I Can Strengthen Infinitely-Chapter 188 - 153: Complete Version of the Nourishing Vitality Technique
The Copper Toad officer’s badge is something only the Copper Toad officers in the Seven Star Monitor could possess. As a fourth-grade officer in the court, the value of the Copper Toad officer’s badge is incredibly high.
Owning this badge means that, regardless of which state, prefecture, city, or county is reached, it will be given significant attention by local administrators, and allows one to mobilize all the imperial troops and local resources there.
This was exactly how Zuo Zonghao had Xun Sheng provide all resources to set up the ’Zhong Gong Tiger-Slaying Array’ previously.
It can be said that the status of a Copper Toad officer is tremendous, and seeing the badge is akin to seeing the person. Now, Qin Yuesheng actually took out a Copper Toad officer’s badge to pawn, which naturally left Xu Chang with no room to refuse.
This is because Copper Toad officers inherently have the right to freely mobilize the Seven Star Monitor’s resources.
"Is this good enough?" Qin Yuesheng asked.
"Ye-Yes, Lord Qin, I will go ahead and accept this," Xu Chang cautiously put away the Copper Toad officer’s badge, while handing over the whole sack of items to Qin Yuesheng.
Reaching out to take it, Qin Yuesheng expressed his thanks and promptly left the pawnshop.
Watching Qin Yuesheng’s departing figure, Xu Chang couldn’t help but be puzzled, thinking to himself, "Strange, why does Lord Qin have a Copper Toad officer’s badge? Could it be he’s already been promoted to Copper Toad officer? How is this possible? His age is still so young; none of the Copper Toad officers in Chang’an got to that position before their thirties or forties."
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Returning to Qin Mansion, everything was as peaceful as usual. Qin Yuesheng directly went back to his room and prepared to start consuming his ’dinner’ for the night.
Xu Chang was indeed kind-hearted; the bag was stuffed full of items, including many herbs Qin Yuesheng had seen at his own herb shop, along with various shaped bottles and jars containing pills.
Without hesitation, he grabbed one bottle, pulled out the stopper, and poured its contents into his mouth.
Three pills down.
All-Purpose Essence +800
Picking up a plump, white ginseng, he took a big bite.
The taste was indescribable.
All-Purpose Essence +50
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After about an incense stick’s worth of time, Qin Yuesheng had finally finished off the bag’s contents completely, not leaving a single trace.
The ’Super Assist Device’ showed a total gain of 9800 points of All-Purpose Essence from this one-time consumption.
Qin Yuesheng immediately used these to upgrade the ’theft’ skill, quickly spending 2500 points of All-Purpose Essence to elevate this skill to a state of perfect mastery.
Theft (Perfect Mastery)
Passive ①: [Silent as a Whisper] +10% theft success rate 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶
Passive ②: [Nothing Left Behind] +10% undetected rate
Passive ③: [Ghostly Invisible] +20% theft success rate, +20% undetected rate
Passive ④: [Divine Unknown] +40% theft success rate, +40% undetected rate, +40% speed in act
Having reached the perfect mastery realm in theft, its success rate now totaled an impressive 70%, with an equally impressive 70% undetected chance, while the +40% speed effect further empowered the skill, increasing its power immensely.
Qin Yuesheng believed that with his prowess, he could pretty much reach a level where no object was beyond theft.
Then, spending another 2000 points of All-Purpose Essence, he upgraded the Nurturing Vitality Skill to perfect mastery as well.
[Residual] Nurturing Vitality Skill (Perfect Mastery)
Passive ①: [Rotation of the Great Zhou] +30% breath regulation speed
Passive ②: [Breath Adjustment and Qi Return] +20% breath regulation speed, refining each breath to store a strand of True Qi in the Dantian.
Passive ③: [Spiritual Qi Perception] +20% absorption speed of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi
Passive ④: [Inner Core Condensation] in forty-nine days, internal power can form a core.
"Oh?" Qin Yuesheng was taken aback. After reaching perfect mastery in Nurturing Vitality Skill, the attribute-less addition of Inner Core Condensation was certainly surprising.
In the path of a Martial Artist, internal strength is stored in the Dantian, and as the ten major Qi points are broken through, the capacity of internal strength within the Dantian keeps expanding, until one hand can shake rivers, fragment mountains, and split stones.
Yet Qin Yuesheng had never heard of internal strength forming a core.
Nurturing Vitality Skill, being something from the West Qi Mountain Temple, could it have a connection to internal force techniques?
With 5300 points of All-Purpose Essence remaining, Qin Yuesheng tried enhancing Nurturing Vitality Skill.
[Nurturing Vitality Skill belongs to residual type, would you like to spend 4000 points of All-Purpose Essence for enhancement (completion)?]
"So expensive!" Qin Yuesheng was shocked. Just what sort of origin did this Nurturing Vitality Skill taken from Daoist Qingfeng have, to require 4000 points of All-Purpose Essence to complete its enhancement?
The saying goes ’you get what you pay for,’ so Qin Yuesheng unhesitatingly chose to enhance it.
[Enhancement (completion) successful, (Residual) Nurturing Vitality Skill → Primordial Yang Skill]
Primordial Yang Skill (Primordial Qi) (0/2000)
Primordial Yang is kidney yang, also called true yang, true fire, the fire of the life gate, innate fire, which is the driving force of physiological functions and the source of human life vitality.
With vigorous Primordial Yang, a person will be immune to all evils, fearless of any taboo, with spirits and demons not daring to approach, while the body, like a great sun, disperses yin evils and sweeps away sinister forces wherever it goes.
The complete version of Nurturing Vitality Skill, once cultivated, continuously enhances one’s own Primordial Yang cultivation method, while Nurturing Vitality Skill merely inherits the breathing regulation part of Primordial Yang Skill.
Comprehending the efficacy of Primordial Yang Skill, Qin Yuesheng instantly shouted in delight, as having this Cultivation Technique meant he could easily suppress sly spirits, ghostly anomalies, and the Ghost Race without doing anything.
The 4000 points of All-Purpose Essence were well spent.
Qin Yuesheng immediately felt, besides his original Profound Celestial Internal Power within the Dantian, the True Qi gained from the previous cultivation of Nurturing Vitality Skill had completely transformed at this moment, becoming warm and gentle.
This was the symbol of entering the Primordial Yang Skill realm, Primordial Qi.
For the sly spirits and ghostly anomalies, this Primordial Qi was like high temperatures to ice, counteracting them with immense power.
