Chapter 149 149: Expensive Progress.

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His breakthrough didn't cause much of a discomfort and loss of control for him compared to his last one. With his breakthrough to the ninth transformation, his strength had moved from (8 × 3) to (9 × 3) which is just from 24 to 27. It is a 12.5% increase to his power. It is a significant increase, but it is one that he can handle easily. He was more concerned about his karma situation for level 4 of the Mountain Karma. He had increased the amount of bread he brought daily from 5,000 loaves to 10,000 loaves. This increased his daily expenditure on bread from 1 gold coin to 2 gold coins. But it also increased the amount of karma he earned daily from his bread charity from 12,500 to 25,000. He spent 1,460 gold coins on bread in two years. This is 4.87 times more than what he spends on rent for his house. This is despite moving to a bigger house on the second street of Agate City and paying a rent of 150 gold coins per year. He moved to the second street because of improved security. He wanted a more secure living place after he started to teach the advanced mana breathing technique for free and began spending two gold coins on bread every day. He had actually wanted to increase his daily budget on bread to 5 good coins per day. That way, he will be able to earn 62,500 karma per day. But he didn't do that because it will certainly draw the attention of cultivators at the second mortal coil, and it won't be the crippled ones. If he had spent 5 gold coins on bread every day for two years, he would have spent 3,650 gold coins in that period of time. That would surely have drawn the attention of very powerful people. He knows that for sure because even though he stuck to 2 gold coins per day and moved to a more secure part of the city, he was still robbed at night. Many people, both mercenaries and dojo masters, attacked him at night. These people were at the ninth transformation, and sometimes, they came in groups in an attempt to overwhelm him. They thought that since he was generous and insisted on wasting so much money on charity, they would come over to his place at night and gently suggest a more productive outlet for his money. Unfortunately for them, he is very stubborn and extremely set in his ways. He was unwilling to change his mind no matter the amount of gentle persuasion. So they had to fight. It was all his fault, really. He feels sorry about the fight and the fact that he killed them all and gave their corpses to Roar to eat. They are the main reason why Roar grew up so fast and reached the seventh transformation in a little more than two years. Even if no one was going to attack him for spending that much money on bread, which he gives people for free, there is also the fact that he can't afford the cost. He earns most of his money from robbing people in the city. He liberates people at night and uses the money he earns from his heists to earn more karma during the day. But there are only so many people he can rob before the city reaches its limit of tolerance and sends a second coil cultivator after him. He had to slow down his robbing spree. Even if he didn't stop and managed to earn that much money, 3,650 good coins on bread is becoming too much to spend on bread. First of all, 5 gold coins of bread will be 25,000 loaves of bread daily. That will take a long time and resources to purchase, transport, and distribute every single day. Distributing bread was just becoming inefficient. It would also only get him 65,000 karma per day. Compared to the 100,000 karma he was getting from his dojo per day for free, giving out bread just wasn't worth the time and expenses anymore. So he decided to find another, more efficient way to earn Karma. At the very least, he had to find a more lucrative and less risky source of money if he is to continue with his bread charity. He earned approximately 130,000 karma per day in these two years. 100,000 karma came from his dojo, 25,000 karma came from his bread charity, and 5,000 karma came from him liberating slaves at night. So he earned about 95,160,000 for those two years. That makes 9.5% of the total amount of karma he needs to reach level 4 of Mountain Karma. He made that much Karam in 2 years. So it will take a total of 10.5 years for him to reach level 4 if things continue at this rate. He has spent 2 years already, so he has 8.5 years left before he reaches level 4. Apart from the increase in his strength, he has also increased his proficiency in his techniques. All of them have reached 90% and above it. One of them, the savage sword weapon technique, has even reached 99%. It can go further until he gains perfect control of his power. The breathing, movement, and fighting techniques have all reached their limit. He can still push them to 95% at most. But that will take a lot of time. Continuing to train them at this point is no longer inefficient. Even if he trains them, the best he can reach is 95%. He will need a flash of inspiration for him to overcome that limit and reach the perfect control of power needed for the tenth transformation. What he should do now is get the force diagram. That means he has to go back to hunting as soon as possible. Fortunately, Roar has reached the seventh transformation. He can be used as a hunting partner. So he began hunting again.

Chapter 149 149: Expensive Progress.

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