10: Chapter 10: Purchasing Martial Arts Techniques, One Night of Cultivation, and the Brutality Hidden in His Eyes!

"One point one million for the cleanup fee, plus one million in subsidies, and the two hundred thousand or so inheritance left by my poor aunt and uncle—that's only 2.3 million in total. This amount of money probably wouldn't even make a ripple if I used it to buy cultivation methods. However, I can update my martial techniques."

While browsing the martial artist website, Lu Qingyun considered his path forward.

Ultimately, considering the financial issue.

He selected two entry-level martial techniques: the 1.2 million "Wave-Treading Trace" and the 700,000 "Ninefold Impact Fist."

One focuses on speed, the other enhances lethality!

These two aspects are of paramount importance to Lu Qingyun!

Only by running fast can one kite the enemy.

Otherwise, if I get stuck in close quarters and can't disengage from combat, it will be difficult to trigger the out-of-combat recovery mechanism.

As for lethality, it is equally important.

After all, if I can't even break the enemy's defense, then no amount of kiting will matter.

As for the most important defensive martial techniques for martial artists, Lu Qingyun saw no great need for them.

His HP now reached as high as two thousand points!

It was several times that of a Mortal Shedding Realm fourth-stage ferocious beast!

Even if he stood there and let others hit him, it would take a while for them to have any effect.

"Two martial techniques cost nearly two million; how is this any different from robbery!?"

Looking at the few hundred thousand remaining in his account, Lu Qingyun closed the martial artist website while grumbling.

This remaining amount was completely insufficient for a martial artist to buy items for improvement.

Not long after, the two martial techniques were delivered to Lu Qingyun's home.

[Note: Your purchase only covers a single copyright fee. It is only permitted for personal practice; unauthorized distribution to friends or family is prohibited. Once discovered, you must pay a hundredfold compensation! And you will be permanently banned from purchasing martial techniques.]

"Heh, the copyright awareness is quite good. If the novel copyright protection in the 'Yellow Persimmon' of my past life had been this strict, that would have been great."

Lu Qingyun muttered a few words.

He didn't take it to heart, though. After all, he was a loner; who could he possibly pass it on to?

After placing his hand on the two manuals, just as Lu Qingyun had expected, two new martial techniques appeared in the martial arts column.

[Wave-Treading Trace (Not Initiated, 0/20), Ninefold Impact Fist (Not Initiated, 0/10)]

Lu Qingyun took a stance, mobilizing his Qi and blood in a specific way, concentrating it in the center of his fist.

He threw a punch, like a sudden clap of thunder on level ground!

Even from several meters away, the force of the punch struck the load-bearing wall, blasting out a not-so-small crater.

With this one punch, the entire building trembled!

A head poked out of a window, shirtless, and roared in a very bad tone:

"Whose gas stove exploded!! Making this kind of noise in broad daylight is really disturbing, you know!"

The next moment, that head was pulled back inside by a hand.

With Lu Qingyun's hearing, he could faintly hear their conversation.

"Are you tired of living!? With a commotion this big, even if your thing exploded, it wouldn't make that sound! It was obviously caused by that person who was just released!"

"Holy crap, it really seems to be! Honey, why don't we move. Living in fear like this all day isn't exactly unacceptable, but if this happens often while I'm showing off my prowess, I'm afraid you'll end up a 'living widow' in the future!"

"At least you still have some brains. I'll go tell Brother Wang next door in a bit."

"Why tell him?"

"We're all neighbors in the neighborhood, and Brother Wang has treated me quite well on usual days, so I have to give him a heads-up. That way, we can continue to be neighbors, and we won't have to worry about messy neighborhood relations."

"You're right. Sister Wang was scared out of her wits by that person; she's probably been thinking about moving for a long time..."

Hearing the two people upstairs, Lu Qingyun's expression was a bit strange.

However, he also confirmed one thing: this place was no longer suitable for practicing martial techniques.

With his current strength, just now, even though he tried his best to hold back, he almost collapsed the building. If he had failed to control his full power while breaking through in his fist technique...

I'm afraid... there wouldn't be many survivors in this whole building.

This kind of large-scale intentional homicide was not protected by the law.

It would be enough to be labeled an anti-social personality and sit at the same table as those evil cults.

"Martial technique practice must be done in a specialized place. As for now, I'd better cultivate the Blood Nourishing Technique to perfection."

"The last time I cultivated the Blood Nourishing Technique, it was because my level increase was restricted, and I had no choice but to spend more time practicing it to the Great Success stage to break through the level restriction."

Lu Qingyun glanced at the Blood Nourishing Technique on his panel.

[Blood Nourishing Technique, Great Success, 14/500]

Soon, he took a stance and began cultivating the Blood Nourishing Technique.

With his current proficiency, cultivating the Blood Nourishing Technique already felt natural and effortless.

[Cultivating Blood Nourishing Technique, Technique XP +1, Technique XP +1, Level XP +1...]

With the blessing of "Once Proven, Forever Proven," the proficiency of the Blood Nourishing Technique steadily improved.

Level XP also increased, but in the face of the required experience, it seemed negligible.

The improvement in his racial template brought not only the benefits of a leap in life tier but also made the experience required to level up much greater.

The next day.

Lu Qingyun, who hadn't slept all night, looked at his system panel.

[Blood Nourishing Technique, Great Success, 426/500]

"One whole night, and it's still not enough to improve from Great Success to the Perfection stage."

"System, I increasingly feel that you are unworthy of my unremitting efforts, top-tier aptitude, and a beauty comparable to my readers."

Lu Qingyun sighed.

There was no help for it; who let him get stuck with this system?

Close enough is close enough; he'd just have to make do.

His gaze shifted and happened to land on the marble table to the side.

A corner was missing, and there were very obvious bite marks on it.

This made his teeth ache faintly.

He had been too diligent in his practice last night, to the point that when he realized it, his whole body had withered.

He was so hungry that he had even gnawed on the table.

If he hadn't temporarily purchased a few tubes of nutrient solution on the martial artist website at the last minute, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

"The last of my assets are gone too."

"But that's just as well; I remember I still have medical fees deposited at the school that I haven't collected yet."

"I hope they will be very cooperative when the time comes."

"Otherwise, all this cultivation I've practiced won't have been for nothing."

Lu Qingyun muttered to himself.

He took off the shirt he was wearing, rummaged around the room, and took out a blue-and-white school uniform that was extremely tacky.

For the previous Lu Qingyun, this school uniform was quite a bit too big.

Because that way, he could keep wearing it without needing to buy a new one.

Saving money.

Now, as Lu Qingyun stepped into the martial artist realm, his physique had changed from thin to appropriately robust, and it actually fit the uniform perfectly.

Sunlight spilled in in strands, shining on Lu Qingyun.

He looked at himself, grinned, and revealed two rows of neat, white teeth, his smile looking very sunny and bright.

Only, deep within his eyes, there hid a trace of coldness and brutality!