Suo Ya nibbled the steamed buns in his hand three or two times, and took his long sword to the small courtyard.
As an immortal sect, even if it is only a basic technique, the Baiyun swordsmanship is more subtle than the swordsmanship of the mortal world.
Suo Ya's Baiyun swordsmanship is, according to the division of the immortal world, regarded as the realm of minor achievement.
While Suo Ya was practicing Baiyun swordsmanship, Suo Neyo and Wang Siqi also finished their breakfast and walked out of the hall, looking at Suo Ya who was practicing swordsmanship in the small courtyard, both of them had a slight smile on their lips.
Wang Siqi said softly: "Ya'er's talent in cultivation is really good. He has already brought Baiyun swordsmanship to the realm of minor achievement. If he can reach the realm of major achievement, he may be able to enter the top five thousand of the competition.
Suo Neyo smiled smugly: "Won't you still admit which parent the child takes from?"
Wang Siqi glanced at Suo Neyo and said with a sneer, "Can he be born without me?"
Suo Neyo smiled dryly: "Of course it's Madam's credit."
Wang Siqi nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, let's go to work, don't disturb Ya'er's practice."
As outer deacons, Suo Neyo and Wang Siqi certainly had a lot to do.
Suo Ya was immersed in the system and did not notice that Suo Neyo and Wang Siqi had left.
After practicing Baiyun swordsmanship, Suo Ya glanced at it and found that the task progress had not moved a single bit.
He was a little annoyed but still continued to practice.
Over and over again, Suo Ya practiced Baiyun swordsmanship ten times.
After ten times, Suo Ya was sweating profusely, and sat down on the ground panting. Even if he was already on the fifth level of Qi training, he was still very tired after practicing the Baiyun Sword Technique ten times, but when he thought of the task, he was full of motivation, so he never stopped for a moment.
Now after ten times of practice, Suo Ya felt that his hands could hardly be lifted, so he glanced at the panel.
[Current task]:
Practice ten times (progress: 0/10)
Reward: 400 gold, 5 prestige, 20 activity points
Suo Ya was now nervous and quickly tried to think of a way to make the system acknowledge his efforts. Thankfully, he didnt think too hard before a lot of information suddenly popped up in his mind. It was information about the system, how to use it, how to create training equipment, how to train using it, and a message...
All this information seems to have been engraved into Suo Ya's mind and became his instinct.
When the information was digested, he opened his eyes and dropped his sword.
laugh!
A faint sound of breaking the air sounded, and Suo Ya exhaled a wisp of energy that pierced forward in front of him.
Suo Ya's eyes widened. It turns out that the system stayed to its roots of being a mixed martials arts system first and foremost.
Because to the difference between worlds, the system cannot assist him further than sending him designs of training equipment, or upgrading his training methods by synthesizing immortal scriptures. But due to the limitations, the message stated that in case of not being able to connect to the main server, the host was to be given two buffs to improve his survivability in the other world, and a debuff too, to hide the system's host from being targeted by the world, making the host unnoticeable and not so eye catching.
One of these buffs is legacy of immortal. It allows him to sacrifice a training method, and the total training points of that method will now be the peak limit of his skills and base stats.
The other buff is called, competence of hero. This buff gives him the ability to equip all talents simultaneously, only limited by base stat amount. It also gives him two special legendary disciplines that include the effects of each discipline from the game.
The debuff given to him is more beneficial than hindering. Called talentless, it increases the difficulty of levelling up hugely. But due to game and system constraints, in terms of the game, levelling up is based on converting skill from experience points. So all in all, his experience needed to level up is now 14 times than what is necessary in the game. What should have been 50 exp becomes 700 exp to reach lvl 2 in system terms, or foundation building in the terms of the world.
Be that as it may, his cultivation also suffered a lot. Since he had 25 exp, it is halfway of 50, so it converts to only 5th level of qi training. Now that his exp requirement is 700, his cultivation now dropped to the 1st level of qi training. Normally, an ordinary person would despair as falling in cultivation is not a good thing, but who is Suo Ya? System or no system, he will never despair, not even if he will die ten times today.
Moreover, the difficulty of levelling is not a bad thing for him. As he remembered, the number of skills a fighter can learn in the game is not enough to maximize everything, but now, its not applicable to him anymore. He can learn every skill to max level, and with that potential, he now felt a slight sense of security in his heart.
He soon remembered that he must train first, so he first looked at the things given to him. As a welfare, he was given a free set of equipment design and corresponding methods for training basic stats. Composed of bench press, stepping board and cardio training, he found that these equipment could be made in their home. Only needing a barbell like object and a bench, a small inclined spot to jump upon, and a place for running, he easily produced all these and started to train with the system's standards.
The first time he finished training, he soon found a number he just noticed.
Stamina 127/30.
He then remembered that training in the game uses stamina, so he just continued. (Stamina is used as energy for training, he refills maximum amount of stamina every day, and gain 100 stamina every level up)
After training twelve times, his base stats now look;
Strength 10
Agility 10
Conditioning 10
Stamina 94/30
(A skill or stat needs experience to upgrade its proficiency. The higher the stat or skill, the more stamina it needs to upgrade, and also need better training methods to upgrade.)
