So Poor! I Want to Leave the City!

"Handsome, you've got a great eye!"

"You've picked out a weapon, so shouldn't you get some armor and combat skills too? They're essentials!"

The hot saleswoman saw that Lin Chen had found his target.

With practiced ease, she pulled out a tablet displaying a whole list of combat skills!

[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 at them before looking away.

They were too expensive!

Combat skills were essential abilities for martial artists, used in everyday combat and killing enemies!

Ordinary martial artists obtained their combat skills from the Martial Arts Association and Martial Dao Bases, either through purchases or rewards!

Special martial artists inherited their combat skills through their families!

Even the Martial Arts Association's secretary-general only possessed a One-Star combat skill!

Combat skills above One-Star had almost all been collected in the Martial Dao Base's armory.

Only by joining the military could one have a chance to learn these high-level combat skills.

With empty pockets, Lin Chen gritted his teeth.

Then he chose a copy of Mad Demon Slash!

It was a combat skill meant for fighting with a saber, making it perfect for him.

"Handsome, you really do have great taste!"

"What about armor? How about a set of Alloy Battle Armor?"

The hot saleswoman smiled faintly and brought out 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 and could also be bought at regular weapon shops, costing anywhere from three to five thousand.

The saber cost five thousand.

The combat skill cost ten thousand!

The combat suit cost three thousand!

Lin Chen's 25,000 allowance instantly dwindled to just seven thousand!

Under the hot saleswoman'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 outermost edge of the city, guarded by the troops of the Chuan City Martial Arts Base.

Aside from martial artist teams that went out to hunt Monsters, ordinary civilians rarely wandered over here.

Riding Bus 502, Lin Chen spotted the towering city wall stretching thousands of miles into the distance from far away!

Inside its fortifications, soldiers clad in black armor stood guard!

Their eyes were stern, and their bodies radiated boundless killing intent!

The Chuan City Guard Legion!

Lin Chen stared out the window with blazing eyes!

After looking for a while, he reached into his pocket.

A yellowish-brown book immediately appeared in his hand.

Mad Demon Slash!

It sounded pretty powerful just from the name!

The moment Lin Chen opened to the first page, a ding suddenly rang 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 cheat only increased his Qi-Blood Value!

Who would have thought it could increase combat skill proficiency too!

Thrilled, he looked at Mad Demon Slash and immediately began studying it seriously!

[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 Beginner level!]

They had arrived at the city gates!

The driver's shout rang in his ears.

Lin Chen instantly raised his head.

Holding Mad Demon Slash in his hand, his eyes burned with excitement!

With a casual wave of his hand, a panel instantly appeared before him:

[Name: Lin Chen!]

[Age: 18!]

[Realm: One-Star Martial Artist!]

[Qi-Blood Value: 351.02/600!!]

[Combat Skill: Mad Demon Slash! Beginner! (Beginner, Minor Success, Major Success, Perfection!)]

Lin Chen, whose Mad Demon Slash had reached Beginner level, had blazing eyes!

Just moments ago, he had not understood the slightest thing about saber techniques.

Yet now, he felt like a master of the saber!

A powerful desire to fight began to grow 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 tired of living?"

The bus driver glanced at the Mad Demon Slash in Lin Chen's hand and mocked him.

"Take some advice from your big brother. Go back and find a team before heading out. Going out alone is a dead end!"

"Thanks for the reminder, 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 saved another idiot!

Who would have thought that Lin Chen would immediately get off the bus without looking back and sprint toward the city gates!

"Damn!"

"Are people this eager to get themselves killed nowadays?"

"Sigh! Another dead soul whose bones will go unburied!"

Unable to hear the bus driver's lament, Lin Chen soon arrived at the city gates.

After handing over his Warrior Badge for identification, the Guard Army at the gates let him pass without issue!

The moment he took his first step beyond the gates, a fishy wind rushed into his face!

Wild grass grew thickly on both sides, and skulls occasionally appeared and vanished among it.

The farther forward he went, the more excited Lin Chen became!

He looked back at the Chuan City Martial Arts Base shrouded in a blue halo and thought, So this was the extremely dangerous world outside the city!

It was truly exciting!

Suppressing his excitement, Lin Chen quickened his pace.

The dangerous land he was heading to this time was 0911 Dangerous Land!

According to the map in his Warrior Badge,

this place had once been a small town.

After the revival of spiritual energy and the mutation of Monsters, it had become a disaster zone!

Most of the creatures active inside were First-Level Demon Beasts. The Martial Dao Base had marked it as the most suitable place for One-Star Martial Artists to train!

But most suitable did not mean easy.

The number of One-Star Martial Artists who had died in 0911 Dangerous Land had exceeded a hundred!

Having learned about the target area beforehand, Lin Chen's eyes burned with excitement.

Looking at the increasing number of bones and skeletons along the road, his palms began to heat up!

After walking for around ten minutes, ruined walls and crumbling buildings came into view.

Roars of Monsters echoed from within, making one's heart tremble with fear!

So this was 0911 Dangerous Land...

Lin Chen took out his Mo Saber in advance and swept his gaze over the path ahead.

Then he quickened his pace again.

As he approached a weed-covered ruin with only a single wall remaining, a black shadow suddenly leaped out!

A foul wind rushed at him!

Along with it came a gaping, blood-filled maw packed with fangs!

Lin Chen's eyes flickered!

His two-meter-long Mo Saber slashed down!

Crack!

A pungent stench of blood hit him in the face as the black shadow was instantly cut in two!

Lin Chen, who had learned Mad Demon Slash, focused his gaze.

His expression changed slightly!

In the grass at his feet,

half of a mutated black Tibetan Mastiff was twitching in agony!

Its white intestines spilled out in a gush, mixed with blood!

Suppressing his nausea, Lin Chen gave a light swing of 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 prompt, Lin Chen's lips curled upward.

A First-Level Demon Beast?

That was all?

Lin Chen shook his head slightly.

Glancing at the half of the mutated Tibetan Mastiff on the ground, he stored it in his Warrior Badge.

Just as he was collecting the remaining half of the mutated Tibetan Mastiff's corpse,

waves of roars came from the distance!

Looking up, he saw dozens of mutated vicious dogs baring their fangs, their faces savage and their bodies covered in spikes, charging toward him...