The Divine Martial Stars Chapter 207 - Grasping the Birds Tail

Chapter 207 Grasping the Bird’s Tail

The Supervisory Departnt of the Western Qin Empire had sub offices in governnts at all levels, which were managed by the Sub-divisional Chief Supervisors. And the Routing Supervisor, whose status was between the General Chief Supervisor and the Sub-divisional Chief Supervisors, was also pretty paramount and powerful. His role was similar to the imperial envoy. His duty was to supervise specific cases, which required complete support of relevant Sub-divisional Chief Supervisors.

Lu Lizi was a man over 50. He was short, ugly, and dark-skinned, who could easily put children into nightmares when they took a brief glance at him. Nonetheless, his cultivation was quite profound. Decades ago, he had already beco a peerless master of the Natural Realm. It could be said that he was almost a well-known figure in the Wulin of the entire Western Qin Empire.

Due to his frenzy of power, Lu Lizi enjoyed a fairly high status among the 36 Routing Supervisors of the headquarters of the Supervisory Departnt, even though his strength was not the strongest, perhaps one of the last ranks. This ti, it was he who asked the headquarters to dispatch him to Chang’an for supervising the case of Supervisor Xu’s disappearance and the murder of the prince of Lord Zhenxi.

After only a bit of investigation, he knew Li Mu had sothing to do with the disappearance of Supervisor Xu.

And he was certain that the murder of Qin Lin, the prince of Lord Zhenxi, was committed by Li Mu even without investigation.

As the two cases added up, Li Mu surely could not get away with no conviction.

According to the protocols of case processing in the Supervisory Departnt, all Lu Lizi needed to do now was to notify the local governnt and wait for the latter to arrest the criminal and hand him over. Then, he would escort the criminal to the capital to take credit for his terrific work. If so, the case would be closed.

Thus, based on this protocol, he directly inford the Chang’an governnt organ of his hope to arrest Li Mu. After all, the culprit was rely a Natural Expert. Given the strength of Chang’an governnt, it should not be a problem for them. So, he was not very worried about that. But there was one thing that intrigued him, and that was how co a boy of 15 was already a Natural Expert. He prepared to dig into that question unhurriedly when they were on the way of sending the captured Li Mu to the capital.

However, the reply of the Chang’an governnt utterly surprised and enraged Lu Lizi.

They said they did not have enough force to arrest the criminal. That was clearly an excuse of dereliction.

As a Routing Supervisor from the headquarters of the Supervisory Departnt, Lu Lizi felt he did not get the respect he deserved from the Chang’an governnt.

That was practically a contempt of the Supervisory Departnt.

But after careful deliberation, Lu Lizi, though quite furious, ca to the conclusion that he probably had no way to bend Li Gang, the magistrate of Chang’an, to his will. Considering they were in two totally different power system, and Li Gang, as the governor-general of the region, had power over all the forces, finance, and administration of the entire Chang’an. He was indeed a figure with real power, so it would be very difficult to challenge him.

“Well, I can arrest Li Mu myself anyway. Humph, when he is taken into custody, I’ll make him implicate Li Gang in the cri. Even if that can’t take Li Gang down, it might give him a wake-up call.”

Lu Lizi made up his mind. He smirked wickedly and ordered his n to catch Li Mu at once.

He was quite confident about that plan. Because when the Supervisory Departnt wanted to arrest sobody, normal martial arts practitioners dared not resist, unless they were lawless fiendish brutes.

However, his n soon ca back and reported to him that Li Mu was nowhere to be seen in the whole city.

“Then, go to the Holy House. Don’t they say Li Mu has a lover in that Holy House? Bring that hooker to the Supervisory Departnt. I shall see whether he will co to her rescue or not,” commanded Lu Lizi as he pounded the desk.

He then sent a trusted subordinate he brought here from the Supervisory Departnt in Qin City to the Holy House along with 20 n of the local Supervisory Departnt.

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It was in the middle of autumn. The climate was dry and crisp.

The military grave was serene and quiet.

After entering the Natural Realm, Li Mu only felt he was more energetic than ever and his state could not be better. Having completed a practice that lasted one night and half a day, it turned out that he felt not even the slightest fatigue but beca quite bouncy.

So, he reckoned he might as well proceed with the practice.

Before, he had failed to master the fourth style of the Zhenwu Boxing. That was because he only cultivated his physique but not his spirit and could not thread the styles together. Now that he had reached the Natural Realm, improved both his bodily and spiritual power, and felt quite good at the mont, he decided to give it one more shot.

He launched the Lifting Pole Style, the first style, and then the second, the third style...

That wisp of Natural qi also started swirling fast inside him as he did the styles of the Zhenwu Boxing.

But Li Mu did not plunge into the fourth style at once. Instead, he perford the first three styles repeatedly as he adjusted his state. Like playing on a swing, he was gathering the montum bit by bit. Gradually, he pushed his spirit power and stamina higher and higher.

He felt like he was on fire now, for he was burning hot from head to foot.

His internal qi spread out involuntarily and ford a layer of invisible pressure around him with a radius of a hundred ters. And that wisp of Natural qi as thin as a hair was zooming fervently in his Eight Extra-ridians as though a rotating star, completing one circle after another.

“Here it cos...”

Li Mu hollered in an undertone. As he finished the third style, Cracking Sky, his movent imdiately changed. His arms locked together. As if he had no joints, his arms wielded in an unbelievable orbit and forged a perfect circle which seed to be the round diagram of Tai Ji. Then, the movents of his arms beca so fast that they were blurred, producing mist before him.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

A series of thunderous cracks similar to the sound of bursting beans were heard from the joints of Li Mu’s arms.

