My Martial Arts Level Never Drops

Chapter 55: Chapter 53: Short of Money

When this Epiphany ended, even Qin Fang couldn’t help but show a trace of amazement on his face...

He never expected that Darts could involve so many techniques and methods.

Repeat: Holding the Darts in a specific way, one could throw multiple Darts at maximum speed, ensuring the greatest damage and release velocity.

Rain: Simultaneously throwing multiple Darts in an instant to attack different targets while maintaining accuracy.

Chasing the Moon: Two Darts thrown in rapid succession, one right after the other, leaving the target with no way to defend themselves.

Arc Light: By adding Spiral Force, the Darts could be made to subtly change direction...

And so on and so forth.

Just reading about them made Qin Fang’s eyes sparkle!

The Great Success level of Darts had truly raised the skill to an art form...

Its most prominent feature was a sense of ease and effortlessness.

...Unleashing a deadly, indefensible glint of light with nonchalant ease!

Qin Fang’s eyes lit up, and he eagerly began to try out the new techniques.

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!!

The moment he casually turned, several dark glints shot from his hand. A series of five soft THUDs echoed as five Darts embedded themselves into five wooden stumps scattered in different directions around the courtyard!

This was Rain!

His eyes shining, Qin Fang ran over and painstakingly pulled out each Dart...

The wooden planks he had used as targets before were now too fragile for him—they would shatter with a single hit—so he had switched to using wooden stumps instead.

Each stump was over twenty centimeters thick, sturdy enough to be used as a chopping block, which was just right to withstand the force of his Darts now.

After pulling out the Darts, he turned and raised his hand...

WHOOSH WHOOSH!~

Two dark glints, almost a single sound, shot toward a wooden stump under the eaves.

CRACK!~

The stump unexpectedly exploded!

After the first Dart hit the target, the second instantly struck the first. The immense power directly pierced through the stump, which was over twenty centimeters thick!

The remaining kinetic energy violently tore the stump to pieces...

It was Chasing the Moon!

Qin Fang sucked in a sharp breath, his eyes bright...

’If I used Chasing the Moon in a surprise attack... an unsuspecting person might block the first Dart, but they’d have a hard time stopping the second!’

”So, this is Great Success Darts...”

He marveled as he walked over to retrieve his Darts.

But the next moment, he froze, a slight frown creasing his brow...

Both Darts were damaged.

The tail of the first Dart and the tip of the second were chipped from the head-on collision of the Chasing the Moon technique.

It wasn’t that the Darts were of poor quality; it was that his strength was now too great.

Although they were still usable...

It made Qin Fang frown.

’I have too few Darts, and they all came from Master... To practice these advanced techniques now, I have to retrieve them after every single use. It’s tedious, and it’s easy to damage them...’

He only had five Darts in total, all gifts from his master.

”Maybe I should buy some more?”

But after thinking about it, he frowned again...

Although Great Yu didn’t prohibit ironware, it wasn’t something Ordinary People could easily get their hands on.

Aside from tools like kitchen knives, other weapons weren’t impossible to buy, but they were subject to strict controls.

For example, if you wanted to buy a weapon from a legitimate smithy, you first needed an Identity document to prove who you were before they would sell to you...

Otherwise, you’d have to trade privately... buying from a middleman at a nearby market.

This was all common sense from the original owner’s memories.

If it weren’t for this, Qin Fang wouldn’t have asked his master for help.

But he couldn’t go running to his master for everything, could he?

For him to go and buy these things himself was unrealistic.

First, he didn’t have an Identity document. Second, he didn’t have any connections.

And third...

”Darts are made of iron, after all. You can say they’re reusable, but in a real fight, they’re basically consumables... Trying to retrieve them after a battle is a huge hassle.”

Don’t be fooled by how he managed to recover all his Darts when he killed Wang Long and his men... that was a special case. He took them down one by one and had time.

But when he got to Lan Gui Fang, wasn’t he unable to recover three of them?

Darts were, in the end, consumables.

But even as consumables, they were still made of iron.

And iron wasn’t cheap...

While Qin Fang still had some silver, he needed it for food and Qi Blood Pills. Every single tael was precious.

Qin Fang frowned, then let out a long sigh...

”Poverty for scholars, wealth for warriors...”

The weight of his master’s sigh was only increasing.

Everything related to martial arts... required silver.

And right now, he didn’t even have a stable source of income.

’...It seems I need to put making money on the agenda...’

Qin Fang fell into deep thought.

It wasn’t just about the Darts...

He was also out of Qi Blood Pills.

Today was the seventh day of his formal training.

Except for the first day when he took two Qi Blood Pills, he had taken one pill a day.

That meant he had consumed a total of eight Qi Blood Pills.

Now... he only had one left.

Eight Qi Blood Pills had pushed his proficiency to 124 points.

He was now 100% certain that this proficiency was directly related to his ’Force,’ or rather, his ’body’.

The him of today was a world apart from the him of seven days ago.

...He was even starting to develop some muscle!

’Can you believe it?’

Just eight days ago, while he had put on a little weight, it was all soft, flabby fat with no muscle.

He felt like he was going to die after just twenty-some push-ups.

Now, as part of his morning routine, he had to do two hundred push-ups, two hundred sit-ups, and two hundred squats... just to barely break a sweat.

And that was all in one go!

...It was, to put it mildly, completely unscientific.

For an ordinary person to undergo such a dramatic physical transformation would take years!

But in this World, he had done it in just seven short days...

The only explanation was...

Elixirs.

The Elixirs of this World were definitely not ordinary.

They contained substances he didn’t understand.

His current body was now no weaker than an ordinary person from his previous life who exercised regularly.

Right now, his posture was straight and tall. A layer of lean muscle had appeared beneath his clothes. He was agile, his Spirit was high, and he could feel Vitality coursing through his body at all times.

This was the change brought about by those eight Qi Blood Pills!

And it wasn’t just reflected in his external appearance...

And then there was Standing Pile.

Now when he practiced Standing Pile, the Skin Membrane Drum Sound was clearly much louder.

Though he still couldn’t compare to his master... he was definitely far stronger than before.

All these changes were thanks to the Qi Blood Pills.

As the saying goes, it’s easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but hard to go from extravagant to frugal...

The changes brought by the Qi Blood Pills were too great.

Without them, could he maintain this rate of growth?

...Qin Fang honestly wasn’t sure.

”Counting the silver on hand, even if I sell all my gold items, I can only buy eleven or twelve more pills at most... After that, I’ll be completely cut off.”

”It’s time to think about how to make some money.”

Qin Fang fell into deep thought.

His master had said he would look for a job for him.

But first, there was still no definite news... most likely because of the Identity document problem.

And second...

The kind of job his master would find probably wouldn’t pay much.

It would be enough to get by and not starve.

But to support his daily training with Qi Blood Pills... that was out of the question.

So he had to find a side hustle.

And it had to be a lucrative side hustle that brought in quick cash.

His gaze flickered as all sorts of ideas began to flood his mind.