novelraw Chapter 108: Two Months Later, Level 7 Life Form
Chapter 108: Two Months Later, Level 7 Life Form
Furthermore, the numerous martial arts manuals within the Money Gang were now completely under Su Yuan's possession.
In this world, martial arts manuals were not presented as text to players. Instead, they were viewed through a form of "possession."
The martial arts manuals obtained by a player could only be viewed once. During this process, their consciousness would enter the manual's space, possessing the body of the martial art's creator to comprehend their understanding of the technique and their mastery over power.
And this was precisely what Su Yuan needed the most.
If a certain martial arts manual involved the power of extreme Yang or extreme Yin...
After Su Yuan experienced this "possession," he would thoroughly comprehend its profound essence, and his understanding of the power of extreme Yang or extreme Yin would increase significantly.
Of course, since martial arts manuals offered such massive benefits to Imperial Citizen Players, they were incredibly difficult to obtain.
The primary channel was to spend a massive amount of silver to purchase them from the official channels of the Great Yong Dynasty.
Secondarily, they could also be obtained from various factions, or through certain fortuitous encounters.
The reason Saber Devil Qin Mo was willing to be recruited by the Money Gang was because Gang Leader Gu had promised him one Mid-Tier Martial Arts Manual every month.One Mid-Tier Martial Arts Manual a month offered no guarantee of its type; it was highly likely to be completely useless to Qin Mo.
Even so, Qin Mo had willingly accepted the recruitment, which clearly illustrated just how precious martial arts manuals were.
"This is your son's current location,"
Su Yuan wrote down the exact location and placed it in front of Commander Lu.
"Mount Shaoshi?"
Commander Lu's pupils shrank slightly.
The Great Chan Temple on Mount Shaoshi was a major force within the Great Yong Dynasty.
Naturally, compared to the Great Yong Dynasty at its peak, the Great Chan Temple was nothing to worry about.
A moment later.
Commander Lu walked out of the Moon Blossom Tower with a solemn expression.
Before leaving, he exchanged a few words with Gang Leader Gu.
"Gang Leader."
Seeing Su Yuan also step outside, Gang Leader Gu immediately squeezed out a smile and eagerly attached himself to him.
The order Commander Lu had given him was that, starting today, the position of Gang Leader of the Money Gang belonged to Su Yuan.
As for Gang Leader Gu, he was to follow Su Yuan's every command.
This came as a bolt from the blue for Gang Leader Gu, but he had no choice but to obey.
"Take me to the Money Gang,"
Su Yuan stated.
"Yes."
Gang Leader Gu immediately complied.
However, he suddenly stopped and asked cautiously, "Gang Leader, about this Moon Blossom Tower..."
As the Hua family's most profitable business, the Moon Blossom Tower had naturally been targeted by the Money Gang a long time ago.
As for why they had only just made their move now? That was naturally the result of a power struggle with the other two major gangs in the city.
The Money Gang was not the only one eyeing the Moon Blossom Tower; the other two gangs were as well.
After numerous rounds of maneuvering, the right to claim the Moon Blossom Tower had finally fallen into the hands of the Money Gang.
"Gang Leader..."
At this moment, the Hua Family Head walked up with weak legs.
After experiencing Commander Lu showing up at his door, the Hua Family Head had lost all hope of keeping the Moon Blossom Tower.
"From now on, my Money Gang will take fifty percent of the profits from the Moon Blossom Tower. The rest will remain under the management of your Hua family,"
Su Yuan declared.
"Ah?"
The Hua Family Head stared blankly for a moment before ecstatic joy overtook him. "Thank you, Gang Leader! Thank you, Gang Leader!"
Having half their profits taken by the Money Gang would cause a massive drop in income, but at the end of the day, he had still managed to save the business.
'The Gang Leader is truly merciful...'
Gang Leader Gu thought to himself.
Taking fifty percent of the Moon Blossom Tower's profits was not much lower than the total revenue they would have gained from taking over the tower completely.
