If you want to practice cultivation, it requires a lot of money. Cultivation burns money, but not practicing is unbearable, so many poor people could have lived without worrying about food and drink, yet they live quite miserably.
Like Wang Xuan, who earned some money, yet still saved very little, investing it all in cultivation. There are quite a few people like this on the Mother Star.
A house over a hundred square meters is only occupied by Wang Xuan, coupled with a minimalist style, so the room looks empty. If not for a few pots of plants in the corners, it would really look like no one lives there.
In the living room, Wang Xuan stood with his eyes closed in a posture stance, pondering how to use the accelerator wisely to quickly break through his combat power.
"To join the Immortal Martial Combat Hall and become an internal member, besides applying and passing the test to become an instructor, you have to be noticed by an Elder and become a disciple of the Martial Arts Hall."
Disciples are different from trainees. Trainees can leave after their studies, come and go as they please, but disciples, unless they betray the sect, remain closely tied to the Immortal Martial Combat Hall for life.
"Unfortunately, even though I'm twenty-four years old and still in the Muscle Training Realm, those Elders will definitely not pay attention to me. Only by breaking through the realm and using my innate divine strength to have the combat power of the Refining Organs Realm can I qualify to be an instructor.
Before that, I can first become an assistant instructor. Although an assistant instructor is not considered an official member of the Martial Arts Hall, they are part of its system, a reserve for instructors."
Being an assistant instructor is not far off. Wang Xuan has experienced life-and-death battles in the wild. The actions of the Hunting Team are not just dealing with beasts. In actual combat, he has defeated a ruthless cultivator at the Peak of Skin Refining, a person definitely incomparable to Zhao Huang, who hasn't seen blood.
In the Muscle Training Realm, one can generally lift two or three hundred jin, the Muscle Strengthening Realm greatly increases strength to about six hundred to eight hundred jin, and the Skin Refining Realm can break through a thousand jin.
Even if Wang Xuan doesn't cultivate, he can lift a cauldron with his strength, like Xue Rengui in unofficial history, doing the work of ten men, eating for ten, becoming an outstanding general holding off a thousand enemies alone, or without success, just a glutton hiding in a nook.
If he doesn't tap into his talent and use it in the right place, he'll just waste it quietly.
With his combat power, he actually meets the standard to become an assistant instructor. If Zhao Huang and Liu Gang, those guys, whom he can handle with one hand, can be assistants, why can't he?
Wang Xuan is not worried. In the Skin Refining Realm, he can apply to be an assistant instructor. As long as he has the combat power to defeat a Bone Refining cultivator, becoming an assistant instructor is no problem at all. The Bone Refining cultivator is the highest standard for a Martial Arts Hall assistant instructor; reaching the Refining Organs Realm qualifies one to be an instructor.
On the table are ten and a half bottles of Hundred Herbs Essence Liquid, worth 2.1 million Star Yuan, enough to accelerate 105 units of Source Point.
Picking up the half bottle in hand, with a dull gurgling sound, Wang Xuan tilted his head back and drank it all in one go. Sensing the liquid flowing into his stomach, he then began his action.
Name: Wang Xuan
Age: Twenty-four
Height: 1.78 meters
Weight: 90 kilograms
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Cultivation Skills: Mixed Element Stance Minor Achievement (acceleratable), Golden Bell Shield Minor Achievement (acceleratable), Fierce Bull Fist Great Success (acceleratable), Life Generating Technique Second Layer (acceleratable)…
Source Point: 1,350
Wang Xuan clicked to view each one. His Mixed Element Stance had long reached the Peak of Minor Achievement; accelerating to Great Success required 20 points of Source Power, indicating he was not far from a breakthrough; it would take four to five months at normal speed.
The Golden Bell Shield's Minor Achievement alone makes his defense not inferior to the Peak of Skin Refining; it's truly formidable. He's not yet reached the Peak of Minor Achievement, and accelerating to Great Success would require 50 points of Source Power, a large consumption. Of course, one can imagine that such defense would probably match a Peak of Bone Cultivation cultivator, and if the Golden Bell Shield reached the Great Success Peak, its defense would not be inferior to a Refining Organs cultivator.
After all, the Golden Bell Shield is said to withstand attacks from Blood Exchange cultivators in the Perfect Realm, without perishing; it's undeniably strong. Entry level corresponds to Muscle Training, Minor Achievement, Great Success, and Perfection correspond to Muscle Strengthening, Skin Refining, Bone Cultivation, Organ Refining, Marrow and Blood realms.
As for the Life Generating Technique, entering the third layer requires 100 points of Source Power, which is a bit overwhelming. Previously, moving from the first layer to the second required 30 points of Source Power, which took him two years of cultivation.
