Chapter 21: Players’ Self-development
“Someone beat me to it.”
Luo Wu Shang looked at the taken Leopard Shadow Steps and sighed softly.
When Lin Qi took out the two martial skills, Luo Wu Shang had already noticed the great potential of Leopard Shadow Steps. It was absolutely the bicycle of the Carry world. Compared to Crushing Stone Fist, which might have great practical combat value, in the current game version, underground exploration was the king’s way.
“Gunner, nicely done.” Fang Zhen walked up to Saiwai Qiangke, his eyes full of excitement. “Hurry up and let us see together what this martial skill actually is.”
“Alright.” Saiwai Qiangke directly took it out and read it together with Fang Zhen and Yi Qiang Ba Jue.
The others present all cast envious looks at them.
With Fang Zhen’s reminder, everyone already understood that Leopard Shadow Steps was the Child of the Version.
Once learned, they would definitely be able to pull ahead of others later and thus accumulate more Martial Arts Hall Points.
“Now that the rewards have been distributed, I have something important to announce.” Lin Qi looked at the crowd who were about to disperse and paused. “For these two hall protecting martial skills, as long as you are a disciple of this hall and have reached 20 points, you can redeem them. You can check the detailed redemption list on the training ground’s announcement board.”
He had stayed up quite late last night. Not only had he prepared Crushing Stone Fist and the upper volume of Leopard Shadow Steps for everyone, he had also converted the old check-in board in the training ground into an announcement board.
Previously, whenever he needed to notify anything, he had to track everyone down, which was far too troublesome. Although he had thought about getting everyone a smart watch, the price was too high. Even a second-hand one cost one thousand bits. The one on his wrist was still an old watch that Luo Qi had used for five or six years before discarding.
So the smart watch matter would have to wait until he had the conditions in the future before opening it up to players.
At this stage, in order to facilitate management and avoid players coming to him every other moment to ask what items could be redeemed, he simply listed all the items currently redeemable at the martial arts hall on the announcement board, which made things much more convenient.
“This can be directly redeemed too? Wasn’t this a task reward?” After hearing this, Saiwai Qiangke looked at the Leopard Shadow Steps in his hand and instantly felt it was less special.
He had spent a whole month’s salary for this single copy of Leopard Shadow Steps.
“You will get used to it.” Fang Zhen patted Saiwai Qiangke on the shoulder, as if he had known Lin Qi would do this. “We still have an advantage with this Leopard Shadow Steps. After all, redeeming it requires 20 points. During this period, we can start practicing first.”
“That’s true.” Saiwai Qiangke could only accept it.
Newcomers currently had no points. Even if they went all out exploring, it would probably take a whole day to get 20 points, so he and the others would have an extra day to study Leopard Shadow Steps.
On the other side, Luo Wu Shang and the others rushed to the training ground’s announcement board at once, wanting to see the redemption price of Leopard Shadow Steps.
Leopard Shadow Steps （upper volume）, martial artist apprentice-level footwork, divided into two levels, upper and lower volumes. Master the first level, Chasing Wind, and your speed increases by 20%. Master the second level, Hunting Shadow, and your speed increases by 30%. （You must reach 20 Martial Arts Hall Points to redeem. Martial Arts Hall Points required for the upper volume: 10 points. Points for the lower volume: 20,000）
Crushing Stone Fist （upper volume）, martial artist apprentice-level fist technique, divided into two levels, upper and lower volumes. Master the first level, Crushing Pile, and your strength increases by 1 time. Master the second level, Crushing Stone, and your strength increases by 5 times. （You must reach 20 Martial Arts Hall Points to redeem. Martial Arts Hall Points required for the upper volume: 10 points. Points for the lower volume: 20,000）
“This hall master actually had a rare moment of conscience. Only 10 points to redeem.” Twilight of the Gods’ eyes lit up after reading. “The improvement from these two martial skills is huge. If we can fully master them, we can totally fight a quasi-apprentice. With my current points, I can redeem both.”
“They are cheap indeed. If we grind for a day, we should be able to redeem them all.” Yi Ye Fu Yun frowned slightly after seeing this. “But that would put us one day behind in progress.”
“Are you interested in borrowing points? If you want Leopard Shadow Steps, I can redeem it for you.” Luo Wu Shang suddenly looked at Yi Ye Fu Yun, the corner of her mouth lifting in a slight arc. “Of course, not unconditionally.”
