Borrowing a sword

Chapter 11 The Sword Refining Technique

"The Sword Refining Manual, 93% match rate".

Chu Huaixu was slightly surprised, not expecting it to be so high.

He also looked at the remaining jade slips, and only this "Sword Refining Manual" had a success rate higher than 90%.

Of the remaining ones, the highest is only 81%.

"That's it."

Upon opening the jade slip, Chu Huaixu saw several large characters.

"Heaven and earth are the furnace, the body is the sword, spiritual energy is used to temper and refine the body and open the energy channels."

He closed the jade slip and looked at Niu Yuanshan: "I'll choose this one."

Steward Niu nodded. There were simply too many cultivation techniques for the Qi Refining stage. Although he was an outer sect steward, it was impossible for him to know every single one.

After thinking for a moment, he took out two more booklets from his storage space and handed them to the two of them.

"These are the cultivation insights of the Ice Purification Technique and the Sword Refining Technique, respectively, written by predecessors. You can also write down any thoughts you have during your cultivation process in the booklet for future junior brothers and sisters to refer to."

"Thank you, Deacon." They took the booklet.

After doing all this, Niu Yuanshan wanted to have a private talk with Chu Huaixu, but he held back and simply pointed to the east and said, "Your accommodations are over there. Find them yourselves."

"Yes."

After the two turned and left, Steward Niu did not go into the house, but watched them go.

He stared at Chu Huaixu's retreating figure, his heart filled with mixed emotions. He was incredibly curious about this newcomer to the organization, and even if he tried to suppress it, it would immediately rise again.

Only after the two had gone far away did he return to his courtyard and enter his bedroom.

Niu Yuanshan sat cross-legged on his bed, his mind filled with Chu Huaixu.

He was so curious. You were supposed to be a handyman, so how did Li Chunsong choose you?
"I'll find an opportunity to have a talk with him?" Steward Niu thought to himself.

At this thought, he suddenly remembered that when he was doing the task of welcoming newcomers near the dense forest, he was wearing a golden mask and reprimanding the silver-masked man.

The silver-masked man had only wanted to stay and observe the fox-faced man further, but he was severely reprimanded by him.

Thinking of this, Niu Yuanshan raised his hand and slapped himself hard.

"Snapped--!"

Article 3 of the Admonitions: One should not have excessive prying thoughts about fellow members of the organization!

Chu Huaixu's bamboo house and Han Shuangjiang's bamboo house are next to each other and belong to each other as neighbors.

Their quarters were much smaller than the cow steward's.

The two walked in silence without exchanging a single word.

Farewell.

Farewell.

After saying goodbye, Chu Huaixu went into his bamboo house.

Every residence in the Taoist community has a dust-removing array, so even if no one cleans it, it remains spotless.

He took out bedding from his storage token and spread it on his bed.

He tossed the jade slip and booklet aside, not in a hurry to start cultivating.

"Add the [random attribute points] first, that's the correct order," he thought to himself.

Chu Huaixu opened his character panel and glanced at it, checking his various character attributes.

At this moment, the various attributes that came into his view were very simple.

"【Physical Strength: 1】(Upgradeable, maximum 10)."

"【Spirit Gathering: 1】(Upgradeable, maximum 10)"

"【Comprehension: 1】(Upgradeable, maximum 10)."

"【Spiritual Embryo Attribute: 0】(Upgradeable, maximum 10)."

"[Experience Points: 200]"

"【Character Level: 0】"

"[Remaining random attribute points: 1]".

Now, whenever he uses this 1 random attribute point, it will be randomly added to the above attributes.

As the name suggests, physique represents physical strength such as health, defense, strength, and speed.

The higher the physique stat, the more these stats will improve with each level gained.

Gathering spiritual energy represents the spiritual power within the body. Only with spiritual power can one cast spells, that is, unleash skills.

The higher the Spirit Gathering value, the greater the increase in spiritual power within the character for each level gained. When mana is depleted, mana regeneration also occurs faster.

At the same time, some ultimate moves have requirements for mana. If your total spiritual power is not enough, you can't even release it once.

Comprehension is linked to skills, which are the techniques of cultivators.

Take Chu Huaixu's level 49 character from Spring and Autumn Mountain as an example; his main skill is called "Suppressing Evil".

This skill features black flames blooming like lotus flowers, creating a spectacular special effect.

However, one must have a comprehension level higher than 5 to learn it; this is an insurmountable threshold. In addition, cultivators in the Xuanhuang Realm learn techniques in four levels: Initial Understanding, Minor Success, Major Success, and Great Perfection.

Players need to use experience points to upgrade their skills, which are also divided into levels 1-4.

