83 Potential 3 (1/2)

REALM 145

Chàng Bo wasn't usually the type of person who ever regretted his immediate actions, but right at this moment he really was seriously regretting his decision. To give context to this situation we shall journey back to a few moments earlier…

Realising he was now back in Realm 145, Chàng Bo immediately looked around Mao Lu's residence, but the place was empty. All that greeted him was a few months worth of dust.

\”He's not back, that means Argenti still has him.\” Chàng Bo scowled but he quickly let go of his anger, there was no point to it. He neither had the current ability to go to Realm 1 or the strength to survive there, let alone go and retrieve Mao Lu. Also, Mao Lu was a Gatekeeper. Argenti may have wanted to get him out of the way but there was no way she was planning on killing Mao Lu, if she had been planning to kill Mao Lu there would have been no way she would have gone to all the effort of putting on that big charade and whisking him away.

In the meantime, whilst Mao Lu coped with whatever training Argenti was putting him through, Chàng Bo's time was better-spent training and consolidating his strength. For the moment he was still far too weak, he was still in the early stage of the Dao stage, although he felt his strength approaching the mid-level of the Dao stage, a Dao stage practitioner was still a child compared to the great powers that existed out there, especially towards a Gatekeeper. He needed to get stronger his current progress was far too slow.

Of course, if any other practitioner had heard Chàng Bo's complaints they would have straight out spat blood. For the average practitioner, it would take them several thousands of years to reach the Dao stage, a talent would take at least one thousand years averagely, yet here was Chàng Bo, a 100-year-old practitioner at the Dao stage complaining about his slow progress.

Chàng Bo opened up the sovereign system:

Skills

Supernova lvl 70/100

Starlight lvl 50/100

Celestial dance 63/100

Angel flight 80/100

Heaven's Grace 25/100

Stats

Fate points: 10/10, 000 [Warning! Low points]

Health: 100/100

Strength: 800/1000 – 200 more strength to reach mid-point Dao stage

Mission

Deepen the Bond: Progress 35%

His skills had definitely improved. Especially his skill Supernova, after the battle where he and Mao Lu fought the Irregularity that nearly destroyed Tian'anmen and put Beijing into a state of chaos, Chàng Bo had had the opportunity to push that skill to his limit and he'd even progressed in it.

Chàng Bo was itching to practice it more, but to do that he'd need to travel to another realm, one that he could trash and use as his training ground without any consequences.

Additionally, Chàng Bo needed a ton more fate points. With the low amount of points he currently had, he could probably only open the system two more times, let alone upgrade all his skills and do the crazy amounts of cultivation that he was planning.

\”I need to get a ton of fate points before anything else,\” he muttered, \”time to start changing some peoples fates.\”

The easiest ways to change people's fates were to do something drastic, something that wouldn't just impact the people involved but also impact many others as a repercussion. But what could that be? What should he do?

It wasn't like he could go on a killing spree here, he knew Mao Lu would hate that, and it wasn't like he could cause some huge event. Hypnos had given him a cloaking device but that didn't mean he should be too brazen. If he made himself too obvious, then he'd be a walking target, and it wasn't just the Gatekeepers after him. It was these Creators or agents from the Endless Plains as well. He didn't know what those people from the Real Realm were like but if Hypnos, who easily saved him from Creed, was scared of these creators than they weren't people to be messed with.

But he couldn't just lay low, he needed fate points. With fate points, he could purchase boosters from the sovereign system. One booster was worth 3,000 fate points, a single booster could drastically upgrade a skill or improve his progress in that skill by 1 depending on the level of that skill. For example, Angel's flight was his lowest tier skill, being an earth tier skill. One booster could improve it by one point, but with a skill like Supernova, he'd need 20 boosters to level it up by 1 point. This was one of the reasons why it had taken his mo long to upgrade the Supernova skill. Of course, normal training improved the skill, but improving by 1 point without a booster was equal to five or ten years worth of training for Chàng Bo, and he didn't have that kind of time. Additionally, one booster was worth five points in strength. If Chàng Bo wanted to break through quickly he needed a ton of fate points. He wished he could complete the 'Deepen the Bond' mission now, the idea of unlimited fate points was far too tantalising.

Of course, this method had its drawbacks, quickly upgrading his skills or strength made his foundations weak, this was the reason why he had taken 100 years to get to the Dao stage, he usually accumulated fate points and used them slowly whilst taking the time to solidify his foundation.

What could he do to upgrade himself quickly without harming his foundations?