I picked up attributes in Swallowing Star.

Holding the Phantom Fox, Luo Yuan arrived at the advanced student building of the Extreme Martial Arts Academy. He placed the Phantom Fox in the designated area for monster pets and then started running around the student building, beginning his daily routine of collecting attributes. The students were shocked by Luo Yuan's elusive movements and speed.

"Hey, Lao Yang, judging by Luo Yuan's speed, he should be at the level of a quasi-martial artist, right?" The mature and sexy Li Qiong asked Yang Wu, who was standing there dumbfounded.

"It's more than just the level of a quasi-martial artist. Last time, I reached 24 meters per second in the quasi-martial artist assessment, just one meter per second away from the standard for a quasi-martial artist. But when I compare my speed with that kid Luo Yuan, I feel like a piece of trash. Is this the difference between geniuses and us ordinary people?" Yang Wu said with some bitterness.

"Hey, don't be discouraged. Everyone has seen your hard work these past few days. You'll reach the level of a near-martial artist sooner or later. It's just a matter of whether Luo Yuan or Luo Feng is stronger." Li Qiong suddenly asked with some curiosity.

"Hey, now that you mention it, it's true. They're both geniuses. I think Luo Yuan and Luo Feng even went to the same school, right? They might even know each other." Yang Wu felt like he had discovered something.

Luo Yuan stopped after collecting the attribute bubbles from the advanced students, but he didn't feel tired at all.

"Hey, Luo Yuan, do you know Luo Feng? Is he from the same school as you?" Yang Wu suddenly stepped forward, put his arm around Luo Yuan's shoulder, and asked with a smile.

"Uh, I don't know him," Luo Yuan said honestly.

"Alright, how about I introduce you two sometime?" Yang Wu said enthusiastically.

"Great! I'm really looking forward to it." Luo Yuan also showed a happy smile.

P.S.: Dear gods, please give me rewards, monthly tickets, and add this to your favorites. I, Luo Yuan, am completely convinced.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 12 The Curator's Invitation

After exchanging pleasantries with Yang Wu and other advanced students for a while, Luo Yuan discovered that there were no more attribute bubbles to collect in the advanced student training hall. So he went to the training halls of intermediate and beginner students to collect attributes. Even a small amount is still something, and quantity can lead to quality. The other students looked at him strangely, assuming that Luo Yuan was just showing off, and no one dared to say that he was crazy or anything.

"Reporting to the Master, Luo Yuan, the one you asked me to keep a close eye on, is running around in the training hall again. He's too fast for the monitors to keep up with, but his speed definitely exceeds the standard speed for advanced students. He's at least at the level of a quasi-martial artist, and his dodging techniques are incredibly subtle." Suddenly, a staff member from the Extreme Martial Arts Academy rushed into the Master's office and reported to Jiang Nian.

"What? I'll go check it out."

Jiang Nian, the master of the Extreme Martial Arts Academy, excitedly walked out of his office and into the monitoring hall. Looking at Luo Yuan, who was running rapidly on the electronic screen, his eyes showed shock, followed by ecstasy.

"This kid's speed is already at the level of a junior warrior, and his dodging skills have reached the microscopic level. It's only been a few days! Genius, no, monster! Go and invite him over quickly, I want to meet him!" Jiang Nian excitedly shouted to the staff.

"Yes, I will go and have him come over right away."

"No, I'll go myself!"

Jiang Nian and several managers from the Extreme Martial Arts Academy arrived at the training hall where Luo Yuan was collecting attributes, but they did not disturb him, even though they did not know why Luo Yuan liked to run around wildly in the training hall.

"Sigh, now that my speed has increased, there aren't enough attribute bubbles to pick up here."

After collecting all the attribute bubbles, Luo Yuan slowly stopped, sat down to the side, drank water, and sighed to himself.

Suddenly, the students in front of him parted to make way, standing with excited yet respectful heads bowed. Then he saw a group of people dressed in silver-black martial arts uniforms walking over. The leader was a middle-aged man with a bald head dressed in black. The aura emanating from this man made him feel a sense of danger; he was a very strong martial artist.