After all, if the Money Gang took over the Moon Blossom Tower, they would definitely incur their own management costs, along with various other overhead expenses.
But a mosquito may be small, but it's still meat. In Gang Leader Gu's eyes, bleeding the Moon Blossom Tower dry was the only proper course of action.
Su Yuan glanced at Hua Ying'er, who was secretly watching him from a distance. He said nothing more and headed straight for the Money Gang Headquarters.
Sparing the Hua family wasn't just because of Hua Ying'er.
The most crucial point was that, compared to the Money Gang, the profits of the Moon Blossom Tower were practically nothing.
The true pillars of the Money Gang were its casinos! Its brothels!
The Moon Blossom Tower? That was merely to add icing to the cake.
Inside the Money Gang Headquarters.
Su Yuan sat cross-legged, looking at the roughly ten kilograms of gold in front of him.
Ten kilograms of gold was equivalent to a thousand kilograms of silver. The latter would pile up like a small mountain and was highly inconvenient to carry, which was why true elites always used gold.
This was also the spare funds left within the Money Gang after deducting various expenses and tributes.
As the Gang Leader, Su Yuan had absolute authority over its disposal.
"Put it into the inventory, then deposit it into the Money House."
Su Yuan immediately began the process.
The Money House in the Void Shattering world functioned like a bank. Players had to deposit their gold and silver into the Money House before they could exchange it for real-world currency.
Whoosh!
On his Money House account, Su Yuan's balance increased by ten kilograms of gold.
"Exchange for Azure Surge Coins."
Su Yuan initiated the next operation.
Ding!
The ten kilograms of gold were smoothly exchanged for two million Azure Surge Coins and transferred into Su Yuan's account.
With those two million Azure Surge Coins, combined with the remaining eight hundred thousand Azure Surge Coins from clearing the ten-layer labyrinth,
Su Yuan's current personal assets skyrocketed to 2.8 million in one fell swoop.
"I can finally go on a proper shopping spree,"
a smile emerged on Su Yuan's face.
Ever since the application to be integrated into the empire's administration was approved, Blue Star's exact coordinates had appeared on the map of the Canglan Cosmic Human Empire.
Any faction could look up Blue Star, as long as they had the intent.
Because of this, it was naturally possible to make purchases and have merchants deliver the goods to Blue Star based on its coordinates.
'If I rely solely on Blue Star's resources, going from a Level 6 Life Form to a Level 7 Life Form will take me five years.'
'From a Level 7 Life Form to Level 8, it would take ten years. From Level 8 to Level 9, twenty years.'
'And from a Level 9 Life Form to a Level 10 Starry Sky Lifeform? That is a qualitative change. It would be virtually impossible without at least a hundred years.'
Su Yuan thought to himself.
This was assuming he followed the perfect cultivation plan formulated by the gray mirror, wasting not a single drop of resources, and avoiding being trapped by any bottlenecks.
Blue Star's resources were simply too barren. Although a few precious mineral veins had emerged, those veins offered no benefit to his cultivation.
Furthermore, this was also partly because Su Yuan practiced the Six Dimensions cultivation method, which demanded a far greater amount of resources than lower-tier methods.
However, after integrating with the universe, he could purchase countless cosmic resources, causing his cultivation speed to naturally skyrocket.
By utilizing cosmic resources, the time it would take for Su Yuan to step from a Level 6 Life Form to a Level 7 Life Form was a mere two months.
And those two months were not in universal time, but Blue Star's time.
Two months were equivalent to what would have been five years of cultivation results!
"I'll buy this, and I'll buy this too!"
Su Yuan opened the official resource website of the Canglan Cosmic Human Empire and began purchasing cultivation resources suited for the Level 6 Life Form stage.
A short while later.
After spending 1.8 million Azure Surge Coins, Su Yuan had finally bought all the necessary resources for his Level 6 Life Form stage.
Trading 1.8 million Azure Surge Coins for five years of arduous cultivation on Blue Star? To Su Yuan, this was an incredibly profitable bargain.
