After Xia Qingqing finished eating and returned to her room, she saw a new unread message on the system panel. When she opened it, she found that it was a friend request.
Unbeknownst to her, she had successfully unlocked the fifth trading dimension, but because she did not actively match a trading dimension this time, the system automatically matched her with an "Ancient Martial Arts Dimension".
However, the decision of whether to add the other person as a friend is still in Xia Qingqing's hands, which is quite humane.
And because this wasn't a match she actively sought out, she has one more chance to actively seek out a match.
Xia Qingqing thought about it and still chose to agree. The world she was matched with might not be better than the 'Ancient Martial Arts World', so she was too lazy to bother.
After she clicked to add a friend, the other party sent her a video call invitation shortly afterward.
A man who looked to be around thirty years old and had a somewhat rugged appearance appeared on the system panel screen. This was Xia Qingxin's newly matched friend—Fan Sheng from the Ancient Martial Arts World.
Fan Sheng was both surprised and nervous when he saw Xia Qingqing. He had unfortunately encountered a group of wild boars while hunting in the mountains that day. He would have been more confident if it was just one wild boar, but a group of wild boars was too risky.
Just as he was about to turn and run away, he tripped over a stone and fell, his knee immediately bleeding. A strange voice suddenly appeared in his mind, but he was in such a hurry to escape that he didn't pay attention to it.
Only after climbing up a big tree did he have the mind to study the strange voice in his mind.
Fan Sheng talked to the thing in his head for a long time before he finally understood that when he fell, his blood dripped onto the stone, activating the system, the Interdimensional Trading System.
This thing called the system allows him to trade with people from other dimensions.
Fan Sheng followed the system's instructions with some skepticism and matched with his first interdimensional friend, but nothing happened after waiting for a long time.
He was initially skeptical of what the system said, but it wasn't until he saw Xia Qingqing that he truly believed in the system's magic.
"Hello, Mr. Fan. I wonder what kind of deal you'd like to make with me?" Xia Qingqing greeted Fan Sheng with a smile.
"Um, I have some game I hunted myself, and I'd like to exchange it for some silver with you. I wonder if you need it?" Fan Sheng said somewhat awkwardly, his hands tightly gripping the hem of his clothes, which showed how nervous he was.
Fan Sheng is really short of money right now. In another half month, the Jingwu Academy in the county will be recruiting students. If he can't raise the tuition fees, his eldest son, Fan Siyuan, will not be able to enroll this year.
The tuition fee for Jingwu Academy is 100 taels a year. Fan Sheng has already saved 80 taels. He must raise 20 taels of silver within half a month, which is a great challenge for him.
Fan Siyuan should have started school last year, but his mother suddenly fell seriously ill, spending almost all of the family's savings. In the end, not only did she not recover, but the family's savings were also completely gone.
What's most remarkable is that Fan Siyuan will be 8 years old this year. The martial arts school only accepts students aged 5 to 8. Once they are over 8 years old, it means they have missed the best stage for martial arts training. Even if their families can afford the tuition, the martial arts school will not accept them.
"Prey?" Xia Qingqing repeated subconsciously. She didn't seem to need any, since she still had a lot of prey that Ali had given her in her system warehouse, and she couldn't finish them all in a short time.
Fan Sheng realized that Xia Qingqing wasn't interested in the prey, and he immediately became anxious.
"Miss Xia, you can see these are all the game I just hunted, they're all very fresh," Fan Sheng said, eagerly picking up a wild rabbit to show Xia Qingqing.
He used to supply these prey to a restaurant in the county, but the restaurant has been driving down prices more and more recently, and he no longer wants to do business with them. Just then, this thing called the system appeared, and he thought he would try to see if he could sell his prey to other dimensions as the system suggested.
If Xia Qingqing wasn't interested in these prey, then he didn't know what he could offer in exchange, since he was just an ordinary hunter with no other skills besides hunting.
Xia Qingqing shook her head again: "But I don't lack prey. Isn't the plane you're in an ancient martial arts plane? Don't you have any martial arts manuals or anything like that?"
She was very interested in martial arts manuals. Although she had been practicing the Interstellar Body Tempering Technique that Glek taught her, the body tempering technique mainly focused on strengthening the body in the early stages. It would be more effective if she could practice it in conjunction with some martial arts moves.
Upon hearing Xia Qingqing's words, Fan Sheng hesitated before speaking, "Miss Xia, are you interested in martial arts? I... I do know a set of fist techniques, but it's only a low-grade Yellow level technique."
"Furthermore, this set of boxing techniques has some drawbacks. Practicing it for a long time can cause irreversible damage to the body... If you don't mind these, I can use this set of boxing techniques to make a deal with you."
After he finished speaking, he waited cautiously for Xia Qingqing's reply. Only poor people like them would be willing to practice such a low-grade Yellow-level boxing technique; people with a little status would look down on it.
Otherwise, why would he have gone to such lengths to save money to send his son to the Jingwu Academy in the county, because only in this way could he have a chance to change his son's fate?
Even Fan Sheng himself didn't want his son to learn this style of boxing, nor did he want to deceive young girls just to make money.
Even though he knew that Xia Qingqing would most likely not like this boxing style after she understood it, he still truthfully pointed out all its drawbacks.
"What do you mean by 'lower grade Yellow level'? Are all these cultivation techniques graded?" Xia Qingqing asked Fan Sheng curiously.
Fan Sheng listened to her question and patiently explained it to her.
The ancient martial arts world he was in was somewhat similar to the ancient world Xia Qingqing lived in. Both were ruled by imperial power, but unlike some ancient worlds that valued literature over martial arts, the people here respected martial arts.
Regardless of age or gender, anyone with a talent for martial arts can learn it.
Of course, social classes exist in every world. The higher the status, the more powerful the martial arts manuals and internal energy cultivation methods that people can access. Most ordinary people can only access relatively basic martial arts.
The martial arts manuals and internal energy cultivation methods in the ancient martial arts world are divided into four levels: Heaven, Earth, Profound, and Yellow. Each level is further divided into three grades: upper, middle, and lower.
Heavenly and Earthly level techniques are basically controlled by royalty, powerful families, and top sects. Profound level techniques are in the hands of wealthy families or martial arts academies. Ordinary people can only come into contact with Yellow level techniques at most.
After listening to this, Xia Qingqing nodded in understanding. So, the set of fist techniques that Fan Sheng practiced was the worst type among the martial arts manuals.
Knowing this, she immediately lost interest in learning. Although she didn't necessarily need to learn the most advanced martial arts manuals, she didn't want anything that would harm her body.
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