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Late at night, yet no one slept.

The cries of street vendors, women scolding children, and porn blasting from speakers...

The dilapidated residential district was no different from the urban village of Qin Annian's previous life. Everywhere he looked was a mess.

The lights from gigantic holographic neon ads in the sky occasionally swept past like brushes.

They divided the patch of sky alongside the crisscrossing electrical wires.

Click—

He shut the door.

Carrying the concentrated nutrient solution he had bought from the convenience store, Qin Annian leaned against the entryway, barely half a meter long, and stood there in a daze for a long while.

"Awakened memories of a previous life."

"The ten-billion Subsidy Panel."

Even after adapting to the memories of two lives, he still found it unbelievable.

However.

His gaze fell upon the Status Panel.

As well as the two additional memories in his mind.

"Phew!"

He exhaled a breath of stale air.

Qin Annian's eyes gradually sharpened.

"There was a saying in my previous life: since you're here, make the best of it."

"Make the best of it?"

Before awakening his memories of his previous life and the Status Panel, his greatest goal in life had been simply to live in peace.

"No!"

Thinking of what he had experienced tonight, as well as the helplessness of his previous life.

"The martial path is boundless; my body shall know no shackles."

"This world has legends of Martial Gods, so why can't that be me?"

He suddenly clenched his fist.

Qin Annian took out a nutrient solution from the bag and gulped it down.

To cut costs.

These nutrient solutions had no flavoring added.

They were thick and astringent.

Yet a sense of fullness soon spread through him, accompanied by waves of warmth.

Qin Annian could even feel the wounds on his body healing faster.

In the low-rent apartment of less than twenty square meters, Qin Annian had carefully partitioned off a Practice Room.

He lowered into a horse stance and straightened his upper body.

He put to use every bit of experience from three uninterrupted years of Standing Posture.

Every movement matched the memories in his mind perfectly.

The rhythm of his breathing was the same.

However.

After only half an hour.

Qin Annian felt the muscles in his thighs gradually tightening.

After the numbness faded, his calf muscles began to tear with pain!

"This is definitely not the Iron Man Stance I knew before!"

Steam rose from his head, while beads of sweat formed and slid down his forehead and brows.

They eventually gathered at his chin and dripped down like a fine rain.

The fullness brought by the bottles of nutrient solution he had drunk before entering the Practice Room was rapidly fading.

"My muscles are wriggling, and my wounds are healing even faster."

Qin Annian's eyes beneath his messy fringe became exceptionally bright!

Just then.

He felt as though he had reached his limit, his legs seemingly trembling on their own.

"I can't hold on."

"This has gone on long enough!"

"Let's stop here for today."

"Good enough is good enough."

Murmurs suddenly rang out one after another.

The various noises outside seemed to amplify tenfold, bombarding Qin Annian's ears!

"Break through the Inner Demon, and behold the radiant light of the heart!"

Only then.

Could one draw upon the power of the Spirit Sea for cultivation!

Perhaps because the stance had changed, the restless thoughts surfacing now were far more powerful than those in his memories!

Qin Annian felt his mind beginning to waver.

If he could not break through the Inner Demon.

This session of Standing Posture would have been for nothing.

"No!"

He gritted his teeth and widened his eyes.

Suddenly.

Almost instinctively.

Qin Annian silently recited a passage of scripture.

He abruptly felt as if his soul had left his body, floating above his flesh.

"Is obsession not also a kind of Inner Demon?"

Qin Annian felt that he was in an extremely unique state.

"It feels like an enlightened version of me is guiding me?"

All distractions melted away like snow beneath the sun.

Immediately afterward.

Qin Annian felt himself fall into an incomprehensibly profound place.

"It's the Spirit Sea!"

Then.

Came the instinctive yearning of life for evolution.

Qin Annian "reached out" and drew upon the Force of Creation here!

Time passed.

Clang!

A majestic morning bell rang out, pulling Qin Annian from the Spirit Sea.

The low-rent apartment.

Whoosh!

Qin Annian abruptly opened his eyes!

Sweat had left a large stain beneath him.

Yet.

"The exhaustion after Standing Posture is completely gone!"

"My body is brimming with strength!"

He had just straightened up.

The light and heat produced by stellar fusion traveled across nearly 150 million kilometers of space and spilled onto the Practice Room window.

Qin Annian looked out.

Under the morning light, the city's towering landmark—the Universe Tower—seemed draped in a dazzling golden outer shell!

In the past.

After every day of painstaking Standing Posture.

Opening his eyes to see this sight was the source of his motivation to keep going.

He withdrew his gaze.

Qin Annian's expression no longer fluctuated as it once had.

"Just a place I'm destined to climb, and become part of the scenery."

After washing up.

Qin Annian changed into his Security Bureau uniform and headed out for work.

"This Standing Posture session lasted nearly nine hours."

"And."

"I spent almost the entire time in the Spirit Sea."

Inside the swaying train carriage, Qin Annian calculated the results of yesterday's cultivation.

"One night of cultivation was worth half a month of hard training in the past."

"This subsidized Iron Man Stance is extraordinary."

"My Life Development Power has definitely surpassed 10 now."

But he would need to test it to know the exact value.

At the same time.

Qin Annian more clearly realized that the three hundred years of Xingyi Cannon Fist skill subsidized for free was perhaps even more precious, and the boost to his combat strength perhaps far beyond what he had imagined!

"Of course."

"It erased such a massive gap in combat strength and let me take down those two criminals with almost no effort."

"Besides."

"These three hundred years of fist technique experience aren't even the greatest gain."

That insight which had elevated him to the rank of grandmaster of fist techniques was perhaps the most important thing.

"Master one art, master all arts."

"If I study other fist techniques now, there'll be almost no difficulty."

The tram announced the next stop.

Qin Annian came back to his senses and got off through the rear door.

Less than fifty steps away.

Stood the Security Bureau building.

Qin Annian took out his ID card from his pocket and was just about to clock in.

"Qin Annian!"

"Get the hell out of here!"

The hoarse, furious shout drew the attention of quite a few Security Bureau employees.

Even the guards at the sentry post frowned and looked over.

Zhao Daming's eyes were bloodshot as he glared viciously at Qin Annian.

He had not expected.

That Qin Annian would actually dare come to the Security Bureau again the next day?

The people around them could not help slowing down.

The contrast between Qin Annian in a temp worker's uniform and Zhao Daming in a Peace Officer uniform was simply too striking.

"Peace Officer Zhao Daming."

Qin Annian smiled, revealing his stark white teeth.

"Good morning."

Zhao Daming's face instantly flushed red.

Beep—

"Employee number 4396, have a pleasant day at work."

Ju Zi's voice came from the clock-in machine's speaker.

"I'm still an employee of the Security Bureau. What do you mean by telling me to get lost, Peace Officer Zhao Daming?"

"I don't understand."

Zhao Daming only felt the blood and energy in his body boil, as though his lungs were about to explode from rage.

He suddenly reached for the back of Qin Annian's neck.

Anger flashed in the guards' eyes.

However.

Someone moved before them, grabbing Zhao Daming's arm.

It was the young man from the Assault Team that had gone to the abandoned factory yesterday, the one who had stood beside Captain Chen.

"Peace Officer Zhao."

"So early in the morning."

"Why are you so angry?"

Before Zhao Daming could speak, the young man walked forward and strode alongside Qin Annian.

"Tch."

"You too—weren't you going to avoid him?"

Regret flickered in Qin Annian's eyes as the tense muscles in his hands relaxed.

"Me?"

"Avoid him?"

"Ha!"