Due to Li Wenguang’s omission, Li Yongfeng and Li Zhi were still unaware of the fact that Wang Sheng had become a martial artist.
Therefore, when Li Wenguang revealed the truth, both of them were struck dumb.
Especially Li Yongfeng.
During his years as an escort, he had seen much and understood even more about the status of a martial artist, knowing that even the lowest-ranked martial artist was someone that the heads of their escort agency would treat as an honored guest.
He had also witnessed just how arrogant the martial artists who visited the escort agency could be.
Ordinary people, upon meeting a martial artist, would always need to address them with the honorific “sir” out of respect.
And yet, just moments ago, he had been boasting at the same table with a martial artist.
It gave him that same, unbelievable dream-like feeling he had when he was with Li Wenguang that day.
“Is this really true, Yun Sheng?”
Wang Sheng nodded. If he denied it, then Li Wenguang and the others wouldn’t come to him if they really encountered trouble; they would just shoulder it themselves.
If things went wrong in the end, that would definitely be something he would not want to see.
“I also owe it to the Tiger Bone Ointment of Brother Yongfeng’s family!”
Without that Tiger Bone Ointment, there was no way he could have been so successful.
Hearing this, Li Yongfeng gave a wry smile and shook his head, “If the Tiger Bone Ointment was really that effective, my father and I wouldn’t have practiced for so many years, only to end up just being a bit stronger physically.”
Wang Sheng didn’t know how to explain it.
He couldn’t simply say that the “Cultivation Technique” Li Wenguang and his father had practiced for so long was just a Step Technique, could he?
The Step Technique simply couldn’t cultivate Qi Blood Power, and achieve the status of a martial artist.
If Wang Sheng spoke the truth, Li Wenguang and his son could start doubting their lives at that moment, so he decided to keep it a secret and perhaps surprise them later with the method of a martial artist’s Cultivation Technique.
Now was the time to discuss the important matter at hand.
“Anyway, if anything unexpected happens, you must come to me, Brother Yongfeng,” Wang Sheng emphasized once more.
Li Yongfeng felt a sigh of relief inside as he saw that there was no change in Wang Sheng. Thankfully, even after becoming a martial artist, Wang Sheng did not put on airs; otherwise, he would not know how to deal with this person he had treated like a younger brother since childhood.
After a few more exchanges, Wang Sheng stood up to take his leave.
Li Wenguang and the others needed to prepare.
He also needed to prepare; the more his strength improved before the war actually reached this place, the better.
As Li Yongfeng watched Wang Sheng walk away, he felt somewhat emotional.
“I called it an investment, and who would have thought it would really pay off?”
…
After returning home, Wang Sheng completed his tasks for the day and then went straight to bed.
The onset of war couldn’t stop his self-discipline.
Following routines was the fastest way to improve.
Inner Core Skill placed great importance on the body; if the body was not balanced, the cultivation of Inner Core Skill would be impacted.
So, disciplined sleeping was also a part of cultivation!
…
The next day, Wang Sheng planned to go look for Old Ji again to ask if there were any Wild Ginseng seeds available, but then he ran into Li Wenguang.
As a hunter, Li Wenguang also often went into the mountains where he had encountered Wild Ginseng and saved some ginseng seeds. Hearing that Wang Sheng needed them, he directly gave these ginseng seeds to him.
This saved Wang Sheng a lot of trouble.
Having obtained the ginseng seeds, he returned home, went to the backyard where he checked the Chrysanthemum Planting progress, and planted the ginseng seeds.
There were quite a few ginseng seeds, about a dozen or so.
When Wang Sheng planted the eighth seed, a new progress bar appeared.
“Ginseng Cultivation: 1 (1%)”
“So ginseng cultivation is separate, after all!”
Thinking of the prescriptions he had memorized, which often included more than a dozen different herbs, even though he had become a martial artist, Wang Sheng still felt a faint twinge of pain in his liver.
Just how many herbs would he need to cultivate to max level and Breakthrough!
The responsibility was heavy and the road long, as the saying went, it was Wang Sheng’s very journey.
He resumed his daily routine.
Each day he rotated through practicing various skills, and his progress steadily increased.
