Chapter 75: Chapter 72 Buying Martial Arts_1
Shen Yinuo didn’t rush to sell the mutated heart meat right away. Instead, she killed an Ironclad Lizard and started cooking martial food.
As she had just broken through a limit, she was in the period of rapid improvement. Selling the mutated heart meat would inevitably pose risks. She needed to elevate her strength to its peak state.
Ten days later, Shen Yinuo left with the mutated heart meat. However, she came back just five days later, the mutated heart meat she took with her was nowhere to be found.
"Hey, these are the silver tickets I got from selling the mutated heart meat. Its total weight was sixteen catties, and it netted 190,000 silver taels. You previously bought auxiliary materials for me costing 20,000 silver taels, take this to cover that."
Shen Yinuo opened a bundle, revealing a thick stack of silver tickets. She first took out twenty thousand and handed them to Lu Yan.
"No need, let’s just split the 190,000 evenly."
Lu Yan said.
Selling sixteen catties of mutated heart meat in one go is not easy - the process probably involved many dangers.
If it were up to Lu Yan, he also would not have been able to sell sixteen catties of mutated heart meat all together.
After these incidents, he had come to accept Shen Yinuo.
He never haggled over every cent with friends.
Of course, another thing was that although Shen Yinuo’s background was mysterious, she definitely had a significant identity. Making an acquaintance first could only be a good thing.
"You’re the one who said it, don’t blame me for taking advantage of you."
Shen Yinuo smiled and her eyes narrowed into thin slits as she divided the 190,000 silver pieces into two, 95,000 for each person.
Feeling the thick stack of silver tickets in his chest, Lu Yan felt extremely reassured.
With the amount he had left over previously, he now had nearly 120,000 silver taels, which was enough to buy three portions of mutated nine-section heart meat.
If used to purchase martial food, even if he bought ten catties of dried martial food every day, he could still sustain himself for more than a year.
Even the direct descendants of feudal lords wouldn’t be able to squander away ten catties of dried martial food every day.
Additionally, with Shen Yinuo helping him to cook martial food for a year, if they shared the costs, it would not be a problem to use it for two years.
Of course, Lu Yan did not plan to use all these silver taels to buy martial food.
His battle with Ge’s Martial Marquis this time made Lu Yan clearly realize the true gap between him and a Martial Marquis.
In a short time, he could not possibly breakthrough to the level of a Martial Marquis. He could only enhance his power from other aspects to make up for this gap.
And that was martial arts.
His biggest advantage was martial arts, so he needed to accumulate more.
If three or four techniques didn’t work, then try five or six, or even ten.
As long as he had enough martial arts, the gap between him and a Martial Marquis would gradually decrease.
Therefore, he planned to purchase some second-rate martial arts.
Of course, there are also subtleties when buying martial arts. Lu Yan returned home and began to summarize and plan.
Currently, he had mastered the following second-rate martial arts to the level of the Unity of Man and Martial Arts: Gale Hand, Antelope Hand, Vajra Body, and Broken Sky Blade.
In addition, Tyrant’s Spade was not far from reaching that level as well.
"If second-rate martial arts can be merged into a first-rate one, then how can they be merged, and how many techniques are needed for it?"
Lu Yan pondered this question again.
Leaving aside how many techniques were needed for merging, he felt that some martial arts were probably difficult to merge with others.
For instance, Broken Sky Blade and the other techniques.
How could weapon techniques be merged with boxing and kicking techniques? What could they be merged into?
Theoretically, it didn’t make sense.
He believed that the function of the Dao Book was reasonable.
Take the Iron Thread Fist, Shattering Stone Palm, and the Liuhe Kick as an example. When they combined into Gale Hand, the meridians of hands and feet were connected by twelve main meridians, using feet to exert force and finally infusing it into both fists. It was totally feasible and conformed to the principles of martial arts.
The same principle applied to Antelope Hand.
Even boxing and kicking martial arts could be combined with Vajra Body.
However, it wasn’t easy to merge boxing and kicking with weaponry.
And between weapons, it was even more difficult to merge.
How could the Broken Sky Blade and the Tyrant’s Spade be merged? What would the merged martial art look like?
Cook with a blade? Chop someone with a spatula?
If they were all blade techniques, then it shouldn’t be difficult to merge them.
Lu Yan carefully thought and analyzed, and finally decided that the martial arts he would buy in the future should lean more towards boxing and kicking and hardness training.
If the quantity was enough, it might be able to merge into a first-rate martial art.
Of course, to buy second-rate martial arts, he couldn’t do it in Changfeng City.
In reality, the number of second-rate martial arts available for purchase in Changfeng City was extremely limited.
Lu Yan decided to go to Baicao City.
