7: Chapter 007 Qi Condensation Pill, Sold!

Inside the room, the lamplight flickered!

Chen An suddenly rose from the bed, his figure standing straight as a spear!

His five fingers clenched tightly, and his knuckles popped with a series of dense, crisp cracks. A majestic, brutal force, heavy as a mountain and incomparably domineering, instantly accumulated and coiled between his chest and arms.

The next instant, his right arm sank and exerted force, his waist twisted, his blood and qi surged, and his muscles and bones moved in unison as he threw a punch straight out with a boom!

Boom!!

A dull, piercing sonic boom suddenly exploded, and a strong wind swept through the entire room, stirring up the airflow across the floor in a chaotic surge.

His fist tore through the air, creating a faint, visible wave of air. The fierce and domineering punch force pressed down heavily; it was the full explosion of the Mountain Crushing Force after reaching Minor Achievement.

The punch force was thick and solid, the brutal force restrained yet highly explosive. It was no longer the stiff, wild flailing of brute force from before; every inch of power was exerted just right, and the flow of Meridians and qi perfectly matched the secrets of the Martial Skill.

As the punch landed, the wooden table in front trembled violently, the oil lamp on the table shook intensely, and the flame flickered wildly without stopping.

The majestic, invisible punch force did not dissipate; instead, it transformed into a heavy, fierce, invisible force of qi, whistling through the air like an arrow leaving the bowstring, striking straight and hard against the earthen wall a zhang away.

Bang!!!

A dull thud suddenly exploded, and the surface of the earthen wall instantly caved in. Dense, spiderweb-like cracks spread instantly, wall plaster peeled off with a rustling sound, and gravel and dust scattered all over the floor.

The vigorous and domineering residual force surged within the small room, causing the doors and windows to tremble, and the surrounding airflow continued to churn.

Chen An slowly withdrew his fist, watching the rolling dust in the room, a look of shock rising in his eyes.

"Is this the true power of a Profound Rank Medium Grade Martial Skill at Minor Achievement?!"

Chen An murmured in a low voice, looking down at his hands, finding it hard to believe that this punch had come from his own fist.

You must know, he hadn't used the True Qi within his body for that punch just now; he had used only the strength of his Physical Body.

Generally speaking, someone at the Perfection of the Body Tempering Realm could indeed strike with a force of five thousand jin, but he felt that the power of his punch just now likely exceeded that of an ordinary Body Tempering Realm Perfection expert by several times over.

At the very least, he felt that even his former self at the second stage of the Qi Condensation Realm wouldn't be able to withstand the punch he had just thrown.

No, not just unable to withstand it, he would likely have been blown apart by a single punch!

If he were to fully mobilize the True Qi currently in his body, then the power...

He didn't even dare to imagine just how terrifying such a punch would be.

It might even be able to blow up Bai Yifan with a single punch, right?!!!

"The Mountain Crushing Force at Minor Achievement is already this powerful, so what about Major Achievement and Perfection?!"

Chen An took a deep breath, suppressing the shock in his heart, and looked at the System panel again, his eyes flickering slightly.

The so-called pleasure of spending money: keep spending, keep enjoying the pleasure!

This feeling of his cultivation base skyrocketing through spending money made him somewhat addicted.

Why were those games in his past life so addictive, to the point that so many people would spend thousands to buy skins and equipment, stacking up combat power?!

The logic is all the same!

Invest resources, and you can immediately see tangible improvements.

Invest a cost, and you can instantly harvest power that crushes others.

No long, boring, arduous cultivation, no waiting with no end in sight; all feedback comes fast and direct.

If you're weak, spend money to strengthen yourself; if you're lacking, pay to level up. Shortcomings are smoothed over in an instant, and gaps are reversed in a flash.

This immediate pleasure of becoming stronger is the most seductive, easily causing one to get deeply trapped within it.

Before, he only thought others were impulsively squandering money, but now, having experienced it personally, he finally understood. Compared to the slow, day-after-day, plodding cultivation, this shortcut of becoming stronger just by spending money was simply too tempting.

It's just that now, even if he wanted to spend, he had nothing left to spend.

Because he was out of money!

Glancing at the balance on the panel that had already returned to zero, Chen An began to consider where he could get money.

Borrow from someone?!

Chen An's mind immediately went to Shen Qinglan and Shen Zongyue. Shen Qinglan was his childhood sweetheart, and over the years, Shen Zongyue had also frequently gifted him Cultivation Techniques, Martial Skills, and even expensive Medicinal Pills.

