The Fourth Calamity: People in High Martial Arts, Gods in Games

Chapter 21 The Players' Self-Development

"They beat us to it."

Luo Wushang looked at the Leopard Shadow Step that had been taken away and sighed slightly.

When Lin Qi took out the two martial arts manuals, Luo Wushang discovered the enormous potential of the Leopard Shadow Step. It was definitely the best way to move things. Compared to the Stone Shattering Fist, the Stone Shattering Fist might have great practical value, but in the current version of the game, underground exploration is the way to go.

"Gunner, well done." Fang Zhen walked up to the gunner from beyond the Great Wall, his eyes filled with excitement. "Let's take a look together and see what this martial art is all about."

"Okay." The Saiwai Gunner also took it out and looked at it with Fang Zhen and Yiqiang Bajue.

The others present also cast envious glances at this.

After Fang Zhen's reminder, everyone realized that Leopard Shadow Step was the chosen one in the current version.

Once you learn it, you'll definitely be able to distance yourself from others and accumulate more martial arts school points.

"The rewards have been distributed. Now I have something important to announce." Lin Qi paused as he looked at the crowd preparing to leave and said, "These two martial arts manuals, any disciple of our school who has accumulated 20 points can exchange for them. You can find the detailed exchange list on the notice board in the training ground."

He stayed up late last night, not only preparing the first volume of the Stone-Shattering Fist and Leopard Shadow Step for everyone, but also changing the original sign-in board in the training ground into a notice board.

Previously, he had to find everyone to notify them of anything, which was too troublesome. Although he had thought about getting everyone a smart watch, the price was too high. Even a second-hand one cost a thousand bits. The watch he had was one that Luo Qi had used for five or six years before discarding.

Therefore, the smartwatch will only be available to players when conditions permit.

To make management easier and prevent players from constantly asking what items they can redeem, the current list of all redeemable items at the martial arts school is now displayed on the notice board, which is much more convenient.

"This thing can be exchanged directly? Isn't this a mission reward?" After hearing this, the Border Gunner looked at the Leopard Shadow Step in his hand and suddenly felt it wasn't so appealing anymore.

You should know that he spent a month's salary on this Leopard Shadow Step manual!

"You'll get used to it." Fang Zhen patted the swordsman from beyond the Great Wall on the shoulder, as if he had known Lin Qi would do this all along. "It's not without its advantages that we got this Leopard Shadow Step manual. After all, you need 20 points to exchange for the Leopard Shadow Step. We can practice it for now."

"That's true." The gunman from beyond the Great Wall could only admit it.

New players don't have any points yet. Even if they work hard to get 20 points, it would probably take them a whole day. That would give them an extra day to learn the Leopard Shadow Step.

On the other side, Luo Wushang and the others rushed to the notice board in the training ground to see the exchange price of Leopard Shadow Step.

Leopard Shadow Step (Volume 1), a martial arts apprentice-level footwork technique, is divided into two levels, one in each volume. Mastering the first level, "Chasing the Wind," increases one's speed by 20%, while mastering the second level, "Shadow Hunt," increases it by 30%. (Requires 20 Martial Arts Points to redeem. Redeeming Volume 1 requires 10 Martial Arts Points, while redeeming Volume 2 requires 20000 points.)

Shattering Stone Fist (Volume 1), a martial arts apprentice-level fist technique, is divided into two levels, one in each volume. Mastering the first level, Shattering Stance, doubles your strength, while mastering the second level, Shattering Stone, increases it by 1.5 times. (Requires 20 martial arts points to redeem. Redeeming Volume 1 requires 10 martial arts points, while Redeeming Volume 2 requires 20000 points.)

"It's rare for the owner of this library to have a change of heart. It only costs 10 points to redeem it." Ragnarok's eyes lit up after reading it. "The improvement of these two martial arts techniques is huge. If I can master them all, I can definitely fight against a prospective apprentice. With my current points, I can redeem both of them."

"It's cheap, and if I grind for a day, I should be able to redeem them all." A Leaf of Clouds frowned slightly after seeing this. "But that would put me a day behind."

