510: Chapter 510: Clue Breakthrough (Vote for the Monthly Ticket on This Major Chapter) 510: Chapter 510: Clue Breakthrough (Vote for the Monthly Ticket on This Major Chapter) Daybreak’s ‘Boss’ was actually quite predictable.
Among all the major organizations, Daybreak was the only one that completely disregarded the lives of ordinary people.
Even Moonlight might occasionally care about face, put on an act, but Daybreak had no such concerns; their reputation was already in tatters, so they had no need to worry about it anymore.
Moreover, judging by the ‘Boss’s’ way of doing things in Alano, he was the type of person who wouldn’t hesitate to use any ans necessary to achieve his goals, which probably made him one of the more extre mbers within Daybreak.
From his perspective, there was no need to consider the problems of the civilians in Eren, not to ntion the city of Eren itself.
So, it was highly likely that he would choose to collaborate with the Primitive Church that worshipped the Evil God to go against ‘Hao Yi’.
In the Velora incident, the Boss showed a strong urgency to get his hands on the Velora, even going so far as to personally get involved.
It seed he knew so other secrets about the car.
Indeed, as a Transcendent item, Velora didn’t transmit all its information directly to the controller, unlike other Transcendent items.
Up to now, He Ao knew only that Velora could traverse space rapidly; in the fastest case, from Alano to Rodan, crossing several ti zones, it only needed Fifteen Minutes.
And this traversal seed to be energy-free; Velora could absorb energy in that mysterious ‘tunnel’.
However, to initiate traversal, detailed coordinates were required, knowing the direction along the planet’s surface from the starting point to the end point and the approximate straight-line distance was necessary.
If one wished to reach a specific precise location, it was also mandatory to construct a ntal image of the end point’s scene in one’s mind.
Any slight error in this information, and Velora would take you to an inexplicable place, like crashing head-first into a volcano.
Especially the construction of the precise location scene, the required accuracy was extrely high.
For ordinary people, this task was nearly impossible; even C-level or B-level Transcendents would have mory deviations, unable to construct a highly precise scene.
But to He Ao, who possessed Super mory, this was still relatively easy.
Though, for the ti being, Velora could only travel within the main world’s host planet; He Ao had tried to get Velora to take him directly to a ruin, but Velora did not respond.’
It was unknown if it couldn’t or if it was lacking so key information.’
Heaven and underground were possible destinations, however.
He Ao had a feeling that the ‘Boss’ wanted Velora for so other reason, not just for a convenient ans of transportation.
All in all, for the ‘Boss,’ collaborating with the Primitive Church was likely the best choice.
When the Evil God descended, as long as he could run fast, he wouldn’t be the one getting hurt; he might even be able to extract so other benefits from the Primitive Church’s hands.
Like the Space-Ti Anchor needed to open the passage to the ruins.
The only question now was whether the ‘Boss’ knew about the existence of the Primitive Church or not.
But even if the ‘Boss’ didn’t know, after last night’s events, he must have sensed sothing.
So following the lead of the World Tree and the Primitive Church, He Ao believed he had a good chance of encountering the ‘Boss.’
If Daybreak and the Primitive Church joined forces, two opponents would beco one, and though the difficulty increased, the problem beca simpler by comparison.
While organizing his thoughts, He Ao was also browsing through the information sent by Li Le.
The call with the gendarrie captain had long been disconnected, and He Ao was perusing the information while walking outside.
Li Le had done an excellent job with intelligence; although the World Tree was well-hidden, he had still identified four individuals who might be core mbers of the World Tree, and pinpointed the area where the Rodan branch was likely located.
Among these suspected core mbers, the first was a young lady nad Lani, with C-level strength.
When He Ao saw this na, he furrowed his brows, then, looking at the photo, he shook his head sowhat helplessly.
Lani was the very sa individual who had died near the Martial Arts gym, leaving behind the ssage, ‘It has co,’ victim number one.
He Ao briefly glanced at her information before jumping to the next profile.
The second was a strong man nad Andrew, suspected to be D-level.
Li Le found his general residence and obtained so of his combat preferences.
The third was a woman in her thirties called Leanna, wearing glasses, who looked mature and charming in the photo.
This woman also had an address, along with so food preferences and personality analysis.
Although she lived alone, Li Le deduced that she must have been married and likely had strong personal desires, frequently purchasing so private toys.
He Ao’s gaze quickly swept over this information, but paused when he saw the photo of the fourth individual.
The fourth was nad Gade, a young man with a smile on his face.
He Ao had seen this young man just last night.
