"I came to see you today because I thought that peace brings wealth. One more friend is better than one more enemy. If possible, both sides can cooperate and there is no need to make things so ugly."

Xu Sheng was not angry, he just shook his head and said, "But now that you say so, I have determined your way to make money!"

Painter Pan's eyes suddenly turned cold.

Xu Sheng just stood up and left.

Someone wanted to stop Xu Sheng.

"Bang!" But he was kicked away by Lu Ba, a thin middle-aged man next to Xu Sheng.

"Pan Jiang, your intelligence work is not up to par. Liang Dutou sends his regards to you."

Lu Ba said: "He said that he knows you have connections in the government. But Xu Sheng is Liang Dutou's man, you can only compete fairly!"

"What?" Pan Jiang and everyone around him were shocked.

"Of course I will give Liang Dutou face. Okay, let's compete fairly."

Pan Jiang's face was gloomy, and he finally said: "But, so what? I have been in the painting business in Qingyang City for fifty or sixty years. Can't I deal with a young man like you?"

Xu Sheng just smiled, said nothing, turned and left.

Another month has passed in the blink of an eye.

This month, Xu Sheng recruited some painters who were squeezed out of Pan's Painting Boat and founded 'Xu's Painting Boat'.

Relying on the unique and high-end style of his sketches and his advanced business thinking, he bundled the linked customer base with the sketching business for sale.

Soon, they snatched away all of Pan Jiang's customers and took over the entire painting market in Qingyang City, leaving no market for ink paintings for Pan Jiang.

Pan Jiang was desperate and hired someone to kill Xu Sheng!

But with Lu Ba's protection, Pan Jiang failed and was wanted by Liang Dutou.

This day.

Pan Jiang had already fallen to his knees on the ground, his palm broken by Xu Sheng's step.

"Uncle Pan, the water is too deep, you can't control it!"

Xu Sheng said calmly, "A month ago, you said you would cut off my hand like this?"

“Ahhh!” Pan Jiang screamed, “Xu Sheng, are you a human or a ghost? I spent my whole life building this business, and you destroyed it in just one month!”

"Do you know what dimensionality reduction attack means?" Xu Sheng squatted down and patted Pan Jiang's face.

"Jiang Wei killed a chicken?" Pan Jiang obviously didn't know: "A man named Jiang Wei killed a chicken? Why are you asking this?"

"???" Xu Sheng was speechless: "What I said is that I am attacking you with a dimensionality reduction attack!"

"What? You compared yourself to Jiang Wei? Which historical figure is Jiang Wei? You compared me to a chicken?"

Pan Jiang continued to roar: "Xu Sheng, you are going too far! You actually compared me to a chicken! How can you humiliate me like this! A gentleman can be killed but not humiliated!!!"

"..." Xu Sheng was speechless again: "Myna, hand him over to the government office!"

After saying that, he left.

Three days later.

Pan Jiang died suddenly in prison.

He himself said that a gentleman can be killed but not humiliated. Xu Sheng just satisfied him.

"I just obediently satisfy other people's requests. I have an annoying people-pleasing personality. I am really too kind." Xu Sheng thought to himself.

"Sir, Pan Jiang's death was caused by you, right?"

When Lu Ba heard the news, he looked at Xu Sheng and asked, "How did you do it?"

Xu Sheng would certainly not admit that he had used his knowledge of Earth's chemistry to poison Pan Jiang to death. Anyway, the government would definitely not be able to find out.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

"Myna, when will I be able to develop inner strength?"

After Xu Sheng finished a set of punches, he asked Lu Ba next to him, panting.

Lu Ba is certainly a martial arts master, but he is not from the government.

They are people from the underworld. In Earth's language, they are gangsters.

It's just that he is a gangster recruited by "Police Captain" Liang Yikun.

Xu Sheng asked Lu Ba for advice on martial arts.

Although Lu Ba would never teach others martial arts casually.

However, with the help of his money, Lu Ba taught Xu Sheng the "Scorching Sun Fist".

But when Xu Sheng practiced this boxing style, he felt that it was no different from fitness exercises on Earth.

It's just that the moves seem to be cooler, and there are more things to pay attention to when practicing, such as 'breathing', 'exerting force', etc.

Because of this, Xu Sheng even suspected that he had been cheated.

