Chapter 19: Going to Qingfeng City

Liang Yi felt amazed as he sensed the changes in the realm of his cultivation technique.

In the game, be it cultivation techniques or skills, it was completely a state of "knowing what happens without knowing why". You could use it but could never explain how it was used.

But now it was different, Liang Yi realized that he had truly mastered the principles behind the operation of the cultivation technique, which was a fulfilling and satisfying experience.

In "Mystical Mechanism," there is no setting for mana value; the amount of mana completely depends on your cultivation technique, and during combat, one needs to gauge the remaining mana within themselves. Each cultivation technique corresponds to different directions, and comes with its own unique traits.

For example, the inherited cultivation technique of the Complete Heaven Sect, their skills mostly utilize the Power of the Stars, hence the stronger the sensitivity, the faster and more powerful the spellcasting.

But his own "Boundless Dao" was somewhat elusive to Liang Yi.

Firstly, after carefully investigating his Dantian, Liang Yi discovered that his mana value was at least ten times that of his previous life's orange skill at level one.

This discovery nearly made Liang Yi jump up in shock; he knew golden skills were powerful, but such overwhelmingly powerful techniques actually existed, no wonder the peak individuals from his previous life were True Inheritors of Super Forces.

Liang Yi touched his head, only able to exclaim a series of sixes.

However, whether it was just his own special cultivation technique or all golden skills were like this, Liang Yi was not yet clear. Because his attention was fully captured by the second characteristic.

In game terminology, it would be explained as

[Boundless Dao]: Any action on oneself that consumes experience will have the consumption reduced by ten percent.

That means, whether it is leveling up, upgrading cultivation techniques, or gaining experience, it all only requires ninety percent. Moreover, this effect can be upgraded! For every two levels ascended, the experience consumption will be further reduced by ten percent.

Once ascended to the ninth level, it will reduce the consumption by fifty percent!!

"Turtle turtle! This is too strong!" Liang Yi muttered with a vacant stare.

He had a system panel, so it showed as a reduction in experience consumption. For his master and junior sister, it would probably manifest as an increase in the speed of breaking through barriers and the speed of understanding Daoist Skills.

This effect was indeed very useful. Especially in later stages, leveling up would require tens of millions or even billions of experience, not to mention needing to upgrade cultivation techniques and various skills. Thus, late in the game, players need to come up with all sorts of methods to obtain experience, as having experience is necessary to continue growing.

Once he had enough experience, Liang Yi decided to prioritize upgrading the cultivation technique to strive for reaching the highest level sooner.

After handling the cultivation technique, Liang Yi checked his skills and level, finding that he was still lacking a substantial amount of experience, so he decided not to worry about those two for now. He prepared to experiment with the practicing function of the cultivation technique.

In the game, practicing a cultivation technique meant finding a quiet and safe place to hang the system, where every minute and every second would earn experience, allowing players to deal with real-world matters without wasting game time.

Now, Liang Yi experimented with it, and while practicing, he still gained experience; however, it felt a bit like being half-asleep, half-awake, soaked in a warm spring, extremely relaxing and exceptionally comfortable.

"No wonder those cultivation experts love to go into seclusion for months or years at a time; if it were me, I guess I would do the same." Liang Yi kind of fell in love with this practice mode.

He glanced at the panel, which popped up a prompt every minute:

[Player practiced and gained experience: +60]

"Sixty points per minute?" Liang Yi thought to himself silently. This was the effect of having an intellect of 10 points. For normal players, the highest intellect would only be 5. Through some extremely rare quests or items, intellect and charm could be increased. Luck was fixed, after all, even if everyone starts at one point, a lucky player remains lucky, and an unlucky one stays unlucky.

In his previous life, Liang Yi's character had an intellect of 6 points, earning 36 points per minute, which was far less than now. He roughly estimated that if he replaced sleep with four hours of practice at night, he could earn 28,800 points of experience in one day.

"Very nice, every little bit adds up." Liang Yi was quite satisfied with this and began to focus on his cultivation.

The next morning.

Liang Yi woke up from his cultivation and glanced at the sky; it was about time to leave.

After quickly cleaning himself up with mana, Liang Yi went downstairs and bought some breakfast. He knocked on the next door only to find no response.

Upon sensing carefully, he discovered that his junior sister was still in the room, so he knocked harder on the door.

"Coming, coming~" A blurry and slightly lazy voice came from inside, sounding like she had just woken up.

After a while, a refreshed Su Youyi opened the door and saw her senior brother holding breakfast at the doorway.

Liang Yi handed the breakfast to Su Youyi and said, "Just some fried dough sticks and soy milk, is that okay?"

"Of course! I love soy milk the most!" Su Youyi grinned as she took it, not really because she liked soy milk, but because her senior brother bought it especially for her.

After Liang Yi and his junior sister checked out of the room, they took advantage of the quiet early morning and headed towards the suburban area under the rising sun.

Su Youyi, who finished her breakfast on the road, was now replenishing her daily sweetness—girls need to be sweet every day after all.

"You know how to operate the Floating Cloud Ship, right?" Liang Yi looked at his junior sister and asked with some concern.

"Absolutely." Su Youyi, munching happily, patted her chest in response.

Getting the cotton-like object out of her ring, Su Youyi tossed it into the air, and a magical thing happened.

The cotton, originally the size of a fist, began to expand the moment it was thrown, and when it landed, it had lived up to its name: Floating Cloud Ship—just like a real cloud ship.

Curiously, Liang Yi followed his junior sister onto the ship and amidst the envious gazes of passersby nearby, the ship slowly ascended into the sky.

Watching his junior sister standing at the bow, facing away from him, her skirt billowing in the gusting wind yet her posture still stout, Liang Yi was slightly hallucinating. It was as if he saw the future undefeated figure who would replace their master to become the world's number one, battling the world alone.

Liang Yi smiled and said: "What are you dazing at, planning to let your senior brother get a good look at your dashing figure?"

Su Youyi turned around, her eyes teary, and cried in a sobbing tone:

"Senior brother! I'm scared of heights and get seasick, my legs are too weak to move! o(╥﹏╥)o"

Liang Yi: "Σ(ŎдŎ|||)ﾉﾉ!"

Taking control of the Floating Cloud Ship from Su Youyi, he directed it towards Qingfeng City in the southeast.

Liang Yi sat on the deck of the ship, looking at Su Youyi who snuggled into his arms and would not come out, his face a bit helpless.

Su Youyi's face was pale; with closed eyes, her brows tightly furrowed, her hands clutching Liang Yi's clothes.

"A cultivator at the peak of the Third Realm yet getting seasick and afraid of heights?" Liang Yi said with amusement.

"It's the aftereffects from childhood. You must have forgotten, senior brother; otherwise, you definitely would have held my hand before boarding," Su Youyi said in a soft and aggrieved voice.

"Alright, alright, it's all senior brother's fault. Here, have this plum candy."

What else could Liang Yi do? Such a cute junior sister, of course, should be cherished. He peeled the plum candy and put it into Su Youyi's mouth, attempting to ease the seasickness with the sourness, while his right hand worked mana in a clockwise motion on her abdomen.

The seasickness was due to the initial turbulence upon ascent combined with Su Youyi's psychological effects. Now under Liang Yi's operation, the ship traveled steadily with almost no shaking.

"Maintain this condition, and junior sister's seasick condition will ease soon. As for the fear of heights, just lead her back to the ship's main hall later," Liang Yi thought, his gaze unfocused, not noticing the hidden smile on Su Youyi's lips as she nestled against his chest.