Chapter 321: We May Not Sell Technology, But We Can Sell The Martial Arts Hall
Inside the hall of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall branch.
A grey-robed female disciple wearing silver-gray clothing and a hood nodded toward Xie Feina. Xie Feina could not help showing an expression of excitement on her face, hurriedly bowed, and followed the grey-robed female disciple up to the training room on the second floor.
For a moment, Ling Ye and Yi Feng in the distance were both stunned.
They had no idea what was going on with Xie Feina. As a peerless genius of Mist Mountain Domain City, even Senior Brother Ying Hu would show her some respect, yet at this moment she was actually so deferential before a mere Bone Forging Realm female disciple of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. No one would believe this if it were spread.
“Damn it! She beat us to it!”
“They really live up to being from Mist Mountain Domain City, their reaction is fast. I wonder if the instructor will teach a bit longer today. If so, we might still have a chance to secure a lesson.”
At this moment, several young men and women wearing Black Steel Heavy Industry clothing watched Xie Feina going upstairs, their envy and frustration in their eyes completely unconcealed.
“Everyone, could you please tell me why you are all scrambling to have that disciple of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall instruct you?” Ling Ye could not help stepping forward to ask.
She was truly filled with curiosity about what had just happened.
If it were only Xie Feina, that could still be dismissed as her acting crazy, showing such respect to a Bone Forging Realm Martial Artist. But since even the members of Black Steel Heavy Industry behaved like this, it was enough to show that the grey-robed female disciple just now was not simple.
However, she found it hard to imagine what abilities a grey-robed Bone Forging Realm disciple of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall could have to make people like Xie Feina show such great respect.
The group from Black Steel Heavy Industry noticed the Tianhe Domain City emblem on Ling Ye’s clothing and could not help exchanging glances. One young human man stepped out.
“My name is Yun Jie. This should be your first time coming to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall in the Wushan Region, right?” Yun Jie looked at Ling Ye and Yi Feng and patiently explained, “That disciple of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall just now is a six-star instructor of the hall, specializing in teaching Limit Breaking Level Martial Skills. However, that six-star instructor does not come to teach every day, and each time only teaches one person, which is why you saw what just happened.”
“Teaching Limit Breaking Level Martial Skills? How is that possible!” Yi Feng on the side could not help speaking up. “Those are Limit Breaking Level Martial Skills. Even in our Tianhe Domain City, only elders and the like are qualified to learn them. The Obsidian Martial Arts Hall is not lying to you, is it?”
As someone living in a Domain City, he could not be more clear about Limit Breaking Level Martial Skills.
Leaving aside that, on the surface in the Four Regions, only the Domain Cities of the Four Regions control Limit Breaking Level Martial Skills, even if some faction truly mastered such a skill, they would absolutely never teach it to outsiders.
Ling Ye also nodded, feeling that the people of Black Steel Heavy Industry, as well as Xie Feina, had definitely been played by the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
Limit Breaking Level Martial Skills were incomparably important. Even among their own people, only those in power could learn them. To casually teach Limit Breaking Level Martial Skills to outsiders meant either the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was mad, or the people before her were mad to believe such a thing.
“No, the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall has not lied to us.” Yun Jie looked at the disbelief written all over Ling Ye and Yi Feng’s faces and could not help but smile. “The Obsidian Martial Arts Hall is indeed teaching us Limit Breaking Level Martial Skills. We advanced students can confirm this. I have even attended two of the instructor’s classes before and benefited greatly.”
He had long grown used to such looks of disbelief.
When the members of the major powers who had obtained training quotas first came to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, they also did not quite believe it. The idea that spending just over a hundred thousand energy crystals allowed them to directly learn, and that spending some resources would even let them consult the hall’s instructors, seemed like a dream.
But on their first day at the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, when everyone selected Limit Breaking Level Martial Skills to study, the hall specially played combat video records of these skills for them, allowing them to watch and learn at will. Only then did everyone realize the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had not lied to them.
