“Thankfully, according to my contract with the Limit Martial Arts Institute, the first purchase allows me to bypass the contribution point restrictions and buy at the best price,” Luo Feng felt his heart racing. He couldn’t help it; after all, this was a full 100 million Huaxia Credits! Purchasing a row house from Zhang Haobai’s family would be effortless.
Moreover, Luo Feng had grown up in a family with modest financial means. Spending 100 million at once, one could easily imagine his feelings!
“Good thing it’s not my money,” Luo Feng smirked.
Having successfully purchased the secret manual, the next step was… buying weapons, combat suits, and so on.
“I have twenty million in start-up funds. I should try to save where I can,” Luo Feng clicked open the weapons list page and quickly found the ‘Blood Shadow Battle Blade No. 2’ series.
Blood Shadow Battle Blade No. 2 Series, Model A1—Price: 100,000 Huaxia Credits (full price) 50,000 Huaxia Credits (half price, requirement: 1 contribution point)
Blood Shadow Battle Blade No. 2 Series, Model A2—Price: 500,000 Huaxia Credits (full price) 250,000 Huaxia Credits (half price, requirement: 1 contribution point)
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…No. 2 Series, Model A5—Price: 6,000,000 Huaxia Credits (full price), 3,000,000 Huaxia Credits (half price, requirement: one-star contribution point)
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Luo Feng carefully read the descriptions of each model weapon, frowning slightly, “My strength is improving rapidly. I believe it won’t be long before my physical abilities reach the upper limit of an advanced warrior. Naturally, I should buy better weapons.” If it were an ordinary beginner warrior-level martial artist.
Generally, purchasing A2 or A3 models would suffice. The requirement of 1 contribution point here could be obtained by donating ten thousand credits!
In fact, the so-called 1 contribution point is a distinction between internal martial artists of the institute and other external martial artists. After all, the Limit Martial Arts Institute has its so-called internal network—the ‘Network Mall’ of the Limit Home—but they also have physical martial arts stores. Martial artists from other factions can also purchase, but if martial artists from other factions want to buy, they can only purchase at full price!
“With my rate of strength improvement, I should at least purchase Blood Shadow Battle Blade models A5 or A6,” Luo Feng shook his head, “But these models require a one-star contribution point!”
“One-star, that’s 10,000 contribution points!”
Initially, he could purchase the secret manual without the contribution point requirement, buying at the best price. This kind of discount was only available the first time purchasing the secret manual.
But now, purchasing weapons, combat suits, etc., there was no such discount.
“Blood Shadow Battle Blade Model A6, full price is 20 million. Model A5, full price is also 6 million.” Luo Feng shook his head. Model A5 could fight against the majority of ‘mid-level beast generals’ without worrying about the weapon breaking. Model A6 weapons could fight against the majority of ‘high-level beast generals’ without worrying about the weapon breaking.
Given his rapid rate of strength improvement, low-level weapons were clearly unsuitable.
“Buying at full price? Too expensive,” Luo Feng shook his head.
“Let me check the shields.”
Luo Feng then opened the shield page and saw that the shields were significantly cheaper than battle blades. Similarly, the B5 model shield capable of resisting ‘mid-level beast generals’ had a full price of 3 million Huaxia Credits and a half price of 1.5 million Huaxia Credits, but the contribution point requirement was also one-star!
“The backpack.”
For wilderness survival and fighting beasts, the backpack carried on one’s back was also a special piece of equipment. First, the backpack itself needed to be of good quality. Second, being worn on the body during combat with beasts, it couldn’t hinder the martial artist’s movements.
“The backpack is the cheapest, requiring only 1 contribution point. Buying a good one costs only 100,000 credits.” Luo Feng showed a slight smile.
“Combat communication watch, with satellite positioning, time, telephone, and many other functions. The price is also reasonable, at 100,000 credits.” In fact, those functions aren’t worth much. On the current market, a few hundred credit phone includes functions like making calls, time, and satellite positioning. The reason the communication watch costs 100,000 credits is because of the expensive materials!
During combat with beasts, a beast’s claw might strike the communication watch! The watch must be sturdy enough to withstand beast attacks, so how could the price be low?
“I’ve checked battle blades, shields, watches, and backpacks. Only one remains… including the full combat suit and boots.” Luo Feng had long heard that a full combat suit was usually the most expensive piece of equipment for a martial artist! Because the combat suit not only required good defense but also had to be comfortable to wear and not hinder the martial artist’s quick dodging and movements.
Luo Feng clicked it open…
“Heavens!”
“So expensive!”
Luo Feng was completely stunned. “Even the D5 series combat suit capable of withstanding mid-level beast generals, along with the bracers and boots, costs a full 18 million Huaxia Credits, and half price is still 9 million. The D6 series costs a full 80 million Huaxia Credits.” He had known combat suits were expensive, but he hadn’t expected the D5 series to be three times more expensive than battle blades of the same level!
Now calculating…
With a uniform D5 configuration—the full combat suit costs 18 million, the Blood Shadow Battle Blade 6 million, the shield 3 million, totaling 27 million! If he had a one-star contribution point, then he would only need 13.5 million.
