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Cultivate and Upgrade:Urban Journey

This book revolves around a system possession where all the villains on Earth become monsters in Li Nian Long's eyes. Defeating them rewards him with money drops, equipment, special items, and upgrade experience. He also gains powerful skills and has countless bizarre life professions awaiting activation. Being able to level up by battling monsters in the city, capturing the attention of exquisite beauties—could anything be more exhilarating?

sijiu_yao · Fantasi
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217 Chs

Chapter 121 :Tears of the Maiden

After reading the introduction to the Advanced Body Technique Practitioner, Li Nianlong couldn't stay calm. His blood vessels and meridians were fused, meaning he wouldn't bleed if he were cut. Was this evolving towards becoming like a superhero?

Advanced Body Technique Practitioner was so powerful, wouldn't Grandmaster and Perfection levels be even more extraordinary?

With trust in the system, Li Nianlong didn't resort to self-harm with a knife. Even though he wouldn't bleed, who knew if the cut flesh would heal immediately?

Although he had advanced to the high level, Li Nianlong didn't stop. He continued to hone his Body Technique Practitioner proficiency. The journey to Longcheng made him realize he wasn't invincible. The Long family's Dragon Transformation Technique could convert internal energy into dragon aura for attacks, and its power was astonishing. The memory of that several-meter-deep black hole still haunted him.

Uncle Guan's ashes had already been buried, but Long Zongheng was still alive. He couldn't allow himself to settle into peaceful days.

Although alchemy allowed his attributes to grow faster, life professions could provide more skills and potential assistance. Attribute enhancement was easy, but raising life profession levels was not. This meant Li Nianlong was destined to spend more time honing his life professions. Of course, he wouldn't stop training in the training grounds either. Without going on missions, the experience points from the training grounds were precious. The set of ten levels combined was essential for him to obtain, driving him to work even harder.

At this point, Li Nianlong's training ground had entered scene 22-23.

Level 20 of the training ground honed Li Nianlong's wilderness survival skills. Level 21 honed precision, while at level 22, it turned into speed training. It wasn't just about sprinting speed but about maximizing speed under obstacles.

The current scene was a swimming pool. Li Nianlong had to use his speed and balance to dash from one end of the pool to the other, akin to walking on water like a dragonfly.

Li Nianlong had tried more than a dozen times. Although there was progress each time, harnessing the slight buoyancy of the water's surface to reach the other side was incredibly difficult. The pool wasn't long, but it was about fifty meters, and running fifty meters on the water's surface made it seem like he had become a sage.

Quick sprint, water treading, balancing mastery, continued progress... These were basically all the tricks, but the most difficult were water treading and balance mastery.

Despite the assistance of the Advanced Body Technique Practitioner, Li Nianlong failed more than a dozen times. But with increasing proficiency, he finally succeeded on the eighteenth attempt.

As his feet touched the steps on the opposite side, Dragonfly flew over excitedly. "Congratulations, host, for clearing the level successfully. You've earned 14,000 experience points."

With the increase in level and privileges, Dragonfly's language, expressions, and emotions became richer and more diverse. Now, it spoke very casually, like chatting with a good friend.

Li Nianlong smiled faintly, left the training ground, and headed to the pharmacy.

Since reaching level 40, Li Nianlong hadn't visited the pharmacy. He almost forgot that there were pills on the fourth floor that could enhance attributes and experience points. Taking advantage of the available time today, he decided to come and take a look.

The medicines on the fourth floor were much more advanced than those on the third floor. There were all-attributes pills that increased each attribute by +5, attribute-specific pills that increased a single attribute by +10, and experience pills that added +20,000 experience points. Although the prices were exorbitant, with the cheapest costing several million and the most expensive all-attributes pill even reaching ten million, Li Nianlong was currently not short on money at all. He immediately bought three pills of each type.

"Host consumes 3 All-Attributes Pills, 3 Strength Attribute Pills, 3 Speed Attribute Pills, 3 Qi Attribute Pills, 3 Intelligence Attribute Pills, and 3 Experience Pills. Strength +45, Speed +45, Qi +45, Intelligence +45, Experience +60,000."

Li Nianlong: Level 41: (108,530/172,200)

Strength: 331

Speed: 331

Qi: 785

Intelligence: 336

Remaining Points: 628

Seeing all his attributes rise to over 300, Li Nianlong felt only one thing: "Awesome!"

Afterward, Li Nianlong looked through all the medicines on the fourth floor. Although there were many good pills, he still couldn't find any that could make Nalan Ruyue speak. With a hint of disappointment, he left the pharmacy and went to the blueprint shop to buy a building blueprint.

The defense of the Liu family's mansion was too weak. Although he didn't say it aloud, Li Nianlong had already regarded himself as a member of the Liu family. For the sake of the Liu family's safety, he had to find a way to enhance their strength. With his life profession as a Perfect Architect, he could purchase all the blueprints related to buildings. The blueprint of this huge fortress built by the mountains and waters was his gift to the Liu family.

Early the next morning, Li Nianlong arrived at the massage parlor. Li Zao was energetically wiping the glass at the door. When she saw Li Nianlong, she snorted, "Why are you just coming? The customers have been waiting for ages."

