I am a high-level martial arts master.

Chapter 298 Fame Spreads Across China! The Vampire Path!

The scene was vibrant, with everyone contributing to the future of China!

Looking at the bustling scene, Le Yao stood prettily beside Zheng Yexiao, a hint of smugness in her eyes:

"Father, now you finally believe me!"

Zheng Yexiao turned her head, looked at her daughter's smug expression, and explained seriously:

"If those masters hadn't trusted my reputation, Zheng Yexiao, and let me handle it myself, those Transcendent Realm experts would have crippled you the moment they discovered you were secretly recommending other disciples!"

"Such a big thing, and you're thinking of hiding it? That's incredibly risky!"

Upon hearing this, Zheng Leyao shrank back in fear and stuck out her tongue.

The man stroked his dark, bluish sideburns and said:

"Master Ye is a capable person. Whether it is his talent and his enthusiasm for dedicating himself to China, he is first-rate."

"From now on, you will follow Immortal Master Ye as his servant and attend to him well. Do not betray his trust."

"what!"

Le Yao opened her mouth in surprise, "Father, what does 'serving as a slave' mean?"

If she was worried before that the conflict between her father and Ye Li would affect her normal interactions with Ye Li...

At this moment, isn't it a bit too much of a siding with outsiders when it comes to the father who has been transformed into Ye Li's appearance?

Zheng Yexiao's face hardened as he said, "Master Ye is destined to be remembered in history, shining brightly for eternity. We are merely a family of Transformation Realm cultivators; how could we possibly aspire to such a high position!"

"Marriage is arranged by parents and matchmakers, and the most important thing is that the families are well-matched. It is your honor to be Master Ye's maid, so don't be ungrateful!"

Zheng Leyao opened her mouth as if to speak, but then stopped herself.

Wait... how come you're already talking about marriage?

……

The vigorous promotional campaign, after half a day of publicity, finally ensured that all the martial artists in the Tianjin Grand Competition received the visualization method.

Those reporters who originally came just to report on the event, under Ye Lizhi's persuasive words, also borrowed qi and blood, and clearly stepped into the Ming Jin realm within a day.

This real and undeniable power cannot be faked. The overwhelming experience of personally feeling their blood and energy flowing freely and their bones becoming stronger instantly instilled a strong sense of trust in Ye Li in them.

"A miracle! This is absolutely a miracle!"

A normally refined reporter from the Tianjin Daily took off his glasses and called out to his colleague:

"I can feel the power! This qigong really works! Master Ye, you are truly bringing blessings to all living beings!"

Another female reporter from Ta Kung Pao said with a fanatical look in her eyes:

"That's right! Master Ye's ability to make martial arts accessible to everyone through the use of Qi and blood is a truly groundbreaking innovation! We must report this so that all of China knows!"

"I'll go write the article right now and send it to the editor-in-chief and the others!"

……

That evening, these journalists, who had personally witnessed the miracle, wrote furiously.

After reaching the Ming Jin realm, these people had so much energy they could not use it up for three days and three nights. They directly recorded the news here in writing and sent reports back to their respective newspapers.

Of course, they also knew that these editors-in-chief wouldn't believe it without firsthand experience, so they directly used their own careers as a guarantee.

Although the newspaper owners from Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangdong did not attend the event in person.

Moreover, due to the great distance, they were unable to receive the influence of visualization techniques and instinctively harbored doubts about the bizarre claims of Qigong such as "one day of clear strength" and "Qi and blood loan".

But the reporters on the scene swore oaths and even guaranteed its authenticity with their professional careers.

Faced with immense news value and the journalists' collective, almost fanatical, persistence, the heads of major newspapers ultimately chose to suppress their doubts and, for the time being, believe it.

The space in this world, China, is enormous, trillions of times larger than before, making the transmission of information extremely difficult.

Thanks to the introduction of the Yongle Encyclopedia's technology, advanced technologies such as quantum communication can be used in newspapers and other institutions.

Of course, this only grants the right to use the equipment; the actual equipment must be purchased from the West.

