"Hello, Mr. Li Xin. Your delivery is here. You'll need your fingerprint to open it."
Early the next morning, the delivery guy brought over everything Li Xin had bought the day before.
"Everything's in order, and I know the rules. Thanks for bringing it over!"
Li Xin opened the delivery's specially sealed metal case and carefully checked its contents before smiling and thanking the delivery guy.
"You're welcome. It's my job. May you prosper on the martial path. Goodbye!"
The delivery guy gave a small smile, then turned and left with envy written all over his face.
After receiving the Heaven-Breaking Sword Technique manual, Li Xin took his newly purchased sword into the training room.
"Let's see just how strong I am!"
Rather than rushing to practice his swordsmanship, Li Xin tested his strength and speed first.
"Punching force: 6,100 kilograms. Speed: 72 meters per second!"
"I've reached the level of an Advanced Warrior. I'm still a little short of the minimum requirements for a Junior War General-8,000 kilograms of punching force and a speed of 90 meters per second."
Li Xin was fairly satisfied with his current punching force and speed. Once he mastered his swordsmanship and movement techniques, he would hunt monsters in the Wilderness Zone and use the Eternal Divine Furnace to extract energy to strengthen his body. Then his strength would improve by leaps and bounds.
That was why he was unwilling to go to the Extreme Martial Hall's headquarters. There were too many experts there, along with all kinds of alien technology monitoring everything. The Eternal Divine Furnace might be exposed.
Only in his current state, completely free and unwatched, could he improve his strength to his heart's content.
"No defense is unbreakable before martial skill; only speed cannot be countered."
Those were the opening words he saw when he flipped open the Heaven-Breaking Sword Technique manual.
Li Xin almost wondered whether the man who created the Heaven-Breaking Sword Technique had plagiarized Thunder God. Why did they both begin with those same words?
"The Heaven-Breaking Sword Technique revolves around one word: speed. When your explosive speed is high enough, when your sword strikes so fast that your opponent cannot react, you win..."
After opening the Heaven-Breaking Sword Technique manual, Li Xin read every word carefully. Once he had finished, he closed the manual and shut his eyes.
The Heaven-Breaking Sword Technique contained not only swordsmanship, but also matching movement techniques and a Guidance Technique. All of them were SSS-grade, making it a very comprehensive manual.
With the Eternal Divine Brain at work, he analyzed and understood the entire manual over and over, comparing it with the many basic sword techniques he had encountered and beginning to run simulations tailored to his own circumstances.
Over the past several days, the Eternal Divine Brain had done more than perform calculations involving technological knowledge. It had also begun searching online for extensive information on ancient martial arts, sword techniques, and the classics of the Hundred Schools of Thought, recording it all and making it part of Li Xin's own foundation of knowledge.
Only after fifteen minutes did he open his eyes and exhale a stale breath. With the Eternal Divine Brain's calculations, he had just simulated the first level of the Heaven-Breaking Sword Technique thousands upon thousands of times.
"Ten million simulations aren't worth a single practice run!"
Li Xin picked up his sword and began practicing. At first, he swung so slowly that he resembled an elderly woman performing tai chi sword exercises.
But when he began the second run, his speed rose a notch. Then came the third, the fourth, the fifth...
Every time he started the sword routine again, his speed rose another notch, until after the twelfth run, it stopped increasing.
"Something's wrong. I could clearly go faster in the simulations. Is my body's lack of coordination keeping my speed from rising any further?"
"Practice makes perfect. Keep going! If my body isn't coordinated, I'll practice until it is!"
His thinking was extremely fast, but his body was his weak point. In that respect, all he could do was put in the work and practice over and over until he could bring out his full strength.
And so Li Xin kept practicing in the training room. When his stamina ran dry, he sat down and circulated his cultivation technique to recover. He even slept in the training room. This frenzied training continued for two full days.
Whoosh!!!
On the third day, as the rising sunlight fell across Li Xin's face, his eyes lit up. His sword flashed through his hands at incredible speed, and his final slash struck the punching-force tester, leaving a shallow sword mark on it.
"Punching force: 12,200 kilograms. A twofold increase in force. I did it!"
Li Xin wiped the sweat from his forehead and smiled. Strength at this level was already enough to rival an ordinary Junior War General.
"All I'm missing now is combat experience and the energy to strengthen my body!"
After fully mastering the first level of the Heaven-Breaking Sword Technique, he turned his attention to hunting in the wilderness.
"I can't let Dad find out!"
He knew perfectly well that if his father learned he was going into the wilderness, he would never allow him to go alone. At the very least, he would find a team to take him along.
But Li Xin knew his own circumstances. Something like the Eternal Divine Furnace absolutely could not be exposed, at least not yet.
Next, he left a message at home and slipped out. He had already moved everything he needed for the trip to a place he had rented outside.
"Let's go!"
Once he arrived there, he got into the off-road vehicle he had bought, stepped on the accelerator, and sped toward the city gate.
"He only became a martial artist a little over two weeks ago, and he already dares to head into the wilderness alone. Why are there so many people with a death wish every year?"
The guard stationed at the city gate watched Li Xin's vehicle disappear and shook his head helplessly.
After leaving the city, Li Xin followed the map along a dilapidated highway that had gone unrepaired for years, driving toward the nearest Supply Base.
Martial artists often drove along this stretch of road, so there were few monsters nearby. Yet the area was littered with wrecked vehicles, soil stained black by the blood of various monsters, and even quite a few rotting monster corpses.
The sun blazed overhead, and the scorching heat made Li Xin sweat heavily. He could even faintly hear monsters roaring, keeping his nerves taut at every moment.
"I can't drive any farther. I'll leave the car here!"
After traveling dozens of kilometers from the city, Li Xin decisively got out and hid his vehicle. He had reached an area where monsters could appear in large numbers.
As Li Xin got out, the Eternal Divine Brain robot transformed from its suitcase form into a robot, shouldered an enormous backpack, and followed behind him.
On his first trip into the wilderness, Li Xin cautiously surveyed his surroundings, searching for monsters.
After half an hour, he finally found signs of monsters: a flock of Iron-Haired Sheep. Their black wool was as hard as steel needles, their eyes glowed red, and their horns were sharp. They stood two meters tall and were monsters that lived in groups.
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