Limits

Will celebrated in his heart as he read the message of the system.

With low grade spirit root, it would take him at least three years to reach the Body Adapting realm if he dedicated all his time in cultivation and that could be reduced with pills and elixirs.

From Body Adapting to Core Condensing realm, someone with low-grade spirit root would take about fifteen years even with pills and elixirs.

As for the Nascent Soul realm, two hundred years would not be enough to reach it. 

For a Core Condensing cultivator that has an average of three hundred year life span, it would be unlikely to reach the Nascent Soul realm before their life ends.

Cultivating requires effort and time.

Pills and elixirs assist practitioners to achieve their goals but a huge sum of money was needed to purchase them.

Will with his Destiny points, could bypass all of these!

Using the Destiny points he earned, he could upgrade his cultivation directly!

Suppressing the surge of excitement in him, Will sat in the middle of the room.

"With my points, I could directly reach the Seventh Level Qi Sensing realm."

"Hmm…"

Looking at his still broken right arm, Will thought about something.

"System, can you heal my right arm using Destiny Points?"

'I should understand the limits of what Destiny points can upgrade or change.'

Up until now, he experienced two instances where the Destiny points can be used except in the store.

First was repairing his damaged spirit root for 10,000 destiny points.

Second was upgrading his spirit root from low-grade to mid-grade for 300 destiny points.

If he included upgrading his cultivation, that would total to three cases.

Will needed to know how far he can use his Destiny points.

The system finally responded.

[ Healing 'broken right arm' costs 100 Destiny points. ]

"Oh! It really can."

"Well, I really need this arm to heal so that I can move without any restrictions."

"System, heal my broken right arm."

[ Heal 'broken right arm' for 100 Destiny points? ]

"Yes." 

After his confirmation, Will felt a soothing sensation in his right arm.

It only took a few moments before his arm finally healed.

He took off the frame on his arm and stretched it.

"Good."

"If I have enough points, healing myself would be a breeze."

Will turned to the panel and saw that his destiny point was now only 1,100.

[ Will Sundersky - First Level Qi Sensing ]

[ Spirit root - Mid

Sword Aptitude - Advanced

Qi Cultivation - Harmonious Cloud Cultivation Technique

Body Cultivation - Bronze Skin Sutra

Techniques - Seven Divinity Sword, Sky Streaming Sword, Bursting Silent Sword, Chasing Wind Steps

Destiny Points - 1,100

Destiny Store ]

"System, can you upgrade the Harmonious Cloud Cultivation Technique?"

Will thought if he could increase the grade of his cultivation technique from rare-grade to spirit-grade.

Although it would be useless because he can upgrade his cultivation directly, he would still know the limit of the destiny points.

[ Upgrading 'Harmonious Cloud Cultivation Technique' rare-grade to spirit grade costs 1,000 destiny points. ]

Will nodded in satisfaction..

"So it can also upgrade the techniques I know."

"But I don't know about the techniques I don't know. I'll just try it later."

"System, can you upgrade the Bronze Skin Sutra?"

[ Upgrading 'Bronze Skin Sutra' rare-grade to spirit grade costs 1,000 destiny points. ]

[ Upgrading 'Sky Streaming Sword' rare-grade to spirit grade costs 1,500 destiny points. ]

[ Upgrading 'Bursting Silent Sword' rare-grade to spirit grade costs 1,200 destiny points. ]

[ Upgrading 'Chasing Wind Steps ' rare-grade to spirit grade costs 1,200 destiny points. ]

[ Upgrading host's Spirit Root from 'Mid-grade' to 'High-grade' costs 1,000 Destiny Points. ]

"System, can you cleanse my marrows?"

[ Cleansing host's marrows costs 10,000 destiny points. ]

After asking the system questions one after another, Will had a clear idea of the limits of the Destiny points.

First, it can change anything on his panel as long as he has points and his target of change was not at its limit.

For example, his sword aptitude could still be upgraded but costs a lot of destiny points.

[ Upgrading host's Sword Aptitude from 'Advanced-grade' to 'Superior-grade' costs 6,000 Destiny Points. ]

On the other hand, the Seven Sword Divinity cannot be upgraded anymore.

[ Upgrading 'Seven Sword Divinity' is unavailable. Technique reached its limit. ]

Second, it cannot upgrade techniques that he has not learned.

Lastly, he cannot use the destiny points to interfere with other's destiny.

For example, he could not upgrade Layla's roots or Lucas' sword aptitude.

On the bright side, he can still interfere in their life and earn destiny points from them.

"For now, I need to upgrade my cultivation."

After requesting the system to upgrade his cultivation, Will's destiny points turned to 100 and he immediately felt his cultivation increasing after every passing second.

Second level Qi Sensing…

Third level Qi Sensing…

Fourth level Qi Sensing…

Fifth level Qi Sensing…

Sixth level Qi Sensing…

"Hoooh.."

Will exhaled deeply after only an hour.

"Sixth Level Qi Sensing realm."

He stood up and went to meet Lucas, however he was cultivating so he didn't disturb him.

At the gate of the mansion, he found that Alfred, the one who handles finances for the Baron, was entertaining the citizens that were selling their blue line grass.

Alfred was a middle aged man that served Baron Wilhelm from the moment he was granted a title.

If it was other people, they would have already ran away seeing the continuous decline of the Sundersky Barony.

However, he dedicated his life to the person who saved his life, Baron Wilhelm.

Seeing the silver coins disappear into the hands of the citizens in exchange of a random grass from the side of the streets, Alfred's heart ached.

The household's remaining fund was only about five hundred gold coins or about fifty thousand silver coins.

