Toward evening, Luo Yuan walked out of the Limitless Martial Hall. He looked at the sunset clouds on the horizon and felt that time had flown by.
The day had passed in the blink of an eye. He walked to the bus stop outside the Limitless Martial Hall and waited for the bus.
After taking the bus back to his rented apartment, Luo Yuan found the cool, glamorous woman named Xu Qian sprawled on the living room sofa, munching sunflower seeds while watching a movie. Her long, snowy-white legs rested directly on the coffee table.
"Oh, right, Qian, that black card you gave me last time actually had two million on it. The manager of the monster pet park refunded me four hundred thousand. How about I give you three hundred thousand back now and repay the remaining hundred thousand later?" Luo Yuan suddenly remembered the black card.
"No need. Keep that four hundred thousand for now. Your big sister still has money," Xu Qian said lazily. Luo Yuan found it a little strange. What sort of personality did this woman actually have? Not long ago, she had been a cool, glamorous older woman. Today, she had turned into a happy couch potato.
"All right. If you ever need anything, just let me know."
After saying that, Luo Yuan returned to his bedroom. He did not immediately fuse the attribute points he had collected that day. That woman was still here, so he would wait until she left that night before starting. He wondered whether he could break through and become a Warrior this time.
Lying spread-eagled on the bed, Luo Yuan took his Advanced Student ID from the Limitless Martial Hall out of his bag and smiled happily. This thing really was useful. It gave him unrestricted access to the hall's public areas, and he could even collect a monthly allowance of five thousand.
Luo Yuan habitually reached for his phone again, only to discover several missed calls. A glance showed that they were from his balding homeroom teacher, Cui Dashan. Luo Yuan curled his lip. The man was definitely calling to ask why he had skipped class, but he paid it no mind.
Although only a month remained until the college entrance exam, Luo Yuan was not worried at all, because he had no intention of taking it. With his merely average academic performance, getting into a good university would be difficult. Besides, he did not think studying was all that useful in this world. Still, he planned to visit school tomorrow to withdraw, so that balding man would stop pestering him every day.
Through some experiments while collecting attributes that day, Luo Yuan had discovered a few rules governing his cheat ability:
1. Only people or monsters whose strength had reached Junior Trainee level or above could drop attribute bubbles. The stronger they were, the higher the bubbles' attribute values and rarity.
2. Dropped bubbles had a time limit of roughly five minutes.
3. The number of bubbles a person or monster could drop within a certain period was limited. The exact number depended on the source's strength: the stronger they were, the more bubbles they dropped.
4. The level of dropped attribute bubbles could be judged by their color, but their exact values could only be determined during fusion. Of the colors currently known, white ranked below red, with white bubbles having the lowest attribute values.
That was all he could conclude for now. Seeing that it was still early, Luo Yuan cooked a meal for himself. The woman named Xu Qian came to mooch another meal, but he said nothing. After all, she was his creditor now.
After eating and washing up, Luo Yuan started playing with his phone in his bedroom. He had no idea how it had been made, but it was completely transparent, like a small rectangular piece of glass. He opened the Limitless Martial Hall's forum, where a notice said that viewing its contents required his student ID number, his national ID number, and facial recognition.
Luo Yuan could only follow the instructions patiently, choosing "Running Onlooker" as his username. He soon entered the forum and discovered that it was quite lively, with hundreds of thousands of posts. He took a look and found that most of them were trainees chatting and shooting the breeze.
There were Warriors too, of course, but most of them were posting trade listings. It seemed those at Warrior level and above had no time to chat on the forum.
Suddenly, he spotted a post: "Another Advanced Student emerges from Yangzhou's Limitless Martial Hall-but he's a lunatic who does nothing but run!"
He opened the thread and read it carefully. It described practically everything Luo Yuan had done at the Limitless Martial Hall in Yangzhou that day, though its comments were rather malicious. Fortunately, it included neither his name nor his photo. He checked the poster's username: "Brother Heaven-Conqueror's Lackey." His rank was also Advanced Student.
"Very good. I'll remember you," Luo Yuan muttered through gritted teeth.
Next, Luo Yuan opened the forum's resource-sharing section. He saw Basic Warrior Ranks, A Brief Guide to Warrior Movement Technique Levels, Encyclopedia of Monster Knowledge, An Introduction to Warrior Weapons, Limitless Martial Hall Warrior Rankings, An Introduction to World History...
The sheer variety of information made Luo Yuan's head spin. He went straight to the topic that interested him most at the moment: A Brief Guide to Warrior Movement Technique Levels.
Warriors' evasive movement techniques were divided into basic level, micro level, Perfect Level, and artistic conception level.
Basic level needed no explanation; most Advanced Students could achieve it. Micro level meant evading attacks with the smallest possible movements, maximizing the efficiency of each dodge.
Perfect Level meant mastering the surrounding environment and using any object within it, such as living creatures, stones, buildings, and so on. Making perfect use of the environment while dodging with the utmost precision-this was Perfect Level movement!
As for artistic conception level, the explanation consisted of just one sentence: "It can only be understood intuitively, not conveyed in words."
Then he opened Basic Warrior Ranks. It listed the ranks from lowest to highest as Junior Trainee, Intermediate Student, Advanced Student, Beginner Warrior, Intermediate Warrior, Advanced Warrior, Junior War General, Intermediate War General, Advanced War General, Junior War God, Intermediate War God, Advanced War God, and Beyond War God. As for what Beyond War God meant, there was no explanation.
Looking at these Warrior ranks, Luo Yuan could only smile bitterly. In truth, these ranks on Earth were collectively known as Apprentice Level throughout the universe, the weakest tier of existence. Even those at Planetary Level, beyond War God, were nothing more than slaves to others in the universe.
"Looks like I need to get stronger fast, or I won't even be able to beat an alien's slave." Luo Yuan clenched his fists. To improve his strength, he was willing to throw his pride away.
Click.
The sound of a door closing reached him. Luo Yuan looked at the dark night sky outside the window. His phone showed that it was already nine in the evening. Leaving his bedroom, he found the living room empty. He knocked on Xu Qian's bedroom door, but there was no response. It seemed the woman had gone out. He hurriedly locked the front door, then locked his bedroom door.
Attribute fusion commencing... Strength +1. Strength +1. Speed +1 Speed +1 Defense +1 Defense +1 Nerve response +1 Nerve response +1 ...
"Ah! It hurts!"
At noon the next day, Luo Yuan regained consciousness. He checked the time on his phone: 12:18.
Enduring the pain in his body, he opened his personal attribute panel, and his eyes widened in shock.
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