I Can Upgrade My Talent Infinitely-Chapter 53: New Talent Points
"Turtle Immortal? Senior Sister Wang, what are you talking about?"
Hearing Wang Yourong call him that, Fang Yun was a little confused at first.
As Fang Yun was pondering, Wang Yourong was quick to explain.
"Junior Brother Fang, haven’t you been going to Battle Peak for Magical Combat sparring recently? I heard that no disciple in the same Realm can break through your defenses, not even those at the Qi Refining Sixth Layer."
"So that’s how I got that nickname..." Fang Yun pointed to himself.
"That’s right."
Fang Yun was a bit speechless.
He had only been to Battle Peak twice and participated in five Magical Combat spars. How did he already have a nickname?
That was incredibly fast.
Speechless as he was, Fang Yun didn’t mind the nickname at all. In fact, it would be even better for spreading his reputation.
’It’s probably somewhat related to this nickname, but most of it should still be from my talent in Alchemy and Artifact Refining.’
After all, he had only shown his face at Battle Peak twice.
"Has Senior Sister Wang been to Battle Peak for Magical Combat sparring recently, too?" Fang Yun asked curiously.
"No. I went once before, when I was still at the Qi Refining Fifth Layer, and had one Magical Combat spar. The only other time I’d go to Battle Peak would be for the Inner Sect tournament." Wang Yourong shook her head.
Compared to Magical Combat sparring, she preferred working here.
"Then how did you find out, Senior Sister?"
He had no memory of ever being called that.
This meant one thing: the news of his nickname hadn’t spread very far, at least.
"I heard it from Jiang Yan," Wang Yourong replied.
"So it was Brother Jiang."
Fang Yun recalled Jiang Yan’s roguish demeanor and his relationship with Wu Junxin.
’Jiang Yan must have heard this from Wu Junxin. Then, when he came to the Dan Cloud Pavilion and ran into Wang Yourong, he couldn’t help but blurt it out.’
’He probably told her while asking Senior Sister Wang for a task.’
At that moment, Fang Yun could already picture the scene in his mind.
"I never would have guessed you had such a powerful side to you, Junior Brother. Even disciples at the Qi Refining Sixth Layer can’t break your defense."
"It’s nothing much. I just refined a few Magical Artifacts that suit me, and the final effect turned out to be pretty good."
"Junior Brother, your Artifact Refining talent is nearly on par with your Alchemy Talent." Wang Yourong acknowledged Fang Yun’s skill in Artifact Refining. For an Artifact Refiner with such talent, it wasn’t difficult to refine Magical Artifacts suited for oneself.
And given an Artifact Refiner’s familiarity with the Magical Artifacts they themselves refine, the difficulty of using them would be very low.
When it came to the topic of talent, Fang Yun let Wang Yourong say whatever she pleased.
People always liked to compare his Alchemy and Artifact Refining talents, and by now, he was completely used to it.
Soon, he brought the conversation back to the nickname from Battle Peak.
"This ’Turtle Immortal’ nickname... I wonder which senior brother or sister came up with it?"
"Who knows... It might have even been a junior brother or sister. Don’t you like the nickname, Junior Brother Fang?"
"It’s just so-so, I guess."
"Just ’Turtle’ would be lame, but yours is ’Turtle Immortal,’ Junior Brother. It has ’Immortal’ in it! That’s enough to show the respect of the junior brother or sister who came up with it. I think it’s a great nickname."
"Hahaha, now that you put it that way, Senior Sister, it does sound pretty decent."
After chatting a bit more with Wang Yourong, Fang Yun placed eight medium-sized porcelain vials on the table.
Each vial contained ten Cyan Jade Pills.
"Sixty Lower Grade Cyan Jade Pills and twenty Middle Grade Cyan Jade Pills. Please count them, Senior Sister."
"Alright."
Wang Yourong was long past being surprised by these Cyan Jade Pills. Following procedure, she quickly began to count them.
A Lower Grade Cyan Jade Pill was worth three lower-grade Spirit Stones, and a Middle Grade one was worth six. The Dan Cloud Pavilion’s purchase price was ninety percent of the normal price.
