Chapter 99: Don't Speak Recklessly

Seeing that the sky was growing dark and a feeling of hunger was coming from his stomach, Lu Yu left his pack behind, intending to go back to eat dinner first before returning later to study the Basic Blade Technique.

After returning from Zhou Family Fort tomorrow, he would start practicing the Basic Movement Technique. He would strive to complete the "Shadowless Quick Blade" and "Water-Walking Lightness Skill" as soon as possible.

Of course, the most important Arrow Technique could not be neglected either; he had to persist in practicing it every day.

He had a hunch that the new trait for the Basic Archery was about to be unlocked. Naturally, the "Taiji Fist" and "Phantom Arrow Technique" also needed to be improved.

"It feels like the Experience Value is far from enough," Lu Yu said, looking at his attribute panel. Come to think of it, he had been worried throughout the journey and only now had the time to look at the changes in his attributes.

Realm: Flesh Refining Chuji

Level: 9

Constitution: 92.13

Strength: 79.50

Agility: 45.33

Spirit: 17.15

Potential Point: 68

Experience Value: 560

"There are actually 560 points of Experience Value?" Lu Yu was truly quite surprised; he had originally thought there would be two or three hundred at most.

After checking the detailed information, he understood immediately.

It turned out that the strength of this group of horse bandits was at least Body Tempering First Layer, with each person providing 10 to 20 points of Experience Value. Among them, nearly five or six were at the Body Tempering Second Layer realm, each giving 20 to 30 points of Experience Value, and that bald man, being at the Body Tempering Third Layer, had actually given a full 43 points of Experience Value!

"I didn't expect these horse bandits to not only provide a lot of money but also such abundant Experience Value," Lu Yu thought to himself.

He felt not the slightest guilt for killing this group of horse bandits. He even thought about specifically hunting horse bandits once he became stronger.

He continued looking up and discovered that the growth rate of his Potential Points had increased, changing from the previous 7 points per day to 10 points per day. This was within his expectations, after all, his realm had improved. If he were to advance from the Flesh Refining Chuji to the middle and late stages, the growth rate should become even faster.

It was just that, with the requirement of 200 Potential Points to improve an attribute once, this growth rate seemed somewhat insignificant.

If he wanted to improve his attributes quickly, it seemed he would have to obtain more Experience Value.

"Constitution 92, Strength 79, Agility 45, Spirit 17."

"This Mental Attribute is just too low," Lu Yu couldn't help but complain.

Although 17 points of Mental Attribute was almost double that of an ordinary person, compared to his Constitution attribute which was nearing 100 points, it was simply unwatchable.

"Since I'm going to Zhou Family Fort tomorrow, I might as well ask that old man if there are any Secret Manuals for improving Mental Power. If I have to fight against Awakened who are good at mind control in the future, having a Mental Attribute that is too low is not a good thing. Wait."

He suddenly sensed something was wrong, his gaze fixed tightly on the Constitution attribute.

It was too wrong!

He clearly remembered that when he set off from the Zhai, his Constitution attribute was 69, almost reaching 70 points. Even calculating based on 70 points, one breakthrough plus one strengthening should only be around 85 points; how could it have suddenly increased by 7 points?

"Could it be that the rate of improvement has increased?" Lu Yu's heart stirred, and he hurriedly looked at the previous notification messages. Upon seeing this, he couldn't help but gasp.

That was correct.

When breaking through, all attributes increased by 15%, instead of the previous 10%. After the breakthrough, the improvement brought by strengthening the body also changed to 15%, no longer 10%.

A conclusion was ready to emerge: the higher the realm, the greater the attribute improvement brought by strengthening the body.

"It seems that suppressing one's realm is not necessarily a good thing," he scratched his head.

There was no doubt that as the Body Strengthening Level became higher and higher, the Potential Points required for future improvements would also become more and more.

Naturally, the higher the attribute improved by a unit quantity of Potential Points, the more cost-effective it was. In this way, it seemed the higher the realm, the better.

But to break through a realm, one's attribute points needed to reach a certain threshold.

Currently, besides strengthening the body, the main way to improve attributes was to practice martial arts Cultivation Methods.

Naturally, the more one practiced, the better.

Basic Martial Arts relied on diligent practice, while Advanced Martial Arts might require spending more resources.

"In the future, when I'm tired from practicing, I'll just wait for my physical strength to recover slowly; otherwise, it feels a bit wasteful. Improving attributes through practicing martial arts is the most reliable method," Lu Yu muttered in a low voice. Of course, when encountering danger, he would still have to use Potential Points if necessary.

The sun gradually set behind the western mountains, darkness enveloped the earth, the gates of Zhou Family Fort were tightly shut, and the outside was empty, with not a single person to be seen.

However, the shops and restaurants inside the fort were still operating as usual, though there were guards patrolling everywhere. They would stop passersby from time to time to check and verify their identities.

At this moment, three or five men dressed in white training uniforms walked out of the Hailong Martial Arts Hall.

They were all robust in build and vigorous in blood and Qi; passersby would avoid them from afar, their eyes revealing deep envy.

Because this Hailong Martial Arts Hall was not a place just anyone could enter; here, one could learn truly practical martial arts, allowing people to become Martial Artists with strength like an ox.

Of course, the corresponding fees were also extremely high, so high that even these few men who walked out of the martial arts hall were complaining incessantly.

"It's not even half a month into this month, and the money I got from selling those five or six Wasteland Rabbits is already spent. There's still more than half a month left, how am I supposed to get through it?" the man on the far left said with a look of wanting to cry.

"How much money can six Wasteland Rabbits sell for? Not even two yuan per catty, at most six hundred yuan. Last time I caught a three-hundred-catty Horned Horse and sold it for over a thousand, and by today, only a few hundred are left. It's estimated that even surviving this month is precarious."

"The food in our martial arts hall is also too expensive; a regular set meal is thirty yuan per meal, a medium one is fifty, and the best one is one hundred. Who would want to choose the worst one? You have to choose at least a medium one, right?"

"Do you guys think the food in our martial arts hall is really worth that much money?"

Suddenly, someone raised such a question.

The crowd, who were discussing animatedly, suddenly fell silent, each of them looking around vigilantly before looking together at the person who had just spoken.

"Brother Su, don't talk nonsense like this; if the Senior Martial Brother happens to hear it, he'll definitely kick you out of the martial arts hall."

"That's right, our Zhou Family Fort only has this one martial arts hall; it's impossible to go anywhere else to learn authentic Fist Technique."

"I heard that the medicinal diet is the Master's exclusive formula, which requires a lot of precious medicinal herbs and Fierce Beast Meat, which is why it sells so expensively. Look at that most regular set meal; there is no medicinal diet in it at all."

"Yes, yes, yes, the best set meal that costs one hundred yuan per meal, I don't know how much better the effect is. Look at the Second Senior Martial Brother, he's about the same age as us and is already a Martial Artist of the Refining Flesh Realm; he can now go hunt Intermediate-level Fierce Beasts single-handedly!"

Su Jie laughed upon hearing this and said, "I was just joking with you brothers; if it were someone I wasn't close with, I wouldn't even say it."

"Hahaha." Everyone laughed.