After the great battle, Jiang Fei’s life temporarily calmed down.
Jiang Fei didn’t actively seek out news about Munenori Yagyu’s defeat, but Ye Yuanyuan roughly told him about it. The day after the battle, Munenori Yagyu was escorted back to his country by a mysterious organization from the island nation to receive medical treatment.
During the battle on Mount Emei’s Golden Summit, Munenori Yagyu had been severely injured, almost beaten half to death by Jiang Fei. Even as an expert at the Dan Jin level, such severe injuries were difficult to recover from.
As for the mysterious assassin organization ‘Skynet’, it had now completely drawn the attention of the Seven Kills Group. Even the Lion King was preparing to personally deal with them. Skynet probably wouldn’t escape this time. Jiang Fei only needed to wait quietly; he had already told the Lion King that as soon as there was news, he would be notified immediately.
Jiang Fei could overlook other things, but not the Skynet organization. He absolutely refused to let them off and wanted to personally destroy this organization to calm the anger in his heart.
Imagine an organization that repeatedly tries to murder you, using all kinds of vicious and insidious means, desperately trying to push you to the brink of death. How could you not be angry?
It was only because Jiang Fei was too extraordinary and powerful, practically without weaknesses, that Skynet’s schemes failed. If it had been anyone else, they would have died countless times already. Eradicating this organization, whether as the president of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Association or as a private individual, Jiang Fei would never let it go.
Jiang Fei guessed that even if the Lion King personally got involved, eliminating Skynet wouldn’t happen overnight. It would probably require a trip abroad. So, Jiang Fei wasn’t in a hurry.
The mysterious beautiful lesbian princess, Christina, hadn’t caused any more trouble for Jiang Fei after showing up at the Mount Emei Golden Summit battle. Whether she was intimidated by Jiang Fei’s displayed strength or because Jiang Fei’s cheap master had soundly defeated one of the Vatican’s strongest ascetics, causing her to slink away in defeat—whatever the reason, she stayed away.
Anyway, regarding this beautiful foreign woman, even though Jiang Fei felt a bit of temptation after learning her identity as a Vatican princess, he wouldn’t actually act on it. Jiang Fei had some self-control in that regard.
Jiang Fei’s life returned to its usual calm, becoming leisurely and pleasant. He spent his days enjoying the scenery of Daocun Village, raising eagles, walking dogs, hunting, and fishing.
Of course, no matter how calm things seemed, it wasn’t like an ordinary person’s life.
Not to mention Jiang Fei owning an upgradable martial arts system, even in his relaxed moments, there were always things requiring his attention.
He had to spend some time each week at the Jiang Family Medical Clinic because Su Nan, the beautiful young woman, was waiting for him there. After work, he’d go straight home with her.
As for the Jiang Family Pharmaceutical Company, although it was primarily managed by Lin Moli, some decisions required Jiang Fei’s guidance. After all, Jiang Fei was a professional doctor. While Lin Moli might surpass him in business acumen, when it came to medicine, ten or even a hundred Lin Moli’s couldn’t match Jiang Fei.
There was also the new drug research at the Jiang Family Pharmaceutical Company, a responsibility Jiang Fei couldn’t shirk. Only he could handle it.
The reason the Jiang Family Pharmaceutical Company grew so rapidly, becoming widely regarded as the future top player in the domestic pharmaceutical industry, wasn’t just because of Jiang Fei’s golden reputation and Lin Moli’s business talent. The foundation was Jiang Fei’s ability to produce the best and most effective prescriptions.
Without those highly effective medicines, no matter how skilled their other strategies, the Jiang Family Pharmaceutical Company would at best have become an ordinary pharmaceutical company.
Fortunately, Jiang Fei had the medical system, allowing him to continuously develop excellent new prescriptions without worrying about running out of new products.
“The medical life sub-skill is finally about to reach level nine, the maximum,” Jiang Fei thought excitedly as he looked at the medical skill progress in his mind after ‘developing’ three new prescription lists: Medical Skill (Level 8 + 99.8%).
Reaching the final level of medical skill, the Great Perfection stage, was incredibly difficult. His experience points had increased several levels, but the medical skill itself hadn’t reached the Great Perfection stage.
According to the system’s usual pattern, the closer to the end, the more absurdly difficult it became. Even with only 0.2% progress remaining, Jiang Fei felt it would still take three or four days to succeed.
“Such a pain,” Jiang Fei shook his head.
He was quite looking forward to reaching Level 9 medical skill, the Great Perfection stage, curious to see just how heaven-defying and powerful it would be. Could his medical expertise surpass ancient sages like Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing, reaching a level of transcendence and extraordinary?
Moreover, Jiang Fei still remembered his promise. Once he reached Level 9 medical skill, he would treat Liu Yunduo’s right hand, crippled by Miyamoto Kazuma, giving her hope of wielding a sword again.
