Having successfully completed the "Deal with Du Dajin" mission, Jiang Dali also received a large number of Cultivation Points and Potential Points.
A small portion of those Cultivation Points had also come from the massage missions he assigned to the players, earned whenever they enjoyed the massages.
However, this leisurely, relaxing method of cultivation could only earn around twenty Cultivation Points a day at most.
Therefore, it was simply impossible to grow stronger indefinitely through nothing but relaxation and entertainment.
"I've only accumulated 216 Cultivation Points so far. To break through from the Inner Qi Realm to the Outer Qi Realm, I still need nearly 2,800 more Cultivation Points."
Jiang Dali felt somewhat rueful. Getting stronger was truly too difficult.
Even with his current method of cultivating through players, it would take at least ten days to half a month before he could possibly break through to the Outer Qi Realm.
He gathered his thoughts.
Jiang Dali focused on the "Great Vajra Palm" that had appeared in his attribute martial arts section, his eyes gleaming.
Although this Earth-tier Martial Arts was merely an incomplete fragment of a supreme art, it was still exceedingly precious.
In his previous life, even though he had been a Gang Qi Realm expert, the strongest martial art he had learned was only the Earth-tier mid-rank martial art, "Three Immortal Sword of Life-Taking Chain."
And "Three Immortal Sword of Life-Taking Chain" had not even been a supreme art.
Jiang Dali carefully examined the three martial arts moves recorded within the incomplete fragment of "Great Vajra Palm."
These three moves combined offense and defense. Though there were only three of them, once mastered and applied in actual combat, their power would be tremendously impressive.
Jiang Dali then took out the other two rewarded martial arts manuals and examined them.
These two techniques had been gifted by A San.
"'Golden Body Skill': Human Grade High-Rank Martial Arts
Description: A prerequisite technique for Vajra Gate's external cultivation guardian arts. It was said that Huogong Toutuo, the founding patriarch of Vajra Gate in the Western Regions, had adapted and created this martial art from the 'Golden Bell Shield' he secretly learned from Shaolin Temple. Upon cultivating it to the point of consummate mastery, one may comprehend the 'Golden Bell Mysteries,' with a chance of independently comprehending the mysteries of Golden Bell Shield."
"'Wild Goose Skill': Human Grade Mid-Rank Martial Arts
Description: A lightness skill and movement technique created by an unaffiliated wanderer of the martial world, widely circulated throughout the jianghu. When activated, its user moved like a wild goose sweeping across the sky. It greatly aided long-distance travel, scaling heights, and leaping across rooftops. At the stage of minor accomplishment, one could remain airborne for two seconds; at consummate mastery, one could cross seven or eight zhang through the air."
"Two Human-tier Martial Arts. As expected of A San, someone from Vajra Gate.
"Especially this 'Golden Body Skill.' It was actually derived from Shaolin's Golden Bell Shield, one of the finest supreme external cultivation qi arts, personally created by Huogong Toutuo. Its Human Grade High-Rank rating only fell short of supreme arts of the same tier."
After reading the information on the two martial arts, Jiang Dali could not help beaming with delight.
However, while obtaining two Human-tier Martial Arts and one Earth-tier Martial Arts at once certainly felt great—
his Potential Points suddenly became even more insufficient.
Even Mortal-tier Martial Arts consumed an enormous amount of Potential Points to cultivate.
Human-tier Martial Arts and Earth-tier Martial Arts needed no further explanation; the Potential Points they consumed multiplied accordingly.
"Looks like I need to speed up the development of my forces. I need to make full use of the players' advantages and make both Black Wind Stronghold and myself stronger."
As Jiang Dali pondered this, he ordered a bandit to summon Hua Kai Jian Hong and the other players.
These players had no new missions and were bored out of their minds. They could only wander through the mountains, trying to hunt a few wild rabbits to contribute to the stronghold's food reserves.
When they were suddenly informed that the Stronghold Lord wished to see them, every player immediately grew excited, guessing that another mission was coming.
However, Jiang Dali was not mainly planning to issue missions this time. He was preparing to harvest his first batch of leeks.
Over the past two days, he had assigned the players quite a few missions, and they had already accumulated a fair number of Cultivation Points and Potential Points.
If his guess was correct, he could now harvest a portion of the players' Cultivation Points and Potential Points by teaching them martial arts.