The Six Dimensions cultivation method meant that with every transformation Su Yuan underwent, his Six Dimensions would elevate alongside it. His cultivation speed would increase, his comprehension would heighten, and then he would break through ahead of schedule once again... It formed a virtuous cycle.
He was saving far more than just five years.
Moreover, having seized the Money Gang as his current cash cow, Su Yuan wouldn't be short on money anytime soon. Not to mention, he still had the Crystal of Eternal Darkness, worth hundreds of millions, completely untouched.
"The fastest will arrive in five days, the slowest in half a month..."
Su Yuan glanced at the estimated delivery times and nodded slightly.
This was much more efficient than the Multi-eyed Clan's Interstellar Colonial Ship.
Of course, the reason the Multi-eyed Clan's Interstellar Colonial Ship was so slow was because they wanted to conserve resources and hadn't initiated faster-than-light travel.
Having finished purchasing his cultivation resources, Su Yuan logged back into the Void Shattering world. Flash!
Su Yuan stood up and made his way to the Money Gang's Scripture Repository.
This place housed the thirty-five martial arts manuals the Money Gang had acquired.
In the Void Shattering world, once an Imperial Citizen Player viewed a martial arts manual through "possession," it would automatically be destroyed.
For native residents, however, manuals could be viewed multiple times. It was just that native residents needed to slowly comprehend and learn from them bit by bit, which could never compare to Imperial Citizen Players directly "possessing" the creator and achieving great completion in a short amount of time.
'Out of these thirty-five martial arts manuals, only three are of any use to me.'
Su Yuan thought to himself.
For Imperial Citizen Players, there was another issue when it came to comprehending martial arts manuals: they couldn't be sure beforehand whether a specific manual would actually be useful to them.
For example, if a player who studied the power of wind obtained a metal-attribute manual, they might improve their understanding of Five Elements Metal, but it wouldn't offer the slightest help to their main focus on the power of wind.
This made things incredibly awkward.
What was the point of viewing a martial arts manual obtained at a tremendous cost?
It was useful.
And yet, useless at the same time.
Naturally, this problem posed no difficulty for Su Yuan.
Through the gray mirror, he already knew exactly which three of the Money Gang's thirty-five martial arts manuals belonged to the extreme Yang and extreme Yin attributes.
Swish!
Su Yuan retrieved three martial arts manuals from the Scripture Repository.
He then returned to his Cultivation Chamber.
These three martial arts manuals.
Were namely—
"Vajra Fist"
"Flower Intertwined Steps"
"Roaming Dragon Palm"
Among them, "Vajra Fist" and "Roaming Dragon Palm" were Extreme Yang Attribute martial arts manuals.
"Flower Intertwined Steps" was an Extreme Yin Attribute martial arts manual.
All three were Mid-Tier Martial Arts Manuals.
"Let's begin viewing."
Su Yuan directly opened the "Vajra Fist" manual.
Buzz— The moment the manual was opened, Su Yuan's mind and will manifested in a space entirely surrounded by darkness.
In the center of this space stood a burly man, bare-chested.
"The 'Vajra Fist' I created is the zenith of fierce Yang. Even against thousands of enemies, a single punch is all it takes..."
At that moment, Su Yuan possessed this burly man, meticulously sensing everything around him.
'This person's physical fitness has also reached the standard of a Level 1 Life Form,' Su Yuan thought to himself.
Right at that moment.
The burly man began to demonstrate the fist technique.
Rumble!
With every punch the burly man threw, an endless, fierce Yang aura filled the air, even causing the power of extreme Yang between heaven and earth to resonate with it.
'This is?'
Su Yuan's mind surged with excitement. 'So the power of extreme Yang can be used like this? Forming extreme Yang into a fist? Smashing through everything?'
Possessing the burly man, Su Yuan could experience everything the other party felt. He rapidly fully comprehended the "Vajra Fist".
Of course, for Su Yuan, fully comprehending "Vajra Fist" wasn't that big of a gain. The critical part was the creator's fundamental understanding of the essence of extreme Yang power.
'Extreme Yang is not just sharpness; it is also fierce and unyielding...'
