Niu Chang opened his information.
[Karma point : 1519.]
'Not bad, not bad.'
Looking at the huge amount of karma points, Niu Chang couldn't help but be curious on how the system calculated the karma points.
What is the criteria?
'Is it bad karma? The more they do evil things, the more karma they accumulate?'
'Hey hey, this isn't bad. Others were looking for heavenly materials and earthly treasures to increase their level, because those items are old and contain rich energy.'
'But look at me, everyone is no different than elixir. The demonic path is naturally the best since they accumulate evil deeds, but those righteous old fogies aren't different either, their hypocrisy naturally made them accumulate many karma points too.'
Laugh.
Niu Chang then searched for the two mobs' belonging and found only a pitiful amount of coins.
'Well, at least it's better than nothing. With this I should be able to eat well for two or three days.'
Then Niu Chang observed his surroundings and found no one was watching them from afar and picked up his luggage and then left.
His bloodied right hand was too catching. So he could only do his best to remove the blood with the filthy clothes of those two.
'Sigh, I need water to completely clean them up.'
While walking, Niu Chang said to the system. 'System, cultivate the basic body refinement to the first level.'
Basic body refinement was the result of Niu Chang deduction on body cultivation. It was like his Transformation Energy which was very basic.
[Cultivating the basic body refinement to the first level requires 300 karma points.]
Niu Chang didn't confirm it immediately, but changed his command. 'System, cultivate the basic body refinement to the third rate stage.'
[Cultivating the basic body refinement to the third rate stage requires 300 karma points.]
This was a must, since Niu Chang never skipped any chance to gather enough data to fill his information bank.
'Confirm.'
After Niu Chang gave the confirmation. He could feel energy seeping through his body like the previous time. But this time this energy was not entering his body and then just being virtually in it.
This time, that energy was seeping into his body, flesh and bone, thoroughly. Nourishing and refining them into a better states.
Niu Chang doesn't feel any discomfort when he undergoes such changes contrary to what he expected. Instead he felt like having a good warm bath.
'Isn't those novels always said the main characters were under serious pain like they were being burned alive and so and so. Is it just a scam to justify the rapid growth used by the authors?'
The idea behind body cultivation was simple. Qi cultivation naturally gathers the qi into the body and slowly increases its quantity and quality.
It's the same for body cultivation, introducing spiritual qi into the body and slowly elevating its level from mortal into immortal.
Because no matter how many times one exercised, their mortal body, in the end it is still in the realm of mortal. Only by using extraordinary means could the body breakthrough from its mortal shell and slowly transform into an extraordinary body.
Not long after, the shot given by the system finished. Niu Chang could feel his body different from before. Full of energy, light, and easy to move around.
'It's still far from achieving qualitative changes.'
Niu Chang gave his evaluation.
Continuing his journey.
Niu Chang couldn't help but think about the weak point of the system.
The system required him to establish a karma before getting an invincible buff. But before that, if Niu Chang met someone that could one shot him, he could only cry in his grave.
That's why Niu Chang focused on defense and healing.
Body cultivation was the best when it comes to defense and healing. But the only problem was that.
[Unable to cultivate the basic body refinement to second rate due to the limit of cultivation method.]
Niu Chang absentmindedly watched this information window from the system for a long time.
This was expected, since Niu Chang didn't have any knowledge about body cultivation except the theories that came up from his reading experiences.
'System, fuse Transformation Energy with White Heart Energy.'
Since he couldn't come up with the continuation of basic body refinement, he could only enrich his knowledge first. After that, deduction will become easier.
[Fusion between Transformation Energy and White Heart Energy requires 830 karma points.]
Then Niu Chang compares this price with his second option. 'System, increase the proficiency of White Heart Energy to small success.'
The system not only can improve his cultivation base and fusing his method, but can also increase Niu Chang proficiency in his methods.
[Increasing White Heart Energy to small success requires 255 karma points.]
The system evaluation of proficiency only has three stages. Small success, big success, and perfection.
Looking at the price on the system, Niu Chang felt it was too costly. At least for the current him.
He shook his head and chose the most safest option in increasing his survivability.
'System, cultivate White Heart Energy to the third rate stage.'
[Cultivating the White Heart Energy to the third rate stage requires 1050 karma points.]
'Confirm.'
