Chapter 147 - Great Wisdom (3 more - s! Seeking monthly pass!)

When it comes time for the same match-up,others unleash swords with the Ten Directions Sword Technique, shaking all directions!

And you? Bright-eyed and teary!

Tears pouring down like rain, right.

Insanity, I tell you!

Thinking this through,

Fang Yu could understand why these Martial Arts were categorized as unconventional Martial Techniques.

Despite their remarkable effectiveness, they were still cast aside in a corner, ignored by everyone.

This stuff, it’s only suitable for players!

Fang Yu even suspected that this was created specifically for players.

But on second thought,

if someone is willing to create a complete set of accompanying Martial Arts for these odd techniques, couldn’t these unconventional techniques also become the main path?

Wait a minute!

Isn’t this just a youthful beggar version of the Lin Family’s Acid Blood Technique?

Fang Yu suddenly got the taste of it.

The Lin Family’s unique Acid Blood Technique, after all, isn’t much different from these unconventional techniques.

But for the Acid Blood Technique, the Lin Family developed a complete Martial Arts system and paired it with unique medicinal supplements.

Centering on the Acid Blood Technique, they expanded it in all directions and safeguarded it, ultimately forming an incredibly powerful unique mastery.

Makes sense, so that’s how it is!

Fang Yu suddenly felt like he struck gold, and his fondness for these unconventional techniques grew.

But picking out the useful ones was still quite difficult.

Because most of them are just like Runmudong - strange and meaningless techniques.

For example, making a certain finger grow very long requires not a short amount of time to cultivate, and it’s just the finger getting longer without any other amplifying effects.

What’s the use of such trash techniques?

If you practice fingertip techniques, you might want to match it with this to extend your attack range.

But if you don’t practice fingertip techniques, why deform your body with this? Absolute garbage.

Continuing the search.

Fang Yu discovered that unconventional techniques weren’t as wonderful as he thought.

It’s like panning for gold in a pile of excrement; the truly useful and good ones are actually quite rare.

Among these few usable unconventional techniques, ones that match his situation and could benefit him were even rarer.

Just when Fang Yu was about to give up and settle for some mediocre unconventional techniques,

suddenly, a secret manual caught his eye.

"Ice Blood Explosion" (Incomplete)

That’s right.

Clearly stated on the secret manual as incomplete by someone else.

But Fang Yu’s interest was piqued.

Because he realized something.

That is, for a player who just needs to level up, incomplete Martial Arts and complete Martial Arts seem to have no difference.

Once you get past the initial proficiency stage, what follows doesn’t depend on whether the manual is incomplete or not, it’s up to my Shen Lan!

Flipping through "Ice Blood Explosion."

At an intermediate level of the Flower Rank.

The cultivation effect is to lower the temperature of one’s blood, turning it into things like Ice Blades ready to attack at any moment.

Of course, if you want to open your stomach, spray out your blood, freeze it into ice, and scatter it as a Hidden Weapon, that’s also possible.

But this kind of operation, except for someone like himself with self-healing capabilities, seems like no one else could play around with it.

Since only the first few pages can be seen, it’s unclear where the manual is incomplete.

But in the introduction, it indeed specifies that this is an incomplete manual, with significant missing content in the latter part, and one should consider carefully before trading.

Who cares about that!

With my Shen Lan here, an incomplete manual is as good as complete!

I’ll give a complete life to you, the incomplete secret manual!

The more he thought about it, the more feasible Fang Yu found this approach.

His eyes lit up, and he changed his strategy once again.

Suddenly, it wasn’t important whether it was an unconventional technique or not; what mattered was whether the damn thing was incomplete.

Hide well now.

Poor incomplete secret manuals, you wouldn’t want someone to fix your incomplete parts, would you?

Fang Yu excitedly continued to search.

But disappointingly, the number of incomplete secret manuals wasn’t that great.

After all, this is the Martial Hall of the Foolish Underworld, and the audience they face are all members of the Underworld who risk their lives every day for accomplishments.

If you’re stuffing so much trash and incomplete manuals in there, isn’t that just disgusting?

