Azure Heaven Saber - Chapter 54 - 54 42 Difficult Bronze Badge Mission

Chapter 54: Chapter 42: Difficult Bronze Badge Mission Chapter 54: Chapter 42: Difficult Bronze Badge Mission Feng Yin stood in the night wind, carefully considering this task.

There was a risk, this Ma Sanqian was a bronze badge task, and not considered too low among the bronze badges. Although his own strength had greatly increased, completing iron rank tasks felt easy, yet he had never done a bronze rank task, there was no reference to serve as a benchmark. If he rashly goes up, the risk is substantial.

What if he wasn’t able to defeat him?

Once he wasn’t an opponent’s match, no matter how many miraculous encounters or golden opportunities he had, they would all be useless.

Everything comes to an end once life is unpredictable!

Although he was thinking this way, with some hesitation, he still moved stealthily in that direction.

“I’ll go there first, ascertain the opponent’s strength, have an idea in my mind, then make further decisions.”

Feng Yin comforted himself this way.

In fact, deep down he knew very well that he was definitely taking a risk, putting his life on the line.

Yet he couldn’t control the thought ‘If I kill him, I can get promoted to a bronze badge.’
From the iron rank to the gold rank, there were three levels in between: bronze badge, silver badge, and gold badge.

And for promotion, there were only four months left.

If he wished to progress step by step, it would be absolutely impossible.

For Feng Yin, should he miss this opportunity, it would be too late.

The cultivation speed of the Spiritual Transformation Technique…was just too fast.

He had always depended on continual battles and growth to solidify and strengthen his own power. Yet, as time went on, his rhythm in launching attacks, his manner of exerting force, and his way of striking would form extremely systematic habits due to practice.

Even right now might be too late.

He had already been through a long decade of being an assassin.

Ten years, how endless was this time? During these years, he kept on taking assignments, he kept on practicing martial arts…
Day by day, becoming skilled, habits become natural, it’s not just mere words.

This time, thanks to the Spiritual Transformation Technique, he was able to completely transform himself multiple times, removing impurities at the core, leading his body’s condition, strength and flexibility to reach the peak of foundation accumulation.

In this moment, obtaining a formal systematic cultivation, the timing was just right. If he missed this period of time, he would miss the best opportunity.

Based on this perception, even knowing well the uncertainty ahead, not wanting to risk it, he still had to try.

“This is the disadvantage of not being professionally trained,” said Feng Yin, finally understanding.

In his past life, why was there always someone highlighting the importance of professional training?

Because within any industry, professional training represents an innate advantage. Perhaps non-professionals can, under certain periods or opportunities, achieve success and fame. Yet, these cases are few and far between, instead, in many aspects, they can’t deny that non-professionals are weaker in comparison.

For example, in resources and connections.

Teachers, students, alumni, and even the influence of the school are not things that non-professionals possess.

If this were applied to martial arts cultivation, this gap is even more significant. It’s clear at a glance.

In other industries, lacking proper training may just lead to some setbacks with room for turnarounds, but in martial arts, it could mean losing your life.

For those with the same level and accumulation, with the correct posture and method of exerting force, one could exert a force of 1500 kg in one punch. Those who don’t know the correct posture and how to exert force might only be able to exert 1200 kg or even less.

If these two people were to fight to the death… They are on the same cultivation level, but their actual combat power is so different, how could non-professionals not lose?

Not to mention the professionals also have more systematic, sophisticated techniques, secret attacks and killing moves that can be used only once by concentrating all their cultivation…

The outcome is almost self-evident.

In novels, the protagonist always manages to rise against the tide and counter-kill, but in life, there can only be one protagonist. Others have to obey the principle aforementioned; trying to cross it using ‘non-professional techniques’ would be as hard as ascending the heavens!

“Gold rank, gold rank, gold rank!”

Sighing in the wind, Feng Yin’s figure, like a faint shadow, silently sailed through the night sky.

…

As for Ma Sanqian, who had taken over another’s nest, he had long been forced to leave the warm little den he had just taken over due to the repeated killings.

That cozy cottage had already become a kill site like the test grounds for the Heavenly Judge’s assassins.

From the roof to the walls, the holes made for a four-sided panoramic skylight, a top configuration.

With the arrival of the assassins one after another, even though Ma Sanqian kept winning, he still felt anxious.

Initially, when he became a one-legged bandit, he was already infamous in the Heavenly Judgment rankings. He had thought about using this method to evade the killing intent, yet after hiding here, the Heavenly Judge actually intensified their efforts, marking him as a red flag target.

Ma Sanqian felt like crying but no tears came.

He really couldn’t understand, how did the Heavenly Judge, with all his secrecy and tactics, know his details?

Not only Ma Sanqian couldn’t understand but the assassins from the Heavenly Judge also couldn’t figure it out.

