Black Tiger Fist Minor Accomplishment, The Heir's Struggle, It Has Always Been Like This!

In the days that followed.

Every morning, Jiang Wangzu went to clock in at the rear courtyard of Hongyun Mahjong Hall on Rongsheng Street.

In the afternoons, he patrolled Dragon River Pier.

At night, he went to the rear courtyard of Benevolent World Hall, took the secret medicine Black Tiger Powder, and practiced martial arts.

The struggle between Rongsheng Street and Xinglong Street also came to an end for the time being.

Chen Tai had taken a small loss, losing the turf of several shops.

Several people had died on both sides, and quite a few had been wounded.

Jiang Wangzu saw the number of people in the rear courtyard of Hongyun Mahjong Hall soar, each of them bearing wounds.

A few were even badly injured and lying in bed.

Chen Tai only had a barefoot doctor give them a simple bandaging, sent them a bit of food each day, and left them to live or die on their own.

With the hygiene and medical conditions as they were now, if their wounds did not become infected, they might still survive.

If the wounds really became infected, they would probably die.

This was what it meant to be a low-level gang thug!

Eat this meal and have no next meal, live through today and have no tomorrow!

He had to change his fate. He absolutely could not follow in these people's footsteps!

He had to keep his head down. At the very least, he had to wait until his Black Tiger Fist reached great achievement and he reached the level of great achievement in Strength Training. With his foundations and strength, he would definitely be able to surpass Chen Tai, who was at great achievement in Strength Training.

When the time came, he would seek his own development. Even if he could not break away from the Canal Gang, he still had to cast off the identity of a bottom-rung thug.

No matter what, he had to claw his way up to Chen Tai's level and become a mid-level minor leader in the Canal Gang.

Such an identity was undoubtedly much more respectable.

Practice martial arts!

Grow stronger!

Change fate!

Jiang Wangzu's desire to control his own fate had never changed. It had only become even firmer!

Benevolent World Hall.

Rear courtyard.

Jiang Wangzu drained the tenth dose of the secret medicine Black Tiger Powder in one gulp!

Black Tiger Fist, minor achievement!

He felt a stab of pain in his brain, and for a time, countless images of practicing Standing Posture and practicing his fists surged into his mind.

It was as if he stood atop a high mountain, training through the dog days of summer and the coldest nine-day periods of winter, cultivating bitterly day and night, never stopping!

In that single instant, it was as if he had received enlightenment poured straight through the crown of his head, instantly turning him into an ascetic who had painstakingly trained in martial arts for more than ten years!

His understanding of Black Tiger Fist also advanced another step, as if he had suddenly achieved enlightenment. At the same time, his strength soared wildly, his power surging explosively!

Crack, crack, crack!

He felt a vast warm current flowing through his whole body, and all the bones in him crackled and popped.

Roar!

He could not help letting out a long howl, like the roar of a fierce tiger.

"So strong!"

"Didn't he only just reach minor achievement in Strength Training?"

"How can he have such might?"

"Could he have fallen into a state of enlightenment?"

"Martial Dao enlightenment is something a martial artist might seek all his life without ever encountering. I never thought I would see it with my own eyes!"

When Yan Ruyu saw the change happening to Jiang Wangzu, she could not help taking the initiative to put distance between them.

And at this very moment, Jiang Wangzu was still immersed in his own madly surging strength.

He felt that at this moment, his whole body was filled with explosive power, and all the medicinal effect of the secret medicine Black Tiger Powder had been absorbed by him.

Every inch of his skin, his tendons, bones, blood, and flesh, and his five viscera and six bowels had all been strengthened to different degrees!

He opened his eyes, and golden-red text appeared before him:

[Cultivation Method: Black Tiger Fist (minor achievement)]

[Quick-Completion Method: Practice ten times daily, supplemented by one dose of the secret medicine Black Tiger Powder each day, and achieve great achievement in thirty days; or practice a hundred times daily, eat thirty jin of beef each day, and achieve great achievement in three years!]

"Thirty doses of the secret medicine Black Tiger Powder, two thousand seven hundred silver dollars—nearly three thousand silver dollars."

"How was this martial arts training? This was practically swallowing gold!"

