Chapter 1 Giving Away the House

Seeing that Lin Ling was really going to give him this ghastly house, Fang Yue quickly grabbed his hand.

"Brother, Brother Lin! Have mercy!"

"What? Don't want it anymore? Too late!"

As he said that, Lin Ling was about to break free from Fang Yue's grasp. Fang Yue shuddered in fright and hugged Lin Ling's arm with all his might, shouting.

"Brother Lin, I was wrong! I had no choice before, but now I just want to choose an ordinary house!"

"Good! Go apply to Lord Han again and see if he'll give you two rooms."

"So you're forcing me to live in a haunted house?"

"Sorry, the village seal has already been stamped."

Fang Yue saw that Lin Ling had actually used his other hand to press the village seal on the map, meaning the house belonged to Fang Yue now.

Too fast!

Fang Yue repeatedly pleaded.

Fortunately, the village didn't really care that much.

Lin Ling couldn't stand Fang Yue's relentless pestering, and finally changed it to a larger house closer to the village center under Fang Yue's name.

Fang Yue beamed.

With a house and a public office, he could be considered one of the village's eligible bachelors.

It's just that his strength is a bit lacking during the day.

Fang Yue's eyes darted around, and he said, "By the way, Captain Lin, are there any crude martial arts techniques you could teach me?"

Trying to get something for nothing?

Brother Lin when there's something to gain, Captain Lin when there isn't?

Heh – tui –

Lin Ling glanced at Fang Yue: "Of course there are, but why should I teach you? I'm not Chen Mu."

"What are you saying! We are brothers who have fought [Li Qu Gui] together!"

Lin Ling immediately raised his voice: "Are you kidding me? If fighting a ghost makes us brothers, wouldn't I, Lin Ling, have brothers all over the world?"

Fang Yue: ??!!

Something's not right with you!

A second time? Learning and applying?

Fang Yue weakly said, "Then… the deputy captain should have some martial arts to learn, right? I see even reserve team members like Niu Niu have someone teaching them martial arts."

"You can go learn too? If you don't mind losing face."

Of course, he doesn't mind!

But Fang Yue still felt that the deputy captain couldn't possibly be learning the same skills as the reserve team members, right?

Seemingly unable to bear Fang Yue's entanglement, Lin Ling said irritably.

"The reserve team members of the guard team learn basic exercises from the instructor, mainly to strengthen their physique, and are not taught any martial arts."

"After becoming official members, the instructor will teach a free gun technique, *Pu Ci Qiang Shu* (Basic Thrusting Spear Technique). After all, an inch longer is an inch stronger. After all, if you don't have some strength to protect yourself in close combat with ghosts, you can easily die. Because everyone learns the same gun technique, it is also convenient for the team to cooperate. The village has passed down this rule."

"Next, if you can become the leader of a team, you can use the yangshou (lifespan) in your shouling (lifespan token) to exchange for martial arts manuals in the guard station's library. But the selection range is very small, and you can only choose from a few martial arts."

"Most people choose the *Liu Ci Qiang Shu* (Flowing Thrusting Spear Technique), a mortal martial art that is an advanced version of *Pu Ci Qiang Fa* (Basic Thrusting Spear Method)."

"Finally, at the deputy captain level, you can choose more techniques in the library, without any restrictions."

"However, among the martial arts manuals in the library, except for one *Ji Yuan Xin Fa* (Foundation Origin Heart Sutra), which is a martial arts-level technique, all are mortal martial arts."

"You, who have obtained Chen Mu's inheritance and have already learned martial arts-level saber techniques, what other martial arts do you need to learn?"

"As long as you practice the Starfire Saber Technique and inner strength well, in the entire Guyue Village, only Hua Wuye and I can suppress you."

*Ji Yuan Xin Fa* (Foundation Origin Heart Sutra)?

Fang Yue curiously asked about its effects, and Lin Ling said irritably.

