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Chapter 404: Chapter 207: Sampling at the Tavern

Yi Liangsheng.

This is a good name.

After entering the game, he felt this name was quite good.

A brand new game gave him a sense of novelty.

Hiding his identity, working step-by-step, earning money—it felt somewhat like a second life.

But soon, Yi Liangsheng realized that at the normal pace of working, he might need to work for three to five years in the game to gather enough capital to join a martial arts school.

Trashy martial arts schools, it’s possible to mix in, but Yi Liangsheng had seen the strategy posts online.

Those trashy martial arts schools, all have various hidden pitfalls.

Being given a trash martial arts manual to practice was already the better scenario.

Even worse were all kinds of schemes.

Things like paying a down payment to enter a martial arts school, working monthly to pay off the debt, becoming bonded labor.

Or labor dispatch, being sent directly to another gang as expendable frontline cannon fodder.

There’s nothing you can’t imagine, only what you haven’t encountered.

The difficulties of a lower-class life, each had their own miseries.

Only those one-time payment or slightly higher threshold martial arts schools appeared somewhat normal.

But the prices were costly, and Yi Liangsheng simply couldn’t afford it.

Even the gaming helmet and such were secretly bought with his private money.

Even that got his wife jumping up and down in fury, scolding him for a full three or four days before calming down.

And now wanting to use money to buy Silver Tael in the game? That would be impossible, it would turn his house upside down.

Helplessly, Yi Liangsheng could only look for solutions in his native family within the game.

In the game’s ’home’, there were five people; he was the second eldest, considered an honest person among outsiders, and he also had a good relationship with his neighbors and fellow carpenters.

This gave Yi Liangsheng some room to operate.

Firstly, the classic borrowing money, he borrowed from all his coworkers around him.

Then, he also got to know the place where the family stored money, and when everyone was out, he secretly took some of it.

Scraping together from here and there, he roughly gathered about two Silver Taels.

That was far from enough.

Grinding his teeth, while his wife was out, he secretly took some of her gold jewelry to a friend’s gold shop to exchange for money.

He even arranged with his friend to redeem them before the end of the month; not to sell them off.

He had heard that this game was very profitable; as long as one learned martial arts and grew in strength, such an investment could be earned back in minutes.

The gold jewelry sold for around thirty thousand.

Suddenly rich, he immediately activated his money-spending power to recharge the game, exchanging for Silver Taels.

Instantly, he had about five Silver Taels of wealth.

Together with the previous two Silver Taels, he was considered rich, with a total of seven Silver Taels on hand.

Although this amount still didn’t qualify him to join medium-sized martial arts schools like Yuan Body Martial Arts School, to join some slightly lower-level martial arts schools, it was more than enough.

However, when he entered the game at night, carrying the substantial amount and preparing to pick a martial arts school to join, he was suddenly stopped by someone.

It was a very dignified-looking old man, with a wine gourd hanging at his waist, carrying a sword on his back, his face exuding an aura of immortality.

”Young man, I am an Elder of New Sword Sect, traveling here, seeing that you have extraordinary qualifications, resembling a reincarnated Sword Immortal, would you be interested in apprenticing under me?”

A surprising encounter?!

He had frequently seen such content on forums and immediately realized this was a game encounter.

Could it be that my character is naturally gifted, just never discovered before?

Right, I never had the chance to learn martial arts, so naturally I wouldn’t know my own aptitude!

At that moment, Yi Liangsheng got excited, but still harbored some doubts inside.

”Old man...are you really an Elder of New Sword Sect?”

”Is there any doubt?”

The old man huffed, demonstrated a few moves of swordsmanship, truly sharp and impressive, even capable of throwing the sword out and recalling it.

A Sword Immortal!!

In the dark of night, Yi Liangsheng failed to notice the barely visible silver threads intertwined in the hands of the Sword Immortal.

Feeling a great encounter had come upon him, he bowed down and directly accepted the apprenticeship.

”As a master above, accept your disciple’s bow!”

Now he had a master, but soon, Yi Liangsheng discovered that learning the art required money.

”Don’t have ten Silver Taels? How much do you have? Seven Taels? Then let it be seven Taels; give it to me first, and we’ll settle the rest when you have more money. Just joining under me, how could you not have some skills at your disposal! Come, I’ll give you this Sword Manual, teaching you swordsmanship.”

Yi Liangsheng got excited.

He handed over all the money, took the Sword Manual, followed learning the sword technique, but just couldn’t understand it, and the system didn’t even pop up any proficiency.

Yi Liangsheng got depressed, but his master kindly instructed.

”This new extraordinary sword technique isn’t something you can learn in one or two days; its sword arts are profound and unfathomable, capable of directly slaying Great Demons!”

”Go back for today, come again tomorrow, and I will continue to teach you.”

Yi Liangsheng excitedly nodded.

”Yes! Master!”

Then, the next day, Yi Liangsheng came.

But, he didn’t see his cheap master.

The third day, he came again, still no one.

The fourth day, still no one, and at the same time, he heard some unpleasant rumors.

”Did you hear? A swindler has come to Tianyuan Town, pretending every day to be a master teaching swordsmanship, actually just swindling fools out of their money.”

”Can people really believe in such scams?”

”Not sure, that swindler somehow always manages to swindle money, heard it’s the families of the victims who went to report it; the victims themselves didn’t realize they’ve been duped.”

”Swindling money and wealth, this isn’t like a demon causing chaos, Foolish Underworld probably wouldn’t take it too seriously even if investigating.”

Wait, wait a minute!

Why does this sound so similar to his own experience?!

Yi Liangsheng went to inquire further, and indeed, it matched!

Master was a swindler?! No pies falling from the sky? The sword technique also fake?? No wonder he practiced so long without any reaction.