Subduing Tiger Hall

"I realized I actually knew quite a few martial skills! I just never had the time to train them!"

"System! Can the martial skills I've never trained be fused together?"

"Ding!"

"Yes! However, only martial skills of similar types and equal levels can be fused. After fusion, you may choose one of the two martial skills to be trained to initial mastery! Future proficiency will still depend on your own training!"

"Trying to learn too much only leads to shallow mastery. Martial arts value refinement. Knowing much without mastering any of it will only leave you empty-handed in the end and waste all your time, even if I have the System's assistance."

Still, it would be a waste to spend them on ordinary martial skills. I should save them for something more useful, Li Changfeng thought.

"Ding!"

"Detected that Eighteen Styles of Entanglement and Great Stele Shattering Hand can be fused. Which martial skill would the host like to choose?"

"Eighteen Styles of Entanglement! After all, the Abbot just gave me this martial skill. If I chose Great Stele Shattering Hand, I'd have to explain myself to Shaolin Temple again!"

A quarter of an hour later.

Li Changfeng felt memories of the Eighteen Styles of Entanglement appear in his mind. He had only gained rudimentary proficiency; if he wanted to advance further, he would have to train on his own or rely on the System.

"Over the next three months, I need to raise my strength as quickly as possible, then take part in the Subduing Tiger Hall tournament."

Li Changfeng then opened the Attribute Panel.

A screen of light that only the host could see instantly appeared before him.

Host: Li Changfeng (Li Dazhuang).

Identity: Disciple of Shaolin Temple

Inner Force: 22 years (1,100 jin)

Strength: 750 jin

Experience Points: 480

Techniques: Shaolin Bronze Body Grand Completion (0/1500), Hong Fist minor mastery (30/360), Eighteen Styles of Entanglement rudimentary (0/80).

Title: Bald Donkey

Fame: Newly Entered the Martial World (0/180) (For every 10 points of Fame, 1 Cultivation Point can be obtained.)

Cultivation Points: 33 (For every 20 Cultivation Points, one Lucky Pack may be opened, or System Training Time may be entered at a 1:3 conversion rate. Each session allows one month of training.)

Current Lucky Packs: 1.

Items: Superior Bronze Body Elixir, Lesser Revitalizing Pill, Shaolin Dragon Claw Hand, the first three levels of Draconic Elephant Prajna, Vajra Palm of Immense Strength.

Main Quest: Participate in the Shaolin Subduing Tiger Hall tournament and obtain first place! Reward: You guess!

Side Quest Two: As the saying goes, if I do not enter hell, who will? The host must accept commissions from Shaolin Temple and help others send evil people on their way. There is no time limit. For every commission completed, reward: 100 Experience Points and 3 years of Inner Force.

"Damn! I have to guess the main quest reward too? This is ridiculous! Let's open a Lucky Pack first!"

"Ding!"

"Congratulations, host! You have obtained the middle three levels of Draconic Elephant Prajna!"

"Heh! Not bad! Now I have the first six levels of Draconic Elephant Prajna! If I train it to the sixth level, I'll already be a peak first-rate expert!"

"With my current Hong Fist Inner Force, I can only be considered below average among Internal Fists. I have to cultivate a powerful technique! This Draconic Elephant Prajna suits me perfectly!"

Suddenly, Li Changfeng seemed to remember something. He hurriedly opened his bundle to inspect it. The contents had been taken from Gold Master and the Great Chieftain after Li Changfeng killed them. He had rushed back to Shaolin Temple before he had time to see what was inside.

When he opened it, he found a stack of banknotes worth roughly 150,000 taels, along with a bottle containing some unknown pills.

"Damn! 150,000 taels! Did those two carry all their money with them when they went out? And what's in that bottle?"

Li Changfeng slowly opened the bottle and discovered that the pills inside were the same as those the Abbot had given him, except their effects were far better.

"This is a Greater Revitalizing Pill! Its effects are more than ten times stronger than a Lesser Revitalizing Pill! Hahaha! With these pills, cultivating techniques will take half the effort for twice the result!"

"For these three months, I'll focus on training Draconic Elephant Prajna! I must reach initial mastery!"

One-Line-Sky Gorge.

At the site of the battle in One-Line-Sky Gorge, quite a few black-clad men had arrived and were carefully examining the causes of death.

After examining the corpses, a coroner said rigorously, "Judging from the wounds on these corpses at the foot of the mountain, they were likely all killed by the same person. That person used fierce fist force and a weapon resembling an iron ring to pierce straight through them."

"The Third Chieftain was likely killed by the same person as well. With such fatal wounds, the killer must have struck with both arms at once, directly shattering his internal organs and bones. His arm strength was truly astonishing!"

"This fist technique probably wasn't used by Du Jinlong! According to our intelligence, Du Jinlong has never cultivated any fist-type martial skills. It doesn't resemble that young swordsman's methods either. It seems it was that monk!"

"As for the people on the mountain, aside from the Fifth Chieftain, whose head was severed by a single sword strike, the Fourth Chieftain was crushed into pulp by savage palm force. The other two were also killed by this same fist technique!"

"What a Shaolin Temple! I never expected the strength of a mere disciple to have reached such a level. If we want to besiege Shaolin again, we'll have to think it over carefully!"

Two months later.

"Damn! This Draconic Elephant Prajna is really fucking hard to cultivate! After two months, I still haven't fully opened even one meridian. And the cultivation method for the first level is supposed to be the easiest!"

"According to the cultivation method of Draconic Elephant Prajna's first level, reaching completion of the first level grants fifty years of Inner Force, enough to reach the peak of a second-rate expert!"

"Forget it! I'll use those Cultivation Points! And take both the Greater and Lesser Revitalizing Pills! I refuse to believe I can't break through!"

What Li Changfeng did not know was that even the fastest cultivation of the first level of Draconic Elephant Prajna required two years. No one was as extravagant as Li Changfeng, using Greater and Lesser Revitalizing Pills to cultivate this technique.

One month later.

With the cultivation System, his twenty-two years of Inner Force, and the support of the Greater and Lesser Revitalizing Pills, Li Changfeng finally cultivated the first level of Draconic Elephant Prajna to completion.

Li Changfeng slowly emerged from the rear mountain and said calmly, "I've finally reached completion of the first level. Adding my own strength, I now possess a total of 3,250 jin of force. Its power is truly terrifying!"

Li Changfeng then spent 100 Experience Points to raise the completed first level of Draconic Elephant Prajna to the second level.

Li Changfeng instantly felt the true qi in his body surge by ten years. A foul-smelling black impurity seeped from all over his body, leaving him feeling much lighter and more invigorated, while his true qi flowed more smoothly than before.

Once Inner Force surpassed fifty years, true qi would circulate through the body's flesh and meridians, forcing out all dirt and impurities. One's lifespan would even reach two hundred years.

That was treatment only first-rate experts received. Yet Li Changfeng had only just broken through to the second level of Draconic Elephant Prajna, and his Inner Force had already reached sixty years. Meanwhile, Li Changfeng had only just begun cultivating his fourth meridian and was merely a newly advanced second-rate expert.

But it seems my Cultivation Points didn't increase. What's going on? Forget it, I'll take a bath first!

Smelling the foul stench on himself, Li Changfeng hurried to the small lake at the rear mountain and washed up before preparing to head for the Subduing Tiger Hall.

"Now it's time to go to Shaolin's Subduing Tiger Hall and take part in the tournament!"