Chapter 21

After returning to the tribe, Yi Tian and his companions took stock of their harvest.

Soon, they divided the harvest, and each person received over 1,800 pounds of dragon blood lizard meat.

The skins and other parts of the fierce beasts were stored at Yi Tian's home, to be sold during their next trip to the city.

Yi Feng, Yi Shan, and the others were not interested in the short sword found on the human killer, so Yi Tian gave it to Yi Li.

Yi Li did not refuse, and he seemed to be quite fond of it.

On the human killer, Yi Tian and his companions found a secret manual that recorded a technique called the Feather Flight Technique.

This Feather Flight Technique was a lower-grade human-level speed technique, which involved the circulation of true qi through special meridians and acupoints, enhancing the practitioner's speed, allowing them to walk on snow without leaving a trace. It provided a significant advantage in long-distance travel or when encountering danger.

However, this was not the time for them to learn this technique.

They took their respective shares and returned home.

Yi Tian also enjoyed a fragrant dinner with his family. The meat of the dragon blood lizards was incredibly delicious and rich in energy. His mother, Xiao Long, and Xiao Ting, who had little cultivation, felt full after eating just a few pieces.

The dragon blood lizard meat had a significant effect on the bodies of his mother, Xiao Long, and Xiao Ting, continuously improving their physical condition.

That night, Yi Tian carefully studied the Feather Flight Technique several times.

This secret technique was a special method of true qi circulation, which did not conflict with his Blazing Fire Technique.

Yi Tian used his star mud clone to practice the Feather Flight Technique.

The book that recorded the Feather Flight Technique mentioned that once this technique was perfected, the practitioner would be as light as a feather, and their speed would be several times faster. Even jumping off a cliff would not cause any harm.

Of course, the perfect state of the Feather Flight Technique was probably something even the creator of the technique had not achieved; it was just a theoretical extreme.

Otherwise, this technique would not be just a lower-grade human-level technique.

The star mud clone, which resembled Yi Tian, began to practice the Feather Flight Technique. Soon, the clone visualized the trajectory of true qi circulation in its body, which appeared in Yi Tian's mind.

As expected, when Yi Tian practiced the Feather Flight Technique, he noticed many flaws in the trajectory visualized by his clone. After all, there were subtle differences between the manual and the true Feather Flight Technique. If he practiced according to the manual, the technique would not be as powerful.

If someone with low aptitude practiced according to the manual, they might not even be able to master the technique.

With the help of his incredibly powerful clone, Yi Tian gradually optimized the Feather Flight Technique.

The Feather Flight Technique was evolving towards perfection.

With his experience in optimizing techniques, Yi Tian spent only an hour to completely eliminate the flaws in the Feather Flight Technique.

Now, the new Feather Flight Technique had become a mid-grade human-level speed technique.

It was important to note that techniques that enhanced speed were more precious and rare than ordinary cultivation techniques. This optimized mid-grade human-level technique was almost as powerful as a high-grade human-level technique.

Although Yi Tian had completely eliminated the flaws in the Feather Flight Technique, the mid-grade human-level level was not its limit. If he continued to optimize it, the level of the Feather Flight Technique would continue to rise.

However, while flaws were easy to fix, optimization required extensive real-world testing. If there was an error in the true qi circulation during optimization, his clone would immediately be injured.

Of course, the injury to the star mud clone would cause a true qi disturbance and meridian rupture, which was a feared phenomenon in cultivation known as a qi deviation. However, this did not truly affect Yi Tian, which was the reason he could continuously optimize the technique.

Even if Yi Tian optimized the Feather Flight Technique to the highest human-level, Yi Feng, Yi Shan, and Yi Li would not be able to practice it, as it was tailored to his body and would not achieve the same effect if practiced by others.

This was why Yi Tian only optimized the techniques practiced by Yi Feng and the others to the high-grade human-level and did not continue further.

Yi Tian set aside the Feather Flight Technique, which he had optimized to the mid-grade human-level. To optimize it to the high-grade human-level would take a few more days, and he was not in a hurry.

Next, he continued to use his clone to optimize the Blazing Fire Technique.

