InvincibleConnoisseur

Chapter 69 Breakthrough

The shimmering artificial lake was beautifully lit by the moon, with the wind blowing and the dense branches and leaves swaying. What used to be the perfect place for romantic couples was now no sign of anyone to be seen.

A thin and small figure ran along the path from far away. Looking around for some time and finding that there was no one, he quickly climbed a tree and waited with a very nervous look.

Tiezi was so excited that he even could hardly contain himself.

When he used to see those martial arts masters on TV or in movies leap onto roofs and vault over walls to be ready to help the weak, he felt the blood surging, hoping that he could be well trained in kung fu to praise virtue and punish vice.

However, the dream was beautiful, but the reality was cruel. He had lived for more than ten years without ever hearing of a martial arts master or seeing any epic fight scene as in the movie.

When he had no hope originally but saw the scene that Wang Ke taught eight or nine local ruffians a lesson, the idea of becoming a martial arts master again floated in his mind.

"Master! There you are!"

Sitting on the high branch to discover Wang Ke's arrival, Tiezi was immediately excited to slide down from the tree and kneel in front of Wang Ke.

Wang Ke stretched out his hand to help Tiezi up and smiled, "You little guy, don't kneel at every time. Moreover, I haven't promised to be your master, but only to teach you some basic movements in martial arts. If you can do them to my satisfaction, I will officially accept you as my apprentice."

With a resolute look on his face, Tiezi nodded heavily and said, "I will try my best. No matter how hard it is, I will make you satisfied."

Wang Ke smiled, "OK, stop the nonsense. We start with the squat today."

Time passing slowly, Wang Ke had been asking Tiezi to squat since he met Tiezi but had not taught him any martial arts movements.

Wang Ke required Tiezi to practice basic skills well. The unstable underpart of the body was equivalent to the unreliable foundation. As the saying went, great oaks from little acorns grow. If the ground was unstable, high-rise buildings couldn't be built even with good materials.

The next morning, Wang Ke rushed to Self House as usual.

Seeing Wang Ke's arrival, Zhao Menfeng, with a strange expression revealed on his face, waved to Wang Ke and asked with a smile, "I heard that you found an undervalued treasure again yesterday? A chair?"

Wang Ke nodded and said frankly, "Yesterday I heard there were middle-level magic weapons, so I wandered around. I didn't find the middle-level one, but I found a nice-looking chair. To be honest, I didn't know it was a piece of magic weapon at the time. I thought it was good enough if the chair was an antique."

Zhao Menfeng said with a smile, "That showed that you were blessed! But that guy, Xu Jingkai, was utterly disgraceful. He recognized an antique as a middle-level magic weapon. He didn't sell it even someone offered one million yuan. It turned out later that it wasn't a middle-level magic weapon at all, and he lost a lot of money for nothing."

Wang Ke, with his heart shivering slightly, secretly laughed at once: perhaps others did not know the reason, but he was clear!

That item was indeed a middle-level magic weapon, but its spiritual energy was covertly absorbed by him.

Zhao Menfeng just talked about it off the cuff and began to teach Wang Ke about antiques and magic weapons.

Time passed quickly and it arrived at noon in a twinkling.

At the end of Zhao Menfeng's presentation, Wang Ke hesitated for a moment and asked in a low voice, "Mr. Zhao, would you please tell me something about Fengshui? Yesterday, after I sold the chair, the buyer told me about Fengshui layouts. Although I can find undervalued treasures by luck, the ignorance of Fengshui layouts may make me not recognize the treasures in front of me a lot of times."

Zhao Menfeng was slightly stunned, with his face emerging a trace of anger immediately, and said heavily, "Is your current level capable of learning about Fengshui? You are seriously deficient in the knowledge of even antiques and magic weapons, and still want to learn Fengshui? I'm telling you, don't try to run when you can't even walk. I'm asking you to start with the basics. If you have a real talent in antiques and magic weapons, I'll teach you Fengshui, otherwise, you won't even think about it."

"By the way, I asked you to recite the Book of Geography two days ago. How is your recitation? There is knowledge of Fengshui on it. Can you see it?"

Wang Ke hurriedly said, "Mr. Zhao, I have recited the book all now, but I don't know what content is about Fengshui."

Zhao Menfeng was slightly stunned, and his face showed an incredible expression as if looking at a ghost in broad daylight. He was surprised and said, "You said you finished reciting everything? It's only been two days. Even though I know you have a good memory, how could you possibly recite that fast?"

Wang Ke nodded and said, "Mr. Zhao, I really recited it all. If you don't believe it, I'll recite to you."

Zhao Menfeng nodded and said, "Well, recite it to me."

Ten minutes later, Zhao Menfeng, with a bitter smile on his face, sighed, "Oh my god! You are the greatest genius I've ever met. In terms of memory, I really don't know who else can compare with you. There are tens of thousands of words in the Book of Geography, whose contents cover everything. Amazingly, you can memorize all of them in just two days. Anyway, since you can recite the book, I will start to teach you some knowledge about Fengshui. But I'll give you three days first, in which you should sum up and absorb all that I have taught you in that time about antiques and magic weapons."

