#57 - Chapter 57: Learning Martial Arts

“The rent around here is really not cheap. A month's rent actually costs four silver coins! This amount is equivalent to three wheat harvests for an average farmer!” Shen Xingyan said with some emotion as he looked at the rental information.

If he were still the ordinary farmer he used to be, he would probably be deterred by this price and go back. After all, anyone who spends most of their hard-earned money on housing each month would inevitably develop strong feelings of resistance.

However, with Shen Xingyan's current wealth and future earning potential, he felt that this price was within his acceptable range. Moreover, as long as he and his sister were safe, there would be more possibilities in the future, making the money well spent.

Afterward, he looked at a few more similar properties to get a general understanding of the rental market in this area.

When he learned that the rent for "school district housing" near the school reached ten silver coins a month, even a future big shot like Shen Xingyan couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement.

He couldn't help but think: If it weren't for the fear of being unsafe on the main roads at night, people from the outer areas would probably just choose to sleep on the streets here.

Shen Xingyan shook his head with a sigh. After looking at almost all the options, he didn't choose to go into the shops to inquire but left directly.

After all, he currently appeared to be just an ordinary farmer. Even if he pretended to grit his teeth and rent a place, it would easily arouse suspicion.

After all, only thirteen days had passed since he awakened as a farmer. As an ordinary farmer, he couldn't possibly have saved up a month's rent in this time.

Helpless, Shen Xingyan could only wait ten days before coming back to discuss the rental price.

After leaving the real estate agency, Shen Xingyan began to wander around the free market.

Before, when he was at school, he was short on money. Although the market was not far from the school, he rarely came to browse. This time, he took the opportunity to take a serious look.

The entire North District's free market was more like a short street than a market. There weren't many people setting up stalls and hawking their wares here. At first glance, it felt somewhat sparse and couldn't compare to the bustling city of Star Origin World.

Shen Xingyan quickly finished inspecting the small market. Most of the items for sale were materials from the bodies of disasters hunted outside the boundary and rare resources collected outside the boundary.

Some of the things, Shen Xingyan hadn't seen much of before. After all, the information in the school textbooks wasn't that comprehensive.

Due to the existence of war merits and the high-priced recycling of advanced extraterrestrial resources, including disasters, the income in the real world was much higher than their income in the Star Origin World.

Therefore, capable professionals went to the extraterrestrial world very frequently, and from time to time brought back some high-value things to sell to the base, while some low-value things were sold to the base at low prices, or sold in the market like this.

There were also some buying and selling equipment and potions in the whole market.

Although these things could be extracted from the Star Origin World, the prices were still more affordable here.

Shen Xingyan couldn't help but stop when he saw the nutritious disaster meat.

Now that his sister was in the stage of growing, it was time to supplement her nutrition, and this meat, which had been processed by butchers, could obviously meet this need.

But after thinking about it, he gave up. He felt that it would be safer to extract it quietly from the Star Origin World. Not only was there no risk of being discovered, but the quality of the meat would also be guaranteed.

Although the things here were more affordable, he was not short of money now and didn't care about these small amounts.

Just as he was about to go back to continue exercising, he suddenly found a bookstore. Instantly, he also thought of his Comprehension skill, which had completed its cooldown but had not yet been used.

“Before, at school, I was busy exercising to improve my physical fitness and rarely came into contact with martial arts.

Moreover, martial arts seemed to be easy to learn but difficult to master in the school's view. It was advocated that students should learn according to the panel prompts after awakening, so that the improvement would be much faster than before awakening, which also saved a lot of time.

Martial arts could give fuller play to the advantages of attributes, and in the future, encountering some elementary disasters would be considered a certain degree of self-protection ability.

Go inside and see if there are any replicated versions of martial arts. With the magical skill of Comprehension, it is estimated that learning will be much faster.”

Thinking this in his heart, Shen Xingyan naturally stepped inside.

At this time, an old man who was leaning against a deck chair at the door glanced at Shen Xingyan who came in, as if he had insight into his intentions, and directly greeted him in a somewhat hoarse voice:

“The replicated version of martial arts books is on the bookshelf on the far right. The prices are written on them. Go and see for yourself.”

After the old man finished speaking, he didn't say any more, and he didn't even mean to get up to greet the guests. He was still lying there reading the book in his hand.

When Shen Xingyan heard what the old gentleman said, his footsteps also stopped, and he looked over in some surprise, marveling at the old man's ability to predict, wanting to communicate with this experienced old gentleman, but seeing that the other party had no intention of paying attention to him, he didn't bother to embarrass himself.

In his heart, he sighed: It seems that practice makes perfect applies to any industry! This old gentleman is also discerning.

According to the old man's instructions, Shen Xingyan came directly to the bookshelf on the far right. Sure enough, a pile of brand-new martial arts books were placed on it. At first glance, it was clear that they were all replicated versions.

Looking at the prices of these martial arts, they were not very expensive. Some ranged from dozens of copper coins to hundreds of copper coins. The cost of this thing itself was not very high, and these were all ordinary martial arts replicated versions, so the price was still within a reasonable range.

Shen Xingyan checked them one by one. Now he didn't have enough physical attributes and money to learn those profound alien martial arts. He could only learn some ordinary martial arts to improve his combat ability.

Moreover, ordinary martial arts could produce some extraordinary phenomena when practiced to a deep level.

Combining his current conditions, Shen Xingyan chose three types of martial arts.

One type was longer-range weapons such as spears and clubs. It was said that an inch longer was an inch stronger, so this type of martial arts was necessary.

The second type was close-quarters combat, bare-handed melee, and the other was footwork, which had a certain bonus to speed.

Combining the three types of martial arts, if he couldn't beat them from a long distance, he would go up for melee. If he couldn't beat them in melee, he could only run away. Shen Xingyan called it the life-saving three-piece set.

After making up his mind, Shen Xingyan began to search for these three types of martial arts.

After looking back and forth, he felt that all the martial arts were similar, only with slight differences in focus.

Then he stopped hesitating and randomly selected three books from these three categories.