Chapter 17 (1/2)
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Chapter 17: North Luna’s Past
Ding Ze commented, “This is the first time I have pa.s.sed on knowledge of cultivation. When I was taught, I was dropped from the sixth floor. My mentor made me feel the effects of Refine through treating my trauma.” Having said that, he extended his hand out.
Okay, I choose to thank you. Cui Ming grabbed his hand, Ding Ze pulled him up, and then the two swung down the mountain. Ding Ze’s laziness didn’t include his mouth[1]. Compared to North Luna, he answered every question and introduced the practice of six Principles very clearly. Six Principles had a requirement of order, only after learning a principle could you practice the next principle. And from well-learned to skilled took a very long time to accomplish.
Cui Ming curiously asked “If you fight in a ring, can you beat Boss?”
“We tried that before.” Ding Ze said while puffing out smoke, “The process was like a boxing match. I repeatedly knocked her down, but there was no way to KO her. If victory was determined by time or points, then I would have won. If it was a life-or-death battle, and there was no time limit, I would die. Among cultivators, Strengthen Type was recognized as immortal, and main Strengthen Type and secondary Enhance Type was recognized as strong immortal. I completely lost interest after playing with her the first time. I had no desire to fight with her again.
Cui Ming imagined, asked: “If Boss were to fight another Strengthen Type…”
“She would win because she mainly cultivates Enhance Type. Enhanced attack is quite powerful, and Strengthen Type lack dodge skills and abilities.” Ding Ze said: “There is no cultivator who had absolute strength, the battle mostly depends on the relation of your cultivator type with opponent's. Thus, companions were very important in the cultivator world. They had each other's backs. In the case that two Strengthen Type cultivators fight, the result depended on who starved to death first. At that time if there was an Energy Type such as me joining, we could easily defeat the other side. If it was another Strengthen Type, it would make no major change at all.”
Oh, I understand. Strengthen Type has attack power D level, defense S level, skill D level. Energy attack power A level, defense force D level, skill A level. Main reinforcement system auxiliary strengthening system, attack power B-A level, defense A level, skills D-C level.
Ding Ze explained that real battle was not so simple, and could not be a.n.a.lyzed like data. You had to rely on skills and not only fighting skills, but also a necessary amount of mental skills. Many cultivators would have a secondary Type and that made endless changes, but also have their own weaknesses. Finally, Ding Ze added that he and North Luna’s fighting experience was also very limited, purely on paper.
“The purpose of North Luna for joining the Aura Alliance is to find her father, who is a member of the Aura Alliance. I do not know the reason that he left the Aura Alliance, but he settled down at Dawn City, where he met North Luna’s mother and then fathered North Luna. When she was ten, her house burned to the ground and her mother died. When that happened, North Luna was being carried to Zenith Mountain’s peak to practice. After returning home, she found that it did not exist anymore, and that her mother had died in the fire, her father had disappeared. On the basis of memory, North Luna inferred that her father had a lover when he was in the Aura Alliance and before the fire happened, her parents repeatedly quarreled. She suspected that her father killed her mother and left Dawn City with his mistress. She wanted to join the Aura Alliance, and then use the privilege to find her father and asked for a clear answer.” Ding Ze said: “North Luna's logic is correct. It would have been easy for her father to save a person in the fire.”
Cui Ming nodded, it seemed that North had also experienced a lot of things. A 10-year-old girl had to grow up by herself, no wonder that changed her personality so much. But that still could not prove that North Luna was 'her' or not, unless she told the story of the crystal. Cui Ming asked: “How to join the Aura Alliance?”
“Pa.s.s an exam. The Aura Alliance will make one based on the number of applicants. The exam is hold in a special site, where the natural energy was strongest. The applicants partic.i.p.ate by form of five-members team. The teams had to pa.s.s through many difficult tests. However, from the fifty years of statistics, the rate of pa.s.sing the exam was only 1% for the teams formed by temporary groupings. There was only one temporary team that pa.s.sed the exam, it was lead by a man who wore a mask and was nicknamed ‘Black Crow’.”
“Black Crow?” This was the second time he heard this name.