4. Ancestor is buying things!
The Gray Courtyard was, as its name suggested, all gray. It featured a spacious garden with green bamboos clustered together, some red flowers at the corners, and a small lawn around a bamboo house, which looked elegant and unique but very weak. Lan thought, "I don't want to be smashed with falling bamboos when sleeping." He looked quizzically at Rin.
"I think the coffin is safer than this?"
Rin hurriedly replied, "Ancestor, this is Thousand Year Bamboo, which is tougher than any metal, strong enough to withstand a full-powered blow from a King Rank Martial Artist. It's the most valuable thing in the whole family."
Lan nodded with satisfaction. 'This suits someone like me.' He pointed at the side rooms.
"You take that room, I will res…t... Cultivate now, so don't disturb me unless I ask for it. Shout if you are in trouble."
Rin, without hesitation, accepted the new place and went to move her things in. Lan entered his main room and slowly closed the door. He saw the comfy bed at the corner and dived in. An old frail man diving into bed was a very weird scene, which Lan masterfully ignored.
Now that he had time, he started thinking about the day.
'Everything went well, except I had to walk everywhere. Don't people with high cultivation levels fly everywhere? Even that Pao ran with his two legs. Shouldn't people fly? And even though I have supreme-level cultivation, I don't seem to have any skill? What if the Hai guys come knocking on my door for a fight or something? And from the looks of it, people in this family seem to have many bad habits. I don't know how many people are looking for a chance to take them out now that I am in the way. They will try to assassinate me, won't they? I am in big danger.'
After worrying for some more time, he called out to his best ally, "System, come out!"
He found himself in a strange shop face-to-face with the robot. The points on the counter were now in the hundreds and increasing rapidly. He asked the robot,
"System, do you have any defensive skills that can protect me from fatal strikes? As you have stopped me from killing anyone, won't everyone try to kill me? And when can people fly?"
< Demigod Rank Martial Artists can fly for a limited duration. >
< Searching for Query – Defensive skills >
Stone Skin - 110 FP: Makes skin as hard as stone, but brittle.Iron Skin - 120 FP: Makes skin as hard as iron but reduces movement speed.Brittle Skin - 130 FP: Makes skin very hard against slashing attacks, weak against blunt damage. …Turtle Skin – 923,732,992 FP: Body becomes invincible for a period of time as wished. Restriction: Immobility when in use activates when attacked.Gray Skin – 999,999,999 FP: Strongest defence against any damage and will transfer half of the attack back to the attacker. Restrictions: Returned damage affects only when in direct contact with the user's body. He sorted the skills in ascending order of FP required. The description of the starting few skills was similar, just differing in the defense level of the body. All skills were passive. The most awesome were the last few; those skills would make the user invincible for the period of time they were attacked. During normal times, those skills would automatically deactivate. 'Gray Skin was the most costly and useful if I were a normal user, as the skill transfers half of the damage back to the attacker. But for me, that skill is useless as I will not be able to harm anyone. Now that I think about it, how will the system protect someone if I harm them? Will it make a shield or something, or just heal them back? Won't a shield make my cultivation useless then?' < Error > "This is fine, I guess. System, please give me all the defensive skills available and usable by me." < 13 Skills Bought > Lan saw his points going down but could not feel any changes in his body. Maybe he needed to wait before exiting the system to check the skills. "System, show me some non-lethal attacking skills." < Searching for Query – Non-lethal Attacking Skills > Lightning Jab – 14 FP: Quick lightning punch that will stun the enemy.Flying Straight – 17 FP: Quick punch that will make the enemy fly.Goodnight Uppercut – 50 FP: Quick uppercut that will knock out the enemy....Angry Buddha – 1999 FP: AOE attack that will knock out all enemies with lower cultivation than the host.Smoking Buddha – 2394 FP: Smoke created by the host will target a single enemy and suffocate them. The enemy will feel a near-death experience. Restrictions: Affects people up to one cultivation rank higher than the host. Cool down: 2 Hours. Requirement: User must smoke before using the skill. Lan glanced over the skill list and briefly reviewed their descriptions. He decided that Angry Buddha and Smoking Buddha were must-have skills. As for the requirement to smoke, 'Hais, I have to sacrifice something, right? Mommy don't blame me; it's all the system's fault.' But he did not have enough FP for both skills, so he bought basic boxing skills. After searching, he also found a skill that could hide his cultivation level. But it was costly. < Skill Natural – 50,000 FP: Makes the user one with nature; nobody will be able to find out your cultivation level or presence. Passive. Requirement: Needs to spend 2 hours daily in a natural habitat. It was a good skill. But he was too poor for that. He needed to do something to increase his FP. He exited the system store after buying some movies. They were very cheap, 1-2 FP, but the LCD with batteries cost