Chapter 1188: In High Spirits on a Happy Occasion

With the matters at You’an Mansion concluded, Su Yue returned to West Martial. Sima Lingling originally intended to take Su Yue to a Daoist sect for a spiritual retreat. However, due to Lu Jianghao’s physical condition, she couldn’t leave West Martial, so Su Yue’s matters had to be temporarily shelved.

Naturally, she warned Su Yue not to run around, or she wouldn’t forgive him. As for whether he would actually listen, she had no control over that. This kid was a sweet talker, but he never left himself a way out whenever he went to the Wet Realm to court death.

Ma Xiaoyu was still cultivating, feeling quite depressed. Su Yue also decided to cultivate. He planned to break through to Rank Five first; he truly wasn’t going to run around this time.

Available Diligence Points: 80,101

1: Sleep Pardon

2: Price of Love (Next use: 5,700 Diligence Points)

3: Save Your Dog Life

4: Separation of Human and Ghost

5: Wretched Invisibility

6: Deaf and Blind

Qi Blood Value: 3,941 cal.

Opening the system, Su Yue used a long-neglected skill to exchange for 15 cal of Qi Blood. He was already very close to the 4,000-cal mark.

In truth, if he had any other choice, Su Yue was somewhat reluctant to use the system to increase his Qi Blood. Even though upgrading it this way was convenient and exhilarating, all the laziness he indulged in would come back to haunt him when breaking through realm barriers. His barriers would be much tougher than others’, and he would end up wasting a lot of time regardless.

Su Yue had reflected on this when he was alone. He figured the true purpose of Diligence Points might not be for grinding Qi Blood at all. As for the skill ‘Price of Love,’ its more significant meaning might lie in the ability to temporarily disable a limb. At the very least, if Su Yue wanted to execute the peerless combat technique, Demon Bewitchment, he had to blind both of his eyes. From this perspective, a temporary disability was more like a form of protection.

After exchanging for his Qi Blood, Su Yue opened the Martial Arts Network. With a massive sum of 900 million in his account, he naturally felt no heartache over spending it. He specifically targeted the most expensive elixirs. You get what you pay for; that rule was never wrong.

The Elixir Group constantly updated its inventory, and many luxury-grade elixirs with special effects emerged endlessly. Even after paying a luxury tax, Su Yue could access import websites to purchase elixirs from other countries. Of course, he also had to bear exorbitant national tariffs.

In the past, Su Yue might have felt the pinch, but now he was the wealthy Su Shiyi. Hoarding money was meaningless; cultivating his Qi Blood was the top priority. To reach 4,000 cal even one day earlier, Su Yue was willing to pay any price.

After an afternoon of frantic shopping, Su Yue spent a staggering 120 million to finally assemble the most luxurious Rank Five elixir combination currently available in the world. The dazzling array of elixirs spanned various countries across the globe. He even mixed imported and domestic versions of the highly expensive impurity-cleansing elixirs. This way, the drug resistance problem that plagued Martial Artists could be easily resolved.

The reason various countries didn’t import elixirs from one another in large quantities was the fear of sabotage by the Yangxiang Race, along with issues of incompatibility. Su Yue had already used his wealth to make the exporting countries manage these risks. Wide-scale use would inevitably lead to danger, which was exactly why countries didn’t exchange elixirs in bulk. There was no helping it; the costs were simply too high.

However, within certain internal financial conglomerates, such elixir exchanges still occurred, and they had even resulted in quite a few catastrophic incidents. The Yangxiang Sect’s infiltration of other countries on Earth was far more severe than imagined.

Naturally, these matters had nothing to do with Su Yue for the time being.

By the time he finished his shopping spree, it was already late at night.

Su Yue opened the Martial Arts Network again. He wanted to find a dagger-based close-combat technique, ideally one where he could ‘kill a man every ten paces, and leave no trace over a thousand miles.’ The kind where he could ‘brush off his clothes and depart after the deed was done, deeply hiding his identity and name.’ But after browsing for a long time, he still had no leads.

The web pages selling combat techniques on the Martial Arts Network updated rapidly, but it still came down to the issue of popularity. Currently, Divine Land Martial Artists were an unstoppable force, slaughtering with great enthusiasm in the Wet Realm. The most popular combat techniques involved either long sabers, spears, or lances, followed by Swordsmanship, which was exclusively used for showing off. Dagger techniques were even rarer than heavy axe techniques.

It made sense. The cost-effectiveness of dagger techniques was pitifully low. Martial Artists spent massive amounts of time cultivating techniques, and not everyone possessed Su Yue’s astonishing level of comprehension. They had to use their limited time to train in the most effective combat techniques. Thus, this resulted in a booming market for saber techniques.

Dagger techniques were ill-suited for the battlefield, so the Research Institute hadn’t dedicated much effort to studying them. Crucially, the same problem existed in the Wet Realm. Among the alien techniques seized by Divine Land, dagger techniques were pitifully scarce. Even the few that did exist were useless junk.

Su Yue browsed through numerous combat techniques listed for sale but wasn’t satisfied. He wasn’t particularly pleased with the few dagger techniques available either. They simply couldn’t bring out the true power of the Black Droplet.

Unknowingly, dawn had already broken.

Yet Su Yue’s mind was a chaotic mess. He still didn’t have a single clue regarding his choice of combat technique.

The weather outside was nice. Unable to find a suitable technique, Su Yue simply closed the Martial Arts Network. By this time, many West Martial students were gradually heading to class. Since Su Yue had no classes, he strolled around the campus, planning to grab some breakfast. Despite being a university student, it seemed he had barely eaten at the West Martial Cafeteria.

The cafeteria wasn’t particularly lively. The Martial Artists were all in a hurry, quickly stuffing their faces before immediately rushing off to cultivate. Naturally, Su Yue’s presence caused a minor stir in the cafeteria. Many Martial Artists made a special trip just to catch a glimpse of him before reluctantly leaving.