On the uneven road.
Niu Chang was busy digesting the information and experience he gathered from the previous battle.
It would take almost the whole day until he reached the Yellow Soil Village. So he thought it would be better to deduce various things like cultivation methods and martial skills.
‘No matter how many times I try to make a plan, it all depends on my karma points.’
Niu Chang called out the system to show him his information.
[Host : Niu Chang]
[Karma point : 7982]
[Cultivation : Qi - Third rate, Body - Third rate]
[Skill : Kendo, Impact, Rapid Leaf Step. More.]
‘My karma points is around eight thousand, this should be enough to increase my survivability when encountering enemies.’
No matter what, Niu Chang chose to be steady and put his safety first above anything.
‘System, increase Automatic System Answerer to perfection proficiency.’
Automatic System Answerer was a psychological skill that helped Niu Chang to instantaneously, in theory, accept the task given by the system without any delay. His mind and body would react before he could think and choose the second option.
So no matter how fragile his body was, as long as he could receive the invincibility buff from the system, he could avoid any one sure kill attack.
Because no matter how hidden and powerful the enemies were, as long as they chose to establish karma with Niu Chang, the system would always react without any delay.
With the Automatic System Answerer, Niu Chang no longer needs to be wary of everyone in his life.
‘You want to kill me? Have you asked my system and Automatic System Answerer?’
[Increasing the Automatic System Answerer to proficiency to perfect requires 1795.]
‘Confim.’
‘1795 is too cheap for having my life protected by the invincibility buff from the system.’
Niu Chang tried to guess the reason for the cheap price.
‘The first reason naturally is that the difficulty is not that hard. This can be seen from how a pavlov dog or any animal trained to do something specific with a cue.’
‘The second reason is because the skill is very limited to one-to-one use cases. System gives the task and the mind gives the answer.’
But Niu Chang wasn't satisfied with only having invincibility buff from the system. What if he encounters someone that is really talented and has skills that are beyond their realm?
Let's say, the chosen ones? The darling of heavenly dao? The true main character?
In this case, the buff from the system would be breached.
‘So the next case is to increase my defense. The people in this world mainly cultivate the qi to increase their strength, so I need a skill that uses qi to provide strong and impregnable defense.’
Niu Chang didn’t really know about the mainstream cultivation in this world, but he chose to make an assumption. Since he would have an increase of qi in his body with unlimited supply thanks to the buff.
He wanted to create a skill that didn’t care about qi consumption, it would suck dry the user in exchange for powerful defense.
But being strong from frontal attack alone was not enough to make an impregnable defense, it also needed to have a powerful foundation.
The enemies couldn’t shake the qi circulation at all as to guarantee the operation of the skill.
Stable and robust.
‘Stable means nothing can shake the internal structure and robust means nothing can deal any damage.’
With his first life knowledge after reading so many stories where the logic was out of question, Niu Chang resentfully made many methods for the main characters to properly increase their power.
There were endless ideas and many martial skill or cultivation methods that Niu Chang made in his first life, but they were only ideas and thoughts, even after carefully recalling them one by one, the system didn’t register them into the database.
The meaning was clear, the idea was good but it still needed to be improved according to this world's principles.
After increasing his survivability to their limit for the present time, Niu Chang wanted to increase his cultivation level.
He was curious, ‘I fused many cultivation methods with my Transformation Energy previously, the profundity should be increased due to this, my cultivation level should decrease. But the system still shows a third rate stage.’
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To confirm his thought, Niu Chang asked the system. ‘System, cultivate Transformation Energy to the third rate stage.’
‘Cultivates the Transformation Energy to the third rate stage requires 1890 karma points.’
It was not far from his prediction, so Niu Chang was rather calm. But he didn’t directly choose to increase his qi cultivation level.
After having a battle with the first rate stage cultivation, Niu Chang didn’t feel anything useful except from having more qi and allowed him to increase his physical attributes and coat his body or weapon with qi.
This was clearly not very efficient and practical for Niu Chang.
Although he chose to be steady and careful, it doesn't mean he would relax behind the shadow and thought he would be safe.
‘Since I already decided to use my qi solely for defensive means, I actually don’t need to increase my qi cultivation level. Instead I should increase my body cultivation level.’
Body cultivation was the true cultivation path for male. Toned muscle and endless stamina, this is what defines masculinity.
Which man didn’t want to have a muscular body and the power to kill any enemies with only one slap?
At least Niu Chang was such a person.
But the problem was that Niu Chang’s Basic Body Refinement cultivation method didn’t allow him to increase his level.
