"Refining Sword Formulas, compatibility 93%."
Chu Huaixu felt a slight surprise; he hadn't expected it to be so high.
He also checked the remaining jade scrolls and only this "Refining Sword Formulas" was above 90%.
The others varied, the highest being 81%.
"I'll choose this one."
Upon opening the jade scroll, Chu Huaixu saw a few large characters.
"The heavens and earth are the furnace, the body is the sword, spiritual qi tempers, body refining and acupoint opening."
He closed the jade scroll and looked at Niu Yuanshan, "I'll choose this one."
Steward Niu nodded; there are far too many cultivation techniques for the Acupoint Opening Stage. Although he was an Outer Sect Steward, he couldn't possibly be familiar with all of them.
After a moment of thought, he took out two booklets from his storage space and handed them to the pair.
"These are the cultivation insights of 'Ice Purity Formulas' and 'Refining Sword Formulas', written by predecessors. During your cultivation, you can also write down your thoughts in the booklets for future junior disciples to reference."
"Thank you, Steward." They accepted the booklets.
Having done all this, Niu Yuanshan initially intended to have a private chat with Chu Huaixu, but he restrained himself. Instead, he pointed in the east direction and said, "Your residences are over there, you may find them on your own."
"Yes."
After they turned and left, Steward Niu did not enter the house but saw them off instead.
He looked at the back of Chu Huaixu with a myriad of emotions, his curiosity about this new member of the organization was overwhelming, even if he forced himself to suppress it, it would quickly rise again.
Only when the pair had gone far did he return to his courtyard and enter his bedroom.
Niu Yuanshan sat cross-legged on his bed, his mind full of Chu Huaixu.
He was exceedingly curious. You were supposed to be here as a servant, how did Li Chunsong come to notice you?
"Find a chance to talk to him?" Steward Niu mused.
At this thought, he suddenly remembered the escort task by the forest, where he wore a golden mask, and his reprimands to the silver-masked man.
Back then, the silver-masked man wanted to stay and observe the fox-faced man further, but he had been severely reprimanded for it.
Thinking of this, Niu Yuanshan raised his large hand and slapped himself hard.
"Pop——!"
Precepts Article Three: Do not harbor excessive curiosity about fellow members within the organization!
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Chu Huaixu's bamboo house was next to Han Shuangjiang's, making them neighbors.
Their residences were much smaller than Steward Niu's.
Along the way, the two had no conversation, walking quietly.
"Farewell."
"Farewell."
After bidding each other goodbye, Chu Huaixu entered his bamboo house.
Every residence in the Daoist Sect had a dust-removal array, so even if no one cleaned, it remained spotless.
He took bedding from the storage token and laid it on his bed.
The jade scroll and booklet were tossed aside, as he was not in a hurry to cultivate.
"Adding the random attribute points first is the correct order," he thought.
Chu Huaixu opened his Character Panel to take a look at his various character attributes.
At the moment, the attributes before his eyes were very simple.
"[Physique: 1] (Upgradeable, max 10)."
"[Gathering Spirit: 1] (Upgradeable, max 10)"
"[Comprehension: 1] (Upgradeable, max 10)."
"[Spiritual Embryo Attribute: 0] (Upgradeable, max 10)."
"[Experience Points: 200]."
"[Character Level: Level 0]."
"[Remaining Random Attribute Points: 1]."
Now, if he uses this 1 point of random attribute, it will randomly be added to one of the above attributes.
As the name suggests, Physique represents health, defense, strength, speed, and other physical attributes.
The higher the Physique value, the more these attributes increase with each character level gained.
Gathering Spirit signifies the spiritual power within, necessary for spellcasting, or skill use.
The higher the Gathering Spirit value, the greater the spiritual power increase with each level gained. When the power is low, the recovery rate is also faster.
Additionally, some powerful skills have a power requirement, and without enough total spiritual power within, they can't be cast even once.
Comprehension is linked to skills, which are the techniques of cultivators.
Take for example, Chu Huaixu's Level 49 main character from Spring and Autumn Mountain, who primarily practices a skill called 'Extinguishing Evil'.
This skill manifests as black flames blooming like a lotus, with explosive special effects.
However, you need more than 5 Points in comprehension to learn it, that's a hard threshold.
Besides, cultivators in the Profound Yellow Realm learn techniques classified into four levels: Initial Glimpse, Minor Success, Great Success, and Great Perfection.
In contrast, players rely on experience points to level up skills, also divided into Level 1-4.
At the same time, the higher the [comprehension], the less experience points needed for each skill upgrade. The lower the [comprehension], the more experience points required.
