Chapter 3: Chapter 3: Unexpected Cultivation Speed

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Longevity Skill!

After confirming that his technique was correct, Liang Sheng carefully followed the route of the technique to circulate the Qi within his body in the Zhou Tian cycle.

Even if it was a seemingly benign health cultivation technique, Liang Sheng still treated it cautiously, as martial arts cultivation should not be taken lightly.

However, things went much smoother than Liang Sheng had imagined. The circulation of Qi within his body was extremely smooth, and after the completion of the Grand Circulation of Zhou Tian, the Longevity Qi was immediately produced.

Worried that his fluctuating emotions might cause accidents, Liang Sheng forcefully calmed his excited heart and gradually found tranquility as he circulated the Qi throughout his body.

After more than an hour, Liang Sheng, who had been sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, opened them and took a deep breath, his eyes filled with pleasant surprise.

First Layer of Longevity Skill!

Wasn’t his cultivation speed supposed to be extremely slow?

How could it have such an astonishing effect?

Even if the health cultivation method was much simpler compared to an offensive technique like the Golden Dragon Technique, it shouldn’t be this easy to achieve mastery, should it?

However, the Attribute Panel in front of him proved that all of this was not his imagination, but the truth.

Name: Liang Sheng

Age: 18

Talent: Innocent Foolishness (Top-Grade)

Techniques: Golden Dragon Technique (Second Layer), Longevity Skill(First Layer)

Realm: Martial Artist – Postnatal Second Realm (70%)

His progress in the martial arts realm had not changed, but the fact that he had successfully entered the first layer after practicing the Longevity Skill for the first time was truly incredible.

At this moment, a flash of inspiration struck his mind: his Postnatal Second Realm Qi circulation with the Longevity Skill should indeed have such an effect!

This was like a high school student with poor grades who, regardless of their performance, would still find primary school textbooks extremely easy to study.

However, once the Longevity Skill Qi in his body reached parity with his martial arts realm, he probably wouldn’t be able to enjoy such treatment anymore.

But no matter what, it was a good thing. After all, the longer he lived, the more he could enjoy a luxurious and leisurely life, and his journey through this world would not be in vain.

With this in mind, Liang Sheng calmed himself down, hurriedly washed up, and lay down in bed to sleep.

In his previous life, he had died from overwork and staying up all night. In this life, he could not make the same mistake while cultivating!

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Since then, Liang Sheng’s life began to settle down.

After taking charge of the Liang Family Restaurant affairs, he completely accepted his fate and began to actively participate in the business.

Gradually, people in the Liang Family paid less and less attention to him. After all, why would they need to care about a mere manager of the Liang Family Restaurant?

More than a month later, Liang Sheng requested the Ancestral Hall to move out of the Liang Family Residence and set up his own solitary living quarters.

No one had opposed this. In fact, their impression of him only improved.

After all, they appreciated such a sensible former “eldest son.” Patriarch Liang Ping hesitated at first, but upon Liang Qiang’s seemingly unintentional reminder, he also believed that this was indeed the best choice for Liang Sheng.

After all, for someone with mediocre talent like Liang Sheng, being a wealthy and idle gentleman and living a peaceful life was the best possible outcome.

So the matter was settled quickly, and a residence near Shengde Building belonging to the Liang Family was cleaned up within a few days, becoming Liang Sheng’s mansion.

Liang Sheng later learned that this request had been easily granted because Liang Qiang had given him a helping hand, allowing him to achieve a satisfactory outcome.

Therefore, Liang Sheng chose a time to bring a generous gift and personally visit his Second Uncle to express his gratitude.

With Liang Sheng’s ability to know when to advance and retreat, he unknowingly blended well with the Liang Family and got along well with everyone. He was like another person compared to before.

However, his behavior only proved that he was further and further away from the power center of the Liang Family, becoming a marginal figure. That’s why he could achieve “universal popularity.”

Time passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, three months had gone by, and Liang Sheng gradually became an invisible figure outside the struggles of the Liang Family. Only occasionally, during meals and tea breaks, would people mention the former “eldest son” who had now fallen on hard times.

As for the Shengde Building, with the protection of the Liang Family, the business naturally thrived. After paying the monthly taxes to the main family, Liang Sheng’s days were exceptionally wealthy.

