Chapter 24 – To Be a Master (III)

Chapter 24

To Be a Master (III)

I’ve never quite liked rain back on Earth.

City traffic would slow down to a crawl, the soot of fumes would get trapped in the air, and my mood would always become slightly more depressive while staring at the ashen clouds above.

Today, however, I welcome it with open arms!

Compared to the sizzling scorch of the midday sun (which, I swear, burned at triple digits at least), the rain was like a welcome oasis. Yes, it was still wet, and it was still annoying, but it was vastly better.

Well, not for construction–far from it–but for my well-being. Besides, I needed a break.

I’ve been working three days straight and barely felt like I made much progress. A day off allowed me to put my struggles into perspective: I was building a house. Making no visible progress in three days was normal.

Perfectly normal.

As with all other times I was bored and had nothing else to do, I perused the Creation System, fiddling with it. In my experimentation, I uncovered a few things–I could seemingly not produce an art higher than Earth-tier at the moment, with only one of my combinations just barely breaking into the early Sky-tier, though costing a full 100 Creation Points.

It made sense, after all–the way the system qualified the Arts was the same as the world around me did.

Mortal Arts were the most prevalent, but there was scarcity even among them when it came to the high-tier ones. A good Mortal Cultivation Method, after all, would allow a person to reach all the way to the Spirit Manifestation, my current realm. Wanting to go beyond that, however, required an Earth-tier method.

As far as I know, the sect’s main cultivation method was at the mid-Earth tier, which was just barely enough for someone as talented as Spirit Sage to reach Void Transformation.

Rather, it was a miracle I could even produce stuff within this range. The sheer luck of the system practically giving me the Heart-Stitching Art, a mid-Sky tier method, was quite unprecedented. I’m fairly certain, in fact, that I won’t be able to make arts at that level until at least the peak of Revolving Core, maybe slightly before that.

None of that mattered, however, as the system didn’t prevent me from experimenting and looking up options. There were certainly some that were still just ‘????’, causing no small amount of worry and anxiety, as some of the stuff that was unlocked was already kind of, well, bonkers. For lack of a better word.

Perfect Imbuement of Qi, for instance, was one of the modifications that would reconstruct the method and ensure a 100% perfect Qi transition. It had to be said that even the best methods of the sect maxed out at about 30%. There would always be waste, as no things were perfect… except the ones made by the system.

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It did cost 10,000 Creation Points, however, so… you know, I will probably never be able to use it.

Nonetheless, with my 60 points, I did have a few options to select from, but none that could be used to help anyone immediately. Long Tao, naturally, didn’t need anything–except that cloaking art that I couldn’t (and kind of didn’t want to) create.

As for Dai Xiu, she still had to drink the tea for a long while before resuming cultivation, and even then, the system recommended peak-Earth tier, something I couldn’t create. And the recommendation was of ‘at least peak-Earth tier’.

“Master, Elder Qin has come to visit,” hm? What’s that old dude doing here? Is he here to check up on me?