Chapter 92 – Art of Survival (III)

Chapter 92

Art of Survival (III)

I continued staring at the vast nothing for a long while after, wondering if perhaps I fell asleep and dreamed up the entire thing. You know, like that time in high school where I dreamed of getting up early, finishing all my homework, and getting an A on some math test, only to wake up an hour late for school, having done jack.

I honestly don’t even know what the most amazing reward of the bunch is. More purification progress in one moment than I’d accrued over the last six months of suffering? A major leap in talent that now shot me up to the realms of, like, Inner Disciples at least?

Immortal Qi, where the only chance of me actually ever using it is becoming an Immortal, so it’s sort of like a chicken and egg situation.

And, best yet, I actually broke through. And felt it. It sort of feels like finally seeing some fruits of your labor after doing cardio for months. At the start, when you run for more than 5 minutes, your thighs, calves, and lungs all catch on fire, racing to see which can make you pass out first. But after a while, they… settle down, as it were.

That’s how I feel at the moment–I can actually do the full circulation of Qi in the average time, and it doesn’t feel like Qi is made of tiny razor blades ripping my meridians apart.

I, dare say, am average.

Well, not exactly yet; outside the few arts that I’ve made (only one of which can be used in combat, really), I (Lu Qi) have no functioning knowledge of martial arts. I may as well just take a bat and swing it at someone’s knees, as that’d be more effective.

Plus, there’s the ‘Mythological’ tier. It’s my first time hearing it, as I haven’t even encountered it with any of my monsters. Not that I think they don’t have it (Long Tao and Hua most definitely do), but it just goes to show how barren my knowledge of most everything actually is.

Haah.

I just want to curl up in a ball for a bit and daydream, daydream that every day is like this–just randomly triggering rewards left, right, and center, speeding through the cultivation realm like a bolt.

And yet, amidst the jubilance (which there is plenty of, yes), some worry arose. The art’s description noted that it’s unprecedented. Meaning that, at least on the surface level, Long Tao was right–that something like this doesn’t exist. However, if I now pull it out just like that, after, what? A couple of days? Yeah. Won’t that basically signal to everyone I can do anything? Which I can’t!

I really can’t!

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Besides, something isn’t adding up if you’re asking me–an art that hasn’t been made in the history of the world, within any of the ‘7 Layers of Heavens’ (whatever that is), something so monumental that it is considered a ‘staggering point in the history of Martial Arts’… why does it cost so few points? I mean, yeah, for me 910 points is massive–my entire fortune, in fact–but in the grand scheme of things, 910 points is literally nothing.

Like, I can scroll through any random option and find ones that cost tens of thousands of points to implement. You’re telling me that something so cheap has never been made before by anyone? Nobody, not once in the history of everything, thought to themselves, ‘Hmm, what if I made an art that deformed bones and altered physical appearance because that would allow me to do whatever the hell I want and get away with it?’.

No.

I don’t buy it.

I don’t buy it even for a second.