chsdbacks Chapter 55: A Huge windfall
Chapter 55: A Huge windfall
A month later, summer arrived once again.
During this period, Zhou Ye had fully adapted to his strength as a martial artist who had entered the realm of Qi, and had decided on his next training plan.
[Zhou Ye (Entry-level): 15/63]
Root bone: -1
Comprehension: +4
[Basic Data]
Life: (100/100)
Strength: +5
Agility: +10
Constitution: +1
Essence: +5
Charisma: 0
[Technique]
Intermediate Poison Skill (Mortal): Minor Success (12/200)
Small Wind and Thunder Stance (Entering the Stage): Beginner Level (32/50)
【Skill】
Basic Concealment Technique (Mortal): Beginner (0/10)
[Martial Arts]
Military Swordsmanship Ten Styles (Third-rate): Proficient (11/100)
Bull Tempering Technique (Third-rate): Beginner (0/50)
Cloud Ladder (Third-rate): Proficient (34/100)
Wind and Thunder Grappling Technique (Third-rate): Beginner (0/50)
Eight Directions Night Rain Remnants (Unranked): Great Achievement (431/500)
Basic Archery (Underachiever): Perfect (1000/1000) (+)
Basic Thrust (Underdog): Mastery (5/100)
Basic Shield Bash (Underachievable): Mastery (129/500)
Basic Hammering (Underachiever): Mastery (2/100)
Basic boxing (low-level): Proficient (0/100)
Basic Throw (Underachiever): Proficient (2/100)
Free attribute points: 1
First, there's the basic archery skill reaching max level. Maxing it out grants +1 Strength and 1 free attribute point. This time, only 2 points were awarded.
Then, I successively mastered the Wind and Thunder Grappling Hand, Eight Directions Night Rain Remnant, and Concealment Breath Technique to the beginner level. I received 1 free attribute point as a beginner reward for each of them.
Therefore, the free attribute points reached 6. 5 points were added to Constitution, reducing Constitution from 2 to 1.
Furthermore, when practicing the Small Wind and Thunder Stance, the time required to gain experience points has been reduced from 1 point every four days to 1 point every three days. This represents a significant improvement.
Thank goodness! As his physical attributes improved, Zhou Ye felt more and more like a "normal person".
Furthermore, Zhou Ye discovered that the Qi and Blood Powder contained a relatively high amount of impurities during the medication process. Although it was very effective, increasing experience points by about 5, the panel warning indicated that it would take 15 days to completely eliminate the impurities!
Otherwise, if too much impurity accumulates, there will be minor poisoning, which will gradually affect future cultivation.
The same applies to low-grade Qi and Blood Pills. However, they are much better than Qi and Blood Powder. Although they can increase experience points by about 10, they also trigger a warning on the panel—it takes 10 days to completely remove all impurities!
In other words, you can only take two packets of Qi and Blood Powder per month. When taken together, they can help increase your experience points by 10.
You can take three Qi and Blood Pills a month. When combined, they can increase your experience points by 30.
The efficiency difference is a full three times!
In fact, after obtaining the low-grade Qi and Blood Pill, Zhou Ye completely wanted to abandon the Qi and Blood Powder. But since he had already bought it, he couldn't let it go to waste, so he decided to consume all the remaining Qi and Blood Powder!
Furthermore, he already possesses 10 sets of Qi and Blood Powder and 12 low-grade Qi and Blood Pills, enough to support his cultivation for more than nine months, until he reaches the minor completion stage.
I'll wait until I've almost finished taking all of them before deciding whether to buy more!
By the way, Zhou Ye has already calculated that if he cultivates the Small Wind and Thunder Stance to the maximum level, which is to break through the barrier and gain Ming Jin, at the rate of 1 experience point every three days and taking low-grade Qi and Blood Pills, it will take less than four years, about three years and nine months.
Therefore, I can easily become a Ming Jin martial arts master before the age of 20. So there is absolutely no need to rush.
There's no need to compare him to a genius like Huang Sheng. He actually managed to reach the Ming Jin realm in a year? And with very little drug assistance? That shows how terrifying this kid is!
Another point is that once it detects something affecting cultivation, the panel will automatically issue a strong alarm. Just like this time, the panel issued a warning about the residual medicinal residue and toxins in the body.
This broken interface is like someone with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. It seems determined to correct any mistakes made during its practice!
Next came those martial arts techniques, skills, and martial arts methods.
Regarding intermediate-level poison techniques, Zhou Ye had thoroughly studied the pharmacopoeia. Furthermore, with the bonuses of +4 to Comprehension and +5 to Spirit Essence, and through numerous practice sessions of applying what he learned to other situations, his experience points had increased somewhat. He had currently reached the minor mastery level.
But I really couldn't absorb any new knowledge. I had no choice but to stop.
For his next step, Zhou Ye plans to collect various medical books and begin preparing to make various poisons, striving to further improve his intermediate-level poison skills.
My basic archery skill has finally reached the maximum level. This time, however, the "+" suffix indicates it can definitely be upgraded. But upgrading this skill to max level requires 2 free attribute points, which I can't meet yet.
I won't go into detail about the Wind and Thunder Grappling Hand technique. It's the least emphasized boxing style. After receiving the entry-level reward, Zhou Ye stopped practicing it.
But the Eight Directions Night Rain is rather strange.
After mastering the basic throwing technique, Zhou Ye fused it to the maximum level. However, to his surprise, the experience points not only didn't increase, but actually decreased significantly. Had it become a "second-rate" technique?
If I'm not mistaken, mastering top-tier martial arts requires a high level of skill and a more solid foundation. Therefore, my basic throwing fundamentals are still lacking, and I need to address that now.
Fortunately, the progress of low-level martial arts skills is quite fast, providing 18 experience points per day. Once you reach the third-rate level, you get 6 experience points per day.
However, this is understandable. Even the most top-tier martial arts techniques still start from the basics, right? From being mediocre to third-rate, second-rate, first-rate..., only then can one finally learn the top-tier martial arts techniques.
That being said, the Eight Directions Night Rain is actually not too bad; the most bizarre thing is the Concealment and Breath-Hiding Technique.
This Concealment Technique, though purchased at the price of a third-rate martial art and labeled as such, has a separate category on the character panel—Skill?
It's not a martial arts technique or a skill at all, but a skill?
However, the panel's obsessive-compulsive tendencies kicked in again. It argued that while practice could be done directly, it wouldn't achieve the best results.
This... skill book seems to mix up all three levels of content together? I'm just practicing like this without really understanding what's going on.
Therefore, the interface began to correct the errors, clearly dividing the three levels. It became the current Basic Concealment Technique (Mortal). There should be intermediate and advanced levels later.
Furthermore, the notes state that this is the second "mortal" level after the Poison Skill (Mortal)? It suggests that within the mortal stage, this person has reached an extremely high level of mastery. They have almost reached the limits of a mortal!
Of course, since this skill is so advanced, it's bound to be very difficult to master. You can only gain 2 experience points per day.
However, Zhou Ye felt a touch of schadenfreude. Had Du Keyuan, that expert, misjudged the situation? He only sold it to us for 50 taels of silver? We ended up getting a huge bargain!
I never expected this! Serves you right! You old man, you've got what you deserve!