Flaw Insight

"Flaw Insight: Captures flaws in a target's actions, transforming 'invisible openings' into 'visualized signals.'"

Li Yuan looked at his newly acquired Talent Point.

Compared to the [Martial Recruitment Accelerator] talent, [Flaw Insight] was clearly more suited for actual combat.

Of course, Li Yuan wasn't trying to say this talent was better than [Martial Recruitment Accelerator].

The scenarios each talent applied to were different.

One focused on enhancing combat ability, the other directly targeted opponents.

Having obtained the fourth talent, there was nowhere to test it now.

It was already past eleven.

Li Yuan stopped overthinking, counted numbers in his head, and forced himself to sleep.

Before seven in the morning, Li Yuan woke up.

He went to the dining hall for breakfast, sat there, and waited.

Thinking, he should at least say something to Xia Zhao, exchange farewells.

A little past seven, Xia Zhao really showed up.

Her eyes searched around and spotted Li Yuan.

She grabbed a bit of food and sat down across from him.

"Going back soon?" Xia Zhao asked, feigning casualness.

Hearing this, Li Yuan nodded and replied with a smile, "I've been out for a while now. The intensity of this training trip was pretty over the top."

Yeah, which young martial artist came to Qijia Town for training expecting to deal with a crisis of this level?

"What about you? Staying in Qijia Town for a few more days?"

Xia Zhao shook her head. "I called home. They arranged a convoy to pick me up.

When are you leaving?

Is your car parked in the south lot?"

Her instinctive question left Li Yuan momentarily unsure how to answer.

"I... I'm taking the high-speed rail back. Departs at eight twenty..."

After a pause, Li Yuan still said it.

The gap between their living environments was too big.

Xia Zhao rarely chose the high-speed rail for travel.

For longer distances, she'd take a flight.

Not like Li Yuan, who usually bought second-class seats on the train.

"Oh, oh... The high-speed rail's pretty good too. Fast..."

Xia Zhao seemed to realize she'd misspoken, scrambling to cover it up.

"By the way, give me a way to contact you. Makes it easier to keep in touch."

After taking a bite, Xia Zhao finally got to the point.

Coming to find Li Yuan this morning, she wanted his contact info.

Hearing this, Li Yuan hesitated for a moment. "How about you give me your number instead? I'll contact you when I get back."

At that, Xia Zhao got up, borrowed paper and pen from the hotel front desk.

Then she handed Li Yuan a sticky note with a string of numbers written on it.

This string was different from the phone numbers Li Yuan knew—two digits shorter.

"Yeah, it's this number."

Maybe sensing Li Yuan's confusion, Xia Zhao quietly added.

Li Yuan nodded, indicating he understood.

Soon, it was eight o'clock.

Twenty minutes until departure—time to head to the station.

They said their goodbyes, and Li Yuan left the hotel first.

Walking along the road, he unconsciously unfolded the note and looked at the number on it.

"Train hard. Maybe you'll amount to something someday?"

Li Yuan murmured to himself, half consolation, half reminder.

Arriving at the station, boarding had already started.

He got on the high-speed rail, heading back to Lingshan City.

Outside the window, watching the scenery rush backward, Li Yuan summed up his training trip.

First, the desensitization step was completely overfulfilled.

Among the martial artists who trained in Qijia Town, whose experience was more perilous than Li Yuan's this time?

Not only did he encounter ordinary mutant beasts, but he even ran into the kind of Mutant Beast that had wiped out an entire town decades ago.

After surviving such a dangerous crisis, the feeling of tension and fear upon seeing a beast would certainly never reappear.

Second, it was about verifying the experience he had learned from books.

The verification showed that the methods taught in the books and the lessons given were highly valuable.

These experiences would also greatly aid him in the Youth Martial Tournament.

Beyond these two pre-planned points, Li Yuan gained quite a few additional benefits.

Especially his discussion with Xia Zhao about martial arts cultivation.

She provided a lot of guidance on advancing in martial realm.

She listed all the difficulties and obstacles she had encountered on that path.

Relatively speaking, her help with his understanding of martial techniques was quite limited.

Xia Zhao's comprehension of many martial techniques couldn't be called poor.

But compared to him, it was still somewhat shallow.

For the deeper meanings hidden in many techniques, she could only see one layer.

Of course, being able to do this already made Xia Zhao surpass others.

With a solid foundation in martial arts and a certain depth in understanding techniques, how could she be weak?

Thinking of this, he took out the USB Drive.

The USB Drive Xia Zhao had given him also contained a basic cultivation method.

Compared to martial techniques, his current need for a basic cultivation method was far greater.

But according to her, it was still unknown whether this Heavenly Refining Body basic cultivation method contained errors.

Many experts who had read it believed it had quite a few mistakes.

Some even thought the entire method was nonsense and fabricated.

Even a Grandmaster hadn't understood this cultivation method, so it really might be gibberish.

After thinking for a while, Li Yuan lay down to rest again.

It was still early before reaching Lingshan City; they wouldn't arrive until tomorrow morning.

The current high-speed rail had been slowed down, only a bit faster than a car.

Along the way, there were many mountainous areas, not all urban.

These places weren't outside the border, and the number of mutant beasts was much smaller, even scarce.

But incidents of mutant beasts colliding with the high-speed rail had still occurred.

Martial artists might be able to withstand such traffic accidents, but not all citizens had strong physiques.

Although slowing down reduced efficiency, it did improve safety.

At noon.

A convoy of vehicles stopped in front of the hotel where Li Yuan had previously stayed.

Xia Zhao came out of the restaurant, took one last look at Qijia Town, then got into the car.

For this kind of executive sedan, comfort was its most important requirement.

Once the doors and windows were closed, all external noise disappeared.

On Xia Zhao's left side sat an elderly noblewoman.

Money truly nourished people; at over seventy, she looked about fifty.

"Let me see my good granddaughter. This trip seems to have really put you through some hardship.

But it's good, so you won't keep saying all kinds of training are boring."

The noblewoman's words carried a hint of teasing.

She had only heard that Xia Zhao had run into some trouble on this trip, even losing her communication device.

She didn't know that Xia Zhao had faced a life-threatening danger.

"Tell me, what kind of mutant beast did you encounter this time?

There are quite a few spider-type mutant beasts around Qijia Town. Were you affected by their webs?"

Hearing her grandmother's words, Xia Zhao didn't refute.

Her expression was serious as she began to recount what had happened.

"Deep in the old district of Qijia Town, I encountered a Mutant Beast..."

Before Xia Zhao could finish, the elderly woman's eyes widened instantly.

"A Mutant Beast?

The kind that massacred Qijia Town forty years ago?!"