Being the city of a Martial Grandmaster, its prosperity couldn’t be compared to Changfeng City. Although Baicao City mainly sold various spirit medicines, when one industry thrived, other industries flourish as a result.
Other industries were also much stronger than those in Changfeng City.
He took the opportunity to buy a battle knife, a knife that could withstand bone strength without shattering.
...
Two days later.
Lu Yan arrived in Baicao City for the second time. Compared to his last visit, he had transformed into a man in his forties.
With just a little inquiry, he found the address of the largest commerce association and weapon shop in Baicao City.
The Baicao Commerce Association, the name makes it obvious who the person behind it is.
Baicao Pavilion mainly deals with aiding martial food with spiritual medicine. As for the Baicao Commerce Association, they deal in more diverse products, including martial arts, weapons, martial food, alien beast meat, and various materials.
As soon as Lu Yan mentioned that he wanted to buy martial arts, a shrewd middle-aged man came to serve him and two beautiful young women served tea and water.
Martial arts are not cheap.
"My name is Li Shuo. I wonder what kind of martial arts the guest needs? Although the Baicao Commerce Association does not have first-rate martial arts, it has collected plenty of second-rate and third-rate martial arts, surpassing one hundred, including more than thirty second-rate and over seventy third-rate martial arts," the shrewd middle-aged man introduced.
"Either boxing and kicking types, or toughness ones, as long as they are suitable, I can buy several," Lu Yan said.
He expected that he wouldn’t be able to buy first-rate martial arts.
Because second and third-rate martial arts can be sold without cost, copied, and constantly generate wealth.
But not first-rate martial arts. Without the Divine Intent Diagram, one cannot comprehend first-rate martial arts. And if one were to sell it, they would have to sell the Divine Intent Diagram along with it.
This is a one-time deal, and no Feudal Lords would be willing to do so.
Even the Master Level Feudal Lords, who have more than one first-rate martial arts, would not be willing to sell it.
Even if there are some first-rate martial arts appearing in the market occasionally, the price will be skyrocketed to a terrifying extent.
Li Shuo’s eyes brightened, and he said with an even more polite attitude: "Please, follow me, guest."
The four of them went upstairs and arrived in a reception room on the fourth floor.
"Please take a seat, I will go get the martial arts catalogue for you to browse and choose from. You two, please take good care of our esteemed guest," said Li Shuo before he hurried away.
Lu Yan sat on a spacious chair. Two beautiful women in slit dresses, revealing their white thighs, sat on either side of him, serving him tea and water.
Lu Yan’s hands naturally placed themselves on the women’s thighs.
Cool and tender!
Especially the woman on the right, who was even more bold and proactive, leaning hard against Lu Yan.
Lu Yan didn’t refuse her advances.
Whether on purpose or not, Li Shuo took a while before he came over with a thick catalogue, saying with a smile: "Guest, this catalogue contains detailed introductions to over a hundred types of martial arts, you can take a look and see which one you want to choose. Once you have made a choice, I’ll go get the secret manuscript."
Lu Yan took it and began to browse.
He quickly skimmed over the third-rate martial arts.
Golden Flame Hand, Blood-Drinking Axe, Sea-wave Palm, Hurricane Fist, Raging Wind Blade, Flowing Cloud Eighteen Swords...
He flipped through various second-rate martial arts, but the ones with ordinary power didn’t catch Lu Yan’s attention.
Suddenly, Lu Yan’s eyes brightened.
Wind Chasing Step, a second-rate martial art. Once mastered, the body becomes light and nimble. When perfected, the speed is like the wind, fast enough to chase the wind.
He decided on this one.
The step and speed martial arts he had previously cultivated were only the Antelope Kick, and the Liuhe Kick, which only counted as half, were also only third-rate martial arts. After practicing them to Unity of Man and Martial Arts, their power was indeed impressive and had been quite useful before, but they left much to be desired when it came to the Martial Marquis level.
The Wind Chasing Step was perfect for him.
"How much does this Wind Chasing Step cost in silver taels?" Lu Yan asked.
"Generally, boxing and kicking types are a bit cheaper, light body maneuver and weapon types are more expensive, and defensive toughness types are the most costly."
"The Wind Chasing Step, since it’s of the light body maneuver category, costs four thousand silver taels," Li Shuo said.
"You sure know how to do business," Lu Yan said, secretly astonished by the price.
This could be sold limitless times, and yet the price was so high.
"If you buy several items, I can give you a discount," Li Shuo said with a ingratiating smile.
"Just write it down for now," Lu Yan nodded, continuing to browse.
He later chose a second-rate boxing martial art, Vajra Fist. Judging by the name and the description, it seemed to have the same origin as Vajra Body; once cultivated, the two should complement each other.