Shortly, it could be heard from every part of his body.

His bones were undergoing a rearrangent or a new combination, which appeared to be extrely bizarre.

In the end, Li Mu only heard a boom in his head and felt so gate in his body had been opened. New currents of power were surging, and they instantly flooded to every cell in every corner of his body.

He had finally mastered the fourth style of the Zhenwu Boxing, which was called Grasping the Bird’s Tail.

“My assumption is correct. That I had failed to master the fourth style before is because I wasn’t able to produce internal qi at that ti. Although the Zhenwu Boxing is a skill to enhance my body, each of its styles embodies the truth of martial arts. Thus, without the nourishnt and assistance of internal qi, I can hardly get a hand of it.”

Li Mu was very thrilled by this new achievent.

He sensed that the strength of his corporeal body had scaled an incredulous height again.

Since Zhenwu Boxing was a skill to cultivate his body, it was natural for his strength to soar after he digested the fourth style.

Now, Li Mu felt he could hoist a mountain or intercept a river, even an exhale of air could blow away an expert at the peak of the Master Realm.

It was kind of formidable, kind of dramatic.

But it was nothing if compared to the power of those unparalleled talents who dominated a sea of stars.

Because the old faker had ntioned that those privileged Virgin Goddesses in the universe were peerlessly tough and powerful. Their one punch could send a continent to the bottom of the sea, and their one kick could flatten the mountains stretching several hundred miles away. And many experts and old demons in the universe even could crumble a star with a squeeze. And that Divine Emperor, whom the old faker worshiped most, was able to set up formations with stars. He was definitely in the ultimate realm of martial arts.

Li Mu started to mull over his new power.

The first three styles of the Zhenwu Boxing all contained a certain piece of truth about martial arts, like the body-lighting skill.

But Li Mu seed to have no clue on what the truth behind this fourth style, Grasping the Bird’s Tail, was for the mont.

Even so, he did not lose his patience. Instead, he stood on the sa spot and perford the Zhenwu Boxing over and over again. When it ca to the fourth style, he deliberately slowed down to allow his spiritual force to focus. He even opened his Third Eye to observe the change inside his body and to detect the energy fluctuations in the vicinity.

Gradually, Li Mu made so discoveries.

“The fourth style, Grasping the Bird’s Tail, is a defensive move...”

An inspiration dawned upon him.

He kept executing the fourth style of Zhenwu Boxing as he noticed that it was constantly remolding his body, especially his arms, skin, bones, muscles, veins, marrow... All those parts were enhanced again and again by that style. Li Mu even felt the strength in his shoulders and arms were getting more frighteningly powerful than the rest of his body.

“The body-strengthening effect of the Grasping the Bird’s Tail seems to mainly work on the arms? That’s weird. Because the first three styles fortify the whole body.”

As Li Mu perford the fourth style on and on, he was a little surprised.

The Zhenwu Boxing did seem to take a turn when it ca to the fourth style.

With his internal qi circulating and his blood raging, Li Mu ca to realize that his arms vaguely bunched as if so air had been pumped into them. His fingers, palms, forearms, upper arms, and even shoulders all swelled up. His arms grow thicker, his muscles on the arms bulged like rocks, his blue veins also protruded and entwined his arms like serpents.

He felt like he beca Popeye who just ate a ton of spinach.

“Fu*k! Did I just really get a pair of Kylin Arms?”

Li Mu could not understand the change in his body.

He could tell that when his arms swelled up, the strength in them had multiplied. If he threw a punch out, he believed he could even crush a mountain.

Under that condition, he perford the Grasping the Bird’s Tail again and gained so new idea. This ti, he not only took his power up a notch but also caused energy turbulence in the environnt. When his palms and fingers moved, spots of shimring light appeared around him. It seed that they composed a certain pattern, but Li Mu could not see it very clearly. At last, they forged a huge energy vortex which looked like a black hole that could devour everything.

“No, that’s not right. This style is not completely defensive. On the contrary, it contains the sign of a counter-attack. It absorbs the enemy’s power and then throws it back... Wow, this is the thod of Star Relocation Skill the southern Murong family excelled at in the ‘Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils’. Turns out this is the truth concealed behind the fourth style of the Zhenwu Boxing!”

Li Mu was suddenly enlightened.

The energy vortex created by the Grasping the Bird’s Tail could engulf the offensive power of the opponent and transform it before sending it back.

“What a freaking ricochet!”

“It’s certainly a superb technique of counter-attacking!”

Li Mu laughed gleefully at once.

If he cast it at the right ti, the Grasping the Bird’s Tail could surely help him get rid of so really dangerous enemies.

Given that there was a wrench storm looming over the city of Chang’an these days, the timing of Li Mu comprehending that new truth of martial arts could not be better.

“Now, it has been proved that the Xiantian Skill and Zhenwu Boxing supplent each other and reinforce each other. Indeed, the greatest truths are the simplest. They are the most basic thods, but they are also the most abstruse thods. No wonder the old faker compelled to practice the two thods over a decade and rely gave short lectures about the other Taoist magic arts, the tactical deploynt, and the incantations in usual days. Only now did I realize these two Cultivation thods are the fundantal ones.”

The higher Li Mu’s cultivation was, the more enlightennt he gained.

By then, the night was about to fall.

Co to think of it, Li Mu had spent a whole day and a whole night in the military grave for practice.

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