The village didn’t know if it was because of Li Wenguang’s reminder, but the village head called several meetings in a row, and there were often cars coming in and out of the village, which Wang Sheng simply observed to probably be grains.
The village was also making preparations.
And so, half a month passed.
In this half-month, Wang Sheng’s progress bar for various skills had once again improved significantly.
“Qi Rushing to the Disease: Finding Disease 5%
Eight Section Brocade: Breakthrough +2 (25%)
Inner Core Skill (Hundred Day Foundation Establishment): Breakthrough +1 (46%)
Chrysanthemum Planting: Breakthrough +3 (1.3%)
Herb Recognition: 9 (25%)
Ginseng Cultivation: 9 (12%)”
This was the current progress of all Wang Sheng’s skills.
The progress related to strength had been minor, with only about ten to twenty percent improvements in Eight Section Brocade and Inner Core Skill, and although there was some Qi-Blood enhancement, it wasn’t much.
The progress for Qi Rushing to the Disease and Inner Core Skill levels, as well as the strength of Qi-Blood, was even slower, only increasing by 3.5%, and till now, there had been no disease to burst through.
The main reason for this was that the Tiger Bone Ointment had run out, and neither the Eight Section Brocade nor the Inner Core Skill could be rapidly improved.
Thus, there was basically no improvement in his strength.
Wang Sheng had truly experienced the importance of resources, realizing that without them, cultivation could be said to be extremely challenging.
This reinforced his determination to grow medicinal plants.
Next was Herb Recognition and Ginseng Cultivation, which had jumped directly from level 1 to level 9, and were close to a breakthrough.
Of course, the ginseng in the yard still hadn’t sprouted.
Without a breakthrough in Ginseng Cultivation, one simply becomes an experienced ginseng farmer; only after the breakthrough does it have miraculous effects.
Herb Recognition was similar, at level 9 Wang Sheng was already able to recognize the vast majority of medicinal herbs, even the ones not mentioned in the books.
The formula herbs in his mind had all been matched with the medicinal plants of this world, luckily, all were available.
And Wang Sheng had already found Li Yongfeng, who was going to Lijiang Town and could buy some seeds to bring back.
The biggest change had been in Chrysanthemum Planting.
Chrysanthemum Planting had achieved three breakthroughs.
Wang Sheng initially thought that after breakthroughs, just like the last time, it would only speed up the maturity of the chrysanthemums.
It wasn’t until he used level three Chrysanthemum Planting to plant a few chrysanthemums that he realized the difference.
At first, he just wanted to test how quickly a three-breakthrough Chrysanthemum Planting could grow a chrysanthemum.
But after the chrysanthemum matured, its spirit light shimmer nearly blinded him.
Although the spirit light dissipated quickly, Wang Sheng was certain that he wasn’t mistaken; the three-times-broken-through Chrysanthemum Planting had acquired a new trait.
He was 100% certain that the newly cultivated chrysanthemums were far from ordinary.
Wang Sheng decided to take a personal risk and test the effects of the new chrysanthemums himself, of course, he had already tested them on mice beforehand to confirm their non-toxicity.
His test method was quite simple.
Brew chrysanthemum tea!
He tossed a few chrysanthemums into hot water and waited for the clear water to turn slightly yellow, and once the water had cooled to a suitable temperature, Wang Sheng took a sip.
It was slightly bitter with a sweet aftertaste.
But at that moment, Wang Sheng no longer had the time to pay attention to the taste of the tea,
Under the influence of the chrysanthemum tea, his brain emptied instantly, as if entering an extremely calm state, void of all stray thoughts.
Then Wang Sheng entered into a meditative state, but it only lasted a few seconds.
Yet those few seconds had an enormous effect.
The state of meditation he just experienced was theoretically the optimal state for practicing Inner Core Skill.
“Inner Core Skill (Hundred Day Foundation Establishment): Breakthrough +1 (46.1%)”
Just a few seconds of meditation led to progress in the Inner Core Skill, and he felt no mental fatigue.
This gain made Wang Sheng realize he had underestimated the progress bar; even simple continuous breakthroughs in Chrysanthemum Planting could turn the mundane into the magical.
His confidence in formulating his own Qi-Blood replenishing potions was growing.
Now all he needed was the seeds Li Yongfeng was bringing back… and just “a bit” of effort!
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