Chapter 151: The Wave Of Advancement
“Class change? So fast!”
Lin Qi tapped open the system panel in some surprise and checked Luo Wu Shang’s current status.
Player: Wu Shang
Martial arts level: Quasi-Martial Artist
Strength: 9 kilograms
Speed: 9 meters per second
Cultivation method: Startling Spirit Breathing Technique first level （ proficiency 100% ）
Martial skills: Crushing Stone Fist second level perfection realm, Leopard Shadow Steps Second Level perfection realm, Lightning Palm first level proficiency 91%, Stellar Explosion Meditation Technique proficiency 25%, Mental Secret Technique entry-level 32%, Body Strengthening Secret Technique entry-level 16%.
After reading Luo Wu Shang’s data, it could be said that at the Quasi-Martial Artist level, Luo Wu Shang was already monstrously strong.
With double perfection in Crushing Stone Fist and Leopard Shadow Steps, in strength and speed she was not much weaker than Beginner Martial Artists who had completed the martial artist metamorphosis. Once she completed the metamorphosis, no one knew how strong she would become.
“Alright, Startling Spirit Breathing Technique first level confirmed at 100% proficiency.” After confirming, Lin Qi nodded. “If you want to advance and change class, you still need to pay two hundred thousand points to redeem the second level of the Startling Spirit Breathing Technique.”
Although he still wanted a genius like Luo Wu Shang to push the Startling Spirit Breathing Technique to First Level Perfection before advancing to Martial Artist.
But First Level Perfection for a breathing technique could not be forced. After all, achieving perfection in a breathing technique was far more difficult than in a martial skill.
If she happened to be stuck at first level 100% proficiency of the breathing technique for more than ten days, or even a month, then Luo Wu Shang would be forced to remain at the quasi-martial stage, and by then she would definitely fall far behind the main group of players, which would be completely not worth it.
Especially since she now had three Super Tier Bone Forging Secret Techniques. As long as she could train them to 100% proficiency, her future would be limitless, invincible at the same level. And only when Martial Artists emerged among the players could he gain improvements and have more capital to protect himself in the High Martial Arts World. There was no need at all to stop her.
Watching Lin Qi finish confirming, Luo Wu Shang also tapped the smart watch on her wrist and transferred two hundred thousand points to Lin Qi.
“These three cultivation methods, choose one for yourself.” Looking at Luo Wu Shang after the payment was completed, Lin Qi took out three freshly copied second level Super-level Bone Forging Realm cultivation methods, along with the three matching seventh stage martial skills.
As Lin Qi took out the three cultivation methods and matching martial skills for class change, Luo Wu Shang’s eyes lit up.
“Master of the Pavilion, can I learn all three of these martial skills?” Luo Wu Shang asked tentatively.
“No. These martial skills must be combined with the corresponding cultivation method in order to be learned normally. If you want to learn the martial skill you like, you can only choose the matching cultivation method.” Lin Qi shook his head, directly dispelling Luo Wu Shang’s idea.
Although players could indeed learn three cultivation methods at the same time, learning so many would definitely severely slow their growth speed.
And he had already decided: since there were three cultivation methods, each with its own specialty, they could be used as the game’s class change system. Each class could only learn the martial skills of that class. In a game this was perfectly normal and helped players better understand that High Martial Arts Descend was a game.
After Lin Qi refused, Luo Wu Shang hesitated over the three cultivation methods.
Of the three Super Tier Bone Forging Secret Techniques, the strength system martial skill was Reverse Star Triple. Though called a single martial skill, it was in fact a complete set, consisting of Reverse Star Hand and Reverse Star Step. It was one of the rare seventh stage, or Bone Forging Realm, martial skills within the entire City of Light Chasing. Just by mastering the first level of this set, strength could be increased by an outrageous four times, and the first level of Reverse Star Step could increase speed by sixty percent.
As for the agility system, the martial skill was Ghostly Light Six Forms, consisting of Ghostly Light Finger and Ghostly Light Step. With the first level of Ghostly Light Finger, strength increased only 5 times, but attack speed tripled. The first level of Ghostly Light Step allowed the practitioner to split into three afterimages and doubled their speed, an astonishing boost.
The balanced system martial skill was Cloud Mist Transformation, consisting of Cloud Mist Hand and Cloud Mist Step. Once the first level of Cloud Mist Hand was mastered, strength could increase by 5 times, and the first level of Cloud Mist Step could boost speed by eighty percent.
After hesitating for a few minutes, Luo Wu Shang chose the agility system cultivation method, paid one million points and one thousand contribution to redeem Ghostly Light Six Forms, then spent ten thousand points to redeem two hundred kilograms of energy ore, and left the master’s lounge.
Watching Luo Wu Shang leave, Lin Qi was not surprised by her choice.
Luo Wu Shang had already been walking the speed-focused path. Once she mastered Ghostly Light Six Forms, her speed would likely reach a terrifying level.
And with Luo Wu Shang beginning to advance and change class, all the players in the martial arts hall exploded in excitement.
None of them had expected someone to begin class change advancement so soon. If she succeeded, the gap it created would be enormous.
“No way, I can’t log off today either. I have to raise my breathing technique quickly. Otherwise a difference of one rank will easily open a huge gap between us.” Fang Zhen, seeing Luo Wu Shang heading to the elite disciple private lounge, could not help becoming anxious.