‘That’s easy.’ Niu Chang confidently thought to himself. In his imaginary vision, he opened a huge book and slowly turned the pages.
Then he found many body cultivation methods that he had read and made before.
Ultimate Tyrant Body Art.
Heavenly Emperor Indestructible Body.
Innate Primordial Vessel.
Chaotic Cosmos Scripture.
Expansion and Compression Art.
Fire Lightning Refinement.
There were many more that Niu Chang had in his mind, but those were enough to show how deep his accumulation was.
The last two were his own creation.
Expansion and Compression Art was to expand the physical body first then compress it in the second half. With this method, the physical body could retain the previous increase of physical attributes but still maintain the aesthetic value of humans and the strength became more integrated and fully refined under the practitioner's control.
Naturally, if needed the practitioner could unleash their body's full potential and become a giant to break anything that was blocking the path.
Fire Lightning Refinement was to use the destructive power of fire and lightning to destroy the body to increase its upper limit.
Niu Chang already thought about the core of body cultivation, which is to let the body grow beyond its limit and the easiest way was to damage it then let it slowly recover with a higher limit than before.
It was also this simple truth that not many chose body cultivation because damaging the body to let it grow was too painful. It could be said that the greater the pain the greater the result.
For this problem, he didn’t even need to use one percent of his brain to solve this problem. “Just turn off your pain receptors.”
With the pain receptors being unavailable, there was simply no problem in damaging the body to increase the cultivation level.
The only drawback was that the practitioner needed to pay attention to their training since they couldn’t tell how severe their injuries were due to being unable to feel the pain.
As long as they supplied with endless vitality to maintain their life, the practitioner virtually could stroll leisurely to become immortal.
But that idea was for Niu Chang in the past. Now he has the legendary golden finger, he no longer needs an ‘ordinary’ body cultivation method.
Since his system skips the training part and directly gave him the result of cultivating his body. It was a fact he realized after cultivating his body with Basic Body Refinement to third rate which should have many inconveniences.
A cultivation method that ignores the life of its practitioner to reap the highest result. The body should be destroyed beyond the limit as to bring the most authentic destruction then the body will be reconstructed as to complement the previous step which was creation.
One step to destruction and one step to creation. Only through the cycle of destruction and creation could the practitioner gain the true essence of body cultivation.
But that alone was not enough. The power that accumulated from the cycle of destruction and creation needs to be refined and compressed into a pure and stable form.
So Niu Chang decided to add many ideas from his database. Expansion and Compression Art will be responsible for the compressing the abundant energy, Fire Lightning Refinement will be responsible for refining the energy, Ultimate Tyrant Body Art and Heavenly Emperor Indestructible Body will become its foundation, Innate Primordial Vessel and Chaotic Cosmos Scripture will the storage for vitality in the body.
Niu Chang called this ridiculous cultivation method the Impossible Idea. it was straight to the point since this cultivation method only works on theory only!
No human or any living being could cultivate it since they will die at the first step, the destruction of the body, before they could start the second step.
So he took his time pondering and thinking. Deducing this body cultivation method by using his Basic Body Refinement as the step stone.
Niu Chang unknowingly forgot the outside world and was fully immersed in his own sea of thought.
Not only the previous body cultivation methods, but he add left and right to make sure every part of his body wouldn't go waste and be properly utilized by him.
Finally he got confirmation from the system that the Impossible Idea was registered.
Feeling thrilled with such a stupidly powerful cultivation method, Niu Chang commanded the system with a slight trembling voice.
‘System, cultivate the Impossible Idea to the first level.’
‘I hope the price will not be too high or I can only cry.’
As for the reason why Niu Chang didn’t raise it to the third rate stage was because he didn’t think the Impossible Idea followed normal advancement like qi cultivation.
‘Cultivating the Impossible Idea to the first level requires 5000 karma points.’
‘Confirm!’
Niu Chang didn’t think twice about his karma points or asking the system why the price was lower than he expected. He wanted to see how strong he would become after completing the first cycle of destruction and creation.
Woosh.
Surge of energy entered Niu Chang’s body from the void and slowly transformed his body. The bones let out cracking sounds, the blood let out sizzling sounds, and other parts of his body let out terrifying sounds.
If it was an ordinary person, hearing such a sound only meant one thing. That person suffer the most painful torture in their life before finally succumb to their death.
But Niu Chang felt he was taking a comfortable rest. One second he felt like soaking in warm water and the next second cooling himself in his bedroom.
The combo between the two gave him endless pleasure that he went limp and laid down on the road with a silly smile on his face.
“AH~”