"Are you interested in borrowing points? If you want the Leopard Shadow Step, I can exchange them for you." Luo Wushang suddenly looked at Yi Ye Fuyun, a smile playing on her lips. "Of course, it's not unconditional."

"Wu Chang?" Zhang Qingwei looked at Luo Wu Chang with some surprise after hearing this, not understanding what Luo Wu Chang was going to do.

After a night of investigation, Zhang Qingwei learned that Luo Wushang was definitely the richest of the three. Not long ago, she bought 500 points from Ragnarok in one go. One point costs 200 yuan, so she spent 100,000 yuan in one go.

Before, I thought it wasn't worth spending 100,000 to buy 500 points, but now I see it's totally worth it.

"What are the conditions?" Yi Ye Fu Yun glanced at Luo Wu Chang and said in a low voice, "If you want us to join, then forget it. We're used to being free and don't like joining guilds."

"Don't worry about that. Tianwei never forces anyone to join," Luo Wushang said with a smile. "The conditions are simple. I can lend you eighty points now, and you don't need to pay me back. All I need is the priority right to use 200 square meters of energy land that you develop. Isn't that a good deal?"

"Sold!" Yi Ye Fuyun said without any hesitation.

The other three nodded in agreement with Yi Ye Fuyun's decision.

Although each of them will lose the priority of planting 50 square meters of Blood Essence Rice, which will greatly reduce the points they can earn later, as long as they can get two martial arts skills first, they can make up for it as long as they are willing to work hard.

The lost land can be earned back, after all, once you learn the Leopard Shadow Step and the Stone Shattering Fist, your work efficiency will definitely double.

Especially the Leopard Shadow Step, which is a miraculous skill that can improve work efficiency while you practice and continuously improve. It would be a real shame to miss a whole day of study time.

Luo Wushang then exchanged six copies of the first volume of Leopard Shadow Step and five copies of the first volume of Stone Shattering Fist with Lin Qi, while Fang Zhen exchanged all the points he had earned for two copies of Leopard Shadow Step, which made Lin Qi sigh with admiration.

"These professional gamers are definitely more skilled."

Lin Qi originally thought that these newcomers would have to grind for an extra day before exchanging for martial arts skills to learn, but he didn't expect that Luo Wushang and Fang Zhen wouldn't even give the newcomers that one day. They directly started grinding while learning martial arts skills.

It has to be said that when it comes to exploiting gamers, these professional gamers are the real experts.

After Lin Qi finished demonstrating his martial arts skills, he didn't forget to check in daily.

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"I wonder how much they improved today." Lin Qi opened the system panel and directly used the extraction function on Luo Wushang and the other two.

In an instant, Lin Qi heard three system notification sounds, and his mind was filled with many training memories.

System: Congratulations, host, your level 8 in the "Startling Breathing Technique" has been upgraded.

System: Congratulations, host, your level 9 in the "Startling Breathing Technique" has been upgraded.

System: Congratulations, host, your level 10 in the "Startling Breathing Technique" has been upgraded.

"Extracting the same training method from multiple players can actually stack proficiency?" Lin Qi was astonished as he looked at the system prompt.

Lin Qi originally thought that this extraction was simply about obtaining memories from players, which would allow him to reach the highest level of proficiency among players.

But now it seems that's not the case at all. It's an even more terrifying ability: it can absorb the training experience of multiple players and integrate it from multiple angles to improve proficiency.

This time, the effect of the Divine Breathing Technique was also very obvious. He jumped from 3% to 10% in one go, making Lin Qi feel that with every breath, all the cells in his body were being stimulated and rapidly improved.

This exhilarating feeling was so irresistible that Lin Qi couldn't stop. He stopped caring what the players were doing, found a place with abundant energy, sat down, and frantically stimulated all the cells in his body, letting them absorb the circulating energy.

After more than two hours, the cellular stimulation reached its limit, and Lin Qi felt incredibly comfortable, so he opened his own data panel.

"Am I... now a prospective apprentice?"

Even after all these years, every time my new book is recommended during the new book season, it feels like I'm being led to my execution. /(ㄒoㄒ)/~~

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