Although it was working hours, there were really very few customers buying fur in summer. Most of them just came to ask questions like whether it was genuine leather.
Taking advantage of the workday, Yang Xuan ranked the movies and TV shows he had watched. He wanted to avoid underestimating a world he traveled to and getting killed—that would be tragic. He wasn't even married yet, nor had he fulfilled his duty to his parents. Safety came first.
Time flew. When it was time to clock out, fine, he admitted it: not a single customer had come.
He carefully studied the ranked worlds. In the Fist of Legend world, most martial arts were passed down orally from masters to disciples, and he hadn't even seen a single secret manual.
System, list my attributes.
Yang Xuan
Physical Body: Four Men's Strength
Psychokinesis: 300 kilograms
System Space: 10 cubic meters
Time Control 1:500
Skills: Psychokinesis Series, Baji Quan.
National Arts Realm: Peak An Jin.
He was strong enough to crush ordinary people without a problem, but if he encountered a National Arts master or a martial arts expert, he would probably be pinned to the ground and rubbed into the dirt. Sure enough, after slacking off for a few days, neither his psychokinesis nor his martial arts realm had improved at all.
He needed to see which world could increase his strength without crushing him too badly.
Extremely Low-Martial World
In these worlds, descriptions of internal arts were almost nonexistent. The martial arts used were basically National Arts, and martial artists were not valued by society. Their battles were like gang fights.
Representative worlds of this type included: The Unrivaled Martial Arts, the Ip Man series, Jingwu School, Dragon in the Central Plains, Huo Yuanjia, and the Once Upon a Time in China series.
Low-Martial World
In these worlds, some martial arts manuals and internal arts techniques had begun to appear. Martial artists were already valued by society and could hold certain positions. Various forms and styles had become deeply ingrained in people's minds.
Representative worlds of this type included: Judge Dee, Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, the Qing Dynasty portion of Jin Yong's martial arts stories, and Iceman: The Time Traveler.
Mid-Martial World
In these worlds, Inner Force techniques were already widespread, and countless people pursued the peak of martial arts. Martial artists could influence society's general trends, but taking on a hundred people alone was still unrealistic.
Representative worlds of this type included: Jin Yong's martial arts stories, Gu Long's martial arts stories, Wen Rui'an's martial arts stories, Liang Yusheng's martial arts stories, and the Judge Dee series, such as Detective Dee: Mystery of the Phantom Flame.
High-Martial World
In these worlds, internal force and true qi had developed to an extremely high level. Martial arts had become society's aspiration, and martial artists could influence broad social trends. One person fighting an entire army was no longer a myth, and Daoist arts had begun to appear.
Representative worlds of this type included: Qin's Moon, Huang Yi's martial arts stories, and The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils: Tianshan Child Grandma.
Transcendent Martial World
This was the peak of martial arts. In terms of individual combat power, it could even surpass xianxia worlds. A small number of powerful experts could replace massive armies, and nations became vassals of the strong. Moving mountains and dividing seas was no longer a myth, and nonhuman intelligent life-forms might appear.
Representative worlds of this type included: The Storm Riders and The Legend of the Emperor.
Mythological World
All Eastern fantasy worlds ultimately led to this destination. The myriad races fought for supremacy, gods battled gods, and divine abilities became the strongest means of all. Investiture of the Gods, Journey to the West, and Lotus Lantern.
Yang Xuan remembered being obsessed with Joey Wong for a while. He had watched A Chinese Ghost Story dozens of times. Once, while searching, he had also found another movie starring Joey Wong, with Andy Lau as the protagonist and Michael Chan as a supporting actor. That was right—it was Modern Buddha's Palm, a hilarious urban martial arts film.
The story took place in Hong Kong in 1990. It was about two losers who learned peerless martial arts, took away a peerless princess and her maid, and defeated the demon king.
He still needed to make some preparations: gold, flashlights, and anything else that might come in handy.
The night passed uneventfully.
Early the next morning, Yang Xuan got up early. After breakfast, he rode Little Donkey to a fairly large gold shop and spent 260,000 yuan on 1,000 grams of gold—ten gold bars.
He returned to the company dormitory.
System, travel to the Modern Buddha's Palm world. Set the time to one month before the story begins, and the location beside Princess Yunluo.
Ding—the host's strength allows spatial and temporal positioning in low-level worlds.
However, although the technology appearing in Modern Buddha's Palm is rather ordinary, the characters' strength has already far surpassed that of low-level planes.
