Chapter 29: 29 Military Pledge

Ruyi Chamber of Commerce, library.

The youth held the book, but his gaze was fixed on his own panel:

【Add Points: 76 points】

【Cultivation Method】

Fuliu Jin Jin Jin (Yellow Grade Grade C) (0/4) (Not Yet Initiated). Previously, "Tiger Roar Blade" and "White Snake Blade" conflicted, but now "Fuliu Jin Jin Jin" did not conflict with "Black Tortoise Power".

Why? Song Cheng did not quite understand, so he decided to cultivate this cultivation method to Great Completion first.

"60 points, Fuliu Jin Jin Jin, begin diligent cultivation!"

He silently recited in his heart.

With a single thought, the progress of "Fuliu Jin Jin Jin" changed directly from "Not Yet Initiated" to "Completion".

A mysterious feeling surged into his heart.

He sweated like rain, practiced diligently, and relying on his own effort that far exceeded others, he cultivated this new cultivation method step by step.

With the foundation of Black Tortoise Power, he felt that cultivating "Fuliu Jin Jin Jin" was twice as effective with half the effort.

Black Tortoise is the twisting and rotating of two types of Jin.

One pounce, one guard.

The pounce is fast and fierce, a swift and venomous strike, like a poisonous snake hunting in the shadows of the night. To put it plainly, this is a continuous explosion of power, starting from the bubbling well point, governed by the waist, lifted up to the spine, moving from the shoulder to the upper arm, from the upper arm to the elbow, from the elbow to the hand, and from the hand, it can reach the lethal weapon.

Once pounced, the speed is so fast that it far exceeds the imagination of ordinary people. If it is for killing, one strike of the blade, and before others can react or even finish speaking, they are already dead. This is the speed that can only be erupted after the thoracic vertebrae, lumbar vertebrae, and limbs are completely connected.

The guard is from the inside out, firming the body surface.

This is to mobilize the power of flesh and blood to bulge against the skin, making the flesh under the skin like iron and the skin surface like leather armor; even if an ordinary person hacks away with a blade, it will at most leave a white mark.

And Fuliu Jin Jin Jin, compared to "White Snake Pounce" and "Mysterious Turtle Firmness", is a kind of "stretching Jin, vibrating and snapping Jin".

This kind of Jin does not focus on "continuity" or "flesh hardness", but on "tendons".

To put it plainly, ligaments.

Ligaments are like the string of a great bow, capable of unleashing more of the power within the body.

In the process of cultivation, Song Cheng finally began to understand why this "Fuliu Jin Jin Jin" and "Black Tortoise Power" did not conflict.

Because this is essentially a "succession from the same lineage".

The "vibrating and snapping Jin" originates from the latter half of the "White Snake Pounce", just like a poisonous snake "equipped with a rocket booster" pouncing out from the shadows, and in the process of pouncing, the power and speed increase once more.

In the light of the lamp, the youth silently repeated this process in his mind.

Although he lacked experience, this Jin had already reached Completion.

Not only Completion, but a new mutation had occurred.

Song Cheng scanned the panel: 【Cultivation Method】

Xuanwu Fuliu Jin Jin Strength (3 Jin) (Yellow Grade Grade C) (Completion) 【Skill】

Xuanwu Swallows Sparrow (Yellow Grade Grade C) (Blade Technique) (Completion). As the new lineage-inherited Jin merged, his cultivation methods and skills all underwent corresponding changes, as if a new, perfectly fitting block had been added to the original system.

He scanned his own strength again.

The data changed directly from "35~35" without a weapon to "37~37".

The improvement was not much, but it was just like taking another step forward when "at the top of a hundred-foot pole, with nowhere else to go".

Then, another line of information floated up: Cultivation methods are forged a hundred times to reveal their wonders; you have perfected your own power, and your glimpse into a higher realm has advanced a step further.

"Xuanwu Fuliu Jin Jin Strength" has a 4‰ probability of deducing a "Yellow Grade Grade B" cultivation method.

Song Cheng closed the book, put "Fuliu Jin Jin Jin" back on the bookshelf, greeted the old man guarding the library, and then left.

Not long after, Ling'er found him.

"Why did you stop practicing? Is it not working? If it's not working, say so early!" The maid was a bit angry.

Song Cheng smiled: "Miss Ling'er, I am someone who prefers to cultivate in a quiet place. Don't worry, I will definitely be initiated within a month."

"Better be initiated." Ling'er muttered, then suddenly twisted her head in a hurry, causing her two buns to sway, and she stepped forward in her small boots, crowding into Song Cheng's "normal social range", pointing at him and saying, "Put some heart into it!"

Song Cheng asked curiously: "Is there an urgent need for experts?"

