Realizing just how poor he was.
Jiang Nian looked at his remaining 210,000 attention points.
And suddenly felt completely indifferent.
If he worked hard enough, his tenth “Mastered” level skill would cost him this much!
“Sigh!”
Thinking this, Jiang Nian lost all interest in using the bathroom. He finished up quickly, stood up, and went back to his room.
Then he stared at the system interface.
After some thought, he decided to unlock all the skills for both ‘Du Gao’ and ‘Yu Huatian’ anyway.
He still had some money on hand anyway.
Might as well spend it since it was there.
Consider it enriching his own abilities.
But unexpectedly, right after he finished unlocking them.
Those two pages forcibly closed themselves.
When Jiang Nian looked again, he saw that the system panel had changed.
[Film and Martial Arts Overlord System 1.0]
[User: Jiang Nian]
[Perception: 1]
[Level: Second-rate Martial Artist]
[Skills: Shaolin Boy’s Skill “Mastered” (cannot upgrade), Sword Breaking Art “Familiar” (7/500),
Eight Steps Overtaking Cicada “Unrefined” (0/10), Form and Intention Fist “Unrefined” (0/10),
Supreme Sword Arts “Unrefined” (0/10), Ultimate Divine Arts “Unrefined” (0/10)]
[Attention Points: (215,733 – 125,000) = 90,733]
[Currently Playable Role: Eunuch]
[Unlocked Roles: Du Gao (1/3), Yu Huatian (0/3)]
“Huh?”
Seeing this, Jiang Nian was a little curious.
1/3, 0/3?
What did that mean?
Completion progress?
With this question in mind, Jiang Nian tapped on it.
A system prompt popped up accordingly:
[This character has been fully unlocked.]
[Reward after training all skills to Perfection: Perception +1]
Seeing this, Jiang Nian perked up immediately. “Perception?!”
“So that’s how you get this thing?!”
This was a new feature that appeared when Jiang Nian unlocked ‘Yu Huatian.’
It was a necessary condition for unlocking characters.
At the same time, Jiang Nian suspected it should also allow him to train faster.
But until now, he hadn’t known how to obtain it.
Unexpectedly, today, after spending some attention points, he had stumbled upon the way to get it.
But soon, Jiang Nian’s expression fell.
Because he realized this thing was also a trap.
And not just any trap—it was a chain of traps!
The pattern of the system shop was that the more skills you bought at the same level, the more expensive each one got.
Jiang Nian had originally thought, fine, he just wouldn’t buy skills and would only rely on the single skill he could choose when unlocking characters to get stronger.
But now it seemed that wouldn’t work at all.
Because unlocking characters also required Perception points!
Even if he trained both ‘Du Gao’ and ‘Yu Huatian’s’ skills to Perfection and got two Perception points.
At most, he’d only have three Perception points in total.
If he encountered a powerful character that required more than three Perception points to unlock, he’d just have to sit there and drool.
“Goddamn it, so this is where you’ve been waiting for me!”
Jiang Nian cursed under his breath.
At that moment, he deeply felt the terror of a system from unknown technology.
Trap after trap after trap, like a freaking thousand-layer cake.
If you wanted to get stronger, you had to spend. There was no other way.
“I give up!”
Jiang Nian cursed again.
Then he stood up and went to the living room.
Because he had yelled at Zhang Yuxin while in the bathroom, she now looked quite well-behaved.
Like a little elementary school student, sitting properly on the sofa, not moving a muscle.
Seeing her so reserved.
Jiang Nian didn’t pay it any mind. He just went to the entrance, put on his shoes, and asked, “Want to get something to eat?”
“Yes,” Zhang Yuxin nodded.
“Then let’s go.”
Jiang Nian finished putting on his shoes, washed his hands, then picked up the trash piled by the door and headed out.
Seeing this, Zhang Yuxin quickly followed behind Jiang Nian.
