Chapter 96: Fused Martial Techniques
“Holy crap! Entry-level 36%?”
“I didn’t mishear that, right? I’ve been here four days, and I’ve only reached 43% entry-level so far.”
“Thirty-six percent entry-level in two hours, what on earth did they teach in that training room?”
“Sis, can you teach me? I’ll be your little follower from now on!”
Everyone stared, dumbfounded, at the result Instructor One had announced. They all thought Instructor One must have made a mistake; otherwise this result was just too terrifying.
These players trained like crazy every day, and many had only reached around 50% entry-level. Two hours almost equaled two or three days of practice. The efficiency was simply unbelievable.
At this moment, not only the players, even Luo Qi, who had come along with them, was staring with her mouth wide open.
Luo Qi knew Xiao Ling’s talent. She did not count as a genius, but in the City of Light Chasing she was considered excellent. But no matter how excellent, it was impossible to go from knowing nothing to directly reaching 36% entry-level in a single class.
Normally, without repeated instruction from those veteran quasi-martial artist instructors more than ten times, this would be completely impossible.
“Not bad.” Chen Ya looked at her own results, very satisfied.
“Thank you for your guidance, Instructor Chen. Can I take another class now?” After a brief moment of shock, Xiao Ling immediately wanted to book another session with Chen Ya.
Just one session was like riding a rocket. At this rate, she probably would not even need ten classes to reach proficient level.
To be able, in the first month of first year, to raise an apprentice-level martial skill to proficient level, there were probably not many people in all of Zhuguang High School’s first year who could do it.
“Sure, but don’t forget to give me a full score review.” Chen Ya was very happy when she heard that. She had not expected such a good teaching effect, even triggering an NPC’s second task. That meant four thousand points in hand. The speed of earning points was even faster than on the new map.
The players present saw Xiao Ling actually take the initiative to ask for the next class, and their eyes all turned red.
These points were coming in way too easily, almost as if they were being robbed.
“I’ve decided, I’m going all-in on the cultivation profession. She’s basically the Child of the Version.”
“That still depends on who is teaching. Can you make someone reach 36% entry-level in two hours?”
“I sure can’t, but if I go take a class, won’t I know then?”
“Brother, you’re awesome! Let’s pool our points.”
A few players who had already reached apprentice-level watched Chen Ya head back to teach another class and suddenly felt that the new map was not so attractive anymore. Staying in the martial arts hall seemed to have a better future.
Two hours for two thousand points and one hundred contribution. With twenty-four hours in a day, if you taught eight classes a day, that would be sixteen thousand points. That was a speed the new map could not hope to match.
Not far away, Luo Qi watched Xiao Ling, who directly booked another class without hesitation, and suddenly felt she had to get Luo Shuangyan to attend as well. The unit price was a bit high, but the effect was far beyond what other martial arts hall instructors could achieve.
And with Obsidian Martial Arts Hall delivering such results, Obsidian Shop would definitely make a fortune, and their reputation could even spread across the entire suburbs.
“No wonder.” Luo Qi suddenly realized why Lin Qi did not care about transport or that kind of thing. It turned out he did not care about such small profits at all.
Thinking of this, Luo Qi felt she had to have a proper talk with Lin Qi. If they could spread the name of the martial arts hall, Obsidian Martial Arts Hall would have no problem establishing itself in the suburbs in the future.
Relying on the teaching results of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, they could even get to know those big shots from the city proper in the future. At that point, the suburban gangs would all have to show Obsidian Martial Arts Hall respect, let alone a mere White Feather Gang.
Meanwhile, in the hall master’s lounge on the first floor, Lin Qi also heard the system notification in his ears.
System: Congratulations to the host for completing the advanced hidden task “Martial Arts Not Lightly Passed.” Reward: one forced martial skill fusion.
System: Congratulations to the host for triggering advanced hidden task two “Name Shakes the Region.” Have players teach natives of this world until they become martial artists. Reward: one forced advanced martial skill fusion. You may select one player-created martial skill and forcibly fuse it with one martial skill mastered by the host, with a higher chance of creating a more advanced martial skill. The host will directly reach perfect level.
“Directly perfect?” Lin Qi looked at the new advanced hidden task, his heart stirred.
It was not easy for a martial skill to go from proficient to perfect, let alone with an increased chance to fuse into an even higher-level martial skill.
But seeing that he had to guide natives of this world into becoming martial artists, Lin Qi could only sigh.
In this high martial arts world, martial artists were extremely rare. You could see that just by looking at the major wilderness gangs and suburban gangs. There were so many limit apprentices and quasi-martial artists, yet less than one in a hundred could finally become martial artists. Not to mention that right now he himself was not even a martial artist.