“Has this Obsidian Martial Arts Hall gone insane? They are actually letting people learn Limit Breaking Level Martial Skills so casually!” Ling Ye looked at the certainty in Yun Jie and the others’ eyes, her mind momentarily unable to process it. She had no idea what the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was thinking.
Whether it was her, or Senior Brother Ying Hu, both had sought Limit Breaking Level Martial Skills in vain. Even Rake Sa, a Half-Step Heavenly Human, was not qualified to learn them.
Yet the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was treating them like cheap vegetables for sale, as if it were crazy, afraid that people from other factions might not learn them and their factions would not grow fast enough.
“It is not exactly casual.” Yun Jie explained, “Outsiders who want to learn must obtain a training quota from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, otherwise they cannot learn.”
“Big brother, how can we obtain a training quota?” After hearing this, Yi Feng grabbed Yun Jie’s arm tightly, his gaze burning with excitement. “Please tell me. I would be deeply grateful!”
Limit Breaking Level Martial Skills!
If one could learn such skills, then the gate to the Heavenly Human Realm would be half open. If mastered, one would be nearly invincible in the Blood Condensation Realm.
At this moment Ling Ye also looked toward Yun Jie, this young human, with her striking eyes full of desire.
Although they had come to probe into the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, such an opportunity absolutely could not be missed. If she let it slip by, she would regret it for the rest of her life.
“There is no need to be so excited.” Yun Jie smiled and spoke without any reservation. “This is not a secret in the Wushan Region. The training quotas of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall are sold at each auction they hold. One quota costs around just over one hundred thousand energy crystals. According to the information I have, the next auction held by the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall should be very soon.”
“Only just over one hundred thousand energy crystals?” Ling Ye was extremely astonished.
She had originally thought the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall would set a sky-high price. She had not expected that it would only require a bit more than one hundred thousand energy crystals. That amount could not be called small, but given that there was no opportunity at all to learn such skills in a Domain City, spending nearly half of one’s net worth to obtain this chance was very cheap, even somewhat too cheap, making it feel unreal.
“That is right.” Yun Jie nodded, with the demeanor of a veteran. “Moreover, after becoming an advanced student of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, there are many other cultivation benefits, which are very hard to find elsewhere.”
“Other cultivation benefits?” Ling Ye only smiled, not taking it seriously in her heart.
Although the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s willingness to teach Limit Breaking Level Martial Skills was shocking, when it came to cultivation benefits, there was no place in the Four Regions better than the Domain Cities. Even a top-tier major power in the Four Regions like Black Steel Heavy Industry was far inferior to a Domain City.
For example, the Domain Cities specifically used catastrophe level monsters for Blood Condensation Realm Martial Artists to practice combat. Other forces did not even dare to imagine such a thing, yet for a Domain City this was commonplace. If someone could slay a catastrophe level monster, the Domain City would even take the initiative to grant rewards and then replenish a new catastrophe level monster.
There was also the cultivation environment. The place where she usually lived had an energy density several times that of the centers of major cities. As for the training rooms of the Domain City, their energy density was even higher. How could the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall compare with a Domain City?
Yun Jie could also see the disdain in Ling Ye’s heart and smiled as he said, “Today just happens to be our turn to rent the intermediate gravity chamber for four hours. That intermediate gravity chamber is big enough. Although you two cannot directly cultivate there, you can at least experience it a little. Would you like to go and have a look?”
“A gravity room? Then we will trouble you.”
After hearing this, although Ling Ye was still somewhat disdainful, she decided to take a look. After all, their task was to investigate the value of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
Just based on the fact that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall taught Limit Breaking Level Martial Skills, it already had enough value. Still, the more they understood, the better their report would be afterward.
In a short while, Yun Jie and the others led Ling Ye and Yi Feng to a newly renovated intermediate gravity chamber deep on the first floor.
Ling Ye glanced over the intermediate gravity chamber and nodded in praise. “The interior space here is quite large.”