"Hello, Luo Yuan, let's get acquainted. My name is Jiang Nian, and I'm the owner of this Extreme Martial Arts Gym. I've been following you for a long time. Would it be convenient for us to find a place to chat?"

Jiang Nian's magnetic voice came through, his tone somewhat excited, his eyes full of admiration.

"Uh, okay, instructor!" Luo Yuan quickly stood up and said respectfully.

The students at the Ultimate Martial Arts Academy all call the academy master "Instructor." Since his current strength is only at the warrior level, he doesn't dare to be too presumptuous.

Amidst the envious gazes of the other students, Luo Yuan followed Jiang Nian and his group toward the fourth floor of the advanced student teaching building. On the way, he smiled as he looked at the back of this big shot from the Extreme Martial Arts Academy. He knew that with his performance at the Extreme Martial Arts Academy, it was only a matter of time before he was noticed by this group of people, but he did not expect it to happen so quickly.

Upon arriving at the fourth floor of the advanced student teaching building, Jiang Nian led Luo Yuan directly to the tea room in the rest area, where it was just the two of them.

"Luo Yuan, this is a fine tea transported from Jinghua Base City. Please try it."

Jiang Nian poured Luo Yuan a cup of tea, and the aroma immediately filled the air. Luo Yuan felt his mind become much clearer after smelling it. He took a sip, and the fragrance lingered on his lips and teeth. He showed a pleasant expression and couldn't help but sigh in his heart that these important people really knew how to enjoy themselves.

"It tastes good, doesn't it? I'll give you a pound later," Jiang Nian said with a smile.

"Thank you. May I ask what brings you here, Instructor?" Luo Yuan asked directly, calming himself down.

"Haha, judging from the strength you showed in the training hall, you should be at the level of a martial artist. Moreover, your movement technique has reached the microscopic level. I can't imagine your potential. How about you join my Extreme Martial Arts Academy when you officially become a martial artist?" Jiang Nian stared into Luo Yuan's eyes and said seriously.

"Um, could you tell me what benefits I'll get if I join the Extreme Martial Arts Academy?" Luo Yuan replied calmly, now was the time for him to raise his price.

"Once you become a martial artist at my Extreme Martial Arts Academy, we will arrange a detached villa in the best location for you. Of course, you are not allowed to sell this villa. In addition, you will receive a base salary of 30,000 Chinese Yuan per month. Besides that, there will be 20 million in start-up capital! And three secret manuals on movement techniques, guiding techniques, and attack methods, each worth no more than 50 million." Jiang Nian said with a smile, holding up three fingers.

"A detached villa? A base salary of 30,000 yuan?" Luo Yuan raised an eyebrow. This seemed to be 10,000 yuan more than the base salary offered to Luo Feng.

"Even a small detached villa would be at least 300 square meters, worth two or three hundred million yuan," Luo Yuan thought to himself. This was much better than the low-rent housing he was currently living in.

"Luo Yuan, the benefits at my Extreme Martial Arts Academy aren't much different from those of joining a special national department. Martial artists in national departments have a base salary and benefits, and residential privileges. The only difference is that they have a 'license to kill,' which allows them to decide to kill ordinary people on the spot depending on the situation. Of course, they don't dare to kill indiscriminately; they still need to explain the incident to their superiors."

"However, our Extreme Martial Arts Academy also has special privileges. If any ordinary person offends you, you can report it to the academy. After verifying the facts, the academy will go through the Jiangnan City Security Bureau to take that ordinary person away directly." Jiang Nian smiled slightly.

"Join our martial arts school, and you'll have money, status, everything! You can confidently pursue the limits of humanity and the limits of martial arts!"

Listening to Jiang Nian's practiced words of persuasion, Luo Yuan couldn't help but find it amusing. How many people had he said this to? It's a real shame this guy isn't doing public speaking.

"Um, Instructor Jiang, I can join the Extreme Martial Arts Academy, but I'm a little short on cash right now. Could you lend me some money first?"

Luo Yuan said somewhat embarrassedly that he had actually decided to join the Extreme Martial Arts Hall a long time ago. He only wanted money to buy more Phantom Foxes to improve his spirit attribute, since he couldn't stay in the Monster Pet Park 24 hours a day and couldn't waste this time.

