High Martial: I Can Copy All Root Bones!

The next morning.

Having rested for a night, the group of four arose, feeling refreshed and invigorated.

They went to the Xing City Pier to take a boat to Jiangzhou.

The cargo ship swayed on the water.

Along the way, they took in all the sights of Jiangnan Prefecture.

「Six days later.」

They arrived in Jiangzhou.

Jiangzhou, the most prosperous Prefecture City in Jiangnan Prefecture, had a population exceeding ten million.

Jiangzhou City was crisscrossed with an abundance of waterways, making water transport highly developed. The city alone had dozens of piers.

The cargo ship docked at a small pier within Jiangzhou City, and Lu Changfeng’s group of four disembarked in an orderly line.

Perhaps because he practiced Martial Arts, Lu Changfeng’s seasickness from his previous life was gone.

He had actually found the entire boat journey quite pleasant and relaxing.

"We’re in Jiangzhou! Feng!"

Chunzhu was the most excited one as soon as they got off the boat.

The people of Jiangnan Prefecture coming and going were dressed in new and beautiful clothes, and Chunzhu couldn’t take her eyes off them.

Lu Changfeng had already made his plans on the way here.

As for his Cultivation Technique, he had the inheritance from the ’Giant Elephant Woman’, so there was no need to rush into joining some power or faction.

Lu Changfeng decided to first open a Martial Arts Hall to cultivate in seclusion. This would serve as a cover for his identity and also allow him to interact with the Jiangzhou Martial Arts Realm.

In his daily life, he might also discover some disciples with outstanding Talent and Root Bone.

Of course, Lu Changfeng didn’t expect a brand-new Martial Arts Hall to recruit many disciples or make much money.

For the time being, they booked rooms at an inn.

Lu Changfeng then went out with Hei Niu to look for a suitable location for the Martial Arts Hall.

After some inquiries, the price of land in Jiangzhou made Lu Changfeng click his tongue in amazement.

Fortunately, with his master’s inheritance and some of his own earnings, he had enough to purchase a moderately sized property.

If it really came down to it, Lu Changfeng had also saved a lot of Celestial Silkworm Jerky over the past two years. Selling it would bring in a large sum of money.

With the help of a broker, Lu Changfeng spent tens of thousands of taels of silver to purchase a property on Five Horses Street—Jiangzhou’s street of Martial Arts Halls.

The property was about an acre in size.

Its layout was perfect for a Martial Arts Hall, with two-thirds of the area dedicated to a training ground in the front courtyard.

In the central courtyard, aside from the main hall, there were eight side rooms on both the left and right, for a total of sixteen rooms.

The backyard was a small garden. As it was currently spring, the garden was filled with a fragrant aroma. The previous owner had planted many vibrant, rare flowers.

This area could also be used by Lu Changfeng for his daily cultivation.

Lu Changfeng also planned to dig a cellar in the small garden to store the Celestial Silkworm Seed.

Once the property was purchased, Lu Changfeng immediately ordered some weapons, weapon racks, and a custom plaque. The plaque was inscribed with the name in large script: Changle Martial Arts Hall.

By the time everything was set up and in place, ten days had passed.

On an otherwise ordinary day, a Martial Arts Hall quietly opened for business on Jiangzhou’s Five Horses Street.

There were no gongs or drums, nor any visiting guests.

A few curious onlookers who stepped inside to take a look found the training ground empty, save for a dark-skinned man practicing a Fist Technique.

A young man was lazing on a lounge chair, sunbathing.

It was so deserted that people would turn around and leave immediately.

For half a month after its opening, not a single Disciple came to register.

Lu Changfeng wasn’t bothered in the slightest. He focused on his training, since he still had enough money to get by.

Chunzhu, however, grew anxious. She felt that Lu Changfeng had forgotten the hard times they had been through.

’Such spendthrift behavior is an unforgivable crime!’

And so, at Chunzhu’s urging, Lu Changfeng finally sought out a newspaper office in Jiangzhou.

The Jiangzhou Anecdotes newspaper office.

It was located on the street right next to Five Horses Street.

