My autobiography is definitely not a tragedy!
Chapter 665 - 417: Hidden Benefits

Chapter 665: Chapter 417: Hidden Benefits

Liang Shanbo.

"Bang!" "Hmph!"

On the stage, the man in athletic clothes was pushed back several steps by a punch, feeling a severe pain in his chest, almost unable to catch his breath.

"Sorry, you don’t meet the qualifications for the challenge. Please leave!"

The man clutched his chest, his face showing reluctance.

He had traveled a long distance here just to challenge the top expert in the world, only to be defeated by an unknown expert before even meeting him...

Helplessly, he clasped his fists in respect.

"Brother, exceptional skills, I admit defeat! May I ask your honorable name, so I know who bested me?"

The muscular man in the stretch tank top took off a black security uniform that was hanging on the ring post and flashed a big white smile.

"Liang Shanbo Security Team, Deputy Captain, Li Lei!

Security team... Deputy captain...

Man: "..."

So, I, the great senior brother of Changbai Mountain, was floored by a security team captain?

...

"Hey, can you go easy and let me fight a couple of rounds too?"

Xiang Wenlong, who had been watching from below, couldn’t help feeling a bit depressed as he saw Li Lei descend from the stage with a refreshed look on his face.

As the saying goes, no acquaintance is formed without a fight. Xiang Wenlong and Li Lei had sparred a few times and had been hanging around Liang Shanbo for days and quickly became familiar with each other.

"Go easy? I just joined the company, I have to show what I’m capable of, don’t I?

Earning such a high salary without doing anything all day, I’d always feel uneasy.

Besides, you aren’t from Liang Shanbo, why should I let you take the stage?" Li Lei chuckled.

"Our Liang Shanbo... you’ve really gotten into character quick..." Xiang Wenlong tugged at the corner of his mouth. "To think a notable expert in Baji Fist would become a security guard..."

"Easy for you to say standing there. Your Shaolin was almost listed on the stock market, so obviously you’re not short on cash.

Those of us without a background, we still need to earn our keep with our fists at the end of the day.

Being the captain here, I just need to keep an eye on the place, and during free time, I can still come to Liang Shanbo and practice my boxing.

The job is easy, the benefits are good, and not only do I get to fight, but I also get paid—way better than my previous underground boxing,"

Li Lei grabbed a towel and started wiping the gym equipment, looking completely at ease as if he belonged.

"Also, you may think Liang Shanbo is just a small security company’s training field, but didn’t you notice it’s filled with hidden dragons and crouching tigers?

Out in the open, we have Master Yan as a strong Dark Energy expert, and in secret, there’s the unfathomable Master Meng.

Every now and then, experts from various places come for a challenge...

When I spar with top-class fighters from all over the world regularly, and there’s even a chance to learn some breakthrough insights in Dark Energy from Master Yan.

Where else can you find such a good place?"

Li Lei glanced at Xiang Wenlong as he spoke.

"What do you think? You also seem pretty free. Are you interested in joining Liang Shanbo?"

"I’m not short on money," Xiang Wenlong shook his head in refusal.

"Being rich doesn’t mean you can’t lack other things. Don’t tell me you’ve been hanging around here for several days because you can’t get a ticket back to Songshan?"

Xiang Wenlong, seeing through his thoughts, suddenly felt a bit embarrassed.

Just a couple of days ago, he had regained some confidence, only for Master Yan to defeat him with Dark Energy and knock him down again.

Although he was beaten several times, for a top-notch expert, such opportunities to be ’defeated’ are incredibly valuable!

If you’re not defeated, how would you know your own shortcomings? How would you learn and improve?

In this era, which old Dark Energy experts aren’t established giants, even too old that you’d feel bad even striking them?

Finding a young Dark Energy powerhouse like Yan Weiwei, you’d have to search with a lantern all over the world.

Moreover, the opponent had just made a breakthrough, which is the best time to learn from. Sparring with such a contender, maybe you can also find inspiration for your next breakthrough?

Not to mention, behind Liang Shanbo, there lurked an even more terrifying and inscrutable ’Hero of Guanzhong.’

Maybe one day, if he feels like it, he might even give you a few tips...

