Dominating the Pugilistic World With My Detective Skills

Translator: Henyee Translations
Editor: Henyee Translations

Since he was able to increase the proficiency of his cooking skill and medical skill using these books even when he hadn’t learned them before, would he be able to use ‘The Study of Knife Skills’ on a skill that required the use of knives?

Why not try instead of just thinking about it? Ye Weiming immediately put his thoughts into action and used ‘The Study of Knife Skills’ the same way he did with ‘The Study of Cookery’.

Ding! You have not learned any knife skills yet. Are you sure you want to use ‘The Study of Knife Skills’?

Yes/No

It was indeed possible!

Ye Weiming immediately chose ‘No’. Although it was possible, the system didn’t explain what implications there would be. Based on Ye Weiming’s analysis, the most serious consequence was losing this diary. There wouldn’t be any harmful impact on his own body. But, since he wanted to do an experiment, it was better not to risk his best item.

He put away Du Dajin’s knife scripture and took out another ‘The Study of Knife Skills’ he got from another escort. This book would only increase his proficiency by 200 points.

He used it directly without much thought. Then…

Ding! After studying ‘The Study of Knife Skills’, you managed to learn through analogy and the proficiency of your cooking skill increased by 50 points!

Learn through analogy?

You can play like this too!

He managed to use this book to increase the proficiency of his cooking skill, but the proficiency shrunk to a quarter of its original value. However, this also provided him with a brand new route to increase his levels.

Ye Weiming stopped hesitating. He immediately used the 2 ‘The Study of Knife Skills’, 4 ‘The Study of Fist Skills’, and 2 ‘The Study of Staff Skills’ in the same way.

Ding! After studying ‘The Study of Knife Skills’, you learn through analogy and manage to increase the proficiency of ‘Sword of the Yue Maiden’ by 400 points!

Ding! ‘Sword of the Yue Maiden’ has increased to level 7.

Ding! After studying…

After using a few scriptures, besides his ‘Sword of the Yue Maiden’ increasing to level 7, the proficiency of his other two skills rose a little too. They didn’t increase in level but he was a step closer now.

Based on this, Ye Weiming could tell that the effects of the ‘learning through analogy’ was still biased although it was random. All in all, most of the proficiency would be added to kungfu skills. However, ‘The Study of Staff Skills’ allowed him to gain 40 points in the proficiency of forging. Ye Weiming didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

After using all his scriptures, the proficiency of Ye Weiming’s kungfu became…

Breathing exercise (unpopular)

Level: 6

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Proficiency: 1,654/3,200

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Sword of the Yue Maiden (unpopular)

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Level: 7

Proficiency: 50/6,400

Power +70%, Accuracy +70%

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Eight Step Chasing Toad (Beginner)

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Level: 3

Proficiency: 818/1,000

Movement +60

The increase in the level of his sword skill caused Ye Weiming to subconsciously feel enlightened again. Even without mentioning the increase in his attributes, he was still confident that under the same situation, the current him would definitely do better than his past self.

As for his other techniques, he was a step closer to upgrading his level.

At the same time, there were 21 empty cubicles in his bag. Ye Weiming immediately continued working to collect corpses.

All the escorts’ corpses, including Du Dajin, had already been taken care of by Ye Weiming, so when he started collecting corpses again, the gains weren’t as pleasing. He only managed to gain one scripture on average for every three corpses he collected. Most of them were living skills. Even if he occasionally got some martial arts scriptures from low-level escorts, the amount of proficiency they gave was pathetic.

Some corpses didn’t even give him concealed weapons.

That was because these weak escorts, the old, the young, and the women, were all killed using a claw skill!

Ye Weiming collected his corpses and looked through the scriptures he received at the same time. He didn’t frown upon those secret scriptures that weren’t of great use. He just continued collecting the corpses and putting them in his bag. Slowly, he came to the inner part of the courtyard. This was probably where the families of the escorts lived. However, there were no ladies here anymore. There were only female corpses.

Ding! You have gotten ‘The Study of Sewing’ × 1.

Ding! The proficiency of your sewing skill has increased by 135 points.

…

Ye Weiming kept all the female corpses in one room and used up all the scriptures he received smoothly and quickly. Then, he scanned the entire room with his eyes. When he realized that there were no more corpses, he wanted to leave. At this moment, the sound of a notification suddenly popped out.

Ding! The passive technique, ‘post mortem’, has been activated. You have realized that the cloth at the side of the bed is moving even though there’s no wind in the room. There seemed to be someone breathing behind the cloth.