If this method did not work, then obtaining Cultivation Points and Potential Points would become much more difficult for him.
In his previous life, he had been a disciple of Mount Hua Sect in the Comprehensive Martial World.
Every time he learned a sect martial art, he had needed to spend a certain amount of sect contribution, Cultivation Points, and Potential Points.
Each time a martial art advanced in realm, it also required contribution, Cultivation Points, and Potential Points.
Only when one obtained certain martial arts manuals could one learn directly without additionally spending contribution, Cultivation Points, or Potential Points.
Before long, all the players had gathered in front of the courtyard. They respectfully saluted Jiang Dali and called him Great Mountain Lord, their faces filled with excitement and anticipation.
"You have all performed rather well recently. As the first group of outsiders to join Black Wind Stronghold, I have decided that starting today, I will teach you martial arts."
Jiang Dali sat boldly in the courtyard and addressed the players.
"Wow! He's really going to teach us martial arts!"
"Hahaha, this is great! Black Wind Stronghold's benefits are amazing."
"Long live the Great Mountain Lord! The Great Mountain Lord is mighty!"
All the players cheered and jumped with joy, howling excitedly without stop, utterly unaware of the danger of being harvested.
"You are all elite bandits of Black Wind Stronghold. You may now choose to learn 'Iron Cloth Skill,' 'Tiger Fiend Golden Ring Saber Technique,' 'Eight Steps Catching Cicadas,' or 'Sky Full of Flying Rain.'"
Jiang Dali set the learning requirements and explained them to the players.
At once, all the players received a prompt.
"As elite bandits, you may choose to learn the following martial arts.
Mortal Grade Low-Rank 'Iron Cloth Skill': Learning requires 1 Stronghold Contribution Point, 30 Cultivation Points, and 30 Potential Points.
Mortal Grade Low-Rank 'Eight Steps Catching Cicadas': Learning requires 1 Stronghold Contribution Point, 30 Cultivation Points, and 30 Potential Points.
Mortal Grade Mid-Rank 'Tiger Fiend Golden Ring Saber Technique': Learning requires 50 favorability with the Stronghold Lord, 5 Stronghold Contribution Points, 50 Cultivation Points, and 50 Potential Points.
Mortal Grade Mid-Rank 'Sky Full of Flying Rain': Learning requires 50 favorability with the Stronghold Lord, 5 Stronghold Contribution Points, 50 Cultivation Points, and 50 Potential Points."
After reading the prompt, some players were immediately dumbfounded.
"Holy shit? Learning a Mortal Grade Mid-Rank martial art actually requires 50 favorability with the Stronghold Lord? I'm still far from that. What do I do?"
"Haha, I just barely meet the requirements. Good thing I served the Stronghold Lord well during his massage today."
"I wonder if sensitive skin can practice Iron Cloth Skill?"
"What a pity. I don't have many Cultivation Points or Potential Points right now, so I can only selectively learn a few martial arts. I'm going to learn a lightness skill and a hidden weapon technique first. Kiting and playing dirty is my favorite strategy. Hehe, I've struck it rich!"
Jiang Dali smiled without saying a word. All he wanted to say was, You might profit, but I'll never lose out.
The reason he had added a favorability requirement was also so that, in the future, he could make these players work hard for him at a smaller cost.
Compared to tangible rewards like silver—
favorability depended entirely on his mood.
He could hand out as much as he wanted without losing anything at all.
Yet to the players, it was something highly valuable.
Of course, that was only if Jiang Dali could continue being valuable to them.
Jiang Dali remained confident that he could do that.
As he watched the players chatter away and rapidly spend their Cultivation Points and Potential Points to learn martial arts from him—
he did not need to intervene in the process at all.
White light merely flashed repeatedly around the players, and their Cultivation Points and Potential Points flowed over to him.
At the same time, the martial arts he had learned were transmitted to the players through some mysterious means.
This was probably the influence of some special force within the Comprehensive Martial World.
As he watched his Cultivation Points and Potential Points rise rapidly, Jiang Dali nearly failed to maintain the imposing expression on his face from how hard he was laughing inside.
Sure enough, this method of obtaining Cultivation Points and Potential Points worked.
With this, he could quickly break through his current realm and become even stronger.
The next step was to unify all the martial underworld forces in the outskirts of the surrounding cities.
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