Chapter 73 - Cultivation (1/2)

“Task requires physical attendance at 100 scenic spots.”

“Upon completion, you will receive the title [Night Touring God] (night owl abilities +5, observational skills +3, aesthetic appreciation +1)”

Night touring god referred to wandering around outside, how psycho!

Meng Fan had thought he was about to enter the realm of hallucinogens and fantasies.

Eh. If he thought about it, they were pretty similar. If his ability to stay up late is increased, wouldn’t he become a master of cultivation?

As for observation skills and aesthetic appreciation, these both seemed to be in line with the task. It is understandable that after touring so many scenic spots, he would indefinitely increase his observational and aesthetic appreciation skills.

Only aesthetics appreciation only gives +1. How stingy of the system!

Aesthetics could be considered as a metaphysical attribute. After all, everyone’s aesthetics are different, but it was also scientific if you looked at it differently. For an art student like Meng Fan, he was already aesthetically motivated. There are also some applied disciplines throughout the pursuit of aesthetics.

Aesthetic appreciation didn’t mean to exclude all ugliness, but it was more about becoming adept at discovering beauty and representing it.

For instance; drawing is a pursuit of beauty and even though beauty does contain some concept of ugliness, it was another kind of beauty to portray something ugly very well!

This attribute was a rare one. At least, the System thought so too.

This achievement task was divided into four task phases. The task phases all included night owl bonus and observation bonus as rewards, but it did not include aesthetic appreciation. That is to say, even if he completed the entire task, he would only receive +1 aesthetic appreciation.

Task phase 1: Requires night tour of one scenic location; reward: Points +1, night owl ability +1.

Task phase 2: Requires night tour of 10 scenic locations; reward: Points +10, night owl ability +1, observational skills +1.

Task phase 3: Requires night tour of 50 scenic locations; reward: Points +50, night owl ability +1.

Task phase 4: Requires night tour of 100 scenic locations; reward: Points +100, night owl ability +1, observational skills +1.

Task phase 1 and three solely rewarded night owl ability; while two and four had double rewards, adding on observational skills.

If he finished the whole task: he would earn 161 points, +9 Night owl ability, +5 observational skills, and +1 aesthetic appreciation.

At this time, he had already completed task phase 1 and received its reward.

This had also been a task that only triggered when a certain task phase had been completed.

After the night owl bonus, Meng Fan momentarily could not feel its effect. After all, he was usually not asleep yet around this time.

Speaking of night owls, staying up late hadn’t been something that Meng Fan had dared to touch.

First off, with Meng Fan’s build; it was hard for him not to be sleepy, let alone stay up late. Occasionally he would stay up; only until one or two at most, but the next day he was completely paralyzed.

Second, staying up late was too harmful for his body.

Memory loss, mental dysfunction, decreased vision, decreased immunity, skin damage, more susceptible to disease… Not to mention, it could lead to kidney deficiency, infertility, baldness… How scary is it to become bald before you’ve become strong.

Most importantly, it will lead to obesity!

Now that his night owl tendencies had been increased, it could reduce the harm caused by staying up late, not to mention allowing him to stay up later.

If you normally sleep at 11 pm, adding +1 night owl ability would allow you to sleep at 12, maybe even 1.

This… Meng Fan considered it carefully. If staying up late can reduce the harm caused by staying up late, then it might be able to solve the problem of obesity as well.

Once his night owl skills improve, he had more time to cultivate. This also meant that he would be more awake… Which meant he’d have to eat more!

Meng Fan finally understood why the system did not directly trigger a weight loss related task. Oh, it had no intention of helping him to lose weight!

But no matter how you put it, this attribute was pretty useful. At least for now, Meng Fan was already starting to feel like he didn’t have enough time.

In the past, when he only worked hard during some off chance moments; one day’s time was more than enough for him to play some games and follow some manga.

Now, it was really a ‘haha’ moment. He discovered the harder you work, the more you realize there is not enough time.

With this new attribute, it could add an extra one or two hours everyday. Even if he didn’t do anything, he could at least touch a long lost game or catch up with an updated anime.

Going back and thinking about the task, it had been a while since he entered the scenic spot. It was definitely enough time spent to count as ‘night touring’, but how come the task had only triggered now?

Meng Fan thought. This must be related to the time spent at the scenic attraction, but he was unsure how long exactly he needed to be there.