In the middle of his bedroom, sitting cross-legged, Li Jing slowly opened his eyes.
Three days have passed since he consumed the Yin Yang Soulgrass. Without hesitation, he immediately opened his status screen to see how much XP he now had.
[----------STATUS---------
Experience Points (XP): 41716
XP / hour: 16
Strength: 300 Jin
Qi cultivation realm: Qi Gathering I (XP: 0/6000)
Body cultivation realm: Mortal (XP: 0/5000)
Talent: B-grade
Bloodlines: [Iron Boar]
Perks: [Appraisal], [Full Recovery]
Cultivation methods: [Li clan's method]
Martial techniques: [Elusive Smoke Steps], [Instant Flash Step], [Hammer Fist]
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Li Jing smiled widely. With so many Experience Points, he could do a lot of things!
He started to think about his different options:
First, he shouldn't increase his cultivation realm by more than one level or it will be suspicious. He didn't want to let other people know that he successfully opened the Mysterious Box and that there was a great treasure inside it.
Second, he wanted to gamble and buy a Rare Lottery Ticket. He knew it was risky, but even if he obtained a useless weapon or artifact, he could still sell it and get tens of thousands of Spirit Stones that he could absorb to reimburse the lost Experience Points.
Third, he still decided not to invest XP in the Body cultivation path. He will stick to his first plan and wait for him to get a more powerful Cultivation method before spending his XP in this path.
Li Jing was satisfied with his plan and started using his Experience Points.
'Use 6000 XP to increase my Qi cultivation realm.' He thought.
[6000 XP has been used. Remaining XP: 35716.]
Like the last time, Li Jing felt a warm sensation in his dantian as strong power passed through his body.
[Congratulations! Host has reached the second level of the Qi Gathering realm.]
Great, Li Jing felt even more powerful than before!
'Buy one Rare Lottery ticket.' He now thought.
[15000 XP has been used. Remaining XP: 20716.]
[Host received 1 item: 1x Rare Lottery ticket. The item has been stored in Host inventory.]
Li Jing decided to directly use his ticket and hoped that he will obtain something good.
[Congratulations! Host received the item: Bloodline: Thunder Wyvern (rare). The item has been stored in Host inventory.]
[
Name: Thunder Wyvern
Type: Bloodline
Grade: Rare
Description: The Thunder Wyvern bloodline is a lesser dragon bloodline that can evolve into the Black Thunder Dragon bloodline after 10 evolutions. Each evolution stage grants a unique skill, increases the lifespan and the strength.
Effect: Grant access to Lightning Qi. Lifespan increased by 300 years. Strength + 2600 Jin. Greatly increase Host's senses, speed, and reaction time.
Evolution stage: 0/10 (consume 500 tier-1 Demonic Cores to reach the first evolution)
]
Seeing the screen in front of him, Li Jing widened his eyes, he couldn't believe his luck! He was so shocked that his whole body was shaking from excitement.
An evolvable bloodline? He didn't know that it existed. Moreover, the Black Thunder Dragon bloodline was not mentioned in the web novel. But since it was a dragon bloodline, it was definitely very powerful. He couldn't wait to start evolving his new Thunder Wyvern bloodline!
Although five hundred tier-1 Demonic Cores were a lot, Li Jing could probably take them from his clan. After all, tier-1 Demonic Cores were not rare for the best alchemist clan of the kingdom. However, he wanted to instead go to the Dark Forest to collect them by himself.
By going to the Dark Forest, he would not only gain a lot of Experience Points by farming the tier-1 Demonic Beasts but also gain battle experience. Battle experience was what he lacked the most since he never fought seriously or had life and death battles in this life or the previous one…
'Use item Bloodline: Thunder Wyvern.' He thought.
Li Jing activated his new bloodline and immediately felt his whole body shaking and hurting terribly. It felt like every one of his bones and muscles was crushed and reconstructed while a powerful electric current passed through his body.
Lying on the floor, Li Jing gritted his teeth and endured the pain as best he could.
'Shit, why was there not an alert to warn me that it would be so painful!' He thought, furious.
Crack! Crack!
After a few minutes, the pain still didn't stop, on the contrary, it became stronger and stronger and his body was cracking from all parts. It was really unbearable, Li Jing thought that he was going to die. He was certain that if he lost consciousness right now, he would never wake up.
Never in his life, he had felt so much pain. Even when he died in his previous life, it was not so painful!
He started to regret having activated this bloodline, maybe he was not strong enough yet to activate it and will pay the price for this mistake...
It was only around five minutes later that the pain subsided before finally stopped.
Li Jing breathed heavily and needed a moment to recover from this terrible pain. He felt very lucky to have survived.
[Perk Full Recovery activated. Host's strength +20%.]
He was extremely happy to see this notification. At least all the pain he felt was worth it!
Once he has recovered, he slowly stood up and suddenly noticed that everything around him seemed different. No, it was he who was different.
Since the Thunder Wyvern bloodline increased his senses, he could now see everything around him with greater details. In fact, the little details that usually escaped his attention were now visible, like the tiny insects crawling down his bedroom window.
His hearing also increased a lot. For example, he could discern that there were six birds around his house and deduce their exact location just by hearing them coo.
But the most spectacular change was his strength. With his new strength, Li Jing was now unbeatable in the Qi Gathering realm and could even beat someone in the first or second level of the Foundation Establishment realm since every level in this realm increased the strength of the cultivators by 1000 Jin.
'Status.' Thought Li Jing.
[----------STATUS---------
Experience Points (XP): 20716
XP / hour: 16
Strength: 3600 Jin
Qi cultivation realm: Qi Gathering II (XP: 0/9000)
Body cultivation realm: Mortal (XP: 0/5000)
Talent: B-grade
Bloodlines: [Iron Boar], [Thunder Wyvern]
Perks: [Appraisal], [Full Recovery]
Elemental affinities: [Lightning]
Cultivation methods: [Li clan's method]
Martial techniques: [Elusive Smoke Steps], [Instant Flash Step], [Hammer Fist]
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Noticing his new strength and the new line 'Elemental affinities', Li Jing laughed excitedly.
An elemental affinity was something very rare. By default, the Qi was neutral, and only by using a Martial technique, a cultivator could change its element. A cultivator who had an elemental affinity could naturally use the element for which he had an affinity without needing a Martial technique. This way, Li Jing could, for example, change his neutral Hammer Fist Martial technique into a Lightning Hammer Fist Martial technique or his simple punches and kicks into lightning punches and lightning kicks.
Li Jing couldn't wait to test his new power in the Dark Forest. With a strength of 3600 Jin, he would be able to effortlessly kill any tier-1 Demonic Beasts in this forest!
But before going to the Dark Forest, he still had one thing important to do.