I am a high-level martial arts master.

"One thousand taels, is that right? Okay, I've made a note of it!"

Ji Yu recorded Ye Li's information, saying as he did so:

"This money needs to be paid to you in one lump sum. The amount is quite large. Let me apply to the gang for it."

"It should be ready by tomorrow. Just wait patiently overnight."

Ye Li readily agreed, smiled and thanked Ji Yu for his help, then got up and left.

Throughout the entire process, Ye Li maintained a smiling expression in Feng Yue's view.

Anyone who can hold back at the thought of receiving a thousand taels of silver (at least 100 million) tomorrow might be diagnosed with depression.

With this money, I can buy a large number of Body Tempering Pills for cultivation.

One Body Tempering Pill grants 20 experience points, and one Dragon Tiger Pill grants 6 experience points.

In addition, half an hour of hard practice increases progress by 1 point, and passive breathing exercises increase progress by 2 points every day.

One Body Tempering Pill and three Dragon-Tiger Pills a day, seven hours of cultivation.

一天获得的经验值可以达到：[20+6×3+(14-6)+2]=48点

At least 1440 points a month!

Reading comprehension: What is the author's intention expressed in the above lines?

A: It expresses the author's homesickness!

After a series of top-level intellectual battles involving four arithmetic operations, Ye Li arrived at a conclusion that even Einstein couldn't find wrong:

If he maintains his current training efficiency, he can reach the middle stage in 40 days at most!

It's like that classic question: would you choose 5 trillion or Frieza's 5 million power level? There's no point in comparing them.

In this world of martial arts, the fist is power!

Money is just a number; only when it is transformed into real strength does it become real.

As long as you keep practicing, you can keep borrowing money, and your debts will always be one step behind!

After reaching the acquired stage, or even the innate stage, he essentially possesses the power to print money; how much he wants is simply a matter of a word.

Everyone next door is taking out loans to cultivate immortality, so he should also prepare to take out loans to practice martial arts!

To be honest, Ye Li was mentally prepared.

If the gang doesn't lend money tomorrow, I'll swallow my pride and go ask Wang Xian's wealthy father for some financial assistance.

Or, by using the reputation of a genius to travel to various places, raise venture capital, and secure an angel round for a startup.

Ye Li's past experience as a livestreamer and beggar taught him that if you're going to sell yourself, you have to be willing to go all out!

In the early stages of accumulating strength for snowballing, Ye Li would absolutely not allow his cultivation speed to be slowed down by external conditions.

If the overall environment is unfavorable, then rely on subjective initiative to change it!

A living person can't just die of thirst, can they?

With a sliver of hope for tomorrow's wealth, Ye Li bid farewell to Feng Yue and headed towards Yunjin Street.

After all, he's in charge of managing this place. Even if he usually just sits around doing nothing, he still has to stay nearby, otherwise it wouldn't be good if he couldn't be found in case of an emergency.

Anyway, Yunjin Street isn't far from his courtyard house on Changyuan Street, so he can get home quickly after get off work.

Walking towards Yunjin Street, Ye Li lowered his head and pondered:

"From now on, I'll rent a courtyard during the day for normal cultivation. We can deal with the Dragon-Tiger Pill issue when we return to the courtyard at night."

After all, using Longhu Dan would have been incredibly profitable.

If an emergency occurs during the day, let alone being distracted by romance and meeting your anime waifu, would you be able to focus on solving the problem?

Even if he could move normally, fighting with a fire poker on his head was still too bizarre and a challenge to Ye Li's mentality!

As Ye Li walked toward Yun Jin Street, he suddenly noticed something unusual.

In the very center of the road, a man in white, not yet thirty, stood amidst the crowd, holding a long sword, and said indignantly:

"Fellow villagers, the people of Great Xia are suffering terribly these days, and I'm sure you all feel the same way!"

"Guangming today is rife with corrupt officials, exorbitant taxes, and rampant gangs; it's hardly an environment suitable for normal living!"

"If you are dissatisfied, you might as well listen to my explanation of the current situation."

"Feel free to ask me anything, whether it's matters of national importance or conflicts in the martial arts world; I have some knowledge of both!"

Ye Li looked at the white-clad man giving a speech in public, his face showing shock.

When people publicly discuss and criticize the government, Guangming's constables do nothing about it.

How powerful must this guy's connections be?

Upon closer inspection, Ye Li discovered that the white-clad man's aura of blood was so intense that it couldn't be concealed.

Judging by his cultivation level alone, he is at least at the Body Tempering stage, and the sword in his hand is of exceptional quality, unlike any ordinary object.

"What kind of young master has nothing better to do than talk about this in public than cultivate?" Ye Li's lips twitched speechlessly.

However, he did not comment further on this.

The police don't care, so why should he bother?

Silently bypassing the man in white, Ye Li quickly left the place.

However, his hurried manner caught the attention of others.

Wei Chi mingled among the disciples of Chuangyuan Martial Arts School, studying the most basic stance training, but his gaze was fixed on Ye Li, who was walking further and further away.

"I've never seen anything like this before in the Azure Dragon Gang uniform. His cultivation level is early Body Tempering. Is he a new core disciple?"

His distracted gaze caused the girl supervising nearby to unconsciously furrow her brow:

"Wei Chi, stop getting distracted. Your aptitude is so poor; you only managed to break through to the Body Tempering stage by sheer luck. From now on, you should focus on your cultivation and stop being distracted!"

Upon hearing the girl's advice, Wei Chi replied blankly, "Thank you for your guidance, Senior Sister!"

Silently withdrawing his gaze, Wei Chi continued to immerse himself in cultivation, sensing the circulation of his blood energy.

If there are exploratory terms, you will find:

The dull-witted boy's body, enveloped by a network of qi and blood, had already solidified into lead and mercury, and his flesh and blood were cast like iron, indicating that he was approaching the late stage of body tempering.

It was nothing like the girl's claim that she had luckily broken through to the early stage of Body Tempering.

【Heaven rewards diligence - Blue】This is Wei Chi's entry, meaning that hard work always pays off!

Although my natural talent is lacking, I can see subtle progress every time I practice diligently!

The only regret is that, although hard work pays off, with each breakthrough in cultivation level, the improvement in each cultivation session becomes increasingly rare.

It's said that hard work pays off, but whether the return is 100, 10, or even 0.01, it's still a return.

That's why his entry is only in blue!

"Simply cultivating will yield increasingly meager improvements in one's cultivation level. To break through to the later stages without external assistance, at least a year of arduous practice is required!"

Wei Chi pondered silently, starting to calculate where the cultivation resources would come from.

His urgent need for resources reminded him of the last time he obtained martial arts supplies, when he killed a body-tempering martial artist from the Lone Wolf Gang.

In a surprise attack, relying on a sharp weapon, a single slash severed the opponent's blood and qi network, disemboweling him.

Afterwards, they searched the other party's home and found hundreds of taels of silver notes, as well as a martial arts manual.

"So, are you going to go back to your old ways?" A glint of greed flashed in Wei Chi's eyes.

Anyway, even if he killed someone, no one would suspect that the murderer was a low-talented "early stage of body tempering"!

"However, we still need to be careful." Wei Chi thought of what he had seen recently, and the greed in his eyes suddenly narrowed.

Guangming City is not peaceful right now.