"I can't have my priorities set on short term benefits if I want to be strong, so for now I should go to the town market and see if I can buy a Steller martial cultivation art in these 5.03 gold.....fucking hell, after spending these I won't even have enough to eat. " Fuck it, I'll think about it after getting a good cultivation art."
After planning this he went out of his home and went straight to the town market.
Cloud view town's town market is located in the central square of town which is obviously in the centre of the town. In Central square there is, Residential area of town Lord, Li Chun, Li Chun is the only martial artist to have reached the peak of the houtian realm.
Central square also has a cloud view academy for martial artists, where many younglings of town's wealthy people learn martial arts and how to cultivate but it only teaches basic martial arts and basic breathing and meditation techniques and Ling Chen has already learnt these from his grandfather that is why he didn't join this academy...well truth be told if he joined it he would constantly be bullied that's why his grandfather didn't let him and taught him everything by himself despite being injured, this is one of the reasons his situation worsened. thinking this Ling Chen sighed.
...Town's market...
When Ling Chen arrived at the town's market he saw many people setting their stalls, opening shops and hawking their wares.
" Hey young master comes here and buy this sword it will suit you best. It is a good sword I crafted, buy it only for 50 copper."
" Hey handsome boy, come and buy these clothes. In these, you will shine even more. The price is very reasonable. Come, come..."...Every merchant was trying to sell their items. Ling Chen didn't waste his time wandering around and went straight to 'Newmoon trading alliance's trading firm, where you can purchase anything related to cultivation, martial arts and even furniture etc.
It is said that the 'Newmoon trading alliance' has its trading firm in every major town and city in the country and all over the continent. It has a very terrifying background that is why no matter how strong you are, you can't misbehave in a trading firm but they will treat you like a king if you are wealthy enough to give them a great profit by purchasing their expensive products and strong enough for their respect otherwise they won't care even if you a real king.
This trading firm's building was a three-story building, standing almost 100 meters tall. When Ling Chen entered the firm he saw a middle-aged man with sharp eyes and a pointing nose, dressed in white. Ling Chen went to him and was about to ask when he pointed to another man who was like his servant or assistant.
Ling Chen frowned ' the fuck is wrong with this old man, does he think he is some king to dare and behave like this.' but he didn't say anything because he knew that it was natural for him to treat him like this because he was wearing shabby clothes and looked like a beggar rather than some wealthy person.
He went to that man and asked " shopkeeper I want to buy a Steller cultivation art, may I know the price for it."
The shopkeeper looked at him and said in a cold voice " the cheapest one, right?"
Ling Chen frowned but nodded because he really can only afford something cheap.
"The cheapest one will cost you 10 gold coins. The cheapest Normal cultivation art will cost you 5 gold coins ."
'It's double the price of normal cultivation arts and that is only the cheapest and low-quality one as well' 'Ah' i can't afford it after all.' Ling Chen thought.
" Shopkeeper is there any steller cultivation art worth 5 gold?"
The shopkeeper's voice turned even colder" there aren't any, this is the cheapest one you can get. And do you think steller cultivation art will do you any good?....go away now, I don't have time to waste on you!"Ling Chen didn't say anything and quietly went out of the shop but there was a cold glint flashing in his eyes ' just you wait, old men, I'll make serve me as a servant ' Ling Chen mumbled. He was never one to be humiliated like this, it's just that he wasn't strong enough yet.
