A lucky cat fell from the sky.

Chapter 28: The Blue Bottle, for Replenishing Qi

After Jin Wanliang's reminder, Wu Cheng realized that he had been too flamboyant lately, and it was normal for others to be watching him under such circumstances.

If you're targeted by a few thugs before, you can solve the problem with a pay-to-win version of radio calisthenics. But if you're targeted by a powerful family, it's not so easy to resolve.

Therefore, Wu Cheng decided to take out three million to recharge his ingots. Although he lost half of it, he could get 150 ingots to arm himself and learn the Lingxi Finger technique, which even gold worth ten thousand taels praised. He estimated that his combat ability would be much stronger.

It seems that only by strengthening oneself can one ensure one's safety; otherwise, relying on others is useless.

Once Wu Cheng understood this, he didn't hesitate any longer. He went to the Xuanlong Bank branch, withdrew three million yuan, and deposited it all into gold ingots.

With 150 gold coins, I can first strengthen my Spirit Finger Technique.

With that in mind, he began searching for items in the mall.

Sure enough, he found the enhancement option on the first item, with instructions below. Without Jin Wanliang's instruction, Wu Cheng could operate it himself just by reading the instructions.

The upgrade is quite simple; just place the item in this slot and then select the upgrade button below.

The first enhancement is 100% successful, the second is only 95%, and the success rate decreases with each subsequent enhancement. Failure to enhance will deduct in-game currency, which is equivalent to wasting money.

Wu Cheng placed the Lingxi Finger Manual in the enhancement folder, gritted his teeth, and clicked the enhancement button.

There were no changes whatsoever, not even a cheap special effect. All that appeared was the message "Enhancement Successful" at the bottom of the enhancement panel.

Isn't this far too perfunctory?

Wu Cheng sighed and looked at the secret manual in the enhanced file again.

Upon closer inspection, the manual appeared to be much thinner than before.

Wait a minute, this manual was already a fragment before, and now it's even thinner than before. Could it have been damaged during the enhancement process?

He hurriedly took out the manual to look at it, but after a long time he still couldn't tell whether it was good or bad, so he asked Jin Wanliang to come and appraise it.

Jin Wanliang squinted at the manual and said with great emotion, "I didn't expect the changes to be so great. Don't worry, this enhancement is very successful. The previous technique, according to your Jiuyuan Kingdom's classification method, was not even at the Yellow level among the four grades of Heaven, Earth, Profound, and Yellow."

"Now that it's been enhanced, this manual can be considered a low-grade Xuan-level technique, a leap of one grade. You should be secretly happy about that."

"If we were to sell this, how much would we estimate we could get for it?" Wu Cheng asked a rather silly question.

Jin Wanliang glanced at Wu Cheng: "Tens of thousands of yuan ingots should be enough to sell, and a better one might even fetch hundreds of thousands of yuan ingots."

"So expensive?"

Wu Cheng was a little stunned.

Tens of thousands of gold coins, that's hundreds of millions, even billions! This cultivation technique is really valuable. Otherwise, I should sell it.

With so many gold ingots, what do I have to fear from the Lu family or the Hao family?

"Kid, let me give you a piece of advice. With your abilities, you can't possibly earn that much money. If you're not worthy of your position, disaster will surely follow. Do you know what that means?"

"What does that mean?" Wu Cheng had never heard of it before.

"It's all about taking only what you can eat. You've been too outrageous lately, attracting attention and getting yourself into a lot of trouble that you haven't even resolved yet, and now you want to sell secret recipes?"

"I was just thinking about it. Besides, can't I sell this manual after I've learned it? Can't I sell it when I become stronger?"

Wu Cheng's words made sense. Jin Wanliang said, "You can earn tens of thousands of gold coins in no time after you become stronger. And this secret manual might even be upgraded a few more times, increasing its value even more. Are you sure you want to sell it so soon?"

"Hehe, how could that be? I don't have anywhere to spend money right now." Wu Cheng smiled perfunctorily, secretly planning how to upgrade the manual to its maximum cost-effectiveness before selling it.

The thought of earning a steady stream of gold coins by selling the secret manuals filled Wu Cheng with excitement.

After a moment of excitement, Wu Cheng opened the manual, and what he found startled him.

What is this?

Why is this manual full of pictures? It looks so simple.

Isn't this a bit too childish? The characters in the picture seem quite cartoonish, almost like anime characters.

Could it be that there was an error during the upgrade?

Wu Cheng hurriedly asked Jin Wanliang.

Jin Wanliang sighed: "I'm defeated by your ignorance. Do you know how much more valuable a manual with pictures is compared to one without?"

"Which one is more expensive?" This was the question Wu Cheng was most concerned about.

"Of course, those with pictures are more expensive. Cultivation techniques and secret manuals are generally text-based. Do you know why?"

"That's because the creators of these cultivation techniques and secret manuals themselves didn't fully understand them. Without fully understanding these techniques and secret manuals, they naturally didn't have the ability to draw them intuitively in the form of pictures, so they used some mysterious and esoteric things to express them."

"Do you know what yellow buds are? What is inner elixir? What is the triple burner? What is the bridge between heaven and earth?"

"You don't know, cultivators are all very vague, so everyone fumbles around to cultivate on their own, which is naturally very inefficient. But if you knew how the true qi circulates and how the strength moves in this secret manual, wouldn't it be much simpler?"

"Only by simplifying the general principles and making them as simple as possible can this technique be drawn out."

After being lectured by Jin Wanliang, Wu Cheng finally understood that the secret manual wasn't bad, but rather too good.

Especially for someone like him with zero experience, practicing by looking at pictures is less likely to lead to mistakes.

However, it will probably take a long time to achieve mastery. But since we can't upgrade now, the remaining gold coins after upgrading the technique, plus the gold coins Wu Cheng earned before, can support us for several months.

Just as Wu Cheng was about to put in the hard work to learn martial arts, Jin Wanliang gave him another pointer: "If you practice like this, how long will it take you to master it? Do you think the blue potion in the newbie gift pack is just for show?"

"Blue bottle? Isn't that for replenishing Qi?"

"look by youself."

Although Wu Cheng had opened the gift package and knew it contained Qi-replenishing pills, he hadn't looked at it closely. Now, upon closer inspection, he discovered that the porcelain bottle actually had an instruction manual, with the first six large characters: "Blue bottle, for Qi replenishment."

After taking a closer look at the instructions, Wu Cheng understood the principle behind the blue bottle. The Qi-replenishing pill inside could replace the flow of true qi, helping to open up the meridians and enabling martial arts practitioners to quickly master martial arts.

As for what true qi is, Wu Cheng was completely clueless. After asking Jin Wanliang, he learned that true qi is something that only appears after a martial artist has cultivated to a very high level. Generally, martial artists first train their strength, then they train their power to transform strength, and then they develop strength, clear strength, hidden strength, and transforming strength. Only after that can they cultivate true qi. It is estimated that there are very few people in the Nine Plains Kingdom who can cultivate true qi.

In other words, the Qi-replenishing pill replenished Wu Cheng's true qi from the very beginning. With the Qi-replenishing pill as a foundation for cultivation, Wu Cheng's speed in practicing the Spiritual Rhinoceros Finger could be described as advancing by leaps and bounds, a speed that was outrageous.