In order to test his new strength, he did some punches with his fists.
*Whooosh*
What a powerful force! This is much stronger than his previous Baiyun swordsmanship. This should be considered as good as the Baiyun swordsmanship that is major accomplishment, right?
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The punch skill with only 25 points but backed by 10 strength is so strong, what about 50 and 200? Wouldn't it surpass Baiyun Swordsmanship?
Transform the environment? Back to Basics?
What about higher levels? At that time, can Baiyun swordsmanship still compare with the airwaves of my punch?
Suo Ya is very much looking forward to it. He just need to ask his father to post a task every day. In a month, he should be able to improve the his fighting ability to a very high level. At that time, he may be able to achieve a high ranking in the sect competition.
If it was directly in the top ten, Suo Ya would be able to enter the inner door now, which was much faster than he originally thought.
Not only that, the quest of the Outer Sect Great Competition will also be rewarded, allowing him to buy better equipment!
At this moment, Bai Venri came over and said, "Young Master, it's time to eat."
"Oh, good." Suo Ya stopped thinking about it. He took break first, and before continuing to eat, he first received his reward for the task which was 400 gold in game currency along with prestige and activity points. Prestige and activity points need to be accumulated first before he can exchange it, but the gold amount he received could be converted into strength now. He used the gold to buy a blueprint design for a punching bag. He chose the punching bag in order to train his punches to 50, and moreover, he can also train his elbow strikes to 50 as well. He used a a small bag filled with sand and tied it with coconut husks to reduce the impact, and tied the object with a rope to an outlying post beside their house. He was able to create a makeshift training equipment acceptable enough for the system to acknowledge as a punching bag.
...
After eating lunch and making the punching bag, Suo Ya went back to his room to rest first.
The task of practicing ten times has been completed, and there is still an outer sect assessment task, which he can't do now. Depending on the situation, he needs to find a few more tasks now.
Wait... At this moment, Suo Ya had a bold idea.
He clenched his fist with his right hand, coughed seriously on his lips, and said to himself, "I will practice fifteen times."
As Suo Ya's voice just fell, the panel in front of him changed again.
【Task】:
Practice fifteen times (progress: 0/15)
Reward: 600 gold, 7 prestige, no more activity points can be issued on training tasks for this day, come back tommorow.
What!
Suo Ya looked at the quest prompt and felt that a new world had opened up: he could also issue quests to himself? !
Does this work too? !
Suo Ya thought he discovered a loophole and said: "I'm going to step two meters for my next step!"
Suo Ya looked at the panel with anticipation. After a while of silence, the panel did not respond, and did not announce the task of stepping two meters.
...after a long silence, the panel still doesn't respond.
Suo Ya was disappointed. He originally thought about sending out tasks in his daily actions. It seems that the task panel doesn't admit it, and he doesn't know if it's too simple, or because it has nothing to do with cultivation?
But after being disappointed for a while, Suo Ya became happy for he still can earn gold. In any case, he was already very happy to be able to issue tasks by himself.
At this time, Suo Ya also discovered something that was not quite right, that is: practicing ten times in the morning, he was given activity points, but now, practicing fifteen times, there is none. It's just that, you can't receive anymore for today.
Suo Ya thought for a while, and quickly understood the difference: he could have finished the daily task of training for today, and he needs to do something else to get more activity points. Last he remembered, the rewards brought by completing the daily tasks achievement bar are pretty rich in oil and water.
Thinking of this, Suo Ya understands that he needs to rely on finishing different daily tasks to gather more achievement points. He understands that the higher he goes, the more difficult it is to improve, and the more methods and equipment he needs to unlock.
Because no matter what rewards he receive, it can only be much faster if he gets more free stuff.
From today onwards, I, Suo Ya, is a peerless genius!
Suo Ya smiled to himself to express his satisfaction.
After the rest, Suo Ya began to practice again. Especially after seeing the emergency task made by the system.
【Emergency Task】:
Practice to 350 experience and return to 5th level of qi training before your parents get home.
Reward: Skill reward temporarily increased to tier 8 training method and equipment. In case of failure, obliteration.
This time, he gave more tasks to himself, earning enough gold to buy a complete set of equipment and training methods.
The emergency task is not difficult, but it made him nervous and tired(stamina 1/30). After a full afternoon of practice, Suo Ya regained his old cultivation (370/700, fifth level of qi training).
His skills now look like;
Skills:
Punches 49 (started with 25, plus 24)
High Kicks 48
Low Kicks 48
Knees 48
Elbows 48
Clinchwork
Takedowns 48
Ground Grappling 33
Submission 48
Submission Defense
Takedown Defense
Strike Defense
Knee Defense
Kick Defense
In the evening, when Suo Neyo and Wang Siqi came back, Bai Venri had already made dinner. After the family had dinner, they went back to their rooms for rest. His parents did not notice any problems in him, which made his troubled heart calm.
In this world, night is generally used for cultivating inner Qi, and the same is true for Suo Neyo and the others.
But in his room, Suo Ya slept like an ordinary person. He cannot train anything without stamina.