After finishing his meal, Ling Yi escorted the curious child back to his dormitory, and then returned to his own dormitory.
All three roommates were present.
" Ling Yi, why are you back so late? What were you doing?" Long Xiaotao asked.
Ling Yi waved his hand, turned around, and sat down on his bed.
Long Xiaotao's face showed some displeasure. This piece of trash was actually Ignore me? Had he gotten too bold?
"I'm talking to you, are you mute?"
Are you my son? Asking all these questions, are we not close? Give me a damn.
Even if Ling Yi could speak, let alone now, he wouldn't bother with him.
Ling Yi was isolated by these three in the dormitory.
The reasons are twofold: first, Ling Yi is an orphan; second, Ling Yi is more handsome than the other three.
The three of them used to bully Ling Yi frequently.
Ling Yi just couldn't understand it. They were all trash, so where did these three get their sense of superiority from?
"Are you deaf or mute?" Long Xiaotao was immediately annoyed when he saw that Ling Yi still ignored him.
As he spoke, he reached out and slapped Ling Yi on the head.
"Boom!"
With a loud bang, Long Xiaotao was sent tumbling away like a shrimp by Ling Yi's punch.
It only stopped when it hit the door frame.
Long Xiaotao looked at Ling Yi in disbelief, but he didn't seem to be seriously injured.
This guy is a piece of trash. Ling Yi is holding back; if he goes all out, this kid will probably be dead.
Long Xiaotao was filled with rage. He would accept being beaten by someone else, but Ling Yi dared to lay a hand on him. In his mind, this was an extremely humiliating thing.
He jumped up and threw Heavy Fist at Ling Yi.
"Boom!"
This time, Ling Yi increased the force, and Long Xiaotao was sent flying again.
Long Xiaotao was prepared this time, but it was still useless. Moreover, this time, he felt as if his internal organs had shifted, causing him extreme pain.
Ling Yi stood up, walked silently to Long Xiaotao, and looked down at him.
He stepped on Long Xiaotao, stared at him indifferently, and remained silent.
Long Xiaotao struggled a few times, but found that Ling Yi's foot was like a thousand pounds of Great Strength, and he couldn't move at all.
At this moment, Long Xiaotao finally realized something was wrong. Could it be that this kid had broken through to the Martial Apprentice Second Stage?
No, it's not Martial Apprentice Second Stage. Martial Apprentice Second Stage isn't nearly that strong.
But why? Why was this guy able to break through to the Martial Apprentice Third Stage?
" Ling Yi, let me go, or we're not done with each other." Long Xiaotao said this, but his tone was noticeably softer than before.
But this only means that the other party is afraid; it doesn't mean that the other party won't cause trouble or retaliate.
This kind of person will only behave if you teach the other person a lesson thoroughly.
Ling Yi smiled slightly, and the next moment he suddenly exerted force with his feet.
"Crack! Puff!"
Long Xiaotao's ribs cracked under the strain, and Long Xiaotao coughed up a mouthful of blood.
"You... how could you be so cruel!" Long Xiaotao looked at Ling Yi with a face full of despair.
That was indeed a pretty hard blow, and it's also Ling Yi's fault for not controlling his strength well.
After all, he leveled up too quickly and didn't quite get the hang of it.
With that kick, Long Xiaotao will have to stay in the hospital for at least a month or two, but his primary school entrance exam is next month. This means that Ling Yi's kick has almost ruined Long Xiaotao's future.
Although Long Xiaotao was also a scumbag, at most he reached the Martial Apprentice Second Stage before the initial examination.
But at least Long Xiaotao himself felt that there was still a chance.
But now, it's all over.
Unless he uses a more advanced Genki -restoring potion, but that stuff is too expensive, costing fifty or sixty thousand per dose, which Long Xiaotao simply cannot afford.
Ling Yi turned around and pointed at his two other roommates who were trembling with fear, then pointed at Long Xiaotao and then at the door.
The two instantly understood and, with Long Xiaotao in tow, fled the dormitory as if escaping.
Ling Yi Ling Yi a tiny bit guilty, but he quickly put it aside, only deciding to be more careful in the future.
Ling Yi wasn't worried about Long Xiaotao and his gang retaliating!
The situation at the school, however, is a bit more complicated.
While schools Restriction Combat between students, there needs to be a limit. Sparring is fine, but fighting to the death is definitely not allowed.
However, this limit is extremely lenient.
That depends on whether Long Xiaotao and his group have powerful connections and whether they'll take it seriously.
If they tell the teacher, Ling Yi will likely be criticized at least once, and might even receive a major demerit.
But soon, Ling Yi shrugged and put those thoughts behind him.
He now has a cheat code, and school is no longer Ling Yi's only option.
The next day, Ling Yi went to class as usual, but Long Xiaotao and the other two did not appear in the classroom.
The teacher did not speak with Ling Yi.
It seems Ling Yi's methods yesterday frightened them, which is good.
With a thought, Ling Yi opened his attribute panel.
[ The Become Stronger by Not Speaking System ]
[Host: Ling Yi ]
[Cultivation Level: Martial Apprentice Fifth Stage (80/5000) (4860 experience points/day)]
[Martial Arts]
{1. Fivefold Heavy Fist (18/50) (81 experience points/day)}
The system panel remains as simple as ever.
But looking at the system panel, Ling Yi fell into deep thought.
Although his punches are powerful enough, he's not perfect.
