11: Chapter 011 This young master is simply a genius!

Inside the room, the lamplight flickered, casting dim, shifting shadows that danced upon the walls!

Chen An took a slow, deep breath, forcibly suppressing the restless urge to rush back to the black market in the middle of the night, and once again cast his gaze upon the spoils before him.

yuan crystals!

He had sold the qi condensing pills for a total of 1,100 yuan crystals, spent 130 yuan crystals on the Incomplete Manual, leaving him with 970 yuan crystals.

In addition to that, he had scavenged a total of 1,623 yuan crystals from the two Martial Artists who had waylaid him.

In other words, the number of yuan crystals in his possession had now surpassed 2,593.

Looking at the pile of yuan crystals quietly laid out before him, radiating faint flickers of spiritual light, Chen An's breathing involuntarily quickened.

To others, yuan crystals were merely currency for circulation, but to him, they were core resources that could be used to achieve a Breakthrough and grow stronger.

2,593 yuan crystals were equivalent to being able to exchange for a full 2,593 years of bitter cultivation time.

Thinking of this, Chen An couldn't help but click his tongue in secret.

A Foundation of over two thousand years of Cultivation; with such a terrifying accumulation, even a pig, if it were to Cultivate day and night for so long, would likely become a spirit and transcend mortality.

"Calm down! Calm down!!!"

Chen An took several deep breaths in succession, forcibly suppressing the heat and wild joy in his heart, slowly calming his agitated emotions.

He understood the logic; two thousand years of Cultivation time sounded incredibly tempting, but things were never that simple.

He remembered clearly that before, because there was no corresponding Cultivation Technique to keep things in check, he had rashly used the System to Cultivate bitterly. His cultivation base had surged wildly, and his Physical Body and Meridians simply couldn't withstand it, nearly causing him to explode and die.

If not for the System's built-in Cultivation Technique deduction function, which helped him deduce the locations of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, he would have likely exploded and died long ago.

Moreover, he was very clear—as he could see from his previous experience—that the cost of the System deducing a Cultivation Technique was extremely high, consuming a great deal of accumulated Cultivation years.

Now, with the System in his hands and over two thousand yuan crystals, which could be exchanged for over two thousand years of Cultivation time, he no longer had to fear the pace of his Cultivation.

Therefore, his biggest weakness right now remained the lack of a matching Cultivation Technique.

This was also the fundamental reason why he had spared no expense in the black market just now to purchase those Incomplete Manuals that were utterly useless to ordinary Martial Artists.

Ordinary Martial Artists needed a complete Cultivation Technique to Cultivate; otherwise, rashly attempting to do so would easily lead to Qi Deviation.

Those Incomplete Manuals on the black market elder's stall were riddled with flaws and were of no use at all to ordinary Martial Artists.

But for him, possessing the System, these Incomplete Manuals were by no means trash; they were the most precious Foundation.

His plan was to borrow the System's deduction ability, using these Incomplete Manuals as a Foundation, to bit by bit fill in the flaws, perfect the pathways, and thoroughly restore several Cultivation Techniques to make up for his own shortcomings.

Furthermore, once the System had completely perfected and deduced the restoration of these Incomplete Manuals, he could even take the surplus finished Cultivation Techniques to the black market to auction or resell, continuously exchanging them for a large amount of yuan crystals.

In this way, it was a perfectly virtuous cycle!

"Heh! Heh! Heh!!!"

"I am simply a Genius!!!"

Chen An couldn't help but let out a strange laugh, his brows dancing, and a look of smugness rose on his face.

For others, seeking a complete Cultivation Technique was as difficult as ascending to heaven, and even spending years of Opportunity might not guarantee success.

Yet he sat upon the System, where Incomplete Manuals could become complete, and waste could become treasure.

By exchanging Incomplete Manuals for complete Cultivation Techniques, Cultivation Techniques for yuan crystals, and yuan crystals for Cultivation time to deduce more Cultivation Techniques, he had vividly brought his entire path of Cultivation to life.

Forcibly suppressing the smile at the corner of his mouth, Chen An continued to look at the items on the table.

Besides the Cultivation Techniques and yuan crystals, he had also scavenged several bottles of Medicinal Pills and their weapons from the two Martial Artists who had intercepted him.

