Chapter 63: Rapid Progress

"Is it inconvenient?"

Lin Qing looked at Zhao Jiayi and said, "Only one or two months will be enough."

"Uh..." Zhao Jiayi thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll look for a place tomorrow. Is the one next to your house for rent?"

"The place next to my house has been vacant anyway," Lin Qing said. "I'll tell the auntie next door for you, and I'll pay the rent."

Zhao Jiayi made an "oh" sound and asked again, "I occasionally have to go home to see my father. Is that okay?"

"You can go back anytime during work hours," Lin Qing nodded.

He then asked, "But does your father agree to you moving in here?"

"Father will definitely agree," Zhao Jiayi nodded.

"That's good."

Lin Qing nodded slightly and added, "However, I need to make an agreement with you in advance. While you live next to me, you cannot use telepathy to spy on me. Also, I will establish some signals with you beforehand. If certain situations arise, you can send me a signal message, or directly remind me through your subconscious."

Zhao Jiayi blinked and asked, "Then can I come to my house to play often?"

"Come to my house to play?"

Lin Qing looked at his own surroundings and said, "There's nothing much to play with in my house."

"Then do you watch dramas?" Zhao Jiayi asked with a look of expectation. "I found many dramas filmed a hundred years ago, but I don't know which ones are good. Can you watch them with me?"

Lin Qing glanced at her and said, "I need to cultivate; I don't have time."

"Oh..." A hint of disappointment showed in Zhao Jiayi's eyes.

Lin Qing was a bit afraid she wouldn't do her job properly and helplessly said, "I don't have time to help you pick slowly, but I know which ones are good. If you really have nothing to do, I can accompany you to review them."

"Really?"

Zhao Jiayi's beautiful eyes couldn't help but light up.

"Aren't you nineteen? Why are you like a child?" Lin Qing couldn't help but ask.

"I've only been in contact... in contact with society for a few months," Zhao Jiayi said cautiously. "Before, I hardly ever saw anyone besides my father."

"No wonder..." Lin Qing couldn't help but take a closer look at her.

That night.

"Combat Technique 'Strength', entered the initial stage."

Lin Qing opened his eyes, feeling the mysterious energy within his body change its nature once again, and couldn't help but reveal a slight smile.

After the bonuses from the three combat techniques of the same series, 'Agility', 'Speed', and 'Precision', reaching the instinctive level, his compatibility with the Free Body series of combat techniques had indeed increased significantly.

This time, it took only a single day to successfully enter the initial stage.

"The debt for Combat Technique 'Precision'... was already paid off yesterday."

Lin Qing didn't hesitate and immediately called out in his mind:

"Order."

"Advance, Combat Technique 'Strength'!"

The next moment, countless inexplicable information streams continuously flooded into Lin Qing's mind.

According to the deduction by the Entropy Reverser—

With his talent and his compatibility with the Free Body series of combat techniques, to cultivate Combat Technique 'Strength' to its extreme, he must completely integrate the heavy, massive force formed by the mysterious energy into his entire body, and achieve the state of handling heavy loads lightly, where power can explode to its extreme in an instant.

Completing this consecutively 29 times will perfectly integrate the variations of Combat Technique 'Strength' into his instincts.

Then, a vast amount of memories suddenly surfaced in Lin Qing's mind.

These were memories of him attempting to cultivate Combat Technique 'Strength', from initial mastery to perfection, experiencing bitter training time and again, until finally perfectly integrating the variations of Combat Technique 'Strength' into his instincts.

At the same time, a torrential and domineering massive force surged out of Lin Qing's body, beginning to rush violently through every part of his body.

This is pure strength! Combat Technique 'Speed' is pure speed, while Combat Technique 'Strength' is pure strength!

After a while, Lin Qing slowly opened his eyes.

"Let's try..."

Lin Qing tried to pick up the dumbbell beside him used for warming up; with a slight exertion of force from both hands—

The pure iron dumbbell immediately began to twist and deform in his palms. As he increased the force, the dumbbell was eventually completely crushed into a flat iron disc.

