Azure Vine Village, Fasinuo Province :
This is a village located near the nouding city. It's only an hour journey to nouding city from this village. It's surrounded by greenary and mainly the Azure vines. Because of that, people named it Azure Vine Village.
At this time, a boy is meditating deeply in the mountains behind the village. He is ignoring the ping sounds only he can heard until a trumpet like sound echoeced in his ears. Opening his eyes, he smiled looking at the screen.
[ Skill : Meditation level up ]
[ You can select one of the following traits to be added into your skill ]
[ 1. Mystic Water Breathing : one of the special traits that belonged to the one of four holy beasts, Black Tortoise. It will gather power from heaven and earth. Then use that power toregine the physique and medirians which improves one's own innate foundation with due time. The speed of one's cultivation will be improved and most of the impurities will be washed away by gentle and purifying water attribute energy from this cultivation ]
[ 2. Drifting Cloud Breathing : will gather soul power with +100% cultivation speed and will use some of the cultivation to accumulate soul power into a cloud like clog in meridians. When the clogs reach certain limits, the accumulated soul power will be further refined and added into your cultivation while improving your meridians and body ]
[ 3. Innate Heart Breathing : will provide +100% cultivation speed and further uses a part of it to refine your body and mind at a slow pace. ]
The choice was obvious. He chose mystic turle breathing. In an instant, he felt some knowledge of the meditation is overwritten. When he tried meditation now, it's completely changed. The speed of cultivation improved by 40-50%. Though the advantage lies in the innate qualification improvement.
He can feel the energy coursing through his meridians and body. It's a tingling yet comfortable sensation. Pores on his body started absorbing the soul power and expel negligible fumes of vapours from his pores. No one will notice it any different from normal meditation techniques.
The boy stood up after some time and opened the system panel.
[ Nie Ting ]
[ Age : 6 ]
[ Gender : Male ]
[ Bloodline : None ]
[ Martial Soul : Red Lizard, Iron Sword ]
[ Soul Power Level : 3 ]
[ Skills : Meditation Lv 1 (7/50), Soul Power Control Lv 0 (13/25), Pupil Power Enhancement Lv 0 (12/25), Body Enhancement Lv 0 (11/25), Cooking Lv 0 (10/25), Herbalism Lv 0 (10/25), Sweordmaship Lv 0 (6/25), Enhanced Punch Lv 0 (5/25), Speed Enhancement Lv 0 (4/25), Farming Lv 0 (3/25), Poison Resistance Lv 0 (2/25), Nature Transformation (1/25) ]
It's been a few days since he arrived into this world. The original Nie Ting left in sleep. He is all alone and was orphan, he was poisoned while foraging for food and died as a poisonous plant scratched him. He didn't even know he was poisoned, after going home, he died because of the poison in his sleep.
Nie Ting stretched his body and stood up. Looking at the two martial Soul, he sighed. Original Nie Ting only had one martial Soul in his body. But as he occupied this body, the remnant martial Soul merged with his own consciousness and became his martial Soul.
He don't know which one is his martial Soul though, anyway, now both martial souls are his. But he is wondering which martial Soul should he cultivate first. Will he choose the Red Lizard or the iron sword martial Soul. Both are in the bottom tier rank.
What to do? As he is contemplating what martial Soul should he cultivating after awakening, he couldn't come with a choice. In a few days martial Soul Awakening ceremony will be held. He needs to grind up the skills a little to get some better results.
Nie Ting started training in his swordsmanship. He picked up the makeshift wooden sword he made and started hitting the crude dummy he made from the logs and sticks he can find. The progress is not instantaneous but every minute he made some progress.
[ Swordsmanship proficiency +1 ]
[ Swordsmanship proficiency +1 ]
[ Swordsmanship proficiency +1 ]
[ Swordsmanship proficiency +1 ]
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He spent the next two hours swinging the sword until his shoulders and palms ached. The palm clearly turned red and the dummy has suffered some cracks. Even the wooden sword started getting cracks in many places. But the progress is good.
[ Swordsmanship Lv 0 (12/25) ]
In two hours of training, he earned only 6 or 7 proficiency in swordsmanship. The reason for this slow growth is due to him not possessing any knowledge of this. He lost most of his memories during the merge into this body. He only vaguely remembered the plot. That's why he wrote the remaining plot combining few languages from earth he knew like the English, spanish and french.
He is also curious why this skill isn't shown in the system skill panel. But he couldn't ask for it, his system is generally non-responsive. And it also doesn't even have the basic inventory that almost all system will have.
It only has this status and proficiency panel. Well, he is at least grateful for it. And you know what they say. Beggers can't be choosers, so he can't do anything about it. At least he possesses a system.
Nie Ting removed his clothes and took a bath from the nearby small stream of water that reaches almost his chest. It's not fast enough to wash him away and Nie Ting who is taking a bath felt more comfortable as he tried to run the meditation here.
To his surprise just in just a minute the proficiency notification appeared. He is surprised the understood, this water also has residual ambient soul power from nature. It's even more higher than air but mainly contains water attribute energy.
As he continued his meditation, he felt some numbing and pain after sometime. Understanding this is his limit, he got out. Well at least now he has another reliable source to increase proficiency instead of just blindly trying all the methods he knows.