Chapter 63: Strength Improvement, Flesh-and-Blood Martial Dao (Seeking Monthly Tickets, Follow-up Reads)

Qing Shi Building, fifth floor,

inside a sealed room.

"Zhao Yinman, I'm coming, are you ready?"

"Mm, use your strength, don't worry about how I feel."

"Alright, then I'll go all out!"

As the words fell,

in the training room, Jiang Yan, dressed in a black martial arts uniform, bent his legs and kicked off violently. His figure shot out like a cannonball, appearing before Zhao Yinman in an instant, raising his hand for a cannon punch.

The Qi energy was fierce, unstoppable as a bamboo being split!

However, Zhao Yinman blocked it with her arms, changed her moves, wrapped around his arms like a python, and suddenly pressed down, dragging his center of gravity downward.

Jiang Yan subconsciously pushed up with force, but Zhao Yinman used his momentum to leap into the air, twisted her waist and hips, suddenly turned sideways, and delivered a Great Dragon Tail-Whip Kick; her fair, bare jade foot struck his left temple.

Hum!

Golden light rippled across Jiang Yan’s body, blocking the attack.

"Rabbit Kicks the Eagle."

Seeing this, Zhao Yinman used the momentum in mid-air, her skirt fluttering, and went straight for his face.

It was still blocked by the golden light!

Jiang Yan grinned, while Zhao Yinman said with a calm expression:

"Don't let your guard down!"

The next second, he saw talismans flying out from under her skirt, their patterns moving like dragons and snakes, flickering with electric arcs.

"Thunder Explosion Talisman!"

Boom!

The talismans exploded violently, accompanied by a terrifying shockwave, kicking up a sky full of dust and smoke with electric arcs dancing within.

Zhao Yinman moved, flipping in the air and landing steadily.

With a wave of her hand, dozens of Thunder Explosion Talismans poured in like a river, continuously exploding inside the smoke.

The roaring sounds were constant.

Fortunately, the training room was soundproofed, otherwise the entire Pan'an County would have panicked, thinking a gas pipeline had exploded.

She looked into the smoke and stopped her movements, her crimson eyes as calm as water.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

The next second, golden light erupted, whipping up a gale that blew away the smoke.

Jiang Yan was unscathed; the golden light hovered a foot from his body, forming a barrier like a large golden seal.

At this moment, the proficiency of the [Vajra Mother Seal] had broken through the Mastery level, reaching [Control Level 58%].

Combat really is the fastest way to improve!

Especially with the intelligence boost of the skill offspring, the idle training efficiency is getting higher and higher; it should break through to [Perfect Level] soon.

In half a month, he had surpassed decades of hard work by others.

Jiang Yan said, still wanting more: "Why stop? I haven't reached my limit yet."

To this, Zhao Yinman stretched out her fair little hand and said indifferently:

"The sparring package you bought only had thirty Thunder Explosion Talismans; if you want to continue, you have to renew."

"Having said that, I am actually a bit tired."

Jiang Yan chuckled a few times and changed the subject.

Just kidding, a sparring session costs three points, which converts to ninety thousand in cash.

What kind of family could afford such squandering?

Especially the Thunder Explosion Talismans; they average three thousand each, but Jiang Yan had seen the procurement list for [Transcendence-grade Yellow Paper], and the cost price was two hundred each. Even counting the specially prepared cinnabar, the cost was at most three hundred.

A ten-fold profit upon resale, and that was the colleague price.

Last time, when Shenying Biological owed Zhao Yinman four talismans, Jiang Yan had her report thirty, with eighty percent reimbursed.

In one go, she even made an extra four.

Jiang Yan looked on with envy and also wanted to get into a profitable art of cultivation.

Zhao Yinman said "Mm" and continued: "Your foundation and bones are both top-tier, and your comprehension is astonishing; you mastered the Great Ape Stance and Coiled Dragon Stance after seeing them once, but your combat experience is too little.

The flesh-and-blood martial arts produced in the modern Republic of China instances, although inferior to spells, contain stances, breathing techniques, and moves that can all very well excavate the treasure that is the human body.

Even if you reach special disease domains where spells are forbidden, you can still maintain powerful combat strength."

"Thank you for your hard work."

Jiang Yan nodded in agreement; this was why he spent money to find a zombie sparring partner.

Although she charges, she really gets the job done!

These past few days, Zhao Yinman not only sparred with him but also taught him many stance methods, martial arts, and breathing techniques. Through the heaven-defying comprehension of the Heart Ape bloodline, he integrated them and birthed a [Primary Flesh-and-Blood Martial Dao] skill.