Only, when he had seen him last night, the young man’s smile wasn’t as ‘lively.’
This youth was the one greeting ‘visitors’ at the club entrance last night, already dead and manipulated by the Shadow.
After He Ao killed that woman, this young man seed to have lost control too, collapsing at the entrance, and now his body must have been taken away by Moonlight.
He Ao read on, looking through the file on this young man nad Gade.
Li Le had added so special analysis in this young man’s file, believing that he and the first one, Lani, were very likely an underground couple.
Their physical proximity when together was already less than what normal colleagues should maintain, and they often went out to do things akin to ‘dating.’
Moreover, the two often headed to a certain area in South City, but Li Le confird that it wasn’t a branch of the World Tree, so he speculated they must have so hidden secret there.
However, in terms of protecting this secret, both displayed high counter-surveillance skills, so Li Le had never been able to figure out what the secret was.
And now, both of them were dead.
He Ao closed his phone and walked into the yard.
It was early morning, and so disciples were already beginning their training outside the door.
In a corner of the yard, Elfia was half-squatting, slowly practicing a set of Fist Technique.
He Ao mobilized his Divine Sense and scanned Elfia’s body.
Now that dawn had passed, Elfia must have just absorbed the energy from the daybreak and was ‘digesting’ this energy through her Martial Arts practice.
At dawn, He Ao had also risen for his practice, but after finishing, he had closed his eyes, breathing quietly in ditation until he was awakened by the phone call from the gendarrie captain.
Since starting his Martial Arts Training, this had almost been his daily routine.
Although after Qi Refinent and Spirit Transformation, his body naturally absorbed energy from the surroundings during sleep, he still maintained the habit of practice.
He Ao’s gaze focused on Elfia, as he had always been quite curious about her thod of practice.
At this mont, Elfia was performing a set of Fist Technique that He Ao had never seen before, and it differed quite a lot from the Body Tempering Technique.
The Body Tempering Technique was a practice developed by a dical professor from the Copy World based on his own conclusions about the laws of Martial Arts, which inevitably incorporated a lot of modern dical thinking.
The core of the technique involved stimulating muscles in a certain way to increase the body’s capacity to hold energy and its craving for it, allowing the body to naturally absorb energy from the air without relying on the art of breathing and energy control.
Therefore, sotis the practice of Body Tempering involved the use of external fitness equipnt.
However, the Fist Technique Elfia was practicing seed more like leveraging the natural ‘breathing’ of the muscles, using their expansion and contraction to naturally achieve an effect similar to ‘breath control,’ thus absorbing and digesting energy.
It was more like a greatly diluted thod of breath control, yet, this Fist Technique had so differences from the art of breath control.
Perhaps because the main world had been devoid of energy for a long ti, this martial arts technique could not only absorb external energy but also mobilize the energy within one’s own body.
During the process of throwing punches, it would channel one’s energy into certain specific limbs, temporarily augnting the strength of those limbs.
This thod obviously had many flaws; the flow of energy in many areas was not smooth.
Yet, He Ao noticed that Elfia’s movents within this fist technique were sowhat similar to her movents when she was stir-frying noodles yesterday.
It seed that the fluid motions she used for stir-frying were adapted from alterations she had made to the fist technique.
What she was doing now was fine-tuning her movents, revising the long-practiced fist technique with directions He Ao had given her yesterday.
To pick up one thing and use it to infer three others.
This martial arts talent reminded He Ao of Regit.
The Body Tempering Technique that Regit had learned was also sowhat vague and incomplete due to the passage of ti, but he had no one to guide him, so he could only ponder it by himself, groping forward slowly.
At this mont, Elfia’s body had naturally blended into the surroundings, no longer possessing the conspicuous beauty of yesterday.
She stood in a corner, blending in with the old wall and the green grass, attracting no attention.
But to He Ao’s eyes, this return to simplicity was another type of natural beauty.
However, this ordinary and authentic beauty only lasted for a very short ti before it suddenly shattered.
While performing a push with her right hand, Elfia encountered a problem; no matter how she adjusted the position of her hand, she couldn’t maintain that perfect, smooth flow of energy in her body.
She was half-squatting at this mont, feet apart, right leg bent with the knee pointing rightward, left leg slightly extended, left hand drawing back in front of her belly, right hand pushing forward.
And the problem was with her right hand.
No matter how she adjusted, the energy in her hand wouldn’t flow smoothly.
“Don’t move the hand, just bend your left knee slightly,”
At that mont, a calm voice sounded in her ear.