Seeing this girl who had always been at odds with him, Li Nianlong smiled faintly and said, "Sorry, today I'm here to resign. I won't be coming anymore."

"What did you say!?" With a snap, the cloth in her hand fell to the ground. Li Zao's face was full of shock. "You... you're leaving?"

"Yeah." Li Nianlong nodded, smiling. "Now that I'm not here, you don't have to sulk at me every day."

Although Li Zao felt extremely uncomfortable inside, she pretended to be strong. "Well... of course, I'll be happier without seeing you every day."

"Right!" Li Nianlong smiled and asked, "Where's Master Li?"

Li Zao glared at him fiercely, picked up the cloth from the ground, and ran inside.

Li Nianlong smiled lightly, pushed open the door, and saw the old masseur giving a massage to a middle-aged man. Li Zao was nowhere to be seen, and a door in a compartment was closed, indicating that she had gone inside.

"Master Li."

"Oh, Little Liu is here!" Upon hearing Li Nianlong's voice, the old masseur chuckled, "You're a bit late today!"

"Sorry, Master Li." Li Nianlong said apologetically, "I'm here to resign. I won't be coming anymore."

"What!?" Not only the old masseur but also the customer waiting for a massage were shocked, especially one female customer. "Little Liu, why aren't you coming anymore? I came here for you. What am I going to do if you leave?"

"Cough!" Although he sneered at the female customer's 'thirsty' behavior, the other customers were still quite puzzled. "Indeed! Master Liu, why are you resigning? What are you going to do next? Are you planning to open your own shop? If so, we'll definitely support you."

Li Nianlong smiled at this question. "No, I'm not going to open my own shop, nor will I continue to work as a masseur. Actually, Master Li knows that I came here just to hone my massage skills. Now that I've reached a certain level of proficiency, it's time for me to move on."

"If you were honing your skills, why stop now that you've learned them?" one customer couldn't help but ask. "What's the point of learning something if you're not going to use it?"

"Having many skills is never a bad thing!" Li Nianlong shrugged, his answer leaving everyone speechless.

The old masseur's face was filled with melancholy. Although he knew Li Nianlong would eventually leave, he didn't expect it to happen so suddenly. With a sigh, the old masseur said softly, "Little Liu, the shop has greatly benefited from your help during this time. I don't have anything good to give you as a parting gift..."

"Don't!" Seeing that the old masseur was about to give him something, Li Nianlong quickly stopped him. "I don't need anything, Master Li. Please don't give me anything, or I won't feel at ease leaving."

"Well..." The old masseur hesitated.

"Let's not dwell on that." Li Nianlong took out a small notebook from his coat pocket. "Master Li, during this time, I've compiled all the massage techniques I've learned into this notebook. Take it. I hope that in the future, you can become the best masseur in Tianfu with it."

"Little Liu, you..." The old masseur was so moved that he trembled all over.

"Take it!" Li Nianlong smiled faintly and handed the notebook to the old masseur. "In the future, let Little Zao read it to you. That's it. Take care, Master Li. I'm leaving."

Gratefully, the old masseur nodded and immediately shouted, "Little Zao! Quickly, escort Little Liu out!"

The door of the compartment opened, and Li Zao walked out with her head down. Without looking at anyone, she silently escorted Li Nianlong out to the door.

"Go in!" Turning around, Li Nianlong smiled faintly. "Your work will be even more important without me around. Keep up the good work!"

"You..." Li Zao's voice trembled slightly. "Will you come back later?"

"Oh?" Looking at Li Zao, the young girl kept her head down the whole time, and he couldn't see her expression, but he could guess to some extent. Li Nianlong smiled faintly. "If I have time, I'll come back."

"Really?" Li Zao's voice was very soft.

He rubbed her head with his big hand. "Really. Now go in quickly!"

After Li Nianlong drove away, Li Zao raised her head, her eyes red and tears welling up. As soon as the panda car disappeared around the street corner, she couldn't hold back her tears any longer, and they streamed down uncontrollably.

...

Leaving the massage parlor, Li Nianlong felt a sense of melancholy. After all, he had been here for a month, and he had developed some feelings, especially for Li Zao, the little girl. Although she always acted sulky, how could he not see through the prideful heart of a young girl? He could imagine that Li Zao must be crying right now.

But with the Liu family's dead soldiers to train his skills, there was no need to stay at the massage parlor any longer. He could only silently apologize to Li Zao.

He drove straight to the Liu family's castle. Although motor vehicles were not allowed inside the castle, there was another passage to enter the Liu mansion, which wouldn't disturb the ancient atmosphere of the Liu family's castle.

Li Nianlong's return made the old master very happy. "Menglong, I heard from Meiyun yesterday. I didn't expect you to revive the lost acupuncture technique that has been lost for hundreds of years. If this news gets out, the martial world will be in turmoil again."

Li Nianlong replied casually, "What does that have to do with me?"

The old master sighed wryly. "You are oblivious to the plight of the starving when you're well-fed! Well, Meiyun is dealing with something right now and doesn't have time to come. The ten dead soldiers are in the backyard. You can go there yourself!"