destiny eternal calamity

[The system has detected that the host has the desire to improve their martial arts aptitude. Recharge points can be used to enhance this aptitude. Improved aptitude can be applied to daily training, combat, comprehending techniques, and deducing techniques.]

[Current aptitude is 'Dull'. Consuming 2000 recharge points will upgrade the aptitude to 'Normal'.]

[Should I choose to upgrade?]

Promote them! Why not promote them?

This system was developed in his previous life, and he still doesn't know what it is.

Looking at the panel, Li Wei recalled the outrageous demands of his planning colleague from his previous life.

[I'll add a VIP feature, but it can't be called VIP. You need to accumulate a certain amount of spending to unlock the next stage, and unlocking will require additional spending of recharge points.]

The minimum spend for VIP1 is 10,000 recharge points. For each VIP level increase, the required spending increases tenfold.

Black, damn black!

But it's truly worth it; each time you upgrade your aptitude level, all expenses are discounted by 10%, and all of your character's attributes increase by 10%.

It has to be said that this system has truly taken inducing users to spend money to the extreme.

You have no human rights if you don't spend money.

In other words, whales (players who spend a lot of money on in-game purchases) are dominating the battlefield!

After upgrading the qualification to "ordinary", there are still 2900 recharge points left.

Looking at the second-tier "Mountain-Shattering Thunder Hand" on the panel, Li Wei clicked the "+" sign next to it.

[To learn the second-tier skill "Mountain-Shattering Thunder Hand" to mastery, 200 recharge points are required. Do you wish to learn it?]

[Learning the second-tier skill...to reach minor mastery requires 600 recharge points.]

[To learn the second-tier skill...and reach mastery, it requires 1400 recharge points.]

[To learn the second-tier skill...and reach perfection, it requires 3000 recharge points.]

It seems that the cost of adding points to a second-tier skill is twice that of a first-tier skill.

Since the second-tier "Mountain-Shattering Thunder Hand" is already at the entry level, the 200 recharge points required for the entry level of the technique have been reduced.

To learn it to perfection, you still need 3000 points, which is 2700 points with a 10% discount. I still have enough points left to recharge.

Without the slightest hesitation, Li Wei directly chose to learn the "Mountain-Shattering Thunder Hand" to perfection.

Instantly, just like last time, his mind was filled with many more memories of the second-tier "Mountain-Shattering Thunder Hand".

Countless insights and muscle memories flooded his mind.

He couldn't help but get out of bed, assume a fighting stance, and practice the "Mountain-Shattering Thunder Hand," which had been upgraded to a second-tier martial art, based on the experience in his mind.

As Li Wei circulated his internal energy, the "qi" within his body flowed slowly and steadily along the meridians required for the "Mountain-Shattering Thunder Hand" martial art.

A series of tearing pains came over me.

This time, Li Wei held back from humming a sound.

After finishing his cultivation, he opened up two more meridians and one more channel. Including the two meridians and one channel he opened when he first broke through to the Meridian Opening Realm, he has now opened up four meridians and two channels.

He could barely be considered to have reached the mid-stage of the Meridian Opening Realm.

Li Wei knew that this was the limit of the "Mountain-Crushing Thunder Hand".

This technique mainly involves hand exercises, and the circulation of Qi can only involve these meridians.

To further improve one's cultivation level, one must find a new second-tier cultivation technique.

Looking at the [Learned Technique: Mountain-Shattering Thunder Hand (Second-Tier Technique)] on the panel below, there were indeed no more '+' signs for further deduction, indicating that the potential of this technique had been exhausted.

After resolving the system issues, Li Wei lay in bed, sorting out his interpersonal relationships.

Besides his two uncles and three other relatives, he also had a fiancée.

Lin Peiyao, the most beautiful woman in the capital!

The fiancée that Li Anguo chose for his son was the daughter of Lin Yishui, a fellow soldier with no background.

When the two worked together in the border army, Lin Yishui always raised her daughter with her. Because Li Anguo thought the little girl was cute and he also approved of Lin Yishui's character, the two families arranged a marriage between them.

