Chapter 35: Secret Manuals

There were many secret manuals on the first floor of Wanxiang Tower, all of which were Yellow Grade techniques and martial arts. Meng Yifan was dazzled; he wanted to buy many of the techniques, but their silver was limited and needed for major purposes, so he dared not spend money recklessly.

Meng Dayong discussed with Meng Yifan, telling him to choose one Yellow Grade High-Rank technique or martial art, and then choose one Yellow Grade Middle-Tier technique or martial art, leaving the rest for when they earned more money later.

Meng Yifan pondered for a moment and felt that he did not have an urgent need for techniques for the time being. When he fought the Flying Tiger Demon, he relied mainly on the power of the Elm Cannon. He possessed Level 2 Shooting Technique and had a great advantage in accuracy. To further leverage this advantage and increase his strength, he needed to start from two aspects.

On one hand, he needed to comprehensively enhance his physical fitness, which he could achieve by consuming Experience Value to add attribute points.

On the other hand, he was now in urgent need of a good Lightness Skill. On his Game Panel, his physical speed was at 70 points, seven times that of an ordinary person. Compared to ordinary people, it was already very fast, but it was not enough.

Last time, when pursuing the Flying Tiger Demon, he had almost failed to catch up. If he knew a Lightness Skill, he could further increase his speed and reaction ability, which would be very useful whether for pursuing or dodging the attacks of Demon Beasts.

"Father, then let's choose one Yellow Grade High-Rank Lightness Skill and one Yellow Grade Middle-Tier spear technique?" Meng Yifan said.

"Good." Meng Dayong nodded, and the father and son began to look for suitable Lightness Skills on the first floor.

Among the more than two hundred secret manuals on the first floor, there were forty-two manuals in the Lightness Skill category, and six in total were Yellow Grade High-Rank Lightness Skills.

One was "Youyu Movement Technique," characterized by rapid short-distance dodging, which could effectively evade attacks.

One was "Liuguang Movement Technique," characterized by the body becoming like a ray of light after successful cultivation, rushing forward at extreme speed.

One was "Fuyun Movement Technique." This Lightness Skill was not as good as "Liuguang Movement Technique" in speed, nor as good as "Youyu Movement Technique" in rapid dodging, but it had no obvious shortcomings; it could dodge quickly and also rush forward quickly, counting as a very balanced Lightness Skill.

One was "Yinying Movement Technique." The characteristic of this Lightness Skill was hiding the body in shadows, making it difficult for others to notice, approaching the enemy silently, and then suddenly leaping out from the shadows to kill the enemy by surprise; this was actually an assassination-style movement technique.

One was "Cloud-Stepping Leap." The characteristic of this Lightness Skill was that after cultivation, one could leap up, stepping with the left foot on the right foot to propel the body upward. After cultivating to Great Completion, one could even leap over a hundred meters high. Although it was not the sword-flying of an Immortal Cultivator, being able to leap that high was also very impressive.

The last Yellow Grade High-Rank Lightness Skill was a remnant volume with the title "Lingbo Microsteps" on the cover. According to the introduction, this Lightness Skill was a Mysterious Grade Middle Quality Lightness Skill, but it only contained the first small half of the manual. After cultivation, its effect was slightly stronger than "Fuyun Movement Technique."

After hesitating for a moment, Meng Yifan finally chose "Lingbo Microsteps." Meng Dayong said, "Yifan, do you want to change to another one? Although this 'Lingbo Microsteps' was originally a Mysterious Grade Middle Quality technique, now only a small half remains. Compared to Yellow Grade techniques, Mysterious Grade techniques are very difficult to enter, and even if you cultivate it successfully with great difficulty, the effect is only slightly better than 'Fuyun Movement Technique.' Why bring trouble upon yourself?"

"I'll choose this one." Meng Yifan's tone was firm. He did not tell Meng Dayong that while Mysterious Grade techniques were difficult for others to enter, for him, with the Game Panel as his cheat, cultivating Mysterious Grade techniques was not a difficult matter.

Seeing Meng Yifan insist on choosing the Lingbo Microsteps movement technique, Meng Dayong stopped trying to persuade him and spent five hundred taels of Silver Notes to buy this movement technique.

Next was choosing a spear technique manual. Meng Yifan knew the military's Thrusting Technique from his past life, but perhaps because Thrusting Technique could not mobilize True Qi, the Game Panel did not recognize Thrusting Technique as a skill.

There were thirty-five spear technique manuals, and eleven were Yellow Grade Middle-Tier. Meng Yifan flipped through them and unexpectedly discovered that there was also a "Liaoyuan Spear Technique" among them, which was actually a remnant volume of a Mysterious Grade High-Rank spear technique.

The original "Liaoyuan Spear Technique" should have had nine forms, but this remnant volume only contained the first form and half of the second form, so Wanxiang Tower classified the "Liaoyuan Spear Technique" remnant volume into the Yellow Grade Middle-Tier category.

Meng Yifan picked up the "Liaoyuan Spear Technique" and said to Meng Dayong, "Just this one."

Seeing Meng Yifan choose another remnant volume, Meng Dayong did not know what to say. However, he thought of Meng Yifan saying he had met an old immortal with a white beard in a dream; could it be that the old immortal had guided him to make these choices? If that were the case, then so be it if he chose remnant volumes.

Thinking of this, Meng Dayong did not say anything more and took out another three hundred taels of Silver Notes to buy the "Liaoyuan Spear Technique" remnant volume.

Selling secret manuals was the most profitable business for Wanxiang Tower, because both Pills and weapons required the consumption of precious raw materials, while technique manuals only needed mass printing to be produced in batches.

Meng Yifan bought two secret manuals, but there were still plenty of these two manuals in Wanxiang Tower's inventory, and they could continue to be sold; it was simply a business with ten-thousand-fold profits.

Meng Yifan and his father had a total of over fourteen hundred taels of silver, and after buying two secret manuals and three First Grade Breakthrough Pills, they had less than three hundred taels of silver left.

This silver was truly spent like flowing water, and it was almost gone in an instant. The remaining money still had to be used to buy a house. Although there were many good things in Wanxiang Tower, the father and son did not linger anymore. Even if they were envious after looking, they had no money to buy, so it was better not to look and wait until they had money in the future to come and buy.

The Meng father and son reunited with the villagers of Qinghe Village. While the Meng father and son were buying Pills and secret manuals, the villagers had already sold a small half of the Wild Beast furs, obtaining forty-two taels of silver. Upon seeing Meng Dayong, they handed all this silver to Meng Dayong for safekeeping.

Thus, Meng Dayong had three hundred and forty taels of silver on him. He let the other villagers continue to sell Wild Beast furs, while he and Meng Yifan went to a property agency to have them show them houses.

With the Demon Race invasion, many refugees from surrounding villages and towns flooded into Luolong County, which caused the housing prices in Luolong County to rise with the tide, changing price every day.

Meng Dayong had originally thought that two hundred taels would be enough to buy a large house with two courtyards. He did not expect that in Luolong County now, a large house with two courtyards was selling for four hundred taels of silver, the price having directly doubled compared to a month ago, which made Meng Dayong somewhat troubled.

He only had three hundred and forty taels of silver on him now. Even if he sold all the remaining Wild Beast furs, he estimated he could barely scrape together four hundred taels of silver, but this was all their assets. If it were all used to buy a house, this group of theirs would be completely penniless.