Chapter 10

Martial arts.

Secret fighting techniques.

A martial art is something a martial artist and cultivator will hide with their lives on the line, after all, martial arts are usually the lifeline of clans, sects, dojos and cultivators.

That is why they are hard to get.

"Welcome to the manual store, if you need any help searching, please tell us."

At least that is how most cultivation worlds work.

In this world, martial arts are a lot more common to the public, yes, there are secret techniques that belong to clans, sects and so on, but there are still a lot of stores that sell cultivation and martial arts manuals.

When James found out about this, he thought that he was hearing things.

'This place really exists?'

He still had a hard time believing a place like this exists, he thought that his only choices were joining a clan or sect or just buying from the system and self training, but with those everything changes, it will make training a lot easier.

In his previous life, James could count the number of times he fought on one hand, nevermind learning how to fight.

Looking around James could see a lot of shelves with thousands of books, he really didn't want to search one by one, so he asked one of the staff members for help.

"Excuse me."

"Yes? Do you need any help?"

"Are there any body and spirit cultivation techniques here?"

"Yes, there are many body cultivation, do you have any specifications to it? Are you looking to train upper body, lower body, arm strength maybe? As for spiritual, there is, but it is the most common that can only take someone to level 15 at most."

Hearing that he can't train his spirit any more for now made him disappointed, but at least he can accomplish one of the things he came here for.

"Do you have general body strengthening?"

"We do, but they are not as good as cultivation techniques for a more specific part of the body."

"Can I use this cultivation technique with other cultivation techniques?"

Hearing James ask that the staff member looked at him weirdly, like it is the most common knowledge in the world and answered.

"Well, you can but it is not really recommended, training 2 cultivation techniques together takes a lot more time than one and if you train more than 2 it will take even more.

Normally a cultivator trains with one cultivation path for the rest of their lives, they do train their other parts, but they mainly focus on the path they choose, choosing both to cultivate the whole body and other parts will take a lot of work and training."

Hearing that James was confused.

"If you train the whole body, why does it take more time to train a specific part? Shouldn't it make it easier?"

"It seems you do not know much about body cultivation, each body cultivation changes your body and muscles to fit that cultivation's training, so to train 2 at the same time means your body will need to fit for both cultivation trainings, but it is extremely hard to do, most people that go with 2 paths end up being weaker than those with one path or those that do succeed end up spending years, because they need to change and adjust their bodies for each cultivation, so when they finish with one they need to retrain again for the other, it makes it so they don't get the most of each of them, but together they do make it stronger, but the time and training it takes turns most people away from it since training just one path is faster and gives more rewards than spending years to train both."

Hearing that, James felt that it is indeed better to train just one path, but he didn't give up yet.

'System, do you have a way to go around it?'

[There is no need host, did you forget what type of body you have?]

'Does that mean?'

[Yes host, it means you do not need to adjust your body each time, and since your body can train faster it means you can train a few cultivation techniques at the same time and still be as fast as normal people, however, I must recommend to chose 2 at most, training too many can slow you down to below the speed of average people, with 2 you can be considered a super genius speed]

James was happy to hear that he can train more than one, he already had a plan, he will train both full body cultivation and leg cultivation since he wanted to mainly use leg techniques in hopes of getting black leg and other one piece leg techniques.

"Can you give me body cultivation for full body and leg cultivation and also a few leg techniques?"

Looking at James with a bit of annoyance since it felt like James didn't listen at all, he left to get the techniques.

After waiting for a while, the staff member came back with 4 books.

"Those are the techniques, it is 5000 gold coins."

Hearing the amount James was surprised, from everything he has seen so far, a gold coin seems to almost have the same value as a us dollar on earth, so the 4 techniques are worth about 5000 dollars, it was a really big amount for 4 books that just show basic techniques, James really wondered how much techniques of higher levels are worth now.

Painfully taking out the money, James bought the techniques.

After that James returned to his room to start looking over the techniques.

Those are the techniques he bought.

Basic full body cultivation.

Basic Legs cultivation.

Wind walk, a basic movement technique.

Stone Kick, a basic kicking technique with 4 forms,

James was surprised at the small amount of leg techniques the store had, but he assumed that not a lot of people used kicking techniques and most high tier movement techniques belonged to clans and sects.

'System, how much does kicking cost?'

[Kicking costs 10000 beli host]

Sighing James said.

'Change 900 gold to beli and buy kicking.'

[Exchanging 900 gold coins to beli]

[Buying Kicking]

[Removing 10000 beli]

[Adding Kicking to technique list]

[Uploading Kicking to host's brain]

[Do you accept entry of information?]

'Yes'

[Uploading]

[Uploading complete]

James felt information enter his brain, it wasn't a massive amount like with the languages, but it was still quite a bit of information, from how to kick correctly to where kicks can deliver the most damage.

It didn't upload any kicking techniques and stuff, just general stuff to make his kicks better.

'Let's see'

After he finished going over the information in his head, he took the Stone Kick book and started going over it, and to his surprise, he understood it, it wasn't to the point of mastering it, but he felt that if he learned it, he could use it pretty good from the start.

After that he put the book down and started reading the cultivation books.

When he finished, he decided to start training full body first, he felt that it was better if his legs were already stronger for the leg cultivation.

The starting levels of the body cultivation didn't need any weights, so he started training right away, following the instructions.

After training body cultivation for an hour, he heard a notification.

[Host reached the first realm of body cultivation, blood strengthening stage]

'Already?'

James was surprised. It has only been an hour since he started.

[Host, you possess a body from one piece, so the first stages will be pretty fast for you, after that it might take more time]

'I see. System show me my stats'.

[Name: James dragoheart

Age: 20

Body: One piece

Soul: Earthling and One piece

Body cultivation: Blood strengthening

Spiritual level: 17

Devil fruit

Slot 1: Swamp Swamp fruit

Slot 2: Empty

Slot 3: Empty

Haki: Observation (Basic)

Techniques: Kicking.

Beli: 0]

Seeing that body cultivation and technique were no longer none, made James smile a bit.

'Well, time to continue.'

And so, James kept training and time passed.

'It has already been a week.'

A week passed since he came into this world, and James started missing his family and friends, he didn't really know anyone in this world, so his only friend was his system.

'System.'

[Yes host?]

'Are my family and friends doing fine?'

[Yes host, they are sad, but they are completely fine otherwise]

'That's good to hear.'

The system got used to James asking about his family and friends, since things calmed down, he started doing it every time he felt lonely.

'I guess I can't put it at the side anymore.'

After things calmed down, James just trained most of the time, so his money was starting to run out slowly, so he was now going to the mercenary guild to take a monster slaying job.

He was doing it for two main reasons, he needed money if he ever wished to get another fruit and also because he needed experience.

James was now a lot stronger than he was when the tournament happened, but one thing he was missing was experience, there is so far just training can get you.

So, he was planning on taking a monster slaying mission to both test himself and also see at what level he currently is.

And so, James walked to the mercenary guild to take his first job. Will he succeed? Will he fail? Find out next time on narrator's story time!!

You don't like the name? Fuck you too Jerry.

Ahem, cya next time.

(I hope you enjoyed the chapter, I had a lot of fun writing it, also, with this chapter the story is finally hitting 15k words, woooooooo YA BABY. In all honesty, when I started writing again I wasn't expecting as much love and support as I was getting so far, so thank you all so much for reading and hopefully enjoying my story and I hope you will enjoy future chapters too. Well, this is enough from me, I will let you continue with your day, thank you again and cya in the next one)