Chapter 72: Basic Martial Arts

  The wind whistled as he returned to Mount Hua at his fastest speed and found the NPC who had originally taught him martial arts.

  After receiving Feng Xiao's application to learn internal skills, he examined Feng Xiao for a moment and said: "Your internal skills already have some foundation, I believe that practicing our Huashan internal skills will surely be twice the result with half the effort!" As soon as he finished speaking, the system prompted that Feng Xiao had learned the Huashan internal skills technique.

  The wind was blowing, and he pulled out his state to take a look. Awesome! The internal skill of this sect is indeed awesome. As soon as I started learning, it helped me break through my inner strength by 4 digits. Overjoyed, from now on, our kicks can be linked kicks, and our sword strikes can be linked swords too.

  These days of bitter practice have yielded some small results in terms of internal power, and my level has also risen by 3 levels to reach 63. However, there hasn't been much progress in martial arts. Among the various Wind-Flowing-Heaven-and-Earth techniques, only "Wind-Splitting-Lightning" has become more familiar with some growth, while other techniques have a usage rate of almost 0 during leveling up. On the other hand, all the Huashan sword techniques have risen to level 2, and some individual techniques have reached level 3. However, their power is still far inferior compared to "Wind-Rolling-Cloud-Remnants". As for "Heart's Eye", being a passive heart technique, it is always in practice at any time, although its familiarity grows the slowest, breaking through to level 3 is also imminent.

  Feng Xiao Xiao continuously admired her own state from head to toe for five times, only then was she satisfied and closed it. She then notified the three people in her dormitory that she had cultivated the Huashan Heart Method.

  Xiao Yao and Ju Bao Pen both casually said "oh", only Lao Da in these days still had the extra care for Feng Xiao Xiao, and asked with concern: "How much has your inner strength increased again?"

  "It seems like it's been increased by around 500!"

  After a moment, the reply from Feng Xiao Xiao became Yao: "It rose by 500, you didn't misread? How did I only rise by 400 at first?"

  The wind whispers back: "How would I know!"

  He quickly asked: "Did the NPC say anything to you?"

  He thought for a moment and said: "He said that my internal strength has already laid some foundation, I believe that practicing our Huashan internal strength will surely achieve twice the result with half the effort!"

  A reply below seems like a monologue: "Does your inner strength have some foundation? Are you saying that's your basic inner strength?"

  "It seems it should be!"

  Xiao Yao recovered after a while and invited Feng Xiao Xiao to a restaurant in Luoyang.

  The wind was whispering mysteriously, but he didn't say much and quickly arrived at the designated location. On a table, he saw Akatsuki, Xiao Yao, and Ju Bao Pen gathered together.

  "What's going on? Holding a dormitory meeting?" Feng Xiao Xiao joked.

  Lao Da said: "Your cultivation of internal strength has been mentioned by Xiao Yao just now, this is a major discovery!"

  "How serious is it?" Feng Xiao Xiao asked.

  Xiaoyao Dao: "After you've mastered the basic internal skills, practicing sect-specific internal skills will have an additive effect. I believe other martial arts like swordsmanship and knife techniques will also have a similar effect. It's just that after first cultivating basic martial skills, then practicing corresponding martial skills will give you an additive effect on those skills. From now on, many people will probably prioritize practicing basic skills."

  The wind whispers: "Hasn't anyone practiced this basic skill? Is it possible that no one has discovered it?"

  The boss said, "This basic skill is also rarely seen. I was wondering why this trash thing was still so rare, and it turned out to be used like this. However, I estimate that there must be someone who has already discovered it, but didn't say it out loud, just to keep it to himself and appear superior. Now some things we couldn't understand before are not difficult to understand anymore."

  Xiaoyao and Jupbao shouted out a name in unison: "Qingyiren!"

  The wind was whispering, but what he thought of at this time was not the green-robed man. He thought of another person who had always surprised him: Jing Feng. Jing Feng's flying knife speed and power were unprecedented, and even among those he knew, such as Liu Ruoxue and Hua Mantian, who were also skilled in hidden weapons, none could compare to Jing Feng. It seemed that he was one of the beneficiaries of this basic skill.

  After Feng Xiao Xiao spoke of Jing Feng's deeds, everyone nodded in agreement.

  The wind whispers and raises another question, if it's really a surprise attack, then does everyone in the Feilong Mountain Villa know about it?

  Everyone thinks this problem is unanswerable.

  The last topic of discussion was whether or not to make this matter public and let all players know.