Relying solely on fist techniques makes his Combat style too simplistic; Ling Yi currently lacks martial arts skills that involve movement and leg techniques.
But martial arts skills are a rare commodity.
Or rather, martial arts skills are a scarce commodity for everyone in this world, especially basic martial arts skills applicable to Martial Apprentice and Martial Practitioner.
On the contrary, there are countless Genki Technique for martial arts Martial Master and above.
Before Martial Master, Martial Practitioner's Combat style relied entirely on instinct, and the effectiveness of martial arts techniques was not significant.
However, once a martial artist reaches the Martial Master, Martial Practitioner Combat style becomes overly focused on martial arts techniques.
It's not that people don't want to develop martial arts techniques suitable for beginners, but rather that they are too difficult.
This isn't something you can just tinker with randomly; it requires constant testing and Correction.
This process takes too long; ordinary people can't afford it.
Therefore, there are only a handful of martial arts techniques suitable for beginners, and they are mostly based on fist techniques.
Take the Heavy Fist as an example. It is not just a set of boxing techniques, but also contains a set of basic Body Tempering Dharma School.
When punching, maintain a rhythm, breathe deeply, punch with the force of a mountain, and retract the fist like a sturdy pine tree.
In other words, this Heavy Fist consists of two parts: punching techniques and Body Tempering methods.
However, Ling Yi had a cheat code, so he didn't need to cultivate and only treated the Heavy Fist as a set of boxing techniques.
The upgraded Fivefold Heavy Fist also includes both fist techniques and Body Tempering methods.
Ling Yi had tried cultivating earlier, but it didn't increase his experience points at all.
However, the Body Tempering effect of this method is much better than the previous Heavy Fist Body-Tempering Method, probably about five times better.
Ling Yi doesn't need this Body Tempering technique; he just needs to accumulate experience points anyway.
I just don't know if I can sell this Body Tempering.
No, Ling Yi quickly dismissed the idea.
He's still too weak; bringing out something like this is tantamount to putting himself in the spotlight.
Ling Yi can be the center of attention at school, Wuji display his strength and cultivation "talent," and tell the whole world that he is a genius.
None of that matters, after all, talent is something that no one Copy.
However, if Ling Yi suddenly produced a Body Tempering technique that could increase cultivation speed several times over, that would be pure suicide.
At least, now is not the time.
Or rather, even if Ling Yi wanted to bring it up, he would have to distance himself from it first.
The morning classes were utterly boring, and Ling Yi didn't absorb a single word.
Anyway, the preliminary exam is all about ability, there's no written test, so as long as you can perform well, that's all that matters.
"How can I get my hands on some martial arts techniques, like leg techniques or movement techniques?" Ling Yi scratched his head, at a loss for what to do.
Go back and search online to see if there's any way to get around this.
After lunch, Ling Yi headed to the library.
The library remained as quiet as ever, with only Yuan Xiaolei present.
Upon seeing Ling Yi appear, Yuan Xiaolei immediately walked over and eagerly asked, "Quickly check if your novel has been signed yet."
Ling Yi nodded.
Ling Yi wasn't sure if the novel would be signed to a contract.
After all, his novels are truly just novels; look at other great authors, they all talk about cultivation.
Ling Yi's novels are purely unconventional.
However, when Ling Yi opened the author's backend, he received a notification that his contract had been approved.
Looking at the data in the novel, Ling Yi was completely dumbfounded!
On average, each chapter gets hundreds of subscribers!
It needs to be explained here that this website does not have a system of listing novels for sale.
Before signing the contract, everyone could read it for free; after signing, a subscription is required to read each chapter.
And the minimum subscription fee is... 500 yuan per chapter.
Authors can set the subscription fee for each chapter themselves. In other words, as long as the author thinks their novel is great, no one will care if they set a small goal for the subscription fee per chapter.
The novel website only takes a 1% cut, and as long as you don't promote anything inappropriate in your novel, they won't interfere with anything else.
"Wow, you're amazing! You actually got a contract! Did you know that all the authors signed by Great Qian Novel Website are at least Martial Master Realm experts?"
Yuan Xiaolei exclaimed loudly, seemingly even more excited than Ling Yi.
Ling Yi, on the other hand, was busy calculating his Little Qian.
He released thirty chapters yesterday, each with a hundred subscriptions, which is three thousand subscriptions. Each subscription is worth 500, so that's 150,000, oops, 1.5 million Little Qian.
They've struck it rich!
Making money is too easy! Even when Ling Yi had saved up half a small fortune in his previous life, he had never been this excited.
However, if you think about it, most of the characters in his novels are powerful figures at the Martial Master Realm or above, and there are even Martial Venerable and Martial Saint Realm.
These people are all Big Shot; they're not short of money at all.
But why?
Ling Yi checked the comments and immediately understood the reason.
The main problem lies in the novel's prologue.
The prologue of a novel is usually the introduction to the story. Ling Yi didn't know what to write at the time, so he simply wrote down the contents of the Nine Yin Manual from the novel to get by.
The problem lies precisely in the Nine Yin Manual.
The way of Heaven is to diminish what is excessive and supplement what is insufficient; therefore, emptiness overcomes fullness, and insufficiency overcomes excess...
Its meaning is profound, its principles are abstruse, and its interest is deep. It distinguishes the phenomena of heaven and earth, establishes the signs of Yin and Yang, reveals the causes of Changes, and illuminates the omens of life and death...