I Can Upgrade My Talent Infinitely-Chapter 80: June Has Arrived
It was the last day of April.
Night had fallen.
Having refined and absorbed two Upper Grade Cyan Jade Pills, Fang Yun was now flipping through a book, waiting for the monthly settlement to arrive.
’It’s here.’
Fang Yun opened the light screen.
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Defeated Qi Refining Seventh Layer Cultivators *3: Talent Points +36.
Studied Alchemy: Talent Points +69.
Studied Planting: Talent Points +47.
Refined Upper Grade Magical Artifacts: Yellow Iron Swords *2: Talent Points +366.
Refined Upper Grade Magical Artifact *1: Talent Points +168.
Refined Lower Grade Cyan Jade Pills *48: Talent Points +144.
Refined Middle Grade Cyan Jade Pills *16: Talent Points +72.
Refined Upper Grade Cyan Jade Pills *32: Talent Points +192.
Refined Lower Grade Qi Enhancement Pills *16: Talent Points +128.
Perfect Rainmaking *42: Talent Points +126.
Perfect Pest Removal *50: Talent Points +150.
Perfect Weeding *4: Talent Points +12.
Standard Weeding *61: Talent Points +61.
Affiliated Faction: [Celestial Cloud Sect]
Sect Level: 3
Sect Position: Outer Sect Disciple +20%
Sect Influence: 15%
Regional Influence: [Not Unlocked]
Talent Point Bonus: 105%
Total: Talent Points +3221.
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This month, he had only gone to Battle Peak once, where he completed three rounds of Magical Combat sparring with Inner Sect Disciples.
He had refined a total of four cauldrons of Qi Enhancement Pills.
The third cauldron yielded five Lower Grade Qi Enhancement Pills, while the fourth cauldron produced no Wasted Pills.
According to Fang Yun’s plan, he would refine more Qi Enhancement Pills after this break.
He was confident that his fifth attempt at refining Qi Enhancement Pills would yield a Middle Grade pill.
Refining Qi Enhancement Pills was different from refining Cyan Jade Pills or Qi Nourishing Pills. With the latter two, he had started producing Middle Grade pills before he managed to refine a batch with no Wasted Pills.
With Qi Enhancement Pills, however, he had first achieved a full batch with no Wasted Pills.
’One Lower Grade Qi Enhancement Pill provides eight Talent Points.’
As Fang Yun gazed at the light screen, he paid particular attention to the number of Talent Points provided by the Lower Grade Qi Enhancement Pills.
He then navigated to the Life Talent interface to draw new talents.
Last month, besides drawing three Combat Talents, he had also drawn four Life Talents.
This left him with 82 Talent Points.
This month, he could draw thirty-three times for a Life Talent.
With a single thought, Fang Yun’s remaining Talent Points dropped to 3.
A burst of thirty-three consecutive draws began for his Life Talents.
Artifact Refining Talent Fragments *13
Alchemy Talent Fragments *11
Planting Talent Fragments *9
As the thirty-three fragments were tallied, his Life Talents instantly updated:
Alchemy Talent ★★★ (17/120)
Artifact Refining Talent ★★★ (14/120)
Planting Talent ★★★ (11/120)
Fang Yun glanced at his updated Life Talents, then quickly closed the light screen.
’It’s still a long way off before my Life Talents get a Star Promotion, so there’s not much to look at.’
Once all his three-star Life Talents reached four stars, he would go back to drawing Combat Talents.
After all, upgrading a single four-star Life Talent to five stars required seven hundred twenty fragments.
But Fang Yun didn’t dwell on it. Rest and sleep were his priority.
His nineteenth birthday was in three days, and in his dreams, the celebration had already begun.
By his count, a year and seven months had passed since he became an Outer Sect Disciple of the Celestial Cloud Sect.
...
「The fourth day of the sixth month.」
Exactly one month had passed since Fang Yun celebrated his birthday.
A month ago, just as he had the year before, he had taken the young girl Huang Mengzhu to the Smoke Cloud Pavilion on Smoke Cloud Peak for a proper celebration.
