Sword Among Us Chapter 576 - Joined!

Chapter 576: Joined!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The more Happy’s understanding toward Joined Finger increased, the more he could sense the damage and profound secret within it. Regardless of whether it was its damage of long-distance attacks or close-distance attacks, it could change at will in many forms, and it possessed neverending mysteries.
Happy also grew to understand the charm of Joined Finger, and he had the urge to help the Murong Clan right their name!
In TV dramas and wuxia novels, Joined Finger always appeared only for a moment, and it never left behind a huge impression. Instead, techniques like Six Pulses Divine Sword gained the great fame of the supreme sword technique!
To Happy, Joined Finger was not inferior to Six Pulses Divine Sword.
The other might have a great presence and could cause astonishing damage with the sword qi, but it was still something with form.
Perhaps in terms of the number of attacks that could be delivered in one go, Joined Finger was slightly inferior, but it placed an emphasis on being formless, and it could kill without sound. And based on its power alone, it was actually slightly above Six Pulses Divine Sword.
Within just a few short days of training, Happy pushed Joined Finger from the third realm to the sixth realm due to Nine Yang Divine Skill aiding him with an endless supply of qi.
Right then, Joined Finger’s damage did not lose to a normal attack from Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palm at Grandmaster Realm. In fact, it was even greater.
After training nonstop for a period of time, Happy also gained a deeper perception and understanding of the positioning of Joined Finger in real battles.
The finger technique placed an emphasis on surprise attacks, and it was unpredictable. If he used it together with fist techniques, he could catch his opponents off guard, and its might would be much greater than what Young Fallen Rain showed.
If anyone fought against him without knowing about his abilities, even some of the Inaction Realm martial artists might end up with more than what they bargained for!
There were a large number of martial artists at the peak of Moksha Realm in the forest. Their weapons were connected with each other, and light as well as shadows intersected with each other. They surrounded Happy while he was dressed in normal blue robes. All sorts of weapons came charging at him, and Happy was surrounded by danger.
He was like a ship in a storm that was about to topple over at any moment from a furious wave!
However, since Happy was confident enough not to wear any equipment while he faced four martial artists at the peak of Moksha Realm, it was only natural that he was not worried about them working together to fight against him.
He attacked as swiftly as lightning.
Clang! Clang!
Each time the quartet moved together to get close to him, he would quickly deliver two attacks with his fingers.
The Moksha Realm fighters could only sense their weapons shudder, and they felt as if they had been struck by lightning. They trembled along with their weapons, and the brief moment of them freezing up caused a weakness to appear in their originally perfect formation.
Happy easily got out of the encirclement and continued to attack with his fingers. His qi continued to deliver astonishing finger-generated gusts of wind from six of his fingers.
Sometimes, he would even use his fingers to clash head-on against his opponent’s weapons.
The sound of steel rang.
Happy remained unharmed, but his opponents looked incredibly terrified, as if they had seen a monster.
Happy ignored that reaction. His goal was to attack as many times as possible. Joined Finger did not have any defensive moves. Its attack was its defense. That was why when he attacked opponents who were of sufficient skill to absorb combat experience from them, he could continuously increase the level of Joined Finger.
However, as the level for Joined Finger increased, those in Life and Death Realm could no longer satisfy Happy’s needs. Even some of the normal Moksha Realm elites could not last for a long time in his hands.
The NPCs in Moksha Realm were rather rare in the game. Since there were a lot of players around, there was also a huge need for such NPCs… If one was killed, it would only respawn after some time. The players would then have to either wait, or head very far, across mountains and rivers, in search of a second one.
It was very difficult to train against Moksha Realm NPCs, but it was even harder to run into Inaction Realm martial artists!
Fortunately, Happy had quite a lot of training places from his previous life stored in his head. The four-man formation in front of him was one of them. They were disciples who were abandoned by Sword Sect, but who had an extraordinary formation. They had also gained some achievements with their martial arts, which was why they could compare to Inaction Realm martial artists.
Happy had wanted to use them to push his Joined Finger to reach its final level, but he suddenly realized that once the four executed their attacks, they were much fiercer than Inaction Realm martial artists.
Besides, by pure chance, Happy had also discovered that attacking people was not the only way for Joined Finger to absorb experience. It could also absorb experience by striking weapons.
Joined Finger’s damage was incredibly terrifying when it was used against a person, but if he used his qi to deliver a force of impact on them through the weapon, the damage would be reduced by a large margin.
What was the most surprising was that the teamwork between the four disciples allowed them to take turns withstanding Happy’s finger technique. They could slowly recover from their injuries, and after half a day, when they returned to the fray after resting, their injuries would have fully healed.
This discovery made Happy overjoyed, and he immediately came up with a spontaneous extreme method of training!
While the four launched a pincer attack on him, he could train another body fortification technique as he continued to attack to fight against their attacks and push Joined Finger to the seventh realm.
Even though it would be rather dangerous if he did not wear any equipment, the advantage of practicing Nine Yang Divine Skill was that his Body Movement, Affinity, and defense were also increased.
When he moved, he could do so in a more dexterous and relaxed manner. His reaction was also faster, so as long as he was not careless, it would be very difficult for him to get heavily injured.
Happy could even sense that once his strength increased by leaps and bounds, his abilities were already infinitesimally close to his previous self when he was at the peak.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Happy’s finger attacks were each more powerful than the last. The speed was also each faster than before, and it could catch others off guard.
The pressure on his sparring partners increased day by day. In the beginning, they would only be slightly injured, but a few days later, each attack could make their purlicues hurt. They could not hold their weapons tightly. Every time the four disciples from Sword Sect saw Happy come toward them, they would be excited but nervous as well.
They were excited because there was someone who was willing to spar with them, because of which their abilities had also increased. But what caused them to be nervous was that they gained an increasingly clear understanding that it would be very easy for Happy to take their lives. All he needed to do was to switch his target to their bodies from their weapons, and it would be enough.
Happy had also noticed that, which was why he resolutely took off his Golden Gloves.
Once he lost 2,000 points in damage, his power naturally decreased by a large degree. The four regained a chance to fight against him.
After the two parties used each other as training targets for more than half a month, the four disciples of Sword Sect, who had never spoken, took the initiative to speak when Happy was prepared to leave. “Young Swordsman, please stay where you are!”
“Hmm?”
Happy was prepared to log off to eat, but he suddenly heard the four disciples of Sword Sect speak to him, even though he had previously assumed that they were mute. He turned his head around in a stiff manner, and when he saw the four kneeling on the ground, he could not help but be curious.
“What are you…”
“Over this period of time, we have been fortunate enough for you to regard us highly and spar with us, but never try to kill us! We can tell that you are very strong, but you never harbored any killing intent toward us. After seeing your grace, we talked about it for a long time, and we hope that you can agree to a request from us.”
Happy was rendered speechless. He was stunned.
He had not expected that there would be a hidden quest from the abandoned disciples whom the players could kill and that he would actually manage to trigger it after more than half a month of just fighting with them.
Happy immediately became incredibly curious. “Pray, do tell.”