If he asked, he should be able to borrow a significant sum of yuan crystals from the two of them.

However, after considering it for a moment, Chen An shook his head and dismissed this idea.

Although the Shen Family father and daughter would certainly lend it to him if he asked, he had just taken over a hundred yuan crystals from Shen Qinglan and had also accepted a bottle of qi condensing pills from Shen Zongyue.

Going to borrow money from the Shen Family father and daughter again at this time would certainly arouse their suspicion.

That's it!

The qi condensing pill!!!

A flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in Chen An's mind, and he turned around, his gaze landing on the white jade bottle he had just placed on the bed.

As far as he knew, in the market of Wurong County, a single qi condensing pill was worth a full one hundred yuan crystals. This entire bottle contained ten pills, which, when converted, amounted to a sky-high price of one thousand yuan crystals.

One thousand yuan crystals!!!

If he used it all to have the System add points, infuse cultivation, and polish his Martial Skills, when converted into the days of boring, arduous cultivation, it would be enough to equal nearly a thousand years of his meditation and practice.

At this thought, burning desire instantly surged into his heart.

Keep them and slowly take the Medicinal Pills to improve his cultivation gradually?

Too slow!

Having already tasted the pleasure of the System's fast-track cultivation, he couldn't stand the slow pace of ordinary Martial Artists wasting their years.

Sell it!!!

Once this thought arose, it grew like wild weeds, and he could no longer suppress it.

Chen An's eyes flickered violently, his gaze quickly becoming resolute and sharp.

Although the qi condensing pill was a precious cultivation Medicinal Pill, to him now, it was far less practical than tangible yuan crystals.

Medicinal Pills could only slowly nourish blood and qi and assist in cultivation, but yuan crystals could make him stronger instantly and bring about a direct qualitative change.

Having decided to sell the qi condensing pills, Chen An began to ponder.

For him, there were two paths to offload this entire bottle of qi condensing pills:

First, wait until tomorrow at dawn and go to the official market in the city to sell them;

Second, today just happened to be the day the black market opened, and he could take this bottle of qi condensing pills to the black market to sell.

The biggest advantage of selling in the market was stability and security; in broad daylight, there were rules established by various major forces, and life and safety were best guaranteed.

But the corresponding drawbacks were equally obvious.

The official market's medicinal shops had strict controls; acquiring Medicinal Pills required registering personal identity information, filing records at every level, and pills of unknown origin were directly rejected.

Even if he managed to sell them, the acquisition price would be deliberately suppressed, far below the fair market price. For pills worth one thousand yuan crystals, he would likely lose more than half by the time it was in his hands, which was extremely uneconomical.

And the black market was the exact opposite of the formal market.

The biggest advantage of the black market was that it didn't ask about origins, didn't check identities, and didn't require registration.

No matter where the Medicinal Pills came from or whose hands they came from, as long as the items were fine, they would directly negotiate a price and acquire them. The entire transaction would be secret, never leaving any records, and it wouldn't involve Shen Zongyue, saving him countless future troubles.

Furthermore, the black market offered prices more readily. With huge demand from desperate Martial Artists and underground forces, the turnover of Medicinal Pills was fast, and the price suppression wouldn't be too outrageous. He could retain most of the value, and the returns would be far higher than the market.

Besides that, black market transactions were flexible; goods were handed over and money was paid, and once the transaction was completed, it was settled immediately. The concealment was extremely strong, and acting at night wasn't easy to attract attention; he could complete the liquidation without anyone noticing.

But the danger of the black market was equally visible.

The black market was a mix of good and bad people, filled with desperate criminals, and incidents of killing for treasure happened frequently. If one's strength was insufficient, they risked being double-crossed, and their life would be hard to guarantee.

"Wealth is sought in danger!"

Chen An considered it slightly, then decided to take a risk.

It was called a risk, but actually, with him currently at the Late Stage of the Acquired Realm, plus the Major Achievement Mountain Crushing Force, unless a Innate Realm expert attacked him, it was hard to say who would be robbing whom.

And as for Innate Realm experts, every one of them had a transcendent status. In the entire Wurong County, there were only three Innate Realm experts on the surface.

Such experts had no need to lower their status for a few yuan crystals.

Taking a deep breath, Chen An did not dawdle. He took out a black hooded cloak from the wardrobe and circulated his Cultivation Technique. His facial features shifted for a while, changing his appearance to that of a strange young man. Only then did he put the bottle of qi condensing pills into his bosom, found the few remaining yuan crystals in the wardrobe, and then quickly opened the door to leave. His figure flashed, rapidly blending into the night...