Universe Infinite Canteen.

Chapter 449 Reaching for the Stars
As soon as Yuan Mei played the card of secret technique, Malu discovered that he really had a trick up his sleeve.

When Lao Yuan revealed his martial arts skills before, he only said that he was drunk when he made his moves, but he didn't mention that his mental skills were also drunk.

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

Malu glanced at the text description of Jinzun Jue, which provides 10 points of true energy and 1 level of drunkenness. If no active attack has been launched in this round, the drunkenness is increased to 3 levels.

Afterwards, Yuan Mei played another card, "Drink Slowly", which is the second move of the Eight Immortals Drinking Fan.

It stands to reason that the person who takes the initiative cannot attack 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 most attacks will cause damage, so over time most people assume that the first attacker cannot attack in the first round.

But Yuan Mei's "Drink slowly" is different. Its 28 points of damage will be settled in the next round. The most important thing is that this move also comes with 3 layers of drunkenness, bringing Yuan Mei's drunkenness to the 9th level.

This will cause him to trigger an additional powerful pursuit in the next round with a power of 37 points and ignoring defense.

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

Compared to his series of fierce attacks, this defense was not very impressive.

But this is normal. His martial arts is a pursuit system built around drunkenness, which obviously focuses more on attack than defense.

Even though Yuan Mei couldn't attack first, she still dealt 65 points of post-damage in one breath, and 37 points of it ignored parry.

Although the power of a single round is not as strong as the Beggar Gang's unique skill, the Innate Pure Yang Palm, it is already better than most martial arts in the world.

After Yuan Mei finished her explosive attack, she was in high spirits. She raised the gourd and drank heavily. Then she rolled her eyes drunk and started reciting poetry.

"Drinking this forgetfulness can soothe my romantic soul. My boy, it is worth the trip to see this set of Eight Immortals Fans in Drinking."

Malu was too lazy to pay attention to him. He touched two cards first, but didn't get the one he wanted. But it didn't matter. Then he followed the steps and played a card of the heart method - Nine Yin Gong.

He gave this name himself. The original name of this martial art is actually "Ice Skin and Jade Body Art", which is the magical skill of the Jade Maiden Palace. Malu got it from the corpse of Lingbo Fairy Shen Mei.

In addition to providing 9 points of true energy, this card can also provide an additional round of ice skin state.

The Ice Skin state cannot be stacked. In this state, the amount of true energy required to activate card effects can be reduced.

Shen Mei's Ice Skin and Jade Body Technique has been practiced to the fifth level. After Malu is in the Ice Skin state, he can pay 3 less points of True Qi for each card he plays in this round, which greatly alleviates his True Qi consumption.

He then played Xianyun Nongqiao again, giving up a card in his hand and activating the effect of Xianyun Nongqiao without spending any energy.

Two more cards flew from the deck into his hand.

Malu took a look and directly played one of the cards, using the sword instead of the gun to stab Yuan Mei!
The sword brought up gusts of cold wind, causing Yuan Mei, who had been calm and composed, to squint his eyes. Even he could not underestimate the power contained in it.

This is the third move of Xu Sheng's Soul-Breaking Spear - Ghostly Howling. It originally requires 10 points of true Qi to activate, but in the ice skin state, Malu only used 7 points of true Qi to activate its effect.

The ghostly howling hit Yuan Mei, and his 15 points of parry were instantly destroyed. He then lost 18 points of blood and was given a negative status called Heartbroken.

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

"Don't worry, Master Yuan. I'm here to learn from your tricks."

After Malu finished speaking, he played another Heart Sutra card. This Heart Sutra card was drawn through the effect of Xianyun Nongqiao, but it was no longer the Ice Skin and Jade Body Sutra, but the unique internal skill of the Jiangzhou hero Chu Jingtian - Fire Toad Power.

Chu Jingtian was not born into a martial arts family, but he had a destiny as great as that of the protagonist in a martial arts novel. When he was young, he went out to collect herbs, fell into a valley but survived, and accidentally took a top-quality secret medicine that had grown in the valley for nearly ten thousand years.

He gained a powerful internal force, but at that time he was just an ordinary person. He had never practiced any internal skills and could not control the terrifying true energy in his meridians.

Just as he was about to explode and die, Chu Jingtian bumped into a huge fire toad with a dark red body at this critical moment. The big fire toad was absorbing moonlight on the rock wall, and its mouth was opening and closing.

The moonlight was sucked into its stomach.

Chu Jingtian imitated its breathing and felt that the pain in his body was relieved a little, which made him very happy. So he kept working hard and finally used all his internal strength to create this Fire Toad Force.

Millipede unleashed the Fire Toad Power. Yuan Mei watched the number above the blue man's head on his lower right foot jump from 3 to 16. Her eyes suddenly widened, no longer as leisurely and carefree as before.

"Wait a minute, wasn't your previous internal skill Nine Yin? How come you have another Nine Yang, and you've even practiced it to the eighth level?"

Yuan Mei suspected that he had seen it wrongly, but before he could look at the words on the heart card, Malu had already played two more cards.

One is a protective card, and the other is a light skill card.

Among them, the protective amulet came from Jade-faced Divine Fist Duan Erlang. It was a pity that Malu didn't get the Divine Eagle Valley's unique Fengyun Fist from him, but fortunately his defensive martial art - Flowing Cloud Sleeves was also good.

You can generate additional parry value based on the true Qi in your body. Malu now has 16 points of true Qi, and activating the effect of Flowing Cloud Sleeves does not consume true Qi, so he gets 14+16, a total of 30 parry points.

Seeing that the opponent could accumulate twice his parry value with just one card, Yuan Mei was secretly shocked, but fortunately, the powerful pursuit triggered by the nine levels of drunkenness in the previous round ignored the parry.

Just as Yuan Mei was comforting herself, Malu played another card - The Moon at Midnight. Because this was his last card, it triggered an additional effect and he drew three cards in one breath.

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

This was a move called Shadowless Ghost Hand that he had learned from the deceased Elder Han of the Beggar Gang before he left last time.

At that time, Malu thought that this martial art was... quite special.

He is now performing the fourth move of the Shadowless Ghost Hand.

This move only has 7 points of power, but it comes with an effect called Picking Stars.

——Star Picking allows you to select one of the effects currently in effect on your opponent and pick it up for yourself.

The effect chosen by the millipede is intoxication.

(End of this chapter)