Chapter 178: Ten Thousand Miles Lone Journey

"Still the catalog of peerless martial arts...... Should I say I just looked at the catalog for three years and trained for thirty years? Still the catalog? Wait a minute, it seems there really are good items." Bai Lang muttered while flipping through the catalog. "Find a lightness skill; the rest I'll forget since I can't practice them." Bai Lang never thought about obtaining any extraordinary skill—anyway, flipping it open he immediately realized that many of the martial arts' exchange conditions had identity or rank requirements.

"With his silver-badge externally hired guard commander rank, the vast majority of these martial arts are just things you can look at and play with, especially internal energy types; but if luck is good, quite a few lightness skills have no identity or rank requirements—you just need to be able to pay the exchange cost to obtain them."

"Lightness skills are not few, and their exchange cost in martial arts is not considered high. Even so, using gold and silver etc. to exchange still makes Bai Lang feel inflation......"This is natural, gold and silver have a price but martial arts are hard to price." Old Wang said that, while Bai Lang muttered, "Shouldn't skills be something everyone practices......" But even Bai Lang knows that's generally impossible."

"From the perspective of human nature it just wouldn't work, and Bai Lang also had no intention of changing this society—perhaps with the passage of time it would be different, but becoming a revolutionary is still something to forget."

"「Lightness skill, lightness skill, lightness skill...... 」 Bai Lang understood that lightness skills also have grades of three, six, nine, etc.; just like other martial arts, it's not enough to just look at the grade, one must also consider personal compatibility. However, compared to superior martial arts such as internal energy, sword methods, and blade methods, the range of personal compatibility for lightness skills is relatively loose. However, Bai Lang still didn't realize that his overall compatibility with lightness skills is actually not high; for him, most lightness skills yield poor training results."

"Not to mention those flowery, lingering body techniques for women and the lightness skills specialized for pale-faced scholars—like Lingbo Microstep and Free and Easy Wander type lightness skills, Bai Lang could probably only train into turtle-crawling skill, fumbling with hands and feet, smashing a pile of things and collapsing a row of houses. 「Flower Between Walk? Free and Easy Wander? The names sound pretty good, but I'm worried...... 」 Bai Lang flipped through for a long time, only to find that all his points added together could only exchange for a single lightness skill."

"「An Innate Expert like Mao Dongshan is really not worth that much? 」 Bai Lang muttered, not realizing that once he became a government employee, the exchange price would be at least a third off."

"Bai Lang closed his eyes, "Heavenly spirits, earthly spirits, Old Ancestor of Luck, help me!" He opened his eyes and looked at the page number his fingers were turning to, "This is it, Ten Thousand Miles Lone Journey!""

"The lightness skill Bai Lang selected was indeed Ten Thousand Miles Lone Journey; the name sounds nice. Old Wang quickly went to fetch the manual, just as Bai Lang expected it wasn't paper but a silk scroll. "The true intent is transmitted, usable only once; if used well it self-destructs." Old Wang also explained a few sentences when handing over the manual: "Understood, understood—martial arts manuals are supposed to be like this; relying on books alone to cultivate peerless martial arts is basically a joke...... Such high-level martial arts still require oral instruction and hands-on practice.""

"Bai Lang tossed the scroll back and forth, finally storing it in his jade pendant, while the gold-armored beetle was pushed toward Old Wang, and the honey was put away. "Leaving, I'll come back later for bounty work." After saying that, the person strode off, but just as he stepped out the door Bai Lang casually threw a bottle, which landed in Old Wang's embrace, "Strengthen your kidneys, it's beneficial.""

"Returning to the Mountain God Temple, Bai Lang at first glance didn't notice anything abnormal, and indeed there was nothing abnormal—the manual hidden beneath the deity's buttocks was well concealed. Bai Lang's lodging tidied up in the rear hall also hadn't changed, "Although this bedding is a bit damp, it still needs more sun." Bai Lang began to miss modern society, since he can't now order online for door-to-door delivery; if the food in this Mountain God Temple runs out, he'll truly have to go down the mountain to buy it himself."

"「Let's train a bit first and then talk. 」 Bai Lang continued to start training the martial arts he'd gained some insight from through combat, but when would results appear? Optimistically estimated at least ten years. Whether it's the Southern Dipper Holy Fist or the Arhat Benevolent King Fist, practitioners all start from childhood, endure countless hardships, and only achieve something in their twenties or even near thirty. Bai Lang's martial arts wisdom might not surpass the Southern Dipper......"

"Moreover, now he also had to add the lightness skill Ten Thousand Miles Lone Journey—this is merely a pure lightness skill, not the kind that includes leg techniques and mental methods allowing cultivation all the way to the Innate level. Having eaten his fill, drunk well, and slept soundly, the next day Bai Lang took out the scroll and unfolded it. "The preface already wrote about this lightness skill's strengths and weaknesses." Bai Lang muttered, it turned out this martial art really is Ten Thousand Miles Lone Journey—excelling at long-distance deployment of lightness skill, crossing mountains and rivers, scaling peaks and ridges, it can be called marvelously effective, with speed even faster than a galloping horse. However, short-range body flickering has no particular specialness, though it's still much stronger than the Grass Flying he has now integrated."

"The training of this lightness skill is actually easier than all his martial arts—except for the Black Tiger Fist—mainly just the route of internal energy circulation, a few meridians' operation and burst. Innate internal energy is endless, fully capable of sustaining this lightness skill's long-term output, "Hey, indeed not bad." Bai Lang leapt up and landed on the treetop, then glided effortlessly, covering dozens of zhang in just a few breaths. Afterimages are impossible, but this speed already made Bai Lang very satisfied."

"Whether it's the Golden Wind Fine Rain Pavilion or the Six and a Half Hall, they haven't looked for Bai Lang these past days; the reputation of the Earthly Tai Sui is already among the top 108 on the Earth Ranking, indeed not easy to deal with. Speaking of which, Bai Lang also finds it quite interesting that almost all the major states in the world basically like the gimmick of 108, and indeed the Heaven Earth Person Ranking published by the highly credible Heaven's Secret Pavilion also uses the rule of 108 entrants for both the Earth Ranking and the Person Ranking."

"Within this Heaven Earth Person Ranking, the entry requirement for the weakest Person Ranking is to be Innate and under forty years old; with that it really can be filled, and there are still many who didn't make the list—one has to say, heroes abound under heaven."

"The Great Yan's Heaven Earth Person Ranking is issued every six months; fluctuations at least on the Person Ranking are still fairly intense, but once you enter the Earth Ranking it becomes relatively stable. "It's quite interesting—among the 108 people, the top thirty-six are Heavenly Gang and the bottom seventy-two are Earthly Fiend...... Now I'm the 103rd, seemingly Earth Strong Star? How unlucky, to be on par with the guy who sells human meat buns." Bai Lang muttered a few sentences."

"These past few months, those teammates still haven't come; perhaps their sect's rules are indeed strict, not allowing disciples to wander the jianghu at will—maybe these few still haven't completed their training?"

These past few months, those few teammates still haven't come; perhaps their sect's rules are indeed strict, not allowing disciples to roam the martial world at will—maybe these few haven't yet completed their training?