She instinctively followed the voice’s instruction and bent her left knee a bit.
In that instant, the energy that was stuck flowed through, and the efficiency of her body’s energy flow dramatically increased.
Surprised, she raised her head to look in the direction of the voice.
“Master He Ao…”
Then she scratched her head awkwardly, not knowing what to say, and said with so restraint, “You’re awake…
Want breakfast?”
“No need, I’m going out, I’ll eat on the way,” He Ao smiled and waved his hand, “Carry on with your training, rember, the way is one and also ten thousand, your body is a whole.”
Having said that, he walked toward the courtyard door.
“Yes!”
Elfia nodded vigorously.
The way is one, and also ten thousand.
After watching He Ao leave, she pondered these words, practicing her punches while feeling the subtle changes in her body.
——
In the taxi leaving the martial arts school, He Ao raised his hand and gently swung it according to the trajectory of Elfia’s fist technique.
The surging energy flowed through his arm.
For He Ao, who possessed Super mory and Divine Sense, figuring out the core of Elfia’s fist technique’s energy flow and then modifying it to better suit himself was not a difficult task.
Yet he did not plan to learn Elfia’s fist technique.
The stone from other mountains can be used to carve jade.
The effects of breathing and Qi circulation in Elfia’s fist technique were of no use to him anymore, but the thod of gathering energy into the limbs had given him another perspective.
In the absence of energy, the Martial Arts practitioners of the main world, in order to enhance their combat capabilities, had also developed an entirely different path for improvent:
By channeling all the body’s energy into specific areas to rapidly increase their combat strength in a short period.
He Ao put down his hand.
Indeed, the Martial Arts of the main world were not without rit; even in such barren soil, the wise forebears of Martial Arts had still created brilliant sparks of intelligence.
With this concept, He Ao might be able to create a set of combat techniques of his own.
However, he still needed more fighting thods for reference.
Of course, he could now roughly utilize this concept to channel energy, and he estimated that this rough channeling could increase his instantaneous burst strength by 10% to 15%.
If he created a complete set of combat techniques, this increase would likely be even more substantial.
The taxi stopped, and He Ao set aside his thoughts for now.
His primary objective was still to resolve the matter with the Primitive Church.
He got out of the taxi and looked at the old building in front of him.
This was the ho of a muscular man nad Andrew, the second of the four suspected World Tree individuals provided by Li Le.
Since the first person, Lani, had been confird dead, He Ao went directly to the second individual.
According to the information given by Li Le, Andrew lived in a room on the left on the seventh floor.
He Ao quickly ascended the stairs.
He knocked on the door but received no response.
Using his Divine Sense, he peered through the doorway and swiftly scanned the room.
There was no one inside.
After pondering for a mont, He Ao descended the stairs and found an old man living on the first floor.
He showed him a photo of Andrew and asked in not-so-fluent Rodan language about Andrew’s whereabouts.
“Ah, you an that tall guy,”
the elderly man, sitting on a small stool, squinted his half-closed eyes and spoke leisurely, “I haven’t seen him in many days.
He used to say hello to every day when he went to work…
Are you his friend?
Did he go back ho?”
The elderly man’s words were heavily accented, and it took a mix of guessing and deduction in He Ao’s mind to roughly understand what he ant.
He shook his head and replied softly, “I don’t know, I’m also looking for him.”
He Ao left the old building and headed to his next destination,
the ho of a woman in her thirties nad Leanna.
This place too was empty, and neighborhood kids said they hadn’t seen Leanna for several days as well.
Both Andrew and Leanna had disappeared, with neither a trace of life nor a sign of death.
He Ao visited the residences of Lani and Gade, both of whom had been confird dead, and found that both locations were sealed off by Moonlight.
Lani’s docunts had already been given to He Ao by the gendarrie captain, and it seed no one had returned to Gade’s ho for many days either.
Of the four individuals Li Le had ntioned, two were missing, and two were dead.
After a mont of thought, He Ao returned to Oak Street.
The ruins where the club had been were now cordoned off.
He Ao glanced at the Moonlight personnel standing guard nearby, then retreated to the entrance of Oak Street and started showing a photo on his phone, asking passersby one by one.
“This person, yes, I’ve seen her,”
the boss selling water at a stall at the street corner glanced at the photo of Lani in He Ao’s hand, “This young lady is quite pretty.
The day before yesterday, late in the evening around nine or so, she hurriedly ran into the street and then not long after seed to be chased out by soone.”
The day before yesterday was indeed the day Lani was murdered.
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