Chapter 240 - A Toast to Success (Part 4 of 5) (1/2)

Zheng Ren was still training in the System. He was getting faster at the surgery and spending less time thinking as well.

On average, each surgery earned Zheng Ren about 450 skill points.

Zheng Ren sighed inwardly and admitted that this was truly the toughest procedure in all of interventional surgery. It was apparent just from the increase in skill points.

In order to reach Prime level in surgery, one had to train to perform incredibly intricate surgeries. Relying on appendectomy alone would take thousands of years to get to Prime…

Even if one lived that long, Prime level would be out of their reach. The skill points earned per surgery depreciated when one performed a similar type of surgery repeatedly.

Before he knew it, Zheng Ren had exhausted his entire reserve of skill points, experience points, and surgical time that he acc.u.mulated!

In his interventional surgery tree, he had gained 450 skill points per round for a total of 29,830 skill points.

He was only inches away from Grandmaster.

Zheng Ren looked around the System, now empty but for the two golden chests s.h.i.+ning in the corner coquettishly.

He did not expect to win the lottery, but it was worth a shot.

The two golden chests unlocked simultaneously with a single thought.

The experience points he had exhausted replenished themselves instantly. Zheng Ren exhaled; the two chests were truly beneficial.

After the glow faded, Zheng Ren found himself with almost thirty thousand experience points, a skill book of 3,000 cases of gastrointestinal surgery, and a Master-level skill book on ultrasound.

Even though the two golden chests were not exceptional, he was satisfied and used both books immediately even though they were rather common in clinical surgeries.

Zheng Ren was thrilled when he saw that he needed only 100 skill points to upgrade his interventional surgical skill to the Prime level.

It did not seem that long ago that he had dreamed of achieving the Master level but here he was, so close to Prime.

Zheng Ren quickly purchased two more hours of surgical training time and performed another prostate interventional embolization.

He was now able to complete the surgery within 2 hours. It was a huge improvement from his previous performance. However, no matter how hard he tried, he could only reach 90% completion.

He had hoped to see some changes after reaching the Prime level in interventional surgery.

After 1 hour and 49 minutes, he finished the System’s surgery, but the completion status remained under 91%.

Quant.i.tative change translated into qualitative development, finally upgrading Zheng Ren’s interventional surgical skills to Prime.

There was no brilliant aura surrounding him, nor was there any petals falling from the sky. It was as if nothing had changed.

Zheng Ren sat next to the pond and slowly closed his eyes, his fingers pinched gently as if holding a micro guide wire to pa.s.s through some blood vessels and reach its desired location.

It felt just right.

Half an hour later, Zheng Ren opened his eyes. They were gleaming, as clear as the pool of water before.

So this was how it felt to reach Prime level.

With this realization, the System’s operating theater emerged from the ground once more and Zheng Ren entered it, now a Prime rank interventional surgeon

Sure enough, quant.i.tative changes had resulted in a qualitative one. After Zheng Ren conquered his summit, he was greeted with a world much greater than the one he had known.

Prostate interventional embolization. Time spent: 1 hour and 32 minutes. Completion status: 100%

Zheng Ren grinned and purchased a bottle of energy elixir.

When he opened the bottle, a minty scent filled his senses.

He frowned as he was still not used to the smell. Then, he raised the energy elixir to the little fox across the pond.

A toast to success.

After downing the energy elixir, Zheng Ren exited the System.