Jiang Wangzu's excellent mood after breaking through was instantly ruined by the golden text before his eyes.

Although he knew that spending twenty-seven hundred silver dollars to raise minor accomplishment in Strength Training to major accomplishment in Strength Training was a wonderful thing countless martial artists could only encounter by luck and not seek by effort.

But he really had no money left!

With the silver dollars he had on him now, he could at most buy one more set of Black Tiger Powder secret medicine, still twenty-nine sets of Black Tiger Powder secret medicine short of the level of major accomplishment in Strength Training.

He had to think of a way to get money!

"Congratulations on breaking through to the realm of minor accomplishment in Strength Training."

"To be able to cultivate to such a realm in the Martial Dao at your age, you can be considered an outstanding martial artist."

When Yan Ruyu saw Jiang Wangzu open his eyes and the aura around him return to calm, she took the initiative to speak.

Although her face held amazement and a smile, a faint sorrow was hidden in the depths of her eyes.

That was right!

Jiang Wangzu had already broken through to minor accomplishment in Strength Training, so next, breaking through to major accomplishment in Strength Training would be another very long accumulation of years.

Perhaps for a very long time in the future, he would not come to Benevolent World Hall to decoct Strength Training secret medicine again!

Then would the two of them still meet again?

"Doctor Yan, it's all thanks to your help."

"Next, I still need thirty sets of Black Tiger Powder secret medicine, but right now I only have the money for one set of Black Tiger Powder secret medicine."

"I wonder if I can put it on credit here?"

Jiang Wangzu looked at Yan Ruyu and spoke somewhat embarrassedly.

"Ah?"

"Thirty sets?"

"Even at cost price, that would require at least twenty-seven hundred silver dollars. That isn't a small sum."

"And next, I may not be able to prepare the medicine for you at cost price."

"Although Benevolent World Hall is my family's ancestral property, its owner is my grandfather."

"My grandfather has three sons and two daughters. Although my father is the legitimate eldest son, my two uncles also hold shares in Benevolent World Hall."

"And my grandfather isn't that kind of feudal patriarch. He hopes that every one of his children can live well, so my two aunts who married out also have shares in Benevolent World Hall."

"Not only that, even we younger generations each hold a portion of the shares."

"So cost price doesn't just harm my interests, but the interests of all Benevolent World Hall's shareholders. I don't mind, but those uncles and aunts of mine are not lamps that save oil."

"The medicinal ingredients needed for the Black Tiger Mountain Secret Medicine are far too precious..."

After hearing Jiang Wangzu's words, Yan Ruyu was both surprised and delighted, and also somewhat apologetic.

Jiang Wangzu naturally understood Yan Ruyu's meaning.

Precious medicinal ingredients were not only expensive; the key also lay in their scarcity.

For Yan Ruyu to agree to give him ten sets of Black Tiger Powder secret medicine at cost price meant she would earn at least a hundred silver dollars less.

If she gave him another thirty sets of Black Tiger Powder secret medicine at cost price, that would mean earning several hundred silver dollars less.

Even though Benevolent World Hall had a vast household and great business, it still could not withstand being tossed around like this!

And he estimated that Yan Ruyu's uncles and aunts, as well as her male and female cousins, were all in competition with her family, all secretly waiting for Yan Ruyu to make a mistake.

The struggle between heirs had always been like this!

The battles within great clans were even more cruel.

"Doctor Yan, you don't need to say more. I understand."

"I'll walk you home first. We can talk as we go."

"By the way, Doctor Yan, for a secret medicine at the level of Black Tiger Powder, what is Benevolent World Hall's selling price?"

Hearing this, Jiang Wangzu did not feel any dissatisfaction, but walked Yan Ruyu home as usual.

"About one hundred silver dollars or so."

Yan Ruyu thought for a moment, then said.

This only earned the selling price of the medicinal ingredients. As for her consultation fee, the cost of decocting the medicine, and other fees for her effort, none of it was included.

However, these were all things she was willing to do for Jiang Wangzu herself, so other people could not very well say much.

A set of Strength Training secret medicine sold for one hundred silver dollars; that was also acceptable to the family.