As for the Fierce Bull Fist at Great Success wanting to accelerate to Perfection, it also requires 100 points of Source Power, which is not a small amount.
Looking at these values, Wang Xuan finds it interesting; it seems that completing the same level requires different amounts of Source Points for these techniques, which is worth exploring.
After clicking each one to the Perfect Realm, Wang Xuan found that from initial Great Success to initial Perfection, the Mixed Element Stance requires 200 points of Source Power, and the Golden Bell Shield the same, while Fierce Bull Fist only requires 100 points.
What's more intriguing, when he previously explored the source power required to enhance these cultivation skills with only 100 points of Source Power, accelerating to Great Success required much more source power than now.
All changes occurred after the Life Generating Technique entered the second layer.
These speculations make Wang Xuan keen to find a method to enhance cultivation skills with less Source Point expenditure.
"To enter the Muscle Strengthening Realm, one must practice posture stance and martial arts techniques to condense one's essence and blood, making muscles sturdy and responsive. At its peak, it can achieve resistance to cold and heat.
I have innate divine strength, so my foundation must be stronger than ordinary people, requiring higher standards, otherwise, it's all a waste."
Wang Xuan is aware that over the years, due to foundational issues, he has had difficulty improving his realm, so he focused all his efforts on honing foundations and spear techniques.
"The Fierce Bull Fist at Great Success is due to my innate ability to lift cauldrons; this fist technique suits me. The Great Success realm indicates my muscles are taut enough, my reflexes quick, and my strength strong.
But it's still not enough. The Mixed Element Stance must reach Great Success, making essence and blood more condensed, enhancing quality to further improve physical qualities."
The Mixed Element Stance actively condenses essence and blood; essence and blood, as essence qi, are the fundamentals of a martial artist. Fist techniques, palm techniques, and legs and footwork use techniques to stretch tendons and bones, thus refining the physique.
The two share similarities and differences. With high demands, Wang Xuan needs to elevate the Mixed Element Stance's realm, making his foundation even stronger.
Similarly, after condensing essence and blood, the Refining Essence to Qi can better cultivate the Life Generating Technique, simultaneously improving the physique to drive other cultivation techniques.
Having figured these out, Wang Xuan decided to elevate the Mixed Element Stance's realm as a priority, which might require less source power for further enhancement of other cultivation skills afterward.
Posing a Mixed Element Stance form, Wang Xuan began the posture stance in the living room, quickly entering a state, consciousness clicking on the personal panel.
"Mixed Element Stance Minor Achievement (acceleratable)," he clicked on the accelerate option, then in the source point and realm selection items, he chose to manually select the amount of source power for acceleration.
"Accelerate by one point of source power."
Using his will to click on the board, he consumed one unit of source power, and a stream of warmth circulated from his mind to his entire body, and the Mixed Element Stance promptly started operating.
In the blink of an eye, Wang Xuan felt his essence and blood greatly condensed, with the Hundred Herbs Essence Liquid in his stomach also digested and absorbed, transforming into his essence and blood.
Accelerate! Accelerate! Accelerate! Accelerate!
A bottle of Hundred Herbs Essence Liquid is sufficient to support five points of source power, Wang Xuan did not hesitate, directly accelerating another four units of source power. With each breath, Wang Xuan felt a significant change in his body.
Essence and blood became increasingly robust and profound, breaths grew longer, tendons and bones strengthened amid soreness and numbness.
The result of a month's Mixed Element Stance appeared in this short time, how could Wang Xuan not feel the evident change?
Throwing out a fist with a gust of wind, a crisp sound rang out, Wang Xuan carefully sensed the change in his body as the sudden improvement in physical qualities needed adaptation.
After half a quarter-hour, understanding the progress of the Mixed Element Stance, Wang Xuan drank another half bottle of Hundred Herbs Essence Liquid, then activated the accelerators.
One point, one point, with two units of source point consumption, the progress of the Mixed Element Stance continuously improved, Wang Xuan estimated with another seven or eight units he could reach the realm of Great Success.
Wang Xuan cautiously accelerated, not wanting to miss the changes when the Mixed Element Stance advanced, doing so to grasp the Mixed Element Stance better and avoid reckless actions causing physical depletion.
Unit by unit consumption, finally after an hour, Wang Xuan noticeably felt the bottleneck of the Mixed Element Stance; with one more unit of source power acceleration, he could break through.
Taking a deep breath, Wang Xuan made a decisive click, a stream of warmth flowing afterward, and the Mixed Element Stance broke through, with the realm advancement making him acutely sense the difference.
In the posture stance, power continuously welled from his body, a sense of mixed element emanating from him, legs seemingly rooted to the mountain; truly immovable like a mountain.
The Mixed Element Stance, finally achieved Great Success!