After Liàng Píng and Yàn Lìqín left, Yù Quán sighed in relief.
"They're finally gone."
Yù Quán began sorting through what he had gained. He started with the points he had earned from the mission. He had thirteen points total and felt he should try leveling up his [Star Gazing Eyes]. He opened his information and selected them. A familiar dropdown menu appeared, presenting the information about them. At the bottom-right was a pill-shaped button with "LEVEL UP" in big, bold letters.
"Here goes nothing."
Yù Quán braced himself, expecting some potentially painful mutation process. But, sitting with his eyes closed for a second, he realized he didn't feel anything change. Yù Quán slowly peaked through barely open eyelids. There, he saw a message from the system.
Insufficient Points.
“...”
Insufficient Points.
Insufficient Points.
Insufficient Points.
Yù Quán vigorously tapped the button, trying to force it to work. Eventually, he gave up when his finger started cramping. "Are you telling me thirteen points isn't enough? What kind of… well, whatever. I'll just check the stuff Yàn Lìqín gave me."
Yù Quán took the two manuals, one in each hand, and read the titles of each. "The Giant Eye Cultivation Art and the Silver Eagle Eye Technique? Both sight techniques? I guess the [Star Gazing Eyes] really are more common knowledge than I thought." Yù Quán shrugged. "Better than having to hide it, I guess."
[Giant Eye Cultivation Art]
Qi Focusing
Low-Quality Earth Tier
Forms a Giant Eye Core, which can look through the physical realm and see the qi in the world.
Can be learned.
[Silver Eagle Eye Technique]
Qi Focusing > Foundation Laying
Top Quality Mortal Tier
Refine the eyes of a silver eagle into one's own. Gain the ability to increase eyesight temporarily. Long-time use will slowly give a permanent increase in eyesight.
Can be learned.
Yu Quan felt that the techniques sounded decent. He noticed that they both had tiers. “System, can you explain the tiers to me?”
Tiers are used to classify the quality of the art within its realm.
The tiers from lowest to highest are Mortal, Earth, Heaven, God, and Divine.
Each tier is divided into Low, Mid, High, and Top qualities.
The average art is around the Mid-Quality to High-Quality Mortal Tier.
Yu QUan was surprised. Yan Liqin had given him two above-average quirks. He could probably become a decent cultivator with the two techniques and his [Star Gazing Eyes]. He was about to learn the techniques when he remembered that the system had a deduction function. Yù Quán switched tabs and could see several greyed-out buttons with different functions and a list on the side of the screen.
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[Giant Eye Cultivation Art](Not Learned)
[Silver Eagle Eye Technique](Not Learned)
Yù Quán first selected the [Giant Eye Cultivation Art], lighting up most buttons. Yù Quán thought and decided to try to deduce a better technique. The system responded with a new window.
Use 2 Points to Deduce [Giant Eye Cultivation] into ???
"Two points isn't much at all. Might as well try it.”
Yu Quan hit the button that read ‘Yes.’ The window that had popped up disappeared and a new one took its place.
[Giant Eye Cultivation Art] > [Cyclops Eye Cultivation Art]
[Cyclops Eye Cultivation Art]
Qi Focusing
Mid-Quality Earth Tier
Forms a Cyclops Eye Core, which can look through the physical realm and see the qi in the world.
Can be learned.
Yù Quán spent some time comparing the two arts. "They seem about the same; just the new one is a small step up." Yù Quán saw that he could continue to deduce the art. He hit the [Cyclops Eye Cultivation Art] to see the screen pop-up and how many points it would take.
Use 4 Points to Deduce [Cyclops Eye Cultivation] into ???
Yu Quan felt he had plenty of points at the moment, so it wouldn’t hurt to deduce it again.
[Cyclops Eye Cultivation Art] > [Argus Cultivation Art]
[Argus Cultivation Art]
Qi Focusing > Body Tempering
High-Quality Earth Tier
When a cultivator met Argus, guard of ??? from ???, he was inspired to create a new cultivation method. This was his first attempt.
Form an Argus Eye Core that can see past the physical and observe qi as the first of a hundred, then refine 99 more eyes into the body to use it as a means of power and body refinement.
Can be learned.
Yu Quan found this cultivation art interesting. Would he end up with a hundred eyes? He noticed the question marks once again. Although curious, he didn’t feel the censored information was too important. He decided not to spend time worrying about it. Seeing he had some points left, a sly smile grew on his face. Yu Quan began shamelessly pressing buttons.
Use 2 Points to Deduce [Silver Eagle Eye Technique] into ???
“Deduce~.”
[Silver Eagle Eye Technique] > [Beast Eye Refining Technique]
Use 4 Points to Deduce [Beast Eye Refining Technique] into ???
"Deduce, deduce, deduce~."
[Bǎimùguǐ Eye Thieving Art]
Qi Focusing+
Mid-Quality Earth Tier
When the wife of a powerful cultivator wanted to take down his headmistress, she stole the powerful eyes the mistress inherited from her bloodline and refined it into her arm. She lost her life to the schemes of others, became a spirit through her powerful regret and Yin qi, and haunted her favorite earring. When someone happened upon these earrings, she taught them this technique and helped them become powerful before she used her powerful soul to possess their body and return to the world.
Use the [Bǎimùguǐ Eye Thieving Technique] to remove eyes from weaker or incapacitated beings and the [Bǎimùguǐ Eye Refining Technique] to refine them into the body, retaining all their original abilities.
Can be learned.
"That’s a whole lot of backstory… but, I get the gist of it.”
Both the [Venerable Argus Cultivation Art] and the [Bǎimùguǐ Eye Thieving Art] did similar things. The difference is that one improves my cultivation and body, while the other steals the eyes and makes them functional as if they were his own. Yu Quan liked both, but he felt cultivating both would take a lot of attention and time. He would still practice them, but he wished there was a way to get the best of both worlds. Yù Quán began looking through the interface. Then it hit him.
"Wait! The combining function!"
Combine [Argus Cultivation Art] and [Bǎimùguǐ Eye Thieving Art]?
Yu Quan shrugged. He felt it was worth a try.
Insufficient Points.
“...I hate it here.”