Trash Techniques are Actually Pretty Efficient

"Woah!"

Lan Xiang opened his eyes. He blinked two or three times.

"...I'm alive? I'm alive!"

Suddenly, a rush of emotions and memories came through him.

"Aaahh!"

He fainted yet again.

A few hours later, he opened his eyes once more, to be greeted by the sight of an extremely beautiful otherworldly beauty with an expressionless face, skin as white as porcelain, stuff like that.

"Woah, this girl is hot!"

Lan Xiang saw that the girl was napping as she sat on a chair beside his bed. He took this opportunity to scan her body.

"Dude, look at those jugs!!!"

He accidentally blurted these words out, waking the girl up. Nervously, he covered himself with the blanket.

"...Xiang? You're awake?"

Her voice was evidently concerned. Lan Xiang lowered the blanket and took a peek at her.

Her expressionless face was no more, replaced by one filled with relief as tears flowed down her eyes.

She immediately pulled him into a hug, causing her "jugs" to make contact with him.

"...Xiang, thank God you're fine!" She whimpered as she buried her head on his shoulders.

Lan Xiang felt his shoulders becoming wet from her tears.

"Ah, so this is my fiancee huh..."

Of course, Lan Xiang was already fully aware of what was happening. During the time he was asleep, his memories and personality assimilated with that of the Lan Xiang from this world. In a sense, neither of them disappeared, they just merged into one.

Lan Xiang from the other world had died, and reincarnated into his body, where their souls merged together. Both of them came from the modern world, but the current one was full of cultivation.

"Jian'er, you're such a crybaby..."

"I, I suppose..."

Instead of the usual embarrassed denial Lan Xiang expected, he got a surprisingly cute reply...

He couldn't suppress his urges anymore and pushed her down under him, planting a deep kiss as she barely resisted.

"X, Xiang... we can't right now... you just recovered..."

"Your blushing face says otherwise though."

"B, but... just once..."

And thus Lan Xiang from the previous world graduated from his virginity. Well, this was par for the course for the Lan Xiang of this world, so he didn't get to celebrate it as much as he liked.

As Xie Jian lay asleep beside him, Lan Xiang analyzed what rushed into his mind while he was sleeping.

Aside from the two people merging together, a machine-like presence also appeared.

"System?"

With his beckon, a screen appeared before him.

[Technique Improvement System]

Techniques currently learned: 0

Tech points: 0

Please work hard to accumulate points!

"Technique improvement system? What is this? Cultivation actually exists? Wait, that's general knowledge... The heck, why hasn't my father given me a technique?

"Wait, of course, of course that's it. I've been abandoned by my family. Except for Jian'er, not one came to check up on my health. Bastards... Tsk.

"Well, it's my fault that I got a severe concussion anyways... How long was I out?"

Lan Xiang routinely reached for his phone on the desk and checked the date.

"The hell? It's been 3 months? No wonder Jian'er didn't wanna do it at first. I should be extremely weak after being asleep for 3 months! Why do I feel so energized? Is it the system?"

"System? Status."

[Host Status]

Name: Lan Xiang

Age: 18

Gender: Male

Cultivation: none

Status effects:

Reborn (starter gift pack from system)

Energy +100%

Strength +100%

Vitality +100%

6:02:19:48 left

Lan Xiang saw the countdown.

"Wait, when did the countdown start?"

Surprisingly, the system replied. "Right after the host's awakening, the system applied the starter gift pack to start cultivating."

"...How long was the countdown originally?"

"A 7-day status buff was provided."

"So, then that means... Ah, that was why my little brother was more rambunctious than usual!

"Ah, I wasted an entire day of the gift pack...!"

Lan Xiang glanced at the Xie Jian who had an extremely satisfied look on her face.

"...Well, maybe I didn't really waste it."

He patted her head, stroking his hands through her black and silky smooth hair. At that moment, he felt that he was lucky.

"Time to start cultivating, then!"

Lan Xiang stood up and dressed himself up. He glanced one more time at Xie Jian before walking out the room.

A few minutes later, Xie Jian woke up.

She opened her eyes cautiously, and peeked under her blanket. After that, her entire face blushed red.

