Chapter 449 Reaching for the Stars


    As soon as Yuan Mei played the heart card, Ma Lu discovered that he had indeed hidden a secret.


    ??When Lao Yuan revealed his martial arts before, he only said that he was drunk when performing his moves, but did not mention that his mental skills were also affected.


    ??And it was quite powerful. The two Golden Bottle Techniques he threw not only provided him with 20 points of infuriating energy, but also helped him increase his drunkenness to the 6th level.


    ?Ma Lu glanced at the text description of Jin Zun Jue, which provided 10 points of vitality and 1 layer of intoxication. If no active attack was launched this round, the intoxication level was increased to 3 layers.


    After that, Yuan Mei played another card and drank slowly, which was the second form of drinking the Eight Immortals Fan.


    ? It stands to reason that the person who takes the initiative cannot make moves in the first round. However, a more accurate statement should be that the person who takes the initiative cannot cause damage to the opponent in the first round.


    ? It’s just that ordinary moves will cause damage, so over time most people will default to the fact that the first attack cannot make moves in the first round.


    ?? But Yuan Mei''s slow drink is different. His 28 points of damage are calculated in the next round. The most important thing is that this move also comes with 3 layers of drunkenness, bringing the drunkenness on Yuan Mei''s body to 9 layers.


    In this way, he will trigger another powerful pursuit in the next round with a power of up to 37 points and ignoring defense.


    I have to say that Lao Yuan worked really hard to defeat Malu within three rounds. After that, he threw out a protective card, adding 15 parry points to himself, and ended his round.


    Compared to his series of fierce attacks, this parry was almost meaningless.


    ?But this is normal. His martial arts is a pursuit system built with drunkenness as the core. It is obviously focused on offense and light on defense.


    ??Yuan Mei dealt 65 points of post-damage in one go when the first mover could not attack, and 37 of them were ignored by parry.


    ??Although the power of a single round is not as good as the Beggar Clan''s unique skill, Xiantian Pure Yang Palm, it is already superior to most martial arts in the world.


    Yuan Mei finished her set and was in high spirits. She held up the gourd and drank heavily. Then she rolled her eyes drunkenly and recited a poem.


    "Drinking this thing that forgets worries, comforts my romantic spirit. Boy, if you can see this set of Eight Immortals Fans in the drink, it is considered a worthwhile trip."


    ?Ma Lu was too lazy to pay attention to him. He touched two cards first and didn''t find what he wanted, but it didn''t matter. Then he followed the steps and played a mental card - Jiuyin Gong.


    ??This name was given by himself. The original name of this martial art was actually called Ice Muscle and Jade Body Technique. It was the magical power of the Jade Girl Palace. It was Ma Lu who touched it from the body of Fairy Lingbo Shenmei.


    In addition to providing 9 points of infuriating energy, this heart spell card can also provide an additional round of ice muscle status.


    The ice muscle state cannot be superimposed. In this state, the amount of infuriating energy required to activate card effects can be reduced.


    Shen Mei’s Ice Muscle Jade Body Technique has been trained to the fifth level. After Ma Lu puts on the Ice Muscle state, he will play cards this round. Each card will cost him 3 less points of infuriating energy, which greatly eases his consumption of infuriating energy.


    He then played Xianyun''s Clever, discarding a card in his hand, and activated the effect of Xianyun''s Clever without spending any energy.


    Two more cards flew from the deck to his hand.


    ?Ma Lu glanced at it, and directly fired one of them, using his sword instead of a gun, to stab Yuan Mei!


    ??This sword brought up gusts of dark wind, which made Yuan Mei, who was free to relax, narrow her eyes. Even he could not underestimate the power contained in it.


    ??This is the third form of Xu Sheng''s Soul-Severing Gun - Howl of the Ghost. It originally required 10 points of infuriating energy to activate, but in the ice muscle state, Malu only used 7 points of infuriating energy to activate its effect.