At least with the increase of his qi, Niu Chang believed he could survive a one shot attack.
The mysterious qi suddenly appeared and entered into Niu Chang's body and collided with his Transformation Energy qi.
Normally a martial artist could only cultivate one type of cultivation method to prevent degradation of his qi quality.
But since Niu Chang, the creator of Transformation Energy, was sure that White Heart Energy qi will not collide with each other, at very minimum they will not attack each other.
Inside Niu Chang's body, the impure Transformation Energy qi was suppressed by White Heart Energy qi but there was no other reaction.
To solve this differentiation of qi, it is actually very simple. Niu Chang only needs to fuse those two cultivation methods.
But his karma points were not enough for that.
[Karma point : 169.]
Since he found two bandits blocking his path before and he was close to the Yellow Village, there was a big possibility that there was a bandit hideout around this area.
But looking for it will be difficult, Niu Chang might waste his time in searching for them and must spend his night in the forest.
'Better reach the Yellow Village first.'
The rest of the journey was normal, Niu Chang didn't encounter the second road blockage and he arrived near the Yellow Village.
The village was surrounded by wooden walls, reaching the height of an adult chest. The gate was guarded by two guards.
Walking towards the gate, Niu Chang was stopped by the guards.
Taking a glance at Niu Chang, the left guard spoke without interest. "Are you alone?"
Niu Chang, with his placid and innocent face, nodded. "Yes, sir."
After hearing Niu Chang's answer, the guard didn't bother with him anymore and just said. "Go on."
'So easy?' Niu Chang enter the village while in doubt.
He thought he could trigger the system and then after he solved his karma with the guard, the villager would come at him to deliver a hefty sum of karma points.
But it seems, Niu Chang was thinking too much.
The Yellow Village was in a better situation than Yellow Soil Village. The house was better, the wall was not full of cracks and the ground was clean without littering trash.
'Now, where do I find a place to sleep tonight?'
Niu Chang kept walking while observing the village.
The villager's clothes are also better than his previous village.
Walking with a big luggage on him, Niu Chang naturally attracted the attention of the villagers.
Not long after wandering without direction, someone approached him.
A man in his forties, with a clean face, short sleeves, and long pants. "Boy, are you alone?"
Waiting for a few moments for the system to give him the options, Niu Chang shook his head inwardly.
There were no pop ups.
Putting a kind smile on his face, Niu Chang replied to the man. "Yes, senior."
"Senior?" The man gave Niu Chang a weird look before finally laughing.
"You, boy, don't seem to have any experience with people. Are you planning on staying for tonight?"
"Yes."
The man seemed friendly and Niu Chang had a good chat with him. There were still a few more hours before night.
Thanks to the man, Niu Chang understands the layout of this village.
Except for villagers' houses, there was actually a martial school in this village.
But after arriving in front of the martial school. Niu Chang lost his interest, the instructor and the owner were from the same family.
The owner, the headmaster, was just an old man, and the instructor was his grandson, a man in his twenties.
Being a third rate warrior, Niu Chang could feel a stronger qi on the old man while the instructor only slightly less than the old.
From this, Niu Chang thinks they are some big shot laying down. The old man might be made an enemy in his days and cause his son or daughter to be killed leaving only their son.
'Not interested.'
Niu Chang shook his head and turned around.
In the martial school, the old man was an experienced second rate martial artist, he could sense someone was looking at him.
Thanks to Niu Chang not having any martial skills, his action just now undoubtedly can be seen by the old man and the instructor.
Seeing that Niu Chang was just a boy with third rate cultivation, no martial skills, and more importantly doesn't have any intention on them.
The instructor was sweeping the courtyard, looking at his grandpa. Since his grandpa didn't say anything he also chose to ignore it.
In this world, naturally there was a lucky person. A ten year old with deep and stable third rate cultivation was not rare.
Maybe he just found some cultivation method and has good comprehension and was able to reach his current level and became full of himself and began traveling.
Niu Chang found a place to stay for tonight.
It was a house of a family of three. The couple was in their late twenties with a daughter.
By paying the family, Niu Chang can have a good dinner and place to sleep without any problem.
Sitting down on the hard bed made of wood. Niu Chang was thinking and pondering.
Nothing was better than creating and improving his martial arts. With his unlimited ideas, it's really easy for him to deduce various things.