"Hah!"
Thrusting the spear in his hand forward, Yang Shen didn't seem to be doing anything special.
In fact, the way he thrust the spear seemed very ordinary almost as if he wasn't using a Battle Skill.
After all, what he was doing right now was simply imitating the physical postures needed to use the Battle Skill.
It wasn't that Yang Shen didn't want to use his Qi according to the Battle Skill and show its true power, he just couldn't. With how little Qi there was inside his body, Yang Shen had no way of executing the real Dragon Pierces the Void.
Due to this, even though Yang Shen had repeatedly thrust the Heart Destroying Spear forward, the proficiency of the Dragon's Way of Spear Part 1 remained at 0%.
It seems like it wouldn't matter if he had enough Points to comprehend the technique right away or not. Before increasing his cultivation and the Qi inside him, Yang Shen had no way of using the Battle Skill.
....
Unlike the Body Tempering Stages during which the cultivators utilized the Qi around them by absorbing it inside them and using it to temper the parts of their bodies, in the Qi Stages of cultivation, the absorbed Qi was not allowed to leave the body.
Having tempered their physical body until now, the cultivators were now needed to store Qi inside their bodies.
Qi Gathering Realm, Golden Core, Xiantian Realm, Nascent Soul, True Qi Realm, Transcendence Realm.
With every realm that the cultivators crossed, not only did their lifespan increase, but the quality and form of the Qi inside them changed as well.
In the Qi Gathering Realm, the cultivators would keep gathering Qi inside them and use it to fill their dantian.
Next, the Qi which was in the gaseous state would be compressed together and turned into a solid core. The Golden Core.
Following this, the cultivator would destroy the Golden Core and turn it into a huge Qi Sea. During this Realm, other than the quality of Qi increasing it would turn into a dense liquid. Xiantian Realm.
In the Nascent Realm, the cultivator would form their spirit body. The spirit body was in simple terms could be considered as a pseudo soul that granted the power of Divine Sense to the cultivators.
Moving on, the Qi would be further refined and turned into True Qi at which point the cultivator could start flying.
And finally, the Transcendence Realm.
Creating a seed out of a huge amount of compressed Qi, the Seed of Transcendence was planted in the depths of the Qi Sea.
But for whatever reason it might be, the book Yang Shen consumed to learn about cultivations didn't explain why the Seed of Transcendence was created.
…..
"50 Points."
Not knowing how to feel upon learning that the corpse of the Wild Beast he killed was worth 50 Points, because the same couldn't be obtained from a dead human cultivator's body, Yang Shen now possessed a total of 123 Points.
However remembering that it would cost him 100 Points to consume the book, Yang Shen once again felt like throwing up blood.
After all, not even the Primordial Nine Suns Technique Part 2 cost so much to learn.
Still, deep down Yang Shen felt very excited that the system was asking him for so many Points to comprehend the Battle Skill.
Why?
It was simple. The more Points the system wanted to charge him for consuming a book, the more complex and profound its contents were.
And given that it was asking a total of 100 Points, Yang Shen was sure the Battle Skill, the Dragon Pierces the Void was going to be very strong and definitely worth every single point he would spend on learning it.
Due to this, Yang Shen was excited even before he possessed the Points needed to comprehend it, much less now where he possessed the required Points.
…
On the Supreme Cloud Continent, there were two types of beasts. Wild Beasts and Profound Beasts.
Wild Beasts were ordinary beasts who had grown stronger by absorbing Qi inside their flesh and due to which could compete against Cultivators who were in the Body Tempering Stages.
Profound Beasts on the other hand were special beasts who managed to create a Beast Core inside their body and use Qi to cultivate in their own ways.
Depending on the quality of the Beast Core inside them, the Profound Beasts were divided into three Grades.
Low Grade, Mid Grade, and High Grade.
Low Grade Profound Beasts were comparable to the cultivators in the Golden Core Realm, Mid Grade to Nascent Soul, and finally High Grade to Transcendence Realm.
However regardless of which beast it was, they were usually considered stronger than their human counterparts due to their innately stronger bodies and greater vitality.
[Yang Shen
Age: 18
Race: Human
Bloodline: None
Cultivation: Qi Gathering Level 1 (1/9) (XP: 32,490/1,200)
Cultivation Technique: Primordial Nine Suns Technique (Incomplete - Part 1, and Part 2) (Proficiency: 37%)
Battle Skills: None
Special Techniques: The Erogenous Beauty Stimulating Massage Technique (Level 1: Proficiency: 100%)
Points: 103]
Having killed an ordinary Wild Beast on his way to the Soul Devouring Mountain, Yang Shen obtained 50 Points from selling its entire corpse to the system, and 1,000 XP from killing it.
Due to this, he now possessed enough Points to learn the 1st Part of the Dragon's Way of Spear.
But before doing that, it was time for him to level up.