Only a few secret manuals of decent quality, or like fish that slipped through the net, were reluctantly found by Fang Yu.

Unfortunately, either they didn’t suit Fang Yu’s circumstances, or they also required preliminary cultivation techniques.

Even more absurdly, the preliminary techniques required by these secret manuals weren’t even available in the cabinets surrounding them.

This meant that either the Martial Hall didn’t have the preliminary techniques at all, or one would have to search through the countless cabinets, flipping through them one by one to find the martial arts secret manuals needed by the fragments.

The amount of work was simply unspeakable.

Another method would be to ask the on-duty staff for help with the search, but such services weren’t free and a corresponding price in silver taels or merit points would need to be paid for the transaction.

After searching in such a large circle, Fang Yu also felt a bit tired.

And his merit points might not necessarily be enough to exchange for many secret manuals.

A single demon, breaking through the heavens, would probably only be worth a point or two in merit, right?

Although the exchange rate was unknown, a point or two of merit, breaking through the heavens, might only get you two secret manuals.

Which secret manual to choose then?

Fang Yu was a bit torn.

"Ice Blood Explosion" should be given top priority.

This thing, mid-tier for a Floral Rank, no prerequisites, and it could also be tested to see if one could take advantage of the incomplete versions; if possible, it must be acquired.

But if there weren’t enough merit points, it couldn’t be exchanged.

Then other cultivation techniques would have to be considered.

This was quite frustrating.

Because as far as other cultivation techniques were concerned, they all seemed rather on par at the moment.

Only "Two-Heart Lock" made Fang Yu’s eyes light up.

But the cultivation requirements were still stringent, and it also represented a selection for the dual cultivation partner.

Fang Yu wanted to let his second sister cultivate it, but he didn’t know about her martial arts aptitude.

After all, in all these years, no one in the family had ever considered having the second sister learn martial arts.

Naturally, there was also no way to know about her aptitude.

Fang Yu felt that this was still something worth trying.

Especially since he was now a teng, with a monthly salary ensuring living expenses, he naturally had the conditions to give his second sister more choices and to try more.

"Two-Heart Lock" was also held in his hands, and together with Ice Blood Explosion, there were two martial arts techniques available for selection.

But it still wasn’t enough.

If the points were enough to exchange for a "Two-Heart Lock" but not for "Blizzard," then one would have to come back again.

After thinking about it, Fang Yu simply carried all the secret manuals he was interested in before descending the stairs.

The first floor was slightly more bustling than the second floor.

At least there was some semblance of vitality.

For instance, just as Fang Yu had descended the stairs, he saw someone standing at the counter, looking indecisive.

Hmm, don’t know him.

His health also seems perfectly normal.

Fang Yu didn’t pay much more attention to him.

But that person was a bit startled at the sight of Fang Yu and quickly greeted him with respect.

"Greetings to the teng."

Oh, I’m a teng!

Fang Yu stopped and nodded slightly.

To be honest, he didn’t feel a trace of reality towards this identity.

After all, other tangs usually had ten underlings at their beck and call, quite prestigious.

While in his case, he was a one-man commander, with nothing at all.

But Fang Yu didn’t care.

Having underlings required merit points.

Instead of wasting merit on that, it was better to use it to cut down a few more people and increase health points.

Speaking of which, Li Qianxuan is a bit outrageous.

He is just a teng, but the number of people under him is not merely ten, but twenty or thirty.

According to the rules, actually only ten people are under Li Qianxuan.

But it doesn’t matter when free people are willing to follow him, so even without an official title, they are actually Li Qianxuan’s underlings.

Though just a teng, due to the noble status of the Li Family, he could achieve the status of almost a hundred households.

That’s privilege.

Envy it as one might, no one cares about it, which implies tacit approval.

In the end, forces like the Foolish Underworld are no match for the Five Great Families.

To compete, one would need to join forces with the Research Demon Mansion and the Pan Sheng Mansion to form one solid front in order to barely challenge the Five Great Families.

Crossing several people, Fang Yu returned to the counter and slapped the secret manuals down.

"Have my merit points been credited?"