I Lie Down to Level Up While You Risk Your Life—Mad? Good!

After a warm, lively celebration dinner, Lin Yuan returned to his absurdly enormous bedroom, thoroughly satisfied.

Lin Xueyao and Lin Ke'er were still immersed in the shock of his championship victory, chattering away as they discussed throwing him an even grander celebration party tomorrow.

Lin Yuan had no interest in that whatsoever.

A party?

With that time, he might as well lie down a little longer and fleece the system for more rewards.

He locked his bedroom door, and with a thought, entered the private training ground attached to his room, an area comparable to a football field.

"Kunpeng Soaring Steps..."

Lin Yuan closed his eyes.

Information about this godly movement technique instantly surfaced in his mind, branding itself into his soul and becoming an innate instinct.

He casually took a step forward.

There was no earth-shattering display, not even a ripple in the air.

But in the next second, a bizarre scene unfolded—

Over a hundred lifelike afterimages remained where he had stood, as if more than a hundred Lin Yuans were standing there at once, their auras impossible to distinguish as real or false.

His true body, meanwhile, had silently appeared at the edge of the training ground a thousand meters away!

"Hmm?"

Lin Yuan raised a brow and lightly tapped his foot.

This time, his figure abruptly turned into a streak of light. Rather than traveling in a straight line, it traced countless warped arcs through the void.

At times, he was like a Kunpeng striking the water, stirring invisible shockwaves that filled the sky as he crossed several thousand meters in an instant.

At times, he was like a fish playing in water, weaving and turning among dense stone pillars, moving so quickly that even space rippled faintly, leaving a string of air-rending booms behind him.

In the span of a single breath, he had already crossed this football-field-sized training ground back and forth dozens of times!

Before the afterimages could fade, his true body had appeared somewhere new, as though space had lost all restraint over him and distance beneath his feet was nothing but a joke.

"Interesting..."

Lin Yuan stopped, sensing the potential within him that seemed capable of tearing apart heaven and earth. A playful smile curved his lips.

He could clearly feel that the true power of this movement technique went far beyond this.

If he unleashed it with all his strength, turning into hundred million afterimages to blanket heaven and earth and crossing Ten Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers in an instant would be no fantasy!

Unfortunately, his realm was still too shallow, and he could only unleash the tip of the iceberg.

Yet this mere "tip" was already enough to turn every movement technique in the world into a joke before him.

One step, a thousand meters. Myriad afterimages.

How was this a footwork technique?

This was clearly a supreme Divine Ability that commanded space!

Wherever his heart yearned, his body would go!

"As expected of a Heavenly Rank Supreme Grade Cultivation Technique!"

Lin Yuan stopped, his heart filled with satisfaction.

For ordinary people, obtaining a single Yellow Rank Cultivation Technique was enough to make them worship it as a family heirloom.

Yet whenever his system made a move, it gave him a Heavenly Rank Supreme Grade one!

Heavenly Rank Supreme Grade was already among the most supreme methods in this world!

This treatment!

There was simply no one like it!

He could grow stronger just by lying down and receive all kinds of Divine Skill Secret Manuals. Even if someone offered him godhood, he would not trade this life for it!

It was also late at night.

Where some rejoiced, others grieved.

Inside an advanced training room at Dragon Summer Country Capital Martial Arts Academy.

Li Xuan'er's face was deathly pale as she suddenly spurted out A Mouthful of Blood, her aura instantly withering.

Two pools of dried blood already lay on the floor before her.

The third time!

This was already her third failed attempt to break through to Marrow Cleansing Realm Fourth Level!

Every failure brought spiritual energy backlash that inflicted considerable damage on her meridians, requiring several days of rest before she could recover.

She opened her eyes unwillingly.

Looking at the few Spirit Plants before her, exchanged from the academy and only of average quality, a deep sense of helplessness surged into her heart.

Not enough!

Resources—far from enough!

An image of a place surfaced uncontrollably in her mind—Lin Family Manor's treasure vault.

A place she had once been free to enter and leave as she pleased.

There, Natural Treasures were piled high as mountains.

Thousand Year Spirit Medicine gave off intoxicating fragrances, while all kinds of rare pills were casually placed on shelves like worthless candies.

In the past, as long as she asked, no matter how precious an item was, Lin Yuan would deliver it into her hands without hesitation.

She had once believed that was only natural.

But now?

Having lost her greatest "ATM," she finally understood the hardships of cultivation.

So it turned out that without resources,

even a genius could barely take a single step forward!

A faint, almost imperceptible thread of regret silently sprouted in her heart like the seed of poisonous weeds.

If...

If only she had treated him a little better back then...

Elsewhere.

Ye Xuan sat cross-legged in a rundown inn room.

The injuries caused by Lin Yuan utterly crushing him in the tournament had mostly healed after several days of recuperation.

But the wound in his heart had only grown worse.

Lin Yuan's indifferent gaze, and those words—"You are not even qualified to make me take action"—were like a poisoned thorn driven deep into the depth of his soul, tormenting him day and night.

"Lin Yuan!"

He suddenly slammed a fist into the ground. The hard floor was left with a shallow fist mark, while his eyes brimmed with unwillingness and frenzied Killing Intent.

He could not keep waiting like this!

Following the proper course of cultivation, he would never catch up to that monster's footsteps!

If he wanted revenge, if he wanted to trample that bastard beneath his feet, he had to take an extraordinary path!

Wealth and honor were sought amid danger!

Ye Xuan's gaze became incomparably resolute.

He dragged a black bundle out from beneath the bed, checked the weapons and medicine inside, then put on a hood and silently melted into the night.

His target—

Flame Capital's largest Underground Black Market.

He would go there and accept the most dangerous Hunting Missions, the ones with the richest rewards!

He would trade blood and life for the capital to grow stronger!

Early the next morning.

When the first ray of sunlight streamed through the luxurious floor-to-ceiling window and fell across Lin Yuan's face, he was curled up in a soft Exotic Beast hide bed worth tens of millions, sleeping so deeply that drool was nearly running from his mouth.

Just Then, a cold mechanical voice sounded punctually in his mind.

[ Ding! Detected that the host has successfully lain flat for one day and upheld the core philosophy of "lying flat." Reward is being issued... ]

[ Congratulations, host. You have obtained the Heavenly Rank Supreme Grade Cultivation Technique—Vast Ocean Sword Intent! ]

"Mm..."

Lin Yuan was awakened by the sudden voice and frowned in mild annoyance.

But when he clearly heard the contents of the reward, the displeasure of being woken up instantly vanished into thin air.

In its place came boundless ecstasy!

Again?

Another Heavenly Rank Supreme Grade?

And this time, a sword technique?

Lin Yuan only felt an immense, incomparably sharp understanding of the Sword Dao flood into his soul in an instant.

It was as though, in that single moment, he had practiced the sword for hundred million years and become a supreme Sword God standing at the pinnacle of the Sword Dao!

"Awesome!"

Lin Yuan comfortably rolled around on the bed.

Others were still fighting desperately over the tiniest scraps of resources, unable to sleep through the night.

And him?

All he had to do was sleep and bask in the sun each day, and all kinds of Divine Skill Secret Manuals would come knocking on his door.

This feeling was simply incredible!