It had been delayed long enough; it was time to fulfill that promise.
But just as Jiang Fei was thinking about when his medical skill would reach Level 9, something else happened first.
Something good.
His character level had increased again!
“Ding dong, congratulations player, your game experience points have maxed out. You have leveled up to Level 6!”
Jiang Fei was driving from the Jiang Family Medical Clinic to the Jiang Family Pharmaceutical Company to deliver new prescription lists to Lin Moli when he heard this notification. Startled, he quickly found a place to pull over.
He hadn’t expected his character level to increase before his medical skill maxed out, reaching Level 6.
Regardless, a character level increase was always a good thing. As for the medical skill, it was at the final stage anyway; it would level up sooner or later. No need to rush.
Parking the car, Jiang Fei quickly accessed the system interface from his mind, carefully examining his character attributes.
Character: Jiang Fei
Level: 6
Experience: 0/11000
Physique: 4.2
Spirit: 4.3
Agility: 6.2
Strength: 4.4
Unallocated Points: 2
Martial Skills: Light Skill – Triple Cloud Leap, Level 1 (0/100); Incomplete Tai Chi, Level 1 (0/200); Art of Invisibility, Level 2 (0/450); Dugu Nine Swords, Level 3 (Great Perfection); Northern Dark Divine Art (13.9/15); Ti Yun Zong, Level 1 (0/460); Available Skill Points: 250
Sub-Professions: Weapon Forging (Level 9), Plant Cultivation (Level 9), Culinary Arts (Level 9), Gardening (Level 9), Musical Arts (Level 9), Winemaking (Level 9), Tame Beast Taming (Level 9), Medical Skill (Level 8 + 99.9%)…
The medical skill was still stuck at 99.9%, uncertain when it would increase. This feeling was like downloading a large movie with a slow internet connection, watching the progress bar nearly full, excitedly getting ready to watch, only to have the internet cut out, leaving it stuck and unwatchable. Quite frustrating.
Fortunately, the character level increase was still worth celebrating.
First, each of the four basic attributes had increased by 0.2, an automatic reward from the system for leveling up. Additionally, two free attribute points were now available for allocation.
To go from Level 6 to Level 7, the required experience points had finally broken ten thousand, needing 11,000 experience points—a significant jump, considering Level 5 to Level 6 only required 7,000.
“But it’s okay. The newly expanded Jiang Family Medical Clinic should open by the first half of next year at the latest. The rate of earning experience points will probably increase more than tenfold then. Even over ten thousand experience points won’t be too hard,” Jiang Fei thought, rubbing his chin.
As for the two free attribute points from leveling up, Jiang Fei still didn’t allocate them immediately. Instead, he focused on the level-up gift pack.
For Jiang Fei now, as his level increased, the level-up gift pack wasn’t becoming less important—it was becoming more crucial.
Ever since the battle with Munenori Yagyu on Mount Emei’s Golden Summit, where he learned of the ‘Dan Jin’ level among martial artists, and later heard detailed explanations from his cheap master Xuanjizi about the even stronger Xiantian Gang Jin, Outer Gang, Inner Gang, and the possibility that Xiantian Gang Jin wasn’t the end—there were even higher levels—Jiang Fei felt some pressure. His current strength wasn’t overwhelmingly powerful; he still needed to keep working hard.
So, Jiang Fei thought that to continue improving his strength, among the martial skills he currently possessed, only the Northern Dark Divine Art could help.
But the Northern Dark Divine Art was somewhat problematic. Improving it with skill points was useless; it required time accumulation or absorbing others’ inner energy, making progress slow. To increase his inner energy to the level of characters like Xuzhu in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, who possessed several decades’ worth of inner energy, would probably require sweeping through all the martial artists in the Chinese martial world—and still might not be enough!
Jiang Fei felt that if he wanted to become stronger quickly, relying on the Northern Dark Divine Art alone would be difficult. He needed other skills.
Moreover, even if the Northern Dark Divine Art gave him several decades of inner energy like Xuzhu, Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils never mentioned Xuzhu being able to shatter the void or anything like that.
Probably, to reach the deeper levels beyond Xiantian Gang Jin that his cheap master Xuanjizi mentioned, he would need even more powerful martial skills.
Jiang Fei had been thinking about this for days. He pinned his hopes for ‘shattering the void’ on a few specific martial skills.
These skills were no longer from Jin Yong’s novels but from Huang Yi’s novels.
For example, the Four Great Strange Books from The Twin Heroes of the Tang Dynasty: The Battle God’s Chart Record, The Eternal Life Skill, The Sword Code of Ci Hang, and The Demon Strategy.
Some of these skills were explicitly stated to be capable of shattering the void!