Certain high-grade skills cannot continue to upgrade if [comprehension] is too low, even if you have experience points, it's useless.
Chu Huaixu's "Extinguishing Evil" only reached Level 3, and to get it to full level, he needs to increase his [comprehension] to 7 Points.
[Spiritual Embryo Attribute] is somewhat similar to [comprehension], but it's tied to cultivation techniques.
Cultivators in the Profound Yellow Realm absorb Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi by operating cultivation techniques.
Players are different; they pour experience points into cultivation techniques.
Once filled, it levels up.
However, players can also go offline and hang up to cultivate, once in a cross-legged position, the cultivation technique starts circulating.
The higher the [Spiritual Embryo Attribute], the more cultivation technique experience points are obtained during hang-up cultivation.
Likewise, some powerful cultivation techniques also require [Spiritual Embryo Attribute].
The number of experience points spent when upgrading the cultivation technique is also linked to this attribute.
If [Spiritual Embryo Attribute] is not up to standard, even the character level can't level up!
If your Spiritual Embryo Attribute is only 1, then your level cap is Level 19. With an attribute of 2, it's Level 29.
In the words of the Profound Yellow Realm, your talent is too poor, and you can only be stuck in the First Realm for life with no chance of Second Realm.
Simply put, it's just a matter of turning some cultivation systems of the Profound Yellow Realm into data.
"Like Han Shuangjiang's Spiritual Embryo, it could very well be Level 9 or even full Level 10!"
"Meaning her upgrade speed would be insanely fast because the experience points cost would be crazily low, and the cap is very high, so she won't be stuck at any cultivation level for life."
"She practically has no bottleneck period!" Chu Huaixu was utterly envious.
Why is the Dao Ancestor of the Daoist Sect so strong, to the extent that opponents even considered sending someone to have him lose his - purity, how desperate must one be to resort to such a last-ditch effort?
It's because he has a Pure Yang Body! Also a Level 10 Spiritual Embryo!
"The long legs next door with talent comparable to Dao Ancestor should already be starting cultivation, right?" Chu Huaixu speculated in his heart.
He wasn't in a hurry; he wanted to first add 1 [Random Attribute Point] and 1 [Spiritual Embryo Attribute].
"Let's draw a prize first!" Chu Huaixu rubbed his hands together, "Add it for me!"
A large roulette, visible only to him, emerged and began spinning.
In the roulette, the areas featuring other attributes were balanced, but the Spiritual Embryo section was particularly small, with only a 3% probability.
"Stop!" He willed it to stop.
"[Ding——! Congratulations, you've gained an Attribute Point——Physique!]
Chu Huaixu squinted slightly, pondering for a moment, he thought, "Physique? Alright then."
At the early stage, adding anything doesn't really matter; things are so evenly balanced.
"Random is fine too, since what I got isn't a [Free Attribute Point], I can't assign it myself."
In his Level 49 account, [Gathering Spirit] had the highest addition.
Every time he took girls to play dungeons, relying on his abundant mana, he cast skills as if they didn't need mana, focusing on dazzling special effects, looking cool was all that mattered.
Besides [Gathering Spirit], he added more to [comprehension].
Because skills like Artifact Refining, Alchemy, and Talisman Refining are vocational skills, also linked to comprehension.
Artifact Refining could sell equipment, Alchemy could sell elixirs, Talisman Refining could sell talismans, these are all money-makers.
Chu Huaixu focused on being pragmatic, either making money from women or players, achieving a class leap.
——He really wanted to improve!
So, [Physique] was relatively unfamiliar to him.
"That 1 Point [Spiritual Embryo Attribute] can't be added yet, I need to level up to Level 1 character first."
As mentioned earlier, with a Spiritual Embryo Attribute of 1, the character level cap is Level 19.
If the attribute is 0, the cap is Level 9.
So, the urgent task is to learn the Acupoint Opening Stage cultivation technique first.
Don't forget, he still has 200 experience points to use, enough to level up completely.
Chu Huaixu picked up the Jade Scroll of "Refining Sword Formulas" and the booklet.
After thinking for a moment, he decided to leaf through the booklet first.
"'Refining Sword Formulas' is like a book, and this booklet is the notes left by predecessors, almost like the comments section of this book."
"Of course, I want to check out the comments section first! See what everyone has to say." Chu Huaixu thought this order was right.
He eagerly opened the first page of the booklet.
On the first page were only two large, flamboyant characters, written somewhat sloppily.
——"Don't Practice!"
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