Walking on the unstable road.
Niu Chang was looking at his system panel.
[Host : Niu Chang.]
[Karma point : 326]
[Cultivation : unable to cultivate.]
[Skill : Kendo.]
Then with his thought, the panel changed.
[Cultivation method : Three Fundamental Breathing, Shallow Green Leaf, White Heart Energy. More]
This panel shows the cultivation method that Niu Chang knew before. They were five from the old beggar he encountered in the forest and the rest of them that he came up with.
Then he changed his mind and the system panel also changed.
[Cultivation method.]
[Qi cultivation : Three Fundamental Breathing, Shallow Green Leaf, White Heart Energy. More]
[Body cultivation : none.]
[Mind cultivation : none.]
[Soul cultivation : none.]
Confirming his guess was correct, Niu Chang smiled lightly.
'System, cultivate the Transformation Energy.'
Transformation Energy was one of the fruits of Niu Chang research. This cultivation method focuses on the nature of the qi that is gathered and stored into the body.
It didn't have many additional detail except that the qi that produced after using this method will not have any conflict with other qi with different attribute.
[Cultivate Transformation Energy to the third rate stage require 300 karma points.]
The system showed its other function, which is naturally to help the host to cultivate with rapid speed.
'Confirm.' Niu Chang said in his heart.
Wind.
Niu Chang felt a sudden surge of unknown energy seeped through his body for half a minute before finally stopping.
He chose to take a break and sat near a tree.
Closing his eyes, Niu Chang began to sense the unknown energy in his body. This energy was elusive and moved freely inside his body without fixed place and form. He moved his thoughts and those energy followed his thought.
Niu Chang opened his eyes and moved that energy to flow into his hand. The energy reached his hand but was still in its natural state unreactive.
After modifying these energies with his thought, Niu Chang finally was able to make it react with his physical body. The energy seeped into his flesh and bone, giving Niu Chang the sense of power but only limited to his hand.
The energy needed to be channeled into the hand, but due to Niu Chang's energy reserve being very small, he couldn't maintain it for a long time.
His energy was consumed, but that's all.
'So this is qi.'
Feeling something was wrong, Niu Chang couldn't help but frown. 'System is this the energy reserve of a third rate stage?'
It's too little.
But there was no response from the system.
Niu Chang could only think it by himself.
'It's either my Transformation Energy technique is too low level or the division of the cultivation stage is wrong.'
For the level of Transformation Energy naturally very low, since Niu Chang only has theory of it and that was limited as to how to gather qi and how it should behave.
He hasn't thought about how this qi would be stored, how will this qi flow through his body and many more.
To confirm his thought, Niu Chang said to the system. 'System, cultivates White Heart Energy to the third rate stage.'
[Cultivate White Heart Energy to the third rate stage require 1050 karma points.]
The system showed the confirmation that Niu Chang was looking for.
'So White Heart Energy is three times more effective than my poorly made Transformation Energy.'
'System, fuse Transformation Energy with White Heart Energy.' Niu Chang commanded.
[Fusion between Transformation Energy with White Heart Energy requires 830 karma points.]
Niu Chang nodded, 'it's close to three times more than my original creation.'
Since Niu Chang was a man full of curiosity he then asked the system. 'System, fuse all the cultivation methods that I know.'
[Fusion of twenty eight cultivation methods requires 2655 karma points.]
'Well, that sounds cheaper than I thought. Maybe because the essence was the same and some difference is small in number causing the price to not increase too much.'
Looking at the numbers, Niu Chang couldn't help but feel weird.
Why did his system give him such a weird number? Why not something more neat?
Niu Chang shook his head and then stood up to continue his journey.
It's time to collect more karma points.
On his way, Niu Chang kept asking the system to test his theories.
The system could help Niu Chang to confirm his theoretical cultivation method as long as it reaches a certain threshold. This could be seen from the registered cultivation method in the system.
Because the road was boring, Niu Chang kept deducing various things and used the system to filter them.
He gained some martial skills registered in the system.
Flowing steps technique, fist technique, and kicking technique.
Three of them are just ordinary techniques without any ability that require qi to boost their effect. If Niu Chang wanted martial skills that can be infused with qi, he would need to learn more about the characteristics and nature of qi before deducing them.
Yellow Soil Village was a small village. Such a small village was naturally unable to stand alone and because of this, there was a bigger village near it.
This bigger village was called Yellow Village. In the end it is still a village, not a city.
It took half a day of walking to reach Yellow Village. But because Niu Chang was only ten years old, he would require more time than half a day.
But that was not a problem with Niu Chang, he got all the time he needed.
Hours of walking felt nothing when Niu Chang was immersed in his thoughts, endlessly deducing various cultivation techniques and martial skills.
He rested when felt too tired and then continued his journey after a short rest; he didn't want to reach Yellow Village after the night arrived.
When he was thinking that his journey was too smooth and he was already one hour away from Yellow Village, finally bags of kama points delivered themselves to him.
Niu Chang sighed in relief, 'and here I thought I would need to take some turns to encounter bags of karma points. This is how things should be done.'
Niu Chang gave a thumbs up to the world.
"Greeting sirs. May I know what your business is?" Niu Chang stopped a few steps from two men who were wielding crooked swords.
What could Niu Chang say, these two people were just poorly made. Their faces are those that made anyone who saw them irritated and stamp them as mob A and mob B.
One of them was too skinny while the other one is just a bit less skinnier. They wore thin clothes revealing their stomach and chest. Their pants were rolled up and their skin was greasy.
Niu Chang only shook his head.
Before those two people said anything. The system already confirmed the development.
[Established karma with Chi Yi.]
[Established karma with Er Gou.]
'Damn, system you could do this? No physical contact needed? Only need a certain amount of determination? Very good.'
Without thinking too much Niu Chang chose the second option.
His body suddenly filled with power, maybe because he was facing two people at the same time that his power actually superimposed one after another as if he was having the strength of two people.
Niu Chang let go of his luggage and launched himself at the skinny on the left.
Trash talk?
My ears are already tired of them!
"You!"
"How dare you!"
In the end it was unavoidable. The two of them spoke the forbidden words, maybe that was their destiny.
The skinny man on the left swings his sword clumsily. Niu Chang easily dodged it by moving himself slightly to the left and kicking the man on his knee.
That small leg reached the man's knee and bent it backwards.
"Aaaaaaa!"
The man screamed in pain and fell down on his butt.
The other less skinnier man was surprised, but before his body could react. Niu Chang already jumped at him and landed a punch on his face.
Niu Chang could feel it, due to the increase of his overall physical attributes. Doing acrobatic movement felt natural for him, when his fist landed on the man's face he hardly felt the resistance from the skull.
It was the same when he kicked the skinny man on the knee, instead of bone and connection between the muscles, it felt like a thin stick.
Niu Chang never held his strength and his fist went deep into the man's skull.
The skinny man was rolling on the ground in pain so he wasn't aware that his partner had already half stepped into his grave.
Plop.
Niu Chang fist went through the man's skull.
He quickly pulls his fist, it's mainly due to cleanliness. If it was another worthy enemy he wouldn't bother to pull it too quickly, but for those mobs? He only felt disgust.
Niu Chang's foot landed on the ground and he unceremoniously kicked the skinny man in the head to resolve the karma between them.
[Acquired 571 karma points.]
[Acquired 622 karma points.]