I Use My Secondary Job To Add Talents

Chapter 5: Fifteen Times

"Swish..."

With a flash of the blade, the ironwood as thick as an arm was directly severed, far sharper than the previous Ten Refining Steel Knife.

Looking at the blade, it was smooth and undamaged, as good as new.

Lu Wenshan couldn't help but praise, "Good, worthy of being a Middle Level Mortal Weapon, the power is astonishing. I'll take this knife, how about a hundred catties of dried beef jerky?"

This price was fair, although it was slightly less than the market price, it was reasonable since they were all villagers. Compared to other villages that only gave the blacksmiths half price, this price was much better.

Even if it were put on the market, a Fifteen Refining Steel Knife could only be exchanged for a little over a hundred catties of dried beef jerky, not much of a difference.

Dried beef jerky was one of the commonly used currencies within a hundred li radius. Due to the chaos around Passing River City, there was an abundance of copper coins and silver ingots, causing severe inflation. There were too many impurities mixed in the copper coins and silver ingots, so people rarely used them and mostly relied on barter.

The Stone Bull was a fierce beast unique to Stone Bull Mountain, which was how the mountain got its name. Its meat was firm and nutritious, almost comparable to the meat of some intermediate-level beasts. Therefore, dried beef jerky made from Stone Bull meat was highly valuable.

Usually, a Ten Refining Steel Knife could only be exchanged for thirty to forty catties of dried beef jerky. Now, the value of a Fifteen Refining Steel Knife had more than doubled, which was definitely good.

Lu Wenshan's offer set the tone for all the villagers of Stone Bull Village. If other villagers wanted to buy a Fifteen Refining Steel Knife from Song Fulu in the future, they would have to offer at least a hundred catties of dried beef jerky.

Not long after Lu Wenshan left, news of Song Fulu's promotion to a Middle Level blacksmith spread throughout Stone Bull Village. Several village elders came to the blacksmith shop one after another to order Fifteen Refining Goose Feather Knives from Song Fulu.

These village elders had at least the strength of Exterior Forging Layer Three, and the powerful ones had already reached Exterior Forging Layer Four. They were considered wealthy in Stone Bull Village and could naturally afford a Fifteen Refining Goose Feather Knife.

As for the other villagers, some of them would also gradually purchase Fifteen Refining Goose Feather Knives. In the short term, Song Fulu would not lack business.

Even if no one in the village bought them, Song Fulu could still forge other weapons with fifteen refinements and sell them in Stone Forest Town without any worries.

This also meant that Song Fulu would have sufficient resources for cultivation in the future, to quickly improve his strength. But before that, he should add the newly obtained Free Talent Points first.

With the breakthrough to the Middle Level blacksmith layer, Song Fulu's Weapon Refining Technique also improved again, from level three to level four. And for each level of the secondary profession, Song Fulu would gain a Free Talent Point.

Concentrating, Song Fulu added this Free Talent Point to the Cultivation Talent. After a moment of trance, the number three behind Cultivation Talent changed to four.

With the improvement of Cultivation Talent, a strange power surged into Song Fulu's body, causing his aptitude, constitution, comprehension, and foundation to rapidly grow. He soon stepped into a new layer.

Cultivation Talent: 4 points (Good)

After the breakthrough, Song Fulu's cultivation speed would be about four times faster than the original owner's. With sufficient assistance from the dried beef jerky, it would only take about a year and a half for Song Fulu to reach Exterior Forging Layer Three, which was twenty times faster than the original owner.

With the help of the pre-prepared Ten Refining Blade Embryo, Song Fulu crafted a Fifteen Refining Goose Feather Knife and earned one hundred catties of dried stone beef. Only then did he return home with Song Baoshi.

During dinner, Song Baoshi was very happy and specially changed a bottle of wine to celebrate. He rarely spoke more and Song Fulu took the opportunity to tell Song Baoshi that after surviving the drowning incident, he suddenly had an epiphany and felt that his comprehension and intelligence were particularly clear. Both cultivation and blacksmithing became much easier than before.

This also prepared him for a breakthrough in his cultivation realm and future rapid progress. Song Baoshi had no doubts about this because similar things had happened around Stone Bull Village before, even within Stone Bull Village itself.

The village chief of Stone Bull Village, Lu Wenshan, had a life and death experience when he was young. Since then, he seemed to have changed as a person, diligently practicing day and night, and his cultivation speed increased significantly. This allowed him to break through to the Fourth Layer of Exterior Forging before the age of forty and become the village chief of Stone Bull Village.

In Song Baoshi's opinion, Song Fulu's situation was obviously similar to Lu Wenshan's.

After dinner, Song Baoshi went to rest, while Song Fulu took advantage of the moonlight to diligently practice Mountain Fist in the courtyard. He also cooked over ten catties of dried stone beef.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

With each punch, Song Fulu could clearly feel his improvement. The progress was visible to the naked eye, far surpassing before.

However, the consumption was also ten times more than before, so Song Fulu quickly became hungry. At this time, the dried stone beef was almost cooked, so Song Fulu scooped out a large piece and ate it with sauce.

The dried stone beef tasted good, even better than beef on Earth. It contained rich nutrients and could greatly replenish qi and blood.

After eating just over a catty, Song Fulu felt a bit full and immediately started punching again.

In this way, he diligently practiced from eighteen hours in the evening until twenty-four hours, a full six hours. He ate nearly ten catties of dried stone beef, which improved his muscle training and was equivalent to an ordinary martial artist practicing diligently for more than ten days.

This world was the same as Earth, with twenty-four hours in a day. However, here it was called twenty-four hours, with each hour slightly longer than on Earth, so Song Fulu easily adapted.

After cultivation, Song Fulu calculated that with his current physical adaptability, he could practice for about ten hours a day. Any more might cause harm to his body.

Ten hours would require consuming at least sixteen catties of dried stone beef, which was more than fifteen times what the original owner needed. Today, he earned two hundred catties of dried stone beef, plus there were dozens of catties in the kitchen at home, which could support his full cultivation for about twenty days.

Fortunately, by forging the Fifteen Refining Goose Feather Knife next, he would be able to obtain even more dried stone beef. The resources were temporarily sufficient.

Feeling the much fuller and more symmetrical muscles all over his body, Song Fulu nodded in satisfaction and returned to his room to rest.

At the current rate of cultivation, it wouldn't take long for Song Fulu to develop an eight-pack of abs. On Earth, this would also be considered a fitness enthusiast.

In addition to his muscles, Song Fulu's strength was also very strong. With a casual punch, he could exert a force of over one hundred catties, and his speed and reaction were also extremely fast. On Earth, he could easily deal with four or five ordinary people.

It was said that a Martial Artist at the Fourth Layer of Exterior Forging could exert a force of about four hundred catties with a casual punch. Their speed and reaction were astonishing, and they could fight head-on with stone bulls and wild wolves without relying on any weapons or traps. One could imagine their combat power.

(End of this chapter)