Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
It was not humiliating to lower one’s head before knowledge.
After half a year, many people had joined Storm of Swords. There were two thousand people in the chat room and many of them were often active.
Somebody soon responded to Baili Qingfeng’s request. The atmosphere was rather heated.
“I want the technique too!”
“Same here.”
“Same here. That’s three of us…”
“Same here. That’s nineteen of us…”
“Alright, stop fooling around. The purpose of our forum is to help everyone in need. Since our friend Baili Hengjing needs something, we should try to help him.”
Then, Gentleman’s Sword, the moderator, showed up. “Defense techniques are a major category in cultivation. A few hundred years ago, there were plenty of defense techniques, but after the development of modern technologies, they are much less valuable. After all, no defense can be better than the armors made of special metals. So, many such techniques have been lost.”
Armors.
When a martial fighter reached the war level, he or she would have two choices. One was to continue polishing the body and become king of the battlefield in armors, and the other was to condense internal breath and turn into an envoy of death at the critical moment.
Defense techniques did not affect internal breath but most people who cultivated defense techniques went to the battlefield later. After the war armors were invented, the sturdy body built by the defense techniques had replacements. That was why few practiced defense techniques these days.
“Do you have any recommendations, moderator?”
“I know of three powerful defense techniques — the Gold Sun Physique, the Celestial Fiend Physique, and the Bright King Physique. Each of them can resist small guns the hard way. The Gold Sun Physique is from the Aurora Empire, the Celestial Fiend Physique can be found in the underworld, and the Bright King Physique is a secret in the Sand Ocean.” Gentleman’s Sword said, adding, “Defense techniques are not as valuable as before because of war armors, but it’s not easy to pick up the best of them. If you want to practice any of them, the Unbreakable Body or the Iron Essence Art on the forum is not bad at all. Particularly, the Iron Essence Art, which has the Silver Essence Art and the Gold Essence Art above. However, we don’t know when the founder can steal… well, get it from his house for us.”
“Thank you, Gentleman’s Sword,” Baili Qingfeng thanked him sincerely.
He did not even know the names of those techniques, much less how to obtain them.
He probably needed to ask his second-grandpa to see if he had any channels.
“Clink.”
Baili Qingfeng was about to turn off the computer when a message popped up. “Do you need state-of-the-art defense techniques, my friend? As it happens, I have what you need. Since we are both on Storm of Swords, I can lower the price for you.”
Baili Qingfeng checked the guy’s nickname. It was ‘Below the Qingcheng Mountain’.
However, the way he spoke seemed familiar to Baili Qingfeng.
“What is it that you are selling?”
“The Celestial Fiend Physique!”
“How much is it?”
“Ten million!”
Looking at his offer, Baili Qingfeng typed in ‘one million’ instinctively.
Thankfully, before he sent the message, the guy’s new message had already arrived. “However, as I said before, we are friends who are both interested in martial arts. Therefore, I’ll give you a 90% discount. I’m selling it for one million!”
Therefore…
Baili Qingfeng deleted what he typed.
“I have only a hundred thousand with me. Can you reserve it for me until I save enough money?”
“A hundred thousand…”
The martial fighter named Below the Qingcheng Mountain paused. “How much can you save every month?”
“I’m a student. I need to go to school every day and I can only work at night. However, I’m very capable. I saved six thousand last year.”
“What about your family? You can’t afford martial arts if your family isn’t rich.”
“My family owes more than four hundred thousand,” Baili Qingfeng said, trying to show his sincerity. “Everything I said is true. I swear to God that I should be struck by lightning if I lied.”
“A hundred thousand, so be it. Fate has arranged for us to meet in such a tiny forum. You can come to Niu City. I’ll tell you the location to carry out the deal.”
“Niu City? In the Feitian State in the north? I’m from a small place next to Shire City in the Xiahai State down south. I’ve never been somewhere so far away before. It takes three days for me to go there by train. I can’t skip classes. Can you come to Shire?”
“Are you really a student?”
“I’m a sophomore of the Department of Sociology at Shire University.”
“Show me your student card.”
“Alright.”
Baili Qingfeng took a photo with the camera and specified its usage on it before he sent it to the guy with the username Below the Qingcheng Mountain.
Looking at the young face on the student card, the guy was convinced.
“In that case, I’ll go to Shire City. I’ll contact you after I arrive.”
“Alright,” Baili Qingfeng agreed with delight.
A hundred thousand was rather costly.
However, according to Gentleman’s Sword, it was one of the best defense techniques. Buying the gun-resisting technique with a hundred thousand bucks…
It was definitely worth it!
“Below the Qingcheng Mountain is a good guy. He’s willing to sell me something worth ten million for only a hundred thousand. I need to treat him to dinner,” Baili Qingfeng thought.
After the problem with the defense techniques was settled, Baili Qingfeng relaxed.
He turned off the computer and started reading before the desk.
A moment later, he closed the book again.
It was a book on the philosophy of science.
“I picked the wrong major.” Baili Qingfeng found it hard to read the book. “It’s not my fault; it’s the book’s fault.”
So, he picked up another book. It was the latest book on electromagnetism and electrodynamics.
The book was obviously based on Maxwell’s theories and a book on the fundamentals of electromagnetism.
As for quantum electrodynamics…
It did not seem to exist in this world.
Or maybe there was, but Baili Qingfeng had no access to such top academic journals yet.
Baili Qingfeng read the book patiently.
The electrical properties of matter, electrostatic field conductors, vector p, Gauss theorem, loop theorem, electric displacement vector…
Both books and martial arts were necessary.
Baili Qingfeng had clear plans about his life.
When he was tired of reading books, he put them down and came to the hall.
The hall had been completely changed after his modification. There were plenty of wires, resistors, electroscopes, and massive batteries.
Baili Qingfeng sat on a cushion at the center of the circuits. He turned on the camera and aimed it at the electroscope. Then, he began to practice the Thunderous Juggernaut Method.
Cultivation was a long and difficult journey. Now that he had decided to walk on that path, Baili Qingfeng certainly wouldn’t slack off.
After three hours of training, Baili Qingfeng sensed something.
Another three hours passed, and he opened his eyes again with a smile.
“I’ve reached the sixth level of the Thunderous Juggernaut Method…”