Chapter 21: Second Rank Warrior

Qin Feng counted the money he had on hand, and found that he still had five taels and six cents of silver, as well as dozens of copper coins.

He just spent more than two taels of silver to rent a small courtyard two streets away from the martial arts school.

The landlord was unwilling to pay monthly rent at first, and only asked for the lowest rent to be half a year or a year, and he refused to budge.

Qin Feng raised the price, saying he would pay two more cents a month, but the owner still refused to give in, and the broker he found couldn't persuade him.

In desperation, Qin Feng decided to ask the broker to find a suitable landlord to talk to.

At this time, he inadvertently mentioned that he was a martial artist, and the owner's attitude changed instantly.

He agreed repeatedly, saying something like the monthly rent was also good, which surprised Qin Feng.

In the end, he still paid the original price and rented the house.

To be honest, although Qin Feng knew that warriors and scholars had a more transcendent status, he had never experienced it personally before.

But now, he truly felt it.

Although it was just a small thing, this feeling of privilege still made him feel very novel, after all, he had never experienced it before.

However, Qin Feng also knew that as a warrior, he could only show off his power in front of ordinary people.

Any small official is more honorable than a first-rank warrior like him.

A warrior's status depends only on his own strength.

Not to mention the first to third ranks, the fourth rank has a certain status and will be famous in the small county town.

Only those of the fifth or sixth rank will be noticed by important figures and have greater room for advancement.

A seventh-rank warrior is actually considered a master. If he joins the army and makes many contributions, he will soon be awarded a high official position.

An eighth-rank warrior, he was quite famous in Kyoto and a true master.

The best among them, such as Xie Bian, can serve as personal guards for the prince.

As for the ninth rank, they are all masters who can become famous all over the world and enjoy extremely high treatment wherever they go.

As for the Grandmaster-level warriors above them, they are all human nuclear bombs, inhuman beings, and are not in the same league as the ninth-grade warriors.

In the eyes of ordinary people, if you reach the fifth or sixth rank, you will be strong enough to go to Kyoto.

But in Qin Feng's opinion, let alone the fifth and sixth grades, even the seventh and eighth grades are chess pieces without control.

Only after becoming a ninth-rank warrior could one gain a little freedom.

This is also Qin Feng’s current goal, to become a ninth-grade warrior!
Only then would he be 98% sure of his safety on the way to Kyoto.

And if you become a grand master, it will be even safer.

However, given the current situation, he should stop dreaming and be more realistic. He should first practice to become a second-grade warrior.

So in the following few days, Qin Feng did not go to Chaoyang Martial Arts School, but stayed in the room he rented to practice.

In the blink of an eye, twelve days passed.

That afternoon, Qin Feng sat cross-legged on the bed, breathing silently, very calmly.

A quarter of an hour, two quarters of an hour, three quarters of an hour
About half an hour later, Qin Feng opened his eyes with excitement.

Second-rank warrior, done!

If one wants to break through the breathing technique and become a first-class warrior, one needs to refine forty-nine strands of true qi, and Qin Feng calls it one strand of true qi!
There is no such thing as a level from the first to the second grade. As long as you have nine streams of true qi in your body, you can be called a second-grade warrior.

Just now, Qin Feng cultivated the true Qi in his body to the ninth level.

[Breathing Skills +1]

This time, the proficiency of breathing exercises has increased a little bit.

Name: Qin Feng

Talent: God rewards hard work

Strength: Second-class warrior Skills: Medical skills [Minor success] (Proficiency: 10/30)

Taihe Fist【Mastery】（Proficiency: 28/40）

Breathing Skills【Mastery】（Proficiency: 31/40）

If you want to become a third-grade warrior, there is no bottleneck. You just need to cultivate the internal Qi to thirty-six levels.

All in all, almost a month has passed since Qin Feng started practicing martial arts.

One month, second-rank warrior.

If you tell others about this speed, I'm afraid no one will believe it because no one has ever achieved it!
People like Fan Xian, who had cultivated to the seventh level of martial arts at the age of sixteen, were already considered super geniuses. Even for him, it took him several months to reach the second level.

Qin Feng's efficiency is several times that of Fan Xian.

Moreover, his breathing technique has only reached the proficient level, and his practice speed is already very fast. Once it reaches the great success level, his practice speed will be even faster!
After consolidating his cultivation, Qin Feng did not continue practicing, but stood up and walked outside.

Nine days ago, Qin Feng actually received news that the owner of the museum had returned and had already killed the thief!

But Qin Feng was afraid that there would be more accidents in the future, so apart from going there every week to get a packet of body-building powder, he did not stay in the martial arts gym for long and had been practicing in the rented yard.

Now that I have become a second-grade warrior, it is time to do some things.

Generally speaking, there are three things to do: learn the art of fighting, go to Liu's house to practice medicine, and go to the blacksmith shop to get weapons.

Qin Feng was quite looking forward to learning the Eight-sided Kung Fu.

He wanted Li Yuanliang to teach him for a while, and when he reached a minor level of success, he would go to the master of the academy for teaching.

Going to Liu's house to practice medicine was to provide them with routine medical consultations. This was something he had agreed with the other party before, and he would visit them at the beginning of the month.

Today is July 30th, and tomorrow is August 1st, so he can go.

It just so happened that he didn't have much money on him, so if he went to Liu's house to see a patient, he should be able to charge some consultation fees.

But then again, he had been obsessed with martial arts this month and his medical skills had been delayed. Now, he had only achieved 10 points of proficiency, which was not much improvement at all.

But there is no way to avoid this. Medical skills are only auxiliary after all, and strength is the foundation of everything!

"Please keep it."

In the blacksmith shop, Qin Feng handed over the receipt, and immediately an apprentice brought him the weapon he had customized previously.

The first dagger was about one foot long. It was more like a dagger than a dagger. Qin Feng deliberately asked the blacksmith to make it shorter so that it would be easier to hide in his boots.

The second sword was quite normal, about three feet long, with a blade width of about two and a half fingers, and slightly narrow at the tip.

Qin Feng picked it up and swung it around. The handle of the sword was wrapped with hemp rope, and it felt pretty good.

He flicked the sword with his fingers and heard a crisp sound.

However, after taking a closer look at the sword, Qin Feng realized that this sword was not that good.

In his previous life, he had watched videos such as the sword-forging competition and Odebiao Banana, and had a rough understanding of some of the forging techniques.

He knew that it would take a long time to forge a good weapon, perhaps one or two months at the shortest, or one or two years at the longest.

The process is very complicated and the techniques are varied. For example, in folding forging, each fold requires thousands of heavy hammering. After the embryo cools down, it has to be melted and heated again and hammered again.

This is how the idiom "refined through thousands of trials and tribulations" came about.

And this is just the beginning. There are various subsequent processes, and it needs to be constantly polished after it is completed. It is extremely time-consuming.

The standard long sword in my hand was made a short time ago, so its quality is naturally not very good.

But as an ordinary long sword, it is considered qualified.

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