The specific technologies involved cannot be obtained by disassembly, which is why many people went to the West to study during this period.

For example, although Japan's technology is not as advanced as that of the West, and it has acquired mostly second-hand technology.

However, it is easier for Chinese students to acquire this second-hand technological experience from Japan, so most of them choose to study in Japan.

With the support of technology, Ye Li's theory of qigong spread throughout China the very next day.

The front page of the *Zhonghua Minbao* newspaper featured the relevant story in extremely prominent, bold black font:

"Boundless Qigong! Ushering in a New Era for Chinese Martial Arts!"

[(Our reporter Wang Moumou reports live) A spectacular sight unfolded at the Tianjin Grand Competition yesterday! The white-robed master Ye Li displayed his divine "Qi Gong" technique, single-handedly suppressing ten Grandmasters of Transformation Realm, and even causing Grandmaster Zheng Yexiao's white hair to turn black and him to regain his youth! This is a change unprecedented in the three thousand years of Chinese martial arts...]

The article details the various signs at the Tianjin Grand Competition and includes a portrait of Ye Li, the Capital Jiahao Immortal Venerable.

From then on, the concept of Qigong was heard for the first time across the entire land of China!

In Tianjin, the atmosphere was even more frenzied.

Tianjin during the Republic of China era, a bustling street.

The newsboy, carrying a large stack of newspapers, kept shouting to the crowds on the street.

"Newspapers for sale! Newspapers for sale! Boundless Qigong! Ushering in a new era for Chinese martial arts!"

"Ultimate Qi Gong, free Qi and Blood, everyone can practice martial arts!"

……

The newsboy's shouts immediately attracted the attention of some passersby.

The world in this world is so vast that trains traveling at near the speed of light are used to connect the north and south in the west.

Due to technological backwardness, and the fact that Tianjin is slightly smaller than China in the previous life, the East relied on an outdated subway system that ran directly through the entire city for internal communication.

Due to the large population, word-of-mouth communication was too slow, so even though the Tianjin Grand Competition was a hot topic in the Tianjin martial arts community, it didn't generate much buzz among the general public.

The vendor's shouts caught the attention of those on the roadside.

After a brief period of information dissemination, the speed of message verification and spread was extremely fast because Tianjin, Ye Li's base, could be directly connected to the Qi and Blood Network!

Vendors hawked newspapers printed with images of the "Capital Immortal," which were instantly snapped up.

"It's already... 1000 million... which is about one percent of the total population of Tianjin."

Ye Li sensed a continuous stream of spiritual connections entering his Qi and Blood Bank system within the Tianjin area!

The points of light representing users in the consciousness network are as dense as a dazzling galaxy.

This terrifying rate of expansion surprised even himself, but it also confirmed the immense appeal of his model.

Every moment, a massive number of Qi and Blood Loan requests are consuming a portion of Ye Li's computing power.

"7 million requests per second would occupy 90% of my brain's computing power. It's not too bad for now, but allocating resources in batches for each individual user is becoming too cumbersome."

Ye Li gently tapped his head, feeling the continuous requests for qi and blood from the Tianjin area.

After all, the reception, understanding, and transmission of information were all done by him alone.

He personally handled everything, including the refining and transmission of Qi and blood.

"As expected, they still need to establish production lines. These small, family-run workshops, where everyone does everything themselves, are significantly smaller in scale compared to large industrial assembly lines."

Ye Li pondered, the countless books he had previously obtained from Shen Qinglian's library had given him some ideas.

"I remember that among the thousands of sects in the Northern Territory, Buddhism and Taoism's practice of gaining divinity and gathering faith from all over the world is a good thing. However, I don't need the faith of all the world; I just need to create countless nodes that can transmit life force and fortune."

"I will create a network of nodes that can connect and transmit vital energy even when separated by thousands of miles, and then spread it out. As for the requests, I don't need to think about them directly; I can just let the computer make the server requests."

Ye Li pondered, as the server technology was not a problem for him.

After all, Du You was able to generate bean-shaped AI using his brain before.