With the exchange of one gold coin for one hundred silvers, the family could buy ten kilograms of blue line grass for one gold coin.

Alfred was still very confused about the decision of Silva and Will about buying 'blue line grass' in bulk for a huge amount of money.

However, he was convinced when she explained that this grass could produce a spirit grade essence and could generate them a tremendous amount of money.

When he saw the Azure Teardrop, Alfred was actually ecstatic!

After calculating the costs needed to produce a single drop of Azure Teardrop, Alfred set the budget for the blue line grass for forty thousand silver coins.

This could buy them 4 tons of blue line grass or 400 Azure Teardrops.

Alfred saw Will walking towards the stall.

He noticed the healed right arm of his Young Master.

"Young Master. Your arm is healed." Alfred spoke with a hint of joy.

Will only nodded and approached the stall, he asked. "How's the purchase?" 

The citizens in line and Alfred greeted him. 

"It's going fine, Young Master. I've purchased two hundred kilograms already." Alfred said with pride and pointed at the crates at the side of the mansion.

He realized that Will didn't want to talk about his arm so he didn't pursue the matter at the moment.

Will nodded and said, "Good job. Open the stall until before dark."

"I understand." 

…

Will trained his sword at the training hall with Rasha, who was in disbelief to discover that he was already at the Sixth Level Qi Sensing realm.

He was also shocked to see Will's healed right arm.

Rasha wanted to ask about it first thing but Will waved his hands signaling he didn't want to talk about it.

"I want to train with you, Sir Rasha."

"Training? Sure." Rasha replied and walked to the platform with Will.

Drawing his sword, Will spoke with a smile.

"I had some insights on the sword in the past few days."

"Really?" Rasha asked. "Come on then. Show me."

Will took his stance but stayed in his position.

He swung his sword forward and a wave attack quickly approached Rasha's direction.

Swoosh!

Rasha smiled and flicked his sword lightly, deflecting the attack.

"A good attack but still lacked power," he commented.

"Then how about this!?" Will shouted and swung his sword a couple more times, delivering a wave of attacks more powerful than the first attack, towards Rasha.

However, all of them were deflected by Rasha with ease.

Will clicked his tongue.

He kicked the ground and rushed towards Rasha with the intent to clash sword directly with him.

And clash of swords they did.

Will, with his experience in swords, confronted Rasha.

In order to gauge the extent of his current prowess, he gave it his all.

He swung his sword one after the other, giving no time for Rasha to attack.

However, Rasha didn't intend to attack immediately. He let Will deliver his attacks to feel his current strength.

'Not bad, no, it's actually really good. To have this kind of level of proficiency in sword, he could already be a Third Class Swordsman.'

Rasha thought as he parried and blocked every attack Will delivered to him.

The job ranks in the Great Stellar Continent were divided into several levels.

From lowest to highest will be Third Class, Second Class, First Class, Master, Grand Master, Saint and King.

Third Class swordsman meant that one had already grasped the way of the sword and was proficient in one common grade technique.

Second Class would mean someone who mastered at least two rare grade techniques.

First Class swordsmen were people who attained mastery of a spirit grade technique and grasped sword intent.

A Sword Master were those who had perfect mastery of an Earth grade technique, completely comprehended sword intent and reached at least the Nascent Soul in terms of cultivation.

Beyond that were Grand Masters, Saints and Kings.

In the Highwind Kingdom, only a handful of Sword Masters emerged and as for the Sword Grand Master, only the king reached that height.

Still it was not enough for them to survive the demonic beast wave from the Thousand Lone Mountains.

'I need to increase my strength further.' Will thought to himself as he slumped to the ground, exhausted after almost ten minutes of non stop clash with Rasha's sword.

He knew that in terms of strength and experience, Rasha was far ahead of him and this made him want to pursue strength even more.

'He's a Second Class swordsman and I still can't beat him. It was like hitting a hard tree.'

All this time, Will was the only one on offense and Rasha on defense.

However, despite being on the offensive side, he didn't land even a single attack on Rasha.

"That was exhausting. You're really amazing, Sir Rasha."

"I'm also surprised at how amazing you are, Young Master." Rasha offered his hand to Will.

"Really?" Will took his hand and stood up.

Rasha nodded. "You said you had some insights on the sword in the past few days, right? I have known you have an aptitude with the sword and the level you showed me right now tells me you have at least a high grade sword aptitude like Master Wilhelm."

"Is that so?"

"Yes. This is actually great. With enough training and battle experience, you could reach the height your father reached." Rasha could not hide his excitement anymore.

"What is the rank of my father?" Will asked with curiosity.

"Oh? Is your memory still not returning? Baron Wilhelm is a First Class Swordsman at the peak of the Core Condensing realm. If he reached the Nascent Soul realm, reaching the Sword Master level would be possible albeit with very much effort."

Will rubbed his chin.

'If my father reached the Sword Master level, I would have another protector beside me. But I don't remember someone from the Sundersky Household becoming a Sword Master so that only meant father failed in his breakthrough.'

'If he reached the Nascent Soul realm, many things would be easy for me. I guess I don't have any other choice but to help him.'

'When the Azure Teardrop enters the market, I could use the money to buy a Soul Transformation pill to assist in his advancement.'

"I hope his breakthrough is successful." Will spoke to Rasha, who was still hoping for the Baron's success.

"I know."

Seeing Rasha sheathing his sword, Will suddenly thought of something.

"Sir Rasha, the knight's techniques are all in rare grade, right?"

"Hmm? Yes, they are all rare grade techniques granted by the kingdom. Why do you ask?"

"What if I give you a spirit grade technique?" Will asked with a smile.