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Chapter 206 - 129: High-Order World - The Two Veins of Martial Arts

Chapter 206: Chapter 129: High-Order World - The Two Veins of Martial Arts

Shunning City, Gu Shanhai wore a gloomy expression as he recalled the task at hand. No matter how you looked at it, him taking part in the ancient Chinese examination system was no good deal because it was too time-consuming. Despite the possibility of success at each level, from scholar, advanced scholar, and so forth, it would still take up a considerable amount of time.

So, he decisively abandoned the mission. After all, it was only a matter of a two-year lifespan, and he could easily spend more than that on his Prophetic Divination.

Although this had nothing to do with the main character this time, he knew it was a phased response. The main character’s appearance on the scene wasn’t meant to happen just yet; there were still about ten years to go before he would dazzle everyone as the unrivaled number one upon his debut.

"I still need to head to the capital, and on top of that, I don’t have a guide. I’ll need to find a way to procure one. Luckily, this world isn’t too demanding about identity," Gu Shanhai griped.

These days, there were not many players left in the world, making it considerably more tranquil. At the beginning, it was indeed a scene of utter chaos. Gu Shanhai had just so managed to avoid that time with his secluded cultivation, sparing himself from unnecessary conflicts with players.

As the game began to influence reality, it naturally drove various consortia and powers in the real world to greater heights of frenzy. They acted with less restraint, knowing they couldn’t respawn in real life, but inside the game, such concerns were nonexistent.

Gu Shanhai, as a forsaken fanatic character, had long withdrawn from the public eye, and players had since forgotten about him; nobody paid him any mind.

"To get to the capital from Shunning City, I need to head north. No need for a horse, I have Little White. The main issue is that attracting too much attention on the way isn’t ideal," Gu Shanhai fretted. He was low-key, but Little White was anything but.

Little White wasn’t just robust in appearance but also quite large, and the bright white fur combined with unique antlers was bound to draw the eye.

"That’s an extraordinary deer you have there, brother. May I inquire if it’s for sale?" A middle-aged man with a jianghu-looking stature approached with that question.

To this, Gu Shanhai naturally refused, "It’s not for sale. If you want one, try your luck in the wild."

"That’s a shame. I am from the Qingcang Sect..."

"Sorry, but I don’t involve myself in jianghu matters. I’m merely an ordinary scholar," Gu Shanhai cut off the man’s self-introduction.

This made the man slightly displeased, and he left with a huff.

What is jianghu? It’s a web of interests and worldly interactions, with much of the killing done in the shadows. Whether it was the Heaven Sect, the Demon Sect, or other sects, although they lived on meat and blood, they had to display the bold spirit expected of warriors in the jianghu.

Gu Shanhai wasn’t worried about the man pestering him further. This so-called Qingcang Sect was hardly significant. He had already seen to that with his Prophetic Divination. In this world, Prophetic Divination’s potency wasn’t as omnipotent as in the world of the various kingdoms, but that didn’t matter with Gu Shanhai’s own considerable enhancements; it was still effective.

As for why the man wouldn’t bother him, it was because Gu Shanhai had casually inflicted him with catastrophes and reversed his fortunes, ensuring the man’s streak of bad luck began the moment he left.

Reversing fortune wasn’t limited to turning bad luck around. It could invert normal luck too, and with the addition of the disaster spell, the man was indeed doomed to misfortune.

’I always feel like there’s something lackluster about this divination branch; most of it is about revealing, and proper predictions hardly serve any purpose.’ Gu Shanhai complained internally. But then again, it made sense, as his mainstay was the Internal Organ Divination Skill.

"Halt, you thief!"

Gu Shanhai glanced toward the source of the shout and saw, not far away upon a rooftop, a woman in white, wielding a longsword, chasing a figure clad in thief’s clothes. Judging by their appearance, the pursued seemed to be male.

The two of them leaped across the rooftops with their qinggong and disappeared into the distance.

"What kind of nonsensical security is this... Such a scene can unfold in broad daylight, and why wear thief’s clothes during the day? Isn’t there something fishy about that?" Gu Shanhai didn’t quite know what to say for a moment.

"But speaking of that, I wonder if it’s really okay that martial arts manuals can be bought in a bookstore."

Riding atop Little White, Gu Shanhai looked through the martial arts manuals he had just acquired: the inner strength "Pei Yuan Technique," the qinggong "Bounding Steps," the external power "Iron Body," and the saber technique "Five Tiger Saber," amongst an array of other Cultivation Techniques. As long as one could read and just buy one to practice, basically anyone could cultivate successfully, because the manuals were written in plain language without any archaic literary text or anything else obscure.

Naturally, the prerequisite was literacy. In a world with a less than 0.001% literacy rate, this one condition already blocked the way for countless people.

Besides, owning a manual didn’t guarantee one could cultivate it. One still needed money. The saying ’poor scholars and rich warriors’ wasn’t without basis. Practicing martial arts first required adequate nutrition. For example, with Iron Body, eating well was the least of it; one also needed the right concoction of medicinal wines for invigorating blood and removing stasis, as well as restoratives for bodily nourishment.

Therefore, if an ordinary family bought a martial arts manual, they could very well impoverish themselves without achieving any notable results.

"It’s alright, there are some redeeming points, but that’s about it."

After perusing the pile of martial arts manuals, Gu Shanhai didn’t think too highly of them and suggested they paled in comparison to his Knight heritage.

On him, the Knight heritage within this world was akin to a matchless divine cultivation technique. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have caught his interest.

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