“Since you’ve agreed, I’ll give you a 1 million yuan subsidy in my personal capacity. You don’t need to pay it back. Consider it an investment in your future prospects,” Jiang Nian said casually.

"This, this is so kind of you. If Instructor Jiang needs anything in the future, I will definitely do it if it is within my ability." Luo Yuan quickly expressed his gratitude. He did not expect Instructor Jiang to be so generous. No wonder people say that martial artists are a high-income group.

"Luo Yuan, work hard. You have a really good talent, don't waste it." Jiang Nian smiled and patted Luo Yuan on the shoulder.

"By the way, could I use the private training room for senior students here?" Luo Yuan suddenly asked Jiang Nian as he stood up to leave.

“No problem, you can use it for free from now on,” Jiang Nian said generously, looking very happy.

After Luo Yuan left, the steward looked at the owner, Jiang Nian, with a hint of something he wanted to say but hesitated.

"You want to explain why I value Luo Yuan so much, right?" Jiang Nian said with a smile, looking at his right-hand men. The managers nodded in agreement.

“You’ve been staying here all this time and don’t know much about the outside world. Do you know what it means to have the strength of a martial artist at the age of eighteen and to have reached the microscopic level in movement techniques? It means that he is very likely to become a war god-level powerhouse in the future. With his potential, he can participate in the special training at the global headquarters. As for how he reached this level so quickly, we don’t need to care. Everyone has his own secrets.”

P.S.: Dear gods, please give me rewards, monthly tickets, and add this to your favorites. I, Luo Yuan, am completely convinced.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 13 Bright Moon Community

After descending to the fourth floor, Luo Yuan was led by a staff member to a private training room. The alloy door closed, and Luo Yuan showed no interest in the training equipment inside. He simply sat cross-legged, ready to reap the rewards.

"Attribute Fusion!"

With a thought, the bubbles in Luo Yuan's attribute space began to burst, and his brain was wracked with excruciating pain—a mental torment that caused him to faint from the pain.

"Drip drop~"

A noisy electronic alarm sounded, waking Luo Yuan from his coma. He sat up somewhat dazedly, rubbing his head.

"Dear user, you have spent 4 hours in the cultivation room. Moderate cultivation is beneficial to the brain, but excessive cultivation is harmful to the body. Please arrange your time reasonably and enjoy a healthy life."

"Tsk tsk tsk, this independent training room even has anti-addiction settings." Luo Yuan couldn't help but chuckle as he recalled the days of playing games in his previous life.

"Open your personal attributes panel."

Name: Luo Yuan

Strength: Apprentice level (Intermediate Warrior)

Strength: 2200kg

Speed: 45 m/s

Defense: 2200 kg

Spiritual weight: 1500 kg

Technique: None

Skill: Movement Technique (Subtle Level)

Looking at his attributes, Luo Yuan frowned. Apart from his mental strength increasing threefold, his other attributes hadn't increased much. It seemed his guess was correct: as his strength continued to grow, the attribute values ​​provided by the students and monsters whose strength was lower than that of martial artists were no longer enough to support his improvement. It seemed he needed to go to places where creatures with the strength of martial artists or above gathered to collect attribute points.

According to the world's setting, a psychic's physical attributes and psychic power are generally two levels apart. If their physical attributes are at the level of a beginner warrior, then their psychic power is generally at the level of a senior warrior! If their physical attributes are at the level of an intermediate warrior, then their psychic power is at the level of a beginner general…

However, Luo Yuan's situation is different from those orthodox spiritualists. Orthodox spiritualists are all gifted individuals who awaken their spiritual power on their own, while Luo Yuan relies on picking up attributes to enhance his spiritual power. Therefore, he cannot be measured by the standards of this world. However, he has an advantage over the spiritualists of this world because a person's spiritual power talent is limited, but as long as Luo Yuan has spiritual attributes to pick up, his spiritual power growth is limitless.

There are three main types of psychic masters. One type is the object manipulator! This means they can control things like spikes and throwing knives for ranged attacks! A psychic's ability to manipulate objects remotely is far more powerful than some heavy sniper rifle bullets. Sniper bullets travel almost in a straight line, while the weapons controlled by a psychic are unpredictable! Not only is their direction unpredictable, but their destructive power also varies.