The entire gravity room was built from C2 grade alloy, with an internal space of over half a basketball court. For a gravity room, this was quite large. It could easily accommodate four or five people cultivating at the same time, or even allow one person to do simple activities. Compared to Tianhe Domain City’s only ten-square-meter gravity room, this was undoubtedly much better.
However, for her, having advanced to the Blood Condensation Realm, a gravity room no longer had any value. Even if the gravity was turned up to the maximum eighteen times, it would not place any pressure on her body.
“Then let us start with eighty times gravity.” Yun Jie looked at the closed door and pressed the control button on the wall.
“Wait…” Ling Ye looked at Yun Jie in surprise. “Eighty times gravity?”
“Yes, is eighty times gravity not enough to start?” Yun Jie looked at the astonished Ling Ye, hiding a smile. “If it is not enough, I can endure up to one hundred and twenty times. But at that level, I cannot move.”
“One hundred and twenty times gravity?” Ling Ye was shocked. “This gravity room can be adjusted to one hundred and twenty times gravity?”
Even the highest-technology gravity rooms in the Domain Cities could only create an environment of twenty times gravity. A one-hundred-and-twenty-times gravity environment was six times that.
In such gravity, let alone her at Initial Stage Blood Coagulation, even a high-level Blood Condensation Realm Martial Artist would be affected.
“Not just one hundred and twenty times. This intermediate gravity chamber of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall can be adjusted up to three hundred times gravity.” Yun Jie smiled and explained. “It is just that no one can withstand such intense gravity. At most we adjust it to around one hundred times for use.”
“Three hundred times? How did the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall manage that?” Ling Ye could not help asking.
A three-hundred-times gravity environment was a technology likely nonexistent throughout the entire Four Regions. For Martial Artists below the Heavenly Human Realm, the intermediate gravity chamber was practically a cultivation holy land.
“I do not know.” Yun Jie shook his head, then said with some pride, “But thanks to this intermediate gravity chamber, my body can now fuse much more energy, my qi and blood have increased significantly, and my body has become much tougher. In addition, with the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s beginner meditation room, I feel that in at most one month, I should be able to charge into the Blood Condensation Realm.”
“Beginner meditation room? What is that?” Ling Ye, curious like a child, asked again.
As someone who had already broken through to the Blood Condensation Realm, she knew that process very well.
Even with an intermediate gravity chamber’s help, the essence of the breakthrough lay in comprehending the cultivation method. That was not something a gravity room alone could accomplish.
“That is a very special house set up by the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. Once inside, your thoughts become more active. Things you cannot understand normally, you can basically figure out in there.” Yun Jie explained. “I even managed to reach first level perfection in the Sequence Extraordinary Level Martial Skill I am learning thanks to that beginner meditation room.”
“A room that can enhance comprehension?” After hearing this, Ling Ye was completely stunned, feeling as if she had come from the countryside.
Whether it was a three-hundred-times gravity chamber or a room that enhanced comprehension, she had never even heard of such things in all her years in a Domain City. Yet in the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, they seemed almost ordinary.
After Ling Ye and Yi Feng experienced the intermediate gravity chamber for a while, they could no longer sit still. They immediately went to contact the person in charge of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, displaying their strength and status as Blood Condensation Realm Martial Artists, and stated that they wished to meet someone in the hall who could make decisions.
Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, reception room.
“You two, this is our Master of the Pavilion.” Yinuo respectfully introduced Lin Qi, who had just entered, to Ling Ye and Yi Feng. “If you have any important matters to discuss, you can tell Master of the Pavilion.”
Ling Ye and Yi Feng nodded to Yinuo, who was also at Initial Stage Blood Coagulation, and could not help curiously sizing up Lin Qi as he entered.
As Ling Ye and Yi Feng’s qi and blood spread out, both were soon shocked.
