Breaking Through Fourth-Order Intermediate Martial Artist!

"Cultivation technique from a special relic?"

Lu Xuan clicked on the introductory notes for the Mindful Breathing Technique.

It turned out that the world's cataclysm had caused many special relics to appear. Some might have originated from ancient times, while others couldn't be traced, but these relics contained treasures, including cultivation techniques.

"A cultivation technique from a special relic. If he dared to put it up for sale, someone must have already practiced it and verified its feasibility. Otherwise, how could it have survived until now?"

It had to be this way.

Lu Xuan didn't hesitate and directly chose to purchase and borrow it.

He was definitely not doing it for the cheap price.

Purchase successful.

A large amount of data flowed into his account, and the general outline of the cultivation technique appeared before Lu Xuan.

With the cultivation technique in hand, Lu Xuan didn't pay attention to anything else. He slowly calmed his mind and began to comprehend the technique.

Martial Artist cultivation techniques were like mathematical formulas, obscure and difficult to understand. Fortunately, the technique included simplified annotations. With the enhancement of his psychic power, Lu Xuan quickly grasped the most basic operational flow of the technique.

Mindful Breathing Technique

The core was to use one's mind to regulate breathing, analyzing the ambient energy absorbed during respiration. Ideally, one could filter through layers of energy, ultimately selecting the energy beneficial to oneself. Any energy retained within the body while practicing the technique would achieve cultivation effects.

Time ticked by.

Soon.

With the assistance of his powerful psychic power, Lu Xuan analyzed the technique's operational route.

His comprehension of the cultivation technique officially entered the introductory stage.

He focused on circulating the technique to cultivate, and the ambient Spiritual Energy began to converge towards him.

Sensing this, Lu Xuan immediately stopped cultivating and instead poured the spiritual liquid from the Bronze Gourd into himself.

Martial Artist breakthroughs would cause some Spiritual Energy tides.

This was not conducive to concealing his identity and could easily alert people from the Monster Potion Company. With his current strength, he would be doomed if he faced the Potion Company.

Fortunately, he had the Bronze Gourd.

The spiritual liquid secreted by it was enough to support his breakthrough.

This way, he wouldn't cause too much commotion and could break through with peace of mind.

The spiritual liquid entered his body.

A surge of Spiritual Energy poured into every cell, stimulating all their functions.

Boom!

With a muffled sound.

Lu Xuan's aura became even more formidable. Just sitting there, he was like a fierce tiger. His vitality radiated outwards, evaporating the surrounding cold and causing white mist to swirl.

Fourth-order Intermediate Martial Artist, achieved!

Lu Xuan opened his eyes and threw a punch forward.

Bang!

The fist wind tore through the air, causing the void to rumble.

Striking a steel plate from a distance, he shattered the thick plate into several pieces.

His bones and muscles thundered, and his vitality radiated outwards.

This was the hallmark of Fourth to Sixth-order Intermediate Martial Artists. The next stage, Seventh to Ninth-order Advanced Martial Artists, involved the solidification of Spiritual Energy into blades.

"Finally broke through!"

Lu Xuan suppressed his aura and clenched his fist, saying, "My talent isn't exactly top-tier, but as long as I have the Future Mail and gain more opportunities, I can compensate for this. It's even possible to surpass others with it."

An Intermediate Martial Artist at eighteen years old.

He could be considered a genius.

After all, the strongest freshman at Jiangnan Martial University was only a Sixth-order Intermediate Martial Artist.

"Now that I have the cultivation technique, I don't have to worry about losing vitality."

Lu Xuan felt a bit more cheerful and said, "Next is martial skill training, but that seems to be even more expensive than cultivation techniques."

Cultivation techniques and martial skills were different.

The function of a cultivation technique was to strengthen the foundation, increase the speed of absorbing ambient Spiritual Energy, and promote cultivation.

Martial skills, on the other hand, enhanced a Martial Artist's individual combat power and were the key factors that truly influenced life and death.

Therefore, Martial skills were much more expensive than cultivation techniques.

He browsed around briefly.

The cheapest martial skill cost 1,000,000 Federal Coins.

With Lu Xuan's current financial situation, he could barely afford one.

"If that doesn't work, I'll just cultivate the martial arts techniques I looted," Lu Xuan took out the martial arts techniques he stripped from Xu Long and those he picked up from the pharmaceutical company.

Nine Wave

Butterfly Dance

He hadn't found any trace of these two martial arts techniques in the Federation's database.

This meant that other Martial Artists, besides those in the Xu family and the pharmaceutical company, absolutely could not cultivate them.

