Departure
Year 1034 of the Zhang Dynasty - Outlands of Heavenly Phoenix City - Linjian farm
I wake up in the barn with the light of the sun.
[Good morning Linjian]
(Good morning Maria)
After a breakfast I went out the central square to continue with my training.
[From now on you will follow this schedule]
A schedule?
[In the morning you will make muscle building exercises, you are too thin right now]
That is true, my arms look like branches.
[In the afternoon you will train your Earth Manipulation and Life Detection until you waste all your MP, then you will take a nap and repeat it]
(Why Life detection, shouldn't I just focus in Earth Manipulation?)
[Your foes will not always fight face to face]
... I haven't thought of that.
[The remaining time I will teach you otherworldly knowledge, and I hope you answer some of my questions about this world]
(Of course, but have in mind that all I know comes from travelers and merchants)
[That will be enough]
"Shall we start with the muscle building exercises?"
[Something will appear in front of you, don't get too surprised]
?
"Wha"
In front of me stood a white humanoid figure without face.
[This is a projection of a dummy I created with the help of the book of appraisal, it will show you the right way to exercise]
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-First week of training-
One night I asked Maria...
(Who is the ruler in your world?)
[There were 195 countries in my world, and the big majority chooses their rulers with votes from the common people]
"From commoners!?"
-Second week of training-
Maria asked me...
[How many cultivation ranks exist in this world?]
(Bronze, silver, gold, jade and immortal. Only an emperor is capable of reaching the immortal rank)
[Each rank has 9 grades like in the cultivation novels?]
(Yes, they do)
[What rank is a city lord?]
(Between gold and jade, the lord in this city is jade ranked)
[How do you know that?]
(Cultivators practically yell such things whenever they show up, so it is common knowledge)
-Third week of training-
(What would the most destructive weapon of your world do?)
[Last time I google it, a Hydrogen Bomb could destroy a radius of 100 km]
(100 KM !??)
-Fourth week of training-
[Is there some kind of tournament event in the city?]
(There is one every first day of the year)
[And when is the next one?]
(In three months)
[We should go there, we need information about their fighting methods]
(I think our food supplies will hold out)
-Five weeks of training-
(How many years did your people live?)
[About 100 years, and the yours?]
(Commoners usually live until 50 and the cultivators...)
[It depends on their cultivation rank, right?]
-Six weeks of training-
Upon reaching Earth Manipulation level six, I started to be capable of covering all my body with the reinforce.
"Earth Manipulation"
[15 MP CONSUMED]
The MP consumed was always 15 for full strength and 3 for light effort
"Life Detection"
[10 MP CONSUMED]
In the level five this skill can reach 400 meters for 10 MP and 40 meters for one MP.
-Seven weeks of training-
[How many emperors there were in the history of this world?]
(The current emperor Zhang Wei ascended 1034 years ago and the last emperor lived 2340 years in power that is all I am certain, but there were some others)
[So there were at least 5000 years of civilization]
-Eight weeks of training-
Maria started teaching me how to read and write using her projection ability.
[There are twenty six letters in the alphabet...]
-Nine weeks of training-
(How do you remember all these things?)
[The Book of Appraisal grants me access to all of my memories, I could even tell you stuff that I only saw once]
(Unbelievable)
[It too increases your memory, the fact that you learned how to read in a week is enough proof]
-Ten weeks of training-
Maria started to teach me arithmetic.
[The four operations are addition, subtraction, multiplication and division...]
-Eleven weeks of training-
One afternoon while I was training Life Detection, a notification appeared.
[SKILL MANA HANDLING AWAKENED]
"Mana handling?"
[Looks like your abusive use of mana awakened a skill]
"What can it do?"
[It decreases the necessary MP to use skills]
"Should I say Mana Handling every time?"
[No this skill is always active and gains experience when using other skills]
...one night of that week.
[Tell me about how the days and months are called here]
(The days are called Spirit day, Iron day, Bronze day, Silver day, Golden day, Jade day and Emperor day)
[They are seven here too]
(And the months are called Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig)
[...The Chinese zodiac]
-Twelve weeks of training-
The subject today is biology... so that is what a cell is.
-Thirteen weeks of training-
[What is the currency of this world?]
(Spirit coins, with 10 coins you could buy a bag of rice)
[How many coins do you need to witness the tournament?]
(About 100 spirit coins)
[How many coins do you have?]
(I was saving to buy another horse, so I have about 500 spirit coins in the house)
-Fourteen weeks of training-
(Maria did you ever get married?)
[...in my thirty years of life I never really wanted to have a partner]
(...)
[I forced myself to have a boyfriend once, but I couldn't feel a thing and ended up hurting him.]
(...)
[After that, I only lived for myself]
-Fifteen weeks of training-
Finally, my Earth manipulation reached its highest level.
"Earth Manipulation"
Thanks to Mana Handling Lv. 3 now reinforcing my body costs 0 MP, technically it was 0.3 MP but it was close enough.
[Try focusing on converting the soil in your arm into stone]
?
[Just do it]
I focus...
(Turn into stone)
[100 MP CONSUMED]
Wow, my arm feels the weight of stone.
[Now you can transmute the Earth into what you want it to be, but be careful it will consume a vast quantity of MP]
This is great, but my arm cant move like this.
[Now we only need to wait the new year's tournament, in the remaining time train the Animal Whisperer and Life Detection skills]
-Sixteen weeks of training-
Ending my last breakfast here, I put on my city clothes and grab my luggage. Inside the bag there is a transmutation made medical kit, a transmutation made plastic water bottle and 510 coins.
"Ziyun, Xue"
I stand in front of the graves of my loved ones.
"I will go deeper into the Heavenly Phoenix City"
I really don't want to leave.
"And I will not come back..."
But this is the only way.
"Not until I have fulfilled my promise"
[...]
"So wait for me"
I get on my horse, the only living being left in the village, and left.
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-Linjian Lv. 10-
HP 100%
MP 0999/1000
Stamina 120/110(+10)
Brawn 14(+6)
Awareness 10(+1)
Endurance 7(+6)
Resistance 5
SKILLS
Book of Appraisal
Earth Manipulation Lv. Max
Animal Whisperer Lv. 2
Life Detection Lv. Max
Mana Handling Lv. 4
OTHER
Trained body (Stamina + 10, Brawn and Endurance + 5)
Under clothes Earth reinforce (Awareness, Brawn and Endurance + 1)
Reincarnation of Maria Campbell (MP 10000%)
26 years old
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