Returning to his courtyard, Lu Yu instinctively looked for that peculiar leaf while taking out a Spirit Stone from his Storage Ring to cultivate, but couldn't find it even after searching throughout the ring.

Finally, Lu Yu checked everything closely, and noticed the Ancient Finger Bone that had undergone a transformation.

Staring at the finger bone with script akin to tadpoles that were even finer than a fly's leg, Lu Yu fell into deep thought. When exactly did the finger bone undergo such a change?

This finger bone was from another disciple of the Divine Weapon Pavilion, merely a bonus in a transaction, and he hadn't paid it much attention.

But looking at it now, this item's origin isn't simple.

After pondering for a while, Lu Yu released his perception and attempted to decipher the flowing script.

It didn't take long for Lu Yu to give up deciphering the script on the bone. Although he could clearly see the text, finer than a fly's leg, there was no order or rules to the flowing script, making it impossible to combine or calculate normally.

Simply put, the script flowing on the finger bone is meaningless.

Or rather, before being formed into chapters, these characters held no significance, just simple symbols.

Lu Yu held the finger bone, wondering how to glean information from it. Looking at the bone in his hand, an idea struck him: which finger is this bone from?

He held the bone beside his fingers for comparison, and disregarding the difference in bone size, based on proportion and characteristics, this bone appeared to be the fingertip bone of the right index finger.

Placed beside the right index finger, it fit perfectly.

"Can't obtain information through normal perception, could a drop of blood be effective?" Lu Yu mulled.

He stared at the bone beside his right index finger and controlled his finger to open a crack, squeezing out a thick bead of blood.

The blood bead clung to his fingertip and refused to drip off, forcing Lu Yu to smear it on the finger bone reluctantly.

The instant the blood was smeared, the finger bone transformed, its tadpole-like characters densely climbing onto Lu Yu's index finger with the blood.

As he watched the Ancient Finger Bone's script flow onto his finger, Lu Yu hesitated, debating whether to stop it.

Just as he hesitated, he received a system prompt.

[Learning "Unknown" Martial Arts, martial arts skill panel loading progress 0.01%...]

Receiving the system prompt, Lu Yu calmed down, waiting for the character flow to conclude.

Bang~ When all characters disappeared, the finger bone, hard enough that Lu Yu couldn't leave a mark, shattered and turned into ashes, vanishing into the wind.

Lu Yu's perception enveloped his own finger bone, seeing a large number of fine characters flowing within the crystal-clear ice jade bone of his right index finger.

The scintillating ice-blue ice jade bone was transforming, gradually turning into a black jade color, affected by the fiery Blazing Blood Marrow inside, shifting in an unidentified direction.

The transformation was confined to the fingertip bone of the right index finger for now; until it ended, Lu Yu was uncertain if the transformation was good or bad.

Half an hour later, the finger bone completely changed into black jade, its internal flowing fiery Blazing Blood Marrow coagulated, almost isolating that section of the bone from others, forming its own domain.

[Martial arts skill loading complete, Great Annihilation Finger (not mastered), grade unknown (incomplete), experience required for entry: 1 million]

Needing 1 million experience points just to enter, Lu Yu glanced at his current experience points and decisively consumed 1 million to gain entry.

[Gaining insights in cultivating Great Annihilation Finger martial arts, Great Annihilation Finger (not mastered) → Great Annihilation Finger (Novice)]

A surge of experience memory in cultivating Great Annihilation Finger appeared out of nowhere in Lu Yu's mind, causing the Yin energy within him to flow involuntarily towards his right index finger.

Hiss~ A transparent gray finger shadow shot out, landing on the nearby wooden table, which rapidly decayed and rotted, seeming as if it had been there for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.

Lu Yu was shocked at the effect caused by the Great Annihilation Finger.

"Is this accelerated time flow? No, this isn't right; with my capabilities, even if given a time-type martial arts skill, I couldn't possibly unleash it, so it must be simply decay…"

Within the cultivation memories, there was no opponent to reference the strength of Great Annihilation Finger, but it certainly wasn't weak.

...

Wang Hong walked on the street, displeased with the people around him. He was warned by the City Lord of An Nan City not to initiate trouble within the city, or he would be arrested and sent to the royal city for judgment under the charge of disrupting national security.

Wang Hong didn't care about the charges; what concerned him most was being sent to the royal city for judgment, where the influence of the Wang family would be greatly diminished.

If he were really sent to the royal city for judgment, the Wang family would have to pay a hefty price to get him out.

"Young master, that thing on the person was lost." Ying Shisan's voice suddenly whispered in Wang Hong's ear, unnoticed by the guards monitoring him in An Nan City.

"Lost?" Wang Hong was surprised, his expression darkening as he instinctively felt that the item was crucial to him, one he couldn't afford to miss.

With a shadowed look, Wang Hong said, "Make him talk. I need to know what exactly it is and who took it!"

"Understood." Ying Shisan replied.

In a flash, time went to the afternoon, the training field in the dormitory area of the Divine Weapon Pavilion was packed with people there to challenge Lu Yu and watch the spectacle.

Until now, no one could confirm if Lu Yu was the peerless genius of the Divine Weapon Pavilion, but they knew Lu Yu's strength was formidable, treating him as that genius for challenges.

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