As for the combat watch and backpack, compared to the combat suit, they were just small change!
“I also need to buy throwing knives, controlled by my mental power from a distance! At least buy six or ten of them.” Luo Feng opened the throwing knives page again. Throwing knives were small items, with small volume and light weight, so the knives themselves were naturally much cheaper than the Blood Shadow Battle Blade.
The D5 series throwing knives cost 50,000 Huaxia Credits at full price.
The D6 series throwing knives cost 300,000 Huaxia Credits at full price.
D7 series throwing knives cost a full 3,000,000 Huaxia Credits, half price 1,500,000 (requirement: two-star contribution points), a tenfold increase!
D7 throwing knives, if one’s strength is sufficient, could actually injure low-level lord beasts. The gap between beast generals and lords is huge. The weapon prices were unexpectedly so different.
“My mental power is very strong, and it will grow rapidly. I originally wanted to buy D7 throwing knives, but each one costs 3,000,000, and half price requires two-star contribution points! If I buy five or six of them, it would cost over ten million!”
“Where can I afford that?”
“This money just isn’t enough to spend,” Luo Feng originally thought twenty million start-up funds were a lot, but now he realized the equipment prices for martial artists were exorbitant.
In fact, Luo Feng didn’t know that these equipment prices weren’t unreasonable!
After all, lord-level beasts can’t even be killed by missiles! The material requirements for a throwing knife capable of piercing them must be extremely high! A throwing knife costing 3,000,000 Huaxia Credits was within a reasonable range.
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In fact, martial artists spend a lot when purchasing weapons, but in the future, after hunting powerful beasts, they can earn a lot of money too.
Unfortunately, Luo Feng hasn’t started earning money yet.
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The next morning, around ten o’clock.
In the private garden of Luo Feng’s home in Mingyue Community, a stranger arrived.
“Mr. Luo Feng, this is the secret manual you purchased. You can open it with your fingerprint.”
Luo Feng took the sealed alloy box from the man’s hand and swiped his finger across the top of the alloy box. “Beep! Fingerprint verification successful.” A synthetic electronic voice sounded, and the alloy box opened, revealing a book about one centimeter thick, with two discs on it.
“Nine Heavens Thunder Blade.” Luo Feng saw the four characters on the book.
“Mr. Luo Feng, please take a look and confirm, then sign,” the delivery man smiled, though his eyes held a hint of envy.
Nine Heavens Thunder Blade!
Ordinary martial artists couldn’t afford it.
“Mr. Luo Feng, I believe you know the taboos after purchasing secret manuals?” the delivery man smiled, “According to the rules, I will also explain… The copyright of the secret manual belongs to the creator of the manual. The copyright holder of the ‘Nine Heavens Thunder Blade’ manual is Thunder God! The buyer only has the right to study, not to teach others. Copying the manual, selling or teaching it privately is prohibited. Once someone violates this, they will be hunted down by the Limit Martial Arts Institute, Thunder Martial Arts Institute, Underground Alliance, and government forces together!”
Luo Feng nodded; of course, he knew this rule.
After inspection, the delivery man left.
“Just this one manual, with two discs, costs 100 million Huaxia Credits,” Luo Feng stood in his garden, sighing, “Still, creating manuals is the most profitable. Take Thunder God, for example. The more people buy his ‘Nine Heavens Thunder Blade’ manual, the more money he makes.” A simple calculation isn’t hard to imagine how much Thunder God has earned.
However… for Thunder God, who founded the Thunder Martial Arts Institute, money holds little significance.
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Just as Luo Feng was about to take the manual into the house, “Luo Feng,” a voice called out.
Luo Feng turned around and saw the person was the chief instructor of the Limit Club, ‘Wutong’.
“Wu Uncle,” Luo Feng smiled.
“I just saw the delivery guy from headquarters. Did you buy something?” Wutong smiled.
“Yeah,” Luo Feng nodded.
“The ‘Nine Heavens Thunder Blade’?” Wutong caught sight of the four characters on the cover of the manual in Luo Feng’s hand and was greatly surprised, “You, you actually dared to buy this?” Secret manuals are strictly controlled by all major world powers.
“It’s not my money anyway,” Luo Feng smiled, then added helplessly, “But I also found out that money is really not enough now. Buying battle blades, combat suits, etc., costs a lot.”
“By the way, Luo Feng, the main reason I came here is to tell you something,” Chief Instructor Wutong smiled. “Not long ago, wasn’t there a young man named Zhang Haobai who offended you?”
Luo Feng was taken aback. Zhang Haobai? He hadn’t had time to deal with him yet.
“Yeah, he once sent people to break my arms and legs,” Luo Feng nodded.
“It’s like this. Zhang Haobai’s uncle, ‘Zhang Zehu,’ is a martial artist from the Thunder Martial Arts Institute. He asked the chief instructor of the Thunder Martial Arts Institute in Yangzhou City to mediate. They want to settle this privately with you,” Chief Instructor Wutong smiled. “Luo Feng, you’re short on money, right? This time is a money-making opportunity. You can make a fortune out of it!”
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