Su Yuan immersed himself in the revelations of the possession.
An hour later.
Su Yuan opened his eyes.
Rustle...
The original copy of the "Vajra Fist" before him turned into ash and vanished into thin air.
Martial arts manuals that had been comprehended by an Imperial Citizen Player would automatically disappear.
"Is it over?"
Su Yuan glanced at the two remaining martial arts manuals in front of him.
Deep within his sea of consciousness, he asked the gray mirror, "How much has my comprehension of the extreme Yang power reached now?"
The gray mirror's surface rippled obscurely.
[39%]
"My comprehension increased by 3%."
A smile blossomed on Su Yuan's face.
Before viewing the "Vajra Fist", his comprehension of the extreme Yang power had been stuck at 36%.
'No wonder the gray mirror indicated that one of the best methods to comprehend the power of extreme Yang and extreme Yin was inside this game world...'
Su Yuan felt deeply delighted.
"Let's keep going."
Su Yuan once again began comprehending the remaining two martial arts manuals.
Two hours later.
[Life Level: Level 6 (3%)]
[Cultivation Method: Six Dimensions]
[Sacred Method: Mind Brand]
[Spear Technique: "Thirty-six Forms of Ultimate Yang" Perfection]
[Spear Technique: "Thirty-six Forms of Ultimate Yin" Perfection]
[Power of Extreme Yang: 41%]
[Power of Extreme Yin: 39%]
[Combat Bonus: 780%]
Three martial arts manuals had boosted Su Yuan's comprehension of the extreme Yang power by 5%, his comprehension of extreme Yin power by 3%, and his combat bonus had surged from 710% to 780%.
'This speed of improvement is practically equivalent to a minor sudden enlightenment...'
Su Yuan sighed with profound emotion.
Of course, Su Yuan reaping such massive gains was purely an isolated case that would be incredibly difficult to replicate.
It was nearly impossible for an Imperial Citizen Player to take over a faction like the Money Gang. Even if they were an expert of the Top Three Ranks who could easily suppress Green Xiang City's Commander Lu,
it would inevitably draw out even stronger experts from the Great Yong Dynasty, and they would end up dead regardless.
Even a First Rank expert would find it incredibly difficult to survive if they stood in opposition to the Great Yong Dynasty.
This was also part of the game's background setting; at this current stage, absolutely no one could stand against the Great Yong Dynasty.
Only someone like Su Yuan—who used Commander Lu's son as a bargaining chip, combined with Commander Lu's immense value on honoring promises—could successfully take control of the Money Gang.
Looking across the nine provinces of the Great Yong Dynasty, there weren't many opportunities like this. This was also one of the best possible starting scenarios Su Yuan had obtained from the gray mirror.
'If Mid-Tier Martial Arts Manuals have such an incredible effect, then what about Superior-grade Martial Arts Manuals?'
Su Yuan gathered his thoughts, wondering inwardly.
Currently, all the martial arts manuals housed by the Money Gang were limited to the mid-tier.
As for Superior-grade Martial Arts Manuals? Those were profound secrets that only experts of the Top Three Ranks were qualified to comprehend. There were only three in the entirety of Green Xiang City, and ordinary Fourth Rank experts didn't even have the right to know about them.
'What a pity...'
Su Yuan shook his head slightly. He actually knew the detailed information about those three Superior-grade Martial Arts Manuals, but unfortunately, they weren't of the extreme Yang or extreme Yin attributes, so they wouldn't be of much use to him.
Time flowed by.
In the blink of an eye, two months passed.
Tens of thousands of meters underground, there lay a cavernous space comparable in size to several football fields.
In the center of this space sat a figure cross-legged.
Just sitting there, the aura this figure exuded was overwhelmingly terrifying. The scorching heat waves it generated caused the surrounding temperature to spike drastically, and a suffocating overpowering aura permeated in all directions.
An unknown amount of time passed.
The figure silently opened his eyes.
"Level 7..."
A smile graced Su Yuan's face.
"It's done!"