How did the Heavenly Judge get the relevant targets’ task information?

This secret has always remained a mystery since ancient times, no one has ever uncovered it.

However, once you commit a heinous act, you will surely be on the list! No one can escape this fact.

In this period of time, Ma Sanqian had changed his identity several times, and even had countless disguises, going as far as to say, during his escape, he must have changed 30 to 40 sets of different clothes.

But he was accurately tracked down every single time in a short while.

If it weren’t for the fact that the Bronze rank assassins sent after him were less skilled and experienced than himself, he would have parted with the world by now.

“Thud!”

A Bronze rank assassin took a blow to the head from Ma Sanqian and collapsed, tottering.

A new gash was added to Ma Sanqian’s back, pouring out fresh blood, but he dared not pause even for a moment, he gave it his all to break free.

Two bright lights flashed in front of him again, revealing yet another two Bronze rank assassins from Heavenly Judge.

With two sounds of metal clashing, Ma Sanqian attacked with all his might. Simultaneously, he threw two flying knives. The two assassins barely made a sound as they were hit in the throat and fell from the wall like wooden planters.

Even before their bodies hit the ground, Ma Sanqian was already tens of feet ahead.

He kept his guard up, running with all his might.

This should be almost the end of it… but now there are still three behind him, relentlessly pursuing, stuck to him like a bone-deep tumor.

He simply cannot shake them off.

“This is just fucked up!”

Thanks to his rich experience and unique movements, Ma Sanqian continued to escape, but the sense of crisis in his heart became more and more intense.

His cultivation level was the peak of the innate eighth-grade. Despite the constant attempts on his life, he could break through to seventh-grade at any moment – each breakthrough would be a guaranteed success.

But now, he hadn’t the slightest intention of breaking through.

Because once he broke through to seventh-grade and revealed his abilities in the ensuing fights, the assassins sent after him would not be Bronze, but Silver rank.

That would be a real threat to his life.

After all, with his current strength, he could easily handle Bronze rank assassins, but against Silver rank ones, he would only hasten his own defeat and death.

He quickly dashed towards the outskirts of Yuezhou City; Ma Sanqian had now realized that the idea of hiding in plain sight was a joke under the surveillance of the Heavenly Judge.

If that’s the case, he might as well choose to hide in some desolate and perilous places where assassins were reluctant to go, places where he might find the slightest chance of survival…

Whoosh, whoosh…

His robes fluttered in the wind, making a sound like the whistling of a broken knife.

Ma Sanqian darted through a narrow alley at top speed, moving forward like a whirlwind.

A sudden flash of a dagger illuminated the high ground ahead and a slash came down.

“Ma Sanqian! Surrender your life!”

Another Bronze rank assassin joined the battle.

Ma Sanqian gave a cold chuckle. With a whirling movement, he made his iron whip strike back. In the darkness, a shower of sparks erupted.

The attacker suddenly groaned and rolled back up to his original position, vomiting a mouthful of blood.

Blood sprayed out in the air like a blossom, and the strong smell of burnt flesh suddenly intensified.

Ma Sanqian knew that if he went after him, this Bronze rank would die for sure, but he didn’t dare make another attack.

That’s because, just in that brief moment of delay, seven or eight hidden weapons were already shooting at him from three different directions.

Ma Sanqian dodged the hidden weapons by a hair’s breadth, but two assassins were closing in on him fast.

Suddenly, a long whip moved like a snake in the dark, racing towards him, aimed straight for his neck.

Ma Sanqian dared not slack off, he showed off his mixed martial arts skills, finally managed to force back the two assassins with two moves, and then another to fend off the assassin who was attacking again from above. Coughing up a mouthful of blood, he sped up his pace and bolted towards the distance.

Meanwhile, Feng Yin was hiding in a large tree not far away.

This series of attacks happening all the way had all fallen into his eyes.

Without witnessing it himself, he would have never known. Now, he could only feel cold sweat dripping down his body, seeping out of his pores in waves.

His back was chillingly cold.

The level of Ma Sanqian’s cultivation seemed to be about the same as his. Yet in terms of combat experience, especially being able to counterattack while on the run, and being resolute and ruthless in his moves, Feng Yin was no match for him.

Moreover, the adeptness of his techniques and his extraordinary body movements were unrivaled and beyond Feng Yin’s control.

Feng Yin felt relieved.

The fact that he had not let his previous 100% mission completion rate lead to undue pride meant he hadn’t rushed to take the job in the heat of the moment.

This decision was absolutely right.

Otherwise, by now, he may have already been finished…

“Having a clear mind is indeed my greatest advantage.”

…

[I accidentally wrote 10,000 words this afternoon; if I only update two chapters today, the plot won’t be complete, which isn’t a pleasant thing to do, so there will be one more update today. We will see you sharp at 6 pm.]

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