“Forget it, I’ll fuse a martial skill first.” Lin Qi shook his head and shifted his gaze to the system panel.
He had long coveted the players’ self-created martial skills, but unfortunately the system could not extract them. If he tried to learn them himself, he would easily get injured, which was not worth it.
But now that he could learn them directly, things became much more convenient.
“Right now the Prairie Fire Spear Technique I have is powerful, but carrying a spear is inconvenient. I should choose a sword technique.” Lin Qi almost did not hesitate and chose the Sword Light Slash, a sword technique Luo Wu Shang had recently created. It could be considered an enhanced sword qi martial skill and had also reached rank five.
System: Please select one martial skill mastered by the host.
“Lightning Palm.” Lin Qi directly chose Lightning Palm, which was currently the most suitable.
The Sword Light Slash had originally been created by Luo Wu Shang by integrating parts of Lightning Palm. Now, with the system performing a forced fusion, the effect should not be bad.
System: Fusion beginning 1%…10%…20%…
After Lin Qi waited for more than ten minutes, the system finally completed the fusion.
System: Congratulations to the host for mastering the advanced martial artist-level martial skill Thunder Flash. Proficient level has been granted automatically.
Suddenly, Lin Qi felt countless memories flood into his mind, making his head feel like it was about to explode. After it lasted for a full minute, the surge of memories finally faded.
“Thunder Flash, it really is a thunder flash.” After the brief headache, Lin Qi was overjoyed.
This Thunder Flash was clearly more than one level stronger than Luo Wu Shang’s self-created Sword Light Slash. The sword qi itself carried lightning force, and its speed and power were twice that of Sword Light Slash, truly reaching triple strength and double speed. Moreover, the maximum attack distance of this strike could reach twenty meters.
You had to know that even the sword qi-enhanced Sword Light Slash only had a maximum attack distance of about five meters. He was now directly at twenty meters. The enemy would never expect his attack range to be that far.
It was basically a shift from melee combat to ranged attack, and his freedom in battle had risen by an entire tier.
“Looks like in the future I should get players to create more powerful martial skills. Once those veteran players return, I’ll just announce new rewards for self-created martial skills. Create three martial artist-level martial skills, and you will be automatically promoted to elite disciple.” Lin Qi felt it was very necessary to increase players’ enthusiasm for creating martial skills, so that the martial skills he fused later would be even stronger.
With just this Thunder Flash alone, Lin Qi felt he could already fight a martial artist. After all, a martial artist’s internal organs were not made of iron. Ordinary internal force would find it hard to block Thunder Flash.
The sun was setting over a patch of woodland on the outskirts of the City of Light Chasing.
Two tricycles rattled along a broken gravel road, with players sitting on them holding spears. At the front were Fang Zhen and Li Ranxing, each driving one tricycle, transporting the energy ore mined in the past two days back to Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
“This energy ore is getting harder and harder to dig up.” Saiwai Qiangke looked at the two loads of energy ore and sighed a little. “On the first day, I could dig more than a ton. Now it’s only six to seven hundred kilograms a day. Once a new batch of players comes over, there’ll be even less left to dig.”
“New map pioneering is always very profitable at the start.” Fang Zhen said with a smile. “If it ever stops being profitable, we can go pioneer the Maze Tunnel. That’s a super large dungeon. We’ve only just stepped through the door. The profit by then definitely won’t be less than the early days of the new map.”
Fang Zhen was full of confidence in the future of the mecha team. The new map had already earned them a lot in these few days. Their weapons and equipment were fully upgraded, and their team now had as many as five advanced apprentices, with the others all close to advanced apprentice. They would be fully capable of pioneering the Maze Tunnel later.
The team members were all smiling. This time they had truly made a big haul. All their weapons had been replaced with A5-grade gear, something they had not even dared to imagine before in the martial arts hall.
While Fang Zhen and the others were chatting on the path, on a high ground one kilometer away in the woods, a slender woman with three large eyes was observing Fang Zhen’s group through a telescope.
“Yaklo, the brothers are all ready. Are we making a move this time?” A burly man, also with three eyes and wearing A6-grade armor, quietly asked the slender woman.
“The bounty from the White Feather Gang this time is quite good. They don’t have many people here, only sixteen. Spread the word, get ready to move.” Yaklo put away the telescope and nodded.
“Good! I’ve been getting impatient waiting around here.” The burly man became excited at once.
Their group had more than fifty people, all of them intermediate apprentice-level or higher. Their leader Yaklo was even a limit quasi-martial artist, and their gear was complete. Under normal circumstances, they should have already robbed that convoy from Obsidian Martial Arts Hall a few days ago, but since the hall master of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had been with the convoy then, they had not made a move and had waited until now.
Now they could finally act.
