After all, in the tens of thousands of years of Canaan Starry Sky Martial Arts University’s long history, it was perfectly normal for the first and second ranks to trade places.
Besides the discussions about the Warband Ranking Tournament, some posts complained that the last few Canaan Newcomer Cups seemed to lack star power.
[Complaint Post: Anyone else feel like the last few Newcomer Cups have been really boring?]
[OP: I’m not trying to brag, but I feel like I could place in the top three if I went. There just aren’t any decent experts participating! Back in the day, the tournament with Qin Beast and Zhou Run was absolutely earth-shattering! And now? Sigh...]
[Can’t be helped, bro. These last few Newcomer Cups happened to clash with our once-in-a-century Warband Ranking Tournament. Who among the truly powerful experts has the time to spare for a Newcomer Cup with such paltry rewards? They’re all in the Warband tournament, grinding for Warband Reputation and Contribution Points like crazy!]
[True. Still, there are some shrewd upperclassmen who’ll take a month or two to go crush the competition in the Newcomer Cup and squeeze out some rewards. After all, every little bit counts.]
[...]
The hustle and bustle of the outside world had nothing to do with Qin Feng.
After creating a new, more efficient cultivation plan for himself, he once again threw himself into the endless cycle of "battle-seclusion-battle," just like the most precise war machine.
He had reactivated his "mission maniac" mode once more.
His figure appeared frequently on the Warrior Level mission list.
He journeyed to different star systems with different teammates to face different enemies.
On a swamp planet drenched in corrosive acid rain, he and his teammates hunted ferocious, acid-spitting alien creatures.
On a desolate Nest Capital world, its surface fused into glass by the fires of war, he wielded "Carp Turns Dragon" and engaged in brutal street fights with crazed Orcs piloting modified power armor.
Every mission was a baptism of blood and fire, a dance on the edge of a knife.
「Five months passed in the blink of an eye.」
In these five months, he completed a total of five Warrior Level team missions.
That averaged out to one per month.
If word of this efficiency got out, it would be enough to put any Martial Artist of the same level to shame.
And these five missions brought him incredibly rich rewards.
[Mission Debrief]
Contribution Points Acquired: 28,000
Warband Reputation Acquired: 84,000
Of course, high returns also came with high expenses.
To cope with the increasingly dangerous battles, he had to frequently purchase various single-use, high-power Spiritual Weapons and power armor protection modules.
In these five months, his expenses on these items alone cost him a full 20,000 Contribution Points.
After settling his accounts, his current balance was:
[Current Balance]
Contribution Points: 15,400
Warband Reputation: 164,000
Looking at his once again abundant Warband Reputation, Qin Feng’s heart burned with excitement.
He didn’t hesitate for a moment.
After finishing his last mission, he immediately returned to his dorm and began a new "shopping spree."
"Hammer, open the reputation resource vault."
"Redeem one hundred ’Enhanced Type II Spiritual Energy Potions’."
-80,000 Warband Reputation
"Redeem one hundred ’Enhanced Type II Deep Repair Medicinal Baths’."
-40,000 Warband Reputation
"Redeem fifty ’Enhanced Type II Mental Power Recovery Potions’."
-25,000 Warband Reputation
This time, he had practically wiped out all the Warband Reputation in his account!
He purchased a full five sets of cultivation resources, each equal in scale to his previous batch!
And according to his calculations, these resources were enough for him to perform ten "Acupoint Merges"!
...
The door to the Cultivation Room closed once again.
Qin Feng once again entered a state of tedious, closed-door cultivation.
With the boost from the Ten-Complete Hand, his body’s recovery speed after each attempt at an "Acupoint Merge" reached an incredible level.
This caused his cultivation efficiency to increase exponentially.
Time flew by during this high-intensity seclusion.
「Another five months passed.」
When Qin Feng had completely exhausted the massive amount of cultivation resources...
He slowly opened his eyes.
A sharp light flashed in his eyes, and his entire aura was more than a level stronger and more condensed than before he entered seclusion!
This time, he had successfully completed ten "Acupoint Merges"!
Including the five months he had spent earning Contribution Points, he had used a total of only ten months to accomplish a feat that would have previously taken several years!
The total number of fusions for his Great Sun Acupoints had reached sixty-six!
His vitality index also increased by another one hundred points, steadily reaching 4,260!
Qin Feng silently updated his cultivation plan in his mind.
’Ten months, ten Acupoint Merges. That averages out to one per month.’
’At this rate, I’ll still need another twenty-two years to advance past the Acupoint Merging stage.’
’And right now, there are still eighteen years left before the Warband Ranking Tournament ends.’
His eyes glittered with boundless confidence.
’There’s enough time!’
’As I get stronger and stronger, my mission completion efficiency will only get higher! The speed at which I earn resources will also get faster and faster!’
’As long as I push myself a little harder, I can definitely complete all the Acupoint Merges before this Warband Ranking Tournament is over for good!’
An incredibly clear goal had been firmly established in his mind!
Forty years to open the acupoints!
Thirty years to merge them!
He was going to use a total of seventy years to walk the path of the Top-grade Acupoint Opening Technique to its peak—a path that would take an ordinary genius several hundred years to complete!
This speed could be described as completely unprecedented.
Qin Feng took a deep breath, opened his private domain, and checked the mission status.
He discovered that the intel on Shi Dang had been updated again. The previous "Mission Failures: 2" had now become "Mission Failures: 5."