Chapter 278: Blade Intent

This "Wind-Facing Blade Slash" manual—the entire martial art is condensed into a single, sharp strike, but this strike is as fast as lightning, and the Blade Intent it radiates leaves the opponent with nowhere to hide; they must either grit their teeth and take it, or face certain death.

It is not that more powerful blade techniques do not exist, but it returns to the initial problem: most are incomplete manuals.

Yet this Wind-Facing Blade Slash, despite consisting of only one move, has astonishing power and contains Blade Intent!

Lu Yu took a deep breath; this was precisely why he chose it from among the many blade techniques.

He was eager to experience for himself what kind of miraculous effects so-called Blade Intent and Sword Intent could produce.

After careful selection and decisive purchases, Lu Yu tucked his desired items away one by one.

After this series of expenditures, the points in his account were few, with only a little over twenty thousand remaining.

"The items are bought, but a thornier problem follows," Lu Yu said, shaking his head with a wry smile.

This problem is—Experience Value!

With a total of over a hundred martial arts, each one requires a massive amount of Experience Value to improve.

Fist and foot techniques or Lightness Skills are one thing, but Internal Energy manuals and Alchemy are "big spenders" of Experience Value.

Lu Yu checked his current Experience Value. Thanks to his successful kill of Du Hu earlier, his Experience Value had accumulated to over 8,000.

Yet even so, according to his estimates, if he wanted to use this Experience Value to max out two Internal Energy manuals or raise the level of an Alchemy skill, it would likely be exhausted in an instant.

After careful consideration, Lu Yu understood that this was within reason.

After all, within the Awakened Association, for those Martial Artists who are also in the Vein Refining Realm, having one Internal Energy manual cultivated to the Consummation realm is already a remarkable achievement, enough to stand out among many Martial Artists.

Even regarding Lightness Skills, if someone can cultivate one to the Great Success realm, they can be called a gifted genius.

As for Alchemy, its complexity and the requirements for the practitioner's aptitude and experience are extremely high; the vast majority of people can barely cross the threshold of Entry, let alone raise it to the Consummation realm.

"I can only take it slow," Lu Yu sighed helplessly. Indeed, there was no better way at the moment.

With the remaining twenty thousand-plus points, Lu Yu thought for a moment and cast his gaze toward the food category.

That's right, he intended to use these remaining points to purchase Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures to boost his strength; after all, this is an immediate way to see results.

"What should I buy?" Lu Yu's gaze fell directly on items priced at ten or twenty thousand points.

Should he improve Constitution? Strength? Or Agility?

"I'll choose True Qi," Lu Yu finally locked onto the Cloud Jade Fruit.

Being able to increase Origin True Qi is truly rare.

By comparison, there are many ways to improve Constitution, Strength, Agility, or even Mental Attribute. But for increasing Origin True Qi, the Cloud Jade Fruit is currently the only choice.

Lu Yu added it to his shopping cart. At this moment, his points were less than one thousand.

A smile appeared on Lu Yu's face; it would be a lie to say he didn't feel the sting—over fifty thousand points spent in the blink of an eye, leaving almost nothing left.

However, he had bought almost all the martial arts under one thousand points in the Association.

This meant that he would not need to worry about searching for Cultivation Methods in the future.

In addition, there was the True Qi Pill Prescription, as well as one Cloud Jade Fruit.

I have to say, the price of such Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures is ridiculously high. I just don't know what the actual effect will be.

Lu Yu thought that if the effect was significant, he planned to go out and explore, hunting Fierce Beasts along the way to earn a large amount of Experience Value—killing two birds with one stone.

He clicked confirm and passed the facial recognition.

"Huh, the delivery location can only be chosen as the various Awakened Associations?" Looking at the shipping address on his phone, Lu Yu couldn't help but feel surprised.

It would be best not to go to the Rock City Association if he could avoid it. What about choosing an Association in another city?

How about choosing the Yongan City Association?

A bold idea suddenly popped into Lu Yu's mind.

Anyway, the people at the Yongan City Association didn't know him; this would save the trouble of running elsewhere to pick up the goods, and perhaps he could even probe their strength while he was at it.

"I'll choose the Yongan City Awakened Association," Lu Yu clicked confirm.

For Cultivation Method items, one could choose the digital version or both the digital and paper versions; Lu Yu chose the former.

Because according to the prompt, the Association would send the Cultivation Methods to his email as attachments within half an hour.

And the physical item purchased, the Cloud Jade Fruit, would be delivered within a day.

In fact, only ten minutes later, Lu Yu received an email from headquarters.

The attachment was a compressed file of several dozen gigabytes. After decompressing it, several folders appeared, categorized by fist techniques, leg techniques, and so on.

Lu Yu opened the fist technique folder, and inside were dozens of sub-folders, like nesting dolls.

He clicked on a folder named Jingang Fist to see the specific content. There were PDF documents, teaching videos, and a text document marked "Notes."

"Reading all of this is truly a massive project," Lu Yu said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

Fortunately, he had plenty of time now, so he simply started reading from the Jingang Fist.

One minute passed, ten minutes passed, an hour passed, and Lu Yu remained immersed in his study.

After nearly three hours, he had finally finished browsing through all one hundred-plus martial arts Cultivation Methods.

At this time, the skill bar was densely packed with countless skills, dazzling to the eye.

Located at the very top was the Emperor's Qi-Gazing Art, worth 5,000 points.

Lu Yu checked it impatiently; he was desperate to know what conditions were required to complete this martial art.

【Emperor's Qi-Gazing Art: Not Even a Clue】

【Current completion: 16%.】

【Completion conditions: 1. Mental Power reaches 10,000 points; 2. Heaven-Man Induction Art at Consummation】

【Completion conditions not yet met.】

"Heaven-Man Induction Art?" Lu Yu was so pleasantly surprised he didn't know what to do.

The Emperor's Qi-Gazing Art has always had the reputation of "The Emperor gazes at Qi, killing with a laugh."

He had originally thought that for such a powerful Cultivation Method, the conditions for completion would surely be extremely harsh.

Who could have imagined that such a coincidence would exist in this world.

Condition one, he had already fulfilled long ago. And condition two was not a difficult matter either, because he already possessed the complete version of the Heaven-Man Induction Art!