This was precisely the problem. If he cultivated them, it would be easy for people to recognize them and expose his identity.

"Tsk!"

Lu Xuan fretted, unsure of what to do for a moment.

Just then, his Mental Power sensed someone approaching, and he hurriedly activated his storage ring to put everything away.

"Hmm, it's my little sister. She's back."

Lu Xuan collected his thoughts. "Even if I have martial arts techniques, home isn't the place to cultivate. I'll find an opportunity to go to the wilderness and cultivate then."

For now, it was time to help his little sister break through to Martial Artist.

He took out a piece of high-grade Yao Beast meat from his storage ring, along with the vitality pills he had bought earlier, and some freshly bought, steaming hot dishes he had placed on the table.

Creak~!

As soon as he finished everything, his sister Lu Ying pushed open the door.

"You're back?"

Lu Xuan looked up and smiled at Lu Ying. "Come quickly and see what your brother prepared for you."

Lu Ying's originally cold little face bloomed into a radiant smile. She took off her shoes and rushed towards Lu Xuan. "Brother, are you okay?"

The little girl reached out and felt her brother to see if he was missing any limbs. As she felt him, she realized not only were none of his parts missing, but he also seemed to have grown taller. His aura even gave her a palpitations. If she didn't know it was Lu Xuan, she would have thought the person standing before her was a Martial Artist.

Lu Xuan scratched his head and chuckled. "What could happen to your brother? I'm not going into the wilderness to collect corpses."

"You still have to be careful!" Lu Ying pouted. "Teacher said it's very dangerous out there, and I can't go until I break through to Tier 3 Martial Artist."

Confirming her brother was not injured, she tilted her head and hopped on her little feet, asking, "Brother, didn't you prepare vitality pills for me?"

"Where? Where are they?"

Seeing his sister's excitement, Lu Xuan rubbed her head and pointed at the table. "What do you think that is?"

Lu Ying went around Lu Xuan and zipped to the table. Like a kitten, she stretched her neck and sniffed. Only when she sensed the surging vitality from the vitality pills did her eyes widen, and she excitedly reached out to grab them.

"Wow wow wow!"

"It really is vitality pills!"

Lu Ying cradled the vitality pills like pearls, dancing with excitement.

"I love you, brother!"

Lu Xuan felt much more at ease watching his sister's happy expression. For a long time, because he wasn't a Martial Artist, he had been completely unable to provide his sister with the best cultivation conditions. Now, that wish had finally come true. And it would only get better.

"Little sister, can the vitality pills help you break through to Martial Artist?" Lu Xuan gently pushed the excited Lu Ying to sit at the dining table and asked.

Lu Ying opened the vitality pills and glanced at them. There were three, and she immediately nodded. "I can break through to Martial Artist, but I'll have to do it at my teacher's house..."

"Why?"

Lu Xuan interrupted his sister. The future emails had clearly mentioned that his little sister failed to break through due to a classmate, which damaged her martial arts foundation. Such a thing had happened once, and it would never happen again.

"With teacher protecting me, I'll feel more at ease breaking through," Lu Ying said as she picked up some meat for Lu Xuan, then started eating heartily.

"No way!"

Lu Xuan slammed his chopsticks down, startling Lu Ying and causing the meat in her mouth to fall to the floor.

"Why not?" she asked.

Lu Xuan hesitated, realizing he had gotten too excited.

After a pause, he softened his tone, "I mean it would be too much trouble for Teacher. Besides, Martial Artists emphasize self-reliance. If you need Teacher's help for everything, will your future martial path still shine brightly?"

"Do you understand?"

His words were true.

His sister was, after all, still an outsider to the martial path, not understanding much about the Martial Heart.

When Lu Xuan was browsing forums, he had noticed a post.

The general idea was that during critical breakthrough stages, one should never rely too much on a safe environment provided by others. Doing so could easily plant a seed of weakness in your Martial Heart, making the subsequent martial path difficult to tread far.

"This..." Lu Ying began to think seriously.

It actually made some sense.

"Then I'll try at home!" she decided with conviction.

Anyway, breaking through to Martial Artist wouldn't cause any harm. Even if she didn't succeed, she could go to Teacher's place to break through.

It's not like the pills would be poisonous, right?

Thinking this, Lu Ying chewed her meat thoughtfully. Suddenly, she seemed to remember something and looked up at her older brother, saying:

"Brother, my classmate is coming over tomorrow."

"Your classmate?" Lu Xuan stopped eating, his eyes filled with suspicion. "Is her name Jiang Xi?"

"How did you know?"