Volume One: Emerging Glory Chapter 119: Accessing the Adventurers' Internal Network

After leaving the martial arts hall, Wang Jue took a taxi straight to the Martial Arts Association. On the way, he swapped the watch originally given to him by Lan Yiyi for a personal adventurer’s wristwatch.

Since some identity information needed to be recorded, Wang Jue cooperated fully.

He even managed to take advantage of several training halls within the Association.

However, while taking advantage of these resources, Wang Jue didn’t forget to practice the latter half of the secret Divine Sword Technique.

Initially, he thought it would cost a significant amount of reputation points to perfect the secret technique.

Yet, upon opening the status panel, he was met with a surprising and bewildering sight.

[Name: Wang Jue]
[Cultivation: Spirit Condensation Stage Three]
[Talent: Orange Grade (Mid-level) 0/5000]
[Skill: Star Soul Technique First Level (Unknown) 0/1000]
[Secret Technique: Divine Sword Drawing Technique (Entry) 0/10000]
[Martial Skill: Basic Swordsmanship (Grandmaster) 0/10,000,000]
[Martial Skill: Basic Fist Technique (Grandmaster) 0/10,000,000]
[Footwork: Basic Footwork (Grandmaster) 0/10,000,000]
[Black Iron Level: Qingfeng Nine Swords (Perfected) 0/10,000,000]
[Star Source: 567]
[Experience: 332,312]

The secret Divine Sword Technique had transformed into the completed Divine Sword Drawing Technique!

Previously, when it was incomplete, he had trained it to mastery, but now it had suddenly reverted to an entry level.

He also discovered that the Divine Sword Drawing Technique could no longer be leveled up with experience points.

Other than that, the three foundational martial skills remained unchanged, but he now possessed a Black Iron level perfected skill: Qingfeng Nine Swords.

What frustrated him was that raising it from perfected to the next stage required ten million experience points.

Especially recently, Wang Jue had hardly hunted any star beasts. Originally, he still had some leftover Star Source points from when he was improving his talent, but after the practical test of hunting star beasts, it had dwindled to just 567.

In one evening, he had earned nearly fifty Star Source points.

Wang Jue felt somewhat relieved.

After all, during his assessment, he had been focusing on footwork and hadn’t properly hunted star beasts; otherwise, given his strength, earning one or two hundred points in a single night would have been no problem.

As for the over three hundred thousand experience points, Wang Jue naturally ignored them.

To raise a martial skill now required at least ten million experience points.

The tragedy was, he had four martial skills that needed improvement!

From this, it was clear he wouldn’t be improving his martial skills anytime soon.

What Wang Jue found most unacceptable was that no matter how he trained, the experience for martial skills did not increase.

Looking at his current Star Source points and experience, then comparing that to what was needed for improvement, he decisively closed the status panel.

“Forget it, I’d better not look anymore. If I keep going, I might as well give up hope,” Wang Jue said helplessly. “No surprise—the perfected Divine Sword Drawing Technique requires Star Source points to level up, not experience.”

Ten thousand Star Source points were needed to reach the small success stage.

Instantly, Wang Jue lost all interest in improving it.

What a joke.

Ten thousand Star Source points could instead be used to raise his talent by another level, and his skill could be improved two or three levels as well.

Not to mention, Star Source points had always been a thorn in Wang Jue’s side. Since acquiring his “golden finger,” he had earned less than two thousand Star Source points in total.

Ten thousand was an insurmountable mountain in the short term.

With mixed feelings, Wang Jue left the Martial Arts Association.

On the way home, he chose to walk rather than take a taxi.

During the walk, he called his senior brother, Monkey, but no one answered.

“Has my senior brother gone missing?” was Wang Jue’s first thought.

If the woman in the tight battle suit was truly connected to the man from Blood Wolf Valley who wanted to kill him, then it could only mean that the corpse materials of the Blood Wolf King had exposed him.

And the only one who knew about all this was Monkey.

But now there was no news from him; could it be that he had already...?

“Did that woman really kill senior brother?”

Wang Jue narrowed his eyes with a serious expression.

He hated having to think too much.

Although Wang Jue didn’t want to cause trouble for himself, that didn’t mean he was afraid of trouble!

If that woman dared to come again, he would just kill her!

...

At that moment, in a hotel room, Chu Yue was wracked with pain as a piercing chill suddenly surged through her body, ruthlessly tearing at her flesh.

For a whole hour, she was in unbearable agony.

When the cold energy finally dissipated, she looked as if she had been dehydrated, struggling to crawl up from the floor with a terrified expression.

By all rights, the star energy that had invaded her body should have been completely expelled yesterday, shouldn’t it?

“What’s going on?”

Chu Yue felt an inexplicable and immense fear of Zhao Qingming in her heart.

If it weren’t for Chu Liang, her only blood brother, she would have left Peace Town without a second thought.

But her brother couldn’t die without explanation!

