Chapter 189: Chapter 188 True Qi Body Protection! (Please Subscribe)
"I wonder how much experience points this Qianyuan Skill will consume."
Chen Fan muttered and invested a bit of experience points.
The next moment, the proficiency of Qianyuan Skill increased by one-sixtieth.
Chen Fan squinted his eyes; this was still with a 20% experience reduction.
If it takes 200 points just to reach the beginner level, the amount of experience points needed to improve to the Perfection Realm is not a small number.
He added the remaining necessary experience points.
A warm current immediately flowed throughout his body.
In his mind, there was a new piece of memory.
However, Chen Fan frowned because he felt that the True Qi inside his body had not changed.
"Isn’t it a heart method?"
With doubts, he looked at the skill bar,
[Qianyuan Skill: Initial Glimpse (0%), Trait: Blood Nourishing Level 1]
"Blood Nourishing?"
Chen Fan was taken aback, recalling the warm current just now. It seemed to enhance his constitution?
He clicked on it,
[Blood Nourishing: Each level increases physical attributes by 30 points permanently]
"30 points of constitution..."
Chen Fan took a deep breath.
Although 30 points were nothing compared to his six or seven thousand constitution, the constitution of a typical Meridian Refining Martial Artist might only be a bit over 1000.
Training to the Perfection Realm, the five levels of Blood Nourishing trait can provide a 150-point physical attribute enhancement,
which is more than a tenth of the improvement for an average Meridian Refining Martial Artist.
"No wonder it’s martial arts that only Meridian Refining Martial Artists can cultivate. The attribute enhancement brought by just the beginner level surpasses most Entry Force martial arts."
Chen Fan sighed.
Although the beginner level did not unlock traits related to True Qi, presumably the Small Success Realm will do?
He invested a bit of experience points, and as expected, this time it required 320 points.
The moment the experience points were added, he felt an additional stream of True Qi in his body, which made him immediately open his eyes wide, showing a look of surprise.
Previously, due to the Chong Meridian, the True Qi in his body had already dried up.
But now, several streams of True Qi appeared out of thin air in his meridians,
it was not difficult to guess how they came.
[Qianyuan Skill: Slight Achievement (0%), Traits: Blood Nourishing Level 2, Qi Cultivation Level 1, Breath Regulation Level 1]
"Two traits?"
Chen Fan was somewhat surprised, but his gaze quickly fell on the first one,
instinctively thinking the change in True Qi in his body was related to this trait.
[Qi Cultivation: Each level of skill increases a certain amount of True Qi, the amount is one-tenth of the Primordial True Qi]
It was indeed to increase True Qi value, but the words "Primordial True Qi" made Chen Fan a bit puzzled.
However, when he looked at the True Qi bar, he understood after a little thought.
True Qi: 15.8/158 (+10%)
The +10% in the parentheses was clearly the enhancement brought by Level 1 Qi Cultivation trait.
And the 158 True Qi value was the Primordial True Qi, not the total True Qi amount.
Multiply 158 by 1.1, and that is the current total amount of True Qi in his body.
The 15.8 in front perfectly matched the additional stream of True Qi that appeared in his body.
Chen Fan’s hands trembled with excitement.
Previously, he guessed the enhancement from the heart method might be a fixed number or a fixed percentage.
A fixed number could be cultivated anytime,
but if it was a fixed percentage, the order mattered.
But what he never expected was that the actual enhancement was a percentage based on the Primordial True Qi.
For instance, his current True Qi is 158 points, so Level 1 Qi Cultivation trait can only increase by 15.8 points.
But if he opens one meridian and his Primordial True Qi rises to 300, then Level 1 Qi Cultivation trait can increase by 30 points.
Similarly, if the Primordial True Qi is 1000 points, the enhancement is 100 points,
the higher, the more the increase in value.
Undoubtedly, this was the best situation; he no longer needed to worry about cost-effectiveness, and just needed to raise Qianyuan Skill to the Perfection Realm.
"Looking at it this way, the amount of True Qi in a martial artist’s body is influenced by two factors: one is the Primordial True Qi, and the other is the True Qi enhancement.
The Primordial True Qi probably has a limit; after all, there are only eight extraordinary meridians, and it seems there’s no other way to increase it?
For True Qi enhancement, naturally cultivating Inner Power Heart Methods, the higher the realm and the higher-level Heart Methods, the more enhancement."
Chen Fan pondered.
As for cultivating multiple Heart Methods, whether True Qi enhancements can stack, he was uncertain and could only observe later.
His gaze shifted to the second unlocked trait.
Breath Regulation,
one look and he knew what it did.
[Breath Regulation: Active skill. When activated, consumes double mental power. During this period, True Qi recovery speed increases by one fold. Each level increases mental power consumption and True Qi recovery speed by an additional fold. The mental power consumption speed can be freely controlled. Note: Cannot move during Breath Regulation state]
"True Qi recovery speed doubles."