  The four of them were all true game enthusiasts who just wanted to play good games, have fun in the game, and didn't have any ambitions. So they unanimously decided to make this matter public. Although there was no ambition, there was a bit of selfishness after all. Everyone agreed that they would first collect their own basic skills before saying anything else. After all, if everyone knew about this, the basic skills would definitely be called to the sky-high price. The private heart of the treasure basin is even heavier, he plans to collect basic skills in these days and make a big profit.

  Then everyone began to measure themselves and see what basic skills they needed.

  The basic internal skill is pointed out by everyone as a must for each person, because the official strategy clearly states that the amount of internal force has an impact on all the character's status and martial arts, although so far no one knows what the impact will be, but after all, it is an official statement, and everyone has no choice but to believe.

  Next, it goes without saying that what's needed is basic swordsmanship.

  The wind was blowing, and he brought out his own martial arts skills. The "Wind Walks the World" was an extraordinary skill that didn't know what basic skills to use because no one had ever heard of a basic extraordinary skill. The few moves that had been figured out so far already covered several aspects, and it was really hard to decide which one to choose. Even if he could decide, ordinary martial arts could be abandoned and re-learned from a new master, but what about the extraordinary skills that were already learned? If they were abandoned, where would he go to learn again? The reason for "Heart Eye" was the same, even if there was a basic heart method, how could it be learned again after being abandoned? In the end, it seemed that he could only start with a basic sword technique.

  Jubao Pan's martial arts skills were almost never properly practiced. He basically just practiced whatever skills he felt like, and would often decide on the spot what to do next.

  Finally, it was Lao Da's turn. Lao Da sat silently to the side, and when asked, it turned out that his Tian Xing knife technique, although also a task-based martial art, had a knife spectrum, but the knife spectrum couldn't be traded or given away. Originally, he could have found a basic knife technique to practice and then re-cultivate the Tian Xing knife technique, but coincidentally, Feng Xiao Xiao had given him a fragment of the knife technique some days ago, which was used up after being applied. Now, the situation with Lao Da's Tian Xing knife technique was similar to that of Feng Xiao Xiao's martial arts - it couldn't be abolished to such an extent, so he sat there in frustration all by himself!

  "It's nothing major, those leftover pages are more practical than this basic skill..."

  The boss said gloomily: "If you add basic skills to that, wouldn't it be even more powerful!"

  The treasure basin shook its head and said: "This is what they mean by 'you can't have both fish and bear's paw'!"

  In the next few days, several people shuttled between major cities' stalls and shops. Xīao Yuè was the first to receive the basic sword techniques and, without hesitation, abolished his own Huashan Sword Technique, which had already reached the top level, and started practicing from scratch.

  The winds were blowing, and Lao Da also found what he needed. Lao Da's internal skills had already made some progress, but it was a painful sacrifice. Feng Xiao Xiao's swordsmanship level was not high to begin with, and it was abandoned without much fuss. On the other hand, Ju Bao Pen's positivity was the highest, as long as he saw the two words "basic" and "martial arts", he would put them in his pocket. With the help of the other three people, they almost searched through all the basic martial arts that could be seen on the market.

  In the end, it was just a matter of telling other players about this. At first, there was also disagreement over whether to tell their in-game friends or not, and after discussion, they decided to wait until the four of them had bought what they needed before notifying their friends, and then rely on word of mouth to spread the news throughout Jianghu. Of course, satisfying everyone did not include Jibao Pan, who would probably have to spend all his money on basic martial arts skills.

  When everyone forwarded this message to their friends in the game, they all received inquiries about its authenticity. Several people took themselves as witnesses and their martial arts data as evidence to prove it to everyone.

  The word of mouth among the people is indeed the best propaganda medium, and in just a few days, the whole Jianghu was stirred up. Of course, some families were happy and some were worried. Those who were happy were those who happened to have basic martial arts skills, which they didn't sell or lose; those who were worried were those who didn't have basic martial arts skills, fearing that from now on they would be inferior to others; the most worried were those like Yijian Chongtian and Liu Ruoxue, who practiced special martial arts, and if their martial arts were abolished, they would be useless, even if they had basic martial arts skills.

  Those who have never done tasks and received special martial arts rewards are now proudly raising their eyebrows, as long as they get the basic martial arts, our skills are not inferior to yours; while those with special martial arts are all frowning, their former superiority is gone, and they can't help but wear the emperor's new clothes to scold the street.

  The happiest one in this situation is certainly Jibao Pan. He patiently waits for the opportunity to make a big profit.