Chapter 22: Digging Pits Beats Working Any Day
Host: Lin Qi.
Age:
Permission level: Level One Merit-Based Admission Authority.
Martial arts level: Quasi-apprentice.
Strength: 8 kilograms. （Apprentice standard: 200 kilograms）
Speed: 6 meters per second. （Apprentice standard: 12 meters per second）
Cultivation method: Startling Spirit Breathing Technique （First Floor entry-level 10%）
Player count available for introduction: 10 （The host’s current limit for concurrent online players is 10, current reservation count is 18,）
“Just 10% entry-level on the First Floor, and it improves this much?” Lin Qi looked at his data panel, for a moment unable to believe this was real.
For people in the High Martial Arts World, improvement is generally very slow. Even with all kinds of resources, very few can become apprentices during high school.
Now, with just 10% entry-level of the First Floor of his breathing technique, his strength had jumped in one go from 2 kilograms to 8 kilograms, and his speed rose from 9 meters per second to 6 meters per second. If he said it out loud, probably no one would believe it.
This level of improvement, even for those martial arts class students at key high schools, would probably take ten days to half a month, while he had done it in just two short hours.
In fact, if it were not for his own slightly low blood qi, the numbers could probably be even higher.
“No wonder those high school martial arts students are all desperately hiring tutors. The improvement from cultivation methods is just too important. If I can fully complete this First Floor, becoming an apprentice will be effortless.”
Lin Qi felt the strength in his body and his gaze could not help shifting to the player list.
“It is a pity I can only draw five times a day. If I could have more quotas and let more players learn the breathing technique, the speed of my breathing technique’s improvement would definitely be much faster.”
At this moment, Lin Qi suddenly felt that the schedule for repairing the martial arts hall could be moved up.
The martial arts hall repair task could instantly add forty quotas. Even leaving aside whether it could upgrade his permissions and raise his daily absorption cap, just forty more people would raise the chances of a cultivation genius appearing.
Lin Qi had already noticed during absorption: although all of them provided breathing technique proficiency, Fang Zhen and Twilight of the Gods each only provided 1% proficiency, while Luo Wu Shang provided 5% in one go.
That efficiency was five times that of the other two, equivalent to him drawing from four extra people.
“This extraction authority, since it can extract breathing techniques, I wonder if it can extract martial skills. If it can extract martial skills, then this authority is truly heaven-defying.” Lin Qi glanced at the seven players left on the list who could still be extracted from, and could not help feeling expectant.
Martial skill training is just like cultivation methods. Although mistakes are less deadly than with cultivation methods, they can still leave a person unable to take care of themselves.
Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was set up in the Abandoned Area. Even with an expert like Qin Mu sitting in town, going to and from other places on ordinary days could not really be called safe.
Even now that he had finally become an ordinary person of the High Martial Arts World, it was still a very dangerous situation.
But if he could master two apprentice-level martial skills, then future trips into the wilderness would be much safer. After all, he needed to repair the martial arts hall and needed a large amount of wood. Going to the mining area to get wood was only a matter of time.
At noon the sun was blazing, and yet underground in the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall it was boiling with activity.
The underground garden that Fang Zhen and the other two had long ago dug out was now crisscrossing in all directions. One player after another carried a large burlap sack on their backs, the sacks filled with dirt, but this did not affect their speed at all.
“Damn! I messed up that step again!”
“This Leopard Shadow Steps footwork is way too complicated. There are sixteen different leg power methods, and they all have to cooperate with the corresponding steps. This game is way too real. Can’t they simplify it a bit? I just used the wrong power and step by accident, and my entire leg twisted 180 degrees. There goes my ”
“Yeah, if it could be simplified a bit it would be great. I usually do a lot of part-time food deliveries, my legs have long since become one with the road, but this kind of complex footwork is harder to learn than getting a dog to do a bar flip.”
“You two done? If you don’t want to haul soil, then switch now. I have been digging for an hour. We said ten minutes per rotation, and how many ‘ten minutes’ has it been now?”
The two hauling members of the Yi Ye Fu Yun team saw the furious look of their teammate digging in the tunnel and did not dare waste another second. Without another word, they bolted up to the surface, not giving the digging teammate any chance to speak.
Leopard Shadow Steps was indeed hard to practice, but compared to only digging, this was earning Martial Arts Hall Points while practicing martial skills. It felt just like playing games on company time, so of course they were not about to let others take that spot.
Meanwhile, in another tunnel.
A tall, graceful figure moved like a gust of wind, landing without a sound. The large burlap sack full of rock and soil on her back barely slowed her at all. She was like a track athlete sprinting on flat ground, darting back and forth as she carried away sack after sack, leaving Twilight of the Gods, who was loading the dirt, stunned.
“Sister Wu, are you sure Sister Zhang really had something wrong with her brain before?” Twilight of the Gods stared, mouth wide open, at Zhang Qing Wei darting about.
That movement, that reaction. Twilight of the Gods felt that even a healthy person might not be able to match Zhang Qing Wei’s level.
He even felt that his own digging speed was already fast enough, yet each time a sack of dirt and rocks was filled, Zhang Qing Wei was already standing to the side. She would grab the sack and, like a little white rabbit, vanish down the end of the tunnel in the blink of an eye.
“Qing Wei’s brain did have problems.” Luo Wu Shang glanced at the disappearing Zhang Qing Wei and nodded. “But now, it seems this new High Martial Arts Descend technology should have solved that problem.”
In the past, as a famous expert in Pilgrimage, Zhang Qing Wei’s nerve reactions were naturally beyond doubt. Now that her issues had been resolved through High Martial Arts Descend, she could naturally display her original level.
Even if the way she was using it now was a bit odd, as long as she was happy, it was fine.
However, just moments after Luo Wu Shang finished speaking, Zhang Qing Wei appeared before them again, her face full of excitement like a starving wolf who had not seen a beauty in three days. Even though she was already panting heavily, she still felt she could go on.
“Wu Shang, give me another half hour. I feel like I am almost there.” Zhang Qing Wei panted as she spoke, then moved to grab another sack.
“Qing Wei, doesn’t the guild have an important meeting today?” Luo Wu Shang watched Zhang Qing Wei tirelessly hauling soil and could not help reminding her. “You have been here digging holes with us all this time. Is that really okay?”
As Vice President, Luo Wu Shang was relatively free right now and was not involved in guild management, but she knew today was an important day for Heavenly Might.
Pilgrimage’s Blade Saint Su Wuming was coming to Heavenly Might to negotiate about joining them, which was a huge event.
In the virtual game Pilgrimage, it was extremely difficult for players to become Saints. Calling it one in ten thousand was an understatement. A Saint-level existence in Pilgrimage was a strategic force, able to hold a region and face thousands of troops without fear.
Heavenly Might had become one of the five giant guilds in Pilgrimage mainly because it had sixteen Saints.
Su Wuming, as one of Pilgrimage’s top ten Blade Saints, joining Heavenly Might was no small matter.
“I am just a little secretary. That matter will be fine without me. The President will handle it. Besides, that job is nowhere near as fun as digging holes right now.” Zhang Qing Wei waved a hand, unconcerned. “For this Leopard Shadow Steps, I feel I am just one step away. As long as I run it a few more times and get more proficient, I should be able to reach entry-level!”
Looking at Zhang Qing Wei, who did not care at all about the meeting, Luo Wu Shang was speechless. “But as I recall, today’s meeting was arranged by you to test Su Wuming, right?”
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