Chapter 649 - Money Sink! (1/2)

There were only three on his intermediate and advanced skill list. ‘Seems I’m rather poor.’

The three intermediate skills were all decent choices. He might as well upgrade all of them using this opportunity!

Ye Lingchen’s eyes brightened. Arhat’s Fist Force, Formation, and Wood Spirit Constitution were all solid choices. With over 20 million popularity points, he planned to upgrade two of them!

After swallowing a mouthful of saliva…’Let’s begin!’

10 million popularity points were spent on the advanced skill upgrade!

The dark golden glow made clicking sounds as it hovered over the three skills. This round, Ye Lingchen had absolute confidence. He had no fear of getting a useless skill. In fact, he was already imagining how awesome the skill he would be getting.

Finally, the ball of light slowed down and Ye Lingchen’s gaze similarly became more focused.

Ding!

Along with a crisp sound, the ball of light stopped on Arhat’s Fist Force (Intermediate)!

The corner of Ye Lingchen’s mouth curled upwards.

‘Arhat’s Fist Force (Advanced): With one punch, many might die!’

“Gasp!”

Ye Lingchen took in a deep breath. He loved such simple and domineering descriptions.

The next moment, he felt a numbing sensation in his hands. It was as if some electrical currents were stimulating them. Meanwhile, Arhat’s Fist Force started roiling, just like the calm surface of the sea that broke into a sudden storm.

‘This is…’

Ye Lingchen’s eyes widened in shock.

He felt a mysterious transformation of the Inner Force in his fists. It was as though a certain bottleneck was broken through. Meanwhile, the spiritual energy around him began to circulate around his Inner Force in his fist as it started transforming.

‘Is this the so-called Reversion to Innate?’

He had gone through the martial arts records the Su family sent over. The Innate Stage was only able to direct spiritual energy in the vicinity. If one wanted to go on, one would have to completely transform the Inner Force within oneself, which is to transform the acquired Qi force into innate spiritual energy. That a metamorphosis they had to undergo.

At the same time, the continuation practicing methods of the advanced Arhat’s Fist Force began to appear in his mind. The contents were details on how to temper one’s Inner Force to achieve the metamorphosis.

‘I still need to practice!’

Ye Lingchen sighed. The practice for the advanced Arhat’s Fist Force’s was even more difficult compared to Eight Extremities Brute Training. Some parts involved painful suffering. It required him to temper the meridians and muscles in his hands. Only then would his arms be able to withstand the great destructive power of Arhat’s Fist Force.

‘Oh my, even my hands can’t withstand it. Just how strong is one punch?’ Ye Lingchen could not help recall a specific phrase, ‘Don’t force me. Once I use my technique, I’ll hurt even myself.’

Truly terrifying.

Fortunately, he was a prodigy. If anyone else were to train with this technique, it might cost them their lives.

All that remained was Wood Spirit Constitution (Intermediate) and Formation (Intermediate). Continue!

Ye Lingchen looked longingly at the Wood Spirit Constitution skill. He desired such a unique constitution greatly. These unique constitutions were not the same as martial arts as he could upgrade them directly. Moreover, having a strong constitution would make his practice a lot easier. It was just too tempting.

He threw in another 10 million popularity points. Begin!

The dark golden ball of light once more clicked as it went between those two skills. Finally, with a crisp “Ding”, it landed on Formation.

‘Sigh, nothing is perfect.’

Ye Lingchen sighed, but quickly adjusted his mindset. Formation was not a bad skill. It allowed him to ensure the abundance of spiritual energy around him. That was a type of wide-ranging benefit.

‘Formation (Advanced): You’re now a Formation Master, with all the knowledge of formations within you.’

Immediately after, a large amount of information welled up from the depths of his mind, just like a great revelation. It gave Ye Lingchen one epiphany after another as the formations and their transformations played out in his mind.

After a full 30 minutes, the information transfer was finally complete.

Ye Lingchen opened his eyes with a surprised look. At this stage, he was no longer limited to the simple spirit gathering formation or entrapment formation. He could even use formations to change the environment, create illusions, and even kill someone!

However, that was followed by a frown from Ye Lingchen. The power of formations were powerful, but at the same time, the materials it required were terrifying as well. White jade, Hetian jade, blood chalcedony, and so on. They were all rare materials. Most importantly, some jade even had maturity and quality requirements.

It would not be much of an issue if it could be purchased with money, even if the price were high. Some of them were priceless treasures that one could not even buy.

‘Damn, this is just too much.’

Ye Lingchen finally realized something. Having high-end knowledge was great, but the required materials were going up in quality as well. Besides medicinal herbs or jade, he would eventually be picky about clothing, weapons, and other materials.

In fact, he even felt that his progress was insufficient with only practice. He needed to take supplements.

All in all, it was a money sink!