"Handsome! What great taste!"
"You've picked your weapon, so shouldn't you get some armor and combat skills too? Those are essentials!"
The hot salesgirl saw that Lin Chen had found his target.
She smoothly pulled out a tablet displaying a whole list of combat skill options!
[Mad Demon Slash! One-Star Combat Skill... Price: 10,000...] [Wrathful Vajra! One-Star Combat Skill... Price: 10,000...] [Mountain-Breaking Fist! One-Star Combat Skill... Price: 10,000...]
Lin Chen merely glanced over them before looking away.
Too expensive!
Combat skills were essential abilities for Martial Artists, used in everyday battles to kill enemies!
Ordinary Martial Artists obtained combat skills from the Martial Arts Association and Martial Dao Bases, either through purchase or rewards!
Special Martial Artists inherited combat skills through their families!
Even the Martial Arts Association secretary-general only had a One-Star combat skill!
Combat skills above One-Star were almost all stored in the Martial Dao Base Armory.
Only by joining the military would one have a chance to learn those high-level combat skills.
Lin Chen, short on money, gritted his teeth.
He then chose Mad Demon Slash!
It was a combat skill meant for fighting with a blade, making it perfect for him.
"Handsome, you really have great taste!"
"What about armor? How about a set of Alloy Battle Armor?"
The hot salesgirl smiled faintly and presented another series of armor sets!
"No, just give me a Combat Suit," Lin Chen said through gritted teeth!
Ordinary Combat Suits were made from special materials. They were also sold in regular weapon shops, costing anywhere from three thousand to five thousand.
The battle blade cost five thousand.
The combat skill cost ten thousand!
The Combat Suit cost three thousand!
Lin Chen's 25,000 allowance instantly shrank to just seven thousand!
Under the hot salesgirl's smiling gaze, he left with a pained heart!
"The Martial Arts Examination fees definitely won't be enough..."
"I can suffer, but I can't let my little sister suffer..."
After thinking it over, Lin Chen left the Martial Arts Association Tower and headed straight for the city gates!
The city gates stood at the very outskirts of the city, guarded by the Chuan City Martial Arts Base military.
Aside from teams of Martial Artists hunting Monsters, ordinary civilians rarely wandered around this area.
Riding Bus 502, Lin Chen saw the towering city wall stretching thousands of miles into the distance!
Inside its fortifications, soldiers clad in black armor stood guard!
Their gazes were stern, and their bodies exuded overwhelming killing intent!
The Chuan City Guard Legion!
Lin Chen stared out the window with burning eyes!
After looking for a while, he reached into his pocket.
A yellowish-brown book appeared in his hand.
Mad Demon Slash!
The name alone sounded pretty powerful!
The moment Lin Chen opened the first page, a ding sounded in his mind!
[Ding! Read Mad Demon Slash for one second. Proficiency +0.001!]
This worked too?
Lin Chen froze for a moment, then was instantly overjoyed!
He had thought his golden finger only increased his Qi-Blood Value!
Who would have thought it could raise combat skill proficiency too!
Excited, he glanced at Mad Demon Slash and immediately began reading it carefully!
[Ding! Read Mad Demon Slash for one minute. Proficiency +0.03!] [Ding! Read Mad Demon Slash for ten minutes. Proficiency +0.06!] [Ding! Read Mad Demon Slash for thirty minutes. Proficiency +0.01!] [Ding! Read Mad Demon Slash for one hour. Proficiency +0.8. Reached Entry Level!]
They had arrived at the city gates!
The driver's shout rang in his ears.
Lin Chen instantly looked up.
Holding Mad Demon Slash in his hand, his eyes blazed with excitement!
With a casual wave, the status panel appeared before him:
[Name: Lin Chen!] [Age: 18!] [Realm: One-Star Martial Artist!] [Qi-Blood Value: 351.02/600!!] [Combat Skill: Mad Demon Slash! Entry Level! (Entry Level, Minor Mastery, major mastery, perfection!)]
