Afterward, his younger sister went to great lengths to get him a martial arts manual. Although it was only a third-rate manual, she hoped he would learn to stand on his own two feet. Hearing rumors that extremely rare Heavenly Treasures could help someone become an energist, she prostituted herself to many men, enduring the abuse of being called a whore and a prostitute. Because she did it so often, the secret got out. A wealthy man felt his reputation was tarnished and had her killed in secret, and afterward refused to spare Lin Zhong either, sending men outside the city to try and murder him. By sheer luck, he cheated death and managed to survive.
From then on, he didn't dare go to any city or Refuge in the wilderness. After struggling through more than half a year of agonizing hardship, he actually managed to cultivate that sub-third-rate martial art to the peak of mastery. In truth, his heart had died by then; he had no idea what he was doing and was merely driven by a lingering memory, which was why he did all of it. Yet who could have guessed that he would actually become an energist as a result? Later on, he learned from some covert intelligence that people like him were exceedingly rare. Rumor had it that there had once been a single case of a so-called natural-born energist—someone who only needed to cultivate a martial arts manual to the peak of mastery to form an internal energy circulation system and become an energist.
Afterward, he returned to the city to exac…
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