The second method is to directly attack the soul! This method is quite mysterious, directly attacking the soul of a person or monster. If successful, the monster's body will be unharmed, but it will die instantly! However, attacking the soul is difficult, requiring the attacker to be two levels lower than oneself. It is said that very few mentalists know the method of 'mental attack'.

As for the third type, it seems to be beast taming, but Luo Yuan knows very little about this one.

Stepping out of the cultivation room, Luo Yuan looked at the night sky outside the window. It was already evening. When you're truly cultivating, you lose track of time. There was also a staff member waiting for him at the door.

"Mr. Luo Yuan, this is what the owner asked me to give you. This is the key to the detached villa assigned to you, along with its exact address. It's in Mingyue Community, and someone has already cleaned it up for you. This is a gold card with ten million Chinese yuan. The PIN is written on the back of the card. Is there anything else you need?"

"That's all, thank you for your hard work."

Looking at the key and gold card in his hand, Luo Yuan couldn't help but admire the efficiency of Manager Jiang. Indeed, talent is always in demand.

Taking the bus, Luo Yuan returned to his low-rent apartment in the South Bank community and found Xu Qian lying on the sofa watching a movie. This surprised him; it was rare to see her at night, and it seemed she was seriously injured this time.

"Sister Qian, I have something to tell you. I'm moving out tomorrow. The Extreme Martial Arts Academy recruited me ahead of schedule and gave me a detached villa in Mingyue Community." Luo Yuan sat down next to Xu Qian, and the intoxicating fragrance on her body made him feel a little distracted.

"Oh, this Extreme Martial Arts Gym acted pretty quickly. What were you thinking?"

Xu Qian tilted her head to look at Luo Yuan, her beautiful peach blossom eyes filled with anticipation. She did like this younger brother in front of her, but not in the romantic way; it was just admiration. After all, they weren't at that level yet, and the age gap made her somewhat resistant.

"I've thought about it, and I'll decide not to join your organization. As for my combat experience, I can ask the people at the Extreme Gym for some sparring, so I'm sorry," Luo Yuan said with some guilt, after all, the woman in front of him had helped him a lot.

"Haha, it's okay. Joining the Extreme Martial Arts Academy is fine too. The underground alliance isn't all that great either. It's just that I won't be able to eat your cooking anymore, little brother. To be honest, your cooking skills are pretty good." Xu Qian laughed nonchalantly, but the regret in her eyes betrayed her.

"Sister Qian, why don't you come and stay at my villa? It's much better than this cheap rental apartment," Luo Yuan suddenly suggested.

"Um, is little brother going to take care of his older sister, or is he trying to keep her as a mistress?" Xu Qian winked at Luo Yuan, her tone teasing.

"No, no, it's just my personal opinion," Luo Yuan quickly explained, admitting that he had only spoken offhand.

"Never mind, I'm an assassin, I'm used to being alone and need to stay hidden. If I wanted to live in a villa, I wouldn't be living here at all. I appreciate your kindness, but if we meet again in the future, please don't pretend you don't know me," Xu Qian said, waving her hand with a hint of sadness in her eyes.

Back in his bedroom, Luo Yuan recalled all his experiences in this world. It felt like a dream. This world felt so real to him, and the people here were so vibrant, especially the woman he shared an apartment with. Although he didn't know much about her, he could tell that she was a good person.

The next morning, Luo Yuan prepared breakfast for Xu Qian as usual, then silently left the Nan'an residential area with his suitcase. Xu Qian did not come out to see him off, which made Luo Yuan smile self-deprecatingly. What he did not know was that Xu Qian was actually watching his departing figure from the window.

In the early morning, at the main entrance of Mingyue Residential Area, six soldiers with live ammunition stood straight on both sides of the gate, their eyes scanning the surroundings.

"Stop the taxi!" One of the soldiers immediately raised his assault rifle and pointed it at the oncoming taxi.

"Screech!" The taxi slammed on the brakes.

Luo Yuan got out of the car. The white-haired old man at the guard post of Mingyue Community seemed to have been informed in advance. After checking his ID card and key, he let him go.