Ling'er said speechlessly: "If there's an urgent need for experts, can't we just hire people? What difference does one more expert like you make? Sigh, sigh, forget it, let me tell you... come, come, come." She beckoned, and Song Cheng leaned in.

Ling'er whispered: "This is called having successors, the future is promising.

If others know that my Ruyi Chamber of Commerce has a genius, know that this genius grows very fast, and know that this genius is also a confidant of the Young Miss, wouldn't that be different? The Young Miss said this is part of the plan."

Song Cheng asked curiously: "Am I that rare?"

Ling'er said: "Isn't it because you came out of the countryside? You haven't used resources, understand? It's not that there are no Force Realm Great Accomplishment at seventeen, there are even sixteen-year-olds; I heard there are even younger ones in Zhoucheng, maybe even ten years old.

But to reach this level without resources and without anyone's guidance is truly quite rare.

That's why the Young Miss has such high expectations for you."

Song Cheng said: "Just now I looked at 'Fuliu Jin Jin Jin' and still had some doubts. Are there any other Jin Realm cultivation methods for me to refer to?"

Ling'er said speechlessly: "Do you want to suffer Qi deviation? Different cultivation methods cannot be practiced blindly together; those that can be practiced together are all core secrets of sects."

Song Cheng persisted: "Then how can I see other Jin Realm cultivation methods?"

He was relentless because this concerned his ability to launch stronger cultivation methods sooner.

And in the conversation with the personal maid of the Ruyi Chamber of Commerce's Young Miss, he also understood one point: cultivation methods are truly hard to come by.

Powerful cultivation methods are only available in large sects.

Even the Guard Captain of the Ruyi Chamber of Commerce named Shi Yi was stuck at the Jin Realm because he had no cultivation method.

This shows how rare higher-level cultivation methods are.

Following the normal path, he, Song, would need to hack through thorns and thistles, perform deliberately, try every means, and scheme to enter a large sect.

Then get involved in extremely complex interpersonal relationships, work hard to enter the eyes of those in high positions, then do all kinds of tasks, fight between life and death, obtain the "benevolent favor of those in high positions", and gain the opportunity to consult higher-level cultivation methods.

And after that, he would have to fight desperately to obtain resources.

Because cultivating high-level techniques inevitably requires countless resources.

Without carving out a bloody path, without stepping on the bones of others, and without being schemed against a few times, how could one stand at the heights?

And then, kill, kill, kill all the way, charge, charge, charge, constantly standing at higher positions, killing more people, and competing for techniques and resources in the process of killing.

Hmm. This is the normal path.

However, this path is full of danger, high pressure all the way, and one cannot live a single good day. By then, one wave of trouble after another, matters and enemies will arrive without giving you any room to breathe.

Such a life, he does not want to live.

It is more practical to rely on himself to deduce techniques.

Spending a bit more time is fine; it would be best to be a wealthy man in a peaceful place, slowly deducing techniques in a place where "the highest danger and the strongest enemy in the surrounding environment cannot even hurt a single hair on oneself."

The living environment he, Song Cheng, yearns for has never been "being a Blue Star human in the Three-Body world, then bitterly and desperately trying to catch up with Three-Body technology," but rather "researching mechs, nuclear weapons, droplets, and dual-vector foils in a world of Stone Age primitives, while acting as a primitive himself on the outside."

And to deduce them himself, he needs more techniques of the same level, and he also needs experience.

"Miss Ling'er, I really need a Jin Realm technique."

Song Cheng thought for a moment and said, "How about this, I guarantee that as long as you let me read one more Jin Realm technique, I will only need twenty-nine days to master that Fuliu Jin Jin Jin."

Ling'er was stunned, then immediately rolled her eyes.

Is he joking? This person? Song Cheng said: "Twenty-eight days."

Ling'er showed an impatient expression.

Does he really think he is a genius?

Song Cheng said: "Twenty-seven days."

Ling'er turned to leave.

This person is truly arrogant! Song Cheng said: "Twenty-six days, twenty-six days. If I do not master Fuliu Jin Jin Jin, I am willing to cut off my head and offer it up."

Ling'er:??? Song Cheng gritted his teeth and made a sudden leap: "Twenty days! The Chamber of Commerce needs a genius. And I need to refer to other methods to break through faster. If I don't master it in twenty days, I am willing to cut off my head and offer it up."

Ling'er said: "Stop! How many heads do you have?"

Song Cheng said solemnly: "Please inform the Young Miss that I am serious. Moreover, twenty days will pass quickly; whether I can do it or not, the Young Miss will see very soon."

Ling'er thought for a moment and said: "Alright then, I will tell the Young Miss exactly what you said."

(End of this chapter)