Wang Ke, with a surprised expression immediately on his face, quickly nodded, "Mr. Zhao, I will certainly ponder all knowledge that you have taught me thoroughly."

Zhao Menfeng nodded and said, "Wait here for me."

Then he walked upstairs. A few minutes later, he came down with more than a dozen books on antiques and magic weapons in his hand.

"Take these books home and read them carefully. Make sure you know every point of them by heart." Zhao Menfeng handed out a dozen thick books to Wang Ke and urged earnestly.

Because Wang Ke had a fabulous memory, Zhao Menfeng decided to start indoctrinating him with a great deal of knowledge. Zhao even calculated that, by virtue of his memory, it would not be long before he could catch up with the young people who had been learning since childhood if Wang was crammed with a large quantity of knowledge about antiques and magic weapons.

He could feel that Wang Ke worked very hard and was diligent by contacting with him. It would be very odd if he did not succeed in the future.

In the afternoon, Wang Ke returned home and found Li Ruoxi still sitting in front of the computer to check the information of antiques and magic weapons. He casually took out a few books that Zhao Menfeng just gave him and then said, "You take these books. I feel like I'm making some progress like I'm going to break through, so I don't know how long it's going to take. If I don't come out at dinner, you don't wait for me. Just eat by yourself!"

"Another breakthrough?"

Li Ruoxi excitedly exclaimed.

Wang Ke nodded and smiled, "That's the way it is. Good talent makes a fast learner!"

Li Ruoxi couldn't help laughing, with an amorous and charming smile. She gave Wang Ke a stare and then scolded, "You are the one who brags."

In the quiet room, Wang Ke sat cross-legged on the bed and slowly closed his eyes.

He was about to feel the breakthrough yesterday, but the knowledge about Fengshui explained by Bai Ruochen in Fuxuan Hall made him utterly intoxicated. As a result, he forgot to go back to cultivate.

The feeling came back to him as he studied with Zhao Menfeng, so he was in a hurry to prepare for cultivation after coming back directly from Self House.

In accordance with the operation route of Dragon's Momentum, the surging spirit energy in the internal meridians ran crazily in his control. Outside the open window, wisps of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth converged towards his body.

The magic weapon Wang Ke bought was put quietly on the table opposite him. With his cultivation, the white spiritual energy that the magic weapon contained inside also stopped flowing, struggling to slip its leash and flowing toward his body.

In the evening, Wang Ke slowly opened his eyes, with the feeling that was about to break through being more intense. However, he did not break through to the third high level, which made him furtively sigh, "Even with great talent, it's not easy to break through."

When his eyes fell on the magic weapon on the table, he suddenly came up with an idea.

Rapidly getting the magic weapon in his hands, he sat cross-legged and fell into the cultivation after absorbing the spiritual energy in it.

The amount of one-tenth of white spiritual energy merged with the milky white smog, becoming the spiritual strength of Wang Ke, while out of the nine-tenths of the spiritual energy, three-tenths or four-tenths were refined into his flesh, muscles, blood vessels, viscera, and bones, and the rest were transformed to be his cultivation.

"Pop..."

It was as if the bottle stopper had been pulled out. As sound rang out, flashes of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth that was hard to catch with the n***d eyes, as if being strongly summoned, swarmed into Wang Ke's body like ripples layer upon layer.

In the next room, Li Ruoxi was leaning on her pillow to read quietly. Suddenly, her eyes showed a little surprise, because she keenly felt that the spiritual energy in the air in the room was much stronger than before.

"Is Wang Ke's breakthrough responsible for this?"

With shock on her stunning face, Li Ruoxi walked quickly to the window, opened it, hesitated for a while, then turned off the light in her room, kicked off her slippers, and strode to the bed, and sat cross-legged.

Strips of spirit energy inside Li Ruoxi's thin meridians were slowly moving under her control. A few minutes later, those strips of spirit energy were, according to the operation route of the family's disciplines, condensed together. In such circumstances that the spiritual energy in the air was thicker than usual, she was also slowly into the state of cultivation.

Wang Ke in the next room was absorbing fleetly, resembling plundering the spirit energy of heaven and earth from all sides. Only a little would be absorbed by Li Ruoxi.

At two o'clock in the dead of night, Wang Ke, with his eyes closed for cultivation, suddenly changed his look and opened his eyes.

There were lines of bright light in his dark eyes. In front of his eyes, the world changed again. A riot of colors made up the colorful world.

He could see the drifting white airflow clearly with his n***d eyes. Because he was running the spirit energy inside his body, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth like ripples poured into him and blended into his body through the pores of sweat.

Simultaneously, faint threads of milky white smog were melting between his eyebrows. He could clearly feel that his spiritual strength was gradually growing.

"Ouch..."

Wang Ke was originally comfortable, just like soaking in warm water, but his eyes suddenly came to a strong stabbing pain, which made him instantly close his eyes and gasp.