"The strength is indeed great enough," Lin Qing clicked his tongue in admiration. You know, even those Patrol Bureau members who only mastered Combat Technique 'Strength' could increase their pure strength by three or four times! And he had cultivated it to the extreme, so his pure strength was sufficient to increase by seven or eight times! Of course, Combat Technique 'Agility' had already doubled his strength, which could also stack with 'Strength', changing it from 2 times to 8-9 times; in terms of strength, it was roughly four to five times the original.

Logically, with strength increasing so much, speed should also increase significantly.

But Combat Technique 'Strength' also causes the body to become heavy and difficult to stretch, so even though strength has improved, speed has hardly increased at all, unless other combat techniques are activated.

After all, Combat Technique 'Strength' is purely for increasing strength.

"Fortunately, I learned 'Precision' in advance; controlling it is also very simple."

Lin Qing revealed a slight smile, not minding the extremity of Combat Technique 'Strength' at all.

With strength increasing so much, what else is there to be unsatisfied with? His physical constitution was originally about four times that of an ordinary person; now, with all combat techniques fully activated, he could easily lift a small truck!

At the same time, it also possesses super-fast speed, agility, and micro-level control! "Not talking about other aspects, the improvement in attack is huge."

Lin Qing satisfiedly tried a few empty strikes and didn't really want to test his current destructive power at home.

With his current strength, a single punch could knock down a load-bearing wall.

The combat power improvement brought by combat techniques was indeed too astonishing.

"This is just the simplified and deconstructed combat technique; how terrifying would the original combat technique be?"

Lin Qing couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

Even...

Judging from the introduction of the Free Body series of combat techniques, the original 'Free Body' combat technique was the foundation for one of the top three combat techniques at Chaoyang Martial Arts Hall.

"I wonder if there will be a chance to learn that top-three-ranked combat technique..." Lin Qing thought to himself.

Of course, he also knew that he couldn't even learn the original version yet; even if he thought that far ahead, it would be useless.

"Attack, speed, agility, control... all are complete."

Lin Qing pondered silently, "Only defense and variation are missing; the combat techniques 'Hard' and 'Soft' can perfectly fill the gaps."

This series of Free Body combat techniques is indeed perfect.

Every aspect is complete.

Unfortunately, there is no combat technique to resist mental attacks.

"Hmm, it won't take long to learn them all."

Lin Qing strongly anticipated in his heart, "With my current compatibility with the Free Body series, I only need to cultivate the combat technique 'Strength' perfectly 29 times to pay it off."

He can cultivate a combat technique perfectly five times a day, which means—

Only six days! Just six days to pay it off, and then he can go learn 'Hard' and 'Soft'.

Moreover, the next time will only be faster.

"I will go learn 'Hard' after six days."

Lin Qing made a silent decision in his heart, "Anyway, the headquarters already knows I cultivated 'Agility' to the Instinct level; cultivating new combat techniques faster is normal."

After cultivating a combat technique to the Instinct level, it is like a chain reaction; once one reaches Instinct, the next will only be faster, and faster and faster.

Days gradually calmed down.

The Red Kite Society seemed to have no intention of retaliation, or perhaps they were still selecting a new person in charge.

Lin Qing did not need to go out on patrol every day; he only needed to cultivate combat techniques to pay off debts, taking the EPS series high-energy sustained-release liquid delivered daily by the headquarters' transport vehicle, and paying off the debt for the Qi-Qi Edition combat techniques.

Six days later.

On the afternoon of February 22.

Xiaoshan District Branch, inside the combat technique secret room.

"Mastered it in just six days?"

In the dim secret room, that hoarse voice clicked his tongue in admiration, "Cultivating to the Instinct level, the compatibility bonus is indeed significant; it seems... it won't take long before your combat technique 'Speed' also reaches the Instinct level."

Although the combat technique 'Speed' was learned twenty-something days late, with the compatibility bonus, the time required to cultivate the next combat technique to the Instinct level will also shorten.

"I also feel it is coming soon."

Lin Qing smiled and said, "I am here today to learn 'Hard'."

(End of this chapter)