“Could it be that after witnessing so much bloody slaughter in the forest these past two days, I’ve already gotten used to it?” Brian Carter gave himself an excuse, then turned around once more to look at the dead people on the ground.

“I wonder if I can save one more.”

Chapter 4: This Is Too Ridiculous (Part 2)

Brian Carter carefully poured a little crystal healing potion onto the body of a dead person, but this time, the miraculous event did not happen again. He realized these people were truly dead, and even his crystal healing potion couldn’t bring them back to life.

Brian Carter cautiously put away the magical potion, stood up, and looked around. A faint smile slowly appeared on his face: “Not bad, the people on this planet not only look very similar to me, but they also speak Chinese. That means there’s nothing to be afraid of. As long as I move forward carefully, I’ll eventually find a way out.”

Suddenly, Brian Carter remembered how, in the fantasy world, when he obtained a secret manual, if he wanted to practice it, he would just tap the manual and the book would turn into a white light and enter his body—there was no way to actually open and read these manuals.

Thinking of this, Brian Carter casually opened a copy of “Martial Battle Qi” and began to read it carefully. The first page introduced the various acupoints and the dantian in the human body. As he flipped further, Brian Carter found that the initial pages contained diagrams for cultivating internal energy, while the later pages showed combat stances and techniques for wielding a blade.

“Is this for real?”

Brian Carter picked up the steel blade from the dead man’s hand and, following the stance in the diagram, swung it down. To his surprise, the movement felt much smoother than usual.

Brian Carter stared blankly at the “Martial Battle Qi” in his hand. “Could this really be a secret manual?”

A gentle breeze blew by, and Brian Carter sobered up a bit. Regardless of whether he was in a game or not, and whether this “Martial Battle Qi” was a real secret manual, it was clear that this thing could indeed help him, someone unable to gain experience points, to improve his chances of survival.

From deep in the forest came a few more beastly roars. With a sense of crisis, Brian Carter climbed up a thick tree again. When he reached a fork in the branches, he was delighted to find a natural tree hollow—truly the best place to hide from wild beasts.

After settling into the tree hollow, Brian Carter was about to flip through “Martial Battle Qi” again when he suddenly paused and whispered, “I can read this one, but I wonder if I can read the ‘Five Elements Battle Energy Manual’?”

The “Five Elements Battle Energy Manual” was currently the highest-level martial arts technique in the fantasy world. Officially, it was classified as a divine-level technique, which was leagues above the grassroots-level “Martial Battle Qi.”

Brian Carter quickly found the “Five Elements Battle Energy Manual” in his spatial bracelet. Normally, this divine-level martial art could only be learned by holding it and tapping it, but now, just like “Martial Battle Qi,” he could actually open it and see what was written inside.

Opening to the first page of the “Five Elements Battle Energy Manual,” he found no explanations of acupoint routes—almost all the pages were blank, except for a single line of small characters on the first page: “To master divine power, one must cultivate the ‘Only Me’ technique. Achieve supreme mastery, and the secret formula will reveal itself.”

“Only Me”? The “Only Me Supreme Qi”? Brian Carter looked puzzled, and casually tossed the “Five Elements Battle Energy Manual” back into his spatial bracelet. After rummaging around for a while, he finally found the “Only Me Supreme Qi” manual that had been buried at the bottom of a box for a long time.

This “Only Me Supreme Qi” was somewhat similar to “Martial Battle Qi.” The first page also introduced the various acupoints and the dantian in the human body. As he flipped further, Brian Carter found that the internal energy circulation diagrams recorded here were completely different from those in “Martial Battle Qi,” and the combat stances and blade techniques in the later pages were also entirely different.

According to the book, every person should have at least one power source point in their body. Some geniuses could even have two, or even three power source points.

Of course, having more power source points wasn’t necessarily a good thing. Others only needed to fill one power source point, and then they could expand it and enter the so-called second stage of cultivation, reaching a higher level. Not only would their battle qi grow faster, but it would also become purer.

People with two power source points would be a bit slower in this regard. They had to fill both power source points, which usually took twice as long as filling just one.

However, after entering the second stage of cultivation, at the same level, those with two power source points would be much stronger and more enduring than those with only one.

It’s just that people with two power source points in their bodies were extremely rare. Out of tens of millions, there might not even be one person with two power source points.

“Huh? This is actually a bit similar to the settings in the fantasy world.”

A hint of surprise appeared in Brian Carter’s eyes. The fantasy world also had the concept of power source points, and the top player’s ID was precisely someone with two power source points.

“So, the monsters in this world are a bit like those in the game, and even the power source points are so similar? Could it really be a coincidence?” Brian Carter continued flipping through the “Only Me Supreme Qi,” soon becoming absorbed by the descriptions in the later pages.