William combed through his mories, studying the tis when the change occurred in his ridians.
Each speck of light was slightly larger than the previous one, leading him to make a guess he felt would be proven correct. What he gathered already pointed in that direction.
While the Lung ridian seed to skip the stage where the Qi was a fog in varying stages of denseness, he wrote that off as a consequence of changing his cultivation technique to Horizon’s Seeker. Even if it wasn’t, it seed like an anomaly compared to the following three ridians.
The Heart, Stomach, and Liver ridians all acted in a similar manner. They all had a predictable path. A thin wisp of Qi spread throughout the ridian before it slowly changed to a thick fog, then ca the speck once it reached a certain point.
More importantly, he could pinpoint the range his Spirit attribute was at when the ridians rejected additional Qi.
The Lung ridian did this when his Spirit was in the high twenties. The Heart ridian around sixty.
As for the most recent one, the Stomach ridian, couldn’t be much more than a hundred and ten Spirit. The rejection occurred with barely any of the new Qi absorbed.
William thought about it carefully. The Spirit needed for each following rejection increased drastically, or at least it seed that way with what he had just recalled.
There was far too little data to draw any patterns from, but if it continued, he guessed that the Liver ridian would reject any additional Qi when his Spirit was around two hundred.
The only way to test this out was to assign his unused points.
Points: 303
William had plenty to spare, but he would need to use a quarter of it just to see if he was correct.
… This was not the move.
He had to keep repeating that to himself since it seed there were no other benefits to be had, even if he was proven correct.
But on the other hand, this was the Spirit attribute. How much could it set him back if it turned out to be a suboptimal idea?
In the worst case, he would be able to recover the seventy points that would be spent in seven levels. A benefit of the Foundation Establishnt Realm is that each level-up gave him ten stat points instead of the five he had beco used to.
William needed to find out.
[ 40 Spirit]
[Modified | Spiritual Energy]
[Spiritual Energy Capacity | 650 —> 850]
He closed his eyes, cautiously guiding the newly added Qi into the Liver ridian. Everything was absorbed without issue. As expected, the thinly spread wisp of Qi in the ridian thickened into a transparent fog.
It wasn’t enough.
He added more, far less than before, to ensure he wouldn’t miss the crossing point.
[ 20 Spirit]
[Modified | Spiritual Energy]
[Spiritual Energy Capacity | 850 —> 950]
The sa thing happened. The Qi inside the ridian beca more dense but still showed no sign of forming the speck of light.
Again.
[ 10 Spirit]
[Modified | Spiritual Energy]
[Spiritual Energy Capacity | 950 —> 1000]
There was still no rejection. His Spirit had already reached two hundred. He had to think if his assumption was way off.
William decided to try one more ti before letting it go.
[ 10 Spirit]
[Modified | Spiritual Energy]
[Spiritual Energy Capacity | 1000 —> 1050]
Even though the past several tries had been uneventful, his guard was still up. The Liver ridian absorbed all of the Qi just as easily as before, making him think for the briefest of monts that he would need to give up.
The appearance of a dim light in the center of the fog of Qi was sudden, and before he could process it, all of the Qi in the ridian started to collapse rapidly toward the center.
Soon, the only thing left was the speck of light in the center of a mostly empty Liver ridian.
It seed that William had found his exact number. To test it, he added one point to Spirit.
[ 1 Spirit]
[Modified | Spiritual Energy]
[Spiritual Energy Capacity | 1050 —> 1055]
The speck of light in the Liver ridian pulsed in warning as he directed the minuscule amount of Qi to pass by. He proceeded to lead it to the Kidney ridian, the last one which had been untouched till now.
William opened his eyes and exhaled slowly before a chuckle escaped him. That gave him the Spirit he needed to add to repeat the process in the Kidney ridian.
Working backward, he calculated the Spirit required to ‘fill’ the Lung ridian. It was twenty-five.
The Heart ridian needed ten more than that, totaling thirty-five.
Twenty more for the Stomach ridian, totaling fifty-five.
This continued with each subsequent ridian. A geotric progression that quickly made the Spirit required reach to unreasonable numbers. He supposed he should be happy there were only five major ridians to worry about.
Still, it was massive.
Three hundred and eighty-five. That was what his Spirit attribute needed to be to fill the Kidney ridian.
He could do it right now, but that would require depleting nearly eighty percent of his unused points. Unthinkable, but that was alright. Ti was on his side.
If he really was in such a rush, it might be possible to hunt those subhumans who thought they could walk the demonic path without issue. Taking out a group of that trash would be more than enough.
William blinked, realizing his heart was beating faster than it should. Simply thinking of those walking at sacks of experience points made him furious.
He shook his head to rid his mind of them. As he ntioned to Elder Yu, it would be doing himself a disservice to spare a thought to the likes of them… when they weren’t in range for an easy kill, of course.
“Cultivation is a waste,” William said out loud to get himself back on track. “I need to practice my martial skills.”
“Would you like to exit cultivation mode?”
That was a convenient side effect of talking to himself.
“Yes.”
The Qi Refining room transford. His surroundings were suddenly depleted of the thick Qi, the soft light changing into sothing much brighter and lit up the dull, grey room.
It allowed William to see the arrays carved into the walls before they started to glow a brilliant blue.
[External force is affecting the user’s mind]
That was a familiar alert.
The dull room disappeared from his vision and was replaced with endless grassland. Similar to the Qi Refining room in Xuanjing City.
“State the desired level of your opponents.”
William kept his mouth shut. He couldn’t say he wasn’t surprised by a disembodied voice speaking to him, but it wasn’t the oddest thing he had seen so far in this world.
As for what the voice told him, that would greatly depend on which skill he would be practicing. He wanted to focus on [Force Multiplier], but that seed counterproductive since he already had that hundred percent next to it… not that he knew what it stood for.
He pulled up that subnu to confirm it for the first ti in a while.
Martial Skills (4):
1. Force Multiplier (100%)
2. Thunderous Palm (90%)
3. Thunderous Kick (90%)
4. Earth-Shaking Stomp (70%)
William stared blankly, wondering when the compatibility his weaker skills had increased in percentage. The last ti he had seen them, they were below fifty percent.
It certainly wasn’t from practice unless it counted the killing spree he went on with the mobs in the Shard.
At the very least, it made his decision easy. He wanted to see if there were any changes to his basic martial skills.
But there was sothing William wanted to try before it slipped his mind again.
“What does the percentage next to the martial skills an?” He asked out loud.
“Query not applicable. State the desired level of your opponents.”
Whatever controlled the room answered him instead of the system. As was expected. There was a reason he often forgot to ask the system sothing.
It was a waste of effort.
“Give an opponent in Early Stage Foundation Establishnt Realm.”
“Accepted.”
A humanoid opponent appeared around a hundred feet away. He could have chosen sothing higher for a better match, but that was for later.
William wanted an easy fight to test out his weaker martial skills.
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