Rest and Recuperation

Three months later.

Still in Black Stone City.

Ling Wuyuan was no longer dressed like a battle-damaged beggar. He had changed into a fairly decent, normal set of clothes.

Over the past three months, thanks to the awakening and improvement of his abilities, while he still could not be called particularly wealthy, he had generally reached a state where he no longer had to worry about food and drink.

Things were just as mentioned before.

Back then, although he knew of certain ways to make money, his own lack of ability meant he had no way to actually get that money. He could only gaze at the ocean and sigh.

But once his abilities met the standard, succeeding naturally became as smooth as pushing a boat downstream.

Among them.

Ling Wuyuan's biggest earnings had basically come from some of his old enemies—the people who had once made him suffer.

There were street thugs, other beggars, and that roast duck shop...

Having no ability was one thing.

But now that he had abilities.

There was no way in hell he would keep swallowing that crap.

Damn it!!!

He was someone with red revolutionary spirit!!!

Whether it was Soaring General's kill, kill, kill, or the Great Western King's kill, kill, kill, he wholeheartedly agreed with both!!!

Just you trash wait!!!

I'll put on a brutal show for you right now!!!

Therefore.

Taking advantage of the perfect moment when the Pei Family had just fallen, Black Stone City's internal powers were undergoing a complete reshuffle, and everyone was too busy to care about Jianghu vendettas, thug brawls, gang battles... Ling Wuyuan decisively struck. Through ambushes, assassinations, arson... and similar methods, he swiftly completed his initial training in murder and arson.

He vented his anger, erased his hatred, and replenished his wallet.

In short.

Repay kindness with kindness, repay grudges with grudges.

There was no need to elaborate on the process.

Everyone only needed to know that Ling Wuyuan's life KDA was now eight to zero and was about to reach double digits. As for those whose hands and feet he had broken, or whom he had severely injured... that number had long since exceeded double digits.

However.

As he practiced, certain issues naturally came to light.

He silently carried out a great deal of self-reflection.

1. Although Ling Wuyuan could surpass ordinary people through his Special Ability, his Physical Fitness at the time was ultimately quite average. At the root of it all, his body was still too young and had not fully developed.

2. He knew no martial techniques, nor did he know any cultivation methods. At most, he knew some fitness routines. The reason he had been able to carry out a string of revenge was more due to disguise and ambushes.

After all, in his opponents' eyes, he was still nothing more than an insignificant little brat.

Even if he slowly walked past them, they might not spare him a second glance.

As a result, most of Ling Wuyuan's targets had been KO'd from behind before they even knew what had happened.

So his frontal combat ability might not actually be all that strong.

Finding a cultivation method was necessary, and the sooner, the better.

3. Although his Special Ability had indeed awakened after being tempered by the [Spirit Awakening Ritual], his application and development of that ability were still far too simplistic. Like something gradually growing, he could feel that the strength of that ability was spontaneously increasing along with the growth of his Physical Fitness and other aspects.

Taken together, his strength was still rather limited.

Many things still required further observation and experimentation.

Foundations—he was severely lacking in those.

It could only be said that he basically had none.

Thus.

After spending half a month taking revenge and using various methods to acquire enough money for the time being.

Ling Wuyuan went quiet and stopped doing anything unnecessary.

He simply rested and recuperated in silence.

He let Black Stone City's broader situation remain noisy and turbulent, no longer fishing in troubled waters.

While continuously training himself in every possible aspect, he also heavily supplemented all the nutrition he had lacked over the years, causing his body to undergo a series of changes in an extremely short period of time.

For example, his height and weight increased. He was no longer skinny and short, but had risen above the average for his age.

For another, Muscles began appearing on his body, his once somewhat dry hair began to improve in quality, and his skin became more vigorous...

Overall.

The scale of the changes was so great that even Ling Wuyuan himself was somewhat surprised.

He felt the reason the results had been so good was probably the hidden influence of the ability he had awakened.

Its emergence had likely activated some potential within him—potential that should have appeared long ago, yet had been delayed by malnutrition and a series of environmental factors.

Once the timing became right.

Along with his rest, recuperation, and nutritional replenishment, that potential emerged as well. It naturally pulled his physical condition free from its previous terrible state and allowed him to successfully develop into his current ideal condition.

At this moment, feeling the strength within his body and clenching his fist, which no longer carried that sense of weakness, he more or less felt as though everything was a dream.

He looked up at the sky. Dozens of birds were soaring there, and the fastest among them flew like arrows tearing through the air. Even with Physical Fitness now somewhat stronger than that of an ordinary adult, Ling Wuyuan was unable to clearly follow their trajectories.

But when he drew upon the Special Ability within his body.

At that moment, the world seemed to suddenly slow down. Everything around him became slow motion in his eyes, and the birds that had originally been as swift as arrows became incomparably clear to him.

Vaguely.

He could even see the birds' wings continuously beating.

Looking at all this, Ling Wuyuan knew that his Special Ability had grown stronger again.

If, at the beginning, this Special Ability had only increased his movement speed, attack speed, and reaction speed by one to two times, then now it was at least three times.

However, he also understood that if he did not cultivate martial arts next, the growth of this ability would likely enter a period of stagnation. His body had already entered a healthy state, so the growth of his Physical Fitness had temporarily reached a bottleneck. It would not naturally undergo another major increase in a short period of time. He would need external means if he wanted to continue advancing rapidly.

Ling Wuyuan already had an idea about that.

Over these three months, aside from resting, recuperating, and conditioning his body, he had been gathering information from every possible angle about Black Stone City and the areas surrounding it.

Therefore.

He already knew which nearby forces had recently been recruiting and what their recruitment standards were.

Within the next few days, he would find a way to apply and join one of them.