Sssss!
The temperature in the room continued to drop, and frost gradually formed.
Tang Wen repeatedly visualized the dark night in space, executing the same fist technique over and over again.
After half a day, he finally received a notification from the Experience Panel.
[Meditation Martial Art: Dark Night Divine Fist, Beginner (103/500)]
[Martial Arts Realm: Peak Martial Master (Transforming)]
[Transcendent Ability: Darkness (Awakening Progress 0.04%→0.08%)]
Good news: The awakening ability had significantly increased.
Bad news: It was still less than one-thousandth.
This was utterly ridiculous.
Hiss!
Tang Wen shivered from the cold.
The room was filled with a cold mist, and the light refracted through the fog, creating a beautiful rainbow halo.
Tang Wen quickly stopped practicing his fist technique.
He tiptoed to the door, pressed his ear against the crack, and after listening for a while without hearing any movement, he quietly opened the door a crack.
It was summer, and the hot air from outside rushed in, rapidly raising the temperature in the room.
"Why did you open the door?"
A guard-like figure approached.
Tang Wen was startled and instinctively wanted to close the door but felt it would be inappropriate.
He immediately pulled the door wide open and stepped forward to respond:
"Brother, don't even ask! It's making me dizzy. I just needed some fresh air."
"Heh, you're willing to come out for air even though it's so expensive? You must be quite wealthy, huh?"
The guard's eyes flickered with an ambiguous meaning.
Tang Wen quickly shook his head: "Wealthy? I've spent all my savings and even sold a Mutated Beast."
"Sold a Mutated Beast?"
"Yeah, besides being a Martial Practitioner, I'm also a Beast Tamer."
The guard's tone immediately turned envious: "You Beast Tamers are rich, second only to those alchemists."
Tang Wen was momentarily stunned. Were alchemists really that profitable?
If only he had learned from Old Crow before coming here.
What a pity!
Missed out on a fortune.
After a few more words, Tang Wen felt the cold air in the room had mostly dissipated.
He returned to the room, and the guard also left the stone house, heading toward the other stone buildings.
Resuming his training, Tang Wen no longer practiced Shadow Kill, focusing mainly on meditation.
He successfully visualized the cold, silent night in the starry sky.
But were there other, more powerful forms of darkness?
Hmm, it had to be something that existed in nature.
Tang Wen pondered deeply.
After two quarters of an hour, he actually thought of two powerful terms related to darkness:
Dark matter, and—black holes.
What dark matter was, Tang Wen, as a physics novice, didn't understand.
Even though his mental strength was now strong enough to recall some knowledge he had seen before.
But not understanding meant not understanding.
He only knew that dark matter was something scientists had theorized.
No one had ever seen what it actually looked like.
As for black holes.
Thanks to the "black hole" special effects on the search engine, he had been genuinely interested for a while.
He had even repeatedly looked at photos of black holes.
It was a dark void with a reddish ring-like trace.
The photo was clear in Tang Wen's mind.
He also had a rough understanding of the rules of black holes.
But he didn't dare to incorporate those rules into his meditation.
His intuition told him not to court death.
It was likely that trying would mean dying.
The intuition warning might be because his mental strength wasn't strong enough?
But thinking about the power of black holes, he still felt a slight urge to try.
Could he develop a fist technique that even light couldn't escape?
But then he remembered he was still a virgin. If something happened, wouldn't that be a huge loss?
The cautious thought prevailed, and Tang Wen completely suppressed the idea of attempting it.
Contemplate the night.
Just contemplate the cold night in the universe.
There's no need to delve into black holes.
Contemplation Methods vary in strength, much like the previous Mountain-Cracking Cannon Fist.
Contemplating a small red fireball.
And contemplating a black fireball, the resulting fist power would have a slight difference.
The higher the energy of what you contemplate, the greater the mental strength required.
Black hole rules involve gravity and time, among other things.
If the contemplation fails, it's fine, but if it succeeds, the mental energy consumed would be something he absolutely cannot bear.
This world has Visualization Diagrams, which dictate how everyone should contemplate.
Perhaps it's because too many people died from reckless contemplation in the past?
Tang Wen thought, exiting the secret room three minutes early.
"Quite punctual!"
The guard went in and checked around, finding no damage.
"You can leave."
Tang Wen left directly, checked out of the Four Seas Inn, and went shopping on the street.
He put on a gray hood, mounted the wolf, and headed into the wilderness.
He hadn't fully mastered the fist techniques yet, so he needed to find a way to earn money.
Learning the remaining six forms required six thousand taels, and experiencing the ultimate darkness required five thousand taels.