Among the many newspapers in Jiangzhou, Jiangzhou Anecdotes wasn’t a major publication.

Its advantage, however, was that its content was geared toward ordinary citizens.

And ordinary citizens were the primary source of disciples for a Martial Arts Hall.

Seeing Lu Changfeng—tall and clearly a powerful Martial Artist—walk in, the female receptionist at the office immediately stood up to greet him. A gentle, pleasant Jiangnan accent rolled off her tongue, "Welcome to our office, sir. How may I help you?"

Lu Changfeng looked down at the receptionist, who barely reached his waist, and got straight to the point. "How much is it to place an advertisement in your newspaper?"

The receptionist was clearly experienced.

She turned and retrieved a newspaper template from under the counter.

However, this newspaper was blank except for boxes of various sizes.

Inside each box was a number.

"This is the latest printing block for our Jiangzhou Anecdotes newspaper."

"The numbers in these boxes correspond to the price for that position in the paper. We run the ads for three consecutive issues, and the prices are very affordable!"

’Simple and straightforward,’ Lu Changfeng thought. After looking over the printing block, he pointed to a spot on the paper. The price for this spot was reasonable, and the position was decent enough.

"Sir, you have excellent taste!" The receptionist gave Lu Changfeng a thumbs-up and then said, "That will be thirty taels of silver in total!"

"Just write down the content of your ad, sir, and you’ll see it in tomorrow’s edition of Jiangzhou Anecdotes!"

"Of course, the content can’t involve anything illicit, like gambling or drugs!"

Lu Changfeng took the paper, brush, and ink from the receptionist and briefly wrote out the advertisement for his Martial Arts Hall.

Before this, Lu Changfeng had done a little research on the tuition fees of the Martial Arts Halls on Five Horses Street.

Generally speaking, for a Small Martial Arts Hall whose master was a Blood Forging Martial Artist, the fee was about ten taels of silver for half a year, which included one meal per day.

Of course, if the hall master had good Martial Talent and was particularly skilled in a certain type of Martial Arts, the fee might increase by five taels or more.

If the hall master was a Tendon Transformation Martial Artist from a Grand Martial Arts Hall, the fee would soar to between thirty and fifty taels for half a year.

As for hall masters who were Bone Forging Realm Martial Sects...

There were actually three such halls on Jiangzhou’s Five Horses Street, but their prerequisites for accepting disciples were astonishing.

It was a situation where the Martial Arts Hall chose the disciple, not the other way around, so there was no point in comparing.

Lu Changfeng thought to himself, ’Although I’m only a Blood Forging Realm Martial Artist, I have at least killed a Tendon Transformation Martial Artist before.’

So, he wrote on the advertisement that the fee was twenty taels for half a year, with a discounted price of thirty-five taels for a full year.

’That’s a pretty good deal, right?!’

As for why Martial Arts Hall fees started at half a year, it was because in the path of Martial Arts, one couldn’t even cross the threshold without at least six months of training.

After a moment of thought, Lu Changfeng also noted in the ad that the hall master was extremely skilled in Swordsmanship.

Lu Changfeng decided that from now on, he would operate publicly in Jiangzhou City under the guise of a top-tier Swordsman.

This would allow him to display his greatest Combat Power.

Currently, his Fengtian Saber Technique was still in the accumulation phase of the Fengtian Forging Body Saber Skill’s Blood Forging Realm, so it hadn’t reached its late-stage Combat Power.

His Storm Sword Intent was still his strongest combat method at the moment.

He handed the written note to the receptionist.

Lu Changfeng paid the advertising fee and left the newspaper office amidst the receptionist’s enthusiastic farewells.

And so, Lu Changfeng spent thirty taels of silver to place a Martial Arts Hall advertisement in a corner of Jiangzhou Anecdotes, a newspaper aimed at the common people.

Jiangzhou Anecdotes went on sale every morning between five and six o’clock.

He wondered how effective the advertisement would be tomorrow.

If he could attract someone with a High-Grade Sword Technique Talent, then Lu Changfeng would have collected four High-Grade Sword Technique-type Talents and could fuse his first Supreme Talent!