If it weren’t for the certainty of keeping a low profile, with the experience of over a dozen failures in history, the expansion of profits through the refinement and distillation of high-quality wine would have been entirely possible.

However, in the uncertain circumstances of the Liang family’s young master, for him, the former “eldest son” of the main family, maintaining a low profile and saving his life is the first rule. How could he possibly make a big show of his wealth?

Anyway, he’s now living a wealthy life, so why put himself in the sights of the various branches of the Liang family? Wouldn’t that just be asking for trouble?

Even in Jinzhou City’s Yichun Building, Liang Sheng’s figure could be seen, and tales of the former eldest son of the Liang family indulging in wanton pleasures and spending his nights amongst the flowers started to spread throughout the city.

Just as everyone thought that Liang Sheng had resigned himself to enjoying an ordinary life of wealth and splendor, in these past few months, he had actually not been idle. He had been continuously cultivating the Golden Dragon Technique and the Health Cultivation Method’s Longevity Skill.

His decision to establish an independent family was in order not to attract attention and to hide in the shadows to cultivate in privacy.

Just like that, another six months passed in the blink of an eye.

Tonight, Liang Sheng sat cross-legged in his room, taking a deep breath before continuing his cultivation as usual. However, he couldn’t help but feel a faint excitement.

The progress of the Golden Dragon Technique was still incredibly slow, but after all, it was the Liang family’s unique skill that had stood the test of centuries in Jinzhou City. Naturally, its cultivation difficulty was much higher than that of the Longevity Skill.

However, he didn’t know whether he was suited for the Longevity Skill or not, but his cultivation speed didn’t seem slow at all.

At this moment, Liang Sheng tried hard to calm his excited emotions. After his heart settled down, he began circulating Zhou Tian to cultivate the Longevity Skill.

In the meantime, the resources that Liang Ping had tilted towards Liang Sheng in the past, using his identity as the family head, had all been hidden deep within Liang Sheng’s body, transformed into essence blood, and were now being absorbed by the Longevity Skill.

An hour later, Liang Sheng’s eyes suddenly opened, and his aura surged before being withdrawn back into his body. His eyes were filled with surprise and joy.

Name: Liang Sheng

Age: 18

Talent: Innocent Foolishness (Top-Grade)

Techniques: Golden Dragon Technique (Second Layer), Longevity Skill (Third Layer)

Realm: Martial Artist Postnatal Threefold (1%)

It took Liang Sheng only a month to break through to the second layer of the Longevity Skill, which could be attributed to the fact that he had already reached the Postnatal Second Realm.

However, to achieve the third layer of the Longevity Skill in just six months was an unimaginable situation.

Although the Longevity Skill was a health cultivation method and simpler than offensive techniques, Liang Sheng still found it somewhat unbelievable that he could achieve such a cultivation speed with the Talent of Innocent Foolishness.

Would anyone else have such a smooth journey? After all, every technique would encounter bottlenecks. So, was this the use of the Talent of Innocent Foolishness?

Or should he also thank Liang Ping for providing him with so many resources in the past?

Liang Sheng was somewhat surprised. Although he had advanced his realm through cultivating a health cultivation method, which was far less powerful than cultivating the Golden Dragon Technique of the same realm, it was still a genuine Postnatal threefold realm.

So today was a day of great joy and celebration!

Liang Sheng couldn’t sleep anymore, but he was the only one living in the backyard. However, that didn’t mean he had no servants; they just lived in separate rooms in the front courtyard.

The coachman, Ma San, had already taken off his clothes and was preparing to rest when he was suddenly called by Liang Sheng in the middle of the night to hurry up and drive the horse carriage to the Yichun Building.

The nighttime Jinzhou City patrol guards saw Liang Sheng’s horse carriage and didn’t stop it, but they were filled with disdain in their hearts.

As expected, he was the Liang family’s waste. Night after night spent indulging in debauchery, he would probably die on a woman’s belly someday.

As for the Yichun Building’s madame, Spring Lady, her eyes brightened immediately upon seeing Liang Sheng’s horse carriage parked outside the building.

A big customer had arrived.

“Ladies, come out and greet the guest!”

As Liang Sheng walked to the entrance, he grinned and directly embraced Spring Lady, fully displaying the true nature of a debauched young master.

“Spring Lady, the usual!”

After all, indulging in wine, women, and song was a means of survival for Liang Sheng, once the “eldest son” of a martial arts family!