What should I do, then? If the time is wrong, I miss the opportunity. If the time is right but the destination is wrong, that won't work either. How am I supposed to search the whole world for a hole in the ground? It would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Host, I can arrange an identity. I cannot do anything else.
Then let's try it. I don't have any other options anyway. System, remind me earlier next time. I was all prepared, and then you suddenly pulled this on me. I'm hurt.
The host's body is very healthy.
System, if you keep answering like that, you're going to have no friends.
His vision flashed. Before Yang Xuan could react, a burst of noisy sounds came from all around him.
So I was transported to a company. According to the identity the system fabricated, Yang Xuan was an ordinary person whose parents had both died. He had finished school using his inheritance and had only been hired by this company a few days ago.
"I say, System, could you discuss it with me next time you arrange an identity? Yours is so unimaginative."
"Host, this is simpler. It does not consume too much energy."
"Now that you mention it, don't you need to recharge or replenish your energy? Could you run out of energy?" Yang Xuan asked worriedly.
"Rest assured, host. After the system attached itself to your body, we became one. When one prospers, both prosper; when one suffers, both suffer. Every day, I absorb the physical and mental energy that spills out of you. Therefore, the stronger you become, the stronger my abilities will be, and the more functions I will have."
"Will that affect my health?"
"Rest assured, host. It will not affect you at all."
How was he supposed to find the two losers?
"Yang Xuan, the manager wants to see you."
"Huh? Oh, all right." Yang Xuan steeled himself and walked into the office.
"Yang Xuan, have you gotten used to the company these past few days?"
All right, the system really hadn't tricked him. Wasn't this guy the manager of the two losers?
"It's going well. The company environment is pretty good. I'm already organizing the client materials."
"We recently received an order. Give the client a call and prepare a proposal. Consider it some training."
"All right, Manager. Leave it to me."
Looking at the materials, Yang Xuan thought, Luckily, I saw this guy. Otherwise, I would have left long ago. I traveled across the myriad worlds because I wanted to live a carefree life. I never expected to have to work again. Damn it.
1881 Hair Growth Tonic. Heh, not bad, not bad. It seemed he had a chance. He could make preparations in advance.
The apartment the system had rented for him was right next door to Wu Dehui and Li Chi.
"Knock, knock, knock!!"
"Who is it?" Wu Dehui opened the door.
"Hello. I saw you and Li Chi at the company. I didn't expect you two to live right next door to me. I just saw you both." Yang Xuan smiled as he spoke.
"Who are you?" Li Chi asked curiously.
"I only joined the company a few days ago."
"What a coincidence."
"Brother Hui, I haven't eaten today. How about I treat you to something downstairs?"
Before Wu Dehui could answer, Li Chi came rushing out of nowhere and said, "Sure! Yang Xuan—Brother Xuan, you're generous. Zhang's Restaurant downstairs is pretty good. How about it? Hehehe."
"No problem." Yang Xuan readily agreed.
Luckily, he had sold some gold along the way. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to build up their goodwill. He still had more than 800 million in the primary plane, but selling nine bars and having only 100,000 Hong Kong dollars today would have seemed too little. Fortunately, as long as he didn't buy a house, it would last him quite a while.
They were all young men, and after eating and drinking together for half a month, the three of them had become much more familiar with one another.
He had finished the hair tonic advertisement yesterday, so the plot should be starting soon. Sure enough, when he got up that morning and prepared to go to work with Wu Dehui and Li Chi, he found that they had arrived earlier than him for once. Just as Yang Xuan was about to greet them, he heard Wu Dehui grumbling at Li Chi, "If you hadn't sold the car, we wouldn't have to squeeze onto the bus every day."
Li Chi pulled a long face. "Please! The stereo got stolen eight times in one month, and the tires got slashed seven times. When I went to work, I had to spend hours looking for a parking spot, and feeding the meter alone took until midnight. The parking lot below the company charges thirty dollars an hour. Can you afford that?" Haha, the plot was finally starting. He could wait for death now. Sob, sob, sob... Traveling to another world and still having to work—there was no justice in this world.
And so, following the original sequence of events, they set off for Xi'an. Since Yang Xuan was the person in charge, he had to go. At first, he hadn't wanted Wu Dehui to come—after all, having one less person to share the opportunity with was always better—but he was worried that removing someone would change the plot. For safety's sake, he decided to follow the original storyline.
Because they got along so well—cough, cough, his goodwill score was quite high—smuggling was counted as Yang Xuan's share as well.