“Is Sister Wu planning to grind us to death?” Yi Ye Fu Yun could not help a headache upon receiving the news. He still needed time to research a new Superconducting Electromagnetic Gun. Twenty-four hours a day already felt like they needed to be split in half, and now he had to compete with others in level grinding. It was driving him crazy.
For a while, the experts among the players at the First Tier all started frantically improving their breathing techniques, afraid of being left behind by Luo Wu Shang.
Finally, less than two hours after Luo Wu Shang left, Li Ranxing rushed over and directly redeemed the strength system Reverse Star Triple. Then, in less than an hour, Ye Qinglu also came and redeemed the balanced system Cloud Mist Transformation.
By the afternoon, eight people in the entire martial arts hall had already redeemed the second level cultivation method, which made Lin Qi feel the importance of competition.
As for the new players in the martial arts hall, watching more and more people go to the master’s lounge to prepare for class change advancement, aside from envy and jealousy, they also became fervent in cultivating their breathing techniques.
They began following the newcomer strategy guide provided by Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang: first digging holes to quickly accumulate points, then, once they had points, learning Crushing Stone Fist and Leopard Shadow Steps as soon as possible. After that, they kept digging while practicing the two basic martial skills. Once they had accumulated enough points, they would go learn the breathing technique from coach machine number one.
The breathing technique taught by coach machine number one was highly efficient, far beyond what ordinary players could achieve by studying alone. Once they spent their points, they would go dig holes again to earn more, while also practicing the two martial skills. This way, even without high talent, they needed only two or three days to reach apprentice-level and begin truly earning points for a living.
While more than two hundred players were frantically busy in the martial arts hall, the noise disturbed Yaklo, who was in the studio organizing potion data. Helpless, he walked out from the first floor studio to see what on earth was happening in the martial arts hall to suddenly become so noisy.
As soon as Yaklo stepped out of the studio door, he was stunned.
“What is going on?” Looking at the full hall of players cultivating, Yaklo was filled with shock.
Previously, Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had very few people. Counting everyone active in the hall, there had been only about fifty disciples. After a few more batches left, fewer than twenty remained.
Yet now, after just one day, the entire hall was packed.
Being packed would have been surprising enough, but the key point was that among the disciples of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, someone was wearing A6-grade battle armor, and not just one. With a glance, he saw more than a dozen.
He had not expected that after a single night, Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had become so rich it could no longer be described as merely rich.
The auras of these dozen people were all very weak, clearly not even apprentices. And yet this group, not even at apprentice-level, were wearing A6-grade battle armor that even he, an Extreme Quasi-Martial Artist, did not dare to dream of.
But what shocked Yaklo most was not this. It was that these people in A6-grade battle armor were each holding an alloy shovel, competing over who would dig more holes later…
Everyone who stayed in the hall long enough knew about the disciples of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall always digging holes in the Underground of the hall. Yaklo was no exception. He just did not know why Lin Qi, the master of the hall, had them do this.
But today Yaklo was truly shaken.
Letting quasi-apprentices in A6-grade battle armor go dig holes Underground was such a luxurious move that even the major powers in the suburbs probably would not dare to do it.
Battle armor was precision machinery. Using it in battle was one thing, but letting quasi-apprentices wear it to dig holes? That was truly prodigal.
“You came out. How is the potion data sorting going?” Lin Qi looked at the dazed Yaklo coming out of the studio and asked.
“Mostly done. Next we only need to wait for the equipment and materials to be in place, then we can start production.” Yaklo nodded after coming back to his senses, afraid Lin Qi might think he had been slacking, and reported his progress.
The Berserk Potion might not be producible for now, but the data for some type I energy potions and healing potions had all been organized. As long as Lin Qi arranged the manpower and the equipment and materials were ready, they could start making them at any time.
“Good, not bad. I will go buy this equipment and these materials tomorrow. When the time comes, however many people you need, you can post the recruitment notice on the announcement board over there. I will give you permissions for four hundred points and thirty contribution per person per day. Just send me the list of martial arts hall disciples then.” Lin Qi looked at the potion data Yaklo had organized on his smart watch and was very satisfied.
For players, these potions might not be very useful, but for him personally, they were necessities on the path of a Martial Artist.
Although the potions he could make now were of low level and useless to him, if this developed, especially up to Type II potions, his improvement speed would greatly increase.
What he extracted from the players was only experience inheritance, enough to avoid major problems in cultivation, but the strengthening of his internal organs still had to be done by himself.
And in any martial artist’s cultivation, even if there were no major issues, all kinds of minor problems would appear. After all, a cultivation method at the beginning was only entry-level, not perfection. The body would inevitably suffer some damage. If one cultivated slowly, the body could naturally recover from this damage, but if one cultivated quickly, healing potions would be necessary.
He could extract players’ experience inheritance, so his cultivation speed would definitely be extremely fast. By then, he would absolutely use a lot of healing potions. Before he officially began martial artist cultivation, he had to prepare in advance.
“Master, it seems someone from the Martial Artist Association is outside.” Yaklo looked at a Martial Artist Association flying car that had stopped outside the martial arts hall gate and spoke to Lin Qi, who was reviewing the data.
“Why did someone from the Martial Artist Association suddenly come to me?” Lin Qi raised his head and indeed saw that the flying car parked outside the hall belonged to the Martial Artist Association, and he felt puzzled.
