Simple Math

Lan Xiang made it home, safe and sound.

After eating dinner with Xie Jian and taking a shower, he headed straight for his room.

"Okay... time to experiment!"

He needed to know badly if a crude technique he made himself would get accepted by the system. The revelation would be game-changing.

He wrote a bunch of gibberish and bullcrap on some pieces of paper and entitled it "Wizard Powers".

Chapter 1 of Wizard Powers

Fireball! Chant fireball and a fireball will come out of the palm.

Chapter 2 of Wizard Powers

Icicle! Chant icicle and an icicle will come out of the palm.

Chapter 3 of Wizard Powers

Lightning bolt! Chant lightning bolt and a lightning bolt will come out of the palm.

And so on and so forth...

As he wrote, Lan Xiang thought that this couldn't possibly work.

He finished up writing and closed his eyes and exhaled.

When he opened his eyes, he widened them even further.

"It worked! What the hell..."

Wizard Powers

Blank level technique

Training difficulty: Extremely high

Limit: Level 0.1 (Not Even Close Bro)

Strength: Nothing

Element: Convertible

Founder: Lan Xiang (12 seconds ago)

Advance: 1 t-pt.

Sell value: none

"Hm? There's something at the bottom."

Warning: Host can only make a total of FOUR (4) more techniques by themself. Please achieve more milestones to increase the limit!

"Oh, so I can't do this infinitely? The system has accounted for it? Damn, I thought I found an exploit." Lan Xiang clicked his tongue.

"...I guess I'll upgrade Wizard Powers then."

Wizard Powers

Purple Level technique

Training difficulty: Low

Limit: Level 18 (Realm of Ascension)

Strength: High

Element: Convertible

Founder: Lan Xiang (a second ago)

Advance: 500 t-pts.

Sell value: 150 t-pts.

"Dude, I haven't seen anyone in this world use wizard powers before... I'll be the first wizard! Haha!"

Now that Lan Xiang satisfied his curiosity, he decided to turn his attention to the newly acquired red level technique, Mountain Push.

"Hehe, that woman paid me a million but I still have it stored in the system." Lan Xiang felt kind of sly.

Mountain Push (fragment)

Red level technique

Training difficulty: Extremely high

Limit: Level 18 (Realm of Ascension)

Strength: Inhumanely high

Element: Earth

Founder: De Diqiu (1305 years ago)

Advance: Locked, please achieve more milestones!

Sell value: 10000 tech points

"So, for starters, acquiring this didn't give me any tech points. Hm..."

Lan Xiang checked his tech points before and after he learned the Mountain Push technique. It didn't change.

"Is it because it's only a fragment? Is that why I didn't get any tech points upon learning this manual?"

Lan Xiang shrugged. This was his first time acquiring a fragment after all, he didn't know the technicalities of the technique and whatnot.

"But the sell value is 10000 points. Should I just sell it? Can't use it anyway, the training difficulty is extremely high. For me, who has trash talent, that difficulty would be cranked up a few more notches." Lan Xiang contemplated.

"...Wait a minute. A 'fragment' is technically a fraction, right?"

Lan Xiang hurriedly opened the technique synthesizer.

The three slots were there, as per usual, and so were the plus sign and the equal sign.

Lan Xiang changed the sign to the division sign.

"So, if my logic's correct, dividing by a fragment should yield greater results."

He took out an earth element technique similar to Mountain Push.

Anthill Destruction Technique

White level technique

Training difficulty: Low

Limit: Level 0.1 (Not Even Close Bro)

Strength: Inhumanely low

Element: Earth

Founder: Di Deqiu (13.05 years ago)

Advance: 10 t-pts.

Sell value: 20 t-pts.

"Hm, kinda similar."

He put the Anthill Destruction Technique on the first slot, and the Mountain Push (fragment) on the second.

"And the result is...?"

Mountain Destruction Technique

White level technique

Training difficulty: Very low

Limit: Level 18 (Realm of Ascension)

Strength: Inhumanely high

Founder: Lan Xiang (not yet)

Advance: 10 t-pts.

Sell value: 5000 t-pts.

Lan Xiang widened his eyes. This was more overpowered than he thought it would be.

"And it's a white level technique, so I can upgrade it more! How much does it cost to synthesize?"

Cost: -1000 t-pts.

"...Ha? Negative tech points? Does that mean the system will give me points?"

After thinking about it, Lan Xiang thought it made perfect sense. Because he was using division, which should be detrimental to the manual, the system was 'refunding' him the tech points. Lan Xiang quickly tested it out with subtraction and multiplication as well.

With subtraction, the cost was -500 tech points, while on multiplication, it was 1000 tech points.

"That means my theory is correct! Haha, this system really is exploitable."

Not only was Lan Xiang essentially cheating by improving a technique by dividing with a fragment, he was being given points by the system while doing it! It was too much for him.

"...Hmm, but if I do this, I'll lose the Red Level technique forever." Lan Xiang clicked his tongue. "Ah, who cares. I'll never get to use it anyway. Besides, it's a fragment, there's bound to be more of it somewhere!"

Without hesitation, Lan Xiang redeemed the Mountain Destruction Technique.

Both the Anthill Destruction Technique and the Mountain Push technique disappeared, which made Lan Xiang's heart ache. Who knew that he would be using his first red level technique to improve a white level technique...

"Anyways, I now have two more combat techniques up my arsenal!"

He quickly upgraded the Mountain Destruction Technique to purple level as well.

Mountain Destruction Technique

Purple level technique

Training difficulty: Piece of cake

Strength: Godly

Founder: Lan Xiang (a few seconds ago)

Advance: 500 t-pts.

Sell value: 5200 t-pts.

"Godly strength, eh? And a piece of cake to train too."

Lan Xiang crashed onto his bed, recalling the day's events.

"First, Jian'er got drunk and so I had to make my first pill, then I used my needle techniques to heal Little Hailu in the hospital, I bought Mountain Push, and then I beat up Ning Luoxue, that bastard. Ah, what a hectic day it's been."

As he thought of how beat up his little sister was in the hospital, Lan Xiang's eyes burned with fury.

"Cousin Zhou, just wait for me. I'll cripple you the same way you did my sister!"