He threw it to the Two-Headed Shadow-Eating Snake to fuse.

Its proficiency had also increased to [Mastery Level 99%] during this time, just one step away from breaking through to the Control level.

Skill proficiency is one's own understanding of an art, but the long river of history presents it as data, which can be considered a benefit for history walkers.

And to break through to the Dharma Seed realm, besides expanding the Dao foundation to the extreme, one also needs to raise a skill to [Control Level], then collect the Dharma Qi corresponding to the Dao foundation's attributes to gestate the art into Dharma.

After collecting Qi, one cannot slack off.

Qi is the essence of rules; it is compatible with the human body, but there is a possibility of failure and backlash.

The higher the proficiency, the lower the probability of failure.

If it's at the Perfect level, one can gestate the Dharma Seed with one hundred percent success.

Jiang Yan asked curiously: "Are the Republic of China instances all gone?"

Zhao Yinman nodded and said: "Most were swept clean by the founder of the History Correction Bureau, and a small portion sank into the deep history. Precisely because of this, the present world can be safe.

Moreover, flesh-and-blood martial arts and the various schools of thought left behind many remnants of the old era, active in the present world. Related inheritances have an entire category at Book Mountain Tai Sui; if you want to study them, you can use points to exchange for them."

With one's own strength, sweeping through an era.

Yet such a domineering figure viewed them as the rising sun.

If there's a chance, I really want to meet them.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yan asked: "Have you seen Old Ba recently?"

Seeing Zhao Yinman shake her head, Jiang Yan felt quite regretful.

His original intended sparring partner was Old Ba, whom he could have freeloaded off of heavily.

Unexpectedly, this guy had been elusive lately, only to be encountered when eating at the cafeteria, looking like he had kidney deficiency from staying up too late.

There haven't been many missions in the Pan'an jurisdiction recently either; what has he been doing?

Speaking of this, Jiang Yan felt a bit depressed. He had heard there were countless disease domain creatures to hunt here, but after coming in...

Eating the unit's food and living in the unit's housing every day, while drawing a monthly salary of fifty thousand, and with so few missions every month, he felt like he was going to rot.

Regarding this, Zhao Yinman was also puzzled; it was clearly very busy before, but recently the number of disease domains landing in Pan'an had suddenly decreased a lot.

It was eerily calm.

Zhao Yinman could see that Jiang Yan was very short on money; recently, she had also been trying hard to save money.

As a zombie, she didn't have many material desires, she just wanted to use money to persuade Jiang Yan to let her sleep in the coffin spirit for once.

Thinking of what Jiang Yan said last time, that it was his family.

Zhao Yinman had no memories related to family and didn't know what that felt like.

"It should... be very precious."

If she only offered a few hundred points, the other party would think her attitude wasn't sincere and would get angry.

Therefore, Zhao Yinman decided to save up five thousand points before going to talk to Jiang Yan.

The sparring ended at noon; it wasn't that Jiang Yan didn't have money, but the materials he bought with most of his savings were shown by the system to be arriving in the afternoon, so he prepared to go back and take a shower first.

In the room,

the coffin spirit and the little sky ghost were watching TV together.

Because they were both offspring of the Demon God embryo, they got along very happily.

Even the coffin spirit, with the demeanor of a big brother, protected the little one behind it, saying:

"Don't be afraid, Grandpa Coffin will protect you."

The little sky ghost nodded, moved, shrinking back, turning its head, and hugging the precious mirror in its hands tightly.

The coffin spirit secretly closed its eyes.

As long as I can't see it, I'm not afraid!

Jiang Yan glanced at the screen, his expression strange; it was actually...

*Midnight Zone*.

Although this film was indeed very terrifying and belonged to Jiang Yan's childhood trauma, the two of you—one is a coffin spirit, the other a sky ghost.

Which of your true forms isn't more terrifying than Chu Renmei?

Jiang Yan looked at the two little guys watching a horror movie with their eyes closed and took the remote to turn off the TV.

Too embarrassing!

"Gulu!"

Seeing its master return, the little sky ghost pounced directly, sat on Jiang Yan's shoulder, and rubbed its head affectionately.

"Is it over?"

After a while, the Coffin Spirit opened its eyes, only to see that the television had been turned off; it rolled its eyes, but then caught its master’s meaningful gaze.

At this moment,

the Coffin Spirit really wanted to find a place to crawl into and bury itself.

To cover its embarrassment, it hurriedly changed the subject:

"Master, I have successfully gestated the first Underworld Treasure!"

Seeking monthly tickets, follow-up reads, and recommendation tickets.

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(End of this chapter)