There was a dagger that appeared to be roughly Profound Rank Medium Grade, as well as a pair of Profound Rank Low Grade iron claws.

The Daluo Dynasty's classification for weapons was not much different from that of Cultivation Techniques; from low to high, they were also divided into four Ranks: Yellow, Profound, Earth, and Heaven, and then each Rank was further divided into four grades: Low, Medium, High, and Ultimate.

Profound Rank weapons corresponded to those used by Martial Artists in the Qi Condensation Realm and Acquired Realm. Generally, a Profound Rank Low Grade weapon was worth over five or six thousand yuan crystals, and a Profound Rank Medium Grade weapon usually cost over ten thousand yuan crystals.

"Swish!!!"

Chen An reached out and grasped the cold, gleaming dagger, first waving it in the air a few times, then casually and violently slashed it against the corner of the solid wood table.

The sharp blade cut through the air, emitting a crisp, keen hiss!

With a crisp "Crack," the thick table corner broke off in response, the cut smooth and flat without a single burr, enough to demonstrate the sharpness and hardness of this Profound Rank Medium Grade dagger.

"Not bad!"

Looking at the smooth surface of the table corner, Chen An couldn't help but nod in satisfaction.

It was worthy of being a Profound Rank Medium Grade weapon; it was indeed sharp enough.

Chen An's eyes flickered, and he decided to keep this dagger for his own self-defense.

As for the pair of iron claws, he tried them out, felt they were not easy to use, and tossed them to the side, planning to take them to the black market next time to see if he could sell them.

Looking at the remaining pile of porcelain bottles and powders, they were all the most common Yellow Rank Low Grade Medicinal Pills, such as hemostatic powder, poison-avoiding pills, and blood-activating pills.

Chen An swept a glance over them and immediately lost all interest.

Firstly, the Rank was too low and the medicinal effect was weak, offering no help to his current cultivation base.

Secondly, these Medicinal Pills were scavenged from those two desperate, intercepting Martial Artists; human hearts were sinister, and the Jianghu was unpredictable.

No one could guarantee if they had been secretly tampered with, laced with poison or something similar; there was no need to pointlessly risk his own life for such insignificant, Low Grade Medicinal Pills.

With this thought, he gathered all these medicine bottles to one side, intending to either sell them off at a low price later or simply discard them, never to touch or consume them lightly.

Having done all this, Chen An picked up the yuan crystals on the table and thought to himself, "System, recharge!"

[Ding! Recharge successful!]

[Current balance: 2583]

He did not recharge all the yuan crystals, but instead kept 10 yuan crystals for living expenses.

This was something he had only thought of when he arrived at the black market earlier; if he hadn't left a few yuan crystals elsewhere in his home, he wouldn't have even been able to enter the black market.

Looking at the balance on the panel, the corners of Chen An's mouth couldn't help but lift slightly, and then his eyes flickered slightly.

After the trip to the black market just now, he had discovered his many shortcomings.

The first was the lack of a Cultivation Technique; without a corresponding Cultivation Technique for the Acquired Realm, he didn't even know where the Eight Extraordinary Meridians were. If the System hadn't forcibly deduced it for him, he would have been in danger before.

Therefore, it was best for him to first deduce a Cultivation Technique; only then could he achieve twice the result with half the effort when Cultivating.

The second was his shallow practical combat experience.

Even though he had undergone Fusion with the memories and used the System to raise his Realm to the Late Stage of the Acquired Realm, his experience in real life-and-death combat was extremely scarce. If his opponents tonight had been even a fraction stronger, he would have been the one defeated and killed.

The third was movement technique.

As a powerhouse in the Late Stage of the Acquired Realm, his movement technique was actually inferior to two Martial Artists in the Qi Condensation Realm; it was truly shameful.

If he hadn't used force to suppress them and ended the battle quickly, if he had let the two of them see the flaws in his movement technique, he would likely have been in danger.

After understanding his needs, a look of determination flashed through Chen An's eyes, and then he shouted inwardly:

"System!"

"Consume 200 yuan crystals to help me deduce the 'Cangxuan Fusion Truth Technique'!!!"