Ling Chen continued wandering around, looking around if he can get some good cultivation art in 5 gold but even after 2 hours of going through every stall and every shop, he couldn't find any. He sighed ruefully " without sufficient money I can't even buy a basic cultivation art much less stellar martial cultivation art."....Just when he was about to go home he saw an old man in black clothing, he also had some weapons and ancient-looking scrolls and was signalling him to go there, his hair was white and his face has wrinkles and a sword scar on his face that went from his left eye to his right jaw. He was a terrifying-looking old man, seeing his face Ling Chen shivered but after gulping down he went to him asked politely"Old man, do you need anything?"The old man smiled but his smile was like the opening of a demon's mouth. The old man said"Don't be an afraid young lad. I just look bad, I won't do anything to you."Ling Che
The old man was confused for a moment before he angrily snapped " you bastard!! Do I look like I would have interest in doing something your 'weird' to someone of your age much less you are male...." He then said in a low tone " if you were a mature sexy woman I might be interested." "You pervert" Ling Chen cursed. ' this old man.....thank goodness, I'm not a girl or he might have thought of something weird.' " Cough...Cough!!" The old man coughed for the sake of not making the situation too awkward and said " it's okay.....I will give you my steller cultivation art and in return when the time comes you have to help me with something." Ling Chen nodded but then curiously asked " old man, if I'm not wrong, you're a very strong expert yourself and I don't know if I would be able to, even be as strong as you are now. How would I be of any help to you." The old man smiled " you don't have to worry about that. The art I'm gonna give to is one of best
"PRIMORDIAL STAR GOD'S STELLER ART "this was one of the earliest invented steller cultivation and martial art. It is said that Star God was a pioneer of steller cultivation. When he achieved a terrifying power level where he couldn't find a single opponent capable of challenging him, he ascended to the heavens. Now his cultivation art was with him he might be able to reach the peak of martial arts with it. Thinking this he got excited and wanted to start cultivating right away but first, he had to destroy his previous cultivation. 'I guess it's time to start anew.' he took a deep breath and started destroying and expelling his accumulated Yuan Qi. Destroying one's cultivation isn't easy as it sounds but fortunately, that mysterious old man left the technique of doing it without any risks, but during this period, he will have to endure a lot of pain. Fortunately, he was still in the lower layers of the body tempering realm if he were above the body tempe
Ling Chen rested until dusk. he was feeling better but could feel that due to excessive loss of blood his vitality was somewhat damaged. he thought of using the Vitality grass but without cultivation, he won't be able to refine it completely and its effectiveness would be greatly reduced.Ling Chen took his 5.03 gold and went to buy body tempering pills. these pills help body tempering realm martial artists to accumulate and refine Qi at a faster speed. if one cultivator cultivates using these pills and another doesn't, in case their talent is similar, the former will cultivate almost at double speed compared to the latter.He again went to the Newmoon trading firm and asked " shopkeeper, what is the price of a Body tempering pill? "" 20 silver per pill," he replied.' It's quite expensive but I got no choice but to buy them if I want to cultivate faster' Ling Chen thought. " shopkeeper give me 20 pills."Taking pills and storing them in his
Ling Chen quickly found the tigertoothed boar, it was resting in a cave. " I should lure it out of the cave or I won't be able to utilize my speed in that cave."Ling Chen picked up a small rock and threw it toward the boar's head.'BANG '"Roar "With a bang, it hit on boar's head. It roared angrily and came out of the cave. three Ling Chen standing there he grew even angrier. Previously Ling Chen stole the 'treasure' it was guarding and it had to clash with that troublesome firefox.With a roar, it charged toward Ling Chen and swiped its claw at his head.Ling Chen was quick in reacting, he ducked down to dodge the claw strike, then he struck at the boar's one hind leg with a kick. Boar stumbled and lost his balance, ling then went behind its back and threw consecutive punches on the back of its head.Boom! Boom! Boom!Every punch was like a hammer striking iron. with every punch, the boar woul
''It seems this cultivation technique is quite miraculous, it allowed me to cultivate with the speed on par with the yuan cultivation. If this is the case I won't have to worry that my cultivation speed will be slow and most importantly my cultivation speed will be almost double of other steller cultivators who has the same grade of unique Qi."Ling chen could now fight with most of the mid-grade wild beasts with ease. Most importantly after eating wild beast's meat for a month his body was no longer weak looking, although he didn't gain any muscles but now he looked like a healthy young man. His complexion got even more bright.''This month of training was quite fruitful. Not only did my physic improve but also my cultivation fully stablised at 5th layer body tempering and I feel like I can easily deal with any 6th layer body tempering realm martial artist.""Inhale"He took a deep breath to calm his growing excitement." It is time to go back hom
