Invincible Cat Paw

Of course, Chu Ke wasn't going to stand around with them for a hundred days. He stepped out of the little world and began adjusting its timeline.

At once, V and David's training began fast-forwarding like a short video clip.

For the first three days, the two relied on their willpower to endure. Since their physical strength would not be depleted, it became a contest of patience.

In this world of endless grasslands, where not even mosquitoes existed, there was no internet and no entertainment. No normal person from an age of information overload could withstand such torture.

Fortunately, both had their own reasons to persist. David wanted to protect the people he cared about, and he did not want to disappoint Chu Ke. Even after stopping to rest time and again, he could still stand up and continue.

V was different. Chu Ke had expected him to give up often and need David to push him along, but V actually rested even less than David did.

As a transmigrator and the leader of the Multiverse Chat Group, V had seen the vastness of countless worlds. Naturally, he had no desire to remain trapped in this world for the rest of his life. The power of cyberware was limited, but the seeds of power Chu Ke had given them held infinite potential.

The hundred days passed quickly. When Chu Ke entered the little world again, the two were still holding increasingly standard horse stances, their eyes vacant.

Experiments had shown that people quickly broke down in silent environments. V and David had only remained lucid because they had each other. Even so, their minds were now nearing their limits.

Chu Ke snapped his fingers. The next instant, both of them dropped onto their asses, sucking in cold breaths like drowning men who had finally reached shore.

Chu Ke nodded. His guess had been correct. Their ability to accept cyberware was fundamentally also proof of powerful Spiritual Power, allowing them to retain their sense of self even after having large amounts of cyberware implanted.

People like that could reach a respectable height in any power system they chose.

"Whew, I'm alive! Chu Ge, do you have any cola?" The instant Chu Ke snapped his fingers, V felt his previous mental exhaustion recede like the tide. The hundred days of grueling training became hazy like a dream—unless he actively recalled them, they seemed not to have existed, but if he thought carefully, every detail was vivid.

Chu Ke conjured a bottle of cola out of thin air and tossed it over. V bit the cap off with his teeth, took a huge gulp, and let out a satisfied cry.

"What about you? Want something?" Chu Ke looked at David.

"Can I have ramen, Brother Chu?" David hesitated for a moment. He did not like the taste of cola, and after several days without food, his mouth felt completely bland.

Chu Ke casually conjured a bowl for him as well.

As for cooking himself? Sorry, unless Chu Ke was eating too, no one got that kind of treatment.

As the food entered their stomachs, the two felt their bodies frantically break it down into energy. A current of "qi" surged from their hearts, flowed throughout their bodies, and gathered in the Dantian below their abdomens.

This was the domineering aspect of the martial arts Chu Ke had developed. Through a method similar to memetic contamination, it allowed those who learned it to grow the corresponding meridians out of thin air, enabling them to generate and wield the appropriate energy.

"Whoa! So this is Inner Force?" David curiously began circulating it, like a child who had found a new toy.

As David directed his Inner Force into his arm, the muscles in his hand immediately swelled with blood, growing a full size larger as his strength greatly increased.

V had it much worse. Because so much of his body had been converted into cyberware, his Inner Force could not circulate through him for the time being. It could only strengthen the remaining flesh-and-blood parts of his body.

For now, he could only watch David play with his Inner Force in envy.

But the good times did not last. The next second, David let out a "Wah!" and sprayed blood from his mouth before collapsing to the ground, vomiting blood like a fountain.

"There's a proper method for circulating qi. If you circulate it incorrectly, you'll suffer internal injuries. At best, you'll cough up blood. At worst, your body will explode and you'll die." Chu Ke slightly reversed David's time, restoring him to normal.

"Ha... ha... ha..." David sat up and gasped for breath. The pain of every blood vessel in his body seeming to burst under high pressure had thoroughly scared him straight. He no longer dared to mess around with Inner Force.

V suppressed a laugh beside him. Serves you right for showing off. Now look what happened.

Chu Ke checked his watch. "Only a little over an hour has passed outside. We have plenty of time."

"Next, I'll teach you the basics of training and combat."

"Kung fu is divided into training methods and combat methods. Training methods are for everyday cultivation; they strengthen the body and increase Inner Force. Combat methods are kung fu used against enemies."

"Training methods are further divided into many kinds. Different methods produce different effects. What I'm teaching you now is a Cultivation Technique focused on speed."

With that, Chu Ke pulled out a secret manual.

David and V leaned in curiously and saw the words "Sandevistan Speed Cultivation Method" written on it.

"..." David scratched the back of his head, feeling that it sounded oddly familiar.

"...Militech won't sue you, will they?" V was speechless. Seeing how calm Chu Ke was, he could tell this was far from the first time he had plagiarized something.

"If they dare sue me, I'll hit them with a Super Shinra Tensei." When individual power reached a certain level, the law was no different from scrap paper.

"...Your fist is bigger, so you're right."

Seeing that no one objected, Chu Ke continued his explanation. "This Cultivation Technique can strengthen your neural reflexes, muscle response, and other abilities. It has five levels in total."

"Beginner: reduces your perception of time by 10%; Novice: reduces it by 40%; Proficient: reduces it by 70%, and can be kept active all day; Master: reduces it by 90%, with no side effects; Transcendent: no upper limit, depending on the user's potential."

"Wow! That's amazing!" David's eyes immediately lit up as he stared at the peerless martial art.

V, however, caught the issue in Chu Ke's words. "You mentioned side effects?"

"That's right." Chu Ke added, "Using it before reaching the Master level will bring certain side effects, including but not limited to dizziness, vomiting, nosebleeds, and tendon ruptures."

V nodded. Indeed, a peerless martial art like this having some side effects was perfectly normal. It was completely acceptable.

Besides, from the sound of it, those side effects merely meant one could not withstand the Cultivation Technique's power. So it was not a flaw in the technique—it was a flaw in the user.

"Next are the combat methods. At present, there are only these two." Chu Ke pulled out two more secret manuals. "Pick one each."

"Invincible Cat Paw," "Tomato Scrambled Egg Fist."

"Holy shit, that's insane!" V looked at Chu Ke with a complicated expression. "I take back what I said. You should go ahead and infringe on Militech's copyright."

"Your influences are way too mixed."

David also fell silent. Even if the martial art was not called Buddha's Palm, he had imagined it would at least have an imposing name, like the "Five Tigers Severing Gate Saber" or "Heart-Digging Hand" he often saw when searching online.

What kind of name was Invincible Cat Paw?! Calling out that move in a fight would put him at a disadvantage from the start!

"Don't you think it would be incredibly humiliating to be beaten to death by Invincible Cat Paw?" Chu Ke said lightly.

V and David were struck as if by lightning, suddenly enlightened.

The next instant, their faces turned resolute, and they reached for the manuals almost simultaneously.

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