Chapter 259: Chapter 234 - Third-level Master_1
"Although it can’t compete with Lingkong Xudu, it’s not far off. When my cultivation level improves, and my inner strength becomes more profound, it’s not impossible to be like those top-notch True Body Realm fighters, stepping in the air like stepping on water."
Lu Yan’s eyes were bright, full of expectation.
"This stepping method, let’s call it Void Steps."
Lu Yan murmured to himself.
Suddenly, the word on the Martial Arts Avatar changed to: Top Martial Arts, Void Steps, Unity of Man and Martial Arts.
"Next, I can take it easy on martial arts and focus on improving my cultivation level."
Lu Yan pondered.
Now, he already has five top-notch martial arts, all achieving the Unity of Man and Martial Arts.
Specifically, Knife Technique, Jiu Jie Knife.
Body Refining Martial Arts, Divine Jiao Gold Body.
Palm technique, Cold Magic Palm.
Archery, Thunder Nine Sounds.
Speed class martial arts, Void Steps.
You could say he has no weaknesses, a true hexagonal warrior.
His martial arts are more than enough for now.
Except for the freak Wang Tianyu, it’s very difficult for anyone else to refine top-notch martial arts to the Unity of Man and Martial Arts level at the Master Realm.
Returning to the Hidden Dragon Camp, Lu Yan went to the Merit Hall and first exchanged for ninety-three level Martial Pills.
Together with ten additional ones awarded monthly, seven from selling the Seeking Martial Opportunity, and twenty pounds of Martial Food a day, it’s enough.
He eats one Martial Pill every day, along with twenty pounds of Martial Food, his cultivation level rapidly improves.
In two months, his newly cultivated five inner strengths caught up with the previous sixteen.
Next, the twenty-one inner strengths advanced together.
Of course, cultivating twenty-one inner strengths at the same time requires a terrifying amount of resources.
Thus, Lu Yan spent another four months and finally increased his cultivation level to the peak of the Second-rank Master.
The cost was the ninety Martial Pills he had previously exchanged, all were consumed.
He straightforwardly exchanged all of his remaining hundred Merit Points for three-level Martial Pills.
Inside the practice room, he sat cross-legged, his aura reaching a peak, preparing to break through to the Third-level Master.
"Next, which organ should I cultivate?"
Lu Yan pondered.
In the Master Realm, the only time you have to choose the heart is when you first breakthrough to the Master level.
After the heart, there’s no set order in which organ to cultivate first.
Because the heart connects with the other four organs, you can choose whichever one you want to cultivate first, it doesn’t necessarily have to be in the order of heart, liver, spleen, lung, and kidney.
For example, if an Internal God-man had special lung or kidney, he could choose to cultivate the special organ first when breaking through the Second-rank Master.
"Well, I’m not an Internal God-man anyway, I can choose whichever to cultivate first. Let’s follow the order and cultivate the spleen and stomach first, it can increase my digestive ability."
Making the decision, Lu Yan mobilized his inner strength to surge towards his spleen and stomach.
Lu Yan’s spleen and stomach began to pulse rhythmically, like an elastic balloon.
Soon after, a dark vortex appeared above the spleen and stomach, swallowing the twenty-one inner strengths. When the distinct inner strengths gushed out afterward, they underwent a drastic change, each inner strength stronger and more vigorous than before by several times.
He spread out the inner strengths, permeating his whole body.
Lu Yan’s body underwent a transformation.
Flesh, bones, membranes, along with internal organs, all steadily strengthened.
Half a day later, the transformation ended, and Lu Yan completely stepped into the Third-level Master.
Feeling the twenty-one inner strengths flowing between his body and organs like mighty rivers, Lu Yan felt that he was full of power.
He felt that with one punch, he could blow up a large mountain.
Of course, this was an illusion due to the rapid increase in strength in a short period of time.
"I wonder if with my current strength, I could enter the Hidden Dragon List."
Lu Yan thought carefully, silently comparing himself with the expert at the bottom of the Hidden Dragon List.
Those who can enter the Hidden Dragon List usually have strong cultivation levels, all at the Fifth-level Master realm, possessing at least seven inner strengths, and their martial arts studies wouldn’t be bad either.
Only talking about inner strength, he was surely inferior.
But if he fully displayed all kinds of top-notch martial arts, he might not necessarily lose a fight.
Of course, these are merely thoughts, he won’t resort to all means to dispute the ranking, revealing all his secrets.
How long has he joined the Hidden Dragon camp? How old is he that he has already mastered twenty-one inner strengths and achieved Unity of Man and Martial Arts in several top-notch martial arts? That’s too shocking.
Although Xiang Chongyang said not to be low-key and the better his performance, the more attention and resources he would receive. But this is under the premise that he doesn’t possess the potential of a King’s True Body. If he does have the potential of a King’s True Body, he needs to remain low-key, as he would attract the attention of competing forces of Mingwang Mansion and maybe even get assassinated.
If he reveals all his techniques, even if Mingwang Mansion can tolerate him and actively cultivate him, other powerful feudal princes won’t tolerate him.
There are seventeen feudal princes on par with Mingwang Mansion.
The risk is too high.
Low-key is the way to go.
He thought about what he could reveal and what he shouldn’t reveal.
He can display his genius but it can’t be too exaggerated.
Finally, Lu Yan decided to wait till he reaches the Fourth-level Master before he goes to dispute the ranking.
By the time he reaches the Fourth-level Master, it would be a few years later. Then, he could reveal his Unity of Man and Martial Arts Cold Magic Palm, after all, he had cultivated Cold Magic Palm a long time ago. Even if others think he cultivated it for twenty or thirty years and only recently achieved Unity of Man and Martial Arts, it would be impressive enough without being too exaggerated.
