Text-based martial arts: A nighttime rendezvous with the gang leader's wife in a dilapidated te

[System notification: You have received one 500-tael silver note.]

[System notification: You have obtained a jade wine cup.]

[System notification: You have obtained a scroll of unnamed paintings.]

【…】

[System Notification: You have completed the adventure 'Draining the Pond to Catch All the Fish'! You have gained 800 potential points.]

[Current Adventure Grade: Mystic]

[Your gains: Killing Shen Fu (10 combat experience points), 600 taels of silver, various luxury items, and a mysterious wooden box.]

You exhale, look at the mess on the floor, and decide...

1. Make a quick getaway: With such a windfall, all you want to do is rush home to count your money.

[2. Destroy the evidence: You've never been a careless person. Shen Fu isn't some nobody you can just kill and forget. You must be meticulous!] (Note: This option requires either a poison like 'corpse-dissolving liquid' or 'oil'.)

[Faced with this situation, you, who were already prepared to kill and silence everyone, were naturally prepared as well. You took out two small bottles from your backpacks.]

You activated the Bone-Corroding Powder and collapsed onto Shen Fu, who was already lifeless.

[The Bone-Eroding Powder, when taken internally, can melt away the five internal organs, causing excruciating pain and death; when applied externally, it can dissolve the corpse, remove flesh, and destroy all traces of the body.]

[At the same time, this is also one of the most useful poisons in the 'Annotations on a Hundred Pills' that Cao Qing gave you.]

[With a loud sizzle, an indescribable stench assaulted your nostrils. You threw another bottle of kerosene at it, then took out a tinderbox and set it ablaze.]

After confirming that the fire had been lit and that Shen Fu's body was no longer recognizable as human, you breathed a sigh of relief. Facing the darkness of the night, you redistributed all your attribute points to agility and made your way back to the pharmacy.

In the darkness of the night, you quickly removed your blood-stained clothes and placed them into the well water in the courtyard.

[He then fetched a basin of water to wash away the last trace of blood, and only then did he finally relax completely.]

You paid no attention to the ill-gotten gains; all your thoughts were focused on that small wooden box.

Previously, you couldn't freely look at things at Shen Fu's place, for fear of causing problems, but now, you can naturally do so.

Looking at the small wooden box, you crouch down, take out a pestle from the side, and gently push open the lid of the box.

There were no traps or mechanisms as you expected. You waited a while, and nothing happened, so you finally picked up the oil lamp and looked at the contents of the wooden box.

[And this glance will give you a slight pause.]

This is a small throwing knife.

You carefully poured it out, and as you brought the oil lamp close, you could feel its coldness.

[It's completely black, and the chill it exudes doesn't seem to be made of ordinary steel; rather, it feels like it's carved from ice.]

An indescribable, terrifying, and icy chill makes you realize that this is indeed no ordinary thing!

You pick it up.

[You have obtained a Yellow-tier equipment: Seven Kill Blade!]

Ok?

Chen Xuan was somewhat surprised by the feedback on the screen!

equipment?!

Through the martial arts forum, Chen Xuan naturally gained a very good understanding of the situation within "Martial Arts," but precisely because of this, he also knew that...

In this martial arts world, the number of things that can be called equipment is definitely not much more than the number of martial arts skills, and may even be less!

That's right, in this martial arts world, equipment might be more valuable than martial arts skills!

This so-called equipment is not ordinary cloth clothing and boots, but weapons and armor with special effects according to the system's judgment.

This can actually be seen from the mysterious yellow-grade jade pendant that represents his origins.

Now, he never expected that the most precious treasure that Shen Fu had been hoarding was actually a so-called yellow-level equipment.

He squinted, quickly opened his equipment inventory, and looked at the new items that had appeared:

【Seven Killing Blade (Yellow) (Unequipped): Hidden weapon type. When used, attack speed +25%, armor penetration effect +25%, accuracy +5%. Durability: 5/10.

Note: Each use reduces durability by 1 point. This appears to be a counterfeit, but it is also made of precious cold iron and seems to have absorbed a tiny bit of the original sword's intent. If one wields this, perhaps one won't need to worry about damage from the original sword's intent.

You look at this throwing knife, no longer than a palm, and feel the bone-chilling cold emanating from it.

[You didn't pay attention to the effectiveness of this throwing knife. A hidden weapon that can only be used five times, even if it's a yellow-grade item, its value is actually just so-so.]

[In your opinion, what you value more is clearly the secret behind this throwing knife.]

Based on Shen Fu's words and the information revealed by the throwing knife, the secret is clearly not difficult to guess.

[Within the Shen family lies a treasured sword! And this sword is the origin of the Seven Killings Blade.]

[Bai Zhiyun's husband, the Third Master Shen, who was said to have died outside, a man of exceptional martial arts talent, died because of this knife!]

So, what level was the original material from which this knife originated?

What kind of precious sword could make the Shen family hide even the truth about their own eldest son's death?

How did Shen Fu manage to embezzle such a knife without being discovered by the Shen family?

In the instant you were thinking, a sudden thought struck you again...

[System Prompt: Obtained a special item, triggering a random encounter event. Activate the destiny ability 'Defy Fate'? View the current encounter's trajectory?]

【Yes! 】

[A special adventure will be triggered when the special item "Seven Killing Blade" is equipped:]

【The Fallen Blade (1): Through this Seven Killings Blade, you guessed that there might be a very high-grade treasured blade hidden within the Shen family! However, to obtain further information about it, you need to have sufficient knowledge of the Shen family!

You need to explore more than 75% of the map "Shen Family Mansion" to meet the requirements for triggering the map scene encounter in "Shen Family Mansion" before you can trigger the full encounter!

Seeing the incredible feedback that had changed your fate, you silently put the Seven Killings Blade back into the wooden box and carefully preserved it.

After learning about the size of the Shen family, you had initially lost much interest in them.

It seems that the Shen family is indeed hiding a secret you never expected.

[I wonder, who else in the Shen family knows this secret? It's one thing if others don't, but does Bai Zhiyun, the widow of Third Master Shen, know?]

Just then, a deep knocking sound came from outside the dark door.

Just as you were feeling somewhat doubtful, a voice like a cat's rang out:

"Young Master Chen, have you forgotten me? I've heard that Doctor Cao seems to have gone out?"

The widow knocked on the door, and the voice belonged to none other than Bai Zhiyun, the woman you were just thinking about…