’t have the leisure for that.”
Li Yan laughed heartily and threw the empty beer bottle back into the crate, “I’ll hire my own then. We’ll be neighbors from now on.”
As it turned out, whether Li Yan acted on a whim or not, his ability to take action was unquestionable.
In less than a month, the bar across from Cha Xiaodao’s underwent a major transformation.
Li Yan brought over the inventory from his old audio shop, including a big box of old posters, two large cabinets full of magazines and CDs, all to decorate his newly opened bar. He transford the bar, which originally had a European classical style, into a nostalgic rock vibe from the eighties.
But Li Yan still felt sothing was missing, so he acquired an old-school ‘King of Fighters’ arcade ga. In the end, he even displayed several all-brass, sharpened steel swords with intricate patterns from his family’s old house, and hung a couplet on the glass display wall with the words “As clouds give rise to a stroke of genius, the shimring stars brighten the literary world.”
The fusion of Eastern and Western styles made it look extrely modern.
This couplet was originally obtained by Li Yan from Guan Laotou on a whim during his ti in Guangdong, and he later learned of its significant value. When Li Yan left Guangdong, he had it returned to the owner. After attending Guan Yantao’s funeral, the calligraphy ultimately returned to his hands.
The calligraphy was crafted by an old friend of Guan Yantao. When the old man passed away, the elegiac couplet “An upright man never bends his will, eternally a sword amidst the central currents” was also from this artist’s hand.
Placing sharpened longswords and valuable calligraphy in the bar made the place look sowhat empty, as necessary equipnt like the bar counter, glassware, freezer, mixer, and juicer hadn’t yet been arranged. But Li Yan didn’t care; he proudly showed Cha Xiaodao around several tis, obviously very satisfied.
He also spent a good deal of money on a complete set of lighting equipnt, turntables, and a mixing console, preparing to host performances in the future. The most prominent feature in the venue was a Sonor drum set.
“When are you opening?”
Cha Xiaodao asked.
Looking at the small bar he crafted with his own hands, Li Yan shook his head, “No hurry, first I’ll hire people.”
While they were talking, soone knocked on the door from outside. It was a girl holding a cello, with wavy curls.
“Uh, hello, are you the owner of this bar?”
Li Yan turned his head and said, “Yes, I am. What about it?”
The girl with the curly hair replied, “Just asking, after the bar is open, would you want a band to perform? It’s cheap, ten songs for one hundred and fifty.”
Li Yan, clearly in a good mood, glanced at the drum set on the stage and said with a smile, “Sorry, but we already have soone. Leave your number, and I’ll contact you if we need it.”
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Two months flew by in an instant, and the turmoil over the removal of Scale·Ding You 24 had seemingly passed completely, with no one bringing it up again. As for Li Yan, aside from visiting Third Eye Global once, he had not been exposed to anyone’s eyes. People still lacked a direct impression of him and knew of him only from so small circles, where they talked about how he had defeated over a dozen reservists from the Long Night Base and retreated unscathed under the eyes of Si Wenji and Zhan Yuejin. They knew that another prickly tough nut had appeared in Yan Fu.
“You choose to consu an additional 65% of your Awakening Degree to break through the ‘Wu Zhiqi Blood·Calamity Spirit’ for the second peak breakthrough, with a hundred percent success rate for this breakthrough!”
Your highest percentage specialization is: Ancient Martial Arts 100%.
Your heritage is “Wu Zhiqi Blood·Calamity Spirit.”
Evolution in progress… Evolution complete.
You have unlocked the heritage skill “Nine Variations of Calamity” (this skill does not consu a skill slot).
“Nine Variations of Calamity”: Pulls both friends and foes into a huge irregular water sphere, which has a range equal to one-fourth of your Calamity Wave reserves.
Within the vast water sphere created by Nine Variations of Calamity, your physical abilities are significantly increased, and all Water Lord Species under your command will not die. If the host dies or goes into shock, Nine Variations of Calamity will beco ineffective.
Using Nine Variations of Calamity requires a lot of energy, so please use it with caution.
Calamity Wave, Calamity Faction, Nine Variations of Calamity.
It’s a pity it’s not the “Calamity Demon Body.”
Li Yan thought to himself.
Li Yan, who had already achieved Perfection in the Yan Fu Heritage, was no longer the rookie who fumbled and pondered at the beginning.
He had already figured out that what they called a peak breakthrough was just a small part of the incomplete power of the full Yan Fu Heritage. Moreover, the types of abilities one could gain were probably random.
Take his fully awakened Gu Huo Bird, for example.
Under the Gu Huo Bird Posture, Li Yan could use almost all the magical techniques of the Gu Huo Bird, including but not limited to Blood Dip, Hidden Flight, Ghost Chariot, and a wide range of Feather Storms, plucking feathers to transform into Blood Birds, and other abilities, in total more than twenty skills that Li Yan had not mastered before.
However, only Blood Dip, Hidden Flight, and Ghost Chariot among these techniques, could Li Yan unleash their full power, comparable to the rebirth of the Gu Huo Bird. For the rest of the techniques, he could only use ten or twenty percent of their potential power.
To fully utilize the abilities of the Gu Huo Bird’s magical techniques, naturally, a Proxy Traveler is required.
That’s why Li Yan, at the Red Mountain encirclent, didn’t use the Gu Huo Bird Posture much against his enemies. Compared to the Gu Huo Bird Posture, when he activated “The Seven Paths of the Gun and Sword,” all of his self-awakened skills increased significantly in strength, combined with Blood Dip, Hidden Flight, and Calamity Wave, the power was enough to crush “Gu Huo Bird Posture.”
With such experience, Li Yan also had his own view on the enhancents from the Wu Zhiqi breakthroughs.
As ntioned before, different parts of the sa heritage also have their differences in strength. Li Yan thought that the manifestation of strength should be the probability of drawing the stronger parts from the full heritage capabilities through peak breakthroughs.
Among all the twenty-plus abilities of the Gu Huo Bird, Ghost Chariot is undoubtedly the most precious, followed by Hidden Flight.
Li Yan’s two peak breakthroughs had drawn two of the most precious abilities. Apart from his own high close-combat specialization, his Gu Huo Bird heritage being a part of “spirit” was also a main reason.
The most direct difference is that other Gu Huo Birds without the “Ghost Chariot” skill, even if they activate the posture and gain the Ghost Chariot Lotus Platform, might have only one or two of the nine lotus platforms that can take their place in death.
Previously, Li Yan had fought with Zhi Qilian, who relied on the complete Calamity Demon Body and managed to make it impossible for Li Yan, known for his lethality, to kill him, only defeating it completely through Ghost Chariot Self-Detonate.
But this ti, with his peak breakthrough, Li Yan did not unlock the Calamity Demon Body.
Even if later, he feeds the Wu Zhiqi Blood to 100% Awakening Degree Perfection, the “Calamity Demon Body” he gets will most likely be a weakened version, lacking the perverse regenerative power like Zhi Qilian who could lie down and let you kill him, and you still wouldn’t be able to.
Li Yan also intended to build Divine Court, which undoubtedly ans that he is out of luck when it cos to the “Calamity Demon Body,” a life-saving ability deed monstrous.
Now, he can only hope that the potential of this “Nine Variations of Calamity” skill is not too far off from the “Calamity Demon Body.”
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