Over the course of the previous year, he had seen the young girl seven times.
He had often stopped by to check on her whenever he was in the area.
Every time he saw her, she was a little taller. In another two or three years, the little girl would likely be a young woman.
As for her Cultivation, Huang Mengzhu was far more diligent than he’d expected. When he saw her last month, she had already reached the third layer of Qi Refining.
If she maintained this speed, she had a good chance of reaching the middle stage of Qi Refining by the time she was thirteen.
To that end, Fang Yun had given her some help.
In house number 88 of the Outer Sect’s C-block residential area.
Fang Yun had just finished refining and absorbing an Upper Grade Cyan Jade Pill.
’I still have twenty-four Upper Grade Cyan Jade Pills left. At my current state, I’ll only need to consume six more at most to reach the peak of the Qi Refining Sixth Layer...’
His cultivation session over, Fang Yun checked the number of Upper Grade Cyan Jade Pills left in his Storage Pouch.
Things were progressing about as he had expected. He would be able to reach the peak of the Qi Refining Sixth Layer around the tenth of the sixth month.
Fang Yun left his residence and headed for the Disciple Marketplace.
His purpose for visiting the Disciple Marketplace this time was twofold: first, to buy some supplementary materials for Artifact Refining, and second, to see if any Tier One, Middle Grade Clover was for sale.
To date, he had only refined ten cauldrons of Qi Enhancement Pills.
He still had one set of ingredients for another batch, but because he was missing Clover, he had been unable to begin the refining process.
His fifth batch of Qi Enhancement Pills hadn’t gone as well as he’d hoped at the start of the month. It hadn’t produced any Middle Grade pills; just like the fourth batch, it yielded only six Lower Grade Qi Enhancement Pills.
It wasn’t until his sixth batch that he finally managed to produce a single Middle Grade Qi Enhancement Pill.
The final four batches each resulted in three Middle Grade and three Lower Grade Qi Enhancement Pills.
He hadn’t spent much time on Alchemy last month, so he had taken on some jobs refining Upper Grade Magical Artifacts. This not only increased his Talent Point settlement but also gave him more Artifact Refining experience and earned him Spirit Stones.
By now, however, he was gaining very little experience from refining Upper Grade Magical Artifacts.
The best time to gain Artifact Refining experience had been when he first started. His three-star Artifact Refining Talent had vastly increased the efficiency of his gains, which in turn led to his current predicament of diminishing returns.
Even though he was still only at the Qi Refining Sixth Layer, Fang Yun was already somewhat confident that he could refine a Spiritual Artifact.
However, for a Cultivator at his level, gathering the materials to refine a Spiritual Artifact was extremely difficult.
’I’ll see what the situation is like after I become an Inner Sect Disciple of the Celestial Cloud Sect.’
「Disciple Marketplace.」
This time, he finally found some Clover for sale.
"Senior Sister, I’ll take one stalk of this low-grade Clover."
"Just one stalk?"
The stall’s owner, a senior disciple, was taken aback. Of course she knew of this Junior Brother Fang.
This junior brother always bought Spirit Medicines in bulk—often ten stalks or more at a time. Yet here he was, in their first-ever transaction, asking for just a single one.
"Three Lower Grade Spirit Stones plus eight jin of Clear Water Rice."
"Alright."
Since he was only buying a single stalk, Fang Yun felt it would be inappropriate to haggle.
Fang Yun didn’t have much Clear Water Rice on him, so he took out four Lower Grade Spirit Stones instead. In return, he received one stalk of Clover and two jin of Clear Water Rice in change.
’Now I can finally start on the eleventh batch of Qi Enhancement Pills.’
If he hadn’t found any Clover at the Disciple Marketplace today, Fang Yun would have gone to the Artifact Casting Peak to practice Artifact Refining. But now that he had it, he would naturally head to Dan Cloud Peak to practice Alchemy.
He rented a high-level Alchemy Room.
This time, Fang Yun emerged in less than half a day.
After ten batches of Qi Enhancement Pills, his overall refining speed had increased somewhat.