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Lin Chen's eyes burned after Mad Demon Slash reached the Novice Stage!
Just moments ago, he had not understood even the slightest thing about blade techniques.
Yet now, he felt like a master of the blade!
A powerful desire for battle arose within him!
"Kid, are you getting off or not?"
At that moment, the fat bus driver, a cigarette dangling from his mouth, walked over.
Lin Chen came back to his senses and nodded!
"You're a One-Star Martial Artist, right? You dare leave the city alone? Are you trying to get yourself killed?"
The bus driver glanced at the Mad Demon Slash in Lin Chen's hand and sneered.
"Take some advice from your big brother. Go find a team before heading out. If you go alone, you're dead for sure!"
"Thanks for the advice, big brother. I just became a Martial Artist, so I don't understand anything yet," Lin Chen said with a smile!
The bus driver nodded, thinking he had just saved another idiot!
Who would have thought that Lin Chen would jump off the bus without even looking back and run straight toward the city gates!
"Holy shit!"
"Are people this eager to die these days?"
"Ah! Another skeleton and wandering soul, with no one left to bury him!"
Unable to hear the bus driver's lament, Lin Chen soon arrived at the city gates.
After presenting his Warrior Badge for identification, the Guard Army at the gates let him through without issue!
The moment he stepped outside the city gates, a fishy wind blew into his face!
Weeds grew wildly on both sides, and skulls occasionally appeared and disappeared within them.
The farther Lin Chen went, the more excited he became!
He looked back at the Chuan City Martial Arts Base shrouded in a blue light barrier and thought, So this was the extremely dangerous world outside the city!
How exciting!
Suppressing his excitement, Lin Chen quickened his pace.
The dangerous land he was heading to this time was the dangerous land numbered 0911!
According to the map recorded in his Warrior Badge,
this place had once been a small town.
After the Spirit Revival and Monster mutations, it had become a disaster zone!
Most of the creatures active there were First-Level Demon Beasts, and the Martial Dao Base had designated it as the most suitable place for One-Star Martial Artists to train!
But most suitable did not mean easy.
Over a hundred One-Star Martial Artists had died in the dangerous land numbered 0911!
Having already studied information about the target area, Lin Chen's eyes burned with excitement.
Looking at the growing number of white bones and skeletons on both sides, his palms began to heat up!
After walking for about ten minutes, crumbling ruins came into view.
Monster roars echoed from within, sending chills down one's spine!
So this was the dangerous land numbered 0911...
Lin Chen took out his Mo Saber in advance and glanced ahead.
Then he quickened his pace once again.
As he approached a weed-covered ruin with only one wall remaining, a black shadow suddenly leaped out!
A foul stench rushed into his face!
Along with it came a gaping bloody mouth filled with fangs!
Lin Chen's gaze sharpened!
His two-meter-long Mo Saber swung down in response!
Crack!
The pungent smell of blood hit him in the face as the black shadow was instantly sliced in two!
Lin Chen, who had learned Mad Demon Slash, looked closely.
His expression changed slightly!
In the grass beneath his feet,
half of a Mutant Black-Haired Tibetan Mastiff was twitching in pain!
Its pale intestines flowed out in gurgling streams, mixed with blood!
Suppressing his nausea, Lin Chen lightly swung his saber and ended its life!
[Ding! Killed a First-Level Demon Beast. Qi-Blood Value +0.1!] [Ding! Used Mad Demon Slash once. Proficiency +0.1!]
Hearing the notification, Lin Chen's lips curled up.
A First-Level Demon Beast?
That was it?
Lin Chen shook his head slightly.
Glancing at the half of the Mutant Tibetan Mastiff on the ground, he stored it in his Warrior Badge.
Just as he was collecting the remaining half of the Mutant Tibetan Mastiff's corpse,
a series of roars came from the distance!
Looking up, he saw dozens of snarling, hideous Mutant Hounds covered in spikes charging toward him...
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