Thought what surprised Chen Long was the fact that the magical skills aren't stored in scrolls neither are readable . It seems like that the skills are stored in magical object forged by certain seniors to learn according to their own understanding .

After all every human is different , so how could one create a skills for every single martial artist ? Even in basic fist techniques or basic sword techniques exists certain differents . Some focus more on speed , others on slow but powerful strikes , some others focus on redirecting the attack to the opponent without even attacking once .

To say it short , there are countless way to achieve strength . The only problem is one have to find it for yourself which is quite hard . Thus the system of learning something and combining things is the best way to find your own goal . After all if the skills from the previous generation isn't used , then every generation has to start at 0 .

So Chen Long looked at the description of a burning torch .

[ Flame on a Torch ]

[ Able to achieve Skills like the Torch Endurance skill which allows you to cast your flame Qi for hours without getting weaker , Light in the Darkness which allows your Qi to become a warm Qi which will heal your injurys faster as well provide you with a comfortable warmth in cold days , Torching Body which will evelop your entire body in flames causing damage to enemy foes . ]

[ Note : These are only the learned Skills , there may be hidden skills in it ]

Interested by the description of the skill Chen Long thought a little bit about it . He already passed quite many of those "skills" , but it seemed like those scrolls in novels are quite the bullshit . You can't just read a martial skill which will be able to destroy mountains with a single swipe of your arm . You need to understand them !

Ignoring the note of the sign he decided to not use his free chance for this torch . After all this note told him that in every single magical object in this corridor may has a mighty skill if you are destined , but how many people are in this sect ? Then shouldn't every people possess a unique heritage ?

Walking for a while Chen Long decided to stop this skill searching , after all he isn't forced to choose a skill in a limited timeline , isn't he ?

Besides it seems that the skills are quite hard , sitting in front of them for a few days before hunger comes to you won't be so great for learning .

Coming to a solution , Chen Long walked towards one of the Job-Center which he heard from the old man .

Leaving his family group aside he has no regret , before becoming his errand boy he rather try to establish his own foothold in this sect . Naturally one of the reason is the fact that he is the only one without an inherited spirit .

Strolling through the sect Chen Long gaped at the beautiful scenary . You may think of him as a country bumpkin from eart , however Chen Long lived in a world montropolis and witnessed giant sky scraper which made the human as small as an ant .

In other words , he liked modern architecture . However looking at all the majestic buildings in asian style ain't bad either .

"There should be some european style country too right ? Maybe i will see a huge net of aqueduct somewhere in the world , or even bigger pyramids ." speculated Chen Long while walking on the paved street .

(AN: aqueduct is the water system made by the roman , it looks cool but it ain't amazing compared to today . But you have to imagine that they only build it with hands , tools and sweat ! Same with the Chinese Wall.)

Enjoying the scenary he could see how youths like him rushed past while whispering : "We have to hurry , i heard senior sister is coming !"

"Really ?" one could literally heard a gulp .

Turning around to see their bodys rushing past him Chen Long sighed , he isn't ready for beautys yet . He has no talent , no power and neither anything to give .

It may sound a little bit harsh , however Chen Long didn't believed in true love . After all a boy can fan normal spring water as much a he wants , if the girls wants a cold drink then she will follow the boy who has ice cubes .

Only then can love develop between the girl and the ice cube boy . Not convinced ? Or doubting my words ?

To say it in other words : Chen Long believes you need a certain basis when you want to woo beautiful woman , especially in a strength rules world .

Slapping his own two cheeks Chen Long cheered himself up : "I can't keep up this depressive mode , i have to work hard and try to get stronger !"

After walking for a while Chen Long arrived in front of the job house which looked a little bit smaller than other houses , however Chen Long didn't cared about that . If things goes right then he will only come here once .

Stepping in he searched for any people he can talk to . Without success . Where the heck are all the people ?

Chen Long looked left and looked right . Isn't this a job-searcher house ? Shouldn't the disciples be trying to court the leader to get better jobs ? Not only that , shouldn't people trying to get jobs from the sect ?

"Ah ah , youth . What brings your here ?" smiled an extremely old man with snow white hair and many wrinkles towards Chen Long .

Chen Long didn't want to be impolite in this world , so he cupped his hands and bowed a little bit : "Senior , this newbie wonders why people are not coming into this house to search for jobs ?"

Seemingly enjoying the respect the old man said : "Today is half-yearly sect day . People will try to become outer , inner or even core disciples . Not only that , small sect compition will held every year and the ranking will be updated . Though it isn't as big as the 5 year sect festival it still helps to find out a few good seedlings . But what about this junior ? Since you are a newbie then you certainly want to find a job , how about a fighting job ? After all youths like you certainly love it to brawl and fight with true comrades ! Hahahahah !"