After months of deduction, optimization, and the repeated injuries of his clone, the Blazing Fire Technique had reached the highest human-level. However, Yi Tian could still sense that there was room for further optimization.

Although the room for optimization was minimal, it might take ten days or half a month to optimize it slightly.

Yi Tian did not stop his efforts to optimize the technique.

He had a vague premonition that continuing to optimize it would bring a great surprise.

Without spirit stones, Yi Tian's cultivation speed at night became very slow.

So, he used this time to descend his consciousness into his clone, continuously practicing and optimizing the techniques he was cultivating.

Since Yi Tian and his companions had jointly killed the human killer, in the past half month, Yi Feng, Yi Shan, and Yi Li had received Yi Tian's guidance and had mastered the basics of the Feather Flight Technique.

When they fully activated the technique, their speed tripled, and even third-stage warriors could not catch up to them.

If they perfected the high-grade human-level Feather Flight Technique, they would likely be faster than high-stage warriors, greatly enhancing their survival capabilities.

As for Yi Tian, he had already perfected the high-grade human-level Feather Flight Technique, making him as light as a swallow, able to leap seven to eight yards in one bound. Even if he fell from a cliff hundreds of yards high, he would not be injured.

Recently, he had been continuously optimizing the Feather Flight Technique, aiming to elevate it to the highest human-level, a legendary level.

Yi Tian was diligently cultivating in the tribe.

However, at this time, a piece of news shocked the Black Dragon City and the surrounding major forces and families.

The human killer had died at the edge of the Dragon Subduing Mountains.

The news was spread by a team that had returned from an adventure in the Dragon Subduing Mountains. The team discovered the human killer's body while passing through the area.

It was important to note that the human killer's appearance was well-known in the Black Dragon City area. Many of the team members were experienced, and they confirmed that the deceased was indeed the human killer.

At the same time, a rumor spread that the murderer of the human killer was likely a high-level expert from the Yi tribe!

The reason for this rumor was that the human killer had been killed by an arrow through the head, and in the Black Dragon City area, only the Yi tribe specialized in archery and was extremely skilled in it.

The second reason was that the place where the human killer died was not far from the Yi tribe.

These two points led to the speculation that the human killer was most likely killed by a high-level expert from the Yi tribe.

The Yi tribe's leadership had heard this rumor.

However, they knew that the human killer was not killed by them, but they did not clarify the situation.

No one could have imagined that the human killer was indeed killed by members of the Yi tribe, but not by the tribe's archery experts, only by a few low-level young men.

The death of the human killer enraged the Heaven and Earth killers.

They even threatened to take revenge on the Yi tribe.

Despite this, their threats were more bark than bite. The Yi tribe, as a major tribe near the Black Dragon City, was not something they, as two high-stage warriors, could contend with.

Three years later, Yi Tian was seventeen years old.

Yi Xiao Long had been attending classes at the ancestral temple for three years, learning the basics of martial arts.

Xiao Ting was very unhappy about this.

As a girl, she was not allowed to study at the ancestral temple or practice the tribe's secret techniques. Since Xiao Long spent most of his time at the ancestral temple, Xiao Ting became sullen.

For the tribe, most girls would eventually marry out, so the tribe's secret techniques would not be passed down to them.

However, girls like Xiao Ting could practice the most basic and widely spread technique in the world, the Primordial Qi Technique.

The Primordial Qi Technique was the lowest-level human-level technique, and even after practicing for a hundred years, one would not break through to the first stage. It could only strengthen the body, similar to the fitness techniques of Yi Tian's previous life.

To comfort Xiao Ting, Yi Tian promised to give her a powerful technique to practice, one that would be stronger than what Xiao Long was practicing, and she could even defeat Xiao Long in the future. This made Xiao Ting smile through her tears.

Xiao Ting firmly believed in Yi Tian's words.

After that, Yi Tian spent two months optimizing the Primordial Qi Technique to the high-grade human-level.

Yi Tian passed this high-grade human-level Primordial Qi Technique to his mother, Su Yue'e, encouraging her to practice it regularly, as it would greatly benefit her health and even extend her lifespan.