CHAPTER 273: CHAPTER 217: HEAD STUCK IN THE WALL

"What, you think this top-notch cultivation technique, the Drunken Dream Arhat Fist, is a comic book you can read and not buy?"

The beggar was furious. It was the first time he had met someone so unreasonable; after learning his cultivation technique, they refused to pay!

Rosen pointed to the suggested retail price at the end of the Drunken Dream Arhat Fist’s manual and said, "Look here, it’s three cents, yet you’re asking me for a hundred taels of silver. Isn’t this extortion?"

Seeing Rosen so adamantly arguing his point, the beggar understood he had met a tough customer today and quickly put on a friendly smile, "Since that’s the case, and you’ve already read this manual, I’ll just take one tael of silver from you. How about that?"

Hearing this, Rosen was immediately displeased and said, "It’s only three cents, and you want one tael of silver from me? Do you even know the current price of silver?"

"How much?" The beggar asked, following Rosen’s lead.

"According to the current price, one gram of silver is five yuan, and one tael of silver is two hundred and fifty divided by eight, which is 31 grams, approximately 150 yuan, which is 1500 cents. You could buy 500 of these manuals. Logically, if I give you one tael of silver, you should give me five hundred manuals!"

By doing the math, if Rosen really gave one tael of silver, he could learn from 500 manuals, greatly increasing his strength and giving him some confidence to face the Demon God of the Demon Realm.

And so, Rosen forcibly pulled out one tael of silver, stuffed it into the beggar’s hand, and demanded, "I’ve already given you one tael of silver. Hand over those five hundred manuals now!"

The beggar’s face turned dark as he said, "Isn’t this a forced sale? Are you kidding me?"

Rosen just let out a cold laugh and said, "I learned it from you. Do you have five hundred manuals or not? Hurry up and get them out if you do!"

Under Rosen’s aggressive pressure, the beggar was ultimately able to take out thirty manuals.

Seeing this, Rosen didn’t believe it and grabbed the beggar, shaking him upside down. True enough, manuals continuously fell out of the beggar’s pockets until there were five hundred.

"Thanks, these manuals might be enough for me to venture into the Demon Realm. This way, I can maintain my title as the Vanguard General."

The mission to attack the Demon Realm was urgent, and Rosen had to make haste to get there immediately.

But learning the manuals also took a lot of time. Some techniques Rosen understood at a glance, such as the Sleeping Dream Arhat Fist, which actually only required dreaming while sleeping to cultivate. At that time, the Dragon Subduing Arhat would impart the skills in the dream, and just a few dreams would lead to mastery of the technique.

Rosen understood at a glance, but cultivating this technique required a long time spent sleeping.

In all likelihood, he didn’t have enough time to cultivate it.

There were also some techniques that were very difficult to master, even if you understood them, like the Red Bright Nine Heavens Technique. This technique was a divine and demonic body refinement that required extremely stringent conditions. Rosen couldn’t obtain even the Ice Jade Heart Marrow material, let alone finding the Molten Lava Cold Pool, which was impossible since these things didn’t exist in the real world. Thus, even if you understood it, there was no way to cultivate it.

And there were techniques that required a very high patience level, like the Iron Cloth Shirt, where the highest realm is retracting certain parts into the body, a real skilled art. Don’t believe it? Try retracting one yourself!

Some techniques were from myths, like Move Mountains and Flip Seas, which described a palm strike capable of destroying mountains and seas. This was already at a mythical level, so it’s uncertain whether it can be cultivated.

Of course, there were also techniques that Rosen couldn’t understand, like Tong Tian Lu, which was all Ghost Talisman scripts that Rosen could not comprehend at all, let alone train. Because they were indecipherable, even imitating it wouldn’t imbue them with the auspicious aura, so it couldn’t be learned.

After screening, Rosen found that he could only learn about a hundred or so techniques from the pile.

"Well, a hundred or so it is. You can’t bite off more than you can chew. Actually, among them, there are only a dozen or so techniques that I can instantly learn. I can learn these dozen techniques immediately and then continue learning the remaining hundred or so techniques while on my way to the Demon Realm."

Rosen had already made up his mind and started learning those techniques he could instantly master.

Sunflower Acupoint Hand involves applying sunflower oil to your fingers, making them very smooth, so it’s not easy for them to cramp during acupoint pressing.

Learning it is very easy; you just need to prepare sunflower oil.

You might ask, why sunflower oil and not peanut oil?

This brings us to the difference between peanut oil and sunflower oil. Peanut oil is more aromatic in cooking, but it contains fewer vitamin types and thus is less nutritious. Cultivating techniques doesn’t require aroma, which might alert opponents, which is why sunflower seed oil, rich in vitamins that moisten and extend the life of fingers, is used.

You might also ask, why is the Sunflower Acupoint Hand merely a maintenance technique and doesn’t include acupoint pressing techniques?

This question has always been an unsolved mystery in biology.

Rosen then looked at another technique he could instantly learn, called the Groin Kick.

This technique is pretty simple. It’s also called the "Lineage-Cutting Kick," and the name speaks for itself. Those in the know understand, so it’s easy to learn.