The young lady looked at him without any reaction but her gaze flickered for a moment. The old man didn't outright kill him, instead, he released his aura and spoke in a cold and imperious tone while pointing with his finger at the corpses" Give me a reason that I shouldn't kill you just like these trash." Ling Chen felt his heart shuddering. But he tried to remain calm and without showing any hint of intimidation, He brought his fists together and spoke respectfully " Venerable old man, I am not an accomplice of this trash. I was just going home but saw them surrounding you guys so I came to see what was happening. I wasn't stalking you or anything like that." The old man squinted his eyes seeing that ling Chen showed no signs of intimidation and could speak without nervousness and remain calm under the influence of his aura with only his 5th layer body tempering realm cultivation. The old man was about to speak when an indifferent voice sounde
" I'm rich! I'm rich! " He almost jumped in excitement. Although it's normal for Houtian realm cultivators to have this much wealth for Ling Chen, it wasn't any less than a treasure trove. After all, he was only 14 years old now and never had this much wealth, so it was normal for him to be this excited.He quickly went through his loot and stored it in his spatial bag. He now had over 3000 gold, 2300 body tempering pills, two jars of Houtian pills which had 40 pills in total. There were also some weapons, but they were very common; only a sword caught his eyes which he found in the spatial bag. It was a three feet long blue sword. It was quite light and had some runes engraved on its blade. He swung the sword around and could feel it cutting through the air without any resistance. It was like a part of his body." I should learn some sword skills, it would increase my combat power exponentially." after swinging the sword around he stored it in the bag. Lastly, h
"Tie mu of Tie clan greets elder." Tie mu came forward and greeted him, but there wasn't much respect shown on his face.Elder nodded his head. Tie mu then glanced at Feng Jiayi and then focused on Ling Chen and spoke in a loud voice, " Ling Chen, open your dog eyes and see my grade of talent and accept your defeat if you don't want to be humiliated even more.Saying this puffed out his chest and put his hand on the stone.After a few seconds, talent crystal glowed with green light. Seeing this, Tie mu burst out laughing " Did you see this, Ling Chen? How are you going to win the bet now? Accept your defeat, give me three kowtows and admit that you are trash compared to me. Hahaha"Ling Chen frowned but didn't retort. Although Green's unique Qi grade was impressive, it wasn't impossible to have. He was pretty sure himself that his talent wasn't any lower than a green grade.Although Ling Chen remained calm, it wasn't the same for Feng Jiayi. She immediately got angry and shouted at ti
Ling Chen hugged and softly said, "Jiayi, don't worry about that. Your big brother Chen will win today, and make him stop bothering you from now onwards." Feng Jiayi was stunned for a moment then her whole face turned red from embarrassment. She struggled for a moment, but Ling Chen didn't let go of her. She then buried her face in his chest and spoke " If Big brother Chen didn't win against him, how would i...live without...seeing...you." She hesitantly finished her sentence." Ohh! You like your big brother this much, eh! I didn't know...hehe," Ling Chen teased and let go of his hold.Feng Jiayi held her head down because she couldn't look into his eyes and spoke, " Big brother Chen you have to win, okay!" " Don't worry. I'll win." Ling Chen spoke. He then thought of something and grinned " If I defeat him, what will I get in return?"Feng Jiayi reddened. She understood what he was hinting at."If Big brother wins, then I...I will give you...a...ki...kiss." Ling Chen was startl
" I only have about two days. Is it possible to learn both human ranked skills in only two days? " Ling Chen wondered.' I shouldn't take the risk and learn only one which is more helpful to raise my combat power. In that case which one should I choose?' Ling Chen had two martial skills; one was a 'Wind sword' skill, and another was an a' Flowing water' skill which was a movement type martial skill. " If I want to beat Tie mu and rank higher than him, I should use this chance to raise my attack power. For that, this 'wind sword' skill is a perfect choice. As for the movement type skill, although it will increase my agility and speed, it won't make much difference where all geniuses compete if I don't have enough firepower to eliminate them."Thinking this, he chose the 'wind sword' skill and started reading its introduction and details.' Wind sword skill is channelling type skill. using this skill, one can manipulate and channel one's Qi into their sword in a complex manner to gath