Not to mention Ye Li, who is now at the Innate level, he can simply create a message by hand and use a computer to respond to the demand.

"I don't even need to make it myself. With Western technology these days, they should have already developed optical computers. I can just rent a server."

"The next problem I need to deal with is preventing others from taking the credit," Ye Li thought to himself.

Just as Ye Li had predicted, within the Tianjin area, the greater the distance, the more the energy and credibility of the information diminished.

Outside of Tianjin, especially in other cities and vast rural areas that are far away and have no access to the Qi and blood network, the reaction is quite different.

The contents of the newspaper were too bizarre and far beyond common sense.

"One day to achieve visible strength? Three to five days to achieve hidden strength? Half a year to achieve transformative strength? Rejuvenation? Life extension of a thousand years?"

At a prestigious university in Shanghai, a biology professor wearing gold-rimmed glasses glanced at a report in the *Minbao* newspaper, scoffed, and slammed the paper down on the table:

"Absurd beyond belief! This is even more outrageous than the Boxer Rebellion's myth of 'spiritual resurgence'! This is a blatant desecration of modern science! It is a new form of ignorance and superstition!"

He immediately picked up his pen and began writing articles in the newspaper under the pen name "Mr. Sai Weng".

They condemned this as "pseudoscience," calling it a new era of Boxer Rebellion and urging the public to remain rational and be wary of this new type of fraud that exploits nationalistic sentiments.

In Beiping, a highly respected and known old master of Huajin boxing, famous for his rigid and meticulous style, was so angry after reading the newspaper that his beard trembled:

"Nonsense! This is a disgrace to the martial arts world! The way of martial arts emphasizes rigorous training in the coldest and hottest winters, and the arduous work of water dripping on stone! There is no shortcut to success or instant results!"

"This 'Qi and Blood Bank' is undoubtedly a case of drinking poison to quench thirst, using Western medicine! Ultimately, it will hollow out the foundation of martial arts practitioners and ruin the future of Chinese martial arts!"

After saying that, he immediately joined forces with several martial arts masters who also held conservative views to publish a joint statement in the "National Martial Arts Monthly" to severely criticize Ye Li's "heretical teachings" and call on fellow martial arts practitioners to boycott him.

Some tabloids, seemingly eager to stir up trouble, used sensational headlines:

Beware! What is the purpose of manipulating Qi and Blood?

"Is it 'Boundless Qigong' or 'Gene Drug'? A Shocking Conspiracy Behind the Frenzy in Tianjin!"

Is it a Qigong craze or just another farce of "divine fist"? The lessons of history must not be forgotten!

Inside the teahouse, the people were discussing the matter animatedly, with opinions polarized.

"Hey, Lao Wang, do you think what's written in the newspaper is true? Is it really possible for someone to make someone a martial arts master in just one day?" A man in a short jacket asked, cracking sunflower seeds with a puzzled look on his face.

"Hmph, you're kidding me!"

A lean old man next to him curled his lip:

"Those Boxers back then also claimed to have revived spiritual energy and a brand new way to become stronger. And what happened? When the foreigners opened fire, they were all exposed! I think this guy surnamed Ye is probably one of them too, maybe even sent by the foreigners to sow discord among the Chinese people!"

"But... even a major newspaper like the China Daily published it, and so many reporters witnessed it firsthand..." Another younger colleague hesitated.

"What kind of major newspaper is this? It's just a third-rate paper!"

The lean old man sneered: "Once they've taken the money, or been bewitched, what kind of lies can't they make up?"

"You're a million miles away from Tianjin, how could you possibly feel that so-called 'blood bank'? No way! That settles it! It's all a trick to fool people from far away!"

"But the newspaper said that it can only be sensed in areas covered by qigong..."

"I also said that qigong is fake; they're definitely trying to fool us again."

As the lean old man spoke, everyone present felt that it made a lot of sense and nodded in agreement.

While martial arts experts across the country were criticizing the move, numerous experts from Tianjin also published articles in the newspapers to clarify the situation.