    ??The Amityville Horror hit Yuan Mei, and all 15 points of parry on his body were instantly wiped out. After that, he lost 18 points of blood, and was put in a negative state called heartbreak.


    The heartbreak lasts for two rounds. In the heartbreak state, Yuan Mei will automatically lose half of her parries when she plays the protection card. Seeing the negative effects of heartbreak, Yuan Mei snorted coldly, "Boy, if you don''t think about how to defend and parry well, survive three rounds, and use your precious energy to attack, do you still want to fight me?"


    “Don’t worry, Yuan Shenqi, I’ll come and learn your clever tricks right away.”


    After Ma Lu finished speaking, he played another heart magic card. This heart magic card was fixed and drawn through Xianyun''s clever effect, but it was no longer the Ice Muscle Jade Body Technique, but the unique internal skill of Jiangzhou hero Chu Jingtian - Fire toad strength.


    ? Chu Jingtian was not from a martial arts family, but he had luck against the weather like the protagonist in a martial arts novel. When he was young, he went out to collect medicine and fell into a valley without dying. He accidentally took the best secret medicine that had grown in the valley for nearly ten thousand years.


    ??He gained a body of powerful internal energy, but at that time he was just an ordinary person. He had not practiced any internal skills and mental methods, and was unable to control the terrifying Qi in his meridians.


    ?? He was about to explode and die. At this critical moment, Chu Jingtian bumped into a huge dark red fire toad. The fire toad was absorbing the moonlight on the rock wall, opening and closing its mouth.


    The moonlight was sucked into its belly.


    Chu Jingtian imitated its appearance and breathed out, and felt that the pain in his body was relieved a bit. This made him very happy, so he kept working hard, and finally used all his internal energy for his own use, creating this Fire Toad Jin. .


    ?Ma Lu threw out the Fire Chan Jin. Yuan Mei watched the number on the head of the little blue figure on his lower right foot jump from 3 to 16. Her eyes suddenly widened, and she no longer had the leisure and ease before.


    “Wait a minute, wasn’t your previous internal strength Nine Yin? How come another Nine Yang appeared, and it reached the eighth level?”


    Yuan Mei suspected that her eyes were wrong, but before he could look at the words on the mental card, Ma Lu had already played two more cards.


    One is a protection card, and the other is a Qinggong card.


    ? Among them, the protective card comes from Jade Faced Divine Fist Duan Erlang. It is a pity that Ma Lu did not touch the unique skill of Fengyun Fist of Condor Valley from his body. Fortunately, his defensive martial art - Liuyun Sleeve is also good.


    ? ? Additional parry points can be generated based on the infuriating energy on the body. Ma Lu now has 16 infuriating points. The effect of activating the Flowing Cloud Sleeves does not consume infuriating energy, so he gets 14+16, for a total of 30 parrying points.


    Yuan Mei was also secretly frightened when she saw that the opponent''s card had accumulated twice as much parry value as her own. Fortunately, he had accumulated nine layers of drunkenness in the previous round and triggered a powerful pursuit that ignored parry.


    ?Just when Yuan Mei was comforting herself like this, Ma Lu played another card - Moon Passing in the Sky, because this was the last card in his hand, and it also triggered additional effects, drawing three cards in one breath.


    This time, Malu finally touched a strategy card that he had stuffed in before. Without hesitation, he immediately slapped the card in front of Yuan Mei.


    ??This is a move called Shadowless Ghost that he picked up from the late Elder Han of the Beggar Clan when he left last time.


    ?Ma Lu felt at that time that this martial art was... quite special.


    He is currently playing the fourth form of the Shadowless Ghost Hand.


    ?This move only has 7 points of power, but it comes with an effect called Star Reaching.


    —Star Reaching allows you to choose one of the effects currently in effect on your opponent and pick it onto yourself.


    The effect of Malu''s choice is drunkenness.


    (End of this chapter)