Chapter 43

As night fell.

Bamboo Courtyard.

Peaceful and serene.

The courtyard, built with blue bricks, was spacious, featuring artificial hills and a pond. A wutong tree stood on the west side of the yard, and a small martial arts training ground was equipped with a weapons rack, neatly arranged with eighteen types of weapons: swords, spears, halberds, axes, and more. A two-story pavilion with a wide view, four bedrooms, three living rooms, and an independent 'bathroom'...

A perfect residence.

Lin Beichen was in the quiet room on the second floor of the pavilion, his face solemn as he fiddled with his phone.

Within an hour after the grand competition ended, Lin Beichen and the butler, Wang Zhong, moved into the Bamboo Courtyard, as if they had suddenly transformed from beggars into kings, from a stinky puddle to paradise.

Butler Wang Zhong was tidying and cleaning the other rooms.

Lin Beichen was checking and organizing the rewards from the grand competition.

He took out the two prizes he had chosen yesterday.

"Rejuvenating Powder is a medicine for treating injuries, similar to Yunnan Baiyao, but its efficacy is many times better. However, in this world, it can only be considered a slightly higher-grade wound medicine. Therefore, among the four herbal medicine pills from yesterday, it was the worst."

"As for this Formless Sword Bone..."

Lin Beichen opened the martial arts manual and began to read.

After finishing, he was speechless for a long time.

Because the core content of this manual could only be described in ten words—

"Practice the hardest techniques, endure the most painful beatings!"

Although it has the word 'sword' in it, it is not a sword technique manual.

It is a body cultivation manual.

The core principle is to treat one's body like a sword blank, constantly forging and tempering it, like forging iron, to remove impurities and refine the steel, making the flesh and blood more resilient and the bones as hard as a sharp sword.

The highest realm of Formless Sword Bone is called 'Sword Person.'

It means that when the technique is practiced to its utmost, the entire person is equivalent to a great sword.

Sounds cool, right?

But the problem is that the main method of cultivating this technique is to constantly endure beatings.

The harder the beating, the better the practice.

The heavier the beating, the faster the progress.

The more severe the beating, the better the effect.

In short—

As long as you don't die, get beaten to death.

Of course, it needs to be combined with a certain method of circulating mystic energy.

Enduring beatings also requires technique.

Start light and gradually increase the intensity.

But...

No matter how skillful, it's still enduring beatings.

"What the hell is this crap technique!"

"The person who developed this technique must have been insane."

Lin Beichen couldn't help but criticize.

No wonder when he chose the two prizes, the expressions of the grade head, Chu Heng, and others were as if they had seen a live idiot. The biggest problem wasn't the Rejuvenating Powder, but this manual.

Which immoral instructor chose such a prize?

Lin Beichen subconsciously wanted to throw the manual away.

But then he thought, no, that's not right.

I cultivate by recharging and cheating, I don't need to practice like others.

Maybe I can practice this technique?

He laughed again.

Taking out his phone, he started taking pictures of the manual.

After finishing, he waited a bit and opened the app store.

Sure enough, an app named "Formless Sword Bone Beginner Version" was already listed in the store.

Hmm?

Compared to the manual, it has the words "Beginner Version" added.

Could there be Intermediate and Advanced versions?

But, it doesn't matter.

He clicked to download.

"Beep! Downloading this app requires 4G of data. The host has 4.5G of data. Do you want to download this app?"

A prompt box appeared.

Lin Beichen was surprised.

The "Formless Sword Bone" app actually requires a full 4G of data?

This is definitely the app that consumes the most data since he mastered the phone's functions.

It means that the phone rates "Formless Sword Bone" far higher than the previous "Basic Sword Technique Close Combat Three-Combo" update, and far higher than Lin Beichen's own expectations.

The higher the phone's rating, the greater the power.

Lin Beichen thought for a moment and chose—

Yes.

A green progress bar appeared on the phone's main screen.

Then, the mystic energy in Lin Beichen's body surged like a dam breaking, pouring into the phone.

"Ah..."

Lin Beichen let out a lewd moan.

He felt his body being drained.

After about three minutes, Lin Beichen felt a wave of weakness in his waist and knees, his face turned pale, and he felt utterly drained. The "Formless Sword Bone" app was finally downloaded.

He panted heavily and clicked to install.

The installation process was relatively long.

It took ten minutes.

After the installation was complete, an app icon with a 'Sword Person' pattern appeared on the phone's main screen.

He clicked to run the app.

As expected, the screen showed a water-ink figure almost identical to Lin Beichen.

The figure stood on a stone platform, in a posture ready to be beaten. Suddenly, a blurry hammer appeared from outside the screen and struck the water-ink figure's back.

The entire process was like a whack-a-mole game.

Ding ding!

The sound of forging iron played.

Lin Beichen suddenly felt a tingling sensation in his back.

As if he had been lightly hit by a hammer.

This was not unexpected.

The cultivation through the phone app gives the host a sense of it.

Like when cultivating mystic energy, the body feels very comfortable.

Fortunately, the sensation of the hammer strike was not very painful.

It seemed the phone had adjusted the pain of cultivating "Formless Sword Bone" to a level a normal person could accept.

On the app screen, hammers kept flying in from outside the screen, striking the water-ink figure heavily. Correspondingly, Lin Beichen felt a tingling sensation in his body. At first, it was a bit uncomfortable, but after getting used to it, he found it quite pleasant.

Like a Thai massage.

"Uh, it must be an illusion. I am not a masochist."

Lin Beichen hurriedly reminded himself.

After some thought, he ran the "Intermediate Mystic Energy Condensation Technique" and "Formless Sword Bone" apps in the background, closed other applications, and put the phone into lock screen mode.

"Ah..."

"Oh..."

"Woah!"

Strange sounds kept coming from Lin Beichen's room.

They sounded...

Lewd.

Butler Wang Zhong stood outside the door, listening intently.

After listening for a full ten minutes, the lecherous triangular face finally showed a relieved expression.

"Master is still the same Master, his love for women never changes. I mean, with Master's lecherous nature, he could actually have the heart to beat a beauty like Mu Xinyue, which scared me into thinking Master had changed. Now I don't have to worry, Master still likes playing with women."

"Moreover, this time he can last more than ten minutes?"

"Master has become stronger."

The old butler walked downstairs with a lecherous look.

"Only, when did a woman sneak into this pavilion? Master is secretly playing, could this woman have a complicated identity?"

Wang Zhong entered an endless state of imagination.

That day, Lin Beichen spent the entire time in a tingling sensation.

The lewd moans in his room never stopped.

Old butler Wang Zhong's expression changed from a smile to surprise, to admiration, to shock, and finally to a questioning of life.

"Is Master too strong?"

"Could it be that he was too pent up recently?"

"It's been a whole day."

"Could it be that not only his combat ability has improved, but also his other abilities?"

"But, only oxen die from overwork, not fields from being tilled. Too much indulgence, and even iron can be ground into a needle..."

"No, I must find an opportunity to remind Master."

"Young people should be more restrained, otherwise, they will regret it when they are old."

Wang Zhong worried.