"Don’t blame me for not warning you, but there are only thirteen captain positions in the Liang Shanbo Security Team.

And I’ve heard... there are hidden perks at the captain level!" Li Lei suddenly said mysteriously.

"Hidden perks? What perks?"

"Hehe! Do you know how Master Yan broke through the Dark Energy barrier?"

"How did he do it?" Xiang Wenlong asked curiously.

Li Lei leaned in and lowered his voice. "I heard... it’s related to a secret manual!"

"Secret manual?" Xiang Wenlong was stunned for a moment. "You’re not joking, right?"

"I didn’t believe it at first either, but my master heard from recent rumors in the martial arts community that the Yan family of the Twelve Road Spring Leg truly obtained a secret manual.

Now they are studying it behind closed doors like a treasure, and it’s so mysterious that even several elders who visited to borrow it weren’t allowed to see it.

Also, Master Meng accidentally let it slip when he was talking to my master last time, mentioning the words ’secret manual’!"

"Really?" Xiang Wenlong obviously still had some doubts.

"Of course! Considering Master Yan’s age, he really is quite young.

By the way, you might not know that it was just recently during a ’mountaineering meeting’ that Master Yan made his breakthrough.

The match where he broke through was the one he fought with me!"

"What?" Xiang Wenlong suddenly widened his eyes.

If they were just hearsay before, now someone was speaking from personal experience.

"In this world, are there really such miraculous secret manuals?"

He had never heard of any secret manual that could let someone directly break through to Dark Energy, not even in the Dharma Institute, which housed an extensive collection of martial arts scriptures.

"Hehe! My master said that such secret manuals really do exist in legends, and they actually come from your Shaolin!"

"What?" Xiang Wenlong was stunned for a moment. "If Shaolin has such a thing, how could I possibly not know about it?"

"Because they were lost! According to my master, he once heard from his master’s master that Dharma Ancestor’s Yijin Jing and Bone Marrow Cleansing Scripture, one improves external techniques and the other cultivates internal energy.

Combine the two, and they grant Yijin Bone Marrow Cleansing, a miraculous effect that allows rapid breakthroughs in Dark Energy."

Xiang Wenlong thought for a moment.

"Yijin Jing and Bone Marrow Cleansing Scripture... I’ve heard the elders mention them before, but sadly, Shaolin has suffered many hardships over the centuries, and many traditions have been lost or incomplete.

Even if this is true, these two books have been lost for so long, could someone actually be able to rewrite them?"

"That, I don’t know." Li Lei spread his hands.

"Uh... about that hidden benefit you mentioned earlier..."

"Hehe! Yesterday, Brother Biao invited me and Brother Ah Xing to have dog meat hotpot.

Brother Biao drank a few extra glasses and accidentally let slip that Liang Mountain harbors a ’treasure of the temple,’ which seems to be a book..."

Li Lei gave Xiang Wenlong a "you know what I mean" look.

"Gulp—" Xiang Wenlong swallowed his saliva.

This was sounding more and more plausible...

If someone had told him such a fantastic tale a few days ago, he would have slapped them right away!

Talking nonsense without taking responsibility?

But these last few days, he had not only met the young Master Yan who had broken through Dark Energy, but also the even younger, yet more terrifying Master Meng...

Even if they had been training in the womb, such achievements were hard to believe.

To say there wasn’t an expert guiding them, he wouldn’t believe it.

But if there was such a secret manual... it did seem to make sense?

"No way! With such a good thing, you’d keep it a secret if you could, why would you just tell me?"

Xiang Wenlong looked suspiciously at Li Lei.

Although they were well-acquainted, they didn’t seem to be at a heart-to-heart trust level yet.

Isn’t hogging it all much more appealing?

"Ahem!" Li Lei coughed a bit embarrassedly.

"There’s a new employee referral bonus at the company, 50,000 for a Captain level."

Xiang Wenlong: "..."

New employee referral bonus...

Are you sure you are not the Rat Association?

"Hand it over!" Xiang Wenlong held out his hand.

"What?"

"The employment application form!"

Joking aside, if there really was such a thing, even just getting a glimpse of that secret manual...

What’s being a security guard? He would even sweep floors!

What’s that saying?

If you can’t beat them, join them! It’s not shameful!