As he finished cultivating, Cheng Hua opened his eyes and basked in the newfound lightness and prowess of his body.
Just as he had barely stood up from his bed, he was hit by a bunch of System notifications:
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SKILL: Wind's Blessing has leveled up!
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SKILL: Dragons' Blessing has been acquired!
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SKILL: Dragons' Blessing has leveled up!
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SKILL: Will of the Heavens has leveled up!
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Seeing so many of his skills becoming more powerful, Cheng Hua, even with his adult mentality couldn't help but once again start laughing in a crazy manner, was it just his feeling or was he becoming more childish the more he lived in this world?
He decided to first check his skills and see his summed stats later, these were the results:
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SKILL NAME: Wind's Blessing
TYPE: Passive
LEVEL: 2
DESCRIPTION: Granted to the followers of the wind goddess, these individuals have received bonus sensitivity towards wind attribute qi and a slight increase in the gathering speed of qi of all types.
EFFECT: +20% increase in wind attribute attack and defensive skills, +4% movement speed, +2% qi gathering speed
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SKILL NAME: Dragons' Blessing
TYPE: Passive
LEVEL: 2
DESCRIPTION: Rare Blessing bestowed on those who are approved of by a dragon, grants increased body cultivation speed, bonus strength and defense, maximum affinity with dragons' qi attribute, and an improvement in the gathering speed of qi of all types.
EFFECT: +16% increase in Body cultivation speed, +10% strength, +10% defence, +5% qi gathering speed
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NAME: Will of the Heavens
Type: Passive
LEVEL: 2
DESCRIPTION: bestows the user with a silver of heavenly intent. Increases all stats by 20.
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Obviously, Cheng Hua was already on ninth heaven from euphoria, and that did not help improve his newfound chuunbuyou personality.
After he finally calmed down he decided to open his stats window.
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TITLE: None
RACE: Human
NAME: Cheng Hua
HEALTH: 557 / 557
MANA: 4300 / 4300
Cultivation level: Body Tempering 2nd stage
Elemental Affinity: Fire, Wind
STATUS: None
Strength: 67
Agility: 95
Vitality: 56
Dexterity: 58
Intelligence: 430
Wisdom: 190
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Cheng Hua did a quick math and realized that the level ups didn't bring him anything useful in term of current stats, really, however that will rise to much more in the later stages of cultivation, after all, 2% of 2 million is 40 thousand, it's all just examples, but it was enough to get the main idea of it, Moreover, the most important part of the skills are Elemental Affinities, Maximum fire affinity and 20 wind Affinity did not sound bad at all.
One should also not neglect the progress he made in cultivation either, after all the elemental particles have passed through his body, even if he did not break through he was not far from it, sadly it seemed like this time they did not affect his body stats, focusing on his meridians, familiarizing them with the immense energy, as well as increase qi gathering speed even further.
One shouldn't look down on Cheng Hua for Calculating everything in his mind, after all one does not easily get rid of a hunting mindset created through many years of business relationships, numbers felt like his own children.
Furthermore, he had a whopping 490 intelligence stat, let's be honest here, his intelligence was just a tad bit lower than his master, Zhong Xing, not low indeed.
Having just sorted everything in his mind, Cheng Hua decided that he had done enough for today, and headed off to sleep.
The second day, first things first Cheng Hua continued with his military training, after he had done so, he once again headed for the library, this time filtering through the Martial Techniques compartment.
After another couple hours of torture, Cheng Hua chose a Martial Technique which he found the most interesting, "Cyclone palm", an attacking skill making use of his high wind affinity, as well as a movement technique, this one fire-related "burning step", it focused on short distance evasion as well as fast evasive maneuvers couplet with great flexibility.
Do not question Cheng Hua's skill choice, Fire > Wind, 430 Intellect has deduced so.
After another delicious meal at the Drunken Star Villa, Cheng Hua, seeing he had a lot of time left until evening, decided to visit the treasure pavilion.
He entered the white, tiled building and was greeted by an old man relaxing on a rocking chair. Cheng Hua cupped his fists and bowed towards the elder, he had seen enough situations of this kind to know he better get on the good side of the treasure keeper.
Then he browsed through the shelves full of items. There were weapons like staffs, swords, axes, daggers, armors with extraordinary attributes, various cultivation boosting pills, and even more miscellaneous items like zithers, cooking pots, change clothes, etc. Frankly speaking, although Cheng Hua had noticed a couple of powerful items, the treasure pavilion was more of a smart way of getting rid of useless trash for the higherups while also getting benefits out of it.
Moreover, Cheng Hua had exactly 0 sect contribution at the moment. one had to complete a whole bunch of missions issued by the sect or participate in dangerous events to gain a substantial amount of currency that will be gone in minutes after entering this building.
Having not found anything else of interest around here, Cheng Hua resigned to his fate and decided to once again 'study' in the library.
Over the course of these 2 days, many people visited the library, and a lot of them had happened to witness Cheng Hua jab books one by one with his finger before moving to the next, although there existed many peculiar individuals in their sect, some couldn't contain their visible confusion anymore and reported to the librarian, the man at the front door.
As Cheng Hua entered his fate-dictated place of spending time, Qin Hong stopped him.
"Junior brother, I saw you as a serious person that would not disturb anyone here, yet the past few days you did not even open one book, only touching them all before finding your next target. Many are complaining about how you must have cursed or poisoned them to get rid of your seniors.
I have checked the books, and have watched over you the whole time, you did nothing to damage them or the other disciples, however your auspicious behavior cannot be tolerated in such a sacred place, not only had you bothered your fellow brothers while they were seeking knowledge, you wasted both mine and your time by fooling around without a reason.
As such, from now on, you shall be banned from the library, at least until you get a sect elder to approve for your cause and convince my superiors of your stupidity and ignorance."
Hearing the man's long monologue, Cheng Hua's face turned even sourer every passing second, as Qin Hong finished his words, he couldn't; help but swear loudly:
"Well, SH*T, How am I supposed to get stronger now, the f**k? Isn't this way too biased? how can you ban me just because someone didn't like what I was doing in there, even though no one and no book either suffered any misgivings?
"Damn, this is messed up!"
Obviously, Qin Hong would not tolerate some new disciple insult him and his decisions, he immediately sent a palm to Cheng Hua's chest, intending to teach him a lesson while getting him out of his eyes.
"Get lost Brat!"
Cheng Hua was barely able to notice the attack when he was already flying a dozen of meters behind and coughed a mouthful of blood.
"So this is how it feels to get hit by a stronger cultivator, heh, it seems the novels were not exaggerating on the coughing blood part."
Barely managing to stand up, and seeing Qin Hong had already entered the Library, not caring about him anymore, Cheng Hua started stumbling through the crown watching him with scornful eyes towards his house.
"Look at that bastard, he dared Enrage Brother Qin, does he have a death wish? Who doesn't know that Qin Hong was ranked 19th on the outer sect rankings, although he has a kind face, he is definitely not a benevolent person, were It not for the fact that his father, Elder Qin is The second-floor guardian and brother was forced to be under his watchful eyes, as to not cause trouble, Qin Hong would have had even more time to cultivate, and might even have been able to rank in the top 10!"
"Really, he must be stupid, he overestimates himself too much, who does he think he is? I haven't seen him before."
This and many more were insults that the 'brothers' were sending towards Cheng Hua, obviously, he understood the idea of strong preying on the weak, but it did not feel good at all. He definitely must become stronger so that he can teach those bastards a lesson in return.
With these words, Cheng Hua, with 3 broken ribs and shaken internal organs reached his room and started meditating in order to recuperate.