236: Chapter 236 Weekly Gains! Skill Points! Breakthrough to Earth Knight!

One week later, Golden Flame Castle, study.

Rowan sat behind the desk, recalling the harvest of this past week in his mind.

He had already used the Insight Spell to conduct a comprehensive probe of all the flowers in the garden.

However, limited by the fact that neither the Insight Spell nor the Deduction Spell had been upgraded, the depth of information he could obtain was limited.

It was not that he did not have enough free attribute points to upgrade his skills, but rather that his primary goal currently was still to promote to Sky Knight as quickly as possible.

Only with combat power at the Sky Knight level could he have enough self-preservation strength in the coming storm, and perhaps even gain more!

Therefore, what could provide relatively significant help right now were mainly those flowers that had not yet entered a rank.

He could help them deduce problems encountered in their cultivation and provide corrections; it was beneficial and inexpensive.

Outside Gino City, with the progress of the Red Moon's revival, it was becoming increasingly dangerous.

Within this week, he also took the time to go outside the city, following clues provided by the Wizard Tower's monitoring magic circle, and swept through some evil followers who had held Red Moon rituals.

After a series of battles and absorption, he harvested about 1,000 points of Breathing Technique proficiency.

The strongest among them was only a Peak Knight who had advanced from a Senior Knight.

Although the single harvest could not be called rich, the number was high.

Correspondingly, the casualties among the territory's populace were becoming increasingly severe.

But he had no choice; he was only one person and could only regularly clean up those who were the most active.

As for those hiding in the dark and secretly conducting sacrifices, he really did not have the spare energy to deal with them at the moment.

Fortunately, Gino City itself was still relatively stable.

The Wizard Tower's monitoring magic circle shrouded the entire city, and any movement of Red Moon aura would be captured, locked onto, and then quickly suppressed.

After a few times, no one dared to mess around in the city anymore.

At least not now.

And the chaos in the surrounding areas was not entirely a bad thing for him.

As long as these Red Moon ritualists were still active around the territory, he could continuously accumulate proficiency in this way.

At this rate, he should temporarily not need the Witch to help him cultivate.

After all, the Witch was also very busy now.

She had to preside over the construction of the Wizard Tower and maintain the operation of the monitoring magic circle within the territory; her time was fully packed every day.

Thinking of this, he pushed down the distractions in his heart, sank his consciousness deep into his mind, called up the system panel, and let his gaze fall on a certain part of the panel.

[born succubus more children more blessings system]

[Myriad Furnace Breathing Technique lv3 (16512 / 30000) (High-Order Grand Knight)]

[Remaining Free Attribute Points: 7046]

He calculated silently.

He still needed 3488 free attribute points to break through to Earth Knight.

He prepared to advance to Earth Knight first.

His determination made, he no longer hesitated and began to invest free attribute points into the proficiency of the Breathing Technique.

Seventeen thousand, eighteen thousand, nineteen thousand...

A massive amount of insight surged into his mind like a tidal wave.

Knowledge of how [Battle Aspect] evolves into [Domain] unfolded slowly in the depths of his consciousness.

It was as if he had experienced another complete life.

In that life, he pondered every detail of the Battle Aspect day after day, hoping to promote to Earth Knight and master the power of Domain.

[You yearn to promote to Earth Knight, to master that legendary power of Domain.]

[But the bottleneck between High-Order Grand Knight and Earth Knight is like an invisible chasm, standing before you.]

[You try to condense the Battle Aspect again and again, attempting to make it undergo a qualitative change, but fail again and again.]

[The Crimson Tiger Battle Manifestation roars behind you, flames surging, but it can never break through that invisible shackle, unable to transform from Battle Aspect to Domain.]

[You begin to look for a breakthrough.]

[You venture deep into some ancient ruins, searching for the insights left by predecessors.]

[But every departure full of hope ends in disappointment.]

[You fight with other Earth Knights, hoping it can bring you pressure and urge you to break through.]

[But you are always just a line away.]

[Your Breathing Technique has run thousands of times, your Crimson Tiger Battle Manifestation has been polished to be more and more solid, more and more lifelike, but that qualitative change belonging to the Domain never comes.]

[Until one day.]

[It was an ordinary dusk.]

[You have just finished a day of cultivation, sitting alone on a towering sea cliff, watching the sunset slowly sink into the end where the sea meets the sky.]

[The clouds on the horizon are dyed a gorgeous orange-red, like a burning ocean.]

[The Crimson Tiger Battle Manifestation within you seems to be touched by that sunset, uncontrollably emerging on its own, looking up and roaring behind you.]

[You look at the horizon dyed red by the sunset, and feel the scorching aura emitted by the Crimson Tiger behind you, and a flash of inspiration suddenly flashes in your mind.]

[You have realized!]

[You have always been trying to use brute force to break through that bottleneck, trying to use more powerful energy to forcibly push the qualitative change of the Battle Aspect.]

[But Domain is not an enlarged version of Battle Aspect; it should not be an outward expansion, but an inner precipitation of a Knight's will.]

[You should not diffuse its power to cover all directions, but condense your understanding of power into an independent and complete rule system, and then use this system to influence and transform the surrounding environment.]

[You close your eyes, no longer trying to urge the Crimson Tiger Battle Manifestation to release more power, but start to converge inward.]

[You inject your brand new understanding into the core of the Crimson Tiger Battle Manifestation.]

[The Crimson Tiger seems to begin to slowly retract the surging flames around its body, turning to collapse, condense, and be reborn inward.]

[You have succeeded.]

[When you open your eyes again, the Crimson Tiger Battle Manifestation around you has disappeared, replaced by a crimson Domain.]

[In the Domain, the air is slightly distorted.]

[The Crimson Tiger Battle Manifestation has sublimated into the Crimson Flame Domain.]

[You can switch between them at will.]

[You have broken through to the Earth Knight realm.]

...

Rowan suddenly opened his eyes and slowly came back to his senses from that long period of insight.

Deep in his pupils, there seemed to be a flash of crimson fire that flickered and vanished.

He looked down at his hands, slowly clenched them, and then released them.

A burst of hot heat came from his fingertips; that was the lingering warmth left after the Crimson Flame Domain condensed.

He slightly curled the corners of his mouth, and then, took a look at the updated information on the panel.

[Myriad Furnace Breathing Technique lv3 (20001 / 30000) (Earth Knight)]

[Free Attribute Points - 3488]

[Remaining Free Attribute Points: 3558]

Done.

Earth Knight.

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