19: Chapter 19 The Fragment of the Sword Immortal's Tale

When one could no longer gain experience points, it signified that the session of Cultivating had ended.

In the game *immortal path*, to prevent players from idling indefinitely and ignoring game content, it was set so that one could only Cultivate for three hours a day.

Both players and NPCs had to abide by this ironclad rule.

After three hours, the Cultivation Technique would no longer provide experience points!

When Su Yi opened his eyes, the sky was already beginning to brighten.

Stretching his back, Su Yi checked the gains from his night of Cultivating.

There were the 1000 experience points granted passively each day, 600 experience points gained from his own Cultivating, and 400 points of proficiency in his Cultivation Technique.

Including the experience points gained before the Spirit Gate, the total experience points he had stored now reached 3600!

Feeling quite satisfied with his bountiful harvest, Su Yi was in a great mood and even felt full of confidence for the Outer Sect Competition in a month!

A mere Gu Wanquan—he would easily handle him in a month!

While feeling ambitious, Su Yi looked toward the bed opposite his, which was now empty.

Su Yi's heart skipped a beat; he had been too absorbed in his Cultivating yesterday and had completely forgotten that he was sharing a room with Yin Chaoge!

Startled, Su Yi frantically looked around, but he did not find Yin Chaoge lying in his bed.

Moreover, his clothes were still on, and he felt no discomfort behind him.

Thank goodness, thank goodness, he hadn't been bent over!

"It seems this talent effect doesn't work on men after all!" Su Yi thought with a look of relief, still feeling a lingering fear.

"Bang!"

The door was slammed open. Ling Yao's small figure stood outside, holding a comb, which she shook at Su Yi as she said, "Su Yi, help me comb my hair!"

Heh, I, Su Yi, am a Cultivation Genius; her potential as a future Empress is nothing special. Did she really think I would be her lackey?

For valid clients, I am attentive; for invalid clients, I immediately change my attitude.

Don't blame Brother Su for being heartless; we are merely in a client relationship!

Ling Yao did not know what Su Yi was thinking, but she looked at him and asked curiously, "Eh? You've reached the second stage of Qi Refining!"

"Uh? You can tell my cultivation level?" Su Yi asked, somewhat astonished.

In the setting of *immortal path*, only powerful Cultivators could see another's strength by observing their Qi.

This was to allow players or NPCs to play the fool to catch their prey.

Otherwise, if everyone could see the other's cultivation level, an old beggar with powerful Qi surrounding him lying on the street...

...everyone would just think it was a quirk of this great Cultivator.

But the Ling Yao before him could see through his cultivation level at a glance—this wasn't logical!

"What stage of Qi Refining are you at now?"

"The third stage of Qi Refining, what's wrong?"

Su Yi was shocked inwardly: "Holy crap? Third stage of Qi Refining? That fast?"

Ling Yao said with an expression of course: "What's the big deal? I Cultivated for one night, and today I reached it. Sister Wen is the same."

Damn, damn it all, is there any justice in this world?

Are Chosen Ones really that unreasonable? Just casually Cultivating for a day and they reach the third stage of Qi Refining?

If they Cultivate for a few more days, wouldn't they reach Foundation Establishment?

Thinking of this, Su Yi stood up with a blank expression and took the comb from Ling Yao's hand.

An Empress is truly an Empress. What's the point of being a Genius? It's much more comfortable to be a lackey and just lie around!

After combing Ling Yao's hair, Su Yi was pestered by her to make breakfast.

As soon as he stepped out, he saw Gu Wanquan walking out of his room with dark circles under his eyes.

Upon seeing Su Yi, Gu Wanquan was stunned for a moment, then, with a complex expression, forced a smile to greet him.

"Senior Brother, did you not sleep well?" Su Yi asked, looking at the somewhat listless Gu Wanquan.

Gu Wanquan gave a bitter smile and said, "Junior Brother Yin's snoring was too loud, I couldn't fall asleep!"

Su Yi asked in confusion, "Ah? Yin—... Senior Brother Yin isn't in the same room as me? Why did he go to your room to sleep?"

Gu Wanquan tilted his head to look at Su Yi, and after confirming that Su Yi was not playing dumb, he evasively said, "Perhaps he felt close to me, so he wanted to sleep in the same room."

"If Senior Brother isn't sleeping well, you can sleep in my room!" Su Yi said politely.

Gu Wanquan looked at the supposedly generous Su Yi; although he knew the other party was just being polite, Gu Wanquan would rather sleep with Yin Chaoge than share a room with Su Yi.

Because he had tried it last night, and he understood Yin Chaoge's hidden difficulties.