Chen Fan was momentarily stunned; he had no idea of his own True Qi recovery speed.
If that’s the case, then let’s give it a try.
Following the memory in his mind, he sat cross-legged and activated the Breath Regulation skill.
Apart from feeling his mental power slowly depleting, he felt no other changes.
Until a minute later, Chen Fan felt a strand of True Qi in his body!
He hurriedly looked at the panel,
True Qi: 15.9/158 (+10%)
Yes, the existing True Qi in his body went from 15.8 to 15.9.
"In other words, if I don’t use Breath Regulation, my body’s True Qi recovery speed is one point every two minutes?"
Chen Fan was shocked,
glanced at the total True Qi, about 170 points.
Calculating at one point every two minutes, it would take 340 minutes to fully recover, around six or seven hours.
If the total True Qi reaches seven or eight hundred points, it would take a day to recover fully.
Chen Fan looked again at the Breath Regulation trait, suddenly feeling that this trait is very strong!
With his current True Qi, Level 1 Breath Regulation would take just over three hours to fully recover.
If it’s Level 2 Breath Regulation, an hour and a half.
Level 3 Breath Regulation, 45 minutes.
Of course, the corresponding mental power consumption would be three times as fast.
But,
currently he had an abundance of mental power.
So, other martial artists, even if their heart method realm is high, might be concerned about the mental power consumption speed and can only double their True Qi recovery speed, while he could maximize his recovery speed.
"Having strong mental power is great."
Chen Fan smiled.
Nowadays, the potential points needed for body enhancement were too many, and unless it’s a breakthrough in a small realm, it doesn’t achieve a full-state effect, equating to losing a trump card.
Fortunately, his mental power was strong, allowing his True Qi recovery speed to far exceed that of ordinary martial artists, saving a lot of time.
"Blood Nourishing, Qi Cultivation, Breath Regulation, I wonder what the fourth trait will be?"
Chen Fan’s heart grew even more expectant.
This time, he consumed 640 points of experience value to upgrade the realm.
Another stream of True Qi appeared in his body.
A faint warm current flowed over his body again,
but unfortunately, no new traits were unlocked.
[Qianyuan Skill: Entering the Hall (0%), Traits: Blood Nourishing Level 3, Qi Cultivation Level 2, Breath Regulation Level 2]
Chen Fan glanced at the remaining experience points, there were 3080 points left, estimating it was unrealistic to raise the heart method to the Perfection Realm.
After consuming 1280 points of experience, a strange feeling welled up inside him.
[Qianyuan Skill: Great Success (0%), Traits: Blood Nourishing Level 4, Qi Cultivation Level 3, Breath Regulation Level 3, Body Protection Level 1]
[Body Protection: Active skill, when activated, consumes True Qi applied to the surface of the body. Increases physical defense by one fold. The more True Qi consumed, the larger the defensive area. Each level increases physical defense by one fold]
Seeing this skill, Chen Fan was somewhat surprised.
This was somewhat like a body refining technique, but different, each had its pros and cons.
First, the range was not large.
For example, the invulnerable trait could cover the whole body, including vital areas.
But this Body Protection could only cover a small area, a thousand-fold difference!
However, the Body Protection effect was stronger. The area covered by True Qi could increase physical defense by one fold, an effect higher than Level 3 invulnerable trait.
Moreover, each level increased physical defense by one fold! Equivalent to a seven-fold invulnerable trait.
The best part was, the description didn’t mention doubling the True Qi consumption, which was quite significant.
The same amount of True Qi could exert a two-fold effect.
"This is the power of True Qi."
Chen Fan murmured.
It seemed that though the protective range of Body Protection was limited, it was actually unlimited.
Because theoretically, if there was enough True Qi in the body, it could entirely cover the whole body.
Out of curiosity, he tried the effect and found that one point of True Qi could only protect an area of 1 square centimeter.
A hundred points, equivalent to ten streams of True Qi, could protect an area the size of a palm.
Assuming an average body surface area of 1.6 square meters, it would take at least 16000 points of True Qi to protect the whole body.
"Over ten thousand points of True Qi, even for me at present, it is not an easy goal to achieve."
Chen Fan thought, not sure if the total True Qi quantity of those in the late stage of Meridian Refining Martial Artists was this much.
Of course, for actual combat, covering the whole body with True Qi might be a waste.
Protecting the vital areas would suffice.
In addition, being a heart method, having such a defensive power was quite impressive.
Chen Fan experimented by adding another bit of experience points, and upon seeing the increased proficiency, he smiled bitterly.
As expected,
raising it to the Perfection Realm required 2560 points of experience.
And the remaining experience points were only 1799.
"This heart method consumes so many experience points."
He sighed, nearly 5000 points in total.
It was likely one of the most challenging to cultivate among the various martial arts.
With the remaining over a thousand experience points, he naturally didn’t plan to leave them idle. Since he couldn’t maximize the heart method, he would invest them in martial arts.
He was eager to see what effect the True Qi-enhanced martial arts would have.