"*Ji Yuan Xin Fa* (Foundation Origin Heart Sutra) is the most basic martial arts technique, and it can't be compared with your *Xing Huo Xin Fa* (Starfire Heart Sutra) at all."

"Only those who really have no way to obtain martial arts techniques will choose *Ji Yuan Xin Fa* (Foundation Origin Heart Sutra) to forcibly break through their realm."

"Even so, *Ji Yuan Xin Fa* (Foundation Origin Heart Sutra) still requires a high amount of yangshou (lifespan), a large amount of merit, and even the cumulative killing of many ghosts, and the position must be deputy captain, and the unanimous agreement of three captains, etc., before it can be exchanged. The conditions can be said to be very harsh."

"But in the end, it gives the guards a hope, so that they won't practice martial arts to the end without even having the chance to step into the martial path."

Without entering the martial path, there is no inner force.

Without inner force, you cannot break through the realm, and you will always be stuck at the upper limit of 100 health, with no hope of advancement for life!

In other words, in the entire Guyue Village, apart from obtaining the captain's inheritance and *Ji Yuan Xin Fa* (Foundation Origin Heart Sutra), there is actually no other way to obtain martial arts-level techniques?

Fang Yue asked his doubts, and Lin Ling didn't hide anything, and said directly.

"Not so, martial arts techniques are rare, but they are not limited to this point."

"Taking our Guyue Village as an example, every once in a while, our village will jointly hold a 'Joint Village Event' with several neighboring villages. The content of the event is either martial arts competitions, or skills, or the elimination of ghosts. The winner can get generous rewards, such as elixirs, such as weapons… and sometimes it will be a martial arts-level technique as a reward."

"Chen Mu's *Xing Huo Xin Fa* (Starfire Heart Sutra) and *Xing Huo Dao Fa* (Starfire Saber Technique) were obtained by joining forces with other villages to kill a large ghost."

Speaking of this, Lin Ling's tone was a bit sour, which shows that he was also in the team at that time, and probably didn't get the top spot and missed the reward.

After a pause, Lin Ling continued: "If you count the time, the next 'Joint Village Event' is coming soon. Guyue Village suffered last night's disaster, and many resources need to be purchased from neighboring villages, so it will definitely participate in the 'Joint Village Event'. This matter needs to be discussed with people from other villages, so I probably have to take a trip, alas…"

"In addition to the 'Joint Village Event', some mobile merchant caravans sometimes come to the village. Their goods are very authentic, and martial arts-level techniques are also sold, but the price is extremely high and very black-hearted."

"In addition, if you go to our superior county, Qingsi County, there are also large shops that will sell martial arts techniques with clear price tags, but in such large places, they generally do not accept money transactions, and only accept currencies such as [Black Stone] for transactions."

Black Stone?

Fang Yue had only seen Silver Stone, Black Ember, what is Black Stone?

"It is 100g of Black Ember, which will attract and fuse with each other to become a complete Black Stone."

Fang Yue: !!

Doesn't that mean… Silver Stone is…

Fang Yue's face changed, and he suddenly understood the value of Silver Stone, and… the horror of the [Wuren Gui] (Bladeless Ghost)!

And Lord Han, who instantly killed the [Wuren Gui] (Bladeless Ghost), is even more terrifying!

Next, Lin Ling talked about several other ways to obtain martial arts-level techniques.

For example, using Black Stone to apprentice in neighboring villages, or finding treasures in the wild, obtaining adventures, etc.

Because the wild is too dangerous, strong people often die in the wild. If you are lucky enough to find a secret manual in some dangerous place, it is also a reasonable thing, but the mortality rate is relatively high.

Among them, the most reliable method is to join a sect!

That's right, this game actually has various sects!

However, the people from the sects only come to Guyue Village once a year, and they only come here to visit Lord Han and incidentally recruit disciples.

This kind of sect recruitment not only has limited places but also has extremely high requirements for disciples.

So far, no one in Guyue Village has been favored by these sect recruiters, which Lin Ling ridiculed for a long time.

I wonder if he had shamelessly requested to join a sect and been rejected.