Acting nervous Chen Long said : "Senior is certainly right , however i am not as strong as others right now . Besides i don't want to be a burden to everyone . To say the truth , i wanted to have a peaceful job so i can learn more scolar stuff ."

Since Chen Long seemed like one of those not so confident and weak youths the old man smiled and said : "Okay , then how about this job ? It is a peaceful one and quite simple . Its task is it to watch over a field of herbs for alchemists . You only have to plant it and harvest it , you live in a hut which is next to the field while being able to learn stuff on how to care about plants . Isn't it great ?"

Just as Chen Long wanted to ponder about any disadvantages the old man laughed and said : "Hahah , normally disciples would agree immediately . To make it better i will allow you use the jade library , so you don't have to walk out of the house . Not only that , i will give you the best treatment with a free chance of learning a skill every half-year ."

Stunned Chen Long agreed immediately , after all the old man wouldn't lie for nothing right ? Besides even if he takes the short stick in the end it doesn't really matter for him . After all he won't annoy a big fish and the sect is big enough to avoid a job-center director .

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After receiving the imprint on the medal as well as a written guide-book for his job he slowly wondered if the sect tried to make as little contact as possible for the disciples .

After all the old man who lead them here kinda dumped them here , only giving Chen Lei the lightning boy a little advantage .

However after reading through the other jobs he kinda frowned how little the payment is compared to the job he got . Not only that , even taking new disciples to the sect will only give you only about 50 sect points . And that is one of the limited jobs other jobs even requested to hunt beasts and only get 5k points . By the way , the cost of one learning lesson is 5k points .

(AN: You can't just take random disciples , the disciple-take-in-jobs are limited and provided by the sect , for example the 9 Union sended a group out .)

So Chen Long walked towards the transport array in which he appeared today . After going through more than 100 small stations as well as more than 5 big stations he stopped to count how much arrays he already passed . The scenary changed extremely quick , from an asian build style to a seemingly normal village surrounded by forest to a huge waterfall .

He knew the way since his sect medal lead the way , not only that , he didn't has to scatter some of that white powder to power the array . Instead the arrays were active all the time , so disciples coult walk in and out as they pleased . However one shouldn't jump in and out just for fun , after all teleporting something costs energy .

Chen Long walked from one array to the next , at first he looked quite excited . Man , that transporting array is so cool !

However he soon realized that it isn't something amazing , instead it seemed like a transporting tool like the train or planes . As a country bumpkin you would feel excited , however if you are used to it then it won't be anything amazing anymore .

The sky turned dark as Chen Long arrived in his final destination , a single array which needed white powder to get into motion . How he knew that ? Well the circle didn't shone like the arrays he passed throught before .

Stepping out he expected something more ... more huge . What he saw was a little field trail leading to some peaceful mountain ranges .

Though it looked quite beautful the expectations of Chen Long shattered . He expected something like a modern field where everything needed to be regulated .

Walking along the trail he could see some people picking up the plants or watering them with floating clouds .

Smiling he felt that it may be not a bad choice to start in this peaceful surrounding , in normal Cultivation Normal there would be some kind of arrogant villain which the mc would defeat , then the villain would call his big daddy , and this daddy after getting beaten would call his big daddy .

Not only that , a mc has to learn 10 mighty earth-shattering skills as well as conquer and tease 5 beautys in a single month . How the heck should he achieve that ?

Just as he leisury strolled towards the end of the path he found time to read the job-guiding book . Which surprisingly described his job quite well :

Plant-Farmer :

- Plant the food

- Use the slaves provided by the house to achieve the yearly quote .

- There is an access to the library via the medal , there is a ranking for access :

- bronce

- silver

- gold

- jade

- core

- true

- elder

What the ? With a shocked expression Chen Long looked at the jade rank , didn't the old man gave him this rank for free ? Did he joked about it or did he speak the truth ?

Slowly he began to run , kinda forgetting about the mentioned slaves . However as he arrived in front of his house he realized that there are these slaves who work for him . Though there wasn't any beautiful womans . Only 7 middle aged man , 3 middle aged womans and one or two elders .

It felt quite akward to command the slaves , however Chen Long got used quite soon . After all it is quite comfortable to let others do something for you .

Not only that , the house in which he lived wasn't so big . However it could hold all the slaves as well as provide him with a big room and a training room . Naturally the building looked like one of those ancient asian mansions .