In the "China People's Daily", a hundred martial arts masters from Tianjin jointly wrote a letter.

The claims about Qigong are true and undeniable; I guarantee them with my reputation. If you don't believe me, you can come to Tianjin to expose this fraud!

This confident and self-assured demeanor immediately attracted the attention of the national martial arts community.

Some martial arts practitioners, skeptical of the claims, launched verbal battles in the newspapers while simultaneously booking plane tickets to Tianjin, intending to travel there by starship to expose the fraud.

……

While things were in full swing at home, the entire West was focused on something else.

An American strongman was defeated by a Chinese martial arts master, and afterwards, the martial artist with the strength of Gang Jin directly destroyed a starship, which caused a huge uproar in Western media.

"Damn those yellow-skinned monkeys! They made me lose a fortune!"

A man in a suit wearing a monocle angrily kicked over the desk in front of him, his grin revealing sharp fangs, clearly showing his rage.

Before him, a group of pale-faced men shared the same sentiment, their faces filled with indignation!

For them, the new vampires, money is blood and life!

Compared to the arduous training required for martial arts, the West awakened twenty-two paths through the Yongle Encyclopedia!

Before the Yongle Encyclopedia, the ancient Western vampires passed on their bloodline through the Embrace!

After the Yongle Encyclopedia flowed into the West, the vampire lineage led by Dracula and its money laws coincided, giving rise to the "capitalist" path.

Before the Yongle Encyclopedia, ancient vampires were divided into several ranks, named:

Baron, Viscount, Earl, Marquis, Duke, Prince, True Ancestor, Founding Ancestor, Blood Emperor.

However, after the Yongle Encyclopedia, a complete transformation took place.

Because of its connection to money, Adam Smith, the Blood King of vampires, and his successor Alfred Marshall, both researched the so-called nature of money.

In the research of economists such as Adam Smith, labor is considered to be one of the core elements of value creation.

Money (currency) often serves as a quantifiable representation and medium of exchange for the results of labor, with workers receiving wages by selling their labor power.

Therefore, obtaining a large amount of money is closer to the essence of vampire than obtaining blood.

Therefore, the ancient vampire path, after coinciding with the Yongle Encyclopedia, successfully gave birth to the capitalist sequence with the concept of money.

Those who occupy the capitalist ranks are called the new generation of vampires.

Vampires, who originally relied on blood to spread their disease, are known as the old-school vampires.

Within this entirely new approach, there are three names:

Ming Jin: Middle Class

Hidden strength: Speculator

Transformation of Strength: Schemer

Bao Dan: Vampire

Gang Jin: Exploiters

See God: Monopolist

Gods and Demons: The Final Producer

……

In this tremendous transformation, the vampire received an epic-level enhancement.

Even the exploiters possess the strength of the Blood Emperor, a level of power found among ancient vampires, which is the strength of the Gang Jin (罡劲).

Of course, no one has ever reached the level of a final producer, as the conditions are too stringent.

Because the condition for its achievement is the sum total of all wealth that can be controlled by the entire human world.

The strength of one's power is also positively correlated with the amount of currency one has acquired.

Money replaced the previous concept of blood and became a more universal form of currency.

The more money you have, the stronger your power in this sequence.

Conversely, if one goes bankrupt, all power vanishes without a trace.

This time, under the pretext of a showdown between China and the West, their unexpected defeat directly resulted in a huge financial loss for them.

Money is directly and positively correlated with power, which is far more serious than draining their blood!

"Didn't you say that as long as the gene serum was combined with the bloodline of a veteran vampire, victory was assured? Where is the victory now?!"

The leader of the exploiters roared angrily at his subordinates!

This made the group of vampires in front of them tremble with fear, feeling deeply wronged.

It was supposed to be a sure thing, but who knew that the Chinese man would comprehend the true meaning of "embracing the elixir" during the battle? The probability of that was too small to even consider.

The leader of the exploiters was furious; as the current head of the Rothschild family, he had never made such a losing deal before.