"Now get out of my way." saying this, Ling then went away." Hehe...now that you agreed to participate in the competition, I'm going to cripple you. If Even after that, Feng Jiayi didn't come to her senses and agree to be my woman, I won't mind killing you outright and have her become my sex toy with force." Tie mu grinned....Ling Chen came home, took a nice bath and slept for some time.' Now that I think about it, after grandfather's death, there is no one to look after this house if I'm out on training or something. I should hire a housekeeper and maids.' Previously they didn't have any servants to take care of their residence because of lack of money but now that started his cultivation journey, there wouldn't be any lack of funds anymore. This confidence wasn't only because of his powerful cultivation of art but also because of his confidence in himself.He then put out a recruitment notice at the front gate of his residence and set the appo
" I'm rich! I'm rich! " He almost jumped in excitement. Although it's normal for Houtian realm cultivators to have this much wealth for Ling Chen, it wasn't any less than a treasure trove. After all, he was only 14 years old now and never had this much wealth, so it was normal for him to be this excited.He quickly went through his loot and stored it in his spatial bag. He now had over 3000 gold, 2300 body tempering pills, two jars of Houtian pills which had 40 pills in total. There were also some weapons, but they were very common; only a sword caught his eyes which he found in the spatial bag. It was a three feet long blue sword. It was quite light and had some runes engraved on its blade. He swung the sword around and could feel it cutting through the air without any resistance. It was like a part of his body." I should learn some sword skills, it would increase my combat power exponentially." after swinging the sword around he stored it in the bag. Lastly, h
The young lady looked at him without any reaction but her gaze flickered for a moment. The old man didn't outright kill him, instead, he released his aura and spoke in a cold and imperious tone while pointing with his finger at the corpses" Give me a reason that I shouldn't kill you just like these trash." Ling Chen felt his heart shuddering. But he tried to remain calm and without showing any hint of intimidation, He brought his fists together and spoke respectfully " Venerable old man, I am not an accomplice of this trash. I was just going home but saw them surrounding you guys so I came to see what was happening. I wasn't stalking you or anything like that." The old man squinted his eyes seeing that ling Chen showed no signs of intimidation and could speak without nervousness and remain calm under the influence of his aura with only his 5th layer body tempering realm cultivation. The old man was about to speak when an indifferent voice sounde
''It seems this cultivation technique is quite miraculous, it allowed me to cultivate with the speed on par with the yuan cultivation. If this is the case I won't have to worry that my cultivation speed will be slow and most importantly my cultivation speed will be almost double of other steller cultivators who has the same grade of unique Qi."Ling chen could now fight with most of the mid-grade wild beasts with ease. Most importantly after eating wild beast's meat for a month his body was no longer weak looking, although he didn't gain any muscles but now he looked like a healthy young man. His complexion got even more bright.''This month of training was quite fruitful. Not only did my physic improve but also my cultivation fully stablised at 5th layer body tempering and I feel like I can easily deal with any 6th layer body tempering realm martial artist.""Inhale"He took a deep breath to calm his growing excitement." It is time to go back hom
Ling Chen quickly found the tigertoothed boar, it was resting in a cave. " I should lure it out of the cave or I won't be able to utilize my speed in that cave."Ling Chen picked up a small rock and threw it toward the boar's head.'BANG '"Roar "With a bang, it hit on boar's head. It roared angrily and came out of the cave. three Ling Chen standing there he grew even angrier. Previously Ling Chen stole the 'treasure' it was guarding and it had to clash with that troublesome firefox.With a roar, it charged toward Ling Chen and swiped its claw at his head.Ling Chen was quick in reacting, he ducked down to dodge the claw strike, then he struck at the boar's one hind leg with a kick. Boar stumbled and lost his balance, ling then went behind its back and threw consecutive punches on the back of its head.Boom! Boom! Boom!Every punch was like a hammer striking iron. with every punch, the boar woul
Ling Chen rested until dusk. he was feeling better but could feel that due to excessive loss of blood his vitality was somewhat damaged. he thought of using the Vitality grass but without cultivation, he won't be able to refine it completely and its effectiveness would be greatly reduced.Ling Chen took his 5.03 gold and went to buy body tempering pills. these pills help body tempering realm martial artists to accumulate and refine Qi at a faster speed. if one cultivator cultivates using these pills and another doesn't, in case their talent is similar, the former will cultivate almost at double speed compared to the latter.He again went to the Newmoon trading firm and asked " shopkeeper, what is the price of a Body tempering pill? "" 20 silver per pill," he replied.' It's quite expensive but I got no choice but to buy them if I want to cultivate faster' Ling Chen thought. " shopkeeper give me 20 pills."Taking pills and storing them in his