?? Martial Arts Tournament (The Renovation Next Door Is Fucking Noisy! Up the Mountain!)

As an old man well-read in Wuxia novels, Fang Zheng naturally knew how to become famous in the shortest possible time.

First, you needed an unusual weapon if you wanted people to remember you.

Ghost-head sabers, longswords, and other overly common weapons were best avoided. Looking across Wuxia novels, eight out of ten famous martial artists used custom-made weapons. Forget Golden Snake Swords and Dragon Slaying Sabers—that bar was too high—but Judge's Brushes, crutches, throwing knives... those were the truly distinctive things.

After all, not everyone could be like Ximen Chuixue and Ye Gucheng, announcing their weapons' stats before getting into a fight.

Modern society was the same. When people saw someone change equipment, who looked at the stats first? Of course they looked at the appearance before the stats.

So looks were more important than anything else.

Fang Zheng had followed the example of those predecessors and chosen a fan as his weapon—a particularly flashy White Jade Fan. The entire fan was carved from pure jade and painted with landscapes and beauties. One look was enough to tell it was extraordinary.

Once you had a flashy weapon, the next thing was naturally your record. Just like in online games, no matter how flashy your equipment was, you still had to make a name for yourself through PVP. Fang Zheng had naturally shown no mercy, sightseeing along the way while conveniently killing off bands of mountain bandits and thieves. Of course, given Great Han's public security, the underworld sects found in Wuxia novels definitely could not exist—after all, if you wanted to establish a mountain sect, the imperial court would first send people to inspect your permits and tax payments, then demand that you obey the law and refrain from violations.

What? You said you were from the underworld? You