Thinking of this, he realized he needed to carefully consider his own assets.

Just now, he had already confirmed that, apart from the Shushan Sect’s residence and a signboard, his cheap master had left him with nothing else.

As for some odds and ends, valuables, and coins, those should all be in his Emily's hands at the moment—he figured Emily probably didn’t have much either, since the place he was in now was far from luxurious, in fact, it was rather shabby.

Of course, all this was within William Clark's expectations. Just from the pitiful sight of a sect reduced to only two people, he could guess that the Shushan Sect didn’t have any assets left. Not to mention, they had now been driven out of their old home and were left homeless...

“In that case, it looks like I’ll have to find a way to make money to support myself in the future!”

He thought that if he hadn’t transmigrated, he’d probably be worrying about finding a job after graduation right now! In this sense, his life trajectory hadn’t changed much—he still had to work hard for his future.

However, compared to his original world, this one seemed more suited to him. After all, he had learned quite a bit of martial arts before, and was “battle-hardened.” If he were to make a living in the martial world, maybe he’d be more “successful” than in his previous world. At least, judging from the training scenes he’d just recalled from his dreams, those martial arts didn’t seem much more advanced than what he’d learned before.

Thinking of this, William Clark couldn’t help but give a wry smile: “Who would’ve thought, I’d already decided never to get involved in this stuff again, and yet such an accident happened!” Remembering the things he’d said to his good brothers in the past, William Clark could only sigh at the unpredictability of life.

With a bitter smile, he clenched his fist, and William Clark inadvertently caught sight of the ring on his finger, which suddenly reminded him of the thin piece of cloth that had fallen to the ground earlier.

“That’s right, I almost forgot about that!”

He flipped off the bed, the movement causing a dull pain in his chest again. Gritting his teeth, William Clark cursed under his breath: “That palm strike didn’t look like much, but who knew it’d be so powerful. Could it be that what injured me was the legendary inner force?”

Thinking of inner force, William Clark suddenly started looking forward to his future life, because if this world really had inner force, then it meant he could be like those people in the novels he’d read, leaping over rooftops and scaling walls.

“When I master some peerless martial arts, I’ll come back and take revenge on you bastards who stole our territory!”

Clutching his chest and enduring the pain, he picked up the thin piece of cloth from the ground. Just those two steps left William Clark feeling completely drained, so he had to sit down by the table and spread the cloth out in front of him to see if there was anything special about it.

And with just one look, William Clark was dumbfounded.

The cloth wasn’t big, about the size of a page, and William Clark could spread it out completely with one palm. There were indeed some things on it: three human figures in different poses, and it was clear at a glance that the three poses were connected in sequence.

The small characters beside them made it even clearer what the key points of each pose were, so this piece of cloth really wasn’t mysterious at all. Basically, even someone who’d never practiced martial arts could tell this was a martial arts manual!

William Clark wasn’t stupid, and both he and this body had some foundation, so it wasn’t hard for him to recognize it as a manual—he could even tell at a glance that it was a sword technique manual.

What made William Clark embarrassed was the line of large characters at the top of the cloth, indicating the name of the martial art. Written there in bold were seven characters: 夺命连环三仙剑.

Maybe many people wouldn’t know what these seven characters meant?

But for a transmigrator—especially one who had lived through the age of wuxia, xuanhuan, and even the web novel era, bombarded by all kinds of stories—these seven characters were all too familiar.

As one of the Jin Yong school’s wuxia novels, in “The Smiling, Proud Wanderer,” this “Deadly Linked Three Immortal Sword” was the famous killing move of the Huashan Sect’s Sword Branch. For countless fans of wuxia novels, especially Jin Yong fans, it was a household name, as familiar as could be.

What’s more, in the early days of online gaming, there was a game based on Jin Yong’s fourteen novels, and for a long time, this sword technique was a required killing move for the Huashan Sect.

And William Clark, a big fan of Jin Yong’s novels, happened to have played this game, and even had a Huashan Sect character—he just chose the less popular Qi Branch at the time and never used this sword technique.

Still, that didn’t stop him from knowing all about it.

The Deadly Linked Three Immortal Sword—calling it a sword technique is less accurate than calling it a sword move.

This move only had one move, but it consisted of three continuous forms, seamlessly connected. Once unleashed, the target would be either dead or gravely injured (of course, that’s obvious—if you get hit, you’re either dead or injured).

The three forms were linked together, and once the swordsman seized the opportunity to use them, the opponent would have a hard time defending, and would almost always end up tragically defeated by this move.

In “The Smiling, Proud Wanderer,” it was said that during the battle between the Sword and Qi branches, the Sword Branch used this move to kill many Qi Branch disciples, showing that while simple, it was indeed effective.

“Could this really be the Three Immortal Sword from ‘The Smiling, Proud Wanderer’?”