Two years ago, Lin Yishui made great contributions and was promoted to the fifth-rank Flying Cavalry Captain. He returned to the capital to serve as the Right Wing Commander of the Tiger Swift Army. Lin Peiyao, who was only sixteen years old, also returned to the capital with her father. Her beauty became famous throughout the capital.

The two families were originally scheduled to get married at the end of this year, but unexpectedly, Li Anguo passed away.

You can get married after your father dies? In this feudal era, you would be condemned and vilified.

At the very least, one must observe the filial piety of keeping vigil for three years.

Wait!

Li Wei suddenly realized something.

At first, he thought his father's death was a simple accident, after all, demons roamed the world.

Life is unpredictable; the large intestine encloses the small intestine—this is perfectly normal.

After learning that his father was acting as a front for the Prime Minister's family, he also wondered if Li Anguo might have been abandoned and silenced by the Prime Minister.

However, Li Anguo was cautious in his actions and was about to return to the capital to take up his post. Logically speaking, it was unlikely that the Prime Minister would easily give up such a useful subordinate.

So I previously thought my father's death was just an accident.

But at this moment, Li Wei thought of his beautiful fiancée and, drawing on his experiences from both lifetimes, suddenly realized that he might be guilty of possessing a treasure that had been stolen.

The Lin family and the Li family are indeed a good match, but Lin Peiyao is the most beautiful woman in the capital, while Li Wei is a martial arts failure!

Such an ill-matched marriage naturally attracts the attention of those with ulterior motives.

If anything happens to Li Anguo, Li Wei, this "useless" guy, will most likely end up being completely taken advantage of.

Even if Lin Yishui is an upright person, he probably wouldn't want his precious daughter to marry Li Wei and suffer.

Adding to the custom of observing three years of mourning, the probability of this engagement falling through is now almost 100%.

Indeed, beauty is a curse.

Once Li Wei's mind started working, he thought about how, in the days since the news of his father's death came, the Lin family, as his prospective in-laws, had not come to offer their condolences.

A chill ran down my spine.

However, in his memory, Lin Yishui was not the kind of snobbish person. His future father-in-law was a good person, the kind of gentleman.

Perhaps it's time to visit the Lin family.

If it was indeed someone who coveted Lin Peiyao who orchestrated Li Anguo's accident, that person would never let him go.

There's no way to avoid it, so I might as well find out what's going on and take revenge when I've mastered my skills.

Besides that, there's the attitude of the Prime Minister's office.

After Li Anguo's death, the shares of his "Tian Shang Yun Jian" company were naturally inherited by his only biological son, Li Wei.

As the de facto controller of the Heavenly Cloud Realm, the Prime Minister's Mansion naturally had ways to bypass the Li family and take the silver away.

But without a front man to cover it up, the risk of this asset being exposed is too great.

Moreover, if Li Wei were to take the contract to court, Tian Shang Yun Jian would still have to allocate half of the income in the account to him.

Therefore, the Prime Minister's residence either has to accept Li Wei as a dog and let him inherit Li Anguo's business, or it has to find a way to take back the shareholding agreement and find a new front man.

As for himself, this "naive" good-for-nothing youth was never of interest to the Prime Minister, otherwise he would have sent someone to contact him long ago.

Now, because of the marriage agreement, he has offended a powerful and cunning man, and it is now a foregone conclusion that the Prime Minister will choose to give up on her.

Thinking about it this way, it's possible that my second and third uncles and other relatives came to fight for the family property, possibly instigated by someone behind the scenes.

Just think about how arrogant my third uncle's family is; they probably think they've found a powerful backer.

After all, both Lin Peiyao's mysterious suitors and the Prime Minister's mansion had the motive to use these relatives to attack Li Wei.

There's no need to dirty their hands looking for idiots like Third Uncle.

Li Wei's mind was clear, and his previous hope of surrendering to the Prime Minister's residence had completely vanished.

He cannot entrust his fate to others or beg for their mercy.

Moreover, the prime minister is an old coin who only cares about interests; where is his compassion?