Chapter 316 : Martial Arts Convention (First Update!)
Could it be a third-level Spirituality?
If it was a third-level Spirituality, the significance would be enormous. The value of a single third-level Spirituality was at least equivalent to ten second-level Spirituality. If encountered in a situation of great need, its value could be even higher.
With the vast population of Earth, Lin Yun needed a high-level Spirituality in conjunction with more advanced equipment to absorb and refine Spiritual Energy.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om
"Indeed, this item is said to be a sword, the rookie champion prize of this World Martial Arts Tournament..." At this moment, Lang Jiuping said from the other end of the phone.
"World Martial Arts Tournament? Which World Martial Arts Tournament?" Lin Yun asked in surprise.
This sounded somewhat like a plot out of a martial arts novel, as if he had stepped into ancient times.
Or maybe, the World Martial Arts Tournament that Lang Jiuping spoke of was the one from some TV shows?
"Mr. Lin, you're not aware of the World Martial Arts Tournament?" Lang Jiuping was taken aback and asked.
In his view, Lin Yun was a Martial Artist, and under him were many Martial Arts Grandmasters. He should know about the World Martial Arts Tournament.
Then, it dawned on him that Lin Yun asked which World Martial Arts Tournament, implying that Lin Yun knew of many World Martial Arts Tournaments?
Ah, that must be it. Lin Yun had numerous Martial Arts Grandmasters under him, and the influence behind Lin Yun in martial arts would certainly not be low. It was quite possible that he had intersections with many martial arts sects and families, thus it would be perfectly normal for him to know and even participate in various World Martial Arts Tournaments.
Lang Jiuping thought internally.
"Mr. Lang, could you provide more details," Lin Yun said at that moment.
"It's our Huaxia's every five-year event, that grand meeting led by martial arts sects and martial families. All martial arts sects, martial families, and some independent Martial Artists can exchange information, martial arts experiences, martial skills, natural treasures, and so on at this meeting..." Lang Jiuping explained.
"To avoid monotony, each World Martial Arts Tournament also includes a rookie competition. Any martial artist under the age of thirty can participate. If one achieves a good ranking, there will be rewards." Pausing for a moment, Lang Jiuping continued.
"Any martial artist under the age of thirty can participate? Even independents? Who provides the rewards?" Lin Yun asked thoughtfully.
"As long as one is under the age of thirty, independents can also participate. The rewards are provided by the host. They are not without benefits.
For example, some registration fees, naming fees, advertising fees, stall fees, at the same time, such events will also increase their sect's and family's fame, status, and so on..." Understanding Lin Yun's meaning, that the rewards were not provided by independents, and if independents were able to win, wouldn't the providers of the rewards suffer a loss, Lang Jiuping explained.
"I see, when does this World Martial Arts Tournament start and where is it held?" Lin Yun asked, nodding.
"This round of the World Martial Arts Tournament will be held in about three days, and it will last for three days. The location is West Kunlun Mountain..."
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The Kunlun Mountain Range, more than two thousand kilometers in length.
West Kunlun Mountain was in the Tibetan Area, not far from the Middle East.
Lin Yun didn't rush to set off.
These three days, he was preparing.
In three days, with the Cosmic Trading System, plus those devices, plus various resources, he obtained a total of over 26,000 Spirit Crystals, coupled with the original leftover 5,000 or so Spirit Crystals, Lin Yun's number of Spirit Crystals reached 32,000.
The next day, he spent 7,500 Spirit Crystals to purchase a professional device that could absorb and refine the spiritual energy of 30 million people.
However, the base number was only 15 million people, and it had to be integrated with five first-level Spirituality and one second-level Spirituality to reach 30 million people.
Five first-level Spirituality was not a problem, Lin Yun had many, second-level Spirituality... it was not until the third day that Lin Si brought one over from Lang Jiuping.
So far, Lang Jiuping had collected five second-level Spirituality for Lin Yun.
Lin Yun had also purchased eight professional devices for absorbing and refining Spiritual Energy, and all eight had merged Spirituality.
Lin Yun placed the new device in the city where he had always been.
This city, with a radius of thirty kilometers, as he had expected, reached a population of 30 million.
After the integration of the second-level Spirituality, just this device could obtain more than 1,300 Spirit Crystals per day.
Since the World Martial Arts Tournament lasted for three days, and Lin Yun didn't know how many days he would be gone, he didn't want to be tied to this city all the time.
Now, he received Spirit Crystals very quickly in various ways. Although the number of Spirit Crystals obtained by his Cosmic Trading System itself was large, he didn't have to rely on it.
This time, after obtaining that high-level Spirituality, he planned to buy another type of professional device for absorbent and refining Spiritual Energy. By then, his Cosmic Trading System would be completely liberated.
He would no longer have to tie himself to populous cities, he could go wherever he wanted, without wasting his Cosmic Trading System's own ability to absorb and refine Spiritual Energy.
Now, excluding the Spirit Crystals acquired by Lin Yun's Cosmic Trading System, just counting the eight devices, Lin Yun could obtain more than 7,100 Spirit Crystals every day.
In these three days, Lin Yun bit the bullet and spent 5,000 Spirit Crystals to raise his Mental Strength to level three.
He found that after the level of his Mental Strength was raised, the speed at which he understood various pieces of knowledge was greatly increased.
Many owners of the Cosmic Trading System had also mentioned this issue. If one was reluctant to spend too many Spirit Crystals to quickly learn various martial arts knowledge, they could first use a large number of Spirit Crystals to raise their Mental Strength to a certain level, then learn various martial arts knowledge on their own. This was also a path.
Once the level of Mental Strength was increased, learning speed would be quicker and one could likely reach a higher realm in certain martial knowledge through one's own efforts. For example, those martial skills.