Soon a few days passed , Chen Long realized that this job ain't a job . It was more like free training paradise . It is certainly that he will harvest more plants than needed which could be sold for points to trade for pills or weapons or access to the skills .

Even daily necessarys are provided , like food , drinking water and a jug of wine . However Chen Long traded the jug of wine for more food and more water .

After a while Chen Long decided to access the library , he touched the jade socket which was in his sleeping room . After focussing his mind on the socked he could feel his entire surrounding , however he couldn't look further than his room .

Not only that , he somehow could read the books which was in the jade socket .

Feeling this wonderous moment for a while Chen Long finally started to search for useful informations , after all in a library the books not only consist of survival stuff , it also contains fairy tales , legends , books to laugh for as well as boring history books .

Because he somehow got the jade rank Chen Long could somehow get access to some of the unknown books like the 10 thousand herb lexica or the types of martial spirits .

After copying the 10 thousands herb in his AI Chen Long felt like a little kid at christmas , isn't that talent ? Some people need to learn all of that knowdledge , but i only need to save it in my AI !

At first he didn't knew how to save it in his AI , maybe he has to focus or something ? But in the end he only needed to watch every single page , which in his "ghost" stage is extremely easy .

Searching for more useful information he frowned , there was nothing . He only found a little bit more about martial spirit , but he didn't got what he wanted .

After a week of searching he finally gave up . He couldn't find a map , neither a good history book . Most of the history book consist of the glory of a single person .

Just as he wanted to go to the skill pavilion he found something interesting . Occupations like Alchemist , Enscripter , Array Master of Forger are shortly described . It seemed like a second power coming from the mind is needed . Not necessary , however one needed to have the mind power to control flames , or certain runes . So having the power should be necessary for higher levels .

Smiling Chen Long thought about the mental energy which helped him to "gather" Qi . Isn't that mental energy as well ? Then doesn't that mean he can become a martial artis with an occupation ?

Pushing that aside he found something about the pro and cons of inborn spirit . It was from an old senior which existed about 2000 years ago . It wrote that one should "theme" his 9 martial spirit , like 9 sword into an array formation , or a full set of armor , or mythical legends like 9 serpents for a nine headed dragon etc. .

It seems that one would receive a bonus compareable to the theme you choose . Now back to to the inborn spirit , if one has a "normal" spirit like a serpent then one has to build the other spirit around it . So the power would be weaker compared to a guy who can choose his 9 spirit . However if one has a mighty inborn spirit like a dragon or a Vermillion Bird then it certainly would be more powerful than one who can chooses his 9 spirit . So to say it every spirit can evolve , even inborn spirit . So in the end the true winner are the inborn spirit users .

Sighing Chen Long disconnected from the jade socket which he deemed as a small internet and stood up . Stretching for a few moments he thought of going to the skill pavillion . It is time for him to choose a cultivation technique which will give his Qi a specific Element , or effect .

After asking for a method to store a lot of food and water one of his elder slaves reminded him of a space bag which is kinda free for every sect disciple . It could hold things the size of a big room , while only being as big as a handbag . Not even that , the bag won't weigh much since it is another space .

After receiving it Chen Long stuffed it to the brim with food and water .

Asking for next martial arts house the elder replied with a honest voice that the next should only be around 20 array teleportions away .

Frowning Chen Long couldn't believe it was so far away . He used way more arrays when he walked to here , however that was when his medal got marked with some kind of spirit mark and lead him to each array he should take .

However there was a simple solution , the elder just guided him there and Chen Long remembered the way . Giving this solution Chen Long felt like a genius , even though the old man who is a slave looked at him like he's a weirdo .

Without caring about the feeling of the old man they started to walk to the martial pavillion .

They arrived without any problems .

After walking through the cultivation section Chen Long looked with surprise at the martial Charms . Every single one of them is different than the one he visited before !

But he quickly sighed at his own stupidy , how could one create the same "enlightment" again ? Reading through the description he felt like he needed to choose one quickly , best would be to get a Qi effect which could be used to suppot his theme . After all he choose a low flame as his first spirit so he decided to go for the 4 element theme . Fire , Earth , Water and Air .

So choosing Fire Qi wouldn't be so good . Since it would weaken his future Water spirit .

Walking through the description he found the one he chooses :

[ Filter ]

[ A cultivation technique which makes your Qi more pure , it won't affect the capacity you can hold ]

[ Warning : You can't cultivate

This short description felt quite supicious , after all the other description would at least have second or even third effects . But this only have one effect , making the Qi more pure .