How to Cultivate for Dummies
White level technique
Average cultivation speed: Fast
Limit: Level 0.1 (Not Even Close Bro)
Strength increase: Extremely low
Element: Convertible
Founder: Situ Pidu (11 years ago)
Sell value: 20 tech points
Looking at the values of this cultivation manual, Lan Xiang was dumbfounded. They were unbelievably low! The others had a similar value, with minimal variance.
"And the author is Situ Pidu, who names their child Pidu...
"At least I got the tech points. I should find a high level technique and upgrade that. What did I expect from a bunch of 1 dollar manuals anyway?"
As he cast away his disappointment, he thought of the color level of the technique.
"White".
As the Lan Xiang of the other world was quite an avid gamer, he knew that the colors represented rarity, and usually, the rarer the item, the stronger it was.
White is the most common, and from there, yellow, bronze, green, blue, purple, gold, and the rarest, red.
In this case, it was very evident that the color level indicated both rarity and strength.
The disparity between the Celestial River Stream and the techniques he picked up today were incredibly big.
"But what if... I level these up to the purple level? Will they also have the same values?
"I can't cultivate the Xie Family Technique anyway, that would be unfair to Xie Jian. Unless I enter the Xie family and become Xie Xiang...
"Yeah, no."
Getting rid of his hesitance, he glanced at the tech points that he hadn't found the opportunity to use yet.
How to Cultivate for Dummies
White level technique (More details...)
Advance: 10 tech points
Do you want to advance How to Cultivate for Dummies to Yellow level for 10 tech points?
Yes/No
"Yes."
The interface glowed for a second before Lan Xiang opened the new and improved How to Cultivate for Dummies' stats page.
How to Cultivate for Dummies Revised ver.
Yellow level technique
Average cultivation speed: Extremely fast
Limit: Level 5 (Energy Emission Realm)
Strength increase: Low
Element: Convertible
Founder: Lan Xiang (2 seconds ago)
Sell value: 15 tech points
"Woah, that's a massive improvement!"
He eagerly upgraded it once more.
Do you want to advance How to Cultivate for Dummies to Bronze level for 20 tech points?
Yes/No
"Yes..."
Do you want to advance How to Cultivate for Dummies to Green level for 50 tech points?
Yes/No
"Yes..."
Do you want to advance How to Cultivate for Dummies to Blue level for 100 tech points?
Yes/No
"Yeah."
Do you want to advance How to Cultivate for Dummies to Purple level for 250 tech points?
Yes/No
"Yeah..."
Do you want to advance How to Cultivate for Dummies to Gold level for 500 tech points?
Yes/No
"Yeah..."
"Insufficient tech points. Please work hard to accumulate more tech points!"
"What? I'm out already?"
Lan Xiang didn't notice as he kept upgrading the technique.
Tech points: 280
"What? It's already purple level? That was fast..."
He opened the stats page.
How to Cultivate for Dummies Revised ver.
Purple level technique
Average cultivation speed: Inhumanely fast
Strength increase: Very high
Element: Convertible
Founder: Lan Xiang (a second ago)
Sell value: 200 tech points
"...WTF? It's better than the Xie Family Technique already?"
Lan Xiang stood there, in a daze. He didn't know what to think anymore.
"And the level limitation is gone too! That means I can cultivate this technique until ascension, maybe even further!"
His dead eyes grew alive as he started to rejoice silently.
"...Let's start cultivating then!"
.....
"So you're telling me... that you failed to order our meal, because of a girl?"
A man with a big-as-hell figure stood with his hands on his back. The boss of the Punk Thug Gang, Wen Kang!
The fatty wore a cast on his left arm, while the two thugs behind him wore casts on their necks, legs, and both arms. Their whole body was almost crippled. If it weren't for the level 4 fatty who took in most of the impact of the truck, they'd most likely already be dead.
"Yes, boss! She's an Attribution Form cultivator like you!"
Wen Kang flashed a sinister smile. He released his full aura!
"L- level 7, Budding Spirit?!"
The fatties took a second to take in the new information, and smiled excitedly.
Wen Kang interrupted their thoughts. "How beautiful was this girl again?"
Hearing their boss, the fatty got excited. He knew what his boss was planning!
"Of course, you can get a share after I'm done with her." Licking his lips, Wen Kang's grin turned lewd.
The fatty almost cried. What a considerate boss this was! Taking revenge for them, while also giving them some rewards!
"But boss, she seems to be from a big family, we can't just attack her directly!"
Right before the kick arrived on his stomach, he had observed the belongings of the girl. A super expensive bag, limited edition watch, and clothes of the latest fashion cycle. Without a doubt, a girl from a rich family.
"Hmm... can you think of any weakness we can exploit?"
"Ooh, how about her scrawny boyfriend! He had no cultivation whatsoever!" The lanky thug answered.
"Perfect... Hehehe, don't blame me for your inability to satisfy your girlfriend, ehehehe..." Wen Kang rubbed his hands sinisterly.
.....
Status effects:
Reborn
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"Hahaha!"
From Lan Xiang's room, a maniacal laugh could be heard, startling the maid cleaning up outside.
"Even someone without talent like me can cultivate to Attribution Form in 4 days! This technique is magical!
"This system is broken! Damn!"
All of a sudden, his phone vibrated, interrupting his celebration.
He saw a text message from his father.
"My son, I heard that you have already recovered, yet you haven't attended school for the past few days. Your principal has informed me of the possibility of you being expelled if you do not attend within a week from now. Please take care of this problem."
Lan Xiang got angry.
"Who does he think he is? He knew I recovered, yet he never took the time to come here... He didn't even give me the cultivation technique when even my younger sister knows about it. And what's this "please take care of this problem"?! It sounds so ingenuine!"
Closing his phone, he almost ignored the point of the text before mulling it over once more.
"School, huh?"
As a trash without cultivation, getting into academies were hard. (Un)Fortunately for him, he had a powerful family with connections.