After Jiang Nian threw away the trash and took her to eat breakfast.
“Ah~~”
Zhang Yuxin, who had been up all night, yawned, feeling exhaustion wash over her like a tidal wave.
She rubbed her eyes. “Teacher Jiang, I can’t stay awake anymore.”
“Then go to sleep.”
Jiang Nian didn’t really care.
“But my place is so far from here. I don’t think I can make it back. Could I crash at your place for a bit?”
Zhang Yuxin asked.
Hearing this, Jiang Nian raised an eyebrow.
Crash at his place?
He was tempted to refuse, but then thought that if he did, given how Zhang Yuxin usually acted, she’d probably kick up a fuss.
And if she made a scene, it would draw people’s attention, and they might recognize them.
Zhang Yuxin might be fine.
But Jiang Nian was still planning to build himself an image of being pure and aloof, not interested in women.
If some kind of romantic rumor started, that image would be ruined.
So after weighing his options, Jiang Nian nodded, took out his keys from his pocket, and said, “Here. I have two spare rooms in my place. Just pick whichever one you want.”
“Hee hee, thanks, Teacher Jiang.”
Zhang Yuxin beamed with joy and then went back to Jiang Nian’s apartment.
As for Jiang Nian, after parting ways with her, he headed to the set alone.
Since it was only seven in the morning.
The set was pretty quiet, not many people around.
Jiang Nian found a random spot and started practicing [Sword Breaking Art].
“Teacher Jiang, we’re planning to shoot a behind-the-scenes documentary. How do you feel about that?”
At three in the afternoon, on the set of Flying Swords of Dragon Gate.
After finishing the day’s shooting, Director Tsui Hark came over and asked, looking at Jiang Nian.
Hearing this, Jiang Nian, who had just taken off his makeup, was a bit curious. He wiped his hands with a towel and looked at Tsui Hark. “A behind-the-scenes documentary?”
“Yeah, since this is the country’s first 3D IMAX movie, it’s pretty historic. Might as well shoot a documentary, right?” Tsui Hark smiled.
“I see. What did Brother Li and Sister Zhou say?”
Jiang Nian asked.
“I asked them both this morning. They both agreed. You’re the only one left,” Tsui Hark said.
“I see. If they’ve all agreed, then just go ahead and shoot it.” Jiang Nian said he had no objections.
It wasn’t like they’d be doing anything else if they weren’t filming a documentary.
If Tsui Hark wanted to do it, might as well go along with it. It wasn’t like there was any downside.
“Haha, that’s great then,” Tsui Hark said. Then, remembering something, he looked at Jiang Nian and asked, “By the way, Teacher Jiang, did you see Zhang Yuxin today? I haven’t seen her all day.”
“Oh, her? She stayed up all night. She’s sleeping,” Jiang Nian replied casually.
As soon as he said that, Tsui Hark was stunned for a moment, and then the way he looked at Jiang Nian became meaningful.
No way. That’s not right. Like, twelve kinds of not right.
How come you, Jiang Nian, know exactly where Zhang Yuxin is?
Could it be…
“Oh~~”
Tsui Hark let out a strange, drawn-out sound.
Jiang Nian then realized he had misspoken.
But he didn’t bother to explain.
On one hand, because they were completely innocent and there was no need to explain.
On the other hand, thanks to Tsui Hark’s reminder, Jiang Nian also realized that something seemed a little off.
It seemed like ever since the day he saved Zhang Yuxin, the way she looked at him had been a little strange.
But before, because he was busy practicing martial arts, Jiang Nian had subconsciously ignored it.
Now, looking back at it from a man-woman perspective…
Jiang Nian slapped his forehead.
“Dammit, it’s all because there are so many ugly women in the Flying Swords of Dragon Gate crew that I actually started focusing on my career and almost forgot about this!”
“Next time I pick a crew, I’m gonna pick one with lots of beautiful women. I’m never coming back to this ugly-ass crew again!”
