Chapter 39: Not Enough
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He was ready this time, as he closes his eyes and relax his mind, accepting it as the vision seems to bring into a dreamland imparting him with the knowledge and wisdom of the skill that he had just ranked up
He opens his eyes and he is on a large field, toiling the fields with his hoe. This Li Xian is not the Li Xian that is young but one that is an adult.
He is looking at the morning sun coming up and then then he tills the land.
Evening came and he return home, his body is glistening with sweat but energy is building up, his body is full of tight muscles and his arm strength is very powerful that if he punches a water buffalo, it might die almost immediately even without using internal energy.
Night came and he rest, morning came and he got up and went to the field. He watches the plants grows, harvest hemp and cut down weeds.
He would take the shallot, the ginger, red pepper and black pepper that he grows and then he would use it to eat.
He is self-sufficient but he gave thanks to the lands that gives him the food
The expert knowledge of a farmer imprinted itself onto Li Xian body and mind
It is not only the physical benefit that was imparted to him but also the wisdom of living like a farmer, what kinds of things that could be harvested, what could be planted, how to plant it and all the related knowledge about farming.
Li Xian opens his eyes and he could feel the changes on his muscles becoming more powerful and like he had done a lot of farming all of his life.
Before he could calm himself down, he felt that the headache is coming again so he had to close his eyes and another vision appears.
This time LI Xian is inside a dark damp tunnel.
He is using a mining pickaxe to hit the mining spot. With each hit, sparks of fire would fly and he expertly hit the ore and excavated the mineral easily.
Li Xian felt like his body is emitting metallic hue and his bones is very strong.
The vibration and the rebounding force of the pickaxe and his movement move in complete perfect rhythm.
Li Xian came out form that vision, feeling his bones become even more sturdy and more powerful and his arm strength become even more powerful.
His physical body seems to also be undergoing some changes.
It is like he is one of the disciple monks of Righteous Temple, practicing body strengthening technique.
But this body strengthening technique that come naturally to Li Xian is because the accumulation of farmer expertise and mining expertise.
It was like all of these years he had been honing his body doing these kind of hard labor job.
Li Xian wanted to stop seeing this vision as he felt his mind is on the verge of a breakdown but another vision assaulted his mind again.
This time he is on a boat, slowly moving in an expansive misty lakes full of lotus.
The boat is more accurately be called a sampan.
There is no rower but the sampan moves slowly like it had sails on its back.
He is there on the front part of the sampan. Wearing a bamboo hat and hemp woven raincoat, there is a fishing rod on his hands.
He casted the line leisurely like he didn’t care whether the fish would take the bait or not. The scenery is very beautiful.
On the back the sun is about to set.
On the front there is lotus flowers blooming and the lake is dark blue.
It was like a painting of nature untouched.
Li Xian in the sampan is a more adult version of him and wisdom seems to be reflected in those pair of eyes.
It is like he cultivated certain type of virtue while fishing.
The fisherman LI Xian looks calm and unruffled. The lake is still and the Li Xian look completely melding with the sceneries.
Patience, and calmness is a virtue that is the hardest to cultivate. Being patient does not mean being timid. And being calm did not mean one has to be slow.
It is a state of mind. Even evil practitioner could learn these virtues and still be evil. The wind blows and the water move slightly but it did not change anything.
In that one brief of moment, Li Xian felt like he was instilled with the feeling and wisdom of a person that cultivated these virtues for years.
This will help in battle.
He now knows that even if he is executing a move sometimes he has to be patient.
Sometime, there are moves that he need to set up beforehand so that the enemy would never caught him unprepared.
Patience is also something that he needs to master. He need to be patient against his enemies and against himself.
This wisdom is grasped by him in just a matter of moments while it takes others years to reach this state of being patient even when the situation is hurried and being calm even when the situation is chaotic.
He then returns back to his current situation, his eyes shining with a certain wisdom.
This change that happens to him did not affect his physicality like the other Life Skill like being a miner of a hunter. But it affects his mind in a positive way.
It would make him able to cope with unexpected situation and not lose his cool.
‘Hah’
He checks his Life Skill point and he still had 48,950 Life Skill points.
He could upgrade two of the Life Skill he had to artisan levels but he thinks it would not be worth it since there is a better use for this Life Skill points and that is to upgrade his meridian.
He wanted to open all of his Shaoyin Heart Channel. He checks the Shaoyin Heart Channel windows and the information windows popped out
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[Shaoyin Heart Channel of Hand]
Qi flows through this area. Opening it boosted the recovery of one internal energy and boosted recovery ability. One of the meridian out of the twelve meridian.
There is nine acupoint that must be unlocked from this meridian
Jiquan (Summit Spring) [OPENED]
Qingling (Green Spirit) [OPENED]
Shaohai (Lesser Sea) [OPENED]
Lingdao (Spirit Path) 10,000 points
Tongli (Penetrating the Interior) 20,000 points
YinxiYin (Cleft) 30,000 points
Shenmen (Spirit Gate) 50,000 points
Shaofu (Lesser Palace) 70,000 points
Shaochong (Lesser Rushing) 70,000 points
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There is still six acupoint that he did not opened. And each of the acupoint fetch quite a large price to opens it.
He uses 30,000 Life Skill points to open the Lingdao and Tongli acupoint.
He could instantly feel that his meridian opened and the bursting vigorous energy of his inner energy flooded the empty area and he felt like he is bathing in a cool but warm weather.
He breathes deeply and he could feel his body seems to be undergoing some changes as his breathing become even more easy and his entire body felt like it is attuned to its surrounding.
He checks his martial skill points and he notices that even if he pours all of his Martial Skill points it would not be enough for him to open up all the acupoint.
Unlike the other meridian, this meridian acupoint is very pricey.
Even after he had increase and upgraded his internal energy to the rank of Diamond in the Rough, the price is still the same.
He then uses all ten thousand points of Life Skill points that he had and supply it with twenty thousand Martial Skill points to open the YinxiYin acupoint
He then felt that sudden rush of energy again and he then calm himself down. He only been in the area for around ten minutes and there is already a lot of change in his body.
He felt healthier and the feeling of soreness around his body all had disappeared.
He still had a lot of points but there are some that he could not rank up anymore. Instead he had made a decision to learn another supplementary skill.
He checks the System Store and then bought an Archery Skill for ten Ding. he also bought a Sturdy Bow and ninety-nine arrows and put it in his storage bag
he then immediately ranking the skill up to grandmaster level, using 50,615 martial skill points.
Immediately he was imbued with the ability to use a bow and arrow to the highest level. It was like he had been using an arrow for a lifetime. He could even shoot a single leaf that is falling from tree from 200 paces away.
If he is taller and having more arm strength, he could shoot farther than that without even losing once single inch of accuracy.
Now, his martial Skill points and even his Life Skill point is almost exhausted.
He thought of buying a new skill but he once again overshot it.
But at least right now his internal energy is already raises up his ability to fight. He did not regret it.
That doesn’t mean he could not buy any other martial skill but he decided to wait a little bit later.
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