Chapitre 4: Chapter 4 - Fiery Trailblazer
Leyvi arrived in front of the 'Fire' section. There were quite a few selections among the martial skills.
There were even martial skills for the Foundation Building cultivator among them, but obviously, he wouldn't be able to learn them right now because the minimum requirement was to reach the Foundation Building realm first.
Leyvi already knew that martial skills that could be learned during the Qi refinement realm were not necessarily worse than the ones that required the Foundation Building realm. It just meant that the martial skill had a lower starting point.
Sometimes, a martial skill that started from the Qi refinement realm might have a higher endpoint than the ones learned starting from the Foundation Building realm. It all depended on the talent of the cultivator practicing the martial skill.
For example, there was once a cultivator who cultivated the simplest martial skill available here, Fire Fist, to the extreme. The Fire Fist cultivator managed to win fights against other cultivators with higher realms easily.
All the opponents' attacks were destroyed by the might of the Fire Fist. It was all about how far you could go with the martial skill, just like cultivation.
Even if you already learned the skill to its peak as written down, a genius might be able to go further than that and create a stronger version of the martial skill.
While reminiscing about the legend of the Fire Fist, Leyvi also saw a few other martial skills that caught his attention, such as Fire Bullet martial skill, Heat Sword Art martial skill, and Inferno Body martial skill.
These were all martial skills with some legend behind them. Unfortunately, he didn't have enough contribution points to exchange for them right now. Due to the legend, the price for these martial skills was not cheap.
He only had 167 contribution points right now, enough for three bottles of low-grade qi refining pills. Each of the martial skills that caught his attention just now cost at least 500 contribution points.
Leyvi sighed, "There's only one martial skill here that I can buy." He took the only martial skill that he could buy right now, which cost 150 contribution points, and started to read the description on the jade slip.
Fiery Trailblazer. A martial skill that allows users to fight with fiery kicks and move with fiery steps. Each battle will leave behind a fiery trail that will intimidate the enemies from chasing the user. Currently, only suitable to be practiced until the peak of the Qi refinement realm.
"Damn! No wonder it's cheap." Leyvi was disappointed that the martial skill could only be practiced until the peak of the Qi refinement realm. He was in the middle stage of the Qi refinement realm now, so he hesitated a bit. The idea of investing in something with a limited future gnawed at him.
Leyvi felt that there was no other choice, so he decided to go with the Fiery Trailblazer martial skill. "Beggars can't be choosers," he murmured.
Leyvi calmed himself and thought that it would still take many years for him to reach the peak of the Qi refinement realm anyway. So, it wasn't really a big deal. He might be way richer at that point and could get his hands on better martial skills.
Leyvi went down the stairs and walked toward Elder Ken with the jade slip of Fiery Trailblazer martial skill. He then put the jade slip on the counter and said, "Elder Ken, I choose this one."
The sleepy Elder Ken looked up and saw Leyvi's black-colored eyes, then looked down again at the jade slip.
"Fiery Trailblazer, 150 contribution points, give me your identity card," said Elder Ken emotionlessly.
Leyvi gave his identity card to Elder Ken and waited patiently while Elder Ken processed the fees and removed the restrictions on the jade slip so that he could obtain the full contents later.
After Elder Ken was done with all the processes, he gave back the jade slip and identity card to Leyvi and gave him a final reminder.
"Make sure not to teach anyone else what you learned from the jade slip. If the sect finds out, you will be sent to the Law and Order Hall to be punished," said Elder Ken sternly. A hint of emotion could be seen from Elder Ken for the first time.
"This disciple remembers," replied Leyvi with seriousness. After giving Elder Ken a small bow, he left the Scripture Hall right away.
While walking back to his house, Leyvi inserted a sliver of his Qi into his identity card and confirmed that there were only 17 contribution points left. He really felt like a beggar this time. So poor. He wondered how many contribution points Anda had right now.
"No, no, no." Leyvi shook his head. He should be the one to provide for his wife, not leech off her. Getting some benefits from her alchemy skill was fine because he gave that talent to her. He should only start thinking about living off his wife after she became very rich. Now Leyvi wondered how much talent Anda got from the talent bead.
Leyvi arrived at his house half an hour later. He then entered the house, went to the cultivation room, and started sitting cross-legged in the middle.
He immediately took out his Fiery Trailblazer martial skill jade slip, then a sliver of Qi was inserted into the jade slip. A tiny beam of light came out from the jade slip and shot toward Leyvi.
A series of information regarding the Fiery Trailblazer martial skill suddenly appeared in Leyvi's mind. It was as if a scroll of intricate knowledge had been unrolled before him, each detail etching itself into his memory. This lasted for a few seconds. After Leyvi processed the information, he opened his eyes, took a deep breath, and let out a big sigh.