A total of eleven thousand taels was needed.
I have already begun to transform.
Maybe I can earn some quick money?
I wonder if there are any beautiful young ladies from wealthy families in Mountain Chasing City who would be willing to do business with me?
According to the price of the top courtesan in Four Seas Camp, three hundred taels per session, how about that?
If she's beautiful, deduct one hundred taels.
If she has a good figure, deduct another hundred taels.
If she's skilled, well, that would add three hundred taels.
In this world, there's no such thing as being self-taught!
Relaxing and letting his thoughts wander, Tang Wen galloped on the wolf, with the Blood Raven guiding the way in the air ahead.
He was heading to a place with a herd of horses.
There were mid-level exotic beast horses.
"Neigh!"
A day's journey passed.
Tang Wen saw the leopard-patterned horse herd through the Thousand-Li Mirror.
True to their name, the horses had black and brown patterns, somewhat resembling leopard spots.
Among the quiet herd, three horses stood out.
One male and one female, both large in size, not inferior to Tang Wen's previous Wuzhui.
They were mid-level exotic beasts.
The other one was slightly smaller, recklessly charging through the bushes, frolicking everywhere.
It was a young foal.
With an innocent look, it clearly had never gone hungry and didn't know the importance of conserving energy.
A young mid-level exotic beast.
Though small, the foal was even more valuable.
As the sun set, the weather cooled.
With the night breeze blowing.
The leopard-patterned horse family slowly became active.
They came to the bushes, nibbling on the branches.
Tang Wen, like a wisp of black smoke, darted out with a rope.
A peak Martial Master, facing a few mid-level exotic beast horses, plus the tracking of the Blood Raven in the air.
The leopard-patterned horses couldn't fight back, nor could they escape.
In just two or three hours, Tang Wen captured the family of three mid-level leopard-patterned horses.
Afraid they would be lonely, he also caught seven low-level leopard-patterned horses.
Bringing them to a place with abundant vegetation.
Tang Wen began taming the horses.
The price difference between tamed exotic beasts and wild ones was significant.
Initially, the ten horses resisted the reins fiercely.
Tang Wen had a solution.
He directly used a rope made of Transcendent beast tendons to tie the ten horses together and released them.
This rope cost a full three hundred taels of silver, leaving him with only a little gold.
The ten horses galloped wildly.
Only they were firmly tied together with the sturdy rope.
Running like this was extremely exhausting.
And whenever they thought they had shaken off the terrifying two-legged creature behind them and slowed down, Tang Wen would appear on his Sand Wolf.
After running for a long time and avoiding many dangers, the ten horses finally couldn't run anymore.
Tang Wen slowly caught up, took out fresh meat, and fed it to one of the horses.
"Pfft!"
The stallion shook its head and snorted.
Though it couldn't speak, the meaning was clear.
I'd rather starve to death, or die of exhaustion, than eat a single bite of your stinking meat!
Pah!
Tang Wen didn't force it.
He moved on to the next horse.
"Pfft!"
It didn't eat either.
Tang Wen tried one by one, but none of them would eat.
He smiled, opened his bag, and dropped a piece of meat at the feet of each horse.
The horses neighed, but none of them lowered their heads.
Tang Wen smiled slightly and took out his whip.
His gaze swept over them, and he chose the least impressive-looking horse.
Except for the foal, it was the shortest, clearly not worth much!
Pat pat.
He gently patted the horse's head and pointed to the meat on the ground: "Eat it!"
"Neigh!"
The horse snorted disdainfully.
Crack!
The whip wrapped around its neck.
"Neigh! Neigh! Neigh!"
Tang Wen exerted force with one hand, and the horse, unable to breathe, struggled violently but couldn't break free. It could only feel its strength and life slowly slipping away.
A minute passed.
The horse was now lying on the ground, tears in its eyes, its hooves twitching uncontrollably.
It was on the verge of death.
Tang Wen released the whip and roared with the skill of a Beast Tamer: "All of you, eat!"
The horses lowered their heads one by one and began to eat the fresh meat on the ground.
After a few times, they established a certain connection with Tang Wen and gradually became his tamed beasts.
Five days later, Tang Wen rode on the horse king, leading the herd to the entrance of Four Seas Camp.
"A Martial Master, what brings you here?"
Tang Wen looked up, revealing the face of a middle-aged man with several scars.
The guard averted his gaze.
He replied, "Selling horses!"
"Go on in."
"Thank you."
Tang Wen wasn't very good at disguises, so he had to pretend to have scars.
This way, most people would naturally feel too embarrassed to keep staring at him.
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