Incomplete Body Tempering Methods

The second tent was filled with all kinds of miscellaneous goods: rare ores, well-preserved flowers and plants, and even the meat-based Cultivation Treasures Wang Yu wanted.

Compared to the weapons tent over there, this place had clearly drawn far more people.

Every so often, someone completed a transaction, hoisted up a crate, and hurried away.

Miracle Crystal Stone: top-grade purity, high-grade construction material. 220 Crystal Coins per piece. Purchases exceeding five hundred pieces qualify for delivery service.

Blood Burning Grass Root: upper-mid-grade quality, essential food for Blood Burning Realm martial artists cultivating. 2,200 Crystal Coins per plant. Current stock: five hundred plants.

Blood Pig Meat: an item that replenishes Qi and Blood, an excellent food for Body Tempering Realm martial artists. 1,300 Crystal Coins per jin. Current stock: two thousand jin.

Wang Yu was dazzled by what he saw in this tent. So many things he had never even heard of lay before him, truly broadening his horizons.

There were at least six or seven varieties of treasure foods suitable for Body Tempering Realm martial artists in this tent, and every one of them was stocked in considerable quantities.

It seemed the people of Night Sleep also knew perfectly well what the customers here needed most.

In the end, compared to the other meats with their bizarre-sounding names, Wang Yu settled on Blood Pig Meat, whose name at least sounded somewhat familiar.

It was pork, more or less—though its color was a little too vividly red.

Several people were selecting Blood Pig Meat at the stall just then.

"I'll take four jin of Blood Pig Meat."

"I'll take eight jin."

"I'll take six jin."

As more and more customers gathered, the seemingly abundant supply of two thousand jin of Blood Pig Meat was actually selling out quickly.

"I'll take fifteen jin. I'll pick it up later," Wang Yu said directly as he approached, paying at once.

Fifteen jin of meat did not look like much once it had been cut, yet it cost him nearly twenty thousand Crystal Coins. It was practically a luxury item.

The Night Sleep member glanced at Wang Yu, nodded, and handed him a receipt.

He could collect his purchase with that receipt at any point before the gathering ended.

Taking the receipt, Wang Yu silently disappeared into the crowd and continued looking over the other goods.

He still had just under ten thousand Crystal Coins left, enough to see whether there was anything else he wanted.

The gathering lasted for a full day, but since every item had limited stock, anyone who came late would likely find that everything they wanted had already been bought.

Thus, those familiar with this gathering generally arrived in the morning or at daybreak.

By now, over a thousand people had gathered in the open space without anyone noticing. Every one of them wore some sort of mask and kept an extremely low profile.

Wang Yu was glad he had bought the Blood Pig Meat right away. At this rate, those Cultivation Treasures would probably all be sold out before long.

The fourth tent seemed somewhat deserted, with few people wandering around inside.

After entering and looking around, Wang Yu discovered that what was being sold here were actually all Body Tempering Methods.

Ximen Eight Extremes Fist: retains the complete cultivation methods for the first two layers, allowing one to cultivate to the Body Tempering Second Layer. Its fist techniques are smooth and circular, possessing a solid advantage in deflecting force and blocking. Price: 1,000 Crystal Coins.

Tai Family Swift Blade: retains the complete cultivation methods for the first three layers, allowing one to cultivate to the Body Tempering Third Layer. Its blade techniques are swift and fierce, with considerable power. Price: 1,500 Crystal Coins.

Tiger Crane Twin Forms Fist...

Scattered cultivation methods were laid out across the tables in the form of booklets, roughly twenty or thirty sets in all.

Most were incomplete copies, useful only for the early stages of Body Tempering. There was no path forward for subsequent cultivation.

That made them rather tasteless, like chewing chicken ribs—hardly worth the trouble. No wonder no one patronized this place.

With that money, would it not be better to join a martial arts school and learn there? There would even be famous masters to guide them. Was that not better than burying their heads in these incomplete little booklets?

Not to mention that most people who came here were martial artists themselves, already possessing their own cultivation methods and a clear, bright path ahead.