Gu Wanquan did not believe it was due to Su Yi's great charm; instead, he felt that Su Yi must have something extraordinary about him, which caused both him and Yin Chaoge to lose composure like that.

Gu Wanquan watched Su Yi walk into the kitchen amidst Ling Yao's urging, and he felt puzzled in his heart: "What exactly is this Su Yi's background?"

"Could it be that Su Yi isn't actually of the pure Human Race?"

Gu Wanquan's slightly narrowed pupils suddenly constricted, becoming like vertical slits, similar to a snake's eyes.

The people in the small courtyard woke up one after another. Xiao Tian's eyes were red because he had missed home yesterday and had cried too sadly while covered by his quilt.

Looking at Xiao Tian's robust figure, which was 1.89 meters tall and half a head taller than him...

...it was hard for everyone to associate this burly man in front of them with a 12-year-old child.

Bro, is it normal to grow like that?

Were you raised on protein powder?

After Su Yi finished washing the bowls, Senior Brother Chen Feng, who had said he would take them to the Scripture Pavilion to select skills yesterday, appeared in the small courtyard.

Chen Feng looked at the group, who were all at the first stage of Qi Refining yesterday, and seeing that they were all at least at the second stage today, he couldn't help but be stunned.

What kind of monsters did the Sect recruit this time!

As Chen Feng flew with the group, he looked at Su Yi and the others, somewhat doubting if he, who was hailed as a once-in-fifty-years Genius of the Luoxia Immortal Sect, had been exaggerated.

The giant white crane flew through the mountains, and after half an hour, they finally arrived at the Outer Sect Scripture Pavilion.

It was evident just how vast the Outer Sect of the Luoxia Immortal Sect was.

"This is the Outer Sect Scripture Pavilion; you can choose any movement techniques or combat skills you like!"

Chen Feng then added, "But I must remind you that movement techniques and combat skills below Foundation Establishment are actually not very useful; Cultivating too many of them is counterproductive!"

Su Yi deeply agreed with this; rather than wasting experience points in the early stages, it was better to use them to level up and learn high-Rank Spells or combat skills.

*immortal path* had a wide variety of classes, and players had a high degree of freedom.

But they were generally divided into three categories: Spell-based, Equipment-based, and Body Cultivator-based.

The Spell-based category included Five Elements movement techniques and esoteric formations.

The Equipment-based category included blades, spears, swords, halberds, axes, battle-axes, hooks, and forks.

The Body Cultivator category focused on tempering the physical body, with Qi and blood being king.

Players did not have to limit themselves to one form; they could Cultivate multiple types simultaneously.

But under the limitations of the attribute panel, such players usually did not have high growth potential.

Furthermore, players only had 4 skill slots before level 20; regardless of whether they were passive or active skills, they could only Cultivate a maximum of 4.

Only after passing level 20 would another 4 be unlocked.

This was why Su Yi was so excited after learning that he had both player and NPC Physiques.

In the Late Stage, when others had 8 instant-cast skills, Su Yi could have 16!

Tell me if that's not awesome!

You might say, what if I want to Cultivate a 5th skill in the early stages? That's not impossible.

*immortal path*, this highly free-form brain-interface game, supported players in learning skills on their own, just like the NPCs in the game.

But for skills not in the skill slots, the casting speed and the casting delay would depend on one's personal learning ability.

However, the 4 skills equipped in the skill slots could be instant-cast!

This was possible for skills of any Rank!

But if one wanted to Cultivate better skills, they would need to delete the existing skills in the skill slots.

The experience lost after deleting a skill was lost for nothing!

Therefore, in the low-Rank stages, heavily investing in Spells and combat skills was simply not proportional to the output.

But there were exceptions to everything!

Su Yi knew that in the storyline, Gu Wanquan's first Opportunity was right here in the Outer Sect Scripture Pavilion, which was also the legendary beginning of Gu Wanquan becoming a Sword Immortal!

Gu Wanquan would obtain a combat skill that he could use from level 1 all the way to level 80!

An upgradeable combat skill of Mythical quality!

A combat skill inherited from an ancient Sword Immortal, it also established his signature as Gu Wanquan, the White-Clad Sword Immortal!

Although this combat skill was obtained from the Scripture Pavilion, it could also be said that this combat skill was created solely by Gu Wanquan himself!

Because this combat skill now only consisted of half a sheet of paper and a single character.

It couldn't even be called a combat skill; at most, it was half a sheet of waste paper!

But Gu Wanquan managed to comprehend the complete *Nine Swords of the Sword Immortal* from this half sheet of waste paper!

And now, this half sheet of waste paper was lying quietly in the Scripture Pavilion!