In fact, if he had chosen to act as the bookmaker and profit from the profits, he could have easily reaped the benefits without lifting a finger.

However, capital accumulation often leads to speculation. This sure thing made him want to earn even more, so he directly used his own funds to enter the market, resulting in a huge loss.

After a brief moment of anger, the man forced himself to suppress his rage and said:

"Now, we must curb that detestable arrogance from the East, open up the free market, and let the winds of money blow into China!"

"I want them to spend money, make money, and be controlled by money! Eventually, the entire country will become our colony!"

"Sir, I disagree with your statement!"

A vampire gently pushed up his glasses and said:

"Sunk costs are not involved in major decisions. Although China has a vast territory, the market has not yet been formed, and there is no possibility that our goods will be consumed if they enter the market."

"Instead of spending a lot of effort developing the Chinese market, why not continue to explore interstellar space, do business with those already developed alien civilizations, and dump goods on them?"

"In order to get them to spend money, our initial construction investment was actually huge, which was not worth it."

"And for some reason, the Freemasons, the Lizard People, Germany, the United States, Japan, France... countless forces are all crowding into China, setting up concessions there. If our current economic strength continues to be hampered in China, it could bankrupt us!"

When the word "bankruptcy" was mentioned, fear was evident in the eyes of countless new-generation vampires present; it was truly terrifying.

Upon hearing the vampire's statement, the monopolist sneered:

"What do you know? Our purpose in opening up the Chinese market isn't money at all, but the Yongle Encyclopedia!"

Everyone present was stunned.

But the monopolist coldly said, "Back in the Ming Dynasty, Chinese civilization severed the connection between heaven and earth, cutting off not only the spiritual energy of China, but the spiritual energy of the entire planet, and even the universe!"

"The spiritual energy of the entire world was sealed into the Yongle Encyclopedia. From then on, there was no more magic, spiritual energy or other energies of the world. There were only the rules transformed by the Yongle Encyclopedia and the emotional energy and concepts of human beings themselves."

"Whether it's the capitalist path, the politician path, or the scholar path, they all originated from the Yongle Encyclopedia. Vampires became capitalists, and magicians became Grand Scholars. This must be related to the Eastern China."

The reason for the formation of the Yongle Encyclopedia has not yet been verified, but this only illustrates the mystery of the East, which is why countries have wanted to find out its origin.

"The so-called sequence theory is too difficult. Each path ultimately leads to only one final god, and the ritual of becoming a god is extremely difficult."

"But if one possesses the secrets of the East, perhaps one could rule the entire world!"

"For example, the Freemasons want to gradually suppress the fortunes of China and turn the East into a colony. Each force uses different methods."

"What appears to be a great victory for China has actually disrupted the balance and will attract attacks from various forces."

Rothschild said coldly, "This time, we sent Japanese martial arts masters as the vanguard for our entry into China, because they have long coveted the land of China."

"The land of cherry blossoms?" Upon hearing this, the vampires present were taken aback.

Rothschild nodded secretly, saying, "I've heard that the 'Sakura Tiger' studying in Cambridge possesses divine talent!"

"Let Japan lead the charge and wipe out the entire Chinese martial arts world!"

"But... talent is ultimately just potential. China has more than one martial artist at the Gang Jin level, and even a reclusive ancestor at the Divine level," a vampire couldn't help but say.

"It doesn't matter!" Rothschild sneered.

"Of course, someone will protect that Japanese tiger, who, under the guise of a martial arts contest, has utterly defeated the entire younger generation of China!"

At this point, he clenched his fist and said, "As for us, we'll take advantage of the chaos to collect those ancient Chinese artifacts, analyze them, and perhaps uncover the secret of the 'severing the connection between heaven and earth'!"

"As for the interstellar front, you are responsible for maintaining stability, expanding the market as much as possible, and being wary of an economic crisis."

With the words of capitalists, undercurrents are surging throughout the West.

Ye Li, far away in China, suddenly looked up at the celestial phenomena and said thoughtfully:

"A storm is brewing!"

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