"The Lower Grade Cyan Jade Pills come to a total of one hundred sixty-two lower-grade Spirit Stones, and the Middle Grade Cyan Jade Pills are one hundred eight lower-grade Spirit Stones."
"That’s a total of two hundred seventy lower-grade Spirit Stones!"
With the lower-grade Spirit Stones he just received from selling the Cyan Jade Pills, Fang Yun now had over three hundred.
But he couldn’t use all of them, as one hundred of those lower-grade Spirit Stones belonged to Song Qiaoqiao.
After completing the transaction and saying his goodbyes, Fang Yun left the Dan Cloud Pavilion while Wang Yourong was recording the details.
Fang Yun was no longer wearing the Light Spirit Shoes, but a pair of Light Silk Boots.
The Light Silk Boots were a Middle Grade Magical Artifact. Their main Spiritual Material was middle-grade Light Silk. Not wanting to overthink the naming process, Fang Yun simply named his refined Magical Artifacts after their main material.
Under the effects of his one-star Shoe Talent, the Light Silk Boots consumed nearly forty percent less Spiritual Power during normal travel, and most importantly, they increased his speed.
With the speed boost, the time he saved on travel was still very satisfying to Fang Yun, even if it wasn’t as significant as the first time he’d saved time.
That’s just how saving travel time worked: the initial speed boosts were always the most effective.
If an initial speed increase saved two-thirds of the travel time, then even if you could later teleport instantly, you’d only save the remaining one-third of the original time.
「After returning to his residence from Dan Cloud Peak.」
Fang Yun first restored his Spiritual Power. Once it was fully recovered, he took an Upper Grade Cyan Jade Pill and began his Cultivation.
After refining and absorbing two Upper Grade Cyan Jade Pills, he began flipping through a book on Artifact Refining, waiting for the settlement to arrive.
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Defeated Qi Refining Fifth Layer Cultivator x2: +12 Talent Points.
Defeated Qi Refining Sixth Layer Cultivator x2: +15 Talent Points.
Defeated Qi Refining and Body Refining Fifth Layer Cultivator x1: +12 Talent Points.
Detailed Reading · Artifact Refining: +45 Talent Points.
Refined Lower Grade Magical Artifact · Profound Iron Shield x3: +65 Talent Points.
Refined Middle Grade Magical Artifact · Profound Iron Shield x1: +58 Talent Points.
Refined Lower Grade Magical Artifact · Light Silk Boots x3 (pairs): +61 Talent Points.
Refined Middle Grade Magical Artifact · Light Silk Boots x1 (pair): +54 Talent Points.
Refined Lower Grade Cyan Jade Pill x66: +198 Talent Points.
Refined Middle Grade Cyan Jade Pill x22: +99 Talent Points.
Refined Upper Grade Cyan Jade Pill x44: +264 Talent Points.
Perfect Tilling x6 (times): +36 Talent Points.
Perfect Rain-Making x36 (times): +108 Talent Points.
Perfect Pest Removal x43 (times): +129 Talent Points.
Perfect Weeding x3 (times): +9 Talent Points.
Standard Weeding x58 (times): +58 Talent Points.
Affiliated Faction: [Celestial Cloud Sect]
Sect Level: 3
Sect Position: Outer Sect Disciple +20%
Sect Influence: 9%
Regional Influence: [Not Unlocked]
Talent Points Bonus: 87%
Settlement: +2288 Talent Points.
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When the settlement arrived, Fang Yun closed his book.
This month’s settlement had new sources of Talent Points compared to previous ones.
He could now gain Talent Points by defeating opponents.
The Talent Points gained from defeating someone weren’t many, but killing them was a different story.
You could get a lot of Talent Points for a kill!
This was mainly because the design of "So-Called Pay-to-Win" encouraged conflict.
How could players be expected to spend money if they didn’t fight? How could they get powerful without spending money? And how could they enjoy the thrill of killing without being powerful?
The developers’ design philosophy was, one might say, "full of painstaking effort."
Every time you died, you would lose some of your Cultivation. If you didn’t want to lose Cultivation, you could buy a Cultivation-preserving Protection Scroll. The price of these Protection Scrolls varied for each Realm.
