For a proper weapons store like this, customers could have weapons sharpened as long as they followed the requirements and classified the weapons as collectibles.
Moreover, once they signed the waiver and forms, the store would bear no responsibility even if something happened.
"Alright, handsome. The total is 36,500 Huaxia Currency. I'll round it down for you—36,000. Card or cash?"
"Card." Yang Yu took out his bank card. After swiping it, the girl issued him a receipt. "All set, handsome. Come back to our store with this receipt in about a week to pick up your weapons. We offer lifetime warranty, returns, and exchanges for these weapons, so you don't need to worry about any after-sales issues."
"Alright. I'll come back in a week."
After settling the matter of his weapons, Yang Yu returned to the martial arts school and resumed training.
There were now only two months left until the Double R Virus outbreak.
Yang Yu did not have much time remaining.
More than two months of sweat-soaked training had made Yang Yu completely fall in love with cultivation.
The feeling of growing stronger every day deeply intoxicated him.
In the blink of an eye, a week had passed.
That day, Yang Yu took his receipt to the weapons store and collected his war blade, gauntlets, and flying daggers. On his way home, he also bought some rice, cooking oil, and other everyday food supplies.
After arriving home and putting down the supplies, Grandpa Yang assumed Yang Yu simply wanted to stock up on food at once and did not think much of it.
After dinner, Yang Yu took his weapons to Nanshan that night to test them out.
The war blade was indeed sharp, and the gauntlets were also quite flexible.
The flying daggers, however, could not yet display much power.
But once his Spiritual Force awakened, those flying daggers would become deadly tools for harvesting monsters.
Still, he would certainly face vast hordes of monsters in the future, so relying entirely on Spiritual Force would not do.
Only by combining it with a war blade and iron fists would Yang Yu have the means to survive in the chaotic age.
After obtaining the war blade, Yang Yu added another item to his nightly training routine.
"Blade practice!"
In his future plans, Yang Yu intended to cultivate both as a Spirit Reader and a Martial Artist.
His abilities as a Spirit Reader had not yet awakened, so there was no need to concern himself with them for now. Besides, his Spiritual Force could sustain him for a long time. Once the Mental Force in his mind had been fully absorbed, Yang Yu's strength would presumably be enough for him to search for Ancient Ruins and seek out specific cultivation methods for Spirit Readers.
Before that, Yang Yu's true reliance would still be the Martial Way!
His Martial Way Insight from reaching the Master Realm in Xingyiquan was exceptionally powerful.
Yang Yu had already accumulated considerable insight in Fist Technique and Movement Technique.
It would be a terrible waste not to turn those insights into the strength of a Martial Artist. Besides, having another means of fighting enemies was always a good thing.
In the chaotic age, every method that could increase one's strength would be incomparably precious.
Every plan had to prioritize survival above all else!
After all, only the living could speak of the future.
On the path of a Martial Artist, Yang Yu planned to focus on Fist Technique and Blade Technique.
That way, when he faced monsters in the future, he could use a Spirit Reader's methods to attack from afar and fly through the air.
For close combat, he would use Blade Technique.
The lethality of a blade was still considerable. Especially once physical fitness became powerful, and combined with the methods of a powerful Spirit Reader, it could absolutely serve as the foundation of his survival.
And even if he exhausted his Spiritual Force in an intense battle and his war blade shattered—
Yang Yu would still have his fists!
As a master of Neijiaquan,
Even empty-handed, he could unleash formidable strength!
This was Yang Yu's preparation for the coming Grand Nirvana.
Even mutated monsters would be made to recall the fear of Terrifying Upright Apes from ancient times!
Yang Yu would make them understand who the true ruler of heaven and earth was!
With his plans clarified, Yang Yu began devoting himself fully to Blade Technique.
The Splitting Fist from Xingyi Five Elements Fist was extremely similar to the chopping motion of a war blade.
With Yang Yu's Master Level insight into the fist arts, it took him only a few days to initially apply Splitting Fist to Blade Technique.
Yang Yu named this blade move derived from Splitting Fist—Thunderbolt Blade!
When the blade emerged, it was like thunder crashing from the heavens.
It was also like lightning cleaving through the long night!
This strike was not only swift as lightning, but also carried the momentum of splitting heaven and earth.
It was not only domineering, but astonishingly lethal as well.
Yang Yu liked this strike immensely!
Yang Yu's physical fitness and control over his strength had already reached the Human Body Limit.
Within a single second, he could swing his blade at full strength over a hundred times!
Every strike was a Thunderbolt Blade at maximum power.
Beneath the sky-filling afterimages of his blade, fallen leaves of autumn and winter were split in two by Yang Yu's blade before they could even touch the ground!
This showed that the precision of this Blade Technique had reached an extreme.
Accordingly,
After creating the Thunderbolt Blade, Yang Yu's understanding of Splitting Fist also improved.
It reached a level comparable to Cannon Fist.
That was an unexpected delight.
Among the Xingyi Five Elements Fist, Yang Yu's insight into Cannon Fist and Splitting Fist was now infinitely close to the grandmaster realm.
His Crossing Fist, Drilling Fist, and Crushing Fist remained firmly at the Master Realm.
Yang Yu then spent another week transforming Tiger Cannon Fist into the 'Tiger Cannon Blade.'
He spent a month transforming Crushing Fist into the 'Galloping Thunder Blade.'
He transformed Crossing Fist into the 'Shadowless Blade.'
He transformed Drilling Fist into the 'Drilling Thunder Blade.'
Just like Tiger Cannon Fist, the Tiger Cannon Blade was the most powerful strike and also the most dangerous. Once this blade was unleashed, it meant Yang Yu had abandoned all defense. Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, Yang Yu would not use this strike.
Like Crushing Fist, the Galloping Thunder Blade excelled at explosive bursts over short distance, making it exceptionally flexible and versatile.
True to its name, the Shadowless Blade was the Blade Technique with the fastest pure blade speed. It excelled at defense, allowing the war blade to appear wherever it needed to be in the shortest possible time.
Like Drilling Fist, the Drilling Thunder Blade carried a powerful spiraling Artistic Conception. It was especially effective against heavily defended enemies and could also be used with the Shadowless Blade for defense.
When these five blade forms were successfully created,
Yang Yu felt that his understanding of the Xingyi Five Elements Fist had deepened another layer.
It seemed as though the grandmaster realm ahead was separated from him by only a sheet of window paper.
Yet that thin sheet, which looked as though it could be broken through at any moment, also seemed unimaginably distant.
However, Yang Yu was patient and did not grow restless. He simply continued refining his Blade Technique and Fist Technique.
He even further improved the Soaring Dragon Footwork.
This Movement Technique now combined every advantage of Blade Technique and Fist Technique, while also absorbing the essence of the Twelve Form Fist. Even when unleashing his Blade Technique and Fist Technique at full strength, Yang Yu could still travel through the mountain forest at extreme speed without a single leaf touching him.
At this point, Yang Yu had completely perfected all his offensive and defensive methods.
He named the five blade forms the 'Five Elements Thunder Blade.'
He renamed his Movement Technique the 'Five Elements Soaring Dragon Footwork.'
Furthermore, after two months of immersive cultivation, Yang Yu's physical fitness had officially reached the Human Body Limit!
In an ordinary state, his punch-strength test result was 1,200 kilograms!
After fully unleashing the most powerful Tiger Cannon Fist, it reached an astonishing 5,000 kilograms!
His punch-force amplitude exceeded fourfold!
At full strength, his speed had also reached an astonishing 30 m/s!
After using the Five Elements Soaring Dragon Footwork, it even reached 40 m/s!
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