Among martial artists, it was rare for someone to switch to another martial art halfway through cultivation. The time and effort that would consume were difficult to imagine.

The only people likely to buy these incomplete copies were perhaps martial artists who had already cultivated to the fourth or fifth Body Tempering Layer.

Having been stuck at that level for years, they had run into a bottleneck in their understanding of their own Body Tempering Methods. Buying these incomplete copies was merely a way to try their luck.

Perhaps they might gain some enlightenment from the essence of other Body Tempering Methods.

Wang Yu was actually quite interested in these Body Tempering Methods other than Shadowless Fist.

In his view, knowing only Shadowless Fist made the possible variations in his combat fistwork far too limited.

If he happened to encounter an opponent in the future whose style countered his fist techniques, he would inevitably be dragged into a bitter fight.

But if he knew several fist techniques, as well as movement techniques and leg techniques, then his combat strength would certainly surpass that of opponents at the same level who cultivated only one Body Tempering Method.

Of course, to others, such an idea was likely nothing more than a fantasy as wild as the sky.

After all, a single Body Tempering Method could take decades to study and polish. Taking up another one alongside it in daily cultivation would practically cost them their lives.

But Wang Yu was different. He only needed to accumulate proficiency in a Body Tempering Method to keep improving, with almost no bottlenecks to speak of.

Under such circumstances, he was fully capable of cultivating one or even several additional Body Tempering Methods alongside his main one.

Moreover, he had another idea in mind that needed this to test.

Having made up his mind, Wang Yu began selecting incomplete manuals from the table. In the end, he bought several sets in one go, spending nearly all of his remaining ten thousand Crystal Coins.

With that, his long trip out to shop had come to an end.

This so-called Night Sleep Gathering was indeed of a high caliber, with a vast range of goods for sale.

Many rare items could be found here.

No wonder it had grown larger and larger, with such gatherings existing all over the world.

Wang Yu roughly estimated that Night Sleep could probably earn tens of millions in profit from holding this gathering for just one day. The sheer ability to amass wealth was frightening to contemplate.

And in other core regions of humanity, if an even larger gathering were held, the profits would likely be impossible to estimate.

Thinking of it that way, the Purple Coal Vein operated by Sun Chengshan really did not amount to much.

It was not until noon that Wang Yu, who had finished early, finally met up with Sun Chengshan.

Without wasting words, the two each carried an ordinary-looking wooden box and quickly left the gathering.

Only after there was no one around them did they slow down.

"Spent all your money?" Sun Chengshan asked first.

"Mm. I bought Blood Pig Meat," Wang Yu nodded.

"Heh, your master bought some too. That meat is quite cost-effective. You won't lose out buying it."

Even through the mask, Wang Yu could hear the good mood Sun Chengshan could not hide.

"Once we get back, master and disciple need to cultivate properly. These treasures did not come easily, so we cannot waste them. If luck is on my side, my cultivation may even advance another step."

Wang Yu's heart stirred. "Could it be that Master has a chance this time to break through his fist technique to the final sixth layer?"

Sun Chengshan shook his head. "How could the sixth layer, Shadowless Ghost Hand, be so easily mastered? I'm only hoping to use these treasures to improve my current Body Tempering cultivation a little further. Only then do I think I'll have some chance to strike at the sixth layer!"

As they spoke, the two walked another stretch through the woods. Then they removed their robes and masks and made their way back to Island Town.

Then, to avoid stirring up needless trouble, they boarded the return airship and traveled through the night back to Island Town 732, without stopping for even a moment along the way.

Nothing had happened at either the martial arts school or the mine during the two days they were gone.

Song Hezheng handled all matters great and small at the martial arts school with ease.

Everything at the mine also remained as before, proceeding steadily and in orderly fashion. With Director Zheng Anbang and the Garrison Commander behind him, no one dared set their sights on the mine again.

Sun Chengshan was finally able to shift some of his focus away from the mine and throw himself wholeheartedly into practicing his fist techniques.