...
"So, this martial skill comes with its own movement skill and uses variations of the movement to attack enemies." Leyvi was quite surprised by the martial skill. Usually, martial skills and movement skills were separate.
Thinking about it again, it made sense because this was a martial skill that specialized in kicks, and users needed to move properly to generate a lot of power behind the kicks. Leyvi immediately realized this.
After a while, Leyvi grasped all the information and was ready to start his training. He went out of the house and walked to the backyard.
When he was about to start his training, he spotted a small black monkey with stripes of white fur around its face. Leyvi silently moved toward the small monkey, and when he reached a few meters away, he dashed forward with full force and caught the small monkey.
The small monkey immediately screeched and desperately tried to escape. Unfortunately, it was just a normal small monkey, so it could not get away from Leyvi, a cultivator.
"Relax, little monkey, don't panic. I'm not here to harm you," Leyvi tried to calm the monkey as if it could understand him.
The small monkey continued to struggle for a while, but after a few minutes, it accepted its fate. It couldn't run away from this human.
"Good, you've calmed down, right? I'm not here to eat you, but I'm going to give you a gift. No, two gifts!" Leyvi was still talking to the monkey as if it could understand him.
"Hmm, you're a male monkey, and you have white stripes around your face. How should I call you?" Leyvi thought for a while and decided to just give a random name. It was just for an experiment, anyway.
"I'll just call you Stripey! Stripey, I'm going to give you two talents and see how it goes." Stripey looked at Leyvi confused. What was this dumb human talking about?
"I want my toy..." While still holding the small monkey, Leyvi said the cursed words in a nearly inaudible voice. A menu immediately appeared in front of him.
[Talent Bead | Level 1 | EXP 5/100]
[Talent List: Steal, Stealth, Sturdy]
[Recipient: Anda | Alchemy | 90/100]
[Host Benefit: Fire Affinity]
Leyvi immediately noticed the 5 experience points on the menu and smiled.
"Looks like Anda has started refining pills. My panda wife is so hardworking. I hope there'll be some middle-grade Qi refining pills," he murmured. The small monkey simply accepted its fate, assuming its bad ending as the dumb human continued talking nonsense.
"Give the Steal and Stealth talents to Stripey," said Leyvi.
He wanted to see if he could give multiple talents to someone and test how the Stealth and Steal talents might complement each other. Since he could only get experience points if the user used the talents, the monkey might be able to help him with that. Go around in stealth while stealing food. It might seem like he was wasting talents, but he was actually investing. The faster he gets the experience points, the more talents he will have in stock later.
[Talent Bead | Level 1 | EXP 5/100]
[Talent List: Sturdy]
[Recipient: Anda | Alchemy | 90/100]
[Recipient: Stripey | Steal and Stealth | 0/100]
[Host Benefit: Fire Affinity, Tree Climbing Expert]
Leyvi looked at the menu and was shocked. He only got one benefit in exchange for two talents. What a rip-off!
"I can climb trees like monkeys now?" he muttered, not entirely sure if this was a good benefit or not. He wasn't sure what influenced the benefit that was given to him. Did it give me this 'Tree Climbing Expert' benefit because I gave the talents to a monkey?
"What if people see me jumping in trees like a monkey? I'd lose face. Panda girl might leave me... No, maybe the panda girl would join me. She's a panda, after all," he chuckled to himself.
Leyvi glanced at the menu again. "Zero points of feeling toward me. That's expected," he said with a nod. "It'd be weird if Stripey suddenly had a lot of affection for me. I'd probably kick the monkey far away if that happened."
"Alright, you can go now. Make sure to steal a lot and don't get caught," he said, letting the monkey go. Stripey looked at Leyvi, confused, then at the forest behind him, hesitating. Was this dumb human not hungry anymore?
"Go!" Leyvi gestured with his hand. Stripey took one last glance at Leyvi, then bolted into the mountain forest.
Leyvi checked the menu again and was surprised.
[Talent Bead | Level 1 | EXP 5/100]
[Talent List] Sturdy
[Recipient: Anda | Alchemy | 90/100]
[Recipient: Stripey | Steal and Stealth | 20/100]
[Host Benefit: Fire Affinity, Tree Climbing Expert]
"Hahaha! Even a monkey started to like me because of how merciful I am!" Leyvi's ego inflated as he laughed out loud.
After his moment of self-satisfaction, Leyvi returned to the backyard to finally start his training.
"I don't want my toy..." Leyvi mumbled as he dismissed the menu.
État de l’alimentation hebdomadaire
-- Classement
Power Stone 
-- Power
stone