They had originally intended to probe Lin Qi’s strength, but within the perception range of their qi and blood, they could not sense anything at all, as if Lin Qi did not exist. Yet he clearly stood before them.
What was even more incomprehensible was that as Lin Qi simply walked into the room, an indescribable sense of oppression surged toward them, like a giant beast standing before them while remaining completely undetectable. The situation was beyond their understanding.
“Distinguished guests from Tianhe Domain City, what can I do for you?” Lin Qi looked at the two, who had not yet recovered from their surprise, and asked with a smile.
Within the thirty-meter radius of his spiritual world, his spiritual control was now several times stronger than before. Manipulating qi and blood and energy within that domain was trivial, and his spirit could even exert some impact on Blood Condensation Realm Martial Artists. Even Heavenly Human Realm Martial Artists might not be able to gauge his current depth, let alone two at Initial Stage Blood Coagulation.
“Hall Master Lin, hello. I am Ling Ye, and this is my junior brother Yi Feng. We are disciples under the Third Elder of Tianhe Domain City.” Ling Ye quickly recovered, speaking respectfully. “We have come this time to discuss cooperation with you, Hall Master Lin.”
“Cooperation? Are you referring to training quotas?” Lin Qi looked at Ling Ye and shook his head. “I am afraid that will not work. Our Obsidian Martial Arts Hall has its rules. If you wish to obtain them, you can wait for the next auction. At that time, we will still release fifty quotas.”
“No, we are not here for that cooperation.” Ling Ye shook her head slightly, took a deep breath, and said, “On behalf of our teacher, we would like to order several intermediate gravity chambers and beginner meditation rooms from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. As for the price, we can pay in energy blood essence. How about two hundred pieces of energy blood essence for one intermediate gravity chamber and three hundred pieces for one beginner meditation room?”
As Ling Ye spoke, even Yinuo in the room was stunned.
Energy blood essence was essential for Blood Condensation Realm cultivation. Without it, there would be no progress. A large city with a population of over thirty million produced only twelve pieces of energy blood essence a year, and even the City Lord could only retain two.
Mist Mountain Domain City controlled forty-one cities and could obtain about four hundred and ten pieces of energy blood essence a year. Even using only one third of that would be enough for an Initial Stage Blood Condensation Realm Martial Artist to cultivate all the way to high-level Blood Condensation Realm with some left over.
Now a single intermediate gravity chamber and a beginner meditation room together could be exchanged for five hundred pieces of energy blood essence, more than Mist Mountain Domain City obtained in an entire year.
Lin Qi shook his head and said firmly, “I am sorry. This is our Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s exclusive technology. We will not sell what you are asking for.”
Two hundred pieces of energy blood essence for an intermediate gravity chamber and three hundred for a beginner meditation room were astronomical numbers for him. Even if he founded his own city, producing so much energy blood essence would likely take years.
However, the intermediate gravity chamber and beginner meditation room were core elements of the hall’s development. If he sold them, the hall’s external appeal would decline sharply, greatly affecting his future upgrades in administrator permissions. That was something he absolutely did not want.
“As expected, they are not for sale?” Ling Ye did not look particularly disappointed.
Both the intermediate gravity chamber and the beginner meditation room were crucial tools for cultivating Martial Artists. The difference might not be obvious in the short term, but over several decades or even a hundred years, they would absolutely be more valuable than Limit Breaking Level Martial Skills.
This was why she dared to speak on behalf of her teacher and immediately offer several hundred pieces of energy blood essence. As long as they could obtain an intermediate gravity chamber and beginner meditation room, more and more experts would emerge from her teacher’s faction, and their voice in the Domain City would keep growing. She believed her teacher would not reject such a proposal.
But precisely because of this, any faction with long-term ambition would probably never sell intermediate gravity chambers and beginner meditation rooms.
“You two, while our Obsidian Martial Arts Hall will not sell the technology, we can sell the hall itself.” Lin Qi said with a smile. “If you are interested, we can discuss the price for opening a branch in Tianhe Domain City.”
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