This notification caused Ye Weiming to frown slightly. But, he didn’t stop walking. He pretended that nothing happened and he turned to walk out of the door. After taking two steps out, he suddenly pulled his sword out of its sheath. The Dragon Spring Sword turned into a silver ray of light in the dark night sky. It stabbed straight towards the curtain not far behind him. The blade of the sword created a shrill sound as it rubbed against the air.

“Clang!”

Almost simultaneously, when Ye Weiming turned around and raised his sword, the curtain was torn into half by someone. Then, Ye Weiming saw a black figure jumping into the air to avoid his sword. At the same time, the figure pushed his claws out and slashed at Ye Weiming’s throat and his wrist, which he was using to hold the sword. The skill he used was swift, fierce, and vicious.

Ye Weiming knew that he had met a powerful martial arts master. He instantly turned the direction of his sword and raised it up towards his opponent’s throat instead. His actions were smooth and skilled as he changed his move. It didn’t seem abrupt at all. It was as if this was how the move was supposed to be.

In actual fact, that was the truth. The move that Ye Weiming used was called ‘Seeking The Snake’. It was a fake move from the ‘Sword of the Yue Maiden’. It looked swift and vicious but the momentum of the move wasn’t strong. It was easy to change the move halfway through. The system only told him that there was someone behind the curtain but based on his ability now, he currently wasn’t able to get more information.

What if the person hiding behind was a survivor of this escort agency? The other party went through torment and bore responsibility and blame to survive, but in the end, Ye Weiming stabbed him to death.

Based on the script of a martial arts novel, people who went through such a situation were normally the main lead!

Ye Weiming didn’t want to kill a promising young man of the pugilistic world because of his recklessness.

It was fortunate that he did this; it allowed him to make the best decision at the crucial moment. His opponent could be a powerful person but he didn’t land himself in a disadvantageous position.

The man in black couldn’t help but exclaim in surprise when he saw Ye Weiming changing his move so ingeniously. Then, he exerted force on his waist and suddenly twisted his body in mid-air. He barely managed to dodge Ye Weiming’s move. At the same time, he kicked at Ye Weiming’s chest with full force.

“I bought a watch last year!” The man in black changed his move so quickly that when Ye Weiming wanted to retract his sword, it was already too late. He only had the time to curse before he quickly gathered his strength in his left shoulder and raised his fist to block his opponent’s foot.

“Slap!”

The fist and the feet collided. Ye Weiming changed his move abruptly so his Qi was still lacking. After forcefully receiving his opponent’s kick, he took three steps back. As for the man in black, he twirled his body using the residual force and smashed into a window at the back of the room. The window shattered into pieces. He left Ye Weiming with a “What watch?” before running away.

“Where do you think you’re going?!” Ye Weiming wouldn’t allow him to escape so easily. He quickly executed his ‘Eight Step Chasing Toad’ and chased after the person.

However, what astounded him was the fact that his opponent wasn’t just powerful in his offensive attacks, but even his movement skills were comparable to his. Although Ye Weiming had moved his internal energy to his legs and executed the Eight Step Chasing Toad to its fullest potential, he wasn’t able to catch up with the man in black within a short period of time. Fortunately, the distance between the two of them became shorter and shorter. The other person seemed to be in a fluster because of him, so he actually ran towards the wall at the back of the courtyard.

With the help of the moonlight, Ye Weiming saw a black thing that looked like a wooden door frame in the middle of the wall. But, that was definitely not the back door. If the other party thought that it was a broken small wooden door and slammed his head into it…

Ye Weiming gave an evil smile when he thought of this possibility.

However, the smile was only on his face for less than a second. The other party didn’t have any intention of breaking the door down. Instead, when he was some distance away from the wall, he suddenly jumped into the air. The jump caused him to fly 10 feet up. Then, he formed a claw with his right hand and grabbed the brick on the wall. He threw his body over the wall using the residual force.

Ye Weiming followed closely behind him and jumped, just like his opponent did. However, he only managed to fly half the distance into the air. Just as he was about to slam into the wall with his face, he quickly stretched his left hand out and pressed forcefully against the wall. Then, he landed stably in the courtyard.

It couldn’t be helped. Eight Step Chasing Toad allowed him to increase his speed, so his movement was almost on par with people who practiced an intermediate lightness kungfu. But, as a beginner lightness kungfu, having an outstanding advantage meant that there was an obvious disadvantage too.

As a lightness kungfu that was suitable for running on the ground, its biggest flaw was the fact that he couldn’t jump high!