"I want to go back to my hometown and open a restaurant to receive heroes from all over the world. This was my biggest dream before I entered the spiritual practice circle."

"Then I'll be your waiter..."

…

Meng Zhou leaned over and groped around the two corpses, cleaning out all the bits and pieces from them, and then carried them out of the small courtyard one by one.

After a while, Meng Zhou walked into the small courtyard with wet, freshly washed hands, and took the pile of bits and pieces he had removed from the two of them back to the quiet room.

The most valuable thing they had on them was the long sword and its eighteen crescent-shaped blades.

They are not magic weapons, but they are different from ordinary mortal weapons. They use some weapon refining materials and weapon refining techniques, which are somewhere between ordinary weapons and magic weapons.

On the one hand, it is very suitable for performing martial arts. On the other hand, it is also very compatible with mana. When it is used, mana is absorbed, which can significantly increase its power and achieve effects that ordinary soldiers can never achieve.

However, the limitations of this type of weapon are also very huge. In terms of quality, it is not even as good as a first-level low-grade magic weapon.

However, because of its affordability and high cost performance, it has become the unanimous choice for most low-level casual practitioners in the early stages of Qi training.

The use of martial arts to fight is also a common feature of most low-level casual cultivators in the early stages of Qi training.

Spells are certainly more powerful, but only after they are mastered. Before they are mastered, spells are really not as practical as martial arts.

Moreover, unless one has mastered a spell to the point of mastery and perfection, or the spell is very powerful, if a practitioner wants to obtain considerable combat effectiveness with spells alone, it cannot be solved with just one or two spells.

It would have to be a complete system consisting of as few as four or five kinds, and as many as seven or eight kinds of spells, capable of dealing with as many complex situations as possible.

To achieve all of this requires not only time, but also talent and financial resources.

And all of this is not something casual practitioners in the early stages of Qi training have time to ponder.

To put it bluntly, what if a casual cultivator in the early stage of Qi training can practice all these to perfection?

It is simply unwise to invest too much time and energy in magic practice at this time.

To improve your cultivation, you should do everything you can to improve your cultivation.

Therefore, martial arts that are easy to learn and can quickly develop good combat effectiveness have become the most suitable choice.

But when they met Meng Zhou, they really met their natural enemy.

The former master was originally a martial arts master. He had been immersed in martial arts for decades and had rich martial arts experience.

And he himself, on the premise of inheriting all the memories of his previous master, has even perfected two martial arts skills, which is an achievement that his previous master never achieved until his death.

This made Meng Zhou's understanding of martial arts surpass that of a master.

Through the memory of the former master and Meng Zhou's own analysis and understanding, an interesting phenomenon was discovered.

Although the casual cultivators in the early stage of Qi training mostly used various martial arts as a means to deal with the enemy, he could see two obviously different groups.

One type is those who were martial artists before becoming practitioners and had experience in martial arts.

One is to become a practitioner directly without any experience as a martial artist, and practicing martial arts is only after becoming a practitioner.

The number of the former is small, while the latter is the mainstream.

Because of this difference, the same martial arts, which are almost identical when performed, present two completely different cores.

What the latter practice is not so much martial arts, but actually "spells that look like martial arts." They use martial arts with the same mindset of using spells.

They have all forgotten that martial arts have been serving ordinary warriors from the moment they were born.

This mismatch may not have much impact on other people, and they may not even notice the difference.

But using it in front of Meng Zhou was like using a sword in front of Guan Gong's gate, with flaws everywhere.

To put it bluntly, facing him, even if they throw firecrackers randomly, their winning rate is higher than using all the powerful martial arts.

This can be regarded as an invisible advantage that Meng Zhou has.

In addition to the long sword and eighteen crescent-shaped blades, there are only eighteen low-grade spiritual stones in total and dozens of taels of gold.

Apart from that, there is nothing else of value.

"Hmm~~ My practice tonight is not over yet."

After taking inventory of the loot, Meng Zhou suddenly remembered this and sat cross-legged on the stone couch again.

…

In the early morning, the sky is bright.

Then a few casual pedicures stepped on the misty river and came to the vicinity of the small courtyard.

But when they turned around a gentle arc of the river and saw the direction of the small courtyard gate from the front, they were still nearly a hundred meters away from the small courtyard, as if they had all pressed the pause button.

Then, they all turned around and walked away faster than when they came, and soon disappeared on this section of the river.

The entrance to the courtyard.

There were two long wooden sticks standing on one left and one on the right. On the top of these two long wooden sticks, the two corpses were lifted high.

The entire head above the eyebrows disappeared, as if it had been shaved into a buzz cut.

A head was hung alone next to the body with its hair as a rope, gently swaying in the river wind.
Chapter completed!