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The moment it chose to upgrade the unknown cultivation technique, the skeleton was engulfed by the crimson light from the battle axe. The skeleton felt darkness Qi and corpse Qi rapidly flow through its bones. It felt the rush of power that came with this process. It felt its bones become tougher and more durable.

The process lasted for less than a minute but the skeleton felt as though tens of years had passed by.

When everything was done, it felt that it had the power to destroy heaven and earth with a single blow.

It examined itself from head to toe and found that its bones were darker and there were weird writings on them. These writings were not in any language it understood but it felt that the writing was very familiar.

It took a few minutes to understand what the writings meant. When it realized that it was wasting its time, it gave up and moved on to other things.

It still had over thirty thousand units of corpse Qi. The skeleton immediately decided to use it to upgrade its skill to the maximum.

It began with the life sense skill. It chose to upgrade it to the highest stage. The battle axe let out a crimson light that covered the skeleton. After just a few seconds, the skeleton had reached the fourth stage of the Life Sense skill. It used the skill to see what had changed and the results were worth all the corpse qi it had used up. It could sense all the life forms in the town. This was a radius of tens of square kilometres. The skeleton was happy with this result. As happy as something without any emotions could be.

The skeleton hurriedly chose to increase the decomposition skill but when it looked at the battle axe, it found that this part had changed. The decomposition skill had been replaced by the Corpse Flame skill.

This skill had five stages, two more than the decomposition skill.

The skeleton understood that the decomposition skill was a weaker version of the Corpse Flame and this had to be the reason as to why it had been replaced.

The black skeleton was more than happy with this new change since the Corpse Flame skill covered a wider area and it did not need to come in direct contact with its prey.

With this skill, it could turn the entire town into corpse qi for its benefit. The skeleton did not hesitate in choosing to upgrade this skill.

This time, it chose to upgrade one stage at a time just in case.

After upgrading to the second stage, black flames that had a hint of crimson covered the black skeleton from head to toe. These flames reached deep within the black bones and burnt them to the point that even without flesh, the skeleton felt a bit of pain.

Black smoke came out of the bones and the skeleton could also feel that something was being burned up inside its bones. The burning sensation did not last long. When it was done, the flames continued burning on the black bones.

The flames did not give off any heat and even though the skeleton was seated on a wooden chair, it was not burned at all.

The skeleton felt that its bones had been tempered to a higher level making them more sturdy. The skeleton then continued to the third stage.

The black flames became more intense and the burning sensation lasted a bit longer. The skeleton felt that it could send out the flames to cover an area of fifty square kilometres.

The entire Hundred Man Town was just a little over eighty thousand square kilometres.

The skeleton continued upgrading the corpse flame skill until it reached the fifth stage.

The skeleton's bones had become tougher and many impurities had been burned away by the black crimson flames that covered it from head to toe.

The corpse flame could now cover an area of ten thousand square kilometres. This was an estimate by the skeleton.

It needed to test it out to be sure.

The skeleton had finally used up all of its corpse qi.

The skeleton felt that it had become at least five times more powerful.

[Corpse Qi: 0 Units]

[Skills:Life Sense----4/4 /// Corpse Flame----5/5/// Faceless Wonder---2/2]

[Unknown Technique-----2/2 (Life Force Vision, Dark Blade.)]

The skeleton looked towards the young girl's bedroom upstairs. It found that after concentrating a bit in that direction, it could see through the walls and see the young girl's life force. It looked like a human-shaped bulb. It glowed with a powerful white light. This was the ability, Life Force Vision it got from the unknown technique. The skeleton looked around the place and it could see through the walls and directly view the life force of its prey. This ability had been greatly improved by the breakthrough to the second stage.

The unknown cultivation techniques were the main method through which the skeleton increased its power. The others were just skills.

The skeleton wanted to try out the Dark Blade ability to see how much it had improved but it held itself back.

The skeleton continued examining its new power. It did not seem to care about the chaos its actions had created in the town.

The entire place was in uproar.

Many people died in a mysterious black flame. This had scarred most people into leaving the town. The town gates had been closed by the mayor who was trying to convince the people not to flee.

If this were to happen, the mayor's family would be ruined and years of investment into the town would become useless.

"My people,do not panic.I have already informed the Wind Sect and they will be sending immortals to find the culprit and give us justice .Do not leave your homeland behind because of some villain .The immortals will be here tomorrow morning ." shouted the mayor.

The people were still not convinced but when they heard that the immortals of the wind sect would handle the problem, many of them were convinced to stay.