“No, I can’t leave!”

“I must catch that kid and find out the truth!”

“He definitely knows the truth!”

Chu Yue pinned all her hopes on Wang Jue.

If even Wang Jue was unaware, then she truly wouldn’t know whom to turn to.

Especially since she had offended Zhao Qingming over this matter, causing her strength to diminish.

If she returned to her team in her current state, she might die in an accident before long!

“No, I must calm down!”

Chu Yue kept reassuring herself.

“Knock, knock, knock.”

There was a knock at the door.

“Yue, it’s me. I’m coming in,” a young man’s voice came from outside.

“Click!”

The door handle was turned.

A cold glint flashed in Chu Yue’s eyes as she quickly wrapped herself in the bedsheet.

The door was easily opened under the young man’s control, and the young man who had left earlier strode in without hesitation.

He cast a scorching glance across the room, taking in Chu Yue’s curvaceous figure barely concealed by the sheet.

“Yue, I followed that kid for a whole day and didn’t find anything special about him. His family’s environment is average—not the sort of noble household that would have a strong cultivator. Maybe...”

The young man’s implication was clear.

Maybe Chu Yue had the wrong person.

His main reason for saying this was fear of the terrifying presence of Zhao Qingming.

Especially when he tried to approach the martial arts hall, a powerful aura struck him so hard that he fled in panic.

The fiery look in the young man’s eyes did not escape Chu Yue’s gaze as she responded coolly, “I have my own judgment. Just keep following him.”

“All right,” the young man said, ceasing his objections. His eyes flickered. “By the way, Yue, I’ve run out of cultivation resources recently. Do you have any left? Could you give me some?”

Chu Yue’s expression suddenly chilled.

The young man acted as if unaware, still speaking casually, “Yue, you don’t know how dangerous it was following that kid for you. I was almost hunted down by that strong cultivator a few times. It was really risky.”

“Whoosh!”

A pill bottle was tossed by Chu Yue’s pale arm extending from under the sheet.

“Bang!”

The young man caught it steadily, sniffed at the nose, then smiled broadly.

“Wow, I thought it would be some common medicine, but it’s a Spirit Gathering Pill. It’s so precious—I feel a bit guilty taking it.”

He spoke with a smile but showed no shame.

“Get lost!” Chu Yue spat coldly.

She didn’t want to see this opportunist now.

The young man stood up immediately, still smiling. “No problem. Then I won’t disturb you anymore. I’ll get to work!”

He turned and walked toward the door.

“Click.”

The door closed once more.

“Ugh…”

Chu Yue could no longer hold back; she bit her lip hard to suppress a sound, her face pale as she clutched her left shoulder. The tearing pain nearly caused her to faint.

...

On the way home, Wang Jue paused outside a roast duck shop. After a moment’s thought, he turned and walked inside.

As a brother, he wasn’t suddenly feeling generous; rather, he wanted to buy roast duck for his sister just to stop her pestering him. This was a last resort.

Besides, one roast duck was only a few dozen yuan—like a drop in the ocean to him.

Soon, Wang Jue returned home with two roast ducks, just in time for dinner.

After the family ate, Wang Jue returned to his room.

“I remember the female staff at the Martial Arts Association said that once you officially become an adventurer, you can access the adventurer’s internal network!”

Wang Jue felt a surge of excitement. He knew some special internal networks required specific identities for entrance.

Only by becoming an adventurer could one access the adventurer’s internal network!

He opened the wristwatch, expecting it to be like the one at the Martial Arts Association.

But it was completely different.

Luckily, Wang Jue had a good memory, and following the female staff’s instructions, he logged in directly.

“Beep.”

He verified his fingerprint.

An approximately 18-inch virtual screen appeared on the wristwatch.

Elegant music flowed through the room like a gentle stream, and the virtual screen displayed a personal page with Wang Jue’s photo and some information forms below.

[Name: Wang Jue]
[Gender: Male]
[Address: Peace Town, District 3]
[ID Number: 760126323205201314]
[Rank: Scarlet Level]
[Points: 0]
[Credit Balance: 113,256,412]

Wang Jue picked up a water cup from his bedside table and took a small sip, his gaze fixed on the virtual screen of the wristwatch.

“Not bad. I can even see my bank balance—almost like Earth’s mobile online banking.”

He glanced over the information on the panel, then explored other functions.

The wristwatch’s functions were essentially a combination of a phone and a computer.

Unfortunately, Wang Jue was new and had not added any friends, so his friend list was empty.

His gaze then fell on the constantly blinking personal emails.

[You have two new emails. Please check promptly!]

Wang Jue didn’t hesitate and tapped the virtual keyboard, entering his inbox.

He was curious—having just logged in and with no friends yet, who could have sent him emails?

And two at once!

Wang Jue was surprised to find the personal mailbox was quite similar to the QQ mailbox from his previous life on Earth.

At this moment, two unread emails flashed green, waiting to be opened...