Indeed, prior to this, Lin Yun could only digest ten first-level martial arts techniques from the basics to intermediate level every day, plus raising one first-level martial arts technique from intermediate level to Grand Mastery Level.
No matter how numerous they are, it wasn't impossible to go on improving, in any case, it was the Spiritual Crystals expenditure that led the improvement. As long as the Spirit Crystals were in place, these martial art techniques could be boosted from a beginner level to an intermediate one, and from the intermediate level to the grand mastery level.
However, if they became too numerous, he would be unable to properly integrate these martial art techniques. He couldn't fit them suitably into his own martial art knowledge system.
Lin Yun studied these martial techniques to lay the groundwork for his martial arts, not just to just them. He also needed to carefully analyze the martial art rules and martial art principles entailed in them.
Once Lin Yun's mental strength increased to level three, he could digest twenty basic martial art techniques every day, advancing them from beginner level to intermediate. And two first-level martial art techniques could be advanced from the intermediate level to the grand mastery level.
On the first day, Lin Yun only quickly learned eleven basic martial art techniques, ten of which advanced from beginner to intermediate level, while one advanced from intermediate level to the grand mastery level.
In the following two days, after Lin Yun's mental strength increased to level three, he quickly learned forty-four basic martial art techniques in total, forty of which advanced from beginner to intermediate level, and four from intermediate level to the grand mastery level.
By now, Lin Yun had over a hundred basic martial techniques that had reached the intermediate realm, and more than thirty basic martial techniques reached the grand mastery realm.
Lin Yun's strength has once again greatly improved.
Lin Yun estimated that his current strength could compete with top experts in the Dark Strength peak realm.
Without a Huajin Grandmaster coming forth, he could singlehandedly overcome any martial artist.
Even the regular experts within the Dark Strength peak realm were no match for him.
"Sure enough, this practice is like a bottomless pit, in these three days, I've spent ten thousand Spiritual Crystals on these martial techniques..." Lin Yun sighed slightly.
He really wanted to see the effect of promoting a basic martial technique to the peak realm, but he wasn't in a hurry to do so.
Because, the cost of promoting a single martial technique into the peak realm was ten thousand Spiritual Crystals.
Even if he elevated a martial technique to the peak realm, he estimated it would be difficult to match the power of a Huajin Grandmaster. The power gap between Dark Strength and Huajin was somewhat big.
With these ten thousand Spirit Crystals, he could do other things.
When he could acquire Spiritual Crystals faster in the future, or when he possessed more Spiritual Crystals, it wouldn't be late to continue promoting them then.
"Thirty-two thousand Spiritual Crystals, of which ten thousand Spiritual Crystals are used to upgrade martial techniques, five thousand Spiritual Crystals are used to increase the mental strength level, seven thousand five hundred Spiritual Crystals are used to purchase machines. Now, I still have over nine thousand Spiritual Crystals left, how should I spend these Spiritual Crystals..."
Lin Yun pondered quietly.
Seven thousand Spiritual Crystals could purchase a robot with the strength of a Huajin peak realm, Ten thousand Spiritual Crystals... he could purchase a robot with the power of the Innate realm.
Above Huajin, there was the Innate realm.
Internal strength turned from a gas to a liquid, and could interact with the aura of heaven and earth. Yin and yang combined, continuously regenerating and inexhaustible.
Having both yin and yang, the internal energy at this stage was referred to as real qi by many martial artists.
Real qi can be released, and with its strength, a single sword can span thirty-thousand miles, a sword's air can chill nineteen states, it all described this realm, albeit slightly exaggerated. Although some top experts in the Innate Realm could actually send sword air across thousands of miles.
The power of the sword-air was immense, even surpassing many modern weapons. It was no joke that the top experts in the Innate Realm could split mountains and drain rivers with a single sword stroke—it was true.
The martial artists of the Innate Realm could also release real qi shields, which could not be penetrated by some modern weapons.
Even some energy weapons produced by technological civilizations, if not too strong, could not penetrate the real qi shields, and harm the people inside.
It was just like the shield released by the protective equipment that Lin Yun bought. But the real qi of the martial artist was even more magical.
Energy weapons produced by technological civilizations could not harm the people inside if they could not penetrate the real qi shield. However, the real qi wasn't like this. An expert of the Innate realm who launched a single strike of real qi could injure the person inside even if the shield couldn't be penetrated.
Even the aura shields released by the defensive magical objects of those cultivation civilizations could not fully block the internal strength and real qi of the martial artist.
This was the characteristic of a martial artist's internal strength and real qi. This was also why Lin Yun chose to practice martial arts. Although martial arts were difficult to practice, they were powerful. It was a very potent cultivation system among countless civilizations.
It was also a cultivation system chosen by many owners of the Cosmic Trading System.
The release of real qi allowed the martial artists of the Innate Realm to better demonstrate their characteristics and strength.
This realm was the real entry into the ranks of martial art experts. Even in some low-level civilizations, these martial art experts held a high social status.
Lin Yun did not know what he would encounter at this martial arts conference.
In fact, neither the Mie family nor the Lu family was a martial arts family, yet they could muster so many martial arts grandmasters.
Some martial arts families and schools were not inferior to the Mie and Lu families, and were even stronger. So what level of strong people could they employ? What level could they drive?
Undeniably, if he purchased a robot with the strength of the Innate Realm now, his safety would be greatly enhanced.
Although, he currently only had a little over nine thousand spiritual crystals.
But with the rate at which he was obtaining Spiritual Crystals, he wouldn't need a few more hours to amass ten thousand Spiritual Crystals.
A robot with the strength of the Innate Realm.
This was a great temptation.