Even Divine Jiao Gold Body, he could reveal it partly.
No one knows how many years he had cultivated it.
And Thunder Nine Sounds, he could reveal parts of it too.
This kind of performance wouldn’t be too outrageous.
Even after another ten or eight years, he could reveal his twenty-one inner strengths and compete for the top three positions on the Hidden Dragon List.
In one sentence, he can show potential comparable to Wang Tianyu, Shang Wuyang, and others, but he can’t outperform them by a large margin.
Having worked through this, he no longer agonized over it, and instead focused on cultivation without bothering about the Hidden Dragon List.
In a blink of an eye, another two months passed.
He had been in the Hidden Dragon Camp for a year and a half now.
Lately, Lu Yan began to feel... exceptionally idle.
Now, he didn’t need to practice martial arts. He just needed to eat martial food every day to improve his cultivation level.
As he stepped into the third-level master, opening up the source of his spleen and stomach, his digestive abilities skyrocketed.
He could digest twenty pounds of martial food each day within just a few hours.
As for the martial pills, he didn’t need half a day anymore. Instead, he could refine them all in a few hours.
If he had enough martial pills, refining five in a day was nothing to him.
As a result, he had nothing to do for most of the day.
In response to this, Lu Yan decided to go back to his ’old line of work’, as a martial chef.
The saying goes - one can never learn too much.
Anyway, as long as one had money in Mingwang City, one could buy anything, including recipes.
Lu Yan changed into his daily clothes, left the Hidden Dragon Camp, changed his appearance using shape-shifting technique in an unpopulated area, and came to the same merchant where he bought a tree stump containing immortal power last time.
Once again, he communicated with Dao Book, and indeed, there were gains.
Inside the merchants, there were several antiques, which were Dao food.
Of course, the amount of energy they contained couldn’t be compared to the tree stump he bought last time, let alone immortal bones. They were just ordinary Dao food.
But even ordinary Dao food was not to be missed.
"Sir, how can I assist you?"
Again, he was received by a young and pretty girl.
"I’d like to buy a Level 2 martial food recipe book."
Said Lu Yan.
"Oh, our merchant group has dozens of Level 2 martial food recipes. Which one do you need, or would you like a general catalog to look at?"
The pretty girl replied.
"Sounds good, let me see it."
Lu Yan nodded.
Very soon, the pretty girl handed over a thick book to Lu Yan.
The book was opened.
Inside were brief introductions to various Level 2 martial foods.
Coral beef, cloud pork feet, orchid jade dragon, golden needle silver bud...
The names of each martial food came into view. Their names were much more artistic than Yinuo lizard meat...
After looking through, Lu Yan finally chose Coral Beef.
In fact, it didn’t matter which recipe he picked. Lu Yan mainly bought it to practice his martial art of cooking, and Coral Beef just happened to have easily purchasable ingredients.
The main ingredient of Coral Beef is an alien beast called Fire Cow, which many feudal lords have bred. The supplemental spiritual medicine ingredients were also common and not obscure.
A level 2 martial food recipe was much more expensive than second-rate martial arts, costing twelve thousand silvers.
"Your shop has some interesting antiques. I also have a fondness for collecting antiques. How much for this and this?"
Lu Yan walked to the shelf selling the antiques and casually picked a few items.
Some were Dao food, and some were not.
The pretty girl introduced the items.
The items’ prices varied; the cheap ones were a few hundred silvers, and the expensive ones were in the thousands.
Now, this amount of money didn’t trouble Lu Yan.
In the end, Lu Yan picked three items, all of which were Dao food, spending around twelve thousand silvers.
Upon leaving the store, Lu Yan felt refreshed.
Then he went to the Beast Market and Spirit Medicine Market separately and bought a batch of Fire Cow meat and supplemental spiritual medicines for the Coral Beef.
Upon returning to the Hidden Dragon Camp, after placing the recipe book, Dao food, and martial food ingredients in the right place, Lu Yan took a walk down the street.
He intended to collect more Dao food.
Anyway, the more Dao food, the better.
If he were to practice new martial arts in the future, he would definitely need them.
Also, he needed to improve his entrance level martial food and refine his martial food avatar.
Communicating with the Dao Book, the book emitted various emotions of desire. Dao food existed in all directions, but unfortunately, most of the Dao food was located in the mansions of big shots or in heavily guarded areas of the Mansion of King Ming and were not within his reach.
After walking past several long streets, Lu Yan’s eyes brightened and he stopped in front of a shop.
The shop specialized in buying and selling antiques.
Inside this shop, Lu Yan sensed the presence of Dao food.
He entered the shop without showing any signs of excitement.
The shop was large and dozens of shelves were neatly arranged.
On the shelves were a dazzling array of antiques of all types, with a total number no less than ten thousand at a glance.
There were even some broken and ancient weapons.
The shop was quiet and empty of customers.
Through the Dao Book, Lu Yan sensed seven Dao foods.
Among them, one item elicited a strong reaction from the Dao Book, as strong as that of ten immortal bones worth of merit points.
"Shopkeeper, how much for this antique?"
Lu Yan casually picked up a black iron bowl with a notch in it and asked.
"The customer has a good eye. This is an antique from the ancient times, discovered from some ancient ruins. Perhaps it’s a rare treasure. Whoever buys it profits."
The shopkeeper, who was chubby and looked shrewd, explained.
"How many silvers?"
"Fifty thousand silvers."
The shopkeeper stretched out five fingers.