But Lu Ba himself also practiced this style of boxing.

"Young Master, although your physique is not excellent, it is actually not bad. But you started practicing too late! You are already eighteen or nineteen years old. You must start practicing martial arts from a young age!"

Lu Ba shook his head and said, "I learned martial arts since I was a child. I practiced hard every day, six hours a day, regardless of the season. It took me more than ten years to develop my internal strength! Then I practiced for another twenty years before I became a post-natal master!"

Xu Sheng has already figured out the martial arts of this world.

It's basically the same as the martial arts TV dramas we watch on Earth.

They are all the realms of internal strength, external strength, transformation of strength, acquired strength, and innate strength.

"Sir, you take care of the affairs of the pleasure boat every day, and you have to paint for various nobles everywhere. You can only squeeze out less than half an hour to practice martial arts every day, and you only practice for a short time. Of course, it is impossible for you to cultivate internal strength!"

Lu Ba added: "This level of training can only have some effect on strengthening the body!"

"Understood."

Xu Sheng nodded: "If I practice for one hour every day, it may take me ten days of practice to catch up with your one day of hard practice."

He calculated: "It took you more than ten years to develop internal strength, so it might take me more than sixty years?"

"That's right."

Lu Badao: "Unless you can put aside your business affairs and practice martial arts, practicing for more than six hours a day, you should be able to cultivate internal strength within a dozen years!"

"Then forget it."

Xu Sheng shook his head: "I'd better focus on my business and practice for half an hour or an hour every day to keep fit."

Six hours equals twelve hours!

Spend twelve hours every day practicing martial arts!

Then how would he have the time to make money?

If he didn't have enough money, how could he marry multiple wives?

How to raise a hundred children?

How to ensure that the functions of the Book of Eternal Life are effective and gain eternal life?

Moreover, the rule of law in the court is still quite good. This is not a time of chaos!

You can still survive even without martial arts skills.

In prosperous times, those heroes who violated taboos through martial arts would often be wanted and become wanted criminals.

He looks very cool, traveling around the world with a sword in hand, but he may not be that happy.

Otherwise, Lu Ba would not work under Liang Yikun.

Of course, it would be different if we encountered troubled times.

Moreover, martial arts masters seem to generally live decades longer than ordinary people.

“It is better to ensure my immortality first, and then pursue martial arts in the next life.” Xu Sheng thought to himself.

In his life, he still wants to pursue multiple wives, concubines, sons and daughters.

Just practice martial arts for an hour every day to strengthen your body.

Practice until he gets old.

You should be able to develop inner strength.

For ordinary people, this may be futile, but he has the Book of Eternal Life, which can carry these achievements to the next life.

Wait until he is reincarnated in the next life.

It would be great if one could possess the martial arts ability of internal strength from birth.

Xu Sheng asked Lu Ba again if he had heard of Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio and if he had heard of immortal cultivators.

But Lu Ba said that he had only heard of the legend and had never seen it with his own eyes.

Xu Sheng temporarily put aside his thoughts on these things.

Maybe this is just a martial arts world.

He said to himself.

"By the way, Big Brother, I have now bought a property and a house, and my painting studio is stable. I want to marry a wife."

Xu Sheng asked again: "Do you know where the matchmaker is more reliable?"

"Sir, what kind do you want?" Lu Ba asked.

Xu Sheng thought for a moment and said, "She can't be older than me, so she can't be over 18! Also, she has to be beautiful, fair-skinned, gentle, well-behaved, and preferably have big breasts and a big butt for childbearing! Being able to have children is key!"

Lu Ba was in a dilemma: "Sir, I know almost all the matchmakers in Qingyang City, but I'm afraid I can't find a matchmaker like this one! There are no matchmakers under 18 years old!"

Xu Sheng: “???”

Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

Unexpectedly, the matchmaker did not have time to find a suitable girl for Xu Sheng.

Liang Yikun called Xu Sheng over.

It turned out that he heard that Xu Sheng wanted to get married and have children.

So he wanted to introduce his niece to Xu Sheng.

Liang Yikun also has daughters, several of them. However, in order to succeed in martial arts in his early years, he stayed away from women and married and had children relatively late. Now his eldest daughter is only thirteen years old.

But his own niece is already sixteen years old!

My niece has a good appearance and good looks.