him around 100 FP. He spent some time watching movies, then decided to visit this world's goddess of dreams. The Gray Courtyard was like its name all gray, spacious garden with green bamboos clustered together, some red flowers at corner, small lawn around bamboo house, which looked elegant and unique, and very weak. I don't want to be smashed with falling bamboos when sleeping. He looks quizzically at Rin, "I think the coffin is safer than this?" Rin hurriedly replied, "Ancestor, this is Thousand Year Bamboo, which is tougher than any metal, strong enough to withstand full powered blow from King Rank Martial Artist, most valuable thing in the whole family. " Lan nodded with satisfaction, 'This suits someone as me.' He pointed at side rooms, "You take that room, I will res….t ..Cultivate now so don't disturb me unless I asked for. Shout if you are in trouble." Rin without hesitation accepted new place and went to move over her things in. Lan entered his main room and slowly closed the door. He saw the comfy bed at corner and dived in. Old frail man diving in bed was very weird scene, which Lan masterfully ignored. Now that he got time, he started thinking about today, ' Everything went well, except I had to walk everywhere, don't the people with high cultivation level fly everywhere? Even that Pao Pao ran with his two legs. Shouldn't people fly? And even though I have supreme level cultivation I don't seem to have any skill? What if the Hai guys come knocking on my door for fight or something? And by looks of it people in this family seems to have many bad habits, don't know how many people are looking for chance to take them out, now I am in the way. They will try to assassinate me, don't they? I am in big danger.' After worrying for some more time, he called out to his best ally, 'System come out!' He found himself in strange shop with face to face with the robot. The points on counter were now in hundreds and were increasing rapidly. He asked the robot, "System, you have any defensive skills which can protect me from fatal strikes? As you have stopped me from killing anyone, won't everyone try to kill me? And when people can fly?" < Demigod Rank Martial artist can fly for limited duration.> < Searching for Query –Defensive skills> Stone Skin -110 FP. Makes skin as hard as stone, but brittle. Iron Skin -120 FP. Makes skin as hard as Iron but movement speed reduced. Brittle Skin -130 FP. Makes skin very hard against slashing attacks, weak against blunt damage. … Turtle Skin – 923732992 FP. Body becomes invincible for amount of time use wish it to be. Restriction: Immobility when in use activates when attacked. Gray Skin – 999999999 FP. Strongest defense against any damage and will transfer half of attack back to attacker. Restrictions: Returned damage affects only when in direct contact with user's body. > He sorted the skills in ascending order of FP required, the description of starting few skills were similar, just difference was increase in defense of the body. All skills were passive. Most awesome were last few, those skills will make user invincible for period of time he is attacked, during normal time those skills will automatically deactivate. 'Gray skin was most costly and useful if I was normal user, as the skill transfers half of the damage back to attacker. But for me that skill was useless as I will not be able to harm anyone. Now that I think about it, how will system protect someone if I harms them? Will it make shield or something or just heal them back? Won't shield make my cultivation useless then?' < Error> "This is fine, I guess, system, please give me all the defensive skills available and usable by me." < 13 Skills Bought> Lan can see his points going down, but cannot feel any changes in his body. Maybe he needs to wait before exiting system to check the skills. "System show me some non-lethal attacking skills." < Searching for Querry –Non-lethal Attacking skills > < Skill list Lightening Jab – 14 FP : Quick punch lightening punch which will stun the enemy. Flying Straight- 17 FP : Quick Punch which will make enemy fly. Goodnight Uppercut-50 FP : Quick Uppercut which will knock out the enemy. .. Angry Buddha- 1999 FP : AOE attack which will knock out all the enemies with lower cultivation than the host. Smoking Buddha- 2394 FP : Smoke created by host will target single enemy and suffocate him/her. Enemy will feel near death experience. Restrictions: Affects people up to one cultivation rank higher than host. Cool down- 2Hrs , Requirement: User must smoke before using skill. Lan saw skill list and briefly glanced over their description. He decided that Angry Buddha and Smoking Buddha are must have skills. As for requirement to smoke, 'Hais, I have to sacrifice something right? Mommy don't blame me, it's all system's fault.' But he did not have enough FP for both skills so he bought basic boxing skills. After searching he also found out skill which can hide his cultivation level. But it was costly. < Skill Natural – 50000 FP, Makes user one with nature, nobody will be able to find out your cultivation level or presence. Passive. Requirement: Needs to spend 2 hours daily in a natural habitat. > It was good skill. But he was too poor for that. He must do something to increase his FP. He exited the system store after buying some movies. They were very cheap, 1-2 FP; But LCD with Batteries cost him around 100 FP. He spent some time watching movies then decided to visit this world's goddess of dreams.