“Wu Shang?” Zhang Qing Wei looked at Luo Wu Shang in surprise, not understanding what Luo Wu Shang was planning.
After a night of getting to know her, Zhang Qing Wei already knew that among the three, Luo Wu Shang was absolutely the richest. Not long ago, she had bought 500 points from Twilight of the Gods in one go, at 200 per point, spending 100,000 in an instant.
Previously, spending 100,000 to buy 500 points had seemed not worth it, but now it looked incredibly worth it.
“What conditions?” Yi Ye Fu Yun glanced at Luo Wu Shang and said in a low voice, “If you want us to join, then forget it. We are used to being free and do not like joining guilds.”
“Don’t worry about that. We at Heavenly Might never force anyone to join.” Luo Wu Shang said with a smile. “The condition is very simple. Right now I can lend you eighty points. I don’t even need you to pay me back in points. I only want the priority use rights of 200 square meters of the energy land you open up. That is a pretty good trade, right?”
“Deal!” Yi Ye Fu Yun agreed without the slightest hesitation.
The other three also nodded, agreeing with Yi Ye Fu Yun’s decision.
Although each of them would lose priority to plant blood essence rice on 50 square meters of land, greatly reducing their future points income, as long as they could obtain the two martial skills first, then as long as they were willing to grind afterward…
They could totally earn back the lost land. After all, once they learned Leopard Shadow Steps and Crushing Stone Fist, their work efficiency would definitely double.
Especially Leopard Shadow Steps. It was a divine skill that could both improve work efficiency and be continuously trained at the same time. Missing an entire day of study time would be too much of a pity.
Afterward, Luo Wu Shang redeemed six copies of the upper volume of Leopard Shadow Steps and five copies of the upper volume of Crushing Stone Fist from Lin Qi. Fang Zhen used all his earned points to redeem two copies of Leopard Shadow Steps, which left Lin Qi full of mixed feelings.
“As expected, these professional players are more professional.”
Originally, Lin Qi had thought these newcomers would grind for an extra day and then redeem martial skills to study, but unexpectedly, Luo Wu Shang and Fang Zhen would not even give the newcomers that one day. They went to grind while learning martial skills at the same time.
It had to be said, when it came to squeezing a game, these professional players were the true experts.
After Lin Qi finished distributing the martial skills in his hand, he did not forget the daily sign-in.
“I wonder how much the three of them improved today.” Lin Qi opened the system panel and directly used extraction on Luo Wu Shang and the other two.
In an instant, three system notification sounds rang in his ears, and a large amount of training memory appeared in his mind.
System: Congratulations to the host. Startling Spirit Breathing Technique, first floor entry-level, increased to 8%.
System: Congratulations to the host. Startling Spirit Breathing Technique, first floor entry-level, increased to 9%.
System: Congratulations to the host. Startling Spirit Breathing Technique, first floor entry-level, increased to 10%.
“Extracting the same cultivation method from multiple players can actually stack proficiency?” Lin Qi stared at the system prompt, completely shocked.
Previously, he had thought this extraction simply obtained memories from players and allowed his own proficiency to reach the highest level among them.
But now it seemed that was not the case at all. It was an even more terrifying ability, able to absorb the training experiences of multiple players and merge them from multiple angles to increase proficiency.
And this time, the improvement in Startling Spirit Breathing Technique was very obvious. In one go, it had leaped from entry-level 3% to entry-level 10%, making Lin Qi feel that with every breath, all the cells in his body were being stimulated and rapidly improving.
This pleasant feeling made Lin Qi completely unable to stop. He no longer concerned himself with what the players were doing and simply found a place with relatively abundant energy to sit down, crazily stimulating all his cells and letting them absorb the roaming energy.
After more than two hours of this continued cellular stimulation, it finally reached its extreme. Lin Qi felt incredibly comfortable and could not help but open his own data panel.
“Did I… reach quasi-apprentice level?”
Even after so many years, during the new book period, Old Cat feels that every time he goes up on a recommendation, it is like going to the execution ground /(ㄒoㄒ)/~~
A new week has begun. Asking for monthly tickets, recommendation tickets, and follow-up reading!!!
Especially follow-up reading!!! This is extremely important! It affects subsequent major recommendation opportunities. Everyone only needs to open the latest chapter once every 24 hours. That way Old Cat can keep going.
