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"Phew, that took a lot of energy."

Having dealt with five late-stage Tier 1 beasts and one peak Tier 1 beast in one go, Su Ming exhaled a breath of cold air.

Even though he deliberately controlled the power of his ability, the attack just now still consumed about 5% of his mental energy.

Although Su Ming's S-rank ability "Ice Crown" has a combat power amplification of up to 50 times, allowing Su Ming to have combat power no weaker than a late-stage second-tier martial artist.

However, Su Ming's mental strength was only 30 points. According to the mental strength level classification, Su Ming was only a mid-stage first-tier awakener. Compared with a true late-stage second-tier martial artist, Su Ming's endurance was much worse.

"After I get back, I'll use the money I earn to buy a handy weapon and fight these ferocious beasts with my bare hands. That way I can accumulate some combat experience. I can't keep using my superpowers to kill them instantly, otherwise my mental energy will be exhausted and I'll be in danger in this cave."

After roughly assessing the mental energy consumed by his attack, Su Ming shook his head and sighed before taking his dagger and stepping forward to collect materials from the Bloodfang Wolf and Silver-haired Boar.

After collecting the materials, Su Ming continued his investigation.

He easily killed all the ferocious beasts he encountered along the way using his supernatural abilities, and accumulated more and more enhancement points.

However, after Su Ming's mental energy was depleted by half, he stopped going deeper and returned the way he came.

Although he had only been in the underground cave for half a day, Su Ming's large hiking backpack was already packed full.

Because he killed too many ferocious beasts, Su Ming only kept the 20 pairs of sharp-toothed rat fangs needed for the Martial Artists Association mission. He discarded all the materials from the other ferocious beasts that were below the first tier and in the late stage.

All the materials in Su Ming's backpack were from late-stage Tier 1 or higher ferocious beasts, including materials from two early-stage Tier 2 ferocious beasts.

It wasn't until Su Ming returned to the Linjiang City Martial Arts Association with his spoils from Cave No. 3 and sold all the materials that his account had a total of 403000 credits.

The most valuable items are the materials from the two early-stage Tier 2 ferocious beasts, the Iron Wall Ape and the Shadow Cat, which are worth 300,000 credits.

"Earning 40 in half a day? Making money is really easy for martial artists!"

Looking at the 400,000 credits that had arrived in his account, Su Ming sighed with emotion.

Back then, he worked part-time as a sparring partner at the Extreme Martial Arts Academy, and even after a month of hard work, he only earned 2500 credits.

He now earns in half a day what he used to earn in over a decade of part-time work.

"Let's check if we have any weapons that can withstand the attack!"

With the money, Su Ming immediately headed towards the area where the Martial Arts Association sold weapons.

"Black Iron Spear: Grade E weapon, made entirely of black iron, price: 10 credits."

"Fire Rhinoceros Blade: Grade D weapon, crafted from the horn of a second-tier peak ferocious beast, the Fire Rhinoceros, and a fire copper alloy. Price: 95 credits."

"Fish Scale Gun: Grade D weapon, made of Miluo Alloy with added white phosphorus fish bone powder from a second-tier peak ferocious beast, Price: 100 million credits."

……

Looking at the various weapons displayed in the weapons showcase, Su Ming's lips twitched slightly.

He suddenly realized that he had spoken too soon.

A single D-grade weapon can easily cost a million credits, and right now he only has enough funds to buy the lowest-level F-grade weapon.

After looking at the weapons, Su Ming then looked at the various martial arts techniques sold by the Martial Arts Association, as well as meditation methods suitable for Awakened Ones to cultivate.

However, he discovered that even D-level martial arts required 100 million credits, and the meditation technique was several times more expensive than other martial arts of the same level. Su Ming couldn't afford either of them at the moment.

In the end, Su Ming only bought one black iron spear, and then used the remaining credits to buy 10 spirit pills and 20 doses of qi and blood powder.

"I thought 40 was a lot, but now I can't even afford the things I want. It turns out the rumors about martial artists spending a lot of money are true!"

Su Ming watched as the huge sum of money that had just been deposited into his account dwindled to a mere 3000 in the blink of an eye. He sighed deeply before taking a car home.

Once he arrived at his building, Su Ming ate at a restaurant downstairs before going upstairs.

As soon as he entered the house, Su Ming put down his backpack and spear, took out the jade bottle containing 10 spirit pills, poured out one spirit pill and swallowed it.

An hour and a half later, the jade bottle in Su Ming's hand was empty; he had swallowed all 10 spirit pills.

After consuming 10 spirit pills, Su Ming's spirit attribute directly reached 32.2.

"My mental attribute increased by 2 points, awesome!"

"However, it seems that swallowing 10 spirit pills at once is my current limit. It seems that the situation of rapidly improving my spirit attribute by taking a large number of spirit pills as I expected will not happen. What a pity."

The increase in his mental attributes made Su Ming feel refreshed, but he also felt a sense of saturation in his sea of ​​consciousness, making him realize that he was almost at his limit after swallowing 10 mental pills in one go.

Upon learning this, Su Ming's joy diminished considerably, and he couldn't help but sigh.

Little did he know that others, even those who were also S-level Awakened Abilities, could only swallow a maximum of three Spirit Pills at the first level, less than half of what he could take.

Shaking his head, Su Ming took out another dose of Qi and Blood Powder, swallowed it, and quickly began practicing the Body Tempering Technique.

He cultivated from noon until nightfall, a total of 6 hours, consuming 6 portions of Qi and Blood Powder. The floor beneath Su Ming's feet was soaked with sweat.

Su Ming only stopped cultivating when his cell phone rang at home.

"Brother, it's me. Starting today, our school will be having night training for us first-year high school students. I'll be living at school from now on and won't be going home at night."

Su Ming answered the phone, and Su Xiaowei's voice came through.

"Night training? Doesn't that start in the second year of high school?" Su Ming frowned slightly upon hearing Su Xiaowei's words.

Su Xiaowei attended Linjiang No. 2 High School, but in his memory, the school's night training only started in the second year of high school.

"Hey bro, that was before, things have changed. Okay, night training's about to start, so I'll stop talking to you now, bye!"

At Linjiang No. 2 Middle School, Su Xiaowei hung up the phone and let out a guilty sigh.

"Xiaowei, your brother won't find out, will he?"

Beside her, a girl of similar age to Su Xiaowei, with a pretty face and dressed in luxurious clothes, spoke in a low voice.

"Probably not anytime soon, hehe. Let's go, starting today, you're my boss!"

Su Xiaowei put away her phone and gave the girl next to her a playful smile.

"Okay." The girl shrugged helplessly, and then the two left the school together.

As soon as she stepped out of the school gate, Su Xiaowei received two text messages on her phone.

One message is that 2000 credit points have been deposited into a bank card.

The other message was from Su Ming: Xiao Wei, eat well after night training, make sure you get enough nutrition so your blood and energy don't suffer.

Looking at the message Su Ming sent on her phone, Su Xiaowei felt a lump in her throat and quickly replied with a cute "Okay" emoji. Then she followed the girl beside her toward a high-end restaurant in the city center.