At the same time, the higher your [Comprehension], the less experience points you need to upgrade your skills each time. The lower your [Comprehension], the more experience points you need to upgrade them.

Some skills of too high a grade cannot be upgraded if the [Comprehension] is too low, even if you have experience points.

Chu Huaixu's "Suppressing Evil" has only reached level 3. To reach the maximum level, he needs to raise his [Comprehension] to 7 points.

The [Spiritual Embryo Attribute] is somewhat similar to [Comprehension], except that it is linked to cultivation techniques.

Cultivators in the Xuanhuang Realm absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth by circulating their cultivation techniques.

Players, on the other hand, infuse experience points into their cultivation techniques.

Once it's full, it can be upgraded.

However, players can also AFK cultivate after logging off; they can simply sit cross-legged and the cultivation technique will begin to circulate.

The higher the [Spiritual Embryo Attribute], the more cultivation experience points you will gain from AFK cultivation.

Similar to [Comprehension], some powerful cultivation techniques also have requirements for [Spiritual Embryo Attribute].

The amount of experience points required to upgrade a skill is also linked to this attribute.

If your [spiritual fetus attribute] is not up to standard, you won't even be able to level up your character!

If your spirit embryo attribute is only 1, then your level cap is 19. If your spirit embryo attribute is only 2, then your level cap is 29.

In the parlance of the Xuanhuang Realm, that means your talent is too poor, and you'll be stuck in the first realm for life, with no chance of reaching the second realm.

Simply put, it's just digitizing some of the cultivation systems in the Xuanhuang Realm.

"Han Shuangjiang's spiritual embryo is very likely to be at level 9, or even the maximum level of level 10!"

"In other words, she will level up very quickly because the experience points required will be very low, and the upper limit will be very high. She won't be stuck at a certain level for the rest of her life."

"She almost never experiences a bottleneck period!" Chu Huaixu was incredibly envious.

Why is the Dao Ancestor of the Daoist sect so strong that his opponents even wanted to send someone to defile him? How desperate must he be to resort to such a desperate measure?

Because he possesses a pure Yang body! And he is also a level 10 spiritual embryo!
"That tall, long-legged guy next door, whose talent is comparable to that of a Dao Ancestor, should have already started cultivating, right?" Chu Huaixu wondered to himself.

He wasn't in a hurry; he wanted to add 1 point of [Random Attribute Point] and 1 point of [Spiritual Embryo Attribute] first.

"Let's have a lottery first!" Chu Huaixu rubbed his hands together. "Add more to the prize pool!"

A giant turntable, visible only to him, appeared and began to spin.

In the roulette wheel, the areas for all other attributes are balanced, except for the Spirit Embryo category, which is extremely small with a probability of only 3%.

"Stop!" he thought to himself.

"[Ding! Congratulations! You have gained attribute points - Physique!]"

Chu Huaixu narrowed his eyes slightly, pondered for a moment, and then thought, "Physical strength? That works too."

It doesn't matter what you add at the beginning, as the dish is already quite balanced.

"Random doesn't matter, since I didn't get [free attribute points], so I can't allocate them myself."

His level 49 character had the highest [Spirit Gathering] bonus.

Whenever I take a girl to a dungeon, I rely on my thick mana bar and abundant spirit to throw out skills like I don't need mana. The main thing is to have explosive special effects and look cool.

Besides [Gathering Spirit], he added more [Comprehension].

Because skills like weapon crafting, alchemy, and talisman crafting are all professional skills and are also related to comprehension.

You can make money by refining weapons, selling equipment; you can make pills, selling elixirs; and you can make talismans.

Chu Huaixu's main focus is on pragmatism: either making money from women or from players to achieve upward social mobility.

—He really wants to improve!

Therefore, physical fitness is something he is relatively unfamiliar with.

"That 1 point of [Spiritual Embryo Attribute] cannot be added yet; the character level must be raised to level 1 first."

As mentioned before, the Spirit Embryo attribute is 1, and the character's level cap is 19.

The spirit fetus has an attribute of 0, and its maximum level is 9.

Therefore, the most urgent task is to learn the techniques for the Qi Refining stage.

Don't forget, he still has 200 experience points to use, which is more than enough to level up.

Chu Huaixu picked up the jade slip containing the "Sword Refining Manual" and the booklet.

After thinking about it, he decided to flip through the booklet first.

"The Sword Refining Manual is essentially a book, and this booklet is a collection of notes left by our predecessors, which is roughly equivalent to the comment section of this book."

"Of course I'll check the comments section first! To see what everyone's opinions are." Chu Huaixu felt that this was the right order.

He opened the booklet to the first page with great anticipation.

On the first page, there were only two large, flamboyant characters, written somewhat hastily.

"Don't practice!"

(End of this chapter)