Chapter 4 – Heart-Stitching Art (IV)

Chapter 4

Heart-Stitching Art (IV)

Dragon swallowed me, yet I felt fine.

Fire burned me, yet I felt fine.

I drowned, yet I felt fine.

It was as though I experienced a thousand deaths, yet any time I felt like my mind was shattering, a strange sense of calm overcame me.

When I opened my eyes, I was lying flat back on the floor, staring at the old ceiling, a system’s window fluttering in front of me. That was… quite something. In a way, beyond description.

[Congratulations, Host, on creating Heart-Stitching Art]

[…]

[Heart-Stitching Art]

[Type: Special Art]

[Rank: mid-Sky Tier (Mortal -> Earth -> Sky -> Heaven -> ???)]

[Host Comprehension: Minor (None -> Minor -> Intermediate -> Perfected -> ???)]

[…]

[Sutra of heart and mind; allows the cultivator to resist the arrayed temptations beyond reality and clear one’s mind of external influences. ??? mastery allows for total immunity to all Heart Poisons and Curses under the ??? Realm.]

[…]

[Creation Points Value: 433/100 (allocated Beginner Bonus)]

[Comprehension Difficulty: Intermediate (Easy -> Difficult -> Intermediate -> Prodigious -> ???)]

[…]

[No ‘Creation Bonus’ allocated due to the Art being system-generated]

[…]

[New Quest: Pass on Heart-Stitching Art to your Disciple and help him reduce the effects of the Curse]

[Rewards: upon passing of the Art: 10 Creation Points]

[Upon suppressing the Curse: 30 Creation Points]

[Good luck!]

It was all a bit too much, but I think I’m beginning to grasp the most basic ‘loop.’

Complete quests -> Earn Creation Points -> Scout out special Disciples -> Create Arts and Methods suitable for them -> Earn More Creation Points -> Rinse and Repeat. Luckily, the kid chose me. If he hadn’t… oh, the heavens.

There was no way I could go down and pass the art immediately. I at least have to pretend for a bit; speaking of which, how can I pass it on? After all, this wasn’t an actual kid. If I simply showed up with a perfect counter to a curse that a potential Immortal struggled with, won’t he have questions? The ilk that I won’t have answers for?

Even if he can’t do anything to me now (presumably) due to the differences in strength, protagonist halo would soon kick in and propel him into new strata. One in which he would be able to kick my ass with relative ease. After all, not only was my current cultivation earned almost entirely through pill popping, it wasn’t even particularly high.

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Per the body’s memories, it went Qi Condensation -> Foundation Establishment -> Spirit Manifestation -> Revolving Core -> Void Transformation ->… that was it. The strongest person in the Sect, the Sect Master, was at the early Void Transformation stage, and there was nobody known within this small corner who was above that realm.