"What am I doing, to someone who just woke up after a coma...?"

Shaking her head, she headed towards the bathroom and washed herself.

"Weird. Xiang hadn't eaten anything. Why was he more energetic than usual? In fact, he hasn't taken a bath yet! Why did he smell and taste... be... tter..."

At that point, Xie Jian was too red to think straight.

Meanwhile, outside the house.

Since Lan Xiang was the young master of the rich and powerful Lan Family, he had a house all to himself. Of course, that didn't mean he was cherished by his parents. In fact, he was only given a house because he was thrown out of the main mansion and was sent to live in the countryside.

The fact that Xie Jian even took the time to visit him all the way over here touched Lan Xiang more.

As he walked out of his house, wearing his usual casual clothes.

It was time to find some cultivation techniques!

He didn't understand how the system worked yet. He surmised that the most efficient way to find out was to look for a technique and work his way from that.

Wandering around the streets, he shook his head.

After half an hour of strolling, he still hadn't found any techniques!

"As I expected. It's not like cultivation techniques grow on trees."

He gave up for now.

Walking to a restaurant, he found a spot beside the window and sat down after ordering his meal. As he waited for his order, his phone rang.

"Xiang, where are you right now? You just left me here..."

"Sorry, Jian'er, I had something urgent to do..."

"So where are you then...?"

"I'm at the Hongtian Restaurant at the end of Folk Street."

"Okay..."

Through the phone, Lan Xiang could hear that she was headed towards him, as crowds of people could be heard. Still, they chatted all the way until she came.

The doorbell rang.

Lan Xiang excitedly took a look, only to find that the ones who entered were a bunch of punk-looking asses.

The assumed leader had a barrel body and a spiky green and purple Mohawk on his head. Behind him were two people with similar style, only one was lanky and had a ton of piercings, while the other wore glasses and looked more like someone forced to join in this group.

With an exasperated sigh, he turned his head away.

"Hm? Xiang, what's wrong? Did something happen?"

"Nothing... The doorbell rang so I thought you were already here."

While he was talking with Xie Jian, the group of three thugs looked around the restaurant. The waiters and chefs shook in fear.

The three were only members of a larger gang. This gang was well-known around the city of Hongliu. They were called the Punk Thug Gang!

The Punk Thug Gang was notorious for demanding to... not pay in establishments like these! They also commit other heinous acts such as usurious loans and blackmailing, selling illegal drugs, bla bla bla, who cares. Whoever dined-and-dashed was the worst!

The manager clicked his tongue. He needed to call the popo...

The Punk Thug Gang members walked towards the long queue, forcefully dispersing the people there.

"Make way for the VIPs, assholes! Haha!"

As he arrived in front of the poor cashier, he flashed a bright smile.

"I'd like a double cheese double burger quarter pounder, a 10pc pack of chicken nuggets, a big container of French fries, a 10pc bucket of fried chicken... uh, what else... That's it."

The cashier sighed in relief. That would be all their losses for today. It wasn't so bad...

"Ah, make that ten. All of those."

"T- ten?"

It was over. The cashier thought that their restaurant was going to be bankrupt. They were already barely going over the bar...

"What, you got a problem with that?"

The waiter summoned up his courage. After entering the order on the computer, the price appeared.

"Sir... That'll be-"

A slam on the counter shocked the cashier. One glance and he saw cracks on the counter!

"Kid, you must be new here. We have a... certain way of handling things here."

The customers were all startled by the sudden sound.

"Shit! He's at Level 3, Hidden Qi realm?"

"This restaurant is doomed..."

Suddenly, sirens sounded outside, a bunch of men wearing blue uniforms arrived. The popo!

The manager sighed in relief.

While the Punk Thug Gang remained calm.

When the police officers barged inside, they were very fierce. One glance could tell that the strongest person among them was at least at the 4th level, Outer Transmission realm.

"Who dares to mess with the public... order..."

Gulp. The police officer widened his eyes as he saw the attire. Punk Thug Gang!

"P, Punk Thug Gang? Aha, I'm sorry for intruding..."

The manager's blood ran cold as he saw this scene. Even the popo couldn't handle them?